...rights of the parties to the controversy were fixed, was as follows : " The corporate authorities-of counties, townships, school districts, cities, towns...assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes." In 1853 the corporation of Ottawa was incorporated as a city with the following among other powers...

...constitution of that state which declares that the corporate authorities of counties, townships, 'etc., may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes. Bonds issued under authority of the act are valid, the object of the act being held to be a corporate...

...appointed in such manner as the General Assembly shall direct, and not otherwise." Section 5 directs that " The corporate authorities of counties, townships,...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect axes for corporate purposes; such taxes tp be uniform in respect to persons and property within the...

...corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to his or her property," and that "the corporate authorities, etc., may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes, such taxes to be uniform with respect to persons and property withiu the Jurisdiction of the body Imposing the ваше." "These...

...municipal corporations may be vested with authority to assess and collect taxes, but such taxes shall uty o SEC. 7. [Property exempt.]— Private property shall not be liable to be BEO. 1. 4 Neb. 539. 5 Id....

...constitution of 1848 declared 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," etc. But where a similar provision was embodied in sections 9 and 10 of article 9 of the constitution...

...local powers to be granted, namely that taxation other than special assessments must be uniform with respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same; that no municipality be permitted to secure any interest in the stock of any railway or private corporation;...

...corporate authorities than those of counties, townships, schooldistricts, cities, towns, and villages could be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes, (Harvvard v. Drainage Co., 51 111. 130, People v. Mayor, Id. 17;) and this upon the ground that the...

...similar decisions have b<?en based upon a narrower ground. The constitution of the state provides that " the corporate authorities of counties, townships,...assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes;" and this, it is held, by implication precludes the levy of local taxes, or the contracting of local...

...(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...