The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-20
their camp life for another two years un-
less some Unforeseen emergency calls up
on them to do real war business"
THE SUGAR HOUSE TAXES.
Full Text Of the State Boards De-
cisiOn-NOt Signed by
Black.

So much interest has been manifested
In the recent reduction by the State
Board of Taxation of the taxes levied
upon the T. o. Matthiessen aud Wiech-
er's Sugar Refining Companv's property,
that taxpayers will peruse the full text of
the decision of the State Tax Board with
added interest. The full text is given be-
low. 1t will be observed that Hudson's
Commissioner. Charles C. Black, has not
attached his signature. Here is the doc
ument:-
Complaint having been made in writing
to the State Board of Taxation, by "The
Il. o. Matthi essen & Wiecher's Sugar
Refining Company" duly verified accord
ing to the rules Of practice prescribed by
said board. that the said company was
aGgrieved at the assessment OF its real
and personal property, assessable within
the city of Jersey City, county Of Hudson,
for taxation by said city and county for
the year eighteen hundred and ninety;
and it being alleged In the said duly veri-
fed petition, that the valuation of
seven hundred and forty-tbree thousand
(sT43, ,000) dollars being the aggregate as
sessment of the real estate OF said COM
plainaut in said city, and the valuation OF
three hundred and twenty thousand $780,
00o) assessed upon the personal property
eating one million and sixty-three
thousand (s1 ,063. .0O0) dollars are un-
just, unequal and Illegal, and the
testimony of witnesses having been taken
before said Board, and an inspection of
the assessed premises having been made
by the said Board, and the arguments OF
Allan l.. McDermott, counsel for said
complainant, and of William ID. Edwards,
counsel for said city, having been heard
and considered by said Board.
1t is on this fifteenth day Of July, eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-one, at a session
of said Board, ordered, adjudged and de-
creed under and by virtue OF Chapter ia
of the laws of eighteen hundred and nine
ty-one, that an injustice has been done
the said complainant in the assessment
OF its taxes for the year eighteen hundred
and ninety; and that the aggregate valu-
alton of the real and personal property OF
said complainant in said city for the year
eighteen hundred and ninety be reduced
for assessment OF taxes, and to secure
uniform aud true valuations of complain
ants property with valuations aud assess
ments OF other property In said city to the
sum OF eiget hundred and fifty thousand
$3.50, ,000) dollars.
And it is further ordered, adjudged and
decreed that the tax to be paid by said
complainant to "The Mayor and Alder
men Of Jersey City" for the year eighteen
hundred and ninety on said real and
gregate from the sum of twenty-eight
thousand and sixty-three dollars and
twenty cents to the sum of twenty-five
Thousand four hundred and forty (s22, ,440)
dollars, being the tax on eight hundred
aud fifty thousand (ss50, 900 dollars at
the rate of twenty-six dollars and forty
cents 26.40} per Thousand, being the rate
Of taxation for said city for the year
eighteen hundred and ninety.
ALBERT II. SHAPE,
THEo. p. HoPLER,
State Board of Taxation,
THos. B. USHER.
Secretary.
Commissioner Black is out of town on
a vacation. The reason why his signature
Is noe attached to the document could
not, therefore, be authoritatiyely ascer-
tanned. but the supposition is that he
dissented from the opinion of the other
members of the Board.