Board of Aldermen v. Board of Supervisors

Citations

• 109 Miss. 292
• 68 So. 250

Syllabus

<p>Highways. Issuance of bonds. Towns. Right of funds. Statute.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, section 4469, providing for an ad valorem tax in such part of the county as may be worked by contract, to be used as a general road fund therein, and that the county treasurer shall pay over one-half of the ad valorem tax on property collected within a municipality, to the treasurer thereof, where the streets are worked at the expense of the municipal treasury or by municipal authority, a town working its streets at municipal expense is not entitled to its proportion of the money received from a sale of road district bonds under Acts 1910, chapter 150, as amended by Acts 1912, chapter 257, which had been deposited in the county treasury as a special fund, as a credit to the district, on the theory that it should be treated as an ad valorem tax.</p>