...incorporated cities and towns wish to adopt such a policy, as the following section will clearly show : No law shall be passed by the General Assembly granting the right to construct and operate a street or other railway, telegraph, telephone, or electrical plant, or to erect water or gas works for public...

...the right to construct and operate a street railroad, telegraph, telephone, or electric light plant within any city, town, or incorporated village without...requiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied for such purposes (constitution, art. VII,...

...rates provided for by legislative authority thereafter. That section of the Constitution provides: "No law shall be passed by the General Assembly granting...proposed to be occupied by such street railroad." In Public Utilities Com. v. Chicago * West Towns Railway Co., 275 111. 555, 570, 114 N. E. 325, 330...

...14, art. 2, of the state Constitution. [1] Section 4 of article 11 of our Constitution provides that: "No law shall be passed by the General Assembly granting...local authorities having the control of the street or hiehway proposed to be occupied by such street railroad." And in Venner v. Chicago City Railway Co.,...

...State v. Bechel the constitution provided: "No such general law shall be passed by the legislature, granting the right to construct and operate a street...within any city, town, or Incorporated village, without first requiring the consent of a majority of the electors thereof." The question of having a street...

...be passed Right t° con. struct street by the legislature granting the right to con- raUroods struct and operate a street railroad within any city, town, or incorporated village, without first requiring the consent of a majority of the electors thereof. SEC. 3. All corporations may sue...

...railways there are other specific provisions. Section 4 of article 11 of the constitution is as follows: "No law shall be passed by the General Assembly granting...proposed to be occupied by such street railroad." Paragraph 24 of said section 1 of article 5 of the act for the incorporation of cities and villages...

...RAILWAY—consent of local authorilies. Under the constitution of this State the legislature can not grant the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any city, town or incorporated village except by requiring the consent of the local authorities having control of the streets or highways...

...ough or township without providing (Sic. in the act) for the consent of the local authorities having control of the street or highway proposed to be occupied by such railroad." The source of the power under the provision thus drafted was the legislature. The provision...

...litigation. The provision of the state constitution upon which the city relied prohibits the legislature from granting the right to construct and operate a street railroad within any municipality "without requiring the consent of the local authorities having the control of the street...