Show THE CITY COUNCIL our city solons held a long and interesting me enting last thursday evening when many little technical questions were sprung andins the mayor at terney marshal and 1 all the councilmen except pace be ing present their labors commenced on a bill that the city marshal had presented at the flevious pi pl evious meeting and which had bad been referred to the mayor and attorney to be audited the committee recommended that be stricken off the bill and the balance be allowed which report was dually accepted and the bill allowed there was a division of opinion i among the councilmen in regard recard to the portion of the marshals marshal Is bill that was not allowed it was explained by the attorney that the marshal had performed work of three different kinds that tile the ordinance would not var warrant rant these are the things that i were done A log chain had been I 1 stolen from the blacksmith shop and the marshal was called upon by the blacksmith to search for it at an other oilier time lie was called out by jas george to watch and track a man whom they of being a chicken and whom they followed into salt like lake city the list last item was the feeding of tramps which the life committee recommended be allowed although they said it was mas not a proper claim under the present ordinance the attorney read the ordinance ordina and then said that when the marshal was called out by any one tile the parties calling him out were alone responsible for his pay when anya thing is lost as the log chain spoken of the parties losing the article are i to get out a search warrant and it if the article is not found they are to pay the expenses he further said that city officers as a general thing received a salary for their services and in such cases must look after these things but in this case no salk j arwas w as paid nor is there an ardi nace b which the marshal is aur j theorized zed to do work of that kind without the proper papers councilmen grairt and briggs said they felt like paying 10 the marshal for searching out crime and would rather not pay liim him for feed ng alg tramps in as much as that too was au an item that should not dot have been allowed A bill of 50 cents advanced for type writing was allowed attorney pearson three delegations sent respect ively by the lie people of south wesl and east bountiful were present and presented a written petition to tile the council asking to have as much as pub sible of the special water tax remitted the petition was signed by M BI brown J I 1 atkinson and S S ilo howard vard of south bountiful D C lea 3 C marshall and J C wood of west bountiful and john I 1 fishers D 0 willey and brigham dilley of east bountiful 4 Bless rs fisher brown lee and 0 others made speeches stating the 10 I 1 I 1 object of the reduction of the taxes said that the people thought the council had done about as well as it ii A could under the circumstances and r that they were willing to pay all ext pensel pense tile the city has haa been bieu to in jing in bead gates etc but on oil rei aci count of these exceedingly hard bard times limes caused by the depress depression ion in money matters desired the council to remit all the water tax that was not absolutely necessary to pay current expenses councilman stoker said that lie favored a reduction of the taxes but that it was too late in the day he said the mayor and attorney had got legal opinion on the matter in writing which bich confirms this statement lie ile stated that there was another way of complying with the wishes of the people and that was for the attorney to draught a resolution stating that the work contemplated when the tax was levied would not be carried out this season and an abatement made which which would be virtually virtual the same as a remittance and would be legal of course the citizens will be out the money it costs for collect ingy refunding etc the petition was waa referred to the attorney for his opinion and he was empowered to draught such resolutions as would meet the desires and requirements of the people councilman hatch said there were people who though 0 if they paid their water tax that it would give the councils coun cilas an incorporation the right to the water the right to sell it or anything they chose band and he further said that if there was anything in it lie he did not want anything r to do with it t as he did not want the people to lose ose any of their rights the attorney read the water ordinance and showed that the people referred to by hatch had bad a mistaken idea of oft t said that the ordinance w was as plain on the matter that the city ity council did not own a drop of water all that the council can do I 1 0 is is to better control and regulate tile the same the water belongs to tile the citizens and not to the council mr james green with willi the permission ms sion of the council then said that the leading of the wa water ter tax notices was not nonspecific specific enough simply P ly said water tax notice or water the attorney replied that the beaden leading 0 of the notices were not needed at all that everything was specified on the ticket the number dumber of acres the creek or di district I 1 amount etc even the creeks are kept separate and the tax money received from tile land owners on tile the same are kept alone as it a special tax mr green still thinking that the city incorporation might possibly own water said that b he e hall had read in the papers about the people on tile the benches in salt lake city kicking because that council would not give them water this lie thought showed that the corporation owned w water ter a to this attorney pearson said that the city had bad purchased water and in that case the council could use its judgment as to where it should be distributed and that perhaps in this case the people on oil the bench thought they should have some of tile the water bought councilman hatch said that lie believed the reason that some ome E people objected to paying their taxes especially ally in south bountiful was because they did not get as much water as other years and besides hail bad not lot seen that much improvement had find been made on oil the creeks not near so much as they expected to see the attorney ventilated this question by saying that the council bad ha no right to make improvements until after the taxes we were collected recollected in regards to the head gates that have been put iu in he said the council was not sure of any money until it was collected the water tax might have been levied said he be but when we come to collect it some one inight might 0 refuse to pay and take it alto the courts and if they ruled against the city lie he asked who alio aou would pay the debts of the city while speaking upon the subject of collecting the taxes the attorney said that if the city had to collect the water tax by law that much ol of the money that ought to be spent in ill flumes blumes would be wasted to carry on lawsuits law suits daniel lee said that lie he was satisfied that it was understood b by y may of the people that only twenty twe ity i alve cents was to be paid in cash and the r remaining fifty cents in labor in ill rel reply ay to mr lee tile attorney said that the ordinance was plain on this point and that it was his opinion that far too few people go to the bother of reading the ordinance something k that they should be posted on an important point that hat we omitted that the attorney touched upon when speaking t to the question of the council owning 0 water was that when a water right was relinquished in any water district that the rest of the people in that dis district brict got the benefit of it that tile the council could not give that water to atly any one in that or in any other district council adjourned to sept |