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Show Stliool Tax Snit. Yesterday we state-1 Uiat an application appli-cation had been made to and granted I'j Judge Zane, for an alternaUve nrit of manJate nsjulrln? Ij. G. Hardy, collector, to turn over to the treasurer of Uiu schaol board, the district taxes collected by Iilm. Following Fol-lowing Is the aftUavlt cf Mayor Scolt which accompinle-i the aj pli-callonl pli-callonl '1'itulli!4 Bald boant'ef oJucaUon was duly electeJ on the second 5ton-ttay 5ton-ttay of July, ISM, pursuant to lw,and as such are cliarged with all the duties and Invested with all the powers prescribed bv law and are In charge and control if the s-hoobrin said city; that the mid plahmtT, Joseph B. 1-dn, 1-dn, U the treasurer of the said city of Salt Ike and treason: r of the sld board of education; that the defendant U O. Hardy, Is Uie duly elected, nullified and acting collector of Uxea in the said connlj of ialt lake; that prior to the first day of July, rW. iliere existed In the eald city of Salt Lake, In pucnanceof law, twenty-two twenty-two school districts, In each of which districts Uish; s a board of taree 4 rosoes; that Uie ld cily of Salt Lake Is a city of the flrstfclass and that In nnrsnance of tho provisions of the act of the legislature of said Territory, approved ap-proved March IJ, 1KW. enttUed -An act to provide for a uniform system of free schools ihrough-oat ihrough-oat Uuh Territory," the members of the said board ol education wercl loly Wwt'M l tho tlmeafore-iid, tlmeafore-iid, ! fterard, rrlor to the MO; dsr of July, iyl,qiuliIlelaoden ed upon their duties us jrembers ofsjld board, that prior to tho eaactmentVif said law, the trnstees of various of the said school districts Into which tho said cry was then divided,- levied Uxes, as they were lawfully authorized author-ized to do, for t V beacli. and support of the schools of tho r respective districts, dis-tricts, that the aggregsto of taxes so levied In tho Fourteenth dWrict, being be-ing one of the districts then existing in said city, amounts to tho sum of il0,0OJ.or thereabouts; that tho taxes lolflsieJlnthelitovujth district, being be-ing one ot the district into which Uie said city was then divided, amounts tn the aggregate to abont the sum of f ICLOOa; and the smoiiut so levied in various otbf of the said districts, emonnt to large sums respectively, bu; tho particular ausoont is not now known to said affiant, and therefore bo cannot scale uneciflealty; that all of the said Uxes became doeanlpay-nbleaoroTlliujtolaw doeanlpay-nbleaoroTlliujtolaw on tbeflmday of September, 1SD0, and all such taxes remaining unpaid on the Blsrdayof October. !), snll be delinqaent; that mU defendant, as collector of the taxes In said connty, Is charged with the duty ot collecting all the tld district dis-trict school taxes, and that as such collector he has, as aOlant la informed and bllercn, at this time collected and baa in his jMssession a largo amount of money, being portions Of said taxes so levied and so assessed In the said respective school districts Into which the said cily was to, as aforesaid, afore-said, dlvl Jed. Afflant further says that the said plaintiffs are entitled to receive all said sums ot money, as successors to the said several boards of truitecs heretofore existing, and to use and apply the samo for the bnIU of the schools In said cilyt that Uie defendant neglects and refuses to pay over the SAld taxes as masessor and collected by him as aforesaid, or any portion thereof; there-of; that the reason that ha omit and refuses to pay ovec the said moneys mo-neys is, a iffiint ta Informed and be-Imvcs be-Imvcs and alleges the truth to be, Uiat he is In doubt as to the eCect of said act of the legislature, approved the Uth day ot March ISM, as aforesaid and Is uncertain and la doubt, as bo claims and alleges, as to whether or nothe Is by law authorized to pay the said moneys, or any portion thereof, over to the said board or to the said Jos. B. Walden as treasurer. Wherefore affiant prays that a writ of mandamus may Issue directing and commanding the said defendant as aach collector to turn over and pay to the plalntliT. Joseph B. Walden, as treasurer of the said board of edooa-tlcoraU edooa-tlcoraU moneys so ffrl in any of th said districts incident within tho Itaits'ofra'd city and Into which- the-same the-same was directed piior to Uie enactment enact-ment of the said (aw of 1SIV, and to grant such farther relief in tho premises premi-ses as ntav be proper. UfcOmiz M.C3TT. |