The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1915-11-19
The Personal
Property Roll
Collection Are Fine in The
county of Nezperce.

Lewiston, Nov. 1.-THE personal
property rolls of Nez Peace county
will be closed on Monday next, Nov
ember %, this being. the fourth
Monday of the month. At that time
it is expected the assessor and per-
sonal property tax collector will
make his last entry in the personal
property rolls and turn same over
to the board of county commission
ers for equalization and final ac-
counting. The commissioners will
not meet for two weeks afterwards,
OIL the first Monday in December.
It is probable the fact that the law
makers in deciding that the assess
or should close the personal rolls on
the fourth Monday of the month.
and the commissioners should take
up their work on the first Monday
of December had in mind that but
week would elapse between dates.
This year, however, November
came in Monday and there are five
of them in the month.
The assessor reports that the COL
lection of personal property taxes
is progressing we'll and that
there are fair indications that the
delinxuencies will be decidedly small
He is making a very ernest effort
to get the taxes all in before the
books are closed. Reports from the
other counties in the Lewiston coun-
try are of the same tenor. In each
of the counties the statement is
made that the unpaid personal
property tax will be very small in
amount this year. In some of the
counties, notably Latah, a very
strong effort has been made to col
lect long overdue personal property
taxes. This attempt has been crown
ed with considerable success.
1t has been decided that the coun-
ty assessors Of northern Idaho, in
cluding all the counties in the north
ern part of the state extending from
Idoho county north to the British
line, will assemble in convention in
Lewiston on the morning of Novem-
ber 20, and will probably remain in
session several days. This will be
the annual meeting of assessors of
this section of the state. It's pur-
pose is for the discussion and de-
termining as to values to be placed
on personal property of different
kinds in the assessment next year.
1t is expected that this meeting will
last several days.
The meeting at this time and
place will give the visiting officials
an opportunity to visit the North
west Livestock Association show, a
subject in which all of these officials
are interested both from a personal
and professional standpoint. The
meeting of assessors usually held in
Boise early in the year was not held
in 1915, Governor Alexander having
declined to call them to gether on
the plea of economy. There have
been hopes entertained that the
governor this year would do so,
having had opportunity to determ-
inc just how valuable in the admin
istration of the laws these meetings
are. Whether meeting of all the
assessors of the state will be held in
Boise this year has not been fully
determined. From letters inter-
changed between these officers thru
out the state it is evident that such
a meeting is demanded. Unfort-
l unately the various boards of coun-
, ty commissioners are somewhat
chary of making provisions for the
payment of expenses of those at
tending such meetings. Of course,
if the meeting is called by the gov
ernor the feeling of indecision and
uncertainty is not so evident.