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Show GRANITE SCHOOL TAX WILL BE INCREASED School tax In the Granite district will he Increased from 4.2 mills, as fixed by the county commissioners, to 7.2 mills, needed to finance the district for the comincr year, according to a decision made yesterday by the supreme court. The board of education of the Granite district applied for an alternative writ of mandate against the county commissioners commission-ers to force the increased tax rate, and, after argument, the supreme conn decreed de-creed that the writ should issue. The suit was a friendly one to test the law on the matter of school taxation. |