Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-09-24
MADE PERPETUAL.
The Injunction Against the City Hall
Project

trolect.
Judge Glenn has entered a formal
decree in the circuit court making
permanent the temporary injunction
granted May 5 last, restraining the
city OF Rock Island from accepting
the proposition of Davis company to
erect city hall at the corner of Sew
erteenth street and Second avenue.
on the gas works site, at cost Of
$50, 900. and to be paid for in yearly
installments by special taxation.
Position of the Court.
The court bases its decree on the
fact that the city by entering into
such a contract would be going be-
yond the bounds of the statutory
laws Of the state, in that it would be
mourning an Indebtedness in excess
of the 5 per cent of the valne of the
taxable property in said city as as
certained from time TO time by the
assessment for state and county
taxes as equalized by the state board
of equalization. In the course OF his
decision the Judge holds That on
the 10Th day of April, 1894, and
from thence hitherto, and for more
than three years prior to said 10th
day OF April, 1894, said defendant
had been continuously indebted in
the aggregate in a sum exceeding by
500, 900, or more, per cent of the
whole of all the taxable property in
said city, as ascertained by the as
sessments for state and county taxes
from year to year during said period
The court doth further find that on the
10th day of April, 1894, said city by
its city council did determine and
decide by the vote of said council Ia
enter into a contract with the Peo-
pies Power company for the erection
of city hall upon lot l, block o, in
the town of Rock Island by said COM
pany and for the purchase by said
city of said premises with said city
hall erected thereon by said company
at and for said sum Of $50. 600, to be
thereafter paid by said city in certain
yearly installments, and that said
council did on said 10th day of April,
1894, by resolution by it adopted
authorize and empower the mayor
and clerk of said city on behalf OF
said city to enter into and execute
the contract aforesaid. The court
doth further find that the MAYOR Of
said city, I. j. Medill, Jr., ard the
clerk of said city, A. ID. Huesing, did
| give out, assert and intend TO enter
into said contract for and in behalf
of said city as in said bill ayerred,
and thereby would undertake TO OBJ.
ligate said city for the payment OF
said sum of money-s50 600.
The Writ Must Stand.
1T is now, thereupon, by The court
adjudged and decrccd that the writ
OF in junction heretofore in this causC
issued be made perpetual. and that
said city of Rock Island, its mavo,
and clerk. its officers and agents and
each and everyone Of them do Sbso
lutelv desist and refrain from enter.
ing into said contract for the pur.
chase and erection Of a city hall, anC
from mourning an Indebtedness on
that account, and from entering into
any contract and mourning any in,
debtedness on account of the build
ing. leasing or purchase of q city hal
for said city so long as the indebted
ness of said city in the aggregat,
shall remain in excess of the sum O
D per centum of the value OF the tax
able property in said city as ascer
timed from time to time by the as
sessment for state and county take:
as equalized by the state board o
equalization. 1t is further ordered
by the court that said city defendan
pay the costs of this suit