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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt:...inhabitant in the respective ward, Mses8men township or district of the sum for which he stands rated, and the rate per cent of such amount, and the time and place for such appeal. The commissioners of the respective counties shall commisalso advertise in one or more newspapers, at least three ve8Muo» weeks before the day of appeal, of the time and place of aPPealfixed for such appeal. The several assessors shall, in each of the two years Assessors to succeeding the triennial assessment, give notice to the in certain taxable inhabitants in like manner as after the triennial Cft8e8assessment, but in the following cases only, viz: In the case of real property where buildings or other improvements have been destroyed since such triennial assessment, and in the case of personal property, offices, professions, trades and occupations, where there has been any alteration in the assessment occasioning a different valuation from the former year, and also where persons have come to inhabit in the county since such triennial assessment. At the time and place fixed for the appeal, which, in Appeal, each of the two years after the triennial assessment, shall be held in the commissioners' office of the proper county, the commissioners shall attend and hear all persons who may apply for redress, and grant such relief as to them shall appear just and reasonable; provided that the commissioners shall not make any allowance or abatement in the valuation of any real estate in any other year than that in which the triennial assessment is made, excepting where buildings or other improvements have been destroyed subsequently to such triennial assessment. The several assessors shall attend the meeting to pre-Assessors vent impositions on the commissioners by the persons lpp&...