tions are applicable to ferries. This act is declared to be a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED June 23, 1852. AN ACT changing the times of holding courts in the sixth judicial district. In force June 23, 1852. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the circuit courts of the several counties composing the sixth Time of courts. judicial circuit, shall be holden at the county seats of the respective counties at the times following, to wit: In the county of Ogle, on the third Monday in March and the first ogle. Monday in September; in the county of Lee, on the first Lee. Monday in April and the third Monday in September; in the county of Whiteside, on the second Monday in April whiteside. and the fourth Monday in September; in the county of Car- Carroll. roll, on the fourth Monday in April and the second Monday in October; in the county of Henry, on the first Monday in Henry. May and the fourth Monday in October; in the county of Rock Island, on the second Monday in May and the first Rock Island. Monday in November, in each and every year. &c. § 2. That all writs, process, and other proceedings Return of writs. made or to be made returnable in the circuit courts of the said several counties, on the several days now fixed by law for the commencement of the terms of said court, shall be regarded and held as returnable to the terms of the said court as herein established, and no such writ, process, or other proceeding shall be quashed set aside or continued because of the omission of the return day thereof, as fixed by this act. § 3. This act shall, upon its passage, be published in Publication of the paper of the public printer, and a copy thereof shall act. immediately thereafter be transmitted by the secretary of state to each of the clerks of said circuit courts. flicting acts. § 4. All acts and part of acts conflicting with the pro- Repeal of visions of this act are hereby repealed. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED June 23, 1852. con In force June 23, AN ACT to authorize the drainage of lands in the townships therein mentioned, and to construct roads therein. 1852. Corporators. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Henry Smith, George W. Snow, James H. Rees, George Steel, Hart L. Stuart, Isaac Cook, and Charles V. Dyer, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby created Name and style. a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of " The Cook County Drainage Commissioners," and by such name General powers. shall have succession, contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, without a common seal, in all courts of law and equity in this state, and be fully invested with all the powers which may be needful to carry intɔ effect all the purposes and objects of this act. Objects of corporation. § 2. The said corporation is hereby authorized and empowered to survey, locate, construct, complete and alter ditches, embankments, culverts, bridges and roads, and to maintain and keep in repair any such ditches, culverts and bridges and embankments over, through and across any lands lying in townships number 37, 38, 39, and 40, in ranges 12, 13, and 14, east of the third principal meridian, in Cook county, and over, under and across any public road, railroad or plank road, which now is or may be hereafter laid out or constructed in said townships, and for such purRight of way, pose shall have right of way upon, and may appropriate to the uses and purposes contemplated herein, all the lands, stone, timber, and materials of every kind for the location, construction and alteration of the said ditches, embankments, culverts, bridges and roads, and for the maintenance and repair of any such ditches, culverts and embankFiling of plats. ments; and upon filing a plat of any such road laid out by said commissioners, in the office of the clerk of the Cook county court, certified by any three of said commissioners appointed at any regular meeting to lay out such road, the same shall become a public road and subject to the laws in force in relation to public roads. &c. Mode of obtaining right of way. § 3. When any such land, stone, timber, or other material cannot be procured by cession, voluntary grant, or release of the owner or owners thereof, the same may be taken and paid for, if any damages are awarded, in manner following, to wit: When any land, stone, timber or other material shall be deemed by said commissioners to be necessary for the construction, maintenance or alteration of any such ditch, embankment, bridge, culvert or road, the said commissioners, or any three of them appointed at any regular meeting of said commissioners, to lay out any such ditch, embankment or road, shall make an appraisal of damage sustained by any and all owners of any such land, stone, timber or other material so appropriated; and such ing drainages. praisement. appraisal shall include all damage so sustained, less the ben- Rule of appraisefit which such owner or owners will derive from the construction of any such ditch, embankment, culvert, bridge or road. Said appraisal shall describe the lands, stone, Description, &c. timber or other material, with reasonable certainty, and shall be filed with the clerk of the township in which such land, stone, timber or other material shall be situated. § 4. Any owner of land considering himself aggrieved Appeals from apby such appraisal, may appeal from such appraisal within twenty days after such appraisal shall be filed as aforesaid, to the circuit court of said county, by filing a copy of said appraisal with the clerk of said court, and giving notice of such appeal to the secretary of said commissioners. Such appeal shall be entered upon the common law docket of said court, and the judge of said court in term time or va- Trial of appeals cation, as he shall elect, shall hear the parties, and such witnesses as may be produced, and affirin or modify such appraisal as shall in his opinion be just and equitable: Pro- Proviso. vided, that no appeal shall prevent said commissioners from proceeding to construct such ditches, embankments, culverts, bridges and roads, after they shall have tendered to such party appealing the amount of damage so awarded, if any. assessed upon property bene 5. The expenses of constructing, altering