cent of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended. The city council of such city shall thereafter annually include and appropriate from such fund in the appropriation bill such sum or sums of money as may be necessary to meet the annual requirements above referred to and designated (A), (B) and (C). Should there be insufficient funds to meet the requirements of this Act during any year, such city may issue and dispose of tax anticipation warrants as provided by law against the tax levy for the current fiscal year. In the event that such city shall during any year fail, neglect or refuse to provide for the levy and collection of the aforesaid tax, then there shall be set apart annually from the revenue collected or received by such city from licenses issued by such city authorizing persons and corporations to engage in any business, profession or occupation within the corporate limits of such city, excepting public utilities, a sum which, when added to the deductions from the salary or wages of policemen above referred to and receipts available from other sources, will amount to a sufficient income to meet the annual requirements above referred to and designated (A), (B) and (C). All moneys collected by taxation or from licenses, as the case may be, shall be transferred to the board as hereinafter provided, and any excess remaining at the end of the fiscal year in the possession of said board shall be credited to the fund for the ensuing year; any deficit shall be provided for during such ensuing year. All moneys, bonds or assets of any nature and description in the possession of the board of trustees of the Police Pension Fund of any city having a population exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000) inhabitants included in the Act which is superseded by this Act, or to which such board may be by law entitled, shall, upon the taking effect of this Act, become the property of the board of trustees of the Police Pension Fund hereby created; whereupon said board first above referred to shall be and hereby is dissolved and abrogated: Provided, however, that all revenue which said board so abrogated would have been by law entitled to between June 30, 1915 and January 1, 1916, had not this Act become operative, shall be paid to and become the property of said board of trustees hereby created for the uses and purposes herein set forth: And, provided, further, that all legal proceedings instituted by, or in the name of, or against said board, shall be continued without abatement either in the name of said board or in the name by which they are instituted and concluded. Said board shall submit a report, at least once each year, to the Superintendent of Insurance of this State, and the said Superintendent of Insurance shall prescribe the form of such reports, the matter which they shall contain, and the time when they shall be submitted, and said Superintendent of Insurance shall report the information so submitted, or a comprehensive summary thereof, to the Governor of this State at least once each year. The said Superintendent of Insurance shall also prescribe a system of records and accounting to be used in the management of this fund. FILED June 14, 1917. 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 fourteenth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. POLICE MAGISTRATES-ELECTION. 1. Election and term of office-jurisdiction-cities under commission form of government. § 2. Emergency. (SENATE BILL No. 222. APPROVED APRIL 2, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to authorize the election of police magistrates in towns, cities and villages where the same are not now provided for by law," approved and in force April 13, 1875, and as amended by Act approved May 24, 1907 and in force July 1, 1907. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly,[:] That all towns, cities and villages in the State which have been incorporated under charters granted by special Acts or under a general Act, when the law under which they are incorporated does not authorize the election of a police magistrate, be and they are hereby authorized to elect one police magistrate at the first annual election of town, city or village officers that shall occur after the passage of this Act, and quadrennial [ly] thereafter. Such police magistrates shall hold their offices for the same term, be commissioned and qualified, and have the same jurisdiction and fees as police magistrates of villages have under the general law for the incorporation of cities and villages: Provided, that in all cities, towns and villages in this State where a police magistrate is now elected at a time when no regular city election is held for other city officers, the police magistrate elected at the last election shall hold his office until the next regular election of city. officers which shall occur after the expiration of the present term for which such police magistrate has been elected, and such cities be and they are hereby authorized to elect one police magistrate at the first regular election for city officers which shall occur after the expiration of the term of office for which the magistrate now holding office is elected, and every four years thereafter: Provided, however, that in all cities. and villages which have adopted "the Commission Form of Municipal Government," as provided by the statutes of this State, where a police magistrate is now elected at a time when no regular city election is held for the election of a mayor and commissioners the police magistrate elected at the last election shall hold his office until the next regular election of mayor and commissioners, which shall occur after the expiration of the present term for which such police magistrate has been elected, and such cities and villages be, and they are hereby authorized to elect one police magistrate at the first regular election for mayor and commissioners which shall occur after the expiration of the term of office for which the police magistrate now holding office is elected, and every four years thereafter. § 2. