Penalties for re

on the valuation of property, within said county or town requisite to meet and satisfy the principal and interest so due or to become due for such year, together with ordinary costs for the collection and disbursement of the same, and the said per centum so ascertained, by the clerk, shall be entered and extended by said clerk, on the collector's book, and collected the same as county revenue.

§ 6. Said funds, when collected, shall be paid over to the county treasurer, the same as county revenue, and by him kept as a separate and distinct fund, for the payment of said indebtedness, and upon the presentation to said treasurer of any such registered indebtedness, he shall pay the amount of principal and interest due for the current year, out of the funds aforesaid, and cause the same to be credited on the bond, warrant or order, upon which such payment is made.

§ 7. It shall be the duty of the town clerk when issuing any bonds, warrants or orders, under this act, to present them to the county clerk, and cause the same to be registered, before the same are issued.

§ 8.

Any officer, who shall willfully refuse or neglect to fusal of duty. perform any duty required of him under this act, shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction, shall be removed from office, and fined in any sum, not exceeding one thonsand dollars.

Taxes levied.

etc.

Valuation, etc.

Subscription.

§ 9. In case said county or any town therein shall purchase or subscribe for stock in any such railroad, they are hereby authorized, in case they see proper to do so, to cause a special tax to be levied upon the property of said county or town, so subscribing upon the assessment of 1866: Provided, the same be levied before the first day of June, 1867, and in case of such special levy, the amount thereof shall be determined by the board of supervisors or town auditors, as the case may be, and certified to the county clerk, who shall make out a collector's book with a warrant attached thereto for said special tax, based upon the assessment of 1866, and deliver the same to the proper collectors, who shall collect the same as other taxes, and make return to the treasurer within forty days after receiving such books; and the several collectors and county treasurer shall proceed to collect the same in all respects as other tax, and the county court shall have power to render a judgment against deliquent lands at any term, at which application may be made by the collector for that purpose; and said special tax, when so collected, shall be applied to the payment of such subscription, according to the terms of such subscription.

10. Neither said county or any town therein, shall levy more than one dollar and fifty cents, on each hundred dollars' valuation, as assessed for any one year.

§ 11. No subscription to stock shall be made by the county or by any town under the provisions of this bill,

unless the same is submitted to a vote of the people of the county or town, as the case may be, and unless the same shall receive a majority of votes, cast upon such question. Such question to be submitted in such manner, as the board of supervisors may determine as to the county, or by the town auditor in case of towns.

§ 12. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 25, 1867.

AN ACT to authorize the county of Kankakee to borrow money.

to

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Authority board of supervisors of the county of Kankakee, state of borrow money. Illinois, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money in one or more loans, the total of which shall not exceed the sum of fifty-three thousand dollars, and to issue bonds therefor, which said bonds shall be made payable at such times and places as they may designate, and shall bear interest not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, for the purpose of liquidating Purpose. the present war indebtedness of said county, and to build fire proof vault or vaults for the safe keeping of county records and for repairing court house.

82. That the board of supervisors of said county be Tax. and they are hereby authorized to levy a special tax upon all the property, personal and real, in said county, not exceeding five mills on one dollar per annum, for the purpose of liquidating any indebtedness and the interest thereon that has or may accrue for the purposes aforesaid, which said tax shall be collected at the same time, in the same manner and by the same officers who may collect the revenue for state and county purposes; and the laws now in force for the collection of state and county taxes, shall be in force and applicable to the collection of the taxes provided by this act.

§ 3. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 25, 1867.

In force Feb'y AN ACT to enable the county of Lawrence to levy a tax and provide means 25, 1867. for the payment of the indebtedness of said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the How levied, etc. board of supervisors of Lawrence county, Illinois, may at any time, either at a special or annual meeting of said board, levy such tax on the taxable property in said county as they may think necessary to discharge the indebtedness of said county, not exceeding two per cent. in any one year, to be levied and collected as other county tax, as is now provided by law.

§ 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 25, 1867.

