The Wyandotte herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1879-1943, 1942-06-26
THE CITY COUNCIL

DuThc, mdSOu, WdSdI.
Absent None.
Minutes.
lotion by Councilman Burke. sup
ported by Councilman Wagar, that the
reading of the minutes of the last
meeting be dispensed with and the
same stand approved as recorded.
Yeas: COuncilmen Benin, Brohl,
burke, Mason, Wagar
Nays: None.
Unfinished Business.
Application for junk dealers license
from Theodore Hickey, at Sixth Street
and Ford Avenue, WyandOtte.
Communication from Mr. J. Henry
Denning, Attorney, Oil Hammond
Building, Detroit, representing United
Electrical Radio and Machine Work
ers of America, Local 737, and United
Music Operators of Michigan (CIO)
relative 10 hearing before Council to
present case i'll opposition TO ordinance
regulating mechanical devices insofar
as said ordinance relates to music
boxes.
Miscellaneous Business.
Appeal to the Common Council for the
City of WyandOtte
from the
Board of Review of the
City of WyandOtte
In the Matter of the Personal Property
Tax Assessment against Great Lakes
Dredge and Dock Company
Claim of Appeal
The Great Lakes, Dredge and Dock
Company, a New Jersey corporation,
feeling itself aggrieved by the action
of the Board of Review, in sustaining
an asst SSment of Five Hundred Forty
Five Thousand ($545. OOo) Dollars
against its personal property described
as the dredge. New Jersey and auxiI-
larry equipment, does hereby claim an
appeal TO the Common Council of the
City Of WyandOtte.
The appellant relies upon the fol-
lowing facts to show wherein said
Board errOred.
/. The personal property of the APP
pellant described as the dredge, New
Jersey, and its auxiliary equipment,
has no Sits for taxation within the
City of WyandOtte and or the State of
Michigan.
2. The appellant is a New Jersey
corporation and its said personal pro-
perty is subject to taxation i'll that
state.
5. Said vessel is duly enrolled at
the port of Duluth, State of Minnesota
and tonnage tax thereon is paid to
that state.
4. The Michigan State Tax Com
mission has ruled said property of the
appellant is not subject to taxation
in the State of Michigan.
.. Said personal property is only
temporarily situated in the City of Wy
andOtte pending removal to its next
place Of employment and, therefore,
has acquired no Sits for taxation in
the City of WyandOtte.
q. The said dredge, New Jersey, is
Il DIESEL electric hydraulic floating
dredge of approximately one thousand
eight hundred fifty (1S0O) gross tons
capacity with an overall length of APP
prOximately two hundred eighty (2SOD
feet and a beam of fifty eight (5SD
feet. 1t was especially constructed for
dredge operations upon the Great
Lakes and their tributaries. Ii cannot
be removed from the Great Lakes be-
cause its beam is too great To permit
passage through the ship CANALS lead
ing to the Atlantic SeabOard and it's
height is too great to permit passage
down the Mississippi TO the Gulf of
Mexico Because of the limited amount
of dredging work being done upon the
Great Lakes, said dredge has been idle
for considerable periods of time.
Since its acquisition by the appel
liant i'll the year 1927, said dredge has
operated in the States of Illinois, Indi-
ana, Wisconsin, Ohio and Michigan. 1t
has spent approximately one-haf of
its time i'll the waters of Michigan.
Said dredge has had actual employ
prent only about One-fOurth of the time
since its construction. Nevertheless,
ii is maintained in such state of re-
pair and readiness that it can be NOV
ed to any location where needed upon
one hours notice and can be placed i'll
actual operation upon twenty four
hours notice. Said dredge was last
brought to the City of WyandOtte in
May 1910 from the City of HoughtOn,
Michigan, after completion of its EN-
piOyment there, and in anticipation of
employment in the st. Clair and Maui
NEE Rivers. 1t has not had employ
ment As anticipated and has since re-
manned ut WyandOtte except for per-
iOd of four weeks in July 1914. Prior to
1895. said dredge was i'll the State Of
Michigan total of thirty eight
months, eleven of which were at Sault
Ste. Marie, Michigan.
Z. 1t has always been the appel
lants intention to allow said dredge
aud equipment to remain at the City
U WyandOtte only temporarily until
employment can be found for it and
after the termination of such further
employment To dock it at the nearest
place where dOckage facilities are avail
able ut the time. Such course is made
In cessary by the nature of the appel
lants business and by the great cost
of moving the said dredge and auxil-
larry equipment.
:. The history of the movement of
this equipment considered in cOnnec-
ton with the nature Of the business,
the size OF the equipment and the cost
incident to moving it from place to
place should subStantiate the position
of the appellant that the dredge, New
Jersey, and its auxiliary equipment
has not permanent location as dis
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