may proceed to obtain the same under the provisions of chapter XCII, code of 1845, entitled "Right of Way," or under the provisions of the existing law on that subject, with reference to said town.

§ 2. That hereafter summons and other process issued Process, against parties charged with violations of the ordinances or by-laws of said town shall be made returnable forthwith, and executions in such cases shall be issuable immediately; that in all cases when persons are ordered to be imprisoned or committed to jail, on conviction of offences against the by-laws or ordinances of said town, under the provisions of existing laws, the persons so ordered to be imprisoned or committed may be compelled to labor on the streets or Labor. other improvements of said town, at the rate of one dollar per day, until satisfaction is made of the penalty imposed or judgment recovered, during which time the parties so punished shall be furnished with healthy and suitable board and lodging, at the expense of the corporation, but which shall be charged against the party punished, as costs.

§3. That the assessment of the property in said town Assessment leof Jacksonville, for taxation, for the year eighteen hundred galized. and fifty-seven, be and the same is hereby declared legal, and the taxes upon said assessment shall be collectable as though the same had been made, in all respects, according to law.

§ 4. And be it further enacted, That an act entitled cts revived. "An act to amend an act entitled an act to amend the act incorporating Jacksonville," approved February 18, 1857, is hereby repealed; and the act so amended shall be revived

and be in full force and effect.

§ 5. This act shall take effect on its passage. APPROVED, February 21, 1859.

AN ACT to enable the Board of Supervisors of Boone county to levy an ad- In force Febru ditional tax for certain purposes therein named.

ary 19, 1859.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the board of supervisors of the county of Boone may, at their annual meeting, levy a tax, not exceeding two mills on the Tax. dollar, over and above the amount now allowed by law for county purposes; which shall constitute a fund, separate from the county revenue, and shall be appropriated either to the payment of the outstanding bonds of said county or the purchase of a poor farm and the erection of suitable buildings thereon, and for no other purpose, and shall cease when the aforesaid objects have been accomplished.

Special tax.

§ 2. Said special tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner as other tax is.

§ 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 24, 1859.3

In force Feb'y AN ACT to authorize the County Court of Fayette county to levy a tax for the 12, 1859. purpose of repairing court house in said county, and other purposes.

Special tax.

Surplus.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county court of Fayette county be and the same is hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax, for the term of two years, not to exceed fifty cents (50) on each hundred dollars' worth of personal and real estate in said county; the proceeds of said tax to be applied to the payment of repairs on the court house in said county, and for furnishing the same.

82. That the surplus, if any, of said tax, be paid in to the county treasury, to be applied as said county court shall direct.

§ 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 12, 1859.

In force Feb'y AN ACT empowering the Board of Supervisors of Jo Daviess county to levy 18, 1859.

certain taxes therein named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the people of the county of Jo Daviess, by their board of superAuthorized to visors, be and are hereby authorized to levy a tax, of one levy tax for mill upon the dollar, upon all taxable property in said counbridges. ty, for the purpose of erecting bridges and maintaining

debt.

same in said county.

Taxes to liqui- 2. Be it also enacted, That the people of said county date county of Jo Daviess, by their board of supervisors, be and [are] hereby authorized and empowered to levy a further tax, of two mills upon the dollar, upon all taxable property, to be used as a sinking fund, for the purpose of liquidating the indebtedness of said county.

§ 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 18, 1859.

AN ACT to attach a portion of T. 19 N., R. 12 W., to T. 18 N., R. 12 W., in Ver- In force Feb'y milion county, state of Illinois.

21, 1859.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the following described portion of T. 19 N., of R. 12 W., viz: Territory Beginning at the southeast corner of said T. 19 N., R. 12 attached. W.; thence north one mile, on the range line; thence west one mile and a half; thence south to the line of T. 18 N., R. 12 W.; thence east to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby attached to T. 18 N., R. 12 W., in Vermilion county, state of Illinois, and shall be hereafter taken and considered a part of T. 18 N., R. 12 W., for all civil purposes.

2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 21, 1859.

AN ACT to re-annex certain lands to the town of New Trier.

