Show The Claims of the Banks The county board of equalization meagan me-agan yesterday at 330 the delay having been occasioned by the fact that Judge Smith who is a member of the board is i also one of the canvassers of the election returns There was a large and select aueienco in waiting among them P L Williams S H Auerbach A B Jones cashier the Utah National R W Young I and T W Jennings P r Wiliianis appeared in behalf of the Union National to resist the payment of the tax assessed against it and R W Young for the State Bank of Utah on a similar proposition These gentlemen in behalf of the banks named resisted the payment of the tax assessed against the banks on the ground that the institution were not in existence at the time the assessor asses-sor is supposed to make his return to the county court The law in this point loads as follows After the first of January and before the first Monday in June in each year the assessor shall ascertain by dtli gent inquirv and examination all propert in his county real or personal subject to taxation also so far as practicable the names of nil persons corporations companIes com-panIes or firms owning or claiming or haying hay-ing possession or control thereof etc Tho theory advanced is that such taxation was double taxation for the reason that tho money composing the capital stock of these banks was in existence on the first of the year and had already been listed by the assessor The question was taken under advisement advise-ment |