Crowder v. Philips

J.). — Chapter 19939, Acts of 1939, creates and incorporates a “Special Tax District” covering the same area as Leon County; and it provides for a board of trustees with corporate authority to levy ad valorem taxes on “all the real and personal taxable property in said district.” Sec. IS. The district is-formed, not for a governmental purpose, but for the construction and maintenance of such hospital or hospitals in the district as the board of trustees may determine for the preservation of the public health and “welfare of said district and the inhabitants thereof.” Special tax districts,…