Hasbrouck v. City of Milwaukee
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaulcee County. By tbe first section of cbap. 171 of tbe local acts of 1853, tbe mayor and common council of tbe city of Milwaukee were “ authorized to issue bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars,” “to raise money to be expended in tbe construction of a harbor” in that city.
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaulcee County. By tbe first section of cbap. 171 of tbe local acts of 1853, tbe mayor and common council of tbe city of Milwaukee were “ authorized to issue bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars,” “to raise money to be expended in tbe construction of a harbor” in that city. Tbe second section of tbe act declared that “ for tbe purpose of constructing such harbor, tbe said common council shall [should] have tbe power to open a new channel from tbe Milwaukee river into tbe deep water of Lake Michigan and that “said common…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Dixoit, O. J.
The power of municipal corporations, when authorized by the legislature, to engage in works of internal improvement, such as the building of railroads, canals, harbors and the like, or to loan their credit in aid thereof, and to defray the expenses of such improvements and make good their pledges by an exercise of the *44power of taxing tbe persons and property of their citizens, always been sustained on the ground that such works, although they are in general operated and controlled by private corporations, are nevertheless, by reason of the fácil-7. ... . „ .. „ . . .…
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