appear to the court that the previous assessment or assessments have been expended or are inadequate to complete such work, or are necessary for maintenance or repair, or when it shall become necessary for the construction of one or more pumping plants, or other additional work, or the completion of any work already commenced within any drainage district to insure the protection or drainage of the lands in said district, under the direction and order of the court, or to pay obligations incurred for the current expenses of said district or in the keeping in repair and protection of the work of such district, or to pay obligations incurred for the completion of any part of the work of said district as originally planned, contracted for, and already commenced within any drainage district to insure the protection or drainage of the lands in said district, on a petition of a majority of the land owners within said district, who are of lawful age and represent at least one-third in area of such lands, or on a petition of one-third of such adult land owners who represent a majority (major portion) in area of such lands, or on the petition of the commissioners accompanied by an itemized statement of accounts made by the commissioners under oath, showing the moneys received by the district and the manner in which they have been expended, together with the plats and profiles of such additional work and estimated cost of the same; two weeks previous notice of the time set for the hearing of said petition in the manner required by section three (3) of this Act having been given. Upon the hearing of such petition the court may grant the prayer of the same, and cause the jury to be impaneled to make said assessment, as well as an assessment for an annual amount of benefits for maintaining and operating such pumping plant or plants and for keeping such additional work in repair, with like proceedings and notice as near as may be, as in cases of original assessments of damages and benefits under this Act, and such additional assessment or assessments, when made, shall have the same force and effect and be collected in the same manner as original assessments. § 2. And be it further enacted that a section, to be numbered as section forty-four A (44A) be inserted in, and added to, said Act, and which said section forty-four A (44A) shall read as follows: § 44A. Whenever the commissioners of any drainage district organized under the provisions of this Act shall be of opinion that it would be for the best interest of said district that a change, or changes, should be made in the method of construction of any part of the proposed work of said district, or in the route of any proposed ditch, ditches, levee or levees or in the size, capacity or plan of any of such proposed work, the said commissioners shall file their petition in the county court of the county in which said district was organized, which petition shall set forth the nature of the proposed change or changes in plans, together with an estimate of the additional or decreased expense of such change or changes, and which shall be signed and sworn to by such commissioners, or a majority of them, and to which petition shall be attached the affidavit of some creditable persons, giving the names and postoffice addresses of all owners of lands in said district, not residents of said county. Upon such petition being filed, the court shall set the same for hearing, on some day not less than two weeks or more than four weeks from the filing thereof, and the clerk of said court shall proceed to give two weeks' notice of such hearing, in the manner provided in section three (3) of this Act. Upon the hearing thereof, if the court shall find that the said proposed change, or changes, does, or do, not materially effect the general nature and character of the proposed work of said district, and does, or do, not decrease the general efficiency of the same, the court shall enter an order to that effect; and shall, at the same time make a finding as to the additional amount that will be required to make such change or changes, or the decreased amount that will be required if such change or changes be made. In case the court shall find that such change or changes should be made and that additional expenditures will be required to make such change or changes, the court may order the same paid from the general funds of said district, or may order the commissioners to return a roll of additional assessments of benefits against the lands of said district for the additional amount required. In case the court shall order an additional assessment of benefits, or an assessment of benefits and damages, the commissioners and court shall thereafter proceed in the return and confirmation of the same in conformity with the provisions of sections 17, 17A, 17B and 18 of this Act. In case the court shall find that the making of such change or changes will decrease the expense of the proposed work of said district, the court shall enter an order abating such proportion of the assessment of benefits as shall have been theretofore made in such uniform proportion as such change or changes shall render unnecessary to be expended. The court may, for good cause shown, continue the hearing on such petition from time to time, and any person interested may appear and resist the application. for such proposed change or changes. The court may, on the hearing of said petition make such other or further order in the premises as the circumstances may require in order to do justice to the petitioners and the land owners and persons in said district. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. AGRICULTURE AND SANITARY PURPOSES-ACT OF 1885 AMENDED. 1. Amends sections 2 and 53, and adds section 27, Act of 1885. § 2. Clerk of commissioners-duties-drain- § 53. When special drainage district organized-fifteen or more land owners -election-notice-when meetings of commissioners held-election in special districts. § 27. Appeal to county court-grounds for appeal-trial by jury-costs. (HOUSE BILL No. 50. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1915.) AN ACT to amend sections two (2) and fifty-three (53) of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for drainage for agricultural and sanitary purposes and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved June 27, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, and to add one new section to be numbered section twenty-seven (27). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections two (2) and fiftythree (53) of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for drainage for agricultural and sanitary purposes and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved June 27, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows, and that one new section, to be numbered section twenty-seven (27) be and the same is hereby added to said Act: 2. The town clerk shall be the clerk of the drainage commissioners of all drainage districts lying wholly within his town and of all union drainage districts, the major portion of which lies in his town; he shall be the custodian of all papers and records pertaining to drainage districts of which he is clerk, and shall keep in a well bound book, to be known as the "Drainage Record," a record of the proceedings of the commissioners and shall enter at length therein all the proceedings, findings and orders of the commissioners pertaining to the subject of drainage, and the drainage commissioners shall hold their meetings at his office or at any place in the drainage district: Provided, all elections and all meetings, notice of which is required to be given to land owners, shall be held within the said district. § 53. As