The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-02
UncoIIectlble City Taxes
Wiped on the Books
SOME PETITIONS REFUSED
The Board Of Civil Authority st It's
Meeting Last Night Considered IS
Applications. Most Of Them
Of Poll Taxe1.

Some Of the dendwood Of the cItx's
tax books was cleared away at The
meeting of the board Of civil authority
last evening, at which time about thirty.
ave cases were considered, covering the
period. from 1901 TO the present. 4 few
cases were dismissed.
Those dismissed wcrcs vs.. +. Smith.
who asked for rebate on bank account
tax. while At the samo time no held a
mortgage on a house and was himself
mort gagged; Andrew Scott, who claimed
he was not In Barre when taxed for poll.
Aimon Keith, poll taxes OF Ip0d-O5,
James Hastings, poll tax Of 1909. claimed
he was not Of age until April l6, but
presented no proof.
The petition OF Herbert o. ghattuck.
poll tax of 1900, was held open; he
said his family was living in 1Aconia,
n. H., although he had lived in Barre
three years and he claimed he was not
assessable here. No action was taken fn
the poll tax abatement petition Of 1908,
made by J. 5. Comolh.
Former Tax Collector w. II. buchanan
presented the remains Of his list OF 1901.
and the board swept the whole away as
upcollectable, with the exception Of the
taxes Of J. G. Bessatte, William Melvin.
M. @. Nichols, Robert Patterson, Annie
Rivers, w. \. Rogers and @. ID. Travers.
Of these, Il was thought that NJ. q.
Nichols had paid bis tax for 1901.
The largest abatement was on the
property of L. II. Hooker, which was
transferred TO the Hedding Methodist
church. The property was taxed In 1904.
the assessment being sll3.60. II was
claimed that the property, being in the
hands of a religious society, was not
taxable, and that contention was found
20 be true at the particular time in ques-
tion. Since then, however, the law has
been changed so that church property
not used for church purposes is taxable.
The Methodist society decided back the
property to the former owners, and It is
now in the hands of Montpelier semi
nary.
Attachments we're granted az follows:
M. n. Gordon, house on Hill street. was
more than the stage of con.
stniction warranted; George Thaver.
poll tax of 1905, wife and family living
in Hardwick, where he paid tax; John
poll Of 1907, was in Califor-
hia Oohu DAuAHis WIS bt AOu1it WHeH
poll was doubled on him, willing to pay
single tax; Bert Leonard, half Of doubled
poll abated; Ella PoIonghini, small per-
sonal tax Of 1904; costs Of tax assessed
against c. " Bishop in 1905; Arthur
poll tax of 1906; II. B.
Stickney, lived in Montpelier when as
sessed on poll.
The 1906 poll taxes Of A. Ametti. R.
Bianchi, w. II. Carrigan, A. Comolii,
William Ellis, Alfred Goneo, Frank Maai,
John Mortimer, A. Mcintosh, Ceppi Ri
naldo, George Taylor, Arthur Travers.
A. Fl. Hood and William Wright were
lbated, mainly on the grounds that the
lists were duplicates or the persons were
under 2l years of age. 0ney Raymond
md wife got a rebate on a small piece
II real estate because Of an error in
ist.
OF the 1907 taxes, the following were
lbated: Ferdinando FeSTini and Alex
lnder Jopp, duplicates; S. w. Cole, abat-
a to amount of SO cents, wrong place
named; Giovanni Mast, poll tax. The
ast-named was recently drowned at
South Ryegate.
The hoard finished up the business in
me sitting.