Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1909 — GRAVEL ROADS BONDS VALID [ARTICLE]

GRAVEL ROADS BONDS VALID

Authority’s Opinion With Reference to Supreme Court Decision. Indianapolis, Nov. 23. —A question concerning the validity of the bonds issued under the township levy gravel road law, declared unconstitutional by the supreme court, has set the lawyers searching through their libraries to ascertain whether he bonds, said to aggregate from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000, have been invalidated. Louis B. Ewbank. an attorney of this city, who has followed the decisions of the supreme court more closely, perhaps, than any other attorney in the state, has made the following statement: “The five decisions, holding the law of 1905 unconstitutional, which provides for 'gravel roads by taxation,' did not declare any bonds already issued to be invalid. Two of the cases merely decided that boards of commissioners could be enjoined from issuing any more gravel road bonds under that particular law, and in the other three cases the court held that a proceeding to construct a. gravel road under that law must be dismissed if timely objection is made before any bonds have been Issued."