Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-20
EXEMPTED FROM TAXATION
Itemised Statement Prepared and Trans
mitted to the United States Senate.
List Of Owners Who Have Refused to
Pay Special Assessments for
improvements.

The District Commissioners transmitted
to the Senate in response to its request an
itemized statement of all the real estate in
the District CT Columbia exempt from taxa
ton and the authority for such exemption
excepting the property owned either by the
United States or the District of Columbia
Also an itemized statement of all the real
property in the District of Columbia &C.
quired by the United States and the Dis
trict government since the year 1893, in
elusive.
Also an itemized statement indicating the
pI operty upon which the payment for con-
struction and maintenance of sidewalks has
been refused.
List of Owners.
The statement last mentioned, as for
warded by the Commissioners, shows the
property exempt from general taxation, the
owners of which have refused to pay spe-
cial assessments for construction and main
Cancelled by decree of Supreme Court, Dis
trict of Columbia, by squares. lots and
amounts, as follows, in the order named:
Washington City Orphan Asylum, square
$50 lots 10, $4S; IA, $13.5S; 15 $13.5S; total
s75.16.
ST Thomas Literary Society. square 466
lots 3, S19.17; 4, $16.32; total, $50. 40.
Shiloh Baptist Church, square 1s4, lot u,
$69.47.
Grace NJ. E. Church, square 395, sublot
60 s2i1.S3
Methodist Protestant Church, square SAT,
lots, B. s336.39 3, s132.95; 3, ss1.24; total
s5J0.5S.
Academy of Sacred Heart of Mary, square
4S4. lots 4, s7.SS; .. s7.ss; 6, S.sS; total
s2364
Home for Aged Colored People, square
10, sublots =. $14.5 80; 3, S14.50; total, $40.
Grace Baptist Church, square 946 lot 2,
$1264S.
James Gibbons, archbishop-square 2o3,
part sublot 16, $685. square BOB, same,
Il, S14.39; square 203, same, IS. S14.39;
square 203 same, 49, $1439; square BOB,
same, 20, s14.39; square 2G3, same. n,
sl4.39; square 2o3. same, % s14S9; square
203. sublot %. s14.39; square DOB. sublot "A,
s14.39; square 2l3 sublot %, s14.39; square
BOB, sublot &c, s14.39; square 203, sublot u.
s14.39; square 2o3 sublot %, s1439; square
2o3, sublot %, s1439; square 2e, sublot 80,
S1439; square BOB, sublot 81, s1439; square
BOB, sublot 80, S1439; square BOB, sublot 33,
$1439: square 2O3 sublot "a, $780, square
2O3. sublot So, $14.39; square 203, sublot 36,
s14.39; square BOB. sublot 81, s1433; square
2O3. sublot IS, S143S; square 957, lot s,
s1o3.1o; square 957. lot 9, sI7.S5; square 80,
lot TO- S17.S1; total, $591.S6
Nestry Grace Church-Square All, lot 10,
$J7.SS; square All, lot 20. $51.SS; square All,
lot p, s70.24; total, $1S6.
Other Than Government Property.
The following figures were submitted by
the Commissioners IN reply 10 the inquiry
for a statement of the real estate exempt
from taxation, excepting that owned by the
United States or the District:
Church property, city, S4,G5o9O2, ana
county, S199155, a total of s., $50, lo'
Charitable institutions, city, Sl,319,J20,
and county, $500, I97, total of S1,62o,31I.
Educational institutions, city. 81 933. s9i
and county, 1886, 7S5; total of s3,2i2,6I9
Cemeteries. city $9?.95o, and county,
Sl7:33Ul; a total of S273,254
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company.
city $50, 593, and county, S2,6S2; total of
S92.275.
Foreign legations, S354,935; this last item
and those given above making a total of
S1O443,617.
The property acquired by the United
States here between 1898 and July /, 1899.
in the city was $1O0,396. and county, $3.50;
a total of S1O4,3S6 This item does not in
clude land acquired by condemnation for
street purposes. Acquired by the District
between. the same dates, city, S169 1i3, and
county, $1O4,O6S; a total of $213,211.
OF course, in transmitting the statements
to the Senate, the Commissioners made
them itemized ones. The figures above
represent the totals, however, and while
hastily prepared in the office of the as
SCISSOR this afternoon are believed to be