Bennett v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil actioN to restrain the issue and delivery of $200,000 bonds of the county of RociaNGHAM in pursuance of a resolution of the board of commissioners, heard, by consent, before Lane, J., as resident judge of the Eleventh District, at Reidsville, N. O., on 28 April, 1917. On tbe bearing it appeared tbat in January, 1917, tbe board of commissioners of Rockingham County, in meeting assembled, after reciting tbat it was necessary to build and improve tbe public roads of tbe…
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Civil actioN to restrain the issue and delivery of $200,000 bonds of the county of RociaNGHAM in pursuance of a resolution of the board of commissioners, heard, by consent, before Lane, J., as resident judge of the Eleventh District, at Reidsville, N. O., on 28 April, 1917. On tbe bearing it appeared tbat in January, 1917, tbe board of commissioners of Rockingham County, in meeting assembled, after reciting tbat it was necessary to build and improve tbe public roads of tbe county to bave and raise $200,000, and tbat said sum was required for tbe purpose and was a necessary expense thereto,…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
The Constitution, Art. Y, see. 1, provides, in effect, that for ordinary purposes the State and county tax combined shall in no case exceed the sum of $2 on the poll and 66% cents on the $100 valuation of property. So far as we are aware, and as to debts and obligations incurred since the provision was established, no departure from this limitation on the amount of taxation has been approved except when and to the extent required to maintain a four months school, as enjoined by Article IX, sec. 3, Collie v. Comrs., 145 N. C., 170, and except when- the tax is levied for a “special purpose and…
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- McCless v. MeekinsSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1895
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