§ 13. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, requiring this act to take immediate effect, therefore be it enacted that this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 21, 1889.

SPECIAL CHARTERS.

ALTON SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to incorporate the City of Alton.

SECTION 12. The common council of said city, are hereby empowered and authorized to establish elementary or common schools, wherein reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, and other useful branches of English education may be taught; and for this purpose, the common council are authorized and empowered to purchase lots, erect school houses or buildings, and suitably to furnish the same, in such parts of the city, as may by them be deemed the most convenient and beneficial to the citizens thereof: Provided, that not more than one house shall be erected for every seven hundred and fifty inhabitants, and to procure suitable teachers for the same; and said common council, or persons appointed by them, shall visit said schools quarterly, and report to the common council, at their annual meeting to be held for that purpose, the state of the morals, discipline, and progress of learning, in said schools; and the said common council are hereby empowered to assess upon the real estate of said city, the sum necessary to purchase lots and erect buildings necessary for such purpose; and to assess a tax upon personal property, sufficient to raise the necessary sum of money for the support of said schools, which assessment shall not exceed one quarter per cent and constitute a fund exclusively for the support of common schools. The common council of said city are hereby empowered, by ordinance, to direct whatever may be necessary to be done, for successfully carrying into operation the provisions of this section.

APPROVED July 21, 1837.

ALTON SCHOOL DISTRICT AGAIN.

AN ACT to amend the twelfth section of the charter of the City of Alton, establishing and regulating the public schools in said city. SECTION 1. The city of Alton is hereby enacted into a school district. The school land, school fund, and all other real and personal estate, belonging to the township number five north, of range number ten, west of the third principal meridian, shall be divided between the city of Alton and the portion of the township lying without the limits thereof, by the trustees of schools of said township, within

three months from the passage of this act. Said division to be made between the said city and said township (without the city), in proportion with and according to the number of persons under the age of twenty-one years, residing in said city, and without said city in said. township.

§ 2. The common council shall have and possess all the rights, power and authority necessary for the proper management of the school lands and funds, belonging to the said school district; and shall have power to prescribe the branches to be taught in the different schools; to grade and regulate the same; to erect, hire or purchase buildings suitable for school houses and keep the same in repair; to buy or lease sites for school houses with necessary grounds; to furnish the schools with necessary fixtures, furniture and apparatus; and to fix the amount of compensation to be allowed teachers; and for all these purposes, and to support and maintain schools, and supply the inadequacy of the school funds, the common council shall have power to assess a tax upon all the real and personal property in the city of Alton, of not exceeding a quarter of one per cent per annum; and to enact such ordinances as may be necessary to carry these powers and duties into effect.

§ 3. The school commissioner of Madison county shall, annually, pay to the school treasurer of the city of Alton, the proportion of the school, college and seminary funds, to which the said Alton school district may be entitled, according to the number of persons, under the age aforesaid, residing in said district, taking his receipt therefor.

APPROVED February 13, 1865.

ALTON SCHOOL DISTRICT AGAIN.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, An act to amend the twelfth section of the charter of the City of Alton, establishing and regulating the public schools in said city.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Board of Education of the city of Alton shall, at the close of each school year, make a careful estimate of the amount necessary to pay the expenses of maintaining the public schools of said city for the next succeeding school year, and for the payment of any school bonds maturing in such year that have been or may be issued by order of the common council, for school purposes, and the interest on any and all school bonds that have been or may be issued in like manner for school purposes as also any arrearages or deficiencies in appropriations of former years, and showing generally the amount required for all legitimate expenditures for school purposes. That the said Board of Education shall, likewise, carefully estimate at the same time, the resources of the board for such school year, from State school fund, from interest on local school fund, from school tickets, and from all other

sources. The said board shall deduct the amount of estimated resources from the amount of estimated expenditures, and report to the common council the amount deficient, ifany, in the estimate for the next school year.

§ 2. Should the Board of Education at any time neglect or refuse to make said estimates and report, it shall be the duty of the School Committee of said council to make and submit the same, in the manner required in section one of this act.

