or platted, shall conform to such plan. And no map or plat of any addition to said city, or of any subdivision of lands lying within the same or within one-half mile of the limits thereof, shall be entitled to record or shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of St. Clair county until the same shall have been approved by the city council of said city. And all such additions or subdivisions shall be null and void, unless a correct map or plat thereof shall be approved by the city council of said city, before the same is filed for record. §3. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election in said city who has not been a citizen of the state of Illinois for at least one year, and of said city for at least six months and of the ward in which he proposes to vote for ten days next preceding such election; and, if required by any judge or qualified voter, he shall take the following oath, before he shall be permitted to vote: "I swear (or affirm) that I am of the age of twenty-one years, and have been a resident of this state one year, a resident of this city six months, and a resident of this ward ten days immediately preceding this election." § 4. The salary of the mayor of said city shall not be more than three hundred dollars per year; and no alderman shall receive more than fifty dollars per year for any services rendered by him as a member of the city council. $5. Police magistrates shall, upon proper information of any violation of any penal clause of the city charter or of any penal ordinance of the city, issue a warrant to the city marshal, or any police constable, or any other officer authorized to execute the same, commanding him to forthwith apprehend the offender and bring him before him or any competent court; and if, upon the trial, it shall appear satisfactory to the court or jury, after hearing the evidence and proofs adduced in the case, that the accused is guilty of the offense complained of, such fine, penalty, forfeiture or imprisonment shall be imposed or adjudged against the of fender as may be prescribed by the charter or ordinance. No process shall be necessary, where the offender is arrested without warrant, and brought before the court; but an entry of the cause, place and time of arrest shall be made upon the docket of the court, and trial had in the same manner as if process had been issued. § 6. The city may sue and declare for several fines, penalties or forfeitures for violations of the charter or ordinances of the city, and recover judgment for as many offenses as may be proven, not exceeding the jurisdiction of the court, and may prove any offense committed before the commencement of the suit. 87. The city may appeal in all cases arising under the charter and ordinances of the city, without giving security; and the mayor, in cases of appeals by the city, shall execute bond, under the corporate seal, without sureties; and a resolution or ordinance of the city council, authorizing the same, shall be sufficient authority therefor; nor shall the city, in any case, be required to file bond or security for costs. § 8. The city council shall have power to levy and col- Special tax. lect, besides the general tax, a special tax, on all taxable property, of not exceeding two mills on the dollar; which two mills shall constitute a sinking fund, to be applied, Sinking fund. wholly applied, in the payment of the bonds and obligations of the city, due or maturing on or before the first day of January, 1865, and for no other purpose whatever. § 9. The city council may authorize the mayor and re- Issue of bonds. gister to issue bonds, to the amount of five thousand dollars, payable in not less than ten nor more than fifteen years, and bearing ten per cent. interest, per annum; the proceeds of which shall be applied to the building of cisterns or to subscription for stock to aqueducts or water works; said bonds not to be disposed of for less than par: Provided, that no such bonds shall be issued unless a majority of the tax payers, to whom the question shall be submitted, shall have decided in favor thereof. 10. Section 29, of the 13th article of the charter of said city, approved February 18th, A. D. 1859, is hereby repealed; and no act of the city council for the non-observance of said section, shall, in any way, be affected or impaired, any more than if said section had never been a part of the charter of said city. § 11. Every act and every part of any act in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. This act to take effect from and after its passage. AN ACT to amend the chartsr of the City of Cairo. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all that part of the seventh article of the original charter of the city of Cairo, entitled "Miscellaneous Provisions," approved Feruary 11th, 1857, included in section one of said article, after the words "on the same," in the fourth line of said section, and thence to the end of said section one, be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. Be it further enacted, That all of section five of an act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city of Cairo," approved February 11th, 1859, be and the same is hereby repealed. In force February 13, 1861. 83. From and after the passage of this act assessments Assessments. shall be made of all the property within the city of Cairo for county purposes, the same as if the parts of acts hereby repealed had never been in force; but no assessments shall be made for county purposes for the period said parts of acts were in force; or, if made, no collection shall be enforced of said taxes. § 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 13, 1861. In force February 18, 1861. City election. AN ACT to amend "An act to amend the act entitled 'an act to reduce the law incorporating the city of Chicago and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to amend the same,' approved February 14, 1851, and to reduce the several acts amendatory of said act into one act, and to amend the act entitled 'an act to incorporate the Chicago City Hydraulic Company,' approved February 15, 1851, and to reduce the several acts amendatory of said last mentioned acts into one act, and to amend the act entitled 'an act to incorporate a board of Sewerage Commissioners for the City of Chicago,' approved February 14, 1855. 