supervisors of such town (as the case may be) and the town clerk of such towns. On behalf of all other municipalities hereinbefore mentioned, by the president, chairman, or chief executive officer thereof, together with the clerk or secretary thereof. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorize the officers herein mentioned to issue bonds under this act, except upon a majority vote of the voters, as hereinbefore provided.

AN ACT to enable counties, cities, townships, school districts, and other municipal corporations, to take up and cancel outstanding bonds and other evidences of indebtedness, and fund the same. [Approved and in force March 26, 1872.]

193. New bonds for old indebtedness.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in all cases where any county, city, town, township, school district, or other municipal corporation, have issued bonds or other evidences of indebtedness for money, on account of any subscription to the capital stock of any railroad company, or on account of, or in aid of any public buildings or other public improvement, or for any other purposes which are now binding or subsisting legal obligations. against any county, city, town, township, school district, or other municipal corporations, and remaining outstanding, and which are properly authorized by law, the proper authorities of any such county, city, town, township, school district or other municipal corporations may, upon the surrender of any such bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, or any number thereof, issue in place or in lieu thereof to the holders or owners of the same, new bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, in such form, for such amount, upon such time, not exceeding the term of twenty years, and drawing such rate of interest, not exceeding ten per cent., as may be agreed upon with such holders or owners; and such new bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, so issued, shall show on their face that they are issued under this act: Provided, that the issue of such new bonds in lieu of such indebtedness, shall first be authorized by a vote of a majority of the legal voters of such county, city, town, township, school district or other municipal corporation, voting either at some annual or special election of such municipal corporation; And, provided, further, that such bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, shall not be issued so as to increase the aggregate indebtedness of such municipal corporation beyond five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein-to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes, prior to the issuing of such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. Nothing contained in this act, or in the act to which this is an amendment, shall be held to repeal or in anywise affect the power of the city of Chicago to issue new bonds to an amount sufficient to retire and satisfy maturing bonds of said city,

conferred by section 38 of an act of the general assembly, approved February 13, 1863, amending the charter of said city.

194. Emergency.] § 2.

Whereas, some counties, cities, townships and other municipal corporations in this state, have outstanding bonds and other evidences of indebtedness that will soon fall due, and are without any remedy for renewing or funding the same, therefore this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

OFFICIAL BONDS.

AN ACT to revise the law in relation to official bonds.

195.

In force July 1, 1874.]

[Approved March 13, 1874.

Be

When additional or new bonds may be required.] SI. it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all official bonds required by law to be given by any public officer, or public employe, including executors, administrators, guardians and conservators, in this state, shall be signed and sealed by any said officer, employe, executor, administrator, guardian or conservator and his securities, and acknowledged before some officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments of instruments under seal, which said acknowledgments shall be substantially in the following form:

STATE OF.

County of.......

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.hereby certify that........who are each personally known to me to be the same persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument, appeared before me this day in person and acknowledged that they signed, sealed and delivered said instrument as their free and voluntary act for the uses and purposes therein set forth.

Given under my hand and................seal this........day of

... . . . . . . A. D..... Which acknowledgment shall be deemed and taken as primafacie evidence that the instrument was signed, sealed and acknowledged in the manner therein set forth, and such acknowledgments shall have the same force and effect as evidence in all legal proceedings, as that given to acknowledgments of deeds of conveyance of real estate. That all public officers or employes who are compelled to give official bonds may be required by the court, officer, or board, whose duty it is to take or approve such bonds, to give additional surety or new bonds whenever the security of the original bond has become insufficient by the subsequent insolvency, death or removal of the sureties or any of them, or when for any cause any such bond shall be deemed insufficient. Any officer or employe failing to give bond when required, pursuant to this section, within ten days after he is notified in writing of such request, shall be deemed to have vacated his office.

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196. Release of sureties.] § 10. When a surety upon the official bond of any state officer or agent, county, town, city, village, incorporated town or other public officer, or the heir, executor or administrator of such surety, desires to be released from such bond, he may give notice in writing to the officer upon whose bond he is surety that he desires to be so released, and that such officer give a new bond with sufficient sureties within ten days after receiving such notice, and may within five days after the service of such notice deliver a copy of the same, with an affidavit showing the time and manner of service, to the court, officer, or board authorized to approve the bonds of such officers. And if such officer shall not within ten days after receiving such notice, or within such further time, not exceeding twenty days, as the court, officer or board shall allow, give a new bond with sufficient security, approved as required by law, his office shall become vacant, and the vacancy shall be filled as provided by law.

197. Effect of new bond.] § 11. If a new bond shall be given by any officer, as provided in the foregoing sections of this act, then the former sureties shall be entirely released and discharged from all liabilities incurred by any such officer in consequence of business which may have come to hand from and after the time of the approval of the said new bond, and the sureties to the new bond are hereby declared to be liable for all the official delinquencies of said officer, whether of omission or commission, which may occur after the approval of the new bond as aforesaid; but the provisions of this act shall not be so construed as to operate as a release of the sureties of any of the aforesaid officers, for liabilities incurred previous to the filing of a new bond, as required in the foregoing sections of this act.

