People ex rel. Knecht v. Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad

By a special act of the General Assembly approved on March 30, 1869, and adopted by a vote of the electors of the city of Shelbyville, the territory of that city was constituted a union school district known as Shelbyville Graded School and governed by a board of education. ( 3 Private Laws of 1869, p. 422.) Among the powers conferred upon the board of education was that of levying a tax in each year for school purposes, not exceeding three per cent upon the assessed value of the real and personal property in the district; In August, 1920, the board of education levied $35,000 for building…