Seven: To appoint a board of school inspectors, not less Inspectors. than three nor more than five in number, and prescribe their duties, and delegate to them, if deemed expedient, any or all of the powers and duties mentioned in specifications one, three, four, five and six, of this section.

Eight: To cause the public moneys, for the support of schools, to which the said city or the schools therein may be entitled, to be paid into the city treasury, and to direct the expenditure thereof.

Nine: To levy and collect taxes for the payment of all School taxes. the expenses incident to the maintaining of free schools, and for all the purposes herein mentioned the said taxes to be called "school taxes ;" and the money arising therefrom, together with all other school moneys belonging to the city, shall be kept as a separate fund, to be used for none other than common school purposes.

§ 4. The city council shall cause to be prepared and forwarded to the school commissioner of Jo Daviess county, on or before the second Monday of October, in each year, a statement of school statistics for said district, similar to that required of the trustees of schools of the various townships; which statement shall be certified to by the treasurer of said city; and it shall be the duty of said school commissioner at every apportionment of school moneys in his possession, to apportion to the said district a proportionate amount of said moneys, upon the same basis that apportionment is made to the several townships in the county of Jo Daviess, and pay said amount, so apportioned, directly to the treasurer of the city of Galena, in the same manner as if the said district were a distinct township; and the school reports to said commissioner from townships twenty-eight, range one west, and twenty-eight, range one east of the fourth principal meridian, shall not include the school statistics of the said district or any part thereof.

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5. The teachers of the free schools of said district shall Teachers. be subject to the provision of the school law, and shall make schedules of the scholars attending school in said district, in accordance with section fifty-three of said law, especially specifying the township in which each scholar resides; and the school inspectors of said district shall certify to the correctness of said schedules. The schedules of said scholars, and who reside in township twenty-eight, range one west of the fourth principal meridian, shall, at least two days before the first Monday in April and October, in each year, be filed with the treasurer of said township. And it shall be the duty of the trustees of schools of said township, at each semi-annual apportionment, to apportion to said district a Apportionment of proportionate amount of money, arising from the township township fund. fund, upon the same basis that apportionment is made to the districts in said township, outside of the city of Galena; and the amount so apportioned to the said district, shall be

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immediately paid to the treasurer of the city of Galena by the treasurer of said township. A similar course shall be pursued with the schedules of the scholars in said district, and who reside in township twenty-eight, range one east of the fourth principal meridian, and a similar duty, as to apportionment and payment of money arising from the township fund of said township twenty-eight, range one east of the fourth principal meridian, shall devolve upon the trustees of schools and the treasurer of said last named township.

§ 6. The legal voters residing in said district shall have the right to vote for trustees of schools, for the township in which they respectively reside.

§ 7. This act shall be deemed a public act, and may be read in evidence, without proof, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof in all courts and places.

§ 8. All laws conflicting with this act are hereby so far modified and repealed as to give full effect and efficiency to all the provisions of this act.

9. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 20, 1861.

In force February AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to reduce the law incorporating 12, 1601.

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the City of Galena and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to amend the same, and for other purposes, approved January 30th, 1857, and to equalize the ratio of representation of the towns of East and West Galena, including the City of Galena, in the Board of Supervisors of Jo Daviess county."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the several wards in the city of Galena shall be entitled to elect pervisors in the one supervisor in each ward, in addition to the township supervisors in the towns of East and West Galena; and the several supervisors, so elected, shall be members of the board of supervisors of Jo Daviess county, and shall have, possess and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges that are now or hereafter shall be possessed and enjoyed by the several township supervisors of the said county of Jo Daviess. The election of such additional supervisors to be held at the same time as the election of township supervisors, and in the same manner, and at the same place or places, as is now or may hereafter be provided by law and by ordinance or resolution of the city council of said city, for the election of aldermen in the several wards in said city: Provided, that the number of wards in said city shall not be increased by the said city council of the city of Galena, so as to give said city of Galena more than five supervisors, in addition

to the township supervisors of the said towns of East and West Galena.

2. The whole of section two of article entitled "Miscellaneous Provisions," of an act entitled "An act to reduce the law incorporating the city of Galena and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and for other purposes," approved January 30, 1857, and so much of section two of article first of said act as is inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

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3. This act shall take effect on the first day of April

APPROVED February 12, 1861.

