CANAL COMMISSIONERS TO MAKE DEED.

§ 1. Commissioners authorized to deed certain lands.

AN ACT to authorize and direct the Canal Commissioners to make a deed of conveyance of lot four (4), in block eighteeen (18), in the town of Ottawa, to the county of LaSalle. Approved May 31, 1879.

In force July 1, 1879.

WHEREAS, The county of LaSalle, by its county commissioners, did on the fifteenth day of August, A. D. 1831, sell to Abner Young for the sum of fifty dollars, lot four (4) in block eighteen (18) in the town of Ottawa, and issue a certificate of sale therefor, and

WHEREAS, in pursuance of said sale, the said county commissioners, did, on the thirty-first day of December, A. D. 1838, execute a deed of conveyance of the said lot to Anthony Pitzer, the legal holder of said certificate of sale; and,

WHEREAS, The owners of said lot have, since said sale, paid taxes assessed on the same by the State of Illinois, for State purposes, to the amount of over four thousand dollars ($4,000 00), and

WHEREAS, The State has, ever since said sale of said lot, recognized the validity thereof by taxing said lot; and,

WHEREAS, It now appears that if said lot was ever conveyed by the State to said county of LaSalle, said conveyance has been lost or destroyed, and no record thereof remains; therefore,

SECTION 1. [COMMISSIONERS AUTHORIZED TO DEED CERTAIN LANDS.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Canal Commissioners be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to convey to the county of LaSalle, lot four (4), in block eighteen (18), in the town of Ottawa, as laid off by the Canal Commissioners, and to execute and deliver to said county a deed of conveyance for the same: Provided, That the deed herein specified shall not be executed except upon the payment of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to the Canal Commissioners and that such payment shall be a condition precedent to the execution of such deed.

APPROVED May 31st, 1879.

CEMETERIES.

§ 1. Control by corporate authorities.

AN ACT in relation to the control of public graveyards. Approved May 29, 1879. In force July 1, 1879.

SECTION 1. [CONTROL BY CORPORATE AUTHORITIES.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General As-. sembly, That public graveyards in this State, not under the control of any corporation sole organization or society and located within the limits of cities, villages, towns, townships, or counties not under township organization, shall and may be controlled or vacated by the corporate authorities of such city, village, town, township or county, in such manner as such authorities may deem proper, and in the case of towns, such control may be vested in three trustees, to be elected annually by the voters of such town at the annual town meeting therein. APPROVED May 29th, 1879.

CHARITIES.

VISITATION.

§ 1. Committee of visitation-powers.

§ 2. Report-expenses.

AN ACT to provide for the visitation and examination of the State Institutions. Approved May 31, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. SECTION 1. [COMMITTEE OF VISITATION-POWERS.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That at each session of the General Assembly three committees shall be appointed, one of which shall visit the State Charitable Institutions, one shall visit the Penal and Reformatory Institutions, and one shall visit the Educational Institutions of this State. Each committee shall consist of seven members of the General Assembly, two from the Senate and five from the House of Representatives, to be appointed in the same manner as the members of the other standing committees are appointed. It shall be the duty of said committee respectively to visit the said several State Institutions, to make a careful and thorough examination of their condition, to investigate any charges made to them regarding their management, for which purpose they shall have power to take testimony under oath, and to send for persons and papers, and to make report of such visitation and examination to the General Assembly.

§ 2. [REPORT-EXPENSES.] The members of such committees shall also report their actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their said

duties, and the same shall be allowed and paid, but no committees or members of committees of the General Assembly shall receive any pay for services rendered, or for expenses incurred in visiting said State Institutions, otherwise than as provided by this act.

APPROVED May 31st, 1879.

CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS.

WATER WORKS.

? I. Power to supply water-letting contracts.

