in charge of any steam engine being propelled over the highways of this State wholly or in part by steam power, to stop said engine whenever they meet any person or persons going in the opposite direction on said highway with horses or other animals, until said horses or other animals shall have passed by; and said engine shall be stopped when it is one hundred (100) yards distant from said horses or other animals, and sooner in case said horses or other animals become frightened at said engine before arriving at said distance. The owner or driver of said engine shall also keep a good, trusty man, not less than fifty (50) nor more than two hundred (200) yards in advance of said engine, to assist in controlling any horses or other animals being driven or used on said highway, until said horses or other animals sha I have passed by said engine; and it shall be the duty of the man thus sent in advance to use all reasonable care and diligence to prevent the occurrence of any accidents which might result in case said horses or other animals become frightened at said steam engine.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to blow the whistle of said engine, while on the public highway.

§ 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to drive a steam engine over any bridge or culvert, on any public highway in this State, without using four sound, strong planks, each to be not less than twelve feet long, one foot wide and two inches thick; two of said planks to be kept continuously under the wheels of said engine while crossing said bridge or culvert.

§ 4. Any owner of a steam engine, who by himself, agent or employé, violates the provisions of sections "one" or "two" of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall, for each offense, be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction, and shall also be liable for all damages that may be sustained by persons or property by reason of his failing to comp y with the provisions of this act; and for a violation of section three (3), of this act, the owner of said engine shall be liable for all damages resulting to said bridge or culvert by reason of his failure to comply with the requirements of said section, together with the costs of prosecution.

APPROVED June 26, 1885.

SURVEYORS-COUNTY.

RECORD OF SURVEYS.

§ 1. Amends section 7, of the act of 1874, by prescribing the penalty for refusal or neglect to record surveys.

AN ACT to amend section seven (7) of an act entitled "An act to revise the law in relation to county surveyors, and the custody of the United States field notes," approved March 2, 1874, in force July 1, 1874. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section seven (7) of an act

entitled "An act to revise the law in relation to county surveyors, and the custody of the United States field notes," approved March 2, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Section 7. Every county surveyor shall be furnished by the county with a well bound book, in which he shall carefully and legibly record and note down every survey made by him, giving the date of the survey, the name of the person whose land is surveyed, the metes and bounds of the land as near as practicable, and the date [data] on which the survey was made. Such record shall be the property of the county, and shall be kept in the office of the recorder of the county, and shall be subject to the inspection of any person who may think himself interested; and a certified copy thereof under the hand of the recorder or surveyor, or successor in office, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. Every county surveyor who shall refuse or neglect to record any survey made by him, within sixty days after such survey is made as herein provided, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every survey not thus recorded, to be recovered by any person who will sue for the same; one-half to the use of the person suing, and one-half for the use of the county in which the failure so to record occurred; or the surveyor, for every such refusal or neglect to record a survey within sixty days after the same is made, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered as other fines by complaint, information or indictment, and when collected to be paid into the county treasury of the county in which the refusal or neglect occurred, to become part of the current revenue of the county."

APPROVED June 4, 1885.

TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.

ELECTIONS.

§ 1. Amends section 7, as amended by the act of 1877, by authorizing boards of trustees of incorporated towns and villages, to do what city councils may do in towns whose corporate limits are co-extensive with such incorporated towns or villages.

AN ACT to amend an act approved and in force March 9, 1877, and which is entitled "An act to amend section seven of article seven of an act entitled 'An act to revise the law in relation to township organization,' approved and in force March 4, 1874."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the act approved and in force March 9, 1877, entitled "An act to amend section seven of article seven of an act entitled 'An act to revise the law in relation to township organization,' approved and in force March 4, 1874," be and the same is hereby amended so that the portion of said act, designated therein as section 7, shall be further so amended as to read as follows, to-wit:

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the town.

