People ex rel. Ambler v. Auditor General

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the Auditor General to pay over to Gratiot county certain moneys claimed to have been unlawfully charged to the county, and deducted from the amounts paid over on annual settlements. These moneys now demanded are made up of charges for deficiencies on re-sales of State tax bids, under the statute of 1869, which was supposed to have made counties responsible for all losses on sales of State tax lands held for more than five years. The statute was in the case of the Auditor General v. The Supervisors of Monroe, 36 Mich., 70, held insufficient to…