Daily Tombstone epitaph., 1886-04-24
THE TAXPAYERS.
They Meet and Transact Some
 Important Business.
The Tax Collector te be EsiOtned from
 Collecting the school Tax.

eOtttctthk tne StnO"t sAA. The taxpayers meet at s p. m, minute: of last meeting were read and approved The report oI tine committee to examine into excessive school tax levy was read as follows:
 To the officers and members of the Tax
 payers organization:
 Your committee respectfully report that they called upon the sceool trns:ee: and found that the assessment roll had been properly turned over to them b, l the assessor.
 Ina, A tax of 1i of one per cen, had been iev,ed by the board for school pur. poses and expenses of assessing, col lecting, etc.
 That School Tax Collector and Asses sor Behzn filed bond in the sum oi S5,ooo with the board, April and, 1886, with Geo. c. Berry and Sol Israel as sureties.
 That the assessment roll as turned over by Assessor Behan, amounted to S6oi,oo
 That after deducling $ per cent as required by law tor anticipated delin- quenc,es, there remains balance of SsS7,35o upon which to estimate the rate.
 That the estimated costs of assessing, collecting, blanks, printing, printing de- linquent tax roll, etc., as estimated by the school trustees, was from $4oo to $500.
 That AZ mills on the $s87,35o would have, if collected, realized the amount of S2 2,642, from which it would seem that there had been levy of little over # mill or socts per $loo in excess of the amount required to be raised.
 The trustees justified their action on the ground "tha, in view of the fact tha. the rccounts accruing and to accrue dur ing the present school term, will reach the amount of S2,ooo, and considering the low salaries tha, the teachers re-. ceived, believe they acted wisely in levy. ing the seeming excess of one half mill, providing as it does against any possible loss to the teachers in having to discount their warrants because Of a possible lack of funds to pay them"
 Your committee also waited upon Collector ]. H. Behan as 10 the difference in the amount of his tax roll and the amount given to this committee at last meeting of this organization. Mr. Behan assured us that he had carefully copied the last duplicate assessment roll so far as it affected the property of this school district, and suggested as solution of the great difference, that possibly the figures given us embrace all tke property of the Contention, Grand Central, Boston M. & NJ. Co.,, Tombstone M. & N. Co.,, Head Center mines and mill, HuaChuca Water Co. and others in the county without regard to the location of the prop erty, and that the difference between the total amounts of the assessments of these corporations in the county and this school district is nearly ssoo,ooo.
 County Treasurer A. J. Ritter stated that the levy for the year 1885 was 3oct. upon the SIoo for this district, and that the levy amounted to S7,63o. 76, of which sum Sa,4Ss.so was collected, leaving a delinquency of only about 5 per cent This would bring the taxable property O this district up to SS76,973.2z in rouni numbers, and the treasurer states that only property actually situated in thi' school district was subjected to this levy These are all the facts that your com mittee were able to obtain, and would respectfully submit the above statemen, to your honorable body for consider ation.
 A. T. JONES,
 H. A. TWEED,