McKie v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““That under said chapters 770 and 893 of the Public Daws, hereinabove referred to, in and by which said town of New Shoreham was authorized to aid in the purchase of or construct a steamboat or steamboats for the transportation of passengers and freight to and from said town, and to hold and operate the same as in and by said acts is set forth, the right of said town to make appropriations for said purposes is expressly limited by said chapter 770 to a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), and by said chapter 893 to a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) in addition to tlie sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) authorized and appropriated by said town under section 1 of said chapter 770; and in and by said acts, said town was authorized to hire said money for the purposes sot forth in said acts, and to issue the notes or bonds of said town for said sums respectively, in such form and ujion such terms as the town council of said town might determine. “And this defendant avers that at a special town meeting of the electors of the town of New Shoreham, qualified to vote for the expenditure of money therein, held in said town on the twenty-seventh day of April, A. D. 1900, said electors, by a majority vote, appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the purposes mentioned in said chapter 770 of the Public Laws, and authorized and directed the town treasurer to hire said sum for said purposes, and to sign, execute and deliver the ne”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rose v. McKie