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 ORDINANCES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF BLOOMINGTON, 
 
 A. D. 1876, 
 
 COMPRISING THE GENERAL ORDINANCES, ACTS OF INCORPORATION, 
 
 AND OTHER LAW3 AFFECTING THE CITY, TOGETHER WITH 
 
 AN APPENDIX, SHOWING THE COMPOSITION 
 
 OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT FROM 
 
 1850 TO 1876. 
 
 REVISED, COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY 
 
 ISAAC N. PHILLIPS, 
 
 ATTORNEY AT LAW. 
 
 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON : 
 
 I.KAJJKR STEAM PRINTING AND PUBLISHING HOl'SK. 
 1876.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 The City Council, during the time occupied in consider- 
 <j ing these ordinances, was composed of the following gentle- 
 fmen: Mayor, Hon. B F. Funk; Aldermen, David D. Hag- 
 < gard, II. S. McCurdy, John W. Trotter, M. Hausen, John S. 
 Scibird, A. F. Risser, Peter Rockwell, B. L. Lucas, John 
 
 , John H. Regan, Robert Thompson and Col. John 
 . Since the names of these gentlemen do not appear up- 
 
 the title page of this book, it is an act of simple justice to 
 mention them here. The unlimited zeal which they have all 
 manifested in Jhe production of the work could only have 
 co been prompted by a sincere desire for the public good; since 
 ""no adequate motive can be found in the paltry sum allowed 
 ^them as pay. I cheerfully acknowledge their right to share 
 i - whatever credit the book may bespeak for its makers. 
 
 In the advice and aid of Gen. Ira J. Bloomfield, I have 
 
 had the benefit of his long experience as counsel for the city 
 
 . and his consequent thorough knowledge of municipal law ; for 
 
 \ which I beg he will accept my due and grateful acknowledg- 
 
 * ment. 
 
 The Chapter on Fire Department was prepared under 
 suggestions from Mr. M. X. Chuse, whose practical experi- 
 ence as Chief Engineer of the Department renders his opin- 
 ion of the highest value. 
 
 The Chapter on Grades could only have been made 
 thorough and accurate (as it is believed to be) by the assist- 
 ance of Mr. Ira Merchant, City Engineer, who cheerfully 
 aided me, and who must also take his pay in thanks. 
 
 In searching the record books of the city, I have been 
 inaterially aided by Win. B. Lawrence, late City Clerk, whom
 
 iv ri:i:FACE 
 
 I always found as thoroughly informed in matters relating to 
 tin- i-ity government as he was eminently obliging and gen- 
 tlemanly as an oil 
 
 I am also indebted to Mr. Win. G, Boyce, late City Mar- 
 shal, and other city officials whose names I have not space to 
 ution, for practical hints touching the needs of the city. 
 To all these gentlemen I extend my hearty thanks. 
 
 Having thus paid my debts, which was the object of this 
 preface, I have but a word to add in behalf of the work itself. 
 No one is more sensible of ito errors and imperfections than I 
 am ; and the reader need not imagine that he is the original 
 discoverer of any of them. The very chaotic condition in 
 whirh the city ordinances have long been, will probably ren- 
 'li-r a work as imperfect and unpretentious as this quite wel- 
 come to the profession and the public. One thing I know : I 
 have expended an amount of labor on this book which no one 
 who has not performed a similar task can well realize. If 
 the result is not perfect it is not because I have not desired 
 and labored to make it so. 
 
 I. N. P. 
 Bloomington, III., June, 1876.
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 I. Animals, Pounds and Pound- keepers, 1 
 
 II. Cemeteries, 6 
 
 III. City Council, - 9 
 
 IV, Dogs, 12 
 V. Elections, 13 
 
 VI. Fees and Salaries, 16 
 
 VII. Fire Department, - 20 
 
 VIII. Grades, 24 
 
 IX. Licenses, - 33 
 
 X. Liquors, . 51 
 
 XI. Misdemeanors, - 53 
 
 XII. Nuisances, - - 73 
 
 XIII. Officers, - 81 
 
 XIV. Ordinances, 97 
 XV. Police Department, - - 99 
 
 XVI. Railroads, - 107 
 
 XVII. Revenue, - 115 
 
 XVIII. Special Assessments, - 117 
 XIX. Supplies and Claims, 117 
 
 XX. Wards, - 118 
 
 XXI. Water Supply, 119 
 
 Adopting and Publishing Ordinance, - 134 
 
 PART II. 
 
 ACTS OF INCOPORATION. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 I. Act to legalize incorporation, June 19, 1852, - 139 
 II. Extending corporate limits, March, 1854, 140
 
 VI TABLE OP CONTENTS. 
 
 III. Legalizing incorporation, etc., Feb. 14, 1855, - 140 
 
 IV. Act in relation to North Bloomington, Feb. 13, 
 
 1857, - 141 
 
 V. Extending corporate limits, Feb. 16, 1857, - 142 
 
 VI. Granting and establishing charter, Feb, 13, 1861, 144 
 
 VII. Amending charter, March 7, 1867, 157 
 
 VIII. Authorizing issue of bonds for C. & A. R. R. 
 
 Co., March 3, 1869, - 177 
 
 IX. Amending charter, March 8, 1869, 178 
 X. Authorizing issue of sewerage bonds, June 19, 
 
 1869, - 180 
 
 XI. Special assessments, July 1, 1872, - 181 
 
 PART III. 
 
 OTHER LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Annexing and Excluding Territory, 199 
 
 Appointment and Removal of Officers, - 203 
 
 Appointment of Special Assessments, etc., 205 
 
 Houses of Ill-fame, - 206 
 
 Oil Inspection, 207 
 
 Plats, - 210 
 
 Police and Firemens' Relief Fund, - 214 
 
 Police Magistrates, . 216 
 
 Rebate and Reduction of Taxes, etc., 217 
 
 Salaries of City Officers, - 218 
 
 Schools, 219 
 
 Sewerage and Water Taxes, 229 
 
 Sidewalks in Cities, etc., - 231 
 
 Water Works, - 234 
 
 Weights and Measures, ... . 239 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 City Government, 1850-1876, - 245 
 
 Index, 251
 
 PART I.
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 AN OKDINANCE 
 
 IN 
 REVISION OF THE GENERAL ORDINANCES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OIF zBniooiMiiiDsrGKroiisr- 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Bloomington : 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 -ANIMALS, POUNDS, AND POUND-KEEPERS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Animals running at large penalty. 
 
 2. Pound-keeper to be appointed bond. 
 
 3. Pounds Pound-keeper to take up animals feed for same. 
 
 4. Duty of policemen persons injured may take up animals. 
 
 5. Redemption of, and proceedings against, impounded animals. 
 
 6. Proceedings where owner is unknown. 
 
 7. Docket entry. 
 
 8. Justices' order form. 
 
 9. Pound-keeper's notice form. 
 
 10. Pound-keeper's deputies additional pound-keepers. 
 
 11. Pound-keeper's book proceeds of sale. 
 
 12. Surplus proceeds paid to owner. 
 
 13. Breaking pound, etc. hindering the impounding of animals penalty. 
 
 14. Wrongful taking of animals penalty. 
 
 15. Herding or tying out of animals. 
 
 SECTION 1. ANIMALS RUNNING AT LARGE PENALTY.] No 
 animal of the species of cattle, horse, mule, swine, sheep, goat 
 or goose, shad be permitted to run at large within the limits 
 of the city of Bloomington ; and the running at large of any 
 such animal is hereby declared to be a nuisance; and any 
 person being the owner or possessor of any such animal, who 
 shall permit the same to run at large in violation of this sec- 
 tion, shall forfeit and pay a penalty of two dollars for each
 
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 animal so permitted to run at large, together with the fees for 
 impounding, and all expense of sustenance for such animal 
 when impounded, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 2. POUND-KEEPER TO BE APPOINTED BOND.] There shall 
 be. appointed in and for said city, as provided by law, one 
 Pound-keeper, who shall, before entering upon the duties of 
 his office, execute and file with the City Clerk, a bond to the 
 city of Bloomington, in the penal sum of one thousand dol- 
 lars, with one or more securities, residents of said city, to be 
 approved by the City Clerk, conditioned for the faithful per- 
 formance of the duties of pound-keeper, and the strict observ- 
 ance of all ordinances of the city of Bloomington touching 
 the impounding of animals. 
 
 3. POUNDS POUND-KEEPER TO TAKE UP ANIMALS FEED 
 FOP. SAME.] The Pound-keeper shall provide within the city 
 such pound or pounds, suitably constructed, as may be found 
 necessary for the impounding of animals ; and it shall be his 
 duty to take up and impound all animals found running at 
 large in violation of any ordinance of said city ; and also to 
 receive and impound any such animals when taken up by any 
 other authorized person. During the stay of any animal 
 in the pound, he shall feed and water the same ; the costs of 
 which, as also the impounding fees, the claimant of such ani- 
 mal shall pay to the Pound-keeper before such animal shall be 
 released. 
 
 4. DUTY OF POLICEMEN PERSONS INJURED MAY TAKE UP 
 -ANIMALS.] Every policeman of said city shall forthwith take 
 up and drive to the pound any animal known by him to be 
 unlawfully at large within the city. Any person who is in- 
 jured, or is in danger of being injured, in his property, by 
 reason of the unlawful running at large of any animal, may 
 either drive the same to the pound, or he may take up and 
 confine the same in some safe and convenient place, and notify 
 the Pound-keeper or a policeman thereof, as soon as practi- 
 cable, and the officer so notified shall forthwith take charge of 
 such animal and impound the same. 
 
 5. REDEMPTION OF, AND PROCEEDING AGAINST, IMPOUNDED 
 ANIMALS.] The owner or person entitled to the possession of 
 any impounded animal, may redeem the sama by paying to 
 the Pound-keeper the impounding fees, and the charges and 
 costs of feeding, and sustenance up to the time of redemption ; 
 but if no person appears to redeem any impounded animal 
 within forty-eight hours after the impounding of the same, it 
 shall be the duty of the pound-keeper (unless the same shall 
 be done by some other person) to make complaint before a
 
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 police magistrate against the owner or possessor of such ani- 
 mal, for permitting the same to run at large, and like pro- 
 ceedings shall thereupon be had as in other cases for the 
 recovery of fines and penalties; and if the defendant is found 
 
 fuilty in addition to the penalty prescribed in section one 
 ereof, judgment shall be rendered for impounding fees and 
 costs of sustenance : and if at the time of rendering judgment 
 such animal is still unredeemed, an order shall be entered 
 that such animal shall be sold to satisfy said judgment, unless 
 the same is forthwith paid. Such order shall describe the 
 animal and state the time and place of impounding. 
 
 6. PROCEEDINGS WHERE OWNER is UNKNOWN.] If the 
 owner of any animal impounded is unknown, complaint shall 
 be made as provided in the last section against the unknown 
 owner of such animal, describing the same ; and thereupon 
 the magistrate before whom such complaint is made, shall 
 issue a notice in substance as follows : 
 
 POUND NOTICE. 
 
 Whereas, complaint has this day been made before me that 
 the unknown owner of the following described animal, to-wit: 
 (here describe animal particularly,) impounded at, (here state 
 
 the place of impounding,) on the day of 
 
 A. I). 18 , has permitted the same to run at large contrary 
 10 the ordinances of the city of Bloomington. 
 
 Now, therefore, notice is hereby given to the owner of such 
 animal, and all persons interested in the same, that a trial will 
 be had upon the said complaint at my office, in the city of 
 
 Bloomington, on the day of , A. D. 18 , 
 
 at the hour of M., when and where such owner or 
 
 other person interested may appear and defend, if he see fit 
 so to do. 
 
 Witness my hand and seal this day of , 
 
 A. D. 18. 
 
 -, P. M. [L. s.] 
 
 The day named in said notice for trial shall not be less than 
 five nor more than ten days from the time of issuing the same, 
 and it shall be the duty of the Pound-keeper, City Marshal, or 
 some policeman, forthwith to post three copies of said notice, 
 one at the pound where the animal is impounded, one at the 
 office of the police magistrate issuing the same, and one at 
 the door of the court house in said city, and a fourth copy he 
 shall cause to be inserted at least once in the corporation 
 newspaper. The officer executing said notice shall make a
 
 4 ANIMALS, POUNDS, ETC. 
 
 return thereof, showing the time and manner of said posting 
 and publishing. 
 
 7. DOCKET ENTRY.] The magistrate issuing paid notice 
 shall enter the cause upon his docket as follows : The City of 
 Bloomington vs. The unknown owner of (here specify and 
 describe animal). And upon the return of the notice executed 
 as prescribed in the last section, like proceedings shall be had 
 as in the case of personal service or appearance. 
 
 8. JUSTICE'S ORDER FORM.] Upon the rendition of 
 any judgment as prescribed in sections six and seven of this 
 chapter, the police magistrate rendering the same shall issue 
 to the Pound-keeper having charge of such animal an order 
 of sale which shall be substantially in the following form, 
 to-wit : 
 
 The People of the State of Illinois to , Pound- 
 keeper: 
 
 We command you that of the following described goods 
 and chattels, to-wit : (here describe animal) the property of 
 (here insert name of owner, if known ; and if not, then say 
 " some person unknown,") you make the sum of dol- 
 lars and cents debt, and dollars and cents 
 
 costs, which the City of Bloomiugtuu lately recovered before 
 me against the said (here insert owner's name, if known, and 
 if not, say "unknown owner,") and hereof make due return 
 in what manner you execute the same. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal this day of 
 
 A. D. 18 . 
 
 P. M. [L. s.] 
 
 Which order shall be returned by such Pound-keeper within 
 thirty days from its date to the office issuing the same with an 
 endorsement showing when and how the same was executed. 
 
 9. POUND-KEEPER'S NOTICE FORM, ] Upon receipt of 
 such order the Pound-keeper shall immediately post three 
 notices in like places as provided in section six of this ordi- 
 nance, and a fourth he Baall cause to be published once in the 
 corporation newspaper, which notices may be in substance, as 
 follows : 
 
 POUND NOTICE. 
 
 Taken up and impounded in the city pound of the city of 
 Bloomingtou, at (here state the place of Pound,) the following 
 described animal, (here describe animal,) which, unless re- 
 deemed, will be sold at public auction for cash to the highest 
 
 bidder, at said pound, at the hour of o'clock M., on 
 
 the day of , A. D. 18 . 
 
 , Pound-keeper.
 
 ORDINANCES. 5 
 
 The day of sale mentioned in said notices shall not be less 
 than three nor more than live days after posting and publish- 
 ing the same, exclusive of Sundays, holidays and election 
 days ; and if said animal is i.ot redeemed the Pound-keeper 
 shall sell the same in accordance with paid notice. 
 
 10. POUND-KEEPER'S DEPUTIES ADDITIONAL POUND-KEEP- 
 ERS.] The Pound-keeper may appoint such deputies as he 
 may from time to time deem necessary to assist in carrying 
 this ordinance into effect, for whose acts said Pound-keeper 
 and his securities shall be responsible; and it shall be lawful 
 for the Mayor and City Council, at any time when they may 
 think the interests of the city require it, to appoint additional 
 Pound-keepers, who, when so appointed, shall be subject to 
 all the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 11. POUND-KEEPER'S BOOK PROCEEDS OF SALE.] The 
 Pound-keeper shall keep a book which shall be open to the 
 inspection of any and all persons, in which he shall record a 
 description of all animals impounded, with date of the im- 
 pounding of each, and the owner's name, if known, and also 
 a statement of what disposition is made of such animal, when 
 and by whom redeemed, or, in case of sale, the date of sale 
 and the name of the purchaser, and the amount received 
 therefor; and said Pound-keeper shall within twenty days 
 after every sale of animals, as herein provided, pay into the 
 city treasury all moneys received by him in excess of the costs, 
 fees and expenses allowed by this chapter. 
 
 12. SURPLUS PROCEEDS PAID TO OWNER.] If any surplus 
 proceeds of any sale shall have been paid into the city treas- 
 ury, as provided in the last preceding section, the owner 
 of the animal or animals so sold shall be entitled to receive 
 such surplus, less all costs and charges which may have ac- 
 crued to the officers of said city, including costs of notices, 
 upon presenting to the City Council, or the proper committee 
 thereof, satisfactory proof of his ownership, together with a 
 certificate of the Pound-keeper, of the amount of such sur- 
 plus. 
 
 13. BREAKING POUND, ETC. HINDERING THE IMPOUNDING 
 OF ANIMALS. PENALTY.] Whoever shall break open any city 
 pound ; or shall take or attempt to take therefrom any im- 
 pounded animal without the Pound-keeper's consent; or who- 
 ever shall hinder, delay, or obstruct the taking of any animal 
 found unlawfully at large, to the pound, or shall attempt to 
 prevent the impounding thereof in any manner, shall be fined 
 not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
 
 CEMETERIES. 
 
 14. WRONGFUL TAKING OF ANIMALS PENALTY.] Any 
 person who shall take or drive any animal from any inclosed 
 lot or tract of ground, or from any stable or other building, 
 or from outside of the limits of said city, to any pound in 
 said city, or with intent that such animal may be impounded, 
 shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than five dollars nor 
 more than twenty dollars for every animal so driven or taken. 
 
 15. HERDING OR TYING OUT OF ANIMALS.] The herding 
 of any animal of the species mentioned in section one of this 
 chapter, or the tying out of the same to graze upon any street 
 or alley of said city, shall be deemed a running at large with- 
 in the meaning of t^iis chapter. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 CEMETERIES. 
 
 SECTION 1. Lands embraced in City Cemetery. 
 
 2. Lands to be laid off Into lots and sold. 
 
 3. Commons to be set apart penalty for burying in lot of another. 
 
 4. Manner of selling and conveying lots. 
 
 5. Form of deed. 
 
 6. Treasurer to keep records and accounts. 
 
 7. City Sexton appointment, powers and duties. 
 
 8. Sexton to remove bodies interred without authority. 
 
 9. Sexton to keep record and make yearly report. 
 10. Shooting, trespassing, etc. penalty. 
 
 " 11. Going or remaining upon grounds in night without permission of 
 Sexton, etc. 
 
 SECTION 1. LANDS EMBRACED IN CITY CEMETERY.] The tracts 
 or lots of land purchased by the city of Bloomington of Joseph 
 Ramsey and wife, Benjamin Depew and wife, and Adaline 
 Kimler, and particularly described in the deeds from them to 
 said city, recorded in the recorder's office of McLean county, 
 in deed book P, on pages 308 and 504, together with the 
 grounds used as a cemetery previous to said purchases, be set 
 apart and dedicated to cemetery purposes and uses, to he kept 
 and controlled by the corporate authorities of said city. 
 
 2. LANDS TO BE LAID OFF INTO LOTS AND SOLD.] Said tracts 
 of lands, and any other that may hereafter be purchased for 
 cemetery purposes, or as an addition to said grounds, may, as 
 the Council may determine, be laid oft* into lots of appropriate 
 size, and surveys and plats of said lots shall be made, under 
 the direction of the City Council, which surveys and plats shall 
 designate the lots by numbers, and be filed and recorded in
 
 ORDINANCES. 7 
 
 the recorder's office of McLean County ; which lots shall be 
 sold at such prices as the City Council may from time to time 
 direct : Provided, That no part of said lands shall be sold or 
 used for any other than burial purposes and the same shall be 
 taken subject to such regulations as the City Council may from 
 time to time establish touching the management of said 
 cemetery. 
 
 3. COMMONS TO BE SET APART PENALTY FOR BURYING IN 
 LOT OF ANOTHER.] A portion of said grounds shall, under the 
 direction of the City Council, be laid off and designated as 
 " commons," for the burial of strangers and the friends of 
 persons unable to purchase lots ; and whoever shall dig or 
 cause to be dug any grave in said City Cemetery, or any other 
 cemetery within said city upon any lot not the property of 
 such person, unless the same be upon the strangers' grounds 
 or " commons," or be done by the written consent of the owner 
 of such lot, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than five 
 dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 4. MANNER OF SELLING AND CONVEYING LOTS.] Any person 
 desiring to purchase any lot shall pay the price thereof to the 
 City Treasurer, who shall thereupon give such purchaser a re- 
 ceipt for the amount paid, in which receipt shall be stated the 
 number of the lot proposed to be purchased, and on presenta- 
 tion of such receipt to the City Clerk, it shall be the duty ot 
 said Clerk to prepare a deed of such lot, which shall be signed 
 by the Mayor of said city and countersigned by said Clerk, and 
 shall be executed under the seal of the city of Bloomington. 
 
 5. FORM OF DEED.] All deeds to cemetery lots may be 
 in the following form : 
 
 " The City of Bloomington, in consideration of dol- 
 lars, to the said city paid by , doth hereby, in conform- 
 ity with the oidinances of the City Council of said city, in 
 such case made and provided, give, grant, bargain, sell and 
 
 convey to him, the said , lot numbered in the plat 
 
 of the cemetery, as laid out and recorded in the office of the 
 City Clerk, and in the office of the Recorder of the county of 
 McLean. To have and to hold the same, with its appurte- 
 nances, unto the said , his heirs and assigns forever, for 
 
 the purpose of burying therein his or their dead, and for no 
 other use, intent or purpose whatever ; subject, nevertheless, to 
 such general rules and regulations as the City Council of said 
 city may from time to time hereafter establish. 
 
 And the said City of Bloomington hereby covenants with 
 the said , his heirs and assigns, that the premises des-
 
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 ignated as the cemetery aforesaid, shall forever be kept and 
 preserved as a place for the burial of the dead of said city. 
 
 In witness whereof, the Mayor of said city has hereunto set 
 his signature, and caused the seal of the City of Bloomington 
 
 to be affixed, this day of , A. D. 18 . 
 
 [L. s.~| , MAYOR. 
 
 Countersigned : 
 , CITY CLERK. 
 
 6. TREASURER TO KEEP RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS.] The 
 City Treasurer shall keep a record, in which shall be recorded 
 the number of every lot heretofore or hereafter surveyed in 
 the cemetery, beginning with number one, with column ruled 
 therein for the name of the purchaser, the appraisal, price 
 sold for, and date of sale. Columns shall also be ruled there- 
 in for any re-appraisal which may be hereafter made. On the 
 sale of any lot he shall cause a proper entry to be made, and 
 for the neglect of this duty in any case shall be subject to a 
 penalty of ten dollars. He shall likewise open a cemetery 
 account, in which shall be entered all monies received and 
 expended on account of the cemetery, the name of each pur- 
 chaser, date of purchase and the number and price of lot ; 
 and all orders drawn on the treasury for cemetery purposes 
 shall be designated on the face to be payable out of the cem- 
 etery fund. 
 
 7. CITY SEXTON APPOINTMENT POWERS AND DUTIES. ] 
 There shall be annually appointed a City Sexton who shall be 
 ex qfficio a special policeman, and shall qualify as such. Said 
 sexton shall have charge of the City Cemetery, and shall keep 
 the grounds, walks and avenues in order and free from ob- 
 structions. He shall enforce all ordinances and regulations 
 ot the City Council respecting said cemetery, and report vio- 
 lations to the proper officers for prosecution, and may arrest 
 any person found hunting, discharging firearms, or doing any 
 unlawful act within said cemetery. He shall prevent the burial 
 of any body in any unsold lot, or in the lot of any private in- 
 dividual, without his consent; and he shall superintend all 
 burials in the commons and specify their manner and place, 
 arid by night he shall keep the gates of said cemetery closed 
 and locked. He shall likewise take care of and keep in good 
 order that part of said cemetery set apart and known as the 
 soldiers' burying ground. 
 
 8. SEXTON TO REMOVE BODIES INTERRED WITHOUT AUTHOR- 
 ITY.] It shall be the duty of said Sexton, under the di- 
 rection of the Mayor of the city, to cause all bodies buried in 
 any lot without proper authority to be removed to the " com-
 
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 mons," and the person or persons making or causing such un- 
 lawful interment shall be liable to the city for all costs and 
 expenses of such removal, the same to be recovered in an ac- 
 tion of debt in the name of the city before any competent tri- 
 bunal. 
 
 9. SEXTON TO KEEP RECORD AND MAKE YEARLY REPORT.] 
 It shall be the duty of the City Sexton, and also of any other 
 sexton or person in charge of any burying ground within 
 said city to severally keep books of record, to be furnished 
 by the city, in which shall be recorded the name, age, sex, 
 nationality and date of death of every person interred in the 
 Cemetery, or grounds for which such record is kept, and also 
 the number of the lot where such person is buried, and at the 
 end of each year to make a report to the City Council in 
 writing embracing all the above particulars and covering the 
 year for which such report is made. 
 
 10. SHOOTING, TRESPASSING, ETC. PENALTY.] Whoever, 
 within the City Cemetery, or any other cemetery or burying 
 ground within said city, shall discharge any firearm, or be 
 found hunting or trespassing upon the same, or shall trespass 
 upon any grave within said city, or shall refuse to obey any law- 
 ful order of the City Sexton, or of any person having charge 
 of any cemetery or burying ground, shall be fined not less 
 than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 11. GOING OR REMAINING UPON GROUNDS IN THE NIGHT WITH- 
 OUT PERMISSION OF SEXTON, ETC.] Whoever shall go or remain 
 upon the grounds of the City Cemetery or any burying ground 
 within said city before sunrise in the morninir or after sunset 
 in the evening without permission of the city sexton or other 
 person in charge'of such cemetery or burying ground, shall, on 
 conviction, be fined not less than three dollars nor more than 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 CITY COUNCIL. 
 
 SECTION 1. Meetings of Council regular and special. 
 
