All through the South the chief reliance is a general property tax with local assessors who are either incompetent or else desirous of keeping down assessments.
Where this could not be done, assessorswere lenient and usually assessed mill property at much less than its real value.
The perspective drawing had a moral importance; it had a special influence on theassessors and committees.
They appoint a clerk, who is their principal officer and legal adviser, assessors for each parish and collectors.
Under the provisions of the land-tax presently to be described, a landowner who thinks the assessors have over-valued his property may call upon the Government to buy it at his own lower valuation.
Should all or any of the parties refuse to accept it, an appeal lies to the Central Court of Arbitration, composed of a judge of the Supreme Court sitting with two assessors representing capital and labour respectively.
The Croatian officer now entered the room alone, his assessors having probably declined participation in that part of the horrid functions which remained under the Landgrave's commission.
These assessors were lawyers of a low class, who tempered the exercise of their official duties with as few scruples of justice, and as little regard to the restraints of courtesy, as their military principal.
Even the most honest and capable of assessors find in the imperfections of the tax laws[6] an insuperable obstacle to even-handed justice.
A sounder plan would be general state assessment, with a permanent expert board of commissioners employing a corps of state assessors under the merit system of appointment.
Milton in Hatboro' that our assessors practically allow him to fix the amount of tax here himself.
People who can pay only a little at the highest valuation are assessed to the last dollar of their property and income; but the assessors know that this wouldn't do with Mr. Northwick.
The British legislature, in criminal cases, establishes a military jury alone: challenge is allowed for direct interests, and magistrates may act in default of commissioned officers; but in civil actions assessors are continued.
Denominational schools were, therefore, established, and those abuses arose inseparable from a plan which makes men the assessors of their own pecuniary claims.
The owner brought his action, and the assessors gave him a verdict.
The attorney-general, Alfred Stephen, was desirous of substituting for the assessors a jury of seven, instead of twelve.
In other words, the corporations, if Jere Burke, their legislative representative, reflects their sentiments, prefer that the Assessors continue to guess at the value of their properties.
Immediately Assessors and Supervisors who had wired their Senators to oppose the bills, sent telegrams withdrawing their opposition.
It is not taxed because assessors have no means of reaching it.
Sanford's answer to the Supervisors and Assessors was most effective.
Had these measures become laws, it would have been possible for county assessors to discover property, owned principally by public service corporations, which at present escapes taxation.
On March 8th, Inquisitor-general Valdes and the members of the Council with some assessors declared that, after examining the matter in several sessions their opinion was that the sentence should be revoked.
It will be well at this point to have before us a list of the most conspicuous props and assessors of the new Protectorate.
Meanwhile, the phenomenon observable in the weeks preceding the meeting of the Parliament which Richard had called was that of a violent division already among the councillors and assessors of the Protectorate.
The Assessors are Heaven and Earth, whom the Lord's herald invokes to hear the Lord's plea (ver.
More than four hundred separate assessors and boards of assessors determine the taxable values upon no uniform system and in defiance of law and Constitution.
No multiplication of officers or no system of control over the many local assessors can solve this question in a manner satisfactory to justice to both State and taxpayer.
A State assessor with power to remove the assessors has been recommended, but this officer could not become so conversant with conditions throughout the State as to be able to decide on the many questions of assessments coming before him.
They were also the count's assessors when the tribunal sat.
Should none of the assessors be able to come to a decision, the matter was put off till the next court-day.
An affirmative answer being given, the count then asked how manyassessors should there be on the tribunal, and how the seat should be filled.
Next to the count were the assessors or (Schoeppen)[120].
In this place the chief judge sat; his assessors had their seats on wooden benches along the walls.
The count never took on himself the office of finding the verdict; he always directed one of the assessors to perform it.
But if the assessor undertook the finding of the verdict, it lay with himself whether he should do so alone, or retire to take the opinion of the other assessors and the by-standers.
The assessors found no estate on which to levy for the taxes.
The private examinations came to an end the day before Passion Sunday, and Cauchon called a meeting of the assessors to consider the evidence and decide upon further action.
All the assessors were present, for Cauchon had sent out a general summons for them.
The sittings in the room at the end of the great hall of the castle were resumed on May second, all the assessors being present.
Now the assessors were not all agreed as to the legality of the trial, but they feared what might befall them if they opposed Cauchon, who wielded a great influence with the English.
The case was reopened, witnesses examined, even some of the assessors who had sat with Cauchon testifying in her favour, and Jeanne's name was cleared by the Church of every charge against her.
The next day Cauchon assembled his assessors in the chapel of his house, the palace of the Archbishop of Rouen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assessors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