AN ACT to authorize the vacation of certain grounds in the City of Joliet, In force February and for other puposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the board of supervisors of Will county be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, by and with the consent of the common council of the city of Joliet, to vacate, sell, dispose of and duly convey the blocks of ground upon which the court house and jail of said county now stand, or either of them, or any part thereof, and for such price and upon such terms as they deem for the best interest of said county.

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house and jail.

§ 2. Said board of supervisors are hereby empowered Erection of cour to purchase and acquire, within said city of Joliet, suitable grounds and to erect and build thereon a new court house and jail, for the use of said county of Will; or, if they shall deem it more advisable, they may improve, repair, enlarge or rebuild the present court house and jail, or either of them, or consolidate both in one, upon the ground where the court house now stands, and do the same in such manner as will best meet the wants and subserve the interest of said county.

3. For the purpose of raising the necessary funds for Issue of bonds. the purposes aforesaid, said board of supervisors may issue the bonds of said county, of the denomination of one thousand dollars, each, in an amount, not to exceed fifty thousand dollars, in the aggregate. Said bonds to be equally divided into ten classes, and so arranged that the first class shall become due in twenty-five years after the date thereof, and the other classes, one in each successive year, after the first class shall become due, until the whole shall become due. The same to be signed by the chairman of said board, countersigned by the clerk thereof, and have the corporate seal of the county court of said Will county thereto attached,

and to bear interest at the rate of ten per centum, per annum, payable, semi-annually, by the county treasurer of said county of Will; and, for the payment of which, a special tax shall be levied upon the taxable property of said county, in time to meet and provide for the first class of said bonds, and the interest then becoming due, and, annually, thereafter, as said bonds and interest shall become due.

4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 21, 1861.

In force February 22, 1861.

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AN ACT to amend the charter of the City of Joliet.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That sections one (1) and three, (3,) of article fourteen, (14,) of an act entitled "An act to reduce the law incorporating the city of Joliet and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to amend the same," approved January 31, 1857, be and the same are repealed, and the offices thereby created abolished. 2. There shall be elected, at each annual municipal election of said city, hereafter to be held, one police magistrate, who shall hold his office for four years, and shall be commissioned, qualified, and have such jurisdiction, powers, emoluments, and perform such duties, and conform to such rules and regulations, as is provided in the remaining sections of the article of the act to which this is amendatory.

§ 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after the 4th day of March next.

APPROVED February 22, 1861.

In force February AN ACT to amend the charter of the City of Litchfield, approved February

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, The city magisCity magistrate. trate shall be elected quadrennially, and shall give bond, and

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be qualified, and be commissioned as are other justices of the peace, under the statutes, and shall hold his office until the election and qualification of his successor.

§ 2. The city marshal shall, as constable, give bond, and be qualified and commissioned as are other constables.

§3. The city clerk shall be appointed by the city council, at the first regular meeting in the municipal year, and shall

hold his office during the pleasure of the city council, not exceeding one year.

§ 4. The city council shall have power to levy a yearly Road tax. poll tax, not exceeding three dollars, per capita, on all male inhabitants of said city of Litchfield, over twenty-one years of age and not over fifty years of age, to be levied and collected as are other city taxes; which said poll-tax shall belong to the highway fund of said city.

§ 5. The city council shall, also, have power to require each male resident of the city to perform highway labor on the streets of said city, not exceeding three days in any one year.

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§ 6. No special election shall be held to fill any vacancy Filling of vacanin the office of mayor, alderman or city magistrate, provided such vacancy occur within three months of the next annual election. In such case the vacant office shall be filled at such next annual election.

7. Section twenty-seven, of article thirteen, of said charter, is hereby repealed.

8. So much of the act approved February 27th, 1854, entitled "An act for the better government of towns and cities and to amend the charter thereof" as is not inconsistent with this act, nor with the act of which this is an amendment, shall constitute a part of the charter of said city of Litchfield.

9. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of March next.

APPROVED February 18, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the City of Lake Forest.

ARTICLE I.

OF BOUNDARIES AND GENERAL POWERS.

In force February 21, 1861.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the inhabitants of the town of Lake Forest, in the county of Lake, and state of Illinois, be and are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Corporate name. City of Lake Forest;" and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change and alter at pleasure.

2. All lands embraced within the present plat of the town of Lake Forest, as the same is recorded in the office of the clerk of the Lake county circuit court, and all additions to said town plat, which may hereafter be laid out and duly recorded, is declared to be and shall constitute the territorial