Seaboard Air-Line Railway Co. v. Dorchester Consolidated School District

Prior to the act of 1922 (Ga. L. 1922, p. 153), there was authority, under the act of 1919 (Ga. L. 1919, p.-288), for any school district to supplement the funds received from the State public-school funds, by levying a tax for educational purposes, upon an election being had for such purpose, not to exceed five mills on the dollar. This provision of law did not require, as does the subsequent act of 1922, that in the call for such election the additional tax proposed to be levied should be specified. See Stapleton v. Martin, 164 Ga. 336, 347 (6) (138 S. E. 767). The passage of the act of…