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Show JUST HISTORY J 1' r Albert F. Philip J This plant wa to furnish lijrht and power to the Agricultural college of Utah and the state experiment elation, the Utah He hoot ror tne Deaf and Blind, tha state Industrial Indus-trial school and the Utah state prison, the preparation of plan for the plant and the awarding of the contract for construction and Installation In-stallation of the plant wa delegated dele-gated to the trustees of the Agricultural Agri-cultural college. Change had4 been suggested In the binnial report of the secretary of atat in the banking laws of the state, and Governor IS pry recommended recom-mended that a measure containing the changes be enacted Into law. which was done. The bill contained con-tained . forty-five sections embodied embo-died all the suggestions and recommendations recom-mendations of the governor and secretary and made the secretary of state ex -officio bank examiner. An Important measure which we.s paaaed by thia session of the legislature leg-islature was one which authorized the state board of land commissioners commis-sioners to boro artesian wells on atata or private lands, but not more than two veil lit one county, coun-ty, for Irrigation purposes In dm-tricts dm-tricts where tha lan4 waa adapted to dry farming. On private lands where the well were drilled, the bill provided that the owner was required to transfer' to the state title to at least one acre of land upon which the necessary machinery ma-chinery be located which wa used In the drilling of the well; the. land commissioner were also empowered em-powered to lea the wells to a responsible bidder who would contract con-tract to furnish water et the mini- mum price) during a period of five l years. MORE APPROPRIATIONS. The eighth legislature made an appropriation for the construction of a stste capitol and the ninth legislatur made an additional ap-propnaiioa ap-propnaiioa of f7e0,0v0 and au- Mora equitable assessment against the railroad formed the feature of the message of Governor Gover-nor William Hpry to the ninth legislature, and of coureo this Included In-cluded alt matter pertaining to the assessment of property. The executive pointed out the Inequalities Inequal-ities In the matter of the greater corporations by showing that In Boxelder county, where there were no double tracks, no valuable er- , mine! facllitlee or privileges, the assessment agulnst the railroad vindicative spirit animated them to destruction. Ths mummies were dragged out Into the air. the handsets tctn open. Ths mummies were kicked about, and a bonfire made of the most Of whst were undoubtedly the meet ancient rename eve. lound oa thia comment, Geoffrey Chaucer Writer Of Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer (tli-14e wrote the poena called ths "Canterbury "Can-terbury Talea." It consists of II i tales purporting to have beea told I by eqtiemrian pll grime Kng from ! Tabard Inn. Southwark. fi g pi). 1 arimage to the shrine of Thomas a Becket at 'antebury. The party. ; composed of 'pilgrims, sgreed to tell one tat each, both on going an 4 returning, with the untt'niirdinf that the person that should tell the ; beet als ehould be treated by the rest to a supper at the Tabard Ina, j oa their return Journey. Out of a possible fiftv-eight, only elchteea tales were told, and rtet one en ths Homeward route. The t'nnterb'iry Talea were wrlMen about 13 and vers flrat printed by 'caaioa about lit. property waa more than eight and one-half million dollars, to be exact. ex-act. fS.MS.ais, while in Salt Lake county the assessment waa ft,07.-76, ft,07.-76, and In Weber county u was but $4 114 100. These Inequalities h believed ehould be remedied and he ao pointed out in his message sad recommended legislation to that end. In view of this the legislature enacted a law that provided for a tax commission; that is, the governor gov-ernor was authorised to appoint a commission on revenue and taxation taxa-tion who were directed to make a careful and com p lets examination and investigation of the system of revenue and taxation In forro In the etate, to make a compilation of all laws bearing on the subject of taxation in fore ltr Utah; to con-aider con-aider carefully and thoroughly the taxation and revenue laws of the several state in the union and avail themselve of all Information afforded hy the tax commliiioei of other states; to embody the results of their Investigation In a report to the tenth session of the legislature legisla-ture of Utah and to prepare a bill covering the whole subject of revenue rev-enue and taxation, the bill to be In complete form for presentation to the tenth legislature. AID FOR LOGAN PLANT. That the bills for electric lifht and power for t)e several state institutions, in-stitutions, and which now furnishes fur-nishes the light and power for the e'ate capitol. b'e reduced' to. the minimum, the legislature mad an appropriation of $4).eo for the construction of a plant In Loann canyon. Dear the city of Lofan, thorlzed the Issue by the state of bonds to the amount of one million dollars. The battleship Utah wad then under construction at the shipyards in Philadelphia and tn that when isj the bisT warship was completed a silver service be presented tha ship . by the people of Utah, the ninth legislature appropriated the sum of lie. 009 or so much aa might ne neceeeary, to purchase the silver set."- The-e was a proviso that the money waa not to he paid until the governor authorised the stste auditor au-ditor In. writing to draw a warrant r i for thai same. On completion of e j the vessej the eervice wa pre- , |