New Britain herald., 1915-03-19
Will Meet With Se|eCimcn to Hear
Appeals Of Taxpayers.
BUSINESS MEN MAY Dine APRIL q
Date for Annual Banquet to Be For
mally Selected Tomorrow Night
Property Owners i'm Sewer District to
Be Given Chance TO File Complaints.

Be Given Chance to File Complaints.
Another opportunity to protest
against the report of the assessors on
the grand list recently prepared is to
be given the taxpayers, that board
having arranged to hold a joint meet
ing with the selectmen on Monday,
March 20, between 80 and o'clock,
for the purpose Of hearing the ap-
peals of property owners, whose places
are located in the sewer district, and
VINO Will be forced to pay their pro-
portlonate share of the expense in
Cured in making plans for a system
OF sewage disposal.
An abstract for the district grand
list was made from the report of the
assessors Town Clerk Usher making
the property valuations on both lists
the same. Under the law taxpayers
in the district have the righ- to APP
peal for relief before they can be
forced to pay the tax levied at the
meeting of the voters Wednesday
night
The assessors and selectmen will
sit as a board of relief and will be
empowered to make any reductions
will only affect the tax for the sewer
district, the relief board having set
tied on the valuations from which
the town tax is figured.
AS each property owners share of
the tax will be small, the rate being
l Ia mills, it is not expected that
many appeals for reductions will be
made and the probabilities are that
the meeting will be simply a COM
pliance with the law and will not re-
suit in any material changes
May Have Banquet April 21.
April 81 has been tentatively select
ed as the date for the annual banquet
of the Business and Improvement as
ISOLATION and this morning members
of the committee of arrangements ex-
pressed the belief that this date Will
be formally chosen at a meeting to-
morrow night
The committee has been invited for
some time to get the final decision
of men who had been invited to take
part in the after dinner exercises. and
it is expected that at tomorrow nights
meeting it Will be possible to make up
the program.
The members today were averse to
giving out the names of speakers
whose presence at the banquet is al
ready. assured but by Monday they
a complete list could be made !
public ......, +"-
Tickets for the affair will probably |
be distributed next week and the in
terest taken in the committees prog !
ress indicates that the sale will be |
as large as usual. .....
Celebrate Appomattox Day.
At a meeting Of the Women's Re- |
lief corps held yesterday afternoon it |
was decided to celebrate Appomattox
Day, April 6th with patriotic exer-
clses in G. A. r. hall. A committee |
has been appointed to make the !
necessary arrangements and to invite
the members of the G. A. r. to attend !
The affair will be held in the after
noon beginning at / o'clock.
In the evening of the same date the
veterans will attend similar cele-
hration to be held in Merden, the
Post at it's regular meeting last even
ing having accepted an invitation to
be the guests Of Merriam Post of the
Silver City at that time.
The matter of observing Memorial
Day was considered by the veterans
last evening. The Post received |
orders from the national commander
to celebrate the holiday on Saturday,
May 18th, unless the date conflicts
with the state law. Memorial Day
will be on Sunday this year In Con-
necticut it is the custom to celebrate
on Monday all holidays which fall on
Sunday and it is assumed by the
veterans that there will be no change
this year. Consequently it is prob
able that the instructions OF the ma
tional commander will be ignored.
The veterans seem to favor deco
rating tn egraves on Sunday and hav-
ing appropriate exercises at the monu-
nent on Monday.
Socialists Haven't Paid.
The town has not as yet received
payment from the socialists for the
use of the Town hall several weeks
ago for lecture by Cornelius Le-
hane, given under the party's aus
pices, and the belief is general that
he members still hold to the opinion
that the vote passed at the annual
town meeting, which the selectmen |
ignored, gives them the right to use ,
the building free.
At the time the lecture was given
the selectmen advised the leaders of |
the party that they considered the
vote illegal, as no mention OF the fact
that it was to be considered had been ,
included in the call for the session. | ,
They would expect the party to pay ,
the usual rental fees and under such | ,
the use Of the hall was al
lowed
The town officials have heard !
nothing from the party since and it
Is inferred from the silence of the
members that they have no intention !
81 paying the bill. They claim that
Ihe courts are the only judges of the
OF measures adopted at town
meetings and that the town clerk
erred In not recording the resolution.