New York Supreme Court August 15, 1895 (Bush v. Board of Supervisors)

Brown, J.

The principal question presented in this action is as to the constitutionality of chapter 664, Laws of 1892, which is entitled “An act to enable the several cities and towns of this state which have not already done so to refund the money expended in furnishing substitutes or in commutation by the men who were drafted into the military service of the United States and held to service in