...(page 268) that section 5 of article 9 of the Constitution of Illinois contained a provision requiring "such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and...within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same"; the court adding (page 275): "The frameraofoor Constitution have taken unexampled pains by these separate...

...that clause which provides that "the corporate authorities of counties, townships, school-districts, cities, towns, and villages may be vested with power...assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes." Numerous decisions of the state court, to which our attention was called in other cases, construe that...

...support of this objection, decisions in Illinois are cited. The constitution to that state provided that "the corporate authorities of counties, townships,...property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the ваше," and It was held that a subscription to stock of a railroad under a vote of the people when...

...purely a local municipal purpose. The provision in the Illinois constitution thus construed is that "the corporate authorities of counties, townships,...to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes" (Const 1848, art. 9, § 5), and it seems to be held In that state that under It the legislature cannot...

...purposes. On the contrary, by section 5, art. 9, of that constitution, it was expressly provided that "the corporate authorities of counties, townships,...assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes." In the following year, under these provisions, the legislature, on the 12th of February, 1849, passed...

...of the municipal body to be affected thereby — the object of the constitutional provision that " the corporate authorities of counties, townships,...with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate Opinion of the Court. purposes," being to define as well the class of municipal officers upon whom...

...of the municipal body to be affected thereby — the object of the constitutional provision that " the corporate authorities of counties, townships,...with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate • Opinion of the Court. purposes," being to define as well the class of municipal officers upon whom...

...ot municipal corporations shall be taxed for the payment of debts contracted under authority of law, such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and...within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. Private property shall not be liable to be taken or sold for the payment of the corporate debts of...

...municipal corporations may be vested with authority to assess and collect taxes ; but such taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing tlie same. § 10. The general assembly shall not impose taxes upon municipal corporations, or the inhabitants...

...shall be taxed for the payment of debts contracted under authority o1' law, such ta.ves ILLINOIS. 411 to be uniform in respect to persons and property,...within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. Private property shall not be liable to be taken or sold for the payment of the corporate debts of...