And

In force April

26, 1859.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all of the Archange Oinleneth Reserve, and fractional sections Territory twenty-two, twenty-six and twenty-seven, in township forty- attached. two north, range thirteen east, be disannexed from the town of Evanston and annexed to the town of New Trier. that part of section 3 of "An act to establish the town of Lake- Section repeal view, in Cook county, and to change the name and boundaries of the town of Ridgville and to constitute the same a township, for school purposes," requiring the trustees of schools of township forty-two north, range thirteen east, to pay to the trustees of schools of town forty-one, range fourteen, one-sixth part of the township school funds, be and is hereby repealed.

APPROVED February 24, 1859.

ed.

AN ACT to authorize the inhabitants of the town of Maine, in Cook county, to In force Feb'y build a town house.

11, 1859.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the inhabitants of the town of Maine, in Cook county, be and they are hereby authorized to receive a donation or to purchase Donation. a lot and erect a building thereon, to be used for town meet

Appropriation.

Tax.

Expenditures.

Trustees.

Treasurer.

ings in such town, and for such other public purposes as the trustees hereinafter named may authorize.

2. The electors of such town, at any annual or special town meeting, may determine, by a vote, what sum shall be appropriated for the purpose aforesaid; and the amount so voted shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as other town taxes are assessed, levied and collected; and the electors may vote at the same time as to the location of said building.

3. The expenditure of such money and the control and use of such building shall be made and exercised by a board of three trustees, to be chosen at each annual town meeting after the passage of this act, in the same manner as other town officers are chosen, who shall hold their offices until their successors are elected. The following named persons shall constitute such board of trustees, and hold their offices until their successors shall be chosen, as aforesaid, viz: H. W. Phillips, A. F. Miner and T. P. Robb.

§ 4. The said trustees shall choose one of their number treasurer, and prescribe the amount, condition and securities of the bond to be given by such treasurer; and no money shall be paid out by the treasurer without the written order of a majority of such trustees; and the said trustees shall, annually, at the regular town meeting, report, in writing, all their doings as trustees; and shall receive for their services such compensation as may be fixed by the voters of said town, at their annual town meetings.

§ 5. This act shall be in force from and after its pas

In force Feb'y AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for Township Organ21, 1859.

ed.

ization."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the fourth Section amend section of article sixteenth of an act to provide for township organization, approved February 17, 1851, so far as is applicable to the county of Cook, be so amended that it shall require two-thirds of all the supervisors elected to appropriate money from the county treasury for construction of roads and bridges.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 21, 1859.

AN ACT to change the time of holding town meetings in the county of Cook.

In force Febru

ary 24, 1859.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the annual town meetings in the county of Cook shall Town meetings be held on the first Tuesday next after the first Monday of November in each year.

2. The supervisor of each town in said county of Board of elecCook shall be the moderator of the meeting, and shall, at tion. the same time, be one of the board of election now provided for by law. The town clerk shall also act as one of the clerks of the election, as also of the town meeting. In case the supervisor and town clerk, or either of them, should be absent, then the electors present shall choose from their number to fill the board of election, and the business of the town meeting, as also the election for state, county, town and other officers shall proceed in all respects as if they were present.

§ 3. The town officers now in office in said county of Town officers. Cook shall hold over until the next general election after

their term of office, for which they were elected expires,

and until their successors are elected and qualified.

§ 4. In the towns of North Chicago, West Chicago, Town meetings South Chicago and such other towns as may hereafter be abolished. created out of said towns, the town meetings now provided for by law shall be abolished, and the board of auditors, now provided for by law, and the assistant superviors and ward supervisors shall constitute a board, who shall transact all the town business now provided by law to be transacted by the town meeting.

5. The town officers for the towns of North Chicago, Town officers. South Chicago and West Chicago shall be voted for by wards or election precincts, and the returns of the elections shall be made to the town clerk of said towns, who, calling to his assistance two justices of the peace of said county, shall canvass the votes and grant certificates of election to the persons receiving the highest number of votes. The judges of election appointed by the common council of the city of Chicago in each year, shall hold said elections.

§ 6. The board of election shall make returns to the Returns. county clerk for all the officers voted for, except the town officers, and shall declare who are elected town officers, as now provided for by law.

§ 7. Special town meetings may be held during the year Special town 1859, to transact the business which the changing of the meetings. time for the annual town meeting by this act, may make

necessary.

§ 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 24, 1859.