Bonsal v. Yellott
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Burke, J.) The language of the prohibition is clear and unequivocal, and includes all internal improvements, and nothing in the debates of the Constitutional Convention, which first adopted this provision, shows that the words were used in any but the ordinary sense; nor does the fact that the highways belong to the State affect the applicability of the prohibition to them.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Burke, J.) The language of the prohibition is clear and unequivocal, and includes all internal improvements, and nothing in the debates of the Constitutional Convention, which first adopted this provision, shows that the words were used in any but the ordinary sense; nor does the fact that the highways belong to the State affect the applicability of the prohibition to them. As the debates of the Constitutional Convention of 1851 show, the particulur works of internal improvement which the convention sought to guard against, were the…
1Opinion of the CourtBoyd, J.
The appellant filed a bill in equity against the appellees in which he sought to enjoin them from expending any of the public funds under their control, for plans and specifications for the construction of any road under the provisions of the Act of 1904, ch. 225, and from making any other expenditures of such public funds under color of the provisions of that Act. The appellant is a resident and taxpayer of Baltimore County, and the appellees are the County Commissioners, sitting as the Highways Commission of said county. The Act of 1904 is entitled “An Act for the improvement of the public…
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