Houston v. City of Lancaster

Citations

• 191 Pa. 143
• 43 A. 83
• 1899 Pa. LEXIS 791

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities—Municipal debt—Two per cent limit—Constitution, article 9, section 8.</p> <p>Where a city, since the adoption of the constitution of 1874, has incurred an indebtedness of more than two per cent of its assessed valuation, and more than that percentage of such indebtedness is still outstanding and unredeemed, it cannot increase its debt without a vote of the people, although, by reason of reductions of the debt in existence on January 1, 1874, the proposed addition will not make the total debt more than two per cent above the debt existing on January 1, 1874.</p>