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Show ' JUDGE ZANEJXPLAINS, ' Ba SIifatlr Hlsondsrstood City Attorney Attor-ney Hall Ytsttrdij IX Till: ITATI'IIMIIN TAX CAM:, Atnl Tain tin llaillrtt Ojipnrliinltjr of Jlallog lilt Vlrm lltar. Juit prior In the commencement of the ordinary Imi, Incut In thu Third Dlttrlit Court thlt inornlng, Judge I Ztne ttld: With rifi-cl lo thu flndliiKi In Hie i late of Adam Duncan aud other I agalmt li It. Chile, ntteuor of Halt l,aku Cily, t am fearful that I wa I niltundentonil In my remirk tetter iny morning when llio rliidlugaln Ihlt Utiweru p raicnted. What I meant ire my In Hut uini wai tliatthuevl demo lliowel thai pievloll bl lhbO Ihe enllre cotl nf aiitlng down watrr PiMvi Inatntta waaiiald hv a common I tax uiDiilbe protily In the enllre . city, and that a ihango wu then made Iby which the clly wa laid on" Into water dlatrlclt, ami Ihe coat of pulling down the water pl-a lo tho extent thatthe walerwota benefit Uunthe piota-rty abbultlnjor within the range ofthuhenollbi wat pild by a eclat ametiinunt on the proieriy, to tho extent of Ihrro-fouithi. In till caao I held that the City Council had the authority lo make Ihe change from tho old tjtteni to the new, but after Ihe change wat maje that they , tmiitalhiTO to the new method; that I after that they could list atteta thn-e-fjiiilht of the coal uiwu the provtty liolder lamellteil thereby In ouo llalrlct. and y the cott forilllng down tho lit In another dlttrlct out ol the general fu nil that thai would U unjutt and unniual. It dor not mil ler whither It It a main or othcrwlte. If It It neco-Mry to extend the main pl doau Stale aire t, or down Main rtreit, and the proily un cither aide la belirntvd, the owneil ought to bo oomprllnl lo y to the extent that thu proicity I Uiiieflted; U-cauio they hapu lo havo properly UKn a main they ihoiild nut et caie all tho rxietjte of putting down that plHi and reiiilro tliow Mr Ing farther down to pay the cott nf pulling the pipe Jnwn on their part, ami then levy a lax on thoe eomo per. eont who ld, to pay for tutting down the pipe farther up on the main. Of courte If pulling down a main through a atrwt dm-a not benefit the properly the benefit" could not lw attested, be cnu.e there would bo no bene lilt to ween.; but bi thu extent that llio pror-erty pror-erty la benefited, either by permitting irtont to take water Irulu the I'll, or by " Itro pluga from which water can be taken bi extlngultli a fire to the extent ot the lielteflt llotlght to be ataetred oil thu property within the ilhlrlct. Tho court dl.t not mean to hold that the Clly Council had not Ihe ilghitomiku the change from the nld to the new ayittm, tint having undo Itthoy mutt adhere tn the new- ayalem. I under. Hood that the iivldmcit in that ta.e ehowttl that they had dono that under the old tyttem, rlor lo IbSi; that Ihe ixi-cutolia! u-eu laid out of the general gen-eral fund, and aitir that the money had U'l-li collected by tjtclal a-tet. mend. I make thlt explanation In nrdir that there may be no mltUke aliout It. Mr. Ilrown-Yoiir honor hold that they ra limit hold but one yteui at the tame tlm? JudgoZani YiaJ and I don't think Itwculd be projier for them to change bark from one to another. I am nf the opinion Ihal the new tyttem la tholutt one, Wciuto the cott of the Improve, merit It laid by the laireone who have nt-vlviiil a apodal Uueflt over and above the other urtlona of tho clly, nnd I think the change wa a proper one, I did not with I houhderitond nt condemning tho diauge at all. They mint a there to one tytleui or the other, they cannot follow both at tlii-tamo tlii-tamo time. |