City of Chicago v. Nichols
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. The city council of the city of Chicago, on the 18th day of March, 1897, passed the annual appropriation ordinance or bill for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1897. One item appropriated the sum of $600,000 “for oil, kerosene and gas for lighting street and bridge lamps, cleaning", lighting and repairing, salaries for gas inspectors and watchmen at the test meters, and for electric…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Murray F. Tuley, Judge, presiding. The city council of the city of Chicago, on the 18th day of March, 1897, passed the annual appropriation ordinance or bill for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1897. One item appropriated the sum of $600,000 “for oil, kerosene and gas for lighting street and bridge lamps, cleaning", lighting and repairing, salaries for gas inspectors and watchmen at the test meters, and for electric light plant maintenance.” Another item appropriated the sum of $25,000 for the “expenses of the extension of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Boggs
The corporate expenditures or appropriations of the city in any one year cannot lawfully exceed the amount provided for in the annual appropriation bill of that year, and no contract can be legally made or expense incurred by the city or its comptroller unless the object of the contract or expenditure shall have been included in the general appropriation bill and an appropriation thereof made in such annual bill, unless such contract or expenditure is warranted by the proviso to paragraph 90 of chapter 24 of the Revised Statutes, entitled “Cities,” etc., which, so far as need here be noted,…
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