be opened to the use of persons having or using other vehicles, nor be required to comply with other provisions or conditions as to the use of said motor vehicles or motor bicycles except as in this Act provided: Provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed to apply to, or include, any speedway created, provided for, or maintained by the local authorities of any city, village, town or other municipal corporation within the State: And provided, further, that the local authorities having jurisdiction over the public parks shall not by the terms of this Act be prohibited from adopting and enforcing such reasonable ordinances, rules or regulations concerning the speed at which motor vehicles or motor bicycles may be operated within any such parks, provided the rate of speed of motor vehicles or motor bicycles fixed by such ordinances, rules or regulations shall not be lower than the fixed rate for other vehicles and provided such authorities shall, by signs conspicuously placed, indicate the rate of speed permitted by such ordinances, rules or regulations. And, provided, further, that motor vehicles or motor bicycles may be excluded from any cemetery or grounds used for the burial of the dead, by the authorities having jurisdiction over the same; except as in this section provided, no city, town or village or other muncipality shall have power to make any ordinance, by-laws or resolution limiting or restricting the speed of motor vehicles or motor bicycles, and no ordinance, by-law or resolution heretofore or hereafter made by any city, village, or town, or other municipal corporation within this State by whatever name known or designated, in respect to or limiting the speed of motor vehicles or motor bicycles shall have any force, effect, or validity, and they are hereby declared to be of no validity or effect: Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as affecting the power of municipal corporations to make and enforce ordinances, rules and regulations affecting motor trucks and motor driven commercial vehicles and motor vehicles which are used within their limits for public hire, or from making and enforcing reasonable traffic and other regulatons except as to rates of speed not inconsistent with the provisions hereof.

AN ACT to amend sections 55 and 59, subdivision III, article IV [VI] of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 55 and 59, subdivision III, article IV [VI], of an Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges, approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 55. POLL TAX.] At their annual meeting to be held on the second Tuesday after the annual town meeting or district election in each year,

each board of highway commissioners shall make out a list of able-bodied men in their town or district between the ages of twenty-one (21) and fifty (50) years and deliver the same to the town or district treasurer on or before the first day of May in each year, and assess at such meeting against such person upon such list a sum of not less than one (1) nor more than three (3) dollars, as a poll tax for highway purposes, to be paid in cash to such treasurer by the first Monday of June of each year: Provided, that paupers, idiots, lunatics and such others as are exempt by law shall not be compelled to pay a poll tax for highway purposes: The commissioners shall also, within ten (10) days after such list is delivered to the treasurer of the road and bridge fund, cause written or printed notices to be given to each person so assessed, notifying him of the time when and place where such tax must be paid, and if this poll tax shall not be paid by the first Monday of June in such year it shall be the duty of the commissioners of highways, in the name of the district or town, to bring suit therefor against such persons before some justice of the peace having jurisdiction thereof. Summons shall be issued and returned in the same manner as provided by law in other cases. If judgment is rendered against defendant the court shall find in such judgment that the same is for poll tax unpaid, and shall endorse the same on the execution, if one is issued. No property belonging to the defendant shall be exempt from levy to satisfy such execution: Provided, also, that on petition of not less than twenty-five (25) legal voters of any town or district, asking to have the proposition to abolish the poll tax submitted to the legal voters of said town, or district, filed with the town or district clerk not less than fifteen (15) days before the annual town meeting or annual district election, then the town or district clerk shall state in the notice of the annual town meeting or district election that the legal voters of such town or district may vote by ballot for or against the payment of all poll tax, and if a majority of all the ballots cast are against the payment of a poll tax, then that part of this section which provides for the levying of a poll tax shall no longer be in force in such town or district.

(1) CONSTABLE'S DUTY HAVING EXECUTION FOR POLL TAX.] The constable to whom such execution shall be delivered shall forthwith collect the moneys therein mentioned. He shall pay the money so collected, when collected, to the justice of the peace who issued the execution, who is hereby required to pay the same to the treasurer.

§ 59. TAX RATE-EXTENSION AND COLLECTION OF TAXES.] All items of tax levy of any town or district authorized by sections 56 and 58 of this Act shall be extended by the county clerk as one tax upon the collector's book and when collected shall be paid to the treasurer of the commissioners of highways by the collector as fast as the same is collected, except such rate per cent as shall be allowed for collecting the same: Provided, that one-half the tax required to be levied in section 56 and collected for road and bridge purposes, on the property lying within an incorporated village, town or city in which the streets and alleys are under the care of the corporation shall be paid over to the treasurer of such village, town or city, to be appropriated to the improvement of roads, streets and bridges, either within or without said village, town or city, and within the township under the direction of the corporate

authorities of such village, town or city: Provided, also, that one-half the poll tax required to be assessed in section 55 and collected for road and bridge purposes shall be subject to the same provisions as are herein made applicable to the tax required to be levied in section 56; And, provided, further, that when any of said tax or poll tax is expended beyond the limits of said village, town or city, it shall be with the consent of the highway commissioners of the township or road district. FILED July 8th, 1915.

The Governor having failed to return this bill to the General Assembly during its session, and having filed it in my office, without objections, within ten days after the adjournment of the General Assembly, it has thereby become a law.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act revising the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, by amending sections 62 and 107 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 revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section 62, [subdivision III,] Article III [VI], and section. 107, [subdivision VII,] Article VII [VI] thereof so that the said sections when amended shall read as inserted in length herein.

