Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1919 — STATE BOARD BOOSTS VALUES [ARTICLE]

STATE BOARD BOOSTS VALUES

LAND, IMPROVEMENTS AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OF COUNTY GO UP. r Auditor J'. P. Hammond has received the following letter from the state board of tax commissioners in reference to the assessnient of Jasper county. No comment •is necessary at this time as noorie has been neglected and all will be interested without further advice or information. The letter follows: State of Indiana, office of the board of tax commissioners. Rug. 23, 1919. To the Auditor of Jasper county, Indiana: f . . You are hereby notified that the state board of tax commissioners, upon consideration of the mater of equalization, has determined and ordered changes in the assessment .of the property in your county, which you are ordered to add to the tax duplicates of your county, as follows :

An increase of 10 per cent on all lands and lots, 10 per cent on all improvements, in all the townships, not including cities and towns of said county; an increase of 10 per cent on all lots and lands and 10 per cent on all the improvemerits in the town of Rensselaer; an increase of 20 per cent on all the lots and lands and, 20 per cent on all imIprovements in the town of Remington- ; An increase of 40 per cent on all personal property in Milroy and Gillam townships rihd the towns of Remington and Rensselaer; an increase of 30 per cent on all personal property in all other townships, cities and towns in said county. The above increases on real and personal property do not apply to any property assessed by the state board of tax commissioners, either originally or on appeal, or on certification on the order of the board for review and reassessment. The increase on personal property shall not apply to items on the first page of the personal property schedule, nor to item one on the second page of said schedule. , State Board Tax Commissioners, Fred A. -Simms, Chairman,. Attest: Wm. C. Harrison, Sec’y.