| Show te NEW tax m the old bill vetoed b by y the mayor COUNCIL COMES TO TIME sustain tho the veto and try again in accordance with suggestions from daskin askin 33 levy stands at seven mills with specific purposes Pur posca given by delai derailments Der ailments vita van names a salary 4 I 1 tho the city council held ci a special metting ini last hist evening at which the veto by I 1 layor baskin of the tax lax levy erdl notice lilt ai passed Ills sed tit nt the former meet was sustained ned and a now new biance nas ling passed in harmony with v ith tile alio Idil views president mccornack McCorn McCorr lck ilek occupied the cl idar ond and a nil 11 member I were laes i crit after tho the provident had put iut tho the question shan shall tile the ordinance pass notwithstanding the objections of tin the mayor thereto there toT the incandescent lights went out us ua suddenly as aa only electric can po go out and darkness supreme for over ala minutes during which time business was suspended cheesman finally discovered a lan an tot acin n which gave cave sufficient light to read hy by until the incandescent lights again began to burn MAYOR mayon BASKINS VETO after the reading of the minutes of the former meeting tile the mayors m e 5 bago edgo was taken up it read as aa fol follows I 1 ow s to the tron lion president and city coun cal gentlemen t herewith hero with return disapproved bill no IA 11 tor for tin an ordinance entitled an ordinance levying the th tax on tho tit e assessed essed valuation 0 of tho the taxable pro t arty within the corporate corpo raio limits ot at salt sail I 1 A ake kc city for IW suction 1 ca of i the tin city charter charier confers upon tho th 0 council tho the power by ordinance to annually levy and collect taxes not to 10 exceed live mills milla on tho the dollar to tie oc fray fr y tile the contingent exgene ex pene of the hy fly nol no L to exceed live mills on oil the dollar to open improve and in repair the of tie city cit and not 1 to p d ono one id at and one 0 quarter arter mills on 0 ho dollar lar to control cant t t az tho aters of said raid city any levy lov for f r any one of the purposes mentioned licely 1 in no excess of tho the ilmet fixed by the c city ity charter would bo be 0 learly clearly void ax as would ho his a low levy which failed to F p edify U uny DY object at oh all in ai other words tile tho ordinance making tho the ley oy must upon its faco ace all show ow a core compliance here 0 with the esson essen f alil 10 Mons of ol 01 tho the statute eta tuie and this c tit on only lyl bo dono done by stating separately ly t the ra raio t a levied for each of tho the purposed pur posea cs mentioned in tile tho ordinance in question this has not been don but a levy to la nindo made in gr ceroua a of C seven mills on oil tho the dollar for the tarco 11 purposes mentioned in ili the charter albat proportion of the scion mills Is elca for any one of the specified purposes mentioned la Is not diccio d anti and tic no d doubt lu is unknown unk noAn to tho the individual individual mere mcm hem 0 of f tho the council vh 1 t her live five mills instead of one awl and oll olio q quarter u artar mills Is levied for water pur posos or six to its instead of five for the exien contingent sent or for street purposes Is 1 oft left in such uncertainty as aa not to leaa robin for rational ral tonal conjecture an ordinance no vague and uncertain Is IB la in my opinion nugatory and vold void while the 1 ho charter in m explicit terms requires roq q that the iho jov bovy y U within limits limi irai I 1 is aall be mado made boniv for specific pur pence it is in not clear that tile tho aano naoum 0 of f tax a ao 0 levied for each purpose when he n shall bo be expended exren ded for that pur poso PORO only for ih the last clause in the sec lion quoted noted 1 l provides that the iho council ahral annually apportion and apply said ead axes na an hall in their judgment bo be deem 0 d most expedient aal from tho the no na turfe iture of 0 f tile ilio crum abe proper amount required for each object oba c t cannot I 1 in ri danco lie ho definitely known know n in all ln in stalle ein but must bo be estimated esties t ed merely it la 1 that in the iho chank cha go of circum air cum atances and the iha arising of unexpected in conducting tho his t affairs of the city c ty that it will frequently i y occur that a