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1 In the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. City vs. Field et al., July Term, 1867, No. 37. Opinion of the Court Delivered by Read, Justice 1867

handle is hein.trials/adjx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Tr W---M, SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA. CITY July Term, 1867. VS. FIELD et al. No. 37. Opinion of the Court delivered by Bead, Justice. The whole law making power of the State is committed to the Legislature with certain restrictions and limitations imposed on that body by the Constitution. Independent of these limi- tations, the legislative power is supreme within its proper sphere. In the exercise of this power the Legislature have dug canals, built bridges and railroads, and paid for them by money raised by loans and taxation. This power is indisputable, and upon its constitutionality depends our large State debt. The Legis- lature could undoubtedly build this bridge, over a navigable river, at South street, and pay for it by moneys proceeding from loans or taxes, and in doing it they might employ Com- missioners to erect it. This must be conceded, and it is but one step further, to impose the cost of erection on the City and County, through which the river passes and empties itself into the Delaware, and across which the bridge is thrown, connecting the east and west banks of the Schuylkill, upon which Phila- delphia is built,

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