Show THh fcQUALIZFRS j I o1 COMMISSIONERS PUT I ANOTHER BUSY DAY I TheUsual Abatements to Indigents Some Important deductions A Opinion From the County Attorney V V I Ii i Thti work of the county board of equall I saton yesterday was confined for the j i I most part to the granting of abatements 1 to Indigent persons lowering assess 1 ments n certain case and adjusting errors i er-rors which have unavoidably crept In I George Stringfellow wis accorded a re I I ducton of 0 ir valuation B G Rayboultl llutterpd around the I board for some time with a plaint to the I effect that realty valuation In the center I of the city was too high and suggesting I i his be lowered but Chairman Armstrong i I I Interrupted I him by f rI all the central I portion of the city for nine blocks square I i II I received police protection fire I I ret1ed plee prteeUon tre protection I and the like second to no city In the country and the property owners ought I to pay for It The chairman said while he bad had occasion to complain of the I values placed on his outside property as I to what he had In the center of the city V I ho had nothing to say Mr Uaybouid secured se-cured reduction on his personal property proper-ty and retired gracefully and the business went on as usual The more Important matters passed upon by the board were ns follows Fred Dtinsln personal property abated 1 XK Edwin Pettet mortgage J500 abated abat-ed Milonia Albrand personal Ionla persnal property abated fill Samuel A Wolly Third East I and Fourth South personal property abated ISO mortgage O J C Thompson abatement lO0 F P Huff man mortgage abatement 1250 Mullet Co personal property reduced S2UOO FROM THE ATTORNEY j In addition to the routine business the following from the county attorney was I presented I Gentlemen answer to your recent I question as to the application of section V 10 page 431 of the revenue act to your i duties as a board of equalization we ire of the opinion I that the section i Is valid I dtndr 1dt UVe V h ndr I and binding and should serve as a guide to you in this matter under it in cases I viiare persons have teflfe to furnish the assessor with a sworn statement of their I S taxable property where such statement has been required by theas I zei in accordance with the law make I i application to you to reduce the valuation I I placed by him upon the property it Is 1 Credd IV hPr 1 tl I i f i your duty to reject such applications I Ts however does not apply to cases where you are satisfied that property has I been assessed 10 them which should not esse have been assessed but only to cases I where It Is admitted that theproperty is properly assessable to them but claimed the assessment Is high I The opinion Is by Graham F Putnam deputy county attorney |