MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.
On the seventh day of August, 1868, the city council of Quincy, Illinois, — in conformity with a vote of the people at an election held under the authority of a resolution adopted by that body on the ninth day of June previous, — passed an ordinance empowering and directing the mayor to subscribe $100,000, payable in city bonds, to the capital stock of the Mississippi and Missouri River Air Line...
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