Supervisors of Sadsbury Twp. v. Dennis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford county: Of October and November Term 1879, No. 107. Assumpsit by William Dennis and others against the supervisors of Sadsbury township to recover certain moneys alleged to have been paid out on account of the township as bounties to volunteers. The material facts will be found stated in the opinion of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
By the sixth section of the Act of March 25th 1864 the com*402missioners of every county in the Commonwealth were “authorized to borrow such sum or sums of money as may be sufficient to pay to each non-commissioned officer and private soldier who volunteered from such county,” and entered the military service of the United States after October 17th 1863, or who might, after the passage of the act, enter said service, a sum not exceeding $300. By a proviso to said section it was enacted that in case the commissioners neglected or refused to raise the necessary bounties in townships, wards or…
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