City of East St. Louis v. Wider

Citations

• 46 Ill. 351

Syllabus

<p>1. License—of payment of—tender of police commissioner’s certificates. Where an ordinance of a city requires a merchant’s license to sell goods, and imposes a penalty for its violation, and provides that only the currency of the United States or city orders shall be1 a tender therefor—and a tender is made of the certificates of indebtedness of the police commissioners, in payment of such license: Iffld, that the certificates of indebtedness of the police commissioners were not city orders, in contemplation of the ordinance, and were properly refused; and that the ordinance which made the certificates of indebtedness of the police commissioners, a tender in payment of city taxes, did not make them a tender in payment of license.</p>