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Show Some one has raised objections to paving the street gprinkliug tax which ia being levied under special assessment, assess-ment, on the ground that such assessment assess-ment is not legal. The city charter gives the council power to "provide for the lighting, sprinkling and cleaning clean-ing of the streets." If the council cannot can-not levy a special assessment, under thU provision, for the payment of the sprinkling of any certain district, then it becomes questionable whether it can obtain funds from any other source for this purpose. The sprinkling does uot extend to every stroet iu this city, and therefore it would not be just to pay for itj by a general tax or wilh money from the general fund. Can there bo anything moro just or equitable than that the people living and doing business busi-ness in; the districts sprinkled should pay for it, and how can this be done except by special assessment? If tiny controversy arises on this point, we predict that the council will be found lo be right in iU present method of paying for tne street sprinkling. . |