People ex rel. Becker v. Miner
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a proceeding in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, on the relation of Charles Becker, against Orlin H. Miner, Auditor, on an application for mandamus. A statement of the case is fully given in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Breese
On the sixth of March, 1867, the General Assembly of this State passed an act entitled, “An act for the relief of the citizens of the American Bottom in St. Clair county,” by the first section of which it was provided, that the' State tax raised in townships one and two, north of ranges nine and ten, west of the third principal meridian, in St. Clair county, should be appropriated for the term of fire years, to assist in paying for building, improving and repairing levees and embankments, built, and to be built, by the American Bottom Board of Improvement, chartered by an act of the same…
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