The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-03
ASSESSOR ABROAD AGAIN.
HIS DEPUTIES COMMENCE MAKING
1890 TAX ASSESSMENT.
Force of Twenty-Five Takes the
Field-Annual Task an Inpleas-
ant One-Will He Completed by
June linen Who Will Perform 1t

The county assessor is again abroad in
the land. For the next sixty days he and
his deputies will brave farmers with pitch
forks housewives with pals OF hot water,
bull dogs with man-eating tendencies and
business men with no time FOR iniruders,
all TO the end that each citizens properly
shall be fairly valued and taxed accord :
ingly.
The assessors is ii thankless task. but
in spite OF that fact it must 2. performed
annually. Assessor W. A. Bailey began
it yesterday by sending cut III the streets
Of the city and the highways and by
ways of the country twenty-five deputies,
armed with blank books and pencils and
clothed with full authority To exsort rem
the willy taxpayer wherever found a writ
ten inventory ii his earthly posse sslons.
The following is a list of the deputies
appointed to make the assessment
City districtsNo. !, +. j.: LeGate aud
r. s. WincheI. No ;. w. c. Reynolds; No.
3 7. t. Calhoun: No. 4. Nicholas Scnnitt;
No 8. II. I'll. Smith; water front. Reader
Jones
No 2. George Hart, No 8. {. T. Smith.
No. 4 Charles Mekinnon; No. ). f. T.
Morgan: No ,, Oscar Hilton:
No G. + ,tI Msss; NJ No = 5 \,
Huffmann: No. II. W. IL. Drunk, No. Il.
Charles McAnister. No. H. J. w. Peter;
No "a. ]: G. Norton; No .. Charles /.
Gordon. No. 10. w. n. Lord: No. H. Lu-
cius Day: No, Is. Porter L.angdon: No. -.
not filled. No, -, not filled.
The following instructions were given 10
each deputy before entering upon mis- du-
ties.
The matter n an assessment is a
business transaction purely. and not
friendship. and in pursuing your duty as
deputy assessor. please observe the fol-
lowing rules:
.First-Be courteous TO all alike
'Second-Haye no friends to reward nor
enemies to punish,
''Th.ri-Ee just and energetic and use
al diiigent and reasonable efforts to see,
personally each property owner.
"Fourth-~Ask each property owner 10
sign the detail Statement; after he has list
ed. and you have valued the property.
and under circumstances are you to
sign the property owners name.
''FTfth--Wrtte plain and make your fig
ures plain and give in each instance the
fun name. 30 not say, +. Smith, but say.
Peter smith: d. not say John H. Brown
but say, John Henry Brown.
sixth Each deputy will be expected
to complete his work in reasonable
time
The assessment which IN now being
made ~ for the taxes OF the present year
which will however, be collected in 1870
IT must he completed on on before June
l. at which time the preparation OF the
! assessment rolls is begun These rolls
will be passed upon by the board OF equal
gaiion in August Then the county COM
rnlssioners make the tax levy and the roifs
are extended. after which the treasurer
NAV commence To receive payment CT the
taxes probably early In December.
fse~idsS the men In the field THE asses
sor Will have an lncreasef office force n
work asserting ind.Ning and binding into
book form the assessment sheets turned
In from time IN time ny the outside men.