The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-27
LOW TAX ASSESSMENTS
FEATURE or REPORTS ON
 THRx1 ooUNrIEs.
Examiners Submit Result of Their Investigations of Accounts of Officials of Coneeuh Gle
 burne and Cullyuau,

Examiner of Public Accounts J. T. Cor man and Assistant Examiners c, F. Sed- berry and T. J. Rutledge filed reports yesterday vath the Governor tor their work during the latter part of last week. The reports covered the counties of Con- scuh. Clsburns and Cullman.
 The interesting feature of each report is the statement az to tax assessments which now form a part of every report of a public examiner. The three coIn- ties show steady increase of tax as- sessments. Mir Rutledge, however. says that the tax assessment of Cullman conn- ty is far below the market value of the property and that only g snaaf1 increase is shown over 1so2.
 Conecuh County.
 Examiner German reported that Pro- bate Judge F. J. Dean of Conecuh coun- ty, had kept his books well and had by him. The judge had. however. issued a warehouse license for S10 in January and the new revenue code had fixed the fee at $25, for which he was due the State s2s. The error will be rectified.
 The examiner reported that Circuit Clerk s. l.. Tisdaie of the same county was a good official. but that he had not yet collected all of the $75 solicitors fees in the case of Haskew Johnson. The clerk has promised to collect the remain der of the fee and send 1t in.
 A clean sheet was given to Sheriff W. w. Pridgen. No errors were found fin his books.
 Tax Collector J. T. Fincher was found to owe the State st.50 for three polls. He settled the error.
 The books of Tax Assessor W. H. Nixon were found to have no flaws. The tax statement showed that the assess ment of Conecuh county had increased from s1. ssS Ss4 in 1899 to $2.61o,134 In 1sos.
 The examiner reported that the books of S. A. Lowery. county superintendent of education. were fairly well kept and that he substantially complied with the lew.
 Cleburne County.
 The reports on Cleburne county were made by Assistant Examiner G. r. Sed- berry. "t
 The books of Sheriff l.. E. Adams of that county were reported correct. Pro- bate Judge A. A. Hurst was found to have made the reports required by law, but he had made them irrsgulariy caus- Ing some confusion in the auditors and tFeasurer's offices. On the land redemp- tion fund he was found to have made D679 in errors.
 Tax Collector A. E. Caruth and Clerk
 
 reported as having correctly reported their books. and as having made no er- TOTS.
 The books of Tax Assessor William Hooper were without flaws, The increase O. Cleburne's assessment was shown as follows: In 1899 It was $1,a23,2a2 and in 1902 it was sl,4 ,406SS7. The books of County Superintendent of A. H. Glasgow were found to be in a fairly good condition. The ex- aminer said that he had not complied with the law in all senses, but that all had been legally made. The examiner found much confusion in the office. a..
 Cullman County.
 Cullman county officials were reported upon by Assistant Examiner T. J. Rut- ledge Tn the main the plain statement made by MT. Rutledge was compliment, ary to the officials.
 Probate Judge s. L. Fuller, sx-Sherin A, J. York, Circuit Clerk O. S. Roden. Tax Assessor E. AE Mathews. Tax Col lector J. J. Fowler and Superintendent of Education Thomas c. King were report ed competent and careful officials. No errors were found in their books, and they were reported to have complied with the law.
 Sheriff A. H. o'Rear was found to have made an error of $106O in his feed bill. which the examiner charged to him.
 The examiner also reported that he had called the attention of Tax Assess sor E. F. Mathews, to the low tax as- easements and had urged him to remedy the defect