Firemen's benevolent association place where public or private schools are held, either on week day or Sabbath, or places where religious worship is held. 884. No member of the board of guardians of the reform school, or of the board of education, shall receive any compensation for any services he may perform, nor shall he be interested in any article purchased or work done for the school or schools, nor shall he be interested in any contract, loan, nor any thing else whereby he may receive any commission, interest, or other profits from the fund appropriated to the reform school or public schools, under the penalty of having his office immediately declared vacant by the common council. Nor shall the school agent receive any pay or commission from the school fund; and in case he shall pay the teachers in any other kind of funds than that which he received from the school commissioner he shall credit the full sum to the school fund; and the controller shall be, ex officio, school agent. $85. No alderman or other city officer shall be taken as surety upon any bond, note or other obligation to the city. No person whilst indebted to the city shall be eligible to any office under the charter. § 86. In all cases where land is taken for any public improvement, before the damages (if any) awarded for the taking of the same shall be paid over to the owner of the same, the owner shall furnish an abstract of title and execute to the city a quit claim deed of so much as is taken and condemned for such public improvement. If in any case there shall be any doubt as to who is entitled to the damages for land taken in the opening or extension of a street the city may require of the party claiming the damages a bond, with good and sufficient securities, to be executed to the said city, to hold said city harmless from all costs and expenses in case any other person should claim said damages. 87. Sections six, seven, eight and nine of an act approved 21st June, 1852, and entitled "An act to incorporate the Firemen's Benevolent Association, and for other purposes," and all other acts and parts of acts, so far as they require any individual association or corporation, or any agent thereof, to pay any money to said Firemen's Benevolent Association, upon their business profits or premiums, or for any other purpose, are hereby repealed. And there shall be paid to the collector of the city of Chicago, by every person who shall act in the city of Chicago as agent for or on behalf of any individual, corporation or association of individuals, not incorporated by the laws of this state, to effect insurance against loss or injury by fire in the city of Chicago, although such individual, corporation or association may be incorporated for that purpose by another state or country, the sum of two dollars upon the hundred dol lers, and at that rate, upon the amount of all premiums which during the year, or part of year, ending on the next preceding first day of December, shall have been received by such agent or person, or received by any other person for him, or shall have been agreed to be paid for any insurance effected, or agreed to be effected, or promised by him as such agent or otherwise, against loss or injury by fire in the city of Chicago. No person shall, in the city of Chicago, as agent or otherwise, for any individual, corporation or association, effect or agree to effect any insurance upon which the duty before mentioned is required to be paid, or as agent or otherwise, procure such insurance to be effected, until he shall have executed and delivered to the city of Chicago a bond, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, with such sureties as the mayor and controller shall approve, with a condition that he will annually render to said city, on the first day of January in each and every year, a just and true account, verified by his oath, that the same is just and true, of all premiums which during the year ending on the first day of December preceding such report, shall have been received by him, or by any other person for him, or agreed to be paid for any insurance against loss or injury by fire in the city of Chicago, which shall have been effected from any individual or individuals, or association, not incorporated by the laws of this state, as aforesaid, and that he will annually, on the first day of January in each year, pay to the said treasurer the sum of two dollars upon every hundred dollars, and at that rate, upon the amount of such premiums. Every person who shall effect, agree to effect, promise or procure any insurance specified in this act, without having executed and delivered the bond required by the preceding section, shall, for each offense, forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars, which shall be collected in the name. and for the use of the city of Chicago. It shall be the duty Duty of the chief of the chief engineer, and of the assistant engineers, to seek engineer. out and to notify all individuals, corporations or associations embraced within the provisions of this act, who shall attempt to carry on the insurance business in this city, of their obligations to pay the sum herein provided for to the city treasurer, and they shall also notify the controller of all such individuals, corporations or associations; and upon all moneys received from this fund, the controller shall pay the chief engineer not to exceed five per cent., and each assistant not to exceed one per cent., in the discretion of the council. The common council shall have power, in its discretion, to appoint a fire marshal, and to appropriate out of the proceeds of this fund, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars each year, for the discharge of the duties (which it may define) of that office, in order that as soon as any fire has broken out its causes, in every instance, may be reported to the controller and kept on file in his office, and also Places of voting. Lamp tax. that all violations of the fire ordinance may be the more expeditiously brought to the notice of the proper authorities. 888. The city of Chicago may, by ordinance, regulate the sale of bread within the corporate limits of said city, and may prescribe the weight of bread in the loaf, and the quality of the same. $89. All general and special elections, hereafter to be held in the towns of north, south and west Chicago, in Cook county, shall be held in the respective wards in said towns, at such places as the common council may from time to time establish and appoint. § 90. So much of all such parts of the acts to which this is an amendment, and of the several aets amendatory thereof, or in any manner affecting the same, which are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. § 91. The common council shall have the power to hereafter change the method of levying and collecting the lamp tax in said city, and to apportion the amount differently between city and the taxable property therein, and to collect it in and make it a part of the general tax warrant, the same as other authorized taxes. Also to define the manner in which the expenses of erecting lamp posts shall be apportioned and collected. 92. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 18, 1861. In force February AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to define, confirm and legalize the 20, 1801. acts of a fish inspector of the city of Chicago," approved February 18th, 1857. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That no fresh water fish, which shall be brought into this state, and which have been inspected in Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin, or Macinac, in the state of Michigan, and marked with the inspector's brand upon the packages, shall be required to be inspected under the provisions of said act. Any provision in the first and second section of said act, contrary to the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. This act is to take effect from its passage. AN ACT to amend an act, approved February 20th, A. D. 1857, entitled "An In force February 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 14th, 1851. 22, 1861. records. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, Each and all of the police magistrates and justices of the peace and the clerk of the police court, within and for the city of Chicago, are hereby authorized and empowered to amend all records Amendment by them or either of them made, in all cases where males, within the ages prescribed by law, have been brought before them charged with an offense punishable by commitment to the reform school, and when such person or persons have been there committed. And all such orders, records and minutes of each police magistrate, justice of the peace or Commitment clerk are hereby declared to be good, sufficient, valid and binding in law, and sufficient to warrant the commitment: Provided, sufficient appear in the order, minute or records that it was the opinion and order of such court that such person should be committed to the reform school. 82. Certified copies of all such orders or records shall be the only proper evidence in all courts where the existence or sufficiency of such records are called in question, whether original or amended. 3. In all cases where the legality of any commitment to the reform school is called in question, such commitment shall be deemed legal and valid: Provided, the warrant of commitment shall, upon its face, show a legal cause of commitment; and in all cases, whether upon habeas corpus or otherwise, the court before which such cause is pending shall only examine into the sufficiency of the warrant. reform school. of to 4. In all applications for habeas corpus, to take from Application for the control of the guardians, superintendent or other officer habeas corpus. of said reform school any male, within the ages prescribed by law, such person, or some one on his behalf, shall first pay to the court or judge to which application is made the legal costs of such aplication. school commissioners. 5. It shall be the duty of the mayor of the city of Reform Chicago, each year, on the application of the board of guardians of said reform school, to appoint some proper and discreet person, to be named by said guardians, as commissioner, before whom all males, within the ages prescribed by law, shall be sent, before any police magistrate or justice of the peace shall sentence or order such male to be committed to the reform school. Such commissioner shall keep a true and perfect record of his doings in relation to all persons brought before him, and shall retain the same during his term of office, and at the expiration thereof shall deliver the same, with all preceding records, to his successor; and shall be paid such sum from the reform school fund as the board of guardians shall, from time to time, direct, and Vagrants. which shall not, in the aggregate, amount to more than the sum of fifteen hundred dollars in any one year. § 6. Whenever any police magistrate or justice of the peace, within the city of Chicago, shall have brought before him any male, within the ages of six and seventeen years of age, which he has reason to believe is a vagrant or destitute of proper parental care, wandering about the streets, or committing mischief, or growing up in mendicancy, ignorance, idleness and vice, he shall cause such person, together with the warrant on which he is arrested, and the list of witnesses which may be necessary to establish the situation and condition of such person, to be transmitted to said commissioner; and thereupon it shall be the duty of such commissioner, before whoin such person is brought, to issue a summons or order, in writing, addressed to the father of such person, if he be living and resident within the city, and if not then to his mother, if she be living and so resident, and if not then addressed to his lawful guardian, if any there be resident within said city, or if not, to the person with whom such boy, according to the examination and testimony, if any, received by such commissioner, the said boy shall reside; and if there be no person with whom he statedly resides the commissioner may, at his discretion, appoint some suitable person to act in his behalf, requiring him or her, as the case may be, to appear before him, at such time and place as he shall in said summons or order appoint, and to show cause, if any there be, why the said boy shall not be committed to the reform school; and upon the appearance before him of the party named in said summons or order, or, if after due service had of the summons or order aforesaid, there shall be no such appearance, the said commissioner shall, upon the expiration of the time named in said summons or order for said appearance, proceed to examine said boy and the party appearing in answer to said summons or order, if any such there be, and to take such testimony in relation to the case as may be produced Manner of com- before him; and, in case it shall be proved, to the satisfaction of the commissioner, by such examination or by competent testimony, that the said boy is a suitable subject for the reform school, and that his moral welfare and the good of society require that he should be sent to said school, for instruction, employment and reformation, he shall so decide, and shall thereupon certify his said opinion and decision to said magistrate or justice of the peace, as near as may be in the following words: miting to reform school. has been examined by me, and, upon competent evidence, proved to be a suitable subject for commitment to the reform school. "C. D., Commissioner." |