People ex rel. Mater v. Ross

The county cleric of Vermilion county extended a tax rate of seventy-five cents on each $100 of assessed valuation of taxable property for county purposes. He testified that fifty cents was for general county purposes, twenty-one cents for the payment of the principal and interest of road bonds and four cents for the tuberculosis sanitarium fund. He also extended against the property of the town of Elwood taxes at the rate of forty cents for each $100 of assessed valuation as a special tax for hard roads. Appellant filed objections to the county tax in excess of the rate of fifty cents and to…