Black v. . Commissioners

The Commissioners of Buncombe County having managed their financial matters so that the county indebtedness for current necessary expenses ofthe county on the 1st day of January, 1901, was $59,037.13, and the court-house not being suited to the wishes of the people and the business of the county, they wished to dispose of the old court-house and build a new one; and having taxed the people and property as high as they could, under the constitutional restriction, the Legislature, on the 11th March, 1901, passed and ratified an act (Acts 1901, Chap. 598) intended to enable the Commissioners to…