the city of norfolk in their early tax forms, ( not sure about later)but they did improved and unimproved lots............... doesn't say what the "rate" of tax was,
just shows the total of tax paid for a group of things, horses, wagons, cows, cattle, ordinary license, billiard license, retail license

this would be around 1780's,

kristina

In a message dated 6/11/2020 11:48:34 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:

Greetings, listers!  

A query was posted to another list that I'm hoping to find an answer to with this list.  On the 18th and 19th century real estate tax lists, we find various tax rates per acre.  It seems that, like today, different types of land were taxed at different rates.  I believe these rates were set by the General Assembly.  Does anyone know what the different rates represented?  Has anyone run across a list showing, for example, timber land at x-amount, pasture land  at y-amount, and swamp at z-amount?  I seem to recall having unsuccessfully looked for this many years ago but a new query has been posted.

Thanks!
Kathy

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