The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-02
STATE TAXATION BOARD.
Report for the First Year Ready
for Distribution.

TRENTON, Jan. 2, lS92.-The state
Board or Taxation, of which Albert H.
Shape, of Salem county, is President. has
completed its first report, for sub
mission to the Legislature 1t shows that
special attention has been given to the
subject OF exemptions, not only in consid-
ering the law now in force, but to the
practical operations of the law in prac-
tice ana the means and methods adopted
to evade 1t.
The exempt property Of the State will
net fall short OF $3.50 % QUO. OF n which nt,a
there is of church property, 20.0O0,W
schoUl, Sl5.000,0 ,0O0; cemetery. 81 ,o00. .u0o;
firemen, militia aud W. Grams, $lO,000.WW;
public property, $l2,000,000.
"rhe universal opinion." says the re-
port, "is that all ex mDtion OF firemen
shall be repealed. and it Is so recommend
ed. 1t SAYS also there Is strong
case of cemeteries now existing, there be-
ing many used and Incorporated solely
for the purpose of making money. The
reason for The exemption In these cases
having ceased. the exemption should also
cesse. Another grave abuse an injustice
is found by the exemptions 10 many taxing
districts of the real estite of national banks
This class of exemptions Is gross
fraud upon the taxing district In which
such exemptions are allowed. That
the law does exempt this class
OF properly fs by no means
clear; that there Is no sound reason
why it should be exempt, Is absolute GER
tain. We recommend that on the sub
ject of exemptions the law be recast and
limited in its operations. and no property
be EXEMPT except for some reason chat at
once appears sound aud just In its opera
tion and founded on some principle of
wise public policy"
SOME VALUES INCREASED.
The report shows that The b ,ard has in
creased the value OF these districts In
Camden county; City Of Camden. from
s., ,9O5,OOO to s2.8sr .250; Merchant
ton township s1,4se,ssl to sl,s71.-
026. In the same county these assess
ments. the largest made therein, are re-
corded:- Camden City. sl5o.oOo, Cam
John Gill; Gloucester, $4 0O0.
Rohraim Tomlinson; d D.lawsre, $4,000.
Alexander Cooper; Haddon. $55,950
ollingswood Land Company; Waterford.
$44,375. John Lucas Paint Company;
Winslow, $4,000, Winslnw Glass Works;
Gloucester City, $4,000. Washington
Manufacturing Company.
The county and State school tax on
Valuations returned In the same section,
together with the equalization by the
Board runs thus:-Camden city.
slss1l5s, to fls5 oGs 81; 70 Glousss- s,a
3Y6. %; Merchantviilp. 81. 355 36 to s6 137, ,85;
Stockton township. $l4 1893 93 to S15.24 SO:
Delaware township, sll6sl. 70 to ~ $50 66;
Haddon township. s23 922 % o 500 253 80;
Center township, 81 05I. 70 to S. 969 70.
AS u sequel OF this stubborn lax fight
of last summer In Atlantic City, the
report says:-"Prevlous to the present
year, the assessments h d been char
acterlzed by such lack of unifor-
nifty that great dissatiSfac ion exist
pd throughout the county. William
Riddle, the present Assessor, has brought
to the office SO much energy and capa-
bility that the assessments this yeac
throughout the county have been
greatly improved and put substan-
tally upon basis Of true value, thus
relieving the agricultural townships ot
he county OF much injustice aud in
equality In che county and STATE school
tax. The valuation Of 1890 in
the county was 1854. .42S. This
year 1t is m,de $15, S74 $50, an In
crease Of So, ,2l0 422. Six million, six hun
dred and forty-uine thousand seven hnn-
dred and thirty-eight dollars, is an in
crease on Atlantic City alone, while the
tax rate per 500 valuation has been re.
duced from 50 so to IS cents"