Supreme Court of the United States November 22, 1880, 51 (Buchanan v. Litchfield)

Mb. .Justice Hablan,

after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

The first and most important of the. certified questions involves the construction of the twelfth section of the ninth article of the Constitution of Illinois..

The words employed • are too explicit to leave any doubt as to the object of the constitutional restriction upon municipal indebtedness.