Show CITY COUNCIL last week we failed to get the council doings so we will make a synopsis of the minutes in title issue on august all the councilmen except benson who was sick were present also the mayor and recorder water vater committee depoi ted that we tha petition of wilford tuttle andoch etli ers era had been examined and that the committee was tb that at there wasi wa a waste of water as claimed by the when it run by way of colmans Tol mans sawmill saw mill howe committee didiot measure the water but accepted mr colmans Tol mans proposition to flume liis his ditch from the point where lie takes the water out of he main creek bed to where it returns back into the creek he is granted the privilege so as to have water for house bouse use and watering stock its as the water when running in the main creek is almost inaccessible corn mit tees report accepted A petition from J H grant and others asking that eliat a certain portion of bountiful city lip ile detached dela clied I 1 was presented and referred to a special committee A list of names with amount of work done on ditches in mill creek farm land and city lots water districts were presentad and instructed ted to issue receipts for the labor performed to apply on water taxes city waler maiter reported that john fisher came to his house when he the waler muster nater was absent from home and got the te keys heys from mrs holbrook to tile the gates gales at the fisher and barlow divide and took look the water one day earlier than his tall n ci called LIle for it t and asked how bow to proceed in the matter Walen naster was instructed to see aliat abat tile the water be used only when the ticket t valls falls for it bill of justice grant in case cage of W B marshall vs bountiful city for V 0 allowed WEDNESDAY SESSION all the councilmen of bountiful city were prevent present at last nights session the mayor presiding the recorder recording A committee from the delinquent tax payers of bountiful city con coll of S howard john burton haw and W atkinson represented to tile the council that the delinquent tax payers were desirous of knowing whether ibey were expected to pay the water tax on oil the upper ditch of mill ere creek ek tor for 1894 before a detachment from the city he be made and if so whether r a third party could receive the money who would I 1 refund it in case no was effected As S hie coull council cil began to investigate the matter mailer they found jt it to be very it was found that aliat it would also be necessary to collect tilis years water daxe on oil tile hie upper tipper ditch before the ibe district wat det detailed deta cled selled er erin ing could be a is a turn rum equal to the amount levied has already been cape expended for nee ellmary cesary repairs r on said ditch and to I 1 pay the general it stated that the election would be w was as here before the delinquents could be duly advertised so as prescribed by law in ia caeg cases where they fail to pay all of which had bad to lo ile he lone done before the be election one of the councilmen felt that it would be very unjust for the people on the ditch in question to refuse to pay this years tax or to pa pay in view of it being 0 refunded if they were not detached deta clied ail a be said that not a cent more hill bad been levied than only just barely enough to p pay by for making some very necessary repairs on the die creek be felt that the people had ought to pay that without any request of its being refunded whether detached or not before any detachment can take tak e place or the city all indebtedness must lie ile paid the question was sprung last night whether whet lier the delinquents whose property properly had bad been sold to pay their water taxes were still owing the city or whether the security given in the way of their property would be regarded the same as a regular payment and make them tit ct subjects for detachment the matter was wag referred to a special committee which is to get legi legal advice on the subject the city justice reported on two cases recently tried in bla court A petition from jolin john waite and others asking to be detached from bountiful city was read and referred to o a special committee commil teo adjourned to wednesday sept I 1 I 1 1895 at 8 p m |