Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-05-13

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Thu committee on sites ana build
lngs reported that the old adobe house
an the slA,h ward site could be sold to
NJ. Green for $3.50. Mr. Green will
move the same ut hls own expense,
and pay for It In ninety days. Adopted.
RoS RAILS.
The sane committee recommended
In the construction OF school build
inss to increase the size OF the footinss
10 foundation walls, and have iron rails
imbeided In the concrete thereof
Adopted.
PROM usixTit" TO "LINcoLN."
Ills now proposed TO nams all the
,chool- instead Of Numbering thrn,and
An accordance herewith the "siNlh"
,chool was changed to "Lincoln."
had STREETS.
The committee gu sites aud build.
iuqs recommended that the clerk Of
the board be Instructed to ask the City
Council, IN the namv % the board, TO
grade Filth South street from West
Temple 10 Fourth Wet street, ns the
street is Ia very had condition.
Alan, 10 ask that another sidewalk
district be created ON both aides Of said
Filth Soutr street, from West Temple
10 Fourth West street, provided II Is
not already included in a sidewalk
district. Adopted.
REJECTED PROPOSITIONS.
The same committee reported that II
has considered numerous propositions
to sell real estate TO the board, and the
committee recommended that all offers
not accepted be- rejected, as they were
too high. Adopted.
cry HON.
On motion Of Duke II was decided to
ask the city 10 donate some OF It's Iron
rails 10 the board TO be used In the
foundations Of new buildings.
THE WORK OF REPUSDISu.
The special school tax, Mr.. Pike
said, had been completed and the AS
tislanx TO the clerk dismiased from
further service.
Colonel Nelson said that It would
perhaps be- found, ~ there Ii but slow
application TO the clerk Of the Third
District court for the reiunding OF the
school taxes Of 1890 paid under protest
and turned into court for reimburse.
ment, that quite n sum will remain
uncallod for In the court clerks hands;
Therefore II might be well for the board
Of education 10 apply for this residue,
as IL use for school purposes would DO
the most appropriate that could bp
thought OF.
MI. Pike said, in furthersnce OF the
remarks made by Vlce-president Nrl-
,on, that 1t seemed 10 him that a wrong
lad been done those Taxpayers VIVA
had paid their taxes without protest OF
SUIT and who had no disposition 20 do
20, wherein they had been brought In,
10 court without their knowledge or
consent, 10 the amount Of over $50, 900,
ana these parties had been called upon
70 pay the expenses 10 the amount OF
fourteen per cent, while some OF those
VINO had been plaintiffs In the suit4
hai presented their tax receipts to the
o.oatd aud had been paid Ia full. This
ne considered wrong altogether, and
IS ms board had declared IN tho hrbl
pace, when the legality Of the taxes
Wa hfst Questioned, IhAt It would du
aH IN It's power TO protect those tax.
Pyen who voluntarily paid their
.ate', and thereby make II possible for
ahe board to keep the schools running.
me board, as he understood II, felt the
same way, and II It were possible for II
othll do something whereby this i'm.
posllon could be prevented, he was in
IA'or OF dOings so. There had been con.
.entglven by the nttorneysioT the board
20 questions which no believed should
nave been Submitted to tho board fuI
is action before consenting thereto.
NV, I've was not prepared TO believe that
NV court was aware OF the clnstruc.
Won that was applied to the decree, In
IAlng up the coats and percentages
nnoWeu TO attorneys on the s2O, 600 and
Upward paid by those without protes,
" sun, and thereby increasing the
shount received by tho ATTORNEYS to
WI $1,000 more than he thought they
Were entitled TO receive.
MI' Dsoly said II was true thai
nopetty owners had been dragged into
.uul, IN the way spoken OF; they had
Employed no counsel, didn't want any
,Guhsel and merely desired that what
,isn's they were entitled TO should be
,o'eeled. Now their money lay with
nr eletk subject TO reba,cs they have
~ ~ consented TO and did no. desire.
S,nuSeutedly a good deal Of this money
~ Suu remain uncalled for, aud as II
va" pAia Us school tax, NO more mp.