soon as a special drainage district has been organized, containing fifteen (15) or more land owners, it shall be the duty of the county clerk of the county in which the proceedings are instituted, who shall be ex officio clerk of the commissioners of said district, to give notice by posting written or printed notices in at least five public places in said district, that on a day and place therein named, and at an hour not later than two (2) o'clock p. m., and not less than ten (10) days from the date of notice, an election will be held, for the purpose of electing three (3) drainage commissioners for said district, and the meetings of said commissioners shall be held at the office of said county clerk or at some place within such drainage district. Provided that all elections in special drainage districts shall be held within the district[,] provided that upon a petition signed by a majority of the adult land owners in said district petitioning for the establishment of voting place outside the said district specifically describing the location of said voting place being filed in the court where said district was organized, the court may if for the convenience of the land owners enter an order establishing such voting place. § 27. Any person against whose land a tax has been thus levied may, within ten days after the tax list has been deposited with the clerk of the drainage district, appeal to the county court by filing a bond in double the amount of the tax appealed from in the county clerk's office, but the appeal shall be upon the ground only that such tax is a greater amount than the benefits to accrue to the land in question by the proposed drainage. Appeals taken to the county court under the provisions of this Act may be heard at the next probate or common law term thereof: Provided, ten (10) days has intervened from the time of taking such appeal and the first day of the next term, and, if not ten (10) days, then such appeal shall be heard at the next term, and the trial shall be conducted as in other cases of appeals. The parties shall be entitled to a jury trial, and if it be found that the tax exceeds the benefits to accrue, the court shall modify the same so as to make it equal to the benefits, and the cost may be apportioned by the court in its discretion: Provided, that in any proceedings under this Act where the costs have been unnecessarily or improperly made, such costs may be adjudged against the party making the same. APPROVED June 25th, 1915. SANITARY DISTRICTS-SEWAGE DISPOSAL, BOND ISSUES. § 1. Amends section 9, Act of 1911. § 9. As amended, provides corporations may borrow money, and issue bonds, limits amount and requires referendum-form of ballot. (HOUSE BILL No. 507. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915. AN ACT to amend section 9 of "An Act to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 5, 1911. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 9 of "An Act to create sanitary districts, and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 5, 1911, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 9. The corporation may borrow money for corporate purposes and may issue bonds therefor, but shall not become indebted, in any manner, or for any purpose, to an amount in the aggregate to exceed five per centum on the valuation of taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness. Whenever the board of trustees of such district desires to issue bonds hereunder they shall order an election to be held in such district upon the question. The notice of election shall state the amount of bonds to be issued and the polling places at which such election shall be held, and shall be posted in at least five public places at least twenty days prior to the election. Such election notice shall also be published in a newspaper published in said district at least twenty days prior to the election. The board of trustees shall appoint judges and clerks for such election, and the returns of such election shall be filed with the clerk of the board and be canvassed and the result ascertained by said board and entered upon the records of the district. If it shall appear that a majority of the voters. voting at said election on said question shall have voted in favor of the issue of said bonds, the board of trustees shall order and direct the execution of the bonds for and on behalf of said district. All bonds issued hereunder shall mature in not exceeding twenty annual installments. The ballots at elections held under this section shall be in substantially the following form: SANITARY DISTRICTS-BRIDGES IN CITY OF CHICAGO. § 1. Amends section 17, Act of 1889. § 17. As amended, adds paragraph providing for building of three bridges across main drainage channel in the city of Chicago. (SENATE BILL No. 126. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1915.) AN ACT to amend section seventeen (17) of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Desplaines and Illinois rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section seventeen (17) of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Desplaines and Illinois rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, be amended so as to read as follows: § 17. When it shall be necessary in making any improvements which any district is authorized by this Act to make, to enter upon any public property or property held for public use, such district shall have the power so to do and may acquire the necessary right of way over such property held for public use in the same manner as is above provided for acquiring private property, and may enter upon, use, widen, deepen and improve any navigable or other waters, waterways, canal or lake: Provided, the public use thereof shall not be unnecessarily interrupted or interfered with, and that the same shall be restored to its former usefulness as soon as practicable: Provided, however, that no such district shall occupy any portion of the Illinois and Michigan canal outside of the limits of the county in which such district is situated for the site of any such improvement, except to cross the same, and then only in such a way as not to impair the usefulness of said canal, or to the injury of the right of the State therein, and only under the direction and supervision of the canal commissioners: And, provided, further, that no district shall be required to make any compensation for the use of so much of said canal as lies within the limits of the county in which said district is situated except for transportation purposes. Every such district may build a suitable bridge with a suitable approach thereto, with a roadway and sidewalks thereon for public travel across its main drainage channel on the line of Crawford avenue, sometimes called 40th avenue, in the city of Chicago, as extended across the said main channel; also on the line of Cicero avenue, sometimes called 48th avenue, which lies partly in the city of Chicago and partly in the township of Stickney, as extended across said main drainage channel; and on the line of Harlem avenue, sometimes called 72nd avenue, as extended across said main drainage channel, all in the county of Cook. Said three bridges with approaches, roadways and sidewalks thereon shall be thereafter maintained in good order for public travel by any such district as a corporate expense, and no compensation shall be demanded or required to be paid any such district for its land necessarily taken to form part of a street or highway to afford access to any such bridge or as compensation for such bridges and their appurtenances as aforesaid: Provided, however, that if any such bridge with approaches, roadways and sidewalks thereon shall lie wholly within the |