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jority of the votes cast upon such proposition by the voters of said park district at such election. And authority is hereby expressly granted to the park commissioners issuing such bonds, to levy and collect a direct annual tax upon the property within their jurisdiction in addition to the amount of any tax now authorized by law to be levied and collected by them sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the date of issuing of said bonds, and the county clerk of the county in which such park district is located or such other officer or officers as are by law authorized to spread or assess taxes for park purposes and other purposes, shall, on receiving a certificate from such park commissioners that the amount mentioned in such certificate is necessary to pay the interest on said bonds, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the date of issuing said bonds, spread and assess such amount upon the taxable property embraced in said park district, the same as other park taxes are by law spread and assessed, and the same shall be collected and paid over the same as other park taxes are now required by law to be collected and paid.

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for making improvements and repairs upon highways adjoining public parks and pleasure grounds," approved and in force April 22, 1907, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 25, 1909, and to amend the title 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 making improvements and repairs upon highways adjoining public parks and pleasure grounds," approved and in force April 22, 1907, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 25, 1909, be amended so that the same shall read as follows:

§ 1. That whenever any boulevard or parkway under the control of any public park commissioners is in need of improvements or repairs, it shall be competent for said park commissioners to make such improvements or repairs; or whenever any public street, avenue or alley under the control of any city, town or village adjoining any public park, or pleasure ground under the control of any public park commissioners is in need of improvements or repairs, it shall be competent for said park commissioners and said city, town or village, from time to time, to enter into an agreement for the payment to such city, town or village, by such park commissioners, of such portion of the cost of the improvement or repair of such public street, avenue or alley, as may in

the judgment of said commissioners be of benefit to said park or pleasure ground, or to enter into an agreement for the making of such portion of the improvements or repairs by said park commissioners to any such public street, avenue or alley adjoining such public park or pleasure ground.

§ 2. In case such boulevards or parkways are improved or repaired, or in case an agreement shall have been entered into by the park commissioners for the improving or repairing of any such street, avenue or alley adjoining such park or pleasure ground, the commissioners having the control of such boulevards, parkways, parks or pleasure grounds, or the corporate authorities within which such boulevards, parkways, parks or pleasure grounds may be situated, shall have the power to pay for such improvements or repairs of such boulevards and parkways, and shall have the power to pay for such portion of the cost of such improvements or repairs of any public street, avenue or alley adjoining such park or pleasure ground, out of the general revenues of such board of park commissioners or corporate authorities controlling any such boulevards, parkways, parks or pleasure grounds, or by the issue and sale, from time to time, of interest bearing bonds; provided no bonds shall be issued under this Act contrary to the provisions of section 12, Article 9 of the Constitution of this State, and provided further that the total amount of said bonds to be so issued shall not at any time exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000); and authority is hereby expressly granted to the park commissioners or corporate authorities issuing such bonds to levy and collect a direct annual tax upon the property within the jurisdiction of such park commissioners or corporate authorities, in addition to any tax now authorized by law to be levied and collected by them, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the date of the issue of said bonds, and the county clerk of the county in which such district or town is located, or such other officer or officers as are by law authorized to spread or assess taxes for park purposes, on receiving certificate from such park commissioners or corporate authorities, that the amount mentioned in such certificate is necessary to pay the interest on said bonds and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the date of issuing said bonds, shall spread and assess such amount upon the taxable property embraced in said park district or town, the same as other taxes are by law spread and assessed and the same shall be collected and paid over as other park taxes are required by law to be collected and paid.

§ 3. The remainder of the cost of making such improvements or repairs upon any public street, avenue or allev adjoining any public park or pleasure ground shall be raised by said city, town or village, by general taxation or special assessment, as said city, town or village may determine.

4. Park commissioners having the control of any public park or pleasure ground adjoining any street, avenue or alley under the control of any city, town or village shall have the power under this Act to pay

to such city, town or village such sum or sums of money, out of the proceeds of the sale of said bonds, not to exceed, however, a total amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), as may be necessary for the purpose of discharging any valid existing indebtedness of such park commissioners arising from any agreement or agreements made by such park commissioners, with such city, town or village prior to the adoption of this Act, for the improvement and repair of any such public street, avenue or alley.

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§ 2. The title of said Act is amended to read as follows: Act to provide for making improvements and repairs by any park commissioners upon boulevards, parkways and highways.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

OLD SALEM STATE PARK.

§ 1.

State to acquire by donation cer- § 2.
tain lands now property of Old
Salem Chautauqua Association.

To establish State Park - erect suitable buildings-employ caretaker, etc.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 35. APPROVED APRIL 3, 1919.)

