Fines. Ordinances proven. To be regu $ 32. All fines and penalties recovered by indictment or action for any offense committed within the limits of said town and which are now required by law to be paid in to the county treasurer or to the school commissioner of said county, shall, hereafter, be paid in to the town treasurer for the use of said town. 33. All ordinances of the town may be proven by the seal of the corporation, and when printed or published in book or pamphlet form and purporting to be printed by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof. 34. All matters and things pertaining to persons and lated by com- property within the limits of this corporation, and not mentioned or specially provided for in this act, shall be regulated and governed by the common law of this county and mon law. state. $ 35. 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 from and after its passage. In force April 15, 1869. I, Edward Rummel, Secretary of State, do hereby certify that the foregoing act of the 26th general assembly, of the state of Illinois, was filed in the office of the secretary of state, April 15th, 1869, without signature of the governor; but by virtue of section 21, article 4, of the constitution of this state, the same is now a law, having been retained by the governor over ten days after its reception by him. EDWARD RUMMEL, Secretary of State. In force March AN ACT to change the name of the town of Sheridan, in McDonough 31, 1869. county, to Good Hope. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town of Sheridan, in the county of McDonough, be and the same is hereby changed to Good Hope. 2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 31, 1869. AN ACT to change the name of the town of Sutton to that of Bently, and In force when to incorporate the same. voted for. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Name changed. name of the town of Sutton, in Hancock county, be and the same is hereby changed to that of Bently. Body politic and corporate. $2. That the inhabitants of the said town of Bently are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The President and Trustees of the Name and style. Town of Bently ;" and by that name and style shall have perpetual succession, and have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure, and in whom the government of the corporation shall be vested, and by whom its affairs shall be managed. 3. The inhabitants of said town, by the name and May hold real style aforesaid, may sue and be sued, implead and be im- estate. pleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law or equity, and in all actions whatever; and purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, within and beyond the limits of said town, for burial grounds and other purposes, for the use of the inhabitants of said town, and may sell, lease or dispose of property for the benefit of said town, and improve and protect such property, and do all things in relation thereto as natural persons. 4. That the boundaries of said town corporation shall Boundaries. be as follows, to wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section eight (8), in township four (4) north, range six (6) west of the fourth (4th) principal meridian, thence south one mile, thence west one mile, thence north one mile, thence east one mile to the place of beginning; and all the land within said limits shall be considered as the town of Bently. 5. That there shall, on the first Monday of May next, Trustees. and on the first Monday in May thereafter, annually, be elected five trustees for said town, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and notice of the time and place of the first elec- Notice of election shall be given by an acting justice of the peace and ton. any eight legal voters of said town, by posting up at least four notices in the most public places in said town, or by publishing the same in any newspaper published in the place, at least ten days before the time of holding the same; and annually thereafter, notices of election shall be given by the president and trustees, by publication in a newspaper, if any shall be published in said town, or by posting up four notices in public places in said town, giving the same time of notice as aforesaid. No person shall be elected trustee in said town who shall not be entitled to vote for state and county officers, and who shall not have been, for Qualification of trustees. Who may vote. Duties of trustees. Power of trustces. Taxes. one year previous to such election, a bona fide resident within the incorporated limits of said town, and shall have paid taxes within the same. § 6. That at any election for trustees, every person who shall be qualified to vote for state officers, and who shall have a residence, for six months previous to such election, within the limits of said corporation, may enjoy the right of an elector. § 7. That the trustees shall elect one of their number president, and shall be judges of the elections and returns of their own members, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members in such manner and under such penalties as they may provide; and punish their members for disorderly conduct, and, by vote of three-fourths of their whole number elected, expel a member; and make such other rules and regula tion for their government as to them may seem proper and expedient, and shall have power to fill any vacancy in the board of the trustees occasioned by death, resignation, continued absence from town for three months, or otherwise. § 8. The president and trustees of said town shall have power to cause all the streets, alleys and public roads within the limits of said town to be kept in good repair; and to this end, they shall require every male resident of said town, over the age of twenty-one years, to labor on the same not exceeding three days in each and every year, and if such labor be insufficient for that purpose, to appropriate so much from the general fund of the corporation as they shall deem necessary therefor. Second. To levy and collect taxes upon all property, real and personal, within the limits of said corporation, not exceeding one-half of one per cent. per annum upon the assessed valuation thereof, and may enforce the payment thereof in any manner to be prescribed by