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HomeMy WebLinkAboutR1941-03 Petition for Abatment of Tax of the Denver and Salt Lake Railway Company 3 UNOLUTION 07 =X b0AkD 01 C NTT t, ' ; ,e the County Commisstonors of Nagle County. State of Colorado, et a duly and lawfully ealled regalia' aueeting held on the 6th day of J s uary, A* 84 194411 at eehii* smiting corse present the following n embersi 84 A, Nottingham. Wayne T, +Toaaa and Alfred S, Sloss, sotto* of *ash meting and the oppo ty 40,to be present havingbeen divan to the County Aaa*sear, -i'uhhol4 and said assessor bilking praaent, and County Attains', Nun* B. *hit*, bei present, and sem' the said county woamissiaaors have carefully considered the petition for Oatmeal; of tax of The Denver and Salt Lek* Railway C o*psaye a corporation, end tINUZAB, the di.puteed tax, based upon tnereasos in wawa- tions upon the railroad properties of said petitioner as **AO by, th. Stets Board of Zquaiisatton of the State of Colorado for the years 1937 1938 and 1939, have been the subaei% of amok cootrov.r$y and have resulted in, litigati •n is the federal courts sad in the stet* courts of Colorado, end u F, the Board of County Crsmi ssi oners., the County Treasurer and the County Attorney, harre, fron tine to ties during the past do years, bad the setts** of the validity of said crease in valuation and the collection of taxes based upon said taasareasa under consider ti oa, mad WHBRBAB, it has now cons to the attention of this Board that that certain litiiatl oa meed by the County Treasures of Weld County against various railroad* no. operating in Well County has now boon settled and dieaposed of by agreement and the Board of County Coaruiaat aur. at said Weld County has abated the taxes of the Usiima Pasifia Railroad Company, the °bis e, s urlingtos and C uiuq B 1T d am and the Get Weston Sail. road Company* which said aboteeaeeat so ride by said Board of County Caersissionars of Meld County has been approved by UM* Colo. rade ,Tax Commission, and QIP A45, it has further omee to the attention of this Board that tis United States District Court for the Distriot of Colo- rado, the United States District CourtBastern Division ?waters ludioial District of Missouri, the United States District Court for Illinois, northern Distriot, Zastern Division, and the State District Courts in the counties of Ot re, U Paso and Pueblo have held the increases in valuation as raced• by the Stats Board of Z ualization in the years 1937, 193e0 and 19 9,, to be invalid, and MUM* it has further cone to the attention of this Board that, the Board of County Countyammissionors of the counties of Bale* Beat„ Douglas* 31 ?*so, /reeeaant, es Anises, Otearor, Provers sad .Pueblo have stipulated and alLe that settlement decrees might be entered in one or ret of said oo,crts so as to dispose of pending litigation end the oec troverq with reesoee% to the collection of said taxes, end CUi'+esi o it would plass a heavy a ud undesirable burden upon this county to litigate the said taxes. NOW, TRa taN0 , As. IT '14. 0..7105, that said Petition for Abat+*snt be approved and the increase in assessasr.t and value- tion placed upon the properties of the petitioner, The Uaaysr and salt Lake Railway Company, by the :,atats Board of 1 ©ualisa- tion in tba years 1939, 1938 and 1930 be abated sat the taxes booed torsos cancelled end that this r.sol:►tion be forwarded to the Colorado lax Commission for appropriate action by that body. kiihh4As VOTING: Affirmative: treagit° r AW Wing BMW PA I p r Bedative: alasy COLA * O • :s. Ci::31i fY ,01 144;4 ) I, MAJ0 COt, County Clerk and ex-offiels. Clerk of the Board of County Ccmmissioners in and for the County of Xagls, state of Colorado, do hereby certify that the above and fare- going resolution or order is truly sopied from t,hs records of the proeee4tn s or the Board of County Cosatasiaaera for said County of. :eagle now in my office. IN wiTNLJA CAABOY, I have hereunto sat ay hand, sand pf-_p fixed the seal of said county at Cagle, Colorado, this 1 day of January, 4. D. 1941. o y er Denver, Colorado, January , 1941 The action of the Board of County Coanie:donors of )iagle County relative to the within Petition is hereby approved. COICHAXi TAX CrAbiti; :31Ob ATT3T: By Chairman .ecrstary