I'm working some personal property tax lists. I can't find the boiler-plate that tells me the tax rates. I've got the one for the 1860s, but not the ones for the 1700s. :( I'm noticing something I think is VERY strange: from information on the tax lists, I can deduce the tax rate for a white tithable, for one horse, and for one "cattle". However, where the tithable owns many horses and/or cattle, the rates multipled by the number of animals don't work out to the amount of the tax. Opinions -- would these be math errors on the part of the assessor, ceilings on the number of horses/cattle taxed, variable rates for quality of animal, or what? Cheryl singhals@erols.com