The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-05

Degnan Tells the County Tax
Board What Jersey City
Will Be Assessed.

I; Mclean of the County Board stating
! that he understood that the Jersey City
| Board had further report of valuations
to make and calling on President Hoos
to make statement in reference to the
same.
MIR. HOOSS STATEMENT.
81 reported in June last, said Mr..
Hoos, "that. the amount of ratables for
| Jersey City was S96,OS0, SAP, consisting
of $50, 1850 real and $9,346, ,492 per-
| sonal This | submitted and swore to as
| the amount of ratables in our field books
| at the time. / admitted that in certain
cases there might be some changes in the
assessments, such as equalization and ad
ditional information would warrant. | de-
sire to state that / never made any re-
turn whatsoever to the Jersey City FL
| nance Board in regard to our ratables.
and if there is any such report | think
! my colleagues of the Tax Board can ex-
plain it better than l can"
Commissioner Degnan was then called
upon. After the oath had been admins
tered to him by Secretary Connolly, he
objected to him because he thought the
of I, ham
sworn 1t was explained to him that Mr.,
Hoos, with the other assessors of the
county, was sworn when the board began
its proceedings in June. He then said
''When Mr.. Hoos made his report to
this Board he was aware of the fact that
! my work was not completed. The person
ais were still to be taken up by the Board
! as a body, The work is not now complet-
ed, and therefore his report is not correct.
I Mr.. Hoos. with Mr.. Lindsay and myself,
went over the field books and yesterday,
as far as we went, the corrected returns
yielded an increase of $3.50, 900 on small
concerns As far as the original report
made to this Board is concerned, was
! ignored in the preparation of il"
Have you any additional report to
. make?'' asked President Mclean.
"As far as we have gone, | think Jer-
sey City will yield $99,6O0,000," answer
ed Mr.. Degnan.
"But we must have a report to show
the basis of your figures" said Mr.. Nc
Lean.
81 was simply notified to be here and
didn't know that report was to be re-
turned" was the Pagan Commissioners
surprising reply.
DEGNAN EyASIyE.
ssWhat amount have you returned as
total of ratables to the Board of FL
nance?s asked Commissioner Love.
81 haven't returned any," evasively re-
turned Mr.. Degnan.
Haven't you assisted the Board of
Finance in arriving at its fgures?" per-
sisted Mr. Love.
! 81 can't say whether talked to a
member of that Board or informed them
through some other source that the city
would yield about $99000,000," was the
reply.
I'VE understand" said President Nc
Lean, that Jersey City's report. al
though made and sworn to, is incomplete
We waited until today-the final day
for that report. We must fix the county
/; rate, but we cannot do so until the Jer-
! sey City returns are complete"
! '.You can readily understand that We
were hampered in our work. 1t was
difficult to get information and it took
considerable time," explained Mr.. Deg
nan.
rs the figure you now give us the
/
Mr.. McLean's next query.
1T is the figure answered Mr.. Deg
nan.
"Is it in bulk or separated as to realty
and personal"
"We haven't got it separated"
eve cannot receive it except it is sep
arated, interposed Mr.. Love.
Mr., Degnan then asked for an exten-
sion of time until today to enable Mr..
Lindsay and himself to prepare their cor
rected return. The Board allowed them
until Thursday.
When Mr. Hoos was making the mo-
ton for the withdrawal of the return
already presented by Mr. Dayton and
himself, he said:
lit is the will Of majority Of this