 2. Acting Mayor to be appointed as other officers Mayor pro. tern. 
 
 3. Bond of Mayor and Acting Mayor. 
 
 4. Standing Committees of Council. 
 
 5. Duties of Standing ( 'ommittees. 
 0. Rules ol the City Council. 
 
 SECTION 1. MEETINGS OF COUNCIL REGULAR AND SPECIAL.] 
 A regular meeting of the City Council of the city of Bloom- 
 
 ~~~it
 
 10 ORDINANCES. 
 
 ington, shall be held on Friday evening of each week during 
 the year. Special meetings may be called by the Mayor or by 
 a quorum of the Council whenever in his or their discretion 
 it may be deemed necessary, in which event it shall be the 
 duty of the City Marshal to cause all members of said Council 
 within the city to be duly notified of such special meeting; 
 and the attendance of members upon such special meetings 
 may be compelled by the Mayor. 
 
 2. ACTING MAYOR TO BE APPOINTED AS OTHER OFFICERS 
 MAYOR pro tern.'] An "Acting Mayor" shall be annually 
 appointed from among the aldermen of the city, in the same 
 manner as other city officers are appointed, who, when the 
 Mayor is absent or from any cause unable to perform the 
 duties of his office, shall be vested with all the powers and 
 perform all the duties of Mayor for the time being; and in 
 case of the absence of both the Mayor and Acting Mayor, 
 from any meeting of the City Council, the aldermen present 
 shall elect one of their number as Acting Mayor pro tern. 
 
 3. BOND OF MAYOR AND ACTING MAYOR.] The Mayor 
 and Acting Mayor shall each give bond to the city with 
 security, before entering upon the duties of their respective 
 offices the Mayor in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and 
 the Acting Mayor in the sum of five thousand dollars each 
 to be approved by the City Council, conditioned for the faith- 
 ful performance of the duties of their respective offices. 
 
 4. STANDING COMMITTEES OF COUNCIL.] It shall be the 
 duty of the Mayor at the beginning of his official term to 
 appoint twelve standing committees of the City Council, each 
 to consist of not less than three aldermen, which shall be as 
 follows : 
 
 First Committee on Finance. 
 
 Second Committee on Police and Gas. 
 
 Third Committee on General Improvements. 
 
 Fourth Committee on Claims. 
 
 Fifth Committee on Fire Department. 
 
 Sixth Committee on Sidewalks and Bridges. 
 
 Seventh Committee on Streets and Alleys. 
 
 Eighth Committee on Licenses. 
 
 Ninth Committee on Railroads. 
 
 Tenth Committee on Printing. 
 
 Eleventh Judiciary Committee. 
 
 Twelfth Board of Health. 
 
 5. DUTIES OF STANDING COMMITTEES.] It shall be the 
 duty of the standing committees of the Council to keep a close 
 watch of the aft'airs of their respective departments of the
 
 CITY COUNCIL. 11 
 
 city government, and to make report to the Council of what- 
 ever facts may be deemed of importance. Each committee 
 shall promptly and thoroughly investigate and report in 
 writing upon all matters referred to it by the Council, and do 
 and perform such other and further duties as the Council may 
 from time to time, by ordinance or resolution, prescribe. 
 
 6. RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL.] The following rules 
 for the government of the deliberations of the City Council, 
 are hereby adopted, to-wit: 
 
 Rule First. The regular meetings of the City Council of 
 said city, from and after March 20th and up to September 20th 
 in each year, shall convene at the hour of half-past seven 
 o'clock P. M., and during the rest of the year at the hour of 
 seven o'clock P. M., and no session of said Council shall con- 
 tinue longer than three hours unless by suspension of the 
 rules. 
 
 Rule Second. The order of business at all regular sessions 
 of the Council, shall be as follows: 
 
 1. Reading minutes of previous meeting and special 
 meetings. 
 
 2. Reports of standing committees. 
 
 3. Reports of special committees. 
 
 4. Special reports. 
 
 5. Unfinished business. 
 
 6. Petitions. 
 
 7. Resolutions. 
 
 8. Miscellaneous business. 
 
 Rule Third. All ordinances and alterations of grades and 
 plats of surveys after being presented and read, shall lie over 
 one week before final action shall be taken thereon. 
 
 Rule Fourth. No member shall speak more than twice on 
 any question, nor more than ten minutes at one time, except 
 by permission of the Council. 
 
 Mule Fifth. All votes of the Council upon the passage of 
 ordinances, and upon the confirmation of officers appointed by 
 the Mayor, shall be taken by ayes and noes, and be entered 
 by the Clerk upon the records of the city. 
 
 Rule Sixth. All petitions and other communications to the 
 Council shall be in writing ; and all reports of committees of 
 the Council shall be made upon uniform blanks, to be pro- 
 cured by the City Clerk at the expense of the city, and furnished 
 to members of the Council. All such reports shall be filed 
 away and preserved by the Clerk. 
 
 Rule Seventh. On all points not herein specially provided 
 for, Cushing's Manual of parliamentary usage, is hereby
 
 12 ORDINANCES. 
 
 adopted, and made the law governing all deliberations of said 
 council. 
 
 Rule Eighth. The Mayor, or presiding officer of the Council 
 shall, at all times, enforce the strictest parliamentary dis- 
 cipline. 
 
 Rule Ninth. These rules, or either of them, m ay be sus- 
 pended by the unanimous consent of all the aldermen present, 
 and not otherwise. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 DOGS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Dogs to be registered Tax. 
 
 2. Marshal to furnish check to be worn on collar, etc. 
 
 " 3. Dog to wear collar with name of owner. 
 
 " 4. Proclamation of Mayor, etc. 
 
 5. Violations penalty nuisance. 
 
 SECTION 1. DOGS TO BE REGISTERED TAX.] Every person 
 owning, keeping, or harboring any dog within the city of 
 Bloomington, shall forthwith, after the publication hereof, or 
 after acquiring such dog, if not now owned, register the same 
 with the City Marshal, who shall keep a book for that purpose, 
 and it shall be the further duty of such person to pay to said 
 Marshal, annually, before the first day of June in each year, 
 a tax of one dollar for each male, and two dollars for each 
 female of the dog kind, so owned, kept, or harbored by him. 
 
 2. MARSHAL TO FURNISH CHECK TO BE PLACED ON COLLAR, 
 ETC.] On receipt of the tax provided for in section one hereof, 
 the Marshal shall furnish to the person paying the same, with- 
 out charge, at the expense of the city, a metallic check for 
 each dog on which tax is paid, with the year for which the 
 tax is paid plainly marked thereon, which check such person 
 shall cause to be worn upon the collar of such dog. 
 
 3. DOG TO WEAR COLLAR WITH NAME OF OWNER.] It shall 
 
 further be the duty of every person owning, keeping, or har- 
 boring any dog, as aforesaid, to cause such dog to wear about 
 his neck a collar, on which shall be engraved the name of his 
 owner or keeper, and no dog shall, at any time, be suffered to 
 go at large within said city without having such collar upon 
 his neck. 
 
 4. PROCLAMATION OF MAYOR, ETC.] Whenever the Mayor 
 of said city shall deem it advisable for the prevention of hy- 
 drophobia, he may issue his proclamation requiring all dogs
 
 ELECTIONS. 13 
 
 within the city to be confined or to be muzzled, as he may 
 deem best, for such time as he may in his proclamation desig- 
 nate, and during the time so designated, it shall be unlawful 
 for any dog to go at large, or unmuzzled, as the case may be, 
 contrary to the terms of such proclamation. 
 
 5. VIOLATIONS PENALTY NUISANCE.] Whoever shall own, 
 keep, or harbor any dog, within said city, and shall fail or 
 refuse to register the same, or to pay the tax thereon, or to 
 place a collar thereon with his name upon the same, as herein 
 above provided, or to confine or muzzle the same in accord- 
 ance with any proclamation issued by the Mayor, or shall fail 
 or refuse to comply with any provision of any ordinance of 
 said city touching dogs, shall be fined three dollars, and every 
 dog respecting which all requirements of this chapter are not 
 complied with, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and shall, 
 upon conviction of the owner, keeper, or harborer thereof, be 
 abated, by killing such dog in such manner and by such 
 means as may be deemed easiest and best. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 ELECTIONS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Election when to be holden notice of. 
 
 2. Judges of election appointment and oath. 
 
 3. Voting to be by ballot returns made tie. 
 
 4. Manner of deciding tie vote. 
 
 5. Time of opening and closing polls Proclamation. 
 
 6. Ballot boxes judges to examine and lock. 
 
 7. Poll books to be provided manner of keeping, etc. 
 
 8. Manner of canvassing ballots. 
 
 9. Returns of election form. 
 
 SECTION 1. ELECTION WHEN TO BE HOLDEN NOTICE or.] 
 An election shall be held annually for city officers in each ward 
 of the city of Bloomington on the third Monday in Apri 1 , at 
 such place as shall be designated by the Council of said city, 
 of which the City Clerk shall give at least ten days previous 
 notice, by written or printed notices, and it shall be the duty 
 of the Marshal to post such notices in three of the most public 
 places in each w T ard. Special elections to fill any vacancy 
 caused by death, resignation, or other cause, shall be conducted 
 in the same way, and upon the same public notice as general 
 elections. 
 
 2. JUDGES OF ELECTION APPOINTMENT AND OATH.] The 
 City Council shall annually, ten days before any city election, 
 appoint three judges of election in each ward, who shall select
 
 14 ORDINANCES. 
 
 two clerks ; said judges shall be sworn to discharge faithfully 
 their duties. If no person shall be present at the opening of 
 the polls authorized to administer oaths, it shall be lawful for 
 the judges, or either of them, to administer the same to each 
 other and to the clerks. The oaths, when thus administered, 
 shall be certified by the judge or judges administering the 
 same, and prefixed to the poll books. 
 
 3. VOTING TO BE BY BALLOT RETURNS MADE TIE.] All 
 voting at city elections shall be by ballot: the judges and 
 clerks shall make out and transmit sealed returns of the elec- 
 tion in each ward to the City Clerk on the day after the elec- 
 tion ; and whenever there shall be a tie in the ballots cast for 
 any city officer at any election, the judges of such election 
 shall certify the fact to the Mayor of the city who, in the pres- 
 ence of the City Council, shall proceed to determine the same 
 by lot as hereinafter provided. 
 
 4. MANNER OF DECIDING TIE VOTES.] The manner of de- 
 termining tie votes shall be as follows : 
 
 When the tie vote is cast for any officer, except the Mayor, 
 due notice of the time and place having been given, the 
 Mayor shall proceed in the presence of the aldermen of said 
 city, or a majority of them, to determine by lot who shall fill 
 the office, the ballots for which are a tie as aforesaid, by making 
 a number of similar ballots equal to the number of persons so 
 having a tie, and on one of said ballots he shall write the 
 name of the office, the ballots for which shall be a tie as afore- 
 said, leaving the other ballots blank, and put all of said bal- 
 lots in a convenient box or place, from which each of the per- 
 sons so having a tie shall draw one ballot, and the person draw- 
 ing the ballot with the name of the office written thereon, shall 
 be declared by the City Council to be elected ; and if any per- 
 son so having received a tie as aforesaid, after being duly no- 
 tified, shall absent himself from the place of meeting, the 
 Mayor shall draw a ballot for such perso n. When two or 
 more persons shall have an equal number of votes for the office 
 of Mayor, the City Clerk shall certify the same to the City 
 Council, who shall proceed to determine the same by lot, by 
 making a number of similar ballots equal to the number of 
 persons having an equal number of votes for Mayor, and on 
 one of them he shall write the word "Mayor," and put them 
 into some convenient box or place, and the persons so having 
 an equal number of votes shall each draw one ballot, and the 
 person drawing the ballot with the word "Mayor" so written 
 on, shall be the Mayor. In case of the absence of any such
 
 FEES AND SALARIES. 15 
 
 person, having notice of the time and place of the meeting, 
 it shall be the duty of the city clerk to draw for such person. 
 
 5. TlME OF OPENING AND CLOSING POLLS PROCLAMATION.] 
 
 The polls shall be opened at the hour of eight o'clock in the 
 morning and continue open until seven o'clock in the after- 
 noon of the same day, at which time the polls shall be closed. 
 Upon opening the polls, one of the judges or clerks of election 
 shall make proclamation that the polls are open, and at least 
 thirty minutes before closing the polls proclamation shall be 
 made in like manner that the polls will be closed in half an 
 hour. 
 
 6. BALLOT BOXES JUDGES TO EXAMINE AND LOCK.] A bal- 
 lot box shall be provided for the use of the judges of each 
 ward, with a lock and key, and in the top or lid an aperture 
 not larger than shall be necessary to receive a single folded 
 ballot. On the opening of the polls, the judges shall examine 
 the ballot boxes, and have them closed and locked in the pres- 
 ence of all the spectators. 
 
 7. POLL BOOKS TO BE PROVIDED MANNER OF KEEPING, ETC.] 
 
 The City Clerk shall provide two poll books for each ward, 
 with columns ruled for the name and numerical designation of 
 each elector ; which poll books may be in the following form, 
 to- wit : 
 
 POLL BOOK 
 
 Of an election held in the ward of the city of Blooming- 
 ton, at the in said ward, on the third Monday of April, in 
 
 the year 18 , as follows, to-wit : 
 
 Number. 
 
 Names of Voters. 
 
 Number. 
 
 Names of Voters, 
 
 1 
 3 
 
 A. B. 
 C. D. 
 E, F. 
 
 37 
 38 
 40 
 
 R. S. 
 T. U. 
 V. W. 
 
 The poll books shall be kept by the clerks, and the names 
 of voters shall be written and numbered in the order in which 
 they vote. No returns shall be rejected for any defect in the 
 manner of administering or entering the oath aforesaid in the 
 returns. 
 
 8. MANNER OF CANVASSING BALLOTS.] The judges and 
 clerks shall count the ballots. No ballot shall be rejected for 
 want of form, if the judges can determine therefrom to their 
 satisfaction the person intended to be voted for, and the office 
 which the voter intended such person should fill. The clerk
 
 16 ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall mark down the votes each candidate shall receive, and 
 the office for which he shall be designated in the ballot. 
 
 9. RETURNS OF ELECTION FORM.] The clerks shall each 
 make out returns of the election by writing at full length the 
 name of every person voted for, the office for which he shall 
 be designated, and the number of votes received by him. Re- 
 turns may be in the following from : 
 
 "At an election held at , in the ward of the 
 
 city of Bloomington, in the State of Illinois, in the year eigh- 
 teen hundred and , the following named persons received 
 
 the number of votes annexed to their respective names, for 
 the following described offices, to- wit : 
 
 A. B. had votes for Mayor. 
 
 C. D. had votes for Mayor. 
 
 (And so on through the whole list of offices voted for at the 
 election.) 
 
 Certified by us, Bloomington, April , 18 . 
 
 G \ IL ' 1 Clerks of Election. 
 
 y Judges of Election. 
 
 Attest : 
 G. II 
 I.J., / 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 FEES AND SALARIES. 
 
 SECTION l. Compensation of Mayor and aldermen. 
 
 2. Fees of Marshal and policemen. 
 
 3. Fees of jurors. 
 
 4. Fees of witnesses. 
 
 5. Pay of judges and clerks of election. 
 
 6. Fees for impounding and feeding animals. 
 
 7. Fees of City Sexton. 
 
 8. Fees of oil inspectors. 
 
 9. Fees of Inspector of Weights and Measures. 
 
 10. Fees of City Measurer. 
 
 11. Fees of City Weigher. 
 
 12. Compensation of other city officers. 
 
 13. How salaries paid. 
 
 SECTION 1. COMPENSATION OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.] The 
 Mayor of the city of Bloomington shall receive an annual 
 salary of five hundred dollars ; and each alderman of the city 
 shall receive for his services the sum of three dollars per night 
 for each meeting actually attended by him. 
 
 2. FEES OF MARSHAL AND POLICEMEN.] The fees of the 
 City Marshal and members of the police force of the city tor 
 serving process shall be the same as are by the statutes of the
 
 FEES AND SALARIES. 17 
 
 State of Illinois allowed to constables of McLean county for 
 like services ; and it shall be tbe duty of said Marshal and 
 members of the police force to see to the collection of all fees 
 due them for serving process and otherwise, where the same 
 is collectible, and to account for the same to the city. 
 
 3. FEES OF JURORS.] Every juror serving on a petit 
 jnry before a police magistrate of said city, or before any jus- 
 tice for the recovery of any penalty or fine incurred for the 
 violation of an ordinance, shall receive the sum of fifty cents 
 per day, the same to be advanced by the defendant demanding 
 a jury in the cause. 
 
 4. FEES OF WITNESSES.] Each witness attending before 
 any police magistrate or justice of the peace, in trials for vio- 
 lations of ordinances shall receive the sum of fifty cents per 
 day. 
 
 5. PAY OF JUDGES AND CLERKS OF ELECTIONS.] Judges and 
 clerks of city elections shall receive for their services the sum 
 of three dollars per day each ; and where a registration is re- 
 quired the same shall be paid to the clerks for making registry. 
 
 6. FEES FOR IMPOUNDING AND FEEDING ANIMALS.] For 
 impounding and feeding animals at large contrary to ordinance, 
 the following fees shall be allowed : 
 
 For taking up and impounding geese, the sum often cents 
 per head. 
 
 For taking up and impounding any other species of animal, 
 the sum of twent} r -five cents per head. 
 
 To the Pound-keeper for keeping and feeding geese within 
 the pound, the sum of five cents per day per head. 
 
 To the Pound-keeper for keeping and feeding hogs, shoats 
 and pigs within the pound, the sum of fifteen cents per day 
 per head. 
 
 To the Pound-keeper for keeping and feeding any and all 
 other animals impounded, the sum of twenty-five cents per 
 day per head. 
 
 To the Pound-keeper for receiving animals taken up and 
 driven to the pound by any policeman or other authorized 
 person, the following sums : 
 
 For receiving geese, five cents per head. 
 
 For receiving other animals, ten cents per head. 
 
 To the Pound-keeper for advertising and selling any animal 
 to satisfy any judgment, the same fees and commissions as are 
 allowed by the statutes of Illinois to constables of McLean 
 county for advertising and selling property under execution. 
 
 Provided: That in no case shall the City Marshal or any 
 policeman receive any fees for taking up or impounding 
 
 3
 
 18 ORDINANCES. 
 
 animals ; but the Pound-keeper shall in the case of such officers 
 collect the usual fees and pay them over to the city. 
 
 7. FEES OF CITY SEXTON.] The City Sexton shall be en- 
 titled to demand and receive the following fees, to-wit : 
 
 For each interment of the body of a person under ten years 
 of age, two dollars. 
 
 For each interment of the body of a person above ten years 
 of age, four dollars. 
 
 AVhich fees shall be paid by the person requiring his services 
 and shall be in addition to the salary allowed by the City 
 Council to said Sexton. 
 
 8. FEES OF OIL INSPECTORS.] Inspectors of oil and burning 
 fluid shall receive as fees, to be paid by those requiring their 
 services : For each package, cask or barrel, when inspected 
 in quantities of less than a car load, ten cents ; when inspected 
 in quantities of a car load or more, five cents ; when inspected 
 in tank, at the rate of five cents per forty gallons. 
 
 9. FEES OF INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.] The 
 fees of the Inspector of Weights and Measures of the city of 
 Bloomington shall be as follows, to be paid by those requiring 
 his services, to-wit : 
 
 For inspecting and stamping platform scales of five thousand 
 pounds or more, including weights, one dollar each. 
 
 For inspecting and stamping platform scales of less denom- 
 ination, including weights, fifty cents each. 
 
 For inspecting and stamping large beams of one thousand 
 pounds capacity, or more, including weights, twenty-five cents 
 each ; those of smaller capacity, fifteen cents each. 
 
 For inspecting and stamping counter scales and balances, 
 including weights, fifteen cents each. 
 
 For inspecting and stamping an entire set of dry measures, 
 twent}*-five cents ; for a less number, each measure, ten cents. 
 
 For inspecting and stamping an entire set of wine, liquid 
 or beer measures, twenty-five cents; for a less number, each 
 measure, five cents. 
 
 For linear measures, each yard, five cents. Provided, That 
 not exceeding twenty-five cents shall be charged any business 
 house for a single inspection. 
 
 To the above fees may be added in any case necessary drayage 
 of standards not to exceed fifty cents, together with reasonable 
 charges for correcting erroneous weights and measures, if done 
 at the request of the owner. 
 
 10. FEES OF CITY MEASURER.] The City Measurer shall 
 receive for the inspection and measurement of lumber, ten cents 
 per thousand feet; for the measurement of other building
 
 FEES AND SALARIES. 19 
 
 material or mechanical work, fifty cents per hour, including 
 the time of going to and from the place where such material 
 or work may be situated. One-half of all fees provided for in 
 this section shall be paid by each of the contracting parties. 
 
 11. FEES OP CITY WEIGHER.] The City Weigher shall de- 
 mand and receive the following fees, to-wit : 
 
 For each car load of any article weighed, seventy-five cents. 
 
 For each draught, when the whole amount to be weighed 
 is less than a car load, ten cents. 
 
 Any city weigher who shall demand or receive any greater 
 sum for weighing than herein provided, shall be fined ten 
 dollars. 
 
 12. COMPENSATION OF OTHER CITY OFFICERS.] All city 
 officers whose salaries or compensation is not fixed by law or 
 ordinance, shall receive such compensation as the City Council 
 may by ordinance, resolution or otherwise allow, the same to 
 be paid monthly by order of said Council. Provided, That said 
 Council shall fix the compensation of every such officer before 
 he enters upon his official term, which compensation shall not 
 be increased nor diminished during such officers' term of office. 
 
 13. How SALARIES PAID.] All salaries of officers shall 
 be paid by allowance of the City Council, and in no case shall 
 any officer retain any money belonging to the city collected 
 by him, in payment of any salary which may be due him from 
 the city, unless expressly authorized so to do by ordinance.
 
 20 ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHAPTER 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 DIVISION 1. COMPOSITION AND RULES. 
 DIVISION 2. FIRE LIMITS. 
 
 DIVISION 1. 
 Composition and Rules. 
 
 SECTION 1. Composition of fire department. 
 
 2. Chief Engineer's duties to have control of property, etc. 
 
 3. Chief Engineer to look after property, etc. 
 
 4. Chief Engineer to have command at fires, etc. 
 
 5. Who to command in absence of Chief Engineer. 
 
 6. Duties of engineers. 
 
 7. Amount of steam carried water guages signals. 
 
 8. Duties of drivers. 
 
 9. Duties of other members. 
 
 10. Deportment of members. 
 
 11. Intoxicating liquors. 
 
 12. Intoxication of members. 
 
 13. Police force to assist. 
 
 14. Violation penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. COMPOSITION OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.] The fire 
 department of the city of Bloomington shall, until otherwise 
 ordered by the City Council, consist of one Chfef Engineer of 
 the fire department, and two fire companies, to be designated 
 respectively as No. 1 and No. 2 ; each of wKich companies 
 shall be composed of members as follows : one engineer, one 
 stoker or fireman, one driver of engine, one driver of hose- 
 cart, and six hosemen. 
 
 2. CHIEF ENGINEER'S DUTIES TO HAVE CONTROL OF PROP- 
 ERTY, ETC.] The Chief Engineer of the fire department shall, 
 under the Mayor, be the chief executive officer of the depart- 
 ment, subject to the rules, regulations and orders of the com- 
 mittee on fire department and the City Council, and shall have 
 under such conditions sole control and command of all prop- 
 erty belonging to the department, and of all subordinates in 
 the service. He shall enforce the faithful observance of the 
 ordinances of the city and the orders of the committee on fire 
 department. 
 
 3. CHIEF ENGINEER TO LOOK AFTER PROPERTY, ETC.] It 
 shall be the duty of the Chief Engineer to see that the engines, 
 horses, and all property and apparatus, provided for the use 
 of the fire department, is protected from violence and kept 
 clean and in perfect condition for immediate use.
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 21 
 
 4. CHIEF ENGINEER TO HAVE COMMAND AT FIRES, ETC.] At 
 all fires the Chief Engineer shall have sole command ; and all 
 members of the fire department, and all policemen of the city 
 shall, during the continuance of any fire, be subject to his 
 orders ; he may, when deemed necessary for the extinguish- 
 ment of any fire, call to his aid any person present, and it 
 shall be the duty of every person so called upon by the Chief 
 Engineer, to render prompt assistance. 
 
 5. WHO TO COMMAND IN ABSENCE OF CHIEF ENGINEER.] 
 
 The chief engineer shall designate some discreet and compe- 
 tent member of the fire department, who shall have command 
 at all fires from which such chief engineer may from any 
 cause be absent, and when so designated, and the members of 
 the fire department duly notified thereof, he shall exercise 
 like powers as might be exercised by the chief engineer if 
 present. 
 
 6. DUTIES OF ENGINEERS.] The engineers shall have the 
 control and management of their respective steamers, and 
 shall be held responsible for their good condition. They shall 
 keep said steamers always ready and in order for immediate 
 use. Each engineer shall direct and superintend the stoker 
 of his engine in the performance of his duties upon and about 
 such engine, and, when practicable, shall give him instruc- 
 tions with regard to the construction and care of the engine. 
 Each engineer shall keep his engine, as also the room in which 
 it is kept, clean and neat, and shall report to the chief engi- 
 neer all repairs which may be needed. 
 
 7. AMOUNT OF STEAM CARRIED WATER GAUGES SIGNALS.] 
 Each engineer shall carry the amount of steam in his engine 
 required by the chief engineer ; in no case, however, to ex- 
 ceed one hundred and twenty pounds ; he shall examine the 
 water gauge of his engine at least twice a day, while in the 
 engine house, and shall, at all times, have two full gauges of 
 water in his engine ; always immediately previous to starting 
 the water through the hose, he shall as a signal blow the 
 whistle once ; when the hose bursts or a hoseman is needed 
 for any purpose, he shall blow the whistle twice, and the 
 officer in command shall have the signal promptly answered. 
 
 8. DUTIES or DRIVERS.] Each driver of engine shall 
 obey the orders of the engineer of the engine he drives, sub- 
 ject to the supervision of the Chief Engineer; he shall keep 
 the horses, harness, and stable, in a clean and neat condition, 
 giving the horses daily exercise, but without in any case un- 
 necessarily running the same ; and each driver of hose-cart 
 shall perform like duties respecting the horse or horses in
 
 22 ORDINANCES. 
 
 his charge, and shall, in addition, keep the hose in good con- 
 dition for immediate use. 
 
 9. DUTIES OF OTHER MEMBERS.] All members of the fire 
 department shall, upon alarm being given, repair speedily to 
 the scene of the fire, and there perform their duties in a 
 prompt and orderly manner; and in no case shall any mem- 
 ber leave the scene of a fire without permission of the Chief 
 Engineer. 
 
 10. DEPORTMENT OF MEMBERS.] In conduct and deport- 
 ment all members of the tire department must be quiet, civil 
 and orderly, maintaining strict decorum in the performance 
 of duties ; and they shall, at all times, refrain from the use 
 of harsh, violent, profane or insolent language. 
 
 11. INTOXICATING LIQUORS.] No intoxicating liquors of 
 any kind shall be kept, drank, or allowed, in or about any 
 engine-house, or at, or in the vicinity of, any engine or appa- 
 ratus, during a fire ; and for every violation of this section 
 the offender shall be fined not less than ten nor more than 
 one hundred dollars; and if a member of the department, it 
 shall be deemed sufficient ground for discharge. 
 
 12. INTOXICATION OF MEMBERS.] Any member of the 
 fire department, who shall, at any time, be in a state of in- 
 toxication, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor exceed- 
 ing fifty dollars, and such intoxication shall be deemed suffi- 
 cient ground for discharge. 
 
 13. POLICE FORCE TO ASSIST.] The police force of the 
 city shall co-operate with the fire department in the extin- 
 guishment of fires and the performance of their duties gene- 
 rally, particularly in carrying any alarm of fire to the respec- 
 tive engine houses. The City Marshal shall superintend the 
 performance of the duties prescribed in this section, during 
 the day time, and the captain of the night police at night. 
 
 14. VIOLATION PENALTY.] For each violation of any 
 provision of the preceding sections hereof, for which no 
 penalty is fixed, the person offending shall be fined not ex- 
 ceeding one hundred dollars ; and where the offender is a 
 member of the fire department, the Chief Engineer shall re- 
 port the case to the Mayor and City Council for their action.
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT, 23 
 
 DIVISION 2. 
 Fire Limits. 
 
 SECTION 1. Boundaries of fire limits. 
 
 2. Wooden buildings in fire limits Penalty. 
 " 3. Unlawful building Nuisance. 
 
 SECTION 1. BOUNDARIES OF FIRE LIMITS.] All that part of 
 the city of Bloomington embraced within the following bound- 
 aries shall hereafter be known as the fire limits of said city; 
 that is to say : 
 
 Beginning at a point in the center of the track of the In- 
 dianapolis, Bloomington & Western Railroad, due south of the 
 west line of East street, in said city, running thence due north 
 through the center of the blocks between Main and Albert 
 streets, and up and along the said west line of East street to 
 the intersection of said line with the north line of Grove street ; 
 thence east along said north line of Grove street to its inter- 
 section with the west line of Prairie street : thence north along 
 said west line of Prairie street to its intersection with the 
 south line of Mulberry street; thence west along said south 
 line of Mulberry street to a point due south of the west line 
 of East street, as the same extends northward from said Mul- 
 berry street; thence north across said Mulberry street and 
 along said west line of East street to the point of its inter- 
 section with the south line of Locust street ; thence west along 
 said south line of Locust street to its intersection with the 
 east line of Center street ; thence south along said east line of 
 Center street to its intersection with the south line of Mul- 
 berry street; thence west along said south line of Mulberry 
 street to the point of its it tersection with the east line of 
 West street ; thence south along said east line of West street to 
 the point of its intersection with the north line of Olive street; 
 thence east along said north line of Olive street to the point 
 of its intersection with the east line of Center street ; thence 
 south along said east line of Center street to a point in the 
 center of the track of the said Indianapolis, Bloomington & 
 Western Railroad ; thence southeasterly along the center of 
 said track to the place of beginning. 
 
 2. WOODEN BUILDING IN FIRE LIMITS PENALTY.] Who- 
 ever shall construct, erect, enlarge, repair, orremovefrom one 
 place to another within the fire limits of the city, or shall re- 
 move from without said limits within the ^ame any building 
 or structure, or part of any building or structure, the outer or 
 party Avails of which are in whole or in part composed of wood,
 
 24 ORDINANCES. 
 
 or shall build or attach any wooden cornice or other wooden 
 addition to or upon any building or structure now or hereafter 
 being within said fire limits without permission first obtained 
 from the City Council, shall on conviction be fined not less 
 than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 3. UNLAWFUL BUILDING NUISANCE.] Every building or 
 structure or part of any building or structure constructed, en- 
 larged, repaired, removed or in process thereof, and even- 
 wooden cornice, or other wooden addition to any building 
 built or constructed, or in process of building or construction, 
 in violation of the next preceding section- of this division is 
 hereby declared to be a nuisance, and in addition to the fine 
 prescribed in said section any such unlawful building, structure, 
 cornice or addition, as also the person responsible for the 
 same, may be further proceeded against, as provided in the 
 chapter of the ordinances of said city entitled nuisances. 
 
 CHAPTER VHL 
 
 GRADES. 
 
 SECTION 1. Base plane for grades. 
 
 2. Grades at center lines of streets, etc. 
 
 3. Grades of building lines and sidewalks. 
 
 4. Construction of sidewalks commissioner's report. 
 
 5. Sidewalk off srade nuisance. 
 
 6. Grades established. 
 
 7. Construction. 
 
 SECTION 1. BASE PLANE FOR GRADES.] All grades within 
 the city of Bloomington shall be reckoned and computed from 
 a base or datum plane one hundred and twenty feet below the 
 top of the water table of the Ashley House at the northwest 
 corner of Center and Jefferson streets, in said city; from 
 which plane the grades herein fixed and established are com- 
 puted, said plane being counted zero, and the figures in each 
 case showing the number of feet and decimal fractions of feet 
 that each grade is above the said base or datum plane. 
 
 2. GRADES AT CENTER LINES OF STREETS, ETC.] The grades 
 of said city shown by the figures hereinafter contained, are 
 at the center lines of the streets for which they are given, and 
 at the several points named upon said lines, and where grades 
 are given at the intersection of streets, unless otherwise ex- 
 pressly stated, the point designated shall be understood to be
 
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 the intersection of the center lines of such streets, or the 
 point where said lines would intersect if extended. 
 
 3. GRADE OF BUILDING LINES AND SIDEWALKS.] The outer 
 and building lines of the streets of said city, shall be respec- 
 tively as near as practicable of the same height of grade as 
 the center of their respective streets, due allowance being 
 made for the grades of cross streets, and the grades of side- 
 walks shall conform to the grades of their respective streets, 
 and shall be six inches above the same. 
 
 4. CONSTRUCTION OF SIDEWALKS COMMISSIONER'S REPORT.] 
 No person shall construct or cause to be constructed any side- 
 walk or part thereof, within the fire limits, without first ob- 
 taining the exact grade of such sidewalk, from the Commis- 
 sioner of Sidewalks, and when the same is obtained, the said 
 sidewalk shall be constructed according to the established 
 grade; and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Side- 
 walks to give the grade of the proposed sidewalk, to such ap- 
 plicant, and to make report to the Council as to whether said 
 sidewalk is built according to the established grade. Whoever 
 shall violate any provision of this section shall, upon convic- 
 tion, forfeit and pay a penalty of five dollars for each offence. 
 
 5. SIDEWALKS OFF GRADE NUISANCE.] All sidewalks 
 hereafter built, which do not conform to the grades of their 
 respective streets as required in the next preceding section, 
 as also all sidewalks now constructed, which may be off grade, 
 and the owners of which shall have been given ten days' 
 notice in pursuance of an order of the City Council to bring 
 the same to grade, and the same has not been done, are hereby 
 declared to be nuisances, and the same shall be taken up, re- 
 moved and abated, as other nuisances, and the site thereof 
 incorporated by the Commissioner of Sidewalks, in an ordi- 
 nance for the construction of a proper sidewalk thereon, in 
 pursuance of law. 
 
 6. GRADES ESTABLISHED.] The grades of said city at 
 the points below indicated, are hereby established by authority 
 of the Cifcy Council as follows, to-wit : 
 
 Mason Street. Mason Street. 
 
 North street, 69.8 Chestnut street, 79.1 
 
 Slough, 63.5 Walnut street. 76.6 
 
 Market street, 64.5 Empire street, 70.7 
 
 Mulberry street, 81.5 Scott street, 68.5 
 
 Intermediate, 82.7 Graham street, 72.5 
 
 Locust street, 81.5 Slough, 68.5 
 
 Center of block, 82.5 Seminary avenue, 73.0 
 4
 
 26 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Mason Street. 
 225 feet, north, 78.5 
 
 375 feet, north, 81.0 
 
 575 feet, north, 77.0 
 
 Division street, 58.5 
 
 Oak Street. 
 
 Front street, 79.3 
 
 Washington street, 86.42 
 Jefferson street, 80.5 
 North street, 83.0 
 
 Market street, 73.3 
 
 Slough, 68.3 
 
 Mulberry street, 73.0 
 Locust street, 85.0 
 
 Center of block, 87.3 
 Chestnut street, 85.1 
 Walnut street, 81.0 
 
 Intermediate, 83.3 
 
 Empire street, 78.2 
 
 Scott street, 74.0 
 
 Graham street, 76.0 
 
 Alley, 72.0 
 
 Union street, 70.0 
 
 Seminary avenue, 77.0 
 
 Lee Street. 
 
 Springfield road, 132.6 
 
 Hunter street, 128.2 
 
 Wood street, 122.0 
 
 Elm street, 110.8 
 
 South Grove at., 102.8 
 
 Clay street, 100.0 
 Mill street, 95.25 
 
 South Water street, 78.6 
 Slough, 73.5 
 
 I., B. & W. R. R., 75.42 
 Intermediate, 73.5 
 
 Olive street, 79.0 
 
 Center of block, 81.5 
 Grove street, 80.0 
 
 Front street, 99.5 
 
 Washington street, 95.5 
 Jefferson street, 93.75 
 North street, 92.0 
 
 Market street, 79.0 
 
 Slough, 70.5 
 
 Lee Street. 
 
 Mulberry street, 71.5 
 Locust street, 85.5 
 
 Chestnut street, 92.25 
 
 Walnut street, 86.8 
 
 Intermediate, 88.8 
 
 Empire street, 84.8 
 
 Scott street, 79.0 
 
 Graham street, 81.0 
 Union street, 73.0 
 
 Seminary avenue, 81.0 
 
 West Street. 
 South Grove street, 91.5 
 Clay street, 85.55 
 
 Mill street, 79.6 
 
 Water street, 74.3 
 
 I., B. & W. R. R., 76.4 
 Intermediate, 75.4 
 
 Olive street, 86.5 
 
 Center of block, 89.6 
 Grove street, 88.2 
 
 Front street, 94.7 
 
 Washington street, 99.0 
 
 Jefferson street, 103.0 
 
 North street, 100.0 
 Market street, 77.5 
 
 Slough, 71.0 
 
 Mulberry street, 73.0 
 
 Locust street, 89.75 
 Chestnut street, 96.26 
 Walnut street, 92.5 
 
 Empire street, 88.0 
 
 Scott street, 85.0 
 
 Graham street, 83.0 
 
 Slough, 74.0 
 
 Union street, 76.0 
 
 Seminary avenue, 85.0 
 
 Madison Street. 
 
 Wood street, 116.0 
 
 Elm street, 108.25 
 South Grove street, 100.5 
 Clay street, 97.0 
 
 Mill street, 83.0 
 
 Intermediate, 73.44 
 
 I., B. & W. R. R., 77.6
 
 GRADES. 
 
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 Madison Street. 
 
 Water street* 75.4 
 
 Kentucky alley, 81.1 
 
 Olive street, ' 92.0 
 
 Grove street, 98.5 
 
 Front street, 101.0 
 
 Washington street, 105.5 
 
 Jefterson street, 111.8 
 
 Center of block, 110.6 
 
 North street, 104.25 
 
 Market street, 83.25 
 
 Slough, 74.6 
 
 Mulberry street, 75.5 
 
 Locust street, 92.0 
 
 Chestnut street, 99.2 
 
 Walnut street, 97.0 
 
 Empire street, 85.0 
 
 Scott street, 82.0 
 
 Graham street, 80.0 
 
 Intermediate, 77.0 
 
 Union street, 81.0 
 
 Seminary avenue, 91.0 
 
 Center Street. 
 
 Wood street, 123.5 
 
 Elm street, ' 116.0 
 
 . South Grove st., 108.5 
 
 Clay street, 94,5 
 
 Mill street, 82.5 
 
 I.,B. &W. R. R., 79.2 
 
 South slough, 78.75 
 
 Water alley, 82.16 
 
 Kentucky alley, 88.86 
 
 Olive street, 96.75 
 
 Grove street, 101.8 
 
 Front street, 107.3 
 
 Washington street, 112.4 
 
 Jefferson street, 116.8 
 
 Center of block, 115.0 
 
 North street, 109.0 
 
 Market street, 86.03 
 
 North slough, 77.89 
 
 Locust street, 86.48 
 
 Chestnut street, 97.0 
 
 Walnut street, 94.7 
 
 Empire street, 83.0 
 
 Main Street. 
 Scott street, 81.0 
 
 Center of block, 82.0 
 Graham street, 81.0 
 
 Filmore street, 82.0 
 
 Intermediate, 83.0 
 
 Union street, 84.0 
 
 Seminary avenue, 91.0 
 
 Main Street. 
 
 Rankin street, 129.75 
 
 Wood street, 122.0 
 
 Elm street, 113.0 
 
 South Grove st., 106.0 
 Clay street, 95.0 
 
 Mill street, 81.5 
 
 I, B. & W. R. R., 80.6 
 Slough, 80.1 
 
 Water alley, 86.0 
 
 Kentucky alley, 94.66 
 
 Olive street, 103.3 
 
 Grove street, 111.25 
 
 Front street, 116.4 
 
 Center of block, 116.7 
 Washington street, 114.8 
 
 Jefterson street, 111.6 
 
 North street, 102.7 
 Market street, 87.2 
 
 West Mulberry, 83.2 
 East Mulberry, 83.5 
 
 Locust street, 89.25 
 
 Chestnut street, 99.5 
 Walnut street, 93.0 
 
 Empire 'street, 86.0 
 
 Scott street, ' 87.0 
 
 Graham street, 88.5 
 
 Filmore street, 88,0 
 
 Intermediate, 87.8 
 
 Union street, 89.8 
 
 Seminary avenue, 93.0 
 Kelsey street, 81.0 
 
 Division street, 71.5 
 
 East Street. 
 
 Olive street, 111.5 
 
 Grove street, 115.12 
 
 Front street, 113.25
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 East Street. 
 
 Washington street, 107.0 
 Jefferson street, 105.0 
 Center of block, 103.5 
 North street, 97.48 
 
 Market street, 83.0 
 
 Slough, 
 
 Mulberry st, west, 88.57 
 Mulberry St., east, 92.0 
 Locust street, 102.5 
 
 Center of block, 104.8 
 Chestnut street, 103.0 
 Walnut street, 97.0 
 
 Empire street, 89.0 
 
 Granite street, 95.0 
 
 Center of block, 96.5 
 University avenue, 95.0 
 
 Prairie Street. 
 Grove street, 112.96 
 
 Intermediate, 114.4 
 
 Front street, 111.75 
 
 Washington street, 106.5 
 Jefferson street, 108.5 
 North street, 104.0 
 
 Woodard street, 91.25 
 Slough, 83.5 
 
 Douglas street, 84.0 
 
 Mulberry street, 89.0 
 Locust street, 102.5 
 
 Chestnut street, 106.5 
 Walnut street, 100.0 
 
 Empire street, 95.8 
 
 Granite street, 101.5 
 
 Center of block, 103.0 
 University avenue, 101.0 
 
 Gridley street. 
 Clay street, 
 Hickory street, 
 Center of block, 82.1 
 Jackson street, 84.9 
 
 Taylor street, 90.7 
 
 Olive street, 99.4 
 
 Grove street, 111.95 
 
 Front street, 113.75 
 
 Washington street, 110.5 
 
 Gridley Street. 
 
 Jefferson street, 113.5 
 
 Center of block, 112.4 
 
 North street, 106.8 
 
 Woodard street, 90.75 
 
 Slough, 84.0 
 
 Douglas street, 86.5 
 
 McLean Street. 
 Clay street, 
 Hickory street, 
 Jackson street, 
 Taylor street, 
 
 Olive street, 106.5 
 
 Grove street, 115.14 
 
 Front street, 118.25 
 
 Center of block, 120.9 
 
 Washington street, 119.5 
 
 Jefferson street, 110.0 
 
 North street, 98.1 
 
 Woodard street, 86.2 
 
 Douglas street, 92.35 
 
 Mulberry street, 95.5 
 
 Locust street, 102.5 
 
 Chestnut street, 112.5 
 
 Walnut street, 108.5 
 
 Empire street, 105.0 
 
 Boon Street. 
 
 Stewart street, 141.0 
 
 Lincoln street, 137.0 
 
 Intermediate, 138.0 
 
 Bissell street, 136.0 
 
 Buchanan street, 133.75 
 
 Fremont street, 129.0 
 
 Niccolls street, 125.5 
 
 Wood street, 119.0 
 
 Elm street, 112.5 
 
 South Grove street, 105.0 
 
 Clay street, 95.5 
 
 Wright Street. 
 
 Stewart street, 135.5 
 
 Intermediate, 132.0 
 
 Lincoln street, 135.0 
 
 Intermediate, 138.0 
 
 Bissell street, 135.5 
 
 Buchanan street, 131.5
 
 GRADES. 
 
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 Wright Street. 
 Fremont street, 125.5 
 ISTiccolls street, 120.5 
 Intermediate, 122.5 
 
 Elm street, 105.0 
 
 South Grove street, 99.5 
 Clay street, 92.5 
 
 South Grove Street. 
 Intermediate between 
 
 Boon and "Wright 
 
 streets, 107.0 
 
 Olive Street. 
 
 Robinson street, 100.0 
 Clinton street, 105.0 
 
 Clayton street, 113.5 
 Evans street, 116.5 
 
 McLean street, 106 5 
 Gridley st., north, 100.5 
 Gridley st., south, 99.4 
 Albert st., south, 112.5 
 Albert St., north, 113.0 
 East street, 111.5 
 
 Main street, 103.3 
 
 Center street, 96.75 
 
 Madison street, 92.0 
 
 West street, 86.5 
 
 Lee street, 79.0 
 
 363 ft. west of Lee st. 70.4 
 671 ft. west of Lee st. 67.0 
 L, B. & W. R. R., 73.4 
 Low street, 76.0 
 
 Center of block, 85.5 
 Orchard Lane, 88.0 
 
 East line of Lange's 
 
 addition, 90.0 
 
 Lange's alley, 88.0 
 
 Grove Street. 
 Side track of I. C. 
 
 R. R., 117.76 
 
 Robinson street, 113.51 
 Clinton street, 135.84 
 
 Center of block, 118.96 
 Clayton street, 118.76 
 Evans street, 119.83 
 
 McLean street, 115.14 
 
 Grove Street. 
 
 Gridley street, 111.95 
 
 Prairie street, 112.96 
 
 East street, 115.12 
 
 Main street, 111.25 
 
 Center street, 101.8 
 
 Madison street, 98.5 
 
 W T est street, 88.2 
 Lee street, 80.0 
 
 Mason street, 67.5 
 
 Slough, 65.5 
 
 Low street, 68.3 
 
 Orchard Lane, 82.3 
 
 Lange's alley, 
 
 Front Street. 
 Side track of I. C. 
 
 R. R. 116.25 
 
 Robinson street, 112.0 
 
 Clinton street, 107.75 
 
 Clayton street, 111.3 
 
 Evans street, 117.66 
 
 Center of block, 121.3 
 
 McLean street, 118.25 
 
 Gridley street, 113.75 
 
 Prairie street, 111.JT5 
 165ft. E. of East st. 114.5 
 
 East street, 113.25 
 
 Main street, 116.4 
 
 Center street, 107.3 
 
 Madison street, 101.0 
 West street, 94.7 
 
 Lee street. 89.5 
 
 Oak street, 79.3 
 
 Mason street, 71.4 
 
 Slough, 65.0 
 
 Orchard Lane, 70.0 
 
 I., B. & W. R. R,, 75.8 
 Lange's alley, 83.0 
 
 Howard street, 85.5 
 
 Morris avenue, 76.0 
 
 Loehr street, 
 
 Washington Street. 
 Side track of I. C. 
 
 R. R., 116.25 
 
 Intermediate, 108.0
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Washington Street. 
 
 Clinton street, 105.84 
 
 Slough, 105.0 
 
 Clayton street, 108.0 
 
 Evans street, 113.3 
 
 McLean street, 119.5 
 
 Gridley street, 110.5 
 
 Prairie street, 106.3 
 
 Slough, 103.5 
 
 East street, 107.0 
 
 Main street, 114.8 
 
 Center street, 112-4 
 
 Madison street, 105.5 
 
 West street, 99.0 
 
 Lee street, 95.5 
 
 Oak street, 86.42 
 
 Mason street, 77.0 
 
 Slough, 62.5 
 Allin street, 
 Intermediate, 
 Intermediate, 
 Howard street, 
 Morris avenue, 
 
 Jefferson Street. 
 Side track of I. C. 
 
 R. It., 116.6 
 
 Intermediate, 113.0 
 
 Clinton street, 103.5 
 
 Slough, 100.6 
 
 Clayton street, 102.06 
 
 Evans street, 106.0 
 
 McLean street, 110.0 
 
 Gridley street, 113.8 
 
 Prairie street, 108.5 
 194 feet West of 
 
 Prairie street, 101.0 
 226 feet West of 
 
 Prairie street, 100.0 
 
 East street, 105.0 
 
 Center of block, 109,2 
 
 Main street, 111.6 
 
 Center street, 116.8 
 
 Madison street, 111.0 
 
 West street, 103,0 
 
 Lee street, 93.75 
 
 Jefferson Street. 
 
 Oak street, 80.5 
 
 Mason street, 74.2 
 
 Slough, 61.0 
 
 North Street. 
 Alley west of I. C. 
 
 R. R., 120.0 
 
 Clinton street, 102.8 
 
 Clayton street, 94.0 
 
 Slough, 93.0 
 
 Evans street, 94.5 
 
 McLean street, 98.1 
 
 Gridley street, 106.8 
 
 Prairie street, 104.0 
 
 Slough, 94.5 
 
 East street, 97.48 
 
 Main street, 102.7 
 
 Center street, 109.0 
 
 Madison street, 104.25 
 
 West street, 100.0 
 
 Lee street, 92.0 
 
 Oak street, 83.0 
 
 Mason street. 69.8 
 
 Intermediate, 61.8 
 
 Allin street, 60.4 
 
 Catherine street, 57.0 
 
 Howard street, 54.0 
 
 Morris avenue, 51.0 
 
 Market Street. 
 
 East street, 83.0 
 
 Main street, 87.2 
 
 Center street, 87.4 
 
 Madison street, 82.0 
 
 West street, 76.5 
 
 Lee street, 78.0 
 
 Oak street, 73.3 
 
 Mason street, 66.5 
 
 Allin street, 70.0 
 
 Catherine street, 71.9 
 
 Howard street, 70.0 
 233 feet west of 
 
 Howard street, 67.0 
 Bridge under C. 
 
 & A. R. R., 56.0 
 175 feet east of
 
 GRADES. 
 
 31 
 
 Market Street. 
 
 Cranmer street, 61.0 
 
 Cranmer street, 60.0 
 
 Woodard Street. 
 Alley west of I. C. 
 
 R. R., 120.0 
 
 Clinton street, 111.0 
 
 Clayton street, 99.5 
 
 Evans street, 93.0 
 
 McLean street, 86.2 
 
 Douglas Street. 
 Alley west of I. C. 
 
 R. R., 121.0 
 
 Clinton street, 113.5 
 
 Clayton street, 110.5 
 
 Evans street, 105.0 
 
 McLean street, 94.5 
 
 Mulberry Street. 
 Alley west of I. C. 
 
 R. R., 120.0 
 
 Clinton street, 115.5 
 
 Intermediate, 116.0 
 
 Evans street, 103.0 
 
 McLean street, 95.5 
 
 Prairie street, 89.0 
 
 East street, 92.0 
 
 Intermediate, 88.57 
 
 Main street, 83.5 
 
 Center street, 78.0 
 
 Madison street, 75.5 
 
 West street, 73.0 
 
 Lee street, 71.5 
 
 Oak street, 73,0 
 
 Mason street, 81.5 
 
 Center of block, 86.6 
 
 Allin street, 84.0 
 
 Catherine street, 81.0 
 
 Howard street, 74,5 
 
 C. & A. R. R., 70.3 
 
 Lumber street, 72.0 
 
 Locust Street. 
 Alley west of I. C. 
 
 R. R., 
 
 Clinton street, 117,0 
 
 Evans street, 109.5 
 
 Locust Street. 
 
 McLean street, 103.5 
 Intermediate, 244 ft. 
 E. of E. line of 
 
 Prairie street, 100.0 
 
 Prairie street, 102.5 
 
 Intermediate, 104.6 
 
 East street, 102.5 
 
 Main street, 89.25 
 
 Center -street, 86.48 
 
 Madison street, 92.0 
 
 West street, 89.75 
 
 Lee street, 85.5 
 
 Center of block, 86.5 
 
 Oak street, 85.0 
 
 Mason street, 81.5 
 
 Intermediate, 83.5 
 
 Allen street, 81.5 
 
 Catherine street, 78.5 
 Intermediate, 
 Bridge, 
 
 Lumber street, 78.42 
 
 Chestnut Street. 
 I. C. R. R. track, 109.0 
 200 ft. east of Clin- 
 ton street, 115.5 
 Clinton street, 112.0 
 Evans street, 114.0 
 McLean street, 111.5 
 Prairie street, 106.2 
 East street, 103.0 
 Main street, 99.5 
 Center street, 97.0 
 Madison street, 99.2 
 West street, 96.26 
 Lee street, 92.26 
 Oak street, 85.1 
 Mason street, 79.09 
 Allin street, 75.14 
 Catherine street, 72.51 
 C. & A. R. R., 69.0 
 Lumber street, 67.55 
 
 Walnut Street. 
 
 McLean street, 108.5 
 
 Evans street, 111.6
 
 32 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Walnut Street. 
 Center of block, 116.0 
 Clinton street, 114.0 
 
 Empire Street. 
 McLean street, 105.0 
 Evans street, 104.5 
 
 Clinton street, 100.7 * 
 
 150 ft. west of I. C. 
 R. R, track, 106.4 
 
 Empire Street. 
 Track of I. C. R.R. 102.5 
 
 Division Street. 
 Main street, 71.5 
 
 233 feet east, 65.0 
 
 Parker street, 58.5 
 
 200 feet east, 55.5 
 
 400 feet east, 54.5 
 
 Street railway, 58.7 
 
 7. CONSTRUCTION.] Nothing herein contained shall be 
 construed to confer any power on any person to fill or exca- 
 vate any street, or to raise or lower any sidewalk now existing 
 adjacent to any premises, until such street or sidewalk has 
 been by the City Council ordered to be brought to grade; the 
 true intent and meaning of this chapter being to fix and de- 
 termine the grades of streets to which it refers, without order- 
 ing or authorizing the same or any of them to be brought to 
 the grade so fixed.
 
 LICENSES, 33 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 LICENSES. 
 
 DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 " 2. AUCTIONS AND AUCTIONEERS. 
 
 " 3. BILLIARDS AND TEN-PINS. 
 
 " 4. BUTCHERS. 
 
 " 5. HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS. 
 
 " 6. JUNK-SHOPS. 
 
 " 7. MILKMEN. 
 
 " 8. PAWNBROKERS. 
 
 " 9. PORTERS AND RUNNERS. 
 
 " 10. SCAVENGERS. 
 
 " 11. SHOOTING GALLERIES. 
 
 " 12. SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS. 
 
 " 13. VEHICLES. 
 
 " 14. SUNDRY AVOCATIONS. 
 
 DIVISION 1. 
 General Provisions. 
 
 SECTION 1. Manner of applying for and issuing license. 
 
 " 2. Contents of license holder to exhibit same. 
 
 " 3. Time granted for not transferable bond. 
 
 " 4. License subject to Ordinances, etc. revocation and forfeiture. 
 
 SECTION 1. MANNER OF APPLYING FOR AND ISSUING LICENSES.] 
 Licenses shall be granted under the ordinances of the city of 
 Blooraington in the manner and upon the conditions following, 
 and not otherwise : The person desiring license shall make 
 a written application therefor to the City Treasurer, signed by 
 the applicant, stating therein the purpose and time for which 
 license is desired, and the place where the business for which 
 license is sought is to be conducted, and upon presentation of 
 said application to the City Treasurer, and the payment to 
 said Treasurer of the sum required by ordinance for such 
 license, said Treasurer shall issue to the applicant a receipt 
 for the sum paid, specifying therein the purpose, length of 
 time and location, if any, for which license is to be issued, and 
 on delivery of such receipt to the City Clerk it shall be the 
 duty of said Clerk, without further charge, to issue to the ap- 
 plicant a license in accordance with its terms ; and said Clerk
 
 34 ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall preserve in his office all receipts on which licenses are 
 so issued. 
 
 2. CONTENTS OF LICENSE HOLDER TO EXHIBIT THE SAME.] 
 Every license shall contain the name in full of the person to 
 whom the same is granted, the kind of business thereby 
 authorized, the time covered by the same, and where the same 
 is to conduct a local business, the street and the number of 
 the place of business thereby covered, and shall be signed by 
 the City Clerk, attested by the seal of the city, and such 
 license shall not protect the holder thereof beyond the express 
 terms of the license. Every person holding a license shall, 
 upon demand, exhibit the same to any city officer. 
 
 3. TlME GRANTED FOR NOT TRANSFERABLE BOND.] TJn- 
 
 less otherwise specially provided by ordinance, no license shall 
 be granted for a longer period than one year, nor be assign- 
 able or transferable without permission of the City Council, 
 nor be held to authorize any person other than the one therein 
 named to carry on the business therein specified ; and where 
 bond is by ordinance required of the person licensed, the City 
 Clerk shall see to the taking and approving the same unless 
 otherwise specially provided by ordinance. 
 
 4. LICENSE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES, ETC. REVOCATION AND 
 FORFEITURE.] Every license issued shall be taken and held 
 subject to all ordinances and police regulations of the city 
 then existing or afterwards passed, and also subject to revoca- 
 tion in the discretion of the City Council ; at any time on 
 refunding the price paid for the unexpired time of such license ; 
 and on conviction of the person holding any license, of a 
 breach of any ordinance of the city regulating the business 
 therein licensed, the City Council may in its discretion declare 
 such license forfeited, without the repayment above required. 
 The conditions contained in this section shall be made a part 
 of every license issued by said city. 
 
 DIVISION 'J. 
 Auctions and Auctioneers. 
 
 SECTION 1. Auction license. 
 
 " 2. Bond of auctioneer. 
 
 " 3. License issued quarterly application. 
 
 " 4. License not transferable when agent may sell place of business, etc. 
 
 " 5. One per cent, of receipts to be paid to city. 
 
 " 6. Book to be kept monthly statement. 
 
 " 7. Selling without license and other violations penalties. 
 
 " 8. Substitution of articles penalties. 
 
 SECTION 1. AUCTION LICENSE.] No sale of goods, chattels, 
 or personal property, at auction, except sales made under legal
 
 LICENSES. 35 
 
 process, and sales of thoroughbred or imported live stock, sold 
 for breeding purposes, shall be made except by an auctioneer 
 or other person who shall first have obtained from the City 
 Clerk a license, and executed a bond to said city as hereinafter 
 provided. 
 
 2. BOND OF AUCTIONEER.] No person shall receive a 
 license to sell goods at auction in said city until he shall first 
 have executed to said city a bond in the penal sum of five 
 hundred dollars, with two or more securities residing within 
 said city, to be approved by the City Clerk, conditioned for 
 the strict observance of all ordinances of said city respecting 
 auctions and auctioneers, and also for the payment to said city 
 of all moneys belonging to the same which may come into his 
 hands as such auctioneer. 
 
 3. LICENSE ISSUED QUARTERLY APPLICATION.] There shall 
 be charged for every license gran ted under the provisions of this 
 chapter eight and one-third dollars per month payable in ad- 
 vance, and no license shall be granted for a shorter period than 
 three months. . Every applicant for such license having or 
 professing to have a regular auction store or fixed place of 
 business shall state in his written application the location of 
 such store or place of business. 
 
 4. LICENSE NOT TRANSFERABLE AGENT MAY SELL PLACE 
 OF BUSINESS, ETC.] No license issued under the provisions of 
 this chapter shall be transferable, or be held to authorize any 
 person other than the one named therein, or his agent or 
 servant to sell or cry goods at auction, and such agent or 
 servant shall only be authorized to auction goods when it may 
 be necessary to rest his employer, or when from sickness or 
 other emergency such employer is unable to do the business 
 himself, and in no case shall any license be held to authorize 
 any two persons to sell under it at one and the same time, or 
 to cover more than one place of business, or to authorize 
 auction sales at any other than the regular place of business 
 of the person receiving such license, if he have such regular 
 place ; Provided, that any auctioneer may, by first notifying 
 the City Clerk, change the location of his place of business, in 
 which case the .license shall be held to cover such new place; 
 and, Provided further, that any licensed auctioneer may tempo- 
 rarily leave his regular place of business and sell where situate, 
 any property which cannot conveniently be removed to such 
 place of business. 
 
 5. ONE f ER CENT. OF RECEIPTS TO BE PAID TO THE CITY.] In 
 
 addition to the license fees to be paid by auctioneers, as in this 
 chapter provided, it shall be the duty of every person selling
 
 36 ORDINANCES. 
 
 any goods, chattels, or personal property at auction, to pay into 
 the city treasury one per cent, upon the gross receipts of all 
 such sales made by him within the city, by virtue of his license. 
 
 6. BOOK TO BE KEPT MONTHLY STATEMENT.] Every per- 
 son licensed as aforesaid shall procure and keep a book, which 
 shall be subject to the inspection of any city officer, in which 
 he shall keep a correct account of all sales made by such 
 auctioneer, and the gross receipts therefor; and every such 
 person shall, at the end of each month, make out and file with 
 the City Clerk, a statement in writing, and under oath giving the 
 amounts and gross receipts of all sales made by him within 
 the city during such month, to which statement shall be 
 attached the receipt of the City Treasurer, showing the sum 
 or sums paid by such person into the city treasury. In the case 
 of non-resident persons who may be sojourning temporarily 
 in the city, selling goods at auction, the statement required in 
 this section shall be made daily, as soon as may be after the 
 close of each day's sales. 
 
 7. SELLING WITHOUT LICENSE AND OTHER VIOLATIONS- 
 PENALTIES.] Whoever shall sell, or attempt to sell, at public 
 auction within the city of Bloomington, any goods, chattels or 
 personal property, without first having obtained a license and 
 executed a bond as above required, or whoever shall violate 
 any other provision of this chapter, or shall in any particular 
 wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any of its terms, con- 
 ditions or requirements, shall be fined not less than ten dollars 
 nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 8. SUBSTITUTION or ARTICLES PENALTIES.] Whoever shall 
 exhibit and offer for sale at auction any article and induce its 
 purchase by any bidder, and shall afterwards secretly substi- 
 tute any other article for the one so exhibited, with intent to 
 deceive and defraud such bidder; or whoever shall while 
 engaged in or about the making of any auction sale, be guilty 
 of any device, trick, or fraudulent practice with intent thereby 
 to deceive or defraud any bidder shall be fined fifty dollars, 
 and the license of such person'ahall be deemed to be forfeited. 
 
 DIVISION 3. 
 Billiards and Ten-Pins. 
 
 SECTION 1. Billiard tables, ten-pin alleys, etc., licensed. 
 " 2.. When closed penalty. 
 
 3. Minors playing or loitering penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. BILLIARD TABLES, TEN- PIN ALLEYS, ETC., LI- 
 CENSED.] No person shall keep within the city of Bloomington
 
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 any billiard, pool, or pigeon-hole table, or any ten-pin alley, 
 to be used or played upon by others for hire or gain, without 
 first having obtained a license therefor under a penalty of fifty 
 dollars for each offense. The charges for such license shall be 
 at the rate of seventy-five dollars per year. 
 
 2. WHEN CLOSED PENALTY.] All billiard rooms and ten 
 pin alleys within said city shall be kept closed on Sundays; 
 and on week days they shall be closed by eleven o'clock in the 
 evening of each day and be kept closed until five o'clock in the 
 morning of the next day following. Any person violating this 
 section shall for each offense be fined not less than ten dollars 
 nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 3. MINORS PLAYING OR LOITERING PENALTY.] No keeper 
 of any billiard room or ten pin alley within said city shall per- 
 mit any person under the age of twenty-one years to play at 
 auy game upon any table or alley kept by him, nor shall he 
 permit any such person to frequent his place of business or to 
 loiter or remain therein, unless upon the written consent and 
 permission of the parent or guardian of such person, and for 
 every violation of any provision of this section, the person 
 violating the same shall be fined ten dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 4. 
 Butchers. 
 
 SECTION 1. Butcher's license rate and time definition. 
 
 2. Butchers to keep book, etc. penalty. 
 
 3. Butchers to make monthly report penalty. 
 
 4. Killing diseased animal, etc. penalty. 
 
 5. Keeping flesh of diseased animal, etc., penalty. 
 
 6. Meat inspectors powers and duties. 
 
 7. Penalties appeal to Marshsil or Mayor allowed. 
 
 8. Moieties officer not to receive how applied for. 
 
 SECTION 1. BUTCHER'S LICENSE RATE AND TIME DEFINI- 
 TION.] Whoever shall pursue the calling of a butcher within 
 the city of Blooinington without first having obtained a license 
 therefor, in pursuance of this division, shall be fined one hun- 
 dred dollars. The rate of butcher's license shall be ten dollars 
 per year or a proportionate sum for any shorter period, and 
 every such license shall expire on the 30th day of April next, 
 after the granting thereof. Every dealer in fresh meat shall 
 be deemed a butcher within the meaning of this division. 
 
 2. BUTCHER TO KEEP BOOK, ETC. PENALTY .] Every 
 butcher shall keep a well bound book to be furnished by the 
 City Clerk at the expense of the city, in which he shall cause 
 to be legibly recorded in ink a description of each animal 
 either slaughtered by him or the flesh of which he keeps for 
 sale, which description shall set forth the species, sex, color, and 

 
 38 ORDINANCES. 
 
 age, if known, of such animal, and also the name and place 
 of residence of the person from whom such animal was ob- 
 tained, and the date when slaughtered; and if such animal 
 is a bull, stag, ram or boar, that fact shall be entered upon 
 said book as part of said description. Such book shall at all 
 times be subject to the inspection of any city officer, and any 
 person proposing to purchase of the flesh of any animal may 
 demand to see the recorded description of such animal. Any 
 butcher failing to keep a book as herein required, or failing 
 to make truthfully every entry therein above set forth, or fail- 
 ing or refusing to exhibit said book on demand to any person 
 having a right to inspect the same, shall be fined for each 
 offense, one hundred dollars. 
 
 3. BUTCHER TO MAKE MONTHLY REPORT PENALTY.] With- 
 in one week after the close of each calendar mouth, every 
 butcher licensed as aforesaid shall make out and tile with the 
 City Clerk a report, verified by his oath, in which shall be 
 stated all the matters and things required to be recorded in 
 the book provided for in the next preceding section hereof, 
 and in manner and form as the same is required to be kept in 
 said book, and any butcher failing or refusing to make such 
 report, or who shall make any false or untruthful report, shall 
 be fined one hundred dollars. 
 
 4. KILLING DISEASED ANIMALS, ETC. PENALTY.] Whoever 
 shall slaughter within said city, or within one mile of the limits 
 thereof, any emaciated, sick, sore, bruised, wounded, diseased, 
 or disordered animal, or any animal having been within 
 twenty-four hours next before the time of slaughtering ex- 
 cessively driven, so as to become heated, or any calf under 
 four weeks old, or any female animal being at the time far gone 
 with young ; or whoever shall ki ep or have within the limits 
 aforesaid any animal of the character or condition aforesaid, 
 with intent that the same shall, while in such condition, be 
 slaughtered for food, shall be fined one hundred dollars. 
 
 5. KEEPING FLESH OF DISEASED ANIMALS, ETC. PENALTY.] 
 Whoever shall sell, offer to sell, or keep, or expose, for sale 
 within said city any tainted or unwholesome fresh meat, oruny 
 flesh of any animal which was at the time of slaughtering 
 emaciated, sick, sore, bruised, crippled, wounded, diseased or 
 disordered, or of any animal coming to its death naturally, or 
 by any means other than the usual mode of slaying animals 
 for food, or of any animal not usually deemed wholesome or 
 fit for food, or the flesh of any calf slaughtered under the age 
 of four weeks, or of any female animal which at the time of
 
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 slaughtering was far gone with young, shall for each offense be 
 fined one hundred dollars. 
 
 6. MEAT INSPECTORS POWERS AND DUTIES.] Every mem- 
 ber of the police department of the city of Bloomington is 
 hereby made and constituted ex-qfficio an inspector of meat. 
 Every such officer shall be entitled on demand to see and in- 
 spect any fresh meat which any butcher may keep or have on 
 hand within the city, as also any live animal obtained or 
 designed by any butcher for the slaughter; and every butcher 
 shall truthfully answer all questions put to him by such inspector 
 touching any fresh meat, of any animal procured or kept by 
 him as aforesaid. When any animal for any cause is 
 deemed unfit for the slaughter, or any meat unfit for food, the 
 officer inspecting shall condemn the same and order its im- 
 mediate removal from the city. 
 
 7. PENALTIES APPEAL TO MARSHAL OR MAYOR ALLOWED.] 
 Any butcher who shall fail or refuse to exhibit any animal or 
 any meat to any inspector on demand as provided in the last 
 preceding section, or shall answer falsely or evasively or refuse 
 to answer any question put to him by any inspector as in said 
 section authorized, or who shall sell or offer to sell or keep or 
 expose for sale any fresh meat the same having been con- 
 demned by any meat inspector, or shall fail or refuse to 
 immediately remove from the city any meat or animal so 
 condemned, or who shall slaughter any condemned animal, 
 shall upon conviction be fined one hundred dollars: Provided, 
 that when any such condemnation is made by any subordinate 
 member of the police force it shall be the right of the person 
 owning the meat or animal condemned to appeal to the City 
 Marshal or the Mayor, or both, who may, if such condemna- 
 tion is thought wrong or unjust, reverse the same. 
 
 8. MOIETIES OFFICER NOT TO RECEIVE HOW APPLIED FOR.] 
 One-half of every penalty collected for any violation of this 
 division shall be paid over to the person furnishing the in- 
 formation which leads to the conviction : Provided, that no 
 moiety or reward shall in any case be paid under this section 
 to any police officer ; and Provided further, that all applications 
 for moities under this section shall be made to the City 
 Council, and supported by proof, and shall only be paid on 
 the order of said Council.
 
 40 ORDINANCES. 
 
 DIVISION 5. 
 Hawkers and Peddlers. 
 
 SECTION 1. Peddlers and hawkers to be licensed Council may exempt residents. 
 " 2. Canvassing and soliciting orders. 
 " 3. Rate of charges for peddler's license. 
 " 4. Statement in application. 
 
 " 5. Peddler not to vex or annoy any person or enter house without per- 
 mission. 
 
 SECTION 1. PEDDLERS AND HAWKERS TO BE LICENSED COUN,- 
 CIL MAY EXEMPT RESIDENTS,] No person shall sell or attempt 
 to sell any goods, article or thing, (except farm and garden 
 products offered for sale by the producer thereof,) by peddling, 
 hawking, or public outcry, or at any temporary or uninclosed 
 stand or place of business within the city, without first ob- 
 taining a peddler's license therefor, under a penalty of twenty- 
 five dollars for each offense ; Provided, that the City Council 
 may, in their discretion, by vote or resolution, exempt any 
 person, having been a bona fide resident of the city for six 
 months, from the provisions hereof, or may order license to be 
 granted to such person at a lower rate than is hereinafter 
 specified. 
 
 2. CANVASSING AND SOLICITING ORDERS.] Every person 
 canvassing or taking orders for books, pictures, publications 
 or other articles, shall be deemed within the scope of this 
 division, and be required to take out a peddler's license ; but 
 no license shall be required for the delivery of any article 
 where the order therefor was taken under a license ; if, how- 
 ever, no license was taken out by the canvasser, the article 
 shall not be delivered without a peddler's license : Provided, 
 that regular commercial travelers employed by wholesale 
 houses and selling staple articles of merchandise to the mer- 
 chants of the city, shall not be deemed to be within the mean- 
 ing of this section. 
 
 3. RATE OF CHARGES FOR PEDDLER'S LICENSE.] Licenses 
 granted under this division shall be charged for at the follow- 
 ing rates : 
 
 For selling jewelry, ten dollars per day. 
 
 For selling salve, liniment, drags, medicines, cloths, silks, 
 cassimeres, dress goods, shawls, or table-cloths, the sum of five 
 dollars per day, or twenty-five dollars per week. 
 
 For selling statuary, pictures, books, or publications other 
 than newspapers and magazines, or taking orders for the same, 
 the sum of five dollars per month.
 
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 For selling any and all articles not above enumerated, the 
 sum of one dollar per week. 
 
 Provided, that cakes, fruit, nuts, candies, lemonade, soda 
 and other confections and refreshments may be peddled and 
 sold without license, except upon the occasion of any public 
 meeting or gathering within the city, when the City Council 
 may, by resolution, provide for licensing the same, and fix a 
 special rate therefor : and, Provided further, that when the 
 manner of vending is by music, songs, speeches, or other out- 
 cry, the rate shall be five dollars per day, without regard to 
 the class or kind of article sold. 
 
 4. STATEMENT IN APPLICATION.] Every application for a 
 peddler's license, shall state definitely the article or articles to 
 be sold, and the proposed manner of selling, whether by 
 speeches, songs, outcry or otherwise, and the person licensed 
 shall then be limited to the articles and mode of sale stated in 
 his application, and be protected no further. 
 
 5. PEDDLER NOT TO VEX OR ANNOY ANY PERSON OR ENTER 
 HOUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION.] No peddler shall vex, annoy or 
 harass any person by importuning such person to purchase or 
 to look at his goods, nor shall any peddler enter any private 
 house without being invited to go in, under a penalty of ten 
 dollars for each offense. 
 
 DIVISION 6. 
 Junk-shops. 
 
 SECTION 1. Junk-shop defined license. 
 
 " 2. Rate of license w nen * expire bond. 
 
 " 3. Book to be kept inspection of by officers penalty. 
 
 4. Time goods to be kept penalty. 
 
 " 5. Property of minor stolen property, etc. penalty. 
 
 SECTION!. JUNK-SHOP DEFINED LICENSE.] A junk-shop is 
 hereby defined to be any store, office, room, or place of busi- 
 ness, kept for the purchase, sale or exchange of second-hand 
 clothing, mechanical tools, firearms, old metal, rope, canvas, 
 and other like articles. No person or firm shall keep a junk- 
 shop within said city, without first obtaining a license there- 
 for, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 2. RATE OF LICENSE WHEN TO EXPIRE BOND.] Junk- 
 dealers shall pay for license ten dollars per year, and at that 
 rate for any shorter period ; and every such license shall ex- 
 pire on the 30th day of April next after the date of the granting 
 thereof; but no license shall be issued under this division 
 until the applicant shall have given a bond to the city in the 
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 42 ORDINANCES. 
 
 penal sum of five hundred dollars, with two or more good and 
 sufficient securities, residents of said city, to be approved by 
 the City Clerk, conditioned that said applicant will strictly 
 observe all ordinances of said city for the regulation of junk- 
 dealers and junk-shops, and will pay all fines and damages 
 incurred on account of his failure in that behalf. 
 
 3. BOOK TO BE KEPT INSPECTION OF BY OFFICERS PEN- 
 ALTY.] Every person keeping a junk-shop shall keep at his 
 place of business a book, in which he shall cause to be legibly 
 entered, with ink, a description of all articles received by him 
 in the course of his business as such junk-dealer, the date of 
 its receipt, the name and place of residence of the person from 
 whom received, together with any marks by which the same 
 can be identified, and no such entry shall be erased, obliterated, 
 or defaced, which said book, as also any article so received 
 and on hand, shall be subject to the inspection of any city 
 officer during ordinary business hours. Any violation of any 
 provision of this section, shall subject the often der to a penalty 
 of twenty dollars. 
 
 4. TIME GOODS TO BE KEPT PENALTY.] Every junk- 
 dealer shall keep in his possession, without changing the 
 form or character thereof, each article of property received by 
 him in the course of his business as such junk-dealer, for the 
 full period of three days, under a penalty of ten dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 5. PROPERTY OF MINOR STOLEN PROPERTY, ETC. PENALTY.] 
 No person licensed under this division shall purchase or re- 
 ceive any article of property of, or from, any minor or being 
 owned by any minor, or any stolen property or property which 
 from any cause he may have reason to believe cannot be law- 
 fully or rightfully sold or delivered by the person offering the 
 same, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, for each offense. 
 
 DIVISION 7. 
 Milkmen. 
 
 SECTION 1. Milkmen to be licensed rate, etc. 
 
 " 2. Name of milkman to be placed on vehicle. 
 
 3. Adulterated milk, etc. selling of, prohibited. 
 
 SECTION 1. MILKMEN TO BE LICENSED RATE, ETC.] Every 
 milkman who carries on the business of delivering milk to 
 customers in the city by means of a wagon, cart, or other 
 vehicle, shall take out a license, and pay therefor at the rate
 
 LICENSES. 43 
 
 of five dollars per year each license to expire on the 30th 
 day of April next after the granting thereof. Any milkman 
 who shall exercise his calling within the city as aforesaid, with- 
 out first obtaining a license as above required, shall be fined 
 for each oflense twenty dollars. 
 
 2. NAME OF MILKMAN TO BE PLACED ON VEHICLE.] Every 
 milkman licensed in pursuance of section one of this division, 
 shall cause his name to be legibly painted or placed on each 
 vehicle used in his business for the carriage and delivery of 
 milk. Every violation of the requirements of this section 
 shall subject the offender to a penalty often dollars. 
 
 3. ADULTERATED MILK, ETC. SELLING OF, PROHIBITED.] 
 "Whoever shall sell or offer for sale any milk adulterated with 
 water, or with any other liquid or substance, or any milk 
 produced from any siek or diseased cow, shall, for each offense, 
 be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 8. 
 Pawnbrokers. 
 
 SECTION l. Pawnbroker defined license penalty. 
 
 " 2. Bate of license bond. 
 
 " 3. Pawnbroker to keep book penalty. 
 
 " 4. Property of minor stolen property penalty. 
 
 " 5. Time of receiving property. 
 
 SECTION 1. PAWNBROKER DEFINED LICENSE PENALTY.] 
 Whoever shall loan money on deposit or pledge of personal 
 property, or shall carry on the business of purchasing such 
 property on condition of selling the same back at a stipulated 
 price, without taking a chattel mortgage thereon, duly exe- 
 cuted and recorded, as required by law, shall be deemed to be 
 a pawnbroker within the meaning of this ordinance; and 
 every person who shall pursue the calling of a pawnbroker 
 within the city of Bloomington, without first having obtained 
 a license therefor, and executed a bond as hereinafter pro- 
 vided, shall be fined one hundred dollars for each offense, 
 
 2. RATE OF LICENSE BOND.] Pawnbrokers shall pay for 
 license the sum of one hundred dollars per year, or a propor- 
 tionate sum for any less time, and every such license shall 
 expire on the thirtieth day of April next after the same is 
 issued ; and every applicant for such license shall, before re- 
 ceiving the same, execute to the city a bond in the penal sum 
 of three thousand dollars, with two or more good and suffi- 
 cient securities, residents of the city, conditioned that said
 
 44 ORDINANCES. 
 
 applicant will strictly observe all ordinances of the city touch- 
 ing pawnbrokers, and will pay all fines incurred on account 
 of his failure in that behalf, and that he will pay all damages 
 resulting to any person by reason of his wrongfully purchasing 
 or taking in pledge any stolen property or the property of any 
 minor. 
 
 3. PAWNBROKER TO KEEP BOOK PENALTY.] Every person 
 so licensed shall keep at his place of business a well-bound 
 book prepared for that purpose, in which he shall enter in 
 writing a minute description of all personal property taken, 
 purchased or received as aforesaid, together with the time, and 
 the name and residence (giving number and street, if within 
 the city) of the person leaving the same, which book shall be 
 kept clean and legible. All the entries shall be made in ink, 
 and no entry shall be erased, obliterated or defaced, and the 
 said book shall at all times be subject to the inspection of any 
 city officer. Any pawnbroker violating this section shall be 
 fined one hundred dollars. 
 
 4. PROPERTY OF MINOR STOLEN PROPERTY PENALTY.] 
 Whoever, being a pawnbroker shall, within the city purchase, 
 take or receive in pledge or on deposit, any article of property 
 of, or from, any minor, or being owned by any minor, or any 
 stolen property or property which from any cause he may 
 have reason to believe cannot be lawfully or rightfully sold, 
 pawned, or pledged, by the person offering it, shall be fined 
 one hundred dgllars. 
 
 5. TIME OF RECEIVING PROPERTY.] No pawnbroker shall 
 take or receive in pledge, or on deposit, of any person, any 
 article of property, after the hour of nine o'clock in the even- 
 ing, or before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning of any 
 day, under a penalty of twenty -five dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 9. 
 Porters and Runners. 
 
 SECTION 1. License bond penalty. 
 
 " 2. Rate and time of license. 
 
 " 3. License for house proprietor liable for fine. 
 
 " 4. Badge worn penalty. 
 
 " 5. Conduct of porters and runners penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. LICENSE BOND PENALTY.] No person except 
 as hereinafter provided shall pursue the calling of a porter or 
 runner, or solicit the patronage of any traveler or person 
 for any hotel or public house within the city of Bloomington, 
 or solicit passengers upon the streets of said city for the county
 
 LICENSES. 45 
 
 fair grounds without first obtaining a license therefor and 
 executing a bond to said city in the penal sum of two hundred 
 dollars, conditioned for the strict observance of all ordinances 
 of the city for the regulation of porters and runners. Every 
 violation of this section shall subject the offender to a penalty 
 often dollars. 
 
 2. RATE AND TIME OF LICENSE.] License of porters and 
 runners for hotels and public houses shall be charged for at 
 the rate of twelve dollars per year each, and a proportionate 
 sum for each shorter period, and every such license shall ex- 
 pire on the thirtieth day of April next after the granting 
 thereof. Licenses to persons soliciting passengers for the county 
 fair grounds shall be charged for at the rate of two dollars per 
 week, and no license shall be granted for that purpose for a 
 less time than one week. 
 
 3. LICENSE FOR HOUSE PROPRIETOR LIABLE FOR yiNES.] 
 The keeper or keepers of any hotel or public house may take 
 out a license for such hotel or house, authorizing the keepers 
 thereof to employ a suitable and well-behaved person to rep- 
 resent such house as a porter or runner, and such person shall 
 then be authorized to act as such without further license, and 
 such porter or runner may then be changed in the discretion 
 of the person or firm holding the license; Provided, that in no 
 case shall two or more persons be authorized to act under one 
 license at the same time; and Provided further, that the person 
 or persons holding such license shall be liable for any and all 
 fines and penalties incurred by any person acting under the 
 same for violating any ordinance of the city regulating porters 
 and runners. 
 
 4. BADGE WORN PENALTY.] Every porter or runner 
 while about his business shall wear conspicuously on some 
 part of his person a badge, or plate, with the name of the 
 hotel or house for which he is soliciting patronage painted or 
 engraved thereon in legible characters. Any violation of 
 this section shall subject the offender to a penalty of five 
 dollars. 
 
 5. CONDUCT OF PORTERS AND RUNNERS PENALTY.] No 
 porter or runner shall, while pursuing his calling, leave the 
 door of his vehicle, or speak in a loud or boisterous tone or 
