privilege of slaughtering therein, on the conditions hereinafter set forth; and any butcher who kills as many as four cattle per day, shall have a bed allotted to him, and shall not, without his consent, be changed from such bed to any other, but shall have the privilege of its use at any time he shall demand it.

3. PREMISES TO BE KEPT CLEAN, ETC.] SEC. 3. The said John Reid & Co. shall keep said buildings and yards and premises in good condition, and daily take and dispose of all the filth, manure and garbage, as is now or may hereafter be required by the ordinances or laws now in force, or that may hereafter be enacted or passed concerning nuisances.

4. OTHER SLAUGHTER-HOUSES NOT ALLOWED IN CITY LIMITS.], SEC. 4. After the first day of April, A. D. 1866, no other slaughtering establishment or establishments shall be suffered or permitted within the limits of the city of Chicago, nor shall any slaughtering by butchers or others be suffered or permitted, except as provided in section one of this ordinance, under a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every offense: Provided, that the city shall have the right to establish at any time hereafter, two additional slaughter-houses, one to be located in the west division, and one in the north division.

5. COMPENSATION FOR SLAUGHTERING.] SEC. 5. The said John Reid & Co. are hereby authorized to charge for the use of their buildings, yards, water, gas or other lights, and all the arrangements, machinery and appointments of said slaughter-house, for each head of cattle, hogs, calves and sheep, the usual offal, and no other pay or compensation, and the parties slaughtering therein shall pay the United States revenue tax chargeable upon such slaughtering.

6. ESTABLISHMENT OPEN TO INSPECTION.] SEC. 6. The said John Reid & Co. shall at all times keep and employ at their own expense at said slaughtering establishment, one or more special policemen; and said slaughtering establishment, and every department thereof, shall at all times be open to the inspection of the city health officer or any of his deputies.

7. LIABILITY OF THE CITY LIMITED.] SEC. 7. The city of Chicago shall only be answerable to said John Reid & Co. to the extent of the exercise of reasonable diligence in enforcing that portion of sections one and four of this ordinance, which gives and grants unto said John Reid & Co. the exclusive right to have all slaughtering within the limits of the city of Chicago done at the said slaughtering-house of said John Reid & Co., subject to the condidions and exceptions expressed in said sections one and four of this ordinance. And in case this ordinance or any part thereof shall be declared inoperative or void by the supreme court of the state of Illinois, then and in that event the city of Chicago shall not in any case be held answerable to said John Reid & Co. for any damages they may sustain by the failure or neglect of the city of Chicago to enforce this ordinance or such parts as may be declared inoperative or void by said supreme court.

8. PENAL BOND TO THE CITY.] SEC. 8. That said John Reid & Co. shall, within ten days after the passage of this ordinance, execute to the city of Chicago a bond, with two or more securities, to be approved by the mayor,

in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned that they will well and truly perform and abide by all the provisions of this ordinance and by the provisions of any other ordinances or laws that hereafter may be passed or enacted concerning nuisances.

9. FORFEITURE WHEN.] SEC. 9. If at any time during the continuance in force of this ordinance, said John Reid & Co. shall suffer or permit the slaughter-house hereby authorized to be established, to become a nuisance, and it shall be so adjudged by any court of record, or declared by the common council, then and in that event, the common council shall have the right to repeal this ordinance, and annul the rights and privileges hereby granted.

An ordinance to amend sections two and four of an ordinance entitled "An ordinance concerning slaughtering within the limits of the city of Chicago," etc.

[Passed March 19, 1866.]

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 10. EXTENSION OF TIME TO COMPLETE BUILDING.] SECTION 1. That section two of an ordinance, entitled, "An ordinance concerning slaughtering within the limits of the city of Chicago," passed December, 18, 1865, be, and the same is hereby, so amended, that the time for the completion of the yards and buildings therein mentioned, to be constructed and finished by John Reid & Co., be extended until the first day of May, 1866.

11. TIME EXTENDED FOR OTHER SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.] SEC. 2. That section four of said ordinance be also amended, so that the time therein limited, shall be extended to the first day of May, 1866.

12. AMENDMENTS NOT TO AFFECT OBLIGATION OF REID & Co.] SEC. 3. That these amendments shall not be held or construed to alter, change, modify or qualify any of the other provisions of the said ordinance so amended, nor in any way to alter, change, or release the said John Reid & Co. from any other liability imposed or created by virtue of the ordinance thus amended.

13. CONDITION Precedent of EFFECT IN ORDINANCE.] SEC. 4. That this ordinance shall not take effect or be of any validity until the said John Reid & Co., and their sureties, shall execute a writing to the city of Chicago, expressly giving their consent to and acceptance of this amended ordinance, and file the same in the office of the city clerk of said city.

14. WHEN IN FORCE.] SEC. 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the execution and filing of the writing aforesaid in said city clerk's office and not otherwise.

An ordinance to confirm an ordinance entitled, "An ordinance concerning slaughtering within the limits of the city of Chicago," passed December 18, 1865.

[Passed July 29, 1867.]

