The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-01-26

town. so far as the assessors books show
and go far as the County Board has been
able to discover the newspaper has moth
ing in the way of real or personal proper
ty on which the county can realize any
benefit in the way Of taxation. The editor
does own a house and lot In Palmyra
which, In 1905, If we are not mistaken,
was assessed at $3.50. The custom in that
township was not to assess personal pro-
perty at high valuation, but allowing
the editors household goods to be worth
what they are now assessed for $1OO-his
assessed value would have been $3.50. The
county tax rate that year was 81 on the
800, so that he paid into the county.
treasury for the support of the county
the sum of So so, and drew for printing
the sum of 1924 "a. In 1905 the house
was again assessed at $3.50 and the County
Board took up the question of valuations
in Palmyra. To aid,,in getting correct
idea the township committee was asked
to examine the duplicate and they called in
several gentlemen experienced in values.
This committee decided that the valuation
Of the editors property should be in
creased to $1,000, and the personal
property was assessed at 800. making a
total assessment Of $4,000 and the house
alone is worth that sum. We make this
statement advisedly, and stand ready to
secure him that sum for the place when
ever he can furnish an agreement signed
by those who would have to attach their
names to make legal title. Well, that
year the county tax rate was 70 cents, 80
the editor who. by the way, had begun to
froth and fume, personally and by proxy,
over Ubiquitous doings of the County
Board, paid for county tax $14 40. draw
| ing for printing $357.27. Tax had gone
up little. so printing came little higher.
] In 1907 the same assessment was allowed
to stand and the county rate being 81
cents, the amount paid in to aid the
county was $3.50, receipts for printing,
$262.43. In 1908 the real estate and per-
sonal had not increased any in value,
but were just as good, and the county tax
rate was SO cents, bringing into the
treasury 1880, outgo for printing.
$292.01. ''To recapitulate" as the fnan-
cial reports sometimes say: Paid into the
treasury for county expenses. printing,
ETC., in four years, $51.10; received from
the county treasury for printing in the
same four years, $1.1S6 %. Is it plain
where the editor has any kick comingf
Other papers in this county have drawn
as much, many of them more in the same
length of time, but they have plant and
pay tax into the county, and are not con-
tinuallY decrying everything and every
body that do not exactly measure up to
their standard, and have not been COM
PEELED to print an apology and let some
other fellow pay $3.50 to 'get rid of the
bother of a lawsuit" OF course the
editor has right to be "unalterably OPP
posed" to the County Board of Taxation.
To have ones property raised more than
double in one year, even though that
action was by and with the advice Of the
township authorities and property ex-
perts, was q severe blow, and we do not
wonder that the editor squirms and twists
at being compelled to pay such an enor-
nous sum into the county treasury with
out receiving substantial returns for his
money.