Essays in Municipal AdministrationMacmillan, 1908 - 374 strani |
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Stran 235 - No law shall be passed by the General Assembly, granting the right to construct and operate a Street Railroad within any city, town, or incorporated village, without requiring the consent of the local authorities having the control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such street Railroad.
Stran 95 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Stran 137 - The city council may, in its discretion, from time to time, by ordinance passed by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elected, provide for the election by the legal voters of the city, or the appointment by the mayor, with the approval of the city council, of a city collector, a city marshal, a city superintendent of streets, a corporation counsel, a city comptroller, or any or either of them, and such...
Stran 251 - Pet. 420, is this : that any ambiguity in the terms of the grant must operate against the corporation and in favor of the public, and the corporation can claim nothing that is not clearly given by the law.
Stran 158 - Every municipal corporation within this State shall have the right to engage in any business or enterprise which may be engaged in by a person, firm, or corporation by virtue of a franchise from said municipal corporation.
Stran 232 - ... under the city ordinance as the Chicago City Railway Company, for a period of twenty-five years, and authorizing the construction and operation of street railways upon terms and conditions provided by the common council. Authority was also given to extend the lines to any part of Cook County, by the exercise of the power of eminent domain, or with the assent of the supervisor of any township for laying tracks in the highways. The same powers were granted to another group of individuals, as the...
Stran 183 - Apportionment, a body composed of the Mayor, the Comptroller, and the President of the Board of Aldermen, each having three votes, and the Presidents of the five boroughs with seven votes altogether.
Stran 90 - Meeting, to impose any reasonable Tax upon all Houses within the said city, in proportion to the benefit they shall receive thereby, for and towards the making, cutting, altering, enlarging, amending, cleansing and scouring all and singular the said Vaults, Drains, Severs, Pavements and Pitching aforesaid.
Stran 251 - It is a firmly established rule . . . that one who asserts private rights in public property under grants of the character of those under consideration [city ordinances], must, if he would establish them, come prepared to show that they have been conferred in plain terms, for nothing passes by the grant except it be clearly stated or necessarily implied.
Stran 69 - While the mayor had no power of appointment, these combinations of several offices in his own person served to centre the administration to a considerable degree in his hands. His influence in the management of municipal matters was further increased by the fact that he was usually a man of considerable experience in the affairs of the corporation and that in practice he held office a considerable number of years. The Recorder was the member of the borough government supposed to know most about legal...