Licenses. Tax. council of said town shall have power and authorityFirst: To license, regulate and restrain tavern keepers, grocers and keepers of ordinaries or victualing or other houses or places for the selling or giving away wines and other liquors, whether ardent, vinous or fermented. Second: To forbid the selling or giving away wines or ardent spirits or other intoxicating liquors to any minor, apprentice or servant, without the consent of his or her parent, guardian, master or mistress. Third: To license, tax, regulate, suppress and prohibit billiard tables, pin alleys, nine or ten-pin alleys and ball alleys. 2. That the first section of article seventh of the act to which this act is an amendment be amended by the addition of the following: "Provided, that in lieu of said requirement to labor, the said town council shall have power to impose, levy and collect, in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected by them, or in such other manner as they shall provide by ordinance, a poll tax, for each year, of any sum, in their discretion, not exceeding two dollars upon every male inhabitant of said town over the age of twenty-one years; and the collector of said poll tax, appointed by said council, shall have the same power to distrain and sell the property of all persons refusing or neg lecting to pay such tax as is given to township collectors under the revenue laws of this state." 3. So much of the act to which this is an amendment as conflicts herewith is hereby repealed. 4. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1861. In force February AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Pinckneyville, in Perry county, and 21, 1861. state of Illinois. 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 Pinckneyville, and additions, in the county of Perry, and state of Illinois, are hereby declared and made a body corporate and politic, in law and in fact, by the name of "The President and Trustees of the Town of Pinckneyville," with all the rights, privileges and powers conferred upon the town of Havana, in the county of Mason, and state of Illinois, approved February the 12th, 1853; and all the provisions of the act aforesaid are hereby declared applicable to the said town of Pinckneyville: Provided, that the trustees of the said town of Pinckneyville shall not levy more than one-half of one per cent. tax, per annum, upon the real estate within the limits of said incorporation. § 2. That Evan B. Bushing, Albert A. Clymer, James Trustees. S. Craig, Rodolph Hinckey and James F. Mason, are hereby appointed trustees of said town, under this act, and shall hold their office until the first Monday in the month of April, 1861, and until their successors are elected and qualified; which election shall be holden on the first Monday in the month of April in each year thereafter. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 21, 1861. AN ACT to extend the limits of Shelbyville, and to authorize said town to use the county jail. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the present corporate limits of the town of Shelbyville, Shelby county, be and the same are hereby extended, so as to include within the same Crane and Stevenson's addition to said town; and that, hereafter, said addition, for all purposes, shall be a part of said town. In force February 20, 1861. Limits extended. 2. That the corporation of the town of Shelbyville Use of county jail. shall have the right to use the debtor's room in the jail of said Shelby county, for the purpose of imprisoning offenders against the ordinances of said town, by paying the board of said offenders while in said jail. The jailor or sheriff of said county shall receive into said jail all persons, upon a proper mittimus from the police or corporation magistrate of said town. 3. This act to be a public act, and to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 20, 1861. AN ACT to vacate certain streets and alleys in the Town of Shelbyville, Shelby county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of Will street as lies between block thirty-seven and block thirty-eight; also so much of Commercial street as lies south of block thirty-seven and block thirty-eight, and also the alleys in block thirty seven and block thirty-eight; all of which is in Crane and Stevenson's addition to the town of Shelbyville; also the alley in block eight, in Thomas Lewis' addition to the town of Shelbyville; all of which be and are hereby vacated. In force February 21, 1861. In force February 20, 1861. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage. APPROVED February 21, 1861. AN ACT to vacate a certain alley in the Town of West Salem. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That a certain alley in the town of West Salem, in the county of Edwards, and state of Illinois, described as follows, to wit: Running east and west, and south of lots number three, (3,) four, (4,) seventeen (17) and eighteen, (18,) and north of lots number seventy-four (74) and seventy-five, (75,) in said town of West Salem, be and the same is hereby vacated. § 2. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 20, 1861. In force February AN ACT to vacate the town plat of the Town of Sumner, in McHenry county. 21, 1861. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the town plat of the town of Sumner, in the county of McHenry, as the same is recorded in the recorder's office of said county, be and the same is hereby vacated and made void. § 2. This act shall be in force from and after its APPROVED February 21, 1861. passage. In force February AN ACT to incorporate the town of Sheffield, in Bureau county and state 22, 1861. of Illinois. