People ex rel. Dorris v. Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Co.

The county board of Saline county adopted a resolution levying a county tax of seventy-five cents on each $100 assessed valuation of taxable property, to be appropriated as follows: Thirty-five per cent for court costs and expenses; twenty per cent for keeping and maintaining the poor; twenty per cent for salaries of county officers; five per cent for books and stationery; three per cent for fuel; two per cent for janitor’s services; five per cent for feeding and caring for prisoners; five per cent to pay special assessments; five per cent for repairing and building purposes; and adopted a…