NOTE. Three wards (viz., Wards 5, 7 and 8) contain 60.04 per cent. of all the taxed realty and personalty in the 26 wards of the City. ASSESSED VALUATION AND TAXES, 1891-1921. (From Annual Reports of the Assessing Department.] 1,490,343,142 00 Average Valuations for five years on which taxes at the rate of $9 per $1,000 could be levied. 1892. 1893. .$819,313,202 00 850,076,262 00 1894. .$876,794,390 00 902,579,136 00 1896. $927,838,628 00 951,638,949 00 1898. $974,536,062 00 Average Valuations for three years on which taxes at the rate of $10.50 per $1,000 could be levied.† Including bank stock. † Tax limit for City purposes, including schools, $11.02 for 1916 and 1917; $14.29 for 1918; $14.90 for 1919; $18.67 for 1920; $20.11 for 1921. Decrease in valuation of Personal Estate due to exemption of intangible personalty (see Chap. 269, Gen. Acts of 1916). SUMMARY OF APPROPRIATIONS FROM TAXES AND GENERAL REVENUE, 1891-1921. [From Annual Reports of City Auditor.] 1906-07. *From the fiscal year 1885-86 to the fiscal year 1899-1900, inclusive, the City could make annually appropriations, to be met by the general During the fiscal year 1900-01, an act was passed (Stat. 1900, Chap. 399) repealing the laws of 1885 and 1887 (Stat. 1885, Chap. 178, † Does not include the levies for State tax and assessments, nor Metropolitan assessments, which are met by "Taxes and General Revenue." APPROPRIATIONS, ETC., FROM TAXES AND GENERAL REVENUE, 1917-22. † Merged in Institutions Department in 1921. Name changed from Overseeing of Poor Department in 1921. Public Works Dept., Street Improvem'ts, Public Works Dept., Ferries. *Emergency appropriation for Fuel Supplies, authorised by Chap. 205, General Acts of 1918. † Includes assessment for Elevated Railway deficit, or $2,905,931, as ordered by Special Acts of 1918, Chap. 159. t Wire Department merged with Fire Department in 1919. Merged in Institutions Department in 1921. |