Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-03
TOWN MEETING VOTES S6,0OO FOR
 TAX MAP AFTER SHARP DEBATE

wich Is wiling to help those who help 1 themselves.
 A. D. Morn also spoke for the reso-
 lutien,, calling Attention to three bad fires that Taftville had suffered from and saying that the village was entitled to what they asked for. The vote went through amid applause.
 sharp Debate on Tax Mas. | C. D. Moves offered the resolution ap- propriating $s.0eo to be used for secur- ing a tax map of as much of the town | as the money would secure, which he said was to aid the assessors in making equitable assessments. He spske of the great increase in fnaRufaetufiHg and the progress that has been made in the
 business section of the city in the 5t i years he has been here. The tax list
 then was $20,eeo, 900. To-day 1t is less than s27,6O0,o0o. We have grown but
 Ss, 600 900 in 5l years on our tax list,
 Many pieces of property are not In the list at all Mir. Moves said he believed a tax map would develop half million in property that is not taxed at all.
 He shoke of 8 piece of Franklin square property yalyed at sio,o0o to : S15,60O which had fnot been in the list | for years. He spoke of some things that had happened in the last IS months. | Tn 19ZU one lHa4 put % aAtcS HI LIE
 list. He sold 42 acres in 1921 and put
 in his list in that year for 42 acres, not having bought any land in the mean time. 2There had been one sale of prep- , erty in the city limits fer s16,e0o. which
 is not on any recent list and cannot be , found on a list for years.
 z MT. Noyes said the Norwich list is dis o gracefully low and the payers of rent are sufferers because of fl. He said he o1s Lt.f xxr6c 2 he did object to was paying for the fel- 7 7 low who didn't pay any. He also ob- 2 jected to bringing in anyone from out. , Side to make the valuations and he did z z not believe in an aereplane map. but VI , need the kind of map that this resolu. , ton contemplates.
 ? Ex-Mayor H. M. Lerou spoke for tht 2 map, saying this would be the best s6, 7 000 the town ever spent. n Opposes Tax Map.
 O A. D. Merin opposed the map, sayint 0 we would not be a bit better off with 1t Q We need whole map or none. New Q London had had revaluation tha 0 brought their tax rate down to IT mill 10 but it was back to 3l mills and 1t woull ,o be the same in Norwich. We need tn ,a whole map, he said but 1t should b n done by the town and not by a civic or IA ganizatien that was attempting to talk ,a over the business Of the town officials. ,o MT. Moves came to his feet with tn ,e statement that the previous speaker wa : playing on prejudice. Ne organizatio IA has collar on me, said Mir. Moves, an
 I advocate only what I believe in. l Mir. Morin had taken the trouble to i1i quire he would have found out that ea will take two or three years to get tn ,e complete map and it may cost frer " s1a,00e to .tl5,00e.
 <, Wants sIs,0ee Appropriation d, Edwin ". Higgins asked if the a, b0 sessefs were to continue in their preser 6 i; I methods until the whole map Eas ss g. cured and when told that this was E, C i; said that made 1t an absurdity on tt h. face of it. The assessors sheull nt
 wait three years for a reyaluatio
 when the state law requires them to ,nak
 a revaluation. MT. Higgins said yo as cannot put backbone into a board Of a or sessors by resolution in a town nieetin te He meant nothing personal he sail, D,
 he was in favor of a tax map and thi 60 we ought not to postpone this. + % moved an amendment to make the al 90 propriation s1s0oe.
 53 Mir. Moves said he as not willing Is accept the amendment because the wei % could not be done in one year, and T. DO Murphy suggested that a flat increase = 10 per cent be made on all lists an sa that aggrieved property owners cou re- appeal to the board of relief ih- M. J. Curran, former assessor, spo 0o for the tax map, declaring that the
 sue seemed to be confused as this Is n
 proposition for revaluation but pay tn the way for putting the city on g busine of oasis. He told the meeting Of l
 knowledge of values put on the N, .oe Haven railroad property in this city
 federal appraisers and the chief lani a ,ee praiser of the railroad and said that t .e0 citizens would be amazed by the comps
 lson if these values were placed on Ma .0e street property.
 ee MT. Curran said he had discover Y s2ee,oe0 in untaxed property merely .e6 using the town clerks records. A t
 map would disclose untold amounts. inS was no use for Mir Higgins to try ,ug choke off this resolution by at.emDsi o5 to make it look ridiculous. If the to ,sS should spend $25,e00 for a tax map on would get back s5ooeo in a year.
 tf Mr. Higgins denied that he had a rea such intention as ascribed to him by
 Curran and said he only wanted to bri ion the town up to sense of It's responsii inc ities and not put this of for three yea Iote Edward Kirby said he thought
 of majority of residential property V DeY ptobty WSil ldAth dliu iliuGH was SOlu iu- below what it was in the list for. hat moved an amendement to Mir. Higgi He'd amendment that the, matter be ~ind
 nitely postponed.
 This motion was carried and Charm
 Pettls ruled that action ;hen rever rfes to MT. Moves motion for the $610a ame propriation.
 ting The viva voce vote as almost in ca
 volume although Chairman Pettis $ eet- he thought the Noes had it. The c own gems shouted "deubted" and the cr ach, called for another vote. This time the chair was in deubt so. that he dires e1n- the vote to be taken by passing fl cent left to right of the chair. 4. n. Me
 and NJ J. Curfan were appointed t-.- ber- The vote this way was 15e yes and ases no. Chairman Pettis declared the Tn5I
 carried and the meeting ap2lauaea ], res oreusly.
 ssue A motion to adjourn to the first Nj } up day in March. when the tax will be | So- brought the meeting to close at Eza- o'clock.
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