Show PAPAl MAY AY BE TAXED Valuable Property Unused Free of All Levies f I noi ROME RO Feb Inhabitants i.-Inhabitants 18 Inhabitants Inhabitants of ot Castel about Gondolfo-about sixteen miles from Rome looking over the beautiful lake of ot Albano are agitated and have I expressed criticism because ec use in these days of ot heavy taxation the popes have paid no taxes on the tho huge papal palace which forms so largo a part of ot their little village When In 1871 the law of guarantees was passed the Italian government nt assigned to the pope the huge palace palage of ot the Vatican and that of St. St John In Romo Rome and the papal villa of Castel G Gondolfo which since the days of pt Urban VIII had been a favorIto favor favor- I Ito ite summer resort of the popes favor I To all these three palaces the right I of was conceded They do not belong t to the Italian nation no policeman soldier or other servant of the Italian government can enter them I Inless unless invited by the papal authorities s and they were all exempted from any tax taxation it n nAs As the the popes popes never leave leavo the vatican vatican vati- vati can no one of them since 1870 has set I foot toot in iii the tho villa of Castel Gondolfo Inhabitants of the village recently threatened to invade and take possession possession posses posses- sion slon of the villa i if something were not done Thinking to mitigate the tho terrible scarcity of houses the late Pope Benedict Bene Bene- dict turned the unused stables of the thevilla thevilla thevilla villa into living places for the people employed on the estate Being within in the privileged enclosure they pay no rates or taxes The people of Castel Gondolfo say that the papal authorities owe the commune lire nominally at least for tor rates and taxes since 1870 They claim also that if the villa is subject to taxation so also would be the Roman palaces and the Income pf t lire nominally which the Italian government government govern govern- ment offers otters every year to the papal auth authorities but which the papal au authorities au- au I never accept and that the sum no now owing by the Vatican would thus become something fabulous The popes have never the law of guarantees I |