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Show TAFT PROTESTS HIS TAX ON MACHINE New Haven, Conn., Jan. 16. Prof. William Ho-.sard Taft of Yale is dissatisfied dis-satisfied with the tax levied on his automobile by the city Recently he received a bill show ing that the assessors had rated his machine as worth 4500. To this 10 per cent had been added on his neglect ne-glect to appear within the required time and swear to his tax list. This brought the total on which the 19 mill tax is computed up to 54.950. In a letter to the assessors, Mr. Taft today informed them that he purchased the car second-hand, paying only $2000 for it. and fails to understand under-stand how they can rate It at $4501 |