To compel per

the streets.

planked or otherwise improved, and the costs thereof to be assessed and collected in the same manner as sidewalk assessments.

88. All taxes and assessments, general or special, levied or assessed by the common council, under this act or the act to which this is an amendment, or any ordinance, in pursuance thereof, shall be a lien upon the real estate upon which the same may be imposed, voted or assessed, for two years from and after the corrected assessment list shall be confirmed or the passage of the order for assessment, and on personal estate from and after the delivery of the warrant for the collection thereof until paid; and no sale or transfer shall affect the lien: Provided, that in case the collection of any assessment shall be delayed by injunction, or other judicial proceeding, the same shall continue a lien, unless set aside, upon the real estate for the period of two years from and after the final disposition of such injunction, or other judicial proceeding.

§ 9. Any person, against whom any judgment may sons to work on hereafter be recovered in favor of said city of Rockford, for a penalty or fine for a breach or violation of any ordinance, instead of being committed to the city prison, workhouse or jail, such person may be required and compelled to labor on the streets, lanes, alleys or other public works of the city, for such time and in such manner and under such restraints as the common council may, by ordinance, provide.

Appeals.

Transcripts.

§ 10. The city may appeal, in all cases arising under the charter and ordinances of the city, without giving security; but in cases of appeal by the city the mayor shall execute bond, under the corporate seal, without sureties; and a resolution or ordinance of the common 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.

§ 11. Transcripts of judgments rendered in cases arising under the charter or ordinances of the city may be taken from the docket of police magistrates, and filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of Winnebago county, and shall have the same force and effect as transcripts of judg ments from the dockets of justices of the peace, and execution shall be issued thereon and collected in like manner. Compensation of § 12. That, hereafter, all city officers, appointed or elected by the common council, or elected by the legal voters of the city, shall receive for their services such salaries, fees and compensation as the common council may, from time to time, by order, resolution or ordinance, provide.

officers.

Ordinances.

13. The common council shall have power to make, pass, publish, amend and repeal all ordinances, rules, orders and resolutions which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution and effect the powers granted by this act, so that the same be not repugnant to or inconsistent

with the constitution of the United States and of this state, and to enforce the observance of all such orders, rules and ordinances, by forfeitures, fines, penalties, imprisonments, and otherwise. No such penalty or fine shall exceed one hundred dollars, and no such imprisonment shall exceed six months.

ces.

§ 14. All ordinances of the city may be proved by the Proof of ordinanseal thereof, and, when printed and published, whether in a newspaper or in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be printed and published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence, in all courts and places, without further proof.

§ 15. All such parts of the act to which this is an amend- Repealing clause. ment as are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed; but so much and such parts thereof as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act shall not be construed as repealed, altered or modified, or in any manner affected hereby, but shall be and remain in full force and effect.

16. This act shall be deemed a public act, and may be read in evidence, without proof; and judicial notice shall be taken thereof, in all courts and places, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1861.

AN ACT to vacate the plat of the Western Addition to Rock Island City. In force February

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the plat of the western addition to Rock Island city, in the county of Rock Island, and state of Illinois, is hereby vacated, and the public right to the streets and alleys thereof divested.

APPROVED February 18, 1861.

18, 1861.

22, 1861.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to reduce the act to charter the In force February City of Rock Island and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to amend the same," approved February 16, 1857.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the municipal government of the city of Rock Island shall Appointment of consist of the city council, composed of the mayor, and two aldermen from each of the four wards of said city. A majority of the members of the city council shall constitute

city officers.

a quorum for the transaction of business. All the other officers required by the act to which this is an amendment shall be appointed by the city council, on the second Tuesday in March, in each year, or so soon thereafter as may be, and shall, respectively, continue in office until the second Tuesday of March then next ensuing, and until the appointment and qualification of their successors: Provided, how ever, that said city council may, at any time, by resolution, remove any of said officers and appoint others in their places, or dispense with any of said offices: And provided, further, that said city council may appoint the same person to fill any two or more of said offices. The aldermen shall receive no compensation for their services; and the compensation of all the other officers of the corporation shall be fixed by the city council, by resolution; but the compensation of the mayor shall not exceed three hundred dollars per annum.

