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Official List of the Tax Payers of the Town of Maynard - 1888

mhs-2024.677.pdf

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Title

Official List of the Tax Payers of the Town of Maynard - 1888

Description

This document lists all of the tax payers in Maynard in 1888 along with the amount due from each and, where appropriate, a detailed list of personal taxed assets (e.g., house, land, barns, cattle, cord wood, horses, silos, etc.)

The tax rate was $9.00 per $1000.

The list includes residents in alphabetical order and also a list of non-resident tax payers organized by their hometown.

The list was stamped with the "Frank A. Brayden, Maynard Mass" in several places.

Creator

Town of Maynard

Date

1888

Contributor

Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center - Maynard

Identifier

2024.697

Publisher

The Enterprise Steam Job Print.
1889

Document Item Type Metadata

Text

(summary page at end of list)

TOWN APPROPRIATIONS For 1888

Highways and Bridges, $1500 00
Sidewalks, 500 00
Support of Poor, 3,000 00
Military aid, 375 00
Town officers, 900 00
Police, 500 00
Incidentals, 1,500 00
Street lights, 675 00
Support of schools, 5,600 00
School supplies, 800 00
Evening schools, 300 00
Receiving tomb in Glenwood cemetery, 200 00
For the purchase of gravel for highways, 500 00
Public library, 300 00

----------- $16,650 00

State tax, 2407 50
County tax, 1,350 92
Overlayings, 246 14

Total, $20,654 56

Tax on Polls, State $1.00 County, $1.00.
Rate of tax $9.00 on $1000.

TABLE OF AGGREGATES.

Total number of Polls, 760
Tax on each Poll, $2 00
Value of Personal Estate assessed, $637,383 00
Value of Real Estate assessed, 1,322,013 00
Value of buildings, excluding land, 949,425 00.
Value of land, excluding buildings, 372,588 00
Total valuation of Assessed Estate, May 1st, 1888, 1,959,396 00
Total tax for State, County and Town purposes, 20,654 56
Stock in Corporations outside the State, 6346 00

Number of horses assessed, 173
Number of cows assessed, 349
Number of sheep assessed, 18
Number of neat cattle other than cows assessed, 50
Number of swine assessed, 28
Number of dwelling houses assessed, 535
Number of acres of land assessed, 3050

Original Format

Bound list, 5.5 x 9.5 inches, 42 pages.

Storage

VF102
SU21-4
Tax Documents folder