proven.

§ 37. All ordinances of the city may be proven by the Ordinances, how seal of the corporation; and when printed and published in pamphlet or book form, and purporting to be printed and published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without further proof.

ARTICLE VI.-Of the Mayor.

§ 1. The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the city Mayor to preside. council, and shall have a casting vote and no other. In case of non-attendance of the mayor at any meeting, the board of aldermen shall appoint one of their number chairman, who shall preside at said meeting.

§ 2. The mayor or any two aldermen may call special Special meetings. meetings of the city council.

§ 3. The mayor shall at all times be active and vigilant Duty of mayor. in enforcing the laws and ordinances for the government of the city. He shall inspect the conduct of all subordinate officers of said city, and cause negligence and positive violation of duty to be prosecuted and punished. He shall from time to time communicate to the aldermen such information and recommend all such measures as in his opinion may tend to the improvement of the finances, the police, the health, security, comfort and ornament of the city.

§ 4. He is hereby authorized to call on every male in- Posse. habitant of said city, over the age of eighteen years, to aid in enforcing the laws and ordinances, and in case of a riot to call out the militia to aid him in suppressing the same or in carrying into effect any law or ordinance, and any person who shall not obey such call shall forfeit to said city a fine not exceeding five dollars.

&c.

§ 5. He shall have power, whenever he may deem it Fxhibit of books, necessary, to require of any of the officers of said city an exhibit of his books and papers.

dinances.

§ 6. He shall have power to execute all acts that may Execution of orbe required of him by any ordinance made in pursuance of this act.

mayor.

§ 7. He shall be commissioned by the governor as a Commission of justice of the peace for said city, and county of Will, and as such shall be a conservator of the peace for the said city, and county of Will, and shall have power and authority to administer oaths, issue writs and process under his seal, to take depositions, the acknowledgment of deeds, mortgages and all other instruments of writing, and certify the same under the seal of the city, which shall be good and valid in law.

§ 8. He shall have and exercise jurisdiction in all cases Juridictior. arising under the ordinances of the corporation, and concurrent jurisdiction with all other justices of the peace in all

Jurisdiction beyond city.

or.

and

civil and criminal cases within the limits of the city, and county of Will, arising under the laws of the state of Illinois, and shall receive the same fees and compensation for his services in similar cases.

§ 9. He shall also have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him by ordinances of the city, in and over all places within five miles of the boundaries of the city, for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinances and regulations thereof.

Indictm nt § 10. In case the mayor shall at any time be guilty of a removal of may- palpable omission of duty, or shall wilfully and corruptly be guilty of oppression, malconduct or partiality in the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall be liable to be indicted in the circuit court of Will county, and on conviction shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, and the court shall have power, on the recommendation of the jury, to add to the judgment of the court that he be removed from office.

Private property

ARTICLE VII.

§ 1. When it shall become necessary to take private for public use. property for opening, widening or altering any public street, lane, avenue or alley, the corporation shall make a just compensation to the person whose property is so taken; and if the amount of compensation cannot be agreed on, the mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained by a jury of six disinterested freeholders of the city.

§ 2. When the owners of all the property on a street, lane, avenue or alley proposed to be opened, widened or altered shall petition therefor, the city council may open, widen or alter such street, lane, avenue or alley upon condition to be described by ordinance; but no compensation shall in such case be made to those whose property shall be taken for the opening, widening or altering such street, lane, avenue or alley, nor shall there be any assessment of benefits or damages that may accrue thereby to any of the petitioners.

§ 3. All jurors empannelled to inquire into the amount of benefits or damages which shall happen to the owners of property proposed to be taken for opening, widening or altering any street, lane, avenue or alley, the jury shall first be sworn to that effect, and shall return to the mayor their inquest in writing, and signed by each juror.

§ 4. In ascertaining the amount of compensation for property taken for opening or widening or altering any street, lane or alley, the jury shall take into consideration the benefit as well as the injury happening by such opening, widening or altering such street, lane, avenue or alley.

to set aside as

§ 5. The mayor shall have power, for good causes Power of mayor shown, within ten days after any inquest shall have been re- sessment. turned to him as aforesaid, to set the same aside and cause a new inquest to be made.

§ 6. The city council shall have power, by ordinance, Special taxes. to levy and collect a special tax on the holders of the lots in any street, lane, alley or avenue, or part of any lane, avenue or alley, according to their respective fronts 'owned by them, for the purpose of paving and grading the side walks, and lighting said street, lane, avenue or alley.

ARTICLE VIII.-Miscellaneous Provisions.

§ 1. The inhabitants of the city of Joliet are hereby ex- Exemption from empted from working on any road beyond the limits of the road labor. city, and from paying any tax to procure laborers to work

upon the same.

§ 2. The city council shall have the power, for the pur- Road labor withpose of keeping the streets, lanes, avenues and alleys in re- in city limits. pair, to require every male inhabitant in said city, over twenty-one years of age, to labor on said streets, lanes, avenues and alleys, not exceeding three days in each and every year; and any person failing to perform such labor, when duly notified by the supervisor, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar per day for each day so neglected or refused.

offenders.