739 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the municipal elections in said city shall be held on the third Tuesday in April, at which time there shall be elected, by the qualified voters of said city, all officers to be elected at the general municipal election. The first election shall be held on the third Tuesday in April, 1861; and no special election shall be hereafter held in said city for the election Term of office. of city officers, except as is in this act provided. sioner and city § 2. The term of office of the mayor, aldermen, water commissioners, sewerage commissioners, and of all officers now elected or appointed in and for said city, except as is in this act specially provided, is hereby extended, and shall continue until the first Monday in May, 1861, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The present city marshal shall continue in office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected, when the office of city marshal shall expire, and there shall be no city_marshal in said city after the fourth day of March, 1862. The term of office of all water commissioners and of all sewerage commissioners in said city, shall expire on the first day of May, A. D. 1861, any provision of law now in force to the contrary notwithstanding. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 3. That so much of the act to which this is an amendStreet commis ment, as provides for the election of a street commissioner superintendent. in the north, south and west divisions of said city, at the annual election, and for the appointment of a city superintend ent by the common council of said city, is hereby repealed. All provisions in relation to the duties of said officers mentioned in this section shall continue in force to the first Monday in May next, at which time the same shall cease to have any force or effect whatsoever: Provided, that the city shall have the right to enforce the performance of all contracts heretofore entered into, and the rights and liabilities accrued or to accrue, under any provisions of law now in force, and to continue and complete all proceedings commenced under any law or ordinance of said city, and to assess the costs and expenses of any improvement or work heretofore ordered, and the assessment for the same, the same as if said provisions of law remained in full force and effect; and the commissioners of the board of public works, hereby created, shall carry out such contracts and complete all such improvements or works heretofore commenced. 4. After the first Monday in May, 1861, there shall be organized in said city, an executive department of the municipal government, to be known as the "Board of Public Works." works. § 5. The said board of public works shall consist of three Commissioners of commissioners, to be chosen one from the north, one from board of public the south, and one from the west division of said city, who shall constitute said board. At the next city election, to be holden in said city on the third Tuesday in April, 1861, there shall be elected by the qualified voters of said city, three commissioners of said board from the said divisions, who, when elected, shall be the first commissioners of said board of public works, and who shall respectively hold their offices for two, four and six years, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. 6. The said commissioners herein named shall, within ten days after the first Monday in May, A. D. 1861, proceed to organize said board, and decide, by lot, their respective terms of office, which decision shall be filed and deposited in the office of the city clerk. 87. On the third Tuesday of April, A. D. 1863, and biennially thereafter, there shall be elected, at the general city election held in said city, one commissioner of said board of public works, to succeed the member thereof whose term of office expires; which commissioner shall be elected from the division of said city represented by the commissioner whose term of office expires; and said commissioner, when elected, shall hold his office for the term of six years, and until his successor in office is duly elected and qualified. Should a vacancy occur, it shall be filled by appointment by the mayor, with the advice and consent of the common council of said city, until the next regular city election, when the qualified voters of said city may, as in other cases, fill such vacancy by an election of a successor, who shall hold his office for the unexpired term; said commissioners shall be elected in the same manner as is now provided by law for the election of general city officers, by general ticket, by the qualified voters of the whole city; and no person shall be elected a commissioner of said board of public works unless he has been a resident of said city for at least three years, and a resident in the division of said city for which he is elected, at least one year immediately preceding his election. § 8. Before entering on the discharge of his duties, each of said commissioners shall give bond to said city, in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, with sureties to the satisfaction of the acting judge of the circuit court for Cook county; which bond shall be conditioned for the faithful discharge and performance of his duties as such commissioner; and that he will well and truly pay over any and all moneys, and surrender any and all property, books and papers which may come into his hands as such commissioner, on the expiration of his term of office, or when required so to do by the common council. § 9. Said board of public works shall have the charge and superintendence of all streets, alleys, lanes or highways in said city, and of all walks and cross-walks in the same, and of all bridges, docks, wharves, public places, public landings, public grounds and parks in said city, and of all markets, market places and market houses, engine houses, hospitals, armories and all other public buildings in said city belonging to the city, except school houses, and of the location and erection of all public buildings; of all lamps and lights for the lighting of the streets, alleys, lanes, highways, bridges, parks, public places and public buildings of the city, and of the erection and repair of such lamps and lights, and the creation of new lamp districts; of all works for the widening, deepening or dredging of the Chicago river, or either of its branches; of all sewers and the works pertaining thereto; of the water works of said city; of all public improvements hereafter to be commenced by said city. And they shall perform all the duties by this act prescribed, and such other duties as the common council may prescribe by ordinance. § 10. Said board is authorized to employ, from time to time, such superintendent or superintendents, engineers, surveyors, clerks, assistants and workmen in the discharge of their duties as they may deem necessary, and shall pay their employees such salaries or wages as they shall deem proper. 11. Two of said commissioners shall constitute a quorum to do business; they shall keep a record of all their acts and doings, and adopt rules for their government and the government of their employees; and they shall keep and preserve copies of all contracts, estimates, receipts, plans, profiles and the papers of the board; and shall re |