plant of the main channel of the Sanitary District of Chicago in the township of Lockport, at or near Lockport, in the county of Will, are hereby recognized as and are hereby declared to be navigable streams; and it is made the special duty of the Governor and of the Attorney General to prevent the erection of any structure in or across said streams without explicit authority from the General Assembly; and the Governor and Attorney General are hereby authorized and directed to take the necessary legal action or actions to remove all and every obstruction now existing in said rivers that in any wise interferes with the intent and purpose of this Act.

§ 2. Whereas, An emergency exists; this Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED December 6, 1907.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION.

§ 1. Amends sections 1 and 2, Act of 1905.

§ 2. Duties of commissionersreport to General Assembly.

§ 1. Appointment of commis-
sioners-term of office.

(SENATE BILL No. 562. APPROVED DECEMBER 24, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend sections one and two of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of an internal improvement commission and to make an appropriation therefor," approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections one and two of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the appointment of an internal improvement commission and to make an appropriation therefor," approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 1. There shall be appointed by the Governor a commission to be known as The Internal Improvement Commission of Illinois, to be composed of three persons of high practical business qualifications, two of whom at least shall reside in the counties contiguous to a navigable river in the State. At the expiraton of two years from the date of appointmnt of said commission, successors to those first appointed shall be appointed by the Governor, whose term of office shall be four years.

§ 2. The duties of this commission shall be to investigate the various problems associated with a projected deep waterway from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico, and the reclamation of lands subject to overflow or inundation, the construction of practical and substantial levees, the ascertaining of the acreage of lands now subject to inundations from rivers, the increase from benefits to be derived from this proposed deep water way and reclamation of lands subject to overflow

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or inundation and such other statistics and data as will intelligently enable the next General Assembly to properly formulate and devise ways and means whereby legislative enactment may be had to carry out and put into effect the benefits to be derived by the deep water way from Lake Michigan to the Gulf of Mexico and reclamation of lands subject to inundation in Illinois. The results of these investigations and studies, together with all obtainable data and statistics, to be embodied in a report of all its workings to the next General Assembly. Such commission shall receive no compensation for its services other than the necessary and legitimate expenses incurred by it in the discharge of its official business.

(HOUSE BILL No. 924. APPROVED JUNE 2, 1908.)

AN ACT to amend section 14 of article 6 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by Act approved May 26, 1897, be and the same is amended to read as follows:

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 14 of article 6 of "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," [approved] April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by Act approved May 26, 1897, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 14. The aldermen and trustees may receive such compensation for their services as shall be fixed by the ordinances: Provided, however, that in cities of less than 350,000 inhabitants such compensation shall not exceed the sum of three dollars to each alderman for each meeting of the city council or board of trustees actually attended by him; in cities of more than 350,000 inhabitants such compensation shall not exceed the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars per annum for each alderman, and in villages the compensation to trustees shall not exceed the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each meeting of the board of trustees actually attended by such trustees. No other salary or compensation shall be allowed any alderman or trustees: Provided, further, that this Act shall apply to all cities, towns and villages in this State whether incorporated under a general or special law, and that in all such villages and incorporated towns the trustees thereof shall receive compensation for not more than one meeting in each week. APPROVED June 2, 1908.

LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS-COMPOSITION OF BOARD, ETC.

§ 1. Amends section 6, Act of 1897.

§ 2. Emergency.

(SENATE BILL No. 551. APPROVED MAY 25, 1908.)

AN ACT to amend section 6 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning local improvements," approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, as amended by the Act approved and in force May 9, 1901.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 6 of "An Act concerning local improvements," approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, as amended by the Act approved and in force May 9, 1901, be, and the same hereby is amended to read as follows:

§ 6. BOARD OF LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.] In cities within the terms of this Act, having a population of one hundred thousand (100,000) or more, by the last preceding census of the United States, or of this State, there is hereby created a board of local improvements consisting of five members; such five members shall be nominated by the mayor and shall be confirmed by the council or board of trustees of such city; and no one of which shall be the head of any department of the government of such city, or hold any other office or position therein. Said board shall elect from its members a president, a vice president and an assistant secretary. The superintendent of special assessments shall be ex officio secretary of the board. In the absence or the inability of the president or the vice president to act, the vice president for the president and the assistant secretary for the vice president, are hereby given full power to sign and execute contracts, vouchers, bonds, pay rolls and all other papers, documents, and instruments necessary to carry this Act and all proceedings hereunder into full force and effect. Said board shall hold daily sessions for the transaction of all business in rooms accessible to the public, to be provided by the city council.

