The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-29
ASSESSING REAL ESTATE
Valuation of City Property Com
pleted by the Board.
COUNTY WORK COMES NEXT
A Assistant Assessors VIII Sit April
as Board of Revision, Continuing
for Two Months-Policeman Col
bert Shorn of His ButtOns-Sale of
the Fish WhHrf-iilllsR Referred. :,

The board OF assistant assessors has just
completed the work OF rea ssessng the city
realty and new improvements, having fin
islIed the Georgetown section as tue last
subdivision TO be taken up.
County rcasSessment viii now be com
menccd and viii be continued until April /,
when the board will sit a hoard OF re-
vision. Sixty days Will b. consumed i'll this
latter branch of the business, during which
period the appeals OF property owners for
reductions and corrections will be heard.
The reassessment of county property viii
be resumed on the first day OF June and com
pleted before September l, at which lat
ter date the revision Will be again taken up
TO be finished by November l. No appeals
will be heard after that date and the board
will complete the books ready TO be turned
! over to the assessors office on the first
Monday in January 1897
The rca ssessment upon which the board is
now about to enter will be tedious and diff
ficIlt. There are not so many improve
ments to be considered but such asthere are
must be examined and it will consume time
TO find many OF them. TIE divisions will
be bounded by larger areas and il will be
more difficult to get about in many local
tiles.
The assessors feel that they will have no
| trouble however, in getting its work done
by the time appointed and the books will
be in the hands OF the assessor on the date
specified.
DISMISSED FROM THE FORCE.
Michael F. Colberts Official position, his
| locust and his buttons were all sacrificed by
his admissions in police court, Thursday,
upon the hearing of charges preferred
against him by Mrs. Anna Craven. The
! Commissioners yesterday issued an order
| dismissing him from the force.
| Colbert told ii story in his own defense
at the trial which, in Prosecuting At
torney Pugh's opinion convicted him OF
| having received hush money under disgrace
ful circumstances.
There was no charge against the character
ofthe woman except that made bythepolice-
man on trial and while admitting that he
had received the money amounting TO Il
| paltry dollar he accused her OF being OF
lascivious reputation.
Fhe evidence in the ca se was to the effect
that Colbert had borrowed the money in
August last, and refused to return il, and
had threatened TO arrest her for demanding
its repayment,
Judge Kimball fined him SO as a pre-
lude TO the worse penalty inflicted later
by the Commissioners.
Mr.. Thomas Riley has the exclusive right
10 collect tolls al the municipal fish wharf,
he being the only, the highest and the sue
cessful bidder at the public auction held
Yesterday. The sale was conducted by
Capt. w. +. Myers, an official from the
executive office of the District govern
ment, Auctionccr Thomas Bowling doing
the heavy work.
Mr.. RILEY'S BID.
Mr.. DowIine's pro forma starting figure
was $500, Mr.. Riley raised him SO, and
the sale was declared to be closed so quick
that Mr.. Riley could not recede, If he had
been so inclined. His check for 500 soon
changed hands.
There was no sale of the fish stalls AZ
The Georgetown Market. There are foul
of these stalls, and they usually rent fol
$50 per annum, the amount of the incom,
from that source last year.
No bidders were present but mar
named Siddons was found, who put up
proposal of SIS. rather than let the whole
things 70 by default and as the auctionee1
affair was declared a draw.
Two measures were returned to Congress
BY the Commissioners yesterday, with tn
recommendation that they be referred t
the Department of Justice, both involvin,
the title of the United States in certain
property in controversy.
The first measure was Senate bill 2275
introduced for the relief of Sigmund j
| Am
viding for the transfer of the right, It'll
and interest OF the government in lot / O
square 113, to the two parties named
conditioned upon their payment of $40,
> into the Treasury of the United States, AM
The additional payment by them of a
l accrued taxes and assessments levied b
l the District.
: The transfer is TO be made TO Block an
l Bauman, as tenants in common, and the pa
\ ments mentioned are to be made With
= three months of the date Of the approve
OF the acS.
: The other measure returned is Senate bi
2276, which is intended to confirm title t
lots 1 and a. in square $50, releasing tn
title of the government in that property t
Thomas Yates, the present owner of ii
equitable title.
The municipal building will be closed &
m Gay at j O'Clock to enable the Distric
\ employees TO attend the funeral of the lat
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