Brooks v. Schultz
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court. — How. Henry C. Riley, Judge. (1) The limitations upon the power of municipal taxation in section 11, article 10, Constitution, are absolute and cover all taxes of every kind and description, and these limitations are self-enforcing.
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Appeal from Cape Girardeau Circuit Court. — How. Henry C. Riley, Judge. (1) The limitations upon the power of municipal taxation in section 11, article 10, Constitution, are absolute and cover all taxes of every kind and description, and these limitations are self-enforcing. Arnold v. Hawkins, 95 Mo. 569; Black v. McGonicle, 103 Mo. 192; Barnard v. Knox County, 105 Mo. 382; State ex rel. v. .Columbia, 111 Mo. 365. (2) Under section 12, the tax levy may be increased to pay interest and create a twenty-year sinking fund on an indebtedness up to five per cent of the assessed valuation; but only…
1Opinion of the CourtValliant, J.
In September, 1902, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Houck of Cape Girardeau, offered to establish at their own expense in that city, a free public library, and to that end to donate to the city a certain lot, and to erect thereon a library building and equip it with furniture and books at a cost, exclusive of the value of *225the lot, of not less than $30,000, on condition that the city should levy annually a tax of two mills on the dollar valuation of taxable property in its jurisdiction, for the support of the library. The proposition was accepted by the city authorities who, acting as directed in section…
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