The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-24
City Council Puts Down Heavy Foot
on the Continued Delay in
Making Assessments.
MAY NAME MORE ASSESSORS.
Council Places the Dog License at Doll
lar for Males and Four Dollars for
Females sher Council Work.

After considering the matter Tor
long time the City Council has decided
to make an end to the long delays that
have attended the making Of the
assessment valuations of Kenosha
property, and some plan will be de-
vised during the next few months to
remedy this defect next year. The
assessment should have been COM
pleted early in August, and although
a full month has passed the Assessor
is still at the work, and it will be some
time before the rolls are ready for the
County Treasurer.
Ia order to remedy this defect the
Assessor was notified by the Council
that if the work was not completed
without further delay an assistant
would be employed, and that his pay
would be taken from the salary of the
Assessor. This will, perhaps, have a
result of getting the assessment in
within the next few days. The fault
for the work does not lie with the As
SCISSOR, as it is conceded that under the
new law the work is TOO great to be
expected of one man in the time al
lowed for it. Before the next assess
ment it is probable that the city char.
Ter will be amended by adoption Of the
portions of the General Charter law SO
that the city will be empowered to en-
ploy several Assessors.
The recent growth of the city has
made it practically impossible for one
man to do the work. This year it was
thought that the making of the assess
ment would be an easy matter, but the
Assessor has been forced to visit every
piece of property in the city in order
to ascertain the value of improvements
that have been made during the past
year.
It is now stated that the returns will
be ready for the Board Of Review and
the County Clerk by tomorrow, but it
is possible that longer delay will be
necessary to secure the proper tabula-
ton of the report.
Dog License Is Passed.
The Council by unanimous vote
Monday night passed the ordinance to
provide for the issue of dog licenses.
Before the ordinance was passed
long discussion occurred in regard to
fixing the price to be paid for the licen-
ses. Some of the aldermen we're in
favor of placing the license at five dol
lars for female dogs, but this amend.
ment was lost. A compromise was
finally made by which the license for
males was placed at one dollar and that
of females at four dollars. The ordi-
nance will be published at once, and
will go into effect on October 1st. The
| tags for the dogs have been ordered,
and it is expected that they will arrive
in plenty of time to allow the issue of
them before the law becomes effective.
| Eugene r. Head was reelected to
his place on the Board of Water Com
missioners for a term of three years,
receiving the unanimous vote of the
Council. Mr.. Head had declined to
accept the Office, but he will serve I'M
til some suitable man can be found to
take his place. Mr.. Head is at present
President Of the Board.
The Chief of Police was instructed
to order the people residing on Lake
avenue to discontinue the practice Of
allowing sewerage to run into the
street. The order was issued at the
request of the Health Department, as
the street had become so filthy that it
was considered menace to the public
health.
The sewer assessment committee
was ordered to secure proposals for the
building of sewers On Garden, West,
julius and Rock streets.