McGehee v. Mathis
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal jrom Chicot Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. John C. Murray, Circuit Judge. It has been decided by this court that the law which exempted swamp lands from taxation, was a contract — was constitutional — and the after repeal of it by the legislature, "was against the constitution; 19 Ark. 360. The period of exemption begins from the day of purchase. This is true evidently, but it does not touch this question.
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Appeal jrom Chicot Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. John C. Murray, Circuit Judge. It has been decided by this court that the law which exempted swamp lands from taxation, was a contract — was constitutional — and the after repeal of it by the legislature, "was against the constitution; 19 Ark. 360. The period of exemption begins from the day of purchase. This is true evidently, but it does not touch this question. Under the law, a contractor could take pay in lands, drained and leveed, or in scrip worth so much, etc. This scrip was, by the law, stamped with certain characters and properties —…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Compton
This was a bill in chancery, brought by Edmund McGehee, the appellant, against Martin R. ,P. Mathis, as and in his capacity of sheriff and tax collector for the county of Chicot.
The bill alleges that the appellant, during the years 1855, 1856 and 1857, entered and located with scrip, which had been 'issued upon levy contracts, made prior to the 11th day of January, 1855, a large quantity of swamp lands, amounting in the aggregate to over ninety thousand acres, situate in Chicot county. That the lands having been entered with such scrip, were, under the 14th section of the act of the 5th…
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