190 THE A B C OF TAXATION college graduate will take with him to his home and into the concerns of life something that will be to him an armour and a weapon always at hand — an economic code that shall be as a handbook to the publicist, politician, and statesman—that shall make of the college men in Congress and Legislature not dreary followers of a groping public sentiment, or the confident advocates of exploded economic opinion, but instructors and leaders of their time. G DETAILS OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY BOSTON PROPERTY SALES* Number of Assessed Valuation Assessed Valuation Estate of Land of Buildings I $67,200 $75,000 2 43 >5°° 15,000 3 245,000 85,000 4 65,000 10,500 5 77,600 22,400 6 89,500 17,5°° 7 196,000 60,000 8 42,000 11,000 9 10,800 4,000 10 101,500 24,500 11 17,000 3*°°° 12 33,700 2,300 •3 6,000 2,700 14 21,200 15,000 *5 S9>50° 16 21,50° 10,500 17 22,400 8,000 1$ i35>7oo 75,ooo >9 492,000 232,400 20 10,800 5, 100 21 49,50° 9,000 22 90,000 17,000 *3 14,30° 2,700 24 48,000 7,000 *5 68,800 10,000 26 164,600 120,400 27 1,800 2,100 28 167,000 100,000 Total Price Indicated by Revenue Percentage ot Selling Price Represented ­ by Assessed Stamps Valuation on Deeds Valuation $142,200 $165,000 86 58,500 75>°°° 78 330,000 625,000 75.5°° 75*5°° 100 100,000 120,000 83 107,000 130,000 82 256,000 280,000 9 1 53,000 75,OOO 70 14,800 20,000 74 126,000 175,000 7 2 20,000 28,000 71 36/300 45,000 80 8,700 8,500 102 36,200 42 poo 86 175,000 290,000 60 32,000 35*500 92 30,400 46,000 66 210,700 210,000 100 724,400 925,000 7 S 15,900 30,000 53 58,500 46,500 I2 S 107,000 136,000 78 17,000 21,000 80 55,OOO 85,000 64 78,800 94,000 83 285,000 425,000 67 3*9°o 3*500 in 267,000 333*00° 80 ♦ For comments see page j6.