Show of A few days ago urged that the territorial board of equalization cut iowa down assessments saying sayin that it was the only authorized body to make such reduction now come come BE BENSETT inett TT bladl y and county attorney auspin with legal 1 opinions on the question the firm in answer to the territorial board of equalization and the county attorney in answer to the salt sal lake county court which both desired to al act within tb the a law these opinions in in substance say that a county board of equalize aaion can make no horizontal reductions of al assessments sess ments it can equalize between individuals or districts and raise or reduce as the case may seem to warrant buethe but the beard cannot say as did tho the board of equalization of weber county Ti times ara hard bard this year and therefore we reduce the assessment assess meat of the county twenty five per cent if such could be done there would be no equality between counties for the payment of territorial taxes the territorial board of equalization was created mainly to see BOO that the taxes of be several counties harmonize as to valuation county courts of course set the county tax rate and they have the power to raise and lower it the same as city councils have the right to raise and lower th the city rate |