Wright v. Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co.

Citations

• 120 Ill. 541
• 12 N.E. 240

Syllabus

<p>1. TAXATION by counties—constitutional limitation. Section 8, article 9, of the constitution of 1870, is intended as a general provision applicable to all counties, whether acting under the township system or not. The taxes therein limited to seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars, are those assessed by the county authorities for county purposes, and for no other purposes; and in counties not under township organization, taxes for roads and bridges are for county purposes.</p> <p>2. A county not under township organization can not levy and collect a road and bridge tax, which, together with the other taxes levied by it, shall exceed seventy-five cents on the one hundred dollars of taxable property.</p>