Boundaries.

Proviso.

Ordinances.

Taxes.

Mode of assessment.

Collection.

Prevention of overflows.

Lins.

the people of the country. The boundaries to be thus designated shall be specifically designated by said board, to be by them determined by an order of the board, recorded as aforesaid, and the said levee and other improvements shall be made upon the boundary thus designated: Provided, that said board shall have power to alter said boundary whenever it may by them be by them deemed necessary to promote the objects and intentions of this corporation.

§ 4. Said corporation shall have power to pass all orders and ordinances that may be necessary to prevent the overflowing of the land within said boundaries, and to remove and exclude the water from the same, and for that purpose said corporation may assess a tax upon all the real estate within said boundaries; which tax shall be levied according to the valuation of said property as said value may be affixed for the time being by the county assessor of Scott county; and the president of said corporation shall notify the said county assessor of the boundaries aforesaid, and of the amount of tax, being the per cent. upon the value of såid real estate so to be levied, which tax shall be uniform, and equal upon all the real estate within said boundaries, and said assessor shall calculate and set down in lus book, in a separate column, said tax so levied, and shall return the same to be collected as other tax, and the same shall be subject to all the laws of the state of Illinois regulating the collection of state and county tax, and the same shall be collected by the sheriff and collector of tax for said county with the state and county tax so to be levied upon said real estate, and when collected shall be paid over to said president by said collector, retaining the same per cent. as may be allowed by law for collecting the state tax, and he shall take duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall file with the clerk of the county court of said county and the other with the secretary of said board.

§ 5. Said corporation shall have power to pass all necessary ordinances to prevent the land within the said boundaries from being overflowed by the raising of water through the surface of the earth, and to compel the owners of all wells and cellars and other excavations in the earth so to secure the same as to prevent said overflowing; and if the owner of any well, cellar or other excavation situated upon his, her or their property, shall refuse or neglect so to secure the same from overflowing, said board may provide, by ordinance, that the same shall be immediately done by the corporation, and for that purpose may at any and all times. enter upon any premises within said boundaries, and the owners of said property shall be subject to pay all necessary expense attending the same, and a lien is hereby created in favor of said corporation upen all such lots and premises to secure the payment of such expense; which liens may be

enforced in favor of said corporation as otl.er liens under t' e laws of the sta e of Illinois.

bo.rowed.

§ 6. Said corporation may borrow money to construct Money may be said work and to keep the same in repair, upon suca terms and for such interest as may be agreed upon, and to secure the same may pledge the revenue to be raised as aforesaid, and may contract that said corporation will levy a sufficient tax yearly and each year upon all the property within said boundaries, to pay said money and interest as the same fails due according to the said contract; and if said corporation shall at any proper time refuse or fail to have said tax levied, collected and paid over, all and every person or pers ins, bodies politic and corporate, who may be entitled to receive said money so to be borrowed, and all interest agreed to be paid thereon, may enforce said contract by application to the court of equity of said county, who shall cause said tax to be levied, collected and paid over to a receiver to be appointed by said court, to be by him paid to the parties entitled to receive the same; and the said court is hereby vested with full power and jurisdiction to carry this act into effect, and to enforce all contracts made or to be made by said corporation.

§ 7. If any person or persons shall break down or de- Penalty. stroy or in any way injure any levee, dyke, embankment or other improvement made by said corporation, or under their authority, such persons so offending shall be subject to indictment, and upon conviction may be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail for any term not exceeding six months, and said person or persons shall be liable in an action of trespass to said corporation for all damage do te to said improvement, and to any individual for any injury that may be sustained by reason of said act.

Right of way,

§ 8. Said corporation shall have power to purchase any Purchase of proproperty, either real or personal, and to receive donations perty. thereof that may be deemed necessary by said board to carry on or aid, or that may be useful to said work, and to the forwarding the objects of this act. Said corporation shall also have power to cause all lan and other real estate ma.erials. whereon it may be necessary to take earth or other materials to construct the same, to be appraised according to the provisions of the chapter in relation to the right of way, in the Revised Statutes of the state of Illinois. If any perso. Damages in fat of whose improved lo it may be necessary to raise a dyke or embankment, or erect other improvement, s all object thereto, sail corporation shall have power to cause said damage to be appraised as provide in said law in relation to the right of way. Said corporation shall have power to deepen the water at the landing on the rive, in front of the town of Naples, and to grade the river bank,

and to protect said bank, and to erect wharves, and to charge wharfage on all crafts landing at said bank; and said corporation may purchase all land on said bank that may be deemed necessary for any one of the purposes aforesaid, and to convert said property when purchased into a public landing as aforesaid.

§ 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and shall be a public act, and be published with the general public laws of the state of Illinois. APPROVED June 21, 1852.

In force June 21, AN ACT to change the time of holding courts in the fourth judicial circuit.

1852.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Times of courts. courts of the fourth judicial circuit shall hereafter be held

Crawford.

Lawrence.

Richland.

