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§ 15a. Upon the organization of any drainage district as provided in section 15 of this Act, the duties and obligations of the commissioners of highways, of said drainage commissioners of such district shall cease as soon as drainage commissioners shall have been elected and qualified as herein provided. It shall be the duty of the town clerk to call an election in each district in his township, including the new districts organized during the previous year, by giving ten (10) days' notice that an election will be held (specifying time and place), said notice shall be posted in three (3) conspicuous places in said disElections shall be held in the several drainage districts organized under this Act on the second Saturday in March of each year, between the hours of 2:00 and 4:00 o'clock p. m.: Provided, however, that in case the town clerk shall at any time fail, refuse or neglect to give the notice herein required and by reason thereof no election is held on the second Saturday of March, as aforesaid, then the clerk shall, upon the demand of any drainage commissioner or any person interested, call an election for such purpose and give notice, and said election may be held at any time in such case after the second Saturday of March of each year, and the commissioners elected at such election shall be the drainage commissioners of said district, and in case of the expiration of the term of office of any commissioner, or all of them, a new set of commissioners may be elected as the case may be under the notice as aforesaid.

At the first election in each district there shall be elected three (3) commissioners, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, and annually thereafter, one drainage commissioner shall be elected who shall hold his office three years, and until his successor is elected and qualified. Every adult owner of land in the district. whether residing within or without the district, shall be a voter, and if a resident of the county in which the district or any part thereof lies, eligible to the office of drainage commissioner. Said elections shall be conducted after the manner, provided by law governing school elections. Commissioners of highways shall act as judges and clerk of the first election held in any district; thereafter the drainage commissioners shall act as judges and clerk of elections in their respective districts. If said commissioners be not present, it shall be competent for the electors present to select judges and clerk of said election. Returns of said election shall be made to the town clerk, who shall record the same in a book kept for that purpose. Said commissioners shall take the oath of office before some officer authorized to administer oaths. Said commissioners shall be known by the corporate name of drainage commissioners of. . . . . . . . . . District No...., of the town of..... county of..... State of Illinois, and by that name shall be a body politic and corporate, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and shall be the corporate authority of their respective districts. Before entering upon their duties as herein provided, the drainage commissioners shall take and subscribe an oath substantially as follows, viz:

We......
Drainage District No....

.. drainage commissioners of

do solemnly swear (or affirm) that we

will faithfully and impartially perform the duties required of us to the best of our understanding and judgment and make assessment of damages and benefits (or benefits as the case may be), in favor of or against the land in said district, according to law.

When a vacancy occurs amongst the drainage commissioners, elected under this Act, it shall be the duty of the surviving commissioner or commissioners to call an election to fill the vacancy. The commissioners shall give not less than ten (10) days' notice of the time when and place where the election will be held, and the ballot shall state that the comraissioner or commissioners are being elected to fill a vacancy. APPROVED June 28, 1919.

LANDS PROTECTED FROM INUNDATION AND OVERFLOW TO BE

§ 1. Adds section 78, Act of 1879.

INCLUDED.

$ 78.

Lawful to include in drainage district all lands protected from inundation, etc.

(HOUSE BILL No. 69. FILED MAY 29, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees, across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes and to provide for the organization of drainage districts" approved and in force May 29th, 1879, and the Acts amendatory thereto.

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 construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees, across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes and to provide for the organization of drainage districts", be amended by adding thereto a section, to be known as section 78, to read as follows:

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78. In the organization of drainage districts under this Act, where the works of the district include the construction of levees to protect the lands within said district from inundation and overflow, and the installation of a pumping plant, it shall be lawful to include within the boundaries of said district all the lands protected from inundation and overflow and all lands benefited by reason of the construction of levees, and the installation of said pumping plant, regardless of whether or not any of said lands are included within the boundaries of any other district organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, the works of which district consist only of ditches and drains and do not include the construction of levees and the installation of pumping plants.

FILED May 29, 1919.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-ninth_day of May. A. D. 1919. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

LEVEE AS PART OF WORK IN DRAINAGE DISTRICTS.

§ 1. Amends section 59, Act of 1879.

§ 59. May build additional drains, etc. may cause additional sessments.

(SENATE BILL No. 167. APPROVED JUNE 23, 1919.)

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved May 29, 1879, in force May 29, 1879, as subsequently amended, by amending section fifty-nine (59) thereof.

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 construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved May 29, 1879, in force May 29, 1879, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section fiftynine (59) to read as follows:

