25 Or. 449 | Or. | 1894
Opinion by
Under the general law the county court is authorized to divide the county into road districts, to appoint road supervisors, and to repair and work the roads or highways, etc.: Hill’s Code, § 4061, et seg. By subdivision 4 of section 4085, in counties containing ten thousand inhabitants or over, the county court is invested with jurisdiction to levy and collect a road tax not to exceed the amount specified therein, and, in addition thereto, a poll tax for road purposes in the same manner and at the same time as county taxes, which shall be paid into the county treasury and kept as a separate fund, and apportioned to the several road districts of the county in the manner therein indicated. As Marion County, in which the city of Salem is located, is a county containing over ten thousand inhabitants, all portions of it, including the territory of the city of Salem, are subject to the jurisdic
Reversed.