Taxes Being Paid Slowly

Up to the close of December 19, this year, City Treasurer Pond reports 211,790.01 taxes paid into the city treasury. Up to the same date last year $20,058.34 had been paid in, and up to the same date in 1S91 the sum of $24,320.23 had been paid in. The taxes included in the December assessment this year are not so large as in the two preceding years, as the city tax was largely paid last July; but the collections this year have not, even allowing for this, been up to the past rating. The amount to be collected this month, as shown by the warrants in the treasurer's books, is $64,943.73, while last year it was $84,087.20, and in 1891 it was $89,019.79. Compared with last year, proportionally, the sum of $15,495 should have been collected by December 19, which indicates that only about 76 per cent as many taxes have been paid this year as were paid at the same date last year. The largest day so far this year was Saturday, December ió, when $1,851.37 was paid, while on December 19, 1891, the sum of $4,258.12 was paid in. The largest day in 1892 to date was Friday, December 16, when $2,528.70 was paid in. The biggest day last year was Friday, December 30, when $8,102.67 was paid in. Hut this was not as big a dáy as Wednesday, December 30, 1891, when $9,068.29 was paid over the city treasurer's table.