...own expenditure. " The General Assembly shall not impose taxes upon counties, cities, towns, or other municipal corporations, or upon the inhabitants or...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." ' Here the Legislature is forbidden to interfere in any way with local finances, and this can be the...

...municipal purposes. This argument is based upon section 12 of article 11 of the constitution, which is as follows: "The legislature shall have no power to...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." But the authority given by the constitution1 to frame and adopt "a charter for its own government,"...

...Stephen M. White, for respondent. BY THE COURT. Section 12 of article 11 of the Constitution provides: "The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." By an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of county and township governments," approved...

...Stephen M. White, for the respondents. THE COURT. Section 12 of article XI of the constitution provides : "The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes...purposes, but may, by general laws, vest in the corporate iiutliorities thereof the power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." By an act entitled...

...Stephen M. White, for respondent. BY THE COURT. Section 12 of article 11 of the Constitution provides: "The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes...town, or other municipal purposes, but may, by general la\ys, vest in the corporate authorities thereof the power to assess and collect taxes for •uch purposes."...

...provisions of the twelfth and thirteenth sections of article 11. Those sections are as follows: "Sec. 12. The Legislature shall have no power to impose taxes...city, town, or other municipal purposes, but may, by général laws, vest in the corporate authorities thereof the power to assess and collect taxes for...

...local, police, sanitary, and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws. "Sec. 12. The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes...other public or municipal corporations, or upon the in-, habitants or property thereof, for county, city, town or other municipal purposes, but may, by...

...power to impose taxes upon counties * * * or upon the inhabitants or property thereof, for county * * * purposes, but may by general laws vest in the corporate...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." The duty has been imposed upon the several counties in this state to provide for and pay certain necessary...

...forbidden "to impose taxes upon counties, cities," etc., "or other public or municipal corporations, » * * but may, by general laws, vest in the corporate authorities...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." These provisions apply to all kinds of "public or municipal corporations," or, we may say, to all municipalities...

...Improvements." The legislature has no power to Impose taxes upon counties, cities, towns, or other municlpaj corporations, or upon the inhabitants or property...town, or other municipal purposes, but may by general law vest in the corporate authorities thereof power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes....