The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1907-03-16
Assessors Collecting Data for
Rolls.

Rolls.
The parish assessors are now max
Ing up their assessment blanks ant
collecting the data for the assess
ment rolls Of 1907, which. will he mad,
up for the first time under the guild
nnce of the State Board of Equaliza
ton, with the view of securing ar
equal aud uniform assessment
throughout Louisiana. The method
OF making up the assessment rolls
this year is greatly changed from
any year In the past, and 1t Is seri.
onsly doubted whether or not the
assessors, under the new law. will be
able to get their rolls completed and
filed with the Auditor of the State
by the first OF September, the date
that under the old law these assess.
ment rolls must be filed. The data
for the assessment roll blanks are
now being collected by the assessors
of the state.
According to the new law passed
by the State Legislature, the ASSESS
Urs must file with the Auditor, on or
before July 10, u complete summary
of the assessment of the parish. The
summary will group all data and
the valuations placed upon 1t. For
instance, the number OF cattle I'm the
parish will be given assessed at SO
much per head; the number of acres
OF swamp land In the parish will he
given assessed at so much per acre
the number of acres of woodland
assessed at so much per acre. and so
on down through the en- tire list. This
abstract OF the assessments come In
to the Auditors Office before July 10,
from every parish in the State. The
following week in July the State
Board Of Equalization will hold it's
first meeting for the purpose OF equal
ixing the assessments of Louisiana.
The board will take the summaries
filed from the different parishes, go
carefully over them, and determine
upon the inequalities in the different |
values. This State Board Of Equal
ixation can sit for sixty days, and it |
will likely do this. In view OF the fact |
that this is the first meeting ever held
and the inequalities In the assess
ments will be very great because of
4 ho fact fhof ~, oy,<a,x,o<lo net,~.x |
has ever been made In the past to
equalize the values. II the State
Board Of Equalization sits sixty days
the time allowed by law, the 1st OF
the date now fixed by the
statute for the filing OF the assess
ment rolls will have passed by fifteen
days. Even II the board does not
sit but for thirty days, and It is not
believed that theyIthey can complete
their session inithat time, the ASSESS
Drs would be pushed to the very limit
to be able to get their rolls made up
and fled with the Auditor by Sep
tember.
After the State Board OF Equaliza-
lion has made an examination OF the
summaries from the diff
erent parishes and determined upon
The percentage OF increase or reduc-
ion that are necessary I'm the differ
mt articles from the different parishes
The blanks will have to be returned
20 the assessor, with the instructions
n regard to the increase. Only after
he has received his instruction back
rom the State Board of Equalixa-
ion can the Assessor begin the
making up his rolls. The relative in
.rease In the assessment values this
rear Is a matter for the widest spec
1t ia not believed that the
will be as great us last year. |;
from the Information secured the
themselves are not placing
lpon the blanks, which they are
up, the high percentage In {
he increase OF values, as recorded i,
ast year. although the figures of the !
assessor are subject to revision by .
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