Berrien County v. Paulk
Supreme Court of Georgia
Certiorari; from Court of Appeals. 24 Ga. App. 758. The board of commissioners of roads and revenues of Berrien County, on April 10, 1919, ordered an election to be held in that county on May 14- thereafter, to determine the question whether bonds should be issued 'by the county to the amount of $500,000 for the purpose of the permanent building and improvement of roads and bridges in said county, the bonds to bear date of July 1, 1919, and to bear interest at 5 per centum…
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Certiorari; from Court of Appeals. 24 Ga. App. 758. The board of commissioners of roads and revenues of Berrien County, on April 10, 1919, ordered an election to be held in that county on May 14- thereafter, to determine the question whether bonds should be issued 'by the county to the amount of $500,000 for the purpose of the permanent building and improvement of roads and bridges in said county, the bonds to bear date of July 1, 1919, and to bear interest at 5 per centum per annum, payable annually on the first day of January in each year, and beginning with January 1st, 1920, and to be…
1Opinion of the CourtFish, C. J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The constitution of this State, article 7, section 7, paragraph 1 (Civil Code of 1910, § 6563), limits the amount of bonded indebtedness to be' incurred by a county to not more than seven per centum of the assessed value of all of the taxable property therein. The statute providing the manner of incurring such indebtedness, embodied in the Civil Code (1910), § 440 et seqv declares, that, when any county shall desire to incur any bonded debt as prescribed in the *832constitution above noted, “ The officers charged with levying taxes, contracting debts, etc.,…
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