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gal toll as fixed by the directors, without the permission of the toll collector, he or she shall forfeit and pay to said company the sum of twenty-five dollars for each offence. § 16. All penalties and forfeitures incurred under this Penalties, how act may be recovered by action of debt in any court having cognizance thereof, and when the penalty or forfeiture does not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, the same may be prosecuted and recovered before any justice of the peace of the county where the offender or offenders may be found. All suits by and against said company shall be brought and prosecuted to judgment in and by their said corporate name.

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§ 17. The shares in this company may be transferred Shares transferaby assignment, and any subscriber to the capital stock of said company shall not be responsible beyond the actual amount of stock so by him subscribed.

§ 18. This act of incorporation is hereby declared a public act.

APPROVED June 22, 1852.

AN ACT to authorize the construction and use of the railroad of the Union In force June 22, Railroad company.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Authority Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the make road. Union Railroad company be and is hereby authorized to maintain and use or construct and build a railroad, at and from the point on the Indiana line, in Cook county, where the New Albany and Salem Railroad terminates; thence in a westerly and north-westerly direction, until it intersects a railroad now built southerly from Chicago, and with which it is now connecting at the point now known as the junction; and the road above mentioned is hereby declared to be of sufficient public utility to justify the taking of pri- Private property. vate property for the construction of and maintaining the Acts legalized. same, and the acts done by said company are hereby legalized, and the said Union Railroad company is authorized to make such contracts and agreements for the transportation of passengers and freight, and for the construction, maintenance or use of its said railroad with any road of which it may be an extension, as to the board of directors may seem proper.

§ 2. The said company shall have power, and is hereby Power to extend. authorized, to extend its said road to the city of Chicago

whenever it shall be deemed expedient so to extend it, and

Power to acquire property.

for that purpose enjoy and use all the powers conferred by the preceding section.

§ 3. The said company shall be, and is hereby authorized and empowered, to acquire within or in the vicinity of the city of Chicago, and to hold, use and occupy such lands as it may acquire by purchase, for the purpose of constructing such depots, machine shops, and other proper fixtures and buildings as may be requisite or necessary for the accommodation and transaction of the business which may pass over the road of the said company, and for this purpose, and for the purpose of extending the said road to said. Increase of stock. City of Chicago, the stock of said company may be increased to such an extent as may be necessary to cover the costs thereof.

APPROVED June 22, 1852.

In force June 22, 1852.

Lateral branch.

Evidence of organization

company.

Defects cured.

Proviso.

AN ACT to amend the charter of the Illinois Central Railroad company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Illinois Central Railroad company be and is hereby empowered and authorized to locate, construct and operate a lateral branch or track from its eastern branch, as now located at cr near Twelfth street in the city of Chicago, to the south branch of the Chicago river, on such terms and conditions and in such manner as may be stipulated between the common council of said city of Chicago and the said company.

§ 2. That it shall be lawful for said company, in any of case or suit at law or equity, or upon any issue between the said company and any individuals or parties, to read the certificate made and signed by the corporators of said company, under the fifteenth section of the act incorporating the same, as evidence of the facts therein stated, and the said certificate shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been duly acknowledged and executed in strict accordance with the provisions of said section, and the rights of said company shall not be prejudiced or affected by reason of any defect or informality in said certificate; and the said company shall commence the work upon the main trunk of said road between Cairo and the junction of the Chicago branch therewith, and shall prosecute the same with the like good faith, as upon other parts of the line of said road: Provided, nothing herein contained shall authorize the company to construct the said

road in any manner contrary to the provisions of the original charter of the company.

This act to take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED June 22, 1852.

AN ACT to reduce the "act to incorporate the town of Hennepin," in force In force June 22, March 2, 1839, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to amend the same.

1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Town limits. Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the district of country in the county of Putnam, and state of Illinois, known and described as follows, to wit, the south half of fractional section No. nine (9,) and the west half of the southwest quarter of section ten, in township thirty-two north, and range two west, is hereby erected into an incorporated town, by the name of Hennepin. The inhabitants of said town shall be a corporation, by the name of "The president and trustees of the town to Hennepin," and by style. that name sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court, make and use a common seal, and alter it at pleasure, and take, hold and purchase, lease and convey such real and personal or mixed estates as the purposes of the corporation may require within or without the limits afore

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General powers.

§ 2. The municipal government of said corporation Officers. shall consist of a president and six trustees, to be elected as hereinafter directed. The other officers of the corporation shall be as follows: a clerk, a treasurer, a constable, an assessor, a street commissioner, a sexton, a board of health, and such other officers and agents as the council may from time to time direct and appoint.

