140 Ky. 259 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1910
Opinion op the Court by
Affirming.
The fiscal court of Lincoln county appropriated a sum for educational purposes in accord with the requisition of the county board of education, and included in the tax levy a rate sufficient to meet it. The county levy is made as a whole. So much is designated for road and bridge purposes, so much for schools, so much for general purposes, and so on. The tax rate is composed, of
Nor could the sheriff and the board of education have settled on any other basis than for the sheriff to ]oay over all the sum levied and collected for school purposes. The sheriff’s commission must be allowed by the fiscal court, upon his settlement with that body. It was not competent for the board of education to pass on it, or to anticipate the action of the fiscal court, mpch less was it competent for the board to apply funds raised expressly for educational purposes, to the payment of an item of general expense against the county. The Constitution forbids it. (Section 180 Const.).
The judgment requiring the sheriff to pay over the whole sum collected for school purposes is affirmed.