 manner, nor use any coarse, profane or obscene language, 
 nor lay hold of any traveler or person, or of any article of 
 baggage, unless by permission of the owner or possessor thereof, 
 nor in any manner vex, harass, disturb or importune any 
 person, nor be guilty of any device, deceit, imposition or false 
 representation in furtherance of his business to the annoyance
 
 46 ORDINANCES. 
 
 or detriment of any person, under a penalty of twenty-five 
 dollars for such offense. 
 
 DIVISION 10. 
 Scavengers. 
 
 SECTION 1. Scavenger's license and bond. 
 
 " 2. Rate and time of scavenger's license. 
 
 " 3. Construction of vehicle penalty. 
 
 " 4. Time of cleaning privy vaults, etc. penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. SCAVENGER'S LICENSE AND BOND PENALTY] No 
 person shall carry on the business of scavenger within the 
 city of Bloomington without first obtaining a license therefor, 
 and executing a bond with securities to said city, conditioned 
 that the person so licensed shall strictly observe all ordinances 
 of the city of Bloomington touching the duties of scavengers, 
 and shalf pay all fines and damages incurred by him as such 
 scavenger; and any person violating any provision of this 
 section shall be fined twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
 2. RATE AND TIME OF SCAVENGER'S LICENSE.] Scavengers 
 shall pay the sum of twenty-five dollars per year for license, 
 or a proportionate sum for any shorter period, and every such 
 license shall expire on the thirtieth day of April next after the 
 granting thereof. 
 
 3. CONSTRUCTION OF VEHICLE PENALTY.] Every vehicle 
 used to transport dung, tilth, offal, or any offensive material 
 through the streets of the city, shall be fitted with a tight box, 
 to be so constructed and loaded that no portion of the offensive 
 material therein conveyed shall escape or be scattered or left 
 upon the streets, and when necessary to prevent the escape of 
 offensive odors, such box shall be tightly covered. Any 
 scavenger who shall use in his business any vehicle not of the 
 construction herein specified, or who shall scatter, leave or 
 deposit any filth, offal or offensive material upon any street, 
 alley or common, within the city, shall be fined ten dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 4. TlME OF CLEANING PRIVY VAULTS, ETC. PENALTY.] No 
 
 scavenger or other person shall remove the contents of any 
 privy vault, or other material of like offensive character 
 situated within the city at any other time of day than between 
 the hours of ten o'clock in the afternoon of any day and five 
 o'clock in the morning of the day following ; and any person 
 undertaking any such job of work shall complete the same 
 without delay. Any person violating this section shall be 
 fined ten dollars.
 
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 DIVISION 11. 
 Shooting Galleries. 
 
 SECTION 1. Shooting galleries licensed. 
 " 2. Rate of license. 
 " 3. Construction of license. 
 
 SECTION 1. SHOOTING GALLERIES LICENSED.] No person 
 shall own, keep or run any shooting gallery or place for target 
 shooting, without first obtaining a license therefor, under a 
 penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense. 
 
 2. RATE OF LICENSE.] The rate of license for shooting 
 galleries and places for target shooting:, shall be, for one year, 
 ten dollars ; and for any shorter period, the sum of fifty cents 
 per day for the number of days covered by the license. 
 
 3. CONSTRUCTION OF LICENSE.] No license shall authorize 
 the firing of any gun or any firearm within the city, in contra- 
 vention of any ordinance of the city, nor shall it authorize the 
 establishment or keeping of any shooting gallery or place for 
 target practice in any alley of the city, or in, or upon, any un- 
 inclosed place, nor shall any such gallery or place for target 
 practice be kept in any alley or uninclosed place within the 
 city, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 12. 
 Shows and Exhibitions. 
 
 SKCTION 1. Shows and exhibitions to be licensed penalty. 
 " 2. Rate of license. 
 " 3. Other shows indecent play. 
 
 SECTION 1. SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS TO BE LICENSED PEN- 
 ALTY.] No circus, menagerie, caravan, theater, concert, min- 
 strel performance, panorama, natural or artificial curiosity, 
 exhibition, show, entertainment or amusement of any kind 
 whatsoever, for the witnessing of which an admission fee is 
 charged, (except the same is given under the auspices and for 
 the benefit of some home association, society or church,) shall 
 be given, exhibited or performed within the city of Blooming- 
 ton without a license therefor, being first taken out by the 
 person owning, managing or exhibiting the same, under a 
 penalty of one hundred dollars for each such exhibition or 
 performance. 
 
 2. RATE OF* LICENSE.] The charges for licenses issued 
 under this division shall be as follows :
 
 48 ORDINANCES. 
 
 , Circuses, Menageries and Hippodromes. 
 
 For one day, . . $100.00 
 
 For each side show accompanying same, per 
 
 day, . 10.00 
 
 Theaters, Negro Minstrel Shows and Concerts. 
 For single exhibition, - - $10.00 
 
 Kor two exhibitions, - - - 15.00 
 
 For three exhibitions, ... 20.00 
 
 For six exhibitions, - ... 25.00 
 
 And for more than six at the same rate. 
 
 For single exhibition, ... $5.00 
 
 For each additional exhibition, after first, 3.00 
 
 Provided, That when a panorama is exhibited in connection 
 with a play and accompanied by actors, it shall be charged the 
 same rate as theaters. 
 
 3. OTHER SHOWS INDECENT PLAY.] Every other show or 
 exhibition requiring license and not mentioned in section two 
 hereof, shall be charged at the rate of three dollars per day, 
 or twelve dollars per week: Provided, That no license shall be 
 held to authorize the enacting of any lewd or indecent play 
 or exhibition within the city. 
 
 DIVISION 13. 
 Vehicles. 
 
 SECTION 1. Vehicles licensed penalty. 
 
 2. Rate of license. 
 
 3. Number of license painted on vehicle. 
 
 4. Tariff of rates for carrying passengers and property. 
 
 5. Card of rates to be kept in vehicle. 
 
 6. Refusal to transport extortion penalty. 
 
 7. Where vehicles shall stand. 
 
 SECTION 1. VEHICLES LICENSED PENALTY.] No person shall 
 keep or use for hire for the carrying of persons or property, 
 within the city of Bloomington, any vehicle of any description 
 or name, without first having obtained a license, under a 
 penalty of ten dollars for each offense. This section shall not 
 apply in the case of livery men hiring out buggies or car- 
 riages, or doing the ordinary business incident to their calling. 
 
 2. RATE OF LICENSE.] The City Treasurer shall charge 
 for license issued under this division, as follows : 
 
 For each omnibus, seven dollars and fifty ents per quarter, 
 or thirty dollars per year. 
 
 For each hackney coach or other double carriage used for
 
 LICENSES, 49 
 
 conveying passengers, the sum of five dollars per quarter, or 
 twenty dollars per year. 
 
 For each cab or other one-horse vehicle used for carrying 
 passengers, the sura of two dollars and fifty cents per quarter, 
 or ten dollars per year. 
 
 For each two-horse truck or dray used for the carriage of 
 freight or property, the sum of six dollars per quarter, or 
 twenty -four dollars per year. 
 
 For each one-horse dray, cart, city express wagon, and for 
 each common two-horse wagon, the sum of two dollars per 
 quarter, or eight dollars per year. 
 
 Yearly licenses shall expire on the thirtieth day of April 
 next after granted ; and quarterly licenses shall expire on the 
 last days of April, July, October and January, respectively, 
 after the dates of their issue. 
 
 3. NUMBER OF LICENSE PAINTED ON VEHICLE.] Every 
 person keeping or using any vehicle requiring a license shall 
 cause the number of the license of such vehicle to be con- 
 spicuously painted or placed upon the same where it can be 
 readily seen, and on refusing or failing so to do shall be fined 
 ten dollars for each week of such refusal or failure. The City 
 Clerk shall procure numbers of the character herein provided 
 for, and issue them without charge to persons receiving li- 
 censes. 
 
 4. TARIFF OF RATES FOR CARRYING PASSENGERS AND PROP- 
 ERTY.] Charges for the transportation of persons and property 
 shall not exceed the following rates, to-wit : 
 
 For carrying each passenger between any two points within 
 the city, including one trunk and other ordinary baggage, the 
 sum of fifty cents. 
 
 For the use of any hackney coach or other two-horse car- 
 riage, with driver, by the hour, with the privilege of going 
 from place to place, and stopping as often as desired, the sum 
 of one dollar per hour. 
 
 For the use of any cab or other one-horse vehicle, by the 
 hour, with driver, with the privilege of going from place to 
 place, and stopping as often as desired, the sum of fifty cents 
 per hour. 
 
 For carrying merchandise or property of any kind between 
 any two points within the city : 
 
 Upon two-horse trucks or drays, the sum of one dollar per 
 load. 
 
 Upon common two-horse farm wagon, the sum of seventy- 
 five cents per load. 
 
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 50 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Upon any city express wagon, dray, cart or other one-horse 
 vehicle, the sum of fifty cents per load. 
 
 5. CARD OF RATES TO BE KEPT IN VEHICLE.] It shall he 
 the duty of every person owning, using or driving any vehicle 
 requiring a license, to keep within or upon said vehicle a 
 printed card of the tariff of rates fixed in the last preceding 
 section, and any violation of this section shall subject the 
 offender to a penalty often dollars. 
 
 6. REFUSAL TO TRANSPORT EXTORTION PENALTY.] Every 
 person owning, keeping or using any licensed vehicle within 
 the city, who shall refuse to transport any person or property 
 when applied to at the rates fixed in section four of this di- 
 vision, or who shall extort or demand any greater sum for 
 the carrying of any person or property than therein specified, 
 shall be fined ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 7. WHERE VEHICLES SHALL STAND.] No hack, carriage or 
 other vehicle used for carrying passengers, shall stand or wait 
 for employment within said city except adjoining the sidewalk 
 upon the north or west side of the court house square ; and no 
 dray, cart, truck, or other vehicle used for transporting prop- 
 erty shall stand or wait for employment within said city except 
 adjoining the sidewalk upon the south or east side of said 
 square. Any person violating any provision of this section 
 shall be fined five dollars for each offense, 
 
 DIVISION 14. 
 Sundry Avocations. 
 
 SECTION 1. Insurance companies licensed time penalty. 
 
 2. Bill posters liceHsed rate and time penalty. 
 " 3. Lung testers, etc., licented. 
 
 SECTION 1. INSURANCE COMPANIES LICENSED TIME PENAL- 
 TY.] Every fire, life or accident insurance company doing 
 business within the city of Bloomington, or keeping or having 
 any agent therein for the purpose of soliciting or receiving 
 risks in behalf of said company shall be required to take out 
 a license, and for failure or refusal to do so shall be fined fifty 
 dollars. The rate of license to insurance companies shall be 
 ten dollars per year each, or a proportionate sum for any shorter 
 period, and every license granted hereunder shall expire on 
 the 30th day of April next after the granting thereof. 
 
 2. BILL-POSTERS LICENSED RATE AND TIME PENALTY.] 
 No person shall engage in the business of bill-posting within 
 said city without first having obtained a license therefor, for
 
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 which shall be charged ten dollars per year or a proportionate 
 sum for any shorter period, and every such license shall ex- 
 pire on the 30th day of April next after the granting thereof. 
 Any person who shall pursue the calling of a bill-poster with- 
 out being licensed as in this section provided, shall be fined 
 ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 3. LUNG TESTERS, ETC. LICENSED.] N"o person shall 
 exhibit any lung tester, lifting apparatus, galvanic battery or 
 other machine, instrument or device, for profit or gain with- 
 out first obtaining a license, for which shall be paid at the rate 
 of one dollar per day, under a penalty of five dollars for each 
 offense. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 LIQUORS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Selling liquor without license rate of license. 
 
 " " 2. Application license bond. 
 
 " 3. Terms and condition of bond penalty. 
 
 " 4. Dram-shop defined license therefor penalty. 
 
 " 5. Selling or giving to minor or drunkard. 
 
 " 6. Dram-shop open on Sunday time of closing same. 
 
 " 7. Shifts or devices intoxicating liquors defined. 
 
 SECTION 1. SELLING LIQUOR WITHOUT LICENSE RATE OP LI- 
 CENSE.] Whoever by himself or another, either as principal, 
 agent, clerk or servant, shall directly or indirectly sell any 
 spirituous, vinous, mixed, malt or fermented liquors within 
 the city of Bloomington, without first obtaining a license there- 
 for as hereinafter provided, shall upon conviction be fined one 
 hundred dollars for each offense. The rate of license for 
 selling liquor shall be fifty dollars per month. 
 
 2. APPLICATION LICENSE BOND.] Every application for 
 a license to sell liquor shall state the place where and the per- 
 son in whose name the husiness is to be conducted, and the 
 license issued in pursuance thereof shall in its terms be limited 
 to the person and the place so specified. No license shall 
 be granted hereunder for a longer time than one mouth ; and 
 every license shall expire at the end of the month during 
 which it is granted. Ko such license shall be granted until 
 the applicant shall have given bond, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 3. TERMS AND CONDITION OF BOND PENALTY.] Before 
 receiving a license every applicant shall give bond as provided 
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 the State of Illinois, of the year 1874 ; but in addition to the 
 condition therein prescribed, said bond shall be farther con- 
 ditioned that such applicant will pay all fines, penalties and 
 forfeitures, which may be assessed against him during the 
 continuance of such license for any violation of any provision 
 of the ordinances of said city respecting the sale of liquors. 
 Whoever shall sell any spirituous, vinous, mixed, malt or fer- 
 mented liquors, without first having given bond as herein 
 provided, shall, on conviction, be fined one hundred dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 4. DRAM-SHOP DEFINED LICENSE THEREFOR PENALTY.] 
 Every room or place where for any consideration directly or 
 indirectly paid or received, intoxicating liquor is allowed to be 
 drunk, is hereby declared to be a dram-shop ; and whoever 
 shall by himself, agent, clerk or servant, or as the agent, clerk 
 or servant of another, keep any dram-shop within said city 
 without first having obtained a license therefor as above pro- 
 vided, shall, on conviction, be fined one hundred dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 5. SELLING OR GIVING TO MINOR OR DRUNKARD.] Whoever 
 by himself, agent, clerk or servant, or as the agent, clerk or 
 servant of another, shall sell or give any intoxicating liquor 
 to any minor, without the written order of his parent, guardian 
 or family physician, or to any person intoxicated, or who is in 
 the habit of getting intoxicated, shall, for each offense, be 
 fined one hundred dollars. 
 
 6. DRAM-SHOP OPEN ON SUNDAY TIME OF CLOSING SAME.] 
 Whoever shall, within said city, sell any intoxicating liquor on 
 the Sabbath day, or night, or whoever shall on that day keep 
 open any dram-shop, tippling-house or saloon, or any room, 
 or place, where intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale 
 on other days of the week, or whoever being the owner or 
 keeper of any such dram-shop, tippling-house, saloon, room 
 or place, shall fail to close the same at the hour of eleven o'clock 
 in the evening of each week day, and keep the same closed 
 until the hour of five o'clock in the morning of the day follow- 
 ing, shall, for each offense, be fined one hundred dollars. 
 
 7. SHIFTS OR DEVICES INTOXICATING LIQUORS DEFINED.] 
 The giving away of intoxicating liquor, or other shift or device 
 to evade the provisions of this chapter, shall be deemed to be 
 an unlawful selling within the meaning of the same ; and 
 the term intoxicating liquors shall, within the meaning of this 
 chapter, be deemed to include all spirituous, vinous, mixed, 
 malt or fermented liquors, and all mixtures, any part of which 
 is any of said kind of liquor.
 
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 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 
 
 DIVISION 1. OFFENCES AGAINST THE PUBLIC PEACE AND QUIET. 
 " 2. OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS AND DECENCY. 
 " 3. OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY, CONVENIENCE AND 
 
 HEALTH. 
 
 " 4. OFFENCES CONCERNING PROPERTY. 
 u 5. VAGRANTS. 
 
 " (>. OFFENCES AGAINST OFFICIAL AUTHORITY. 
 " 7. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 " 8. PROCEEDINGS TO RECOVER FINES AND PENALTIES. 
 
 DIVISION 1. 
 Offences against the Public Peace and Quiet. 
 
 SKCTION 1. Assault assault and battery, etc. 
 
 2. Disorderly conduct breach of the peace. 
 
 3. Disturbing peace of city or family. 
 
 4. Traducing challenging fighting, etc. 
 
 5. Collecting in crowds, etc. 
 
 6. Disturbing congregation or assembly. 
 
 7. Disturbing funeral. 
 
 8. Sunday labor or amusement. 
 
 9. Carrying weapons. 
 10. Judgment entry. 
 
 ' 11. False alarm, etc. 
 
 SECTION 1. ASSAULT ASSAULT AND BATTERY, ETC.] Any 
 person who shall commit an assault, or an assault and battery 
 upon the person of another, or who shall be guilty of an affray 
 within the limits of the city of Bloomington, shall, on convic- 
 tion, be fined not less than three dollars nor more than one 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 2. DISORDERLY CONDUCT RREACH OF THE PEACE.] Any 
 person who shall be guilty of disorderly conduct, or of making 
 a disturbance, or a breach of the peace within said city, shall, 
 on conviction, be fined not less than one dollar nor more than 
 fifty dollars.
 
 54 ORDINANCES. 
 
 3. DISTURBING PEACE OF CITY OR FAMILY.] Any person 
 who shall disturb the peace and quiet of the city, or of any 
 private family or person, by loud and unusual noise, or by 
 tumultuous or offensive carriage, or by cursing, shouting, 
 hallooing, threatening, or other boisterous or unseemingly 
 conduct, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than three dol- 
 lars nor more than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 4. TRADUCING CHALLENGING FIGHTING, ETC." If any per- 
 son shall threaten, or traduce another, or shall use any lan- 
 guage or indulge in any conduct toward another tending to 
 produce a disturbance of the peace, or shall challenge another 
 to fight, or if any two persons shall agree to fight, or shall, by 
 agreement, actually fight, each person so offending shall, on 
 conviction, be fined not less than two dollars nor more than 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 5 COLLECTING IN CROWDS, ETC.] All persons who shall 
 collect in crowds within said city, for unlawful purposes, or 
 for any purpose to the annoyance or disturbance of citizens or 
 travelers, shall be severally subject to a fine of not less than 
 two dollars nor more than twenty dollars, and to a further fine 
 of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, upon 
 refusal to disperse after being requested so to do by any city 
 officer. 
 
 6. DISTURBING CONGREGATION OR ASSEMBLY.] Any person 
 who shall disturb or disquiet any congregation or assembly 
 met for religious worship, or for any other lawful purpose, by 
 making any noise, or by rude or indecent behavior, or by 
 profane, obscene or improper discourse or conduct within the 
 sight or hearing of such congregation or assembly, shall, on 
 conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 7. DISTURBING FUNERAL.] Whoever wilfully interrupts 
 or disturbs a funeral assembly or procession, shall be fined 
 not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 8. SUNDAY LABOR OR AMUSEMENT.] Whoever shall within 
 the limits of said city, disturb the peace and good order of 
 society by labor or amusement on Sunday, (works of necessity 
 and charity excepted,) shall, on conviction, be fined not less 
 than three dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 9. CARRYING WEAPONS.] Whoever shall, within said city, 
 carry or wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, 
 any weapon, shall be finad not less than one dollar nor more 
 than twenty dollars for each offense, and shall, in addition, 
 forfeit to the city of Bloomington the weapon so carried. 
 This section shall not apply to officers carrying weapons in the 
 discharge of their official duties.
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 55 
 
 10. JUDGMENT ENTRY.] Whenever any person shall be 
 convicted of carrying any weapon in violation of the preced- 
 ing section, it shall be the duty of the magistrate before whom 
 such conviction is had, to enter upon his docket as a part of 
 the judgment in such cause, the forfeiture of the weapon so 
 carried, which entry may be substantially as follows: 
 
 " And it is further considered by the court, that the said 
 defendant do forfeit and deliver to the city of Bloomington 
 the said weapon, to-wit: (here describe weapon :)" and there- 
 rponthe City Marshal shall take possession of such weapon 
 and keep the same, subject to the direction of the City 
 Council. 
 
 11. FALSE ALARM, ETC.] Whoever shall make a false 
 alarm of fire, or any false cry for assistance ; or whoever shall, 
 without permission of the Mayor, use or employ any device, 
 noise or performance, tending to cause the collection of per- 
 sons on any street, sidewalk, or other public place, shall be 
 fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 2. 
 Offences against Public Morals and Decency. 
 
 SECTION 1. Exhibiting jack or stud, etc. 
 
 ' 2. Indecent exposure, etc. 
 
 3. Sale of obscene books, etc. 
 
 4. Having obscene books, etc., in possession. 
 
 5. Obscene play 
 
 6. Obscene writing or figures. 
 
 7. Disorderly house. 
 
 8. House of ill-fame. 
 
 9. Inmate of bawdy-house, etc. 
 
 10. Gaming house. 
 
 11. Inmate of gaming house betting. 
 
 12. Lotteries prohibited, 
 
 13. Cruelty to animals. 
 
 14. Drunkenness. 
 
 SECTION 1. EXHIBITING JACK OR STUD, ETC.] Whoever shall 
 indecently exhibit any jack or stud,' in any street or public 
 place within said city, or shall let any such jack or stud to any 
 mare, except in some inclosed place out of the public view, 
 shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty 
 dollars. 
 
 2. INDECENT EXPOSURE, ETC.] Whoever shall appear in 
 any public place, or in any place exposed to the public view, 
 within said city, in a state of nudity, or in a dress not belong- 
 ing to his or her sex, or in an indecent or lewd dress, or shall 
 make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or be guilty 
 of any lewd or indecent act or behavior, shall, on conviction, 
 be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
 
 56 ORDINANCES. 
 
 3. SALE OF OBSCENE BOOKS, ETC.] "Whoever shall bring 
 within the limits of said city for the purpose of sale, or shall 
 sell or offer to sell, or shall give away or offer to give away, or 
 shall make, draw, print or publish, within said city, any ob- 
 scene, indecent, or scandalous book, pamphlet, newspaper, 
 journal, print, publication, slip, paper or writing, of any kind 
 or character, or any obscene, indecent, or scandalous picture, 
 drawing, engraving, card, photograph, model, cast or instru- 
 ment, or any article of indecent or immoral use, shall, on con- 
 viction, be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than one 
 hundred dollars for each offeiise. 
 
 4. HAVING OBSCENE BOOKS, ETC., IN POSSESSION.] Whoever 
 shall keep or have in his possession, within said city, any of 
 the obscene or indecent articles or things mentioned in the 
 last preceding section, with or without intent to sell or dispose 
 of the same, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than five 
 dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 5. OBSCENE PLAY.] Whoever shall exhibit or perform, or 
 shall assist in exhibiting or performing any indecent, obscene, 
 or lewd play, exhibition or other representation, or shall per- 
 mit the same to be performed in any building or premises 
 owned or controlled by him, shall be fined not less than fifty 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 6. OBSCENE WRITING OR FIGURE.] Whoever shall in any- 
 place open to public view, write, mark, draw, cut, or make 
 any obscene or indecent word, sentence, design or figure, 
 shall be subject to a penal ty of not less than five dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars. 
 
 7. DISORDERLY HOUSE.] Whoever shall keep a common 
 ill-governed, or disorderly house, shall be fined not less than 
 ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 8. HOUSE OF ILL-FAME.] Whoever shall keep or main- 
 tain within said city any bawdy house, house of ill-fame, or 
 any place for the practice of fornication, or shall knowingly 
 permit any building or place owned by him or under his con- 
 trol to be used for that purpose, shall be fined not less than 
 twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and be 
 subject to a further penalty of -twenty-five dollars per day for 
 each day such house shall be continued after the first con- 
 viction. 
 
 9. INMATE OF BAWDY-HOUSE, ETC.] Whoever shall be an 
 inmate of any bawdy-house, house of ill-fame, or of anyplace 
 for the practice of fornication, or shall in any way contribute 
 to the support thereof, or be connected therewith, or whoever
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 57 
 
 shall be found therein, shall, for each offense, be fined not 
 less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 10. GAMING HOUSE.] Whoever shall keep or maintain 
 any gaming house or room, or any place where betting is 
 done, within said city, or' shall knowingly permit any such 
 house, room, or place to be so kept in or upon any building 
 or premises owned or controlled by him, or whoever shall 
 procure or permit any persons to come together in any house 
 or place occupied or owned by him or under his control, for 
 the purpose of playing for money or other valuable thing at 
 any game, or whoever shall keep or permit to be used in any 
 building or place used, occupied, controlled or owned by such 
 person, any keno table, faro bank, shuffle board, cards, or 
 any other instrument, device, or thing commonly used for the 
 purpose of gaming, shall be fined not less than twenty-five 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 11. INMATE OF GAMING HOUSE BETTING.] Whoever shall 
 be an inmate of any gaming house or room, within said city, 
 or shall be in any way connected therewith, or shall frequent 
 the same, or shall be found therein, or whoever shall, 'within 
 said city, play for money or other valuable thing at any game 
 with cards, dice, checks, billiards, or any other article, instru- 
 ment, device, or thing whatsoever, or whoever shall bet on 
 any such game when played, or to be played by others, or 
 whosoever shall be guilty of selling pools within said city, 
 shall, on conviction, be fined not less than ten dollars nor 
 more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 12. LOTTERIES PROHIBITED.] Whoever shall maintain, 
 or run, or be in any way connected with, any lottery, or any 
 establishment, enterprise or business, by whatever name the 
 same may be known, wherein any property is sold or disposed 
 of by chance, or whoever shall permit any such lottery, estab- 
 lishment, enterprise or business in any building or premises 
 owned or controlled by him, or whoever shall, within said 
 city, sell or dispose of any lottery ticket or share, or any 
 chance, or any article or thing entitling or purporting to en- 
 title the purchaser thereof to any chance, or whoever shall 
 within said city sell or dispose of any package or article pur- 
 porting to contain a prize, or where, as an inducement to pur- 
 chase, it is held out that such article or package may contain 
 a prize, or may entitle the purchaser to some article or thing 
 of value not directly contemplated and known in the pur- 
 chase, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty dol- 
 lars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, 
 
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 58 ORDINANCES. 
 
 13. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.] "Whoever shall in any man- 
 ner or by any means be guilty of cruelty to any dumb animal, 
 or shall be guilty of turning out and abandoning any old, 
 decrepit, or worthless animal upon the public streets or com- 
 mons, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars. 
 
 14. DRUNKENNESS.] Whoever shall be drunk, or shall 
 be in a state of intoxication in any public place within said 
 city, or in any private house or place to the annoyance of any 
 person, shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 3. 
 Offenses Against Public Safety, Convenience and Health. 
 
 SECTION 1. Firing guns, fire -crackers, etc. 
 
 2. Immoderate driving. 
 
 3. Poison failing to mark. 
 
 4. Dangerous sports kite-flying. 
 
 5. Scaring horses, etc. 
 
 6. Leaving animals unfastened. 
 
 7. Runaway horses, etc. 
 
 ?. Vehicles to pass to the right penalty. 
 
 , Weighing of gunpowder kerosene. 
 
 10. Vicious animals at large 
 
 11. Placing or occupying chairs in aisles. 
 
 12. Wilfully turning stream of water upon any person. 
 
 13. Unwholesome provisions. 
 
 " 14. Bringing smallpox, etc., into city. 
 
 " 15. Nurse not to go upon streets, etc. 
 
 " 16. Attending physician. 
 
 " 17. Removal or patients duty of health officer or Marshal placards, etc. 
 
 SECTION 1. FIRING CANNON, GUNS, FIRE-CRACKERS, ETC.] Who- 
 ever shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, revolver, 
 or any firearm of any description, or shall fire, explode or 
 set off any squib, fire-cracker, torpedo, or other thing con- 
 taining powder, or other explosive material, without permission 
 from the Mayor or City Council so to do, shall be fined not 
 less than two dollars nor more than twenty dollars. Such 
 permission, when given, shall -definitely limit the time of such 
 firing, and may at any time be revoked. 
 
 2. IMMODERATE DRIVING.] Whoever shall immoderately 
 ride or drive any horse, mule or other animal, in any avenue, 
 street or alley of said city, or whoever shall wilfully or heed- 
 lessly drive any such animal, so that such animal or any vehicle 
 attached thereto shall come in collision with any other vehicle, 
 or shall strike against any person, shall be fined not less than 
 ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 3. POISON FAILING TO MARK.] Whoever shall knowingly 
 deliver to another any deadly poison without legibly marking 
 the same with the word "poison," shall be fined not less than 
 five dollars nor more than fifty dollars,
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 59 
 
 4. DANGEROUS SPORTS KITE-FLYING.] Whoever shall, 
 within the streets of said city, engage in any sport, amuse- 
 ment or exercise likely to scare horses or embarrass the passage 
 of vehicles, or whoever shall raise or fly any kite in any part 
 of said city devoted to business, shall be fined not less than 
 one dollar nor more than twenty dollars. 
 
 5. SCARING HORSES, ETC.] Whoever shall by any means, 
 either wilfully or for want of reasonable care frighten any 
 horse, mule or other animal, being at the time attached to any 
 vehicle, or in charge of any person, shall be fined not less 
 than five dollars nor mWe than fifty dollars. 
 
 6. LEAVING ANIMALS UNFASTENED.] Whoever shall leave 
 any horse, mule or other animal, attached to any vehicle or 
 conveyance, in any uninclosed place without being securely 
 fastened or guarded, shall be fined not less than three dollars 
 nor more than twenty dollars. 
 
 7. RUNAWAY HORSES, ETC.] No person shall take or have 
 upon any street of said city any horse, mule or team attached 
 to any vehicle, the same being unmanageable or having a 
 known propensity to run away, or being in the habit of run- 
 ning away, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars. 
 
 8. VEHICLES TO PASS TO THE RIGHT PENALTY.] Any 
 person driving any vehicle upon any street or thoroughfare of 
 said city shall, upon meeting any other vehicle, turn oft' and 
 pass to the right, and for each violation hereof the person 
 offending shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more 
 than one hundred dollars ; Provided, that where any street 
 railway track is, or may be laid in any street, each side thereof 
 shall be considered a street within the meaning of this section. 
 
 9. WEIGHING OF GUNPOWDER KEROSENE.] No person 
 shall by gas-light, lamp-light, or any artificial light, weiirh any 
 gunpowder or gun-cotton, or draw any kerosene oil or burning 
 fluid from any cask or barrel, under a penalty of not exceeding 
 twenty-five dollars for each oftense. 
 
 10. Vicious ANIMAL AT LARGE.] Whoever being the 
 owner of, or having in his charge any vicious animal, shall 
 permit the same to go at large in any public street or place 
 within said city, shall be fined twenty-five dollars, and each 
 day or part day of running at large shall constitute a separate 
 oftense. It shall be no defense to an action under this section, 
 that the defendant did not know the vicious character of the 
 animal, or did not mean or intend such animal to go at large ; 
 but proof of viciousness and of running at large, shall be suffi- 
 cient to warrant a conviction.
 
 60 ORDINANCES. 
 
 11. PLACING OR OCCUPYING CHAIRS IN AISLES.] Whoever 
 shall place or occupy any chair or seat in any aisle or passage 
 way of any church, hall or other' public building, during the 
 time of any meeting or assembly of persons therein, shall be 
 fined not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars, 
 for each chair or seat so placed or occupied. 
 
 12. WILFULLY TURNING STREAM OF WATER UPON ANY PER- 
 SON.] Whoever shall wilfully turn a stream of water from any 
 fire hose upon any person, or upon a,ny private premises, on 
 the occasion of any exhibition or tournament, shall be fined 
 not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars. 
 
 13. UNWHOLESOME PROVISIONS.] Whoever shall sell, or ex- 
 pose for sale, within the city, any article of provision or food 
 whatever, other than fresh meat, which from any cause may be 
 unwholesome, or unfit for food, shall be fined not less than ten 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 14. BRINGING SMALLPOX, ETC., INTO THE CITY.] Whoever 
 shall bring into said city any person having the smallpox, or 
 other infectious or contagious disease, or any garment, article 
 of apparel, or other thing infected with smallpox, or other 
 infectious or contagious disease, shall be fined not less than 
 tw r enty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 15. NURSE NOT TO GO UPON THE STREET, ETC.] No person 
 attending on any person having the smallpox, or other deadly, 
 contagious disease, as nurse, or otherwise, (excepting as at- 
 tending physician) shall, while in such attendance, go upon 
 any street, or other public place in said city, under a penalty 
 of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each 
 oifense. 
 
 16. ATTENDING PHYSICIAN.] No physician, who may be 
 attending upon any patient having the smallpox, or other 
 deadly, contagious disease, shall leave the house, or go upon 
 the street after a visit to such patient's bedside, without chang- 
 ing his clothing, under a penalty of not less than five dollars 
 nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 17. REMOVAL OF PATIENTS DUTY OF HEALTH OFFICER OR 
 MARSHAL PLACARDS, ETC.] When any case of smallpox, or 
 other fatal contagious disease shall occur within said city, it 
 shall be the duty of the person at whose house the same may 
 occur, to notify the Health Officer thereof, or if there be no 
 Health Officer on duty, then the City Marshal ; and if the 
 patient be at any hotel, railroad depot, or other public house 
 or place, it shall be the duty of the Health Officer or Marshal 
 to remove such patient to some place to be designated by the 
 Mayor or Board of Health, where danger from contagion
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 61 
 
 will be avoided, and there provide for the custody, medical 
 treatment, and nursing of such patient ; and it shall be the 
 further duty of said Marshal to cause a placard to be posted 
 at or near the front door of every private house within said 
 city during the prevalence of smallpox, or other fatal contagious 
 disease therein. Any person violating any provision of this 
 section, or failing to perform any duty herein imposed, shall 
 be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 
 dollars, 
 
 DIVISION 4. 
 Offenses concerning Property. 
 
 SKOTION 1. Injury to pavement, etc. obstructing public improvement. 
 
 2. Injury to bridges, buildings, etc. 
 
 3. Driving upon sidewalk or lawn. 
 
 4. Placing rubbish on sidewalk or street. 
 
 5. Suffering snow to remain on sidewalk or footway. 
 
 6. Suffering ice or dirt to remain on sidewalk or footway. 
 
 7. Feeding animals within fire limits or on paved street turning same 
 
 into public inclosure. 
 
 8. Hitching animal to tree, lamp-post, etc. injury to same. 
 
 9. Throwing stones, etc. 
 
 10. Trespass to private premises. 
 
 11. Lighting or extinguishing street lamps, etc. 
 
 12. Taking water from city cisterns or wells. 
 
 13. Vehicles standing on streets. 
 
 14. Getting upon cars while in motion. 
 
 15. Ball playing upon public grounds. 
 
 16. Obstructing streets, sidewalks, etc. 
 
 17. Driving vehicle over flre hose. 
 
 18. Digging and removing earth from street, etc. 
 
 19. Market place for hay, straw, wood, etc. 
 
 20. Excavations in streets and alleys. 
 
 SECTION 1. INJURY TO PAVEMENT, ETC. OBSTRUCTING PUBLIC 
 IMPROVEMENT.] Whoever shall tear up or injure any pave- 
 ment, sidewalk, crosswalk, drain or sewer, or shall hinder or 
 obstruct the making or repairing of the same, or of any other 
 public work or improvement being done under city authority, 
 shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 2. INJURY TO BRIDGES, BUILDINGS, ETC.] Whoever shall 
 wantonly destroy, injure, mark or write upon, or otherwise 
 deface any bridge or its appurtenaces, or any engine house, 
 building, hitching-post, awning, fence, railing, or other prop- 
 erty, public or private, not being his own, within said city, 
 shall be fined not less than one dollar nor exceeding one hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 3. DRIVING UPON SIDEWALK OR LAWN.] Whoever shall 
 lead, drive or ride any horse, mule, or other like animal, upon 
 or over any lawn or sidewalk in said city, except at the en-
 
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 trance to some building or premises, or shall suffer any such 
 animal or any vehicle thereto attached, to be or remain upon 
 any such sidewalk or any crossing, to the obstruction of travel 
 thereon, shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 4. PLACING RUBBISH ON SIDEWALK OR STREET.] Whoever 
 shall place upon any sidewalk, paved street, or any gutter of 
 any street within said city, any straw, dirt, filth, ashes, chips, 
 shells, paper, or other rubbish, or whoever shall place upon 
 any unpaved street any article of rubbish aforesaid, excepting 
 ashes, shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than 
 ten dollars, and be subject to a like penalty for every twelve 
 hours such rubbish shall be suffered to remain after notice 
 from any city officer to remove the same. 
 
 5. SUFFERING SNOW TO REMAIN ON SIDEWALK OR FOOTWAY.] 
 Whoever being the occupant of any occupied premises, or the 
 owner of any vacant premises, shall suffer any snow to remain 
 on any sidewalk or footway adjacent thereto, longer than six 
 hours from the time the same ceases falling, or, if the cessa- 
 tion be in the night time, then longer than six hours after 
 sunrise on the next morning, shall be fined five dollars, and 
 be subject to a like penalty for each day such snow so remains 
 after the first penalty has been incurred. 
 
 6. SUFFERING ICE OR DIRT TO REMAIN ON SIDEWALK OR FOOT- 
 WAY.] Whoever shall suffer any ice or dirt to remain upon 
 any sidewalk or footway owned or occupied \)y him, longer 
 than six hours after the same has frozen or been placed there, 
 shall be fined five dollars, and be subject to a further penalty 
 of five dollars per day for each day the same remains after 
 the first penalty has been incurred. 
 
 7. FEEDING ANIMALS WITHIN FIRE LIMITS OR ON PAVED 
 
 STREET TURNING SAME INTO PUBLIC INCLOSURE.] Whoever shall 
 
 feed any horse, mule, or other animal, upon any street of the 
 city within the fire limits, as the same are now or may here- 
 after be defined, or upon any paved street, or shall turn any 
 such animal into any public park,' square, or inclosure, shall 
 be fined not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 8. HITCHING ANIMAL TO TREE, LAMP-POST, ETC. INJURY TO 
 SAME.] Whoever shall hitch or fasten any horse or other 
 animal to any ornamental or shade tree or shrub, or to any 
 lamp-post, fence or railing, or shall by any other means wil- 
 fully injure the same, shall be fined not less than three dollars 
 nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 9. THROWING STONES, ETC.] Whoever shall throw or cast 
 any stone, brick, club, snow-ball, or other missile, at, against,
 
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 or upon, any tree, building, or other property, shall be fined 
 not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 10. TRESPASS TO PRIVATE PREMISES.] Whoever shall be 
 found trespassing upon the premises of another within said 
 city, shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 11. LIGHTING OR EXTINGUISHING STREET LAMPS, ETC.] 
 Whoever, without authority, shall light or extinguish any 
 public or street lamp, or shall turn the gas on or oft' in the 
 same, or in any manner interfere therewith, shall be fined not 
 less than five dollars nor exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 12. TAKING WATER FROM CITY CISTERNS OR WELLS.] Who- 
 ever not being a member of the fire department, shall take 
 water from any city cistern or well, except for the purpose of 
 extinguishing fire, shall be fined ten dollars for each offense. 
 
 13. VEHICLES STANDING ON STREETS.] Whoever shall 
 leave any sled, wagon, cart, dray, or "other vehicle not in use, 
 standing in or upon any street or alley of said city, to the ob- 
 struction of travel thereon, shall, for each offense, be fined 
 not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 14. GETTING UPON CARS WHILE IN MOTION.] Whoever not 
 being an employe or passenger on any railroad car, engine, or 
 tender, shall get upon, or hold on to the same while in motion, 
 shall be fined five dollars. 
 
 15. BALL PLAYING UPON PUBLIC GROUNDS.] Whoever shall 
 play at ball, cricket, or any other game, or play in any street, 
 alley or other public ground or place within said city, shall 
 be fined not exceeding fifteen dollars : Provided, That pupils 
 in actual attendance on any city school may play at games 
 upon grounds owned or occupied by the city for school pur- 
 poses, subject, however, to the discipline and regulations of 
 the school which they attend. 
 
 16. OBSTRUCTING STREET, SIDEWALK, ETC.] Whoever 
 shall in any manner or by any means not specifically named 
 in any other section of the ordinances of said city, obstruct 
 any street, highway, avenue, alley, crossing, sidewalk, or other 
 public passage-way of said city, shall be fined not less than 
 two dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and be subject to a 
 further penalty of three dollars per day for each day such ob- 
 struction is suffered to continue after a conviction, or after 
 notice to remove the same given by any officer of said city. 
 
 17. DRIVING VEHICLE OVER FIRE HOSE.] Whoever shall 
 drive any vehicle over any hose of the fire department laid 
 for use upon any street or alley, except at a point where such 
 hose is protected by wooden railings laid along side thereof, 
 or otherwise, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars.
 
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 18. DIGGING AND REMOVING EARTH FROM STREETS, ETC.] 
 Whoever shall, without a written permission from the Mayor, 
 Street Commissioner, or City Council, dig, remove, or carry 
 away, or cause or procure the same to be clone, any sod, stone, 
 earth, sand or gravel, from any street, alley, or public ground 
 in this city, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars for each load or parcel so removed. No per- 
 mission shall protect any person arraigned for violation here- 
 of, unless the particular locality from whi^h the material is to 
 be removed is specified therein, and it appears that the person 
 arraigned has strictly followed the terms of his permission. 
 Provided, however, That work done under authority of the city 
 shall in no case be construed as a violation of this section. 
 
 19. MARKET PLACE FOR HAT, STRAW, WOOD, ETC.] The 
 market place for hay, straw, sheaf oats and like articles, shall 
 hereafter be upon East street, between North and Market 
 streets, and the market place for wood shall be upon East 
 street, between North and Washington streets. Any person who 
 shall have or keep any vehicle loaded with hay, straw, sheaf 
 oats, or other like articles, or with wood standing upon any 
 street other than the place set apart in this section, as the 
 proper market place therefor, shall be fined five dollars for 
 each offense. 
 
 20. EXCAVATIONS IN STREETS AND ALLEYS.] No person 
 shall make any excavation in any public street or alley of the 
 city of Bloomington, except upon permission obtained there- 
 for, as herein provided; that is to say: The person desiring 
 to make such excavation shall tile with the City Clerk a state- 
 ment in writing showing where and for what purpose such 
 excavation is to be made, and thereby stipulating and agree- 
 ing to keep the said excavation properly guarded and pro- 
 tected, so as to prevent accidents, and also to repair such 
 street or alley as soon as practicable, and to leave the same 
 in as good condition as it was found ; and thereupon said 
 Clerk shall issue a permit to such applicant in accordance 
 with the terms of such statement. Any person who shall 
 make any excavation in any street or alley of said city, with- 
 out first obtaining permission as required in this section, or 
 who shall fail or refuse to perform any agreement or stipula- 
 tion filed with the City Clerk, as herein required, shall be 
 fined not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred 
 dollars : Provided, That persons desiring to make frequent 
 excavations may obtain a permit in accordance with the fore- 
 going provisions for the term of one year.
 
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 DIVISION 5. 
 Vagrants. 
 
 SECTION 1. Vagrant defined. 
 
 " 2. Penalty for vagrancy. 
 " 3. Second offense penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. VAGRANT DEFINED.] A vagrant is hereby de- 
 fined to be : 
 
 First Any person found within said city idly loitering or 
 rambling about without visible means of support. 
 
 Second Any person not having a fixed business or employ- 
 ment, who habitually stays in or frequents groceries, dram- 
 shops, drinking saloons, houses of ill-fame, gambling houses, 
 houses of bad repute, railroad depots, post-office and street 
 corners, or fire engine houses. 
 
 Third Any person found trespassing in the night-time upon 
 the premises of another. 
 
 Fourth Any person being the keeper, exhibitor of, or visitor 
 at, any gaming table, gambling-house, house for fortune-tell- 
 ing, place for cock-fighting, or other place of device. 
 
 Fifth Any person who goes about for the purpose of gam- 
 ing or watch-stuffing. 
 
 Sixth Any person who shall have in his possession any 
 article or thing used for obtaining money under false pre- 
 tenses. 
 
 Seventh Any one belonging to that class of persons who 
 habitually go about from one place to another without per- 
 manent residence or business, depending for subsistence upon 
 begging and pilfering, and who are commonly known as 
 " tramps" and " dead-beats." 
 
 2. PENALTY FOR VAGRANCY.] Whoever shall be convicted 
 of being a vagrant as above defined, shall be fined not less 
 than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and be imprisoned 
 until the fine and costs be paid, and in default of prompt pay- 
 ment of any fine assessed for vagrancy, the person convicted 
 shall be compelled to labor upon the streets of said city, for 
 which work he shall receive credit upon such fine and costs 
 at the rate of one dollar per day, until such fine and costs 
 shall be worked out. 
 
 3. SECOND OFFENSE PENALTY.] Whoever shall be con- 
 victed of vagrancy two or more times, within the city of 
 Bloomington, shall, for each conviction after the first, be fined 
 fifty dollars, and be subject to all the further provisions de- 
 
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 nounced against vagrants in the preceding sections of this 
 division, and before releasing any person in custody for va- 
 grancy, it shall be the duty of the City Marshal to acquaint 
 such person with the provisions of this section. 
 
 DIVISION 6. 
 Offenses Against Official Authority. 
 
 SECTION 1. Falsely personating officer, etc. 
 
 " 2. Resisting or delaying officer. 
 
 " 3. Assisting prisoner to escape. 
 
 " 4. Refusing to assist policeman. 
 
 SECTION 1. FALSELY PERSONATING OFFICER, ETC.] "Whoever 
 shall falsely represent himself to be an officer of the city of 
 Bloomington, or shall, without authority, exercise or attempt 
 to exercise any of the powers, duties, or functions of any such 
 officer, or whoever not being a member of the police force of 
 said city shall wear, or have in his possession, any policeman's 
 star, or badge, with intent thereby to pass himself as a police- 
 man, or any policeman's whistle, unless obtained from the 
 City Marshal, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor 
 more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 2. RESISTING OR DELAYING OFFICER.] Whoever shall 
 wilfully resist, hinder or delay, any city officer in the discharge 
 of any official act or duty, or shall neglect or refuse to obey 
 any lawful order or direction of any such officer, where no 
 penalty is fixed for such offense, shall be fined not less than 
 twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 3. ASSISTING PRISONER TO ESCAPE.] Whoever shall rescue 
 or attempt to rescue any person from the custody of any city 
 officer, or other person legally having him in charge, or shall 
 aid, or attempt to aid, in any escape of any person from any 
 such custody, or from any city prison, or shall advise or en- 
 courage any such escape, or whoever shall supply any such 
 person, so being in such custody, or prison, with any weapon, 
 or with any implement or means of escape, or with any intox- 
 icating liquor, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor 
 more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 4. REFUSING TO ASSIST POLICEMAN.] It shall be the duty 
 of every male person within said city, when requested or called 
 upon by any member of the police department, to render 
 prompt aid to such member in making any arrest, or in the 
 execution of any official duty, and whoever shall refuse or 
 neglect to give such aid, when so called upon, shall be fined 
 not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 67 
 
 / 
 
 DIVISION 7. 
 General Provisions. 
 
 SECTION 1. Attempt to commit offense. 
 ' 2. Accessories, etc. 
 
 ' 3. Penalty for offenses not otherwise provided for. 
 ' 4. Policemen to arrest stragglers at night. 
 ' 5. Boys abroad at night. 
 ' 6. Marshal to enter gaming house or house of ill-fame. 
 
 SECTION 1. ATTEMPT TO COMMIT OFFENSE.] Whoever attempts 
 to commit any offense prohibited by ordinance, and does any 
 act towards it but fails, or is intercepted, or prevented in its 
 execution, where no express provision is made by ordinance 
 for the punishment of such attempt, shall, on conviction, be 
 fined not less than five dollars nor exceeding one hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 2. ACCESSORIES, ETC.] Whoever aids, abets, assists, ad- 
 vises, or encourages the commission of any act prohibited by 
 ordinance, or by any indirect means procures any such offense 
 to be committed, or whoever commits an offense through the 
 intervention of an agent, or servant, or person under his con- 
 trol, shall be deemed guilty to the same extent, and may be 
 proceeded against in the same manner as though such offense 
 had been committed by him directly, arid with his own hand; 
 and any such agent, servant or other person, doing any pro- 
 hibited act for, and on behalf of another, shall be deemed 
 guilty of such act, equally with his employer or principal. 
 
 3. PENALTY FOR OFFENSES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR.] 
 Where the doing of any act is prohibited by. any ordinance of 
 said city, or where any act or thing is by any such ordinance 
 enjoined on any person as a duty, and no penalty for the 
 violation of such ordinance is imposed, every such violation is 
 hereby declared to be a misdemeanor, and shall be punished 
 by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 4. POLICEMEN TO ARREST STRAGGLERS AT NIGHT.] Mem- 
 bers of the police department shall have a right to demand of 
 every person found abroad in said city after eleven o'clock at 
 night, the reason why, and the business on which such person 
 is abroad, and if such person shall fail or refuse to give a good 
 account of himself, and satisfactorily answer for being so 
 abroad, he shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding one hun- 
 dred dollars, and if such officer shall be satisfied that the 
 public good requires it, he shall (first having explained his
 
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 official character) arrest and detain such person for further ex- 
 amination ; the object of this section being to protect the city 
 from house-breakers, robbers, and other disorderly persons. 
 
 5. BOYS ABROAD AT NIGHT.] It shall be unlawful for any 
 boy under the age of sixteen years, to be abroad in said 
 city between the first day of April and the first day of October, 
 in any year, after the hour of ten o'clock at night, or during 
 the rest of any year, after nine o'clock at night, unless ac- 
 companied by some grown person having him in charge, or 
 unless by permission or command of his parent or guardian ; 
 and any such boy so found abroad, shall be fined not exceed- 
 ing ten dollars, and it shall be the duty of any policeman, 
 seeing any such boy so at large, to demand his authority therefor, 
 and on failure to receive a satisfactory answer, he shall im- 
 mediately arrest such boy, and confine him in the city calaboose 
 until the next morning, for examination. 
 
 6. MARSHAL TO ENTER GAMING HOUSE OR HOUSE OF ILL- 
 FAME.] It shall be lawful for the City Marshal or Captain of 
 Night Police, at any hour of the day or night, to enter, by 
 necessary force, and without warrant, into any premises, house 
 or room, kept as a common gaming house, house of ill-fame', or 
 other unlawful house, or into any house or room which he 
 may have good reason to believe is so kept, taking with him 
 such- policemen or persons as he may think necessary, and 
 there seize upon and destroy all instruments for gaming found 
 therein ; and it shall be his duty to arrest all the inmates of 
 such house, room or place, and take them forthwith, or as 
 soon as may be, before the proper tribunal of said city, for 
 trial. 
 
 DIVISION 8. 
 Proceedings to Recover Fines and Penalties. 
 
 SECTION 1. Actions to be in name of city security for costs. 
 
 2. Fines recovered by action of debt. 
 
 3. When warrant shall be issued. 
 
 4. Form of affidavit. 
 
 *J 5. Continuance recognizance. 
 
 6. Name of defendant magistrate to place true name upon docket. 
 
 7. Defective process amendments. 
 
 8. When process unnecessary bill of particulars, 
 
 9. Trial by jury, 
 
 10. Duties of officer making arrest. 
 
 11. Defendant failing to appear. 
 
 12. Defendant kept in custody till fine Is paid. 
 " 18. Execution form. etc. 
 
 14. Duty of officer in charge of prisoner. 
 
 15. Prisoner escaping fine not worked out. 
 
 16. Appeals. 
 
 SECTION 1. ACTIONS TO BE IN NAME OF CITY SECURITY FOR 
 COSTS.] In every action brought for the recovery of any fine,
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 69 
 
 forfeiture or penalty incurred by the violation of any ordi- 
 nance of the city, the city of Bloomington shall be plaintiff, 
 and the suit shall be instituted and conducted in the name 
 and for the benefit of said city ; and in no such case shall 
 security for costs be required to be given ; nor shall any cost 
 in any proceeding be taxed against said city. 
 
 2. FINES RECOVERED BY ACTION OF DEBT.] Whenever any 
 fine, forfeiture, or penalty, shall be incurred by any person by 
 reason of the violation of any ordinance of said city, the same 
 may be sued for and recovered by said city in a proceeding 
 in the nature of an action of debt before any police magis- 
 trate of said city or other competent tribunal, which action 
 may be commenced (except as hereinafter provided) by the 
 issuing of a summons like the summons required by the 
 Statutes of Illinois, to be issued by justices of the peace in 
 actions of debt, and such cause shall be conducted when not 
 herein otherwise provided, in like manner as civil causes be- 
 fore justices. 
 
 3. WHEN WARRANT SHALL BE ISSUED.] Whenever an affi- 
 davit shall be made before any police magistrate or a proper 
 justice of the peace, showing that any person has been guilty 
 of violating any penal ordinance of the city of Bloomington, 
 and specifying the offense, the magistrate or justice before 
 whom the same is made shall forthwith issue a warrant for 
 the arrest of the party accused, directed to the City Marshal 
 or any policeman of the city to execute, which warrant shall 
 be executed by such officer by taking the body of the defen- 
 dant and bringing him forthwith before such magistrate or 
 justice, or in case of his absence or inability to act before any 
 other magistrate or justice within said city having jurisdiction 
 over the offense, and upon the return of said warrant executed, 
 such magistrate shall proceed to try the cause, unless the same 
 shall, for good cause, be continued. 
 
 4. FORM OF AFFIDAVIT.] The affidavit provided for in the 
 preceding section may be substantially in the following form : 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS,^ 
 
 COUNTY OF MCLEAN, Vss. 
 City of Bloomington. ) 
 
 makes complaint upon oath, and says that at said 
 
 city, on or about the day of- , A. D. 18 , and 
 
 on divers other days and times, within eighteen months prior 
 
 to the commencement of this suit, one did (here insert 
 
 offence.) Contrary to the ordinances of said city, in such case 
 made and provided. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this day of 
 
 , 18-. 
 
 Police Magistrate.
 
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 5. CONTINUANCE RECOGNIZANCE.] When from the ab- 
 sence of material witnesses or other good cause, it is not prac- 
 ticable to try any defendant arrested upon warrant forthwith, 
 the magistrate shall adjourn the hearing to some suitable 
 time, not exceeding five days, unless by consent of the defen- 
 dant; and in the event of such adjournment, the defendant 
 shall give satisfactory bail for his appearance at the time and 
 place to which such cause may be adjourned, and in default 
 thereof, shall be committed to the city prison or the county 
 jail for safe keeping, until the time fixed for his trial. 
 
 6. NAME OF DEFENDANT MAGISTRATE TO PLACE TRUE NAME 
 UPON DOCKET.] If the name of any defendant is unknown, he 
 may be designated by any description or circumstance by 
 which he can, with reasonable certainty, be identified ; and 
 if upon arrest he refuses to disclose his true name, he may be 
 tried and convicted by the designation used in the warrant ; 
 but where the true name of any defendant is known to the 
 magistrate, or can be ascertained by him, it shall be the duty 
 of such magistrate to place the same upon his docket, and for 
 every failure so to do, he shall be fined ten dollars. 
 
 7. DEFECTIVE PROCESS AMENDMENTS.] No suit commenced 
 by the city shall be dismissed or continued, or any prisoner 
 discharged on account of any defect or informality in the pro- 
 cess by which the defendant is brought into court, or by rea- 
 son of any insufficiency of the affidavit on which any warrant 
 is issued; but the court may, on .motion, allow an amendment 
 of any such process or affidavit, at any time pending the pro- 
 ceedings. 
 
 8. WHEN PROCESS UNNECESSARY BILL OF PARTICULARS.] 
 No process shall be necessary when any defendant is legally 
 arrested without warrant and brought before the court ; but 
 in all cases of trials for breaches of ordinances, in which no 
 written affidavit is filed as ubove provided, it shall be the duty 
 of the attorney, or other officer or person prosecuting, on de- 
 mand of the defendant, to file a written statement in the 
 nature of a bill of particulars, setting forth the amount 
 claimed and the nature of the violation for which the penalty 
 is claimed. 
 
 9. TRIAL BY JURY.] In any prosecution under the city 
 ordinances, the defendant may have the cause tried by a jury 
 if he shall so demand before the trial is entered upon, and 
 will first pay the fees of the jurors. The number impannel- 
 ling, and qualifications of jurors, shall be governed by the 
 Statutes of Illinois appertaining to like proceedings before 
 justices of the peace.
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 71 
 
 10. DUTIES OF OFFICER MAKING ARREST.] All officers 
 making arrests, shall attend as witnesses at the trial of offend- 
 ers when required, and shall procure all the evidence in their 
 power, and furnish a list of the witnesses in each cause to the 
 court or City Attorney. 
 
 11. DEFENDANTS FAILING TO APPEAR.] When any de- 
 fendant duly summoned or who may have given bail for his 
 appearance as provided in section four of this division, shall 
 fail to appear at the time the suit is set for trial, the magis- 
 trate shall hear the testimony and shall render such judgment 
 as the facts in the case will warrant. 
 
 12. DEFENDANT KEPT IN CUSTODY UNIL FINE is PAID.] Upon 
 rendering judgment for any fine, forfeiture or penalty for the 
 violation of any ordinance of the city of Bloomington, the 
 magistrate or justice before whom conviction is had shall re- 
 quire immediate payment of such judgment, and shall make 
 an order that the defendant stand committed until the fine 
 and costs are paid, which order shall be entered upon the 
 docket of such magistrate or justice as a part of the judg- 
 ment in the cause, and the defendant, if present, shall not be 
 permitted to depart from custody ^except upon payment of 
 such judgment or upon filing an appeal bond with good secur- 
 ity, to be approved by the court, as provided in the statutes 
 of the State of Illinois, for the taking of appeals from jus- 
 tices of the peace. 
 
 13, EXECUTION FORM, ETC.] If such judgment be not 
 forthwith paid, or an appeal taken, the court rendering the 
 same shall issue an execution, under his hand and seal, which 
 may be substantially in the following form, to-wit: 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS,] 
 
 COUNTY OF McLEAN, V ss. The People of the State of Illinois. 
 City of Bloomington. ) 
 
 To the Marshal or any Policeman of the city of Bloomington, 
 
 Greeting : 
 
 WHEREAS, The city of Bloomington did, on the day 
 
 of , 18 , obtain a judgment before the under- 
 signed, a police magistrate of said city, (or a justice of the 
 peace of said county, as the case may be) against (here insert 
 name of defendant) for the violation of an ordinance of said 
 city, for the sum of (here insert the amount of fine) debt, and 
 (here insert amount of costs) costs, in this behalf. These are 
 therefore to command you to levy the said debt and costs, of 
 the goods arid chattels of the said (here insert name of defend- 
 ant) within the city of Bloomington, arid expose the same to
 
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 sale, agreeably to law ; and for want of sufficient property 
 wherewith to levy and satisfy the said debt and costs to be 
 forthwith turned out to you, you are hereby commanded to 
 take the body of the said (here insert name of defendant) and 
 commit him to the prison of said city, or the jail of said county, 
 there to remain twenty-four hours for every dollar contained 
 in the amount of said fine and costs : Or you may arrest the 
 said (here insert name of defendant) and require him to labor 
 upon the streets of said city, at the rate of one dollar per day, 
 until the whole amount of said fine and costs is worked out ; 
 and you are also hereby commanded to make return of this 
 writ within twenty days from the date hereof, with your re- 
 turn thereon, showing how you have executed the same. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal, this day of A. 
 
 D., 18 . 
 
 , [L. S.] 
 
 Police Magistrate. 
 
 The officer receiving such writ, shall execute the same by 
 doing as therein directed. 
 
 14. DUTY OF OFFICER IN CHARGE OF PRISONER.] In all 
 cases, where the same is practicable, prisoners failing to pay 
 fines, shall be compelled to work them out, as above provided, 
 and the officer or person having charge of any such prisoner, 
 shall cause him to labor diligently and faithfully, and shall 
 only give him credit for the time actually worked. Such 
 prisoner shall be returned to the city prison at noon and night, 
 until discharged, when the person having him in charge, shall 
 
 five him a statement of the time labored on the streets, and 
 e shall also make a return of the same to the court assessing 
 the fine. 
 
 15. PRISONER ESCAPING FINE NOT WORKED OUT.] If any 
 prisoner shall escape before his fine is worked out, or without 
 having remained in prison the length of time above required, 
 he may be re-arrested and caused to work or serve out the re- 
 mainder of his fine ; and where any prisoner is discharged 
 without having paid* or worked out his fine, as herein required, 
 although he may have remained in prison the time specified 
 in section thirteen hereof, such fine shall still stand unsatisfied 
 against him, to be made on execution, if possible. 
 
 16. APPEALS.] Appeals may be^taken from judgments 
 rendered under this chapter, in like manner, and upon like 
 conditions, as may be done under the statutes of the State of 
 Illinois, from judgments of justices of the peace.
 
 NUISANCES. 73 
 
 CHAPTER XIL 
 
 NUISANCES. 
 
 DIVISION 1. ENUMERATION AND PUNISHMENT OF NUISANCES. 
 " 2 ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES. 
 
 DIVISION 1. 
 Enumeration and Punishment of Nuisances. 
 
 SECTION 1. Hog and cattle stables and pens when nuisance. 
 
 2. Suffering manure to accumulate placing same on street. 
 
 " 3. Gunpowder and gun-cotton when nuisance. 
 
 " 4. Storage of tar, pitch, etc. when nuisance. 
 
 " 5. Bills and placards. 
 
 6. Dairies prohibited. 
 
 7. Suffering premises to become foul. 
 
 8. Streams, gutters, ravines, etc. obstruction of. 
 
 9. Green or salted hides when nuisance. 
 
 10. Foul liquids discharged upon streets or premises. 
 
 11. Slops, filth, dead animals, etc. 
 
 12. Throwing tilth in well or cistern. 
 ." 13. Bill-boardswhen nuisance. 
 
 " 14. Gates opening over street or sidewalk. 
 
 " 15. Slack and refuse coal nuisance. 
 
 " 16. Soap factories and other offensive establishments. 
 
 " 17. Slaughtering establishments, etc. when nuisance. 
 
 " 18. Curbing when nuisance. 
 
 19. Trap-doors, gratings, etc, dangerous sidewalks. 
 
 20. Failure to refill ditches, etc., or to guard same. 
 
 21. Erecting unsafe scaffold. 
 
 22. Unsafe signs, awnings, etc. 
 
 '' 23. Wooden awnings and awnings with supports. 
 
 24. Obstructions, excavations, etc. nuisance, 
 
 25. Coal vaults and other excavations when nuisance. 
 
 26. Unsafe buildings, etc. nuisance, 
 
 " 27. Council may notify persons building to stop. 
 
 SECTION 1. HOG AND CATTLE STABLES AND PENS WHEN NUI- 
 SANCE.] Whoever shall keep, use or maintain, within the 
 city of Bloomington, any pen, stable, lot, place, or premises, 
 in which any hogs, cattle, or fowls, may be confined or kept 
 in such manner as to be nauseous, foul, or offensive, or as 
 from any cause to be an annoyance to any community, 
 family or person, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and 
 on conviction, be fined not less than five dollars, nor more 
 than fifty dollars. 
 
 2. SUFFERING MANURE TO ACCUMULATE PLACING SAME ON 
 STREET.] Whoever shall suffer to accumulate on any premi- 
 ses owned or controlled by him, any heap or stack of manure, 
 in such manner as to emit noxious, disagreeable or offensive 
 smells, to the annoyance or detriment of any person or family, 
 or whoever shall place any such manure, or the contents of 
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 any privy-vault in, or upon any public street, alley, or com- 
 mon, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on conviction, 
 shall be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty 
 dollars. 
 
 3. GUN-POWDER AND GUN-COTTON WHEN NUISANCE.] The 
 keeping, having, or storing within said city of any gun- 
 powder or gun-cotton, in larger quantity than fifty pounds, at 
 one time and place, or in any other manner than in tin canis- 
 ters or cases, containing, not exceeding thirteen pounds each, 
 or in any position contiguous to any fire, or lighted lamp, or 
 gas jet, or in any situation not readily accessible for the re- 
 moval of such gun-powder or gun-cotton, in case of fire, is 
 hereby declared to be a nuisance, and whoever shall be guilty 
 thereof, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars. 
 
 4. STORAGE OF TAR, PITCH, ETC WHEN A NUISANCE.] Who- 
 ever shall have, or keep in store, within said city, any quan- 
 tity of tar, pitch, rosin, petroleum, or its products, or other 
 combustible materials, or substances, in such manner that the 
 same shall be in danger of taking and communicating fire, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and shall be fined not 
 less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 5. BILLS AND PLACARDS.] The pasting, sticking or plac- 
 ing of any advertisement, handbill, placard, or of any printed, 
 pictured, or written matter, or thing, whatsoever, upon any 
 house, wall, building, fence, railing, sidewalk, or other prop- 
 erty, public or private, without permission of the owner or 
 person in charge thereof is hereby declared a nuisance, and 
 any person found guilty of so doing, shall be fined, not less 
 than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars. 
 
 6. DAIRIES PROHIBITED.] Whoever shall erect, keep, or 
 maintain any dairy or any cow stable, or other appurtenance 
 or convenience connected with any dairy within said city, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and shall be fined not 
 not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 Any establishment or place where three or more cows are 
 kept for the purpose of making butter or cheese, or of pro- 
 ducing milk for sale, shall be deemed a dairy within the 
 meaning of this section. 
 
 7. SUFFERING PREMISES TO BECOME FOUL.] Whoever shall 
 suffer or permit any cellar, vault, drain, pool, privy, sewer, 
 3 r ard, grounds or premises, belonging to or controlled by him, 
 to become from any cause, nauseous, foul, offensive, or injuri- 
 ous to the public health, or unpleasant and disagreeable to 
 adjacent residents or persons, shall be deemed guilty of a
 
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 nuisance, and on conviction, be fined not less than ten dol- 
 lars, nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 8. STREAMS, GUTTERS, RAVINES, ETC. OBSTRUCTION OF.] 
 Whoever shall place, erect or maintain any obstruction in or 
 across any water course, stream, brook or ravine, so as to 
 cause water to stand and to stagnate therein or shall place or 
 deposit therein any noxious or offensive matter or any 
 stone, earth, straw, hay, manure, dead animal, or other article 
 or substance, or whoever shall by any means dam up or ob- 
 struct any sewer, drain, or gutter shall be deemed guilty of a 
 nuisance and on conviction shall be fined not less than fifty 
 dollars. 
 
 9. GREEN AND SALTED HIDES WHEN A NUISANCE.] Who- 
 ever shall keep in store, in any building, cellar or place within 
 said city any green or salted hides, pelts or skins for such 
 length of time or in such manner that the same shall become 
 or be nauseous, foul or offensive by reason of their bad or 
 unwholesome smell or odor shall be deemed guilty of a nui- 
 sance and on conviction shall be fined not less than five dollars 
 nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 10. FOUL LIQUIDS DISCHARGED UPON STREETS OR PREMISES.] 
 
 Whoever shall cause or permit any nauseous, foul, or putrid 
 liquor or substance, or any liquid or substance likely to be- 
 come nauseous, foul, offensive or putrid to be discharged, 
 placed or thrown or to flow from or out of any premises into 
 or upon any adjacent premises or any public street or alley 
 shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance and shall be fined not 
 less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 11. SLOPS, FILTH, DEAD ANIMALS, ETC.] WTioever shall 
 deposit or place in or upon any premises, public or piivate, 
 enclosed or common within said city any vegetable or animal 
 matter or slops, or any filth of a character likely to affect the 
 public health, or to produce offensive smells, or the carcass of 
 any dead animal ; or whoever shall suffer the carcass of any 
 dead animal, which at its death belonged to him, to be or 
 remain in or upon any such place more than six hours after 
 its death, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on con- 
 viction shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 12. THROWING FILTH IN WELL OR CISTERN.] Whoever 
 shall throw, cast or deposit any filth, substance or thing in 
 any public or private well or cistern shall be deemed guilty 
 of a nuisance, and on conviction shall be fined not less than 
 twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
 
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 13. BILL-BOARDS WHEN NUISANCE.] Whoever shall erect, 
 keep or maintain any bill-board or board for advertising upon 
 any public ground or place, or upon any private premises ad- 
 jacent to any sidewalk, street or footway, the same being so 
 erected as to occasion danger or inconvenience to the public, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance and be fined not less 
 than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars. 
 
 14. GATES OPENING OVER STREET OR SIDEWALK.] All gates 
 opening upon any public street shall be so constructed as that 
 no part of such gate shall swing over or above the street or 
 sidewalk upon which it opens, unless such gate be so con- 
 structed or hung as to be self-shutting; and whoever shall 
 erect, keep or maintain any gate, in violation of this section 
 shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and be fined not exceed- 
 ing ten dollars. 
 
 15. SLACK AND REFUSE COAL NUISANCE.] It is hereby 
 declared to be a nuisance for any person, company or corpo- 
 ration to place, keep, deposit or maintain within said city any 
 pile or piles of slack coal, or refuse material from any coal 
 mine, in such manner that the same shall burn and emit 
 smoke or offensive or disagreeable smells, odors or vapors, 
 whereby the health or comfort of any person or family is af- 
 fected, and any such person, company or corporation on con- 
 viction of such nuisance shall be fined fifty dollars. 
 
 16. SOAP FACTORIES AND OTHER OFFENSIVE ESTABLISHMENTS 
 
 WHEN NUISANCES.] Whoever shall hereafter erect within 
 said city any soap factory, tallow chandlery, tannery, distil- 
 lery or brewery, without permission of the City Council, or 
 whoever with such permission shall conduct any establish- 
 ment of the character aforesaid in such manner that the same 
 shall become foul or offensive, or shall emit or give out bad, 
 offensive or unwholesome smells or odors to the annoyance or 
 detriment of any community, family or person, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a nuisance, and on conviction shall be fined not less 
 than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 17. SLAUGHTERING ESTABLISHMENTS, ETC. WHEN NUI- 
 SANCES.] Whoever shall hereafter erect or set in operation 
 within said city, or within one mile of the limits thereof, any 
 slaughtering establishment, or establishment for steaming or 
 rendering lard, tallow, offal or other substances without per- 
 mission of the City Council ; or whoever, within the limits 
 aforesaid, shall with or without such permission so conduct or 
 carry on such establishment, that the same shall become foul 
 or offensive, or shall emit unwholesome or disagreeable odors 
 to the annoyance or detriment of any community, family or
 
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 person, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on convic- 
 tion shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 18. CURBING WHEN NUISANCE.] No curbing shall be 
 placed nearer than twenty-four feet of the center of any street 
 eighty feet wide or more, nor nearer than sixteen feet of the 
 centre of any street over sixty feet and under eighty feet wide; 
 nor nearer than fifteen feet of the centre of any street fifty 
 feet wide or less. Any person placing curbing in any str* et 
 in violation of this section shall be fined not less than five 
 dollars nor more than fifty dollars on failing to remove the 
 same after ten days' notice from any city officer; and all curb- 
 ing constructed contrary to the provisions of this section, and 
 not removed after ten days' nqtice, as herein provided, is here- 
 by declared to be a nuisance. 
 
 19. TRAPDOORS, GRATINGS, ETC. DANGEROUS SIDEWALK.] 
 Whoever shall keep or leave open, or shall allow or suffer to 
 to be left or kept open, any cellar door or trap-door, or the 
 grating of any vault in or upon any side-walk, street, thor- 
 oughfare or passage-way ; or whoever shall make, keep, or 
 maintain any uncovered opening in any sidewalk or passage- 
 way, or whoever shall suffer or allow any sidewalk or foot- 
 way, which it is his duty to maintain or repair, to become or 
 continue so broken, uneven or out of repair as to endanger life 
 or limb, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on convic- 
 tion shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars. 
 
 20. FAILURE TO REFILL DITCHES, ETC., OR TO GUARD THE 
 SAME.] Whoever under lawful permission shall for any pur- 
 pose dig or make any ditch, drain, excavation or hole in, 
 across or under any street, alley, sidewalk or other public 
 place within said city, and shall not with all reasonable dis- 
 patch refill the same and fix such street, alley, sidewalk, or 
 place in as good condition as the same was found ; or whoev- 
 er shall, during the lawful existence or continuance of any 
 such ditch, drain, excavation, or hole, fail to have the same so 
 watched, guarded and protected, as to insure the safety of all 
 persons who may or might pass by or near the same, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on conviction shall be fined 
 not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dol- 
 lars. 
 
 21. ERECTING UNSAFE SCAFFOLD.] Whoever shall erect 
 or use, or shall cause or suffer to be erected or used within 
 said city any insecure or unsafe scaffold, whereby the safety 
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 any manner endangered, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, 
 and on conviction shall be fined not less than five dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars. 
 
 22. UNSAFE SIGNS, AWNINGS, ETC. CLOTHING AND GOODS. 
 TREES.] Whoever shall erect, suspend, keep or maintain any 
 sign, awning, goods, clothing or other structure or thing over 
 or across any street or sidewalk of the city, or any tree or 
 shrub with branches overhanging the same in such manner as 
 to obstruct such sidewalk or street, or render travel thereon 
 inconvenient or unsafe ; or whoever shall suffer any awning, 
 sign or structure over any street or sidewalk, to be out of re- 
 pair or in an insecure or unsafe condition shall be deemed 
 guilty of a nuisance, and on conviction shall be fined not less 
 than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 23. WOODEN AWNINGS AND AWNINGS WITH SUPPORTS.] 
 Whoever shall construct, repair, keep or maintain within 
 said city any wooden awning or shed over any sidewalk or 
 foot-way with supports reaching down to such sidewalk or to 
 the ground, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and on con- 
 viction shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars. 
 
 24. OBSTRUCTIONS, EXCAVATIONS, ETC., NUISANCES.] All 
 obstructions to streets, alleys, crossings, or sidewalks of the 
 city, and all excavations in or under the same, which are by 
 ordinance prohibited, or which may be made without lawful 
 permission, are hereby declared to be nuisances, and the per- 
 son erecting, keeping or maintaining any such shall in addi- 
 tion to any penalty specifically denounced against the samt, 
 be subject to the further provisions of this ordinance in rela- 
 lation to the continuance and abatement of nuisances. 
 
 25. COAL VAULTS AND OTHER EXCAVATIONS WHEN NUI- 
 SANCES.] Every coal vault or other excavation beneath any 
