New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-09-17
RE- ASSESSMENT IS
ASKED THRU ORDER.
SIX BROWN COUNTY TOWNSHIPS
IMPROPERLY TAXED, SAYS
COMMISSION.
jos. SCHUMACHER, JR., Of
COMFREY, MADE SPECIAL
ASSESSOR.

COMFRE4, MADE SPECIAL
ASSESSOR.
i In communication to County Audi
tor Louis G. Vogel, the chairman Of the
Minnesota State Tax Commission, J. G..
Armson, announces the re-assessment
of money and credits in the following
towns: Cottonwood, Home, Leaven-
worth, Milford, Mulligan and Stark
The order which is included in a resolu-
ton adopted recently at a meeting of
the commission maintains that, in the
Judgement of the commission, a consid-
cradle amount of money and credits
which should have been assessed for
and during the year 1919 under and
pursuant to the provisions of chapter
285 Of the Laws of Minnesota for 1911
has been improperly omitted from the
tax lists and assessment rolls of said
Districts
Be ALI lU OIHeIg-
The tax commission further states
that on order to have all such property
assessed in such way that it compares
equitably with like property in Brown
County and, for this reason, a re-assess-
ment is ordered by the commission. Jos.
Schumacher, Jr., Of Comfrey, is appoint
ed special assessor for all the districts
named
The Resolution.
The tax commissions meeting referred
to above was held September 10, 1919,
Commissioners Armson, Lord and Hale
being present The resolution adopted
reads as follows
Whereas, in the judgment Of this.
commission considerable amount of
money ana credits which should have
been assessed for and during the year
1919 under and pursuant to the pro-
visions of chapter 2S5 of the Laws Of
for 1911 in the following named assess
ment districts in the County of Brown,
viz:
Towns of Cottonwood; of Milford;
Of Home; of Muligan; Of Leavenworth;
and Of Stark has been improperly omitted
from the tax lists and assessment rolls
of said districts; and
Whereas, a re-assessment Of all prop
erty subject to assessment in the year
1919 under and by virtue Of the provi-
sions of chapter 285, Laws of 1911, is
desirable and necessary in each Of said
assessment districts to the end that all
such property shall be assessed equitably
as compared with like property in said
county, and as provided by law:
Therefore Resolved, by this commits
sion that re-assessment of all property
assessable in the year 1919 under and
by virture Of the provisions Of said
chapter 285 of the Laws of Minnesota
for 1911 be and the same is hereby
ordered in each of said assessment dis
tricts, and be it
Further Resolved, that Jos. Schu-
macher, Jr. citizen of said county,
be and he is hereby appointed special
assessor for each of said assessment
districts, and is hereby authorized and
directed forthwith to make full and fair
assessment of the property in each Of
said districts subject to assessment
therein under the provisions Of said act,
in the year 1919, and with all conve-
nient dispatch to make return of such
re-assessment for each of said districts
respectively to this commission in the
manner provided by law
Total Is $2,O72, 1896.
The toal of the money and credits
in possession of Brown County resi-
dents, for the year 1919, amounted to
S2,072,395, according to the reports
made by the assessors Of the county
This was $33,732 less than last year.
The re-assessment just ordered in the
six towns named may possibly bring
the assessed amount back to last years
total. AS may be seen from the follow
ing statistical report all these six towns
figure among the very lowest in the
county. The list, also includes the num-
Der of those assessed in each city, village
and township. The list is as follows:
No Assessed. Amount.
New sUlnn 1873 $670,817
Sleepy Eye. 243 334,9s7
Springfield 245 286 ,493
Comfrey. .#.s.8... q 1875 1855
Hanska 20 81 $50
Evan % 1880
Golden a $500