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The Lexington Dispatch. Wednesday, October 29,1902. An Important Statement. To the Voters of South Carolina: The townships of Dunklin and Oak Lawn in the county of Greenville, Gokesbury, Ninety-Six and Cooper in the county of Greenwood; Sullivan in the county of Laurens, and Buiett and Pine Grove in the county Saluda, hereby call to your attention the pro posed amendment to to Article VII, Section 11 of the Constitution of 1895, which seeks to destroy the corporate existence of the said townships, and resnectfcllv ask that you vote in ?J ~ favor of the said proposed constitutional amendment, for the reason that it is the only hope to relieve the taxpayers of the s~id towships from the payment of an enormous debt for bonds issued in aid of a railroad which wae never built and for which they have received absolutely no consideration. The said bonds were illegally issued in tbe beginning as the citizens of said townships respectfully allege and will endeavor to show, and the said indebtedness has been declared null and void by the Supreme Court of South Carolina, whose decision should be accepted as final and 1 conclusive by all loyal citizens of the State, the decision of any other court I to the contrary notwithstanding. So then, the taxpayers of these townships claim: (1) That there is no moral consideration for the said indebtedness, in as much as the conditions precribed by the Act upon compliance of which alone the bonds should be issued, were never complied with and the people of these townships have received absolutely no consideration for the said enormous debt, the princi pa! alone of which amounts in the neighborhood of one hundred thousand dollars and which has been draw-' ing interest at the rate of seven per cent. for something like sixteen years. {2) That the said debt does not constitute a legal indebtedness against the said townships if we accept as final the decision of the Supreme ^ , Court of South Carotins, which it is oar duty to do. That the decison of ike Federal eoarts upon questions of this kind is not authority binding upon the State courts or the cititzens <sf a State has been frequently deaided. In the case of Congaree Constuofcion company vs. Columbia township, reported in 49; S. C., 535. At page 539 the court uses this language: "Again, it is urged that, inasmuch as the supreme oourt of the United States in the case of Folsom vs. Iftnetv-Six township, 159 U. S., 611; has been called upon to pass upon tne same questions as were consid red and decided by this court in Floyd vs. Perrin, and has taken a different view from that adopted by this oonrt as to the constitutionality of the statutes there involved, (our own court in that case having held ^h? bonds invalid), this court should | bow, with a view to securing uniform| ity of judicial decision, abandon its f previous well considered opinion and adopt the view taken by the supreme l court of the United States. While this court fully recognizes the superior, authority and biding force of all t decisions of that distinguished tri| bunal in all cases involving the construction of the constitution and laws of the United States and is always ready to cheerfully follow and 1 acquiesce in each decisions, yet we do not recognize the superior authorIB ity of that tribonal, or the binding BR force of its decisions, involving only 111 the construction or validity of own 3B| State constitution and laws. Upon E|| such questions it is our sworn duty to pass, untrammeled by the dicta of ||| foreign tribunal, whether State or iff .Federal, no matter how high its rank W may be, and to decide such questions according to our best judgment." Thefacts are briefly these: In 1885 the Legislature passed an Act to incorporate the Greenville and Port IV Royal railroad company in certain igf important particulars, and among this If incorporating certain townships along P the line of the said proposed railway, and authorized these townships to subscribe to the capital stock upon _ the terms and conditions therein expressed. These conditions were never I complied with, and the records in the ?? I i office of the county commissioners for the various counties will so show. The said bonds would, therefore, be invalid in the hands of the original parties to whom they were issued. Notwithstanding the failure to comply with the conditions precedent required by the Act, bonds on behalf of these several townships were issued in an amount varying from ten to twenty thousand dollars to each township. A company was organized for the pretended purpose of construct ing said road. This company pretended to be grading the road, and thereby secured from the county commissioners the issue of the said bonds. Shortly thereafter the company failed and left the grading in incomplete condition, and the people have no prospects whatever of ever getting the said road. An action was brought iu the State courts for the purpose of testing the validity of these bonds, and the State court decided the Act unconstitutional and the bonds invalid. (See Floyd va Perrin, 30 S. C., page 1) Thereafter certain parties, who claimed to be non residents and subsequent pur* -.1 3 !H L 1 * ? cnasers ior vaiue ana wiroouc dohcp, (tbe bonds being invalid in the hands of the original holders, for the reasons above specified) brought their action in the United States court to test the validity of the said bonds, and the United States court refused to follow the decision of the State court in Floyd vs. Perrin and decided in favor of said bondholders. That is to say, that the said bonds were good in the hands of the non residents who might have purchased the same for value and without notice of those facts above recited, and which would go to impeach the validitv of tbe said bonds. (This too in face of tbe fact that the records in the office of the county commisiooers for the various counties which records are public records and notice to the ?-1.3 A 'eal/vRA all r\t fVia fo/tfa fkof States court and thus evade tbe decisions of the State court. The debt againRt Dunklin and Oak Lawn townships, in Greenville county, alone amounts in principal and ac crued interest to something like thirty thousand dollars each. The principal of bonds on behalf of Cokesbury, Ninety-Six and Cooper townships amount to $48 800. The other townships are similarly affected. You can imagine what an enormous tax will be required to pay this debt, and the number of homes that will have to be sold in order to meet tfhis unjust tax, if some means of escape cannot be devised. It nangs over toe property or toe earn townships as a black cloud, striking terror to the hearts of our citizen* ship, shutting out all rays of hope for the future. Unless relief is had this debt will practically destroy the value of our property, since no one would care to purchase property, or move into a township with such an enormous debt hanging over it. We are advised that the supreme court of the United States itself has decided that in cases like this, where the charters of the municipal corporations are repealed, and their corporate 8gents removed, there would be no longer in existence anyone upon whom the Federal courts could lay their hands in order to enforce the collection of the tax provided for by the Act, and that the said court is limited in its jurisdiction to enforcing the machinery provided for by the Act authorizing the levy of the tax; that it cannot itself levy the tax, nor can it place the said townships in the hands of a receiver, and that in such cases the creditors are without remedy except to apply to the Legislature for relief. If this constitutional amendment, therefore, is voted, the townships having no longer any legal existence would have no corporate agent upon whom the Federal courts could lay their hands for the purpose of compelling the levy of the tax, and we would thereby be relieved from the payment of this unjust, illegal and iniquitous tax which we are called upon to pav, and for which there ie no consideration either legal or moral We, therefore, oak our fellow ciH zens to stand bv the derision of the State court. If a citizen of South Carolina held any of these bonds he could not recover. Uoder the decision of the Federal courts a nonresident purchaser for valuable con sideration and without notice can recover, thereby urnn8tlv discr'miDatiner 8gainst. the citizens of our own State if the said debt is a just one and shonld be paid. We most earnestly ask onr fellow-citizens to he sure to vote the printed tickets, which will be furnished the managers at the next general election. "Constitutional Amendment o? Section 11 of Article YII of the Constitution, relating to Counties and County Government, Ye*;" and also nsfl their influence at. the noils to see WUllUf Ut&UtVSetU Oil V( tuo lauyn iua" would go to impeach the validity of the said bonds.) Since then the matter has been in litigation, until finally judgments have been obtained against several of these townships upon coupons representing a part only of the accrued interests, and mandates have been issued by the United States court authorizing a levy and collection of a tax to meet the judgments olroodc Mitftined. and nnitn arc atill pending against some of the townships; and inasmuch as the first instalment of the principal of the said bonds falls doe this year other suits will surely follow, since it appears that these bonds, or at least a large portion of them (the exact amount we do not know), have found their way into the hands of non resi dents who can sne in the United hat others vote tbe same way. 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