Constitution of the State of Illinois

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. On the question of banking corporations, which was of great mo ment at that time in all the northern states, the constitution provided that no state bank should thereafter be created nor the State own or be liable for any stock in any corporation or joint stock association for banking purposes, to be thereafter created. No act of the Gen eral Assembly authorizing a corporation with banking powers was to go into effect, unless approved by the people at the general election next succeeding the passage of the same.