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Show Cities Cannot Purchase From Officials' Firms i Purchases made by a municipality municipal-ity from firms in which municipal officers are interested are illegal, even if the goods are bought through a purchasing agent, Joseph Jo-seph Chez, attorney general, held t Thursday. The opinion came after Walter G. Mann, county attorney of Box Elder county, told Mr. Chez that Brigham City employs a purchasing purchas-ing agent and "it has developed that, some of the goods purchased for the use of Brigham City have been purchased from firms which were owned by some of the coun-cilmen coun-cilmen as individuals, doing business busi-ness under a trade name and. In one Instance, some of the goods I purchased for Brigham City have , been purchased from a corporation of which one of the city council-men council-men Is a stockholder and dl-I dl-I rector." i |