13. What are the duties of the following officers?--
a. The town-clerk.
b. The treasurer.
c. Constables.
d. Assessors.
e. Overseers of the poor.
14. Describe a warrant for a town-meeting.
15. For what other purposes than those of the town are taxes raised?
16. Explain the following:--
a. The poll-tax.
b. The tax on personal property,
c. The tax on real estate.
17. What kinds of real estate are exempted from taxation, and why?
18. What kinds of personal property are exempted, and why?
19. Where must the several kinds of taxes be assessed and paid?
Illustrate.
20. If a person changes his residence from one town in the state to
another before May 1, what consequences about taxes might follow?
21. How do the assessors ascertain the property for which one should be
taxed?
22. What difficulties beset the taxation of personal property?
23. Mention a common practice in assigning values to property.
What is the effect on the tax-rate? Illustrate.
24. How do high taxes operate as a burden?
25. Describe a delusion from which people who directly govern
themselves are practically free.
26.
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