Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-12-24
A FROSTY ROLL.
The County Assessors Office Seems to be
Filled With Incompetents.


Filled With Incompetents.
Frequently during the collection of taxes
in the Sheriffs Office, parties have called
to pay upon their property and found all
or q portion of it unassessed. While such
a thing as perfect assessment is almost an
utter impossibility, still the number of
omissions and glazing errors in the roll
this year shows an amount of official care
lessness or negligence that seems to be un-
paralleled in the history Of the county.
While Mr.. Frost is responsible for the
work, he has shown poor judgment in the
selection of office deputies. He has one
deputy, M. ]. McManus, who draws q sal
airy from the county of 800 per month for
the twelve months, when his services are
required only for six. The map books, his
work, would puzzle the wisest man in the
State. He hss mapped property 10
unknown owners, and the same is not
carried into the roll. There seems to have
been no checking up of the roll by the
plat books, and they have been thrown
together in kind of hodge-podge, hit or
miss style, regardless of system, precedent
or anything else. Just ROW much property
has escaped taxation no one knows, and
perhaps it never will be known unless
some steps are taken to verify the assess
ments. Some people don't like to pay
taxes, and when they can escape By the
| negligence of the Assessor or his deputies
they laugh in their sleeves and say
nothing about it. Some people, however,
are very particular shout their taxes, want
| the State to have its just due anG do
not care TO have the title TO their prop
erty ciouded with a tax lien. The Sheriff
rxG
pay their taxes and leave saving: well.
they have left out 3 piece of my properly. .
Sometimes they state what the property is,
and in that way the following mas been
noted:
u. I Fenton-Fitty acres near Florin, in
the northeast quarter of section 20.
NJ. B. Mathew-Three hundred and ten
acres in the north half of section IL, tezn-
ship north, range east.
Cartharine Hoekel-Ten acres in section
2, township north, range 5 east.
6. A. Smith-Sizty acres near CORTLAND
r. Olseu-EighJy acres in section 80,
township north, ranger east
/ John +. Sheehan-Half interest in sixty
acres on Grand Island.
| The a. B. Davis tract, near Brighton
sixty acres-is mapped to unknown
i.owners,' but rot written up at all.
Near Brightoh Juaction Mrs. Marshall
! owns several small tracts that are IN
assessed. eggrsgating several acres.
The 42i acre farm of Mrs. E. B. Croker.
or the Riverside road, was not assessed this
year nor last.
Perhaps the most valuable piece of prop
erty unassessed is the coca tract east of
the city which was purchased by H. G..
Smith some months age, and which is
known as the Reed & Van Guelder tract.
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The east II feet OF lot :. z and G, Ninth
and Tenth streets
Lot s, I and ], Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets.
Minnie AartiH-East half of lot 3. o and
P. Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets.
J. CieafUgo.-West half of east half lot
3, L and N, Second and Third streets.
A. Kir1--New house on LOT 10. + and G.
Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
C. III. Huelsmau--N ortheast corner Elev-
enth and II streets.
John Neill--improvement on the west
half lot 6, o aud P, Nineteenth and Twen.
tieth streets.
Joseph BGley-Improveme on the
south side OF o street, BETWEEN Eighth and
Ninth.
Mrs E. Jacobs--The improvements on
lot :, ] and L. EleveEth and Twelfth
streets.
Louisa Castrof-Inprovemen on lot 5,
II ana l, Ninth and Tenth streets
Chss. L. Knowles-South half lot 10, o
aud P, Eleventh and Twelfth streets.
Mrs. Gilman-West forty feet lot 5, NJ
and n. Front and Second streets.
N. N. Acknowledgment on the
west half lot 6, H and |, Thirteenth and
Fourteenth streets.
Mrs. G. N. McClstchy-East half lot 2.
w and Y, Twenty-ffth and Twenty sixth
streets.
West half lot 2. W and Y, Twenty,ffth
and Twenty-sixth streets.
II. J. Crampton-The block bounded by
U and V, Twenty eighth and Twenty
ninth streets.
Parties who mortgage their properly have