State v. County of Santa Rosa

TERRELL, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from a final decree vali-' dating an issue of certificates of indebtedness, hereinafter referred to as certificates, proposed by Santa Rosa County for the purpose of providing additions to and making repairs to the county court house and jail, and to pay the expenses of said improvements. The certificates are payable solely from (1) the proceeds of an ad valorem tax of five mills, imposed pursuant to Chapter 135, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., and (2) fifty per cent of the monies distributed to the county as its share of license taxes imposed on race tracks…