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The Increase in Revenue Will
Be $158,2S3.29.
This Is Partly Due to Higher Rate of
Taxation This Year.
individuals and Corporations That Pay
Big Amounts Into Treasury.

| lists for 1896 and are now hard at work
duplicating the fourteen big books for the
benefit OF the Commissioners of Registra-
tion who will use the findings of the as
SCISSORS in the final revision OF the real
| tions.
The total valuation is s174, 232, 500. oi-
vided as Follows: Real estate, 1873, 296, 200 /;
personal property, O,936, 900. 1he
amount to be raised on this at the new
rate Of sL65 on the hundred is s2,s74,-
s36. 25.
The figures fer 1895 were: Real estate,
Si29, ABS, ,o60; personal, $40, 346, 500, total
valuation 16e, 7S4, $50; tax, at sl.6o per
300, S2, TIC, boz 96.
1he increase, then, for this year 10
81, Al, $40 on the total valuation and $685.
2s3.29 on the amount of revenue from
taxation.
on real and personal property there is
the revenue from special assessments, as
follows: Fine for violation of building
law, $50; sidewalk account. s6437.1l;
curbstone account, sl7, ,9l3.7 rs; Hunting
ton avenue lay out, s7s57. Grand total,
g, 9o6, ,O94. IA.
The special assessments are made by
the commissioners OF public works, but
the assessors make them part of their
department list in order TO constitute O
len on the property and give the city
treasurer security.
That item of $50 for violation of the
building law is q fixture. 1t Is paid each
year by Charles A. Cobb who owns the
wooden building on the north side of
Westminster street two doors cast OF
Eddy. 1t is plat 20, lot 143. 1t is within
the fire district in which wooden bu ild-
ings are forbidden, but the owner finds
1t more profitable to pay the fine than TO
tear down the structure.
The total number OF special assesa-
ments is $40.
A few OF the properties upon which the
valuation runs up into six figures and
over are owned by the following COM
?anies and individuals:
Union Railroad Company, S925, i2o.
New England Railroad Company,
S649, $50.
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Railroad Company, $3.50, 900.
Old Colony Railroad Company s26s, $50.
Providence and Worcester Railroad
Company, s1,03O, 400.
Boston and Providence Railroad Com
pany, s774,5so.
Providence Gas Company, s1,312, 140.
American Screw Company, Il, 1872, 260.
Atlantic mills, s942, ls0.
Joseph Banigan, S1,526, ,44O.
Butler Exchange Company, s724, 100.
Butler Duncan Lahd Company, s1,-
675, 800.
Charles Fletcher and wife, sl,06i,s40
Fletcher Manufacturing Company,
1886, 800.
B. B. knight, s62i, $50.
X. knight and wife, s677 400
Marshall Woods and wife, s1,22a, $50.
Elizabeth GsmmelI, S7s5, 44O.
The aggregate value Of the several God
dard estates Is sss2, $40
Perkins Land Company, s343, 900.
Narragansett Land Company 1854, $40.
Nelson W. Aidrich and wife, s126, 900.
Arlington Il Sims Engine Company,
s139, 400.
Allen Print Works, $3.50, 26o.
Barnaby estate, $500, 800.
A. E.. Barstow estate, y6i1 ,36o
Henry q. Clark. s255,9s0
Corliss Steam Engine Company, s367,-
7G0.
Boston Store Land Company, $40, 400.
Calendar, McAuslan a Troop Company,
s2i,s20.
Walter Calendar, s339.9i0.
Brown University, si65. 200.
Brown a sharpe, s7Oi, $50.
Builders Iron Foundry, slS5, 5,74o.
Sarah j. Eddy, s237,s6o.
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