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This is a petition for a writ of mandate to compel the county treasurer of Yuba County to pay the purchase price of a Veterans’ Memorial Hall at Marysville, which had been contracted for by the board of supervisors.

The petition alleges that the board of supervisors duly levied a tax upon the assessable property of that county in 1922 and each succeeding year until 1929, at a rate not to exceed three mills per dollar of the assessable value thereof, for the purpose of creating a fund with which to purchase an assembly hall for the use of the honorably discharged veteran soldiers, sailors and marines who had served in wars for the United States; that the fund thus created, aggregating the sum of $158,093.85, was set apart and paid into a special veterans’ memorial fund; that, on December 3, 1929, pursuant to section 4041f of the Political Code, the board of supervisors duly adopted a resolution to purchase from the petitioner lots 5, 6 and 7 of block 9, range F, as designated on the recorded map of Marysville, Tuba County, California, together with the Veterans’ Memorial Hall and improvements thereon, for the sum of $150,000; that notice of the intention to- purchase this property…