People Ex Rel. Burrows v. Supervisors of Orange County
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from the Supreme Court. The supervisors of the county of Orange having, at their annual meeting in November, 1855, neglected and refused to levy and cause to be collected the sum of $31,668.60, the proportion of said county of the state tax required to be levied by chap. 335 of 1855, the comptroller, in behalf of the people, sued out an alternative mandamus requiring them to reassemble and cause the amount before stated to be'raised, collected and paid into the…
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Appeal from the Supreme Court. The supervisors of the county of Orange having, at their annual meeting in November, 1855, neglected and refused to levy and cause to be collected the sum of $31,668.60, the proportion of said county of the state tax required to be levied by chap. 335 of 1855, the comptroller, in behalf of the people, sued out an alternative mandamus requiring them to reassemble and cause the amount before stated to be'raised, collected and paid into the treasury of the state, with costs of the application and writ, or to show cause why, &c. The supervisors made a return,…
1Opinion of the CourtHarris, J.
In arranging the fiscal affairs of the state it has been found convenient, instead of bringing all its revenues together into a common fund from which all the varied expenditures of the government should be drawn, to distribute those revenues into distinct and independent funds, according to the source from which they are derived, and the purpose to which they are to be devoted. These funds have, from time to time, in the progress of the history of the state, been created by legislative and sometimes by constitutional requirement. Their existence is recognized in the whole body of state…
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