Show CANCEL YOUR MORGAGES The County Recorders Records low 6237 Mortgages as Liens Upon Property People make a mistake in not cancelling their mortgages said Assessor Clute as he turned over a volume which Recorder Rumel had prepared showing the mortgages mort-gages standing as lions against city and county property on January 1 189 The total number of mortgages in th9 county as evidenced by this record was 0267 Many of these have been paid as far back as 1SGS said Mr Cute but the mortgagors as wellas the mortgagees have failed to have them cancelled The man who takes a mortgage is interested in having hav-ing it cancelled as well as the man who makes it Of course he may claim that it has been paid and it is not right that he be assessed on the money but we have only his word for it as against the record while the giver of a mortgage oven though he has paid it has a cloud standing against his property until the mortgage is cancelled Out of these 6267 mortgages It would not bo surprising sur-prising to me i nearly half of them had been paid but as we have no ku wicdge ot the fact and the record shows them to exist we have nothing to do but to hold the men whom the records show to have advanced the money to pay taxes on it until they can prove that the mortgage has been satis lied |