People ex rel. City of Springfield v. Power
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an application for a mandamus. The following is the petition: To the honorable the Justices of the Supreme Court, at a term thereof begun and holden at Springfield, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-one.
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This was an application for a mandamus. The following is the petition: To the honorable the Justices of the Supreme Court, at a term thereof begun and holden at Springfield, on the Tuesday after the first Monday of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and sixty-one. Respectfully represents unto your honors, the city of Springfield, in the State of Illinois, that during the session of the General Assembly of Illinois, in eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, a law was passed by said General Assembly, entitled “ An Act to amend the Charter of the City of Springfield,” in which it was…
1Opinion of the CourtBreese, J.
The single question presented by this record, is. the constitutionality of the 12th section of “An act to amend the charter of the city of Springfield,” approved Feb. 18, 1859. (Laws of 1859, page 272.) The section is as follows:
“ The County Court of Sangamon county shall'cause an accurate account to be kept of all expenditures made for county purposes, and shall charge all expenditures made for county purposes, (excepting for the making and repairing of roads and highways, and the building and repairing of bridges,) in said county, without said city, rateably to said county and to the city…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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