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Abatements

Series

Identifier: 2100.005

Scope and Contents Records of abatement of real estate, personal estate and poll taxes. The majority of the volumes are registers including names, assessed amounts, amount abated, and reason for the abatement. Also includes certificates of abatement, applications and petitions.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Applications for exemptions

Series — Box: 1

Identifier: 2100.012

Scope and Contents Applications for exemptions from taxes completed by individuals.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Assessing Department administrative records

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 2100.027

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Assessing Department annual reports and publications

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2100.022

Scope and Contents Includes copies of Annual Reports of the Assessing Department for the years 1894, 1921, 1923-1924, 1926-1937, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1973-1977, 1981, 1983, 1988-1992 and 1994-1995; List of Persons, Copartnerships and Corporations Who were Taxed Twenty-five Dollars and Upwards in the City of Boston in 1838; List of Persons, Copartnerships and Corporations Who were Taxed Twenty-five Dollars and Upwards in the City of Boston in 1842; Boston's Tax Rate for 1926; Rules of Procedure in the Abatement of...

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Assessing Department correspondence

Series — Volumes: 1-5

Identifier: 2100.003

Scope and Contents Incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Assessing Department. Includes mayoral circulars.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Assessing Department payroll

Series

Identifier: 2100.021

Scope and Contents Payroll of the Assessing Department. Includes name, position and pay.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Assessing Department photographs

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2100.023

Scope and Contents Collection of aerial photographs of Boston from 1983.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Assessing Department plans

Series

Identifier: 2100.016

Scope and Contents Large format plans arranged by ward number and block. Includes the block numbers, street names, plot dimensions, and building footprints. These plans were used for reference purposes only.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Betterments

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 2100.015

Scope and Contents Includes one volume of betterments assessed to properties whose value benefitted from public works projects such as the widening or paving of streets, 1868-1908.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Board of Assessors proceedings

Series

Identifier: 2100.001

Scope and Contents Minutes of the Board of Assessors which record the actions of the Board relating to abatements, exemptions, legal questions, the appointment of assessors, etc. Volumes for 1901-1956 are indexed. The volume for 1928-1929 is missing.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Board of Street Commissioners notices

Series

Identifier: 2100.007

Scope and Contents Notices of apportionment and revision of assessments for street improvements, street watering and sewerage works and notices of street improvements.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Employee indentification badge

Item

Identifier: 2100.024

Scope and Contents Employee indentification badge of James J. Byrne, Assessing Department with photograph.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Exemptions

Series

Identifier: 2100.011

Scope and Contents Lists of exempt properties arranged by clause and by ward/parcel. Exempt properties include properties owned by the City, State, or Federal government or various charitable and religious organizations. These volumes list the addresses, owners of the property and the valuation.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Foreign shareholders tax books

Series — Volume: 1-4

Identifier: 2100.020

Scope and Contents Record of taxes assessed on foreign shareholders of banks in Boston. Includes owner, registered, shares, taxable value, total value and tax.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Gypsy Moth assessments

Series — Volumes: 1-7

Identifier: 2100.008

Scope and Contents Records documenting the assessment for the suppression of gypsy moths. Arranged by street these volumes contain the address, name of resident, date summons was mailed, the amount of tax and the date paid of assessments for work done toward the eradication of gypsy moths. Also includes recommendations from the Parks Commissioner and Department of Public Grounds for abatement of assessments for the suppression of gypsy and brown tail moths.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Lists of women returned by the Assessors

Series — Volumes: 1-80

Identifier: 2100.006

Scope and Contents Lists of women's names and addresses arranged by ward and precinct.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Notices of change of domicile

Series

Identifier: 2100.025

Scope and Contents Correspondence to the Assessors from residents notifying them of changes in domicile.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Proceedings of Dooming Board

Series

Identifier: 2100.002

Scope and Contents Minutes of the Dooming Board for the years 1869-1901, 1946-1947 and 1949-1950. Includes the individual or company being assessed a tax on their personal property, the original assessment, and the revised assessment.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Real estate, personal estate and poll tax records

Collection

Identifier: 2100.004

Scope and Contents note Records of taxes assessed for real estate, personal estate and poll taxes. Includes real estate valuations, 1822-1973; personal estate valuations, 1822-1985; and poll tax assessments, circa 1822-1963. The assessment of poll taxes was abolished in 1963.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Record of trustees

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 2100.010

Scope and Contents Includes a list of trustees and their addresses, who or what they were trustees of, their address, and the value of and items held in trust.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Returns of corporations

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 2100.018

Scope and Contents In accordance with Chapter 283 of the Acts of 1865, the Assessors made returns of corporations located in the City of Boston or owning real estate in the City of Boston with a statement in detail of the value of works, structures, real estate and machinery and amount of taxes assessed. Includes one volume of returns for 1865-1875.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Schedule of trusts

Series — Volume: 1-4

Identifier: 2100.009

Scope and Contents Volumes containing forms recording the names and addresses of Trustees, Guardians or Executors, and the name of the trust. Includes value of money, interests, and debts owed to the trust; cash on hand; annuities, vessels and parts of vessels, horses and vehicles, furniture exceeding $1000 value; shares in banks; public stocks, railroad bonds, and securities; and other personal property.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Scrapbook of advertisements of property auctions and sales

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 2100.014

Scope and Contents Scrapbook of George A. Comins, Real Estate and Mortgage Broker of news clippings of property auctions and sales. Includes some mentions of the "Burnt District".

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Stock book

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 2100.019

Scope and Contents One volume labeled "Stock Book" which lists names, number of shares, company and cash value.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Surveyor plans

Series — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 2100.017

Scope and Contents In November of 1876, the Board of Assessors requested an appropriation of $1500 for the purpose of causing the preparation of a set of reduced copies, on tracing cloth, of surveyors' plans of estates, to be used in street and office work in the Assessors' Department. Includes copies of surveyor plans, arranged by neighborhood, which were drawn circa 1856-1877.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

Veterans' applications for exemptions

Series — Volume: 1

Identifier: 2100.013

Scope and Contents Under Chapter 12 of the Acts of 1943, individuals serving in the military could apply for a temporary exemption from real and personal estate taxes. Includes one volume of applications for exemption from 1944-1947.

Found in: City of Boston Archives

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