Each separate official chooses his own assessors, the exprætors selecting one from either their peers or their inferiors, and the ex-consuls three from among those of equal rank, subject to the approval of the emperor.

The council also elects at its first meeting, a village assessor, who shall hold his office one year.

In course of time the elective offices came to include assessors and collectors, town clerk, highway surveyors, fence-viewers, pound-masters, and overseers of the poor.

WILLIAM B. and his millionaire crew Will only vote once, sir; while I (Who to scorn laugh the honest assessors)

If their estimate is too high, he may petition the assessors to have the error corrected, but in many cases it may prove troublesome to effect this.

To have proposed lay assessors and open court would have provoked a quarrel with the Pope, then powerful enough to raise Europe in arms against them; therefore they modestly requested no more than that some priests nominated by the King should be associated with some others nominated by the Pope; or that the King should name all, and the Pope confirm his nominations.

I could not believe this, but a few days later an assessor in another of the cases called at my house, bringing a draft of the opinion of himself and his associate which he sought to submit to me for criticism or modification, saying that I knew much more about the case than they did!

It would seem, therefore, that the taxpayer claiming and securing this privilege must in some way, without revealing the amount received from dividends, satisfy the tax assessors that his total net income, including the dividends (amount not stated), does not exceed $20,000.

"Yes; for a chicken farm," chuckled the assessor.