vass the vote of said election, and immediately promulgate the same by publication. APPROVED February 27, 1867. In force Feb'y AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to establish a corporation in 28, 1867. Sparta school district, for the purpose of public education." Demand for a school fund. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the portion of the board of education may demand and receive from the interest of the trustees of township (5) five south, of range five (5) west, and the trustees of township five (5) south, of range six (6) west, and from the treasurers of said township, such portion of the interest of the school fund, and of such other funds as said district is now or may hereafter be by law entitled to receive by delivering to each of said township treasurers on the first Monday of April and October in each year, a certificate of the whole number of days taught, of scholars residing in that portion of the township within said school district, and by delivering to each of said township treasurers on the first Monday of October in each year, a statement of the whole number of children under twentyone years of age residing in that part of the district lying in each of said townships respectively, and said interest and other funds may be drawn from each of the treasurers of the townships aforesaid, and receipted for by the treasurer of said board of education. Taxes. Assessor and collector. § 2. Said board of education shall on or before the first day of April in each year, levy a tax upon all the taxable property of the district for the purpose of establishing and supporting free schools, for not less than six months in each year and defraying all the expenses of the same of every description, for the purpose of building, repairing and improving school houses; of purchasing school house site; of procuring furniture, fuel, libraries and apparatus, and for all other necessary incidental expenses; said tax not to exceed three per cent. per annum. 3. Said board of education shall appoint an assessor and collector for said Sparta school district, who shall hold their respective offices for the term of one year and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Said assessor and collector before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, shall each execute and deliver to said board of education a bond, with two or more securities, who shall be freeholders and not members of said board of education with sufficient penalty to be determined by said board of education, said bond to be approved by said board of education. § 4. Said board of education shall have power to define Duties of. the duties of said assessor and collector, and the manner and time of assessing and collecting the tax levied by said board of education, and to fix the amount of fees to paid to each of said officers. 5. Section ten, (10) of the act to which this is an Act repealed, amendment, is hereby repealed. § 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 28, 1867. AN ACT to fix the place of holding elections in the town of Silver Creek, In force Febru in the county of Stephenson. ary 19, 1867. tion. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That here- Place of elec after all general and special elections and town meetings in the town of Silver Creek, in the county of Stephenson, shall be held at the school house in school district number five (5) in said town of Silver Creek, until otherwise authorized by law. § 2. In case there shall at any time be no school house Change of place in said district, the said elections and town meetings may be held at any other place in said district which the supervisor of said town may appoint; said supervisor in such case to give public notice of the place of holding such election by posting up notices thereof in three of the most public places in said town ten days before such election or town meeting. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and shall be deemed a public act. APPROVED February 19, 1867. AN ACT to divide the town of Springfield into election districts. In force Feb'y 19, 1867. districts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Election town of Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, shall be divided into as many election districts as there are wards in said city and one additional district, that each ward shall constitute one district, and that part of the town outside of the city limits shall also compose one district. 2. The board of supervisors at their September term Opening polls. in each year shall be authorized and required, for all gene Judges for. penalties. ral and special elections not arising under the city charter of the city of Springfield, to open such number of polls as may be necessary in each of said districts at which the legally qualified voters of each district shall vote. 83. The said board of supervisors shall appoint judges for each of said polls, who shall be a board of registry, whose duty it shall be to make a register of voters in their respective districts to be used at their respective polls, and who shall proceed in all respects as now required by law, and be subject to all the penalties that are now or may be provided by law. Application of § 4. All the penalties that are now or may be provided by law shall apply to any person who shall register his name or vote in any other district than that in which he shall be legally entitled to vote. Election of supervisors. Conflicting acts repealed. § 5. Two supervisors shall annually be elected in each district into which said town of Springfield shall be divided, at the annual city charter election, by the legal voters of each district, and said supervisors shall constitute a portion of the board of supervisors of said county of Sangamon. § 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 7. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 19, 1867. n force Feb'y AN ACT to legalize an election held for railroad purposes in the town of 22, 1867. October, 1866, Edwardsville, in Madison county. SECTION 1.