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58 N.H. 40

Perry v. Keene

Supreme Court of New Hampshire

Decided December 5, 1876

Supreme Court of New Hampshire · decided 1876-12-05

Bill in Equity (reported in 56 N. H. 514), brought by tax-payers of the city of Keene, for an injunction to prevent the execution of a vote of the city councils appropriating money to aid in the construction of that part of the Manchester and Keene Railroad which shall be laid out between Greenfield and Keene.

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Decided 1876-12-05

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Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 1958

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Doe, C. J.

¶1 Any town may, by a two-thirds vote, appropriate money to aid in the construction of a railroad ; all provisions of statutes relating to towns, apply to cities; the administration of all the fiscal, prudential, and municipal affairs of any city, and the government thereof, is vested in the city councils ; and all the powers vested by law in towns, or in the inhabitants thereof, are exercised by the city councils. Gen. St., c. 34, ss. 4, 16; c. 40, ss. 2, 3; c. 44,“s. 1. Under these statutes the city councils of Keene were authorized, without a popular vote, to malee the appropriation, and it was not rendered invalid by the stipulation limiting it to that part of the road nearest to Keene.

¶2 Bill dismissed.

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