Show pw perjury from bome hints dropped the territorial board rf waa sot without grounds to institutes prosecutions for perjury li deemed thai many came before them apparently determined to keep the taxes down at any cost and especially ally at the expense of truth one illustration will suffice A roan was questioned as to the value of a used as a store he said it was adobe that it cost that it was 40 s 50 feet and so on he said it could be built naw for when he had pone the board ascertained that ahe building was of brick but waa lined with adobe that it was 40 x 60 feet and that it cost a clean the board doubtless had good reason for not exercising its right in sending this fellow to jail for perjury but if the subsequent information of the board was right he did one of the barefaced bare faced bits of lying on record he must have a powerful love for money to kiy to beat his taxes as hard as he did these he is a spotted man herald |