The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-12-24

surer 1a hereby required to setlre, at the
end OF each year from their date, one
fourth Of the amount OF the Treasury
scrip hereby authorized to be issued,
until oil of it shall be retired, and to
apply to suoh purpose exclusively the
taxes hereby required to be levied.
II. That subsequently to the passage
Company did surrender $3, 394, 900 of
the said bonds, issued by the said Blue
Ridge Railroad Company and guaranteed
by the State. into the State Treasury, as
provided for in.-nnd by :theveeond SEQ.
ton OF said ActI es above fecitetl.
III. That 'upou the surrender of said
bonds, as before set forth. the State
Treasurer did deliver to the President OF
the Blue Ridge RniIroad Company in
South Carolina, Treasury certificates Of
Indebtedness (styled revenue bond scrip)
to the amount ofs9l, ,796, $3.50, which
said dsfeiEostcs were executed ;in5tke
manner and .torm ana Of the denplnina.
ton required and prescribed by the third
section of said Act above rccited.
". That your petitioners are now the
owners and holders Of goods and yalua-
able consideration in their own rights,
and as trustees for others, of the amount
Of S458, ,305, of said Treasury certificates,
(styled revenue bond scrip,) whereof tho
denomination and number are fully set
forth in certain paper hereunto nn-
nexed and marked Exhibit A." to
which exhibit your petitioners refer as
part and parcel Of this, their petition.
V. That' the Comptrolier.Ge Of
said State is the officer now charged by
law with the duty of giving notice to the
several County Auditors Of the said
State Of tho ra.io per centum of tu4es
authorized by law to be levied upon the
property Of tue State, for the use of the
State; and that the Hon. Solomon L.
Hoge is now the Comptroller General OF
the State.
vi. That by the laws of said State, the
Comptroller General is required, on or
before the 18th day Of November in each
year, to give notice to each County Au-
ditor OF the rates per centum authorized
by law to be levied for the various State
purposes. which rates or per centum
shall be levied by the County Auditor on
the taxable property of the County, and
charged on the duplicate with the taxes
| required to be levied and collected for
| other purposes.
VII. That notwithstanding his duty
as Comptroller General, to give the said
| notice to the said County Auditor OF the
annual tax OF three mills on the dollar
on the assessed value of all taxable pro-
perty in the State, and to ilevy or cause
| to be levied the said tax Of three mills
on the dollar for the redemption of the
said revenue bond scrip, as required
by the fourth section OF the said Act
above reoitod, and in disregard of the
legal rights of your petitioners as own.
ers and holders, for value OF said reve-
nue. bond scrip, the Honorable J. L..
Neagle, who was the Comptroller G enc.
raj Of said State until the seventh day of
December, in the present year, did ne
glect and refuse to give said notice to
the several County Auditors OF the State
OF the rate per centum Of three mills on
the dollar, as by Law he waa bound to
do, and as is required by the said fourth
section of said Act above recited; and
the said Solomon L. Hoge, who has been
since the said seventh of December, in
the present year, and is now the Comp
troller- General OF said State, has ne
elected and refused up to the present
time, and does now neglect and refuse,
to give the said notice to the several
County Auditors Of the State of the said
rate per oentum OF throe mills On the
dollar on all tue taxable property Of the
| 0toeOS ASA VAo iouCLuptlOu Ot tu0 SAlu
revenue bond scrip, or to levy or cause
to be levied the said annual tax of three
mills on the dollar as by the said fourth
section Of the said Act above recited he
is required to do.
VIII. That yonr petitioners arc wrong
cd and injured, and deprived OF their
legal rights in tho promises by the sold
neglect and refusal Of the said Solomon
l.. Hoge, Comptroller General, as ufore-
said, to give said notice of said rate per
centum of three mills on the dollar of
tax to redeem the said revenue bond
scrip, as hereinafter set forth, and to levy
or cause to be lovied tho said annual tax
as required by the said fourth section of
said Act above recited; aud that your
petitioners are without remedy in the
premises, unless it be afforded by the
interposition of this honorable court by
their writ of naandamus; and they,
therefore, pray that writ Of ,nanda,nu as
may issue out Of this court against the
said Solomon Il. Hoge, Comptroller
General, as aforesaid, commanding him
10 give the said notice to the County
Auditors Of each County in said State OF
the said rate per oentum of tax of three
mills on the dollar on tho assessed value
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