Utah Enquirer | 1888-08-03 | Page 3 | County Court

county court the county court mot in special cession today to day the committee appointed to appear before the territorial board of equalize tion of taxes to resist the increase proposed by that body made their report which is as follows your special committee appointed on july to appear before the territorial board of equalization of taxes to resist the increase of the assessment of utah county as proposed in the notice of said board of your honorable body dated july report as follows we secured the affidavits of the merchants of the county as to the actual cash value of the merchandise carried by them on the day of assessment for the year 1888 also affidavits of responsible and well informed residents of the precincts of provo springville Spring ville spanish fork SaIera Payson benjamin lake shore santaquin San lebi american fork and pleasant grove as to the cash value of real estate in each of said precincts and compared said values with the assessment roll and found the average per of the assessment on merchandise to be 51 cents on the dollar and the average per of asses ment on real estate to be cents on the dollar on thurida Thurs da july your committee appeared before said board of equalization and submitted said affidavits to said board and asked them to consider the same as evidence and with all the information your committee could and did get from all accessible sources we were of the opinion that the proposed increase should not be made and we BO represented to said lioard on said date respectfully AMOS D HOLDAWAY SAMUEL K A 0 SMOOT JK W H