Walsh v. City Council of Augusta
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal Corporations. Constitutional Law. Tax. Debtor and Creditor. Before Judge Snead. Richmond County. At Chambers. September 17th, 1881. Walsh, an owner of real estate and a tax-payer, filed his bill against the city council of Augusta to enjoin the issuing of $400,000.00 of' bonds which they purposed to issue.
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Municipal Corporations. Constitutional Law. Tax. Debtor and Creditor. Before Judge Snead. Richmond County. At Chambers. September 17th, 1881. Walsh, an owner of real estate and a tax-payer, filed his bill against the city council of Augusta to enjoin the issuing of $400,000.00 of' bonds which they purposed to issue. The bill alleged, in brief, as follows: At the time of the adoption of the constitution of 1877, ihe taxable property in the city of Augusta was $14,907,513.00, and its bonded debt was $2,070,000.00, and this ratio has not materially changed since. The board of health condemned…
1Opinion of the Court
1, 2. The controlling question made by this record involves the construction of the first paragraph of the seventh section of the seventh article of the constitution, which is in the following words:
" The debt hereafter incurred by any county, municipal corporation or political division of this state, except as in this constitution provided for, shall'never exceed seven per centum of the assessed value of all the taxable property therein, and no such county, municipality or division shall incur any new debt, except for a temporary loan or loans to supply casual deficiencies of revenue, not to…
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