The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-03
One Hundred Years Ago.
ASSESSORS ANNUAL VISIT.
NOTICE

Is hereby given, that I will attend
isn nerson. or by deputy, at Danbury
Court house on Monday the 1etn gay
of June 18th, at the Court house; ana
at nv Office in Stamford, until June
10th for the purpose of receiving any
I5r,f.S.ynafion that may be furnished as
to the changes which may have taken
Iolacea in the assessable property or IN
dividuals since the last assessment
made under the act Of January .
ID 815~ and previous to June 1st 1872
which information must be given IN
<vritir.e under the signature of the per
sson whose tax may be affected fnere-
! nv These changes extend to
1-Assessable property omitted TO
he assessed at the proceeding assess
lment, and PRIORITY that has casd TO pc
axernnfed from assessment such as
Eproperty belonging to the United States
I,y q state or otherwise exempted,
which on its transfer becomes asses
sable. All such property is now TO
be assessed. But no alterauon Is 10
be made In the previous valuation OF
real estate In virtue of any improve
rnent thereon.
2-Tsransfers of real estate and
slaves. according to which an abate-
nent in the enumerations and valua-
lions of the person transferring them
will be made and a correspondent m
crease in the enumerations and valu-
! aflOnS4
transfer may be made
3-Changes of residents and nom
residents These changes will merely
require a transfer from the lists or
residents to that of non-residents, or
vice versa, as the case may be, OF the
property in the ownership or agency OF
which such a change has occurred
1.-The burning or destruction or
houses or other fed improvements OF
sal estate, for which an abatement
equal to the injury arising from THESE
causes is to be made
5-The exemption of properly InaI
has ceased to be assessab1e for winch
also Al abatement equal to its value
is TO be made.
eslaves that have been born or
that have died, or have run away or
otherwise become useless since the pre-
ceeding assessment. In these cases
changes in the preceding valuations
sare only to be made where the tax
cnargeabIe to any person for slaves
would be diminished by the valuation
on the list day of June of all those
(excepting such as have beenso btained
1oy transfer0 then owned by such per
som and the reduction in the valua-
4fon In such event is to be equal to
the differences between the valuation
OF those owned at the preceding as
s.essnaent and the existing value of
those owned on June LIST, 1916, and
an abatement equal to such reduction
to be made.
The whole OF these changes are to be.
relative to the first of June ;and>in all
of them the rates of the valuations
made under the act of January g..
1915. are as near. as may be- to be
lnaxnfadnedy excepting in two cases. one
where a partial alienation of real es-
tate shall occur, in which case, as
the tax, as fixed agreeably to the pre-
ceding assessment, is to be appordon-
ed among the several parts, according
ITO their respective values on june 1,
the proportional value (agccording to
the preceding xa1uation) at the time
of the part alfenated, and of the re-
sraadnder Of the property, should be
stated; the other respecting slaves
s{cther Tran such as are transferred
within the same collection district)
which are to be valued according to
their existing value, and slaves that
have been born or have died or have
frun away, or have otherwise become
useless sipce the preceding assessment
In which case the course above stat
ed Is to be pursued.
JAMES STEVENS,
Principal Assessor for the End Dis
strfct of Connecticut.
Stamford, May Srd, 1916.