New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-09-08
REVISED TAX VALUATIONS.
WORK OF THE STATE BOARD OF Eou ALiZATIpN
RIG INCREASES NEXT YEAR.

RIG INCREASES NEXT YEAR
Albany Sent The State Board Of Equa.izi-
tion held its annual meeting in this city to-day an"
adopted the table q equalization prepared NY the
STATE TaN Commissioners. In deductions 1907" INC
valuation. Of local assessors. Ouondar' COUNTY '-
most fortunate obt2 lniuS concession oi Nl"'i''-
Fri. gets reduction Of Ni.s-29ii. kiHss. Ni,S"""'
hlny &" li7o-" and Ronssc aci. t2@>"'. IN 'h'
increases Nrw-York IL charged win F"'s''I"
create, valuation than In III" previous YEAR vest
chester s.Eooloo and Richmond. 6f'95o
Tho 9,a.d 4 Equalization IA composed Of li"n-
,onant-o;oyrrnor Woodruff. chairman; speaker
James NJ T. O'Grady. secretary II ; ate Palmer
Controller Roberts. Auorney-'i"ner"I H"h'o'A'
Campbell W Adams. state Engineer ana sur
vc,or. state Treasurer Gown. and Tax Coinmi>-
sioncr. Ierrmance Adams and Jenkins. All were
prescut ,xccp. Lieutenant Governor NoodruH
The table Is based tho assessors reports Tor
the year s!dcd July !. tccau4e the Valuations ''
.ocal boards ~ assessors made THIS year are Hol
oaicial until passed upon by the supervisors who
do not meet until December. The table shows an
irc-o,s, I'm the vaiue OF real estate returned 10y
local as@cssors OF y3s2,2sl and In personal estates
~ 81 go rs /, has been the general impression
that the valuation % -cal property ara -9i''!'i
personal property would be iargcy Increased owing
10 the work performed this year IN inrreashf
values. but the Board computes on last year as
soq ,mcnts and thc Increases VII. have 800 81
feet upon the assessment uhtl next v'dr Ih' IN
,ro,sc in r.ai estate is however. much larger this
wear tnan In many previous tn" lN" u'T"'f"
over ls9i Was only s76G50.,36 In "A report to IN"
Rna rd the Tax Commissioners said:
IN conformity with the requirement Of me re
y,ed tax law. which went INTO eheci on June lo'
I., we have mad every cfort 10 cnforc" the pro
visions OF the law requiring that all properly T'ai
and PERSONA. be ASSESSED IT ful value. We hhf'
h"cn i'm frequent communication with the Local hS-
scs.ors throueIout The STATE and from reports re-
ccived ny To this tim" nav" every reason TO believe
thai th. asSessncut for the year OF 1871 VIII snow
a large Increase over mat of 1896. particularly In
thc matter Of personal property. We have visited
x.
folk Queens. Richmond. sullivan, Rogkland.
f,ufrlcSs. Ulster. tattaraucus, Sicuhcu. LIVING
stou Monroe schuyler ChcuHuGc. Otsego. De a.
ware oneida Schoharie. kcnss" acr, Greene. WIS.
Lu,ton Hamilton. Schenectady, Washington. War
ron clinton Franklin aud Essex. We have exam
ind INTO the value of several thousand separate 49,
sr.sucuts thereof. aud committees appointed by
the Boards Of supervisors Of various counties IN
"a. stat. have presented for our consideration data
relating 10 the methods of assessment IN these
rouutics all Of which T. herewith submit rd. to-
eciher with N-t of percentages and table OF
cqua!zatiou based thereon
Tho tables of Increases and decreases from the
ngircs submitted hy local assessors and the totai
eaualized value resulting are ~ fo-ows:
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