AN ACT to amend section (1) of an act entitled "An act authorizing cities, incorporated towns, and villages, to construct and maintain Water Works," approved and in force April 15, 1873. Approved and in force May 14, 1879.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section one (1) of an act entitled "An Act authorizing cities, incorporated towns and villages to construct and maintain water works," approved and in force April 15th, 1873, be and is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

81. [POWER TO SUPPLY WATER—LETTING CONTRACT- -EMERGENCY.] That all cities, incorporated towns and villages in this State, be and are hereby authorized and shall have power to provide for a supply of water for the purposes of fire protection, and for the use of the inhabitants of such cities, incorporated towns or villages by the erection, construction and maintaining of a system of water works or by uniting with any adjacent city, incorporated town or village, in the erection construction and maintaining of a system of water works for the joint use of such cities, incorporated towns or villages, or by procuring such supply of water from any adjacent city, incorporated town or village already having water works. Provided, That all contracts for the erection or construction of such works or any part thereof, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, upon not less than three (3) weeks public notice of the terms and conditions upon which the contract is to be let having been given by publication in a newspaper published in such city, town or village, or if no newspaper is published therein, then in some newspaper published in the county. And, provided, further, That no member of the city council or board of trustees or mayor shall be directly or indirectly interested in any such contract, and in all cases the council or board of trustees as the case may be, shall have the right to reject any and all bids that may not be satisfactory to them.

WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 14th, 1879.

CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS.

§ 14. Abolishes City Register's office.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages." Approved April 10, 1872. Approved May 15, 1879. In force July 1, 1879,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That "An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Cities and Villages," approved April 10, 1872, be amended by adding to the said act the following section to article.

one:

§ 14. [CITY REGISTER'S OFFICE ABOLISHED.] If any city organized or which may hereafter organize under this act, shall have had by the terms and provisions of its special charter a city register's office or other office in which deeds, mortgages or other instruments were required or authorized by law to be recorded in lieu of recording the same in the recorder's office in the county where said city was situated, such city register's office or recorder's office shall be discontinued under this act, and the city register or recorder or other officer having the custody of the records, books and papers pertaining to such city register or recorder's office, shall deposit such records and books, and papers in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county, in which such city is situated, and shall take the receipt of the recorder of deeds therefor, and such records, and books, and papers, shall from thereafter, be deemed and held for all purposes a part of the records of the recorder's office of such county, and shall have like legal effect as if the same had been originally a part of the records of such county recorder's office for all purposes whatsoever, and the same or certified transcripts made therefrom, shall have like force and effect as evidence as other records of said recorder's office.

APPROVED May 15th, 1879.

POWER OF MAYOR.

1. When he may remove officers.

AN ACT to amend section 7 of article 2 of an act entitled “An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872; in force July 1, 1872. Approved May 31, 1879. In force July 1, 1879.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section 7 of article 2 of "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, be amended so as to hereafter read as follows:

§ 7. [WHEN HE MAY REMOVE OFFICERS.] The mayor shall have power to remove any officer appointed by him, on any formal charge, whenever he shall be of the opinion that the interests of the city demand such removal, but he shall report the reasons for such removal to the council at a meeting to be held not less than five days nor more than ten days after such removal; and if the mayor shall fail, or refuse to file with the city clerk a statement of the reasons for such removal, or if the council by a two-thirds () vote of all its members authorized by law to be elected, by yeas and nays, to be entered upon its record, disapprove of such removal, such officer shall thereupon become restored to the office from which he was so removed; but he shall give new bonds and take a new oath of office. No officer shall be removed a second time for the same offense.

APPROVED May 31st, 1879.

ORDINANCE LEVYING TAX.

§ 1. Ordinance levying tax-limitation.

AN ACT to amend section (1) of article eight (8) of an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10th, 1872. Approved May 28th, 1879. In force July 1, 1579.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section one (1) of article eight (8) of an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. [ORDINANCE LEVYING TAX-LIMITATION.] The city council in cities, and boards of trustees in villages, may levy and collect taxes for corporate purposes in the manner following: The city council or boards of trustees, as the case may be, shall annually, on or before the third (3d) Tuesday in September, in each year, ascertain the total amount of appropriations for all corporate purposes legally made and to be collected from the tax levy of that fiscal year; and, by an ordinance, specifying in detail the purposes for which such appropriations are made, and the sum or amount appropriated for each purpose, respectively, levy the amount so ascertained upon all the property subject to taxation within the city or village, as the same is assessed and equalized for State and county purposes for the current year. tified copy of such ordinance shall be filed with the county clerk of the proper county, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the rate per cent. which, upon the total valuation of all property subject to taxation within the city or village, as the same is assessed and equalized for State and county purposes, will produce a net amount not less than the amount so directed to be levied; and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to extend such tax in a separate column upon the

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