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... municipal corporations are numbered by thousands , and the inhabitants subjected to their rule by millions . Our municipalities are habitually clothed by the legislatures with extensive , important , and diversified powers , and con ...
... municipal corporations are numbered by thousands , and the inhabitants subjected to their rule by millions . Our municipalities are habitually clothed by the legislatures with extensive , important , and diversified powers , and con ...
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... Municipality 54. Municipal Corporations Reform Act of 1835 , and Revised Act of 1882 § 55. Legislative Sanction Essential to Corporate Existence ; Prescription § 56. Number and Frequency of Corporate Creations 57. Congress may create ...
... Municipality 54. Municipal Corporations Reform Act of 1835 , and Revised Act of 1882 § 55. Legislative Sanction Essential to Corporate Existence ; Prescription § 56. Number and Frequency of Corporate Creations 57. Congress may create ...
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... Municipal Corporations 2852 § 1639. Limited Liability of New England Towns 2854 § 1640. Limited Liability of Counties 2856 § 1641. Statutory and Implied Liability of New England Towns 2858 § 1642. Same Subject ; Hill v . Boston 2861 ...
... Municipal Corporations 2852 § 1639. Limited Liability of New England Towns 2854 § 1640. Limited Liability of Counties 2856 § 1641. Statutory and Implied Liability of New England Towns 2858 § 1642. Same Subject ; Hill v . Boston 2861 ...
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... Municipal Corporations of Great Britain , by abolishing these self - elected and perpetual councils , by organizing the corporations upon a uniform model , and by establishing in the act the principle that the councils should be ...
... Municipal Corporations of Great Britain , by abolishing these self - elected and perpetual councils , by organizing the corporations upon a uniform model , and by establishing in the act the principle that the councils should be ...
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... corporations , for objects not pertaining to municipal rule , is to per- vert the institution from its legitimate ends , and to require of it duties which it is not adapted satisfactorily to execute . Some of the evil effects of municipal ...
... corporations , for objects not pertaining to municipal rule , is to per- vert the institution from its legitimate ends , and to require of it duties which it is not adapted satisfactorily to execute . Some of the evil effects of municipal ...
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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.