State ex rel. Douglas v. Hastings
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ALTERNATIVE WRIT OF MANDAMUS. This was an action commenced by the treasurer of the county of Outagamie, to compel the State Treasurer to pay over the amount due the county from the sales of the swamp lands in that county. The State Treasurer answered that the county was indebted to the state the amount claimed, and, therefore, he had refused to pay, &c. The relator demurred to this answer.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixon, C. J.
By the first section of chapter 67,of the General Laws, of 1858, incorporated into chapter 29 of the Revised Statutes of that year, 337, it is enacted that for the purpose of carrying out the intention of the act of Congress, entitled “ An act to grant to the State of Arkansas, and other states, the swamp and overflowed lands within their limits,” and for the further purpose of enhancing to the purchasers, the value of such swamp and overflowed lands, as have been, or may hereafter be purchased of this state, fifty *449per cent, of the net proceeds of the sales of the…
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