The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1911-04-27
DALTON DEMANDS EQUALITY
Wants Assessors in Towns and in the
City tc see to it that the Assess
ment as Returned This Year is Fair
to Ali.

The annual meeting Of the Kenosha
County Board Of Assessment was held
at the court house this mornins and
assessors from every town in the county
and the three assessors from the city
were present at the meeting. The
meeting was preliminary to the start
ing of the work of making the annual
assessment on next Monday morning.
County Supervisor of Assessments
Joseph A. Dalton was the principal
speaker at the convention. Mr.. Dali
ton spoke of the fact that the asses
sors were called into convention for
the purpose of exchanging ideas as to
the best manner Of listing the real
and personal property of the city and
county. He stated that the reports of
the state tax commission showed Ke-
nosha county to be one Of the best
assessed counties in the state, but that
there was still room for improvements.
He read to the assessors the rules made
out by the state commission and de-
clared that it was his desire to see
an equal assessment returned through
out the county and in the city. He
spoke of the necessity Of the assessors
making the strictest possible efforts
to list monies and credits and the care
that should be taken in the assessment
of live stock and other personal prop
erty and spoke at length on the assess
ment Of merchants and manufacturers
stock. He declared that what should
be sought by every assessor was to
make the assessment equitable not only
among the people Of the various towns,
but among the people of all the towns
and the city so that the burden of
taxation would be divided on the rule
of equity. He spoke of the best
methods to be followed in reaching
assessments of personal property and
real estate and congratulated the as
SCISSORS on the showing they had made
in the past.
There were some spirited discussions
between the assessors from the various
towns. George w. McKesson, the new
assessor for the town of Randall, in
sisted that there should be something
done to make the assessments in other
towns as equitable as they were in the
town of Randall. He declared that
Randall had been returning nearly a
true value assessment for several years
and that this same standard was not
being met in the other towns. Mr..
McKesson did not intimate that the as
SCISSORS had been wrong in bringing
Randall up to the right standard, but
he insisted that this standard should
be maintained for the other towns and
for the city as well.
The work of making the assessment
in the towns and in the city should be
started on next Monday morning, but
as yet the new assessment rolls have
not been sent out from the state tax
commission and it is probable that the
work in the county will be delayed for
several weeks on account of this fail
ure of the state department. The Ke-
nosha assessors will have a great deal
of Office work to do before the field
work starts and this will keep them
busy for nearly a month. The assess
ments are to be returned by the first
Monday in August and before that
time the regular meetings of the board
Of review are to be started. The peo-
pie Of the city are to be advised this
year that they must make complaints
on assessments to the board of review
as the new committee on ts xes of the
council will not recognize complaints
for rebates next year.