Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-19
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE NEW ASSESSMENT LIST.
Statements Required Of Taxpayers = In
structions to ASSESSORS.

Statements Required Of Taxpayers = In
structions to Assessors.
The State Board of Equalization has pre-
pared blank assessment lists, which have been
furnished to County Assessors. County As
SCISSOR Houston has received supply and his
deputies are now engaged in the work of dis
tributing them and taking the statements of
taxpayers. On the blank the following in
structions are printed: "All property must
be assessed at its full cash value The terms
value and full cash value mean the
amount at which property would be taken if
taken in payment of a just debt due from a
solvent debtor If any person, after demand
made by the Assessor, neglect or refuse to
give, under oath, the statement herein pro-
vided for, or to comply with the other re-
quirements of this title, the Assessor must
make an estimate OF the value of the prop
erty of such person; and the value so fixed by
the Assessor must not be reduced by the
Board of Supervisors.
On one side of the blank is printed the
following: All taxpayers are required by
the Constitution to annually make and de-
liver to the Assessor a statement, under
oath, setting forth specifically all the real and
personal property owned by such person, or
in his possession, or under bis control, at Il
NJ. on the first Monday in March. Accord
ingly you are required by law to fill up this
assessment blank and deliver the same at the
Office of the Assessor Immediately, making
oath thereto Any desired information, re-
lating 10 assessments, will be furnished upon
application at the Assessors Office. Sacra-
mentor"
The oath attached to each assessment list is
as follows " do swear that / am
a resident of the county of Sacramento I; that
the above list contains a full and correct
statement Of all prop subject to taxation
which |, or any firm of which | am a mem
Der, or any corporation, association or COM
pany of which 1 am President, Cashier, Sec
rotary or Managing Agent, owned, claimed,
possessed OF controlled, at II o'clock NJ, onthe
first Monday in March last, and which is not
already assessed this year and that l have
not in any manner whatsoever transferred or
disposed of any property, or placed any prop
erty out of said county, or my possession for
the purpose of avoiding any assessment upon
the same, or of making this statement; and
that the debts therein stated as owing by me,
are owing to bona fde residents of this State,
or to firms or corporations doing business in
this State"
The list enumerates the following classes
and articles of property. with blanks opposite
.
"Money on hand or special deposit where
and with whom gold dust or bullion on
hand or deposit, where and with whom 4;
mortgages, deeds of trust, contracts or other
obligations by which a debt is secured, and
the property in the county affected thereby
State, county, city, municipal, or other taxa
BILE bonds of any person, firm or corporation {:
unsecured credits and solvent debts due from
others, including deposits in any bank or
with any banking firm or association unse-
cured debts due to bona fide residents of this
State, deducted from above, balance shares
of stock in corporations associations, joint
stock companies, in detail franchises describe
them in detai); special description of personal
property; goods, wares and merchandise, and
of what general kind; consigned goods ;
fixtures of Saloons stores, offices and other
business places; farming utensils; machinery;
wagons and other vehicles harness, robes,
saddles blankets, ETC.. description of all ami
mails; farm products of all kinds; wines,
brandies or other liquors; lumber; wood !;
property held by you in trust, separate list;
separate property of your wife, separate list;
property of minor children, separate list;
steamers, vessels, water craft; migratory
stock, separate list; have you any property
in any other county which has not been
sessed this year? if you have, describe it; all
lands owned also railroads wholly in county;
depots, station grounds, shops, buildings and
gravel beds, in county, of all railroads
wagon OF turnpike toll-roads, value OF in
county; telegraph lines, miles of and value
of in county; mining, manufacturing or irri-
CATION bitches, value of in county; bridges or
ferries wholly within the county; bridges or
ferries connecting with another county one
half.