Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. v. City of Bethlehem

Per Curiam,

The City of Bethlehem proposed to increase its debt by councilmanic authorization of a bond issue. Proceedings were instituted to enjoin this on the ground that it would exceed the two per cent, limit on council-manic borrowing established by article IX, section 8, of the Constitution. The court below held that the present debt, without including the proposed increase, transgressed the constitutional limitation by $123,645.07. Both parties appeal.

The city complains that the court below erred in including as part of its bonded indebtedness the four-mill tax imposed by the Act of…