State ex rel. Attorney-General v. Hagood
Supreme Court of South Carolina
This was an original application, on January 15th,_ 1880, by the Hon. Le Hoy F. Youmans, attorney-general, for a writ of mandamus to compel the Hon. Johnson Hagood, comptroller-general, to proceed with the levy of taxes under the act of December 24th, 1879. 17 Stat. 115. The petition set forth the following matters: 1. That on December 24th, 1879, William D. Simpson, gov■ernor of the State of South Carolina, approved and signed an act of the general assembly of this state,…
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This was an original application, on January 15th,_ 1880, by the Hon. Le Hoy F. Youmans, attorney-general, for a writ of mandamus to compel the Hon. Johnson Hagood, comptroller-general, to proceed with the levy of taxes under the act of December 24th, 1879. 17 Stat. 115. The petition set forth the following matters: 1. That on December 24th, 1879, William D. Simpson, gov■ernor of the State of South Carolina, approved and signed an act of the general assembly of this state, entitled “An act to raise supplies and make appropriations for the fiscal year commencing 1st November, 1879,” which act…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the court was delivered by
Willard, C. J.
This was an application for a mandamus to compel the comptroller-general to notify each county auditor in the state of the rate per centum of the tax authorized by law to be levied for various state purposes, and to prepare and transmit to each county auditor the necessary forms and instructions to carry into effect the provisions of the act to raise supplies, &c., approved December 24th, 1879. The return of the comptroller-general, which is not traversed, and which must, therefore, be taken to be true, raises two legal questions. First,…
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