and main- Expenses to be taining any such ditches, embankments, culverts, bridges and roads, together with all costs incurred on account fitted. thereof, shall be assessed upon the lands benefitted thereby, and the said commissioners, or any three of them appointed at any regular meeting of said commissioners hereinafter provided to be held, shall make an assessment in writing, Assessment, &c. describing the lands assessed, and setting forth the amount assessed upon each tract separately, which assessment, certified by the commissioners making the same, shall be delivered over for collection to the county treasurer of Cook county, who is hereby authorized and required to collect the same, and the said assessment roll so certified as aforesaid shall be a sufficient warrant to the said treasurer to collect the same: Provided, however, the said commission- Proviso. ers are hereby authorized to collect, receive and appropriate all assessments made as provided herein, and voluntarily paid before delivering said assessment roll to said treasurer, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding. a lien. § 6. The said assessment shall be a lien upon the lands Assessment to be upon which they are made until paid; and in case of refusal or neglect on the part of the owner or owners of said land to pay such assessments, the same provision is hereby Collection of asmade for their collection as is now provided by law for the collection of state and county taxes. sessments. missioners. Publication of notices. Secretary, his duties. Meeting of com- $ 7. Said commissioners shall meet from time to time, as they shall appoint by vote at any regular meeting, or on the application in writing of any three of said commissioners it shall be the duty of the secretary to call a meeting of said commissioners within two weeks from the time of such application, by notice of the time and place of such meeting published for six days in some daily paper printed in said county of Cook, and said commissioners shall elect one of their number to be their secretary, whose duty it shall also be to keep records of all the proceedings of said commissioners, and files of all reports of surveys and assessments, and all other papers connected with or pertaining to the office of said commissioners, which records and files are hereby declared public records, and any number of said commissioners, together with their secretary, meeting together at the time and place of any regular meeting of said commissioners, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; and in case the said commissioners hereby appointed shall be reduced to less than five in number by death, removal from the county or resignation, in which shall be tendered in writing to the secretary, the judge of the circuit court of Cook county shall appoint some suitable person or persons to fill any such vacancy Vacancies board, how fill ed. Power to borrow money. Repeal of sec tions. under five in number. § 8. Said commissioners shall have power to borrow money from time to time, for the purpose of carrying on and completing the work authorized to be done by this act, until assessments can be collected to pay the same. They shall also have power and are hereby authorized to appropriate, from time to time, money sufficient to pay all expenses incurred by reason of any suit or proceeding against any of said commissioners, for any act done by or under any order or proceeding authorized by this act. $9. § 9. Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9, of an act entitled " an act to drain the wet lands about Chicago," approved February 17th, 1851, are hereby repealed. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED June 23, 1852. In force Aug. 4, if approved by the voters of La Salle. Corporation. AN ACT to charter the city of La Salle, ARTICLE I.-Of Boundaries and General Powers. 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 La Salle, in the county of La Salle, and state of Illinois, be and they are hereby consti- § 2. All that district of country embraced within the following limits, to wit, all of section (15) fifteen and so much of section (14) fourteen as lays on the west side of Little Vermilion river, in township (33) thirty-three north, and range (1) one, east of the third principal meridian; also the south half of section (10) ten, in same town and range. Boundaries. § 3. The present board of trustees of the town of La Division inte Salle shall, on the first Monday in September next, divide wards. the said city of La Salle into two wards, as nearly equal in population as practicable, particularly describing the boundaries of each. § 4. Whenever any tract of land adjoining the city of Additions. La Salle 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 the city of La Salle. § 5. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style General powers. aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be sued, to 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, both real and personal, in said city; to purchase, receive and hold property, both real and personal, beyond the city, for burial grounds and for other purposes, for the use of said inhabitants of said city; to sell, lease and convey or dispose of property, and to do all other things in relation thereto as natural persons. § 1. ARTICLE II.-Of the City Council. There shall be a city council, to consist of a may- City council. or and board of aldermen. § 2. The board of aldermen shall consist of two mem- Board of alderbers from each ward, to be chosen by the qualified voters, for two years. men. § 3. No person shall be an alderman unless at the time Qualifications of of his election he shall have resided six months within the limits of the city, and shall be at the time of his election twenty-one years of age and a citizen of the United States. aldermen. cate office. § 4. If any alderman shall, after his election, remove Removal to vafrom the ward for which he is elected, his office shall be hereby declared vacated. divided into two § 5. At the first meeting of the city council the alder- Aldermen to be men shall be divided by lots into two classes; the seats of classes. those of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of the first year, and of the second class at the expiration of |