The Chicago City ManualBureau of Statistics and Municipal library, 1914 - 203 páginas |
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... question of who was the author of the parks , it may be well to remember this remarkable vision and first specific proposal . II . THE ORIGINAL OF PRESENT - DAY SMALL PARKS . By compulsion almost , rather than desire , Chicago acquired ...
... question of who was the author of the parks , it may be well to remember this remarkable vision and first specific proposal . II . THE ORIGINAL OF PRESENT - DAY SMALL PARKS . By compulsion almost , rather than desire , Chicago acquired ...
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... question upon them shall hereafter arise may perhaps be seen to be as objectionable in otherwise new conditions as many wise citizens thought them in the old days . IV . WEST PARK . The act authorizing the making of the West Park was ...
... question upon them shall hereafter arise may perhaps be seen to be as objectionable in otherwise new conditions as many wise citizens thought them in the old days . IV . WEST PARK . The act authorizing the making of the West Park was ...
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... question of improving the parks , an explanation of the case will be in order . It arose over an act of the Legislature , familiarly known as the Lake Front bill . By the provisions of the act the City of Chicago was required to quit ...
... question of improving the parks , an explanation of the case will be in order . It arose over an act of the Legislature , familiarly known as the Lake Front bill . By the provisions of the act the City of Chicago was required to quit ...
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... question being on concurring with the House amendment , it was concurred in and the bill passed , 17 to 4. It may be ... questions all re- lated to park boundaries , location of boulevards , and extent of frontages . The bill became law ...
... question being on concurring with the House amendment , it was concurred in and the bill passed , 17 to 4. It may be ... questions all re- lated to park boundaries , location of boulevards , and extent of frontages . The bill became law ...
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... questions involved . Already they knew that the opinion of the best lawyers in the city , or those of them who had not been re- tained by the Park Commission , was that some of the provisions of the act were in contravention of both the ...
... questions involved . Already they knew that the opinion of the best lawyers in the city , or those of them who had not been re- tained by the Park Commission , was that some of the provisions of the act were in contravention of both the ...
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Página 67 - Commissioners of such city, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year from the...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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,"
Página 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...