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Show I WILL SAVE MONEY. Attorney Holds School Board Not Liable for Tax. . OGDEX. Aug. 19. In tho matter of tho liability of tho Ogdcn Board of Education to pay tho special curbing and guttering taxes on Improvements authorized by the City Council, Coun-cil, the board's nltorncy. C C. nichards, today to-day rodered a preliminary opinion to ClorJ: E. S. Rolapp of tho board. In which h stated thnt the pivmcnt of such tax by tho board Is forbidden by law and that tho'Stato Constitution Consti-tution and tho statutes both expressly prohibit pro-hibit such payment. A moro exhaustive opinion will later bo prepared pre-pared and submitted by Mr. Klchants, In which" he will quoto tho statutes and tho authorities'. au-thorities'. The Incident, which nrises out of tho alleged dlttcourtosy of City Treasurer Halvorfon, 1b likely to savo tha school board some money. Hereafter curbing, guttering and sidewalk lm- provements in front of property owned by tho Board of Education uro likely to be made at the expenso of the city, ns the'lrtw appears to " clearly prohibit tho board from paying .ouch, nnd public policy would not permit suclr sections sec-tions being deprived ri tho Improvements Given the other parts of any given block. |