§ 3. The city council shall have power to provide for Punishment the punishment of offenders by imprisonment in the county or city jail, in all cases where such offenders shall fail or refuse to pay the fines or forfeitures which may be recovered against them.

of

Publication of re

ceipts and ex

§ 4. The city council shall cause to be published annually a full and complete statement of all moneys received penditures. and expended by the corporation during the preceding year, and on what account received and expended.

cuted.

§ 5. All suits, actions and prosecutions instituted, com- Sults, how prosemenced or brought by the corporation hereby created, shall be commenced and prosecuted in the name of the city of Joliet.

§ 6. Appeals shall be allowed from decisions in all ca- Appeals. ses arising under the provisions of this act, or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof, to the circuit court of Will county; and every such appeal shall be taken and granted in the same manner and with like effect as appeals are taken from and granted by justices of the peace to the circuit court under the laws of this state.

§ 7. This act is declared to be a public act, and may be Public act. read in evidence in all courts of law and equity within this state, without proof.

First mayor.

mayor.

§ 8. The mayor elected at the first election shall hold his office until the first Saturday of April, in the year 1854, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

Process issued by § 9. The city marshal, or any other officer authorized to execute writs or other process issued by the mayor or any other justice of the peace in the county of Will, shall have power to execute the same anywhere within the limits of the 'county of Will, and shall be entitled to the same fees for traveling as are allowed to constables in similar

Fees of mayor.

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cases.

§ 10. The mayor shall receive the same fees in all cases that are allowed to magistrates in similar cases.

§ 11. On the first Monday of July an election shall be tance of this act. held at the court house in the town of Joliet, as in case of special elections, and ballots shall be received from all the inhabitants, legal voters within the limits herein described, which ballots shall be "for incorporation" or "against incorporation ;" and if a majority of the said electors voting at said election shall vote "for incorporation," then the provisions of this bill shall be in force, but if a majority shall vote "against incorporation" then the provisions herein shall be null and void.

§ 12. This act to take effect on its passage.
APPROVED June 22, 1852.

In force June 22, AN ACT to amend the charter of the Aurora Branch Railroad company.

1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Extension of road company incorporated by an act entitled "an act granting a charter to the Aurora Branch Railroad company," approved February 12, 1849, be and it is hereby authorized to extend its road from Aurora, in Kane county, crossing Fox river at a point not farther south than the present mill-dam across Fox river, in the village of Aurora, in said county, in the most direct practicable line; thence in a southwesterly direction, on the most direct practicable route, to a point of at least fifteen miles north of La Salle, and where such extension may intersect any railroad built or to be built northward from the town of La Salle, in La Salle county, and there to form a connection with any such railroad.

Route.

Intersection.

Right of way.

§ 2. The said company is hereby authorized to use and exercise all the powers for obtaining the right of way for the use of said company in the construction of said road that are given and expressed by the act to provide for a general system of railroad incorporations, approved November 5th,

1849; and the name of said company is hereby changed to Change of name. that of "Chicago and Aurora Railroad company." Said company is also authorized and empowered to increase its Increase of stock. capital stock to a sum not exceeding two millions of dollars.

§ 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED June 22, 1852.

1852.

AN ACT authorizing a vote to be taken by the voters of Grundy county, to In force June 22, raise a tax to construct a bridge across the Illinois river at Morris, in said county.

thorized.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall Special tax aube lawful for the legal voters of the county of Grundy, at the next or any general election thereafter of county or state officers, to vote for or against a tax for the purpose of building a bridge across the Illinois river at Morris. Notice of said vote shall be given at the same time and in Notice. the same manner as is required by law in case of such mentioned elections in this state.

Vote.

§ 2. Said vote shall be taken by ballot, upon which Manner of vote. shall be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, "For a bridge," or "Against a bridge." Returns Returns. of said vote shall be made to the county clerk, in the same manner as in case of elections of county officers. If it shall be found that a majority of the voters of said county voting upon the question have voted in favor of the bridge to be built by tax as aforesaid, then there shall be assessed Assessment. upon all the taxable property, both real and personal, in said county, an annual tax of one half of one per cent., which tax shall be collected in the same manner as other collection. taxes are collected, except that it shall be paid in money only; the money so collected shall be paid to the county treasurer, and shall be held by him subject to the order of the board of supervisors for the purposes of said bridge, but shall not on any pretence be appropriated to any other purpose whatever.

Rate.

tax.

§ 3. The tax hereby levied shall continue to be col- Continuance of lected annually, until the sum of fifteen thousand dollars shall have been raised, (provided that amount shall be re- Proviso. quired,) or until the entire cost of said bridge shall have been fully paid, should said amount not be required; after which said tax shall cease and shall no longer be levied or collected.

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of Result of elecsaid county, at their next meeting after the vote provided tion.