People ex rel. Billings v. Riggs

Citations

• 56 Ill. 483

Syllabus

<p>1. Legal tender notes—redmvption from tare sale under revenue la/w of 1853. Where land was sold for taxes while section 43 of the revenue law of February 13,1858, was in force, which required that the redemption money from such sales should be paid in specie, it was held incompetent for the legislature, after the sale, to provide for the redemption to be made in United States legal tender notes. And so much of the act of January 13,1863, as provided for the redemption from sales for taxes theretofore made, in legal tender notes, was unconstitutional and void.</p> <p>3. Nor did the several acts of congress of 1863 and 1863, making United States treasury notes a legal tender for debts, have the effect of making such notes a legal tender for the redemption of lands sold for taxes before their passage, and while the provision of the revenue law of this State, of February 13,1853, requiring such redemption to be made in specie, was still in force.</p>