People ex rel. Hawkinson v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.

Dunn and Cartwright, JJ.,

dissenting:

Section 4 of article 12 of the Township Organization act requires the town clerk to certify to the county clerk, annually, the amount of taxes required to be raised for all town purposes. The authority of the county clerk for the extension of tovrn taxes is the certificate of the town clerk, without which any attempt to extend such tax is illegal and void, and back of the certificate must be a levy of the tax by the proper township authorities. (Indiana, Decatur and Western Railway Co. v. People, 201 Ill. 351.) In this case the certificate of the town clerk…