Johnson v. Dole
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Trespass de bonis asportalis. The defendant pleaded in bar, that the inhabitants of school-district No. 4, in Enfield, qualified to vote in town affairs, at a legal meeting, on the 17⅛ March, 1821, voted to raise $160 for the párpese ©f building a school-house in said district ; that on the 8th April, in the same year, the clerk of the said district certified to the selectmen of the said town the said vote ; that on the 25th May, in the same year, the said selectmen assessed…
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Trespass de bonis asportalis. The defendant pleaded in bar, that the inhabitants of school-district No. 4, in Enfield, qualified to vote in town affairs, at a legal meeting, on the 17⅛ March, 1821, voted to raise $160 for the párpese ©f building a school-house in said district ; that on the 8th April, in the same year, the clerk of the said district certified to the selectmen of the said town the said vote ; that on the 25th May, in the same year, the said selectmen assessed upon the inhabitants of said district the sum of $160; that the plaintiff, being an inhabitant, was assessed in the sum…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court.
The statute entitled, “ an act empowering “ school districts to build and repair school houses, and reg-u ulating schools,” enacts, that “ the selectmen shall assess, “ in the same manner as town taxes are assessed, on the polls and estates of the inhabitants composing any school district, “ &c. all monies voted to be raised, &c. in thirty days after “ the clerk of the district shall certify to said selectmen “ the sum voted by the district to be raised, as aforesaid.” And it is objected, that the assessment mentioned in the plea, not having been made within thirty days after the…
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