Show TUB til wo acro omo what astonished as well amused a low days luck at hearing a certain gentleman who by tho acay is credited with moio an average amount of intelligence serious doubts as the legality of tiny tax payments that been made sinco bojt icah to mr J llo gerson tho present incumbent of tho emco omco of and for county wo find upon enquiry that cr ronco iid idea i widespread and thai persons prompt in settling their obligations obliga tiona aro in paying up their quota of ilie publio a certain ungelia blo salt asiko newspaper has made tho unwarranted eliat all payments ciuco alio dato in question should bo biado to tho and not to alio incumbent dc fuel in order to chow how baseless aro wo will duoto from tho law passed ly legislature I 1 of the eleventh section of which contains tho following provision at tho general election in 1878 and biennially bo elected by alio hotem of tho several countice counti cn of this an assessor and collector f r each county choso whoso term of omec shall bo for two years and tho aio duly elected or ap and qualified to this bill the succeeding legislature that of asso passed several amendments prominent among aich wo note the lol lowing in chapter page 12 laws of butali session of asso section cloven of paid net is amended by striding out all of said section afier tho word assessor in tho seventh lino and substituting alio following in liou thereof ahall before acting upon tho duties of his office take and subscribe an oath of officio hud give a boniwitz bonI with cd security to tho anil coun of tho coun IY court conditioned condition od for alio performance of alio duties of his officio said collector shall buforo upon tho duties of hn onico take and ibo an oath of office and civo ft bond with approved security to tho territory of utah conditioned for the faithful of tho dulios of his office and for tho payment of 1 and school taxes duo awn liviu to the territory and givia bond to alio county conditioned for alio payment into tho county treasury of all county taxes duo from him to tho county each as bessor elected under alio provisions of this act enter upon alio duties of hia officio on tho firby day ol 01 january next following his election clinell alvo dilys prior bach acci cd alio provisions of this act shall enter upon tho duties of liis officio on tho birst day of juno nest following liis election having first qualified as nuovo prescribed it will therefore bo scon from tho above that as nn assessor mr hog all other count ir assessors in utah remains in office unless removed for malfeasance or by resignation until tho first day of january next and as collector until the first day of june it maecs no diu crocco whether the appointments of governor murray aio dc claice legal or not the law remains intact aid and will gov orn tho holding of the office in any event it will thus lie peon that mr martias appointment is more in tho nature of a aaice than anything else from the fact eliat even if ho is declared the legal successor to tho present incumbent ho cannot take tho offic cof new ysais day and by the time mr Ito erson is released by liw QS county collector tho eight months tenure specified in that famous izoar amendment will have expired we would advise our readers to not permit themselves to Q misled into procrastination in this matter but to battla their unpaid axes before the 31 bt instant alio date on which they are declared by alio law to bo delinquent and to bo collectable al ng with coats of suit by levy and we would also say until tho llast day of june 1883 at least mr J llo creon is tho aad collector of county and territorial tsoa for the contrary not withstanding with |