 sidewalk or street of said city, which is so constructed or so 
 insufficiently covered as to be unsafe and insecure or to en- 
 danger the lives or limbs of persons passing over or by the 
 same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and the person 
 keeping or maintaining the same shall be fined therefor not 
 less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 26. UNSAFE BUILDINGS, ETE., NUISANCES.] No person shall 
 within said city erect or maintain any insecure or unsafe build- 
 ing, stack, wall, chimney or other structure, or any building, 
 stack, wall, chimney or other structure which from situation, 
 mode of construction or other cause may be dangerous to per- 
 sons or to property : Any person violating this section shall 
 be deemed guilty of a nuisance, and shall on conviction be
 
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 fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hun- 
 dred dollars. 
 
 27, COUNCIL MAY NOTIFY PERSONS BUILDING TO STOP.] 
 "Whenever in the judgment of the City Council any building, 
 stack, wall, chimney, or other structure then in process of 
 construction, is being erected or built, upon such plans or in 
 such manner that the same will when completed be insecure, 
 unsafe, or dangerous to persons or property, said Council may 
 cause notice to be served upon the owner of the same or his 
 agent or upon the contractor, or person having charge of the 
 building thereof, to stop work thoreon until the plans of such 
 building shall be so changed as to render the same secure and 
 safe and to meet the approval of said Council ; any person 
 who shall violate the terms of any notice served on him in 
 pursuance of this section shall be fined fifty dollars, and a like 
 sum for each day he shall persist in such violation. 
 
 DIVISION 2. 
 Abatement of Nuisances. 
 
 SECTION 1. Court on conviction to order abatement. 
 
 " 2. Continuing nuisance penalty. 
 
 " 3. Summary abatement of nuisance when proper. 
 
 " 4. Authority of marshal manner of abatement. 
 
 " 5. Costs of abatement, paid by person creating, etc. 
 
 SECTION 1. COURT ON CONVICTION TO ORDER ABATEMENT.] 
 When judgment shall be rendered against any person for cre- 
 ating, keeping, or maintaining any nuisance, it shall be the 
 duty of the court before whom such conviction is had to order 
 the defendant in such suit to forthwith abate and remove such 
 nuisance, and if the same is not done, by such defendant, 
 within twenty-four hours, that the same shall be abated and 
 removed by the City Marshal. Said order shall be entered 
 upon the docket of the court and be made a part of the judg- 
 ment in the cause. 
 
 2. CONTINUING NUISANCE PENALTY.] Any person having 
 been found guilty of creating, keeping or maintaining any 
 nuisance, who shall neglect, or fail to abate and remove such 
 nuisance within twenty-four hours next after his conviction 
 thereof, shall, for each twenty-four hours thereafter which 
 such nuisance is continued, be subject to a like penalty as 
 that originally incurred for keeping, creating, or maintain- 
 ing the same. 
 
 3. SUMMARY ABATEMENT OF NUISANCE WHEN PROPER.] 
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 situated that the same can be abated without the invasion or 
 destruction of private proverty, and the further continuance 
 thereof is likely to result in expense to the city, or injury to 
 any person, it shall be the duty of the City Marshal to abate 
 and remove the same summarily without waiting for the 
 conviction of the author thereof. 
 
 4. AUTHORITY OF MARSHAL MANNER OF ABATEMENT.] In 
 any case where a nuisance is to be abated by the City Marshal , 
 or any officer, it shall be the duty of such Marshal or officer 
 to proceed with due care, and without any unnecessary de- 
 struction of property ; and he shall in all cases be author- 
 ized to employ such assistance, and adopt such means as may 
 be necessary to effect the entire abatement of the evil in 
 question. 
 
 5. COSTS OF ABATEMENT PAID BY PERSON CP EATING, ETC.] 
 
 Every person creating, keeping, or maintaining any nuisance, 
 shall be liable for all costs and expenses of abating the same, 
 when done by the city or under its authority ; and in all cases 
 where the City Marshal, or other officer shall abate any such 
 nuisance, he shall keep an account of all expenses attending 
 such abatement, and shall forthwith bring suit for the same in 
 spme competent court in the name of the City of Blooming- 
 ton against the person creating, keeping, or maintaining the 
 nuisance so abated. 

 
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 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 " 2. CITY ASSESSOR. 
 
 14 3. CITY ATTORNEY. 
 
 " 4. CITY CLERK. 
 
 " 5. CITY COLLECTOR. 
 
 " 6. CITY ENGINEER. 
 
 " 7. CITY WEIGHER. 
 
 " 8. HEALTH OFFICER. 
 
 " 9. INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
 
 " 10. MEASURER. 
 
 " 11. OIL INSPECTOR. 
 
 " 12. STREET COMMISSIONER. 
 
 " 13. TREASURER. 
 
 DIVISION 1. 
 General Provisions. 
 
 
 SECTION 1. Appointment of officers term of office. 
 
 " 2. Qualifications of officers. 
 
 " 3. Officers to give bond. 
 
 " 4. Officers to take and subscribe oath. 
 
 " 5. Officers to be commissioned form. 
 
 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT OF OFFICERS.] All officers of the 
 city of Bloomington not by law elective, shall be appointed 
 annually, as provided by statute, which appointment shall be 
 made at the first regular meeting of the City Council held 
 after the newly elected Mayor shall have taken his seat, or as 
 soon thereafter as may be practicable ; and each officer so ap- 
 pointed shall, unless sooner removed, hold his office until his 
 successor is appointed and qualified. 
 
 2. QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS.] Every person appoint- 
 ed to any office under this city shall be a citizen of the United 
 States, over twenty-one years of age, and shall have resided 
 in this city at least one year next preceding his appointmenk- 
 
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 82 ORDINANCES. 
 
 3. OFFICERS TO GIVE BONDS.] Every officer of said city, 
 except members of the City Council, shall, before entering up- 
 on the duties of his office, give bond to the city of Blooming- 
 ton in such sum as the City Council may designate, or as may 
 be specially provided by ordinance, with two or more good 
 and sufficient securities, residents of this city, to be approved 
 by the City Council ; which bond, when not otherwise pro- 
 vided by law or ordinance, shall be conditioned for the prompt 
 and faithful performance by such officer of all acts and duties 
 required of him as such officer by any law of the State of Illi- 
 nois or ordinance of the City of Bloomington then in force 
 or that may be subsequently passed, and for the prompt ac- 
 counting for, and payment to the city or its proper officers of, 
 all moneys that may come into his hands by virtue of his 
 office. 
 
 4. OFFICERS TO TAKE AND SUBSCRIBE OATH.] 'Every officer 
 of said city shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, 
 take and subscribe an oath before some officer authorized by 
 law to administer oaths, that he will support the Constitution 
 of the United States and of the State of Illinois, and will 
 faithfully, promptly and to the best of his ability discharge 
 and perform the duties of his office ; which oath shall be filed, 
 together with his official bond, if one is required, in the office 
 of the City Clerk. 
 
 5. OFFICERS TO BE COMMISSIONED FORM.] Upon the filing 
 of the oath and bond mentioned in the last section, the City 
 Clerk shall, except in case of members of the City Council, 
 issue to the officer filing the same a commission in the name 
 of the Mayor and under the seal of the city? which may be 
 substantially as follows : 
 To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting : 
 
 Know ye, that , having been duly elected (or ap- 
 pointed, as the case may be,) and qualified to the office of 
 
 of the city of Bloomington ; Therefor, I, , 
 
 Mayor (or acting Mayor, as the case may be,) of said city, for 
 and in behalf of the people thereof do hereby commission the 
 
 said as such in and for said city ; to have and 
 
 possess the said office with all the rights, powers and emolu- 
 ments incident thereto, with authority to execute all the duties 
 thereof according to law until his successor shall be duly 
 chosen and qualified. 
 
 In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand 
 [ SEAL. ] and caused the corporate seal of said city to be af- 
 fixed this day of in the year 18 . 
 
 ATTEST : (Signed) , MAYOR. 
 
 CLERK.
 
 OFFICERS. 83 
 
 DIVISION 2. 
 City Assessor. 
 
 SECTION 1. Appointment and bond of Assessor. 
 2. Assessor to be governed by statutes, etc. 
 " 3. Township assessors appointed. 
 
 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT AND BOND OF ASSESSOR.] There 
 shall be appointed in and for the city of Blooraington, as pro- 
 vided by law, one City Assessor, who shall, before entering 
 upon the duties of his office, execute to the city a bond in the 
 penal sum of one thousand dollars conditioned for the prompt 
 and faithful'performance of the duties of City Assessor, as 
 defined by the'ordinances of said city and the statutes of the 
 State of Illinois. 
 
 2. ASSESSOR TO BE GOVERNED BY STATUTES, ETC.] The 
 City Assessor, upon receiving the books of assessment, shall 
 proceed promptly to assess all real and personal property with- 
 in the city subject to taxation. The time and manner of as- 
 sessment shall be the same as that prescribed by the statutes 
 of the State of Illinois for the government of township as- 
 sessors. 
 
 3. TOWNSHIP ASSESSORS APPOINTED.] Whenever the Mayor 
 and City Council of said city may think fit to appoint the reg- 
 ular Township Assessors of Bloomington and Normal town- 
 ships as the assessors of said city, the provisions of this or- 
 dinance shall apply to each of such assessors the same as 
 though but one had been appointed, as contemplated in its 
 terms. 
 
 DIVISION 3. 
 City Attorney. 
 
 SECTION 1. Qualifications and bond of Attorney. 
 " 2. Duties of City Attorney. 
 
 SECTION 1. QUALIFICATIONS AND BOND OF ATTORNEY.] The 
 City Attorney shall, in addition to the qualifications required 
 in section two, division one, of this chapter, be licensed to 
 practice in all courts of the State of Illinois; and before en- 
 tering upon the duties of his office he shall give bond to the 
 city in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for 
 the faithful performance of the duties of his office. 
 
 2. DUTIES OF CITY ATTORNEY.] It shall be the duty of the 
 City Attorney :
 
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 ffirst To prosecute all suits for the recovery of fines and 
 penalties before any court for the violation of any of the 
 ordinances or laws of said city. 
 
 Second To institute or defend any suit which may be 
 brought in any court by or against said city, or which may be 
 brought by or against any of its officers on account of any of 
 their official acts. 
 
 Third To collect promptly all judgments recovered by said 
 city, and to see that all persons failing to pay fines are im- 
 prisoned as required by ordinance. 
 
 Fourth To pay into the city treasury all money which may 
 be received by him on account of said city, and take receipts 
 therefor. 
 
 Fifth To report monthly to the City Council the number of 
 suits brought in behalf of the city, the manner in which they 
 have been disposed of, the aggregate amount of judgments 
 recovered by said city, the amount collected by him upon said 
 judgments, and the amount paid by him to the City Treasurer, 
 together with the Treasurer's receipts therefor. 
 
 Sixth To draft all ordinances, bonds, contracts, leases, con- 
 veyances, and such other instruments of writing pertaining to 
 the business of an attorney, as may be required by the busi- 
 ness of said city. 
 
 Seventh To inspect and examine all tax and assessment 
 rolls, and to institute and conduct all proceedings in refer- 
 ence to the assessment and collection of city taxes. 
 
 Eighth To furnish his written opinion upon any legal ques- 
 tion submitted to him for such opinion by the City Council, 
 and to regularly attend all meetings of said Council. 
 
 Ninth To perform in behalf of the city such other services 
 incident to the office of an attorney, as may, from time to 
 time, be required by the City Council, or by any of its com- 
 mittees or officers. 
 
 DIVISION 4. 
 City Clerk. 
 
 SECTION 1. Bond of City Clerk. 
 2. Duties of City Clerk. 
 
 SECTION 1. BOND OF CITY CLERK.] The City Clerk of the 
 city of Bloomington, shall give bond in the penal sum of one 
 thousand dollars, with security, to be approved by the City 
 Council, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties 
 of his office, and that he will, at the expiration of his term of
 
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 office, turn over to his successor or to the City Council, all 
 books, records, and other property coming to his hands as 
 such clerk. 
 
 2. DUTIES OF CITY CLERK.] It shall be the duty of the 
 City Clerk, 
 
 First To attend all meetings of the City Council, and keep 
 a full and correct journal of Us proceedings, and to record at 
 length in such proceedings all ordinances passed by said Coun- 
 cil, and not published in book form, and also all contracts to 
 which the city may be a party. 
 
 Second To carefully preserve in his office all books, records, 
 and papers belonging to the city, which may come to his 
 hands as clerk. 
 
 Third To keep full and complete accounts and exhibits of 
 all financial transactions of the city, to be entered upon such 
 books as are provided for that purpose, in form of double 
 entry, including in such account all claims against the city, as 
 the same may be allowed ; and all orders for the payment of 
 money granted and on what account. 
 
 Fourth To preserve in his office all bills on which any 
 money may be paid out by the city. 
 
 Fifth To issue all licenses, the granting of which may be 
 provided for by ordinance, and to keep a record in a suitable 
 book of each license granted, to whom granted, for what pur- 
 pose, the period of time covered thereby, and the location of 
 the place of business of the person obtaining the license. 
 
 Sixth To do and perform such other duties pertaining to 
 his office as may be necessary, or as the City Council may, 
 from time to time, require. 
 
 Seventh Said clerk shall keep his office at such place as the 
 City Council may direct, and his office hours shall be from 
 eight o'clock a. m. to twelve m., and from one o'clock p. m. 
 until five o'clock p. m. of each day. 
 
 DIVISION 5. 
 City Collector. 
 
 SECTION 1. Bond of City Collector. 
 
 " 2. Collector to proceed as provided by statute settlement. 
 
 " 3. Collector to report delinquent taxes. 
 
 " 4. Appointment of town collectors as collectors for city. 
 
 SECTION 1. BOND OF CITY COLLECTOR.] The amount of the 
 bond of the City Collector shall be double the amount of taxes 
 to be by him collected for the city during the year for which 
 such bond is given, and shall be conditioned similarly to the
 
 86 ORDINANCES. 
 
 bond required by the Statutes of Illinois to be given by town 
 collectors. 
 
 3. COLLECTOR TO PROCEED AS PROVIDED BY STATUTE SET- 
 TLEMENT.] Tbe City Collector upon receiving the tax book 
 or books shall proceed to the collection of the city taxes in 
 like manner as is by the Statutes of Illinois provided for the 
 collection of State, county and town taxes. He shall use a 
 high degree of diligence to collect all city taxes extended upon 
 the books, making levies when necessary for that purpose, 
 and he shall make return of his books, accounts and vouchers, 
 and make a final settlement with the Finance Committee and 
 the City Treasurer, on or before the first day of April in each 
 year. 
 
 3. COLLECTOR TO REPORT DELINQUENT TAXES.] The City 
 Collector shall, upon concluding his collection of taxes, make 
 out a written statement of all delinquent taxes and assess- 
 ments for such year, comprising names of persons by whom 
 owing, whether amount due in each case is real estate or per- 
 sonal tax, with remarks as to whether collectible, and submit 
 the same to the City Council in session. 
 
 4. APPOINTMENT OF TOWN COLLECTORS AS COLLECTORS FOR 
 CITY.] Whenever the regular town collectors of Bloomington 
 and Normal townships may be appointed as the collectors of 
 said city, in and for the districts or parts of said city, com- 
 prised within their respective townships, the provisions of this 
 division shall apply to each of such collectors the same as 
 though the two had been expressly mentioned in its terms. 
 
 DIVISION 6. 
 City Engineer. 
 
 SECTION 1. Appointment and bond, 
 
 " 2. Stipulation in Engineer's bond. 
 
 " 3. Duties of City Engineer. 
 
 " 4. Books and materials to be procured by and belong to the city. 
 
 " 5. Engineer not to do outside work without consent of Council nor be 
 interested in any contract with city. 
 
 " 6. Engineer 'to be ex-offlcio commissioner of sidewalks and special as- 
 sessments duties as such. 
 
 SECTION I. APPOINTMENT AND BOND.] There shall be ap- 
 pointed in and for the City of Bloomington, as provided by 
 law, one City Engineer, who shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, execute to said city a bond in the peual 
 sum of one thousand dollars, with two or more good and 
 sufficient securities, to be approved by the City Council, con- 
 ditioned that he will faithfully perform his duties as such En- 
 gineer, and that he will at the expiration of his term of office
 
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 turn over to his successor, or to the city of Blooraington, all 
 books, records, surveys, plats, papers, notes, and writings com- 
 ing to his hands as such Engineer, or made by him as such 
 Engineer while employed by the city. 
 
 2. STIPULATION IN ENGINEER'S BOND.] The bond of the 
 City Engineer shall in addition to the condition provided for 
 in section one hereof contain a stipulation in the following 
 words, to-wit : 
 
 "It is expressly stipulated and agreed by the parties hereto 
 that in case the said (here insert name of engineer) shall fail to 
 make all records and writings upon the books of the city, 
 which are, or may be, by ordinance required to be made by 
 him, or shall fail to turn over to his successor, or to the city 
 of Bloomington, or its authorized officer or officers, any book, 
 map, survey, memorandum, or any field notes, or other result 
 or product of his labor as such Engineer, as the same is or 
 may be by ordinance required to be turned over by him, then 
 the damages for such default on the part of the said (here in- 
 sert name of engineer) shall be one thousand dollars to be 
 taken as liquidated assessed and agreed upon by the parties 
 and may be sued for and recovered without any other or further 
 proof of damages than the default aforesaid." 
 
 3. DUTIES OF CITY ENGINEER.] It shall be the duty of 
 the City Engineer ; 
 
 First To make the requisite maps, plans, specifications 
 and estimates for all work constructed by the city or under its 
 authority. 
 
 Second To keep a systematic record on the books of the 
 city of all transactions within his department, and carefully 
 preserve in his office all maps, plans, and surveys of the city, 
 and all records, books, papers and writings made by him, or 
 coming to or being in his hands as such City Engineer. 
 
 Third To report monthly to the City Council a general 
 abstract of all the operations of his department; the amount 
 of work executed, and the amount on hand unexecuted, and 
 such other information as may be deemed of importance, or 
 as the City Council may require. 
 
 Fourth To keep in a suitable book, to be provided by the 
 city, all grades established by the City Council. Said grade 
 book shall be kept in the office of said City Engineer, and 
 shall be the exclusive property of the city, and all entries 
 therein shall be made with ink. 
 
 Fifth To give grades of streets or alleys to persons de- 
 siring to build or to construct sidewalks, and street lines to 
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 do by the City Council or its authorized committee ; Provided, 
 that no grade shall be given unless the same is established by 
 ordinance. 
 
 Sixth To turn over to his successor, or some other person 
 authorized to receive the same for the city, at the expiration 
 of his term of office all records, books, plats, maps, surveys, 
 plans, writings, papers, and instruments received or in his 
 custody, together with all field notes and other results and 
 products of his labor while acting as such Engineer. 
 
 Seventh To do and perform such other duties pertaining 
 to the business of his department as may from time to time 
 be necessary, or as the City Council or any authorized com- 
 mittee thereof may require of him. 
 
 4. BOOKS AND MATERIALS TO BE PROCURED BY, AND BELONG 
 
 TO, THE CITY.] The Engineer shall advise the City Council of 
 all books, stationery, instruments and material required in his 
 department, and upon the order of said C ouncil, shall procure 
 the same at the expense of the city, and he shall keep all 
 records, maps, charts, surveys, grades and plans, and likewise 
 make all memorandums of his work, and all field notes of 
 surveys upon the books of the city so procured, or in his 
 hands, and all such records, maps, charts, surveys, grades, 
 plans, memorandums and field notes, together with all pro- 
 ducts and results of his labors as such Engineer, shall be the 
 property of the city and constitute a part of the records to be 
 turned over by him to his successors, or to the city, as is here- 
 in above provided. 
 
 5. ENGINEER NOT TO DO OUTSIDE WORK WITHOUT CONSENT OF 
 COUNCIL, OR BE INTERESTED IN ANY CONTRACT WITH THE CITY.] 
 The City Engineer shall devote his entire time and energies 
 to the performances of his duties, and in no case shall he, 
 while employed by the city, do for hire any engineering, sur- 
 veying, or other work pertaining to the business of an Engin- 
 eer for any person, company or corporation, other than said 
 city, without the consent of the City Council, and all earnings 
 received for any such outside work shall be paid over by him 
 to the City Treasurer ; nor shall he, during his term of ofiice, 
 be either directly, or indirectly concerned or interested in any 
 contract with the city for any public work. 
 
 6. ENGINEER TO BE EX-OFFICIO COMMISSIONER OF SIDEWALKS 
 AND SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS DUTIES AS SUCH.] The City Engin- 
 eer shall be ex-ojficio commissioner of sidewalks and special 
 assessments, and as such shall keep a full record in a conven- 
 ient and legible form, of all special assessments for the build- 
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 the first day of July, 1872. He shall prepare all descriptions 
 of property to be assessed with owner's names ; prepare and 
 cause to be served, published or posted, as the case may be, all 
 notices required by law to be given in the case of special as- 
 sessments, and also all notices required to be given where 
 property has been purchased by, or on behalf of the city, for 
 unpaid special assessments ; and perform such other duties in 
 relation to sidewalks and special assessments as the Council 
 may from time to time direct. 
 
 DIVISION 7. 
 Ctiy Weigher. 
 
 SECTION 1. City Weigher appointment and bond deputies. 
 " 2. Duties of Weigher. 
 " 3. Weigher to keep book. 
 " 4 False certificate, etc., penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. CITY WEIGHER APPOINTMENT AND BOND DEPUTIES.] 
 There shall be annually appointed, in and for the city of Bloom- 
 ington, one City Weigher, who shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, execute to said city a bond, with security, 
 to be approved by the City Council, in the penal sum of five 
 hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of 
 the duties of his office. Said Weigher may appoint deputies, 
 if deemed necessary, for whose acts said Weigher and his se- 
 curities shall be responsible, 
 
 2. DUTIES OF WEIGHER.] The City Weigher shall have 
 charge of all public scales of said city, and shall, by himself 
 or deputies, attend at said scales from sunrise till sunset of 
 each day, (Sundays and legal holidays excepted) and there 
 weigh every load of grain, hay, stone-coal, or other thing pre- 
 sented to be weighed, and give to the person presenting the 
 same a dated certificate of gross tare and net weight thereof. 
 Where contract is made in advance with said Weigher, for 
 the weighing of an entire car-load of any article, he may in- 
 clude the whole of said car-load in one certificate. 
 
 3 WEIGHER TO KEEP BOOK.] Said Weigher shall enter in 
 a suitable book, to be furnished him by the city, every load of 
 grain, hay, stone-coal, or other thing weighed by him. desig- 
 nating the kind and weight of each, for whom weighed, and 
 the amount of fees received therefor. 
 
 4. FALSE CERTIFICATE, ETC. PENALTY.] Any City Weigher 
 who shall neglect or refuse to weigh any load of hay, stone- 
 coal, or other thing presented to be weighed, upon request 
 and tender of fees, or who shall give any false certificate of 
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 weight to any person, or whoever shall seek to make any 
 certificate of the City Weigher apply to any other or different 
 matter or thing than that for which the such certificate was 
 given shall, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty dollars 
 nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 8. 
 Health Officer. 
 
 SECTION 1. Health officer appointment and bond. 
 
 2. Duties of Health Officer. 
 
 3. Disobeying orders of Health Officer penalty. 
 
 4. To make complaint against the authors of nuisances. 
 
 5. Marshal and policeman to assist Health Officer. 
 
 6. City Council may retire from pay. 
 
 SECTION 1. HEALTH OFFICER APPOINTMENT AND BOND.] 
 There shall be appointed in and for the city of Bloomington 
 one Health Officer who shall give bond to the city in the sum 
 of five hundred dollars, with security, conditioned for the 
 faithful performance of the duties of his office. 
 
 2. DUTIES OF HEALTH OFFICER.] It shall be the duty of 
 the Health Officer from time to time and as often as the health 
 of the city may require it, or as he shall be requested by the 
 Mayor of said city, to go into or upon any premises in said 
 city and make a careful examination of the same with refer- 
 ence to their sanitary condition and arrangement, and to give 
 such orders and directions in relation to their ventilation, 
 cleanliness and sanitary condition in general as he may deem 
 necessary to secure, protect, preserve or restore the general 
 health and to prevent the introduction of contagious or other 
 diseases into the city. 
 
 3. DISOBEYING ORDERS OF HEALTH OFFICER PENALTY.] 
 Whoever shall refuse or neglect to obey or carry out the di- 
 rections or orders of the Health Officer, given in pursuance 
 the preceding section, shall be fined not less than three dol- 
 lars nor more than ten dollars for each day of such neglect or 
 refusal. 
 
 4. TO MAKE COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE AUTHORS OF NUI- 
 SANCES.] It shall also be the duty of said Health Officer to 
 make complaint against any person whom he may know to 
 be the author of any nuisance within said city, and cause 
 such person to be prosecuted and euch nuisance to be abated, 
 as provided by the ordinances of said city. 
 
 5. MARSHAL AND POLICEMEN TO ASSIST HEALTH OFFICER.] 
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 sistance to the Health Officer in the discharge of his duties as 
 he shall from time to time require of them. 
 
 6. CITY COUNCIL MAY RETIRE FROM PAY.] The City Coun- 
 cil may by resolution retire the Health Officer from active 
 service and from pay as a city officer during any portion of 
 the year when they may deem his services unnecessary. 
 
 DIVISION 9. 
 Inspector of Weights and Measures. 
 
 SECTION 1. Appointment and bond. 
 
 2. City Clerk to procure standards. 
 
 3. Inspector's office to inspect and stamp scales, etc. 
 
 4. To inspect on request complaint, etc. 
 
 5. lucorrect scales, etc., to be condemned penalty. 
 
 6. Report of Inspector. 
 
 7. Using uninspected weights or measures. 
 
 8. False weights, etc. giving too little of article penalty. 
 
 9. Hindering or delaying inspector penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT AND BOND.] There shall be an- 
 nually appointed, in and for the city of Bloomington, as pro- 
 vided by law, one Inspector of Weights and Measures, who 
 shall give bond to the city in the penal sum of five hundred 
 dollars, with two or more securities, to be approved by the 
 City Council, conditioned for the faithful performance of the 
 duties of his office. 
 
 2. CITY CLERK TO PROCURE STANDARDS.] The City Clerk 
 shall, at the expense of the city, procure correct and approved 
 standards of weights and measures, comprising a full set of 
 weights, measures, scales and beams, as adopted by the 
 statutes of the State of Illinois, as the standard of weights 
 and measures for said State, and he shall cause each of the 
 weights, measures, scales and beams, procured as aforesaid, to 
 be tested and sealed by the State Sealer, and the same shall be 
 used by the said Inspector of Weights and Measures as the 
 standards for testing the weights and measures of said city, 
 and shall be kept by said Inspector in his office as city prop- 
 erty, and be by him turned over to his successor, or to the 
 city, at the expiration of his term of office. 
 
 3. INSPECTOR'S OFFICE TO INSPECT AND STAMP SCALES, ETC.] 
 It shall be the duty of the Inspector of Weights and Measures, 
 to keep an office within the city, and to designate by card or 
 otherwise, the hour or hours of each day when he may be 
 found in his office. He shall once in each year between the 
 first day of May and the first day of October, inspect where 
 situate, and test the accuracy of, all weights, measures, bal- 
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 for measuring or weighing any article for sale within the city 
 and stamp with a suitable stamp or seal, all scales, weights 
 and measures found to be correct, and deliver to the owners 
 thereof certificates of their accuracy. The stamp or seal used 
 shall indicate the date of inspection, and that the weight, 
 measure or scale on which it is placed is correct. Said in- 
 spector shall, on request, inspect all city scales free of charge. 
 
 4. TO INSPECT ON REQUEST COMPLAINT, ETC. FEES.] It 
 
 shall be the duty of said inspector whenever complaint is made 
 to him by any person interested, or whenever he may have 
 reason to believe that any weight, measure, scale, balance, or 
 other instrument used for weighing or measuring in said city 
 is incorrect, or whenever thereto requested by the owner of, 
 or person using any such, to inspect and test the same, with- 
 out regard to the date of any previous inspection : Provided, 
 That said inspector shall not be entitled to charge for any ex- 
 cept the regular yearly inspection, except in cases where re- 
 quested to inspect by the owner or user, or when the weight, 
 measure, scale, balance or instrument inspected is found to be 
 inaccurate and untrue, when the regular fees may be charged. 
 
 5. INCORRECT SCALES, ETC., TO BE CONDEMNED PENALTY.] 
 If upon examination said inspector shall find any weight, 
 measure, balance, scale, beam, or other instrument or thing 
 to be incorrect or untrue, he shall condemn the same, and 
 forthwith notify the owner or user thereof of such condem- 
 nation, and the use of any weight, measure, balance, scale or 
 other instrument or thing so condemned, is hereby prohibited 
 until the same shall have been corrected and sealed by the in- 
 spector, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars for each offense. 
 
 6. REPORT OF INSPECTOR.] Within ten days after the 
 completion of each annual inspection of weights and measures, 
 said inspector shall make a report to the City Council, setting 
 forth all weights and measures inspected by him for the year 
 with the owners names respectively, and noting what weights 
 and measures were found correct and what incorrect; which 
 said report shall be filed away and preserved by the City 
 Clerk. 
 
 7. USING UNINSPECTED WEIGHTS OR MEASURES.] After the 
 first day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy- 
 six, no person shall, within said city, use for weighing or 
 measuring articles for sale, any weight, measure, scale, beam, 
 balance, or other instrument or thing, unless the same shall 
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 Weights and Measures, under a penalty of not less than ten 
 dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 8. FALSE WEIGHTS, ETC. GIVING TOO LITTLE OF ARTICLE 
 PENALTY.] Whoever shall use in weighing or measuring any 
 article for sale, within said city, any weight, measure, scale, 
 beam, balance, or other instrument or thing, which does not 
 conform to the standard prescribed by the statutes of the State 
 of Illinois; or whoever shall give a less quantity of any 
 article or thing sold than is contracted or paid for by the 
 buyer, computing by the standard and mode of measuring or 
 weighing adopted and prescribed in the statutes aforesaid, for 
 the article so sold, shall, on conviction, be fined not less than 
 ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. 
 
 9. HINDERING OR DELAYING INSPECTOR PENALTY.] Said 
 inspector shall, during ordinary business hours, have access to 
 all rooms or places where any scales, weights, or measures 
 used for weighing or measuring are kept ; and any person re- 
 fusing, upon demand, to exhibit to said inspector, for inspec- 
 tion, any and all weights, measures, scales, beams, balances, 
 or other instruments or things used or owned by him, or who 
 shall in any manner hinder or delay said inspector in the per- 
 formance of any of his duties as herein prescribed, shall be 
 fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 10. 
 
 Measurer. 
 
 i 
 
 SECTION 1. Appointment and bond. 
 
 " 2. Lumber, etc. when to be measured. 
 
 " 3. Fraudulent certificate, etc. penalty. 
 
 " 4. Failing to measure penalty. 
 
 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT AND BOND.] There shall be ap- 
 pointed in and for the city of Bloomington, as provided by 
 law, one City Measurer, who shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, give bond to the city in the penal sum of 
 five hundred dollars, with two or more securities, to be ap- 
 proved by the City Council, conditioned for the faithful and 
 prompt performance of the duties of his office. 
 
 2. LUMBER, ETC. WHEN TO BE MEASURED CERTIFICATE.] 
 All lumber or other building material, sold or purchased, to 
 be used within said city, and likewise all mechanical work 
 done or performed within said city, shall, if any party con- 
 cerned requires it, be measured by the City Measurer, and on 
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 ments and give a certificate of the results thereof to each party 
 interested. He shall use standard measures, which the City 
 Inspector of Weights and Measures shall test correct, and seal 
 for him, free of charge. 
 
 3. FRAUDULENT CERTIFICATES, ETC. PENALTY.] Whoever 
 shall, with intent to cheat or defraud another, exhibit any false 
 or forged certificate of measurement, or shall fraudulently en- 
 deavor to make any genuine certificate of the City Measurer 
 applicable to any greater or less quantity of lumber, material, 
 or work, or to any other or different lumber, material or work, 
 than that for which the same was given, shall be fined not less 
 than ten dollars Lor more than one hundred dollars, for each 
 offense. 
 
 4. FAILING TO MEASURE PENALTY.] Any City Measurer, 
 who shall tail, on request of any interested party, to promptly 
 repair to, and measure any lumber, building material, or 
 mechanical work, unless he is at the time officially engaged, 
 shall be fined, on conviction, not exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 DIVISION 11. 
 Oil Inspector. 
 
 SECTION 1 Appointment and Bond. 
 " 2. Duties of oil inspectors. 
 
 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT AND BOND.] There shall be ap- 
 pointed in and for the city of Bloomingtou, as provided by 
 law, one inspector of coal oil and burning fluid, and such 
 additional number as the City Council may from time to time 
 by resolution provide. Such inspectors shall, before entering 
 upon their duties, severally give bond with one or more good 
 and sufficient securities, to be approved by the City Council, 
 conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective 
 duties as such inspectors. 
 
 2. DUTIES OF OIL INSPECTORS.] It shall be the duty of 
 such inspectors to inspect and test oils and burning fluids, as 
 provided by statute ; and to make monthly reports to the City 
 Council of the amount, kind and quality of all oil and burn- 
 ing fluid inspected by them, and the names of the owners of 
 each parcel, together with such other information as the City 
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 DIVISION 12. 
 Street Commissioner. 
 
 SECTION 1. 'Htreet Commissioner's bond. 
 " 2- Duties of Street Commissioner. 
 
 SECTION 1. STREET COMMISSIONER'S BOND.] The Street 
 Commissioner of the city of Bloomington shall, before enter- 
 ing upon the duties of his office, give bond to the city in the 
 penal sum of five hundred dollars, with security, to be approved 
 by the City Council, conditioned for the faithful performance 
 of the duties of his office. 
 
 2. DUTIES OF STREET COMMISSIONER.] The duties of the 
 Street Commissioner shall be as follows : 
 
 First To forthwith mend all breaks or places requiring re- 
 pairs, in any public street or crossing, and also in any sidewalk, 
 where the repairs needed are slight, and do not require the 
 construction of a new walk. 
 
 Second To annually cause all streets and alleys of the city 
 to be thoroughly cleansed, beginning in the spring of each 
 year, and to keep them clean and free from weeds, so far as 
 practicable, during the year, in which work he shall be under 
 the direction of the Mayor, when not specially instructed by 
 resolution of the City Council. 
 
 Third To cause all ordinances of the city respecting streets, 
 alleys, public grounds, sidewalks, drains and sewers, to be 
 obeyed and enforced. 
 
 Fourth To perform ex-officio the duties of Health Officer of 
 said city, at all times, when no Health Officer is on active duty. 
 
 Fifth To report monthly to the City Council all work done 
 during the month, and all expenses incurred in his depart- 
 ment, and upon what account and to whom each item is in- 
 curred. 
 
 Sixth To obey such orders, general or special, as may from 
 time to time be given him by the City Council, executing all 
 special directions of said Council, in the order in which the 
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 DIVISION 13. 
 Treasurer. 
 
 SECTION 1. Bond of City Treasurer. 
 " 2. Duties of City Treasurer. 
 " 3. Treasurer to keep account of indebtedness, assets, etc. 
 
 SECTION 1. BOND OF CITY TREASURER.] The amount of the 
 bond to be given by the City Treasurer shall be fixed each 
 year by the City Council at the time of his appointment, or as 
 soon thereafter as practicable. The amount of such bond 
 shall be determined as nearly as may be according to the prob- 
 able amount of funds to be handled by such treasurer during 
 his term of office ; and the Council may at any time require a 
 new or additional bond when in their judgment the one given 
 is for any reason insufficient. 
 
 2. DUTIES OF CITY TREASURER.] The Treasurer of said 
 city shall keep a full record of all the financial operations of 
 the city ; receive all moneys belonging to the city, and be re- 
 sponsible for the same ; keep a regular and fair account of all 
 moneys received and disbursed, of whom received and to whom 
 paid; and noting particularly in his accounts on what account 
 moneys are received and paid out. He shall at the end of each 
 month exhibit to the Council an abstract of his accounts of 
 moneys received and paid out. He shall in no case pay out 
 any money, except upon the order of the Mayor, attested by 
 the Clerk : and every such order shall be stamped upon its face 
 denoting the time of payment. At the end of his official term 
 he shall make out and file with the Clerk a full and complete 
 statement of all moneys received and disbursed by the City 
 during the year. 
 
 3. TREASURER TO KEEP ACCOUNT OF INDEBTEDNESS, ASSETS, 
 ETC.] The City Treasurer shall keep an accurate and full ac- 
 count under the head of "bills payable" and "bills receivable" 
 of the entire indebtedness of the city, floating and bonded, and 
 likewise of all assets of the city and amounts due the same, 
 and of all property bought in for taxes by the city under 
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 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 SECTION 1. Printing of ordinances certificate, etc. 
 
 " 2. When to take effect. 
 
 " 3. Two offenses election of prosecutor. 
 
 4. Singular and plural words corporations. 
 
 5. Construction of certain words. 
 
 6. Application of rules. 
 
 7. Repeals, construction of. 
 
 8. Repeal exception saving clause. 
 
 SECTION 1. PRINTING OF ORDINANCES, CERTIFICATE, ETC.] It 
 shall be the duty of the City Clerk of the city of Blooming- 
 ton, to cause prompt publication to be made in the newspaper 
 doing the city printing, of all ordinances passed by the City 
 Council, and he shall procure the certificate of the printer to 
 such publication, and attach it to the record of the ordinance 
 so published, or write and attest it upon the face of such 
 record as required by section three of an act of the legis- 
 lature of the state of Illinois, entitled "An act to amend the 
 charter of the city of Bloomington," approved March 8, 1869. 
 Said Clerk shall procure printed slips of any ordinance for the 
 convenience of members, when directed so to do by the City 
 Council ; and the originals of all ordinances shall be filed 
 away and preserved by said Clerk in his office : Provided, that 
 nothing in this section contained shall be applicable to, or in 
 any manner affect any ordinance included in any compilation 
 or revision of ordinances, which at any time may be collect- 
 ively published in book or pamphlet form, by authority of the 
 City Council. 
 
 2. WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT.] All ordinances passed by the 
 City Council shall take effect from and after the due publica- 
 tion thereof in any newspaper published within said city, 
 unless therein otherwise expressly provided. 
 
 3. Two OFFENSES ELECTION OF PROSECUTOR.] In all cases 
 where the same offense may be punishable, or shall be created 
 by different clauses or sections of the ordinances of the city, 
 the prosecuting officer may elect under which to proceed ; but 
 not more than one recovery shall be had against the same per- 
 son for the same offense. 
 
 4. SINGULAR AND PLURAL WORDS CORPORATIONS.] When- 
 ever any word in any ordinance importing the plural number 
 shall be used in describing or referring to any matters, parties 
 or persons, any single matter, party or person shall be deemed
 
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 to be included, although distributive words may not be used. 
 And when any subject matter, party or person shall be referred 
 to in any ordinance by words importing the singular number 
 only, or the masculine gender, several matters, parties or per- 
 sons, and females as well as males, shall be deemed to be 
 included ; and all ordinances shall be taken and construed to 
 include within their meaning and terms, and to operate upon all 
 incorporated companies acting through agents, servants or 
 employes, within the city, the same as though such companies 
 were expressly mentioned and included. 
 
 5. CONSTRUCTION OF CERTAIN WORDS.] The word "court," 
 when used in any ordinance of said city, shall he construed to 
 mean any court of competent jurisdiction, and the word 
 "month," when used in any ordinance, shall be construed to 
 mean a calendar month, and the word "sworn" to mean sworn 
 or affirmed. 
 
 6. APPLICATION OF RULES.] The rules of construction 
 prescribed in this chapter, shall govern in all cases, unless it 
 shall be otherwise specially provided in the ordinance to be 
 construed, or unless there be something in the subject matter 
 or context thereof repugnant to such construction ; and all 
 general terms, provisions, phrases or expressions used in any 
 ordinance, shall be liberally construed, in order that the true 
 meaning and intent of the City Council may be carried out. 
 
 7. REPEALS, CONSTRUCTION OF.] Unless otherwise express- 
 ly provided, no suit, prosecution, proceeding, right, fine or 
 penalty, instituted, created, given, secured, or accrued under 
 any provision of any ordinance, previous to its repeal, shall in 
 anywise be affected, released, or discharged by the repeal of 
 such provision, but may be prosecuted, enjoyed and recovered 
 as fully as if such ordinance had continued in force; and when 
 any ordinance repealing any former ordinance, clause, or pro- 
 vision, shall itself be repealed, such repeal shall not be con- 
 strued to revive such former ordinance, unless it be expressly 
 so provided. 
 
 8. REPEAL EXCEPTION SAVING CLAUSE.] All general 
 ordinances of the city of Bloomington heretofore passed in 
 relation to the subject matter of, or inconsistent with, any of 
 the provisions of any chapter of the ordinances of said r-ity as 
 revised, compiled, and arranged by Isaac N. Phillips, and 
 ordered to be published in book form by authority of the City 
 Council of said city, of which said revision this chapter forms 
 a part, are hereby severally repealed: Provided., That no spe- 
 cial ordinance, nor any ordinance for the making of any pub- 
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 out material change, shall be deemed to be repealed by this 
 section : And Provided further, That such repeal shall not effect 
 any act done, or any right accruing, or accrued, or established, 
 or any suit, action, or proceeding had or commenced in any 
 case, before the time when said repeal shall take effect, or any 
 offense committed, or any penalty or forfeiture incurred, or 
 any suit or prosecution pending at the time of such repeal for 
 any offense committed, or for the recovery of any penalty or 
 forfeiture incurred under any provision of any ordinance so 
 repealed. 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 SECTION l. Police Department how composed. 
 
 2 Mayor to be head of department. 
 
 3. Powers of members. 
 
 4. Duties of City Marshal. 
 
 5. Marshal to be custodian of property special policemen's stars. 
 
 6. Marshal to make monthly report. 
 
 7. Duties of subordinates. 
 
 8- Appointment of special policemen. 
 
 9. Rank of policemen. 
 
 10. Causes for removal. 
 
 11. Rules and regulations. 
 
 12. Police uniforms. 
 
 SECTION 1. POLICE DEPARTMENT now COMPOSED.] The 
 police department of the city of Bloomington, shall consist of 
 the Mayor, Aldermen and Health Officer of said city who 
 shall be ex-qfficio members of the police department one City 
 Marshal, one Captain of Night Police, and such other subordi- 
 nate officers, policemen and watchmen, as the Mayor and City 
 Council may from time to time appoint. 
 
 2. MAYOR TO BE HEAD or THE DEPARTMENT.] The Mayor 
 shall be the head of the police department, and shall superin- 
 tend and direct the police force generally. He shall see that 
 the several members of the department are prompt and faithful 
 in the discharge of their duties, and from time to time take 
 such measures and adopt such regulations as he may deem 
 necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order of 
 the city, and the due enforcement of all the laws and ordi- 
 nances thereof. 
 
 3. POWERS OF MEMBERS.] Every member of the police 
 department shall have power to arrest, with or without pro- 
 cess, and bring before some proper tribunal in said city, all 
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 who may be found in the act of violating, or who maj reason- 
 ably be suspected of having violated, any ordinances of said 
 city, and to detain any such person in custody until such time 
 as an examiuation may be had in pursuance of law. They 
 shall also have power to serve all process issued by virtue of 
 the laws and ordinances of the city of Bloomirigton. 
 
 4. DUTIES OF CITY MARSHAL.] The City Marshal shall be 
 the commanding officer of the entire police force of the city, 
 subject only to the Mayor, or the Council in session. He shall 
 devote his whole time and energy to the discharge of his du- 
 ties, and shall see that the laws and ordinances are enforced 
 as far as possible by the force under his command, and that all 
 oifenders are reported to some proper tribunal for punishment. 
 He shall assign to all policemen or patrolmen under him their 
 different beats or districts, and their respective hours of ser- 
 vice, and shall see that they are on duty during the whole 
 time of their watch, and in case of his necessary absence from 
 the city, his duties shall devolve upon the officer of the force 
 next in rank : Provided, That said Marshal shall in no case ab^ 
 sent himself from the city without notifying the Mayor of his 
 intended absence, where the same is practicable. 
 
 5. MARSHAL TO BE CUSTODIAN OF PROPERTY SPECIAL PO- 
 LICEMEN'S STARS.] The City Marshal shall be the custodian of 
 all property provided by the city for the use of the police de- 
 partment and shall issue and receive the same as the City 
 Council may direct. He shall also be the custodian of all 
 stolen goods or other property received and retained under po- 
 lice authority. He shall provide stars for all special police- 
 men similar to those worn by the regular members of the 
 force, each of which shall be numbered and shall have en- 
 graved thereon the words "Special Police, Bloomington ;" 
 and each such special policeman shall on receiving his star pay 
 to said Marshal five dollars, which shall be refunded to him 
 by the Marshal upon return of the star when such policeman 
 quits the service. Any special policeman failing or refusing 
 to procure and wear a star as herein provided shall be fined 
 ten dollars. 
 
 6. MARSHAL TO MAKE MONTHLY REPORT.] The City Mar- 
 shal shall during the first week of each month make out and 
 file with the City Clerk a report in writing of the doings of 
 his department during the preceding month. Said report 
 shall set forth all prosecutions for the recovery of fines, all 
 arrests made and by whom each is made, the nature of the 
 charge in each prosecution, before what magistrate brought,
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 101 
 
 and how disposed of, and a statement of all property received 
 by him during the month by virtue of his office. 
 
 7. DUTIES OF SUBORDINATES.] All subordinate officers 
 and policemen shall be regular and prompt in the discharge of 
 their duties and shall obey the orders of their superiors. 
 They shall, to the best of their abilities, preserve order, quiet 
 and peace throughout the city, and enforce all ordinances of 
 the city. Every policeman shall report to his commanding 
 officer all persons known or suspected to be gamblers, re- 
 ceivers of stolen property, thieves, burgldrs, or disorderly per- 
 sons, and also all unlawful or disorderly houses or places 
 within said city coming to his knowledge, as well as all vio- 
 lations of tbe laws of the State or the ordinances of the city 
 reported to him, or of which he may be cognizant; and when 
 it shall come to the knowledge of any member of the police 
 force that any city ordinance has been violated such member 
 shall forthwith cause a proper complaint to be made before a 
 police magistrate or justice of the peace within said city, and 
 the proper witnesses to be summoned and evidence procured 
 for the successful prosecution of the offender. It shall also be 
 the duty of policemen to serve promptly all warrants or other 
 process issued in any cause pending under any law or ordi- 
 nance of said city before any magistrate thereof. 
 
 8. APPOINTMENTS OF SPECIAL POLICEMEN.] The Mayor and 
 City Council may on application being made to them, appoint 
 any suitable person in the employ of any corporation, asso- 
 ciation, individual or firm, a special policemen in, and for said 
 city ; or they may, if deemed proper, appoint any person em- 
 ployed in any other branch of the city service to be such 
 special policeman. Special policemen shall have all the qual- 
 ifications required in the case of regular policemen ; they shall 
 take and subscribe the same oath, give like bond, exercise the 
 same powers, and be subject to the rules and regulations of 
 the police department, so far as the same are applicable to 
 them ; Provided, however, that such special policemen shall 
 not be paid anything by the city for their services as policemen. 
 
 9. RANK OF POLICEMEN.] The Mayor shall, at the time of ap- 
 pointing policemen assign each a number ; and members shall 
 rank according to number, one being highest, two next, and 
 so on. The policeman present highest in rank shall in any 
 case have command and be obeyed by subordinates in the ab- 
 sence of orders from any member of the force still higher in 
 rank. 
 
 10. CAUSES FOR REMOVAL.! The following offenses shall 
 be deemed sufficient cause for removal of any member of the 
 police force :
 
 102 ORDINANCES. 
 
 First Disobedience of orders. 
 
 Second Drunkenness. 
 
 Third HoHding familiar conversation on the streets with 
 prostitutes, or Association with rowdies or gamblers. 
 
 Fourth ViolWt, coarse, insolent, or abusive language to a 
 superior officer, d^ to any citizen, resident, or stranger. 
 
 Fifth- Using tha power vested in him, for the satisfaction 
 of personal ill-wilier hatred against any other person. 
 
 11. RULES AND REGULATIONS.] The following rules and 
 regulations for the general government of the police depart- 
 ment of the city of Blo\niington are hereby adopted : 
 
 First Every member Connected with the department shall 
 devote his whole time and attention to the business of the de- 
 partment, and shall not folljow any other calling. 
 
 Second Although certain hours are allotted to each mem- 
 ber for duty, yet all the numbers must be prepared to act at a 
 moment's notice, whenever their services may be required, 
 either on call by a superior officer, or on view of a violation, 
 or threatened violation of any law of the State, or ordinance 
 of the city. 
 
 Third Punctual attendance and prompt obedience of orders 
 will be required of every officer and policeman. 
 
 Fourth No member of the department shall, while on duty, 
 drink any intoxicating liquor, wine, or beer, or enter any 
 dram-shop, billiard hall, gambling house, or house of ill-fame, 
 except in discharge of his duty ; and intoxication at any time 
 shall be sufficient cause for removal. 
 
 Fifth Members of the department shall not accept from 
 any person, while in Custody, or after he shall have been dis- 
 charged, nor from any of his friends, any gratuity, gift or re- 
 ward ; nor (without written permission from the Mayor) from 
 any person, any compensation for damages sustained in the 
 discharge of their duty. 
 
 Sixth Members shall be civil and respectful to the public, 
 and upon all occasions perform their duty with good temper 
 and discretion, and shall not at any time, while on duty, make 
 use of violent, intemperate or abusive language. 
 
 Seventh No member shall be permitted to apply for a war- 
 rant for an assault upon himself, without first reporting the 
 case to the Mayor, and obtaining from him permission in 
 writing to make such application. 
 
 Eighth No member shall communicate to any person any 
 information which may lead to the escape from arrest or pun- 
 ishment of persons accused of crime, or enable them to dis- 
 pose of, or secrete goods stolen or embezzled.
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 103 
 
 Ninth No member shall communicate any information re- 
 specting orders he may have received, or any regulation that 
 may be made for the government of the department, except 
 to such. persons as ordered by a superior in office. 
 
 Tenth Each member shall always have with him a memo- 
 randum book, in \vhichhe shall enter the names and residences 
 of persons by him taken in charge, and also, all matters which 
 will be important on the trial of any cause. 
 
 Eleventh All officers and members of the department shall 
 at all times, and on all occasions, when on duty, display their 
 star, or emblem of office, so that the entire surface thereof 
 may be easily and distinctly seen. 
 
 Twelfth No member of the department shall leave the city 
 without permission, in writing, from his superior officer, un- 
 less in pursuit of offenders, fleeing from justice. 
 
 Thirteenth All persons who shall be arrested during the 
 time the police magistrates' courts shall be open, shall imme- ' 
 diately be taken to such court, unless otherwise directed by 
 either the Mayor or chief of the day or night police, 
 and all persons who shall be arrested at any other time shall 
 be immediately conveyed to the city calaboose. 
 
 Fourteenth Any property stolen or embezzled, which shall 
 be found in the possession of any person who may be arrested, 
 shall be taken to one of the police magistrates' courts, or the 
 city prison, as the case may be, with the person, unless other- 
 wise ordered by the Mayor or chief of the day or night 
 police. 
 
 Fifteenth Any member who shall charge or receive any fee 
 or compensation, other than his legal salary, or shall receive 
 and accept any present or reward for services rendered, or to 
 be rendered, unless with the knowledge and approbation of 
 the Mayor, in writing expressed, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 thirteenth Policemen must report to their respective chiefs 
 all suspicious persons and places, all bawdy houses and second- 
 hand dealers, receiving shops, gaining houses, and all unli- 
 censed dram-shops or tippling houses, and all houses where 
 idlers, tipplers, gamblers, prostitutes, aiid other disorderly or 
 suspicious persons may be in the habit of congregating. 
 
 Sereiiff.e/ifli Policemen shall caution strangers and others, 
 against going into places where idlers, tipplers, gamblers, and 
 other disorderly or suspicious persons congregate, and against 
 pickpockets, watch- stutters, and all other vicious persons. 
 They shall also direct strangers, and others who may need 
 such directions, the nearest and safest way to their places of
 
 104 ORDINANCES. 
 
 destination, and, if necessary, cause them to be accompanied 
 to their destination by one of the police, but shall not, in any 
 case, leave their beats for that purpose, but shall pass such 
 person from, one beat to another. 
 
 Eighteenth One member of the police shall at all times be 
 at police headquarters, and whenever any person shall be ar- 
 rested, it shall be the duty of the person making such arrest 
 to cause the prisoner to be immediately taken to police head- 
 quarters, and the officer on duty there, shall set down in a 
 book to be kept for that purpose the name of the prisoner, 
 the nature of the offense charged against him, the name of the 
 complaining witness, together with the names of all the wit- 
 nesses on behalf of the city, and their residence, if known; 
 and take necessary measures to secure the attendance of such 
 witnesses at the time of trial. If any police magistrate be 
 at his office, the said prisoner shall at once be taken before 
 *him, and if both parties be ready, a trial may at once be had; 
 but either party may have a continuance for a reasonable time 
 to procure the attendance of witness, without being required 
 to make affidavit therefor ; and the prisoner shall enter into 
 a recognizance, with security, to be approved by the magis- 
 trate, for his appearance at the time of trial; and in defaul- 
 of such recognizance, he shall be confined in the city calat 
 boose until the time fixed for trial. 
 
 Nineteenth All persons arrested in the night-time, or at 
 other times when no police magistrates' courts shall be open, 
 shall be taken to police headquarters, and a like record made 
 as before provided ; and the prisoner shall be confined in the 
 city calaboose until the next morning; or, if arrested on Sat- 
 urday night, until Monday morning, when the prisoner may 
 be taken before a police magistrate and a trial had, or the 
 case continued, as above provided, in case of prisoners taken 
 before a magistrate when arrested : Provided, That members 
 of the police force on night duty, who have made the arrest, 
 or are necessary witnesses, shall not be required to be in at- 
 tendance at the police court before three o'clock p. m. 
 
 Twentieth Every member of the day police force shall re- 
 port at police headquarters for roll call and to receive orders 
 at seven o'clock a. m., or at such time as the City Marshal 
 shall direct; and those of the night force shall report for a 
 like purpose at seven o'clock p. m., or at such other time as 
 the City Marshal shall direct 
 
 12. POLICE UNIFORMS.] The following regulations for 
 police officers' uniforms, are hereby adopted :
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 105 
 
 First The full dress uniform for all members of the Bloom- 
 ington city police for winter wear shall be of navy blue cloth, 
 pure indigo dyed, and all wool. 
 
 Second Dress coat for the Marshal and Captain of Mght 
 Police shall be a double-breasted frock, buttoning close up un- 
 der the chin, waist to extend to the top of the hip, and the 
 skirt to within one inch of the bend of the knee, two rows of 
 gold gilt police buttons on the breast, seven in each row, 
 placed at equal distances apart ; distance between the rows to 
 be five and one-half inches at the top and three and one-half 
 inches at the bottom, rolling collar of blue black silk velvet, 
 cuffs three and one-half inches deep, with three small gold gilt 
 police buttons at the under seam ; one pocket on each inside 
 breast, and one pocket in each skirt behind, one button at the 
 hip ranging with the lowest breast button and one at the end 
 of each pocket, making four on the back and skirt ; the body 
 to be well wadded, and the body and skirt to be lined with 
 black Italian cloth, and the sleeves with best light colored 
 silesia. 
 
 Third Coats for all other members of the force shall be 
 the same, except that they shall be single breasted with one 
 row of buttons on the breast, the collar of the same material 
 as the coat, and the sleeves made without cuffs, and buttons 
 on the under seam. 
 
 Fourth The pantaloons shall be made for all members of 
 the force alike, and plain, with one hip pocket in addition to 
 the ordinary pockets. 
 
 Fifth The vests shall be made alike for all members of the 
 force, single breasted, buttoning high in the neck, with stand- 
 ing collar and eight small buttons placed at equal distances. 
 
 Sixth The overcoats for policemen shall be double breasted, 
 buttoning close up under the chin, with turn over collar of 
 same material as the coat, the waist to extend one inch below 
 the top of hip, and the skirt to three inches below the bend of 
 the knee, and all edges shall be swell and stitched one-fourth 
 of an inch from the edge ; there shall be two rows of gold 
 gilt police buttons on the breast, five in each row, placed at 
 equal distances, rows to be five and one-half inches in distance 
 from each other at the top, and three and one-half inches at the 
 bottom, four buttons on the back and skirt to range same as 
 on dress coat ; there shall be a buckskin lined pistol pocket 
 on the inside left breast, an ordinary pocket on inside right 
 breast, and one behind in each skirt ; the body to be well 
 wadded, and the body and skirt to be lined with a light weight
 
 106 ORDINANCES. 
 
 cassiraere or its equivalent, and the sleeves lined with heavy 
 light colored silesia of best quality. 
 
 Seventh Overcoat of Marshal and Captain of Night Police 
 the same, except the collar to be covered with blue black silk 
 velvet. 
 
 Eighth The summer uniform shall consist of blue flannel 
 sack coat and pantaloons of the same material. The coat to 
 be single-breasted, with short turnover collar, to button close 
 to the chin, and to reach half way from the hip to the knee, 
 with four buttons on the front ; no pockets to show outside. 
 Pantaloons same style as uniform pants. 
 
 Ninth Caps for winter shall be made of the same material as 
 winter uniforms and worn by all members of the force alike 
 except that the words "City Marshal" and "Captain of Night 
 Police " respectively shall appear on front part of cap for those 
 officers, and the appropriate number for each other member. 
 
 Tenth Hats for summer wear shall be such as the City 
 Council may from time to time designate. 
 
 Eleventh Black neckties shall be worn by all members of 
 the force. 
 
 Twelfth All members of the police force, except the City 
 Marshal and Captain of the Night Police shall, while on duty, 
 wear their full uniforms.
 
 RAILROADS. 107 
 
 CHAPTER XVI. 
 
 RAILROADS. 
 
 DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 DIVISION 2. AN ORDINANCE GRANTING THE RIGHT-OF-WAY TO THE 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS, BLOOMINGTON & WESTERN RAILWAY 
 
 COMPANY. 
 
 DIVISION 3. AN ORDINANCE GRANTING THE RIGHT-OF-WAY TO THE 
 LAFAYETTE, BLOOMINGTON & MISSISSIPPI RAILWAY 
 COMPANY. 
 
 DIVISION 1. 
 General Provisions. 
 
 SECTION 1. Railroad companies to build and repair crossings, etc. 
 
 1. Neglect after notice penalty. 
 
 3. City may build crossings and recover cost-. 
 
 4. Failure to keep watchmen, etc. 
 
 5. Obstruction of street by railroad company. 
 
 6. Rate of speed on railroads. 
 
 7. Sounding whistle unnecessarily, etc. 
 
 8. Street cars where to stop. 
 
 9. Construction. 
 
 SECTION 1. RAILROAD COMPANIES TO BUILD AND REPAIR CROSS- 
 INGS, ETC.] All railroad companies whose tracks now, or may 
 hereafter, enter or pass through the corporate limits of the 
 city of Bloomington, shall respectively construct, repair, keep 
 and maintain good, safe and sufficient culverts, crossings and 
 bridges, with good and easy approaches thereto, on all public 
 alleys, streets and highways, where their respective tracks 
 pass under, across or over any alley, street or highway, within 
 said city. 
 
 2. NEGLECT AFTER NOTICE PENALTY.] Whenever any 
 crossing, culvert or bridge, shall be needed upon the line of 
 any railroad, within the city, or shall need repairing, it shall 
 be the duty of the Street Commissioner to give to such com- 
 pany ten days' notice, in writing, of the work to be done, and 
 the place where required, and any railroad company neglect- 
 ing or refusing to construct or repair any crossing, culvert or 
 bridge, after having received ten days' notice so to do, shall be
 
 108 ORDINANCES. 
 
 fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, for 
 each day of said neglect or refusal. 
 
 3. CITY MAY BUILD CROSSINGS AND RECOVER COST.] In case 
 of the failure or refusal of any railroad company, to construct 
 or repair any crossing, culvert or bridge, when duly notified 
 by the city, or any authorized officer thereof so to do, the City 
 Council may order such crossing, culvert or bridge to be con- 
 structed, or repaired, as may be needed, at the expense of the 
 city, and such company shall be liable to the city, in an action 
 of debt, for the cost thereof. 
 
 4. FAILURE TO KEEP WATCHMEN, ETC.] Whenever any 
 railroad company shall, in pursuance of a resolution of the 
 City Council, be notified to keep lights at any point on its track 
 crossed by public travel, or to keep a watchman or flagman 
 at any such point, or to take any other measure or precaution 
 which said Council may direct, as conducive to public safety 
 or convenience, and such company shall fail or refuse to do as 
 directed, it shall be fined twenty-five dollars, and each day of 
 failure or refusal to comply, shall be deemed a separate offense. 
 
 5. OBSTRUCTION OF STREET BY RAILROAD COMPANY.] No 
 railroad company shall obstruct any street, alley, sidewalk, 
 crossing, or other thoroughfare of said city by leaving there- 
 on any rolling stock for a longer time than ten consecutive 
 minutes, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars ; and a further 
 penalty of ten dollars for each succeeding ten minutes that 
 the obstruction is suffered continuously to remain after the 
 first penalty is incurred : Provided, that when any such street, 
 alley, sidewalk, crosing or thoroughfare has been so obstruct- 
 ed for five minutes or more it shall then be kept clear by 
 such railroad company a sufficient time to allow all persons to 
 pass, who may be waiting, and for any violation of this pro- 
 viso the company offending shall be fined twenty-five dollars ; 
 and, Provided further, that where such obstruction is the result 
 of some unavoidable accident, disaster or emergency beyond 
 the control of such company or its agents, this section shall 
 not apply. 
 
 6. RATE OF SPEED ON RAILROADS.] No person or company 
 shall run any locomotive or car at a greater rate of speed than 
 six miles per hour within said city under a penalty of twenty- 
 five dollars for each offense : Provided, that this section shall 
 not apply to those portions of the Illinois Central railroad 
 north of Empire street and south of Clay street, nor to those 
 portions of the Indianapolis, Bloomington & Western rail- 
 road east of Gridley street and west of the Chicago & 
 Alton railroad, nor to those portions of the Chicago & Alton
 
 RAILROADS. 109 
 
 railroad north of Seminary avenue and south of "Washington 
 street, nor to that portion of the Lafayette, Bloomington & 
 Mississippi railroad east of Gridley street. 
 
 7. SOUNDING WHISTLE UNNECESSARILY, ETC.] No railroad 
 company shall cause or allow the whistle of any locomotive 
 engine, belonging to such company or under its control, to be 
 sounded within the limits of said city, with the exception of nec- 
 essary station and brake signals, and such signals as may be 
 absolutely necessary to prevent injury to persons or property, 
 and in such cases only with the limitation that such whistle 
 shall not be sounded more than five seconds at one time, nor 
 with more than necessary loudness, and every violation of this 
 section shall subject the railroad company oifending to a pen- 
 alty of twenty-five dollars. 
 
 8. STREET CARS WHERE TO STOP.] All street cars run- 
 ning upon Main street within said city, when stopping for the 
 accommodation of passengers at any cross street south of 
 Market shall, if going south, stop with the rear platform at 
 the south crossing of such cross street ; and if going north, 
 with the rear platform at the north crossing of such cross 
 street. For every violation of this section by any driver or 
 employe of said street railway company said company shall 
 be fined five dollars for each offense. 
 
 9. CONSTRUCTION.] Nothing in this division contained 
 shall be construed to conflict with or repeal any provision of 
 either of the following ordinances, to-wit: An ordinance of 
 the city of Bloomington granting the right of way to the In- 
 dianapolis, Bloomington & Western railroad company. Ap- 
 proved October 8th,, 1869. 
 
 An ordinance granting the right of way to the Lafayette, 
 Bloomington & Mississippi railway company. Approved No- 
 vember 17th, 1871.
 
 110 ORDINANCES. 
 
 DIVISION 2. 
 
 An Ordinance Granting the right-of-way to the Indian- 
 apolis, Bloomington Sf Western Railway Company.* 
 
 SECTION 1. Right-of-way route conditions, etc. 
 
 " 2. Violation of condition penalty. 
 
 " 3. Violation of condition five forfeiture. 
 
 " 4. Assent of company, what presumed. 
 
 " 5. When in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. RIGHT-OF-WAY ROUTE CONDITIONS, ETC.] Be it 
 ordained by the City Council of the city of Bloomington : That in con- 
 sideration of the agreements and stipulations herein after con- 
 tained, to be kept and performed by the Indianapolis, Bloom- 
 ington & Western Railway Company, the said company is 
 hereby granted the right-of-way for its road over and along 
 and across the streets and alleys of said city, and is hereby 
 authorized to use a reasonable portion of the streets and 
 alleys of said city for its road, upon the following route, 
 to-wit : Entering the city on the west line thereof, and cross- 
 ing the Chicago & Alton Railroad between Front and Wash- 
 ington streets, running thence in an east and south-easterly 
 direction, crossing Front street between Orchard Lane and 
 Morris Avenue ; thence across Main street between Mayer's 
 mill and the old furniture factory ; thence in a south-easterly 
 direction to the city limits ; but shall not enter any of the 
 Cemetery grounds unless said City Council shall pass an 
 ordinance specially permitting said company so to do. Pro- 
 vided, however, and said right-of-way is hereby granted to 
 said railroad company upon the following specific conditions, 
 to-wit : 
 
 First Said railroad company shall, at all times, during the 
 construction of its road over, across, or along any of the 
 streets and alleys of said city, protect the public against ac- 
 cidents in the night time by lighting the streets and alleys on 
 which it, its servants, agents or contractors are at work, or by 
 otherwise, protecting persons on foot and teams from falling 
 into excavations or suffering injury from other causes, by 
 reason of the construction of said road ; and shall in all cases 
 be liable to private parties for damages resulting to them by 
 
 * This ordinance, as also the one contained in the succeeding di- 
 vision, although special in their nature, have beeen thought of 
 sufficient importance to be printed. They are taken from the records 
 of the city without change, other than the prefixing of titles to 
 the sections.
 
 RAILROADS. Ill 
 
 reason of the negligence of said company, its agents, servants 
 or any person or persons having in charge, by contract or 
 otherwise, the construction of said road through, across, and 
 along any of the streets, alleys, ditches, sewers or culverts of 
 said city. 
 
 Second Said railroad company shall construct, and at all 
 times keep in good repair and unobstructed suitable crossings, 
 of the full width of each street and of easy grade, at the in- 
 tersection of its road with each and every street now open, or 
 which may hereafter be opened in said city, and suitable 
 crossings of easy grade at the intersection of its road with 
 every alley, ditch, sewer, and culvert, and shall at all times 
 keep every street and alley in and along which its road shall 
 be constructed, in good repair for the use of carriages and 
 teams ; and shall construct and maintain sidewalks on both 
 sides of every street now open, or which may hereafter be 
 opened in said city, across the entire width of its right-of-way 
 at the intersections of its road with all such streets, and across 
 all land owned by it which abuts on any street, whenever 
 ordered by the City Council, to lay any of the sidewalks re- 
 spectively. 
 
 Third Said railroad company shall, as soon as it shall 
 begin to run its cars within the limits of this city, at all times 
 in the night, keep the intersections of its road with every 
 street well lighted, and shall in like manner light the inter- 
 sections of its road with any and all alleys, when ordered so 
 to do by the said City Council. 
 
 Fourth Said railroad company shall have a bell of at least 
 thirty pounds weight on each locomotive engine, which shall 
 be rung at all times when the engine on which it is shall be 
 in motion on its said road within the limits of this city. 
 
 Fifth Said railroad company shall construct, and at all 
 times, maintain within seventy rods of the place where its 
 road shall cross Main street, in said city, suitable and suffi- 
 cient freight and passenger depots for the transaction of its 
 local business with the city of Bloomington. 
 
 Sixth Said railroad company, its agents, and servants 
 shall, at all times, be subject to all general police ordinances 
 and regulations now existing, and which may hereafter be 
 adopted by the City Council of this city, relative to railroads 
 and railroad companies, their agents and servants constructing 
 and operating the same within the limits of this city. 
 
 2. VIOLATION OF CONDITION PENALTY.] A failure by said 
 railroad company, its servants, agents or contractors, or any of 
 them, to comply substantially and in good faith with each and
 
 112 ORDINANCES. 
 
 every of the conditions named in any of the foregoing six 
 specific enumerations of conditions, except the fifth of said 
 enumerations, shall subject said company, for each and every 
 of such failures or violations, to a penalty of not exceeding 
 one hundred dollars, which fine may be recovered before any 
 police magistrate of said city, by proceeding in the nature of 
 an action of debt, or as fines are, or may hereafter be, collected 
 by said city, for the violation of its ordinances. 
 
 3. ' VIOLATION OF CONDITION FIVE FORFEITURE.] A fail- 
 ure by said railroad company, its agents or servants, to com- 
 ply with the fifth enumeration of conditions, in the first sec- 
 tion of this ordinance, shall work a forfeiture of all rights ac- 
 quired by said railroad company under, and by virtue of this 
 ordinance, for the right-of-way, as hereinbefore granted. 
 
 4. ASSENT OF COMPANY WHAT PRESUMED.] Said railroad 
 company, by entering upon, and taking possession ot any of the 
 streets or alleys, or any part thereof, along said route, for the 
 purpose of preparing a road-bed for its said road over, across 
 or along said streets or alleys, thereby agrees to be bound by 
 the foregoing ordinance, and each and every of the conditions 
 and stipulations therein contained. 
 
 5. WHEN IN FORCE.] This ordinance shall be in force as 
 soon as published. 
 
 Approved, October 8th, 1869. 
 
 J. W. COMPTON, JOHN M. STLLWELL, 
 
 CITY CLERK. MAYOR. 
 
 DIVISION 3. 
 
 An Ordinance granting the right-of-way to the Lafayette, 
 Bloomington and Mississippi Railway Company. 
 
 SECTION 1. Right-of-way route conditions, etc. 
 
 2. Company to construct and repair crossings and sidewalks. 
 
 3. Company to keep crossings lighted, etc. 
 
 4. Locomotive bells gates flagmen. 
 
 " 5. Company to be subject to ordinances, etc. 
 
 6. Violations penalty. 
 
 7. Assent what presumed. 
 
 8. When ordinance in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. KIGHT-OF-WAY ROUTE CONDITIONS, ETC.] Be it 
 ordained by the City Council of the city of Bloomington : That in 
 consideration of the agreements and stipulations hereinafter 
 contained, to be kept and performed on the part of the La- 
 fayette, Bloomington and Mississippi Railway Company, the 
 said colnpany is hereby granted the right-of-way for its road 
 over and along and across the streets and alleys of said city,
 
 RAILROADS. 113 
 
 for its road, upon the following route, to-wit : Entering the 
 city limits east of the Cemetery and east of the line of the 
 L, B. & W. R. W. ; thence along the line of such railway, 
 across Lincoln street and all other streets and alleys, up to and 
 across Center street, in said city, along the line of the I., B & 
 W. R. W. as near as practicable : Provided, however, That the 
 said right-of-way is hereby granted to the said company upon 
 the conditions following, to-wit : First, said railway company 
 shall, at all times during the construction of its road over, 
 across or along any of the streets and alleys, of said city, pro- 
 tect the public against accident in the night time, by lighting 
 or other suitable notices at the streets and alleys on which they, 
 their servants, agents or contractors are at work, or by other- 
 wise protecting persons on foot and teams from falling into 
 excavations or suffering injury from other causes by reason of 
 the construction of said road, and shall, in all cases, be liable 
 to private parties for damages resulting to them by reason of 
 negligence of said company, its agents or servants, or any 
 person or persons having in charge by contract or otherwise, 
 the construction of said road through, across, and along any 
 of the streets, alleys, ditches, sewers or culverts of said city. 
 
 2. COMPANY TO CONSTRUCT AND REPAIR CROSSINGS AND 
 SIDEWALKS.] Said company shall construct and at all times 
 keep in good repair and unobstructed, suitable crossings of the 
 full width of each street, and of easy grade, at the intersec- 
 tion of its road with each and every street now open or that 
 may hereafter be opened, in said city, and suitable crossings 
 of easy grade at the intersection of its road with alleys, 
 ditches, sewers and culverts, and shall at all times keep every 
 street and alley in and along which its road shall be con- 
 structed, in good repair for the use of carriages, and shall 
 construct and maintain sidewalks on both sides of every street 
 now open, or which may hereafter be opened, in said city, 
 across the entire width of its right-of-way. At the intersec- 
 tion of its road with all such streets, and across all lands 
 owned by it which abut on any street, whenever ordered by 
 the City Council to lay any of said sidewalks respectively. 
 Everything required to be done by this section of this ordi- 
 nance, on the part of said railroad company, shall be done to 
 the satisfaction of said City Council, as they may from time 
 to time direct. 
 
 3. COMPANY TO KEEP CROSSINGS LIGHTED, ETC.] Said com- 
 pany shall, as soon as it shall begin to run its cars, within the 
 limits of the city, at all times in the night, keep the intersec- 
 tion of its road with every street well lighted, and shall in like 
 
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 114 ORDINANCES. 
 
 manner light the intersection of its road with all alleys when 
 ordered to do so by the said City Council. 
 
 4. LOCOMOTIVE BELLS GATES FLAGMEN.] Said company 
 shall have a bell of at least thirty pounds weight, on each 
