and subscrip or county in this state wishing to aid this work, may ad- Contributions vance or lend to the river board any amount of money they tions. think proper, and for the purpose of raising such amount any town, (at any annual town meeting or any town meeting regularly called for that purpose) or any county, a majority of the people of such county voting therefor, may levy a special tax on the taxable property within their bounds, not exceeding ten mills on the dollar. Special tax. § 13. To provide a revenue for the purposes of this act, and to meet the liabilities of the river board incurred under this act, there shall be levied annually, and collected as other taxes are or may be collected, a special tax in gold or silver, of four mills on every dollar's worth of taxable property in each of the towns of Ottawa and South Ottawa, in said county of La Salle, and of two mills and one half on every dollar's worth of taxable property in each of the towns of Utica, Deer Park, Dayton, Rutland, Grand Rapids, Farm Ridge, Bruce and Brookfield, in said county of LaSalle, and a tax of one mill and one half on every dollar's worth of taxable property in each of the towns of Serena, Mission, Manlius, Eagle, Adams, Earl, Northville, Freedom and Waltham, in said county of La Salle; and the board of supervisors of said county are hereby required to incorporate in the warrants to the collectors of said several towns, a mandate, commanding each such collector to collect such tax as is in this section imposed upon his town, specifying the amount of the same, and further commanding him to pay over the same to the treasurer of the river board, at the same time he is or may be required to pay over to the supervisors of his town the funds raised for town purposes; and it shall be the duty of said collectors so to collect and pay over such tax: Provided, that if the inhabitants of any town in this section enumerated, shall not, at their next annual meeting, pass a resolution declaring their willingness to submit to the tax in this section provided, and shall cause to be filed with the clerk of the county court of said La Salle county a certified copy of said resolution, within ten days thereafter, then the operation of this section shall be suspended, so far as it imposes an annual tax on such town, until such resolution shall be adopted at some regularly called or annual town meeting in said town, and until a certified copy of said resolution shall have been, in like manner, filed with the said clerk of the county court of said La Salle county, and from that time this section shall be operative upon such town: Provided, Proviso. that should two or more of said towns refuse in the manner aforesaid to submit to such tax, then the river board may, in their discretion, at any time before the next annual meeting of the board of supervisors of La Salle county, (by an order entered on their books, and by filing a certified copy thereof with the clerk of the county court,) suspend the collection of all tax under this section, for the current year, and until they can make such arrangements as in their opinion will secure the construction of this improvement: Further proviso. Provided, further, that if one annual tax is collected under this section, the same shall not be suspended until all the bonds and debts of said board shall have been paid; and in appropriating the money arising from this tax, the interest upon bonds issued under the eleventh section of this act shall have precedence of all other debts. Record books. § 14. The river board shall provide the clerk of the circuit court of La Salle county with a record book or books, which shall be kept by said clerk in his office. Said clerk shall record in such book or books all bonds provided to be made in the eleventh section of this act; and no such bonds shall be issued, or held valid or binding, until the same shall have been so recorded. Upon recording any such bond, the said clerk shall certify on the back thereof, under the seal of said court, that the same has been duly recorded, and shall thereupon re-deliver the same, so certified, to the river board to be issued. Such bonds shall be Stock transfer- transferable by assignment; but no such assignment shall be of force, either in law or equity, until such assignment shall have been in like manner recorded by said clerk, in said record book or books. rable. Abstract of proceedings. § 15. On the first Monday of July next, and on the first Monday of every six month thereafter, the river board shall cause to be filed with the clerk of the La Salle circuit court, a careful abstract of the doings thereof, during the interim next preceding each such date, embracing a statement of all bonds issued, contracts made, moneys received, moneys paid out, work done, agents employed, officers acting, and the salary or compensation of such agents and officers severally, which shall be kept by said clerk, subject to the inspection of any person interested therein, or of any one having contributed to said improvement, by paying tax or otherwise. Disposition of § 16. Whenever the revenues of the river board shall surplus funds. furnish them moneys not needed for the payment of debts then due, or interest on bonds, it is hereby made their duty to vest the same in some safe and available manner, so as to create a sinking fund for the final payment of their bonds and other liabilities. Whenever said work shall be completed, and the debts and liabilities of the river board paid and discharged, said board shall give notice thereof to the board of supervisors of said county, and thereupon the tax provided in this section shall forever cease. Fees. § 17. The clerks of the county court and circuit court shall severally be allowed fees for the duties herein required, at the same rate as now allowed by law for like services for recording, the same as recording deeds; and for exhibition of record or papers, ten cents. § 18. This act is hereby declared a public act, and shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 12, 1851. AN ACT to enable Joseph McCoy and others to peddle goods in the state of Illinois. In force Feb.12, 1851. