The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-02
Approximately $4,000 Will
Be Spent by Townships of
Wayne County for List
ing Property.
EXPENSE OF $1,000
IN WAYNE TOWNSHIP
In that Township Twenty
eight Deputies Are Re-
quired to Do Work-The
List of Deputies.

Dy the townships OF the county III as
sessing real estate and personal prop
erty OF the county, the work on which
began Thursday, although Wednes-
day assessors and their deputies Sc
cured supplies from County Auditor
Demas Coe and swore to support the
constitution of the United States. Ow-
ing to the quadrennial assessment of
real estate coming this year the eX-
pense of listing real estate and per-
sonal property within the county is
greatly increased, due entirely to the
necessity of assessors employing more
deputies. The assessment period
ends May Is, when reports will be
fled with the county auditor.
In Richmond and Wayne township
where there is over fifteen million
dollars of assessable property, the
work this year will require twenty
eight deputies. including three women
for office work. and township assess
or Charles T.. Potter will be ION the
jump all of the time. The expense
attached to the assessment within the
township will be over $4,000. accord
ing TO the estimate made at the budget
meeting of the county commissioners
last September.
In Wayne Township.
Ten of the deputies under Town
ship Assessor Potter have been as
signed to the assessment of real es-
tate, six of whom will devote their
attention entirely TO property within
the city. two to both city and township
property, and two others to township
property exclusively, The other eigh-
teen deputies will list the personal
property within the township, this be-
ing the number which has been regu-
larry employed by the township as
SCISSOR when real estate has not been
assessed
In the other townships in the coun.
of the work. In few of the town
ships the cost will! not be more than
5000. This is due to their size and
population.
On Thursday all township assessors
sent out assessment blanks to the
banking institutions under their jur.
, isdiction. These blanks must be fill.
ed out and the veracity of the con.
tents sworn to before a notary public
and returned to the township assess.
ors before March Is. Questions which
are asked include, amount of capital
stock. surplus on hand, par value of
stock, true value of stock and assess.
or's value of stock, also all other
funds on hand. real estate possessed
by the institution within or without
the state, and all deposits on hand
March l. The blanks to be filled out
by the corporations seek much the
same kind of information in regard to
the paid up stock. the number OF
shares of stock, the value of the tangi
BILE property of the corporation on
hand March I and a list of the indebt.
edness of the concerns, etc.
Nepotism is Shown.
There are quite number of women
deputies engaged in the assessment
work this year. In most cases they
are members of the families of the
assessors. Other evidences of nepot
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shown. Usually the work in their
charge is that of keeping the daily
records. The law does not specify
that women shall not be appointed to
such duties, only declaring that com
petent persons shall be engaged by
the township assessors. The town
ship assessors, their deputies and the
/ &C. inn Tod IF hn -
each township are as follows:
Abingdon township-Richard Roby
assessor; Addison Roby, deputy, esti
mated cost S267.50.
Boston township-Walter E. Dilks
assessor: Joseph Moore, deputy; es
timated cost s267.50.
Clay township-E. s. Lamb, assess
or: William Nicholson. deputy; esti
mated cost s337.50.
Dayton township-Emanuel Canady
assessor: Kate Canady, deputy; es
timated cost $eO7.5o.
Center township. II. Martin. as
SCISSOR; Josephine Martin and S. L
Ladd, deputies; estimated cos
S4S7.50.
! FiaHhiu io"uship ." iiiidm "A
Hyde. assessor; L. F. Anderson ant
Charles Wood. deputies; estimated
cost s337.50.
Green township-Simon Weddle. as
SCISSOR; Beryl Weddle and Addison ST
Meyer. deputies; estimated cos
$34s.50.
! Harrison township-William II. viii
son. assessor: Kate Wilson, deputy
estimated cost. S20750
! Jackson township-A Rummel. as
SCISSOR; Martin L. Young, William
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