Sims v. City of Bremerton

This appeal calls for the construction of that portion of initiative No. 94 (Laws 1935, chapter 2, p. 8) relating to the holding of elections to authorize a levy in excess of the millage limited by the act. The pertinent provisions of the statute, so far as we are now concerned, are:

“ . . . the levy by any city or town shall not exceed fifteen mills: . . . Provided . . . that any . . . city or town shall have the power to levy taxes at a rate in excess of the rate specified in this act, when authorized so to do by the electors of such . . . city or town by a three-fifths majority of those…