have been damaged by fire, decay or otherwise, to the extent of fifty per cent of the value, shall be torn down or removed and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining such damage.

Sixty-third. To prevent the dangerous construction and condition of chimneys, fireplaces, hearths, stoves, stove-pipes, ovens, boilers, and apparatus used in and about any building and manufactory, and to cause the same to be removed or placed in a safe condition, when considered dangerous; to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing and promoting fires; to prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places, and to cause all such buildingand enclosures as may be in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition.

Sixty-fourth. To erect engine houses, and provide fire engines. hose carts, hooks and ladders, and other implements for prevention and extinguishment of fires, and provide for the use and management of the same by voluntary fire companies or otherwise.

Sixty-fifth. To regulate and prevent storage of gunpowder, tar. pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine. petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bon-fires; also to regulate, restrain and prohibit the use of fireworks, firecrackers, torpedoes, Roman candles, skyrockets, and other pyrotechnic displays.

Sixty-sixth. To regulate the police of the city or village and pass and enforce all necessary police ordinances.

Sixty-seventh. To provide for the inspection of steam boilers. Sixty-eighth. To prescribe the duties and powers of a superintendent of police, policemen and watchmen.

Sixty-ninth. To establish and erect calabooses, bridewells, bouses of correction and workhouses for the reformation and confinement of vagrants, idle and disorderly persons, and persons convicted of violating any city or village ordinance, and make rules and regulations for the government of the same, and appoint necessary keepers and assistants.

Seventieth. To use the county jail for the confinement or punishment of offenders, subject to such conditions as are imposed by law. and with the consent of the county board.

Seventy-first. To provide by ordinance in regard to the relation between all the officers and employees of the corporation in respect to each other, the corporation and the people.

Seventy-second. To prevent and suppress riots, routs, affrays. noises, disturbances, disorderly assemblies in any public or private place. Seventy-third. To prohibit and punish cruelty to animals.

Seventy-fourth. To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants and

prostitutes.

Seventy-fifth. To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the same; and to impose fines upon parties who may create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist.

Seventy-sixth. To appoint a board of health, and prescribe its powers and duties.

Seventy-seventh. To erect and establish hospitals and medical dispensaries and to regulate hospitals, medical dispensaries, sanatoria and undertaking establishments, and to direct the location thereof.

Seventy-eighth. To do all acts, make all regulations which may e necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease.

Seventy-ninth. To establish and regulate cemeteries within or without the corporation, and acquire lands therefor, by purchase or otherwise, and cause cemeteries to be removed, and prohibit their establishment within one mile of the corporation.

Eightieth. To regulate, restrain and prohibit the running at large of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, geese and dogs and to impose a tax on dogs.

Eighty-first. To direct the location and regulate the management and construction of packing houses, renderies, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories, and tanneries, within the limits of the city or village, and within the distance of one mile without the city or village mits.

Eighty-second. To control the location and regulate the use and construction of breweries, distilleries, livery, boarding or sale stables, wagon repair shops, blacksmith shops, foundries, machine shops, public garages, private garages and stables designed for the use of five or more ehicles, hangars, laundries, bathing beaches, brick yards, planing mills, flour mills, box factories, lead factories, steel factories, iron factories, ise plants, either for the manufacturing or storing of ice, factories or other manufacturing establishments using machinery or emitting offensive or noxious fumes, odors, or noises, and storage warehouses, within the imits of the city or village; provided that this clause shall not be Construed to require the removal of any of the above enumerated buildngs from any location which they may lawfully occupy at the time of the passage of any ordinance hereunder.

Eighty-third. To prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within or within one mile of the limits of the Corporation.

Eighty-fourth. To compel the owner of any grocery, cellar, soap or tallow chandlery, tannery, stable, pigsty, privy, sewer or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove the same, and to regulate the location thereof.

Eighty-fifth. The city council, or trustees of a village, shall have Hower to provide for the taking of the city or village census; but no city or village census shall be taken by authority of the council or trustees oftener than once in three years.

Eighty-sixth. To provide for the erection and care of all public buildings necessary for the use of the city or village.

Eighty-seventh. To establish ferries, toll bridges and license and regulate the same, and from time to time to fix tolls thereon.

Eighty-eighth. To authorize the construction of mills, mill-races. and feeders on, through or across the streets of the city or village, at such places and under such restrictions as they shall deem proper.

Eighty-ninth. The city council shall have power, by condemna tion or otherwise, to extend any street, alley or highway over or acros or to construct any sewer under or through any railroad track, righ of way or land of any railroad company (within the corporate limits but where no compensation is made to such railroad company the cit shall restore such railroad track, right of way or land to its forme state, or in a sufficient manner not to have impaired its usefulness.

Ninetieth. The city council or board of trustees shall have n power to grant the use of or the right to lay down any railroad track in any street of the city to any steam, dummy, electric, cable, horse o other railroad company, whether the same shall be incorporated unde any general or special law of the State, now or hereafter in force, ex cept upon the petition of the owners of the land representing mor than one-half of the frontage of the street, or so much thereof as i sought to be used for railroad purposes, and when the street or par thereof sought to be used shall be more than one mile in extent, n petition of land owners shall be valid unless the same shall be signed by the owners of the land representing more than one-half of the front age of each mile and of the fraction of a mile, if any, in excess of the whole miles, measuring from the initial point named in such petition of such street or of the part thereof sought to be used for railroad purposes.

