Town of Abington v. Cabeen

Citations

• 106 Ill. 200
• 1883 Ill. LEXIS 160

Syllabus

<p>Statute—whether the provisions of an act are expressed in the title ■—of the “Act to incorporate the Dixon and Quincy Railroad Company”— authorizing townships to give aid to the company, etc. The fourth section of the act approved March 4, 1869, entitled “An act to incorporate the Dixon and Quincy Railroad Company,” assumes to confer on townships power to subscribe to the capital stock of or to make donations to said company, and provides for elections to decide as to such subcriptions or donations, for taxation for the payment of the same if voted, and for the issue of bonds to represent the same, etc. It is held that section does not cover and embrace a subject not expressed in the title of the act, within the meaning of the provision in the constitution of 1848, declaring that “no private or local law which may be passed by the General Assembly shall include more than one subject, and that shall be embraced in the title,” and is therefore not unconstitutional. The provisions in such section are so far germane to the subject expressed in the title as to be fairly embraced therein.</p>