that the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of said territory, shall be filed with the clerk of said sanitary district, then and in such case the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the said electors, as in said petition prayed, at any general or municipal election held after the adoption of this Act, and in such case, this Act shall not be in force unless a majority of the votes cast at said election, upon the question of the adoption of this Act, shall be in favor of the adoption thereof.

It shall be the duty of the election officers having charge of the preparation of the ballots and the giving of the notices of election and of the counting and canvassing and making returns of the ballots, to take all necessary steps and do all necessary acts to cause the said question of the adoption of this Act to be submitted to a vote as hereinbefore provided, and to cause the result of such election to be canvassed and certified, as provided by law in other similar cases. APPROVED June 21, 1919.

NORTH SHORE SANITARY DISTRICT.

1. Amends Act of 1911 by extending boundary line.

(SENATE BILL No. 448. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to enlarge the corporate limits of the North Shore Sanitary District, created under the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts, and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 5, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as amended, by extending the same from the Northern boundary line of said District northerly to the state line between the States of Illinois and Wisconsin.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the corporate limits of the North Shore Sanitary District in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, created under the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts, and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 5, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as amended, are hereby extended from the Northern boundary line of said District to the state line between the States of Illinois and Wisconsin so as to embrace and include within said corporate limits the territory and tract of land situated in the county of Lake and State of Illinois, hereinafter described as follows, to-wit:

Fractional section two (2); sections three (3) and four (4); the East halves of sections five (5) and eight (8); section nine (9), and fractional section ten (10); all in Township forty-five (45) North, Range twelve (12), East of the Third (3rd) Principal Meridian.

Also fractional sections two (2); three (3) and four (4); the East halves of fractional sections five (5), and eight (8); sections nine (9) and ten (10); fractional sections eleven (11) and fourteen (14); sections fifteen (15), and sixteen (16); the East halves of sections seventeen (17) and twenty (20); sections twenty-one (21) and twentytwo (22); fractional sections twenty-three (23) and twenty-six (26);

sections twenty-seven (27), and twenty-eight (28); the East halves of sections twenty-nine (29) and thirty-two (32); sections thirty-three (33) and thirty-four (34) and fractional section thirty-five (35); all in Township numbered forty-six (46) North, Range twelve (12), East of the Third (3rd) Principal Meridian.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO.

§ 1. § 2.

Development of water power.
Contracts.

§ 3. Electrical energy-may be soldminimum rate.

(SENATE BILL No. 395. APPROVED JUNE 17, 1919.)

AN ACT in relation to the Sanitary District of Chicago, to enable said The Sanitary District of Chicago to develop, lease, purchase and sell waterpower or electrical energy rendered available by the Illinois Waterway in the Des Plaines River.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That The Sanitary District of Chicago is hereby authorized and empowered, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the board of trustees of said The Sanitary District of Chicago and the Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State of Ilinois, to develop into electrical energy any water power in the Des Plaines River rendered available by the construction of The Illinois Waterway, or to lease or purchase any electrical energy developed by the State of Ilinois in connection with said The Illinois Waterway in said Des Plaines River.

§ 2. In case any contract is entered into as contemplated by section 1 of this Act, said The Sanitary District of Chicago is hereby authorized to construct, maintain and operate such works, and to acquire and use such machinery and appliances, as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers herein granted.

§3. The electrical energy acquired by said The Sanitary District of Chicago under the provisions of this Act may be transmitted to the various cities, villages and towns within said The Sanitary District of Chicago, or adjacent to the main channel of said The Sanitary District of Chicago, or the city of Joliet, and sold to any public agency, person, firm or corporation for public or private consumption upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed to by said The Sanitary District of Chicago, subject, however, to the right of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of Illinois to fix the maximum rate which may be charged by The Sanitary District of Chicago or its assigns for any electrical energy developed from such water power.

APPROVED June 17, 1919.

(SENATE BILL NO. 494. FILED JULY 11, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend sections 4 and 7 of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 5, 1911, as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1913, and also to re-enact and amend sections 17 and 19 of the said Act as approved June 5, 1911.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections four (4) and seven (7) of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 5, 1911, as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1913, be and the same are hereby amended; and that sections seventeen (17) and nineteen (19) of the first mentioned Act be re-enacted and amended so that all of said sections shall read as follows:

§ 4. The trustees elected in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Act shall constitute a board of trustees for the district by which they are elected, which board of trustees is hereby declared to be the corporate authorities of such district, and shall exercise all the powers and manage and control all the affairs and property of such district. Said board of trustees shall have the right to elect a president from among their own number, secretary, treasurer, chief engineer, superintendent and attorney, and to provide by ordinance for the employment of such clerks, and other employees as said board may deem necessary for such municipality, who shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the board, and who shall give bond as may be required by said board. Said board may prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of all the officers and employees of said sanitary district: Provided, however, that the salary of the president of the said board of trustees shall in no case exceed the sum of one thousand dollars per annum; and the salary of the other members of said board shall not exceed five hundred dollars per annum: And, provided, further, that the amount received by any attorney shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum. Said board of trustees shall have full power to pass all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of said board of trustees and of said corporation, and for the carrying into effect the objects for which such sanitary district is formed.

