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Show I ABOUT THE WATER TAX. H The question of the collection of H the tax for irrigation water in the H city is engaging the attention of the H city officers at present. Heretofore H under the provisions of the old or H dinances, the water tax has been collected, or collected at, in the fall I of the year, but the new law makes I it payable the first day of May, and H delinquent the first day of June; H and it is made the duty of the water H master to turn the water oft the H premises of all persons whose taxes H have not been paid on that date. H,, liefore the water is to be turned H on again all deliquent taxes must be H paid and fifty cents additional for H expenses It is also made a misde H meanor for any person to turn the H water on his premises after it has H been turned off by tne watermaster J... oil account of non-payment of water M tax, without permission from that M . V official; and a fine in any sum mNlcss than $25 is the penalty & - affixed. We learn from the water. B r j. JPjraiaster that a large proportion of M $F the tax assessed has not been paid, H and that he finds himself under the H unpleasant necessity of turning the M water off a large number of the H property owjuylhcre is a great H deal of talk JHIlegality of H this methodHHLthe ivater J tx, nniM0B(ts about BBfes?'! in'SL Wtc charier 'the ptx.'d - J tne offi H cers enfoI'tSi lSwV they will find V themselves on the right side of the H question and will not be so likely to H be sued as if they collect taxes from H the law abiding portion of the com- munity and allow themselves to be H scared out of the collection of the H rest. It is a fact that a considerable H number of the water users in this H city have evaded the payment of H water tax in years that arc past, and H people are getting tired of such pro- H ceedings. The city council have the H assuraifcc of the city attorney that H the law is good, and his opinion is H worth more on a proposition of law H than the views of the people who H oppose the officers of the city in the H discharge of their duties, to avoid H the payment of a just proportion of 1 the expense of supplying the irriga- M tion water. |