People ex rel. Graff v. Institution of Protestant Deaconesses

Citations

• 71 Ill. 229

Syllabus

<p>1. Statute—whether subject embraced in title. The purpose of the constitutional provision that no private or local law should embrace more than one subject, and that that should be expressed in the title, was, that such an act should not only embrace but one subject, but that the title of the act should afford some information of the subject of it.</p> <p>3. If a private act, entitled “An act to incorporate the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses, and to provide for the encouragement and control of an hospital in Chicago,” should grant the power to establish and maintain an orphan house, insane asylum, or a school, in other parts of the State, outside of Chicago, it would he liable to the constitutional objection, that it embraced more than one subject, and that not expressed in the title.</p> <p>3. Corporation—construction of charter. A corporation was created by a private act of the legislature of this State, on the 7th of March, 1867, entitled “An act to incorporate the Institution of Protestant Deaconesses, and to provide for the encouragement and control of an hospital in Chicago.” The whole body of the act relates exclusively to an hospital therein named, situated in Chicago, except the second and third sections, which in general terms authorize the corporation to establish, regulate and control any hospital, orphan house, insane asylum or school necessary and proper for carrying out the general object of the act, without any reference to the place or places at which this may be done: Held, that, the corporation is, by this charter, restricted, as to place, to Chicago, and can not establish and maintain schools, hospitals or asylums in any part of the State outside of Chicago.</p>