East St. Louis & Treasurer of East St. Louis v. United States Ex Rel. Zebley

The relator having recovered judgments in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois upon bonds issued by the city of East St. Louis, a municipal corporation of that State, was awarded in this proceeding a peremptory mandamus. The directions of the judgment are as follows:

“ That said defendant,' the- city of East St. Louis, do, through its proper corporate authorities, levy and collect full one per cent. per annum taxes upon the assessed and equalized valuation of all the real and personal taxable property of said city for the year a. d. .1883, and subsequent…