September 23, 1941.
 
MEMORANDUM FOR 
           HENRY T, HACKETT
 
           Enclosed are my tax bills for the School-Taxes, 
Town of Hyde Park. Will you be good enough to pay them? 
Have you enough money on hand?
 
           I notice one bill for a special assessment 
(No. 865) for right of way $900.00 -- amount of tax $13.95.
 
           This is the rough lane leading east from Violet 
Avenue on the north boundary of the Dunphy farm. It is not 
a right of way, as it leeds to no barn or house -only to a 
lot of pine trees. It was set up originally as a right of
way when Mrs.Backer purchased the lend east of Val Kill
Creek on the Dunphy farm -- land which was re-sold to me
when she bought the east end of the pig man's farm. I think
that we might ask the assessors to remove this assessment
and perhaps merge it with the rest of the Dunphy farm tax
on an acreage basis and not as a right of way, which no
longer exists.
 
                                     F. D. R.