Show THE REVENUE LAW lire assessor Prcsf nllngSome Slab born Facts to be ConsIdered In the gait Ile Cbillily Codrt bn Saturday a communication was presented by Assessor J W Fox Jrj > resenting several questions In connection with the new revenue law made by tho late Legislature The filing of this document brings up other circumstances connected with thequ tlonotues and partlcularlyrelatlngtoassessors who throughout the theTerritory aro aroused and are up In arms as it were against the law which they assert Is an outrage not only upon those who hold the positions of assessor but upon property owners There were some amendments Ute old law which wero considered nectwary by the assessors and a committee was appblnted to bring I these matters 1 to the attention of the 0 u o UOIlt and amendments Were drafted toJ corer Uio points referred to These amendments were set aside by the legislature and a revenue bill was paved and appeared In the EVEJJIJO NEWS March 2 Now come tile committee of assessors with a document which Is necessary in order to relieve them of any re SponsibiHty for the features of the new law Here is SALT LAKH Cm March 33th 1590 To the Auutort of Utah ferrtlor tienllemcn Your committee ap pointed at Lisa meeting of the assessors as-sessors held last December to draft certain needed measures to be In I sertwlln this Revenue Bill and present pre-sent to tho Legislature for its ap proval beg to report Uiat > re complied com-plied with your request but the Legislature did not adopt our sug gestions yet enacted amendments to tho law which do not contain any marks of those wo framed and We believe the Revenue Law as It now stands will work a hardship upon the stabIle fcr whIch we are In no way r responslble JESSE W Fox Jr Awefsor SnIt Lake Counly Wji H BROWN Asstwior Utah County H F McCuvr Atsefecr Juab County Committee Some of the features comiilalinJ f rht tu1 w F t of areset forth In Mr Pox letter to the county court Others are named ty tIne assessors In commenting comment-ing on the law but for the present those in the letter of Mr Fox are sufficient lbs document reads SALT LAKE Cur March 5th 1SDO To the JfimcraUc County burl of Salt LateOuunly Gentlemen During the sessIon of the lost Legislature there was a revenue law passed and made law to take effect upon IU approval part which ivads as follow Sec 7 The eiseixor and his urtUcs shall bo liable on his official bond for all taxes on property with in or known to Uio asMKor to be as swslblo within the couuly which through his wilful failure or neglect is unassesej or whIch hu been by him wilfully assessetl 1 at Iou l than the cash value Sec 8 Tho prosecuting attorney of tho respective counties must after the OMessor completes the assessment as-sessment book for the year com mount an action on the assessor bond for ListS amount of taxes which II may coma to his knowledge have been lost from said wilful failure or i neglect to fltstn taxable property janJ from asmMng property at leIS than cash value Under this law fevlt Lake County will reach this year In valuation not less than sixty I million dollar dol-lar in Its Ivll1tcd coo llllnn This will give a revenue on the S mills tax as provided by the bEt law of our hu wired and eIghty Uiouiand dol aft which Is coiiiderablo more than twice tliereyenuo of last year rl CI t umler UjooUTS cf 12 mills Ux but this la not the went The new school law provides that i all taxes levied in December last by U llh I the trustees of tho several school districts am valid and mutt be ass as-s jU and collected as provided by law This will make revenue for the district schools of this county forlSSOof about one hundred and elgbtytwo thouEiuJ dollars or oct hundred and twentysix thousand dollar more than was collected fur JMrlct schools last year The total tax of tilts year 1 estimate to be about six hundred and sixtytwo thousand dollars or tliive hundred and cightyfxir thousand dollars more than the total of the tax Im 1 oeedou the people last year This 1S caused by the incre fc in valuation valua-tion of the property and being compelled com-pelled under the new law to plaor the values at n full cool alue in plnce of 50 per cent as of last year the trustees In levying their percent per-cent having based their estimates upon the valuation of 1SS9 will as you can readily t give to the distil t schools a greater revenue than anticipated and far more than there Ii any use for Under the present situation I am placed In as as c or of this county I ask your honorable body to define to me In writing your version of tile law as to a cash valuation of the properly proper-ly In this county Ii It what it will Inthejudgmentof the assessor jay a legal interest on1 Or is It for what it is bought at by pcylag1 down and the property mortgaged for the balance And am I rx pectej to assess Uieie security mortgages mort-gages at theirface The la w makes an elliott to explain this joint but dots not to my satisfactIon and In order that I and my bondsmen may receive re-ceive some protection from prose notion I ask written instructions at your hands to the valuations I nsa to be guided by and upon receiving re-ceiving tliejo instructions I am willing wil-ling to complete the assessment rolls for this year but under no other circumstances can I continue the work I herewith attach approximate I of special school taxes lor this year compared with last which amounts are not in excess lor the cases I have made my estimates on are al figures which will no more than Inure beard my bondsmen from nroftcutlon for the recovery of more funds for the government as provided pro-vided in thesidlons of law above quoted JESS W Fox Jr Asseesor Approximate estimate of district school revenue for 1S93 comiared with 1569 asecMed In several la sits trictK Second Ward received In 1S59 on J per cent levy S 09460 Second Ward will f receive iu 1S90 on J per cent levy about 3 5000 Third Ward rnelved In 1SS9 on i percentlcvy 53801 Third Wnrd will receive In 1690 on Ojer cent levy abouL JOOOOO Fourth Ward received In 1653 on i percent levy 5S772 Fourth Ward will receive In 159on t per cent levy abOuL 00000 Fifth Ward received i 1SS9 on Ii per cent levy a4916i Fifth Ward will receive In S93on i per cent levy about 23WOO Sixth Ward received In SixthISS9 ISIS on i per cent levy i5p54 Sixth W1rd will receive In 189 on i per cent levy abouL 2SOOOO Fourteenth Ward received in ISS9 on J per cent levy S05567 fourteenth Ward will receive re-ceive In 1593 on t percent per-cent levy about 3000000 Fifteenth Ward received in 1559 on i per cent levy 1781M Fifteenth Ward will rc celvc InlSM on li percent per-cent levy about 3390000 AndO on town the lift The whole mailer Is of raft im portancc and Interest to property boNers throughout Uie Jtrrtr |