 locomotive engine, which shall be rung at all times when the 
 engine on which it is shall be in motion on its said road with- 
 in the limits of this city. Said railroad company shall also 
 be required at each intersection of its road with the streets 
 of this city, to erect a gate over its said road, which gate shall 
 be kept closed at all times except when opened for the pur- 
 pose of allowing trains, locomotives and cars to pass, or said 
 company shall station a flagman at each intersection aforesaid, 
 whose duty it shall be to warn passers-by of approaching 
 trains, locomotives and cars, or either or both, as the City 
 Council may from time to time direct. 
 
 5. COMPANY TO BE SUBJECT TO ORDINANCES, ETC.] Said 
 company, its agents and servants, shall at all times be subject 
 to all general police ordinances and regulations now existing 
 or which may be adopted by the City Council under and by 
 virtue of their power and authority to pass police ordinances 
 for the government and control of railroads, their agents and 
 servants, within the limits of this city. 
 
 6. VIOLATIONS PENALTY.] A failure by said company 
 or its agents or servants to comply with any of the foregoing 
 provisions, shall subject said company to a penalty of not ex- 
 ceeding one hundred dollars for each and every offense, which 
 may be recovered as prescribed by an ordinance of said City 
 Council. 
 
 7. ASSENT WHAT PRESUMED.] Said railroad company, 
 by entering upon and taking possession of any of the streets 
 and alleys, or any part thereof, along said route, for the pur- 
 pose, of preparing a road-bed for its said road over, across or 
 along said streets or alleys, thereby agrees to be bound by this 
 ordinance, and each and every of the conditions and stipula- 
 tions herein contained. 
 
 8. WHEN ORDINANCE IN FORCE.] This ordinance shall be 
 in force from and after its publication. 
 
 Approved November 17, A. D. 1871. 
 
 ATTEST: B. F. FUNK, 
 
 WM. B. LAWRENCE MAYOR. 
 
 CITY CLERK.
 
 REVENUE. 115 
 
 CHAPTER XVII. 
 
 REVENUE. 
 
 SECTION 1. Finance Committee to present estimates to Council. 
 
 2. Council to certify amounts to County Clerk. 
 ' 3. Manner of extending taxes Collector's duties. 
 ' 4. Delinquent taxes to be returned to County Collector his duties. 
 
 5. Examination of Collector's books settlement. 
 ' 6. Moneys due city to be paid to Treasurer. 
 
 SECTION 1. FINANCE COMMITTEE TO PRESENT ESTIMATES TO 
 COUNCIL.] The finance committee of the City Council of 
 the city of Bloomington, shall at, or before the second regu- 
 lar meeting, held in the month of July of each year, present 
 to the City Council separate estimates of the probable ex- 
 penditures of the city, during the next succeeding fiscal year, 
 for the following purposes, to-wit : 
 
 First To defray contingent and other expenses of the 
 city not otherwise provided for. 
 
 Second To defray the police expenses of the city. 
 
 Third To defray the expenses of lighting the streets of 
 the city. 
 
 Fourth To defray the expenses of cleaning and repairing 
 the streets and alleys of the city. 
 
 Fifth To pay the interest on all debts bonded or other- 
 wise owing by the city. 
 
 Said committee shall at the same time present an estimate 
 of the probable receipts of the city during such year, from 
 fines, special assessments, licenses and other sources, and also 
 inform the Council of the total assessed valuation of the 
 property of the city, as shown by the Assessor's books, what 
 per cent, of taxes is likely to prove delinquent, and also give 
 such further information as may enable said Council to de- 
 termine the several amounts to be raised by taxation for such 
 year. 
 
 2. COUNCIL TO CERTIFY AMOUNTS TO COUNTY CLERK.] The 
 City Council shall act upon the estimates so presented by the 
 fiinance committee, and determine the amount to be raised 
 by taxation for each specific purpose estimated, not in any 
 case exceeding the maximum rate per cent, upon the taxable 
 property of the city, which is fixed and established by the 
 city charter ; and on, or before the second Tuesday in August, 
 after the presenting of said estimates, said Council shall cause 
 the amounts so determined upon by them, to be certified to
 
 116 ORDINANCES. 
 
 the County Clerk of McLean county, to be by said Clerk ex- 
 tended upon the tax books as provided by law ; and if any 
 other than the regular town assessors shall have been ap- 
 pointed as the assessors of said city, said Council shall re- 
 quire said Clerk to extend the taxes of the city upon a sepa- 
 rate book or books, and not upon those of the regular town 
 collectors. 
 
 3. MANNER OF EXTENDING TAXES COLLECTOR'S DUTIES.] 
 The said County Clerk shall make out and extend upon the 
 book or books as directed, each person's tax computed ac- 
 cording to the rate per cent the amount to be raised is of 
 the whole assessed value of the property of the city. 
 
 4. DELINQUENT TAXES TO BE RETURNED TO COUNTY COL- 
 LECTOR HIS DUTIES.] Delinquent city taxes, and assessments, 
 shall be returned to the County Collector of McLean county, 
 to be by him collected, as provided by law in the case of de- 
 linquent State and county taxes, and he shall proceed to collect 
 the same, and to procure judgments against delinquent lands 
 and lots, and to sell the same for delinquent city taxes and 
 assessments at the same time, and in the same manner, as is 
 by the statutes of the State of Illinois provided in the case of 
 State, county and other taxes ; and said County Collector 
 shall, from time to time, when requested by the finance com- 
 mittee of the City Council, make statements of the several 
 amounts of city taxes collected by him, or being delinquent 
 in his hands, and he shall pay over to the City Treasurer, 
 when required, all moneys in his hands belonging to the city. 
 
 5. EXAMINATION OF COLLECTOR'S BOOKS SETTLEMENT.] It 
 shall be the duty of the finance committee of the City Council, 
 and the City Treasurer, annually, to make an examination of 
 the books, accounts and vouchers of the City and County 
 Collectors, and make a settlement with each of them, for all 
 city taxes and assessments collected by them respectively, 
 which settlements shall be made subject to the approval of 
 the City Council ; and said County Collector shall, on or be- 
 fore the fifteenth day of July, in each year, make to the City 
 Council a like statement, to that required of the City Col- 
 lector respecting delinquent^city taxes and assessments. 
 
 6. MONEYS DUE CITY TO BE PAID TO TREASURER.] No pay- 
 ment of any license fee, water rent, or other sum due the city, 
 excepting judgments, court costs and taxes, shall be taken to 
 be lawfully made, or to be binding upon the city, unless made 
 to the City Treasurer, in person, or to some person authorized 
 by said Treasurer to receive the same, and for whose acts said 
 Treasurer is responsible; and whoever shall, without due
 
 SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS. 117 
 
 authority from said Treasurer, or from the City Council, col- 
 lect or receive any moneys due said city, whether an officer of 
 said city or not, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred 
 dollars, for each offense. 
 
 CHAPTER XVIII. 
 
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. 
 
 [This ordinance is republished from the city records without change.] 
 SECTION 1. Article nine of general law adopted.] 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the city of Bloomington, 
 That article nine of an act of the Legislature of the State of Illi- 
 nois, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities 
 and villages," approved April 10th, A. D. 1872, be and the 
 same is hereby adopted by the city of Bloomington. 
 
 Approved July 5th, 1872. B. F. FUNK. 
 
 ATTEST ; MAYOR. 
 
 WM. B. LAWRENCE, 
 
 CITY CLERK. 
 
 CHAPTER XIX. 
 
 SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS. 
 
 SECTION I. Time contracts duration, etc. 
 
 2. Requisition when made. 
 
 " 3. Who to purchase order and bill. 
 
 " 4. Claim for goods not ordered not to be allowed. 
 
 " 5. Bill what to contain certificate. 
 
 SECTION 1. TIME CONTRACTS DURATION, ETC.] All sup- 
 plies or materials for the city of Bloomington shall, when 
 practicable, be purchased under time contracts, the same to 
 be let upon advertisement to the lowest and best bidder, as 
 the City Council may determine. No time contract to furnish 
 any supplies or materials excepting gas shall cover a longer 
 period than one year. 
 
 2. REQUISITION WHEN MADE.] Any officer or person 
 having charge of any department of the city government shall, 
 whenever any supplies or materials are needed in his depart- 
 ment, for the furnishing of which the city does not hold a
 
 118 ORDINANCES. 
 
 time contract, make out and present to the City Council in 
 session, a written requisition setting forth the article or ar- 
 ticles needed, and the price thereof, if known. 
 
 3. WHO TO PURCHASE ORDER AND BILL.] The Council 
 shall, at the time of ordering the purchase of any supplies, 
 designate who is authorized to make the purchase ; and 
 every officer or person ordering any article from a distance 
 for the city, shall file with the City Clerk a copy of the order 
 sent by him, and also the bill of the article so ordered, as soon 
 as the same is received. 
 
 4. CLAIM FOR GOODS NOT ORDERED NOT TO BE ALLOWED.] 
 No account or claim for any article furnished to the city shall 
 be allowed unless such article was ordered to be purchased by 
 the Council, or unless the purchase thereof was the result of 
 an emergency which could not reasonably have been foreseen 
 in time to present a requsition to the Council. 
 
 5. BILL WHAT TO CONTAIN CERTIFICATE.] Every bill 
 presented to the City Council for allowance shall contain an 
 itemized statement of the articles for which payment is sought, 
 and shall be certified to by the officer under whom the liabil- 
 ity was incurred ; and all orders for the payment of foreign 
 claims or accounts shall be issued to the finance committee 
 of the City Council, whose duty it shall be to transmit the 
 same or the proceeds thereof to the respective persons to 
 whom such payments may be due. 
 
 CHAPTER XX. 
 
 WARDS. 
 SECTION 1. Division of city into wards. 
 
 SECTION 1. DIVISION OF CITY INTO WARDS.] The city of 
 Bloomington shall be divided into six wards, as follows : 
 
 First Ward shall include all that part of the city lying 
 north of Front street, east of Main street, and south of Chest- 
 nut street. 
 
 Second Ward shall include all that part of the city lying 
 north of Front street, west of Main street, and south of 
 Chestnut street.
 
 WATER SUPPLY. 119 
 
 Third Ward shall include all that part of the city lying 
 south of Front street and west of Main street. 
 
 Fourth Ward shall include all that part of the city lying 
 south of Front street and east of Main street. 
 
 Fifth Ward shall include all that part of the city lying 
 north of Chestnut street and west of Lee street. 
 
 Sixth Ward shall include all that part of the city lying 
 north of Chestnut street and East of Lee street. 
 
 CHAPTER XXI. 
 
 WATEB SUPPLY. 
 
 Water board. 
 
 Constitution of water bond clerk. 
 
 Meetings president^compensation. 
 
 Superintendent, appointment and bond. 
 
 Duties of superintendent. 
 
 Clerk's duties records. 
 
 Plat of water mains, etc. 
 
 Report of water bond. 
 
 Right of Council to control. 
 
 Taking water from public bydrant, etc. penalty. 
 
 Other offenses penalty. 
 
 Rules and regulations for the introduction of water. 
 
 Rules and regulations for the government of plumbers. 
 
 Manner of collecting rents. 
 
 Rates of water rent. 
 
 Assessment of water rent, etc. 
 
 SECTION 1. WATER BOARD.] The water-works of said city 
 shall be placed under the control and management of a Water 
 Board, with power to do all such acts as may be necessary for 
 the prudent and efficient management and protection of said 
 works, not inconsistent with the ordinances of said city, and 
 the rules and regulations established, or which may hereafter 
 be established by the City Council of said city, in relation to 
 said works. 
 
 2. CONSTITUTION OF WATER BOARD CLERK.] The said 
 Water Board shall be composed of three members of the City 
 Council. On the taking effect of this ordinance, it shall be 
 the duty of the Mayor to appoint three members of the City 
 Council to serve on said Board until the first regular meeting 
 of the City Council after the next annual municipal election, 
 at which meeting, and annually thereafter, the Mayor shall, 
 in like manner, appoint three of its members to serve on said 
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 120 ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall have been appointed. The City Clerk shall be the clerk 
 of said Board, whose meetings it shall be his duty to attend, 
 and keep a full and complete record of the proceedings of said 
 Board, and to do and perform such other acts as the Board 
 may require. 
 
 3. MEETINGS PRESIDENT COMPENSATION.] It shall be 
 the duty of said Water Board to meet in regular session on 
 the first Tuesday evening of each month, for the transaction 
 of business, and may hold adjourned meetings as often as may 
 be necessary to dispose of the business before them. At the 
 first regular meeting of the Bbard, and at its first regular 
 meeting after each annual election, it shall select from its 
 members a President, who shall serve as such until his suc- 
 cessor shall have been selected. In the absence of the Presi- 
 dent, any other member of the Board may act as President 
 for the time being. Any member of the Board may call a 
 special meeting at any time when an emergency may require 
 it. Whenever the President or any other member of the 
 Board shall deem it expedient to call a special session of the 
 Board, he shall notify the clerk thereof, whose duty it shall be 
 immediately to notify the remaining members of such meet- 
 ing. All meetings of the Board shall be held at the council 
 chamber, unless otherwise ordered by the Board. Vacancies 
 in said Board may be filled by the Mayor until the next an- 
 nual appointment of its members. The members of said 
 Board may be paid such compensation for their sendees as the 
 City Council shall deem proper. 
 
 4. SUPERINTENDENT APPOINTMENT AND BOND.] A Super- 
 intendent of the Water Works shall be appointed as provided 
 by law, who shall take the oath required of city officers in the 
 manner prescribed by law. Such Superintendent shall, before 
 entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to said 
 city, in the penalty of two thousand dollars, with surety to be 
 approved by the City Council, conditional for the faithful per- 
 formance of the duties of his office, and to save and keep 
 harmless said city from all damages, costs and expenses arising 
 from any negligence, carelessness or want of skill in exer- 
 cising the functions, or performing the duties of his office. 
 
 5. DUTIES OF SUPERINTENDENT.] The Superintendent 
 shall, under the direction and supervision of the Water Board, 
 have the control and management of the Water Works of 
 said city. He shall keep his office at the City Clerk's office, 
 and shall, with the advice and consent of the Water Board, 
 appoint such aisistants as the Board may deem necessary. 
 The compensation of such assistants to be determined by the
 
 WATER SUPPLY. 121 
 
 City Council. The Superintendent, by himself or assistants, 
 shall remain at his office during reasonable hours, and main- 
 tain a vigilant and continual oversight over the machinery, 
 stand-pipe and fixtures connected with the Water Works, 
 He shall exercise a watchful care over the distributing water 
 pipes, valves, hydrants, and all other fixtures connected with 
 the system of water distribution and water supply of said 
 works, and be at all times in readiness to promptly repair any 
 damage to the same. He shall keep at his office a full and 
 complete record of all permits issued for taking water from 
 the distributing mains or pipes, together with such other books 
 or records as the Water Board may require. Such Superin- 
 tendent shall, in addition, perform such other duties as in this 
 ordinance may be required, or as may be required by the Wa- 
 ter Board or City Council. 
 
 6. CLERK'S DUTIES RECORDS.] The clerk of the Water 
 Board shall, under its direction, cause a record book to be 
 made, in which to record the proceedings of the board, and 
 such other record books as may be deemed necessary, includ- 
 ing a tap record, an assessment record, and all other books 
 and blanks for a full and complete account of all the trans- 
 actions of the Board in connection with said Water Works. 
 
 7. PLAT or WATER MAINS, ETC.] The Water Board shall 
 cause to be prepared a fall and complete plat or chart, show- 
 ing the location of all the distributing pipes or mains belong- 
 ing to the system of Water Works, together with the location 
 of all valves, fire hydrants and fireplugs connected therewith. 
 
 8. REPORT OF WATER BOARD.] The Water Board shall an- 
 nually, before the last regular meeting of the City Council, 
 previous to each annual municipal election, and at such other 
 times as the City Council may direct, report to the City Coun- 
 cil the operations of said Water Board, which reports shall 
 show the true condition of the works, the additions and im- 
 provements made thereto during the year, and the number of 
 permits issued to water takers ; also a detailed account of the 
 receipts and expenditures on account of the Water Works, in- 
 cluding water rents collected, and the amount of rents de- 
 linquent, and such other information and suggestions as the 
 Council may direct, and in their first annual report, such 
 board shall embrace a detailed statement of the entire cost of 
 said works, as near as they can ascertain the same. 
 
 9. RIGHT or COUNCIL TO CONTROL.] The City Council re- 
 serves the right to control and direct the said Water Board, 
 and said Superintendent, as to their duties, by resolution, 
 whenever in its opinion the interest of the city may require 
 
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 122 ORDINANCES. 
 
 it, anything in this ordinance contained to the contrary not- 
 withstanding. 
 
 10. TAKING WATER FROM PUBLIC HYDRANT, ETC.] No 
 person, unless authorized by the Water Board, the Superin- 
 tendent, or by the City Council, shall, except in time of fire, 
 take water from any public fire plug, or hydrant, or remove 
 the cover from the same, or place or deposit any earth or 
 other material in any such fire plug, or hydrant, or in the box 
 or appendage thereto, on turn any private or public stop- 
 cock, or commit any act tending to obstruct the use thereof, 
 or injure in any manner any building, machinery, pipe, appa- 
 ratus, or fixture of the city Water Works ; and when fire 
 hydrants or plugs are placed on public or private grounds by 
 companies or individuals, the use of the same, except in case 
 of fire, is prohibited. Whoever shall violate any provision of 
 this section, shall be fined, not less than one dollar, nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, for each ofiense. 
 
 11. OTHER OFFENCES PENALTY.] No person shall take 
 any water from any public or private hydrant, plug, street- 
 washer, draw-cock, hose, pipe, fountain, cistern, street reser- 
 voir, or fountain basin, which shall have been filled in whole 
 or in part from the city Water Works, except by permission 
 from the Water Board or Superintendent; nor shall in any 
 way use or take any water for private use which is furnished 
 by the city Water Works, unless such person, company or 
 corporation, shall first pay for the same and receive the usual 
 permit from the Superintendent so to do. Whoever shall vio- 
 late any provision of this section, shall be fined not less than 
 one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 12. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF 
 WATER.] The following rules and regulations for the intro- 
 duction and management of service pipes, and the supply of 
 water from the city Water Works, are hereby established. 
 
 First No person, company or corporation, shall be per- 
 mitted to tap or make any connection with the distributing 
 pipes of the Water Works of the city of Bloomington, unless 
 duly authorized by the Water Board. 
 
 Second Applications for a permit to connect service or sup- 
 ply pipes with the distributing mains, must be made to the 
 Superintendent, who shall ascertain the cost of the ferrule 
 desired, and upon receiving payment therefor he shall deliver 
 to the applicant the said ferrule and issue the desired permit 
 to any licensed plumber designated by the applicant. The 
 Superintendent shall keep a record of all permits issued and
 
 WATER SUPPLY. 123 
 
 the amounts received therefor, and shall pay all money so re- 
 ceived to the City Treasurer, and make such report as the 
 Water Board may direct. 
 
 The prices for ferrules shall be established by the Water 
 Board. 
 
 The clerk shall tile the Treasurer's receipt and charge him 
 with the sum paid. 
 
 Third It shall be the duty of the Water Board to make all 
 purchases of ferrules, or other materials or supplies necessary 
 for use in the management of the Water Works, under such 
 rules and regulations as the City Council shall determine, and 
 all accounts for such purchases shall be audited by the Board 
 before being presented to the City Council for payment. The 
 Water Board shall cause an accurate account to be kept of all 
 purchases made or expenses incurred on account of the works. 
 And the Superintendent shall account to the Water Board for 
 all supplies procured for the use of his office. 
 
 Fourth The material used for service pipe must conform to 
 the standard given in the rules governing plumbers. 
 
 Fifth Service pipe intended to supply two or more distinct 
 premises or tenements, must be provided with separate and 
 distinct stop-cocks for each tenement on the outside of the 
 same ; or when only one stop-cock is used, the person or per- 
 sons controlling the same must pay the water rent of all par- 
 ties who are thus supplied, as separate water rates will not be 
 made. 
 
 Sixth Persons taking water must keep their service pipes 
 connecting with mains or supply pipes, and all fixtures con- 
 nected therewith in good repair, and protected from frost, at 
 their own expense, and must prevent all unnecessary waste of 
 water. 
 
 Seventh ~No addition to, or alteration whatever of any tap, 
 pipe, water-cock or other fixtures, shall be made, or caused to 
 be made, by any persons taking water, except through a duly 
 licensed plumber, and a permit first obtained from the Superin- 
 tendent, as provided in rule second. 
 
 Eighth Hydrants, taps, hose, water-closets, urinals, baths 
 or other fixtures, will not be permitted to be kept running 
 when not in use. 
 
 Ninth Applications for water must state fully all purposes 
 for which it is required. Parties must answer without con- 
 cealment all questions put to them by the Water Board, or Su- 
 perintendent, relating to its consumption. 
 
 Tenth Water takers will not be allowed to supply others 
 except by special permit from the Superintendent or Water
 
 124 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Board. If found doing so without permit, the supply will be 
 stopped and the water rent paid forfeited. 
 
 Eleventh Fountains shall not be used longer than six hours 
 per day, and not earlier than six o'clock a. ra. nor after nine 
 o'clock p. ra. during the summer season, unless specially per- 
 mitted and on additional payment ; and the right is reserved 
 to suspend their use whenever the public exigency may re- 
 quire it. Fountains and private hose shall not be used in time 
 of fire, except the use of the hose for protection from fire. 
 All persons using fountains are required to immediately shut 
 oft* the water upon an alarm of fire. Any violation of the pro- 
 visions of this rule shall subject the oftender to a penalty of 
 not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 Twelfth Sprinkling streets, sidewalks and lots is restricted 
 to two hours per day, to-wit : between the hours of five o'clock 
 a. m. and nine o'clock p. m. unless by special contract with 
 the Water Board. Any person violating this rule shall forfeit 
 and pay as a penalty any sum not less than one dollar nor more 
 than fifty dollars. 
 
 Thirteenth In sprinkling streets and sidewalks, each water 
 taker shall confine himself to the front of his premises, and 
 one-half the width of the street in front thereof unless a special 
 contract is made to use more water. Hose larger than three- 
 fourths of an inch will not be permitted for such purposes, ex- 
 cept by a special contract. Sprinkling without nozzle, or with an 
 opening greater than one-fourth of an inch, is strictly forbid- 
 den. Any violation of this rule shall subject the oftender to 
 a penalty of not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dol- 
 lars. 
 
 Fourteenth The regular water rent for street, sidewalk and 
 lot sprinkling will ba based upon such use only for dust lay- 
 ing or sprinkling purposes fairly applied, and any excessive 
 or unreasonable use of water is prohibited. Any violation of 
 this rule shall subject the oftender to the same penalties as 
 prescribed in rule thirteen. 
 
 fifteenth If a street waaner or hose is found out of order, 
 leaking, or converted into a jet or jets, or suffered to run when 
 not used by a person engaged in sprinkling, the supply will 
 be cut oft' without previous notice. 
 
 Sixteenth No lease of water will be made for a shorter period 
 than one year, and the fraction of the year (if any) preceding 
 the first quarter of water rents falling due. This rule, how- 
 ever, shall not appl}' to special cases, where water may be re- 
 quired for an indefinite period. In the latter case the Water 
 Board shall regulate the manner of taking water.
 
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 Seventeenth All water rents, except as herein otherwise pro- 
 vided, shall become due, in advance, on the first days of June, 
 September, December and March of each year. The frac- 
 tional water rents from the time of letting on of water to the 
 falling due of the next quarterly payment of rents, shall be 
 assessed with those then falling due and collected therewith. 
 Special rates and assessments shall be assessed and collected 
 by bills, or otherwise, as the Water Board shall direct. All 
 water rents shall be collected by the City Treasurer. 
 
 Eighteenth If any person, company, or corporation shall 
 neglect or refuse to pay his, her, or their water rents when 
 due, or permit any use of water not authorized by this ordi- 
 nance, or suffer any waste in water supplied from the City 
 Water Works, the Water Board may, in addition to the other 
 penalties herein provided, cause the water to be immediately 
 turned off, and the same shall not be turned on again until 
 all back rents, penalties and damages shall be paid, and the 
 further sum of one dollar for turning off' and on water. 
 
 Nineteenth In cases where the water has been turned off, as 
 provided in rule eighteenth, or for any other cause in this or- 
 dinance prescribed, and the water is found on again, or when, 
 in the opinion of the Water Board, the turning off of the 
 water on the stop-cock is not a sufficient protection against 
 a further use of the water, it shall be lawful for the Water 
 Board to cause the ferrule to be drawn. Upon a re-applica- 
 tion for the water, when the ferrule has been drawn, an addi- 
 tional charge corresponding with the price fixed in rule two, 
 for inserting the ferrule shall be made. 
 
 Twentieth In all cases where there is a cistern on or near 
 the line of two separate premises, so situated that it can be 
 filled from a hydrant, hose or pipe connected with the Water 
 Works, and liable to be used by the occupants of both, the 
 water shall not be allowed to either unless the water rent for 
 both premises is paid, or the party who may wish the water 
 turned on shall fasten a permanent cover on such cistern, so 
 as 'to satisfy the officers of the works that such cistern will 
 not be filled from water of the City Water Works. 
 
 Twenty-jurat The W T ater Board is authorized to apply meters 
 to any service pipe as it may deem advisable. 
 
 Twenty-second The members of the Water Board, and the 
 Superintendent of Water Works, or his assistants, shall have 
 free access, at all reasonable hours of the day, to all parts of 
 the premises to which water is supplied, to make necessary 
 examinations.
 
 |26 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Twenty-third The consequence of the violation of the pre- 
 ceding rules will be, in the discretion of the Water Board, or 
 the Superintendent, the stoppage of the supply of water with- 
 out any preliminary notice ; and it will not be restored except 
 upon the payment of all arrearages and damages, and upon a 
 satisfactory understanding with the party offending, that no 
 future cause of complaint shall arise. 
 
 Twenty-fourth 1\\ all cases when any servant, apprentice or 
 minor shall be guilty of any breach of the preceding rules 
 and regulations, the master, mistress, employer, parent or 
 guardian of such guilty person shall be responsible for and 
 subject to prosecution for such violation, and liable to the city 
 for all damages occasioned thereby. In addition, the person 
 so offending shall be liable to the penalty for the offense, if 
 any penalty there be. 
 
 Twenty-fifth Any orders or rulings of any of the officers 
 connected with the Water Works, in relation to the foregoing 
 rules and regulations, may be modified or rescinded by the 
 full Water Board, and the orders or rulings of the Water 
 Board may be modified or rescinded by resolution of the City 
 Council. 
 
 13. RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF 
 PLUMBERS.] Plumbers for the city Water Works shall be gov- 
 erned by the following rules and regulations : 
 
 ' First No person or firm shall make any connection or at- 
 tachment with the pipes of the Water Works of the city, nor 
 rnuke any repairs, additions to, or alterations of any tap, 
 pipe, C"ck, or other fixtures connected with said service water 
 pipes, unless aa a plumber or plumbers, duly licensed as here- 
 in required. 
 
 <>nd Any individual or firm, wishing to do business as 
 plumbers, connected with the Water Works, shall, before re- 
 ceiving any permit to do so, file his or their petition with the 
 clerk of the Water Board, stating his or their place of busi- 
 ness, and asking to be licensed as a plumber or plumbers in 
 connection with the city Water Works, stating his or their 
 willingness and consent to be governed by the ordinances, by- 
 laws and rules and regulations of the City Council, in relation 
 to said works, which petition shall be presented to the Water 
 Board by its clerk, and if the Board shall be satisfied that the 
 party or parties making such application are qualified to be 
 licensed, the Board shall grant the prayer of said petition, and 
 shall order its clerk to issue to such person or persons a for- 
 mal license under his hand and the city seal, constituting such 
 person or persons a plumber or plumbers of the Water Works
 
 WATER SUPPLY. 
 
 of said city, but before receiving such license, the applicant or 
 applicants shall execute his or their bond to said city, with 
 surety to be approved by the Water Board of said city, in the 
 penalty of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the due per- 
 formance of his or their duties as such plumber or plumbers, 
 and save and keep harmless said city from all damages arising 
 from the negligence of himself or themselves, or his or their 
 servants and employes, or for any carelessness or unskillful- 
 ness in the exercise of his or their business as plumber or 
 plumbers for such Water Works. Suchliceuses to run for one 
 year, unless sooner revoked by said City Council. Every 
 plumber, so licensed, shall be subject to, and conform to all 
 the ordinances, rules, regulations and penalties which now 
 exist, or which may hereafter be parsed by said City Council 
 in relation to said Water Works. The fee for such license shall 
 be one dollar. 
 
 Third Any plumber leaving the city, at the same time dis- 
 continuing his business here, shall forfeit his license. 
 
 Fourth Every attachment or connection with the pipes of 
 the Water Works shall be made in the presence of the Super- 
 intendent or his agent, and to his satisfaction, at the expense 
 of the applicant, for which a permit shall have been previous- 
 ly obtained in accordance with rule number two, in section 
 number twelve, of this ordinance. 
 
 Fifth No plumber shall be permitted to enter pipe or con- 
 duct water into any two distinct premises or tenements, unless 
 separate and distinct stop-cocks shall be placed on the outside 
 of such premises on the sidewalk or in the public alley oppo- 
 site the same, in addition to the main stop-cock on the side- 
 walk, opposite the ferrule, as the Superintendent may direct ; 
 unless the person or persons controlling the main stop-cock 
 pays all water rents for the premises thus supplied. 
 
 Sixth -All connections shall be provided with a good and 
 sufficient casing of iron or wood pipe, in the discretion of the 
 Superintendent. The cover of the casing shall be of cast 
 iron, with the letter "W" cast thereon. The same to be 
 placed in the sidewalk near the curb, so that the latter may be 
 seen from the sidewalk. The separate stop-cock casing 
 covers for several tenements to be of cast iron and marked 
 with " W." Every service pipe must be provided with a stop 
 and waste, so situated that the water can be conveniently shut 
 off and drained from the pipe, to prevent freezing. 
 
 Seventh All stop-cocks used for service pipes of one inch 
 water-way or less, to be provided with a T handle not less 
 than 7-16 of an inch, and not more than f of an inch in width
 
 128 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 across the handle. The stop-cock used for service pipes above 
 one inch of water-way to two and one-half inches, to have a 
 square top to the plug measuring one and three-eighths of an 
 inch on each side of the square. Three inch stop-cocks to 
 have an oblong top, three and one-fourth inches long by one 
 and one-fourth inches wide. 
 
 Eighth In places where the stop-cock has to be placed 
 deeper than six feet, a stationary wrench which comes up to 
 the ordinary depth of the cock, shall be put on. The top of 
 wrench to be formed like the top of the stop-cock, and the rod 
 to work in a guide immediately below its top or handle. 
 
 Ninth All stop-cocks used by the plumbers, on the side- 
 walks, as well as those used for street and lot sprinkling, hy- 
 drants, water-closets, etc., shall be subject to the inspection 
 and approval of the Superintendent, and the stop-cock casing 
 to be equal to the sample in the Water Works office. 
 
 Tenth No service pipe between the ferrule and the stop- 
 cock on the sidewalk shall be laid less than five feet below the 
 surface of the street grade. The material used for such service 
 pipe, shall in each and every case be subject to the inspection 
 of the Superintendent or his agent, and if found defective, or 
 below the standard established by the ordinances, its use will 
 not be permitted. 
 
 Eleventh In all streets where distributing pipes are laid, 
 the service pipe shall be of lead or iron. 
 
 Twelfth The following weights per lineal foot for lead pipe, 
 is the standard for service pipe, to- wit : 
 
 Lead 
 
 pipe 
 
 inch 
 
 bore, 2 
 
 K>s. 
 
 
 
 oz. pe 
 
 
 2 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 7 
 
 oz. 
 
 
 3 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 
 
 oz. 
 
 
 3 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 10 
 
 oz. 
 
 
 4 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 12 
 
 oz. 
 
 
 6 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 
 
 oz. 
 
 
 8 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 2 
 
 oz. 
 
 
 7 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 4 
 
 oz. 
 
 
 9 
 
 Ibs. 
 
 8 
 
 oz. 
 
 lineal foot 
 
 On all lead service pipe wiped joints to be made without any 
 exception. 
 
 Thirteenth -No person shall dig up the earth or remove the 
 planks, bricks, stone pavement or flagging, in any street, side- 
 walk, lane, alley or other public grounds in said city, for the 
 purpose of laying or repairing any service pipe, except such 
 person or persons shall have received a permit from the Super- 
 intendent previous to the commencement of such dicing or 
 removal. In removing pavement, etc., the rnaterial & dug or 
 taken up must be deposited in such a manner as to guard
 
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 against any inconvenience to the public by obstructing the 
 streets, alleys, or sidewalks, nor shall any hole, or trench in 
 any street, alley or sidewalk, or other public place be left 
 open during the night, unless amply protected from accident 
 
 Fourteenth The replacement of earth, brick, stone or other 
 material so disturbed shall be done by skillful workmen, to 
 whose particular profession such work belongs, and the street, 
 sidewalk or lane, alley or public ground shall be left in as 
 good and solid condition as it was before such excavations 
 were made. Where stop-cock casings are set into the flag- 
 ging or pavement of the sidewalks, the stones to be neatly 
 cut, and the casing to be accurately fitted and finished, so 
 that the corer shall be even with the surface. 
 
 Fifteenth In all cases where boilers are supplied, a suitable 
 vacuum or safety valve must be applied to prevent damage 
 from collapsing, or otherwise, when the water is shut off 
 from the street mains. Check valves are not permitted to be 
 used except on special permission in writing of the Water 
 Board. 
 
 Sixteenth Within forty-eight hours after completing any 
 attachment or connecting with the water mains, the plumber 
 shall make a full, true, and complete report in writing, of the 
 number of rooms on the premises to which water is supplied, 
 or other contemplated use of water thereon, according to the 
 rules and regulations and the tariif of water rates established 
 by the City Council, and file the same with the Superintend- 
 ent, who shall thereupon cause the water to be turned on. 
 This report shall also contain accurate and complete measure- 
 ments of the distances, north, south, east or west, from the 
 corner of the nearest street, lane or public alley, from which 
 the stop-cock is placed. The measurement to be made in a 
 direct line with the front of the house or fence on the corner, 
 and the name of the street or alley containing the pipe into 
 which entry has been made, and whether the stop-cock is on 
 the north, south, east or west side of the same. Every return 
 must be full and complete in every particular. These returns, 
 after being examined and approved by the Superintendent, 
 shall be delivered to the clerk of the Water Board, to enable 
 him to compile his tap and assessment records, after which 
 the clerk shall file such returns arid carefully preserve the 
 same in his office. 
 
 Seventeenth No plumber shall make any attachment to any 
 
 old pipe, or other fixtures which have been shut off" by the 
 
 proper officers, or which are out of use, without first having 
 
 obtained permit or re-issue as hereinafter provided. Nor 
 
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 ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall any plumber make any addition to or alteration of any 
 top pipe or cock, or other fixtures attached to the Water 
 Works except by special written or printed permit first ob- 
 tained ; and the plumber shall report such change m writing 
 in a concise manner within twenty-four hours thereafter, and 
 the additional water rent occasioned thereby shall be assessed 
 and collected with the next quarterly collection of water rents. 
 
 Eighteenth Plumbers making repairs to hydrants or other 
 fixtures attached to the Water Works, in cases where the 
 water has been turned off on account of leakage or other 
 defects, shall give the owner or occupant of the premises a 
 written certificate that such fixtures have been properly re- 
 paired, which certificate having been filed with the Superin- 
 tendent will be sufficient evidence that such repairs have been 
 made. Thereupon the Superintendent shall turn on the 
 water. But water shall not be turned on unless the certificate 
 is satisfactory to the Superintendent. 
 
 Nineteenth No plumber shall, after making any connections 
 with the street mains, or after making repairs, or putting in 
 any new attachment, leave the stop-cock open and the water 
 on the premises. 
 
 Twentieth No hydrant shall be placed in any front yard or 
 common area of any premises so situated as to be accessible 
 to persons living in or occupying neighboring premises, unless 
 the person or persons controlling such hydrant becomes re- 
 sponsible for and pays the water rent for all persons so acces- 
 sible, subject however to the discretion of the Water Board. 
 
 Twenty-first No service pipe shall be entered by any plumber 
 or other person in any premises where a ferrule has been pre- 
 viously inserted, or water conveyed for the purpose of giving 
 an increased supply, except in conformity with, and subject to, 
 the rules and regulations herein contained. Nor shall any 
 two ferrules be entered into any of the distributing mains 
 within the distance of two feet of each other, or nearer than 
 eighteen inches of the end of any pipe, nor shall any change 
 of ferrule be made on any premises, where the use of the 
 water has been previously had or obtained, until the ferrule 
 previously used shall have been drawn, and the opening where 
 such ferrule was inserted shall have been securely stopped by 
 a brass plug, at the expense of the party asking such change. 
 
 Twenty-second No ferrule, shall be inserted in any of the 
 distributing mains above the size of three-quarters of an inch 
 inside diameter of opening, unless with the consent of the 
 Water Board, and in all cases where ferrules of a larger size 
 are asked, permits shall only be granted to enter such ferrules
 
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 of extra size, on condition that the party procuring such 
 grant shall be at the expense of putting on in addition a suit- 
 able iron clamp, as shall be determined by the Superintendent. 
 The ferrule to be inserted into both the clamp and distribut- 
 ing pipe in such a manner as to fully preserve the strength of 
 the pipe, and securely hold the ferrule and prevent leakage. 
 
 Twenty-third Any plumber or other person violating any 
 of the rules contained in this section, shall, for such offense, 
 forfeit and pay as a penalty any sum not less than one dollar 
 nor more than one hundred dollars, and be liable in damages 
 to any person for injuries resulting from the violation of said 
 rules. For a second violation of said rules by any plumDer, 
 he shall, in addition to the penalty above incurred, forfeit his 
 license, or the license of his firm. For any injury or damage 
 to said Water Works or fixtures, caused by the carelessness, 
 neglect, or want of skill in any plumber or plumbers, or his 
 or their employes, he or they shall be liable to an action on 
 his or their bond for the damages sustained by said city by 
 reason of the breach or breaches of the condition of said 
 bond. 
 
 14. MANNER OF COLLECTING RENTS.] The water rents ac- 
 cruing to said city from the Water Works shall be collected 
 in the following manner : 
 
 First The City Clerk shall, on the first business day pre- 
 ceding the first of June, September, December and March, of 
 each year, make out and deliver to the City Treasurer, a du- 
 plicate of the assessment book, containing a full and complete 
 list of all water rents due to said city at the time of delivering 
 said duplicates. Such duplicate to be prepared in form simi- 
 lar to the tax duplicate with proper ruled columns and head- 
 ings, so as to contain the name and residence, with the num- 
 ber of the permit, and amount of water rent due from each 
 person, company or corporation, showing in separate columns, 
 the fractional rent due from the time of letting on water, the 
 advance rent due for the ensuing three months, rents delin- 
 quent with penalty, interest and costs. Upon such duplicate 
 the Clerk shall attach his warrant directing the Treasurer to 
 collect such rents pursuant to the ordinances of said city. 
 
 Second Immediately on receiving such duplicate the Treas- 
 urer shall give notice in the corporation newspaper, that the 
 duplicate for water rents has been placed in his hands for col- 
 lection, and notifying parties owing water rents to pay the 
 same to him at his office within twenty days, and unless the 
 same are paid within that time, he would, by himself or
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 deputy, make a personal demand of payment, and exact ten 
 per cent, in addition, to pay the expense of collection. 
 
 After receiving such duplicate, the Treasurer shall, by him- 
 self or deputy, attend at his office during business hours, for 
 twenty days, to receive such water rents from parties volun- 
 tarily paying the same. At the expiration of twenty days, 
 the Treasurer shall, by himself or deputy, immediately pro- 
 ceed to make a personal demand (of parties who have not 
 paid,) for the water rents charged against them on said du- 
 plicate, such demand to be made within ten days after the ex- 
 piration of the twenty days allowed for voluntary payment. 
 The Treasurer shall deliver to each party paying rent a re- 
 ceipt therefor. The Treasurer shall", at the expense of the 
 city, procure proper printed blank receipts for payment of 
 water rent. 
 
 Third Within ten days after the expiration of the thirty 
 days allowed for the collection of said water rents, the Treas- 
 urer shall return the duplicate to the Clerk with all water 
 rents collected thereon marked paid, and the date of payment. 
 The Clerk, upon receiving such duplicate shall enter such de- 
 linquents, and credit the Treasurer with the amount of such 
 delinquent water tax, so that the Treasurer will only stand 
 charged with the amount of rents collected, and make a final 
 settlement with the Treasurer in the same manner as required 
 by law in the settlement of municipal taxes collected by the 
 Treasurer. 
 
 Fourth Upon the return of said duplicate and final settle- 
 ment made as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to 
 report such delinquents to the Water Board, at its next regu- 
 lar meeting, whose duty it shall be to re-assess the same, with 
 ten per centum penalty and interest to the next quarterly pay- 
 ment of water rents. The Water Board may, however, if in 
 its opinion the same is necessary to protect the interests of the 
 city, cause the Superintendent to shut oif the water from any 
 of the parties so delinquent. 
 
 Fifth Whenever parties shall, after the second demand for 
 payment of water rents, still fail and neglect to pay the same 
 he or they so failing and neglecting shall forfeit and pay as a 
 penalty any sum not less than five dollars nor more than one 
 hundred dollars ; or the Water Board may in its discretion 
 direct the City Attorney to collect the same by action at law 
 in the name of the city, 
 
 15. RATES OP WATER RENT.] The following tariff of rates 
 for water rents shall .be established, to- wit :
 
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 Per annum. 
 Business houses, 18 to 24 feet front for basement and first floor, 
 
 all occupied by same party, (one tap) $ 5.0() 
 
 Bakeries 10.00 
 
 Barber shop, first chair 3^00 
 
 Barber shop, for2d and 3d chairs, each 2^00 
 
 Barbershop, for each additional chair 1.50 
 
 Bathing tubs, public, each 6.00 
 
 Bathing tubs, private, each 3.00 
 
 Blacksmith shop, one fire 3.00 
 
 Blacksmith shop, each additional fire 1.00 
 
 Biliard room, first table or water basin, or basins used in con- 
 nection therewith 3.00 
 
 For each additional table 1.00 
 
 Boarding house, each room 1.00 
 
 Bowling alley, for first alley 3.00 
 
 For each additional alley 1.00 
 
 Bookbindery 3.00 
 
 Building purposes, brick per 1,000 kiln count 08 
 
 stone per perch 05 
 
 " plastering per square yard 0$ 
 
 Candle and soap factory, to be assessed 
 
 Candy factory 15.00 
 
 Churches 5.00 
 
 Church for baptistry 10.00 
 
 Cigar factory, for first hand 3.00 
 
 " for each additional hand 75 
 
 " " no license issued for less than 8.00 
 
 Cows, each 1.00 
 
 Dyeing and scouring houses 15.00 
 
 Dentist's rooms 3 00 
 
 Dwelling houses, four rooms or less 4.00 
 
 each additional room 50 
 
 " " and store, extra charge for store 
 
 Foundries and machine shops to be assessed ..... 
 
 Fountains, six hours per day for six mouths, 1-16 inch opening 6.00 
 
 Fountains, i inch opening 10.00 
 
 Fountains, i inch opening 25.00 
 
 Fountains, for larger sizes, special rates 
 
 Gas works to be assessed 
 
 Hose for sprinkling lots, 66 feet or less front, } inch nozzle, one 
 
 hour each day 6.00 
 
 Hose, private, each I- 50 
 
 Hotels, each room 1-00 
 
 Ice cream saloon 10.00 
 
 Laundry, special rates 
 
 Livery stable, per horse 3.00 
 
 Malt house, to be assessed 
 
 Meat market, same as business house 5.00 
 
 Offices 3 - 
 
 Oil mill, to be assessed 
 
 Photograph gallery 
 
 Printing offices - 
 
 Printing offices, with steam, per horse power, extra .W 
 
 Restaurant .'. l g 
 
 Schools, private for every 25 scholars *-j 
 
 Shops, ten persons or less -v" 
 
 Shops, each additional person 
 
 Soda factory, to be assessed
 
 1 34 ORDINANCES. 
 
 Per annum. 
 
 Soda Fountains tiooOtoJoM 
 
 Saloons ; $10.00 to rfO.OO 
 
 slaughtering and packing houses to be assessed 
 
 Street sprinkler to be assessed - 
 
 Steam engines, per actual horse power, ten hours per day *.00 
 
 Steam engines, per actual horse power, twenty-four hours per 
 
 J a y 5.00 
 
 Street sprinkler, for private houses, 66 feet front or less, f tap 5.00 
 
 Street sprinkler, for private houses, each additional ten feet 50 
 
 Theater and public halls ? 10.00 
 
 Urinals, private, self-closing, each 1.00 
 
 Urinals, hotels, boarding-houses andsaloons 5.00 
 
 Vinegar, per barrel 05 
 
 That part of the lot facing the ferrule is what is termed the 
 "Front." 
 
 Water for street and sidewalk sprinkling with hose to be 
 assessed the same as for lot sprinkling, except that for corner 
 lots, the longest front shall be paid for. 
 
 Should water be required from the Water Works for which 
 rates of rent are not herein established, the Water Board shall 
 fix the same at prices corresponding with the foregoing rates. 
 
 16. ASSESSMENT OF WATER RENTS, ETC.] It shall be the 
 duty of the Water Board, to establish rules for assessing water 
 rents, where the foregoing tariff of rates requires them to be 
 assessed. Until the Board establish such rates, it shall be the 
 duty of the Superintendent to make such assessments. The 
 Water Board shall take the proper steps to enforce the collec- 
 tion of all water rents dependent upon special contracts or 
 where the price cannot be ascertained until the water shall 
 have been used. 
 
 ADOPTING AND PUBLISHING ORDINANCE. 
 
 An ordinance adopting the revised ordinances of the City of 
 Bloornington and providing for the publication thereof. 
 
 Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Bloomington : 
 That the foregoing chapters prepared and submitted to the 
 ,ity Council of said city by Isaac N. Phillips, numbered from 
 one to twenty-one inclusive and more particularly described 
 by their respective titles as follows, to-wit: Chapter I , " Ani- 
 mals, Pounds and Pound-keepers;" Chapter II., Cemete-
 
 WATER SUPPLY. 135 
 
 ries ; " Chapter III., " City Council ; " Chapter IV., " Dogs ; " 
 Chapter V., " Elections ; " Chapter VI.," Fees and Salaries;" 
 Chapter VII., " Fire Department ; " Chapter VIII., "Grades ;" 
 Chapter IX., " Licenses ; " Chapter X., " Liquors ; " Chapter 
 XL, " Misdemeanors ; " Chapter XII,, " Nuisances ; " Chap- 
 ter XIIL, " Officers ; " Chapter XIV., " Ordinances ; " Chap- 
 ter XV., "Police Department;" Chapter XVI., "Rail- 
 roads;" Chapter XVII., "Revenue;" Chapter XVHL, 
 " Special Assessments ; " Chapter XIX., " Supplies and 
 Claims ; " Chapter XX., " Wards ; " Chapter XXL, " Water 
 Supply," be and the same are hereby adopted and declared to 
 be the ordinances of said city, and shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after the first day of May, in the year 1876 ; 
 and it is further hereby ordered that said chapters and ordi- 
 nances, together with this ordinance, be forthwith published 
 in book form by authority of the City Council of said city. 
 Approved, April 24th, A. D. 1876. 
 
 B. F. FUNK, 
 
 ATTEST : MAYOR. 
 
 WM. B. LAWRENCE, 
 
 CITY CLERK. 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS,^ 
 
 MCLEAN COUNTY, Vss. 
 City of Bloomington. ) 
 
 I, William B. Lawrence, City Clerk of the City of Bloom- 
 ington, do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of an 
 ordinance entitled, " An ordinance adopting the revised ordi- 
 nances of the City of Bloomington and providing for the pub- 
 lication thereof," passed by the City Council of the City of 
 Bloomington, on the 24th day of April, A. D. 1876, and 
 duly recorded upon the records of said city, and that the 
 original of which the foregoing is a certified copy is on file 
 in the office of the City Clerk of said city. 
 
 Witness my hand and the corporate seal of said city this 
 
 24th day of April, A. D. 1876. 
 
 WM. B. LAWRENCE, 
 PL g -i CITY CLERK.
 
 PART II. 
 
 18
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION OF THE 
 CITY OF BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 NUMBER I. 
 
 An Act to Legalize the Incorporation of the City of 
 Bloomington. 
 
 [Approved June 19, 1852.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Incorporation legalized. 
 
 " 2. Official acts legalized. 
 
 3. Fines. 
 
 " 4. When in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. INCORPORATION LEGALIZED.] Be it enacted by the 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : 
 That the incorporation of the town of Bloomington, in Mc- 
 Lean County, as a city, on the nineteenth day of February, 
 A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty, in pursuance of 
 the fifth section of an Act entitled " An act to incorporate 
 towns and cities," passed February tenth, one thousand eight 
 hundred and forty-nine, be and the same is hereby legalized. 
 
 2. OFFICIAL ACTS LEGALIZED.] That all the official acts 
 of the City Council and Mayor, or either of them, of 
 said corporation, done since the election of its members, 
 and which, in case of the original legality of said incorpor- 
 ation, would have been according to law up to the period 
 when this act shall take effect, be and the same are hereby le- 
 galized. 
 
 3. FINES.] That hereafter all fines and forfeitures col- 
 lected for penalties incurred within the incorporated limits of 
 the said city of Bloomington, shall be paid into the treasury 
 of said city by the officers collecting the same. 
 
 4. WHEN IN FORCE.] This act shall be in force from and 
 after its passage.
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 NUMBER II. 
 
 An Act to Amend the Charter of the City of Bloomington, 
 by Extending the Corporate Limits of the same. 
 
 [Approved March 1, 18M ] 
 
 SECTION 1. Corporate limits. 
 2. When in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. CORPORATE LIMITS.] Be it enacted by the People 
 of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly ; inat 
 hereafter the corporate limits of the city of Bloomington shall 
 embrace a territory of one and a half miles square, extending 
 three-fourths of a mile east, west, north and south pi the 
 south-east corner of lot number sixty (60) in the original town 
 of Bloomington. . 
 
 2. WHEN IN FORCE.] This act to take effect and be i 
 force from and after a survey of the above named limits shall 
 have been entered upon the records of the said city of Bloom- 
 ington. 
 
 NUMBER III. 
 
 An Act to Legalize the Incorporation of the City of Blonm- 
 ington, and for other Purposes. 
 
 [Approved February M, 1855.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Incorporation legalized. 
 " 2. Official acta legalized. 
 " 3. Power of Council appeals. 
 4. Security for costs. 
 " 6. Fines paid into treasury. 
 " 6. Repeal when in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. INCORPORATION LEGALIZED.] Be it enacted by the 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : 
 That the incorporation of the town of Bloomington, in Mc- 
 Lean County, as a city, on the nineteenth day of February, 
 A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty, in pursuance of 
 an Act entitled " An Act to incorporate towns and cities, 
 passed February tenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty- 
 nine, be and the same is hereby legalized, and the existence 
 and incorporation of the city of Bloomington shall be taken 
 and considered to be valid in all courts of this state without 
 proof thereof. 
 
 2. OFFICIAL ACTS LEGALIZED.] That all the official acts, 
 proceedings, ordinances, and resolutions of the City Council 
 of said city, since the election of the members, either before
 
 ACTS OP INCORPORATION. 141 
 
 or after the passage of this act, and which are not repug- 
 nant to the Constitution of the United States, or to the Con- 
 stitution of this State, shall be taken and held to be valid, 
 legal and binding upon all persons whomsoever. 
 
 3. POWER OF COUNCIL APPEALS.] The City Council of 
 said city shall have power and authority to make rules and 
 regulations governing the proceedings before and processes 
 issued by the police magistrate of said city for the violation 
 of any ordinance of said city, and in lieu of the appeals now 
 allowed by law, from the decision of said police magistrate, to 
 provide by ordinance for the removal of causes tried before 
 the police magistrate, by appeal to the Circuit Court of McLean 
 county, which shall be tried in that Court upon a bill of 
 exceptions containing the proceedings and evidences before 
 the police magistrate. 
 
 4. SECURITY FOR COSTS.] In suits instituted by the city 
 of Bloomington for the violation of the ordinances of said 
 city, security for costs shall in no case be required to be given, 
 and change of venue shall in no case be allowed in such suits 
 from the police magistrate of said city. 
 
 5. FINES PAID INTO TREASURY.] That all fines and for- 
 feitures for penalties incurred within the corporate limits of 
 said city of Bloomington, since the 19th day of June, A. D. 
 one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and hereafter shall 
 be paid into the treasury of said city, by the officers collect- 
 ing the same. 
 
 6. REPEAL WHEN IN FORCE.] That so much of any act 
 of the legislature heretofore passed as conflicts with the pro- 
 visions of this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and 
 this act shall take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 NUMBER IV. 
 
 An Act in Relation to North Bloomington. 
 
 [Approved Feb. 13th, 1857.J 
 
 SECTION 1. Streets vacated. 
 " 2. Title to ground. 
 " 3. Power to fence blocks. 
 " 4. Liability for destroying inclosure. 
 
 SECTION 1. STREETS VACATED.] Be it enacted by the People of 
 the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : That 
 so much of Second and Third streets, of the town of Bloom- 
 ington, as lies west of the west line of Broadway, of said town 
 be, and the same is hereby vacated.
 
 142 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 2. TITLE TO GROUNDS.] Be it farther enacted, That the 
 title in and to the ground covered by the parts of streets va- 
 cated as aforesaid be, and the same is hereby vested in the 
 owner or owners of the lots bounded or adjoining to the parts 
 of streets so vacated ; Provided, however, that nothing herein 
 contained shall be so construed as in any way to prejudice the 
 vested rights of any person or persons owning property front- 
 ing on or bounded by the parts of streets herein referred to. 
 
 3. POWER TO FENCE BLOCKS.] Be it further enacted, That 
 whenever the lot owners of any block in said town, as now 
 laid oft' or hereafter extended by additions thereto, shall de- 
 sire to unite in planting sidewalks or ornamental trees around 
 the same, it shall be lawful for them to fence in said blocks by 
 an inclosure extending into and embracing a part of the streets 
 of said town ; said enclosure to be kept up for a period not ex- 
 ceeding five years from the erection thereof, except by the 
 unanimous consent of the lot owners thereof, in which case it 
 may be extended to a period of seven years : Provided, however, 
 said enclosure shall not extend more than fifteen feet from the 
 sides of the blocks so inclosed : And, Provided, also, that the 
 consent or co-operation of lot owners of the blocks thus in- 
 closed shall be necessary thereto. 
 
 4. LIABILITY FOR DESTROYING ENCLOSURE.] Be it further 
 enacted, That if any person or persons owning a lot or lots in 
 blocks inclosed as aforesaid, shall remove or destroy said en- 
 closures, or shall suffer the same to become insufficint as a pro- 
 tection against large stock during said term of years, he or 
 they shall forfeit and pay to the other owner or owners of lots 
 in said blocks, three times the amount of damages sustained 
 thereby, to be recovered in an action of trespass, before any 
 justice of the peace, or other court having jurisdiction thereof. 
 
 NUMBER V. 
 
 An Act to amend the several Acts, amendatory of the City 
 Charter of the City of Bloomington, by extending the cor- 
 porate limits of said city. 
 
 [Approved Feb. Ittth, 1857.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Extension of city limits. 
 2. When in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF CITY LIMITS.] Be it enacted by the 
 People of the Slate of Itlinois represented in the General Assembly : 
 That for the purpose of giving to the City of Bloomington juris-
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 143 
 
 diction over a part of Sugar Creek, the western boundary of 
 said city shall be extended as follows : Beginning at the west 
 boundary of said city, in the center of Market street ; running 
 thence west along the center of the Peoria road to the west 
 end of Sugar Creek bridge ; thence in a northerly direction 
 along the west bank of said Sugar Creek to the center of sec- 
 tion (32), town 24 north, of range 2 east : thence due east one 
 mile, to the center of section (33), town and range aforesaid ; 
 thence due south, to the north boundary of said city : Pro- 
 vided, That all farming land not laid off in lots, within the 
 aforesaid boundaries, shall be exempt from city taxation : and 
 provided also, That nothing in this shall authorize the city of 
 Bloomington, in any way to interfere with the vested rights 
 of the St. Louis, Alton and Chicago Railroad Company to the 
 use of the water of said Sugar Creek. 
 
 2. WHEN IN FORCE.] This act to take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage.
 
 J44 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 NUMBER VI. 
 
 An Act to grant and establish a City Charter for the City of 
 Bloomington. 
 
 [In force Feb 13th, 1861.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Name and style. 
 
 " 2. Corporate limits. 
 
 " 3. Corporate powers. 
 
 " 4. Municipal officers. 
 
 " 6. Other officers. 
 
 " 6. How selected. 
 
 " 7. City election. 
 
 " 8. Term of office. 
 
 " 9. New election. 
 
 " 10. Notice of election. 
 
 " 11. How conducted. 
 
 " 12. Qualification of voters. 
 
 " 13. Aldermen. 
 
 " 14. Duties of Council. 
 
 " 15. Rules of the Council. 
 
 " 16. Aldermen, when not eligible. 
 
 " 17. The Mayor. 
 
 " 18. Qualifications. 
 
 " 19. Exhibit of official books. 
 
 ' 20. Ordinances. 
 
 " 21. Power of Mayor. 
 
 22. Acting Mayor. 
 
 23. Duties of City Clerk. 
 
 24. Treasurer's duties. 
 
 25. Exhibit Order. 
 
 26. The Marshal's duties. / 
 
 27. Assessor. 
 
 28. Collector. 
 
 29. Compensation. 
 80. Recovery of fines. 
 
 31. Court fees. 
 
 32. Miscellaneous powers of the City Council. 
 83. Suits at law. 
 
 34. Ordinances. 
 
 36. Road tax. 
 
 86. Bribes, etc. 
 
 87. Ordinances to remain in force. 
 
 38. Prosecutions. 
 
 39. Property and officers. 
 
 40. Saving clause. 
 
 " 41. Conservators of peace. 
 
 " 42. Construction act deemed Public. 
 
 SECTION 1. NAME AND STYLE.] Be it enacted by the People of 
 the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : That 
 the inhabitants of the city of Bloomington, in McLean County, 
 Illinois, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and 
 corporate, by the name and style of " The City of Bloomington," 
 and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may 
 have or not have a common seal, which they may change, 
 alter, or abolish, at pleasure. 
 
 2. CORPORATE LIMITS.] The corporate limits of the city 
 of Bloomington shall embrace a territory of one and a half 
 miles square, extending three-quarters of a mile east, west,
 
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 north and south, of the south-east corner of lot number sixty 
 in the original town of Bloomington, and shall also include all 
 town plats and additions adjoining the above prescribed 
 limits ; and whenever any tract of land adjoining the said 
 limits, or any addition to said city, shall be laid off into town 
 lots, and the plat thereof recorded, the same shall be, and 
 form a part of, the city of Bloomingtoii, as fully as if within 
 the original corporate limits. 
 
 3. CORPORATE POWERS.] The inhabitants of said city, by 
 the name and style aforesaid, shall have power to sue and be 
 sued, to implead and be impleaded, to defend and be defended, 
 in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatever; 
 to purchase, receive, and hold, lease, sell, convey and dispose 
 of property, real and personal, within and beyond the corpo- 
 rate limits, for public purposes, for the use of the inhabitants 
 of the city, and to improve and protect such property, and to 
 do all other things in relation thereto as natural persons. 
 
 4. MUNICIPAL OFFICERS.] The municipal government of 
 the city shall consist of a Mayor, and City Council com- 
 posed of one alderman from each ward of the city ; Provided, 
 That if at any general municipal election a majority of all 
 the voters at said election shall, in such manner as the Coun- 
 cil may prescribe, vote in favor of a representation of two al- 
 dermen from each ward; then the Council shall be com- 
 posed of two aldermen from each ward ; and the Council shall 
 order a special election for the additional aldermen. 
 
 5. OTHER OFFICERS.] There shall be a City Clerk, a 
 Treasurer, a Street Commissioner, an Assessor, a Collector, 
 a Marshal, a Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, and such 
 other officers as the Council may deem necessary from time 
 to time to appoint. 
 
 6. How ELECTED.] The Mayor, aldermen, Treasurer, 
 Street Commissioner, and all other officers of said corporation, 
 shall be elected by the qualified voters of said city. 
 
 7. CITY ELECTION.] An election shall be held in said 
 city on the third Monday in April, A. D., 1861, and at the 
 same time in each year thereafter, to elect a Mayor, Clerk, 
 Treasurer and Street Commissioner, and aldermen in the 
 proper wards. The person having the highest number of 
 votes for the respective officers, shall be declared elected. At 
 the election in April, A. D. 1861, aldermen shall be elected in 
 wards number one and two as now constituted, and the alder- 
 men now elected from wards number three and four shall hold 
 over during their full term. 
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 146 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 8. TERM OF OFFICE.] The Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer, and 
 Street Commissioner, shall respectively hold their offices for 
 one year, and the aldermen for two years. All the other officers 
 mentioned or provided for in this act, or by ordinance of said 
 city, shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure ot 
 the Council. Officers elected to fill vacancies shall hold for 
 the unexpired term only. 
 
 9. NEW ELECTION.] In case the people shall fail to elect 
 any of the officers herein required to be elected, the Council 
 shall forthwith order a new election for such office, and when 
 any vacancy shall occur by death, resignation, removal or oth- 
 erwise of any officers elected by the people, except aldermen, 
 such vacancy shall be filled by a new election within ten days 
 after the vacancy occurs ; unless nine mouths of the term of 
 office has expired, in which case the Council may fill such 
 office by appointment. Any vacancy in the Council shall be 
 immediately filled by a new election in the proper ward. 
 
 10. NOTICE OF ELECTION.] The Council shall, previous 
 to any election under this charter, give notice of such election 
 by publication in a newspaper published in the city, or by 
 printed notices in each ward, or by both. 
 
 11. How CONDUCTED.] The Council shall have power to 
 regulate elections and to appoint judges thereof. Voting 
 shall be by ballot, and the judges of election shall take the 
 same oath and have the same power and authority and be sub- 
 ject to the same penalties as judges at general elections under 
 the State laws. The ballots shall be counted in the manner 
 provided by general law, the returns shall be delivered seak><l , 
 to the City Clerk, within one day after the election, and the 
 Council shall, within three days after said election, meet and 
 canvass the votes, and declare the result of th election. All 
 persons elected or appointed to office shall qualify within 
 twenty days thereafter, otherwise the office shall become va- 
 cant. 
 
 12. QUALIFICATION OF VOTERS."! Every person entitled to 
 vote at the general State elections, who has been resident in the 
 city six months, and an actual resident of the ward in which 
 he proposes to vote, for thirty days immediately preceding 
 the municipal election, or who, if required by the judge or 
 qualified voter, shall take the following oath": "I swear (or 
 affirm) that I am of the age of twenty-one years, that I am a 
 citizen of the United States, (or was a resident of this State at 
 the time of the adoption of the constitution, and have been a 
 resident of this State one year, and a resident of this city six 
 months immediately preceding this election, and am now and
 
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 have been for the last thirty days past a resident of this ward, 
 and have not voted at this election," shall be a qualified voter 
 at all municipal elections : Provided, That the voter shall be 
 deemed a resident of the ward in which he is accustomed to 
 lodge. All persons not entitled to vote at any election held 
 under this act or the ordinance of the city in pursuance here- 
 of, shall be punishable according to the laws of this State. 
 
 13. ALDERMEN.] No person shall be an alderman unless 
 he is a citizen of the United States, twenty-one years of age, 
 and at time of his election shall have resided one year within 
 the limits of the city. And if any alderman shall, after his 
 election, remove from the ward for which he is elected, his office 
 shall thereby be vacated. 
 
 14. DUTIES OF COUNCIL.] The Council shall judge of the 
 qualification and election of its members, and shall hear and 
 determine all contested elections under this act, and its decision 
 shall be final. A majority of the Council shall constitute a 
 quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn 
 from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent mem- 
 bers under such penalties as may be prescribed by ordinance. 
 
 15. RULES OF THE COUNCIL.] The Council shall have 
 power to determine and fix the time of its meetings, the rules 
 of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly conduct, 
 and with the concurrence of two-thirds of its members elected, 
 expel a member. A journal of the Council proceedings shall 
 be kept, and the yeas and nays, when demanded by any mem- 
 ber present, shall be entered on the journal. 
 
 16. ALDERMEN WHEN NOT ELIGIBLE.] No alderman shall 
 be appointed to any office under the authority of the city, 
 which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which 
 shall have been increased, during the time for which he shall 
 have been elected. 
 
 17. THE MAYOR.] The Mayor shall be the chief execu- 
 tive officer of the city. He shall preside at the meetings of 
 the Council, preserve order and direct the course of business 
 before the Council, and in case of a tie in any vote thereof 
 shall give the casting vote ; and he shall be the head of the 
 police and fire departments, and all marshals, deputy mar- 
 shals, policemen, and all officers of the fire department, shall 
 be under his command. 
 
 18. QUALIFICATIONS.] No person shall be eligible to the 
 office of Mayor who is not a citizen of the United States, and 
 who shall not have been a resident of the city for two years 
 next preceding his election, or who shall be under twenty-one 
 years of age. "if the Mayor removes from the city his office 
 shall be vacated.
 
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 19. EXHIBIT OF OFFICIAL BOOKS.J The Mayor is hereby 
 authorized to call on any and all white male inhabitants of the 
 city or county, over the age of eighteen years, to aid in enforc- 
 ing the laws of the State or ordinances of the city ; and in case 
 ofriot to call out the militia to assist in suppressing the same, 
 or carrying into effect any law or ordinance. And any per- 
 son who shall not obey such call, shall forfeit and pay to said 
 city a fine of five dollars. He shall have power whenever he 
 may deem it necessary, to require of any of the officers of the 
 city an exhibit of all their official books and papers, and shall 
 have power to execute all duties that may be required of him 
 by this act, or any ordinance made in pursuance hereof. 
 
 20. ORDINANCES.] All ordinances, before they take 
 effect, shall be placed in the office of the Clerk, and if the 
 Mayor approve thereof he shall sign the same, and such as he 
 may not approve he shall return to the Council at the next 
 meeting thereafter, with his objections thereto. Upon the re- 
 turn of any such ordinance by the Mayor, the vote by which 
 the same was passed shall be reconsidered, and if after such 
 reconsideration a majority of all the aldermen elected shall 
 agree by the ayes and nays, which shall be entered upon the 
 journal, to pass the same, it shall go into effect ; and if the 
 Mayor shall neglect to approve or object for a longer period 
 than ten days after an ordinance shall be placed in the clerk's 
 office as aforesaid, the same shall go into effect. 
 
 21. POWER OF MAYOR.] The Mayor shall ex-qfficio have 
 power to administer any oath required to be taken by this act 
 or any law of the State, to take depositions, acknowledge 
 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. 
 
 22. ACTING MAYOR.] In case the Mayor is unable to 
 perform the duties of his office, by reason of temporary or 
 continued absence or sickness, the Council shall appoint one 
 of its members to preside over their meetings, whose official 
 designation shall be " Acting Mayor," and the alderman so 
 appointed shall be vested with all the powers and perform all 
 the duties of Mayor until the Mayor shall assume his office 
 or the vacancy be filled by a new election. 
 
 23. DUTIES OF CITY CLERK.] The Clerk shall keep the 
 corporate seal and all the books and papers belonging to the 
 city. He shall attend at the meetings of the Council and 
 keep a full record of its proceedings. Copies of all ordinances 
 and papers filed in his office, and transcripts from the jour- 
 nal of the proceedings of the Council certified by him as
 
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 Clerk, shall be evidence in all courts and places without fur- 
 ther proof thereof and in like manner as if the originals were 
 produced. Trie Clerk shall draw all warrants on the treasury, 
 as provided by ordinance, and keep an accurate account 
 thereof in a book provided for that purpose. He shall keep 
 an accurate account of all receipts and expenditures in such 
 manner as the Council may direct and he shall have power to 
 administer any oath required to be taken by this act. 
 
 24. TREASURER'S DUTIES.] The Treasurer shall receive 
 all moneys belonging to the city, and shall keep an accurate 
 account of all receipts and expenditures in such manner as the 
 Council may direct. All moneys shall be drawn from the city 
 treasury in pursuance of an order of the Council by treasury 
 warrant, signed by the Clerk and Mayor, and such warrant 
 shall specify for what purpose the amount therein named is to 
 be paid. 
 
 25. EXHIBIT ORDER.] The Treasurer shall exhibit to 
 the Council as often as required a full and detailed account of 
 all receipts and expenditures, the state of the treasury and the 
 state of each special fund therein, which account shall be filed 
 in the office of the Clerk, and on retiring from office the Treas- 
 urer shall deposit his account books in the office of the City 
 Clerk, where they shall be kept as public records of the city. 
 
 26. THE MARSHAL'S DUTIES.] The Marshal and deputy 
 marshal shall perform all such duties as may be provided by 
 ordinance, and they shall possess the same powers and per- 
 form the same duties, within the limits of the city, as consta- 
 bles in the different counties possess; and may serve any pro- 
 cess issuing under and by virtue of this act, or the ordinances 
 and by-laws of said city at any place within the county of 
 McLean. 
 
 27. ASSESSOR.] The City Assessor shall perform all 
 duties in relation to the assessing of property for the pur- 
 pose of levying taxes imposed by the Council. In the per- 
 formance of his duty he shall have the same powers as are 
 or may be given by" law to county or town assessors, and be 
 subject to the same liabilities. 
 
 28. COLLECTOR.] The City Collector shall collect all 
 taxes and assessments which may be levied by the Council, 
 and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordi- 
 nance. The Council may appoint township assessors and col- 
 lectors to assess and collect for the city. 
 
 29. COMPENSATION.] The Council shall have power from 
 time to time, by regular ordinance, to fix the compensation, 
 prescribe the duties of, and to require further and other duties,
 
 150 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 of all officers elected or appointed under this act : Provided, 
 The compensation of any person elected to any office, made 
 elective bv this act, shall not he increased or diminished dur- 
 ing his term of office. 
 
 30. RECOVERY OF FINES.] All suits or actions tor the re- 
 covery of any tine, penalty, or forfeiture, arising under this 
 act, or the ordinances of the city, where the amount sued for 
 in controversy does not exceed one hundred dollars, may be 
 brought before any police magistrate of the city, or be- 
 fore any justice of the peace in the city designated by the 
 Council : Provided, That police magistrates and police con- 
 stables, when elected under any law of this State, and all jus- 
 tices of the peace designated by the Council and called upon 
 to act under any ordinance, shall in addition to the bond now 
 required by the laws of this State enter into bond to the City 
 of Bloomington in such sum as the Council may direct, bind- 
 ing them to make their report, and pay over to the Treasurer 
 alf moneys which may come into their hands belonging to the 
 city, and to obey and conform to such police regulations as 
 may be established by the Council. 
 
 31. COURT FEES.] In all prosecutions or suits brought 
 by the City of Bloomington for the violation of any ordinance, 
 by-law or police regulation, the said city shall be exempt from 
 all court fees to the same extent as the State, by the laws 
 thereof, is in criminal prosecutions. 
 
 32. MISCELLANEOUS POWERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL.] In 
 addition to the powers hereinbefore mentioned, the Council 
 shall have power by ordinance 
 
 First To levy and collect annually taxes not exceeding five 
 mills to the dollar on the assessed value of all real and personal 
 estate and property within the city made taxable by the laws 
 of the State, and in its own manner provide for the levy of, 
 assessment, and collection of city taxes and assessments, not 
 inconsistent with the constitution of the State, and to alter 
 and change any such provisions as it may from time to time 
 deem proper ; to prescribe the form of assessment lists, and 
 make such regulations in relation to revising, altering, or add- 
 ing thereto, as it may deem right and proper ; to provide that 
 the city taxes and general and special assessments shall, by the 
 proper officers of the county of McLean, be carried out on the 
 books of the proper township collectors, whose several town- 
 ships embrace the City of Bloomington, to be by them col- 
 lected in same manner and at same time as State and county 
 taxes, to be paid over to such person as the Council may order 
 or provide ; and that delinquent lands or lots shall be returned
 
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 to the County Treasurer, or other officer designated by general 
 laws, who shall proceed with the collection thereof in the same 
 manner and at the same time as he collects State and county 
 taxes, and shall pay the same over tb such person as the Coun- 
 cil may direct. All taxes and assessments, general or special, 
 levied or assessed under this act, or any ordinance in pursu- 
 ance hereof, shall be a lien on all the real estate upon which the 
 same may be imposed, levied or assessed, for two years from 
 and after the assessment thereof, and on personal property 
 from and after the delivery of the warrant for collection, until 
 paid. 
 
 Second To require all officers appointed in pursuance of 
 this charter to give bonds, with penalty and security, and take 
 an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their re- 