"Section 7. The town shall supply a suitable ballot box or boxes, to be kept and used in like manner as ballot boxes in other elections. In incorporated towns, or incorporated villages whose limits are co-extensive with the limits of a town, or in any organized town where the number of voters at the last preceding general election exceeded three hundred, the county board may require one or more additional ballot boxes and places for the reception of votes to be provided, which places shall be selected with reference to the convenience of the electors of the town, and shall designate at which of said polling places the town clerk shall act as clerk of the election; and such polling place, when so designated, shall be the place for transacting the miscellaneous business of And when several places are so provided, the electors present shall choose from their number one assistant moderator and one assistant clerk for each additional ballot box, to receive the votes therein, who shall take the same oath and be subject to the same penalties as the moderator and clerk, and shall be under the direction of the moderator. At the closing of the polls all the said ballot boxes shall be brought together at the polling place where the town clerk acts as clerk of the election, and the votes sha 1 be canvassed at the same time and in the same manner, and return thereof made the same as if all the votes had been cast in the same ballot box. When there shall be more than one polling place designated in such towns, the general meeting for the transaction of business shall be held at the time hereafter mentioned, at the polling place where the town clerk acts as clerk of the election; or, if there be no town clerk, then at such place as shall be designated by the county clerk. And it shall be the duty of the town clerk, or, if there be no town clerk, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to post up in three of the most public places in the town, a notice of each of the places in the town where the county board have directed and required the election to be held: Provided, however, that in towns which lie wholly within the limits of an incorporated city, and in any town whose territorial limits are co-extensive with the territorial limits of any incorporated city, village or incorporated town, the common council of such city, or the board of trustees of such village or incorporated town, shall divide such towns into election precincts, and designate the voting places in each precinct; and any elector in such towns shall be entitled to vote for town officers only in the precinct in which he may reside. The common council of such city, or the board of trustees of such village or incorporated town, shall also appoint three judges of election for each of such precincts, who may be the same persons as are appointed as judges for an election for city or village officers held on the same day. Such judges of election may choose two clerks of election for each precinct, and such judges and clerks shall take the oath of office now prescribed by the general election law of the State. The ballots cast at such election for town officers shall be deposited in a separate ballot box, and shall be counted and canvassed by the judges of election separately from any other ballots that may be cast at any other election that may be held on the same day. Said judges of election shall cause to be kept a separate poll list, which shall contain the names of all persons voting at such election for town officers, together with their residence. And immediately upon closing the polls they shall canvass the votes polled, in the manner provided by the general election law of the State, and make a written statement or certificate of the number of votes cast at such election for each person voted

for, and the office for which such person received such votes; and shall, within forty-eight hours thereafter, cause such certificate and the poll list, together with the ballots cast at such election, to be separately sealed up and transmitted to the clerk of the town. The supervisor, together with the assessor and collector, shall, within five days thereafter, meet and canvass said returns, and declare the result of said election. The town meetings to be held in such towns for the transaction of town business, as now provided by law, shall be held at two o'clock in the afternoon of said day, at such voting place in such town as the common council of such city, or the board of trustees of such village or incorporated town, may designate, at which meeting a moderator shall be chosen to preside by the electors present, and the town clerk shall act as clerk of said meeting, and keep a record of the proceedings thereof." APPROVED June 27, 1885.

NEW TOWNS.

§ 1. Amends section 26, act of 1874, by permitting towns to be formed of not less than ten

miles square.

AN ACT to amend section twenty-six of "An act to revise the law in relation to township organization," approved and in force March 4, 1874. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section twenty-six (26) of “An act to revise the law in relation to township organization," be amended to read as follows:

"[Section 26.] The county board of each county shall have full and complete power and jurisdiction to alter the boundaries of towns, to change town lines, and to divide, enlarge, and to create new towns in their respective counties, to suit the convenience of the inhabitants residing therein, but no new town shall be created, under the provisions of this act, of less territory than ten square miles, nor unless there shall be at least fifty (50) legal voters residing in such new town, nor unless at least twenty (20) of the legal voters of such town shall petition for such alteration; nor shall any new town be made, or any town divided, or the boundaries of any town changed by the county board, without notice thereof having been given by posting up notices in not less than five (5) of the most public places of the town interested, or if several towns are interested, in each of them, at least sixty (60) days before the final action of the board, and also by publishing such notice at least three times in some newspaper published in the county wherein said towns are situated, if any shall be published therein: Provided, that no incorporated town shall be divided, except consent thereto is given by a majority of all the electors voting at a general annual election in said town-notice that the question of dividing said town will be submitted to the legal voters thereof, having been given by the county clerk at the same time and in the same manner as the notice of said general annual election."

APPROVED June 27, 1885.

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UNITED STATES.

CEDING JURISDICTION TO LANDS.

1. Cedes jurisdition to lands in Spring- § 2. Exempts such lands from taxation. field.

AN ACT in relation to the purchase of additional grounds by the United States, in the city of Springfield, and to cede jurisdiction over, and exempt the same from taxation.

WHEREAS, the United States of America are about to purchase additional grounds for its public buildings, in the city of Springfield; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be, and hereby is ceded and granted to the United States of America, jurisdiction upon and over all such grounds so purchased by and conveyed to the United States.

§ 2. All such grounds from and after such purchase and conveyance shall be exempt from taxation under any law of this State, while the same remains the property of the United States.

ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL-CHANGE OF NAME.

§ 1. Changes the name of the Illinois Industrial University to the "University of Illinois." AN ACT to change the name of the Illinois Industrial University. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Illinois Industrial University, located at Urbana, in Champaign county, shal', after the passage of this act, be known as the University of Illinois, and under that name and title shall have, possess, be seized of, and exercise, all rights, privileges, franchises and estates which have hitherto belonged to, or may hereafter inure to the said Illinois Industrial University.

APPROVED June 19, 1885.