Mooers v. Smedley
New York Court of Chancery
BILL, filed December 8, 1821, stating, that the plaintiffis proprietor of lands in the town of Mooers, in the county of Clinton, and charged with taxes levied by the supervisors on the 5th of October, 1821. That the board of supervisors, at that meeting, allowed a town bounty against the town of M., of twenty dollars a head for every full grown wolf killed in that town, subsequent to the last annual town meeting, to every citizen of this state, as well to nonresidents as to…
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BILL, filed December 8, 1821, stating, that the plaintiffis proprietor of lands in the town of Mooers, in the county of Clinton, and charged with taxes levied by the supervisors on the 5th of October, 1821. That the board of supervisors, at that meeting, allowed a town bounty against the town of M., of twenty dollars a head for every full grown wolf killed in that town, subsequent to the last annual town meeting, to every citizen of this state, as well to nonresidents as to residents of the town. That the authority for allowing these bounties was a vote gassed in the last annual town meeting…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor,
It appears, that the supervisors of Clinton county, at their session in October last, examined, settled, and allowed, the bounties which had been voted by the town of Mooers, at their annual town meeting in *31Jlgril, for the destruction of wolves, in favour of all persons who produced the requisite legal certificates of having killed the wolves within that town, subsequent to that vote. The supervisors, after discussion, determined, that non-residents were equally entitled with residents of the town, to the bounty, notwithstanding the vote of the town confined the bounty to…
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