 | 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 - 1914 - 714 pages
...local improvements by special assessment, or by special taxation of contiguous property, or otherwise. For all other corporate purposes, all municipal corporations...within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same." Counsel for appellants also insist that the word "towns," as it occurs in said section 9 of the constitution,... | |
 | 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 - 1918 - 720 pages
...improvements by special assessments or by special taxation of contiguous property, or otherwise, and that for all other corporate purposes all municipal corporations...vested with authority to assess and collect taxes, and that the General Assembly shall not impose taxes upon municipal corporations, or the inhabitants... | |
 | 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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For all other corporate purposes, all 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 the same. 
