...villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations...

...villages may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes lor corporate purposes, such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property, within the jurisdiction of the body imposing tha same. "SeC. C. The specification of the object* and subjects of taxation shall notdepme the genera!...

...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes fur corporate purposes ; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the bodv iniin^ing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits...

...Tillages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes ; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations...

...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations,...

...villages, may be vested with power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes ; such taxes to be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same. And the general assembly shall require that all the property within the limits of municipal corporations,...

...municipal corporations shall be taxed for the payment of debts contracted under authority of law; that all taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property,...within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the same, and that corporate authorities shall have power to assess and collect taxes for corporate purposes....

...improvements by special assessments or by special taxation of contiguous property, or otherwise, and that for all other corporate purposes all municipal corporations...vested with authority to assess and collect taxes, and that the General Assembly shall not impose taxes upon municipal corporations, or the inhabitants...

...first section of the Local Improvement act of 1897 provides that municipalities are vested with the power to make local improvements "by special assessment,...or by special taxation, of contiguous property, or by general taxation, or otherwise, as they shall by ordinance prescribe." Section 4 of the act relied...

...it be for " corporate purposes," it violates the plain letter of the constitution: because it is not "uniform" in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body imposing the tax. If, on the other hand, the tax is not for " corporate purposes," it is clearly unconstitutional...