CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES. ALDERMEN AND TRUSTEES-COMPENSATION. § 1. Amends section 14 of article VI, Act of 1872. § 14. As amended, provides maximum amount which may be fixed by ordinance as compensation of aldermen and trustees. (SENATE BILL No. 467. Approved June 24, 1915.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended by amending section fourteen (14) of article VI of said Act. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section fourteen (14) of article VI thereof, so that the said section when amended shall read as follows: § 14. The aldermen and trustees may receive such compensation for their services as shall be fixed by the ordinances: Provided, however, that in cities of less than 350,000 inhabitants such compensation shall not exceed the sum of ten dollars to each alderman for each meeting of the city council or board of trustees actually attended by him; in cities of more than 350,000 inhabitants such compensation shall not exceed the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars per annum for each alderman, and in villages the compensation to trustees shall not exceed the sum of three dollars for each meeting of the board of trustees actually attended by such trustees. No other salary or compensation shall be allowed any alderman or trustees: Provided, further, that this Act shall apply to all cities, towns and villages in this State whether incorporated under a general or special law, and that in all such villages and incorporated towns, the trustees thereof shall received compensation for not more than one meeting in each week. APPROVED June 24, 1915. ANNEXATION BY CITY OF ANOTHER CITY-DEFECTIVE PROCEEDINGS. § 1. Defective prior annexation proceedings legalized. (HOUSE BILL No. 812. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.) AN ACT to legalize the annexation of any incorporated city, village or town, and the territory comprising such city, village or town, annexed to another incorporated city, village or town, under section two of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for annexing and excluding territory to and from any village, city or town, and to unite cities, towns and villages." Approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever the inhabitants of any incorporated city, village or town, and the inhabitants of any other incorporated city, village or town, possessing all the legal qualifications therefor, having in good faith attempted to annex any incorporated city, village or town, and the territory comprising such city, village or town, to another incorporated city, village or town, under and in pursuance of section two of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for annexing and excluding territory to and from cities, towns and villages, and to unite cities, towns and villages[,"] approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and having complied with all the requirements of said section two, although the said incorporated city, village or town so annexed may not be lawfully organized as such city, village or town, in part or in its entirety, by reason of defective prior annexation proceedings or otherwise, such incorporated city, village or town, and the territory comprising such city, village or town in its entirety is hereby declared to have been legally and validly annexed to the other incorporated city, village or town. APPROVED June 24th, 1915. ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY-PROCEEDINGS LEGALIZED. § 1. Proceedings for annexation of tracts of land (HOUSE BILL No. 284. APPROVED APRIL 16, 1915.) AN ACT to legalize and validate the annexation of tracts of land to cities, villages and incorporated towns in certain cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever the owner or owners of any tract or tracts of land, contiguous to any city, village, or incorporated town in this State, has, by petition in writing and signed by said owner, and filed with the city council of such city, or the board of trustees of such village or incorporated town, petitioned to have such tract or tracts of land taken into and included within the corporate limits of such city, village or incorporated town, and the city council, or board of trustees, as the case may be, has acted on such petition and has passed an ordinance annexing the tract or tracts of land so petitioned for to such city, village or incorporated town, and thereafter such tract or tracts of land so annexed have been assessed for city, village or incorporated town taxes, or special assessments, or both, then such proceeding for annexation is hereby legalized, validated and made effective from and after the passage of such ordinance. § 2. WHEREAS, an emergency exists; therefore, this Act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED April 16th, 1915. ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY-WHOLLY WITHIN ENLARGED MUNICIPALITY. § 1. Jurisdiction of enlarged municipality shall extend over territory surrounded. (HOUSE BILL NO. 472. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1915.) AN ACT to provide for the annexation of unincorporated territory which is entirely surrounded by a city having a population of more than two hundred thousand inhabitants to such city so surrounding it. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever as the result of the annexation of the whole of a city, village or incorporated town to another city having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants, unincorporated territory not a part of either of said municipalities has been heretofore or shall be hereafter wholly surrounded by the enlarged municipality, the jurisdiction of the city to which such annexation was made shall extend over said territory so surrounded to the same extent as if such unincorporated territory had been annexed at the same time as the city, village or incorporated town whose annexation caused such unincorporated territory to be so surrounded. APPROVED June 25th, 1915. ART COMMISSIONS-ACT OF 1899 AMENDED. § 1. Amends sections 2, 3, 4 and 6, Act of 1899. § 3. As amended, fixes term of members § 4. As amended, provides commissioners shall serve without compensation, for election of officers, rules and quorum. § 6. As amended, provides works of art shall be approved by commission before being located or removedpowers and duties of commission. (SENATE BILL No. 131. