Commissioners v. Stafford.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN 'by tbe Board of Commissioners of Chatham County against E. M. Stafford & Company, heard by Judge B. F. Long at the May Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Chatham County.
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ActioN 'by tbe Board of Commissioners of Chatham County against E. M. Stafford & Company, heard by Judge B. F. Long at the May Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Chatham County. This is a civil action submitted to the court upon the following agreed statement of facts: “The Legislature of North Carolina, at its session of 1905, passed an act, set out in the record, authorizing the Commissioners of Chatham County to issue and sell bonds in the sum of $20,000, redeemable in the following manner, two thousand dollars ten years from the date of issue and two thousand dollars annually thereafter…
1Opinion of the Court
Connor, J.,
after stating the facts. It is conceded and so recited in the Statute and the record, that the bonds authorized to be issued are for the purpose of raising funds with which to discharge an indebtedness incurred for necessary expenses. That the legislature had the power to pass the act is settled by numerous decisions of this court Smathers v. Qommissioners, 125 N. C., 480; Jones v. Commissioners, 50 S. E. Rep., 291.
It is equally well settled that, when the Act has been passed in accordance with the provisions of Art. II., section 14 of the Constitution, an amendment which does not…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Jones v. Commissioners.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1905
- Glenn v. . WraySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1900
- Smathers v. Commissioners of Madison CountySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1899
- Brown v. Stewart.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
3Cited by6 opinions
- State Ex Rel. O'Neal v. JennetteSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1925
- Board of Com'rs of Onslow County v. TollmanCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1906
- Pritchard v. . CommissionersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1912
- Gregg v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1913
- Guire v. Board of CommissionersSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1919
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