Chapter 54. to extend the time for making an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia, outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown
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CHAP. 54.— An Act to extend the time for making an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia, outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown.April 28, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,District of Columbia. Time for assessment of county real-estate tax extended. That the time fixed for the return of assessment by section seven of the act to levy an assessment of real estate in the District of Columbia in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and every third year thereafter, approved March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, be, and the same is hereby, Vol. 22, p. 589.extended to the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, as to all the real estate in the District of Columbia outside the cities of Washington and Georgetown.
Sec. 2. That the time fixed by section nine of said act, for the meetingMeeting of equalization board. of the board of equalization and review be, and the same is hereby, Vol. 22, p. 569.postponed until the first day of December, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, so far as it refers to that part of the District of Columbia outside of Washington and Georgetown, and the said equalization and review shall be finally completed on or before December thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety two.
Sec. 3. That section four of the act entitled “An act for the supportTax on county real estate payable May 1, 1893. of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and for other Vol. 19, p. 396.purposes,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to make the whole tax levied under the assessment of that portion of the District of Columbia outside of Washington and Georgetown herein provided for, due and payable on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, instead of one half on the first day of November, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, and one half on the first day of May, eighteen hundred and *Proviso*.
Limited to 1893.ninety-three, as by existing law: *Provided*, That these amendments shall not extend beyond the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three. Sec. 4. That the provision that the assessors shall not reduce theReduction of aggregate valuation permitted. aggregate value of the real property below the aggregate value thereof as made and returned by them, contained in section nine of the act of Vol. 22, p. 569.March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved, April 28, 1892.