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As to Fletcher’s contention that the smaller landowners are being unduly burdened by the new assessment, "I don’t really feel that way about it,” Estes said. “You’re going to cause a lot of trouble and dissension by saying that.”
The Piedmont representative emphasized that the supervisors ‘have no control over the reassessment process beyond recommending appointments for the Equalization Board to the circuit court, and even with that, Estes said, the judge didn't accept all the recommendations from the supervisors. If landowners are dissatisified with their assessments and have tried to get changes made by the. Equalization Board, the only ~ other avenue of appeal is to the circuit court, not to the supervisors, Estes stressed.
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“What I pulled looked pretty good to me,” said supervisor H. B. Wood of assessment cards he selected at random. “That’s their job. I'm not going to get into it.” He acknowledged that the reassessment figures may be unfair in certain cases. “I’m sure it's not equal now but I’m sure that there never will be an assessment that’s rnmnlptplv ^nual."
W. G. Eastham, one of the landowners who carried the letter to Barksdale around for signatures, said he’d visited 84 individuals, all who agreed to sign and believed that assessments were too high, particularly on small parcels.
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