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§ 3. The president and trustees of the town shall be Election of offelected annually, on the first Saturday in May, by the qualified voters of the corporation, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

§ 4. All the balance of the officers (except the presi- Appointments. dent and trustees) shall be appointed by the president and trustees, at their first meeting after the annual election in May, and shall hold their offices for the space of one year, and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

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5. The board of trustees shall judge of qualifications, Qualifications. elections and returns of their own members, and shall determine all contested elections.

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Vacancies.

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Bond.

Qualifications.

Taxes.

Appropriation.

Disease.

Quarantine.

Hospitals.

Health. Nuisances. Streets.

§ 6. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendence of absent members, under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance.

§ 7. All vacancies which may occur in any of the offices of the corporation may be filled in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.

8. The officers of the corporation shall, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, take an oath, well and truly to discharge the duties of their respective office. The treasurer, constable, street commissioner, and such other officers as the council shall by ordinance direct, shall execute a bond, with security to the president and trustees, in such sum or sums as the council may direct, for the faithful discharge of their duties.

§ 9. No qualification shall hereafter be required of any officer, except that he be a qualified elector of the state of Illinois, and the trustees shall have resided within the corporation at least one year previous to his election.

§ 10. The council shall have power and authority, by an ordinance, to levy and collect taxes upon all property, real and personal, within the limits of the corporation, not exceeding an half of one per centum per annum upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment of the same in any manner to be prescribed by ordinance, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States or of this state; to appropriate money and provide for the payment of the debts and expenses of the corporation; to make regulations; to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into the town; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same within three miles of the town; to establish hospitals, and make regulations for the government of the same; to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants; to declare what shall be nuisances, and to prevent and remove the same; to open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave, or otherwise improve and keep in repair, streets, avenues, lanes and alleys; to provide for lighting the streets and erecting lamp posts; to erect market houses; to establish markets and market places, and provide for the government and regulation thereof; to provide for the erection of all needful Town buildings. buildings for the use of the town; to provide for enclosing, Public grounds. improving, and regulating all public grounds belonging to the town; to erect, repair and regulate public wharves and docks; to regulate the erection and repair of private wharves, and the rates of wharfage thereat; to license, tax, and regulate auctioneers, merchants, retailers, grocers, taverns, ordinances, hawkers, pedlers, brokers, theatricals and other exhibitions, shows and amusements; to tax, reTippling houses. strain, prohibit and suppress tippling houses, dram shops,

Lights.
Markets.

Wharves.
Licenses.

gaming houses, and other disorderly houses; to provide for the extinguishment and prevention of fires, and to organ- Fires. ize and establish fire companies; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, and other combustible mate- Powder, &c. rials; to provide for the regulation of the inspection of lumber, groceries and provisions; to regulate the election and Lumber, &c. appointment of corporation officers, and provide for remov- Officers. ing from office any person holding an office under the corporation, and for filling said vacancies; to erect and keep in repair school houses, and to regulate and maintain com- Schools. mon schools within the corporation, and for this purpose, until otherwise provided by an ordinance, the said town is hereby erected into a school district, and as such shall be entitled to their share of the public money as provided by law, and the board of trustees are hereby declared to be the directors or trustees of said school district, for school purposes; additions may be made to the limits of the cor- Additions. poration; to fix the compensation of the corporation officers, and to regulate the fees of jurors, witnesses and others, for services rendered under this act, or any ordinance; to Police. regulate the police of the town; to impose fines and forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and to provide for the recovery and appropriation of such fines and forfeitures, and the enforcement of such penalties. The council shall have power to make all ordinances which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers specified in this act. The council, whenever in their judgment the public good may require, may order any side walk in said corporation, or parts thereof, to be graded Side walks. and planked or flagged with stone or brick; two-thirds of the expense thereof shall be assessed upon the lots fronting said side walk, in such manner as the council may direct. Said tax to be collected as any other tax, and until the council shall otherwise direct by ordinance, there shall be assessed and collected annually upon the taxable property in said town, in addition to the taxes named heretofore, one-fourth of one per cent. upon the assessed value thereof, to be called "the side walk tax," which shall be Side walk tax. expended and applied to the grading and paving the side walks of said town.

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§ 11. The style of the ordinances of the corporation Style of ordinan shall be, "Be it ordained by the president and trustees of the town of Hennepin."

§ 12. All ordinances passed by the council shall, within Publication. one month after they may have been passed, be published in some newspaper published in said town, or posted up in three public places in said town, for the space of three weeks, and shall not be in force until they shall have been so published or posted.

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