| Show TAXATION By County Assessor During a lullin lull in m bU business and for want of something more Important to do and taxation being the fore fore- foremost foremost foremost most thou thought ht in my mind I d delve lv into the archives and closets at the COUI court t hou house e find some old records brush brushoff off the duet dut d du t t and cob cobwebs ebs re review titer Ie the antiques assemble a n few facts and my story tory begins But first t I turn to the good old Book and in tit the Gospel according t to St StLuke StLuke StLuke Luke chapter 2 verses 1 to 4 I find the most important write up upon upon upon on taxation that was ever written And it came to pass in m those tho e eI eda I da days s says Luke I that there went out a decree from Caezar Augustus that all the world shoud be taxed I and this taxing its s first ma man mad n when C was governor go of f S Syria And all went to be taxed I f ei fery cry ery one in m his own city and Joseph and Mary also went up from Galileo Galilee out of the City of Nazareth into to be be- taxed When Salt Lake City was as in m Its It's and tIle the Indian Jealously his inherent rights some of the sturdy pioneers ventured north and settled DavIS Da vis county and among other things done set setup setup setup up a county count seat of government The following e extracts tract ne ue taken talen fro nithe minutes of a meeting of the Select Men March Tel Tei m of the County Court January 30 1854 Hon Joseph Holbrook Judge Presided of the Select Men Sam Sam- Samuel Samuel uel ParrIsh Daniel Damel Carter md and Allen Taylor Lot Smith sheriff Ordered by the court that th the count county cleri cierI be allowed Cd one hun dl ed dollars for his cen ser services ices for forthe forthe forthe the l fic f cil year ending on the day dav of March and that he shall be beallo allo allowed cd to draw on the county treasury Lot foi that amount 01 Ordered dered that the county tax shill be bei beof Vs i of one per cent on all prop property property erty assessed d and that thit Vs fit of that shill be applied on tie the public roads That Hector C Haight ht is hereby asses assessor lor and collector ot of Da Davis DaIS IS county for the pi present year yeal That the assessor and collector shall be allo allowed ed even per cert for forI assessing and collecting the county I I and ta tax tai in Davis coun coun- county coun- coun county county ty for the present year I Court adjourned till first Monday to m June JAMES LEITHEAD I County clerk And then Eighty years later I take from the tire minutes 3 of the coun coun- county county II I ty cOl commissioners commissioners rs the following Minutes 1 of special meeting of the board of county commissioners I held Monday Aug 1934 1134 at 10 a m Present Commissioners E Eo o 0 Muir A B n Barton A 0 and Clerk CierI Quayle Cannon On motion mohon duly seconded the fol- fol following fol following lowing levy was as made for the year 1 1934 34 an the levies made by the cItIes titres and towns confirmed and the tes te's levy for state and state school purposes approved carried all i voting aye mills mIlle I State 2 30 State school 6 62 I State high school 20 School equalization fund 88 A Un h J District school 8 50 Indigent 1 00 Dependent mothers 66 63 State Stat road O 56 road 2 00 War nr Veterans l fund exhibitions etc OG 00 Old age pension 60 50 Total 25 2542 42 I Special on sheep and goats 5 00 Specia Ion range horses and cattle 2 00 osis cattle fund 3 00 Bountiful City 1100 11 00 Pat ton City 6 00 I Ka Ira ville CIty 8 10 11 Cc l Town n 7 00 to Ln ton Town 4 50 I To n GOOI GOO GOC I t h Whit hit i l w what at a st story y it t in m an phases could be traced down own through the ages from Caezar I Augustus to the pr present ent time But I I 1 WOl I Y about things past when ire e ha have hate e the present to contend wIth and the future knocking nt at atour atour our doors Next ext week eek I shat take up In my tory story the Tax Dollar as ns it effects Davis county where it comes from Is IJ Taxation a Burden Is our Tax System Wrong and then the dis- dis distribution distribution dis distribution |
