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the contents thereof seized, as herein provided, shall be paid into the city, village or town treasury.

10. "An Act to revise the law in relation to oil inspection," approved March 12, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by an Act approved May 29, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, and as further amended by an Act approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, is hereby expressly repealed.

APPROVED June 29th, 1915..

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AN ACT to provide for disconnecting territory from park districts organized under and by virtue of "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever any park district. organized under and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, is situated partly within a city having power to establish and maintain public parks and levy a three mill tax therefor under and by virtue of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled "An Act to authorize cities having a population of less than 50,000 to establish and maintain by taxation public parks," approved May 13, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as amended by Act approved June 26, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, and the remainder of said park district is situate entirely within territory not included in any city having power to levy such tax, then on petition in writing signed by a majority of the legal voters resident in that part of such park district situated within the limits of such city, the board of park commissioners of said park district may by ordinance passed by a majority vote of said board of park commissioners, consent that such territory may be disconnected from said park district. Said ordinance shall provide that said city shall assume and pay to said park district a proportionate share of the then existing indebtedness of said park district, which amount so to be assumed and paid, with the terms of payment shall be stated in said ordinance and shall approximate the proportionate share of the then existing indebtedness of said park district, in the proportion that the value of the taxable property in such disconnected territory as the same was fixed by the last general assessment preceding such disconnection, bears to the value of the taxable property of the entire park district as fixed by said assessment.

The disconnection of territory herein provided for shall not take effect or be in force, unless the said city shall, within sixty days after the passage of the ordinance aforesaid, also pass an ordinance accepting the provisions of the ordinance of said park district and assuming and agreeing to pay the indebtedness aforesaid according to the terms of said ordinance.

§ 2. Within thirty days after the passage of such ordinances by said park district and said city, the secretary of said park district shall file with the clerk of the county court a duly certified copy of each of the aforesaid ordinances, and upon said filing the said disconnected territory shall cease to be a part of said park district; and said copies of said ordinances shall be spread upon the records of said county court. After the filing of said copies of said ordinances with the clerk of said county court, the county clerk shall not extend any rate upon the taxable property of said disconnected territory for any tax thereafter levied by the corporate authorities of said park districts for the payment of any then existing or future indebtedness, contract or liability, or bonds or interest thereon, incurred, entered into or issued by the corporate authorities of said park district.

3. The moneys so agreed to be paid by said city shall, when collected, constitute a trust fund in the hands of the corporate authorities of said park districts, to stand in lieu of the funds that would have been realized from taxation of said disconnected territory to pay the then existing bonded and other liabilities of said park district, if said territory has not been disconnected.

§ 4. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED June 28th, 1915.

DISSOLUTION OF PARK DISTRICTS.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1895 by adding section 40.

40. Proceedings for dissolution of park

districts-city council to act as commissioners to close up business.

(HOUSE BILL No. 310. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, by adding thereto a section providing for the dissolution of a park district formed under the provisions 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 organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

§ 40. Any park district heretofore or hereafter organized under the provisions of this Act may be dissolved and discontinued upon like petition, proceedings and election as is provided in this Act for the organization of such park districts; and upon such dissolution all commissioners and officers of such park district; whether the term or terms for which they have been elected or appointed, as the case may be, shall have expired

or not, shall cease to have any power or authority, and all parks theretofore established by such park district and all other lands owned or controlled by such park district, shall vest in and shall be controlled by the city, town or village wherein such parks and other lands are located, and for the purpose of closing up the business affairs of such park district, the members of the city council, board of trustees or town board, as the case may be, of the city, village or town wherein all, or the greater part of such park district is located, are hereby constituted the park commissioners of such park district and they shall act without compensation. They shall proceed to close up the business affairs of such park district and shall have all the powers of the former park commissioners, before said dissolution, that shall be necessary therefor, and shall have power to levy taxes for the purpose of paying outstanding debts, obligations or liabilities, and the necessary expenses of closing up the business of such park district.

APPROVED June 24th, 1915.

IMPROVEMENTS BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.

§ 1. Amends sections 23, 24, 25 and 26, Act of 1895.

§ 23. When improvements made by spe-
cial assessment-provisions of city
and village Act to apply.

§ 24. Board of local improvements.

25. Mode of making assessments.

§ 26. Duties of secretary of board of trustees and treasurer of park district.

(HOUSE BILL No. 776. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, by amending sections 23, 24, 25 and 26 thereof.