§ 62. ROAD AND BRIDGE MONEY-HOW USED.] All road and bridge moneys of any town or road district shall be held by the treasurer of the road and bridge fund subject to the order of the commissioners of highways: Provided, that not less than three ($3.00) dollars nor more than five ($5.00) dollars per mile per annum shall be taken and appropriated from the road and bridge fund of each township, or district to be known. as a road drag fund to pay for the work of dragging earth roads in the township or district as provided in section 107 hereof and that the enforcement of the law as to what roads in the township or district shall be dragged and as to how often the same shall be dragged, shall be lodged in the hands of the commissioners or commissioner of highways.

§ 107. (A) The commissioners or commissioner of highways of their respective townships or district in the several counties of this State are hereby authorized to have earth roads dragged at all seasons of the year whenever the surface of the roads become rough so they will not properly shed the water which falls upon them.

It shall be the duty of the commissioners or commissioner of highways to designate from time to time what roads in the township or district shall be dragged. He shall cause the work to be done by giving the parties contracted with for the performance of such services such notice as shall be deemed sufficient; he shall on or before the fifteenth

day of September in each year contract with as many suitable persons as he deems necessary to drag the roads in the township or district for that year, but shall not apportion the dragging of more than six miles of road to any one person. The commissioners or commissioner of highways may at any time cancel such contract or contracts for dragging the roads when the stipulations herein contained have not been properly complied with or when the work is not done in a satisfactory manner: Provided, however, that in making contracts for road dragging such contracts shall not be let for a sum exceeding one dollar ($1.00) per mile for each time dragged: Provided, further, that the width required to be dragged shall be not less than fourteen feet, if the width of the roadway will permit.

(B) OBSTRUCTING DRAINAGE.] It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to place loose earth, weeds, sods, or other vegetable matter on the portion of a road which has been dragged and so maintained in good condition, or to place any material in such a manner as to interfere with the free flow of water from the dragged portion of the road to the side gutters or ditches: Provided, that this restriction shall not apply to deposits of earth or other material that may be made by the authority of the proper road officials, if necessary for filling or raising the elevation of a given section of road or other necessary construction work.

(C) TRAVEL REGULATED.] It shall also be unlawful for any person or persons to drive or cause to be driven a vehicle of any description in or upon any portion of the highway immediately after the same has been dragged and before such portion of the highway shall have partially dried out or frozen: Provided, that nothing in this section shall apply in those instances where it is impossible to drive with safety at one side of said dragged portion of the road, or where a vehicle does not make a rut on such dragged portion of the road, injurious to the work accomplished by use of the road drag or where a vehicle does not make a rut nearer than nine (9) feet from the center of the dragged portion of the road.

(D) Any violation of any of the provisions of this section by the commissioners or commissioner of highways or any person or persons who may be required under contract to drag district roads or neglect on the part of any township clerk to set aside the funds required by section 62 of this Act shall, on conviction thereof, subject the offender to be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for the first offense, and for each subsequent offense shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).

APPROVED June 28th, 1915.

STATE AID ROADS-CONTRACTS, BOND OF CONTRACTOR.

§ 1. Amends section 26, Act of 1913.

§ 26. Contracts for State aid roads-bond of contractor. (SENATE BILL No. 527. Approved June 25, 1915.)

AN ACT to amend section 26 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1915.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 26 of an Act entitled,

"An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended and made to read as follows:

§ 26. State aid roads may be constructed or improved by contract in the manner provided herein. No contract for the improvement or construction of a State aid road shall be entered into unless at the time there is in the State road and bridge fund, subject to the order of the State Highway Commission, sufficient moneys to defray the portion of the cost thereof which the State is required to contribute under the provisions of this Act. Upon the completion and final adoption or approval, as provided by law, of the plans and specifications and estimates for the construction or improvement of a State aid road, a contract therefor may be executed as provided herein.

In letting contracts for the building of bridges, or culverts, wherein the county alone is interested, or wherein the county and State are interested, or the county and township or road district are interested, it shall be the duty of the officials in letting said contracts to invite, receive and consider proposals on any other plan other than the one prepared by the county superintendent of highways, or State Highway Commission, and they shall require that all proposals on such plans, shall be accompanied with complete stress diagrams, and specifications; nature, quality and size of materials to be used; strength of structure. when completed, etc., it being understood, however, that before any such plan shall be finally adopted, it shall, in like manner as all other plans, profiles, specifications and estimates submitted, have the approval of the county superintendent of highways and the State Highway Commission.

(1) The State Highway Commission shall advertise for proposals for the construction or improvement of such highways or sections thereof, according to the plans, specifications and estimates prepared therefor. The advertisement shall be limited to a brief description of the work proposed to be done, the terms and conditions under which proposals will be received, the time and place where the same will be opened, and such other matters as the commission may deem advisable to include therein. Such advertisements shall be published at least once in each week for two consecutive weeks in a newspaper, published in the county in which such highway or section thereof is to be constructed or improved, and in such other newspapers as the commission may designate. In such advertisements the State Highway Commission may provide that certain materials, or machinery or implements suitable for road construction shall be furnished by the State or used in the construction of said State aid road, and may also indicate the fair value of the same or for the use thereof.

(2) Each proposal shall specify the gross sum for which the work will be performed exclusive of such materials as may be furnished by the State and also shall include the amount to be charged for such item specified in the estimate. The commission may prescribe and furnish forms for the submission of such proposal and may prescribe the manner of submitting the same which shall not be inconsistent herewith. The proposals shall be publicly opened at the time specified in the advertisement aforesaid and when opened such proposals shall be subject at all