§ 2. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the foregoing are hereby repealed, or so modified as to be made consistent herewith; and this act shall be a public act, and take effect from its passage.

APPROVED February 22, 1861.

In force February AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Sparta, 20, 1961.

in Randolph county," in force February 21, 1859.

[SECTION 1.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section City boundaries. two, article first, of said charter, be and the same is hereby repealed, and the following shall hereafter constitute the boundaries of said city, to wit: beginning at the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-six, in township four, south, of range six west; thence, running south, on the half-section line, to the southwest corner of the southeast quarter of section one, township five, south, of range six west; thence, east, with the section line, to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section six, in township five south, of range five west; thence, north, with the quarter-section line, to the northeast corner of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section thirty-one, in township four south, of range five west; thence, west, to the place of beginning.

§ 2. All provisions of said charter, for the election of a street commissioner, are hereby repealed; and, hereafter, the city council shall appoint a street commissioner, at their

first meeting after annual elections, for each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

peace.

§ 3. Section one, of article five, of said charter, is hereby Justice of repealed; and, hereafter, a justice of the peace shall be elected in said city, to be styled, by way of distinction, "City Recorder," on the first Monday of May next; and on the same day, and every four years thereafter, by the qualified voters of said city, and who shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified, and who shall, when elected, exercise the jurisdiction and powers conferred by said charter, and be commissioned by the governor, as therein required.

84. The said justice of the peace, styled "City Recor- City records. der," before he is eligible to said office, shall be a citizen of the United States, above the age of twenty-five years, and have resided in said city at least two years before his

election.

§ 5. Section seven, of article five, of said charter, is hereby repealed, and also section eleven, of said article.

§ 6. All provisions of said charter, conferring judicial authority upon the mayor of said city, are hereby repealed, including the whole of sections seven, eight and nine, of article six, of said charter.

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§ 7. The said justice of the peace, styled "City Recor- Recorder's dockder," shall keep a docket of proceedings before him, as is required of other justices of the peace in this state, and shall have the same jurisdiction which is conferred upon other justices of the peace in this state, together with the additional jurisdiction which is conferred by the act of which this is an amendment.

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

APPROVED February 20, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the City of Shawneetown and to change the name.

ARTICLE 1.

OF BOUNDARIES AND GENERAL POWERS.

In force February 21, 1961.

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 Shawneetown, in the county of Name. Gallatin, and state of Illinois, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The City of Shawneetown," unless changed to "Shawnee City," and by that name shall have perpetual succession,

Corporate limits.

General powers.

Wards.

Mayor.

Aldermen.

and have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure.

§ 2. The corporate limits and jurisdiction of the city of Shawneetown shall extend over and include within the same so much of all that district of country situated in the county of Gallatin, state of Illinois, embraced within the present limits of the town of Shawneetown, according to the plat thereof, as may be embraced within a levee proposed to be built around said city, as is included within the present corporate limits of said town.

§ 3. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style aforesaid, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatsoever, and shall have power to purchase, receive and hold property, real or personal, in said city; to purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, beyond the city limits, for burial grounds and other purposes, for the use of the inhabitants of said city; to sell, lease and convey such property for the benefit of said inhabitants and to improve and protect the same, and to do all other acts thereto as natural persons.

$4. The present board of trustees of the town of Shawneetown, shall, on the first Monday in March next or as soon as practicable thereafter and prior to the first Monday in April next, by ordinance, divide the said city of Shawneetown into two wards, as nearly equal in population as practicable, and particularly describe the boundaries of each ward by causing to be posted two written copies of such ordinance in each ward.

85. Any tract of land within eighty rods of the limits of said city, laid off into town lots, may be included within the limits of said city by ordinance.

ARTICLE 2nd.

OF THE CITY COUNCIL.

§ 1. There shall be elected, by the qualified voters of said city, a city council, to consist of a mayor and board of aldermen.

2. The board of aldermen shall consist of two members from each ward; and no person shall be an alderman unless at the time of his election he shall be a qualified voter and shall have resided twelve months within the limits of the city and be a freeholder of said city.

83. If any alderman shall remove from the ward for which he was elected, his office shall thereby be vacated.

4. The city council shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of their members, and shall determine all contested elections, and shall have power to make rules to govern its meetings and to punish its members for disorderly conduct.