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Show i The Revenue Scrip Tax. TlUTti sremi to In a ipiMinn auto 1 whe'.her tuu t:ix nnre.ai.l by K-wniir Collect T llnil inter ugainat ill v.nintH coop htore.i, and other iiinM in lions is'uing a scrip circulating niniiiitn, can hi co'luoled. At tho lant repi r'. Mr. llollutor had unty gnue through j some fiur couutios, in one of which Salt Lako only 'ho amount of ecrip ispiud by the big coup had been ncf rtaiutd, a, id ou these the assessed lax amounted to uearly f -IO.(KH). At tuia rate it is difficult lo ic'l what Uio total (ax would be, as iu nearly every town aud Bettlemunt in the territory, there are firms which issue tl 1 id scrip; but it is certain that the amount woiill bo eomething etior m oils, cotmideiing tho ability of the territory to stand iu h an afc-cpa-niont. However, some of tlio firum against which it has already bun leviid, ciildltm the idea lb a I tho lax, tliou;;h doublleu lir, ran haidly bo npplud to them with justice, and ou the belief that tho ex tenuating featuies iu their caeca um sufficient, prrposo to teal (he matter and ate inuking itlorta to have it re minted. Ii ia even claimed by soruu ticms ttuit the scrip had bocu subiuit ted to Mr. Hollinter before being issued, is-sued, and bis opinion ktd as to whether it was subject to tho tax, and (hat be gave a negative answer. Tin re are other grounds, also, on which a release from the present taz'in hoped for, and which will bo brought forward to the prop:r parties. Tnia scrip tax ia a matter ol general interest, in-terest, and tho lesult of any move in the direction of securing a torn to-rn lesion will bo . looked (or with considerable anxiety. It is possible pos-sible that eomo may escape tbu time, but (here will bo no excuso hereafter, the matter having been thoroughly ventilate! in the paat lour mDLtjj. |