State Ex Rel. Matthews v. Alsop

This is an original proceeding in mandamus wherein the respondents, Mayor and members of the City Council.of the City of Jacksonville, are required to forthwith prepare and adopt a budget for said city for the year 1936, making separate and several appropriations therein, first, for the payment of necessary operating expenses of said city in the performance of functions of government, and, secondly, for the debt service requirements of outstanding obligations of said city, and upon the adoption of such budget to make a separate and distinct levy of taxes to provide for raising by taxation on…