Municipal government -- Records and correspondence

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The Estimated Tax Valuation reports were created to record estimates of the value of property owned by individuals and taxes owed on the same. Includes the Name of property owner, value of real estate (city and town lots at full value-rural, undeveloped and waste land at 2/3 value), value of personal property, total value for each property owner, total of each category for the town. Also included summary of valuations for the previous five years from the date of the estimate.

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This subseries consists of the minutes of meetings of the State Board of Prperty Valuation between March 1872 and January 1874.

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The Charlestown Town Clerk Records contain materials from the town of Charleston, Rhode Island in the 1700s-1800s. The records are believed to have been collected by a town clerk of Charlestown and contain governmental records from that time.

Scope and Contents This report is a product of a grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission (88-077), made in support of the Rhode Island State Archives. Grant funding was provided for a two year period to provide the foundation for a professional state archives program and a professional historical records program for the state at large. Included in the plan of work was a survey of the historical records held in the town and city clerks offices of the thirty-nine (39)...

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Morris-Ireland Safe Co. blueprints for records vaults including shelving.

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The Military Installation records consist of eight (8) color ganache drawings by engraver Rochefontaine of proposed military installations or fortifications for Newport, Rhode Island. This series also includes a letter from Rochefontaine to Governor Fenner regarding the plans for the proposed fortifications dated August 16, 1794 (Boston).

Scope and Contents BOX 1 School Committee Annual Reports a. 1903 – 1909 b. 1910 – 1915 c. 1916 – 1920 d. 1921 – 1923, 1925 e. 1927 – 1930 f. 1931 – 1935 g. 1936 – 1940 School Building Survey, 1949 School Committee by-laws, 1953 Annual Reports for the Town of Lincoln: a. 1937, 1945 – 1949 b. 1950 – 1958 Annual Report: Budget Committee + others a. 1951 – 1956 b. 1957 – 1960 Lincoln Revelation Process of 1953-1954 Lincoln Tax Assessment – December 31, 1955 Lincoln: Sewer Commission,...