The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-05-28

made To some general officer of the county
having authority TO receive state and county
taxes and there shall be no sale of said prop,
erty Tor any of said taxes or assessments but
by sald officer, upon the order or Judgment
OF some court of record.
SEC. ). The right of redemption from all
sales OF real estate, for the non-pavment of
taxes or special assessments OF any character
Whatever, shall exist in favor Of owners and
persons interested in such real estate, for a
periOd OF not less than two years from such
sales thereof. And the General Assembly
shall provide, by law, for reasonable notice
10 DC given TO the owners or parties interested,
oy puohcatlon or otherwise, of the fact OF the
sale OF the property Tor such taxes or assess
men'S, ana when the time of redemption shall
expired iTocided, that occupants Shall in all
cases be served with personal notice before the
time OF redemption expires.
SEC. q. The General Assembly shall have
no power to release or discharge any county.
city, township, town or district whatever. or
the inhabitants thereof, or the property there
IN, from their or its proportienate share of
taxes to be levied for state purposes, nor shall
any communication for such taxes be authorized
In any form whatsoever
Sec. Z. All taxes levied for state purposes
shall be paid into the state treasury.
SEC. y. County authorities shall never assess
taxes the aggregate OF which shall exceed
seVenty-hve cents per one hundred dollars
valuation. except for the payment Of indebt-
edncss existing at the adoption of this consti-
tuition, unless authorized by vote fthe peo-
pie of the county.
Sec. 8. The General Assembly may vest the
corporate authorities of cities, towns and VII
lagos with power to make local improvement
by special assessment or by special taxation
o. contiguous property, or otherwise For
all other corporate purposes, all municipal
corporations may be vested with authorities
to assess and collect taxes but such taxes
shall be uniform, in respect to persons and
property, within the jurisdiction and the body
imposing the same.
SEC. ~. The General assembly shall not
impose taxes upon municipal corporations, or
the inhabitants or property thereof, for corpo-
rate purposes but shall require that all the
taxable property within the limits of NUM-
cpal corporations shall be taxed for the paw
ment OF debts contracted under authority of
law, such taxes to be uniform in respect TO
persons and property within the jurisdiction
OF the body imposing the same. Private pro-
perty shall not be liable to be taken or sold
TOR the payment of the corporate debts of
municipal corporation.
SEC. ii. No person who is in default, as
collector or custodian of money or property
Belonging to municipal corporation, shall
DC eligible to any office in or under such cor
poratlon. The fees, salary or compensation
OF no municipal officer who is elected or ap-
pointed Tor definite term Of office, shall be
increased or diminished during such term.
Ma -
district or other municipal corporation, shaft
be allowed to become indebted in any manner
or for any purpose to an amount, including
existing Indebtedness, in the aggregate ex
ceeding five per centum on the value of the
taxable property therein, to be ascertalned by
the last assessment for state and county taxes,
previous to the mourning Of such indebted
ness. Any county, city, school district or 9TH
er municipal corporation, mourning any in
debtedness as aforesaid, shall, before or at the
| time of doing so, provide for the collection of
direct annual tax sufficient TO pay the inter
est on such debt. AS it falls due, and also to
pay and discharge the principal thereof with
IN twenty years from The time Of contracting
the same.
This section shall not be construed to pre-
vent any county, city, township, school dis
trlct or other municipal corporation from issu-
ing their bonds in compliance with any vote
| OF the people which may have been had prior
to the adoption of this constitution in pursu-
ance OF any Law providing therefor.
ARTICLEN y.
COUNTIES.
SECTION |. No new county shall be formed
or established by the general assembly. which
Will reduce the county or counties, or either
of them, from which it shall he taken, to less
contents than four hundred square miles nor
shall any county be formed of less contents ::
nor shall any line thereof pass within less than
| ten miles OF any county seat of the county
proposed to be divided.
Sec. 2. No county shall be divided or have
any part stricken theretrom, without submit
ting the question to a vote of the people Of
the county, nor unless majority of all the
legal voters Of the county voting on the 1ues-
ton shall vote for the same.
Sec j. There shall! be no territory stricken
| from any county unless Il majority Of the
voters living in such territory shall petition
for such division; and no territory shall be
added to any county without the consent of
the majority of the voters of the county to
which it is proposed to he added. But the
portion so stricken off and added to another
county, or formed in whole or in part into a
new county, shall be holden for and obliged
to pay its proportion of the Indebtedness of
the county from which it has been taken
COUNTY SEATS.
Sec. 4. No county seat shall be removed
until the point to which it is proposed to be
| removed shall be fixed in pursuance of law.
| and 4 majority of the voters of the county TO