Halsted v. State
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On error to the Supreme Court. For opinion of Supreme Court, see 10 Broom 402. The defendant was the director of the board of freeholders of the county of Hudson, and was indicted for a violation of the act entitled “ A supplement to an act entitled ‘ An act for the punishment of crimes,’” approved March 27th, 1874, which is as follows, viz.: The act under which the indictment is sought to be sustained is found in the laws of 1876, page 16, as follows: • “ 1. Be it enacted…
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On error to the Supreme Court. For opinion of Supreme Court, see 10 Broom 402. The defendant was the director of the board of freeholders of the county of Hudson, and was indicted for a violation of the act entitled “ A supplement to an act entitled ‘ An act for the punishment of crimes,’” approved March 27th, 1874, which is as follows, viz.: The act under which the indictment is sought to be sustained is found in the laws of 1876, page 16, as follows: • “ 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That if any board of chosen freeholders, or any township…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Beasley, Chief Justice.
It appears by the record in this case that at.a meeting of the board of freeholders of the county of Hudson, on the 27th of June, 1876, a resolution was adopted fixing the tax to be raised for county purposes for the fiscal year commencing on the 1st of December, 1876, at $600,000; and that afterwards, at a meeting on the 14th of December, 1876, a resolution was passed, directing the purchase of a certain site for a court-house, at a price amounting in the aggregate to $225,000; and that, in payment of said lauds, a bond or bonds…
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