The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-11-05

bridge and court funds. or these
all but the two aforementioned were
limited By law. Under the attorney
generals ruling the court and spe-l
ciai bridge lcvies are first deducted
from the fve-mili limit ana hen the
lcNlcs for the other funds are reduced
IN proportion 10 what remains Of the
the fyo-miil limit. The limits FOR the
funds. limited bv previous law. de-
pend therefore ON the size of the levy
made tor the court aud special bridge.
funds, II these two levics are de-
creased the limits for the other funds
are increased and vice versa
/ do not believe that such was the
intention Of the law II VIII ne noted
that after establishing the five-mill
limit the paragraph OF Section Il re-
fcrting 10 this matter proceeds TO cN-
plain how this five-mili limit shall
Doe figured ~ provides that each
OF the tax lcyics In force shnl and
hereby is proportionatcly reduced. 80
that the aggregate amount Of SUCH
TAN LENiES shall not exceed tie
maximum rates respectively specified
in this section" that is, the five-mill
limit.
u therefore appears that the lcgis-
lntuTc Intended 90 embrace 100 the i've
mill limit only SUCH TAX LENlES
az had been heretofore limited, and
by the language of the Law they were
hereby. that is hy statute. proper
! tionatoly reduced. The reduction was
therefore Co bc iu ia. proportion that
five mills. the present Limitation.
bcnfs Co l6J mills the former limit.
| By this Interpretation OF the law "a
| fixed and definite limit FOR eacn fund
would be- established. by the statute
| itself and not by future calculations.
which might % would change each
year according To- the size OF the leN-
les for those funds for which tNi@tins
law had provided no Limitation.
n Is therefore my contention that
the language OF section ~ plainly I'M
dictated hat the ntc-mill limit wa.
intended To embrace only those lcNic'
FOR county purposes which had been
limited by previous statutes. Al
though that section speaks of a lin
itatiou FOR an county purposes and
uses, yet DO q later paragraph OF the
the same section 10 D. explicitly pro
yidcd that the purposes and uses shall
be those embraced by SUCH TAN
ILENIEs ls had heretofore been linn
tied BOO law. and had been proper
uou1feIy reduced.
II am right there would bee n,
Limitation ON the court fund except
ia, prudence ana good sense 81 th'
commissioners ON the bridge 'unt
the law provides ID Limitation NOT o
the levy but uf the mount which
such a levy may produce, who!
amounts Co the same thing. a
This question ls one ot the created
~IImunrttuD, Co sierra county, ana pos
-iply to other counties also. tn
county commissioners OF sierra uoun
tg. NOT anticipating tho method tp n'
provided for the payment oi salatl'
of UuIuty officers, never levied TO
th. general county fund mote thai
necessary t1 meet current expense.
without regard to salaries. 'uuso
IusuiIy when The law mad, back sal
aries payable only ou; of the salal.
uud general county funds and wh'i
% became apparent that the fees Cd
officials iu this county would Dee ~
sufficient tu pay INTO the salary fun
cnuGgh money to pay the back sal
aries, accumulated since l9ll, il wa
NV f"HNNH N' H""Nf ''' 90
Iui.utos of indebtedness. which CA
Uy law Doe paid only out ot the s1lar
, ur -uu,I.l county funds a. the Dol
f,rur,rtfIuu by the attorney g'ucr.
{ Is correct Sierra county Will never Do
abb, tu pas Oft these ccrtiI. Jtcs De-
, cause after doductiuE the court fun
levy from the ile-miIl limit The pro
p portion oi the general county tHH
would bee insufficient Goo raise onous
D money uu our present high yaluutio
leo ua, OFF these certificates,
Although lu favor of higher as
sps-m,uts. true valuations and con
.putrltrd authority for a state bod,
I have always maintained that assess
lmouts on personal property could hc'
u, made by men familiar with an
conditions IN each county, u IN,
outsiders would lack hat spocIf0
knowledge necessary Go discover ui
taxed property. / held that the rem
q. ,dy lay not 100 90 change 'of the la
luut Boo the election OF more lompetoi