Show SCHOOL TAX QUERY A correspondent in sevier county asks us to answer through this paper the following question in voting for a local school tax is it necessary to makeT the tax legal that a majority of votes cast are in favor of it OT or is what is in called a plurality sufficient to illustrate suppose twenty votes are coat cast eight for one per cent six for three quarter per cent and six for oue halfter half per cent is a legal tax assessed we are of the opinion that as twelve voters were virtually against the one per cent tax antl ani only eight in its favor there was no legal tax assessed a majority of votes not act being cast for either rate T the e a gewo I 1 law is not specific on this po pot lopit 0 t it may be inferred erred from parts 16 d 1 at tv INV referring to elections on ot other h er MR mailers ors that a ma majority arity vote to Is necessary to determine the rate the alie better way to vote on n the he tax as it appears to us would be to ballot separately op on each rate proposed A majority would then probably be obtained for one of the propositions proposition and sand tb that atwould would settle the difference satisfactorily there Is nothing in the school law about a plura plurality Aty of votes and viewing the statute in all its parts we believe that in the case presented there was no legal tax assessed |