 | Illinois - Law - 1847 - 600 pages
...villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations... | |
 | Illinois. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1847 - 618 pages
...villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes lor corporate purposes, such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property, within the jurisdiction of the body imposing tha same. "SeC. C. The specification of the object* and subjects of taxation shall notdepme the genera!... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 pages
...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes fur corporate purposes ; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the bodv iniin^ing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...Tillages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes ; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - History - 1857 - 474 pages
...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes ; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations,... | |
 | Frederick Gerhard - History - 1857 - 466 pages
...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1907 - 714 pages
...improvements by special assessment or special taxation, continues: "For all other corporate purposes, all municipal corporations may be vested with authority...the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same." It is clear that a statute which leads to property constituting one-tenth, according to the assessed value,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 660 pages
...municipal corporations shall be taxed for the payment of debts contracted under authority of law; that all taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property,...within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same, and that corporate authorities shall have power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes.... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 654 pages
...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within...the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same." It is contended that the appropriation was not for a " corporate purpose." If it was for a public purpose... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 610 pages
...it be for " corporate purposes," it violates the plain letter of the constitution: because it is not "uniform" in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the tax. If, on the other hand, the tax is not for " corporate purposes," it is clearly unconstitutional... | |
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The general assembly may vest the corporate authorities of cities, towns and villages with power to make local improvements by special assessment or by special taxation of contiguous property or otherwise. For all other corporate purposes, all municipal... 