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 organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending sections 23, 24, 25 and 26 thereof so that said sections. when amended shall read as follows:

§ 23. When any improvement to be made by said board is local in character and confined within the limits of said park district, and the said board shall deem it advisable that the same should be made by special assessment, it shall have power to proceed under and according to the provisions of ["]An Act concerning local improvements," approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, and all amendments thereto so far as the same may apply. The same provisions shall apply to the collection of the assessments by installments and for the issuing of bonds and vouchers therefor as are provided in cases of special assessments of cities and villages in Article 9 aforesaid and the amendments thereto, and also an Act of the General Assembly entitled, "An Act to authorize the division of special assessments in cities, towns and villages into installments, and authorizing the issuing of bonds to anticipate the collection of deferred installments," approved June 17, 1893, in force July 1, 1893.

§ 24. The park engineer, who shall be also ex officio superintendent of special assessments, the chairman of the finance committee and the

president of the said board of trustees shall constitute the board of local improvements for such park district, who shall act as such board of local improvements without compensation, and the secretary of the eaid board of trustees shall be ex officio secretary of said board of local improvements.

§ 25. The mode of making such special assessment and the filing of the assessment roll and proceedings thereon shall be the same as provided by law for making special assessments for local improvements in cities of over fifty thousand inhabitants.

§ 26. The secretary of the said board of trustees and the treasurer of such park district shall perform the duties in regard to the collection. of said assessment provided in said Article 9 to be performed by the city clerk and city collector respectively.

APPROVED June 24th, 1915.

LAND FOR HARBOR PURPOSES-CONVEYANCE TO CITY.

§ 1. Park commissioners may grant, convey or release lands upon public waters to city for harbor purposes-roadways.

(SENATE BILL No. 327. APPROVED JUNE 29, 1915.)

AN ACT to enable park commissioners, park boards, or boards of park commissioners to grant, convey or release lands and rights to cities and villages for harbor uses and purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any park commissioners, park board, or board of park commissioners which has heretofore acquired or shall hereafter acquire the title to any lands adjacent to or adjoining upon or penetrating into any public waters in this State or to the submerged lands and bed of such public waters, or any part thereof, or to any riparian or other rights, may grant, convey or release any of such lands or rights to any city or village authorized to acquire, own, construct, maintain and operate in, over and upon the public waters bordering thereon, harbors, canals, slips, wharves, docks, levees, piers, quay walls, breakwaters and harbor structures, facilities, connections and improvements, for such purposes or any of them. Any such park commissioners, park board, or board of park commissioners may grant, convey or release to any such city or village the right to construct and maintain roadways and any other appropriate approaches to or connections with any harbor or harbor utility or appurtenance of such city or village, over and across any lands and property of such park commissioners, park board, or board of park commissioners: Provided, nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to vest any authority or right for the conveyance of lands, submerged or otherwise, for any other use or purpose, than strictly for State, municipal, or Federal use or purposes.

APPROVED June 29th, 1915.

LINCOLN PARK-BOND ISSUES AUTHORIZED.

§ 1. Commissioners authorized to issue bondslimitation.

§ 2. Ordinance fixing amount, rate of interest and maturity-publication.

§ 3. Commissioners shall order an election. § 4. Notice of election-when election held.

§ 5. Form of ballot.

§ 6. Bonds-denomination-installments-interest limit of indebtedness.

§ 7. Bonds shall be registered-tax levy to pay principal and interest.

(HOUSE BILL No. 735. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.)

AN ACT authorizing "the commissioners of Lincoln Park" to issue bonds, and providing for the payment thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That "the Commissioners of Lincoln Park" of the county of Cook, are hereby authorized to from time to time issue bonds not exceeding the total amount of one million dollars, for the purpose of enlarging and improving Lincoln Park, and completion of work already begun.

§ 2. Whenever "the Commissioners of Lincoln Park" desire to issue any of the bonds authorized by section one (1) of this Act, they shall pass an ordinance fixing the amount of the bonds proposed to be issued, the rate of interest and the maturity. Said ordinance shall then be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of Cook, and be posted in five public places in each town included in the park district.

§ 3. After the passage of the ordinance prescribed in section two (2) of this Act, "the Commissioners of Lincoln Park" shall order an election, at which shall be submitted to the legal voters of the towns included in said Lincoln Park district, the question of issuing bonds, and shall fix the polling places at which said election shall be held, and shall select the judges and clerks therefor.

§ 4. The notice of said election shall state the amount of bonds to be issued and the purpose thereof and the said notice shall be posted in at least ten (10) public places in said district at least ten (10) days prior to the election, and such notice shall be published in a newspaper having a general circulation in said district for three (3) successive days; the first publication to be made at least ten (10) days prior to the date of election, the election may be held on the same day and at the same places as any general or special election.

5. The ballots at the election hereby authorized shall be a separate ballot and in substantially the following form:

OFFICIAL BALLOT.

Instructions to Voters: To cast a ballot in favor of the proposition submitted upon the ballot, place a cross (X) mark in the square opposite the word "Yes". To vote against the proposition submitted upon this ballot, place a cross (X) mark opposite the word "No".

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