Perry v. Hogarth

Act No. 116, Pub. Acts 1917, provided for a tax of five cents per acre upon State tax homestead and State swamp lands under the control and supervision of the public domain commission to be paid into the treasury of the county in which such land was situate on the first day of December in each year out of any moneys in the general fund of the State not otherwise appropriated, the money so received by any county to be placed in its general fund and expended under the supervision of its board of supervisors “upon the trunk line highways within such county.” It was provided, however, that, if…