The New Constitution of the State of Illinois: Ratified by the People, July 2, 1870Company, 1870 - 34 pages |
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... dollars have gone East every year for the purchase of products which could have been as well supplied here . In insurance alone , the sum which has thus been poured into the coffers of Eastern capitalists , and which , if kept at home ...
... dollars have gone East every year for the purchase of products which could have been as well supplied here . In insurance alone , the sum which has thus been poured into the coffers of Eastern capitalists , and which , if kept at home ...
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... dollars ) , hold any office of honor or profit under the authority of this State . § 4. No person who has been , or hereafter shall be , convicted of bribery , perjury , or other infamous crime , nor any person who has been or may be a ...
... dollars ) , hold any office of honor or profit under the authority of this State . § 4. No person who has been , or hereafter shall be , convicted of bribery , perjury , or other infamous crime , nor any person who has been or may be a ...
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... dollars ; and moneys thus borrowed shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained , or to pay the debt thus created , and to no other purpose ; and no other debt , except for the purpose of repelling invasion , suppressing ...
... dollars ; and moneys thus borrowed shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained , or to pay the debt thus created , and to no other purpose ; and no other debt , except for the purpose of repelling invasion , suppressing ...
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... dollars , inclusive of all appropriations heretofore made , without first sub- mitting the proposition for an additional expenditure to the legal voters of the State , at a general election , nor unless a majority of all the votes cast ...
... dollars , inclusive of all appropriations heretofore made , without first sub- mitting the proposition for an additional expenditure to the legal voters of the State , at a general election , nor unless a majority of all the votes cast ...
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... dollars per annum , payable quarterly , until otherwise provided by law . And after said salaries shall be fixed by law , the salaries of the judges in office shall not be increased or diminished during the terms for which said judges ...
... dollars per annum , payable quarterly , until otherwise provided by law . And after said salaries shall be fixed by law , the salaries of the judges in office shall not be increased or diminished during the terms for which said judges ...
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Page 15 - Neither the general assembly nor any county, city, town, township, school district or other public corporation shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary or scientific institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination whatever ; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money or other personal property ever...
Page 20 - No railroad corporation shall consolidate its stock, property or franchises with any other railroad corporation owning a parallel or competing line; and in no case shall any consolidation take place except upon public notice given, of at least sixty days, to all stockholders, in such manner as may be provided by law.
Page 15 - The General Assembly shall provide such revenue as may be needful, by levying a tax, by valuation, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her or its property...
Page 5 - The governor and all other civil officers under this state, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office, but judgment in such cases shall not extend further than removal from office, and disqualification to hold any office of honor, profit or trust, under this state. The party, whether convicted or acquitted, shall nevertheless be liable to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.
Page 5 - Creating, increasing or decreasing fees, percentage or allowances of public officers, during the term for which said officers are elected or appointed...
Page 7 - ... he shall return it, with his objections, to the House in which it shall have originated which House shall enter the objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider the bill.
Page 20 - State, under the laws or authority thereof, shall have and maintain a public office or place in this State for the transaction of its business, where transfers of stock shall be made and in which shall be kept, for public inspection, books, in which shall be recorded the amount of capital stock subscribed, and by whom...