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City Councillor Walter J. Sullivan yesterday introduced a bill in the City Council calling on the Cambridge Board of Assessors to draw up a list of all taxable and non-taxable property owned by Radcliffe College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and to submit a report of what taxes the institutions pay.

The action is in line with a survey ordered by Sullivan and published last week of all property owned by Harvard in Cambridge.

Sullivan charged again yesterday that "the City can obtain more taxes from Harvard, because the University owns parcels of income-producing property on which it is not paying taxes."

The same charges, made last week, were emphatically denied by University officials. Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, said last night "it is absolutely untrue that Harvard owns income producing, non-educational property on which it is not paying taxes."

He pointed out, however, that the University owns educational properties, such as dormitories, which, although income producing, are exempt from taxes under Massachusetts law.

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