Allen v. People ex rel. Hopkins

Citations

• 84 Ill. 502

Syllabus

<p>1. Board op supervisors—representation of cities — construction of Township Organization Law of 1874. The language of the first proviso of section one of article seven, of chapter 139, Rev. Stat. of 1874, in regard to any city not included within the limits of any town, has reference to such cities as are not included in any organized town, and as are named in section twenty of article one of same act, and constitutes separate towns by the name of such cities, respectively.</p> <p>3. Section one of the act of 1874, entitled “An act to revise the law in relation to township organization,” was not intended throughout to apply only to towns and such cities as were not included within the limits of any town, leaving all other cities as before; and although cities which are included within the limits of a town are not expressly provided for by name, yet, being included within the limits of the town, and a component part thereof, they are provided for under the name of towns,—the inhabitants of such cities, for the purpose of representation, being regarded as inhabitants of the towns in which the cities are, respectively, included.</p> <p>3. Where, under any special act, the representation of any town in the board of supervisors was less than the representation provided by tlfe law of 1874, the special act is, by that law, expressly superseded and made to cease to operate, and it matters not that the exclusive representation of a city which is a part of a town is less by the act of 1874 than under the special act, or be taken away entirely, so that that of the town in which the city is situated be increased.</p>