priation bill by making appropriations which may relate back to the commencement of said fiscal year, thereby amending the said annual appropriation bill, and such city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, may in the year 1919, at any time during the first half of the fiscal year, authorize the issuance of certificates of indebtedness to be redeemed by warrants issued in anticipation of the taxes levied for the year 1919 when the same can be lawfully issued, such certificates of indebtedness to be in all respects of equal binding force as such tax anticipation warrants except that the aggregate amount for which they may be issued shall not exceed one-fourth of the aggregate amount of the appropriations for the year 1919, and they shall be redeemable as aforesaid, but in case they are not so redeemed they shall constitute a lien against and be payable out of the proceeds of said tax levy.

§ 2. Whereas, an emergency exists, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts, by repealing the whole of Part IV of Article XII; by adding to Part II of Article XII one new section to be known as section 8; and by adding to Article XII two new parts to be known as Parts Four and Five.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts, be and the same hereby is amended, in pursuance of section 34 of Article IV of the Constitution,

by repealing the whole of Part Four of Article XII, added by the Act approved June 27, 1913; by adding to Part Two of Article XII of Said Act one new section to be known as section 8; and by adding to Said Article XII two new parts to be known as Parts Four and Five; which new sections and parts shall read as follows:

§ 8. CITY CLERK

AND

PART TWO.

CITY TREASURER- ELECTION, TENURE.] At the general election held in 1923, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected a city clerk and a city treasurer, each of whom shall held his office for a term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified. No person, however, shall be elected to the office of city treasurer for two terms in succession.

PART FOUR.

CONCERNING THE ELECTION OF ALDERMEN.

SECTION 1. GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS FOR ALDERMENTERMS PRESCRIBED.] (a) If the provisions of this Act become operative in time to govern the general election for aldermen to be held in the year 1920, one alderman shall then be elected from each ward to serve for a period of one year. If this Act shall be adopted at the same time as that at which aldermen are elected in 1920, such adoption shall limit the term of aldermen so elected to one year. The general election for aldermen under this Act in 1920 shall be held upon the lay prescribed by law for a primary to elect delegates and alternate. delegates to national nominating conventions and to secure an expresson with respect to candidates for nomination for the office of President of the United States, if such a primary is held in the year 1920, and shall be conducted by the same judges and clerks. All provisions of election laws shall apply to such election, except that the hours for keeping open the polls shall be those prescribed by "An Act to provide for the holding of primary elections by political parties," approved March 9, 1910, in force July 1, 1910, as subsequently amended. A general election for aldermen shall be held in the year 1921, at the time prescribed by law, at which one alderman shall be elected from ach ward to serve for a term of two years. The next general election for aldermen shall take place in the year 1923, at which time one alderman shall be elected from each ward and thereafter general elections for aldermen shall be held each second and each fourth year, acording as the term of aldermen is determined by popular vote under the terms of this Act to be two or four years.

(b) The terms of this paragraph shall apply if this Act does ot become operative in time to govern the general election for aldermen in 1920 or to limit the terms of such aldermen, but does become erative in time to govern the general election for aldermen to be held in the year 1921. One alderman shall be elected from each ward at the general election for aldermen in the year 1921, but no zeneral election for aldermen shall be held in the year 1922, it being

the purpose of this Act that the council shall be composed of one alderman from each ward after the expiration of the terms of aldermen elected at the general election for aldermen in the year 1920. Any person serving as alderman under an election of 1920 may be a candidate for alderman in the general election for aldermen to be held in the year 1921, and his election at such time shall constitute an abandonment of the office held by him under his election in the year 1920 for the unexpired term thereof, if any, as soon as he has qualified under his election in the year 1921. A general election for aldermen shall be held in the year 1923, at which one alderman shall be elected from each ward, and thereafter general elections for aldermen shall be held each second or fourth year, according as the term of aldermen is determined by popular vote under the terms of this Act to be two or four years.

(c) If this Act shall become operative at any time subsequent to the times provided for in the foregoing paragraphs, the provisions of this paragraph shall govern. If the Act becomes operative in time to govern the general election of aldermen to be held in an odd numbered year, the provisions of this section with respect to the election in the year 1921 shall apply, with appropriate changes of dates. The terms of aldermen first elected shall always expire with the term of the mayor then in office, and new elections for a two or four year term, as the case may be, shall be held at the time when the mayor is to be elected. If this Act becomes operative in time to govern the general election of aldermen to be held in an even numbered year which immediately precedes the year in which a mayor is to be elected, aldermen at such election shall be elected for the term of one year, and a general election for aldermen for a two or four year term, as the case may be, shall be held at the time when the mayor is to be elected. If this Act becomes operative in time to govern the general election of aldermen to be held in an even numbered year other than that which immediately precedes the year in which a mayor is to be elected. aldermen at such election shall be elected for a one year term, aldermen at the next general election for aldermen to be elected for a two year term, if a two year term shall have been adopted by a popular vote under the terms of this Act; if under the terms of this Act a four year term for aldermen shall have been adopted then aldermen shall be elected for a three year term at the election of such even numbered year. New elections for a two or four year term, as the case may be, shall then take place at the time when the mayor is to be next elected.