AN ACT to establish the Old Salem State Park, in Menard County, State of Illinois.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That for and on behalf of the State of Illinois, the Department of Public Works and Buildings shall have the power to acquire by donation, the title to the land formerly constituting the site of town of New Salem (the home of Abraham Lincoln 1831-1837) and land contiguous thereto, now the property of the Old Salem Chautauqua Association, comprising sixty-two (62) acres more or less. The title to such land shall be taken in the name of the People of the State of Illinois and the deed conveying such property shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. The land so acquired shall be set aside as a State park, to be known as the "Old Salem State Park" and shall never be devoted to any other use.

§ 2. After the acquisition of the land formerly constituting the site of the town of New Salem and the land contiguous thereto as aforesaid by the State of Illinois, it shall be the duty of the Department of Public Works and Buildings

(1) To take possession of such land and establish and maintain thereon a State park which, subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary, shall be free of access to the public;

(2) Erect thereon a suitable building of sufficient dimensions to house and preserve all relics and mementoes of Abraham Lincoln's residence in the town of New Salem;

(3) To provide a residence for the caretaker or custodian of Old Salem State Park, and make such other improvements as may be

necessary;

(4) Complete the restoration of, as far as possible, all buildings which were standing thereon during the time that Abraham Lincoln resided in the town of New Salem;

and

(5) Employ a caretaker or custodian for Old Salem State Park;

(6) Employ such other persons at such times as may be required for the care, preservation and protection of Old Salem State Park and for the accommodation of the public.

APPROVED April 3, 1919.

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AN ACT to amend section 29 of an Act entitled: "An Act to revise the law in relation to paupers," approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended, and to add thereto a new section to be known as section 22a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 29 of an Act entitled: "An Act to revise the law in relation to paupers," approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended, is amended and there is added to said Act a new section to be known as section 22a, the amended and additional sections to read as follows:

§ 22a. No feebleminded girl or woman between the ages of fourteen and forty-five years shall be kept in, committed to, placed or received in any poor house or poor farm. No male child under the age of seventeen years or female child under the age of eighteen years shall be kept in any poor house or poor farm for a period of more than thirty days. Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed as to require the removal of any person now an inmate of any poor house or poor farm, unless the Department of Public Welfare, in its discretion, shall deem such removal necessary.

§ 29. The overseers of the poor in each town in counties under township organization (whether the poor are supported by townships or otherwise), and of each precinct in counties not under township organization, shall keep an accurate account, showing the name of every person relieved or supported in their town or precinct; the place of his birth; the manner in which he is relieved or supported whether in whole or in part at the expense of the county or town; the amount of the aid furnished; whether the dependency was on account of idiocy, lunacy, intemperance, or other cause, stating the cause. Before the first meeting of the county board in September of each year [each] overseer of the poor shall file two copies of this account with the county clerk of his county. The county clerk shall within five days after the adjournment of the September meeting of the county board in each year transmit one of such copies to the Department of Public Welfare.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

POWER OF COUNTY BOARD.

§ 1. Amends section 28, Act of 1874.

§ 28.

Powers of county board.

(SENATE BILL NO. 80. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 28 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to paupers", approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, that section 28 of an Act entitled "An Act to revise the law in relation to paupers", approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

§ 28. The county board of any county in this State in which the poor are not supported by the towns thereof, as provided by law, shall have power

(1) To acquire in the name of the county by purchase, grant, gift or devise, a suitable tract or tracts of land upon which to erect and maintain a county poor house and other necessary buildings in connection therewith, and for the establishment and maintenance of a farm for the employment of the poor, and to erect and maintain such buildings and establish and maintain such farm, but, they shall not expend for the purchase of any such land or the erection of any such buildings a sum exceeding three thousand ($3,000.00) dollars without a two-thirds majority vote of all the members of the county board.

Any such county shall have power by contract with another county or counties, to jointly secure by purchase or otherwise, necessary lands, and erect and maintain a poor house and other necessary buildings for the maintenance of the poor of such counties.

(2) To receive in the name of the county gifts, devises and bequests to aid in the erection or maintenance of the poor house, or in the care and support of poor and indigent persons.

(3) To make all proper rules and regulations for the management of the county poor house and poor farm and of the inmates of the poor house. Provided, that no such poor farm shall be let or rented upon the principle of the highest bid for the use of the land and the lowest bid for the maintenance of the county charges or upon any plan which may tend to the detriment or neglect of the inmates or the waste or deterioration of the property, but shall be conducted by the county only through its officers, agents or representatives.

(4) To appoint a keeper of the poor house and all necessary agents and servants for the management and control of the poor house and farm and prescribe their compensation and duties.

(5) To appoint a county physician and prescribe his compensation and duties.

(6) To appoint an agent to have the general supervision and charge of all matters in relation to the care and support of the poor and prescribe his compensation and duties.

(7) To make all proper and necessary appropriations out of the county treasury for the purchase of land and the erection of buildings, as authorized by this Act, and to defray the expenses necessary in the

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