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Joseph License to JoMcCoy, of Will county, Illinois, in consequence of having seph McCoy. had the misfortune to lose an arm, shall be entitled to have a state license granted to him by the proper authority of the state to peddle goods, wares and merchandise any where in the state, free of charge, during his natural life, or if he is unable to peddle, he may do so by an agent. Also, that Alfred M. Wooley and Jackson Van Vranken, License to other of Mason county, have the same privilege granted them as persons. that given to Joseph McCoy, they having lost, one a hand and the other an arm, and being unable to work. Also, William R. Bishop, of Macoupin county, Albert Alexander, of Boone county, Luke Barley, of Franklin county, Truman R. Barlow, of Rock Island county, Hosea Hathway, of Ogle county, Daniel Moore, of Adams county, William Lorton, of Greene county: Provided, that neither of Proviso. the above named individuals shall be allowed, under the license herein granted, to transact business upon a capital of more than two thousand dollars: Provided, further, that Further proviso. This act to be in force from and after its passage. AN ACT authorizing Jeremiah Crotty to establish a ferry across the Illinois river. In force Feb.12, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Jere 1851. miah Crotty, his heirs and assigns, be and they are hereby Ferry authorauthorized to establish and keep a ferry across the Illinois ized. river, on any part of sections twenty-five or twenty-six, as Restrictions. Taxes. the said Crotty may elect, in township thirty-three north, range five east of the third principal meridian, for the period of ten years. § 2. The said Jeremiah Crotty, his heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized to charge such rates of ferriage as are now charged by other ferries similarly situated in said county. § 3. The said Jeremiah Crotty, his heirs and assigns, shall, in every respect, comply with the provisions of chapter forty-two of Revised Statutes, entitled "Ferries." § 4. All taxes levied on said ferry may be paid by labor, applied to the improvement of the roads leading to and from said ferry. § 5. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED Feb. 12, 1851. In force Feb.12, 1851. AN ACT to vacate a part of the town of Freeport, and to re-survey said town. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all Part down that part of the town plat of the original town of Freeport, of vacated. Re-survey. Surveyor to be sworn. Assistants. Character of re survey. in the county of Stephenson, not embraced within the boundaries of the east half of the north-west quarter and the north-east quarter of section thirty-one, in township twentyseven north, range eight east, be and the same is hereby vacated. § 2. The president and trustees of the town of Freeport are hereby authorized and required, as soon as practicable, to employ some competent surveyor to re-survey so much of the original town of Freeport as is embraced within the limits of the east half of north-west quarter and north-east quarter of section thirty-one (31,) township 27 north, range 8 east; said survey to be completed within one year from the passage of this act. § 3. The surveyor to be employed, as provided in the foregoing section, shall be sworn before some competent authority to execute and fulfil the duties required of him by this act, according to the best of his skill and ability, without prejudice or partiality. Said surveyor shall employ the necessary assistants, who shall in like manner be sworn to the faithful performance of their duties. The president and trustees of the town of Freeport shall fix the compensation of said surveyor and assistants, and shall draw their order upon the treasurer of said town for the same. § 4. The re-survey of the town of Freeport, herein authorized to be made, shall conform, in all respects, as nearly as practicable, to the recorded plat of said town. The width of all the streets and alleys, the number of the blocks and lots, width and length of all lots, where the same are not fractional, shall be the same as upon the original recorded plat of said town. In those blocks which appear upon said original recorded plat without the number of the lots upon them, the lots shall be numbered the same in manner precisely as the lots are numbered in block fifty-five (55) in said town, to wit: commencing at the south-westerly corner of each whole block, with lot number one, and numbering north-easterly to lot number five; and from the north-easterly corner, commencing with lot six, and numbering south-westerly to lot ten, at north-westerly corner. In fractional blocks the relative position of lots, by the numbers, shall be the same as in whole blocks, except in those blocks bordering on Water street. If it shall be found, upon actual survey, that the courses of the streets are not correctly stated upon the said recorded plat of Freeport, the original line of Stephenson street, as actually surveyed at the time of the original survey of said town, shall be ascertained, as nearly as practicable, by land marks or otherwise, and the course of said street, so ascertained, shall form the base line, and the survey shall be extended from said line. § 5. If it should appear, upon careful measurement of Excess or defithe distance from the south-westerly corner of block No. ciency. fifty-five to the south-easterly corner of block fifty-eight, on Stephenson street, in said town of Freeport, that there is an excess over the distance stated on the original plat of said town, as the same appears of record, or a deficiency in said distance, the excess or deficiency shall be as nearly equally divided as practicable between blocks 55, 56, 57, and 58, and the width of said blocks so ascertained shall be the width of all the blocks between the following named streets, running at right angles with said Stephenson street, to wit: between Van Buren and Chicago streets, between Chicago and Mechanics' streets, between Mechanics' and Adams streets, and between Adams and Liberty streets. The street parallel with and next northerly from Bridge street shall be called Clay street, and the street next northerly and parallel with Clay street shall be called Webster street. &c. § 6. All grants, bargains, sales, conveyances, leases, Conveyances releases or other writings of or concerning lots or parts of lots, by their numbers, as provided in section 4 of this act, in blocks which upon the recorded plat of said town of Freeport are not numbered, are hereby declared as valid in law and equity, to all intents and purposes, as if the numbers of said lots had appeared upon said recorded plat. corners. § 7. There shall be planted at the corner of each block Designation of or square, (unless the corner should be occupied by a building,) by the surveyor, at the time of making the re-survey |