Lane v. . Stanly
Supreme Court of North Carolina
This was a civil action brought by the plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and the other tax payers of Township No. 3, in the County of Craven, against the Commissioners and the tax collector of the said County to restrain them by injunction from collecting certain taxes levied for school pur•poses in the said township.
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This was a civil action brought by the plaintiffs on behalf of themselves and the other tax payers of Township No. 3, in the County of Craven, against the Commissioners and the tax collector of the said County to restrain them by injunction from collecting certain taxes levied for school pur•poses in the said township. The complaint alleged that the school committee of the township made an estimate of the expense necessary to provide for schools to be taught during the year 1870, which estimate was reported to the Board of Trustees of the township, and was thereupon submitted to a vote of the…
1Opinion of the CourtReads, J.
Have township trustees the power to collect' taxes for public schools ?
The Constitution, Art. 7, sec. 4, confers upon townships- “ corporate powers for the necessary purposes of local government.” What is to be the “local government ” we suppose was left to be prescribed by legislation. The “act concerning townships,” Acts 1868-,69, chap. 186, sec. 14, prescribes, that the Board of Trustees shall have authority to lay out, alter, &c., highways, to establish ferries, bridges, cartways, appoint overseers of roads and to allow toll bridges and gates across highways. The only other authority…
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