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the inhabitants and residents of the town of Sheffield, Bureau county, are hereby made a body corporate and politic, in law and in fact, by the name and style of "The President and Board of Trustees of the town of Sheffield;" and by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, which they may alter at pleasure, and in whom the government of the corporation shall be vested and by whom its affairs shall be managed. § 2. The boundary of said corporation shall be as fol- Boundaries. lows: All of section nineteen, (19,) in township sixteen, (16,) north, range seven (7) east of the fourth principal meridian. § 3. Whenever any tract of land adjoining the town of Sheffield shall be laid off into town lots and duly recorded, as required by law, the same shall be annexed to and form a part of said corporation. 4. The inhabitants of said town, by the name and Corporate powe style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatever; to purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, in said town; to purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, beyond the corporation limits, for burial grounds and for other public purposes, for the use of the inhabitants of said town; to sell, lease, or dispose of property, real and personal, for the benefit of said town, and to improve and protect such property, and to do all other things in relation thereto as natural persons. 5. The corporate powers and duties of said town shall Trustees. be vested in five (5) trustees, who shall form a board for the transaction of business; and the persons who may be in office as trustees in said town, under the general incorporation act of this state, shall, after the passage of this act, be .deemed to hold their offices, by virtue of this act, until the first Monday of May, 1861, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and to discharge their duties in conformity to the provisions of this act. § 6. That there shall be, on the first Monday of May Election. next, be elected five (5) trustees, and on every first Monday of May thereafter, who shall hold their office for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified; and public notice of the time and place of holding said election shall be given by the president and trustees of said town, by advertisement published in a newspaper in said town, or posting it up in at least three (3) of the most public places in said town. No person shall be a trustee of said town who has not arrived at the age of twenty-one (21) years, and who has not resided in said town one year next preceding his election, and who is not at the time thereof a bona fide freeholder in said town, and, moreover, who has not paid a state and county tax. And all white free male inhabitants, over twenty-one years of age, who have resided in said town six months next preceding an election, shall be entitled to vote for trustees. And the said trustees shall, at their first officers. meeting proceed to elect one of their own body president, and shall have power to fill all vacancies in said board which may be occasioned by death or resignation: Provided, the vacancies shall not exceed three months. All vacancies which shall occur for a longer time the board shall give ten days' notice, by posting up at least three advertisements in Justice of the peace. Rules and regulations. Tax said town, for the election of a trustee to fill said vacancy, to be filled in the same manner as is provided for in regular elections. And said trustees shall have power to appoint a clerk, treasurer, assessor, a street commissioner, and a town constable; which said officers so appointed shall give bond and security in such amount and with such condition as the trustees may require. And the said constable shall take an oath of office before some justice of the peace, that he will faithfully discharge the duties of said office; and it shall be his duty to collect all fines, and serve all process of the suits of the corporation; and shall execute all writs, process and precepts which may be issued against any person of the violation of any of the laws or ordinances of the town; and shall have and possess the same powers, and perform the same duties, in other respects, within the limits of the corporation as constables in the several districts of the county possess and perform. Said constable to hold his office for one year, and until his successor is elected and qualified. § 7. It shall be the duty of the trustees, after their organization, to give notice for and cause an election to be held for a justice of the peace, who shall be elected by the qualified voters within the incorporate limits of the said town of Sheffield. The said justice of the peace shall take the same oath, execute the same bond, be clothed with the same power, authority and jurisdiction, and be subject to the same liabilities as other justices of the peace within the state. He shall hold his office for two years, until his successor shall be elected and qualified. § 8. The trustees aforesaid and their successors, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to ordain and establish such rules and regulations for their government and direction, and for the transaction of the business and concerns of the corporation, as they may deem expedient; and to ordain, establish and put in execution such bylaws, ordinances and regulations as shall deem necessary for the government of said town, and for the management, control, disposition and application of the corporate property, and generally to do and execute all and singular such acts, matters and things which to them may seem necessary to do; and which are not contrary to the laws and constitution of this state. § 9. The said trustees shall have power to levy and collect a tax, not exceeding one-half per cent. on all lots and improvements and personal property lying and being within the incorporate limits of said town, according to valuation; to tax public shows, and houses of entertainment, taverns, beer houses and stores, for the purpose of making and improving the streets and keeping them in repair, and for the purpose of erecting such buildings and other works of public utility as the interests and convenience of the inhabitants of said town may require, and may adopt such modes and |