Show MR HARDY EXPLAINS my attention having been called to an n article published ju in the verald herald of the 11 th dinst under the fla i ing headlined of careless officiate officials why taxpayers receive no notice wrong addresses eto etc in reply to the aforesaid article permit me to say so far as the insinuation regarding the work done in this office is concerned concer nod that the person who penned the article referred to has dimply lied the taxpayers have had all the notices the law requires and about maven thousand persons have had one notice extra as I 1 had sent out about that number between the lot lit of september and the of said eald month as the lost last named date was the one on which the territorial board gave notice to the county court that the valuation of all real estate would be advanced ten per cent that upon the issuing of said order the following notice was stamped you are further farther notified that in pursuance of an order of the territorial board of equalization equalization made september laib 1892 the t e valuation of the above aboa 0 land exclusive of improvements and the amount each of the above taxes thereon are increased by the amount of 10 per cent thereof as above stated L Q G collector this appeared upon the face of the regular notice and was either delivered or mailed as ai the law requires M to the address furnished on the tax roll by the assessor the law requires the assessor to fur nish a blank to each taxpayer to fill out giving his big name and address and a full fall description of bb or her property erty and return the same to his office within go 20 jaysane day Jay sand any person who fails falls to make such each return shall be seemed assessed arbitura rily and said taxpayer can have no appeal from said as t the law was not complied with to any great extent therefore the people have no one to blame but themselves Further if the tho person who is logo so anxious to benefit the public by making charges barges that he cannot sustain and tell the truth will look over the list of delinquents he will notice the word bal opposite many of the names that bat means that the persona whose name appears has been in this office and paid the regular tax and refused to pay the tax added by the board thus making him or her the judge of the legality of the tax and when we erase the names of such persons from the list and those who have bought lots in the additions to salt lake of which we have about many ot of which are what is termed wildcat additions P 1 you will find that there are not a great many of the residents of this county who are advertised advert sed respectfully L 0 collector |