The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-04
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 One Hundred Years Ago.
NOTICE TO SLAVE OWNERS

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 Any person becoming the owner of a slave by transfer to him from a col ! lection district other than that in which he resides is required, under the penalty of ten dollars, to render as a aforesaid, a statement specifying the age and sex of such sIaYe who is to be valued according to his or her existing value.
 Tn all cases in which such informa- +fon of a change in the assessable DroDertv oe any person, according to the preceding assessment, shall not pc ! SO received, such person and property will continue liable to- the whole tax chargeable thereon agreeably to the
 assessor.
 And notice is further hereby given that will attend in person, or by Kdeputy, at Danbury, July 3; NewtoWn' July 4; Weston, July 5; BEs@sepor July 6; Fairfield, July T; and <at Stam- ford. July 8, for the purpose of recelV- 1 ing any appeals that may be recelVeo 1 in writing as to the revised enumera- tion and valuations made in virtue or s,,r,l7. changes. which will be open to the inspection of any person who may lappfv to inspect the same. and g. sta fernent of which will be previously made. and delivered to each person anected thereby, or be put in the mali ] Addressed to him or her and directed q of~suct person agreea'b1y to my best information, except in the case of per
 sons not residing within this collection
 district
 Tn the statements furnished by in dividuaIs it will be necessary to speclfy with precision the property of an fndl- Ivid,zal as it existed at the time of the 5nrecedfng assessment, the assessable fproperty omitted, then to be assessed land it's value, the transfer of real es- state and slaves (stating the names land residences of the persons to whom Jtransferred) and their value. the changes of residents and non-res1dents
 with their names and residence ana the value of the property, the burning or destruction of houses, or other fixed E improvements of real estate, with their value property that has become K exempt from taxation and it's value, stating the grounds on which the ex- emotion is claimed. and the state laws by which it is permanently or espe- teialIv exempted, and where an abate- ment is claimed for slaves that have died. or have run away, or have oth- | efwfse become useless since the pre- ceding assessment, the statement must gfv a list of all the slaves with their i sex and ages (excepting those obtain
 ed by transfer) owned by the 1ndl- ,vfdrsI, valued according to their value
 
 be less than the valuation of his slaves at the preceding assessment to entitle him to an abatement
 In all these cases there must be such a. specification and description Of
 4lne property, as it stands on the first of June, 1S16s and as it sood at the preceding assessment, as wilH enable | the principal assessor to make proper deductions in cases where they may be rightfulIy claimed. and proper
 charges where they are incurred.
 To aid in attaining this precision, the following form is annexed, being that required in the original assessment, and which. as near as may be, may
 sanwa as a nlodeI in drawing out the < sfatements now required from indi-
 viduals.
 JAMES STEVENS,
 Principal Assessor for the Second Dis
 trict of Conn.
 Stamford. May 4th, 1916.