Ninety-first. To tax, license and regulate auctioneers, distillers. breweries, lumber yards, livery stables, public scales, ice cream parlor. [parlors] coffee houses, detective agencies, private detectives, money changers and brokers.

Ninety-second. To prevent and regulate the rolling of hoops. playing of ball, flying of kites, or any other amusement or practice having a tendency to annoy persons passing in the streets or on the sidewalks, or to frighten teams and horses.

Ninety-third. To regulate and prohibit the keeping of any lumber or coal yard, and the placing or piling or selling any lumber, timber, wood, coal, or other combustile material within the limits of the city or village; Provided, that this clause shall not be construed to require the removal of any lumber or coal yard from any location which it lawfully occupies at the time of the passage of any ordinance hereunder.

Ninety-fourth. To provide by ordinance, that all the paper, printing, stationery, blanks, fuel, and all the supplies needed for the use of the city, shall be furnished by contract, let to the lowest bidder.

Ninety-fifth. To tax, license and regulate second-hand and junk stores and yards, and to forbid their purchasing or receiving from minors without the written consent of their parents or guardians, any article whatsoever, and to direct the location thereof.

Ninety-sixth. To direct, license and control all wagons and other vehicles conveying loads within the city, or any particular class of such wagons, and other vehicles, and prescribe the width and tire of the same, the license fee when collected to be kept as a separate fund and used only for paying the cost and expense of street or ally improvement or repair.

Ninety-seventh. To acquire, in the manner now or hereafter proided by law for the taking of private property for public use, private 'ands bordering upon the public or navigable waters, useful, desirable advantageous for bathing beaches and recreation piers.

Ninety-eighth. To pass all ordinances, rules, and make all regulatons, proper or necessary, to carry into effect the powers granted to cities or villages, with such fines or penalties as the city council or ward of trustees shall deem proper: Provided, no fine or penalty shall exceed $200.00, and no imprisonment shall exceed six months for one offense.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

CIVIL SERVICE.

CITIES.

§ 2. Emergency.

1. Amends section 10%. Act of 1895. 10.

Persons preferred for

appointments.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 6. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 101⁄2 of an Act entitled: "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 10% of an Act entitled: "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and In force March 20, 1895, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

$ 10%. Persons who were engaged in the military, or naval service of the United States during the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, 1865, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918 or 1919, and who were honorably discharged therefrom, and all persons who were engaged in such military or naval service during any of said years, who are now or may hereafter be on inactive or reserve duty in uch military or naval service, not including, however, persons who were Convicted by court-martial of disobedience of orders, where such disobedience consisted in the refusal to perform military service on the ground of alleged religious or conscientious objections against war, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such office, and it shall be the duty of the examiner or commissioner certifying the list of eligibles who have taken the examinations provided for in this Act, to place the name or names of such persons at the head of the list of eligibles certified for appointment, provided. however, that this shall not apply to promotions provided for in section 9 hereof, but in such promotions such person or persons shall be given an additional credit in the promotional examination of one per cent (1) (on the basis of 100%) for each six months or fraction thereof of such military or naval service; and, provided, further that such addi

tional credit shall not be computed so as to increase or decrease th rating allotted to any person competing in such examination for asce: tained merits (efficiency) or seniority in service. And provided fu ther, that no person shall be given such additional credits in the pro motional examination for more than eighteen months of such military o naval service.)

§ 2. Because of an emergency, this Act shall be in full force an effect from and after its passage and approval.

AN ACT to amend section 18 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, as amended by an Act approved June 13, 1895, and in force July 1, 1895, as amended by an Act approved June 22, 1915, and in force July 1, 1915.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 18 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, as amended by an Act approved June 13, 1895, and in force July 1, 1895, as amended by an Act approved June 22, 1915, and in force July 1, 1915, be amended to read as follows:

§ 18. In cities having a population of one hundred thousand inhabitants or more, the president of said commission shall receive a salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars a year, each of the other members of said commission shall receive a salary of five thousand dollars a year, and the chief examiner of said commission shall receive a salary of four thousand five hundred dollars a year. Any person not at the time in the official service of the city, serving as a member of the board of examiners or of a trial board, shall receive compensation for every day actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of his duty as an examiner or a member of the trial board at the rate of not exceeding seven dollars per day, and said commission may, in such city, also incur expenses not exceeding the amount appropriated therefor by the city council of the city wherein said commission exists. In cities having a population of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants such commissioners shall receive an annual salary, and the chief examiner shall receive an annual salary to be fixed by the city council of such cities. In cities having a population of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, any person not at the time in the official service of the city, serving as a member of the board of examiners or of a trial board shall receive compensation for every day actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of his duty as an examiner or member of the trial board at the rate per day to be fixed by the city council of such cities, and said commission may, in such cities also incur expenses not exceeding the amount appropriated therefor by the city council wherein said commission exists.