 spective offices, upon entering upon the discharge of the same. 
 
 Third /To make any and all regulations necessary to secure, 
 protect, preserve, and restore the general health, and to pre- 
 vent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city ; to 
 make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to enforce the 
 same. 
 
 Fourth To appropriate and provide for the payment of the 
 debts and expenses of the city. 
 
 fifth To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to prevent, 
 abate, and remove the same. 
 
 Sixth To provide the city with water, for the extinguish- 
 ment of fire and the convenience of the inhabitants, in such 
 manner as it may deem best. 
 
 Seventh To open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, establish, 
 grade, pave, or otherwise improve and keep in repair streets, 
 avenues, lanes, and alleys; to make, establish, build and con- 
 struct sewers, and to carry out a system of sewerage ; to 
 drain the city, and to take private property for any of said 
 purposes, first making provision for ascertaining and pay- 
 ment of adequate and'just compensation for all damages to 
 the owners of such property, in such manner as the Council, 
 may by ordinance provide, and to require the owners of any 
 lot or piece of ground to lay a good and substantial sidewalk 
 along any street or alley passing such lot or ground, in such 
 manner as the Council may provide. The expenses of any 
 improvement mentioned in the seventh division of this sec- 
 tion, except sidewalks, shall be levied and assessed upon the 
 real estate adjoining or benefited thereby, with the cosl 
 proceeding therein,^ proportion, as nearly as may be, to the 
 benefits resulting thereto, and shall be collected as m < 
 cases. All owners or occupants in front of, or upon, whose
 
 152 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 premises the Council shall order and direct sidewalks or pri- 
 vate drains, communicating with any main drain, to be con- 
 structed, repaired, relaid, or cleansed, shall make, repair, re- 
 lay or cleanse, such sidewalks or private drains at their own 
 cost and charges, in the manner, and within the time pre- 
 scribed by ordinance or otherwise, and if not done in the 
 manner, and within the time prescribed, the Council may 
 cause the same to be constructed, repaired, relaid, or cleansed, 
 and assess the expense thereof by an order to be entered 
 in their proceedings upon such lots respectively, and col- 
 lect the same as in other cases. The Council may pro- 
 vide, by ordinance, that suits may be instituted in any court 
 having jurisdiction against the respective owners of any real 
 estate for the recovery of the amount of the expenses and 
 costs of any special tax or assessment authorized by the 
 seventh division of this section, and it may be optional with 
 the Council, which remedy shall be pursued. 
 
 Eighth. To change the boundaries of any ward, and es- 
 tablish ue\v wards and provide for the election of aldermen. 
 
 Ninth To provide for lighting the streets, keeping the 
 same in repair, and to prohibit obstructions and nuisances in 
 any street or alley. 
 
 Tenth To erect market houses, to establish markets and 
 market places, and provide for the government and regula- 
 tions thereof. 
 
 Eleventh To provide for erecting all needful buildings for 
 the use of the city ; to license, tax, and regulate auctions, 
 merchants, retailers, grocers, taverns, hawkers, peddlers, 
 brokers, pawnbrokers, and money-changers, hackney car- 
 riages, wagons, carts, and drays, and to fix the rates to be 
 charged for the carriage of persons, and for the wagonage, 
 cartage and dray age of property. 
 
 Twelfth To license and regulate porters, and fix the rates 
 of porterage. 
 
 Thirteenth To license, tax and regulate theatrical and 
 other exhibitions, shows and amusements. 
 
 Fourteenth To tax, restrain, prohibit, and suppress tippling 
 houses and dram shops; to prohibit and suppress gaming, 
 gambling, gaming houses, bawdy houses, and all disorderly 
 house*. 
 
 Fifteenth To license, or entirely prohibit the sale of spirit- 
 ous, vinous, mixed, malt, or fermented liquors, within the 
 limits of the city, by any person or persons. 
 
 /,<.,//// To provide for the prevention and extinguishment 
 of tires, and to organize, establish, and support fire companies.
 
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 Seventeenth To provide for the prevention and suppression 
 of riots, routs, unlawful assemblages, and any disturbance of 
 the public peace, and punish, by fine, all persons guilty 
 thereof. 
 
 Eighteenth To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, 
 pitch, rosin, and other combustible materials ; to compel the 
 owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, soap, or tallow can- 
 dlery, blacksmith, tannery, stable, slaughter house, distillery, 
 brewery, sewer, privy, or other unwholesome or nauseous 
 house, or place, to cleanse, remove, or abate the same, as may 
 be necessary for the health, comfort, and convenience of the 
 inhabitants affected thereby. 
 
 Nineteenth To direct the location and regulate the manage- 
 ment and construction of breweries, tanneries, blacksmith 
 shops, foundries, livery stables, and packing houses ; to direct 
 the location and regulate the management and construction 
 of, and restrain, abate, and prohibit, within the city, and to 
 the distance of one mile from the limits thereof, slaughtering 
 establishments, establishments for steaming or rendering 
 lard, tallow, offal, and such other substances as may be 
 rendered ; and all other establishments and places where any 
 nauseous, offensive, or unwholesome business may be carried 
 on or conducted. 
 
 Twentieth To direct and control the laying and construc- 
 tion of railroads, bridges, turnouts, switches in the streets 
 and alleys, and the location of depot grounds within the city ; 
 to require railroad companies to keep in repair and to light 
 the streets and alleys through which their tracks may run, 
 and construct, and keep in repair, and unobstructed suitable 
 crossings at the intersections of their roads with streets, 
 alleys, ditches, sewers, and culverts ; to direct the use and 
 regulate the speed of locomotive engines within the inhabited 
 portions of the city ; to prohibit and restrain railroad com- 
 panies from doing storage or warehouse business, or collect- 
 ing pay for storage. 
 
 ywenty-frst To regulate the conduct of persons present at 
 any fire in said city, and to provide for punishing any person 
 for disobeying such regulations; to require all male inhabi- 
 tants over twenty-one years of age, and under fifty, to pay an 
 annual street tax, not exceeding three dollars, and to provide 
 for the collection of said tax. 
 
 Twenty-second To regulate, establish and order party walls 
 and partition fences. 
 
 Twenty-third To establish and regulate standard weights and 
 measures in all cases not otherwise provided by law. 
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 Twenty-fourth To provide for the inspection and measure- 
 ment of lumber and other building material, and for the meas- 
 urement of all kinds of mechanical work, and to provide for the 
 inspection and weighing of hay, stone, coal, charcoal, firewood, 
 and other fuel, to he sold or used within the city, and to pro- 
 vide for and regulate the inspection of tobacco, beef, pork, 
 flour, meal, and spirituous liquors of all kinds brought to the 
 city for sale, and to regulate the weights, quality, and price 
 of bread to be sold and used in the city. 
 
 Twenty-fifth To provide for the taking enumerations of the 
 inhabitants of the city. 
 
 Twenty-sixth To regulate the fees of jurors, witnesses, and 
 others for services rendered under this act or any ordinance ; 
 to prohibit horse racing and immoderate riding or driving in 
 the streets; to prohibit and punish the abuse of animals; to 
 restrain and punish vagrants and street beggars ; to establish 
 and regulate public pounds; to restrain and prohibit the run- 
 ning at large of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, 
 anof to authorize the distraining and impounding and sale of 
 the same for the costs of the proceeding and penalty incurred ; 
 to tax, regulate, restrain, and prohibit the running at large of 
 dogs, and to authorize their destruction when at large, contra- 
 ry to ordinance ; to provide for the safety and convenience of 
 the inhabitants and other persons of the city, by prohibiting 
 all acts, sports, or amusements in the streets or public places 
 of the city of a dangerous character; to provide for the pun- 
 ishment of offenders by imprisonment in the county or city 
 jail, and by requiring them to work on the streets of said city 
 in all cases where such offenders shall fail or refuse to pay any 
 fine or forfeiture recovered against them. 
 
 Twenty-seventh To regulate the police of the city ; to impose 
 fines, forfeitures, and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, 
 and provide for the recovery and appropriation of such fines 
 and forfeitures and the enforcement of such penalties. 
 
 Tiventy-eighth To license, regulate, suppress and restrain 
 billiard tables, and from one to twenty-pin alleys ; to audit all 
 accounts and claims against the city, and require the creditor 
 or claimant to verify his account or claim by his own oath or 
 the oath of some other person. 
 
 Twenty-ninth To make all ordinances which shall be in any 
 wise necessary and proper for carrying into execution the 
 powers specified in this act and to perform and enforce penalties 
 for the violation thereof, so that such ordinance be not repug- 
 nant to or inconsistent with the constitution of the United 
 States or this State.
 
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 33. SUITS AT LAW.] The Council may, by ordinance, 
 provide that in all suits brought for the violation of any ordi- 
 nance or the recovery of any fine under this act, before the 
 police magistrate or other officer, the first process shall be a 
 warrant for the immediate apprehension of the offender, and 
 may further provide that no change of venue shall be taken 
 from such police magistrate or justice of the peace, selected 
 by the city as hereinbefore provided, and that no appeal shall 
 be taken from any such justice of the peace or police magis- 
 trate, except upon bond given audthe proceedings and 
 testimony reduced to writing as a bill of exceptions, 
 signed by the said magistrate or other officer, and the ap- 
 pellate court shall try said appeal on the proceedings and evi- 
 dence embodied in said bill of exceptions, and none other. 
 The style of the ordinances of the city shall be be, "Be it or- 
 dained by the City Council of the city of Bloomington ;" and 
 all ordinances passed by the Council shall, within one month 
 after they have been passed, be published in some newspaper 
 published in in the city, and shall not be in force until they 
 shall have been published as aforesaid. 
 
 34. ORDINANCES.] All ordinances of the city may be 
 proven by a copy thereof, certified by the Clerk, under his 
 hand and the corporate seal of the city, if there be one, and 
 when printed or published in book or pamphlet form by authori- 
 ty of the corporation, the same shall be received in evidence 
 in all courts and places without further proof; and the Coun- 
 cil shall cause all ordinances of the city then in force to be re- 
 vised and published in book or pamphlet form within twelve 
 months after the passage of this act. 
 
 35. ROAD TAX.] The inhabitants of the city of Bloom- 
 ington shall be exempt from any highway, road or bridge tax, 
 to be used beyond the limits of "the city, and from paying the 
 tax in lieu thereof without said limits, all property subject to 
 city taxes, whether real or personal, shall be exempt from 
 general or special road, highway or bridge tax, for the con- 
 struction or preparing of roads or bridges outside of city 
 limits of the city of Bloomington. 
 
 36. BRIBES, ETC.] Any Mayor, acting Mayor or alder- 
 man of the city, shall be liable to indictment in any court of 
 record in McLean County for receiving a bribe for the exercise 
 of any official power, for palpable omission of duty, willful^ 
 aggression, or mal conduct in the discharge of the duties 
 his office ; and upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine ot 
 not exceeding; one hundred dollars, and the court shall have
 
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 power, upon recommendation of the jury, to add as part of 
 the judgment, that he be removed from the office. 
 
 37. ORDINANCES TO REMAIN IN FORCE.] All ordinances, 
 regulations, and resolutions now in force in the City of Bloom- 
 iugton, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force 
 under this act until altered, modified or repealed by the Coun- 
 cil, after this act shall take effect. 
 
 38. PROSECUTIONS.] All actions, rights, fines, penalties, 
 and forfeitures in suit or otherwise, which have accrued under 
 the several acts, consolidated herein, shall be vested in and 
 prosecuted by the corporation hereby created. 
 
 39. PROPERTY AND OFFICERS.] All property, real, per- 
 sonal, or mixed, belonging to the City of Bloomington, is 
 hereby vested in the corporation created by this act, and the 
 officers of said corporation now in office shall respectively 
 continue in the same until superseded in conformity to the 
 provisions hereof, but shall be governed by this act. 
 
 40. SAVING CLAUSE.] This act shall not invalidate any le- 
 gal act done by the Council of the City of Bloomington or by its 
 officers, nor divest their successors under this act of any rights 
 of property or otherwise, or liability which may have accrued 
 to or been created by said corporation prior to the passage of 
 this act. 
 
 41. CONSERVATORS OF PEACE.] All officers of the city, 
 aldermen included, are hereby created conservators of the 
 peace by this act, and shall have power to arrest or cause to 
 be arrested, with or without process, all persons who shall 
 break or threaten to break the peace, and if necessary detain 
 such persons in custody over night in the city jail or other 
 safe place, and shall have and exercise such other powers as 
 conservators of the peace as the Council may prescribe. 
 
 42. CONSTRUCTION ACT DEEMED PUBLIC.] Nothing in 
 this act contained shall be construed so as to deprive the Coun- 
 cil of said city of any power or authority conferred upon the 
 same by act under which said city was incorporated, and 
 the various acts amendatory thereto ; but the Council shall 
 possess and enjoy all the powers and authority heretofore con- 
 ferred upon the same, except so far as such power and author- 
 ity have been expressly modified or repealed by this act or the 
 acts heretofore mentioned. This act shall be deemed a public 
 act, and may be read in evidence without proof, and judicial 
 notice shall be taken thereof in all courts and places. 
 
 This act shall take effect and be in force from -end after its 
 passage.
 
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 An act to amend an act entitled "An act to grant and estab- 
 lish a city charter for the city of Bloomington." 
 
 [In force March 7th, 1867.] 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 BOUNDARIES AND WARDS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Name and style. 
 
 " 2. Corporate limits. 
 
 " 3. Powers. 
 
 " 4. Wards. 
 
 SECTION 1 NAME AND STYLE.] Be it enacted by the People of 
 the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : That 
 the inhabitants of all that district of country in the county of 
 McLean and State of Illinois, contained within the limits and 
 boundaries as hereinafter prescribed, be, and they are hereby 
 constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and 
 style of the city of Bloomington, and by that name shall 
 have perpetual succession, and may have or not have a com- 
 mon seal, which they may change, altar or abolish at pleasure. 
 
 2. CORPORATE LIMITS.] The corporate limits of the city of 
 Bloomington shall embrace and include within the same, all 
 of section four (4), the west half of section three (3), the east 
 half of section five (5), the north-east quarter of section eight 
 (8), the north half of section nine (9), and the north-west 
 quarter of section ten (10), all being in township twenty-three 
 (23), north of range two (2), east of the third Principal Meri- 
 dian ; the south-east quarter of section thirty-two (32), the south 
 half of section thirty -three (33), and the south-west quarter of 
 section thirty-four (34), all being in township twenty-four (24), 
 north of range two (2) east of the third Principal Meridian; 
 and shall also include all town plats and additions adjoining 
 the above prescribed limits ; and whenever any tract of land 
 adjoining the said limits, or any addition to said city, shall be 
 laid off into town lots, and the plat thereof recorded, the same 
 shall be and form a part of the city of Bloomington, as fully as 
 if within the original corporate limits. 
 
 3. POWERS.] The inhabitants of said city, of the name 
 and style 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 whatsoever ; to purchase, 
 receive, hold, lease, sell, convey and dispose of property, real 
 and personal, within and beyond the corporate limits for pub-
 
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 lie purposes for the use of the inhabitants of the city, and to 
 improve and protect such property, and to do all other things 
 in relation thereto as natural persons. 
 
 4. WARDS.] The city of Bloomington shall be divided 
 into five wards, as follows, viz ; 
 
 First Ward All that part of the city which lies north of the 
 center of Front street, and east ot the center of Main street, 
 shall be denominated the First Ward. 
 
 Second Ward All that part of the city which lies north of 
 the center of Front street, and south of the center of Chestnut 
 street, and west of the center of Main street, shall be denomi- 
 nated the Second Ward. 
 
 Third Ward All that part of the city which lies south of 
 the center of Front street, and west of the center of Main street, 
 shall be denominated the Third Ward. 
 
 Fourth Ward All that part of the city which lies south of 
 the center of Front street, and east of the center of Main street, 
 shall be denominated the Fourth Ward. 
 
 Fifth Ward All that part of the city which lies north of the 
 center of Chestnut street, and west of the center of Main street, 
 shall be denominated the Fifth Ward. 
 
 CHAPTER n. 
 
 OFFICERS AND THEIR ELECTION. 
 
 SECTION 1. City government. 
 
 2. Mayor. 
 
 8. Aldermen. 
 
 4. Tie how decided 
 
 5. Who shall not be Mayor. 
 
 6. Who shall not be aldermen. 
 
 7. Election to be held. 
 
 8. Additional aldermen to be elected. 
 
 9. Failure to elect. 
 
 10. When officers shall enter upon duties. 
 
 11. Other officers. 
 
 SECTION 1. CITY GOVERNMENT.] The municipal govern- 
 ment of the city shall consist of a Mayor, and a City Council 
 composed of two aldermen from each ward. 
 
 2. MAYOR.] The Mayor shall be elected by the quali- 
 ned voters of the city, and shall hold his office for one year 
 and ULtil his successor is elected and qualified. 
 
 ALDERMEN.] The aldermen shall be elected by the 
 qualified voters of the city, and shall hold their respective 
 offices for two years, and until their successors are elected and 
 qualified, except as herein otherwise provided. 
 
 4. TIE HOW DECIDED.] Whenever there shall fail to be 
 an election of any officer voted for by the voters of said city
 
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 in consequence of two or more candidates receiving an equal 
 number of votes for the same office, the judges of election 
 shall certify the same to the Mayor, who shall determine the 
 same by the casting of lots in such manner as the Coun- 
 cil may direct. 
 
 5. WHO SHALL NOT BE MAYOR.] No person shall be eli- 
 gible to the office of Mayor who is not a citizen of the United 
 States, and who shall not have been a resident of the city for 
 at least two years next preceding his election, or who shall be 
 under twenty-one years of age. If the Mayor removes from 
 the city his office shall be vacated. 
 
 6. WHO SHALL NOT BE ALDERMEN.] N"o person shall be 
 eligible to the office of alderman who is not a citizen of the 
 United States, and who shall not have been a resident of the 
 city for one year next preceding his election, or who shall be 
 under twenty-one years of age. If any alderman shall, after 
 his election, remove from the ward for which he is elected, 
 his office shall thereby be vacated. 
 
 7. ELECTION TO BE HELD.] An election shall be held in 
 said city, on the third Monday in April in each and every 
 year, to elect a Mayor and one alderman from each ward ; at 
 which election the person receiving the highest number of 
 votes for the respective offices shall be declared elected. 
 
 8. ADDITIONAL ALDERMEN TO BE ELECTED.] At the elec- 
 tion held in April, A. D., 1867, in addition to the officers 
 above specified, an additional alderman shall be elected in 
 wards number one, two and five, who shall hold their respective 
 offices for the term of one year. At said election the person 
 receiving the highest number of votes for alderman, in said 
 wards, shall be declared elected for two years, and the person 
 receiving the next highest number shall be declared elected 
 for one year. In case of a tie vote, the same shall be decided 
 by the Mayor, by the casting of lots in such manner as the 
 Council may direct. The aldermen now elected from wards 
 number three and four shall hold their offices for the full term 
 for which they were elected. 
 
 9. FAILURE TO ELECT.] In case the people shall fail to 
 elect any of the officers herein required to be elected, the 
 Council shall forthwith order a new election for such office, 
 and when any vacancy shall occur by the death, resignation, 
 removal or otherwise* of any of the officers above named, such 
 vacancy shall be filled by a new election within thirty days 
 after the vacancy occurs, unless said vacancy shall occur 
 within three months before the regular city election, in which 
 case the vacancy shall be filled at the next regular city elec-
 
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 tion and no special election shall be called. Officers elected 
 to fill vacancies, shall hold their offices only during the unex- 
 
 pired term. n ,, 
 
 10 WHEN OFFICERS SHALL ENTER UPON DUTIES.] ine 
 municipal officers to be chosen at the annual election shall 
 enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the nrst 
 Monday of May succeeding their election. 
 
 11 OTHER OFFICERS.] The other officers of the corpora- 
 tion shall be as follows, viz : City Clerk, City Treasurer, City 
 Attorney, City Assessor, City Collector, City Marshal, Street 
 Commissioner, and Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, 
 and such other officers as the City Council may deem neces- 
 sary from time to time to appoint, who shall be appointed by 
 the City Council, and shall hold their respective offices during 
 the pleasure of the Council, and shall perform such duties, 
 and receive such compensation as the City Council may from 
 time to time, by ordinance or otherwise, prescribe. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 ELECTIONS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Notice of election. 
 
 " 2. Elections how conducted. 
 " 3. Who may vote. 
 
 SECTION 1. NOTICE OF ELECTION.] The City Council shall, 
 previous to any election, under this charter, give at least ten 
 days notice of such election, by publication in a newspaper pub- 
 lished in the city, or by printed notices, in each ward, or 
 by both. 
 
 " 2. ELECTIONS HOW CONDUCTED.] The City Council shall 
 have power to regulate elections and to appoint the judges 
 thereof. Voting shall be by ballot, and the judges of election 
 shall take the same oath, and have the same power and au- 
 thority, and be subject to the same penalties as judges at 
 general elections under the state laws. The ballots shall be 
 counted in the manner provided by general law ; the returns 
 shall be delivered sealed, to the City Clerk within one day 
 after the election, and the Council shall, within three days 
 after said election meet and canvass the votes and declare the 
 result of the election. AH persons elected or appointed to 
 office, shall qualify within twenty days thereafter, otherwise 
 the office shall become vacant.
 
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 3. WHO MAY VOTE.] Every person entitled to vote at 
 the general state election, who has been a resident in the city 
 six months, and an actual resident of the ward in which he 
 proposes to vote, for thirty days immediately preceding the 
 municipal election, and who, if required by the judge or some 
 qualified voter, shall take the following oath : " I swear (or 
 affirm) that I am of the age of twenty-one years, that I am a 
 citizen of the United States, (or was a resident of this state at 
 the time of the adoption of the Constitution,) and have been 
 a resident of this state one year, and a resident of this city 
 six months immediately preceding this election, and am now, 
 and have been for the last thirty days past, a resident of this 
 ward, and have not voted at this election," shall be a quali- 
 fied voter at all municipal elections : Provided: that the voter 
 shall be deemed a resident of the ward in which he is accus- 
 tomed to lodge. All persons not entitled to vote who shall 
 vote, or offer to vote at any election held under this act, or 
 the ordinance of the city in pursuance thereof, shall be pun- 
 ishable according to the laws of this state. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Powers and duties of Mayor. 
 
 2. Acting Mayor. 
 
 3. Time of meeting of Council. 
 
 4. Powers of Council quorum. 
 
 5. Mayor may summon posse. 
 
 6. Further powers of Mayor. 
 
 7. Ordinances how approved, etc. 
 
 8. Clerk to keep seal, etc. 
 
 9. Duties of Treasurer. 
 
 10. Duties of Marshal. 
 
 11. City Assessor's duties. 
 
 12. City Collector. 
 
 SECTION 1. POWERS AND DUTIES OF MAYOR,] The Mayor 
 shall be the chief executive officer of the city. He shall pre- 
 side at the meetings of the Council, preserve order and direct 
 the course of business before the Council, and in case of a 
 tie in any vote thereof shall give the casting vote ; he shall be 
 the head" of the police and fire departments, and all marshals, 
 or deputy marshals, policemen, and all officers of the fire de- 
 partment, shall be under his command. 
 
 2. ACTING MAYOR.] In case the Mayor is unable to 
 
 perform the duties of his office, by reason of temporary or 
 
 continued absence or sickness, the Council shall appoint one 
 
 of its members to preside over their meetings, whose official 
 
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 designation shall be " Acting Mayor," and the alderman BO 
 appointed shall be vested with all the powers and perform all 
 the duties of Mayor until the Mayor shall assume his office 
 or the vacancy be filled by a new election. 
 
 3. TIME OF MEETING OF COUNCIL.] The Council 
 have power to determine and fix the time of its meetings, the 
 rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly 
 conduct, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of its mem- 
 bers elected, expel a member. A journal of the Council pro- 
 ceedings shall be kept, and the yeas and nays, when demanded 
 by any member present, shall be entered on the journal. 
 
 4. POWERS OF COUNCIL QUORUM.] The Council shall 
 judge of the qualifications and election of its members, and 
 shall hear and determine all contested elections under this act, 
 and its decision shall be final. A majority of the Council 
 shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller num- 
 ber may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance 
 of absent members under such penalties as may be prescribed 
 by ordinance. 
 
 5. MAYOR MAY SUMMON POSSE.] The Mayor is hereby 
 authorized to call on any and all male inhabitants of the 
 city or county, over the age of eighteen years, to aid in enforc- 
 ing the laws of the State or ordinances of the city ; and in case 
 of riot to call out the militia and citizens to assist in suppress- 
 ing the same, or carrying into effect any law or ordinance. 
 And any person who shall not obey such call, shall forfeit 
 and pay to said city a fine of five dollars. He shall have 
 power whenever he may deem it necessary, to require of any of 
 the officers of the city an exhibit of all their official books and 
 papers, and shall have power to execute all duties that may be 
 required of him by this act, or any ordinance made in pursu- 
 ance hereof. 
 
 6. FURTHER POWERS OF MAYOR.] The Mayor shall ex-officio 
 have power to administer any oath required to be taken by this 
 act or any law of the State, to take depositions, acknowledge 
 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. 
 
 7. ORDINANCES HOW APPROVED.] All ordinances, before 
 they take effect, shall be placed in the office of the CU-rk, and 
 if the Mayor approve thereof he shall sign the same, and such 
 as he may not approve he shall return to the Council at the next 
 meeting thereafter, with his objections thereto. Upon the re- 
 turn of any such ordinance by the Mayor, the vote by which 
 the same was passed shall be reconsidered, and if after such
 
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 reconsideration a majority of all the aldermen elected shall 
 agree by the ayes and nays, which shall be entered on the 
 journal, to pass the same, it shall go- into effect; and if the 
 Mayor shall neglect to approve or object for a longer period 
 than ten days after an ordinance shall be placed in the clerk's 
 office as aforesaid, the same shall go into effect. 
 
 8. CLERK TO KEEP SEAL, ETC.] The Clerk shall keep the 
 corporate seal and all the books and papers belonging to the 
 city. He shall attend all the meetings of the Council, and 
 keep a full record of its proceedings. Copies of all papers and 
 ordinances filed in his office, and transcripts from the jour- 
 nal of the proceedings of the Council certified by him as 
 Clerk, shall be evidence in all courts and places without fur- 
 ther proof thereof and in like manner as if the originals were 
 produced. The Clerk shall draw all warrants on the treasury, 
 as provided by ordinance, and keep an accurate account 
 thereof in a book provided for that purpose. He shall keep 
 an accurate account of all receipts and expenditures in such 
 manner as the Council may direct and he shall have power to 
 administer any oath required to be taken by this act. 
 
 9. DUTIES OF TREASURER.] The Treasurer shall receive 
 all moneys belonging to the city, and shall keep an accurate 
 account of all receipts and expenditures in such manner as the 
 Council may direct. All moneys shall be drawn from the city 
 treasury in pursuance of an order of the Council by treasury 
 warrant, signed by the Clerk and Mayor, and such warrant 
 shall specify for what purpose the amount named therein is to 
 be paid. He shall exhibit to the Council as often as re- 
 quired a full and detailed account of all receipts and expendi- 
 tures, the state of the treasury and the state of each special 
 fund therein, which account shall be filed in the office of the 
 Clerk, and on retiring from office the Treasurer shall deposit 
 his account books in the office of the City Clerk, where they 
 shall be kept as public records of the city. 
 
 10. DUTIES OF MARSHAL.] The Marshal shall perform 
 all such duties as may be provided by ordinance, and he shall 
 possess the same powers and perform the same duties, within 
 the limits of the city, as constables in the different counties 
 possess ; and may serve any process issuing under and by vir- 
 tue of this act, or the ordinances and by-laws of said city at 
 any place within the county of McLean. 
 
 11. CITY ASSESSOR'S DUTIES.] The City Assessor shall 
 perform all duties in relation to the assessing of property for 
 the purpose of levying taxes imposed by the Council. In 
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 as are or may be given by law to county or town assessors, 
 and be subject to the same liabilities. 
 
 12. CITY COLLECTOR.] The City Collector shall collect all 
 taxes and assessments which may be levied by the Council, 
 except special taxes and assessments, and perform such. other 
 duties as may be prescribed by ordinance. The Council may 
 appoint township assessors and collectors to assess and collect 
 for the city. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 KEVENUE. 
 
 SECTION 1. Power of Council to levy taxes. 
 2. Tax upon Insurance companies. 
 " 8. Inhabitants exempt from road labor when. 
 
 SECTION 1. POWER OF COUNCIL TO LEVY TAXES.] The City 
 Council shall have power within the city by ordinance : 
 
 First To levy and collect annually a tax not exceeding five 
 mills on the dollar on the assessed value of all real and per- 
 sonal estate and property in the city, made taxable by the laws 
 of this State, to defray the contingent and other expenses of 
 the city not herein otherwise specially provided for, which 
 taxes shall constitute the general fund. 
 
 Second To levy and collect annually a tax not exceeding 
 two mills on the dollar on all taxable real and personal estate 
 to defray the police expenses of the city. 
 
 Third To levy and collect annually a tax not exceeding 
 two mills on the dollar, on all taxable real and personal estate 
 to defray the expenses of lighting the streets of the city. 
 
 Fourth To levy and collect annually a tax not exceeding 
 three mills on the dollar on all taxable real and personal prop- 
 erty, to defray the expense of cleaning and repairing the 
 streets and alleys in said city. 
 
 Fifth To levy and collect annually a tax of sufficient 
 amount on all taxable real and personal estate to pay the in- 
 terest on all debts due and owing by said city, whether bonded 
 or otherwise. 
 
 Sixth To provide in its own manner for the levy, assessment 
 and collection of city taxes and assessments, and to alter and 
 change any such provisions as it may from time to time deem 
 proper ; to prescribe the form of assessment lists, and make
 
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 such regulations in relation to revising, altering or adding 
 thereto as it may deem right and proper ; and to provide that 
 the city taxes, and general and special assessments shall by the 
 proper officers of the county of McLean, be carried out on the 
 books of the proper township collector, whose several town- 
 ships embrace the city of Bloomington, to be by them col- 
 lected in the same manner, and at the same time as State and 
 county taxes, to be paid over to such person as the Council 
 may order or provide ; and that delinquent lands or lots shall 
 be returned to the County Treasurer, or the officers designated 
 by general law, who shall proceed with the collection thereof, 
 in the same manner, and at the same time as he collects State 
 and county taxes, and shall pay the same over to such person 
 as the Council may direct. All taxes and assessments, general 
 or special, levied or assessed under this act, or any ordinance 
 in pursuance thereof, shall be a lien on all the real estate upon 
 which the same may be imposed, levied or assessed for two 
 years from and after the assessment thereof, and on personal 
 property from and after the delivery of the warrant for col- 
 lection. 
 
 Seventh To require all male inhabitants of said city, over 
 twenty-one years of age and under fifty, to labor, not exceeding 
 three days in each year, upon the streets and alleys in said 
 city, when notified to do so by the Street Commissioner. But 
 each person so required to labor on the streets and alleys may, 
 in lieu thereof, pay the sum of one dollar per day for each day 
 he shall be so required to labor : Provided, he shall pay the 
 same on or before the first day he shall be notified to labor by 
 the Street Commissioner ; and in case any person shall refuse 
 to labor, when notified as aforesaid, or to pay, in commutation 
 thereof, the amount above specified, the same may be collected 
 of him by suit, in the name of the city, before any police magis- 
 trate or justice of the peace of said city. If the tax authorized 
 by the fourth division of this section shall be levied by the 
 Council, then the labor authorized by this section shall not be 
 required to be done during the same year. 
 
 2. TAX UPON INSURANCE COMPANIES.] All corporations, 
 companies or associations not incorporated under the laws ot 
 this State, engaged in said city in effecting fire, marine or 1 
 insurance, shall pay to the City Treasurer the sum of two dol- 
 lars upon the hundred dollars, and at that rate upon the 
 amount of all premiums which during the half year ending on 
 every first dav of July and January, shall have been received 
 or have been Weed to be paid, for any insurance effected, or 
 ao-reed to be effected in said city, by or with such corporations,
 
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 companies or associations, respectively. Every person who 
 shall act in said city as agent or otherwise, for or on behalf of 
 any such corporation, company or association, shall on or be- 
 fore the fifteenth day of July and January in each year, render 
 to the City Treasurer a full, true and just account, verified by 
 his oath, of all premium?, which during the half year ending 
 on every first day of July and January preceding such report, 
 shall haVe been received by him, or agreed to be paid for or 
 on behalf of any such corporation, company or association, 
 and shall specify in said account the amounts received for fire, 
 marine and life insurance respectively. Said agents shall also 
 pay over to the City Treasurer, at the time of rendering the 
 aforesaid account, the amount of rates for which the company 
 or companies represented by them are severally chargeable by 
 virtue hereof. If such account be not rendered on or before 
 the day hereinbefore designated for that purpose, or, if the 
 said rates shall remain unpaid after that day, it shall be un- 
 lawful for any corporation, company or association, so in de- 
 fault, to transact any business of insurance in said city until 
 the said requisitions shall have been complied with ; but this 
 provision shall not relieve any company from the payment of 
 any risk that may be taken in violation hereof. Any person 
 or persons violating any 'of the provisions of this section shall 
 be subject to indictment, and upon conviction thereof in any 
 court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not 
 exceeding five hundred dollars. Said rates may also be re- 
 covered of such corporation, company or association, or its 
 agent, by action, in the name and for the use of said city as 
 for money had and received for its use. The amounts so re- 
 ceived from said insurance companies, or their agents shall 
 constitute a fund which ahall be used for the purpose of pro- 
 moting the efficiency of, and making improvements in the fire 
 department of said city, and for carrying out such sanitary 
 measures as may be deemed necessary for the promotion of 
 the public health, and for no other purpose whatever. 
 
 3. INHABITANTS EXEMPT FROM ROAD LABOR WHEN.] The in- 
 habitants of the city of Bloomington shall be exempt from any 
 highway, road, or bridge tax to be used beyond the limits of 
 said city, and from paying the tax in lieu thereof without said 
 limits. All property subject to city taxes, whether real or 
 personal, shall be exempt from general or special road, high- 
 way or bridge tax for the construction or repairing of roads 
 or bridges outside of the city limits of the city of Bloomino-- 
 tou.
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CITY COUNCIL-GENERAL POWERS. 
 
 SECTION 1. General powers of Council. 
 
 2. Process appeals, etc. 
 
 " 3. Power over streets, sidewalks etc. 
 
 4. Horse railways. 
 
 " 5. City Council may issue bonds. 
 
 SECTION 1. GENERAL POWERS OF COUNCIL.] The City Coun- 
 cil shall have power by ordinance : 
 
 First To require all officers appointed in pursuance of this 
 charter to give bonds, with penalty and security, and take an 
 oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respect- 
 ive offices, upon entering upon the discharge of the same. 
 
 Second To appropriate and provide for the payment of the 
 debts and expenses of the city. 
 
 Third To make any and all regulations necessary to secure, 
 protect, preserve and restore the general health, and to pre- 
 vent the introduction of contagious diseases into the city, to 
 make quarantine laws for that purpose and to enforce the 
 same. 
 
 Fourth To declare what shall be deemed nuisances and to 
 provide for the prevention, abatement and removal of the 
 same, and to punish the authors thereof by penalties, fine and 
 imprisonment. Provided, parties aggrieved by the provisions 
 of this section may litigate the same in the circuit and su- 
 preme courts of this State. 
 
 Fifth To provide the city with water for the extinguish- 
 ment of fire and the conveniences of the inhabitants, in such 
 manner as it may deem best. 
 
 Sixth To change the boundaries of any ward, and to estab- 
 lish new wards, and provide for the election of aldermen. 
 
 Seventh To provide for lighting the streets, keeping the 
 same in repair, and to prohibit obstructions and nuisances in 
 any street or alley. 
 
 'Eighth To erect market houses, establish markets aixl 
 market places, and provide for the government and regulation 
 thereof. 
 
 Ninth To provide for erecting all needful buildings for the 
 use of the city; to license, tax and regulate auctions, mer- 
 chants, retailers, grocers, sample sellers, taverns, hawkers, 
 peddlers, brokers, pawnbrokers and money changers, hackney 
 carriages, wagons, carts, omnibuses and drays, and to fix the
 
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 rates to be charged for the carriage of persons, and the wagon- 
 age, cartage and drayage of property. 
 
 Tenth ^Co license and regulate porters and fix the rate of 
 porterage. 
 
 Eleventh To license, tax and regulate theatrical and other 
 exhibitions, shows and amusements. 
 
 Twelfth To tax, restrain, prohibit and suppress tippling 
 houses and dram shops ; to prohibit and suppress gaming 
 and gambling, gaming houses, bawdy houses, and all disor- 
 derly houses. 
 
 Thirteenth To license, or entirely prohibit the sale of spir- 
 ituous, vinous, mixed, malt, or fermented liquors within the 
 limits of the city, by any person or persons. 
 
 Fourteenth To provide for the prevention and extinguish- 
 ment of fires, and to organize, establish and support fire com- 
 panies. 
 
 Fifteenth To regulate the conduct of persons present at any 
 fire in said city, and to provide for punishing any person dis- 
 obeying such regulations. 
 
 Sixteenth To provide for the prevention and suppression of 
 riots, routs and unlawful assemblages, and any disturbance of 
 the public peace, and punish by fine all persons guilty thereof. 
 
 Seventeenth To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, 
 pitch, rosin and other combustible materials ; to compel the 
 owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, soap or tallow chand- 
 lery, blacksmith, tannery, stable, slaughter house, distillery, 
 brewery, sewer or privy, to cleanse, remove or abate the same 
 as may be necessary for the health, comfort and convenience 
 of the inhabitants affected thereby. 
 
 Eighteenth To direct the location and management and con- 
 struction of, and r -strain, abate, and prohibit within the city, 
 and to the distance of one mile from the limits thereof, slaugh- 
 tering establishments, establishments for steaming or render- 
 ing lard, tallow, offal and such other substances as may be 
 rendered. 
 
 Nineteenth To direct what streets and alleys in said city 
 maybe taken for laying and using for railroad track or tracks; 
 to require railroad companies to keep in repair and to light 
 the streets and alleys through which their tracks may run, 
 (this provisions does not apply to horse railways) and con- 
 struct and keep in repair, and unobstructed, suitable 
 crossings at the intersection of their roads with the streets, 
 alleys, ditches, sewers and culverts ; to direct the use and reg- 
 ulate the speed of locomotive engines within the inhabited 
 portions of the city ; to prohibit and restrain railroad com-
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 169 
 
 panies from doing storage or warehouse business, or collecting 
 pay for storage. 
 
 Twentieth The City Council shall forever prohibit, by ordi- 
 nance, the sale of intoxicating liquors within that part of the 
 city lying and being in the town of Xormal, and designated in 
 Chapter I, section 2 of this bill, as the south-east quarter of 
 section thirty-two (32), the south half of section thirty-three 
 (33) and the south-west quarter of section thirty-four (34), all 
 in township twenty-four (24), north of range two (2) east of 
 the third principal meridian, and such other portions of said 
 township of Normal as may hereafter be laid out into lots and 
 be attached to said city of Bloomington. 
 
 Twenty-first To establish and regulate standard weights 
 and measures in aU cases not otherwise provided by law. 
 
 Twenty-second To provide for the inspection and measure- 
 ment of lumber and other building materials, and for the meas- 
 urement of all kinds of mechanical work, and to provide for 
 the inspection and weighing of hay, stone-coal, charcoal, fire- 
 wood, and other fuel to be sold or used within the city ; and 
 to provide for and regulate the inspection of tobacco, beef, 
 pork, flour, meal and spirituous liquors of all kinds brought to 
 the city for sale ; and to regulate the weights and quality of 
 bread to be sold and used in the city. 
 
 Twenty-third To provide for taking enumerations of the 
 inhabitants of the city ; and to provide for numbering the 
 houses in said city, and to compel the owner or occupant of 
 such houses to have the number thereof placed thereon in 
 some conspicuous place. 
 
 Twenty-fourth To regulate the fees of jurors, witnesses and 
 others for services rendered under this act, or any ordinance. 
 
 Twenty-fifth To prohibit horse racing and immoderate rid- 
 ing or driving in the streets; to prohibit and punish the abuse 
 of animals, and to compel persons to fasten securely their 
 horses, oxen or other animals attached to vehicles or otherwise, 
 while standing or remaining in the street. 
 
 Twenty-sixth To authorize the arrest, fine and imprison- 
 ment, in the city or county jail, as vagrants, of all persons 
 who not having visible means to maintain themselves, are 
 without employment, idly loitering or rambling about, or 
 staying in groceries, drinking saloons, houses of ill-fame, or 
 houses of bad repute, gambling houses, railroad depots, or 
 fire engine houses, or who shall be found trespassing in the 
 nighttime upon the premises of others, or begging or placing 
 themselves in the streets or other thoroughfares, or public 
 places to beg or receive alms ; also keepers, exhibitors or 
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 170 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 visitors at any gaming table, gambling house, house for for- 
 tune telling, places for cock fighting, or other places of device ; 
 and all persons who go about for the purpose of gaming or 
 watch stuffing, or who shall have in their possession any 
 article or thing used for obtaining money under false pre- 
 tenses, or who shall disturb any place where public or private 
 schools are held, either on week day or Sabbath, or places 
 where religious worship is held. 
 
 Twenty-seventh To establish and regulate public pounds ; and 
 to restrain, and regulate, or prohibit the running at large of 
 cattle, horses, mules, swine, sheep, goats and geese ; and to 
 authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same 
 for the penalty incurred, and the costs of the proceedings, 
 and also to impose penalties on the owners of any such ani- 
 mals, fora violation of any ordinance in relation thereto. 
 
 Twenty-eighth To tax, regulate, restrain and prohibit the 
 running at large of dogs, and to authorize their destruction 
 when at large contrary to ordinance. 
 
 Twenty-ninth To provide for the safety and convenience of 
 the inhabitants and other persons in the city, by prohibiting 
 all acts, sports or amusements, in the streets or public places 
 of the city, of a dangerous character. 
 
 Thirtieth To license, regulate, restrain and suppress billiard 
 tables, and from one to twenty-pin alleys. 
 
 Thirty-first To regulate public pumps, wells and cisterns, 
 hydrants and reservoirs, and so prevent the unnecessary waste 
 of water. 
 
 Thirty-second To regulate and prohibit the exhibition in 
 the streets of said city, of stallions and jacks. 
 
 Thirty-third To compel all persons to keep the snow, ice 
 and dirt from the sidewalks, in front of the premises owned 
 or occupied by them. 
 
 Thirty-fourth To establish and erect one or more pest 
 houses, hospitals or dispensaries, and control and regulate the 
 same. 
 
 Thirty-fifth To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants, 
 street beggars and prostitutes. 
 
 Thirty-sixth To provide for day and night police in said 
 city, and to regulate and control said police. 
 
 Thirty-seventh To suppress all gaming houses and houses of 
 prostitution ; and to provide for "the entry of the same by the 
 /ity Marshal, by force, or otherwise, and the arrest of all 
 persons found therein; and the destruction of all implements 
 of gaming found therein, and for the punishment of all per- 
 sons so arrested, by fine or imprisonment, or otherwise.
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 171 
 
 Thirty-eighth To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wear- 
 ing, by any person, under his clothes, or concealed about his 
 person, any pistol or colt, or slungshot, or cross knuckles, or 
 knuckles of brass, lead or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk 
 knife, dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly 
 weapon, and to provide for the confiscation or sale of such 
 weapons. 
 
 Thirty-ninth To prevent and prohibit the erection or main^ 
 tenance of any insecure or unsafe building, stack, wall or 
 chimney in said city, and to declare them to be nuisances, and 
 to provide for their summary abatement. 
 
 Fortieth To cause the seizure and destruction, or other dis- 
 position of tainted or unwholesome meat, butter, vegetables, 
 fruit or provisions". 
 
 Forty-first To impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the 
 breach of any ordinance, and provide for the recovery and 
 appropriation of such fines and forfeitures and the enforce- 
 ment of such penalties; to provide for the punishment of 
 offenders by imprisonment in the county or city jail, and in 
 all cases where such offenders fail or refuse to pay any fine or 
 forfeiture recovered against them, to require them to labor on 
 the streets of said city, at one dollar per day, until the whole 
 fine and costs shall be paid. 
 
 Forty-second To make, publish, ordain, amend and repeal 
 all such ordinances, by-laws and police regulations not con- 
 trary to the Constitution of this State, for the good govern- 
 ment and order of the city, and the trade and commerce of the 
 city, as may be necessary to carry into effect the powers 
 vested in the City Council or any officer of said city, by this 
 act, and enforce the observance of all rules, ordinances, by- 
 laws and police and other regulations, made in pursuance of 
 this act, by penalties not exceeding one hundred dollars for 
 any offense against the same. 
 
 2. PROCESS APPEALS, ETC.] The City Council may, by 
 ordinance, provide that in all suits brought for the violation 
 of any ordinance, or the recovery of any fine under this act, 
 before the police magistrate, or other officer, the first process 
 shall be a warrant for the immediate apprehension of the 
 offender, and may further provide that no change of venue 
 shall be taken from such police magistrate, or justice of the 
 peace, selected by the city as hereinafter provided, and that 
 no appeal shall be taken from any judgment of any such jus- 
 tice of the peace, or police magistrate, except upon boi 
 given, and the proceedings and testimony reduced to writing 
 as a bill of exceptions, signed by said magistrate, or other
 
 172 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 officer, and the appellate court shall try said appeal on the 
 proceedings and evidence embodied in said bill of exception 
 and none other. 
 
 3. POWER OVER STREETS, SIDEWALKS, ETC.] The City 
 Council shall have power to open, alter, abolish, widen, ex- 
 tend, establish, grade, pave, plank, or macadamize, or other- 
 wise improve and keep in repair the streets, avenues and 
 lanes and alleys, to make, establish, and build, and construct 
 sewers, and to carry out a system of sewerage, to erect lamp 
 posts, and to build public cisterns, to drain the city and to 
 take private propert^ for any of said purposes; first making 
 provision for ascertaining and payment of adequate and just 
 compensation for all damages to the owners of such property, 
 in such manner as the Council, by ordinance, may provide, 
 and to require the owners of any lot or piece of ground to lay 
 a good and substantial sidewalk along any street or alley, 
 passing such lot or ground, in such manner as the Council 
 may provide. The expenses of any improvement mentioned 
 in this section or any portion thereof, except sidewalks, may 
 be levied and assessed upon the real estate adjoining or bene- 
 fited thereby, with the costs of proceedings therein, in pro- 
 portion as nearly as may be to the benefits resulting thereto ; 
 and may be collected as in other cases. The above assess- 
 ments may be made either by a jury, or by commissioners ap- 
 pointed by the City Council, as (the) Council shall by ordi- 
 nance provide ; and such assessments may be levied and col- 
 lected before such improvements shall be made, according to 
 the estimated cost of the same, as estimated by the Council, 
 and if such estimate shall be, when collected, insufficient to 
 make such improvements, then the Council may make a sec- 
 ond assessment, or may pay the deficiency out of the general 
 fund of the city as they may deem best; all owners, or occu- 
 pants, in front of, or upon whose premises the Council shall 
 order and direct sidewalks or private drains communicating 
 with any main drain, to be constructed, repaired, relaid or 
 cleansed, shall make, repair, relay, or cleanse such sidewalk, 
 or private drain, at their own cost and charge, in the manner 
 and within the time prescribed by ordinance," or otherwise, and 
 if not done in the manner and within the time prescribed, the 
 City Council may cause the same to be constructed, repaired, 
 relaid, or cleansed, and assess the expense thereof by an 
 order to be entered in their proceedings upon such lots re- 
 spectively, and collect the same as in other cases. The Coun- 
 cil may provide, by ordinance that suits may be instituted, in 
 any court having jurisdiction, against the respective owners
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 173 
 
 of any real estate, for the recovery of the amount of the ex- 
 penses and costs of and special tax or assessment authorized 
 by this section, and it may be optional with the Council, which 
 remedy shall be pursued. 
 
 4. HORSE RAILWAYS.] The City Council shall have 
 power, by ordinance, to contract with horse railway com- 
 panies as to the manner of laying down tracks for horse rail- 
 ways, and the location of switches, turn-outs and depots, and 
 to require the companies constructing said railways, to plank 
 or otherwise keep the same in repair between the rails, in 
 such manner as the City Council may direct. To designate 
 the grade upon which said railway shall be laid, and the por- 
 tion of the street upon which the same shall be laid, and to 
 require said companies to keep in repair and unobstructed, 
 suitable crossings wherever said railway shall cross the streets, 
 alleys, sidewalks and crosswalks of said city ; and to require 
 said companies to lay their tracks and run their cars in such 
 a mariner as shall not obstruct or hinder the ordinary travel 
 upon the streets or avenues where their tracks are laid. 
 
 5. CITY COUNCIL MAY ISSUE BONDS.] The City Council 
 shall have power to issue bonds of said city to an amount not 
 exceeding ten thousand dollars, which bonds shall be made 
 payable in not more than twenty years, and shall bear a rate 
 of interest not exceeding ten per cent, per annum, for the 
 purpose of purchasing and equipping one or more fire engines, 
 and for purchasing or building such buildings as may be neces- 
 sary for properly keeping the same ; such bonds shall be exe- 
 cuted and issued in such manner as the Council may provide, 
 the interest to be paid annually, or semi-annually at the option 
 of the Council.
 
 174 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
 
 SECTION 1. Style of ordinance proof of publication. 
 
 " 2. Ordinances how proven. 
 
 3. Old ordinances to continue in force. 
 
 4! Former suits, rights, etc. 
 
 6. Property officers. 
 
 6. Prior acts valid. 
 
 7. City exempt from costs. 
 
 8. Appeal bond not required from city. 
 
 9. bulls where brought. 
 
 ID. Compensation of Mayor and aldermen, etc. 
 
 11. Plats to be approved by Council. 
 
 1 2. Conservators of the peace. 
 
 13. Construction of act. 
 " H. Act deemed public. 
 " 15. When in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. STYLE OF ORDINANCE PROOF OF PUBLICATION.] 
 The style of the ordinances of the city shall be, " Be it or- 
 dained by the City Council of the City of Bloomington," and 
 all ordinances passed by the Council, shall within one month 
 after they shall have been passed, be published in some news- 
 paper published in the city, and shall not be in force until they 
 shall have been published, as aforesaid, and proof of said 
 publication by the affidavit of the printer or publisher of said 
 newspaper, taken before any officer authorized to administer 
 oaths, and tiled with the City Clerk, or any other competent 
 proof of such publication, shall be conclusive evidence of the 
 legal publication and promulgation of such ordinances in all 
 courts or places. 
 
 2. ORDINANCES HOW PROVEN.] All ordinances of the 
 city may be proven by a copy thereof, certified by the Clerk, 
 under his hand, and the corporate seal of the city, if 
 there be one ; and, when printed and published in book or 
 pamphlet form, by authority of the corporation, the same shall 
 be received in evidence in all courts and places without fur- 
 ther proof; and the Council shall cause all ordinances of the 
 the city, then in force, to be revised and published in book or 
 pamphlet form within twelve months after the passage of this 
 act. 
 
 3. ORDINANCES TO CONTINUE IN FORCE.] All ordinances, 
 regulations and resolutions now in force in the city of Bloom- 
 ington, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force 
 under this act, until altered, modified or repealed by the 
 Council, after this act shall take effect.
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 175 
 
 4 FORMER SUITS, RIGHTS, ETC.] All actions, rights, fines 
 penalties and forfeitures, in suit or otherwise, which have ac- 
 crued under the several acts, consolidated herein, shall be 
 vested in and prosecuted by the corporation hereby created 
 
 5. PROPERTY OFFICERS.] All property, real, personal or 
 mixed, belonging to the city of Bloomington, is hereby vested 
 in the corporation created by this act ; and the officers of said 
 corporation, now in office, shall respectively continue in the 
 same, until superseded in conformity to the provisions hereof, 
 but shall be governed by this act. 
 
 6. PRIOR ACTS VALID.] This act shall not invalidate any 
 legal act done by the Council of the City of Bloomington,or by 
 its officers, nor divest their successors, 'under this act, of any 
 rights of property or otherwise, or liability which may have 
 accrued to, or been created by the corporation prior to the 
 passage of this act. 
 
 7. CITY EXEMPT FROM COSTS.] In all prosecutions or suits 
 brought by the City of Bloomington, for the violations of any 
 ordinances, by-laws or police regulations, the said city shall be 
 exempt from all court fees to the same extent as the~State, by 
 the criminal laws thereof, is in criminal prosecutions. 
 
 8. APPEAL BOND NOT REQUIRED FROM CITY.] When in any 
 suit the City of Bloomiugton shall pray an appeal from the 
 judgment of any court of this State, to a higher court, said city 
 shall not be required to tile an appeal bond, but such appeal 
 shall be granted without bond. 
 
 9. SUITS WHERE BROUGHT.] All suits or actions for 
 the recovery of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture, arising under 
 this act, or the ordinances of the city, where the amount sued 
 for or in controversy, does not exceed one hundred dollars, 
 may be brought before any police magistrate of the city, or 
 before any justice of the peace in the city, designated by the 
 Council. Provided: That police magistrates and police con- 
 stables, when elected under any law of this State, and all jus- 
 tices of the peace designated by the Council, and called upon 
 to act under any ordinance, shall, in addition to the bonu now 
 required by the laws of this State, enter into bond to the City 
 of Bloomington, in such sum as the Council may direct, bind- 
 ing them to make their report, and pay over to the Treasurer 
 all moneys which may come into their hands belonging to the 
 city, and to obey and conform to such police regulations as 
 may be established l>y the Council. 
 
 10. COMPENSATION OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, ETC.] The 
 Mayor and aldermen of said city shall each receive, in tull 
 compensation for their official services, the sum of olio dollar
 
 176 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 per year and no more ; and neither the Mayor or any alder- 
 maiTshall, during his term of office, be appointed to or be com- 
 petent to hold any office of which the emoluments are paid 
 from the city treasury, or paid by fees, directed to be paid by 
 any act or ordinance of the City Council, or be directly or in- 
 directly interested in any contract, the expenses or considera- 
 tion of which are to be paid under any ordinance of the City 
 Council. 
 
 11. PLATS TO BE APPROVED BY COUNCIL.] In all cases 
 when lands in or adjoining said city are hereafter sub-divided 
 and laid out in blocks, lots, sub-lots, streets and alleys, or 
 when new streets or public grounds are donated or granted 
 to the public by any person, the map or plat thereof shall be 
 submitted to the City Council for approval ; if they approve 
 the same, a certificate of such approval shall be endorsed upon 
 such map or plat, signed by the Mayor and certified under the 
 seal of said city, and no such map or plat shall be entitled to 
 record or have any validity until so approved by said Council, 
 and such map or plat when so approved by the City Council 
 shall be deemed legal and valid without the approval of the 
 Board of Supervisors of McLean county, or any other county 
 authorities. 
 
 12. CONSERVATORS OF THE PEACE.] All officers of the 
 city, aldermen included, are 'hereby created conservators of 
 the peace by this act, and shall have power to arrest, or cause 
 to be arrested, with or without process, all persons who shall 
 break, or threaten to break the peace, and if necessary, detain 
 such persons in custody over night in the city jail, or other 
 safe place, and shall have and exercise such other powers a^ 
 conservators of the peace as the Council may prescribe. 
 
 13. CONSTRUCTION OF ACT.] Nothing in this act con- 
 tained shall be construed so as to deprive the Council of said 
 city of any power or authority conferred upon the same, by the 
 act under which said city was incorporated, and the various 
 acts amendatory thereto, but the Council shall possess and en- 
 joy all the powers and authority heretofore conferred upon 
 the same, except so far as such power and authority have been 
 expressly modified or repealed by this act, or the acts hereto- 
 fore mentioned. 
 
 14. ACT DEEMED PUBLIC.] This act shall be deemed a 
 public act, and may be read in evidence without proof, and 
 judicial notice shall be taken thereof in all courts and places. 
 
 15. WHEN IN FORCE;] This act shall take effect and be 
 in force from and after its passage.
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 177 
 
 NUMBER VIII. 
 
 An act to enable the city of Bloomington to issue bonds 
 and levy a tax for the purpose of paying for the grounds 
 recently purchased in said city by the Chicago and Alton 
 Railroad Company, for their Machine Shops. 
 
 [In force March 3, 1869.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Council empowered to issue bonds or levy a tax 
 " 2. When in force. 
 
 WHEREAS, The citizens of the City of Bloomington, in order 
 to induce the Chicago and Alton Railroad Company to erect 
 in said city large and permanent shops, for the purpose of 
 doing the manufacturing and repairing of the machinery for 
 the operation of the said Chicago and Alton railroad, did 
 guarantee to said railroad company that, if said company 
 should purchase within said city the necessary grounds for 
 said purpose, and pay for the same, and erect in said city per- 
 manent shops for said purpose, that the said city would repay 
 to the said company the entire cost of said grounds, together 
 with interest on the same at the rate of ten per cent, per 
 annum, from and after its expenditure, within the period of 
 two years from and after the first day of April, 1868 ; and 
 
 WHEREAS, The said company did purchase and pay for, 
 within said city, grounds for said purpose, at a cost to said 
 company of about $50,000, and have partly erected and have 
 in the course of erection, large, elegant and substantial build- 
 ings, for the purpose of said shops: therefore, 
 
 SECTION 1. COUNCIL EMPOWERED TO ISSUE BONDS OR LEVY A 
 TAX.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
 sented in the General Assembly: That the Mayor and Council 
 of the City of Bloomington, in the county of McLean, in the 
 State of Illinois, be and they are hereby empowered and direct- 
 ed to either issue the bonds of said city, in five equal install- 
 ments, due in one, two, three, four and five years from and 
 after the first day of April, 1869, with interest coupons bonds 
 and coupons payable at the ofiice of the Treasurer of said city, 
 bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, and 
 one-fifth of said bonds to fall due annually to an amount suf- 
 ficient to reimburse said company the entire cost of said 
 ground, together with ten per cent, interest thereon, from and 
 after the same was expended by said company, and to levy a 
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 178 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 tax upon all taxable property in eaid city, sufficient to pay 
 the principal and interest of said bonds, as they severally fall 
 due: or, in their discretion, they may levy a tax at once upon 
 the taxable property of said city, sufficient to reimburse said 
 company for the money expended in the purchase of said 
 ground, and interest on fhe same at the rate of ten per cent, 
 per annum, from and after the time it was so expended by said 
 company ; and they shall either issue said bonds and com- 
 mence the levy of a tax for the payment of the principal 
 and interest on them, as above, or levying the tax for the 
 payment of the entire sum, as above, within six months after 
 the passage of this act. 
 
 2. WHEN IN FORCE.] This act shall be in force from and 
 after its passage, and shall be dqemed and taken in all courts 
 and elsewhere as a public act. 
 
 This bill having been returned by the Governor with objections 
 thereto, and after reconsideration having passed both houses by a con- 
 stitutional majority, it has become a law this third day of March, A. D. 
 1869. EDWABD RUM MEL, 
 
 SECRETARY OF STATE. 
 
 NUMBER IX. 
 An act to amend the charter of the city of Bloomington. 
 
 [In force March 8th, 1869.] 
 
 "13KCTION 1. City Council may license insurance companies, etc, 
 
 " 2. Appeals. 
 
 " 3' Ordinances evidence of. 
 
 " 4. Pay of Mayor and aldermen. 
 
 " 5. Repeal. 
 
 8. Registry when not necessary. 
 
 " 7. Act deemed public. 
 
 SECTION 1. CITY COUNCIL MAY LICENSE INSURANCE COMPAN- 
 PANIES, ETC.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois 
 represented in the General Assembly : That, in addition to the 
 powers conferred upon the City Council of the City of Bloom- 
 ington by the charter of said city, said City Council shall have 
 power by ordinance to license, tax and regulate butchers and 
 dealers in fresh meats, insurance companies and insurance 
 agents. Provided, That when any insurance company shall be 
 required to pay a license for doing business in said city, such 
 company and the agent thereof shall be exempt by reason of 
 the payment of such license from the tax imposed by section 
 two (2), Chapter five (5) of the charter of said city. Said City
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 179 
 
 Council shall also have power to levy and collect annually a 
 tax, not to exceed two (2) mills on the dollar, on all taxable 
 real and personal property in said city to defray the expense 
 ot lighting the streets of said city, in addition to the amount 
 now authorized by the charter of said city, to be levied and 
 collected for that purpose. 
 
 2. APPEALS.] Whenever any appeal shall be taken 
 from the judgment of any justice of the peace or police magis- 
 trate of said city, as provided for in section two (2) of chap- 
 ter six (6), of the charter of said city, either party shall have 
 the right to introduce additional evidence, on the trial of such 
 appeal in the appellate court ; but if no additional evidence 
 shall be produced, then such appeal shall be heard on the bill 
 of exceptions, as provided in said charter. Provided, That the 
 party offering the testimony so preserved in such bill of ex- 
 ceptions, shall have had issued in apt time a subpoena from 
 the appellate court to the sheriff of the county where such 
 cause is pending, for such witness or witnesses. 
 
 3. ORDINANCES, EVIDENCE OF.] All ordinances of said 
 city may be proved by a copy thereof, certified by the Clerk 
 of said city, and the corporate seal thereof, if there be one, or 
 by the record of such ordinance. The publication of any and 
 all ordinances may be proved by the certificate of the publish- 
 ers or one of them, or by the oral testimony of any compe- 
 tent witness ; and when the ordinances of said city shall be 
 printed and published in book or pamphlet form by authority 
 of said City Council, the same shall be received in evidence in 
 in all courts and places without further proof. 
 
 4. PAY OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.] The Mayor of said 
 city shall receive for his services such sum as may be fixed by 
 the City Council of said city, not exceeding the rate of five 
 hundred dollars per annum. Each alderman of said city 
 shall receive for bis services such sum as may be fixed by or- 
 dinance, not exceeding three dollars for each meeting of the 
 City Council of said city, actually attended by him. 
 
 5. REPEAL.] Paragraph seven (7) of chapter five (5), 
 section two (2) of chapter seven (7), and section ten (10) of 
 chapter seven (7), of the charter of said city of Bloomingtun, 
 are hereby repealed, 
 
 6. REGISTRY WHEN NOT NECESSARY.] No registration of 
 voters shall be necessary prior to an election for members of 
 the Board of Education of said city : Provided, no other 
 officer than members of said Board of Education is to be 
 elected at such election. 
 
 7. ACT DEEMED PUBLIC.] This act shall be deemed a 
 public act, and be in force from and after its passage.
 
 180 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 NUMBER X. 
 
 An Act to Authorize the City of Bloomington to issue Bonds 
 for Sewerage. 
 
 [Approved March 31, 1869. In force June 19, 1869.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Issue of bonds authorized. 
 " 2. Sewerage. 
 
 SECTION 1. ISSUE OF BONDS AUTHORIZED.] Be it enacted by 
 the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General 
 Assembly: That the city of Bloomington is hereby authorized 
 to issue bonds, not exceeding in amount the sum of $50,000, 
 and not exceeding in any one year the sum of $10,000, of 
 such denominations as the City Council of said city shall de- 
 termine, to draw interest at a rate not to exceed ten per cent. 
 per annum, payable, annually, at the treasury of said city. 
 Said bonds shall be made redeemable from time to time, as 
 said City Council shall direct, at its treasury in Bloomington : 
 Provided, that the redemption of said bonds shall not be ex- 
 tended longer than twenty years. No bond shall be issued 
 except by special order of the Council of said city, at a regu- 
 lar meeting thereof, to be entered on the records of said Coun- 
 cil. Each bond shall be numbered, signed by the Mayor and 
 Clerk of said city, and have the seal of said city affixed, and 
 be countersigned by the Treasurer of said city. The Clerk and 
 treasurer shall both keep a particular record of the number, 
 denomination, date, and the time when each bond so issued 
 shall be redeemable. 
 
 2. SEWERAGE.] Said bonds shall be sold or negotiated 
 to defray the expenses of a general system of sewerage, which 
 may be adopted and carried out in said city, and for no other 
 purpose ; and no bond or bonds shall be issued till the pro- 
 ceeds thereof shall be needed to pay for materials or labor, or 
 both, then contracted for such sewerage. The proceeds aris- 
 ing from the sale of any of said bonds shall be kept and ac- 
 counted for by the treasurer of said city, separate and inde- 
 pendent from all other funds.
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 181 
 
 NUMBER XL 
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 ..-=/. ,, .-/ State of Illinois 
 
 provide for the incorporation of cities 
 
 ^ulyl?^ ^SSt^^ffgSgJSSj^ <* Bloomln*- 
 
 SECTION l. 
 
 2. 
 
 3. 
 
 4. 
 
 5. 
 " 6. 
 
 7. 
 
 8. 
 
 9. 
 10. 
 11. 
 12. 
 13. 
 14. 
 15. 
 16. 
 17. 
 
 Powers conferred. 
 
 Ordinance for improvement. 
 
 When property is to be taken, etc. 
 
 Petition. 
 
 Form of petition. 
 
 Summons publication notice. 
 
 Hearing jury. 
 
 Jury to ascertain compensation admitting other parties 
 
 Viewing premises ownership, etc. 
 
 Judgment new parties further proceedings 
 
 Powers of court. 
 
 Ownership further powers of court 
 
 Persons under disability. 
 
 Judgment effect appeal, etc. 
 
 Order for possession. 
 
 When improvement made by general tax. 
 
 Special taxation. 
 
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. 
 
 18. How made. 
 
 19. Ordinance for sidewalks owner's rights. 
 
 20. Estimate of cost. 
 
 21. Order for proceedings in court. 
 
 22. Petition to court. 
 
 23. Appointment of commissioners oath. 
 
 24. Duty of commissioners. 
 
 25. (Repealed.) 
 
 26. Assessment roll return of roll, 
 
 27. Notice by mail, posting and publication. 
 
 28. Proof of notice. 
 
 29. Continuance when notice not in time. 
 
 30. Objections judgment by default. 
 
 31. Hearing jury. 
 
 32. Precedence. 
 
 33. Court may modify, etc., the assessment. 
 
 34. Judgment several appeal, etc. lien, 
 
 35. Judgment certified to City Clerk filing warrant. 
 
 36. Form of warrant. 
 
 37. Collector's notice form of. 
 
 38. Manner of collecting entry of payment. 
 
 39. Report of delinquent list to County ^Collector evidence defence. 
 
 40. Application for judgment what laws govern. 
 
 41. heturn of sales redemption. 
 
 42. Penalty when lands paid are sold for tax, etc. 
 
 43. Paying over compensation. 
 
 44. General revenue laws apply. 
 
 45. City or village may buy in. 
 
 46. When assessment set aside new assessment. 
 
 47. Supplemental assessments. 
 
 48. New assessments against delinquents lien limitation. 
 
 49. Contracts payable from assessments. 
 
 50. How contracts let approval. 
 
 51. Lien. 
 
 52. Collection of assessment by suit. 
 
 53. Supplemental petition to assess benefits In condemnation cases. 
 
 54. Adoption of this article. 
 
 SECTION 1. POWERS CONFERRED.] That the corporate 
 authorities of cities and villages are hereby vested with power 
 to make local improvements by special assessment or by spe- 
 cial taxation, or both, of contiguous property, or general tax-
 
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 ation or otherwise, as they shall by ordinance prescribe. [See 
 Const., art. 9, sec. 9 ; " Plats," ch. 109, sec. 1-10. 
 
 2. ORDINANCE FOR IMPROVEMENT.] When any such city 
 or village shall, by ordinance, provide for the making of any 
 local improvement, it shall by the same ordinance, prescribe 
 whether the same shall be made by special assessment or by 
 special taxation of contiguous property, or general taxation, 
 or both. 
 
 3. WHEN PROPERTY is TAKEN, ETC.] Should said ordi- 
 nance provide for improvements which require the taking or 
 damaging of property, the proceeding for making just com- 
 pensation therefor shall be as follows : 
 
 4. PETITIONS.] Whenever any such ordinance shall be 
 passed by the legislative authority of any such city or village, 
 for the making of any improvement mentioned in the first sec- 
 tion of this act, or any other local improvement that such city 
 or village is authorized to make, the making of which will 
 require that private property be taken or damaged for public 
 use, such city or village shall file a petition in some court of 
 record of the county in which such city is situated, in the 
 name of the city, praying that " the just compensation to be 
 made for private property to be taken or damaged for the 
 improvement or purpose specified in such ordinance shall be 
 ascertained by a jury." [See Const, sec. 2, art. 3. 
 
 5. FORM OF PETITION.] Such petition shall contain a copy 
 of the said ordinance, certified by the clerk, under the corpo- 
 porate seal ; a reasonably accurate description of the lots, par- 
 cels of land and property which will be taken or damaged, 
 and the names of the owners and occupants thereof, so far as 
 known to the board or officer filing the petition, and where 
 any known owners are non-residents of the State, stating the 
 fact of such non-residence.\ 
 
 6. SUMMONS PUBLICATION NOTICE.] Upon the filing of 
 the petition aforesaid, a summons, which may be made return- 
 able upon any day in term time, shall be issued and served 
 upon the persons made parties defendant as in cases in chan- 
 cery. And in case any of them are unknown, or reside 
 out of this State, the clerk of the court, upon an affidavit being 
 filed showing such fact, shall cause publication to be made in 
 some newspaper printed in his county, or if there be no news- 
 paper published in his county, then in some newspaper pub- 
 lished in this State, containing notice of the pendency of such 
 proceeding, the parties thereto, the title of the court, and the 
 time and place of the return of the summons in the case and 
 the nature of said proceeding ; such publication to be made
 
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 for four weeks consecutively, at least once in each week, the 
 first of which shall be at least thirty days before the return 
 day of such summons. Notices so given by publication shall 
 be sufficient to authorize the court to hear and determine the 
 suit, as though all parties had been sued by their proper 
 names and had been personally served. [As amended by act 
 approved and in force March 30, 1874. 
 
 7. HEARING JURY.] Upon the return of said summons 
 or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit, 
 the said court shall proceed to the hearing of such petition, 
 and shall impanel a jury to ascertain the just compensation 
 to be paid to all of such owners and occupants aforesaid; but 
 if any defendant or party in interest shall demand, or the court 
 shall deem it proper, separate juries may be impaneled as to 
 the compensation or damages to be paid to any one or more of 
 such defendants or parties in interest. [As amended by act 
 approved and in force March 30, 1874. 
 
 8. JURY TO ASCERTAIN COMPENSATION ADMITTING OTHER 
 PARTIES.] Such jury shall also ascertain the just compensa- 
 tion to be paid to any person claiming an interest in any lot, 
 parcel of land, or property which may be taken or damaged 
 by such improvement, whether or not such person's name, or 
 such lot, parcel of land, or other property, is mentioned or 
 described in such petition : Provided, Such person shall first be 
 admitted as a party defendant to said suit by such court, and 
 shall file a statement of his interest in and description of the 
 lot, parcel of land, or other property, in respect to which he 
 claims compensation. 
 
 9. VIEWING PREMISES OWNERSHIP, ETC.] The court may, 
 upon the motion of such city or village, or of any person 
 claiming any such compensation, direct that said jury (under 
 the charge of an officer of the court) shall view the premises 
 which it is claimed by any party to said proceeding will be 
 taken or damaged by said improvement, and in any case, 
 where there is no satisfactory evidence given to the jury as to 
 the ownership of, or as to the extent of the interest of any de- 
 fendant in the property to-be taken or damaged, the jury may 
 return their verdict as to the compensation or damage to be 
 paid for the property or part of property to be taken or dam- 
 aged, and for the entire interests therein. [As amended by 
 act approved and in force March 30, 1874. 
 
 $ 10 JUDGMENT NEW PARTIES FURTHER PROCEEDINGS.] 
 Upon the return of such verdict the court shall order the same 
 to be recorded, and shall enter such judgment or decree 
 on as the nature of the case may require. The court shall
 
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 continue or adjourn the cause, from time to time, as to all oc- 
 cupants and owners named in such petition who shall not 
 have been served with process, or brought in by publication, 
