People Ex Rel. Martin v. . Brown

The board of supervisors of the county of Delaware, at its annual session in 1872, levied upon the town of Hancock, in that county, a tax of $11,138.98, to pay the interest due and to become due during the ensuing year upon $100,000 of bonds issued by the railroad commissioners of the town, and purporting to have been issued upon the faith and credit and in behalf of the town, and in pursuance of the authority conferred by the "act to facilitate the construction of the New York and Midland railroad, and to authorize towns to subscribe to the capital stock thereof," passed April 5, 1866, and…