Show COUNTY TAX LEVY REDUCED this years assessment totals mills As against last year at the meeting 0 of the board of county commissioners of 0 box elder county held in this city yesterday a resolution was waa passed fixing the rate ol of county taxes and the number ot of mills ills on each dollar ot of valuation of 0 the property tor for the year 1826 1926 as follows for generall general county purposes 16 mills for care maintenance and relief ol of indigent sick and otherwise dependent poor 2 mills tor for the partial support ot of mothers who are dependent upon their own efforts for maintenance of their children 2 mills for or providing ot of sinking tend tor for payment ot of county road bonds and tor for the payment 0 of interest thereon 5 mills tor for the construction and maintenance of state roads in box el elder der county 3 mills for the construction and maintenance of county roads in box elder county 2 mills tor for the purpose ot of supplying the needs and requirements quire ments ot of the board of education educato on 7 mills tor for state and state school and state high school purposes pue poses 74 mills making a total 0 of mills as against mills last year the total assessed valuation in box elder county this year ie 18 H S keer assistant chief engineer for the state road commission ot of utah and K C wright district engineer ft ere present and reported the status 0 of the proposed federal aid project no from tremonton Tre monton to the idaho line via snowville Snow ville communications were presented to support the verbal report that the project in question ihas the approval ot of the state road commission and the federal bureau of public roads and that rather definite assurance has been given that with the county participating with the state road commission and the bureau ot of public roads the first section of the proposed highway can be constructed ted next year upon motion duly seconded and carried unanimously in view of th the assurance of at the highway officials of the outlook tor for early construction the requisition of the state road commission for to complete the survey plans and estimates for or the first section ot of the highway was war honored and the amount directed to be forwarded to the state dr L D mahannah was present and discussed terms under which he Is willing to sell his hospital premises to the county tor for county jail purposes matter taken under advisement reports of county clerk recorder and sherlo sheriff of fees collected during month ol of july were submitted and approved upon motion duly seconded and car vied ried unanimously an ordinance entitled an ordinance fixing the salaries of county officials for the ensuing two years was placed upon its third and last reading and was passed fixing the salaries for the ensuing two years as follows members of 0 board of of county commissioners each county clerk county sheriff county attorney county recorder county treasurer county assessor county surveyor county physician upon motion duly seconded and carried unanimously an appropriation at 0 1000 ba 00 was made mada to the box elder county peach day committee and an appi of was made to the box elder county fair association miscellaneous business considered and disposed of |