(d) All elections for aldermen shall be in accordance with the provisions of law in force and operative in the City of Chicago for such elections at the time that such elections are held, and vacancies occuring in such office shall be filled in the manner prescribed by law for filling vacancies. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the number of aldermen under the provisions of this Act shall be one from each ward.

§ 2. SALARY OF ALDERMEN.] The aldermen elected under the provisions of this Act may receive for their services such compensation

as shall be fixed by ordinance, at the rate of not to exceed five thousand dollars per annum for each alderman. The salaries of the aldermen elected at the first general election for aldermen provided for in this Act shall be fixed by the outgoing council.

PART FIVE.

CONCERNING THE REDISTRICTING OF THE CITY INTO WARDS.

SECTION 1. CITY TO HAVE FIFTY WARDS.] The City of Chicago shall be divided into fifty wards. In the formation of wards the population of each shall be as nearly equal as practicable and each shall be composed of contiguous and compact territory.

§ 2. ADDITIONAL TERRITORY TO BE ANNEXED TO EXISTING WARDS.] Whenever territory is annexed to the city, the city council shall by ordinance declare it a part of the ward or wards which it adjoins: Provided, that at any time after such territory is annexed the city council may provide for the redistricting of the city in accordance with the provision of this Act.

§3. CITY TO BE REDISTRICTED AFTER ADOPTION OF THE ACT.] Within three months after the adoption of this Act by the voters it shall be the duty of the city council to pass an ordinance redistricting the city into fifty wards in accordance with the provisions of this Act. Such redistricting of the city shall not apply to the general election for aldermen to be held in the year 1920, but shall apply to the first general election thereafter and until the city is again redistricted as herein provided for. All elections of aldermen shall be held from the present wards until a redistricting is had as provided for in this

Act.

§ 4. WHEN REDISTRICTING ORDINANCE TAKES EFFECT SUBSTIJUTE ORDINANCE MAY BE SUBMITTED.] No such redistricting ordinance shall take effect until the expiration of 15 days after its passage. If within such 15 days one-fifth or more of the aldermen elected, who did not vote to pass such redistricting ordinance, file with the city clerk a proposed substitute ordinance redistricting the city in accordance with the provisions of this Act, together with a petition signed by them. demanding that the question of the adoption of the redistricting ordinance passed by the city council, together with the question of the adoption of such substitute ordinance, be submitted to the voters, then such redistricting ordinance passed by the city council shall not go into effect until the question of this adoption shall have been submitted to a popular vote: Provided, that no alderman shall have the right to sign more than one such petition. Upon the expiration of such 15 days the city clerk shall promptly certify to the board of election commissioners of the City of Chicago, the ordinance passed by the city council and such substitute ordinance or ordinances and petition or petitions, and it shall thereupon be the duty of the board of election commissioners to submit the ordinances so certified to a popular vote at the next general, municipal, or special election. to be held in and

for the entire city not less than 40 days after the passage of such redistricting ordinance by the city council.

§ 5. FAILURE OF COUNCIL TO ACT-ONE-FIFTH OF THE ALDERMEN MAY SUBMIT REDISTRICTING ORDINANCE.] If the city council shall fail at any time to pass a redistricting ordinance as required herein, one-fifth or more of the aldermen elected shall have the right to file with the city clerk, not less than 40 days before the date of holding any general, municipal, or special election, to be held in and for the entire city, an ordinance redistricting the city in accordance with th provisions of this Act, together with a petition signed by them demanding that such ordinance be submitted to the legal voters at the next such election in and for the entire city to be held not less than 40 days after the filing of such ordinance and petition: Provided, that no alderman shall have the right to sign more than one such petition. Upon the expiration of the time for filing any such ordinance the city clerk shall promptly certify to the board of election commissioners of the City of Chicago any ordinance or ordinances, together with any petition or petitions, so filed and thereupon it shall be the duty of the board of election commissioners to submit such ordinance or ordinances to a popular vote at the election specified in such petition or petitions: Provided, that if, after the filing of any such ordinance and petition and not less than 40 days prior to such election, the city council shall pass an ordinance redistricting the city, then the question of the adoption of any ordinance or ordinances filed with the city clerk in accordance with the provisions of this section shall not be submitted to a popular vote. However, after such action by the city council, a substitute ordinance or ordinances may be proposed in the manner provided in section 4 hereof.

§ 6. REDISTRICTING ORDINANCE SUBMITTED FORM OF BALLOT.] If the question of the adoption of one of two or more redistricting ordinances is submitted to the voters at any election, the ballots used for the submission of such proposition shall, in addition to the other requirements of law, conform substantially to the following requirements:

Above the propositions submitted the following words shall be printed in capital letters:

"PROPOSITIONS FOR THE REDISTRICTING OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO."

2. Immediately below said words shall be printed in small letters the direction to voters:

"Vote for One."