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SOME INEQUALITIES IN LAND TAXATION

501

AN EXHIBIT OF THE RELATIVE TAXATION OF ACRE PROPERTY IN

MINNESOTA IN 1 895 — Continued.

Classification by amounts of sales

Number

of instru- ments

Number of lots

Number

of

acres

Consideration

Assessed value

Percent- age assessed

value of stated

value

D. Rural Counties, Sales of Unimproved Acres by Sheriff's Certificates.

S 500 and less

235

21,360

S 69,256

8103,157

148.95

501 to Si.ooo

217

8

27,004

157.905

132,679

84.02

1,001 to 2,000. . . .

138

145

23,844

193,334

126,276

65-31

2,001 to 3,000

22

4,631

51,902

26,337

50.74

3,001 to 5,000. . . .

22

6,744

83,142

45,328

54.52

5,001 to 10,000

7

3,880

48,446

22,196

45.82

Over 10,000

3

149

3,521

47,872

30,657

64.04

Total

644

302

90,984

8651,857

8486,630

74-65

1,000 and less

452

8

48,364

8227,161

$235,836

103.82

Over 1,000

192

294

42,620

424,696

250,794

5905

E. Forty-one Special Counties, Sales of Improved Acres by Warranty Deeds.

S 500 and less

264

II

13,640

% 93,385

8 61,844

66.22

501 to Sl.ooo

387

33,301

308,517

'75.532

56.90

1,001 to 2,000. . . .

689

9

74,459

1,087,680

487,005

44-77

2,001 to 3,000. . . .

482

19

62,258

1,235,659

476,923

38.60

3,001 to 5,000

464

75,992

1,834,394

618,329

33-71

5,001 to 10,000

161

39,855

1,069,970

339,787

31.76

Over 10,000

27 2,474

14

11,200

546,089

122,604

22.45

Total

53

310,705

86,175,694

82,282,024

36.95

2,500 and less

1.599

28

152,675

$2,089,829

8855,467

40.93

Over 2,500

875

25

158,030

4,085,865

1,426,557

34-91

F. Forty-one Spec

iai Counties, Sales of Unimproved Acres

by Warranty Deeds

8 500 and less

1,449

8

57,586

8 388,968

8230,833

59-34

501 to Sl.ooo

1,040

9

81,285

810,858

422,394

52.09

1,001 to 2,000. . . .

1,030

7

117,372

I 566,131

703,806

44-94

2,001 to 3,000. . . .

423

16

64,724

I 070,173

437,369

40.87

3,001 to 5,000

254

5

55,139

968,524

360,914

37-26

5,001 to 10,000

67

21

30,506

468,365

187,033

39-93

Over 10,000

26

8

59,763

619,702

274,201

44.25

Total

4,289

74

466,375

85,892,721

82,616,550

1,500 and less

3,036

24

195,154

81,899,888

8983,970

51.79

Over 1,500

1,253

50

271,221

3,992,833

1,632,580

40.89