| Show QUESTIONS ON SCHOOL TAXES WE WB have been requested by different persons to answer the following questions in regard agard to school taxes we grup group them from various sources for convenience in reply does the proviso in the school law allowing the trustees to assess a tax of one fourth of one per cent apply joany to any district other than the one having a graded school and a population of twelve hundred it yes the intention of the legislature was to restore the old provision which gave a little working capital capital to school trustees independent of 0 a vote and without the difficulties attending the calling of a spec ll meeting and the determining of a tax it applies to the trustees of every school district in the fhe territory I 1 are the trustees authorized to pay out of said tax an aa assessor and collector or themselves for their services as trustees trustee sV yes as to the assessor and collector to the trustees the power to appoint the assessor and prescribe ribe his bis qualifications is given to the trustees and it is usual for them to pay him for his services the amount being reported at the annual meeting with other financial accounts but the compensation of tra trustees stee s is to be determined by the ing r registered ste re d v voters kersat at the annual meeting if t the he tr trustees appoint one of I 1 heir own number to asses and collect the tax he may be paid out gut of it for his work as assessor and collector but not as a trustee cana can a person having taxable property resident of a school Al district but bat having paid no ho taxes said bald property being assessed and taxes paid in the fathers name vote ata at a special school meeting to rise a tax TT no but if he has property in his bis own name and right subject to be taxed for school purposes lie he can vote on the tax ta to be assessed upon it can a wife owning taxable property said property being assessed to the husband in connection with his own tae the wife claiming she pays her share of said taxes to her husband vote at a 4 special school meeting no she cannot vote upon the tax unless she has aas property in her own right and name subject to be assessed for school purposes can a person just moved into a school district to make his home having taxable property but who has never paid any taxes anywhere vote at a school meeting to raise taxes I 1 yes if he has property liable to te the tax to be voted upon at the meeting the courts haye ruled rated that a person who has taxable property Is a taxpayer within the meaning of the law and the intention of the legislature it is evident was to hive give all persons residing in a school district who are liable to be taxed for school purposes a voice and vote in iii the determine det ermint of the rate per cent to be paid this hf I 1 is just and fair and for the proper protection of property owners |
