The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1917-12-29
NUMBER %.
ASSESSMENTS FOR 1918.
Important Regulations Promulgated
by Board of State Affairs.

Tor the year 1915 the assessors De III
structed to disregard all transfers of
real estate made subsequent to jan
uary l, 1918, and that all property
shall be assessed against the owner
standing of record on January /,
| 1918, for taxes for the year 1918.
Other regulations enacted by the
board with reference to the assess
ment of property for the coming year
are as follows:
"That the assessors be required to
complete the listing of all property,
for state and parish purposes, on or
before Saturday, April Is, 1918, and
that they Immediately give public
notice through the press of the COM
| pletion of the listing of said property
and that said lists are open for in
spection by taxpayers for a period of
twenty GO days, as required by law; !;
and that at the expiration of the
twenty days they shall be prepared
to lay their listings before the po-
lice jury, acting as a board of re-
view, for the consideration of said as
| sessment.
| ''That nothing in this resolution
! ing additional property, such as per-
sonal property, automobiles, etc, af
er the date specified herein as the
date fixed for the completion of the
| listing of all of said property.
''That the police juries throughout
| the state, in each and every parish,
shall meet as board Of review of
assessments for local purposes on the
first Monday in May, 1918, and shall
complete that work as speedily as
possible.
ssThat the assessors be instructed
to file with the Board of State Affairs,
on or before Monday, June 3, 1918,
a full, complete and accurate ab-
stract of all the assessments of the
parish, with the valuations of all the
property therein, showing the total
and complete assessment up to said
date, on a form to be furnished by
the board; and that the Board of
State Affairs shall meet as board of
review of said assessments, and for
the purpose of establishing the actual
value of said property for state pur-
poses, on Monday, June 8, 1918, and
sit continuously until said work is
completed; that at said meeting, the
Board of State Affairs shall meet as
board of equalization for the pur-
pose of adjusting valuations of vari-
Gus classes of property, as we'll as
hearing individual complaints of any
and all kinds on any valuation made
by the assessor, or the police jury as
a board of review, and shall complete
fhnFp1f-
ter"
Another resolution recently :l.aept
ed by the board abolishes the agricul-
tural land classification heretofore
established by the State Board of
Equalization, and so used by the as
SCISSORS throughout the state.
For the purpose of valuation and
assessment, all land in cultivation IN
the state is divided into three classes,
ga" sB" and &C." with respect to
each parish, and the assessors are re-
quired, in making their 1913 assess
ments, to classify all lands in cultiva-
tion into these three classes.
The intent and meaning of this
resolution is to abolish the classified
ton of cultivated land, with refer
ence to what class of agricultural
products was grown upon the land,
and to establish classification that
will give the true value of the land,
without reference to what is grown
thereon.
These classifcations are to apply
in each parish; that is, the best land
in cultivation in a parish shall be
class GA" the second class land shall
be class 3D." and the lowest class
land shall be class &C."
Land not in cultivation and not
properly elassed as timber land snail
be divided into the following classifl-
cations: Land occupied by buildings,
pasture land wood land, suburban
land, denuded cypress, denuded pine,
denuded hardwood, sea marsh, fresh
water marsh, oil land, gravel land,
| orange groves, marble quarfles, SAT-
and sulphur mines.
Land occupied by buildings shall be
all lands used for building lots, resi-
dence lots, barn yards, outhouses, etc.
Pasture land shall be land used for
grazing purposes, not cultivated, and
shall be given its intrinsic value.
Wood land shall be uncleared land
upon which there is a growth OF
trees, brush, ETC., but which has no
value as timber for sawmill purposes.
Suburban land shall be all land,
whether in cultivation or not, ad-
joining incorporated towns or cities,
which land has an enhanced value on
account of it's proximity to such towns
or cities.
Denuded pine, cypress and hard
wood land shall be land entirely de-
nuded of such timber, which has no
improvements made thereon. No
land containing merchantable timber
of any kind shall be classed as de-
nuded land, but it shall be classed ac-
cording to the kind Of timber thereon
and the kind and quantity of such
| timber shall be taken into account in
determining its value.
Sea marsh shall be ali of the low,
wet lands along the sea coast, sub
ject to inundation by salt water at
high tide.
| All tracts Of land producing oil
shall be classed as oil lands, and the
| fact that such lands produce oil shall
be taken into consideration in deter
mining the value.
| All land with growing orange or
chards shall be classed as orange
groves and valued according to theil
intrinsic worth.
/ All lands producing gravel, marble
salt or sulphur shall be elassed ant
valued as such.
i Any registrant may now voluntee