He had attempted to introduce a sort of civil service examination for applicants and had vehemently protested against political assessments levied on clerks in his department.
Ivins, counsel for the committee, Michael Coleman, president of the Board of Assessments and Taxes, admitted that vast stretches of real estate owned by the Astors were assessed at half or less than half of their real value.
Another resolution condemned the gross inequality in the assessments of the various parishes in England and Wales to the relief of the poor.
He had paid assessments on a mine called the "Daley" till he was well-nigh penniless.
These assessments had grown so oppressive that it seemed necessary to look into the matter personally.
The claims we had been paying assessments on were entirely worthless, and we threw them away.
This is the notice: "You are hereby informed, that your property is included in a list of delinquents now preparing, and will be advertised and sold for the assessments due thereon.
And be it further enacted, That the said Willard Robbins shall be holden to pay and discharge all legal assessments and taxes, that have been assessed upon him by said town of Groton prior to the passing this act.
If to this sum the interest of the variousassessments be added, computed to Feb.
After the final dividends, little more than the originalassessments had been returned to the stockholders.
By this charter the proprietors were authorized to lay such assessments from time to time as might be required for the construction of the canal.
From the remotest corners of the country comes the cry of men weary of paying assessments to support us in idleness.
Some have even refused to pay assessments and have surrendered their charters.
Except as hereinafter provided, all assessments of real estate and tangible personal property shall be at their fair market value, to be ascertained as prescribed by law.
For a lawful claim for any taxes, levies, or assessments accruing after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty- six; Fifth.
In all, more than thirty-six million dollars was raised by assessments and the sale of new securities; the liabilities of the Company were greatly reduced; and its credit was promptly restored.
Debts were slashed down everywhere, assessments were levied, and old worthless stock issues were wiped out.
Taxes increased, property was assessed for improvements that were never made, and the assessments were rigorously collected.
By the accumulation of funds to meet the increased assessments beyond a fair or normal rate.
Such companies can undoubtedly be made permanent by providing for the entrance of new members at any time in the history of the company at a cost for mortuary assessments substantially as low as in the earlier history of the company.
It is then determined at what date a theatrical exhibition shall be given, which is paid for by the accumulation of the assessments and the interest.
They have also definite assessments upon the members at fixed times without which, for lack of a motive power, no such society would long hold together.
Only those known to be able to meet their assessments would be likely to be invited to join such an association, and if for any reason a member should fail to furnish his quota, he would be heavily fined.
He showed that during 1894 several of the largest local unions had found it necessary to levy special assessments for the support of unemployed members.
They provide, however, that should a member become totally or permanently disabled the insurance committee may order his assessments paid and shall deduct the amount of these assessments when the benefit is finally paid.
In such cases the funds of the insurance departments are separate from the general funds of the brotherhoods, and the dues for maintaining the insurance departments are levied as assessments distinct from the general levies.
Owing to opposition from members carrying old-line insurance and from the uncertainty in the number of assessments levied each year, the St. Louis convention of 1896 reverted to a system of optional insurance.
Finally, in the third period, from 1890 to the present, the number of assessments was also fixed.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen provides that any member out of employment and unable to pay his dues or assessments shall not be expelled, and that the local lodge must pay his dues for one quarter.
The law was unsatisfactory, and few subordinate divisions paid the assessmentsprior to the Cincinnati convention of October, 1867.
The opposition to it was due in a large measure to uncertainty as to the number of yearly assessments necessary and also to the fact that many of the members carried insurance in old-line companies.
Originally these unions collected assessments to meet death or disability claims after the occurrence of the death or disability.
The membership was small and the assessments were largely regarded as benevolent contributions.
Yet perhaps the people would not have complained had the assessmentsbeen voted by a body elected by themselves or representative of their interests.
These assessmentsbore very hard on people of limited means, and many were the cases of consequent suffering which were endured.
This time it was for refusing to pay the Church rates, which were unusually burdensome and excessive, owing to extra assessments which had been made.
The actual making of rates or of assessments for taxation is not a duty usually assigned to a body of engineers.
State board of equalization, which equalizes assessments throughout the state so as to render taxation as nearly just as possible.
Since tax assessments are subject to many variations, perhaps a fairer measure of sectional wealth is banking transactions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assessments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
