Forsdick v. Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners

Citations

• 76 Miss. 859

Syllabus

<p>Constitutional Law. Obligation of contracts. Levee taxes. Ten-cent board. Laws 3 865, p. 51. Laavs 1876, p. 174.</p> <p>If the legislature create a board for public improvements and levy a tax on land, irrevocably devoting the taxes to the satisfaction of the debts which the board was authorized to contract, the state cannot by subsequent act, after the debts are contracted, abate the tax or release the land from liability therefor.</p>