Evening journal., 1901-10-22
TO DISTRIBUTE
INCOME TAX
Levy Court Takes Steps TO
Protect the Collectors
NUMEROUS BIDS ARE OPENED
County Will Insist That Tax on Sec
ORd Street Market House
Property be Paid
NUMEROUS BIDS ARE OPENED


morning took steps to protect Messrs
Dlckey and Donahoe, former collectors
under the Adams tax law, against suits
THAT may be instituted against them
after they have returned The money
collected to the county.
The protection is in the form OF
resolution, of which the following IS
copy:
Resolved, That as soon as Lewis
Diclley and John p Donahoe late tax
collectors for Wilmington hundred,
make return to the Levy Court OF the
moneys collected by them under tho
Adams tax law. that There will be inn
mediate redistribution OF the said taxes
collected in New Castle county snd
that the two said collectors will be in-l
demniled by any person claiming tol
have paid the said tax to the said col |
ectors.
The resolution was adopted.
INHw BIDS OPENED
Bids for furnishing 10000 feet of
three-inoh white oak 10 be used in rel
building Washington street bridge,
were opened and read AT the last
meeting OF the court bids for furnishingl
four-indh lumber for the work we're
received, but upon consultation with
bridge engineers tlle commissioners
earned that The four-inch lumber
wonld make the structure too heavy for
lhe steel frame; hence the readvertis
ling for new bids.
These read this morning were
| Thomas j. Talley, $3.50 per thousand
! feet Jchn Swans a CO.. perryville,
4 S23.50 Lindley G. Kent & CO.. SIS;
Brosius a smedley. $2l Frank y. wills
J & Co. $50; Wilmington Wheel Com
pany. $50 and $685. Bush & Rayner, S2S;
4 w. l.. Rosson, Philadelphia, S24 and
S26
One bid from an ont OF town mer-
liant was rejected. because it had not
| been received BY uhe court at the time
advertised in the original proposals.
but before 60 was laid aside il formed
a subject for argument
| The question was raised by Mr.
! Armstrong, who asked THAT the bid be
| opened. To do so. Mr. Willis thought
would be unjust TO other bidders for
dhe work, whose bids for supplying
| foGT-inch lumber for the bridge were
practically the same as those on the
| tlhree-indh lumber. The committee hav-
/ ing the matter I'M hand had concluded
70 restrict the bidding on the three
| inch lumber to only Those merchants
VINO had bid ON the four-inch oak. and
as the bid in question had been received
since the three-inGh proposals were
| published, ii had reason to bolieve that
the bid was on the three-inch lumber.
MIR. Elliott also was of the OpinionI
That to receive me bid would be un-
jufi to tIhe other bidders, whereupon
Mr. Armstrong Withdrew the bid.
The bids were referred to Messrs.
Chandler, Elliott and Armstrong. who
will award tine contract this afternoon
TO the best bidder
Mr.. Willis called the attention of tIhe
members OF the court to tine fact that
tine books i'm the county tax office con-
tain entries Of a number of properties
which are exempt from taxation by
law. and HE offered a resolution pro-
Viding THAT such properties be c0nsid
cred as errors and stricken from the
books.
Following is 4 copy Of the resolutions
whereas, There appears on the lax
records Of the Receiver of Taxes. various
| properties belonging % charitable institu
AihAi3t NhhAAn niHs ANitlMNlf uNHt.rNilAAittns
and properties exempt by special act Of
the Legislature, therefore he 1t
Resolved. That the following list Of
properties be ordered stricken from the
books of the Receiver Of Taxes and that
a list be furnished the assessors in vari-
Gus districts 50 that they may leave them
from their assessment
The properties are: Asbury NJ r.
Church parsonage, 222 Walnut; Atlantic
Refining Company, creek and Commeree.I
street, exempt for ten years, Associated
| Charities. COZ West: Berry Williams, 1
Rockford road. city bed; Eliza J. Booth. !
Ninth and Lincoln, duplicate; Calvary /.
y. Church parsonage, sos West Third |
| Ellnor Churchman, 800 Delaware avenue
thigh school; III. A. DUPONT. Liberty
and Madison. duplicate. i erris Reform
School; sos Harrison, German Baptist
Church parsonage 2l0 East Fifth; Rev
John $. Gulcz. Linden and Harrison.
| Polish church, Home for Friendless Chill /
| drcn, Claymnnt and 4, exempt; Home
for Aged Women. 424 East Sixth, ey
emnt: Homo for Friendless Children, 604
West Eighth, exempt; Home for Friend
less Children, 523-5-1 East Twelfth, cx
emnt, Handy Brothers Elliott avenue, |
city line, duplicate; Home for Fricndless
Children. AZ Bird, exempt; Home for
Aged Women. Gil South Jackson ex- |
empt; William j. Lynch, Fourth and
Adams, duplicate: Enoch Moore Ship
yard. exempt until 1902; Provident Afri- |
can Union NJ. Il. Church. Seventh and
Douglass; Mary Ryan, Sixth and Webb, |
duplicate: Trustees st. Patricks Church. |
l03 East Fourteenth street. school house |
Trustees Union NJ. Il. Church. parson-
age, $40 French; Trustees Ezion NJ. Il. |
Church. parsonage. 429 East Eleventh; |
Trustees Haven NJ. Il. Church. parson-
age. 1905 West Third six unknown own
ers in Second. Fifth. Eighth. Tenth, !
Eleventh and Twelfth wards, aggregate.
S3 55f- Wilmington Cnai f4ng C0mpanv
angle lot. Railroad and Liberty, S450.
! Wilmington Savings Fund. 306-S Monroe,
| 3osi0-l2 Adams duplicate. Sarah Ann
/ White Home. Thirieth and Woodlawn
and Market ll24 East Fifteenth; Young