ordinance, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States and of Provision of this state; but until they provide by ordinance for enforc ing the payment thereof, they shall be collected in the manner provided in the ninth section of an act entitled "An act to incorporate towns and cities," approved February 10, 1849, for the collection of other corporation taxes. act to apply. Running and cattle. at Third. To restrain, regulate and prohibit the running Jarge of horses at large of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, goats and other animals, and to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same; and to prohibit any indecent exhibition. of horses and other animals. Dogs. Fourth. To prevent and regulate the running at large of dogs, and authorizing the destruction of the same when at large contrary to any ordinance. Fifth. To regulate and prohibit any indecent exposure of persons. Indecent ex posure. driving. Sixth. To prevent horse racing or any immoderate Riding riding or driving within the limits of said town of horses or other animals; to prohibit the abuse of animals; to compel persons to fasten their horses or other animals attached to vehicles or otherwise, while standing or remaining in any street, alley, public square, vacant lot or public road in said town. and Seventh. To establish and maintain a public pound, Pound master. and appoint a pound master and prescribe his duties. Eighth.-To restrain and prohibit all description of Gambling. gambling and fraudulent abuses, and to suppress and prohibit billiard tables, ball alleys and all other gambling establishments, and all lotteries and sale of lottery tickets. Ninth.-To suppress and prohibit disorderly houses or groceries, and houses of ill-fame. Houses of ill fame. Tenth. To license, regulate, suppress and prohibit all Shows, etc. exhibition of common showmen, shows of every kind, caravans, circuses and exhibitions and amusements. Eleventh.-To prevent, suppress and prohibit any riot, Riot and affray affray, disturbance of the peace by loud and unusual voices or any disorderly conduct, disorderly assemblages, assaults, assaults and batteries, firing of squibs, rockets, guns or other combustibles or fire arms within the limits of said town. Twelfth. To abate and remove nuisances, and to punish Nuisances. the authors thereof, and to define and declare what shall be deemed nuisances. diseases. Thirteenth. To make regulations to prevent the intro-Contagious duction of contagious disease into the town, and execute the same, for any disease, not exceeding one mile from the limits thereof. Fourteenth. To regulate the storage of gunpowder and Gunpowder. other combustible materials; to provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to organize and establish fire companies; to provide the town with water for the extinguishment of fires and for the convenience of the inhabitants. - Fifteenth. To provide for the inclosing, improving and Public grounds. regulating all public grounds or other lands belonging to said town. Sixteenth. To open, alter, vacate and widen, extend, Streets, etc. establish, grade, pave or otherwise improve any streets, avenues, lanes, alleys or sidewalks within the limits of said town. ings. Seventeenth.-To provide for the erection of all needful,Needful buildbuildings for the use of said town. Eighteenth. To make all necessary regulations to secure Health. the general health of the inhabitants thereof. Spirituous liquors. Debts. Duty and pow ers. Limit of fine. Election. Power president trustees. Fines penalties. Officers pointed. and Nineteenth.To suppress and prohibit the selling, bartering, exchanging and trafficking in wines, gin, rum, brandy and whisky, beer or other intoxicating beverages within the limits of said town: Provided, that they may allow druggists to sell the same, in good faith, for purely medicinal, mechanical or sacramental purposes, but for no other purposes. Twentieth.-To appropriate and provide for the payment of any debts and expenses of the town, and to fix the compensation of town officers. Twenty-first.—To make all ordinances which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the power specified in this act, or which they may deem necessary or expedient for the better regulation of the internal police of said town and to execute the same; and to impose fines, forfeitures, and penalties, for the breach of any ordinance or any of the provisions of this act, and to provide for the recovery and appropriation of such fines and forfeitures and the enforcement of such penalties: Provided, that in no case, except for assaults, assaults and batteries, riot, and affrays, shall any such fine exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars for any offense. 9. That at the election in said town, to be held on the first Monday of May next, there shall be elected, in addition to the officers whose election is already provided for by this act, one police magistrate, to be elected and qualified as provided by an act entitled "An act for the better government of towns and cities, and to amend the charters thereof," approved February 27, 1851; and all the provisions of said act are hereby declared applicable to the officers whose election is herein provided for. of 10. That the president and trustees of said town shall have power to appoint a town constable for said town, whose duty it shall be, when so appointed and sworn into office, to execute any writ, process or precept, anywhere, which may be issued against any person or persons for the violation of any ordinance or by-laws of said corporation or any of the provisions of this act, and to arrest or receive any and all persons who may violate the same and take them before any justice of the peace of said town, and to and collect all fines, forfeitures and penalties which may be assessed or recovered for the use of said town, and to perform any and all other duties which are now and shall hereafter be prescribed by any general statute of the state, to be done by constables anywhere in Hancock county: Provided, that any other constable of the county may execute any process issued by any justice of the peace by virtue of ap- this act; also to appoint a clerk, treasurer, street commissioner, board of health, and all other officers that may be necessary, and to prescribe their duties, and may require |