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Election of 18th election of the legal voters of the town of Edwardsville, in legalized Madison county, held at the grand jury room in the court house in said town on the 13th day of October, A. D. 1866, authorizing the president and board of trustees of said town to subscribe the sum of thirty thousand dollars to aid in the construction of the Madison county railroad, be and the same is hereby legalized in all respects. edness. $ 2. The president and board of trustees of said town are hereby authorized and empowered, in pursuance of said election, to issue the bonds of the said town of Edwardsville to the amount of thirty thousand dollars, to be used to the best advantage according to the judgment of the said board. of trustees, in aiding in the construction of the Madison county railroad; such bonds to be of such denominations and payable at such times and places and with such rate of interest as the said board of trustees may prescribe; and the said bonds shall be registered and signed by the clerk and countersigned by the president of the board of trustees of said town, and when so issued shall be valid and binding. 3. The board of trustees of said town, for the purpose of paying said bonds when they become due and payable, with the interest which may accrue thereon, are hereby authorized to levy and collect a special tax on all property subject to taxation under the general laws of the state, being within the corporate limits of said town, according to valuation, which valuation shall be assessed by three bona fide freeholders residing in said town, who shall be appointed by the board of trustees. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1867. Taxes. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the town of In force Feb'y Eureka," approved February 23, 1859. 22, 1867. limits. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Corporate corporate limits of the town of Eureka shall include and embrace all the laid bounded as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner of the northwest quarter of section (7) in township twenty-six (26) north, range one (1) west of the third (3) principal meidian; thence running west one (1) mile to the northwest corter of the northeast quarter of section twelve (12) township twenty-six (26) north, range two (2) west of the third (3) pincipal meridian; thence south two (2) miles, to the southwet corner of the southeast quarter of section thirteen (13), township twenty-six (26 north, range two (2) west of the thin (3) principal meridian; thence running east one (1) mile to the southeast corner of the southwest quarter of sectia eighteen, (18) township twentysix (26) north, in range on (1) west, of the third (3) principal meridian, and thence running north (2) miles to the place of beginning in the county of Woodford. office. § 2. That the fifth section of said act be, and the same Justice of the is hereby amended so that the justice of the peace provided peace-term of for in said section, hereafter excted, shall hold his office for four years, and until his succesor is duly elected and qualified, and so that the town contable therein provided for, hereafter elected, shall hold h office for two years, and and until his successor is duly eleted and qualified. 3. That the justice of peae of said town shall be How commissioned by the governor ofthe state of Illinois, as a sioned. commis Change of venue. Taxes. ty taken. justice of the peace, and as such, give bond and take and subscribe the same oath of office as other justices of the peace, and as such shall, in addition to the cases arising under the town ordinances, have the same power and authority, and the same jurisdiction as other justices of the peace in this state. § 4. In all cases arising under the ordinances of said town, change of venue shall be allowed from said justice of the peace to the nearest justice of the peace to be applied for in the same manner and granted on the same conditions and in the same manner as the changes of venue from justices of the peace now are. The justice of the peace before whom such cases may be sent by change of venue, shall have power to hear such cases in the same manner as the justice of the peace of said town might have had if no such change of venue had been taken. § 5 That the president and trustees of said town shall have power and authority to levy and collect taxes on all property real and personal, within the limits of said corporation, not exceeding one per centum per annum apon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment of the same in manner prescribed by ordinance: Provided, that a greater per centum per annum than one per centum may be assessed and levied as aforesaid, if the najority of the qualified voters of said town shall so determine at any regular election held in said town. 6. That whenever it shall be necessary to take private proPrivate proper perty for opening, laying out, altering, widening, extending or establishing any street, avenue, lanes, alleys or public roads, or sidewalks in said town, the corporation shall make a just compensation therefor to the person or persons whose property is proposed to be taken; and if the amount of such compensation can not be agreed upon, the same shall be ascertained by three disinterested freeholders of said town, who shall be selected for that purpose by the president and trustees of said town. The commissioners so selected shall be first duly sworn before the justice of the peace of said town to fairly and impartially assess the damages aforesaid, and shall return to the president and trustees of said town their award in writing signed by each of said commissioners, and either party may appeal therefrom to the circuit court of Woodford county, in such manner and upon such terms as may be prescribed by ordinance of said town. Damages. Streets and alleys. $ 7. That in the assessment of such damages the commissioners shall take into consideration the benefits, as well as the injury happening to the owner or owners of the property taken as aforesaid. § 8. That whenever any street, avenue, lane, alley or public road or sidewalk shall be laid out, opened, altered, widened, extended or established by the president and trus tees, of said town, or any sidewalk built or repaired, or any street or avenue graded or worked, the president and trustees may apportion and assess the damages and expenses of such |