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Show Transient Sheep on County Tax Roll Under the law pertaining In taxation taxa-tion in Utah, couptlee having an assessed valuation of I:'. 000.000. but not exceeding 12.100.000. max make a levy of 1H milla (or county general gen-eral purposes. Kane county, with a valuation as aaaeased in excees of U.OOO.OOO. made a levy of H mllla for county general purpoeee and eubmltted the levy to the state board of equalisation and assess-ment. assess-ment. The state board called Ita attention atten-tion to the erroneous aaaeasment and tha county officials replied, stating that the county had an aa-eeeeed aa-eeeeed valuation of 1740.000 In transient tran-sient sheep which remained in Kane county for longer than six montha In a year; The county -therefore claimed that one-halt of this amount be deducted from the totnl 'vsluation remaining, which would bring the levy below the I2.000.0o0. The matter haa been referred to the attorney general for an opinion. The town of Enterpriae advleed the state board mat It had corrected cor-rected Ita levy of two mllla for streets and sidewalks by atrlklng the levy out. leaving the levy at four mllla. Wellsville City also reported that It had corrected Ita levy by striking out a 2 ft -mill levy for general purpoeee. pur-poeee. Hiawatha town submitted a levy for which there la no law or provisions pro-visions of law aa follows: "Salaries "Sal-aries officere and police. S milla; sanitation, t mills; Improvements, t mills. The levy will be returned for correction. |