 It shall be the duty of the Legislature, and they are hereby empowered 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,...  Laws of the State of Wisconsin - Page 573by Wisconsin - 1877Full view - About this book
 | Wisconsin - 1869 - 302 pages
...jury. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the legislature, and they are hereby empowered, to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages,...contracting debts by such municipal corporations. SEC. 4. The legislature shall not have power to create, authorize, or incorporate, by any general or... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott - Corporation law - 1869 - 1028 pages
...constitution of 1846, art. 8, § 9,— that " it shall be the duty of the legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages,...credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations," — does not restrain the legislature from conferring... | |
 | Iowa - 1917 - 656 pages
...appraised value. The Constitution of Iowa, however, provides that no "county or other political or municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable... | |
 | Social sciences - 1896 - 522 pages
...the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages by general laws, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment,...debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent the abuse of such power."2 (3) "All laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1891 - 794 pages
...does not. The language of the section, so far as material to be now stated, is: "No * * * eity * * * or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted, in any manner or for any purpose, to an amount * * * in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the... | |
 | Social sciences - 1891 - 470 pages
...consider and report on the organization and power of cities and incorporated villages, and especially on their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit. The majority of the committee reported in favor of prohibiting local assessment for any improvements... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1150 pages
...no money in its treasury. The Constitution of Iowa declares that "No county, or other political or (d ˍ` :,} q obM g / f׃ !ݣZ = '4@_ ;p %"36 }# n /l , for any purpose, to an amount in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1912 - 926 pages
...as follows: "It shall be the duty of the Legislature, and they are hereby empowered, to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages,...assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts and lonning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and taxation, nnd in contracting debts... | |
 | Municipal government - 1917 - 814 pages
...making it the duty of the legislature "to provide by general laws for the organization of cities, towns, and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power...and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessment and in contracting debts by such municipal corporations." The act submitting the above amendments... | |
 | 1885 - 416 pages
...creditors of guch bank or association. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages,...money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, BO aa to prevent abuses in assessments, and in contracting debt by such municipal corporation. *SEC.... | |
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