Central of Georgia Railway Co. v. Meriwether County
Supreme Court of Georgia
The Court of Appeals certified to the Supreme Court the following questions (in Case No. 8397): “For the year 1913, Meriwether Comity, acting through its commissioners of roads and revenues, levied tax for county purposes of $12.50 per thousand on all property in that county.
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The Court of Appeals certified to the Supreme Court the following questions (in Case No. 8397): “For the year 1913, Meriwether Comity, acting through its commissioners of roads and revenues, levied tax for county purposes of $12.50 per thousand on all property in that county. The order of the commissioners was itemized so as to show the percentage of the tax to be used for the various purposes for which a county is allowed by law to levy tax, and included, among others, the following items: Item No. 10, a levy of $4 per thousand, 'to road fund under the alternative road law;’ and Item No. 11,…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
The alternative road law referred to in the first question propounded by the Court of Appeals is the act of 1891 *425(Acts 1890-91, p. 135), now embodied in the Civil Code, §§ 694-704. The caption of that act is as follows: “An act to give the commissioners of roads and revenues, or the ordinary, or county judge, as the ease may be, of each county, the power and authority to lay out, open, change, or discontinue the public roads, and to work and have worked the same; to provide for levying a tax for road purposes; to prescribe who shall be subject to road duty; for the appointment of a…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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