Moses v. Gingles’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “Obviously the reason the Legislature requires the county clerks to list contiguous tracts in any section, which are shown to be owned by one person, as one tract for publication, is to save costs of publication. The requirement is mandatory whatever the reason for its enactment, and these provisions were not repealed by Act 282 of 1935. Thomas v. Branch, 202 Ark. 338 , 150 S.W.2d 738 . In fact, Act 170 of 1935 was the only authority for the publication of the delinquent land list and the legal fee for publication is 25 cents per tract as fixed by 9, and the term `tract' as there used means a tract as limited by the proviso in 2. It necessarily follows that there was an excessive charge here of 50 cents for failure of the clerk to list the three contiguous calls under one ownership as one tract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pinkert v. Spoon

2. “Provided that within any section, a section, quarter section, eighty acres or less contiguous acreage owned by one person shall be listed and published as one tract. All contiguous city lots in any city block owned by one person shall be listed and published under one item and as one tract.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pinkert v. Spoon