...practically the same as our section 4, article 12, is section 12, article 11. It reads as follows: 'Sec. 12. The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes.' The case of People v. Martin was an action to recover a license tax by reason of the defendant carrying...

...no power to 1mormxi by gen- pose taxes upon counties, cities, towns, or other municipal erai laws. corporations, or upon the Inhabitants or property...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes. Cited : 2 W. 586 ; 15 W. 317 ; *6 W. 276 ; 28 W. 45. See 42 W. 17 ; 22 W. 570 ; 6 W. 365 ; 6 W. 250...

...shall have no power to impose taxes upon counties, cities, towns or other municipal corporations .... for county, city, town or other municipal purposes,...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." There would seem to be reasons for the existence and life of the municipal corporation as a part of...

...improvements." The legislature has no power to impose taxes upon counties, cities, towns, or other municipal corporations, or upon the inhabitants or...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....

...Legislature cannot Levy Assessment. — See Constitution 1879, article 11, section 12, which provides: "The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes upon counties, cities, towns, or other public or monicipal corporations, or upon the inhabitants or property thereof, for county, city, town, or other...

...said to have derived any benefit, except of the most ephemeral sort, from the public work. nicipal corporations, or upon the inhabitants or property...for county, city, town, or other municipal purposes, hut may, by general laws, vest in the corporate authorities thereof the power to assess and collect...

...governed by general law's, taxes upon counties, cities, towns, or other municipal corporations, or the inhabitants or property thereof, for county, city,...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes. Sec. 13. Private property shall not be taken or sold for the payment of the corporate debt of any public...

...impose taxes upon . . . cities ... or upon the inhabitants or property thereof, for . . . city . . . purposes, but may by general laws vest in the corporate...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." These two provisions are the only ones relating to the vesting of the power of taxation in municipal...

...violative of various provisions of the constitution, and among them is section 12, article 11, which reads as follows: — "The legislature shall have...power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes." If this exaction is a tax, and the purpose to which the proceeds are devoted is a county, city, town,...

...M. White, for Respondent. The COURT. — Section 12 of article xi. of the Constitution provides : " The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes...in the corporate authorities thereof the power to asses? and collect taxes for such purposes." By an act entitled " an act to establish a uniform system...