Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-09-24
Tho Assessor, emt Errors.


After all the time, trouble and ex
pense on the part of many Republicans
to have their names placed on the as
ssssmsnt by the Levy Court last March
they have the modification TO find tina
when they go to the collectors Office t.
pay their taxes their names are not on
the tax duplicates after all. This Is an
inexcussbls error, If it is an error, on
the part of those who hsd the tran.
scribiug Of the names from the assess.
msnt to the duplicates. That an error
should occasionally occur may be ex
pseted, but when the number reaches
away up into the hundreds. and these
errors eGscting only Republicans, We
may be accused for saying harsh things,
bat we must say that 1t looks as II
these errors were more like will
full omissions than accidental mis-,
takes. No extended search has been
m de, but already the names of abou,
one hundred Republicans who We are
positive were assessed last spring, have
come to light who are not on the tar
duplicates. What a more minute search
will reveal there 10 no knowing. As
the tax duplicates were made out by
Mr.. Springer, late Clerk Of the Peace,
and by his deputies over whom he bad
full control, it is incumbent on him to
see that these errors are corrected, and
corrected speedily, that these persons
who were legally assessed by the Levy
Court may not be disfrapohised at the
coming elections and prevented from
exercising the ri shts OF an American
citizsp.
Mr.. Springer has given notice that he
will do all he can to correct these errors,
but o gentleman who called upon him
in pursuance Of that notice informs US
that Mr.. Springer did not use much
alacrity in carrying out his promise,
but was disposed to make excuses, by
saying that he was ont Of office, and
wanted to have nothing more to do with
the matter. The gentleman came away
without receiving the promised salts
faction and without the promise of re-
ceiving any satisfaction 10 the future.
Fortunately the correction Of the errors
does not depend wholly upon Mr..
Springer's volition in the matter, but
We would advise him to carry out his
promise fully and thereby adopt the
most sure mode of avoiding trouble
in the future. Fortunately: there are
gentlemen in this city who have q COM
plete copy of all the assessments that
were made by the Levy Court, compared
with the minutes Of the Court as they
wers read each day, and 1t is we'll
knoTn who are assessed and who are
not. It Ia also we'll known that hun
dreds who were assessed are not on the
tax duplicates. These errors can and
will be corrected without Mr.. Spring
er's assistance, but as the errors were
made by Mr.. Springer and his clerks,
it is but simple justice that he should
not put those persons to additional ex
penss to get their names placed upon
the tax duplicates by his carelessnes,.
1t is with pleasure that we are enabled
to state that Mr.. Cochran, the present
Clerk of the Peace, has very willingly
offered to correct all the errors which
are brought to his notice, and which
tn, law and precedent will allow him
to correct, though he Is in no way re
sponsible for the errors that have been
made.
1T ID hoped that all the workingmen