McBryde v. City of Montesano

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Stiles, J.

The city of Montesano, under its first charter, was limited in its power to create a debt, except for ordinary current expenses, to the sum of §6,000. Acts 1883, p. 268. Under its present charter, approved January 20, 1886, the limit was placed at §10,000. Acts *701885-86, p. 373, § 106. But the act of congress of June 30, 1886, changed the basis of limitation to 4 per cent, of the taxable property, and this continued to be the law governing the city until Washington became a state, November 11, 1889, when the act of 1886 became again…