portion of the taxes collected for on one object can bo be moro more beneficially expended in aid of some other of oc the specified obeta j 1 I an am of the iho opinion that I 1 iho he lost last clan clauad so of the charter just juat was waa intended to provide for just such contingencies oth it I 1 t lies iua no force at all re to tully I 1 ly jl 11 K X BASKIN mayor SUSTAINED TIIE MAYOR MATOR at the conclusion of the reading of the veto defit mccornick McCorn lck put tile the question shall the ordinance pass pasa the objections a ot f the layor there Vj and the veto was sus bained by a unanimous vote vole the city attorney tt orney being present he was vaa asked what the result would be b if the t e amount levied for any specific pu purpose was waa found inadequate and his deply wait wa to the effect that no additional amount could be expended or in other words worde that no portion of tho the amount levied for any particular pur poso could be expended expend cd for any ther other purpose purling this view in 14 contrary to that expressed by the mayor in his neto as an can he seen flern iv bv reading tho the last cliffe lie being of flip opinion that ft a portion of nt tho the amount bowled for one particular could lo lie 10 used for yomo some other oilier purpose it ic the council deemed jl it jip INlet eary president suggested that it if th council ever kt got tho the money in its poNs esdon there tb re bould lo ila 10 tic no trouble experience in iii expending lt it in any mariner manner that iho he council comic li d coded proper tim TIIE NEW ORDINANCE tuc following ordinance was then passed sit all members voting tit IQ alif tl I 1 P a except BIO MIllen dill bill no for tin an levying lh ili tax on tho the asses value or of tile the taxable property wl thin tile corporate limits lanilta of salt lako lake city for tile ih year IS m section L do bo it ordained by the city council of salt lek city territory of 0 attah that eliat there in hereby levied on all I 1 fi real and personal estate or property prop crt H lying bing and being within tim file cor car borato fanilla at 0 salt L alko a city ter Terril marv orv of utah mado made taxable b by 11 I 1 ilin he general ions of auld territory and tho ordinances of nt salt jaka city seven mills on tile tho dollie ax as fol follows to lo wit to defray the expenses of said elev live mills on oil the dollar to defray the expense c at 0 controlling tho the INt of sold olty city uno and oric one quarter ra tits on the dol dollar lir to io defray tho this expense oc at allotting improving and keeping in tho the and sidewalks ul suld city one half mill on oil tho the dollar to tay tile of con construe ling annj keeping in repair mcp clr sewers and aal drains irk in bald cre one mill on cut t lie dollar doar sc be 2 I 1 his ordinance ahall take bace mid and be in force from and after ity its up omeara vigorously objected to the bevy of the one half of a mill tor rop t treats on tho the ground bround that it t would w c uld only ohly leave one fourth n of L mill for ohp preceding amounts already realy ol been fixed milich bum he bi believed would bo be insufficient the j arav arn vr vi lly fly sewer he said bald had to be con connert n ted cd i ith the other system and there ther e ceas was aa additional work to ho bo done it if a lei dei I 1 I 1 fl elency occurred occur the public would critic lie the council ond and he thought it raould have been fixed at a higher rate le IA grand young sauntered in fit just before tho the onal final vote was taken upon the ordinance and after that matter was wao of Oble arm inquired of f the city attorney if it was vas for the assistant city attorney W G I 1 van horn to anil and bo be reappoint to ed in order to receive the additional I 1 I 1 salary recently voted to him by the council p I 1 the city attorney thought such it K procedure urine esary and ie ic I c orand grand vu g dug k B J youn then I 1 toola P a hand in the discus blon on by Y 2 king the ole city attorney if i clr r N horn had returned I 1 ile he los lias the iho city attorney aney bored r B SV lie Is in the country then mr 1 T munif then queried ile he go a wits the answer well said mr young with a sigh ai I 1 of if relief 11 would like to see the color of that thai gent lemans hair just once there bel being n no I 1 further abr business to lie be d so ij of I 1 the council then adjourned d |
