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The total assessed valuation in 1949 of land and improvements in Rappahannock is $2,607,386; personal property values bring a figure of $1,785,614, making a total of appi oximately $4,392,000.
The tax rate has been $1.85 for all districts exee'pt Piedmont and Hampton; these two had a levy of $2 because of district road bonds outstandng. Hampton has now paid its road bonds and Piedmont has the load bonds outstanding. .
For 1950 there is a proposed increase of 15 cents per $100 assessed valuation, making the rate in all districts $2, except Piedmont, which will be $2.15. Of course, no additional levy for reassessment purposes would be necessary next year or until another re-assessment was required by law.
The rates for surrounding counties in 1950 are: Warren, $1.85 to $2.20, varying in districts; in Page, maximum $3.25; Culpeper, $2.40; Orange, $2.25; and Fauquier, $1.35.
According to a law passed by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1946 there must be a general re-assessment of all real estate in Rappahannock in 1950. This may be done either with or without the assistance of the state office of real estate re-assessment in Richmond. In either case, a local board which has been appointed (Joe D. Keyser, E. M. Jones, C. E. Johnson, Jr.) has full charge of the re-assessment.
The total cost of this re-assessment js estimated to be approximately $5,000. The board of supervisors of Rappahannock county has voted to employ an assistant from the state office to help the local board with the re-assessment.
The first step in this re-assessment will be to prepare a sheet for each tract of real estate in the county from the county land book. This sheet will list the name of the owner and the acreage. The tax assessor then goes on the land with this sheet and with aerial photograph maps and lists types of improvement on the property, describing completely the number of rooms in the house, whether or not it has central heating and other conveniences, and the type of construction of the house and
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