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1915.) AN ACT to amend sections 2, 3, 4 and 6 of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the creation of art commissions in cities and to define their powers," approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 2, 3, 4 and 6 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the creation of art commissions in cities and to define their powers," approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: § 2. Such commissions shall consist of the mayor of such city by virtue of his office and six other members to be appointed by the mayor. Three of said six members shall be appointed from one or more of the professions of painting, sculpture, architecture and landscape gardening, and of the three other members none shall be appointed from the professions from which such appointments have been made. If any art commission shall have been already created under the provisions of "An Act to provide for the creation of art commissions in cities and to define their powers," approved April 24, 1899, before this amendatory Act shall have become effective, the terms of office of the members of such commission shall terminate as soon as this amendatory Act shall become effective, and the mayor of such city shall forthwith appoint new commissioners, as herein provided, who shall have the powers and duties hereinafter specified. § 3. The three members of the commission required under section 2 of this Act to be appointed from among the professions therein enumerated shall be appointed in the first instance for one, two and three year terms of office respectively, as the mayor may determine. The other appointed members of the commission shall also be appointed in the first instance for one, two and three year terms of office respectively; and after the expiration of said terms of office of all said members respectively, their successors shall be appointed for a term of three years in each case. All appointments to fill vacancies shall be for the unexpired term. In case any vacancies shall occur in the commission for any reason, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the mayor. § 4. The commission shall serve without compensation as such, and shall elect a president and secretary from its own members, whose term of office shall be for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The commission shall have power to adopt its own rules of procedure. Four commissioners shall constitute a quorum. § 6. Hereafter no work of art shall be erected or placed in, over or upon or allowed to extend in, over or upon any street, alley, avenue, square, common, boulevard, park, grounds used for schools or other public purposes, municipal building, school building or other public building or public place under the control of such city, or any department or officer thereof, unless such work of art or a design of the same, together with a statement of the proposed location of such work of art shall first have been submitted to and approved by the commission. The commission may, when they deem proper, also require a complete model of the proposed work of art to be submitted. The term "work of art” as used in this connection shall apply to and include all paintings, mural decorations, stained glass, statues, bas reliefs, sculptures, monuments, ornaments, fountains, arches, ornamental gateways or other structures of a permanent character intended for ornament or commemoration. No existing work of art in the possession of the city, or in any parks, boulevards, public grounds, school buildings or school grounds aforesaid, shall be removed, relocated, or altered in any way without the simila approval of the commission, except as provided in section 8 of this Act. The commission shall act in the same capacity and shall have the same powers in respect to designs of buildings, bridges, approaches, gates, fences, lamps or other structures erected or to be erected upon land belonging to and occupied by the city or a part of any of the parks. public grounds or boulevards under the jurisdiction of such city, and in respect of the lines, grades and platting of the public ways and grounds, and in respect of the arches, bridges, structures and approaches which are the property of any corporation or private individual, and which shall extend over or upon any street, avenue, highway, boulevard, park or other public place belonging to or under the jurisdiction of such city, and said commission shall so act, and its approval shall be required for every such structure which shall hereafter be contracted for, erected or altered, except that in case of any such structure (not including works of art) which shall hereafter be contracted for, erected, or altered at a total expense not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, the approval of said commission shall not be required if the common council shall so direct. The commission may offer advice or suggestion to the owners of private property in relation to the beautification of the same; and any person or citizen, who may be about to erect any building or make any improvement, may submit the plans and designs thereof to the art commission for advice and suggestion. The art commission. may receive and act upon the complaints and suggestions of citizens or voluntary associations having such objects and purposes in view as are |