Show corporation improvements aa As la is well known the legislative assembly by an act art entitled an act in relation to territorial county and city taxes approved jan 1862 inhibited the levying assessing xa 0 or collecting of any tax for any purpose whatever beany by any county or corporate city excepting a certain poll tax therein named thereby tb cereby depriving not only the counties but the several cities throughout Territory the of means to make malce any public improvements further than might be done or effected by ondia funda derived from other sources which in most instances as far as counties have been concerned has not since the passage or 0 said act so far as our knowledg knowledge a e extends been sufficient clent for the purchase of the requisite books backs and stationery for making or keeping public records and the transaction of the bu business BInesa required of the county officers with tha the corporation and especially with some of them thew circumstances have been beca different differ ent tnt as they have not altogether boon resource legs lega the amount of revenue annually accruing to great salt lake city from various j sources since the passage of said act has I 1 been considerable enabling the city council to make some public improvements of 0 a vala yala 1 able nature and to contribute liberally to the repairing of roads and bridges washed away or damaged by the floods of 1862 beyond the limits of the corporation how bow much we cannot now p positively state but to the amount of beveral i deveral several tha th susand usand dollars of the acts of our fellow men however honorable liberal or commendable they may nay be in their several spheres either public or private ive are not perhaps as much inclined to speak approvingly as we ought 0 we lve have long been of the opinion that man owenj owe h much rauch to his fellow man and that the punctual aad and faithful performance of duties especially those of a public nature does not constitute the doer a public creditor to that extent that many seem to imagine although we firmly I 1 believe that ultimately every human being I 1 willbe rewarded accordia according to his works j I 1 ining euch such views elation relation to public ser servants of what ever class they may maybe be add and add and among whom we have hare been numb numbered ered erod by f af the ibb greatest part of our life serving most moat time without pec pecuniary arnary ardary reward or the hope thereof we seldom laud their doings and when favorable mention is made of any circumstance oe occurrence currence or act it is more in in refe reference rince rinee to the public weal well than the aub sub of or any other end j notwithstanding our ultra notions relative to such matters we would regret to do injustice to any human 0 being 0 friend or cr foe by withholding witti balding t a ajust just meed for menton mentor men tori torl ir ous acts done and performed or by giving credit chenor when or where etwas it was not due some men are more fond of laudatory notices than others and more susceptible of flattery flit tery and ire are not a f few ew who seem to take infinite pleasure in announcing their own doings and while others are exactly the reverse aluc aleong the latter we have class classed ed as a body 1 J I 1 yla nia officers of ol great salt lake doiy oi oly y whomever trumont their acts thich chich are re generally performed with so little ceremony that the public arb are ar not always advised ct what they are doing or have done till after the nt of the work acting up n that principle during the past year when thousands and tens tena of thousand of dollars have been expended on roads bridges and other public improvements within and outside the Corpo corporation ratin which has been donated or raised by subscription in the absence of any public revenue the city council have contributed liberally for the furtherance of those objects but have been so reticent in relation to it that but few outside of the council excepting thosa those under whose direction the means thus appropriated has been expended have hare known from froni what source the means was obtained such was the case in relation to a liberal appropriation towards making the road and embankments in the southwest south west part of the city to which reference 1 was made in last weeks issue from representations which had bad been made mate while those improvements were in pro progress ress we had bad been led to believe that the poll tax in the second road district had bad been made subservient to some considerable extent in making the road in question but bat it heemst seems beems that tha there was but asdall amount of labor libor l or means cleans derived from that source and that lam in addition to the appropriation made by the city council private individuals donated largely for tor the accomplishment of the work that a poll tax for road purposes which most yankees think very es essential to the I 1 making 0 and the keeping of public roads in repair as a general thing is a preat great humbug bumbuc we well know having tv witnessed its practical operations in many Ina ins instance tance aedita and i a debt could accrue for public services ser vices rendered large dues might b be e claimed by thoe who aided aidea ai dedor or were instrumental in expunging from the statutes of the territory orv in 1854 the law providing for the collection of 0 such taxes I 1 after which an imm was enjoyed by the beope for forthe the space of eight years the law was wag revived in a new form during the eleventh annual session but its enforcement for the purposes intended is most certainly rot cot practicable and it virtually amounts to ittle tittle or not bot nothing hing bing however in the instance referred to we had bad bees beem induced to believe belleve that by super superior to r management the tax had been turned to some account which if BO so would certainly have been one circum I 1 stance in its favor the point was arrone i ausy conceded under wrong impressions but be discovery of be the error has bas not lessened the th favorable opinion previously entertained ente rained te relative I 1 a ti ive lve to the qualifications of of f cunningham as an efficient emmit effit lent lenh officer notwithstanding our aversion to the law i we bellave that it should be honored and enforced to the letter BO so long lonz a as a it shall remain i on the statute books ana and all subject to its provIs provisions ions lons should comply with them readily on being required thereto by their respective I 1 supervisors in referring tottie public improvements in the lower wards which are truly creditable I 1 to the originators and makers one and all no 1 i injustice to the city officers ceris or other individuals was intended that thal any one thinks so 1 we ye are not aware but fearing that some in I 1 1 te rested parties might think that credit had 1 where it was not cot due on learning the facts in the case it was deemed proper to make the foregoing explanations which we trust will be satisfactory to all parties concerning the public improvements that have been leen andare and are being made by the city and tte mana management ement of aursby affairs by the officers odthe of the corporation we may have something to say at another and more convenient time t but with the exception of a few omissions of duty so far as now known bothin no nothing thin can in justice be said baid of a reprehensible character I 1 it is believed by some however that occasion i ally nuisances exist within the limits of the city without proper measures being taken for their removal or abatement which Is merely a matter of opinion |