Report . sessment values in other parts of the Stateand county. The tables, which may be found in precedingreports, exhibit the operation of this system. In addition to the State, county, city, and town taxes,Chicago has a system of special assessments, paid wholly bythe real estate benefited by the special improvements, which,for the year ending January 1, 1883, were : — For wooden pavements, $1,009,566 22 lamp-posts, 32,296 29 miscellaneoas improAements, 723,511 02 private drains, 105,974 00 water service pipes, 102,269 55 sidewalks, 162,098 00 street and alley openings and widenings, 79,041
Report . sessment values in other parts of the Stateand county. The tables, which may be found in precedingreports, exhibit the operation of this system. In addition to the State, county, city, and town taxes,Chicago has a system of special assessments, paid wholly bythe real estate benefited by the special improvements, which,for the year ending January 1, 1883, were : — For wooden pavements, $1,009,566 22 lamp-posts, 32,296 29 miscellaneoas improAements, 723,511 02 private drains, 105,974 00 water service pipes, 102,269 55 sidewalks, 162,098 00 street and alley openings and widenings, 79,041 96 $2,214,757 04 The table which follows exhibits the amounts laid asspecial assessments for the twelve months preceding the firstday of April, of the several years preceding 1875, and sub-sequent to 1876, for the year preceding January first: — 18631864186518661867186818691870187118721873 $46, 389, 103 802, 317, 1,354 2,395 2,836, 2,359 62 493 67169 31576 35574 56200 18436 48683 03852 48835 89222 25. $749,460 27723,254 42^60,585 72 1,516,081 07124,499 47284,900 45588,963 43980,895 50 1,395,372 98 2,214,757 04 BALTIMORE.* Population of Baltimore by United States census in 1860,184,520 ; United States census in 1870, 267,354. Municipal 1 After the great fire In Octolser, 1871, a change in the law for making special assessmentsgreatly reduced their amount. The items omitted were street and alley openings andwidenings. In the assessment of 1875 these items again appeared in the list of specialtaxes, but omitted in 1876; they reappeared in 1887. Since 1875 no levy has been made forgas-service pipes, which formed for many years before that date one of the items of specialassessment. 2 No special assessments levied this year. 3 The fiscal year which, in 1875, and previous to that date, ended on the first day of April,was in 1876 closed on the first day of January. The special assessments of that year cover aspace of nine months only. * For an extended statement of Baltimore asse
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