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Show 1 SEVEN MILLS FOR SCHOOLS. School oards will In required to sit up and take notice of this statement which comes oul of Salt Lake ( it : Inquiries have been made from Davis and Carbon counties coun-ties of the attorney general's office as tn the maximum tax levy thai ma; lie assessed against propertv in a district for K'-hno purpos. s and the reply sent out bj D M. Draper, assistan; attorney general, is- that under the decision of the supreme court of 1 tab. 7 mills is the present limit. This goes back to the law passed n lr,ll when .j'-j mills for the support and maintenance of schools and an extra null and one. half for the rhirchase of school sues ami the erection of buildings was permitted! There has bCC!) a contention that the boards ,,f education could Ipvv much higher rates than 7 nulls bul this announcement from the issistant attorney general nrill be notice to the county commissioners, commission-ers, who finally pass mi tax levies, that 7 mills cannot be exceeded in ijchoool districts. |