The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-19
NEW DIVISION OF
 TAX DISTRICTS IS
 PASSED BY COUNCIL
General Assembly To Be Ask ed At Once to Ratify
 Action.


 A charter amendment drawn by City Attorney Comley and providing for the separation of Bridgeport into two tax districts as had been propos- ed before, was adopted without dis senting voice at the meeting of the common council last night and will be presented for ratification by the legislature today. Some one has start ed a story that there is $9Ss000 laying loose in the city treasury out of which those property owners who for merIy paid taxes in the First district only may receive back the money they paid in excess of their taxes. City Treasurer Manwaring dces not know anything about any such sum Some of the property owners in the First district have not paid any taxes as is amended, some arrangement by which these taxpayers will be credit ed oGl the 1914 taxes for the excess amounts they have paid for 1913 tax.
 The boundaries of the proposed new tax districts are as follows:
 Commencing at a point on the boundary line between the town of Bridgeport and the town Of Strat- ford 100 feet north of the north line Of News avenue, so-calIed. and run ming westerly in a straight lime par alleI with said News avenue and 100 IeGL Q1SIA41I Gn9ISlIOIl LO success ave- nue, thence westerly in a. straight line to a. point on Asylum avenue 100 feet north of the north line of Coggswell street, thence 1lorthw ester1y parallel with said CoggsweH street and 100 feet distant therefrom to point 100 feet easteriy of the east line of T1or- ace street, thence northerly in a. straig ght line and parallel with said Horace street as far as the same ex- tends and continuing in the same straight line to a pofr1t LOO feet north of the north line of Virginia road, pro- duced thence westerly parallel with said point 100 feet from the easterly side of East Main street, thence north erIy parallel with East Main street and 100 feet therefro1n to a boundary line between the town Of Trumbull and the town of Bridgeport, thence westerly along said line to the mon urnented center line of the right of pany, thence southerly following said center line to a point where the north eriy line of Front street produced would meet the center line Of said track, thence due west to See1ey's pond, thence westerly along the south erly edge of Seeley's pond and along the westerly edge Of the brook enter ing into said pond to the east line of Hart street, thence northerly along the easterly line of said Hart street to it's ter1ninaLtion and thence in the same straight line to q point 100 feet north of the north line Of the French town road, thence westerly parallel 1 with said road across Main street to a point 500 feet west of the west line of said Main street, thence southerly 1 in a line parallel with and 500 feet west of said Main street to a point 100 feet northerIy of the north line of 1 Birmingham street, thence westerly parallel with said Birmingham street and 100 feet therefrom and in a straight line to 8 point 100 feet west of the west line of Wayne street pro- duced, thence southerly in a hne par alle1 with 100 feet west of the Wesa I line of Wayne street produced tC Thorne street. thence aoutherIy in 2 line parallel with and 100 west of tIas I west line of Wayne street to point 1 0t l feet north of Lincoln avenue, thence 1 westerly in a. line parallel with ana 100 feet north of LdnpoIn avenue to 2 l point 100 feet east of the east 1ins I of Park avenue, thence northerly in { 1 line parallel with and 100 feet eas
 of the east line Of Park avenue to 2 I point $50 feet north of the north lint 1 of Lincoln avenue, thence westerly il | a line parallel with the north line o
 Suburban avenue to the boundary ltni
 between the town of Fairfield and tn l town Of Bridgeport. thence southerl.
 along said boundary line to Long Isl
 and Sound, thence along Long Islam, 1 Sou1ld to the boundary line between
 the town of Bridgeport and the tow I of Stratford, and thence northerI
 along said Stratford boundary line t
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