The Chicago City ManualBureau of Statistics and Municipal library, 1914 - 203 Seiten |
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... authorities would neither sell nor lease lots therein until in 1839 , when they decided to subdivide it , and put the whole tract on the market - to the surprise and disappointment of the citizens . They had hoped that the tract would ...
... authorities would neither sell nor lease lots therein until in 1839 , when they decided to subdivide it , and put the whole tract on the market - to the surprise and disappointment of the citizens . They had hoped that the tract would ...
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... authorities of the town were to pay to the state whatever sum the land might be valued at by the agent of the state , whenever the canal lands should be offered for sale . The trustees of the town were prohibited from ever selling or ...
... authorities of the town were to pay to the state whatever sum the land might be valued at by the agent of the state , whenever the canal lands should be offered for sale . The trustees of the town were prohibited from ever selling or ...
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... authorities to the subject of intramural interments and their pernicious effect , and also urging them to prevent further interments in the city cemetery ; this was followed by a petition , signed by the most influential residents of ...
... authorities to the subject of intramural interments and their pernicious effect , and also urging them to prevent further interments in the city cemetery ; this was followed by a petition , signed by the most influential residents of ...
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... authority was given to sell the outlying three - acre piece , the proceeds of the selling to be used in improving the park in such manner as the Board of Public Works should direct . Thus the park was a whole city affair , under the ...
... authority was given to sell the outlying three - acre piece , the proceeds of the selling to be used in improving the park in such manner as the Board of Public Works should direct . Thus the park was a whole city affair , under the ...
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... authority to levy a tax not to exceed 25 cents on contiguous and abutting prop- erty . An injunction to restrain from the collection of this tax was asked for in the County Court , but it was refused . The case was appealed to the ...
... authority to levy a tax not to exceed 25 cents on contiguous and abutting prop- erty . An injunction to restrain from the collection of this tax was asked for in the County Court , but it was refused . The case was appealed to the ...
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Seite 67 - Commissioners of such city, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year from the...
Seite 2 - The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement.
Seite 68 - Officers who are elected by the people, or who are elected by the City Council pursuant to the City Charter, or whose appointment is subject to confirmation by the City Council, Judges and Clerks of Election, members of any Board of Education, the Superintendent and Teachers of schools, heads of any principal department of the city, members of the law department, and one Private Secretary of the Mayor, shall not be included in such classified service.
Seite 2 - The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far...
Seite 211 - That thirty-six sections, or one entire township, which shall be designated by the President of the United States, together with the one heretofore reserved for that purpose, shall be reserved for the use of a seminary of learning, and vested in the legislature of the said state, to be appropriated solely to the use of such seminary by the said legislature.
Seite 211 - ... be held by the patentees or their heirs, remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under the authority of the State, whether for State, county, township, or any other purpose, for the term of three years from and after the date of the patents, respectively.
Seite 209 - July next, all that part of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio River which lies to the westward of a line beginning at the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of Kentucky River, and running thence to Fort Recovery, and thence north until it shall intersect the territorial line between the United States and Canada, shall, for the purposes of temporary government, constitute a separate territory, and be called the Indiana Territory.
Seite 79 - ... five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be .ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Seite 2 - ... the better for their genius. If they are of a strong character, and break their fetters, they become a mark for the society which has not succeeded in reducing them to commonplace, to point out with solemn warning as " wild,"
Seite 211 - ... authorized to form a constitution and State government, or, if it be deemed more expedient, the said convention shall provide by ordinance for electing Representatives to form a constitution or frame of government; which said Representatives shall be chosen in such manner and in such proportion, and shall meet at such time and place, as shall be prescribed by the said ordinance...