may construct and maintain an elevated way in or upon any street, and construct and maintain all necessary approaches, inclines and superstructures, and may by ordinance authorize any commission.or board having jurisdiction of a public park or parks to take over, maintain and control any street or way, incline, approach or superstructure therein upon terms fixed by such ordinance.

(SENATE BILL No. 8. APPROVED MARCH 2, 1907.)

AN ACT authorizing townships to acquire and maintain lands for park purposes.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the several townships of this State are hereby authorized, acting through their representative corporate authorities (meaning thereby the town supervisor and the town clerk of such township), to acquire lands (not exceeding for any one park ten acres in extent) to be set apart and forever held and maintained and improved as public parks for the free use of the public.

That any township in this State desiring to procure lands for park purposes, as in the preceding section provided, may purchase the same from the owner or owners thereof, or in the discretion of its corporate authorities such township may acquire such lands by the exercise of the power of eminent domain in the manner now or hereafter provided by the laws of the State of Illinois for the taking or damaging of private property for public purposes.

3. For the purpose of providing a fund for the maintenance of said park or parks, the township authorities (meaning thereby the town supervisor and the town clerk of said township) are hereby authorized to levy annual taxes not exceeding one mill upon each dollar of the valuation of the property in said township as assessed for taxation in any one year, which shall be levied and collected at the time and in the manner that other township taxes are required to be levied and collected. Said maintenance tax, when levied and collected, shall be kept separate and distinct from all other township funds and shall be applied exclusively to the expenses of maintenance and up-keep, adornment and development of any park or parks theretofore acquired by such township, or the acquisition of other lands to be used for public park purposes.

$ 4. WHEREAS, An emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this Act, therefore, it shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 2, 1907.

AN ACT authorizing townships to issue bonds for park purposes, and providing for the payment thereof.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of promoting health and welfare of its citizens, any township may issue bonds for the purpose of procuring and improving lands to be set apart and forever held as one or more public parks, the same to be kept and maintained for the free use of the public, but no such park shall exceed ten (10) acres in extent.

§ 2. Whenever one hundred legal voters of any township in the State of Illinois shall file a petition in writing in the office of the county clerk, asking that an election be held to authorize the issuance of bonds for the purpose of providing funds for the purchase and improvement of one or more public parks in said township, which said petition shall designate, the amount of bonds proposed to be issued for the acquirement and improvement thereof, upon the filing of such petition, it shall be the duty of the county court of the county wherein said town is located to submit the question of issuing bonds for the purpose and to the amount named in the petition at a general or special election to be held in said township to the legally qualified voters of said township, and that for said purpose said court shall appoint a day upon which such election shall be held, and thereupon said county clerk shall prepare a notice of such election which shall state the date upon which such election will be held and the polling places and state the amount of bonds which it is proposed to issue, which said notice of election shall by the county clerk, or under his authority, be posted in at least ten public places in the township at least twenty-one days prior to the election, and such notice shall be published in a newspaper published in such town, or having a general circulation therein, at least once in each week for three successive weeks, the first publication to be made at least twenty-one days prior to the date of election. The judges and clerks at such election shall be selected and the votes canvassed in the same way and by the same authority as such election officers are appointed, and such election canvassed in elections for State and county officers in said town, and the ballots to be used at said election shall be prepared under the same authority.

§ 3. 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 this 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."

Shall the following be adopted:

Proposition to issue Park Bonds of the town of

County of.

Illinois, to the amount of.... Dollars, for the purpose of procuring and improving one or more small parks.

Yes.

No.

4. In case a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition so submitted shall be in favor of the issuance of bonds, it shall thereupon be the duty of the corporate authorities of said town, to-wit, the supervisor and town clerk, to issue the bonds of said town not exceeding the amount voted upon at said election, which said bonds shall become due not more than twenty years after their date, shall be in denominations of one hundred dollars or any multiple thereof, and shall bear interest evidenced by coupons, at the rate of not exceeding five (5) per centum per annum, payable semi-anually.

