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Show we get the paving completed and pay for it in ten years. But, 0'' ing the advance payment, the specU-notice specU-notice reads: "Interest at 6 per cent on th? sum unpaid shall be due and paya' each installment, provided that if ! stailment and interest is not pid date same becomes due, tfi amount of the unpaid principal crii'jd interest shall become due an'J able and shall thereafter draw in: at S per cent per annum until t of the properly assessed, or un.; ; linquent installments and Interest per cent on the unpaid principal-next principal-next Installment date are paid." in other words, when we come ' the second installment, July 2-must 2-must pay interest on th HCO pnd ': stallments for ono year becauso ' not pay them in 1919, and, when to pay the third installment, Jsil)';1,. we must pay one year's Interest o'-cause o'-cause we did not pay it in i?l9 (:" City Treasurer R. X. Voun? ' that this is the construction of ciai lighting law as printed in th1 :;! laws of 19J.1, chapter !'5. page ,. We submit that, if we are goii:r non-resident property owners in y just way, it - ill be very dis"fic'r-. ; terest outside investors in Salt Improperly, Im-properly, it Ih certainly a rank tfc to both residents and non-resioei--when the wholo west Is trying w (1 people to invest in property not pass laws which will result l '- them from investing In our city- r As aiTents for Henry PhipJ. not dare to pay the street l'11.' mentioned above without a pvok-we pvok-we trust that before the J 920 mf -' shall have become due the city I"; may K, (tome construction of tn ; enable him to drop the interi provided for in ins notice. . think the law would stand a tew -and trust it will not need 10 come -stao. In brief, under this construction law, I hey charge us interest u years on something before it is by us. Vorv truly youre. r, 1TTTUS- Kit OTHERS COM' Salt Ijake, Autf. 2. ! I Communication I 4 . . j Kdltor Tribune: "We would like to call ! your attention to a system of taxing that i is surely detrimental to the interests of I Salt Lake City and cnnniy and the Slate : of t'tah. I refer particular! v to the tax : for street lUiilin in Salt Lake City. 1 For nearly twont y years we have rep-j rep-j resented the tnl rests of Henry Phipps j of New York City and Pit ts'our', who I lias invert ed so mot bins: like 1 ."uO.uOO i iu Salt Lake City real estate. We are j v.ow in receipt of the special tax notice ' for s! reet HchtinGr purposes in front of j one of his properties on West First South i street. This, we understand, in for a ! t hrec-yea r period and becomes effective I July , 1!I9, so that the first Installment is payable July U, 0 1 y ; the second installment, in-stallment, July 2, 102itt and the third installment, in-stallment, July I'.t21. This, we understand under-stand is for ;jrh!iii for the fiscal years of 1013. 1320 and IDl'l, commencing' July ''nd each year. In other wonls. we PAY T" APVANTH for Ik'i-Uim;. with the first installment, '.'or the year couunenoiiii; July 2, 1!' 1 '.1, and ending July L i:Cu. Isn't It rather unusual to pay In ad-vunce ad-vunce for libtint or taxes of anv kind? WhMii a setter Is put in we Ket tho sewer completed ;tnd then pay for it in five y(.sia. When street paving Ih laid |