§ 7. The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act shall have power to provide for the disposal of the sewage thereof and to save and preserve the water supplied to the inhabitants of such district from contamination and for that purpose

may construct and maintain an enclosed conduit or conduits, main pipes, wholly or partially submerged, buried or otherwise, and by means of pumps or otherwise cause such sewage to flow or to be forced through such conduit or conduits, pipe or pipes to and into any ditch or canal constructed and operated by any other sanitary district, after having first acquired the right so to do, or such board may provide for the drainage of such district by laying out, establishing, constructing and maintaining one or more channels, drains, ditches and outlets for carrying off and disposing of the drainage (including the sewage) of such district, together with such adjuncts and additions thereto as may be necessary or proper to cause such channels or outlets to accomplish the end for which they are designed, in a satisfactory manner, including pumps and pumping stations and the operation of the same. Such board shall provide suitable and modernly equipped sewage disposal works or plants for the separation and disposal of all solids and deleterious matter from the liquids, and shall treat and purify the residue of such sewage so that when the same shall flow into any lake, it will not injuriously contaminate the waters thereof, and shall adopt any feasible method to accomplish the object for which such sanitary district may be created, and may also provide means whereby the said sanitary district may reach and procure supplies of water for diluting and flushing purposes: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to empower, authorize or require such board of trustees to operate a system of water works for the purpose of furnishing or delivering water to any such municipality or to the inhabitants thereof without the payment therefor at such rates as such board may determine upon. Nothing in this Act contained shall authorize said trustees to flow the sewage of such district into Lake Michigan, and any such plan for sewage disposal by any sanitary district organized hereunder is hereby prohibited, unless such sewage shall have been treated and purified as provided in this section, all laws of the Federal government relating to the pollution of navigable waters have been complied with, the approval of plans and constructions of outlets and connection with any of the streams or navigable bodies of water within or bordering upon the State obtained from the Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State, and the discharge of any sewage from any such district into any of the streams or navigable bodies of water within or bordering upon the State subject to the orders of said Department of Public Works and Buildings at all times to prevent the pollution and contamination of such streams or bodies of water by any discharge of sewage by any sanitary district therein. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as in any manner limiting or preventing the control of sewage disposal or the pollution of streams, lakes or other public bodies of water by the Department of Public Works and Buildings of the State as provided in an Act entitled "An Act creating a Rivers and Lakes Commission for the State of Illinois, and defining the duties and powers thereof," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, with all subsequent amendments.

§ 17. The board of trustees of any such sanitary district are hereby vested with power and authority to enter into contract with

any city or village for the reduction, treatment and disposal of any garbage or offal, or solid matter removed from sewage at any disposal plant or treatment works.

§19. Whenever within any such sanitary district there shall be a city, incorporated town or village, which owns a system of waterworks and supplies water from a lake or other source which will be saved and preserved from sewage pollution, or other contamination, by the board of trustees of such district in the exercise of the powers and authority by this Act conferred, and there shall be in such sanitary district any city, incorporated town or village, which does not own or operate any system of water works, at the time of the creation of such sanitary district, then the board of trustees of such sanitary district. shall have and they are hereby vested with the same power and authority conferred upon the board of trustees of any district organized, or that might be organized, under an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of water districts to enable certain territory to procure pure water," approved June 5, 1911. And said board of trustees of said sanitary district may exercise such power and authority as and in the manner provided by sections number four (4) to and including section number twenty (20) of said last mentioned Act. Said board of trustees of such sanitary district are also hereby authorized and empowered to take a lease from any such city of any public utilities specified in section two (2) of an Act entitled, "An Act to authorize cities to acquire, construct, own and to lease or operate public utilities and provide the means therefor," approved June 26, 1913, as amended by an Act approved June 22, 1915.

FILED July 11, 1919.

The Governor having failed to return this bill to the General Assembly during its session, and having failed to file it in my office, with his objections. within ten days after the adjournment of the General Assembly, it has thereby become a law.

Witness my hand this 11th day of July, A. D. 1919.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

SANITARY DISTRICTS.

§ 2. Adds section 3a.

§ 3a. County judge to fill vacancy in board of trustees.

1. Amends section 18, Act of 1917.

18. Pollution of waters
police powers.

(SENATE BILL No. 386. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 18 of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 22, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, and to add an additional section to said Act, to be known as section 3a.

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 create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 22, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, be amended to read as follows:

§ 18. The board of trustees of any such sanitary district shall have power and authority to prevent the pollution of any waters from