Realty Owners' Protective Alliance, Inc. v. City of New Orleans

On June 6, 1899, the property taxpayers of the city of New Orleans voted upon themselves until 1942 a special tax of two mills on the dollar of assessed value, as a basis for issuing bonds for some $12,000,000 for sewerage, water, and drainage purposes, which tax was approved by special constitutional, legislative, and municipal authority. See the history thereof in full in State ex rel. Saunders v. Kohnke et al., 109 La. 838, 874, 33 So. 793.

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In petitioning the city council to submit to the voters the proposition for levying said tax, the property holders “further petitioned” that said tax…