Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-07
COMMISSIONERS
REDUCE TAXES OF
WEEHAWKEN FIRM
State EquaIizers Further Re-
duce Levy Against Realty
and Terminal Company.
From a star Correspondent.

1
TRENTON, April 6.-The State
Board of Equalization of Taxes yes
| terday reduced to 81, 800 900 an assess
ment for taxes for 1914 against the
| New York State Realty and Term
| inal Company in Weehawken. The
| original assessment was $2,5O0OOO,
| and the first judgment of the State
board on an appeal was Sl750.0O0.
The company then started certiorari
proceedings to review the judgment
of the State board. The case was
! then reopened and the court pro-
ceedings were withdrawn, with the
| result of the further reduction III
| favor of the company. The taxes
were against water front property.
The State Board of Equalization OF
| Taxes affirmed, in a memorandum by
its president, Frank B. Jess, the as
sessment for the year 1914 on tho
| personal property of the EngleWood
| Sewerage Company, increased by the
Bergan County Boar dof Taxation
| from the amount returned by the To-
cal Board of Assessors to the sum OF
| S240 900. The assessment is AFFIRMED
as to the total valuation of the prop
| erty involved and corrected as to the
apportionment by deducting $46,osl
from the assessment on personal
property and adding that amount TO
! the assessment on real estate.
The action of the county board IN
| dismissing the appeal of the sew
erage company was taken to the
State Board for review on two
grounds, namely, that it was in ex-
cess Of the true value of the property
of the company and that 1t included
property which should have been as
sessed as real estate. The State
/ IoAf fnV1 on
is we'll founded and has, therefore,
ordered the apportionment corrected
by the deduction mentioned above.
| The State board will sit in Eliza
beth Wednesday, April 81, to hear
| Union County tax appeals. The
board will sit in Paterson April % to
hear Passaic County appeals.
| Permission was granted by the
board yesterday to file brief in the
appeal of Samuel w. Baldwin, 1876
Broad street, Newark. Baldwin is
appealing from an assessment against
his property of 1885,
The board dismissed the appeal Of
Anna D. Ward and Wilhelmina c..
Sayre against Newark, involving an
assessment against 620-626 Orange
street, Newark. The original assess
ment was $4,000, of which $22, 400 was
on land. The petitioners wanted the
land assessment reduced to $4,000.
The appeal of the Newark Ware
house Company against Newark was
adjourned by the board without date.
The appeal was from an assessment
for $500, 900 for personal property at
96-126 Mechanic street, Newark. The
company, wanted the assessment re-
duced to $16,676.55.
| The board dismissed the appeal of
Frederick G. Harrison against Mill
! burn township. The assessment was
| for $11,945.
The board continued to later date
the appeal of Areunah NJ. Burtis, ex
| ecutor, against West Orange. The
property involved belongs to the es-
tate of Daniel A. Head, and is unim-
proved land. The assessments are
$21 800 and the reduction to $4,000 is
sought.
Swift e. Co., lost its appeal from an
assessment levied by Orange. The
assessment was $39 900 and the COM
pany asked a reduction to $4,000.