Dividends. § 3. Should the tolls of the St. Clair County Turnpike Company, after keeping the road in good repair, enable said company of declaring a dividend of over ten per cent. per annum, then said tolls shall be reduced by the county court, so that the maximum dividend shall not exceed ten per cent., yearly, on the capital stock of said company. So much of the act and amendments to which this is amendatory as conflicts or is inconsistent with this act, or any part thereof, is hereby repealed. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 16, 1861. In force February AN ACT to authorize the county court of Monroe county to subscribe to the 16, 1861. capital stock to the Waterloo and Carondelet Turnpike and Ferry Company. scription. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That when Vote upon sub- the county clerk of Monroe county shall give notice, as is required by law, of the election to be held in June, A.D. 1861, he shall, likewise, give notice of a vote to be then and there taken, by the legal voters of said county, for or against the subscription, by the county court of said county, of twenty-five thousand dollars to the capital stock of the Waterloo and Carondelet Turnpike and Ferry Company; which vote shall be taken by ballot, upon which shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, "For the Subscription," or "Against the Subscription.” Payment of subscriptions. Additional. § 2. If it shall be found that a majority of the votes of said county, voting at said election, have voted in favor of said subscription, then the county court of said county, at its next regular term thereafter, shall pass an order authorizing and requiring the county judge to subscribe said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars to the capital stock of said company said subscription to be paid to the treasurer of said company by the collector of said county, in the following manner, to wit: Five thousand dollars on or before January first, A. D. 1863, and the like sum on the first day of January, each year thereafter, for four years thereafter, until the whole of said twenty-five thousand dollars is paid. § 3. The county court of said county shall, in addition to all other taxes, levy and collect, on all taxable property, personal and real, in said county, a special tax, not exceeding one-half of one per cent., each year, for five years, beginning with the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, for the purpose of paying said subscription: Provided, this act takes effect. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and $4. after its passage. APPROVED February 16, 1861. AN ACT to authorize the County Court of Monroe county to borrow money In force February and levy a tax to pay the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county court of Monroe county be and is hereby authorized to borrow a sum of money, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, in the discretion of said court, at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per centum, per annum, for the purpose of constructing and repairing county buildings and for other county purposes. § 2. The money borrowed under this act shall not be borrowed for a longer term than ten years from the first day of March next; and for the purpose of paying the interest which may accrue thereon, and which shall be paid annually, and for the purpose of enabling said county to pay the principal hereby authorized to be borrowed within the time specified, the said county court of Monroe county is hereby authorized to levy and collect a tax, not to exceed fifty cents on each hundred dollars' worth of taxable property in said county, in addition to the amount otherwise assessed for county purposes; which shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as other county taxes shall be assessed and collected, and which shall be designated as the "County Loan Tax," and shall cease to be levied so soon as the clerk of said court shall certify that the principal and interest of said loan is liquidated. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 21, 1861. 21, 1861. AN ACT to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Marshal county to levy a In force February special tax, to purchase certain bonds issued by said county to the Western Air Line Railroad Company. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the board of supervisors of Marshal county may and they are hereby authorized to levy a special tax on all taxable property in said county, both real and personal, at such time and such 18, 1861. amount as said board may determine, for the purpose of creating a fund to be applied to purchasing the bonds of said county issued to the Western Air Line Railroad Company, and for no other purpose whatever. Said tax shall be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other county and state taxes in said county. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 18, 1861. In force February AN ACT for the relief of the Litchfield School District, in the county of 21, 1861. Montgomery. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the money collected by a tax of three-fourths of one per cent., levied in 1857, for the purpose of erecting a school house, upon property lying in that portion of the former school district, number one, in township nine north, range five west of the third principal meridian, which is now included in the Litchfield school district, be and the same is hereby declared to be the property of the Litchfield school district. § 2. That Israel Fogleman and Andrew Miller be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, and authorized to ascertain the whole amount of money collected by the tax aforesaid in said school district number one, and to apportion to that portion of said district which is now outside of the Litchfield school district, and to the Litchfield school district for that portion of said district, number one, which is now included in the Litchfield school district, each its just share of said money, in proportion to the amount collected by said tax from each of said portions. §3. That Richard W. O. Bannon, who now has the custody of said money, be and he is hereby required to pay over the same, together with the interest that may have ac crued while in his possession, according to the apportionment of said commissioners, within thirty days from the date of the same; which said money, together with the money arising from a tax of three-fourths of one per cent., which, for the purpose of making the burden of taxation equal, the city council of the city of Litchfield is hereby authorized to levy and collect upon all the property within said Litchfield school district, not heretofore included in said district, number one, shall constitute a building fund in said Litchfield school district, and may be appropriated to the purchase of a suitable site and building or to the erection of a building for school purposes. § 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 21, 1851. AN ACT for the relief of William M. Dustin. WHEREAS, on the 19th day of June, A. D. 1854, one William M. Dustin purchased of the state of Illinois a certain tract of land, viz: the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section number nine, in township number twentyseven north, and range number six east of the third principal meridian, containing forty acres, and paid into the treasury of the state of Illinois, therefor, the sum of one hundred and forty dollars; and whereas, prior to such purchase, the state of Illinois had sold and conveyed the aforesaid tract of land to Isaac P. McDowell and Oliver P. McDowell, to wit: on the 17th day of May, A. D. 1854, by means whereof the state of Illinois had no title in said tract, at the time of the said sale to the said Dustin; and said sale vested no title in the said Dustin, but his grantee has been ejected therefrom; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the treasurer of the state of Illinois pay to William M. Dustin the sum of one hundred and ninety-four 60-100 dollars, out of any money not otherwise appropriated. § 2. This act to be in force from and after the passsage of the bill. APPROVED February 22, 1861. DEPARTMENT OF STATE, I, O. M. HATCH, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that the foregoing, except the words printed in brackets, thus, [ ] (which are inserted for the purpose of correction and explanation,) are true and perfect copies of the enrolled laws on file in my office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year afore said. O. M. HATCH, Inforce Februar 22, 1861. |