In force Feb'y AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An act to authorize the county court 23, 1867.

construction of

act

of Macoupin county to issue bonds and levy taxes to raise money and pay bounties to volunteers," approved February 6th, 1865.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the act Application and entitled "An act to authorize the county court of Macoupin approved County to issue bonds and levy taxes, to raise money and Feb'y 6, 1865. pay bounties to volunteers," approved February 6th, 1865, be so construed as to apply to and embrace the payment of bounties to persons who volunteered and enlisted into the military service of the United States, before as well as after the passage of said act, and who were credited upon the quota of said county under any of the calls for volunteers referred to in said act: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall render the payment of any claim coming within the provisions of this act compulsory upon said county court, but shall leave it discretionary with the said court to allow the whole or any part of any such claim presented or to reject the same altogether.

Proviso.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 23, 1867.

AN ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Lee county to use their In force Feb'y swamp land funds in payment of the indebtedness of said county. 28, 1867,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the board of supervisors of Lee county are hereby authorized and empowered to use the funds of said county known as the swamp land fund, or any part thereof, in payment of the indebtedness of said county.

2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

§ 3. This act shall be in force from and after its pas

sage.

APPROVED February 28, 1867.

AN ACT to enable the board of supervisors of Edgar county to levy a tax In force Feb'y to build a soldier's monument.

28, 1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Rates of board of supervisors of the county of Edgar, may at any regular meeting levy a tax not exceeding two mills on the dollar upon the taxable property of said county, over and above the amount now allowed by law for county purposes; which shall constitute a fund separate from the county revenue, and shall be appropriated to the purpose of erecting a monument sacred to the memory of the soldiers from said county of Edgar, who lost their lives in the late war for the suppression of the rebellion: Provided, that the Proviso. fund so raised shall not exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).

§ 2. Said tax shall be levied and collected in the same How levied and manner as other taxes are.

eollected.

§ 3. The fund so raised shall be under the control of Control of funds the board of supervisors of said county of Edgar, or a board of trustees appointed by said board of supervisors, who shall procure a suitable site for the erection of said monument, contract for the erection of the same, and pay out money on such contract.

4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 28, 1867.

In force Feb'y AN ACT to legalize the acts of the board of supervisors of the county of 28, 1867. Ford borrowing money and issuing bonds therefor.

Preamble.

Acts legalized.

WHEREAS the board of supervisors of the county of Ford did at the July special session of said board, in the year 1866, borrow the sum of ($10,000) ten thousand dollars, and did issue bonds therefor, drawing interest at ten per centum per annum; and, whereas, the borrowing of said money and the issuing of said bonds not being in strict conformity of law, may endanger the interests of innocent holders of the same, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all acts and doings of said board of supervisors of said county of Ford in borrowing said money and issuing bonds therefor be and the same are hereby declared to be legal, and said bonds as valid and binding in all respects as they would have been had such bonds been issued under and by virtue of a special enactment of the legislature of this state passed for that purpose.

§ 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 28, 1867.

In force Feb'y AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to authorize the county court 28, 1867. of Perry county to issue bonds, approved February 16, 1865."

Borrow money.

Proviso.

Part of conflict

ing section repealed.

Section 2d of

act

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county court of Perry county, Illinois, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to borrow money in one or more loans not exceeding in the aggregate, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, to be expended under and by the direction of said county court, in building a common jail at Pinckneyville, the county seat of said county: Provided, that said county court may expend not to exceed ten thousand dollars of the above amount in grading and working the roads leading from Pinckneyville to Tamaroa and from Pinckneyville to Du Quoin, in said county, if in their judg ment the public interests demand it.

§ 2. That so much of section 1st of said act to which this is an amendment, as is inconsistent with this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

approved §

February 16,

3. That section 2nd of said act, approved February 1866, amended: 16, 1865, be so amended as to authorize the county court of said county to levy and collect a special tax on all real and personal estate, situated in said county, not to exceed four mills on the dollar.