5. Said bonds shall be sold and the proceeds thereof used solely for the purpose of procuring and improving one or more parks in said township, and at or before the time of the delivery of said bonds for value, said supervisor and clerk shall file with the county clerk of the county in which such township is situated their certificate in writing under their hands, stating the amount of bonds to be issued, their denomination, rate of interest and where payable, and including therein a form of bond to be issued, and in addition thereto said supervisor and clerk shall levy a direct annual tax upon all of the taxable property in the township sufficient to pay the principle [principal] and interest of said bonds as and when the same respectively mature, and said certificate so filed with said county clerk shall be full and complete authority to said county clerk to extend the tax named in such certificate, upon all the taxable property in the township, the same to be in addition to all other taxes authorized by law.

Wherever there shall at the time be in existence a board of park commissioners invested by law with control over any park which lies wholly or in part in said township the duties required of the supervisor and town clerk by sections four (4) and five (5) of this Act shall be performed by said board of park commissioners or under its authority.

§ 6. The proceeds of said bonds shall be received and held by the town supervisor, but shall be expended under the direction and upon the warrant of the highway commissioners or a majority of them, of said township: Provided, that wherever there shall at the time be in existence a board of park commissioners invested by law with control over any park which lies wholly or in part in said township, the proceeds of said bonds shall be expended upon the warrants of said board

of park commissioners, or a majority of them; and such highway commissioners or board of park commissioners, aforesaid, shall have full power and authority to designate, choose and select the parcel or parcels of land or property so to be utilized for the purchase of such parks, and to determine the character, time and manner of improving, developing, maintaining and adorning the same.

§ 7. This Act shall not operate to repeal any Acts heretofore passed by the General Assembly regarding the issuance of bonds for park purposes, but shall be held to grant additional and supplementary power in relation thereto.

8. WHEREAS, An emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this Act, therefore, it shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 2, 1907.

AN ACT to authorize the confinement in houses of correction of persons convicted of the violation of ordinances of public park commissioners. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every board of public park commissioners in this State shall have full power and authority to enter into an agreement with the legislative authorities of any city, town or village in the county in which the park system under the control of such board of public park commissioners may be situated, or with any authorized officer thereof in behalf of such city, town or village which now has or which may hereafter have a house of correction, to receive and keep in said house of correction any person or persons who may be sentenced or committed thereto by any court in such county for the violation of any ordinance of said board of public park commissioners, or failure to pay the fine imposed for such violation.

§ 2. After such agreement shall have been entered into it shall be the duty of the court finding any person guilty of the violation of any ordinance of any such board of public park commissioners punishable by imprisonment to sentence the person so found guilty to such house of correction, and for the violation of any ordinance of such board of public park commissioners punishable by fine, it shall be the duty of the court to commit any person who shall not forthwith pay any fine

so imposed by the said court, to the said house of correction, there to be received and kept for the time and in the manner prescribed by law, and subject to the discipline of said house of correction, and it shall be the further duty of said court by warrant of commitment duly issued to cause such person so sentenced or committed to be forthwith conveyed by some proper officer to said house of correction.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the officer to whom such warrant of commitment is delivered to convey such person so sentenced or committed to the said house of correction, and there deliver such person to the keeper or other proper officer of said house of correction, whose duty it shall be to receive such person so sentenced or committed and to safely keep and employ such person for the term mentioned in the warrant of commitment, according to the laws of said house of correction; and the officer thus conveying and so delivering the person so sentenced or committed shall be allowed such fees, as compensation therefor, as are or shall be prescribed or allowed by law.

§ 4. WHEREAS, In some of the park systems in this State there is no authority for the making of the contract hereinbefore authorized, therefore an emergency is declared to exist, and this Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 25, 1907.

PAUPERS.

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT BY SUMMONS.

§ 1. Amends section 5, Act of 1874.

$ 5. Three days' notice to defendant by summons.

(HOUSE BILL No. 260. APPROVED MAY 24, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section 5 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to paupers," approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.

SECTION. I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 5 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to paupers," approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is amended. to read as follows:

§ 5. At least three days' notice of such application shall be given to the defendant, by summons, requiring him to appear and answer the complaint.

APPROVED May 24, 1907.