Stuckey v. Board of Commissioners

The appellant, as county treasurer, filed his claim before the board of commissioners for three thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars, being two and a half per cent, on one hundred and thirty thousand two hundred dollars, the proceeds of county bonds sold. The money was received and disbursed by an agent of the county, specially appointed for that purpose. It was applied to the payment of bounties to volunteers, and was raised for that express purpose. The bonds were sold and the money paid after December 28,1864, but at what time does not appear. The board refused to allow the claim,…