Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations, Volume 1 |
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... limit the action of municipality to the adoption of amendments in the manner prescribed by the Constitutions . But ... limits of a city is an amendment of the city freeholders ' charter , and is invalid , if it has not been submitted to ...
... limit the action of municipality to the adoption of amendments in the manner prescribed by the Constitutions . But ... limits of a city is an amendment of the city freeholders ' charter , and is invalid , if it has not been submitted to ...
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... limit is that the legislature must not delegate its function as the law - making branch of the government . Special ... limits mentioned in the act ) selected from all others . This is local or special legisla- tion within the meaning of ...
... limit is that the legislature must not delegate its function as the law - making branch of the government . Special ... limits mentioned in the act ) selected from all others . This is local or special legisla- tion within the meaning of ...
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... limit to 10 per cent . On an application for a mandamus brought by a judgment creditor whose judg- ment was founded upon a contract entered into in 1873 , the Supreme Court of that State held , that the power of taxation as it existed ...
... limit to 10 per cent . On an application for a mandamus brought by a judgment creditor whose judg- ment was founded upon a contract entered into in 1873 , the Supreme Court of that State held , that the power of taxation as it existed ...
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... limit the employment to members of labor unions in good standing . So far have the demands of laborers and labor ... limits of the district ( Idaho Const . , 1889 , art . xiii . § 2 ) . at the pleasure of the legislature . West " Eight ...
... limit the employment to members of labor unions in good standing . So far have the demands of laborers and labor ... limits of the district ( Idaho Const . , 1889 , art . xiii . § 2 ) . at the pleasure of the legislature . West " Eight ...
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... limits , or the State may appoint agents of its own to build it , and empower them to create a loan to pay for the ... limit , even for the purpose of meeting the cost of a public improve of government , created for political purposes ...
... limits , or the State may appoint agents of its own to build it , and empower them to create a loan to pay for the ... limit , even for the purpose of meeting the cost of a public improve of government , created for political purposes ...
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Page 409 - ... before or at the time of incurring such indebtedness, provision shall be made for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such indebtedness as it falls due, and also provision to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof on or before maturity, which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 409 - Education, or school district, shall incur any indebtedness or liability in any manner, or for any purpose, exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for it for such year, without the assent of two-thirds of the qualified electors thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose...
Page 205 - The liberty mentioned in that amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways ; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper,...
Page 334 - In all other cases where a general law can be made applicable, no special law shall be enacted.
Page 554 - When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in effect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created.
Page 449 - It is a general and undisputed proposition of law that a municipal corporation possesses and can exercise the following powers, and no others : First, those granted in express words; second, those necessarily or fairly implied in or incident to the powers expressly granted ; third, those essential to the accomplishment of the declared objects and purposes of the corporation — not simply convenient, but indispensable.
Page 135 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 58 - It is chiefly for the purpose of clothing bodies of men in succession with these qualities and capacities that corporations were invented and are in use. By these means, a perpetual succession of individuals are capaple of acting for the promotion of the particular object, like one immortal being.
Page 418 - Any county, city, school district or other municipal corporation incurring any indebtedness as aforesaid, shall before, or at the time of doing so, provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 173 - All city, town and village officers, whose election or appointment is not provided for by this Constitution, shall be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the Legislature shall designate for that purpose.