Omaha daily bee., 1890-07-19

YAK when \ ltousht'tobc levied, when . man
damus - the Mole rcnie ~. being the one pre-
been set at tSIt f5y fgfs Tie pre- yous usdecisionset
tnis court DnNtu port Va Dodge county 100
: 3; ga; and B'g!r vs. cunning county III oi,; u;
arising under thr same statute. Thereis Is
therefore no clror,in the rec cord aud the juds-
Whereas Jtfdg1 Batchford on Aprll2t. is4
from the benchofl tie United states supreme
court DECLARED I'M Rlnirys county OF cunning.
statcSt NebraskU, "lt Is urged against me
rlghtof the plaintiff 20 recover that in the
bonds and coupons tho West Point precinct
hoscof the S dttcnHest tcSmins Sgn County and Il
cannot be sued an them This question was
decided bythiS c6urt in Davenport vs. Dodge
county, Ncbrnska, O5 L. s. @7, In regard 10
precinct bOndI Iissttcd under the same statute.
and 1t was held that u suit against the county
on on coupons Gu from special poius ISSUE" ils 10y uy
the county comm sSoncrs forthe precinct was
aprOper suit And
Whereas. Chief Justice w alte OF the United
states supreme court decided March lSS2 In :,
ease against Dodge county upon bonds issued
by Fremont precinct to aid the smith bridge
river "Prccincts having no corporate exst-
tnce ana no separate municipal authorty.
they cannot enter into contracts direct " or
Indirectly nor assume obligations which "a
cou might bc called on 10 enforce, fehcc
me precinct cannot become the iEator OF
the county which does have corporate exist
cnco andcau contract and be contracted with
and ,had upon upon whose Officers I'm posed q
bonds " bat of OF prSo%rRialng S%Rial for the pay; :;
ment of them l. political entity bound
by the obligation that Is entered into and
charged with the debt created thereby.
We m nM there fore, That the special
bonds which the county ycommissl9nes are To
issue for the precinct are. i'm legal effect the
special bonds Of he county" And.
whereas The county COumiSS iOners or OtOC
county are allowing Nebraska CITY precinct To
Inc ar a Bonded de 1t rOuntng TO more than
100000 and are ereby leopard hng the prop
erty OF all other precincts In the county, we
denOunce them as without our consent max
ing us endur> erS and liable to he taNed tOpay
the debt of said Ncbrl ska CITY.
Resolved, That We are against the power 10
taN for any other thana legal purprse.
, RESOLVED, That the farmers alliance pro-
teStSindignantly agai inst the proposed gift OF
100000 to the Nebraska City highway bridge
companyo of the peoples cash. whchit Is pro-
posed to raise by burdensomc taxation,
Resolved. That we will support no man OF
any party forolticC who fa yOrs such taxation
Resolved, That we Will patronize none
Draska City me rCha ntS or mechanics VINO
| favor taxing that precinct for that bridge an 4
thereby place our property IN peru OF more
taxes to enrich IA private corporation.
| After the passage of the resolutions itwas
decided that If necessary an attorney would
posed bonds and commence injunction pro-
| ceedin gs through the outside precincts.
Some time was devoted to the consi1era-
| tion of the difference in the tax levy between
Otoe and Douglas counties which was found
to be slightly in favorOf the latter.
The alliance membership in OtOe cOun =
now numbers few over nine hundred, and
| there is but one precinct yet unOrganzed
An offer was received and rejected for the
| pu bicatiOn Of an alliance paper in this
| county.