The city council or board of trustees of such city shall provide for salaries for said board of local improvements.

In cities within the terms of this Act having a population of more than fifty thousand (50,000) and less than one hundred thousand (100,000), by the last preceding census of the United States, or of this State, there is hereby created a board of local improvements, consisting of five members, of which board the commissioner of public works shall be the president. The other members of said board shall be the superintendent of streets, the superintendent of sewers, the superintendent of special assessments and the city engineer.

In cities having a population of less than fifty thousand (50,000), and in villages and incorporated towns, the board of local improvements shall consist of the mayor of said city, or the president of such village or town, who shall be president of such board, and the public engineer and the superintendent of streets of such municipality, where such officers shall be provided for by ordinance; but if at any time no

such officers shall be provided for, then the city council or the board of trustees, as the case may be, shall by ordinance designate two or more members of such body, who shall, with such mayor or president of such village or town, until otherwise provided by ordinance, constitute the members of the board.

§ 2. EMERGENCY.

Whereas, the effective performance of the duties of the board of local improvements is seriously hampered by the present law, therefore an emergency exists, and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 25, 1908.

POWERS OF CITY COUNCIL AND VILLAGE BOARD--VEHICLES.

1. Amends section 1, Act of 1872.

$ 1.

As amended, adds item 96 relating to license and regulation of vehicles.

§ 2. Emergency.

(SENATE BILL No. 566. APPROVED DECEMBER 31, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section one of article five of "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, as amended by an Act approved and in force March 30, 1887.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section one of article five of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, as amended by an Act approved and in force March 30, 1887, be amended so as to read as follows, viz.:

SECTION 1. The city council in cities, and president and the board of trustees in villages, shall have the following powers:

First-To control the finances and property of the corporation. Second-To appropriate money for corporate purposes only, and provide for payment of debts and expenses of the corporation.

Third-To levy and collect taxes for general and special purposes on real and personal property.

Fourth-To fix the amount, terms and manner of issuing and revoking licenses.

Fifth-To borrow money on the credit of the corporation for corporate purposes, and issue bonds therefor, in such amounts and form, and on such conditions as it shall prescribe, but shall not become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate to exceed five (5) per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for the State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness; and before or at the time of incurring any indebtedness, shall provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to

pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years after constructing [contracting] the same.

Sixth-To issue bonds in place of or to supply means to meet maturing bonds, or for the consolidation or funding of the same.

Seventh-To lay out, to establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, pave or otherwise improve streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, wharves, parks and public grounds, and vacate the same.

Eighth To plant trees upon the same.
Ninth To regulate the use of the same.

Tenth-To prevent and remove encroachments or obstructions upon the same.

Eleventh To provide for the lighting of the same.

Twelfth To provide for the cleansing of the same.

Thirteenth-To regulate the openings therein for the laying of gas or water mains and pipes, and the building and repairing of sewers, tunnels and drains, and erecting gas lights: Provided, however, that any company heretofore organized under the general laws of this State, or any association of persons organized or which may be hereafter organized, for the purpose of manufacturing illuminating gas to supply cities or villages, or the inhabitants thereof, with the same, shall have the right, by consent of the common council (subject to existing rights), to erect gas factories, and lay down pipes in the streets or alleys of any city or village in this State, subject to such regulations as any such city or village may by ordinance impose.

Fourteenth-To regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder; and to require the owner or occupant of any premises to keep the sidewalks in front of, or along the same, free from snow and other obstructions.

Fifteenth-To regulate and prevent the throwing or depositing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage or any offensive matter in, and to prevent injury to any street, avenue, alley or public ground.

Sixteenth-To provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs and

gutters.

Seventeenth-To regulate and prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public grounds for signs, sign posts, awnings, awning posts, telegraph poles, horse troughs, racks, posting hand bills and advertise

ments.

Eighteenth-To regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carying of banners, placards, advertisements or hand bills in the streets or public grounds, or upon the sidewalks.

Nineteenth-To regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners or signs across the streets or from houses.

Twentieth-To regulate traffic and sales upon the streets, sidewalks and public places.

Twenty-first-To regulate the speed of horses and other animals, vehicles, cars and locomotives within the limits of the corporation. Twenty-second-To regulate the numbering of houses and lots. Twenty-third-To name and change the name of any street, avenue, alley or other public place.