Protest of Chicago, R. I. & P. Ry. Co.

The excise board of Comanche county made an appropriation for drag fund purposes for the fiscal year 1929-1930 for each of six townships located in said county, said appropriation in each township being of sufficient size that it required a full two-mill levy to raise the same. No itemization of the appropriation for those respective townships was made. The appropriation in each township was made in a lump sum.

It is the contention of the protestant “that it was the duty of the excise board in making the appropriation for the drag fund for each of these townships to itemize such appropriation,…