§ 59. If, after an assessment of lands throughout the district has been made for the purpose of constructing drains or ditches, or enlarging or repairing the main drains or ditches of said district, according to the profiles, plans and specifications of the commissioners, as reported and confirmed, there remain lands in particular localities in any original district which maintains a levee as a part of its work, which are in need of more minute and complete drainage, and it shall appear to the commissioners that, in their judgment, additional ditches, drains, outlets, levees, pumping plants or other work are needed in order to afford more complete drainage, they may prepare a special report as hereinafter provided and file the same and organize a sub-district, in any original district which maintains a levee as a part of its work, in the manner hereinafter set forth without the necessity of a petition of the land owners therefor, and in all cases in any original district which maintains a levee as a part of its work, where, upon written application to the commissioners signed by a majority in number of the adult land owners in such locality owning in the aggregate more than one-third of the land affected, or by the adult land owners of a major part of the land in such locality who constitute one-third or more of the owners of the land affected, it shall appear that additional ditches, drains, outlets, levees, pumping plants or other work are necessary in order to afford more complete drainage to such locality, it shall be the duty of such commissioners to examine such lands, and lay off and make plans, profiles and specifications of such additional work, and an estimate of the cost of the same and make a special report thereof, which special report, whether filed on petition of the land owners or not, shall describe all of the lands which will be either benefited or damaged by such additional work, together with the names of the owners, when known; and said commissioners may use any money in their hands not otherwise appropriated to pay the necessary expenses of pre

paring said special report: Provided, said sum to be expended shall in no case exceed the sum of $500.00; the special report when prepared by the commissioners shall be filed with the clerk of the County Court, and the commissioners shall give to all persons whose lands will be either benefited or damaged, whether they signed an application for additional work or not, three weeks' notice of the filing and hearing of such report in the manner required by section three (3) of this Act; said notice shall state that the commissioners will appear before the County Court at a day mentioned in said notice, and ask said court for a confirmation of such special report; and upon said hearing the court shall pass upon said report and may permit the same to be amended, and if said report is confirmed and approved by the court, a special assessment of benefits and damages shall be made upon all the lands benefited or damaged by the proposed work, in the manner provided for the making of the original assessments of the benefits and damages. by this Act; and like proceedings shall be had thereon as in other cases and assessments of benefits and damages provided by this Act; and said commissioners shall have the power to cause to be made additional assessment of benefits and damages for the same purposes and with like proceedings as in cases of additional assessment of benefits and damages made for original districts under this Act; and the said commissioners may cause to be levied an assessment of annual benefits in said sub-district in the same manner as annual benefits are levied in original districts under this Act: Provided, that if said sub-district does not own or operate a pumping plant, such annual benefits shall not in any one year amount to more in the aggregate than a sum which would be produced by a levy of thirty cents per acre on all the lands within said sub-district.

The affidavit of any of the commissioners, or any other creditable person, of the posting and mailing thereof affixed to a copy of said notice shall be sufficient evidence of the posting and mailing of said notices, and the certificate of the publisher of the newspaper in which said notice was published shall be sufficient evidence of the publication of such notice.

Upon confirmation of said special report by the court, it shall be the duty of the court to declare all the lands found to be affected by the work proposed by said special report to be organized into a subdistrict, and all assessments received and collected in such sub-district, for the work of such sub-districts, shall be kept as a separate fund belonging to such sub-district, and said commissioner shall have the power if necessary to issue bonds against any assessment or assessments in said sub-district in the same manner as bonds are issued in original districts.

The commissioners of the principl district shall be ex-officio commissioners of the sub-district.

Any lands lying outside of any sub-district as organized, the owner or owners of which shall thereafter make connections with any ditch or drain within any sub-district, or whose lands are or will be benefited by the work of such sub-district, shall be deemed to have made voluntary application to be included in such sub-district, and thereupon the com

missioners shall make complaint as provided in section 58 of this Act as to lands lying outside of a drainage district as organized, and like proceedings shall be made thereon as in cases of complaints made under said section 58.

APPROVED June 23, 1919.

§ 1. Repeal.

LITTLE WABASH RIVER DRAINAGE DISTRICT.

2. Proceedings abated. (SENATE BILL NO. 355. APPROVED JUNE 12, 1919.)

AN ACT to repeal an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of Little Wabash River Drainage District and for the changing and improvement of the channel of Little Wabash River and its tributaries by special assessments on the property benefited thereby," approved and in force June 26, 1917.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: An Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of Little Wabash River Drainage District and for the changing and improvement of the channel of Little Wabash River and its tributaries by special assessments on the property benefited thereby," approved and in force June 26, 1917, is hereby repealed.

§ 2. All proceedings heretofore taken by virtue of the said Act in any of the courts of this State shall be abated upon the taking effect of this Act.

APPROVED June 12, 1919.

ENLARGEMENT OF CORPORATE LIMITS-CHICAGO SANITARY DISTRICT. $ 1. Extended to include territory de- $ 2. Petition for adoption of Actscribed. election-duty of election offi

cers.

(SENATE BILL No. 240. APPROVED JUNE 21, 1919.)

AN ACT to enlarge the corporate limits of the sanitary district of Chi

cago.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the corporate limits of the sanitary district of Chicago are hereby extended so as to embrace and include within the same, the territory and tracts of land situated in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, hereinafter described as follows:

Sections three (3), four (4), five (5), and six (6), in Township thirty-eight (38), North, Range twelve (12), East of the Third Principal Meridian; sections thirty-two (32), thirty-three (33) and thirtyfour (34) in Township thirty-nine (39) North, Range twelve (12). East of the Third Principal Meridian, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois; and in addition thereto, any portion or portions of the incorporated villages of Brookfield, LaGrange, Western Springs and LaGrange Park which may not be included in the above description.

2. If within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the passage of this Act a petition, signed by not less than ten (10) per cent of the legal voters within the above described territory, praying

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