Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-10
District Finances,

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ASSESSOR.
District Assessor Robert P-Dodge has sub
mitted his ann ual report for the fiscal year end.
lng June 30, 1881, showing the amount of
RECEIPTS FROM TAX COLLECTIONS
for general and personal taxes, trust funds &C.
to have been S1.664, ,24 40; for licenses. S145.
49, water fund, S14O, ,331 SO, making total
of 81 ,949.S $3.50; from claims of the District
against individuals, 81. .1O0.61; Washington Mar
ket Company, $500; school fund inter
eotes ns western essf Of market hst aoess Sonus
81 .0O2.92 fish wharves. 1889 40; all other fish
wharves, $500: Eastern market. S2,SI1 80;
Northern, s5.17S.79 Georgetown do, 81 ,512. 76;
assistant attorney. for fines, S649. 75 Police
Court fines S16 1904: building permits. S3. 3.239:
sales of old material, ss772l; do of real estate,
S2.672.92; US. marshals fees, Sl,741 46; claim
against W. Slater, in full, s16O ST. miscellaneous
items, S36l.S1; amount refunded By Pennsylva-
MA avenue paving commission, a1.08l.74; and
sundry repayments to appropriations, 81 .373. 13.
Total. s2,0OS ,520A. Ali this paid into the U. S.
Treasury.
DRAWBACK CERTIFICATES,
amounting to $62. us 60 were received by the
collector for arrears of taxes as authorized by
law and were duly cancelled, and one-half of
this amount will be credited by the U. S. Treas
ury as revenues.
INCREASE IN LICENSE RECEIPTS.
There were issued during the year licenses to
the number of ,O65, amounting to Y145 23}9 40
Which was paid into the collector of taxes This
amount exceeds the collections of last wear by
tne M sum OF S24,59S85. the total increase being
S33, 7l2. ~, principally from commercial agents.
and the decrease $9,113.47, mainly from bar.
rooms, and fully justities the Recommendation of
last year for an additional inspector of licenses.
REAL ESTATE, TAXABLE AND OTHERWISE.
A statement of the assessed value of the real
estate OF the District on June 60 1880, after cor
recting the tax books, shows: Taxable property in
Washington 81, ,256 61O; property of the District
81 .O93,917 Exempt from taxation, S4.1S8. .9S9:
United States, SS0, ,201 ,1O+total, S162. 74O. .62O
Georgetown-Taxable, S5, 49,, ,O96; District prop
erty, sl1o, $50; exempt. S349, 152, United States
Taxable, S6414,3 ,372; District property. $37. 500;
exempt. 1852. 2.447; United States property
80, 142, 5SO-making in the county $10.447. .398.
and total in the District of Columbia. S179.-
OlO. .543. Amount Washington CITY.
$U ,61O; Georgetown, s.. .282 O96; and county.
ST. .414, sra total of $sS 953, ,O7S-to which add
value of new improvements not heretofore as
sessed, 81, ,525, $40. making a grand total of
taxable property of $50, ,47S39S.
THE Personal TAX BOOKS
about 81: 600 to be collected. The amount un-
paid for 1881 was S33, ,O71.T on JULY /, 1881
ON THE SUBJECT OF COUNTY MAPS
the assessor says: "Mr. Carpenter has not vet
nnlshed his contract for the complete set of
maps or plats of the county, but those which
nave been furnished hid fair to be of great use
towards complete assessment" He recon-
mends that each plat be autographed before
being bound in book form,
RECOMMENDATION AND AN ESTIMATE
In conclusion, the assessor says: "a new
building erected for all the needs of the Dis
trlct is very desirable, for the protection of the
records and the proper manipulation of the diff
ferent departments of the service" He SUBJ
mits an estimate of the expenses of his office for
to $23, 600.