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago:

15. CONFIRMS PRIOR ORDINANCES.] SECTION 1. That an ordinance entitled "An ordinance concerning slaughtering within the limits of the city

of Chicago," passed December 18, 1865, and all ordinances to amend the same, or any part thereof, and all ordinances to amend any ordinance amendatory of the said first mentioned ordinance, are hereby declared to be of full force and effect.

16. CONFIRMS THE RESULTING CONTRACTS.] SEC. 2. All contracts heretofore entered into between the city of Chicago and John Reid & Co., by the passage of the said ordinances, or any of them, and the acceptance of the same, or any of them, by the said John Reid & Co., or under or by virtue of the said ordinances, or any of them, and also all obligations heretofore executed by the said John Reid & Co. to the city of Chicago, by vir tue of, or in accordance with the provisions of said ordinances, or any of them, are hereby confirmed.

CHAPTER 23.

TAX LISTS.

SECTION 1. Collector to enter names on tax warrants, when.

An ordinance to correct the names of owners of real estate in the city of Chicago upon the tax lists.

[Passed November 11, 1867.]

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago:

1. CITY COLLECTOR MAY CORRECT ERRORS IN WARRANT.] SECTION 1. That hereafter when any tax is paid upon any lot, part of lot, sub-lot, or parcel of land in the city of Chicago, the collector shall enter the owner's name in its proper place upon the tax warrant, if not correctly there at the time of such payment.

An ordinance authorizing the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company to erect telegraph poles in the city of Chicago.

[Passed May 18, 1868.]

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago:

1. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC COMPANY MAY ERECT POLES.] SECTION 1. That the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Company is hereby authorized to erect telegraph poles in the streets of the city of Chicago, as hereinafter specified, and to contruct and maintain a line or lines of telegraph in connection with the same, viz.: On the north side of Egan avenue, from State street to Wentworth avenue; on the west side of Wentworth avenue, from Egan avenue to Seventeenth street; on the north side of Seventeenth street, from Wentworth avenue to State street; on the west side of State street, from Seventeenth street to Washington street; on the south side of Washington street, from State street to La Salle street. The telegraph poles erected along the streets specified in this section, and which will be north of Thirtyfirst street shall be planed and painted.

2. OTHER STREETS NAMED.] SEC. 2. Authority is also hereby given to said company to erect telegraph poles and to maintain a line or lines of telegraph thereon, on the north side of Egan avenue, from Wentworth avenue to Western avenue, and on the east side of Western avenue, from Egan avenue to West Fullerton avenue.

3. POSITION OF POLES.] SEC. 3. The poles hereby authorized to be erected shall be placed at the edge or curb of the sidewalk, and the whole manner of constructing said telegraph lines, as to the length of the poles, their position, and otherwise, shall be as the board of public works shall direct.

SEC. 4. All the proceedings shall be subject to any ord

4. PRIVILEGE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES.] SEC. 4. of said telegraph company, under this ordinance,

inance relative to the same which may hereafter be passed by the common council of the city of Chicago.

5. DURATION OF FRANCHISE.] SEC. 5. The grants and privileges herein conferred shall expire and determine twenty years from the date of the passage hereof.

An ordinance authorizing the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company of the United States to erect telegraph poles, etc.

[Passed September 6, 1869.]

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago:

6. PACIFIC AND ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY MAY ERECT POLES.] SECTION 1. That the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Company of the United States, is hereby authorized to erect telegraph poles on the streets of the city of Chicago, as hereinafter specified, and to construct and maintain a line or lines of telegraph in connection with the same, viz.: On Halsted street, from Egan avenue to Twenty-sixth street. On Twenth-sixth street, from Halsted street to Wentworth avenue. On Wentworth avenue, from Twentysixth street to Twenty-second street. On Twenty-second street, from Wentworth avenue to Burnside street. On Burnside street, from Twenty-second street to Fourteenth street. On Fourteenth street, from Burnside street to Fourth avenue. On Fourth avenue, from Fourteenth street to Polk street. On Polk street, from Fourth avenue to Griswold street. On Griswold street, from Polk street to Jackson street. On Jackson street, from Griswold street to La Salle street. On the east side of La Salle street, from Jackson street to Washington street, and thence to such places on La Salle, Washington or Clark streets as said company shall select for their general offices, the precise route to be determined by the board of public works. The telegraph poles erected along the streets specified in this section, and which will be north of Thirty-first street, shall be planed and painted. 7. POSITION OF POLES DESIGNATED.] The poles hereby authorized to be erected shall be placed at the edge or curb of the sidewalk, and the whole manner of placing the same, and the manner of constructing said telegraph lines, as to the height, size and kind of poles, their position on the streets named herein and otherwise, shall be as the board of public works shall direct.

SEC. 2.

8. FRANCHISE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES.] SEC. 3. All the proceedings of said telegraph company under this ordinance shall be subject to any ordinance relative to the said telegraph line, which may hereafter be passed by the common council of the city of Chicago.

An ordinance to provide for the construction of a fire alarm, police and water telegraph in and for the city of Chicago.

[Passed April 25, 1864.]

Be it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago: 9. CONSTRUCTION OF POLICE TELEGRAPH AUTHORIZED.] SECTION 1. That the board of public works be, and they are hereby, authorized and empowered to contract, in the name and in behalf of the city of Chicago, for