 and shall order a new summons to issue and new publication 
 to be made ; and upon such occupants or owners being brought 
 into court, shall impanel a jury to ascertain the compensation 
 so to be paid to such defendant or defendants, for private 
 property taken or damaged; and like proceedings shall be had 
 for such purpose as hereinbefore provided for the ascertaining 
 of compensation to other owners. 
 
 11. POWERS OF COURT.] The court shall have power, at 
 any time, upon proof that any such owner or owners named in 
 such petition, who has not been served with process, has 
 ceased to be such owner or owners since the filing of such pe- 
 tition, to impanel a jury and ascertain the just compensation 
 to be made for the property (or the damage thereto) which 
 had been owned by the person or persons so ceasing to own 
 the same ; and the court may, upon any finding or findings of 
 any jury or juries, or at any time during the course of 
 such proceedings, enter such order, rule, judgment or decree, 
 as the nature of the case may require. 
 
 12. OWNERSHIP FURTHER POWERS OF COURT.] No delay 
 in making an assessment of compensation shall be occa- 
 sioned by any doubt or contest which may arise as to the 
 ownership of the property, or any part thereof, or as to the 
 interests of the respective owners or claimants, but in such 
 case the court may impanel a jury and ascertain the entire 
 compensation or damage that should be paid for the property, 
 or part of property, and the entire interests of all parties there- 
 in, and may require adverse claimants to interplead so as to 
 fully determine their rights and interests in the compensation 
 so ascertained. And the court may make such order as may 
 be necessary in regard to the deposit or payment of such com- 
 pensation. 
 
 13. PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY.] When it shall appear 
 from said petition or otherwise, at any time during the pro- 
 ceedings upon such petition, that any infant, or insane or dis- 
 tracted person, is interested in any property that is to be taken 
 or damaged, the court shall appoint a guardian, ad litem, for 
 such infant, or insane or distracted person to appear and de- 
 fend for him, her or them ; and the court shall make such 
 order or decree as it shall deem proper to protect and secure 
 the interest of such infant, or insane or distracted person, in 
 such property, or the compensation which shall be awarded 
 therefor.
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. ]g5 
 
 14. JUDGMENT EFFECT APPEAL, ETC.] Any final judg- 
 ment or judgments rendered by said court, upon any finding 
 or findings of any jury or juries, shall be a lawful and sufficient 
 condemnation of the land or property to be taken upon the 
 payment of the amount of such finding as hereinafter pro- 
 vided. It shall be final and conclusive as to the damages 
 caused by such improvement, unless such judgment or jud-- 
 ments shall be appealed from; but no appeal or writ of error 
 upon the same shall delay proceedings under said ordinance, 
 if such city or village shall deposit, as directed by the court, 
 the amount of the judgment and costs, and shall file a bond 
 in the court in which such judgment was rendered, in a sum 
 to be fixed and with security to be approved by the judge of 
 said court, which shall secure the payment of any future com- 
 pensation which may at that time be finally awarded to such 
 party so appealing or suing out such writ of error, and his or 
 her costs. 
 
 15. ORDER FOR POSSESSION.] The court, upon proof that 
 said just compensation so found by the jury has been paid to 
 the person entitled thereto or has been deposited as directed 
 by the court (and bond given in case of any appeal or writ of 
 error,) shall enter an order that the city or village shall have 
 the right, at any time thereafter, to take possession of or 
 damage the property, in respect to which such compensation 
 shall have been so paid or deposited, as aforesaid. 
 
 16. WHEN IMPROVEMENT MADE BY GENERAL TAX.] When 
 the ordinance under which said improvement is ordered to be 
 made shall provide that such improvement shall be made by 
 general taxation, the cost of such improvement shall be added 
 to the general appropriation bill of such city or village, and 
 shall be levied and collected with and as a part of the general 
 taxes of such city or village. 
 
 17. SPECIAL TAXATION.] When said ordinance under 
 which said local improvement shall be ordered shall provide 
 that such improvement shall be made by special taxation of 
 contiguous property, the same shall be levied, assessed and 
 collected in the way provided in the sections of this act pro- 
 viding for the mode of making, levying, assessing and collect- 
 ing special assessments. 
 
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS. 
 
 18. How MADE.] When the ordinance under which said 
 
 local improvement is ordered to be made shall provide that 
 
 such improvement shall be wholly or in part made by special 
 
 assessment, the proceedings for the making such special asseee- 
 
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 186 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 merits shall be in accordance with the sections of this act (arti- 
 cle) from 18 to 51 inclusive. 
 
 19. ORDINANCE FOR SIDEWALKS OWNER'S RIGHTS.] When- 
 ever such local improvements are to be made wholly or in part 
 by special assessment, the said Council in cities or Board of 
 Trustees in villages, shall pass an ordinance to that effect, 
 specifying therein the nature, character, locality and descrip- 
 tion of sueh improvement : Provided, That whenever any such 
 ordinance shall provide only for the building or renewing of 
 any sidewalk, the owner of any lot or piece of land fronting 
 on such sidewalk shall be allowed fifteen days after the time at 
 which such ordinance shall take effect in \v-hich to build or renew 
 such sidewalk opposite his land, and thereby relieve the same 
 from assessment : Provided, That the work so to be done shall 
 in all respects conform to the requirements of such ordi- 
 nance. 
 
 20. ESTIMATE OF COST.] The City Council or Board of 
 Trustees shall appoint three of its members, or any other three 
 competent persons, who shall make an estimate of the cost of 
 the improvement contemplated by such ordinance, including 
 labor, materials and all other expenses attending the same, 
 and the cost of making and levying the assessment, and shall 
 report the same in writing to said Council or Board of Trustees. 
 
 21. ORDER FOR PROCEEDINGS IN COURT.] On such report 
 being made, and approved by the Council or Board of Trustees, 
 as the case may be, it may order a petition to be filed by such 
 officer as it shall direct, in the county court of its county, for 
 proceedings to assess the cost of such improvement in the 
 manner provided in this act. 
 
 22. PETITION TO COURT.] The petition shall be in the 
 name of the corporation, and shall recite the ordinance for the 
 proposed improvement and the report of such commission, 
 and shall pray that the cost of such improvement may be 
 assessed in the manner prescribed by law. 
 
 23. APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS OATH.] Upon the 
 filing of such petition the court shall appoint three competent 
 persona as commissioners, who shall take and subscribe an 
 oath, in substance as follows, to-wit ; 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, \ 
 
 COUNTY. / ss> 
 
 We, the undersigned, commissioners appointed by the 
 
 county court of county, to assess the cost of 
 
 (here state in general terms the improvement) do solemnly 
 swear (or affirm as the case may be) that we will a true and
 
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 impartial assessment make of the cost of said improvement upon 
 
 the city (or village) of , and the property benefited by 
 
 such improvement to the best of our ability, and according to 
 law. 
 
 24. DUTY OF COMMISSIONERS.] It shall be the duty of 
 such commissioners to examine the locality where the im- 
 provement is proposed to be made, and the lots, blocks, tracts 
 and parcels of land that will be specially benefited thereby, 
 and to estimate what proportion of the total cost of such im- 
 provement will be of benefit to the public, and what propor- 
 tion thereof will be of benefit to the property to be benefited, 
 and apportion the same between the city or village and such 
 property, so that each shall bear its relative equitable propor- 
 tion ; and having found said amounts, to apportion and assess 
 the amount so found to be of benefit to the property upon the 
 several lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land in the proportion 
 in which they will be severally benefited by such improve- 
 ment ; Provided, That no lot, block, tract or parcel of land 
 shall be assessed a greater amount than it will be actually ben- 
 efited ; And provided, further, that it shall not be necessary for 
 said commissioners to examine the locality except where the 
 ordinance provides for the opening, widening or improvement 
 of streets and alleys. [As amended by act approved and in 
 force March 30, 1874. 
 
 25. (Repealed by act approved April 25, 1873.) 
 
 26. ASSESSMENT ROLL RETURN.] They shall also make 
 or cause to be made an assessment roll, in which shall appear 
 the names of the owners, so far as known, a description of each 
 lot, block, tract or parcel of land, and the amounts assessed as 
 special benefits thereto, and in which they shall set down as 
 against the city or village the amount they shall have found 
 as public benefit, and certify such assessment roll to the court 
 by which they were appointed, at least ten days before the 
 first day of the term at which a final hearing thereon shall be 
 had. [As amended by act approved and in force March 30, 
 1874. 
 
 27. NOTICE BY MAIL, POSTING AND PUBLICATION.] It shall 
 also be the duty of such commissioners to give notice of such 
 assessment, and of the term of court at which a final hearing 
 thereon will be had, in the following manner : 
 
 First They shall send by mail to each owner of premises 
 assessed, whose name and place of residence is known to them, 
 a notice substantially in the following form : 
 
 Mr. , your (here give a short description of the 
 
 premises) is assessed $ for public improvement. The
 
 188 ACTS OP INCORPORATION. 
 
 asssessmeut roll will be returned to the term of the 
 
 county court of county, , 
 
 5 
 
 (Here give date.) , 
 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Second They shall cause at least ten days' notice to be 
 given, by posting notices in at least four public places, in such 
 city or village, two of which shall be in the neighborhood of 
 such proposed improvement ; and when a daily newspaper is 
 published in such city or village, by publishing the same at 
 least five successive days in such daily newspaper, or if no 
 daily newspaper is published in such city or village, and a 
 weekly newspaper is published therein, then at least once in 
 each week, for two successive weeks, in such weekly newspa- 
 per, or if no daily or weekly newspaper is published in such 
 city or village, then in a newspaper published in the county in 
 which such city or village is situated. The notice may be 
 substantially as follows : 
 
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE. 
 
 Notice is hereby given to all persons interested, that the 
 City Council (or board of trustees, as the case may be,) of 
 
 , having ordered that (here insert the description and 
 
 nature of improvements substantially as in ordinance,) have 
 applied to the County Court of county for an assess- 
 ment of the cost of said improvements, according to bene- 
 fits ; and an assessment thereof having been made and re- 
 turned to said court, the final hearing thereon will be had at 
 
 the term of said court, commencing on the day 
 
 of A. D. 18 . All persons desiring may then and 
 
 there appear and make their defense. 
 
 (Here give date.) 
 
 Commissioners. 
 
 [As amended by act approved April 25, 1873; in force 
 July 1, 1873. 
 
 28 ; PfiaoF OF NOTICE.] On, or before the final hearing, 
 the affidavit of one or more of the commissioners, shall be 
 filed in said court, stating that they have sent, or caused to be 
 sent by mail, to the owners whose premises have been as- 
 sessed, and whose name and place of residence are known to 
 them, the notice herein before required to be sent by mail to 
 owners of premises assessed. They shall also cause to be 
 tiled the affidavit of the person who shall have posted the
 
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 notices required by this act to be posted, setting forth when 
 and in what manner the same were posted. Such affidavits 
 shall be received as prima facie evidence of a compliance with 
 this act in regard to giving such notices. They shall also tile 
 a certificate of publication of said notice in like manner as is 
 required in other cases of publication of notices. [As 
 amended by act approved April 25,1873; in force July 1,1873. 
 
 29. CONTINUANCE WHEN NOTICE NOT IN TIME.] If ten days 
 shall not have elapsed between the first publication, or the 
 putting up of such notices, and the first day of the next 
 term of such court, the hearing shall be continued until the 
 next term of court. 
 
 30. OBJECTIONS JUDGMENT BY DEFAULT.] Any person 
 interested in any real estate to be affected by such assess- 
 ment, may appear and file objections to such report, and the 
 court may make such order in regard to the time of filing 
 such objections as may be made in cases at law in regard to 
 the time of filing pleas. As to all lots, blocks, tracts and 
 parcels of land to the assessment of which objections are not 
 filed within the time ordered by the court, default may be 
 entered, and the assessment confirmed by the court. 
 
 31. HEARING JURY.] On the hearing, the report of the 
 commissioners shall be competent evidence, and either party 
 may introduce such other evidence as may tend to establish 
 the right of the matter. The hearing shall be conducted as 
 in other cases at law, and if it shall appear that the premises 
 of the objector are assessed more or less than they will be 
 benefited, or more or less than their proportionate share of 
 the cost of the improvement, the jury shall so find, and also 
 find the amount for which such premises ought to be as- 
 sessed, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly. 
 
 32. PRECEDENCE.] The hearing, in all cases, arising 
 under this act, shall have precedence over all other cases in 
 such court, except criminal cases. 
 
 33. COURT MAY MODIFY, ETC., THE ASSESSMENT.] The court 
 before which any such proceeding may be pending, shall have 
 authority, at any time before final adjournment [judgment] to 
 modify, alter, change, annul or confirm any assessment re- 
 turned, as aforesaid, or cause any such assessment to be re- 
 cast by the same commissioners whenever it shall be neces- 
 sary for the attainment of justice, or may appoint other com- 
 missioners in the place of all or any of the commissioners first 
 appointed, for the purpose of making such assessment, or 
 modifying, altering, changing or recasting the same, and may 
 take all such proceedings and make all such orders as may be
 
 190 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 necessary to make a true and just assessment of the cost of 
 such improvement according to the principles of this act, and 
 may, from time to time, as may be necessary, continue the ap- 
 plication for that purpose as to the whole, or any part of the 
 premises. 
 
 34. JUDGMENT SEVERAL APPEAL, ETC. LIEN.] The judg- 
 ment of the court shall have the effect of a several judgment 
 as to each tract or parcel of land assessed, and any appeal 
 from such judgment, or writ of error, shall not invalidate or 
 delay the judgment, except as to the property concerning 
 which the appeal, or writ of error, is taken. Such judgment 
 shall be a lien upon the property assessed, from the date 
 thereof, until payment shall be made. 
 
 35. JUDGMENT CERTIFIED TO CITY CLERK FILING WAR- 
 RANT.] The clerk of the court in which such judgment is ren- 
 dered shall certify the assessment roll and judgment to the 
 clerk of such city or village, or if there has been an appeal or 
 writ of error taken on any part of such judgment, then he 
 shall certify such part of the judgment as is not included in 
 such appeal or writ of error. The clerk of the city or village 
 shall file such certificate in his office, and issue a warrant for 
 the collection of such assessment. 
 
 36. FORM OF WARRANT.! The warrant in all cases of 
 assessment under this act shall contain a copy of such certifi- 
 cate of the judgment, describing the lots, blocks, tracts or par- 
 cels of land assessed and the respective amounts assessed on 
 each lot, block, tract or parcel of land, and shall be delivered to 
 the officer authorized to collect such special assessments. 
 Such warrant shall give sufficient authority to collect the as- 
 sessments therein specified. 
 
 37. COLLECTOR'S NOTICE FORM OF,] The collector re- 
 ceiving such warrant shall immediately give notice thereof by 
 publishing such notice in one or more newspapers in such city 
 or village, if such newspaper is there ; and if there is no such 
 newspaper, then by posting four copies thereof in public 
 places along the line of the proposed improvement. Such 
 notice may be substantially in the following form : 
 
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE. SPECIAL WARRANT NO. 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that the (here insert title of 
 court) has rendered judgment for a special assessment upon 
 property benefited by the following improvement (here insert 
 the character and location of the improvement in general 
 terms) aa will more fully appear from the certified copy of the 
 judgment on file in the office of the clerk of the city (or vil-
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 191 
 
 lage) of ; that a warrant for the collection of such 
 
 assessment is in the hand* of the undersigned. All persons 
 interested are hereby notified to call and pay the amounts 
 assessed at the collector's office, (here insert location of office) 
 within thirty days from the date hereof. 
 Dated this day of , A. D. 18 
 
 Collector. 
 
 38. MANNER or COLLECTING ENTRY OF PAYMENT.] It 
 shall be the duty of the collector into whose hands the war- 
 rants shall so come, as far as practicable, to call upon all per- 
 sons resident within the corporation whose names appear on 
 the assessment roll, or the occupants of the property assessed, 
 and personally or by written or printed notice left at his or 
 her usual place of abode, inform them of such assessment, and 
 request payment of the same. Any such collector omitting so 
 to do shall be liable to a penalty of $10 for every such omission, 
 but the validity of the special assessment, or the right to apply 
 for and obtain judgment for any such special [assessment] 
 shall not be affected by such omission. It shall be the duty of 
 such collector to write the word " paid " opposite each tract 
 or lot on which the assessment is paid, together with the 
 name and post-office address of the person making the pay- 
 ment, and date of payment. 
 
 39. REPORT OF 'DELINQUENT LIST TO COUNTY COLLECTOR- 
 EVIDENCE DEFENSE.] It shall be the duty of the collector of 
 special assessments, within such time as the City Council or 
 Board of Trustees may by ordinance provide, to make a re- 
 port in writing to the general officer of the county author- 
 ized or to be designated by the general revenue law of ^this 
 State, to apply for judgment and sell lands for taxes due* the 
 county and State of all the lands, town lots and real property 
 on which he shall have been unable to collect special assess- 
 ments, with the amount of special assessments due and unpaid 
 thereon, together with his warrant, or with a brief description 
 of the nature of the warrant or warrants received by him 
 authorising the collection thereof; which report shaH be ac- 
 companied" with the oath of the collector that the list is a cor- 
 rect return and report of the lands, town lots and real prop- 
 erty on which the special assessments levied by authority of 
 
 the city of (or village of , as the case may 
 
 be,) remain due and unpaid ; that he is unable to collect 
 same or any part thereof, and that he has given the notice r 
 quired by law that said warrants had b< IMI received by bin 
 for collection. Said report, when so made, shall be pnm<i j>;
 
 192 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 evidence that all the forms and requirements of the law in 
 relation to making said return have been complied with, and 
 that the special assessments mentioned in said report are due 
 andunpaid. And, upon the application for judgment upon such 
 assessment, no defense or objection shall be made or heard 
 which might have been interposed in the proceeding for the 
 making of such assessment, or the application for the con- 
 firmation thereof. 
 
 40. APPLICATION FOR JUDGMENT WHAT LAWS GOVERN.] 
 When said general officer shall receive the report provided 
 for in the preceding section, he shall at once proceed to obtain 
 judgment against said lots, parcels of land and property for 
 said special assessments remaining due and unpaid, in the 
 same manner as is or may be by law provided for obtaining 
 judgment against lands for taxes due and nnpaid the county 
 and State ; and shall in the same manner proceed to sell the 
 same for the said special assessments remaining due and un- 
 paid. In obtaining said judgment and making said sale, the 
 said officer shall be governed by the general revenue laws of 
 this State, except when otherwise provided herein. [See 
 " Revenue," ch. 120, sec. 182 seq. 
 
 41. RETURN OF SALES REDEMPTION.] After making said 
 sales, the list of lots, parcels of land and property sold thereat, 
 shall be returned to the office of the County Clerk, and re- 
 demption mav be made as provided for by the general revenue 
 law of this S"tate. [See " Revenue," ch. 120, sec. 210-215. 
 
 42. PENALTY WHEN LANDS PAID ARE SOLD FOR TAX, ETC.] 
 If the collector shall receive any moneys for taxes or assess- 
 ments, giving a receipt therefor, for any land or parcel of 
 land, and afterwards return the same as unpaid to the State 
 officers authorized to sell lands for taxes, or shall receive the 
 same after making such return, and the same be sold for tax 
 or assessment which has been so paid and receipted for by 
 himself or his clerks, he and his bond shall be liable to the 
 holder of the certificate given to the purchasers at the sale, for 
 double the amount of the face of the certificate, to be demand- 
 ed in two years from the date of the sale, and recovered in 
 any court having jurisdiction of the amount; and the city or 
 village shall, in no case, be liable to the holder of such certifi- 
 cate. 
 
 43. PAYING OVER COMPENSATION.] The collector or col- 
 lectors, and the general officer aforesaid to whom the said 
 warrant shall be returned, shall pay over to the city or village 
 treasurer to which it shall belong all moneys collected by 
 them, respectively, upon or by virtue of such warrant, or upon
 
 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. ]93 
 
 any sale for taxes or otherwise, at such time or times, and in 
 such manner as shall be prescribed by ordinance, and shall be 
 allowed such compensation for their services in the collection 
 of such assessment as the ordinances of the city or village 
 may provide, except when such compensation is fixed by gen- 
 eral law. 
 
 44. GENERAL REVENUE LAWS APPLY.] The general rev- 
 enue laws of this State, in reference to proceedings to recover 
 judgments for delinquent taxes, the sale of property thereon, 
 the execution of certificates of sale and deeds thereon, the force 
 and effect of such sales and deeds, and all other laws in rela- 
 tion to the enforcement and collection of taxes and redemption 
 from tax sales, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be 
 applicable to proceedings to collect such special assessment. 
 [See " Revenue," ch. 120, sec. 191-225. 
 
 45. CITY OR VILLAGE MAY BUY IN.] Any city or village 
 interested in the collection of any tax or special assessment, 
 may become a purchaser at any sale of any real or personal 
 property to enforce the collection of the same, and may, by 
 ordinance, authorize and make it the duty of one or more city 
 or village officers to attend such sales, and bid thereat in be- 
 half of the corporation. 
 
 46. WHEN ASSESSMENT SET ASIDE NEW ASSESSMENT.] If 
 any assessment shall be annulled by the City Council or Board 
 of Trustees, or set aside by any court, a new assessment may 
 be made and returned, and like notice given and proceedings 
 had, as herein required in relation to the first ; and all parties 
 in interest shall have the like rights, and the City Council or 
 Board of Trustees and court shall perform like duties and 
 have like power in relation to any subsequent assessment, as 
 are hereby given in relation to the first assessment. 
 
 47. SUPPLEMENTAL ASSESSMENTS.] If, in any case, the 
 first assessment prove insufficient, a second may be made, in 
 the same manner, as nearly as may be, and so on, until 
 sufficient moneys shall have been realized to pay for such 
 public improvement. If too large a sum shall, at any time, 
 be raised, the excess shall be refunded ratably to those by 
 whom it was' paid. 
 
 48. NEW ASSESSMENTS AGAINST DELINQUENTS LIEN LIMI- 
 TATION.] If, from any cause, any city or village shall fail to 
 collect, the whole or any portion of any special assessment 
 which may be levied, which shall not be canceled and set aside 
 by the order of any court, for any public improvement 
 authorized to be made and paid for by special assessment, the 
 City Council, or board of trustees, may, at any time, within 
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 194 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 five years after the confirmation of the original assessment, 
 direct a new assessment, to be made upon the delinquent 
 property for the amount of such deficiency, and interest 
 thereon from the date of such original assessment which as- 
 sessment shall be made, as near as may be, in the same man- 
 ner as is herein prescribed for the first assessment. In all 
 cases where partial payment shall have been made on such 
 former assessment, they shall be credited or allowed on the 
 new assessment to the property for which they were made, so 
 that the assessment shall be equal and impartial in its results. 
 If such new assessment prove ineffectual, either in whole 
 or in part, the City Council, or board of trustees, may, at any 
 time within said period of five years, order a third, and so on, 
 to be levied in the same manner, and for the same purpose ; 
 and it shall constitute no legal objection to such assessment 
 that the property may have changed hands, or been encum- 
 bered, subsequent to the date of the original assessment, it 
 being the true intent and meaning of this section to make the 
 cost and expense of all public improvements, to be paid for by 
 a special assessment, a charge upon the property assessed 
 therefor, for the full period of five years, from the confirma- 
 tion of the original assessment, and for such large period as 
 may be required to collect in due course of law any new as- 
 sessment ordered within that period. 
 
 49. CONTRACTS PAYABLE FROM ASSESSMENTS.] All per- 
 sons taking any contracts with the city or village, and who 
 agree to be paid from special assessments, shall have no claim 
 or lien upon the city or village in any event, except from the 
 collections of the special assessments made for the work con- 
 tracted for. 
 
 50. How CONTRACTS LET APPROVAL.] All contracts for 
 the making of any public improvement, to be paid for in 
 whole, or in part, by a special assessment, and any work or 
 other public improvement, when the expense thereof shall 
 exceed $500, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, in 
 the manner to be prescribed by ordinance such contracts to 
 be approved by the Mayor or president of the boa; d of trus- 
 tees: Provided, however, any such contract may be entered 
 into by the proper officer without advertising for bids, and 
 without such approval, by a vote of two-thirds of all the 
 aldermen or trustees elected. 
 
 51. LIEN.] All special assessments levied by any city 
 or village under this act, shall, from the date of assessment, 
 be a lien upon the real estate upon which the same may be 
 imposed, and auch lien shall continue until such special as-
 
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 sessments are paid. And the same proceedings may be re- 
 sorted to by the collector, upon any warrant or order issued 
 or made for the collection of special assessments, as in the 
 case of the collection of state and county taxes under the gen- 
 eral laws of the state. 
 
 52. COLLECTION BY SUIT.] At any time after the same 
 becomes due, it shall, and may be, lawful for any collector 
 thereof to commence suit in any court of record, in the cor- 
 porate name of such city or village, against any person or 
 persons, for the total amount of special assessments which 
 such person or persons, are liable for the payment of. 
 Such suit shall be commenced by petition, and shall state 
 the several amounts of the special assessments sought to 
 be recovered, and give a general description of the war- 
 rant or warrants issued for the collection thereof. Upon 
 the filing of the petition a summons shall be issued, served 
 and returned as in other suits in such court. Upon the re- 
 turn of such summons, duly served, the court shall forthwith 
 proceed to the hearing of said petition without formal plead- 
 ings, and may render judgment for all, or any part, of the 
 special assessments, as the right and justice of the case may 
 require. The original, or a certified copy (by the clerk, under 
 the corporate seal,) of such warrant or warrants and list or 
 lists, or so much thereof as refers to the special assessments 
 sought to be recovered, shall be prima facie evidence of the 
 right of said collector to a judgment in favor of such corpo- 
 ration. Execution shall issue on such judgment, as in other 
 cases, but such execution may be first levied upon and col- 
 lected from any personal property of the defendant ; or the 
 court, in which such proceedings were had, may, upon com- 
 plaint of the city or village, issue a scire facias against the per- 
 son or persons liable for such payment, to show cause why 
 execution should not issue against him or them for the 
 amount of such assessment; and if, upon the return of such 
 scire facias, good cause is not shown why execution should not 
 issue, the court may award execution against such person or 
 persons in the usual form of execution upon judgments at 
 law. 
 
 53. SUPPLEMENTAL PETITION TO ASSESS BENEFITS IN CON- 
 DEMNATION CASE.] "Whenever any city or village shall apply 
 to any court for the purpose of making just compensation for 
 property taken or damaged by such proceedings as are author- 
 ized by this act, such city or village may file in the same pro- 
 ceeding a supplemental petition, praying the court to cause 
 that an assessment be made for the purpose of raising the
 
 196 ACTS OF INCORPORATION. 
 
 amount necessary to pay the compensation and damages which 
 may be, or shall have been, awarded for the property taken or 
 damaged, with the costs of the proceeding. The said court 
 shall have power, at any time after any such supplemental pe- 
 tition shall have been filed, to appoint three commissioners to 
 make such assessment, and to ascertain, as near as may be, 
 the costs incurred to the time of such appointment, and the 
 probable furthercosts of the proceedings, including therein the 
 estimated costs of making and collecting such assessment, 
 and shall direct such costs to be included by such commission- 
 ers in making said assessment. Like proceedings in making 
 said assessment shall be had, and the assessment shall be 
 made, collected and enforced in the same manner, as near as 
 may be, as is provided in this article in other cases. [As 
 amended by act approved and in force March 30, 1834. 
 
 54. ADOPTION OF THIS ARTICLE.] Any city or incorpo- 
 rated town or village may, if it shall so determine by ordi- 
 nance, adopt the provisions ol this article without adopting 
 the whole of this act ; and where it shall have so adopted this 
 article, it shall have the right to take all proceedings in this 
 article provided for, and have the benefit of all the provis- 
 ions hereof.
 
 PART III.
 
 OTHER LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY 
 OF BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 ANNEXING AND EXCLUDING TERRITORY. 
 
 An Act to Provide for Annexing and Excluding Territory 
 to and from Cities, Towns and Villages, and to unite 
 Cities, Towns and Villages. 
 
 [Approved April 10, 1872. In force July 1, 1872. J 
 
 SECTION 1. Petition to be annexed annexing. 
 
 2. Annexing one corporation to another. 
 
 3. Proceedings by corporation to annex territory. 
 
 4. Notice of proceedings. 
 
 5. Objections to annexation trial. 
 
 6. Finding costs, etc. 
 
 7 Proceedings by owner to be annexed. 
 
 8. Proceedings to disconnect. 
 
 9. Map and ordinance recorded. 
 
 10. School districts. 
 
 11. Judicial notice. 
 
 SECTION 1. PETITION TO BE ANNEXED.] Be it enacted by the 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : 
 That on petition, in writing, signed by not less than three- 
 fourths of the legal voters, and by the owners of not less than 
 three-fourths (in value) of the property in any territory con- 
 tiguous to any city or incorporated village or town, and not 
 embraced within its limits, the City Council or board of trus- 
 tees of said city, village or town (as the case may be) may, by 
 ordinance, annex such territory to such city, village or town, 
 upon filing a copy of such ordinance, with an accurate map 
 of the territory annexed (duly certified by the Mayor of the 
 citv or president of the board of trustees of the village or 
 town), in the office of the recorder of deeds in the county 
 where the annexed territory is situated, and having the same 
 recorded therein : Provided^ that no portion, less than the
 
 200 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 whole of an incorporated city, town or village, shall be an- 
 nexed to another incorporated city, town or village, except in 
 the mode provided in this act for the annexation of the whole 
 of an incorporated city, town or village, to another city, town 
 or village. 
 
 2. ANNEXING ONE CORPORATION TO ANOTHER.] Any incor- 
 porated city, village or town may be annexed to another in- 
 corporated city, village or town, by ordinance passed by a 
 two-thirds vote of all the aldermen or trustees elect of each 
 corporation desiring annexation: Provided, such annexation 
 shall not affect or impair any rights or liabilities either in 
 favor of or against such corporations ; and suits founded upon 
 such rights and liabilities may be commenced, and pending 
 suits may be prosecuted and carried to final judgments and 
 execution, the same as if such annexation had not taken place. 
 In making such annexation, the corporations so uniting may, 
 by ordinance, fix the terms of the annexation, which shall 
 have the force and effect of a binding contract : Provided, how- 
 ever, that no such ordinance shall be of any binding force or 
 effect until submitted to a vote of the legal voters of such 
 city, town or village, at a general election thereof, and adopted 
 by a majority of all the voters voting thereon at such election, 
 notice of which shall be given at the same time and in the 
 same manner as required for the election of the officers of such 
 city, town or village : And provided, also, that the vote shall be 
 by ballot, which shall be " for union ordinance," or " against 
 union ordinance," and shall be received, canvassed and re- 
 turned the same as ballots for municipal officers of such city, 
 town or village. 
 
 3. PROCEEDINGS BY CORPORATION TO ANNEX TERRITORY.] 
 When any incorporated city, village or town shall desire to 
 annex any contiguous territory thereto, and the same shall not 
 have been petitioned f<r as provided in section one of this 
 article, it shall be lawful for the City Council or board of 
 trustees of such city, village or town, by a two-thirds vote of 
 all the aldermen or trustees elect, by ordinance or resolution, 
 to authorize the Mayor of such city or the president of the 
 board of trustees of such village or town, to petition the Cir- 
 cuit Court of the county in which the territor}' desired to be 
 annexed or a major part thereof is situated, praying such an- 
 nexation to be made. The petition shall contain a copy of 
 such ordinance or resolution, and an accurate map of the ter- 
 ritory which it is desired to annex, showing all such sub- 
 divisions that shall have been made therein. Such petition 
 shall be filed with the clerk of the court at least ten days be-
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 201 
 
 fore the first day of the term at which it is proposed to be 
 heard : Provided, that nothing in this section contained shall 
 authorize said petition to he filed unless the territory so sought 
 to be annexed (except territory intervening between a city and 
 town, or two or more cities or towns, desiring to becon it- 
 united under this act,) shall contain an actual resident popu- 
 lation of at least one hundred and fifty inhabitants to each 
 section or fractional part of a section so sought to be annexed 
 which said fact shall be alleged in said petition and proved 
 on the hearing thereof, the same as any other allegation in 
 said petition. 
 
 4. NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS.] When it shall be deter- 
 mined to present such petition, the Mayor or president of the 
 board of trustees (as the case may be) shall cause notice of 
 the time and place where and when the petition will be or has 
 been filed, and at what term of court the hearing thereof will 
 be had, and setting forth the boundaries or a general descrip- 
 tion of the territory proposed to be annexed to be given by 
 publication at least once in each week, for two successive 
 weeks, in some newspaper published in the county where the 
 petition is filed or to be filed (or, if no newspaper is published 
 in such county, then in the nearest newspaper published in 
 this state), and by posting up notices at least fourteen days 
 before such time of hearing, in at least three of the most pub- 
 lic places in the territory proposed to be annexed, and a like 
 number in the city, village or town to which it is desired to 
 annex such territory. 
 
 5. OBJECTIONS TO ANNEXATION TRIAL.] The legal voters 
 resident upon the territory thus proposed to be annexed, or 
 any of them, or any owner of land therein, or any voter of 
 such city, village or town, may appear at such hearing and 
 show cause why such annexation should not be made ; and the 
 court, or a jury impaneled for that purpose (no member of the 
 jury so impaneled shall be a resident of the corporation or 
 territory to be annexed, nor of the town or towns in which 
 said corporation or territory may be situated,) shall hear all 
 competent evidence that may be offered by either party ; and 
 the court ma\ continue the hearing from time to time, for any 
 cause, and make all proper orders in regard to the hearing, 
 giving of notices and other disposition of the case. 
 ' 6. FINDING COSTS, ETC.] If, upon the hearing, the court 
 or the jury shall find that such territory ought to be annexed 
 to such city, village or town, and can be so done without in- 
 justice to the inhabitants or persons interested, the court shall 
 so order. If the court or jury shall find against the petition- 
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 202 IAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 ers, the petition shall be dismissed at the cost of the petition- 
 ers ; and no subsequent petition shall be presented for the 
 annexation of any of the territory embraced in such petition, 
 within one year from the time of entering such order : Pro- 
 vided, that new trials may be granted as in other jury cases. 
 
 7. PROCEEDINGS BY OWNER TO BE ANNEXED.] When not 
 less than a majority in number of the legal voters or the 
 owner or owners of "any tract or tracts of land, contiguous to 
 any incorporated city, Tillage or town, shall, by petition, in 
 writing, signed by them, an(i filed in the Circuit Court of the 
 county where such territory or a major part thereof is situ- 
 ated, pray to be annexed to such city, village or town, the like 
 proceedings may be had thereon, and with the like effect, as 
 in case of a petition by a city, village or town : Provided, a 
 copy of the notice required to be given shall be left with the 
 Mayor of such city, or president of such village or town, at 
 least ten days before such petition is heard. 
 
 8. PROCEEDINGS TO DISCONNECT.] Whenever a majority 
 of the legal voters of any territory within any city, town or 
 village, and being upon the border and within the boundary 
 thereof, shall petition the Circuit Court of the county in 
 which such city, town or village is situated, praying to be dis- 
 connected therefrom, such petition shall be filed with the 
 clerk of the court at least ten days before the first day of the 
 term at which it is proposed to be heard, and like proceed- 
 ings shall be had as is required by sections four, five and six 
 of the act for the annexation of territory to such city, town or 
 village : Provided, that the provision of this section shall only 
 apply to lands not laid out into city or town lots or blocks. 
 
 9. MAP AND ORDINANCE RECORDED.] When any territory 
 is annexed to any city, village or town, as provided in this 
 act, it shall be the duty of the Mayor of the city, or the pres- 
 ident of the board of trustees of the village or town, (as the 
 case may be,) to cause an accurate map of such added terri- 
 tory, together with the ordinance for the annexation, certified 
 by such Mayor, and if a decree or order of the court has been 
 made therefor, a copy of the same, to be filed for record and 
 recorded in the recorder's office for the county in which such 
 added territory is situated. If territory is disconnected or 
 excluded from any city, village or town, a copy of the ordi- 
 nance or decree therefor shall be so filed for record and re- 
 corded. 
 
 10. SCHOOL DISTRICTS.] All school districts, and other 
 corporations incorporated for school purposes, under special 
 acts of the legislature, desiring to annex or disannex territory,
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 203 
 
 may proceed under the provisions of this act. [See " Schools," 
 en. 1 , oo. 
 
 11. JUDICIAL NOTICE.] All courts in this state shall take 
 judicial notice of cities, towns and villages, and of the changes 
 of their territory, made under the provisions of this act. 
 
 APPOINTMENT AND BEMOVAL OF CITY OFFICERS. 
 
 An act concerning tine Appointment and Removal of City 
 Officers in all cities in this State, conferring additional 
 powers and duties upon Mayors, and concerning Appro- 
 priation Bills or Ordinances that may be passed in such 
 cities. 
 
 [Approved and in force April 10, 1875.J 
 
 SECTION 1. Appointment and removal of city officers. 
 
 2. Approval and veto power of Mayor. 
 
 3. Pastage over Mayor's veto. 
 
 4. Emergency. 
 
 SECTION 1. APPOINTMENT AND REMOVAL OF CITY OFFICERS.] 
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the 
 General Assembly: In all the cities of this State, the mayors 
 thereof shall have power to appoint all city officers, (whose 
 election by the voters of such city is not provided by law), by 
 and with the consent of the city council, (or in case the legis- 
 lative authority consists of two houses, then by and with the 
 consent of the board of councilinen,) by a vote of the majority 
 of all its members authorized by law to be elected, to be taken 
 by yeas and nays, and entered upon its records. And the 
 Mayor shall also have power to remove any officer so appoint- 
 ed whenever, in his opinion, the interests of the city requires 
 such removal ; he shall report such removal, with his reasons 
 therefor, to the council, (or in case the legislative authority 
 consists of two houses, then to the board of councilmeu,) at 
 its next regular meeting; and if the council by a two-thirds 
 vote shall, (or if the board of councilmen shall by a majority 
 vote) of all its members authorized by law to be elected, by 
 yeas and nays, to be entered upon its record, disapprove of 
 such removal, such officer shall thereby become restored to 
 the office from which he was so removed ; but he shall give 
 new bonds and take a new oath of office. The Mayor may 
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 204 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 from which he shall have removed any officer, until his suc- 
 cessor is appointed and qualified, or such officer restored to 
 office in the manner aforesaid. 
 
 2. APPROVAL AND VETO POWER OF MAYOR.] All ordinances 
 passed by the City Council shall, before they take effect, be 
 deposited in the office of the city clerk, and if the Mayor ap- 
 proves thereof, he shall sign the same, and such as he shall 
 not approve he shall return to the Council, with his objections 
 thereto, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the Council 
 occurring not less than five days after the passage thereof. 
 Snch veto may extend to any one or more items or appropria- 
 tions contained in any ordinance, and in case the veto only ex- 
 tends to a part of such ordinance, the residue thereof shall take 
 effect and be in force ; but in case the Mayor shall fail to re- 
 turn any ordinance with his objections thereto, by the time 
 aforesaid, he shall be deemed to have approved such ordinance, 
 and the same shall take effect accordingly. 
 
 3. PASSAGE OVER MAYOR'S VETO.] Upon the return of any 
 ordinance by the Mayor, the vote by which the same was 
 passed shall be reconsidered by the Council ; and if, after such 
 reconsideration, two-thirds of all the members elected to the 
 City Council shall agree, by yeas and nays, to pass the same, 
 it shall go into effect, notwithstanding the Mayor may refuse 
 to approve thereof. The vote to pass the same over the 
 Mayor's veto shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered on 
 the journal. 
 
 4. EMERGENCY.] Whereas the legislative authorities in 
 many cities pass their appropriation bills before the first day 
 of July next, and Mayors h.ave no power to veto a part of such 
 appropriation or ordinance, wherefore an emergency exists ; 
 therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and 
 after its passage.
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 205 
 
 APPORTIONMENT OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS PAYABLE 
 IN INSTALLMENTS. 
 
 An act concerning the Apportionment of Special Assess- 
 ments payable in installments. 
 
 [Approved April 13, 1875. In force July 1, 1875.] 
 SECTION l. Apportionment of special assessments payable la installments. 
 
 SECTION 1. APPORTIONMENT OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS PAYABLE 
 IN INSTALLMENTS.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of 
 Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : That in all cases 
 where any special assessment, payable in installments, has 
 been, or hereafter shall be made by any corporate authority, for 
 supplying water or other corporate purpose, and the owner or 
 owners of any lot, block or parcel of land so assessed, or some 
 of them, shall desire to sub-divide the same, and to apportion 
 such assessment and the several installments thereof in such 
 manner that each parcel of such proposed sub-division shall 
 bear its just and equitable proportion thereof, the same may 
 be done in the manner following, to-wit : The owner or 
 owners of such lot, block, or parcel of land shall present to such 
 corporate authority a petition, setting forth : 
 
 1. The descriptive character of the assessment and the date 
 of the confirmation of the same. 
 
 2. The names of the owners. 
 
 3. A description of the land proposed to be sub-divided, 
 together with the amount of each installment thereon, and the 
 year or years for which the same are due. 
 
 4. A plat showing the proposed sub-division. 
 
 5. The proposed apportionment of the amount of each in- 
 stallment on each lot or parcel according to such proposed 
 sub-division. Such petition shall be acknowledged in the 
 manner provided for the acknowledgment of deeds, and 
 such corporate authority shall be satisfied therewith, they shall 
 cause to be indorsed upon or attached to such petition their 
 approval by their clerk or secretary, under their corporate 
 seal, and the same, so approved, shall be filed and recorded m 
 the office of the county clerk in which such land shall be sit- 
 uate, and such apportioned assessment shall stand in place < 
 the original assessment, and the same and the several install- 
 ments thereof shall be deemed duly apportioned, and the e 
 eral amounts so apportioned shall be liens upon the several
 
 206 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 parcels charged, respectively ; and for the purpose of collect- 
 ing the same all proceedings shall be had and taken as if said 
 assessment and installments had been made and apportioned 
 in the first instance according to such apportioned description 
 and amounts, and the respective owners shall be held to have 
 waived every and all objections to such assessment and the 
 apportionment aforesaid: Provided, This act shall not apply to 
 any lot, block or parcel of land on which there shall remain 
 due and unpaid any installment. In case the owners are un- 
 able to agree as to such apportionment, or any of them are 
 under legal disability, one or more of them may file a petition 
 with the circuit court of the county in which such land so 
 assessed is situate, substantially in form as hereinbefore pro- 
 vided ; and in such case such corporate authority, together 
 with all owners or persons interested, not joined as petitioners 
 and unknown owners, if any, shall be made parties defendant, 
 and all proceedings in relation thereto shall be had as in cases 
 in chancery. The court may hear and determine the case 
 according to the right of the matter. A copy of the record of 
 the proceedings of the court in the premises in case of an ap- 
 portionment, duly certified, shall be filed and recorded in the 
 office of such county clerk, and the same shall thereupon, as 
 to the land therein embraced, the owners thereof, the appor- 
 tionment aforesaid, and the collection of the several amounts 
 apportioned, have the same force and effect as is hereinbefore 
 provided in cases where such corporate authorities shall ap- 
 prove of a petition and shall file and record the same. 
 
 HOUSES OF ILL-FAME. 
 
 An act to prevent the licensing of houses of ill- fame, and the 
 official inspection or medical examination of the inmates 
 thereof , in the incorporated cities, towns and villages of 
 this State. 
 
 [Approved and in force March 27, 1874.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Licensing and medical inspection forbidden. 
 2. Emergency. 
 
 1. LICENSING AND MEDICAL INSPECTION FORBIDDEN. Be it 
 enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in Gen- 
 eral Assembly : That it shall be unlawful for the corporate
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 207 
 
 authorities of any city, town or village in this State to era 
 
 anv" inT a r e f r H f r ** m ?!J Cal ****" or examination of 
 any inmate of the same. [See sec. 62, item 45 
 
 EMERGENCY.] Whereas, the legislative authorities of 
 certain cities in this State are about to license houses of ill- 
 fame therefore an emergency exists why this act should take 
 effect immediately; therefore, this act shall take effect and be 
 in force from and after its passage. 
 
 OIL INSPECTION. 
 An act to revise the law in relation to Oil Inspection. 
 
 [Approved March 12, 1874. Tn Force July 1, 1874.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Appointment of inspectors term of office deputies 
 
 2. Oath bond suit on bond. 
 
 3. Duty of inspector. 
 
 4. Test casks marked inspector not to trade In oil. 
 
 5. Record kept and open to examination. 
 
 6. Penalty for misconduct in office. 
 
 7. Penalty against manufacturers and dealers In oil. 
 
 8. Fines how recovered and disposed of. 
 
 SECTION. 1. APPOINTMENT OF INSPECTORS TERM OF OFFICE 
 DEPUTIES.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep- 
 resented in the General Assembly : That the Mayor of any city, 
 with the approval of the City Council, and the Board of 
 Trustees of any village or town may, and on the petition of 
 any five inhabitants thereof shall appoint one or more inspect- 
 ors for the inspection of coal oil, naptha, gasoline, benzine and 
 other mineral oils or fluids, the product of petroleum, and fix 
 their compensation, to be paid by the party requiring their 
 services. Every such inspector shall hold his office for one 
 year and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless 
 sooner removed from office. He may appoint deputies, for 
 whom he shall be responsible, and who shall take the same 
 oath and be liable to the same penalties as the inspector.
 
 208 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 S 2 OATH BOND SUIT ON BOND.] Every such inspector, 
 before entering on the duties of Ins office, shall take and sub- 
 scribe the following oath : 
 
 "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that 
 will support the constitution of the United States, and the con- 
 stitution of the State of Illinois, and that I will faithtully dis- 
 charge the duties of the office of oil inspector, according to 
 the best of my ability." 
 
 He shall also execute a bond payable to the People of the 
 State, in such sum as shall be required by the City Council 
 or Board of Trustees, with one or more sureties, to be ap- 
 proved by the Mayor or President of the Board of Trustees, 
 conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. 
 Any person aggrieved by the misconduct or neglect of such 
 inspector may maintain suit thereon for his own use. 
 
 3. DUTY OF INSPECTOR.] Upon the application of any 
 manufacturer, refineror prodacerof, or any dealer in, any such 
 oil or fluid, or of any officer or person to test any such oil or 
 fluid, such inspector shall test the same with all reasonable 
 dispatch bv applying the fire test, as indicated and determined 
 by J. Tagliabue's pyrometer, or some other instrument or 
 means equally accurate, with which he shall have provided 
 himself at his own expense. 
 
 4. TEST CASKS MARKED INSPECTOR NOT TO TRADE IN OIL.] 
 If the oils or fluids so tested will not ignite or explode at a 
 temperature less than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahren- 
 heit, the inspector shall mark, plainly and indelibly, on each 
 
 cask, barrel or package, "Approved, fire test being ;" 
 
 but if said oils or fluids will ignite at a temperature less than 
 one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, as aforesaid, then 
 the inspector shall mark on each cask, barrel or package 
 
 u Condemned for illuminating purposes ; fire test being ." 
 
 Said inspector, while in office, shall not buy, sell, bargain or 
 trade, directly or indirectly, in any of the said oils or fluids. 
 
 5. RECORD KEPT AND OPEN TO EXAMINATION.] He shall 
 also, within twenty-four hours after making any inspection, 
 make a full and fair entry thereof in a record book to be kept 
 for that purpose, which shall be open to all persons wishing to 
 examine the same. 
 
 6. PENALTY FOR MISCONDUCT IN OFFICE.] Any such in- 
 spector or deputy who shall falsely brand any package, cask, 
 or barrel, or be guilty of any fraud, deceit, misconduct or cul- 
 pable negligence in the performance of any of his official
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 209 
 
 duties, shall be fined not exceeding $200, and be liable to the 
 party injured for all damages occasioned thereby. 
 
 7. PENALTY AGAINST MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN OIL.] 
 Any manufacturer, refiner or producer of, or any dealer in, 
 coal oil, naptha, gasoline, benzine, or other mineral oils or 
 fluid, the product of petroleum, in any city, village or town in 
 which such inspector is appointed, who shall neglect to 
 give notice to such inspector, of any such oil or fluid in his 
 possession not already inspected by some authorized inspector 
 of this State, within two days after the same is made or refined 
 by him or received into his possession, or shall offer any such 
 oil or fluid for sale before the same has been so inspected, or 
 shall sell or attempt to sell to any person, for illuminating 
 purposes, any such oil which is below the approved standard, 
 that is, having igniting point less than one hundred and fifty 
 degrees Fahrenheit, as indicated and determined in the man- 
 ner herein provided, or shall use any package, cask, barrel or 
 other thing having the inspection brand thereon, the oil or 
 fluid therein not having been inspected, or shall counterfeit 
 any brand, shall be fined not exceeding $200 and be liable to 
 the party injured for all damages occasioned thereby, and 
 all the casks, barrels or packages so falsely used, and their con- 
 tents, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and sold. 
 
 8. FINES HOW RECOVERED AND DISPOSED OF.] The fines 
 herein provided may be recovered in the name of the People 
 of the State of Illinois, before any justice of the peace of the 
 county where the oflense is committed, and when collected, 
 one-half shall be paid to the informer, and the other half 
 and the proceeds of the sale of all casks, barrels and pack- 
 ages, and the contents thereof seized, as herein provided, 
 shall be paid into the city, village, or town treasury. 
 
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 210 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 PLATS. 
 An Act to revise the Law in Relation to Plats. 
 
 [Approved March 21, 1874. In force July 1, 1874. J 
 
 SECTION 1. Laying out towns, etc. 
 
 2. Certificate of surveyor acknowledgment record. 
 
 " 3. Dedication effect on. 
 
 " 4. Neglect to plant corner stone, etc. 
 
 " 6. Penalty for selling without plat recorded, etc. 
 
 VACATION OF PLATS. 
 
 " ft. Of entire plat. 
 
 " 7. Of part of plat. 
 
 " 8. Cancelling plat of record. 
 
 PLATS TO BE RECORDED, ETC. 
 
 " 9. Plats of highways, etc., to be made and recorded. 
 " 10. Prosecuting offenders. 
 
 SECTION 1. LAYING OUT TOWNS, ETC.] Be it enacted by the 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : 
 Whenever the owner of lands shall wish to subdivide the 
 same into two or more parts for the purpose of laying out a 
 town, or making any addition to any city, village or town, or 
 of re-subdividing any lots or blocks therein, he shall cause the 
 same to be surveyed and a plat thereof to be made by the 
 county surveyor or some other competent surveyor, which plat 
 shall particularly describe and set forth all the streets, alleys, 
 common or public grounds, and all the in and out lots or frac- 
 tional lots or blocks within, adjoining or adjacent to the land 
 so divided, giving the names, widths, courses and extent of all 
 such streets and alleys, and numbering all lots and blocks by 
 progressive numbers, giving their precise length and width. 
 Reference shall also be made upon the plat to some known 
 and permanent monument from which future surveys may be 
 made, or, if no such monument shall exist within convenient 
 distance, the surveyor shall, at the time of making his survey, 
 plant, and fix in such manner that the same shall not be moved 
 by frost, at the corner of some public ground, or, if there be 
 none, then at the corner of some lot or block most convenient 
 for reference, a good and sufficient stone, to be furnished by 
 the person for whom the survey is made, and designate upon 
 the plat the point where the same may be found. [R. S. 1845, 
 p. 115, 17, 18, 19. 
 
 2. CERTIFICATE OF SURVEYOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT RECORD.] 
 The plat having been completed, shall be certified by the sur- 
 veyor and acknowledged by the owner of the land, or his
 
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 attorney duly authorized, in the same manner as deeds of 
 land are required to be acknowledged. The certificate of the 
 surveyor and of acknowledgment, together with the plat, shall 
 be recorded in the recorder's office of the county in which the 
 land is situated, and such acknowledgment and record shall 
 have like effect and certified copies thereof and of such plat 
 or of any plat heretofore acknowledged and certified accord- 
 ing to law, may be used in evidence to the same extent and 
 with like effect, as in case of deeds. PR. S. 1845. p. 115, 
 20. 
 
 3. DEDICATION EFFECT OF.] The acknowledgment and 
 recording of such plat shall be held in law and in equity to be 
 a conveyance in fee simple of such portions of the premises 
 platted as are marked or noted on such plat as donated or 
 granted to the public, or any person, religious society, corpo- 
 ration or body politic, and as a general warranty against the 
 donor, his heirs and representatives to such donee or grantee 
 for their use or for the use and purposes therein named or in- 
 tended, and for no other use or purpose. And the premises 
 intended for any street, alley, way, common or other public 
 use in any city, village or town, or addition thereto, shall be 
 held in the corporate name thereof in trust to and for the uses 
 and purposes set forth or intended. [R. S. 1845, p. 115, 21. 
 
 4. NEGLECT TO PLANT CORNER STONE, ETC.] Whoever shall 
 lay out any town or make any addition to any city, village or 
 town, or re-subdivide any lots or blocks therein, and neglect 
 to plant any corner stone when required by this act, or shall 
 survey the same or cause it to be surveyed in any other man- 
 ner than that which is prescribed in this act, shall be fined in 
 any sum not less than $25 nor exceeding $100. [R. S. 1845, 
 p. 116, 24. 
 
 5. PENALTY FOR SELLING WITHOUT PLAT RECORDED, ETC.] 
 "Whoever shall sell or offer for sale, or lease for any time ex- 
 ceeding five years, any lot or block in any town, city or village, 
 or any addition thereto, or any re-subdivision of any lot or 
 block therein, before all the requisitions of this act have been 
 complied with, shall be fined $25 for each lot or block or part 
 thereof so disposed of, offered for sale or leased. [R. S. 1845, 
 p. 116, 25. 
 
 VACATION OF PLATS. 
 
 6. OF THE WHOLE PLAT.] Any such plat may be vacated 
 by the owner of the premises at any time before the sale of 
 any lot therein, by a written instrument declaring the same 
 be vacated, executed, acknowledged or proved, and recorded
 
 212 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 in like manner as deeds of land ; which declaration being duly 
 recorded shall operate to destroy the force and effect of the re- 
 cording of the plat so vacated, and to divest all public rights in 
 the streets, alleys and public grounds, and all dedications laid 
 out or described in such plat. When lots have been sold, the 
 plat may be vacated in the manner herein provided by all 
 the owners of lots in such plat joining, in the execution of 
 such writing. [L. 1847, p. 166, 1. 
 
 7. OF PART OF PLAT.] Any part of a plat may be vacated 
 in the manner provided in the preceding section, and subject 
 to the conditions therein prescribed : Provided, such vacation 
 shall not abridge or destroy any of the rights or privileges of 
 other proprietors in such plat : And, provided, further, that 
 nothing contained in this section shall authorize the closing 
 or obstructing of any public highway laid out according to 
 law. [L. 1847, p. 167, 3. 
 
 8. CANCELING PLAT OF RECORD.] When any plat or part 
 thereof is vacated, the recorder in whose offico the plat is 
 recorded shall, upon the recording of such vacation, write in 
 pi ai n letters across the plat or part so vacated the wo r d " vacated,' ' 
 and shall also make a reference on the same to the volume 
 and page in which the instrument of vacation is recorded. 
 
 PLATS TO BE RECORDED, ETC. 
 
 9. PLATS OF HIGHWAYS, ETC., TO BE MADE AND RECORDED.] 
 Whenever any highway, road, street, alley, public ground, 
 toll-road, railroad or canal is laid out, located, opened, widened 
 or extended, or the location thereof altered, it shall be the 
 duty of the commissioners, authorities, officers, persons or corpo- 
 rations, public or private, laying out, locating, opening, widen- 
 ing, extending or altering the same, to cause a plat thereof 
 showing the width, courses and extent thereof, and making 
 such reference to known and established corners or monu- 
 ments that the location thereof may be ascertained, to be made, 
 and recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in 
 which the premises taken or used for the same, or any part 
 thereof, are situated, within six months after such highway, 
 road, street, alley, public ground, toll-road, railroad or canal 
 is laid out, located, opened, widened or extended, or the loca- 
 tion thereof altered ; and when any highway, road, street, 
 alley, public ground, toll-road, railroad or canal is vacated, the 
 order, ordinance or other declaration vacating the same shall 
 be in like manner recorded. This act shall not be construed 
 to alter or affect any law specifically providing for the record-
 
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 ing of any such plat, or to require the same to be recorded 
 sooner than is so specifically provided ; except that any re 
 quirements to record such plat in any other place than b pro- 
 vided herein shall not excuse the parties from complying with 
 this act. Whoever shall refuse or neglect to comply with this 
 section shall forfeit $25, and the like sum for ever/month he 
 shall continue in such refusal or neglect after conviction there- 
 tor, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the 
 county, in the name of the county, one-half to the use of the 
 county and the other half to the use of the person complain- 
 ing. [R. S. 1845, p. 487, 33. 
 
 10, PROSECUTING OFFENDERS.] Whenever it shall come 
 to the knowledge of the recorder of deeds of any county that 
 any of the provisions of this act have been violated, it shall 
 be his duty to notify the state's attorney of the fact, and the 
 state's attorney shall immediately institute suit, and prosecute 
 the same to final judgment against the person offending. 
 
 An Act to authorize courts of record, in certain cases, to or- 
 der lands to be subdivided and platted. 
 
 [Approved March 18, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Plats in proceedings in courts. 
 
 2. Effects of such maps. 
 
 3. Costs. 
 
 SECTION 1. PLATS IN PROCEEDINGS IN COURT.] Be it enacted 
 by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General 
 Assembly : That in any proceeding in any court of record in 
 this state, by executors or administrators, for the sale of lands 
 of deceased persons, or by guardians, for the sale of lands of 
 their wards, or for partition of lands, when such lands are to 
 be sold in parcels, or actual partition thereof shall be made, 
 it shall be competent for the court to order such executor or 
 administrator, guardian, master in chancery, special commis- 
 sioner, or other officer or person authorized to sell the lands 
 in question in any such proceeding, or commissioners author- 
 ized to make partition of such lands, to cause such lands to be 
 surveyed and subdivided, and a map or plat of the same to be 
 made, showing the lots or parcels of such subdivision or par- 
 tition designated by numbers or letters: which map or plat 
 shall be acknowledged by the person or persons so causing 
 the same to be made, in like manner as is now required by 
 law in cases of plats or maps made by owners of lands, and 
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 214 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 making the same ; which certificate shall contain, among other 
 things, an accurate and definite description of the lands so 
 subdivided or partitioned ; and such map or plat shall be sub- 
 mitted to the court for his approval, and if approved by the 
 court, shall be recorded in the recorder's office of the county 
 or counties in which the lands in question in any such pro- 
 ceeding, are situate. 
 
 2. EFFECT OF SUCH MAPS.] Maps or plats of lands made 
 in conformity to the preceding section, when approved by the 
 court, shall have the like authenticity as maps or plats of 
 lands made by owners of the same, and shall be sufficient in 
 law for all purposes whatever. 
 
 3. COSTS.] The costs and expenses necessarily incurred 
 in making such subdivisions of lands and maps, or plats of 
 the same, together with the cost of the record thereof, shall 
 be taxed as costs in any suit or proceeding in which the court 
 shall order the same to be made. 
 
 POLICE AND FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND. 
 
 An Act to Provide a Fund' for the Relief of Members of 
 Police and Fire Departments, in Incorporated Cities, 
 Wounded or Disabled in the Discharge of their Duties, 
 and for the Relief of the Surviving Family of any Mem- 
 ber of said Departments, Killed while on Duty. 
 
 I Approved March 24, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 
 
 SECTION 1. How fond created. 
 
 2. To be appropriated for disabled men, etc. 
 
 3. Use in case of death. 
 
 4. Vote necessary to appropriate 
 
 5. Bequests, gifts, etc. treasurer 
 
 6. No new liability on city for injuries. 
 
 SECTION 1. How FUND CREATED.] Be it enacted by the People 
 of Vu btate of Illinois represented in the General Assembly : That 
 the corporate authorities of all cities in this state may provide 
 by ordinance that all moneys received from fines inflicted 
 upon members of the police and fire departments for a viola- 
 tion of the rules or regulations of the service, and all fines 
 recovered because of conviction for a violation of the fire or- 
 dinances, and all moneys accruing from the sale of unclaimed 
 olen property, shall be paid into the treasury of the city
 
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 where collected, and kept apart as a fund to be called the 
 "Police and Firemen's Relief Fund," for the benefit of the 
 disabled members of the above mentioned departments of such 
 cities. [As amended by act of April 13, 1875. 
 
 2. TO BE APPROPRIATED FOR DISABLED MEN, ETC.] When- 
 ever any member of either of said departments shall, while in 
 the discharge of his duties as a member or officer of such 
 service, suffer wounds, or in any other manner become dis- 
 abled so as to be unfit for further service, the corporate au- 
 thorities of such city shall appropriate, out of such fund for 
 his benefit, such an amount or amounts of money as to them 
 may seem just and reasonable : Provided, however, in all cities 
 where there does now or may hereafter exist, a chartered be- 
 nevolent society, composed of police or firemen of such city, 
 the corporate authorities may annually appropriate to the 
 treasurer of such society its equitable portion of all moneys 
 that may be in the treasury of such city to the credit of said 
 fund, to be used for the benefit of its members. [As amended 
 by act of April 15, 1875. 
 
 3. USE IN CASE OF DEATH.] Whenever any member of either 
 of such departments shall, while in the active discharge of his 
 duty, suffer death, or die from or on account of injuries re- 
 ceived while in such active discharge of his duty, the corpo- 
 rate authorities of any such city shall appropriate out of said 
 fund such an amount as to them shall seem just and equitable 
 for the relief of the surviving members of the family of such 
 deceased. 
 
 4. VOTE NECESSARY TO APPROPRIATE.] All such appropria- 
 tions shall be made by a vote of a majority of all the mem- 
 bers elected of such corporate body ; and such authorities 
 alone shall have the right to determine the amount of relief to 
 be granted under this act. 
 
 5. BEQUESTS, GIFTS, ETC. TREASURER.] In case of any 
 bequest, gift, devise or donation to the fund aforesaid, the city 
 treasurer of such city, by virtue of his office, and his succes- 
 sors in office, shall be the trustee of the same, and in that 
 capacity, under the direction of the corporate authorities of 
 such city, he shall administer the same. 
 
 6. N~0 NEW LIABILITY ON CITY FOR INJURIES.] Nothing 111 
 
 this act shall be so construed as to create any new liability on 
 the part of any city for injuries received by persons m its 
 service.
 
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 POLICE MAGISTRATES. 
 
 An act to authorize the election of Police Magistrates in 
 Towns, Cities and Villages where the same are not now 
 provided for by Law. 
 
 [In force April 13, 1875.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Election, jurisdiction and fees of police magistrates. 
 " 2 Emergency. 
 
 SECTION 1. ELECTION, JURISDICTION AND FEES OF POLICE 
 MAGISTRATES.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly : That all towns, 
 cities and villages in the State which have been incorporated 
 under charters granted by special acts, or under a general act, 
 when the law under which they are incorporated does not 
 authorize the election of a police magistrate, be and they are 
 hereby authorized to elect one police magistrate at the first 
 annual election of town, city or village officers that shall occur 
 after the passage of this act, and quadrennially thereafter. 
 Such police magistrates shall hold their offices for the same 
 term, be commissioned and qualified, and have the same juris- 
 diction and fees, as police magistrates of villages have under 
 the general law for the incorporation of cities and villages. 
 
 2 EMERGENCY.] As the first annual election of town, 
 city and village officers in many of the towns, cities and vil- 
 lages in this State, by this act authorized to elect a police 
 magistrate, will occur before the first day of July next, after 
 the adjournment of this general assembly, therefore an emer- 
 gency exists requiring this act to take effect immediately ; 
 therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and 
 after its passage : Provided, that the election for police magis- 
 trates in cities that have one or more police magistrates, 
 elected under a former organization as a town or city, shall 
 not be held until the term for which said police magistrate or 
 magistrates were elected has expired.
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 217 
 
 REBATE AND REDUCTION OF TAXES, ETC. 
 
 An Act to prevent the unjust collection, by incorporated 
 cities and towns, of taxes levied upon property destroyed 
 by fire, and to authorize the common council of such 
 cities, or board of trustees of such towns, to change or 
 amend appj-opriation bills, to pass new appropriation 
 bills, to reduce taxes and special assessments in certain 
 cases, and to discontinue special improvements. 
 
 [Approved and in force January 18, 1872.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Rebate when property destroyed. 
 
 2. Reduce or release tax or'assessment. 
 
 3. Emergency. 
 
 SECTION 1, REBATE WHEN PROPERTY DESTROYED.] Be it en- 
 acted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the Gen- 
 eral Assembly ; That, whenever, in any incorporated city or 
 town in this state, any property listed or assessed for munici- 
 pal taxation, shall have been or shall hereafter be destroyed 
 by fire, in whole or in part, before the levy of the municipal 
 taxes of such city thereon, or before the municipal taxes levied 
 thereon shall have been collected, it shall and may be lawful 
 for the Mayor of such city or town if there be no Mayor, 
 then the president of the board of trustees, the city comp- 
 troller, if there should be one ; and if not, then the city clerk 
 or town clerk, and the tax commissioner if there should be 
 one ; if not, then the chairman of the finance committee of 
 the city council, or board of trustees to rebate or remit so 
 much of such tax or taxes, so levied upon such property, as 
 in their opinion should be rebated or remitted by reason of 
 such property having been, in whole or in part, destroyed by 
 tire. 
 
 2. REDUCE OR RELEASE TAX OR ASSESSMENT.] That when- 
 ever, in any incorporated city or town in this state, any large 
 portion of the taxable property of such city shall have been 
 or shall hereafter be destroyed by fire, so as to seriously im- 
 pair or affect the ability of the property owners of such city 
 or town to pay taxes or special assessments thereon, and an 
 appropriation bill has been made or passed, or special im- 
 provements ordered before such fire, and the tax or assess- 
 ment for the payment or raising of the same has not been 
 levied or collected, it may be lawful for the city council or 
 board of trustees of any such town to alter, revise, change, 
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 218 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 reduce or vacate, or repeal such appropriation bill, or any 
 part of the same, and to order the discontinuance of said 
 special improvements, or any of the same, or to reduce the 
 amount of taxes or special assessments ordered to be levied, 
 or assessed, or collected for any general or special purpose, and 
 to pass a new appropriation bill ; which new appropriation 
 bill shall have the same force and effect as if the same had 
 been passed within the time prescribed by the charter of any 
 such city or such corporate town. 
 
 3. EMERGENCY.] Whereas a large amount of property 
 listed for taxation in the city of Chicago, and in other cities 
 and towns of this state, has been destroyed by fire before the 
 taxes thereon have been paid, which taxes it would be unjust 
 to collect, it is declared that an emergency exists that this law 
 go into force immediately, and therefore it is enacted that this 
 law shall be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS. 
 
 An Act to enable the corporate authorities of cities to estab- 
 lish and fix the salaries of city officers. 
 
 [Approved and|in force April 23, 1873. J 
 
 SECTION 1. When to be fixed not changed during term. 
 " 2. Emergency. 
 
 SECTION 1, WHEN TO BE FIXED NOT CHANGED DURING TERM.] 
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in 
 the General Assembly : It shall and may be lawful for the com- 
 mon council or legislative authority of any city in this State to 
 establish and fix the amount of salary to be paid any and all 
 city officers, as the case may be, except members of such legis- 
 islative body, in the annual appropriation bill or ordinance 
 made for the purpose of providing for the annual expenses of 
 any such city, or by some ordinance prior to the passage of 
 such annual appropriation bill or ordinance ; and the salaries 
 or compensation thus fixed or established, shall neither be in- 
 creased nor diminished by the said common council or legis- 
 lative authority of any such city, after the passage of said an- 
 nual appropriation bill or ordinance, during the year for 
 which such appropriation is made, and no extra compensation
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 219 
 
 shall ever be allowed to any such officer or employe over and 
 above that provided in manner aforesaid. 
 
 EMERGENCY.] Whereas the corporate authorities of 
 certain cities m this State have no power to establish or fix 
 the salaries of their city officers in certain cases, whereby an 
 emergency exists requiring this act to take immediate effect ; 
 therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and 
 
 Q Tf !> 1+C! T%f* onr* rvts-\ 
 
 after its passage. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 An Act to Establish and Regulate a System of Public Schools 
 in the City of Bloomington. 
 
 [In force Feb. 16th, 1857.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Election of Board term of office. 
 
 2. Board to elect officers Treasurer, etc. 
 
 3. City exempt from jurisdiction of Trustees distribution of funds etc 
 
 4. Meetings quorum, etc. 
 
 5. Power of Board city to constitute one district. 
 
 6. Board to establish schools admission, etc. 
 
 7. Power to make rules, etc. 
 
 8. Reports of Board tax, etc. 
 
 9. Titles of school property to be in Board. 
 
 10. Examiners dates of, etc. 
 
 11. School examinations. 
 ' 12. Repeal. 
 
 13. When to take effect. 
 
 SECTION 1. ELECTION OF BOARD TERM OF OFFICE.] Be it en- 
 acted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the 
 General Assembly: That there shall be elected biennially in 
 the city of Bloomington, b}^ the qualified electors of said city, 
 a Board of Education, to consist of seven members, which 
 shall be denominated the Board of Education, and the per- 
 sons so elected shall be residents of said city, and shall hold 
 their office for the term of two years, and until their succes- 
 sors shall be elected and qualified. The first election for said 
 members of the Board of Education shall be holden on the 
 first Monday in April, A. D. 1857, and on the first Monday of 
 April biennially thereafter. The meetings for said election 
 shall be notified and called, and the poll book opened and 
 kept, the votes canvassed and the returns made in the same 
 manner as the election of Mayor and aldermen ; the seven 
 persons having the highest number of votes shall be declared 
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 220 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 the election being made known by the proper returns, shall 
 notify the several persons so elected of their election. 
 
 2. BOARD TO ELECT OFFICERS TREASURER, ETC.] The 
 Board of Education shall, within two days after their election, 
 or as soon thereafter as convenient, meet within said city, the 
 time and place of meeting shall be made known to all the 
 members of said Board in writing, by any two of the persons 
 so elected ; when convened, the Board shall organize by elect- 
