Munson v. Board of Commissioners
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twenty-third District Court, Parish of West Baton Rouge. Talbot, J. 1. Prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1879, the taxing power of the Legislature of the State appears to have been untrammelod or unrestrained by any constitutional limitation.
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APPEAL from the Twenty-third District Court, Parish of West Baton Rouge. Talbot, J. 1. Prior to the adoption of the Constitution of 1879, the taxing power of the Legislature of the State appears to have been untrammelod or unrestrained by any constitutional limitation. The manner in which that unbridled discretion was exercised is well illustrated by the enormous volume of the State debt at the time of the adoption of the constitutional amendment of 1874, scaling and reducing tlie’same to 60 cents on the dollar, and the heavy and crushing burdens under winch the inhabitants of the parishes…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
These various consolidated causes are injunction proceedings taken against the Board of Commissioners of “ the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District” to prevent them from levying certain acreage and produce taxes, and from issuing certain bonds— all in pursuance of the provisions of Act 97 of 1890.
*20The ground of the plaintiffs’ resistance is that the act is unconstitutional and void, for the reason that its provisions authorizing the acreage and produce taxes, and the issuance of bonds, conflict with and axe violative of Article 214 of the…
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