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&1 Croix Avis.
76TH YEAR.
CHRISTIANSTED.
V.I. U.S. A.,
TUESDAY
28tH
NOVEMBER
1922,
THE ST. CROIX AVIS
18 printed and
putlished
daily (Sundays
and Holidays excepted)
by G. Johansen
at
the Avis Office.
TERMS---50 cents monthly in advance,
2
cents
per
single
copy.
Entered
as
second-class
matter
May
26th 1917 at the Post
Ofice
at Christian-
sted,
St. Croix,
V. I. of the U. S. A.,
un-
der the Act of March 3. 1879.
Publicats
üblication.
URSUANT
to order from
the Govern-
ment,
the
Tax
Commission
for
St.
Croix will meet
at the
undarmention-
ed days
to receive
information
in writing
relating
to
the
taxes
for the
present
year:
For the Town of Chrictianstedt
at
the Despatching
Secretary’s
OUffice at
10 o’clock a.
m,
viz:
TUESDAY,
December
12 for
the
in-
habitants
of King’s Company,
Queen’s,
Strand,
North
aad
West
Streets,
also
Western
Suburbs.
WEDNESDAY,
December
13
for
the
inhabitants
of Smith,
Western
and
Ulke
Lanes,
Watergut,
Market
and
Prince’s
Streets,
King’s
and
Queen’s
Cross
Streets,
Church,
Hospital
and
Green
Streets
and
the Eastern
Suburbs.
THURSDAY,
December
14 for
the
in-
haoitants
of Hill, East,
Lagoon,
Little
Hospital,
New and Fisher
Streets.
For the Country:
FRIDAY,
December
15 for the inhabi-
tants
in both East
End
Quarters
at
the
Stlock
Estate
Sally’s Fancy
at
11 o'cleck
a,jm.
SATURDAY, December
16 for the
in-
habitants
in Company’s
Quarter
at
the
Agricultural
Experiment
Station
at
Ks-
tate Anna’s Hope at 11 o’clock a.
m.,
MONDAY, December
18
for
the
in-
habitants
in Queen’s King’s,
ard North-
side Quarter,
Ltr.
B.
at
the
Station
at
King’s Hill at 10 o’clock a. m.,
TUESDAY,
December
19 for
the
in-
habitants
in
Prince’s
Quarter
in
the
School
of Estate
Diamond
at2 o’clock
L
0
THURSDAY, December
21 for the
in-
habitants
in
West
End
Quarter
and
Northside Quarter Ltr. A., at the
Police
Office in Frederiksted
at
10 o’clock a.
m.
For the Town of Frederikstad:
same
day for the inhabitants
of Strand,
No. 274.
King’s and Queen’s
Streets.
FRIDAY, December
22 for the inhabi-
tants of Prirce’s,
Hcspital,
New Streets,
King’s
Cross
Street,
Maiket,
Hill :rd
Lagoon
Streets,
all
at
the
said
Police
Office at 10
o’clock a.
m.
Owners
of
estates
are
to
specify
in
writing
the
exact
number
of
acres
in
sugar
cultivation, in
cottnn
cultivation,
in other
cultivatien
ard in pasture.
Also
information
conceining
the buildings
¢n
the
estate
and
appiopriation
thereof,
especially
if there
ave
10ooms
rented
to
other
than
luburers
permanently
em-
ployed,
and
the itngih and width
of the
said
rooms
and
the lental
thereof.
If any portion of the land
is considered
to
be useless,
and
yiclds no
revenue
to
the
owner,
the
number
of acres
of such
portion
must
be stated
in the
taxlist and
a
certificate
on cath,
issued
by the
pro-
prietor and
two Burghers
residing
in the
quarter,
and
furthermore
attested
by the
Quarter
Officer,
and
delivered
to
the
Commission.
Owners
of empty
lots
in town
are
re-
quested
to
fill in the
taxlists
accurately,
giving the
information
desired,
in
order
that
it may
be
ascertained
if any
new
buildings
have
been
erected
on
the
property
during
the
year,
also
stat-
ing
the time
when
such
buildings
were
first occupied.
In order that reduction
can be
obtained
in
the taxes for dwelling hcuses,
ware-
houses
and shece,
which
have
been
un-
occupied
for
two months
and
upwards,
the Commission
would
particularly draw
the
attention
of those
parties
desiring
reduction,
that
it
is
very
necessar)
in
such
co=ses
that certificates
to that
effect
be
produced,
stating
that
the
houses,
sheds.
ete.
have beep
vacant
during said
period.
ST. MARY’S MOVIES
Tuesday
Nov. 28th
1922, 8.15 P. M.
Mary Miles Minter
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Persons
neglecting
to procure
the
information
and proof described
by
the regulation
in the
above
shape,
time
and
place,
must
ascribe
to
their
own neglect all
losses
result-
ing therefrom.
As
several
planters
in the
last
years
have neglected
to meet
at the
fixed
time
and
rlace
to
deliver
their taxlists,
the
Commission
beps
to
announce
that taxlists
will not
be received
for any quarter,
at any
other
time
or
place
than
abova
stated.
In
case
persons
neglect
1o
deliver
a
taxlist for any
estate
in
due
time, the Commission
will,
be-
fore
closing
the
meeting,
as:ess
the tax for said estate
according
to
the best of its knowledge.
Taxlists
which
are
forwarded
later
to
the
Commission,
will, together
with
a
list of those estates
that
have omi’-
ted
to
send
in their
taxiists,
be
transmitted
to the Government,
in
order that other measures
be taker:.
Blanks
for taxlists
will be
distributed
some
days
previous
to
the
meeting
cf
the
Tax Comuiission
and
are
required
to
be
accurately
filled
out
by
the
parties
concerned
and
delivered
to the
Commis-
sion
on theglay
which
is fixed for
each
street
in the tcwn
and
each
quarter
in
the country.
Tax Commission
for St. Croix, Novem-
ber 22,
1922,
C. L. RAPPOLEE.
T.J.
STRIDIRON.