198. When effects to be delivered to sureties.] § 12. It shall be the duty of such officer, if he shall fail to give bond as provided for in this act, forthwith to deliver over to his sureties all books, moneys, vouchers, papers, and every description of property whatever pertaining to his office, and the said sureties may, at any time after said failure to file said bond, maintain an action of replevin, or other appropriate action, to recover such property, money or effects from their said principal.

199. Suit on bond-executors, etc.] § 13. Whenever the condition of the bond of any public officer shall be violated, suit may be instituted on such bond, and prosecuted to final judgment against such officer, and any or all of the sureties, or against one or more of them, jointly and severally, without first establishing the liability of the principal by obtaining judgment against him alone. The provisions of this section shall extend to the official bonds of executors, administrators, guardians and conservators, and in suits thereon it

shall not be necessary to a recovery that a devastavit should have previously been established against the principal.

200. Execution-lien.] § 14. Execution may issue on any judgment so rendered as in ordinary cases, but the officer executing the same shall not levy upon the property of the sureties until he shall fail to find sufficient property of the principal to satisfy such execution: Provided, however, the judgment and execution shall be a lien upon the property of the sureties as in ordinary cases.

SALOON BONDS.

AN ACT to provide for the licensing of, and against the evils arising from the sale of intoxicating liquors. [Approved March 30, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.]

201. Bend-how taken-suit on.] $ 5. No person shall be licensed to keep a dram shop, or to sell intoxicating liquors, by any county board, or the authorities of any city, town or village, unless he shall first give bond in the penal sum of $3,000, payable to the people of the state of Illinois, with at least two good and sufficient sureties, free holders of the county in which the license is to be granted, to be approved by the officer who may be authorized to issue the license, conditioned that he will pay to all persons all damages that they may sustain, either in person or property, or means of support, by reason of the person so obtaining a license selling or giving away intoxicating liquors. The officer taking such bond may examine any person offered as security upon any such bond, under oath, and require him to subscribe and swear to his statement in regard to his pecuniary ability to become such security. Any bond taken pursuant to this section may be sued upon for the use of any person, or his legal representatives, who may be injured by reason of the selling or giving away any intoxicating liquor by the person so licensed, or by his agent or servant.

BRIDGES.

AN ACT to enable cities and villages to build, acquire and maintain bridges and ferries outside of their corporate limits and to control the same. [Approved and in force May 5, 1879.]

202. May construct ferries and bridges.] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall be lawful for any city or village within this state to build or acquire by purchase, lease or gift, and to maintain, ferries and bridges, and the approaches thereto, not exceeding four acres of land for each ferry or. bridge within the corporate limits, or at any point within five miles of the corporate limits of such city

or village. That all such ferries and bridges shall be free to the public, and that no toll shall ever be collected by any such city or village authority.

203. Control by city.] §2. Every bridge and ferry so owned or controlled by such city or village, and the approaches thereto, when outside the corporate limits, shall be subject to the municipal control and ordinances of such city or village, the same to all intents and purposes, and in effect as though such bridge or ferry and the approaches thereto, were situated within the corporate limits of such city or village, and in such case, the county may assist in the construction of said bridge, as is now provided by law.

204. Emergency.] §3. Whereas, certain cities in this state have built bridges outside of their corporate limits, over which they have no police control; therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage.

AN ACT to regulate the manner of travel upon bridges, the whole or a part of which are owned or controlled by cities, villages and towns of this state, and to provide for the enforcing of the same. [Approved and in force May 13, 1879.] 205. Penalty for fast driving, etc.] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That whoever shall ride or drive faster than a walk, over any bridge in this state, owned or controlled, either the whole or a part thereof, by any city, village or town of this state, shall, for each offense, be fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars nor less than one dollar; Provided, that a notice shall be posted on such bridge, warning against riding, or driving, on such bridge faster than a walk, such fine to be recovered, with costs, before any justice of the peace or police magistrate of the county where the offense is committed, upon sworn complaint in writing, upon which a warrant for the arrest of the offender shall issue, and it shall be the duty of every constable of the county, and every marshal, policeman and police constable, and all other officers of such city, village or town, owning or controlling the whole or in part such bridge, having the power to make arrests, whenever aforesaid offense is committed in the view of such officer or officers, to forthwith take in custody the person or persons so committing aforesaid offense, and bring him or them before any justice of the peace or police magistrate of the county, to be dealt with according to law, and such officer so taking in custody such offender, or any officer of such city, village or town, owning or controlling the whole or a part of such bridge where such offense is committed, may make the complaint upon which warrant shall issue against the offender, all fines collected under this act, shall be paid into the common school fund of the county. Whereas, the law is inadequate for the protection of bridges which