State ex rel. Brown v. Township Committee

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mague, J.

David U. Brown, the collector of Mullica township, in Atlantic county, obtained, on affidavits, a rule requiring the township committee of that township to show •cause why a mandamus should not issue to compel them to make and deliver to him warrants for the sale of lands for the *448taxes of 1884. The rule has been brought to hearing by consent upon the affidavits on which it was allowed.

The contention of the township committee is, that by the act entitled “An act to facilitate the collection of taxes in the township of Mullica, in the county of…