Powell v. . Bladen County

Tlie Bevenue Act applicable to the present appeal went into effect on 27 May, 1931. Public Laws, 1931, chap. 427. One of its purposes was to provide for the expense of operating all the public schools of the State for the constitutional term of six months within the standards of cost prescribed in the public school law. The total cost of operating all the public schools of the State for a term of six months was not to exceed a fixed sum, and the boards of commissioners of the several counties were authorized and directed to levy in each of the-years of the next biennium a tax upon all the…