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  "name": "Hughes v. Ross, Collector",
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      "Hughes v. Ross, Collector."
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        "text": "Harrison, J.\nThe warrants tendered the appellee afforded no evidence that the allowance upon which they were issued was for indebtedness of the county existing at the time of the adoption of the present constitution. They were dated subsequent thereto, and drawn upon the fund appropriated for county expenditures.\nHad they been issued previous to its adoption, or though issued after, been drawn on the fund to be raised by the tax for the payment of the antecedent indebtedness, it would have conclusively appeared that they were of that class of the county\u2019s indebtedness. But the dates and the fund upon which they were drawn plainly indicated the contrary, and the appellee could determine only from their face the class of indebtedness to which they belonged, and he was prohibited by the proviso in the act of December 14th, 1875, to prevent discrimination in county warrants, from receiving them iu payment of the tax for which they were offered. Loftin v. Watson, 32 Ark., 414.\nThe judgment is affirmed.",
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        "author": "Harrison, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "U. M. Bose for appellant.",
      "R. T. Fuller and T. B. Martin, for appellee:"
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    "head_matter": "Hughes v. Ross, Collector.\n1. County Scrip: Tender for taxes.\nWhen county warrants tendered in payment of taxes levied to pay county indebtedness existing at the adoption of the constitution of 1874, afford no evidence that the allowance upon which they were issued was for county indebtedness prior to the adoption of that constitution, andar\u00e9 subsequent thereto, and are drawn upon the fund appropriated for county expenditures, the eollectorshouldrefusethem.\nAPPEAL from Dallas Circuit Court.\nHon. T. E. Sorrells, Circuit Judge.\nstatement.\nHughes filed in the Dallas Circuit Court his petition against Ross, as collector, alleging that the county court of said county, at the October term, 1879, levied a tax of two mills on the dollar to pay the idebtedn\u00e9ss of the county existing at the ratification of the constitution of 1874. That the petitioner was a citizen tax payer of said county, and the amount of his tax to pay said indebtedness was $20.T6^h, and that on the thirteenth day of February, 1880, he had tendered said sum to said collector in Dallas county warrants, duly issued upon an allowance or judgment made against said county by the county court at its January term, 1875, for indebtedness existing against said county at the ratification of the constitution of 1874, and said collector had refused them. That though said warrants were issued since the adoption of said constitution, they were issued upon a judgment of said court for indebtedness existing against the county before its adoption.\nThe sci\u2019ip is exhibited in form as follows ;\nNo. 59.\nSTATE OF ARKANSAS, Dallas County.\nTreasurer of the County of Dallas pay to J. L. Cheatham, or bearer, ten dollars out of any money in the treasury appropriated for county expenditures, fees State v. David Rogers.\nGiven at Princeton, this ninth day of January, 1875.\nE. M. Harris, Clerk.\nPrayer for mandamus to compel the collector to receive the scrip in payment of said county tax.\nA demurrer was sustained to the petition and the petitioner appealed.\nU. M. Bose for appellant.\nThe Act Dec. 14, 1875, (Acts 1875, jo. 151,) simply provides that \u201cnothing- in this act shall authorize the collector to receive scrip issued since the adoption of the constitution in payment of the tax levied to pay the indebtedness existing before the adoption of the constitution.\u201d It contains no prohibition, and leaves' the question in this case wholly unaffected.\nThe term, \u201cindebtedness,\u201d as used in Sec. 9, Art. 16, Const., necessarily includes all indebtedness, whether passed upon by the county court av not. The scrip held by appellant was part of that very indebtedness for the payment of which the tax was levied. It would be absurd to compel appellant to pay in currency and then apply the sum so paid to the satisfaction of his own warrants. Asleew v. Columbia Co., SZArk., 270; State v. Bives, 12 lb., 721.\nIf the collector refused to accept the warrants as payment he could be compelled to do so by mandamus. Fnglish v. Oliver, 28 ArTc., 317.\nThe judgment of the county court being in appellant\u2019s favor he could not appeal. The Statute does not require that the order of allowance should state when the services were rendered.\nR. T. Fuller and T. B. Martin, for appellee:\nIn support of the demurrer cites : Chicot (Jo. v. Tilghman, 26 Ark., 462 ; Hudson v. Jefferson Go., 28 lb., 351; Desha Go. v. Newman, 33 Ark., 88 ; Bracken v. Wells, 3 Tex., 88 ; High Fx. Seg. Rem., par. 39 ; U. 3. v. Corn's Dubuque, Morris, 42; Peck v. Booth, 42 Conn.; Corn's of Yorktown v. People, 66 Ills, 339 ; State v. Bridgman, 8 Kan., 458 ; Mansfield v. Fuller, 50 Mo., 338."
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