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Show ESTATE OF GRANT IS EXEMPT FROM TAXES NEW YORK. Dec. 8. The estate of the late Frederick Dent Grant, valued at $100,000. was declared exempt from a. transfer tax in a decision by the surrogate surro-gate today, on tho ground that General Grant was not a resident of New York stato but of Governor's Island, which Is a strip of federal territory in the local harbor. Even the fact that the will was probated in Now York and that of a resident resi-dent hero does not make it conclusive that lie lived here legally, according to the decision. |