The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1911-12-22
Civil Authority Board Decided
Last Evening
THEN RELATED 1911 TAX
This Action Followed Re, w Of City
Attorneys Opinion ~ ing the Tax
"Illegap-Ls,<NS ..mber of Other
Appeals .sidered by Board.

After listening to the written opinion
Of City Attorney 4. L. Scott, the board
OF civil authority at its regularly called
meeting for abatement OF taxes last
evening decided that the city had no
right to tax Clan Gordon, No. II, 0. s. G.,
for its real estate hoLiings in Barre last
! April, because Of the nature of the soci-
ETY. rs a charitable organization; and,
therefore. the tax of about SIS, which
had been paid under protest, was re-
bated
Clan Gordon had held this property
some years, but had never been listed
for taxes until this year At a former
meeting of the board on August X the
protest of the society was formally pre-
sented, and it was voted to refer tSe
matter TO the city attorney to rende:
opinion as to the legality of the tax.
Last night after reviewing the charter
of the society and the general laws at
some length, City Attorney Scott de-
eared the tax "illegal and could not be
/ collected" with the recommendation
! that the tax be rebated. No time was
then lost in carrying a motion that the
appeal be sustained and the tax rebated.
This was the most important matter
before the board, but only one OF a
| great many, the board being engaged
for two hours. There were present May
or Mutch, Aldermen Thurston. Mcleod
and Brown, Charles w. Melcher, VII
liam Calder and NJ. j. McGowan; and
they elected City Clerk Mackay as chair
man. Tax Collector NJ. B. Nichols was
there and he presented many taxes for
abatement, and at the same time came
in for some commendation for close col
| lections on the remnant" list OF 1905
Individual appeals were taken up first,
and the cases were disposed of in the
following manner:
Mrs. Olivina MaCasse asked abate-
ment on $500 property on ground OF
inability to pay; dismissed.
Isaac Herbert presented receipted tax
bill Of NJ. Lebanon, which he said he him.
self paid, and he wanted his own abated;
/ dismissed
G. NJ, or G. Murray, Clark asked for
rebate OF "a cents, costs of collection on
small piece OF property listed to M. c.
Clark and wife, as he said he would
have paid the tax on that property at
! the same time he paid on property listed
/ to c. NJ Clark, if bill had been present.
ed; costs rebated.
Causes Many and Some Strange
When these individual appeals wers
| disposed Of the board went through Coll
leetor Nichols lists, taking up those of
1911 first and treating them as followss
flames Andrew, l3 Brook street, dupli-
cate of james Andrews, abated; Carlo
Bernaseoni, mixed with Marco Bernas-
| conf, abated; Angelo Balconi, claimed
to be only IS, which collector thought
| likely, abated G. A. CALDER, not known
! in Barre, abated; II. d. Camp, in charge
Of state, abated; c. Bertrand, not known,
abated; Julio Ceresoli, dismissed; L.
Cassarico, dead, abated; Emery Cleye-
land, dead abated; Henry Densmore,
Civil war veteran, abated Patrick Do
Ian, sick man, abated Alex Dicke tsix
taxes1, moved to Brattleboro, abated;
Archie Durfee, dead, abated; Edward c.
| English, probably duplicate of Edward
| ] English, abated; John Ferguson, du-
! plcate of j. B. Ferguson, abated; Albert
| French, Civil war veteran, abated; Bat
tista CALI, duplicate of Battista Gill,
abated.
When the board came to the name Of
Peter LeClair and the announcement
was made that he is the father of is
children, the motion was Immediately
made that his tax be abated, which was
done and some thought it proper to
notify Col Roosevelt. However, the lat
ter opinion did not prevail in motion
form,
Fred Long of Middlesex, who works in
Barre and goes home every Saturday
night, got his tax abated; Romeo Mari
otti, claimed by his mother to be lS,
was passed over as he did not appear
before board as expected Alexander Me-
Kenzie, foreman of the riverbed change,
abated; w. T.. Poole as receiver of
drug store, abated; Joe Pierce, lives
in Montpelier, abated; Leonard Rela-
tion two taxes), on statement by city
charity committee, dismissed; John Riz-
ii. dead. abated; Paulo Smonetti, dis
abled and unable to work over year,
abated: J. L. Moselle, claimed was in
Barre as George j.. Mead's representa-
tive only six months, dismissed; Her.
bert E. Wallace duplicate of Bert f.
Wallace. abated; Leslie Whiteman,
claimed he was only l6, dismissed; M.
L. Durett, claimed paid tax in Duxbury,
aDNleQf AH1fleS r IoudufUl, duplicate VI
P. B Shadroi, abated; Mrs c. b. Perry,
error of assessors, had paid taxes as
Eliza |. Perry, abated; Henry Johnson,
Bemis place, not known, abated, and
list to Henry Thompson, same address,
has been made out; Charles Hall, Keith
avenue, dismissed; Dr. T. j. Stephenson,
in asylum, abated; w. A. Williams, ON
report OF charity committee, abated
Going back to the 1908 taxes on the
collectors book, the taxes of Daniel D-
ack, murdered, and William Mckinley,
dead, were abated. In the collectors
list of 1910, the taxes of Thomas Cotter,
suicide in city jail and John f. Me-
Donald. jr.. sick and unable to work,
were abated.
Collector Nichols then reported that of
thirteen names left over in the 1905 list
he had collected eight taxes and one
other had been paid previously without
knowledge of the board leaving four
names, as follows Victor Beaulieu,
Alfred Carlson, Hamilton Johnston and
George Stuart. The members remarked
on the collectors good work, and abated
the four after which the board adj
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