People ex rel. Miner v. Salomon

This was an application by the Auditor of Public Accounts of this State, for a mandamus against the County Clerk of Cook county, to compel him to extend on the books of the collectors of that county, the equalized tax ordered by the State Board of Equalization.

By the alternative writ the clerk was commanded, in preparing the books for- the collectors of taxes, to provide therein five columes for values, specifying what the first and second columns should contain; and that he should extend in separate columns, State, county and all other taxes, against the equalized valuation according to the…