The People v. . Supervisors of Livingston
New York Court of Appeals
Certiorari for the review of certain proceedings of the defendants, hereinafter mentioned, relating to bounties to volunteers mustered into the military service of the United States.
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Certiorari for the review of certain proceedings of the defendants, hereinafter mentioned, relating to bounties to volunteers mustered into the military service of the United States. On the 3d day of August, 1864, the defendants, at a special session, passed a resolution providing for the issuing of county bonds to each supervisor of the county that might call for the same, or borrow money on said bonds for such supervisors as might call for money, to pay a bounty, not exceeding a certain sum, to each recruit that should be mustered into the service of the United States, to the credit of…
1Opinion of the Court
The certiorari in this case, I incline to think, was issued improvidently. It was issued upon the application of the relator, a citizen and tax-payer of the county of Livingston, to review a resolution adopted by the defendants, the supervisors, on the 30th of November, 1864, whereby they ordered that a certain amount should be assessed, levied and collected upon the taxable property of the county to pay certain county bonds, issued for the payment of bounties to volunteers to fill the quota of said county, "under the call of the President for 500,000 men, July 18th, 1864." The relator…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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