§ 3. The common council shall levy and collect upon all the real and personal property in said city, an amount of school tax, each and every year, sufficient to make up the deficiency in the amount required for school purposes, if any, as shall be ascertained under the first or second sections of this act; which tax, together with all other school taxes now authorized, or that may be authorized, shall be collected in money and be paid over to the school treasurer, for school purposes as now required by the ordinances of the city of Alton.

§ 4. This act to take effect from and after its passage, and be deemed a public act; and any acts, or parts of acts, with which this may conflict, are hereby repealed.

APPROVED March 29, 1869.

ASHMORE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to establish the Ashmore School District, in Coles county, Illinois.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section thirty (30) and thirty-one (31), in township thirteen (13) north, range fourteen (14) west of the second (2nd) principal meridian, sections thirty (30) and thirty-one, (31), in township thirteen (13) north, range eleven (11) east of the third (3rd) principal meridian, the east half of the east half of section twenty-five (25) and the east half of the east half of section thirty-six (36), in township thirteen (13) north, range ten (10) east of the third principal meridian, the east half of the northeast quarter of section one (1), in township twelve (12) north, range ten (10) east of the third (3rd) principal meridian, the north half of section six (6), in township twelve (12) north, range eleven (11) east of third (3rd) principal meridian, and the north half of section six (6), in township twelve (12) north, range fourteen (14) west of the second principal meridian, in the county of Coles, and State of Illinois, is hereby made and constituted a permanent school district, by the name of the "Ashmore School District," and that no territory shall ever be taken therefrom, except by act of the legislature.

§ 2. That the public schools of said district shall be under the exclusive management and control of six persons, to be elected and qualified, as hereinafter specified, and known as "The Board of Education of Ashmore District," which board of education, and their successors in office, shall be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style aforesaid, and may have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure; and, as such body may contract, and be contracted

with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State; and, as such board and in such name, shall be the legal successors of the trustees of schools and school districts in the territory embraced therein; and shall be and are hereby invested, in their corporate capacity, with the title, care, custody and control of all lands, lots, school houses and buildings, school libraries, apparatus, and shall receive all moneys and other property belonging or in any way accruing to said district, or any part thereof, for the use and benefit of the public schools therein, with full power to use and control the same in such manner as they may think will best promote the interests of the public schools and the cause of free education, not inconsistent with this act; and said board shall, also, be capable of receiving any gift, grant, bequest or devise of real or personal property, made for the use or benefit of public schools in said district; and all moneys accruing to said district for school purposes, under any law of this State, shall be paid over to the treasurer of said board of education.

§ 3. At the regular time prescribed by the general school laws for the election of directors, the qualified electors of said district shall elect six (6) members of said board, who, with their successors in the office, shall compose and constitute said board of education, and first incorporators under this act, two of whom shall serve for one year, two for two years, and two for three years. The time that each shall serve shall be designated on the ballots cast, and annually thereafter there shall be chosen, in the same manner, two members of said board, each of whom shall serve for the period of three years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Such intermediate vacancies as may occur in said board shall be filled by the remaining acting members until the next annual election, when such vancancy or vacancies shall be filled by the electors of said district.

§ 4. That said first mentioned board, within ten days after the taking effect of this act, shall meet and after each having taking an oath to properly and faithfully perform the duties of member of said board and to support the Constitution of the United States and the State of Illinois, organize by appointing one of their number president, and one clerk, and appointing some person, not of their number, treasurer, but who shall be a resident of the district. That said treasurer shall hold his office during the pleasure of the board, and before entering upon the duties of said office shall give a bond, payable to said board of education of the Ashmore School District, in such sums, not less than double the amount which may probably be in his hands at any one time, and with such security as may be approved by said board, and to be kept by them, conditioned for the faithful discharge of all his duties as such treasurer. And the said subsequent board, chosen or elected as herein provided, shall meet within ten (10) days after their election, and take the oath and organize in accordance with this section.

§ 5. The said board may hold stated meetings, at such times and places in said district as they may appoint, four members of said board, at all meetings thereof, constituting a quorum to do business,