People v. Maynard
Illinois Supreme Court
This was a petition filed in this court, setting forth that the city of Rockford was regularly incorporated under the fifth and sixth sections of an act of the general assembly, entitled “ An Act to incorporate towns and cities,” approved February 10th, a. d. 1849, and that the first election under the said city organization was held on the third Monday of April, a. d. 1852; that the mayor and aldermen took the oaths of office and entered upon their duties; that an ordinance…
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This was a petition filed in this court, setting forth that the city of Rockford was regularly incorporated under the fifth and sixth sections of an act of the general assembly, entitled “ An Act to incorporate towns and cities,” approved February 10th, a. d. 1849, and that the first election under the said city organization was held on the third Monday of April, a. d. 1852; that the mayor and aldermen took the oaths of office and entered upon their duties; that an ordinance was passed by the city council requiring all male inhabitants of said city, over the age of twenty-one years, to labor…
1Opinion of the Court
Catón, J.
It is not without regret that we feel constrained to concur with the mayor of Rockford in the conclusion that the law which confers upon him judicial powers is in conflict with the first and twenty-seventh sections of the fifth article of our constitution. That first section is as follows : “ The judicial power of this State shall be, and is hereby vested in one supreme court, in circuit courts, in county courts, and in justices of the peace; provided, that inferior local courts of civil and criminal jurisdiction may be established by the general assembly in the cities of this State,…
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