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Show I Board of Equalization. Yesleidiiy afterncou the city council coun-cil mef, Alderman Sp:ers in the chair, as a beard of equalization. There were pro,-eut quite a number of persona per-sona who derirt'd a remittance or ra-Juciiou ra-Juciiou of their taxe;. In older to et ot the matter with greater expediency, ex-pediency, the inhabitants ot the various bishops wards were laken up separately, commencing with the Fir?l ward. Toe matter of assessment was first considered and after this waa through with the remittsnce was en-terlaiutd. en-terlaiutd. There wtre net a great n..any who deein-d lo take advantage of tho discretion of the buaul of (qua! z iiion, and ihfe were mostly iiiu owners of small amouuls of property, few of them reaching the sum of $o for city taxes, and nearly all pleaded indigent circumstances. The board adjourned until next Monday Mon-day evening at 7 o'clock, when it will resume iis labors. |