TAX FOR THE YEAR 1835. STATE OF MAINE. ASA REDINGTON, Jr., Treasurer of said State, To the Selectmen or Assessors of the Town of Country Isles In obedience to a Law of this State, passed the twenty-third day of March, 1835, entitled, "An Act to apportion and assess on the Inhabitants of this State a Tax of Fifty Thousand, three hundred, ninety eight dollars, sixty six cents"- These in the Name of the State of Maine, to require you to assess the sum of Firrly dollars tumbly me being the sum by said Act charged upon said town; the same to be assessed in manner following, viz:-To each male poll above the age of twenty-one years, within said town, seventeen cents, provided the same shall not exceed one-sixth part of the whole sum to be assessed; and if, at seventeen cents on the poll, the poll tax shall exceed one-sixth part of the sum to be assessed, the poll tax shall be so reduced as not to exceed one-sixth part of such tax, but shall be made as nearly equal as may be to said sixth part of the whole; and if by the above rules, the proportion of the State, County, and Town Taxes, exclusive of highway taxes, to be paid by the polls, shall, in said town, exceed two dollars on each poll, it shall be reduced so as to make that sum; and the highway taxes in said town shall be assessed in the same proportion; and the residue of such sum charged, as aforesaid to said town, to assess upon the respective inhabitants thereof, according to the value of the real estate therein owned or possessed by each of them on the first day of May next, either in his own right, or the right of others, improved or not improved, (except pews in houses of public worship) or upon the owners of real estate in such town, whether such owner resides in the same or not, on the first day of May, according to the just value thereof; and upon non-resident proprietors of real estates, lying within such town, in their own right, or the right of others, improved or not improved; and also on all the inhabitants of such town, and all other persons possessing estates within the same, on the first day of May, according to the proportion of the amount of their respective personal estates, including all moneys at interest, more than they pay interest for, and all debts due to them, more than they are indebted for; moneys of all kinds on hand; public securities of all sorts; all bank stock, and shares (or property) in any incorporated company for a bridge or turnpike 42.21 road, or shares in any other incorporated company possessing taxable property, according to the just value thereof; and also the amount of all goods, wares, and merchandize, or any stock in trade, including stock employed in manufactories, not exempted by law; vessels of all kinds, whether at home or abroad, with all their stores and appartenances; and all pleasure carriages drawn by one or more horses; mules, horses, and neat cattle, each of one year old and upwards, and swine six months old and upwards; and also the amount of income of such inhabitants from any profession, employment, or on land and all other nronertv of the several kinds returned in the last valuation