The times., 1898-11-02
Statement of Taxable Prop
erty for This Fiscal Year.
THE DEFICITS OF REVENUE
Decrease in Liquor Traffic - Many
Licenses Rejected - Washington
and IniNersity Railroad Granted
Permission to Issue stocL-0ther
Municipal Items of Current Inter
est - Resolution on Gen. Vests
Death.

Matthew Trimble, the District assessor,
yesterday transmitted TO the District
Commissioners his annual report on the
operations of the assessors office during
the fiscal year ended June So last APP
pended to the report is a statement of the
assessed value of property in the District
OF Columbia including all taxable real
estate and personal property, for the
year ending June 80. 1900, as follows:
Taxable on land, So .esi, 1876; taxable on
improvements. 81. So. .425; total. sl59 .92l.
Washington County-Taxable on land at
$50, slG.695, al: taxable on improvements
at $50 S7.l6l.500; total. 81, s57.24l. Taxable
on land at 81. $i,5OS GOe; taxable on i'm
provements. at 81, Sl,2s0.sGe: total. s5,7ss.-
2ss
Grand total assessed value Of taxable
real estate. sls9, ,15s, 81: personal property.
Washington city. sl2,slg75i; Washington
County. sie,5i5: railroads. taxed on gross
receipts. si.O1.s76; total. slS.4S1,475.
Grand total assessed value of taxable
real estate and personal property in the
District Of Columbia, on July l. 1895, $780,
So $40
Amount OF tax-Washington city at
$50. s.. :93 lsS.Sl Washington county at
81 80. s267. .S5S.62; Washington county at 81
S57,592.C9; total real estate tax, s2.7lS 6i9 %;
44 personal property at 81 80. sl45,-
6e2-26; s2.756.O15 capital stock street rail-
ways, less reality. at $50. SIS go %.
81 .03l.5SI gross receipts street railways.
at per cent. Si1, ,26S36; $40 S92 gross Ie-
ceipts street railways. at per Mt,
ss21.A: total tax on personal property,
s227. is3.69; grand total tax on real and
personal property. g $40. 1921.
In treating the matter of triennial as
sessments the report states that
the board of assistant assessors have
been engaged since July, 1897, in
making the triennial assessment of real
estate, and will return the same on the
first Monday of January, 1893; when, un-
der the law. the board of equalization
and review will meet to receive and de-
termine appeals on the valuations, AND
for this purpose will remain in session
until the first Monday in June following
The good effects of the law of February
2S. 1898, I'm relation to taxes and tax sales
the report states, are already observable
in the increased amount of revenue re-
ceived and the number of lots sold at the
tax sale of last April.
The receipts from licenses during the
fiscal year ended June 80 last are given
as follows:
Apothecaries. S75769; auctioneers, 81 -926.-
6S: banks and bankers. s2T6.2I: barrooms
S22l. I70.s0; bill posters, $50: billiard pool
bagatelle tables, etc, S3,3T036; cattle bro
kers, $5i0.0I: commission merchants, 81 72T-
OF; dealers in ice merchandise, s1T4; dealers
in junk and secondhand personal prop
erty, SS,533.4S; dealers in old barrels $50
entertainments, circuses, balls and eXhi.
bitiOns. s3, 925; hacks, cabs and public We.
hirla in,
telligence offices. s267.5i; insurance
companies, District of Columbia, ST. COS ~
insurance agents of outside companies,
So 1876: insurance agents percentage
tax, S13, 40d.s3; insurance companies fra
ternal, s95; livery stables, ss.i6i.I7:
manufacturers of Illuminating gas, 81
O72.cO: peddlers, s29l.49; pawnbrokers,
s5000g; produce dealers, itinerant. SS,2l67i;
special, s., 1872 .0S; fruit stands. s1gl. 81; to-
tai. s9.5l040: restaurants and eating
houses, s6.S02l9: real estate agents. ST.
Si5.39; theaters, sssO.0O; wholesale liquor
dealers, s35. 32ise.
The total receipts from licenses wer,
S33S. .0I3.56 or a decrease of S9.69lSS
Concerning the liquor traffic the asses
sor states:
1T will be observed that the decreas
of nearly $4,000 from last year receive,
from this source has been followed by ;
still further reduction of over SO O0l
Thirty-three barroom and eight whole
sale liquor licenses were rejected by tn
excise board during the present licens
year. besides number of application
for transfer, both of ownership and Ioca
tion. As stated in my report of last year
the representatives, of outside brewerie
and distilleries are still allowed, unde
the law, to traffic in the products of thei
manufactures in this District without Ii
cense. Uufair competition in business
demoralizing, both in theory and prae
tice''
In conclusion the report says: "Th,
deficit in revenue from produc,
dealers. or itinerant hucksters, on ou
streets is very noticeable: quite numbe