Clay.
Effingham.
Jasper,

Cumberland.

Coles.

Clark.

Writs, &c.

Act, when to take effct.

of state.

in the county of Crawford on the first Mondays in March and September; in the county of Lawrence on the first Mondays thereafter; in the county of Richland on the first Mondays thereafter; in the county of Clay on the first Mondays thereafter; in the county of Effingham on the first Fridays thereafter; in the county of Jasper on the first Wednesdays there fter; in the county of Cumberland on the first Mondays thereafter; in the county of Coles on the first Thursdays thereafter; and in the county of Clark on the first Thursdays thereafter.

§ 2. That all writs, process and other proceedings made or to be made returnable in the circuit courts of the said several counties on the several days as now fixed by law for the commencement of the terms of said courts, shall be regarded and held as returnable to the terms of the said circuit courts as fixed in the first section of this act; and no such writ, process or other proceeding shall be quashed or set aside or any cause continued because of the omission of the return day therein as fixed by this act.

§ 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is hereby made the duty of the secDuty of secretary retary of state to furnish a copy of this act to the clerks of the Cumberland, Coles and Clark circuit courts hereinbefore mentioned, immediately after the passage of the same. § 4. All laws coming within the purview of this act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 21, 1852.

AN ACT to amend the charter of Hillsboro Academy.

Ia force June 21,

1852.

elect trustees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illings, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the stockholders of Hillsboro Academy shall elect the Stockholders to trustees to manage and control the affairs of said institution; the said trustees so to be elected to have and exercise all the powers and duties now had and exercised by the acting trustees of said academy.

§ 2. The present board of trustees of Hillsboro acad-rme, &c., of emy, and forever hereafter the board of trustees for the elections. time being, shall direct, by their by-laws, the times, places and manner of elections for trustees, and shall also direct the forms, times and manner of the returns of said elections, and of canvassing the same, and shall appoint the judges and clerks of said election.

§3. At the first election of trustees of said academy, Number of trusfifteen shall be elected, and annually thereafter five shall tees. be elected. The fifteen elected at the first election shall be divided into three classes, by the board for the time Classes, being; the first class shall serve one year, the second two years, and the third three years, and until successors are elected, and forever after the first election the said trustees shall hold their offices for the term of three years and Term. until successors are elected.

annual.

stock.

§ 4. The said elections for trustees shall be annual, Elections to (after the first ;) each share of stock entitling its owner to one vote at said elections. So soon as the first election takes place and the terms thereof examined and declared, the term of office of the trustees now in being shall expire. § 5. The president and secretary shall issue certificates Certificates of of stock, which shall entitle the holder to the number of shares subscribed, whether new or old stock, upon such terms and conditions as the board of trustees, for the time being, shall direct by their by-laws; which certificates of stock shall not be transferable or pass by descent, and shall be subject to forfeiture for non-payment of the assessment made by the board of trustees, agreeably to the articles of association. All moneys received for stock or assessments shall be exclusively appropriated to repairing and improving the academy buildings, enlarging the apparatus, procuring a library and improving and beautifying the grounds of the corporation, in the discretion and by the direction of the board of trustees, from time to time.

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

APPROVED June 21, 1852.

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In force June 21, AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to provide for leasing the land

1852.

Part of act repealed.

granted as a common to the inhabitants of the town of Prairie du Rocher, in Kandolph county, or so much of said and as it may be to the interest of the inhab lants of said town to lease for school purposes," approved February 8, 1851.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the above recited act as required "the president and trustees of the commons of Prairie du Rocher," thereby incorporated, to meet and organize in their board within ninety days after the adjournment of the last session of the general assembly, be and the same is hereby repealed. Organization, sur § 2. The organization of said board of trustees, and all declared to be surveys of the commons of Prairie du Rocher, made by and under their direction, and all leases heretofore made and granted by them for school purposes, is and are hereby declared to be valid and legalized as fully as if said board of trustees had met and organized within the time specified in the act before named

voys, leases, &c.

valid.

vance.

Payments in ad- § 3. The said president and trustees of the commons of Prairie du Rocher, may by ordinance require the payment in advance of the amount for which any lot may be leased by them, to any lessee or lessees, for any term of years not exceeding ninety-nine, instead of annually, as by said act provided, and may loan the money accruing from the leasing of such lots at the same rate of interest as township school moneys are loaned ; and no property shall be exempt from execution for the collection of such loans, which is not now or may not hereafter be exempt from execution for the collection of moneys loaned by township treasurers, under the common school law, anything in said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 4. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED June 21, 1852.

In force June 21, AN ACT to authorize the city council of the city of Peoria to issue bonds

Bonds.

sued.

1852.

to the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad company.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the city council of the city of Peoria be and they are When to be is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said city, whenever they may deem it expedient, for all or any portion of the amount subscribed or hereafter to be subscribed by said city, to the Peoria and Oquawka Railroad company, under the provisions of an act of the legislature of said state, approved November the sixth, one thousand eight