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, as the terms of office of certain police magistrates are about to expire in cities having adopted the commission form of municipal government, which would make necessary special elections in such cities at a large expense to the taxpayers, therefore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED April 2, 1917. POLICE PENSION FUND IN CITIES OF 5,000 TO 100,000. § 1. Amends title and section 1, Act of 1909. § 1. Title what moneys set apart (HOUSE BILL No. 865. FILED JUNE 26, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a Police Pension Fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns in the State of Illinois, having a population of not less than 9,000 and not more than 50,000 inhabitants," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, as subsequently amended, by amending the title and section one (1) 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 setting apart, formation and disbursement of a Police Pension Fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns in the State of Illinois having a population of not less than 9,000 and not more than 50,000 inhabitants," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending the title and section one (1) thereof to read as follows: § 1. That in all cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population of not less than 5,000 and not more than 100,000 inhabitants, said population to be determined by the United States Government statistics, there shall be set apart the following moneys to constitute a Police Pension Fund. First-Three-fourths of all moneys received for licenses upon dogs. Second-Two-per cent of all moneys received from licenses for the keeping of saloons, dramshops and wholesale liquor houses. Third-All moneys received for special detail of police officers. ordinances. Fifth-One per cent per month, which shall be paid or deducted from the pension of every police pensioner of such city, village or town. Sixth-All moneys received from fines imposed upon members of the police department of such city, village or town for violation of the rules and regulations of the police department. Seventh-All rewards given or paid to members of such police force except such as shall be excepted by the board of trustees of the Police Pension Fund: Provided, this provision shall not apply to cities that have not adopted civil service in the police department. Eighth-One per cent per month, which shall be paid or deducted from the salary of each and every member of the police department of such city, village or incorporated town: Provided, however, the sum so received shall in no case exceed one dollar ($1.00): Provided, that this provision shall not apply to cities that have not adopted civil service in the police department. Ninth-Ten per cent of all revenues collected from licenses by such city, village or incorporated town not heretofore mentioned in this bill. Tenth-All moneys that may have been accumulated by such city, village or town in conformity with any previous legislation establishing a fund for the benefit of disabled or superannuated policemen, and onehalf of all the funds accumulated in any such city, village or town for the benefit of disabled or superannuated police or firemen by virtue of any previous legislation; Provided, however, there shall not be collected in any city, village or incorporated town in any year more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) and should it be necessary to reduce the collections as above provided, the reduction shall be made from the amount collected from dramshop licenses. Eleventh-The city council or board of trustees of any such city, village or incorporated town shall levy a tax for a period of three (3) years, beginning with the year 1918, not to exceed three-tenths of a mill on the dollar on all taxable property of such city, village or incorporated town. Such tax shall be levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of such city, village or incorporated town and shall be in addition to all other taxes which such city, village or incorporated town is now or hereafter may be authorized to levy upon the aggregate valuation of all property within such city, village or incorporated town. The county clerk in reducing the tax levies under the provisions of section 2 of an Act entitled: "An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as subsequently amended, shall not consider the tax herein authorized as a part of the general taxes levied for city, village or incorporated town purposes and shall not include the same in the limitation of three per cent of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended. Said tax, when collected, shall be paid in to the police pension fund as a part thereof. § 2. The title of said Act shall be amended to read as follows: "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns in the State of Illinois, having a population of not less than 5,000 and not more. than 100,000 inhabitants. FILED June 26, 1917. 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-sixth day of June. A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. (HOUSE BILL No. 486. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to amend and revise sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and all Acts amendatory thereto by adding thereto Article XIII," approved March 9, 1910, in force July 1, 1910. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and all Acts amendatory thereto by adding thereto Article XIII," approved March 9, 1910, in force July 1, 1910, be amended and revised so that said section shall read as follows: § 22. COUNCIL QUORUM VOTING - MAYOR TO PRESIDE.] Every such city or village shall be governed by a council, consisting of the mayor and four commissioners, as provided in this Act, each of whom shall have the right to vote on all questions coming before the council. Three members of the council shall constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of three members shall be necessary to adopt any motion, resolution or ordinance, or pass any measure, unless a greater number is provided for by this Act. Upon every vote the "yeas" and "nays" shall be called and recorded. and every motion, resolution or ordinance shall be reduced to writing and read before a vote is taken thereon, and all the commissioners, including the mayor, present at any meeting shall vote thereon. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the council. He shall have no power to veto any measure, motion, resolution or ordinance, but every resolution, ordinance, measure or warrant adopted, passed.or ordered by the council must be signed by the mayor, or by two commissioners, and all ordinances and resolutions recorded, before the same shall be in full force. § 23. COUNCIL, POWERS AND DUTIES-FIVE DEPARTMENTS.] The council shall have and possess, and the council and its members shall exercise all executive and legislative powers and duties now had, possessed and exercised by the mayor, city council, president and board of trustees of villages, board of library trustees, city clerk, city attorney, city engineer, city treasurer, city comptroller and other executive, legislative and administrative officers in cities or villages now or hereinafter organized and incorporated under the General Incorporation Law of the State of Illinois for the incorporation of cities and villages, and the council shall have and possess, and the council and its members shall exercise all executive and legislative powers and duties now had, |