 ing one of their number President, and appointing by ballot 
 some competent person to be Secretary of said Board, who 
 may or may not be a member of the Board, and also appoint 
 a Treasurer. The President shall preside at all meetings of 
 the Board and perform all the duties of a presiding officer. 
 The Secretary shall keep a record of the proceedings of the 
 Board in a book to be provided for that purpose by the Board, 
 and shall perform such other duties in relation to the achools 
 in said city as shall be required of him by the rules and regu- 
 lations to be made and established by the Board. The Presi- 
 dent, Secretary and Treasurer shall hold their offices for the 
 term of two years, and until their successors shall be elected 
 and qualified. The Secretary and Treasurer shall be subject 
 to removal for good cause, by a vote of a majorit} 7 of said 
 Board, and in case of such removal, the Board shall appoint 
 a competent person to fill the vacancy. The Treasurer shall 
 give bond with good and sufficient securities to the city of 
 Bloomington, such bond to be approved by said Board in such 
 sum as the Board shall determine, but to be in all cases as 
 nearly as can be ascertained, in double the amount of all 
 moneys that will at any one time come into his hands, and 
 conditioned for the performance of his duties as such Treas- 
 urer, and especially faithfully to keep, and from time to time 
 to pay over upon the order of the Board all moneys that he shall 
 receive as such Treasurer, and for any breach of the condi- 
 tions of said bond, as such shall be prosecuted in the name of 
 said city against the said Treasurer, under the direction and 
 supervision of the said Board, and all moneys realized from a 
 judgment recovered against any Treasurer for a breach of the 
 conditions of his bond, shall go into the treasury of the Board, 
 to be used as other school moneys are used. The Treasurer 
 shall keep a true and accurate account of all moneys received 
 and paid out by him, for what purposes, upon what and whose 
 account. But he shall pay out no money except upon order 
 of the Board ; for all money paid out he shall take and file 
 with the papers of his office proper vouchers. He shall settle
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 221 
 
 his account with the Board at least once in each year, and 
 oftener if the Board shall so require. 
 
 3. ClTY EXEMPT FROM JURISPICTION OF TRUSTEES DISTRI- 
 BUTION OF FUNDS, ETC.] The said city of Bloomington shall 
 be exempt from the jurisdiction of Trustees of Schools in the 
 township in which said city of Bloomington is located, so 
 far as common schools are concerned, and the School Com- 
 missioner of McLean county shall, in the distribution of the 
 school fund that may come into his hands, apportion so much 
 of the school fund as the city of Bloomington may be entitled 
 to, upon a pro rata distribution of said funds among the seve- 
 ral townships of said county to the said city of Bloomington, 
 and upon the filing of the bond of the Treasurer of the said 
 Board of Education, the said School Commissioner shall pay 
 over to the said Treasurer the amount due said city. All taxes 
 levied in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be 
 paid over by the officer collecting the same, to the Treasurer 
 of the Board of Education, and upon all moneys passing 
 through his hands, the said Treasurer shall be allowed to re- 
 tain two per centum. If any vacancy shall occur in the Board 
 of Education between the times of the biennial election, by 
 death, resignation or removal from the limits of the city, the 
 remaining members of the Board shall fill said vacancy by 
 appointment, and the person so appointed shall hold his office 
 until the next biennial election for members of the Board. 
 The said Board of Education shall be capable of contracting 
 and being contracted with, suing and being sued, pleading and 
 being impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this btate, 
 and shall also be capable of receiving any gift, grant, dona- 
 tion or devise made for the use of the common schools in said 
 city. 
 
 4. MEETINGS QUORUM, ETC.] The said Board shall hold 
 their meetings at such times and place as they may think 
 proper ; that any four of said Board shall constitute a quorum ; 
 that special meetings may be called by the President or any 
 two members of the Board, on giving two days' notice of the 
 time and place of holding such meetings, but at no special 
 meeting except all the members of the Board are present, 
 shall any resolution in relation to sites for school houses, or 
 financial resolution or order be passed, unless the two days 
 notice as aforesaid be given, and the subject or subjects 
 acted on be specified in the notice. 
 
 5 POWER OF BOARD CITY TO CONSTITUTE ONE DISTRK 
 The said Board of Education shall have the entire manage- 
 ment and control of all the common schools in said city c
 
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 Blooraington, and of all the houses, lands and appurtenances 
 already provided and set apart for common school purposes, 
 as well as those hereafter to be provided for the same purposes, 
 and the said city of Blooraington shall, from and after the 
 first Monday of April next, constitute but one school district, 
 and all moneys accruing to said district for school purposes 
 under any law of this State, shall be paid over to the Treas- 
 urer of said Board of Education. 
 
 6. BOARD TO ESTABLISH SCHOOLS ADMISSION, ETC.] It 
 shall be the duty of said Board of Education, so soon as they 
 may realize sufficient funds for the purpose, to establish within 
 the bounds of the city of Bloomington, a sufficient number 
 of primary, secondary and grammar schools to* accommodate 
 all the children of said city, and they shall also establish a 
 city high school, in said city, of a grade above the grammar 
 school. To each school in this system there shall be gratuitous 
 admission for the children, wards and apprentices of all the 
 residents of the city of Bloomington, and of such other per- 
 sons living in the immediate vicinity as may own property, 
 charged with a school tax in said city of Bloomington, with 
 the following restrictions, viz : No pupil shall be admitted to 
 the secondary, grammar or high schools who fails to sustain a 
 thorough examination in the studies of the school of the next 
 lower grade, and the teachers in either school shall have power 
 in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Board of 
 Education, to exclude pupils for misconduct or non-attend- 
 ance. 
 
 7. POWER TO MAKE RULES, ETC.] The said Board of Edu- 
 cation shall have power to make and enforce all necessary 
 rules ^and regulations for the government of teachers and pupils 
 in said schools, to employ teachers, male and female, from 
 among those who have received a certificate from the city ex- 
 aminers, and pay them a suitable compensation ; to purchase 
 all necessary books and apparatus ; to select sites for school 
 houses, and superintend the building of the same upon their 
 own plan, and to pay for the lands and houses and furniture, 
 as well as the other expenses of said school system, from the 
 public moneys in the hands of the Treasurer of said Board. 
 
 8. REPORTS OF BOARD TAX, ETC.] The said Board of 
 Education, within thirty days after their organization, shall 
 report to the City Council of the city of Bloomington, the 
 number and description of buildings necessary for the pur- 
 poses of common schools in said city, which report shall be 
 in writing, and shall specify the amount of money necessary 
 to be raised to meet the expenses of erecting such buildings,
 
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 and said Board shall also specify in said report the amount of 
 money necessary to be raised in addition to the money accru- 
 ing to said city under the General School Law of this State,' 
 to defray all the other expenses of said school system durin-- 
 the current year, and thereupon the said City Council shall 
 proceed to levy a tax sufficient to meet such expenses of build- 
 ing and repairing school houses, and the expenses attendant 
 upon the maintenance of said free schools in said city during 
 the whole year, customary vacations only excepted, said taxes 
 to be levied and collected as the other taxes of said city are 
 or may be collected : Provided, Said tax shall not exceed five 
 mills on the dollar of the taxable property of said city, and it 
 shall be the duty of said Board, on or before the first Monday 
 in April in every year thereafter, to make a report in writing 
 to the City Council of all moneys received, how and for what 
 purpose expended, with the proper vouchers, and give such 
 other information in relation to said schools as they may deem 
 important, specifying in said annual report the amount of 
 money necessary to be raised by taxation to defray the ex- 
 penses of said school system, and the City Council shall, an- 
 nually, upon the coming in of such report, and within thirt} r 
 days thereafter, proceed to levy a tax sufficient to meet such 
 expenses, to be levied and collected as the other taxes of said 
 city : Provided, Said taxes shall not exceed five mills on the 
 dollar of the taxable property of said city, and the said City 
 Council shall cause all such reports of the Board of Education 
 to be published, or so much thereof as they may deem neces- 
 sary, the reports being left with the Mayor of the city, open 
 to public inspection. 
 
 9. TITLES OF SCHOOL PROPERTY TO BE IN BOARD.] All legal 
 titles to land and houses and other property used for common 
 school purposes in said city of Bloomington, shall vest in said 
 Board of Education at the taking effect of this act ; and all 
 titles acquired thereafter shall be in the name of said Board 
 of Education ; and said Board of Education shall have power 
 to sell, lease and convey any and all of the lands and tene- 
 ments held under and by virtue of this act, and to purchase 
 other lands and tenements in more eligible positions. 
 
 10. EXAMINERS DUTIES OF, ETC.] The said Board of 
 Education shall, immediately upon their election as herein- 
 before provided, appoint three competent persons to serve as 
 school examiners of said city, all of whom shall be citizens ot 
 Bloomington, to serve for two years, one of whom they shall 
 designate as City School Superintendent, and it shall be hie 
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 224 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 system of schools, subject to the direction of said Board, and 
 be compensated for his service as said Board may from time 
 to time determine, and biennially thereafter said Board shall 
 appoint three competent persons to act as school examiners 
 for said city ; the said examiners, or any two of them, shall 
 examine such persons as shall apply for that purpose, and if 
 they find the applicant qualified to teach, they shall give him 
 or her a certificate naming the branches he or she is found 
 qualified to teach, showing that they have inquired into his or 
 her character, and believe it to be moral and good, and that 
 he or she is qualified to govern and teach ; the said examiners 
 shall also recommend suitable text- books to be adopted by the 
 said Board of Education for the use of schools, and serni- 
 annually report the condition of said schools to the City Coun- 
 cil, the publication of which shall be at the discretion of the 
 said Council. 
 
 11. SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS.] Annually at such time as 
 the Board shall appoint public examinations of all the schools 
 shall be had, under the direction of the Board of Education 
 and the examiners. 
 
 12. REPEAL.] So much of the General School Law, and 
 so much of all other laws of this State, general or local, as 
 may be inconsistent with this act, are repealed as to said city 
 of Bloomington. 
 
 13. WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT.] This act shall take effect 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 An Act to provide Amendments to the Bloomington School 
 Law. 
 
 [Approved Feb. 16, 1865.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Amendment of school law. 
 
 2. Section ten amended. 
 
 3. Place of holding elections. 
 
 4. Power of Board to borrow money. 
 
 5. Approval of these amendments. 
 
 SECTION 1. AMENDMENT OF SCHOOL LAW.] Be it enacted by 
 the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assem- 
 bly: That the act entitled "An act to establish and regulate a 
 system of Public Schools in the City of Bloomington;" ap- 
 proved February 16, 1857, be and the same is hereby amended 
 as follows, to- wit: The words, "and of such other persons 
 living in the immediate vicinity as may own property charged 
 with a school tax in said city of Bloomington," in the sixth 
 section of said act, are stricken out. Also, in the eighth sec- 
 tion of said act, the word " five," in both places where it oc-
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 225 
 
 curs before the word " mills," shall he and is herehy changed 
 to " ten," so that it shall read in both places ten mills on the 
 dollar of the taxable property of said city, instead of " five " 
 mills. 
 
 2. SECTION TEN AMENDED.] That the tenth section of said 
 act be and is hereby so amended that the said Board of Edu- 
 cation are hereby authorized to choose the " examiners" pro- 
 vided for in said section, one or all of them, from the mem- 
 bers of said Board. 
 
 3. PLACE OF HOLDING ELECTIONS.] That hereafter all elec- 
 tions under said school law shall be held at one place, to-wit : 
 At the court house in said city of Bloomington, instead of in 
 the several wards as heretofore. 
 
 4. POWER OF BOARD TO BORROW MONEY.] That the said 
 Board of Education are hereby authorized to borrow money 
 upon the signature of its President and Secretary, (having 
 been previously authorized to do so by the Board at one of its 
 legal meetings,) at a rate of interest not to exceed ten per 
 cent, per annum, for the purpose of purchasing sites, building 
 and repairing school houses, or furnishing the same, to an 
 amount not to exceed for any one loan one-half of the prob- 
 able sum to be realized from the taxes of the succeeding year, 
 to be paid out of said taxes when collected in all cases. 
 
 5. APPROVAL OF THESE AMENDMENTS.] These amend- 
 ments shall take effect and be in force from and after their 
 approval by the legal voters of said city at the regular election 
 for the members of the Board of Education, in April next, 
 (1865,) at which election the question shall be submitted in 
 the following manner : Ballots shall be prepared " for the 
 amendments to the school law," and " against the amendments 
 to the school law;" and if more votes shall be cast for than 
 against said amendments, then said amendments shall, from 
 that date, be and become a part of the school law for said 
 city of Bloomington. But if more votes shall be cast against 
 than for said amendments, then said amendments shall not 
 become a portion of said school law. 
 
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 226 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 An Act to amend an act entitled, "An Act to Establish and 
 Regulate a System of Public Schools in the City of Bloom- 
 ington." 
 
 [Approved Feb. 22, 1867.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Amendment. 
 
 _. Purpose of amendment. 
 
 3. Power to issue bonds. 
 
 4. To whom payable how executed. 
 6. Bonds due how met. 
 
 6. Bonds to be a lien, etc. 
 
 7. When in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. AMENDMENT.] Be it enacted by the People of the 
 Stale of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : That the 
 Act entitled "An act to establish and regulate a system of 
 Public Schools in the city of Bloomington," be, and the same 
 is hereby amended as follows: 
 
 2. PURPOSE OF AMENDMENT.] That in addition to the 
 power and authority vested in the Board of Education of the 
 city of Bloomington by the act to which this is an amend- 
 ment, and the former amendment thereto, and" for the pur- 
 pose of enabling said Board to purchase proper sites for school 
 houses, to erect suitable buildings thereon, and to finish and 
 furnish all of their school houses in a proper manner, the said 
 Board of Education shall have the power, and they are hereby 
 vested with the authority following: 
 
 3. POWER TO ISSUE BONDS.] To issue bonds of such de- 
 nominations and in su^ch sums as they may deem proper, not 
 to exceed in the aggregate the sum of one hundred thousand 
 dollars, bearing interest payable annually or semi-annually, at 
 a rate not to exceed ten per cent, per annum. Said bonds to 
 be made payable not less than five years nor more than twenty 
 years from their dates, respectively, and not to exceed ten 
 thousand dollars of said bonds, shall be made payable or fall 
 due in any one year. 
 
 4. To WHOM PAYABLE HOW EXECUTED.] That each and 
 all of said bonds, so to be issued as aforesaid, shall be made 
 payable to the order of some particular person therein set 
 forth and named, and shall be executed by the Board of Edu- 
 cation, under their seal, by and through their President and 
 Secretary, and shall also be countersigned by the Treasurer 
 of said Board. And it shall also be the duty of the said Sec- 
 retary and Treasurer, each to keep in a book provided for that 
 purpose, an accurate list of all bonds so issued, with a full 
 description thereof. 
 
 5. BONDS DUE HOW MET.] On any year hereafter when 
 the principal of any series of said bonds shall fall due ; or on
 
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 any year when the interest upon said bonds shall accrue to a 
 larger amount than there shall be funds in the hands of the 
 Treasurer of said Board to pay from the present tax now 
 authorized to be levied by law, the said Board of Education 
 shall, in their annual report preceding the falling due of said 
 bonds, or the accruing of said interest, (as provided for in 
 section eight of the act to which this is an amendment,) certify 
 to the City Council of said city, the amount so to fall due and 
 become payable, by the maturity of said bonds or the accruing 
 of said interest in addition to the other expenses and moneys 
 to be raised by tax, and reported to said Council as provided 
 in said section eight of said original act, and the said City 
 Council shall thereupon proceed to levy a tax sufficient to 
 meet the amount so to fall due by the maturity of said bonds 
 or the accruing of said interest, in addition to the amount 
 now authorized by said original act and an amendment there- 
 to, to be levied and collected : Provided, That the additional 
 tax authorized to be levied and collected by this act shall not 
 exceed in any one year one cent on the dollar of all the tax- 
 able property of said city, and the said additional tax shall be 
 collected, paid over and treated in all respects in the same 
 manner as other taxes levied for school purposes by said city, 
 as provided for in said original act, and the said amendment 
 thereto. 
 
 6. BONDS TO BE A LIEN, ETC.] All the real estate, build- 
 ings and property of said Board of Education in said city, 
 shall be liable for the payment of said bonds and the interest 
 thereon, and the said bonds shall be and become a lien upon 
 said real estate from their date, and in the order in which the 
 same are issued, and shall so remain until the full payment 
 thereof. 
 
 7, WHEN IN FORCE.] This act shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage.
 
 228 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 An Act to amend an act entitled " An Act to establish and 
 regulate a system of public schools in the City of Blovm- 
 ington," approved February 2, 1857, and amendments 
 thereto. 
 
 [In force, March 31, 1869.] 
 
 SECTION 1. School law amended. 
 
 " 2. Amendmendment of sec. 2. 
 " 3. Raising money vote tax, etc. 
 " 4. Repeal . 
 " 5. When in force. 
 
 SECTION 1. SCHOOL LAW AMENDED.] Be it enacted by tJie Peo- 
 ple of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly : 
 That an act entitled "An act to establish and regulate a sys- 
 tem of public schools in the City of Bloomington," approved 
 February 22, 1857, and amendments thereto, be and the same 
 is hereby amended, as follows, to-wit : That the board of edu- 
 cation of [the] city of Bloomington shall, at their first meet- 
 ing after the election to be holden on the first Monday of 
 April, A. 1). 1869, draw lots for their respective terms of office 
 two to serve one year, two to serve two years, and three to 
 serve three years, and until their successors in office are elect- 
 ed and qualified. And hereafter elections shall be held annu- 
 ually, on the first Monday of April, to fill all vacancies: Pro- 
 vided, if any vacancies shall occur in the said Board of Educa- 
 tion between the times of the said annual elections, the re- 
 maining members of said Board of Education shall fill said 
 vacancies by appointment ; and the person or persons so ap- 
 pointed shall hold said office until the next annual election for 
 members of said board : And, provided, also, that all school 
 elections in the City of Bloomington shall be exempt from all 
 the registry laws of the State. 
 
 2. AMENDMENT OF SEC. 2.] That the second section of 
 this act be and is hereby so amended that the clause, " by any 
 two persons so elected," shall read, " by the secretary of the 
 board;" and also the clause, " for the term of two years," be 
 so amended as to read, " for the term of one year ;" also 
 section ten (10) of the same act be so amended that the clause, 
 " to serve two years, one of whom they shall designate city 
 school superintendent," as to read, " to serve for the term of 
 one year, and shall have power to elect a city school superin- 
 tendent" (who shall be a member of the committee of school 
 examiners,) at such time and in such manner as shall be fixed 
 by the rules and regulations of the Board, and it shall be his 
 duty to visit," etc., as provided in said act. 
 
 3. RAISING MONEY VOTE TAX, ETC.] That the said 
 Board of Education shall have power, when, in their judg-
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 229 
 
 \ 
 
 ment, more money is required than is now provided for in 
 said act, and amendments thereto, by taxation or otherwise, to 
 build additional school buildings, to purchase grounds, or to 
 make additional improvements on buildings, grounds or fur- 
 niture, to call a school election of the qualified voters of said 
 City of Bloorningtou, by giving twenty days' notice, to vote 
 whether the Board of Education shall be authorized to issue 
 and sell additional bonds, or be empowered to levy additional 
 taxes for said purposes ; and said notice shall specify the 
 amount of bonds to be issued or tax to be assessed, and the 
 purposes for which they are to be used ; and 'if a majority of 
 the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of issuing such 
 additional bonds or levying such additional taxes, then it 
 shall be lawful for said Board of Education to execute said 
 bonds in the same manner as provided in said act, or levy said 
 tax, and use the amount of money so voted on [the] same con- 
 ditions and in the same manner as authorized by amendment 
 to school law, approved February 22, 1867 : Provided, that 
 the amount of additional indebtedness, by bonds so voted, 
 shall at no time exceed the sum of one hundred thousand dol- 
 lars, nor shall the taxes so voted exceed in any one year one 
 per cent, of all the taxable property of said city, in addition to 
 that which is now authorized by said act, and amendments 
 thereto. 
 
 4. REPEAL.] All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the 
 provisions of this amendment are hereby repealed. 
 ' 5. WHEN IN FORCE.] This act shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage. 
 
 SEWERAGE AND WATER TAXES- 
 
 An Act in relation to the levy and collection of Taxes for 
 Sewerage and Water Works in the cities of this State tn 
 may have established a system of Sewerage and Water 
 Works for such city. 
 
 [Approved and in force April 22, 1871.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Sewerage fund tax. 
 " 2. Water fund tax. 
 3. Emergency. 
 
 SECTION 1 SEWERAGE FUND TAX.] Be it enacted by the Peo- 
 Vkoftie United State* represented in the General Assembly : 
 That the legislative authority of any such city which now has
 
 230 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 / 
 
 or may hereafter have established a system of sewerage for 
 such city, shall have power, annually, to levy and collect a tax 
 upon the taxable real and personal estate of any such city, not 
 to exceed one mill on a dollar, for the extension and laying of 
 sewers therein and the maintenance of such sewers, which tax 
 shall be known as "The Sewerage Fund Tax," and shall be 
 levied and collected in the same manner that other general 
 taxes of any such city are levied and collected : Provided, 
 however, that the board of public works of such city, if any, 
 or the head of the sewer department of such city, shall first 
 certify to such legislative authority the amount that will be 
 necessary for such purpose. 
 
 2. WATER FUND TAX.] The legislative authority of any 
 stichcity which now has or which may hereafter have established 
 water works, for the supply of water to the inhabitants there- 
 of shall have power to annually levy and collect a tax upon 
 the taxable real and personal estate of any such city, not to 
 exceed one mill on the dollar, for the extension of water 
 mains or pipes therein, and the maintenance of such water 
 works, which tax shall be known as " The Water Fund Tax," 
 and shall be levied and collected in the same manner that 
 other general taxes of any such city are levied and collected ; 
 Provided, however, that the board of public works of such city, 
 if any, or the head of the water department of such city, shall 
 first certify to such legislative authority the amount that will 
 be necessary for such purposes, and shall further certify that 
 the revenue or income from such water works will be insuffi- 
 cient therefor. 
 
 3. EMERGENCY.] Whereas the health and good govern- 
 ment of such cities require that they severally possess the 
 power and authority conferred by this act upon such cities, 
 and the officers thereof, without any delay, it is hereby de- 
 clared that an emergency exists that this law should be in 
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 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 231 
 
 SIDEWALKS IN CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES. 
 
 An Act to Provide Additional Means for the Construction of 
 Sidewalks in Cities, Towns and Villages. 
 
 [Approved April 15, 1875. In force July 1, 1875.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Sidewalks by taxation. 
 
 2. What ordinance may provide. 
 
 3. In case owner neglects to construct. 
 
 4. Special tax duty of clerk -report 
 
 u?h^ al ffl , cer Mj toln J udgment-by what law governed. 
 6. When constructed by owner may obtain order. 
 
 SECTION 1. SIDEWALKS BY TAXATION.] Be it enacted by the 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly , 
 That, in addition to the mode now authorized by law, any 
 city or incorporated town or village may, by ordinance,' pro- 
 vide for the construction of sidewalks therein, or along or 
 upon any street or part of street therein, and may, by such 
 ordinance, provide for the payment of the whole or any part 
 of the cost thereof by special taxation of the lot, lots or par- 
 cels of land touching upon the line where any such sidewalk 
 shall be ordered, and such special taxation maybe either by a 
 levy upon any lot of the whole, or any part of the cost of 
 making any such sidewalk in front of such lot or parcel of 
 land, or by levying the whole or any part of the cost upon 
 each of the lots or parcels of laud touching upon the line of 
 such sidewalk, pro rata upon each of said lots or parcels, ac- 
 cording to their respective values the values to be deter- 
 mined by the last preceding assessment thereof for the purpose 
 of state and county taxation ; or the whole or any part of the 
 cost thereof may be levied upon such lots or parcels of land 
 in proportion to their frontage upon such sidewalks, or in pro- 
 portion to their superficial area, as may be provided by ordi- 
 nance ordering the laying down of such sidewalk ; and in 
 case such ordinance shall only require the payment of a part 
 of the cost of such sidewalk to be paid by a special tax as 
 aforesaid, then the residue of such cost shall be paid out of 
 any fund of such city, town, or village, raised by general tax- 
 ation upon the property thereof, and not otherwise appro- 
 priated. 
 
 2. WHAT ORDINANCE MAY PROVIDE.] Said ordinance shall 
 define the location of such proposed sidewalk with reasonable 
 certainty, shall prescribe its width, the materials of which it 
 shall be constructed, and the manner of its construction, and
 
 232 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 may provide that the materials and construction shall be 
 under the supervision of, and subject to, the approval of some 
 officer or board of officers of such city, town and village, to be 
 designated in said ordinance. Said ordinance shall be pub- 
 lished as required by law for other ordinances of said city, 
 town or village, and may require all owners of lots or parcels 
 of land touching the line of said proposed sidewalk to con- 
 struct a sidewalk in front of their respective lots or parcels in 
 accordance with the specifications of said ordinance, within 
 thirty days after such publication, and in default thereof, said 
 materials to be furnished and sidewalk constructed by said 
 city, town, or village, and the cost, or such part thereof as 
 may be fixed in said ordinance, may be collected from the re- 
 spective owners of said lots or parcels of land as hereinafter 
 provided. 
 
 3. IN CASE OWNER NEGLECTS TO CONSTRUCT.] In case of the 
 default of any lot owner or owners to construct the sidewalks, 
 as required by ordinance, and the same shall be constructed 
 by the city, town, or village, the cost thereof, or such part of 
 the cost thereof as may have been fixed by said ordinance, 
 may be recovered of the owners so in default by an action of 
 debt in the name of the city, town, or village, against such 
 owners respectively, in any court of competent jurisdiction, or 
 upon the completion of the work by such city, town, or vil- 
 lage. Such ordinance may provide that a bill of the cost of 
 such sidewalk, showing in separate items the cost of grading, 
 materials, laying down, and supervision, shall be filed in the 
 office of the clerk of such city, town, or village, certified to 
 by the officer or board designated by said ordinance to take 
 charge of the construction of said sidewalk, together with a 
 list of the lots or parcels of land touching upon the line of 
 said sidewalk, the names of the owners thereof, and the front- 
 age, superficial area, or assessed value as aforesaid, according 
 as said ordinance may provide for the levy of said costs by 
 frontage, superficial area, or assessed value; whereupon said 
 clerk shall proceed to prepare a special tax list against said 
 lots or parcels, and the owners thereof, ascertaining by com- 
 putation the amount of special tax to be charged against each 
 of said lots or parcels and the owners thereof, on account of 
 the construction of said sidewalk, according to the rule fixed 
 for the levy, of such special tax by said ordinance, which 
 special tax-list shall be filed in the office of said clerk ; and 
 said clerk shall thereupon issue warrants directed to such 
 officer as may be designated in such ordinance, for the collec- 
 tion of the amount of special tax so ascertained and appear-
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 233 
 
 ing from said special tax-list to be due from the respective 
 owners of the lots or parcels of land touching upon the line 
 of said sidewalk ; and such officer shall proceed to collect 
 such warrants in the same manner as constables are author- 
 ized to collect executions, and make return thereof, together 
 with the moneys collected, to the clerk of such city, town, or 
 village, within sixty days from the date of their issue ; and in 
 case any such warrant shall be returned, as to the whole or 
 any part thereof, " no property found," other warrants may 
 issue, and proceedings by garnishment may be resorted to, as 
 in cases of garnishment in aid of the collection of judgments 
 at law, and all moneys so collected and paid over to said clerk 
 shall be, by him, immediately paid over to the treasurer of 
 said city, town, or village. 
 
 4. SPECIAL TAX DUTY OF CLERK REPORT.] Upon failure 
 to collect such special tax as heretofore provided in this act, it 
 shall be the duty of said clerk, within such time as such or- 
 dinance may provide, to make report of all such special tax, 
 in writing, to such general officer of the county as may be au- 
 thorized by law to apply for judgment against, and sell lands 
 for taxes clue county or state, of all the lots or parcels of land 
 upon which such special tax shall be so unpaid, with the 
 names of the respective owners thereof, so far as the same are 
 known to said clerk, and the amount due and unpaid upon 
 each tract, together with a copy of the ordinance ordering the 
 construction of said sidewalk, which report shall be accom- 
 panied by the oath of the clerk that the list is a correct return 
 of the lots and parcels of land on which the special tax levied 
 by authority of said city, town, or village, for the cost or par- 
 tial cost (as the case may be) of the sidewalk in said ordinance 
 specified, remains due and unpaid, and that the amounts 
 therein stated as due and unpaid have not been collected, nor 
 any part thereof. Said reports, when so made, shall be prima 
 facie evidence that all the forms and requirements of the law 
 in relation to making such return have been complied with, 
 and that the special tax, as mentioned in said report, is due 
 and unpaid. 
 
 5. GENERAL OFFICER TO OBTAIN JUDGMENT BY WHAT LAWS 
 GOVERNED.] When said general officer shall receive the afore- 
 said report, he shall atonce proceed to obtain judgment against 
 said lots or parcels of land for said special tax remaining due 
 and unpaid, in the same manner as may be provided by law 
 for obtaining judgment against lands for taxes due and unpaid 
 county and state, and shall in the same manner proceed to sell 
 the same for the said special tax due and unpaid. In obtam- 
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 234 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 ing said judgment and making said sale, the said officer 
 shall be governed by the general revenue laws of the state, 
 except when otherwise provided herein, and said general laws 
 shall also be applicable to the execution or certificates of sale, 
 and deeds thereon, and the force and effect of such sales and 
 deeds ; and all other laws in relation to the enforcement and 
 collection of taxes, and redemption from tax sales, shall be 
 applicable to proceedings to collect such special tax, except 
 as herein otherwise provided. 
 
 6. WHEN CONSTRUCTED BY OWNER MAY OBTAIN ORDER.] 
 Whenever payment of the costs of any such sidewalk is re- 
 quired to be made in part by special tax, and in part out of 
 any general fund of such city, town, or village, and the owner 
 of any such lot or parcel of land shall construct such sidewalk 
 in accordance with the ordinance providing for its construc- 
 tion, such owner shall file with the clerk of such city, town, 
 or village, an itemized statement of the cost of such sidewalk 
 so constructed, by him verified by affidavit, together with a 
 certificate of the officer or board directed by such ordinance 
 to superintend the construction thereof, that such sidewalk 
 has been constructed and fully completed by such owner in 
 accordance with such ordinance, and the council of such city, 
 town, or village shall thereupon, at its first meeting thereafter', 
 allow and order to be issued to such owner, an order on the 
 treasurer of such city, town, or village, for the cost of the 
 construction of such sidewalk, less the amount of special tax 
 chargeable to the lot or parcel of land of such owner on the 
 line of which such sidewalk has been so constructed. 
 
 WATER WORKS. 
 
 An Act authorizing Cities, Incorporated Towns and Vil- 
 lages to construct and maintain Water Works. 
 
 [Approved and in force April 15, 1873.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Power to supply water letting contract. 
 
 2. Borrow money tax. 
 
 3. May acquire property for works, etc. 
 
 4. Rules tax assessment lien. 
 
 5. Special assessment. 
 
 6. Separate fnnd. 
 
 7. When act not apply. 
 - 8. Emergency. 
 
 SECTION 1. POWER TO SUPPLY WATER LETTING CONTRACT.] 
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the 
 General Assembly : That all cities, incorporated towns and vil-
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 235 
 
 lages in this State be and are hereby authorized, and shall 
 have power to provide for a supply of water for the purposes of 
 fire protection, and for the use of the inhabitants of such cities, 
 incorporated towns or villages, by the erection, construction 
 [and] maintaining of a system of water works : Provided, that 
 all contracts for the erection or construction of any such works, 
 or any part thereof, shall be let to the lowest responsible bid- 
 der therefor, upon not less than three weeks' public notice of 
 the terms and conditions upon which the contract is to be let 
 having been given, by publication in a newspaper published 
 in such city, town or village ; or if no newspaper is published 
 therein, then in some newspaper published in the county ; 
 And, provided further, that no member of the City Council or 
 Board of Trustees, or Mayor, shall be directly or indirectly 
 interested in any such contract; and in. all cases the Council or 
 Board of Trustees, as the case may be, shall have the right to 
 reject any and all bids that may not be satisfactory to them. 
 2. BORROW MONEY TAX.] Such cities, incorporated 
 towns and villages may borrow money and levy and collect a 
 
 feneral tax in the same manner as other municipal taxes may 
 e levied and collected, for the erection, construction and 
 maintaining of such water works, and appropriate money for 
 the same. 
 
 3. MAY ACQUIRE PROPERTY FOR WORKS, ETC.] For the 
 purpose of erecting, constructing, locating, maintaining or 
 supplying such water works, any such city, incorporated town 
 or village may go beyond its territorial limits, and may take, 
 hold and acquire property and real estate, by purchase or oth- 
 erwise ; and shall also have the power to take, hold and acquire 
 and condemn any and all necessary property and real estate 
 for the location, erection, construction and maintaining of 
 such water works, in the manner provided for the taking and 
 condemning of private property for public use ; and may also 
 acquire and hold real estate and other property and rights 
 necessary for the location, erection, construction and mainte- 
 nance of such water works by purchase or otherwise ; and the 
 jurisdiction of such city, town or village to prevent or punish 
 any pollution or injury to the stream or source of water for the 
 supply of such water works, shall extend ten miles beyond its 
 corporate limits. 
 
 4. RULES TAX ASSESSMENT LIEN.] The Common 
 Council of such cities, or Trustees of such towns or villages, shall 
 have power to make and enforce all needful rules and regula- 
 tions in the erection, construction and management of such 
 water works, and for the use of water supplied by the same.
 
 286 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 And such cities, towns and villages shall have the right and 
 power to tax, assess and collect from the inhabitants thereof 
 such tax, rent or rates for the use or benefit of water used or 
 supplied to them by such water works, as the Common Council 
 or Board of Trustees, as the case may be, shall deem just and 
 expedient. And all such water taxes, rates or rents shall be a 
 lien upon the premises and real estate upon or for which the 
 same is used or supplied. And such taxes, rents or rates 
 shall be paid and collected, and such lien enforced, in such 
 manner as the Common Council shall, by ordinance, direct 
 and provide. 
 
 5. SPECIAL ASSESSMENT.] The expense of locating, erect- 
 ing and constructing reservoirs and hydrants for the purpose 
 of fire protection, and the expense of constructing and laying 
 water main pipes, or such part thereof as may be just and 
 lawful, may be assessed upon and collected from the property 
 and real estate specially benefited thereby, if any, in such 
 manner as may be provided for the making of special assess- 
 ments for other public improvements in such cities, towns or 
 villages. 
 
 6. SEPARATE FUND.] All the income received by such 
 cities, towns or villages from such water works, from the pay- 
 ment and collection of water taxes, rents or rates, shall be 
 kept in a separate fund, and shall first be applied in the pay- 
 ment and discharge of the costs, interest on bonds or money 
 borrowed and used in the erection and construction of such 
 water works and running expenses thereof. And any surplus 
 may be applied in such manner as the Common Council or 
 Board of Trustees may direct. 
 
 7. WHEN ACT NOT APPLY.] The provisions of this act 
 shall not apply to cities, towns or villages in which water 
 works are now managed or controlled by a board of public 
 works. 
 
 8. EMERGENCY.] Whereas many of the cities embraced 
 in this act are entirely without adequate protection from fires, 
 and are without lawful authority to provide the necessary 
 means of protection authorized by this act ; therefore an emer- 
 gency exists that this act should take effect immediately : 
 therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and 
 after its passage.
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 237 
 
 An Act to provide for the laying of Water Supply Pipe by 
 Bonds and Special Assessments, payable in installments. 
 
 [Approved and in force, March 17, 1S74.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Ponds assessments payable in installments. 
 
 2. When installments payable interest. 
 
 " 3. Applies to assessments already ordered. 
 
 " 4. Emergency. 
 
 SECTION 1. BONDS ASSESSMENTS PAYABLE IN INSTALL- 
 MENTS.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre- 
 resented in the General Assembly : That whenever the corpo- 
 rate authorities of any city, town or village shall provide, by 
 ordinance, for the laying of water supply pipes, to be paid for 
 by a special assessment to be made under the provisions of 
 article nine of the act of the general assembly, entitled "An 
 act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," ap- 
 proved April 10, A. D. 1872, such corporate authorities may, 
 in their discretion, provide in such ordinance, or by an ordi- 
 nance to be adopted at any time prior to the issuance of the 
 warrant to the collector for the collection of such assessment, 
 that the amount of the estimated cost of such improvement 
 shall be provided for in the following manner, to-wit : That 
 bonds of the city, town or village, as the case may be, shall be 
 issued for such portion of the estimated cost of such improve- 
 ment as shall be apportioned to the city, town or village as 
 public benefit, payable at such time or times, within twenty 
 years, as may be provided by said ordinance, or it may in such 
 ordinance be provided that all or any portion of the amount, 
 so apportioned as public benefits, may be made by general 
 taxation in accordance with the provisions contained in said 
 article nine, and that the portion of said estimated cost which 
 shall be assessed upon property specially benefited, shall be 
 payable in such annual installments, not exceeding ten in 
 number, as may in such ordinance be prescribed : Provided, 
 that nothing in this section shall authorize any city, town or 
 village to issue such bonds to an amount, including all exist- 
 ing indebtedness, in excess of the charter, statutory or consti- 
 tutional limitation of the indebtedness of such city, town or 
 
 village. 
 
 2. WHEN INSTALLMENTS PAYABLE INTEREST.] Whenever 
 such corporate authorities shall have provided by ordinance 
 for the making of such improvement in the manner prescribed 
 in section one of this act, the first installment of the amount 
 assessed upon property specially benefited shall be payable 
 immediatelv upon the issuance, by the clerk of such city, town
 
 238 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 or village, of his warrant to the collector, and the subsequent 
 installments shall be payable annually thereafter, with interest 
 until paid, at such rate as shall be prescribed in such ordi- 
 nance, not exceeding ten per cent, per annum. 
 
 3. APPLIES TO ASSESSMENTS ALREADY ORDERED.] This act 
 shall apply to assessments already ordered for the purpose set 
 forth in section one of this act, and the ordinances in relation 
 thereto, as well as to ordinances hereafter to be adopted. 
 
 4. EMERGENCY.] Whereas certain cities, towns and vil- 
 lages are about to lay water supply pipe, and are desirous of 
 availing themselves of the provisions of this act, therefore an 
 emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall take effect 
 and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 An Act to enable Cities and Villages to contract for a sup- 
 ply of Water for Public Use, and to levy and collect a Tax 
 to pay for Water so supplied. 
 
 [Approved April 9, 1872. In force July 1,1872.] 
 
 SECTION l. Power to contract for water. 
 2. Tax. 
 
 SECTION 1, POWER TO CONTRACT FOR WATER.] Be it enacted 
 by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General 
 Assembly : That in all cities and villages where water works 
 may hereafter be constructed by an incorporated company, 
 the city or village authorities in such cities and villages may 
 contract with such incorporated company for a supply of water 
 for public use, for a period not exceeding thirty years. 
 
 2. TAX.] Any such city or village so contracting may 
 levy and collect a tax on all taxable property within such city 
 or village, to pay for the water so supplied.
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 239 
 
 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 
 
 An Act to revise the law in relation to Weights and Meas- 
 ures. 
 
 [Approved February 27, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 
 
 SECTION 1. Standards. 
 
 2. To be kept by State Sealer. 
 
 3. Heaped measure. 
 
 4. Measure not heaped. 
 
 6. The hundred weight ton. 
 
 6. Contracts must be according to standard. 
 
 7. Weight per bushel. 
 
 8. Penalty. 
 
 9. State Sealer his duties. 
 
 10. County Seal standards procured. 
 
 11. Duty of County Sealer. 
 
 12. Fees. 
 
 13. Penalty for neglect of County Sealer. 
 
 14. Penalty for using weights, etc., that do not conform. 
 
 SECTION 1. STANDARD.] Be it enacted by the People of the 
 State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the 
 weights and measures received from the United States, and 
 now in charge of the Secretary of State, to-wit: One yard 
 measure, one half bushel, one wine gallon, one wine quart, 
 one wine pint, one wine half pint, one set of avoirdupois 
 weights, consisting of fifty, twenty-five, twenty, ten, five, four, 
 three, two and one pounds, and from eight ounces down to 
 one drachm ; one set of troy weights, from five thousand pen- 
 nyweights down to half a grain, and from one pound down to 
 the ten-thousandth part of an ounce, together with the three 
 sets of balances, when received from the United States, shall 
 be and remain, and be used as the sole authorized public 
 standard of weights and measures. [R. S. 1845, p. 532, 1. 
 
 2. To BE KEPT BY STATE SEALER.] Such weights, measures 
 and balances as may be procured, from time to time, to re- 
 place those before mentioned, shall be preserved in the same 
 form, and of the same dimensions, the denominations of the 
 weights and measures being marked thereon, respectively ; 
 and they shall be sealed with the seal which is kept for that 
 purpose by the State Sealer. 
 
 3. HEAPED MEASURE.] All commodities sold by heaped 
 measure, shall be duly heaped up in the form of a cone, the 
 outside of the measure by which the same shall be measured 
 to be the limit of the base of such cone, and such cone to be 
 as hio-h as the article to be measured will admit. [R, S. 1845, 
 p. 532, 2.
 
 240 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 4. MEASURES NOT HEAPED.] The measures used for 
 measuring dry commodities, not heaped, shall be stricken 
 with a straight stick or roller, and of the same diameter from 
 end to end. [R. S. 1845, p, 532, 3. 
 
 5. HUNDRED-WEIGHT TON.] The hundred-weight shall 
 consist of one hundred pounds, and twenty such hundred- 
 weights shall constitute a ton. [R. S. 1845, p. 532, 5. 
 
 6. CONTRACTS MUST BE ACCORDING TO STANDARD.] Con- 
 tracts hereafter to be executed, made within this State, for 
 any work to be done, or for anything to be sold, delivered, 
 done, or agreed for, by'weight or measure, shall be taken and 
 construed to be made according to the standard weight and 
 measure thus ascertained. [R. S. 1845, p. 532, 4. 
 
 7. WEIGHT PER BUSHEL.] Whenever any of the follow- 
 ing articles shall be contracted for, or sold or delivered, and 
 no special contract or agreement shall be made to the con- 
 trary, the weight per bushel shall be as follows, to-wit : 
 
 Pounds. Pounds. 
 
 Stone-coal 80 Buckwheat 52 
 
 Unslacked lime 80 Coarse salt 50 
 
 Corn in the ear 70 Barley 48 
 
 Wheat 60 Corn meal 48 
 
 Irish potatoes 60 Castor beans 46 
 
 White beans 60 Timothy seed 45 
 
 Clover seed 60 Hemp seed 44 
 
 Onions 57 Malt 38 
 
 Shelled corn 56 Dried peaches 33 
 
 Rye 56 Oats 32 
 
 Flax seed 56 Dried apples 24 
 
 Sweet potatoes 55 Bran 20 
 
 Turnips 55 Blue grass seed 14 
 
 Fine salt 55 Hair (plastering)... 8 
 
 [L. 1855, p. 176, 1. 
 
 8. PENALTY.] Whoever, in buying any of the articles of 
 property mentioned iii the preceding section, shall take any 
 greater number of pounds thereof to the bushel, or, in selling 
 any of said articles, shall give any less number of pounds 
 thereof to the bushel than is allowed by said section, with an 
 intent to gain an advantage thereby, except where expressly 
 authorized so to do by special contract or agreement to that 
 effect, shall be liable to the party injured in double the amount 
 of the property so wrongfully taken or not given, and $10 in
 
 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 241 
 
 addition thereto, to be recovered in any form of action, in any 
 court of competent jurisdiction. 
 
 9. STATE SEALER HIS DUTIES.] The Secretary of State 
 shall be, ex-qfficio, State Sealer of weights and measures, and 
 shall have the care and custody of the authorized public stand- 
 ards of weights and measures. He shall try and prove, by 
 such standards, all weights and measures, scales and beams 
 which may belong to any county, and be sent or brought to 
 him for that purpose by the County Sealer, and shall seal such, 
 when found to be accurate, by stamping on them the letter 
 "I," with a seal which he shall have and keep for that pur- 
 pose. [R. S. 1845, p. 533, 9, 14. 
 
 10. COUNTY SEALER STANDARDS PROCURED.] The County 
 Clerk of each county shall be the sealer of weights and meas- 
 ures for the county, and shall have the care and custody of the 
 county standards. He shall procure, at the expense of the 
 county, when authorized by the County Board, and not al- 
 ready provided, a full set of weights and measures, scales and 
 beams, which he shall cause to be tried, proved and sealed by 
 the State standards, under the direction of the Secretary of 
 State. [R. S. 1845, p. 532, 8 ; p. 533, 14. 
 
 11. DUTY OF COUNTY SEALER.] The several county sealers 
 shall try and prove all weights and measures, scales and 
 beams, when requested so to do ; and when the same are 
 found or made to conform to the legal standards, they shall 
 seal and mark such weights and measures, with a seal to be 
 kept by them for that purpose. [R. S. 1845, p. 533, 10. 
 
 12. FEES.] The secretary of state and each county 
 sealer shall be entitled to receive for his services, at and after 
 the following rates: For sealing and marking every beam, ten 
 cents; for sealing and marking measures of extension, at the 
 rate of ten cents per yard, not to exceed fifty cents for any one 
 measure; for sealing and marking every weight, two cents ; 
 for sealing and marking liquid and dry measures, if the same 
 be of the capacity of a gallon or more, ten cents, or less than 
 a gallon five cents. They shall also be entitled to a reasona- 
 ble compensation for making such weights and measures con- 
 form to the standard established by this act. [R. S. 1845, 
 
 p. 533, 12. 
 
 13. PENALTY FOR NEGLECT OF COUNTY SEALER.] J^very 
 county clerk who neglects to have the standards under his 
 charge compared and sealed as required by this act, or neg- 
 lects to keep the same in good order and repair, or who .suffers 
 any of them, through his neglect, to be lost, damaged or 
 stroyed, shall forfeit to the county not less than $60 nor moi 
 31
 
 242 LAWS AFFECTING THE CITY. 
 
 than $200, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of 
 the county. [R. S. 1845, p. 533, 11. 
 
 14. PENALTY FOR USING WEIGHTS, ETC., THAT DO NOT CON- 
 FORM.] Whoever sells by any other weights, measures, scales, 
 beams or balances than such as conform to such standards, 
 shall forfeit a sum not exceeding $20 for each offense, and 
 when by the custom of trade they are provided by the buyer, 
 if he purchases by any other weights, measures, scales, beams 
 or balances, he shall be subject to a like penalty, to be re- 
 covered before a justice of the peace in the name and for the 
 use of the person complaining.
 
 APPENDIX.
 
 THE CITY GOVERNMENT, 
 
 FROM ITS INCORPORATION IN 1850, TO THE 
 YEAR 1876. 
 
 1850 DAVID I. PERRY, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Jay N. Ward. 
 SECOND WARD Bailey H. Cofi'ey. 
 THIRD WARD Wm. Gillespie. 
 FOURTH WARD E. Thomas. 
 
 1851 CHARLES P. MERRIMAN, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Joshua H. Harlan. 
 SECOND WARD Bailey H. Coffey. 
 THIRD WARD Wm. Gillespie. 
 FOURTH WARD E. Thomas. 
 
 1852 JOHN H. WICKIZER, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Joshua H. Harlan. 
 SECOND WARD William Wallace. 
 THIRD WARD Bailey H. Coffey. 
 FOURTH WARD Thomas F. Worrell. 
 
 1853 WILLIAM WALLACE, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Goodman Ferre. 
 SECOND WARD Samuel Doughty. 
 THIRD WARD William Gillespie. 
 FOURTH WARD Thomas F. Worrell. 
 
 1854 JOHN W. EWING, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Goodman Ferre. 
 SECOND WARD Samuel Doughty.
 
 246 APPENDIX. 
 
 THIRD WARD Daniel J. Combs. 
 FOURTH WARD John L. Routt. 
 
 1855 FRANKLIN PRICE, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Henry S. Herr. 
 SECOND WARD Oliver Ellsworth. 
 THIRD WARD George Hinshaw. 
 FOURTH WARD John L. Routt. 
 
 1856 FRANKLIN PRICE, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Milo Chatfield, 
 SECOND WARD Oliver Ellsworth. 
 THIRD WARD Mark Ross. 
 FOURTH WARD J. T. Stevenson. 
 
 1857 AMASA J. MERRIMAN, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Milo Chatfield. 
 SECOND WARD Alex B. Shaffer, 
 THIRD WARD Mark Ross. 
 FOURTH WARD W. C. Watkins. 
 
 1858 A. J. MERRIMAN, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Milo Chatfield. 
 SECOND WARD Alex. B. Shaffer. 
 THIRD WARD E. H. Rood. 
 FOURTH WARD D. F. Stinson. 
 
 1859 JOHN M. STILWILL, Mayor. 
 FIRST WARD Goodman Ferre. 
 SECOND WARD George W. Parke. 
 THIRD WARD E. H. Rood. 
 FOURTH WARD D. F. Stinson. 
 
 1860 H. S. HERR, Mayor. 
 FIRST WARD Goodman Ferre. 
 SECOND WARD George W. Parke. 
 THIRD WARD J. N. Larrimore. 
 FOURTH WARD Joel Depew. 
 
 1861 GEORGE PARKE, Mayor. 
 FIRST WARD D. D. Haggard. 
 SECOND WARD Robert Parke.'
 
 APPENDIX. 247 
 
 THIRD WARD J. N. Larrimore. 
 FOURTH WARD Joel Depew. 
 
 1862 GEORGE PARKE, Mayor. 
 FIRST WARD D. D. Haggard. 
 SECOND WARD Robert Parke. 
 THIRD WARD Wm. VanSchoick. 
 FOURTH WARD S. W. Dodd. 
 
 1863 A. J. MERRIMAN, Mayor. 
 FIRST WARD William Paist. 
 SECOND WARD William S. Vreeland. 
 THIRD WARD William Van Schoick. 
 FOURTH WARD S. W. Dodd. 
 FIFTH WARD R. McDonald. 
 
 1864 JOEL DEPEW, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD William Paist. 
 SECOND WARD W. S. Vreeland. 
 THIRD WARD William VanSchoick. 
 FOURTH WARD B. Holcomb. 
 FIFTH WARD M. McDonald. 
 
 1865 E. H. ROOD, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD J. Ellis. 
 SECOND WARD P. Whitmer. 
 THIRD WARD William VanSchoick. 
 FOURTH WARD B. Holcomb. 
 FIFTH WARD William Condon. 
 
 1866 E. H. ROOD, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD J. Ellis. 
 SECOND WARD P. Whitmer. 
 THIRD WARD A. B. Gillett. 
 FOURTH WARD B. Holcomb. 
 FIFTH WARD William Condon. 
 
 1867 E. H. ROOD, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD Luman Burr, J. Ellis. 
 SECOND WARD F. A. Packard, W. C. Johnson. 
 THIRD WARD S. W. Waddle, A. B. Gillett. 
 FOURTH WARD Peter Rockwell, B. Holcomb. 
 FIFTH WARD S. S. Parke, M. McGrath.
 
 248 APPENDIX. 
 
 1868 J. M. STILWILL, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD D. D. Haggard, L. Burr. 
 SECOND WARD T. J. Bunn, F. A. Packard. 
 THIRD WARD H. M. Riggs, S. W. Waddle. 
 FOURTH WARD D. 0. Moore, P. Rockwell. 
 FIFTH WARD John H. Regan, S. S. Parke. 
 
 1869 J. M. STILWILL, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD John Geltmacher, D. D. Haggard. 
 SECOND WARD John Weichlin, T. J. Bunn. 
 THIRD WARD E. F. Edwards, H. M. Riggs. 
 FOURTH WARD Peter Rockwell, D. O. Moore. 
 FIFTH WARD Michael Mahoney, J. H. Regan. 
 
 1870 T. J. BUNN", Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD E. B. Steere, John Geltmacher. 
 SECOND WARD Michael Martin, John Weichlin. 
 THIRD WARD J. P. Butler, E. F. Edwards. 
 FOURTH WARD William Wilson, Peter Rockwell. 
 FIFTH WARD James O'Donoran, Michael Mahoney. 
 SIXTH WARD H. G. Reeves, David Kern. 
 
 1871 B. F. FUNK, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD T. F. Harwood, E. B. Steere. 
 SECOND WARD Peter Folsom, M. Martin. 
 THIRD WARD E. F. Edwards, J. P. Butler. 
 FOUTH WARD George Bruner, William Wilson. 
 FIFTH WARD Henry Geymer, James O'Donovan. 
 SIXTH WARD David Kern, H. G. Reeves. 
 
 1872 B. F. FUNK, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD T. F. Harwood, E. B. Steere. 
 SECOND WARD Peter Folsom, William Spurgin. 
 THIRD WARD E. F. Edwards, J. P. Butler. 
 FOURTH WARD George Bruner, S. Sampson. 
 FIFTH WARD Henry Geymer, William H, Bell. 
 SIXTH WARD David Kern, Robert Thompson. 
 
 1873 B. F. FUNK, Mayor. 
 FIRST WARD E. B. Steere, John E. Thomas. 
 SECOND WARD William Spurgin, John W. Trotter. 
 THIRD WARD J. P. Butler, E. F. Edwards.
 
 APPENDIX. 249 
 
 FOUETH WARD S. Sampson, B. L. Lucas 
 FIFTH WARD W. H. Bell, John Maher. 
 SIXTH WARD Robert Thompson, John Reed. 
 
 1874 B. F. FUNK, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD John E. Thomas, David D. Haggard. 
 SECOND WARD John W. Trotter, William Spurgin. 
 THIRD WARD E, F. Edwards, John S. Scibird. 
 FOURTH WARD B. L. Lucas, Peter Rockwell. 
 FIFTH WARD John Maher, John Weichlein. 
 SIXTH WARD John Reed, Robert Thompson. 
 
 1875 B. F. FUNK, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD David D. Haggard, H. S. McCurdy. 
 
 SECOND WARD Wm. Spurgin, John W. Trotter, M. Hausen. 
 
 THIRD WARD John S. Scibird, A. F. Risser. 
 
 FOURTH WARD Peter Rockwell, B. L. .Lucas. 
 
 FIFTH WARD John Weichlein, John H. Regan. 
 
 SIXTH WARD Robert Thompson, John Reed. 
 
 1876 E. B. STEERE, Mayor. 
 
 FIRST WARD H. S, McCurdy, F. M. Andrus. 
 SECOND WARD John W. Trotter, Wm. Condon. 
 THIRD WARD A. F. Risser, Enoch J. Moore. 
 FOURTH WARD B. L. Lucas, Wm. Maddox. 
 FIFTH WARD John H. Regan, John Weichlein. 
 SIXTH WARD John Reed, Franklin White. 
 
 32
 
 INDEX 
 
 Sub-divisions of sections, where they exist, are indicated in the 
 index by the paragraph mark, thus: f. 
 
 PAGE. SKC. 
 
 ABATEMENT Of nuisance 79 1-5 
 
 Order of, made by Court 79 1 
 
 When may be summary 79 3 
 
 Manner of abating nuisance 80 4 
 
 "Who to pay cost of 80 5 
 
 ACCESSORIES Definition and punishment of..... 67 2 
 
 ACCOUNT For supplies when not allowed 118 4 
 
 For water supplies audited by Board ^[ 3,123 
 
 (See SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS.) 
 ACTING MAYOR Council authorized to appoint.161 
 
 Appointment of. 10 
 
 Powers of. 10 
 
 Pro tern, when appointed 10 
 
 Bond of. 10 
 
 ACTIONS To recover fines, etc., where brought.,175 
 ADVERTISEMENT Posting of on property a nui- 
 sance 74 
 
 AFFIDAVIT Warrant to be issued on 69 
 
 Form of, for warrant 69 
 
 Amendment of allowed 71 
 
 AFFRAY Penalty for committing 53 
 
 AGENT Offense committed by 67 
 
 ALDERMEN Election and term of ofiice of. 158 
 
 Additional elected.. 1^ 
 
 Qualifications of 1^9 
 
 Council may provide for election of 1 6, 16< 
 
 Not to hold' certain offices 175
 
 252 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Not to be interested in contract with city 175 10 
 
 Limit of compensation of. 179 4 
 
 To be members of Police Department 9.1 1 
 
 ALLEYS Power of Council over 172 3 
 
 Herding or tying of animal in 6 15 
 
 AMENDMENTS Allowed in prosecutions 70 7 
 
 AMUSEMENT Dangerous, Council may prohibit 
 129,169 
 
 ANIMALS Power of Council to prohibit going at 
 
 large 1 27, 270 
 
 Power of Council to punish abuse of. f 25, 169 
 
 Power of Council to compel fastening of.^ 25, 169 
 
 Penalty for permitting to go at large 1 1 
 
 Duty of pound-keeper to take up and receive ..2 3 
 
 Policeman to take up. 2 t 
 
 Person injured by may take up 2 4 
 
 Person taking up to notify officer 2 4 
 
 Proceedings upon complaint 3 5 
 
 Order to sell made, when 3 5 
 
 Unknown owner, complaint, etc 3 6 
 
 Notice to unknown owner, form, etc 3 6 
 
 Order of sale, from, etc., return 4 8 
 
 Proceedings against unknown owner 4 7 
 
 Notice of sale, form, posting, etc 4 9 
 
 Surplus proceeds from sale 5 12 
 
 Penalty for hindering impounding of 5 13 
 
 Penalty for wrongfully taking up" 6 14 
 
 Herding or tying, when deemed a violation 6 15 
 
 Fees for impounding 17 6 
 
 Fees for keeping and feeding in pound 17 6 
 
 Butcher to record description of slaughtered... 37 2 
 
 Penalty for butchering diseased 38 4 
 
 Penalty for selling flesh of diseased 38 5 
 
 Cruelty to, prohibited 58 13 
 
 Penalty for abandoning upon street 58 13 
 
 Penalty for riding or driving immoderately 58 2 
 
 Penalty forscaring 59 5 
 
 Penalty for leaving unfastened 59 6 
 
 Vicious, not to go at large, penalty 59 10 
 
 Penalty for driving upon lawn or sidewalk 61 3 
 
 Penalty for feeding in fire limits, etc 62 7 
 
 Penalty for turning in public inclosure 62 7 
 
 Hitching to lamp post, etc 62 8 
 
 Suffering carcass of to remain in city 75 11
 
 INDEX. 253 
 
 ANNEXATION OF TERRITORY-Act of Leg- 4 ' 
 islature concerning .......................... 199-203 
 
 APPEALS Power of Council to regulate ............ 171 2 
 
 City may take without bond ......................... 175 8 
 
 Additional evidence on, admitted ......... ......... 179 2 
 
 When allowed ........................................... 72 16 
 
 APPEAL BOND Council may require to be given!71 2 
 
 APPENDIX To revised ordinances ............. 245-249 
 
 APPLICATION For leave to tap water pipesl 2, 122 
 For water, to state purpose, etc .............. ^ 9, 123 
 
 For peddler's license, what to state ................. 41 4 
 
 For liquor license, what to state .................... 51 2 
 
 For license, generally .................................. 33 1 
 
 For auction license, what to state ................... 35 3 
 
 APPOINTMENT Of pound-keeper .................... 2 
 
 Of additional pound-keepers, when ................ 5 10 
 
 Of City Sexton .......................................... 8 
 
 Of officers, generally, when made, etc ............ 81 1 
 
 Of City Assessor ....................................... 83 1 
 
 Of Town Collector for city ........................... 86 4 
 
 Of City Engineer ...................................... 86 1 
 
 Of City Weigher ....................................... 89 1 
 
 Of Health Officer ...................................... 90 
 
 Of Inspector of Weights and Measures .......... 91 
 
 Of City Measurer ....................................... 93 
 
 Of Oil Inspector ........................................ 94 
 
 Of Water Board ......................................... 119 
 
 Of Superintendent of Water Works .............. 119 
 
 ARREST Council may authorize for breach of 
 
 ordinance ........................................... 171 
 
 Power of City officers to make ..................... 176 
 
 Duty of officer making ................ ............... 71 
 
 For violation of ordinance ........................... 69 
 
 ASSESSOR See CITY ASSESSOR. 
 
 ASSAULT AND BATTERY Penalty for com- 
 
 mitting .................... ....................... V\,55 
 
 ASSESSMENT For street improvement howmade!72 
 Council may authorize suit for amount of. ....... 172 
 
 Of water rents ............................ ............. ]\ 
 
 Delinquent returned to County Collector ........ 11 
 
 Of property, how made 
 
 * 
 
 Dutv of Attorney to inspect rolls of ............... 
 
 (See SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.) 
 
 ASSETS Of city, account of kept.......... ........... b 
 
 ATTEMPT To commit offense, penalty tor ......... o/
 
 254 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 ATTORNEY See CITY ATTORNEY. 
 
 AUCTIONS AND AUCTIONEERS Power of 
 
 Council to license auctions 1 9, 167 
 
 License required 34 1 
 
 Blooded stock exempt 34 1 
 
 Auctioneers to give bond 35 1-2 
 
 Condition of auctioneer's bond 35 2 
 
 Rate and time of license for 35 3 
 
 Application to state place of business 35 3 
 
 License not transferable 35 4 
 
 "Who may sell under license 35 4 
 
 License to cover but one place of business 35 4 
 
 Change of place of business 35 4 
 
 Auctioneers to pay 1 per ct. of sale to treasurer 35 5 
 
 Auctioneer to keep 1)ook 36 6 
 
 Auctioneer to make statements of sales 36 6 
 
 Selling at auction without license, penalty 36 7 
 
 Substitution of article and other frauds, penalty 36 8 
 
 AWNING Penalty for defacing 61 2 
 
 Unsafe, a nuisance 78 22 
 
 "Wooden, with supports, a nuisance 78 23 
 
 IB. 
 
 BAIL When defendant to give 70 5 
 
 BALL PLAYING Upon public grounds, penalty 63 15 
 
 BALLOT BOXES How constructed .. 15 6 
 
 To be examined and locked by judges 15 6 
 
 BASE PLANE For computation of grades, estab- 
 lished 24 1 
 
 BAWDY HOUSE Power of Council' to prohibit. 
 
 p ;-; : 112,168 
 
 Penalty for keeping 55 g 
 
 Penalty against inmate of, etc 56 9 
 
 EEF Council may cause inspection of IF 22 169 
 
 ETTING-Penalty for . 57 11 
 
 BEGGARS Power of Council to restrain and pun- 
 ish ...IT 35 170 
 
 BILL Of supplies, to be filed with Clerk.... ' .'.118 3 
 
 When not allowed by Council 118 4 
 
 What to contain ''.'.118 5 
 
 Certificate of officer to 118 
 
 Preserved by Clerk after payment.!!!.!.!... ....'!! 85 
 
 BILL BOARDS When a nuisance . 76 13
 
 INDEX. 255 
 
 BILL OF EXCEPTIONS May be required on*' 
 appeals, etc 171 
 
 BILL OF PARTICULARS When "fiied'in city 
 
 cases^. 70 g 
 
 BILL POSTERS License for required, rate, etc.. 50 2 
 Penalty for failing to obtain license ,. 51 
 
 BILLIARD ROOMS To be closed on Sunday 37 2 
 
 To be closed at 11 p. m 37 2 
 
 Keeper of to exclude minors, penalty 37 3 
 
 BILLIARD TABLES Power of Council to license, 
 
 etc 1 30, 170 
 
 License for, rate, etc., penalty 37 1 
 
 BLACKSMITH (SHOPS) Power of Council over 
 
 117,168 
 
 BLOOMINGTON (See CITY OF BLOOMINGTON.) 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH Appointment of. 10 4 
 
 To designate place for removal of patients 60 17 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION Election, powers and 
 
 duties of. 219-229 
 
 BOND Power of Council to require of officer. ...f 1, 167 
 
 Power of Council to require on appeal 171 2 
 
 Not required of city on appeal 175 
 
 Of Pound-keeper 2 
 
 Of Mayor and Acting Mayor 10 
 
 For license, clerk to take and approve 34 
 
 Auctioneer required to give 35 1-; 
 
 Of junk-dealer 41 
 
 Of pawnbroker 43 
 
 Of porters and runners 45 
 
 Of liquor seller 51 
 
 Terms and conditions of liquor seller's bond... 51 
 
 Penalty for selling liquor without giving 52 
 
 Of city officers generally 82 
 
 Of City Assessor 
 
 Of City Attorney * 
 
 Attorney to draft for city 
 
 Of City Clerk * 
 
 Of City Collector * 
 
 Of City Engineer * 
 
 Of City Weigher - 
 
 Of Health Officer 
 
 Of Inspector of Weights and Measures 91 
 
 Of City Measurer ; J 
 
 Of Oil Inspector j; 
 
 Of Street Commissioner
 
 256 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Of City Treasurer 96 1 
 
 Of Superintendent of Water Works 120 4 
 
 BONDS Powers of Council to issue for fire purposes! 73 5 
 
 Power to issue to C. & A. R. R. Co 177 1 
 
 Power to issue for sewerage purposes 180 1-2 
 
 BOOK To be kept by City Weigher 89 3 
 
 BOON STREET Grade of. 28 6 
 
 BOUNDARIES Of city 157 1 
 
 (See CITY LIMITS.) 
 
 BO YS Not to go abroad at night 68 5 
 
 Policemen to arrest, etc 68 5 
 
 BREWERY Power of Council over f 17, 168 
 
 When deemed a nuisance- 76 16 
 
 BREACH OF PEACE Penalty for committing... 53 2 
 
 BRIDGES- To be maintained by R. R. companies.107 1 
 (See RAILROADS.) 
 
 Committee on appointed 10 4 
 
 Penalty for injuring 61 2 
 
 BROKERS Power to license, etc 1 9, 167 
 
 Obstruction of a nuisance 75 8 
 
 BUILDING Power of Council to erect 1 9, 167 
 
 Unsafe, Council may prohibit ^ 39, 171 
 
 Posting bills on, nuisance 74 5 
 
 Unsafe, declared a nuisance 78 26 
 
 Council may stop erection of, when 79 27 
 
 BUILDING LINES Grade of, what to be 25 3 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 BUILDING MATERIAL Council may cause in- 
 spection of. f 22, 169 
 
 To be measured, etc 93 2 
 
 (See CITY MEASURER.) 
 
 BURNING FLUID Inspector of appointed 94 1 
 
 (See OIL INSPECTOR.) 
 
 BUTCHERS Power of Council to license, etc 178 1 
 
 License for required, rate, time, etc 37 1 
 
 Who deemed 37 i 
 
 To keep book, description of animals killed, etc. 37 2 
 
 Book subject to inspection of officers 37 2 
 
 Penalty for failure to keep book 38 2 
 
 Report, penalty for false report, etc 38 3 
 
 Killing diseased animals, etc., penalty 38 4 
 
 Selling diseased meat, etc., penalty 38 5 
 
 Meat Inspectors, powers of, etc 39 6 
 
 Condemnation of meat, etc 39 6 
 
 Refusal to exhibit animal, etc . 39 7
 
 INDEX. 257 
 
 T7- . T PAOB. SBC. 
 
 Keeping condemned meat, etc 39 7 
 
 Appeal to Marshal or Mayor allowed 39 
 
 Moieties given informers, etc 39 8 
 
 BUTTER When Council may authorize seizure 
 o f - f40,171 
 
 c. 
 
 CAB Rate of license for 49 2 
 
 Rate of charges for by the hour 49 4 
 
 CANNON Penalty for firing 58 1 
 
 CAR Speed regulated in city 108 6 
 
 Penalty for getting upon while in motion 63 14 
 
 CARAVAN (See SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS.) 
 CARRIAGES Rate of license for 48 2 
 
 Charges for by hour 49 4 
 
 Where to wait for employment 50 7 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 CARTS Power of Council to license, etc 1 9, 167 
 
 C. & A. R. R. Council authorized to issue bonds 
 
 for 177 1 
 
 CAPTAIN OF NIGHT POLICE Duties of in 
 
 case of fire, etc 22 13 
 
 May enter gaming house or house of ill-fame, 
 
 etc 68 6 
 
 Duty to arrest inmates of unlawful houses 68 
 
 CATTLE When keeping of a nuisance 73 
 
 Not to go at large 
 
 CELLAR When foul, a nuisance 74 7 
 
 Door of open, a nuisance i 77 
 
 Power of Council over 1 17,168 
 
 CELLAR DOOR Leaving open of, a nuisance 77 
 
 CEMETERIES Land embraced in City Cemetery 6 
 
 To be laid off into lots, etc 
 
 Lots to be numbered 
 
 Sale of lots, terms, etc 6 
 
 Commons to be set apart 
 
 Penalty of digging in lot of another 7 
 
 Manner of conveying lots 7 
 
 Form of deed to lots 
 
 Treasurer to keep record of lots, etc 
 
 Treasurer to keep Cemetery account 
 
 Appointment and duties of Sexton 
 
 Sexton to remove bodies, when 
 
 Who to pay expense of removal 
 
 33
 
 258 INDEX. 
 
 PAOK. SBC. 
 
 Sexton to keep record and report 
 
 Hunting, trespassing, etc., penalty 10 
 
 Going upon grounds in night, etc., penalty 11 
 
 Fees of Sexton 18 7 
 
 CENSUS Power of Council to provide for.. .^ 23, 169 
 
 CENTRE STREET Grade of. 27 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 CERTIFICATE City Weigher to give, when 89 
 
 Of Weigher, false, etc., penalty 89 
 
 Of measurement, when given 93 
 
 Fraudulent, penalty ., 94 
 
 Of publication of ordinance 97 
 
 Of correctness of account made by officer 118 5 
 
 CHAIRS Penalty for placing in aisles 60 11 
 
 CHARTER Of 1867 157 
 
 Of 1867 deemed a public act 176 14 
 
 Of 1867, when in force 176 15 
 
 CHANGE OF VENUE Council may prohibit in 
 
 city cases 171 
 
 CHECK To be worn in collar of dog 12 2 
 
 CHESTNUT STREET Grade of. 31 
 
 CHIMNEY Unsafe, nuisance 78 26 
 
 When Council may stop building of. 79 27 
 
 CHURCH Placing chair in aisle of, penalty 60 11 
 
 CHIEF ENGINEER (of Fire Department,) Pow- 
 ers and duties of, generally 20 2 
 
 To keep fire apparatus in order 20 
 
 To have command at fires, etc 21 4 
 
 May call on bystanders to aid 21 14 
 
 Who to command in absence of. 21 5 
 
 Drivers subject to 21 8 
 
 Members not to leave tire without permission 
 
 of 22 9 
 
 CIRCUS (See SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS.) 
 
 CISTERNS Throwing tilth in, a nuisance :.... 75 12 
 
 Public, Council may regulate ^f 31,170 
 
 CITY ATTORNEY Qualifications of. 83 1 
 
 Bond to be given by 83 1 
 
 Duties of, generally 83 1 
 
 List of witnesses to be furnished to 71 10 
 
 (See OFFICERS.) 
 
 CITY ASSESSOR Charter, duties of. 163 11 
 
 Appointment of. 83 1 
 
 Bond to be given by 83 1 
 
 Duties, to assess according to statute 83 2
 
 INDEX. 159 
 
 -TTT1- PAGE. SKC. 
 
 W hen town assessors, appointed 83 3 
 
 (See OFFICERS.) 
 
 CITY COLLECTOR Duties prescribed in char- 
 ter 164 12 
 
 Bond of. 85 i 
 
 To proceed according to state law 86 3 
 
 Return of books, settlement 86 3 
 
 To report delinquents to Council 86 3 
 
 Town collectors appointed 86 4 
 
 CITY ENGINEER Appointed and bond of. 86 1 
 
 Stipulating in bond of. 87 2 
 
 Duties of, generally 87 3 
 
 To make monthly report to Council f 3, 87 3 
 
 To keep grades in book of city ^f 4, 87 3 
 
 When to give grades ^[ 5, 87 3 
 
 To turn over books, etc., to successor ^[6, 88 
 
 To advice Council of materials needed 88 4 
 
 To keep maps, etc., on books of city 88 4 
 
 Results of labor to belong to the city 88 4 
 
 Not to do outside work 88 5 
 
 Outside earnings of, paid to Treasurer 88 5 
 
 Ex-Offitio Commissioner of Sidewalks and Spe- 
 cial Assessments 88 6 
 
 Duties as Commissioner, etc 88 6 
 
 CITY COUNCIL Created by charter 158 
 
 To give notice of city election 160 1 
 
 To regulate elections, appoint judges, etc 160 
 
 Mav fix time of meeting 162 
 
 Quorum 162 
 
 Yeas and nays, when entered 162 
 
 To judge of qualifications of members 162 
 
 Power of to levy taxes 164 
 
 Charter powers of generally 167-173 
 
 Acts of not invalidated by new charter 175 
 
 Meetings of. 
 
 Marshal to notify members of special meeting.. 1 
 
 Mayor to appoint standing committees of 1 
 
 Duties of standing committees of. 
 
 Rules of order of. H-; 
 
 Hour of meeting 1 1 j 
 
 Order of business 1 2 > 1 
 
 To appoint judges of election j 
 
 When to fix pay of officers, etc } 
 
 When may revoke license, etc ; 
 
 Permission of required to erect soap factories .. 76
 
 260 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Permission of required to erect slaughter 
 
 houses 76 
 
 May stop erection of unsafe building, etc 79 27 
 
 City Clerk to attend meetings of. 85 
 
 Clerk to keep records and proceedings of. 85 2 
 
 May retire Health Officer from pay 91 6 
 
 To fix amount of Treasurer's bond 96 1 
 
 May require new bond of Treasurer 96 1 
 
 To certify amount of taxes to County Clerk 115 2 
 
 To designate purchaser on allowing requisition 118 
 
 May direct Water Board 121 9 
 
 May rescind rulings of Water Board 1 25, 126 
 
 CITY MARSHAL Powers and duties in charter.. 163 10 
 Council may authorize to enter unlawful 
 
 houses 1 37, 170 
 
 To post notices to owners of animals 3 6 
 
 To keep book of registry for dogs 12 1 
 
 To furnish checks to owners of dogs 12 2 
 
 To post notices of city elections 13 1 
 
 Fees for serving process 16 2 
 
 To account to city for fees collected 17 2 
 
 Not to receive fees for impounding 17 6 
 
 Duties of, in case of fire 22 13 
 
 To be notified of contagious disease 60 17 
 
 To remove patients, post placards, etc 61 17 
 
 To acquaint vagrant with ordinance 66 3 
 
 May enter unlawful houses, etc 68 6 
 
 To be ordered by court to abate nuisance 79 1 
 
 When may abate nuisance summarily 79 3 
 
 Manner of abating nuisance 80 4 
 
 Duty of, to bring suit for costs of abatement... 80 5 
 
 To assist Health Officer 90 5 
 
 General duties of. 100 4 
 
 Not to leave town without notifying Mayor 100 4 
 
 To be custodian of property 100 5 
 
 To provide stars for special policemen 100 5 
 
 To make monthly report 100 6 
 
 Regulation for coat of If 2, 105 12 
 
 CITY CLERK To keep corporate seal 163 
 
 Charter, duties of, generally 163 8 
 
 To make deeds to cemetery lots 7 4 
 
 When to enter ayes and noes on record 11 6 
 
 To preserve reports of committees 11 6 
 
 To prepare notices of election 13 1 
 
 Returns of election transmitted to... .14 3
 
 INDEX. 261 
 
 . PAGE. 8C. 
 
 Duties of, in case of tie vote .......................... 14 4 
 
 To provide poll books ................................. 15 7 
 
 To furnish books to butchers ........................ 37 2 
 
 To furnish numbers to owners of vehicles ....... 49 3 
 
 To issue permits to make excavations ............. 64 20 
 
 Bond to be given by .................................... 84 1 
 
 General duties of. ....................................... 85 2 
 
 Office hours of. .................................... 17, 85 2 
 
 To procure standards of weights and measures 91 2 
 
 To preserve report of Inspector, &c ............... 92 6 
 
 To cause ordinances to be published, etc ......... 97 1 
 
 To be clerk of Water Board ......................... 119 
 
 Duties as clerk of Water Board .................... 121 6 
 
 To make duplicate water assessments ...... 1 1, 131 
 
 To report delinquents to Water Board ...... 1 4, 132 
 
 To issue license .......................................... 33 
 
 To take and approve license bond .................. 34 1 
 
 CITY TREASURER Charter duties of. ............. 163 
 
 Bond of, Council to fix ................................ 96 
 
 Bond of to be double amount of funds ........... 96 
 
 General duties of. ....................................... 96 
 
 What accounts to be kept by ........................ 96 
 
 To examine Collector's book, settlement ......... 116 
 
 All moneys to be paid to .............................. 116 
 
 To notify persons owing water rents ........ 1 2, 131 
 
 Application made to for license ..................... 33 
 
 CITY OF BLOOMINGTON To be plaintift in 
 prosecutions .............................................. ^ 
 
 Costs not to be taxed against ........................ j 
 
 Security for costs not required of. .................. 69 
 
 Incorporated ............................................. |j> 
 
 Corporate limits of. ..................................... |^ 
 
 General powers of. ...................................... 15' 
 
 Division of into wards ................................. J- 
 
 Constitution of city government .................... lob 
 
 Property of, vested in corporation .................. 17o 
 
 Not to pay costs .......................................... ]l. ( 
 
 Appeal bond not required of .................. 
 
 Incorporation of, legalized ..................... ^ 
 
 CITY OFFICERS (See OFFICERS.) 
 
 CITY GOVERNMENT Officers of from 1850 
 
 1876 ........................................... l 
 
 How composed .......................... 'J'i""i""f" 
 
 bond 
 
 i 
 CITY MEASURER Appointment and bond 
 
 What to be measured by 
 

 
 262 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SBC. 
 
 To give certificates of measurement 93 
 
 What standards used by 93 2 
 
 IVnalty for exhibiting false certificate of. 94 3 
 
 Penalty against for neglect of duty 94 4 
 
 CITY LIMITS Act to extend 140 1-2 
 
 Act to further extend 142 1-2 
 
 CITY WELLS Penalty for taking water from 63 12 
 
 CITY WEIGHER Appointment and bond of. 89 1 
 
 May appoint deputies 89 1 
 
 To have charge of public scales 89 2 
 
 To weigh and give certificates 89 2 
 
 To keep book and record weights 89 3 
 
 Refusing to weigh, false certificate 89 4 
 
 Fees of. 19 11 
 
 CLAIMS Allowed by city, clerk to keep account of 85 2 
 
 Committee on, appointed 10 4 
 
 (See SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS.) 
 CLERK (See CITY CLERK and CLERKS OF ELECTION.) 
 
 Of Water Board, City Clerk to be 119 2 
 
 CLERKS OF ELECTION How selected, oath, etc. 13 2 
 
 To transmit sealed returns to Clerk 14 3 
 
 To make proclamation 15 5 
 
 To count ballots 15 8 
 
 To mark down votes 16 8 
 
 Pay of. 17 5 
 
 CLOTHING Suspended over sidewalk, nuisance.. 78 22 
 
 COAL MINE Refuse material from, nuisance 76 15 
 
 COAL OIL To be inspected, etc.. 94 2 
 
 (See OIL INSPECTOR.) 
 
 COAL VAULT When a nuisance 78 25 
 
 COLLAR To be worn by dog 12 3 
 
 COLLECTOR (See CITY COLLECTOR and COUNTY 
 
 C*OT T "|?f r p/ r ^"D \ 
 
 COMMISSION O'f city officer, Clerk to issue 82 5 
 
 Form of officer's commission 82 5 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS 
 
 Engineer to be, duties, etc 88 6 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF SIDEWALKS Engineer 
 
 to be, duties, etc 88 6 
 
 To give grades to those building sidewalks 25 4 
 
 To report to Council concerning sidewalks 25 4 
 
 When to tear up sidewalks, etc. 25 5 
 
 COMMITTEES Of City Council 10 4 
 
 COMMONS To be set apart in cemetery 7 3
 
 INDEX. 263 
 
 Removal of bodies to L 3 >K 's 
 
 (See CEMETERIES.) 
 
 COMPLAINT Against owner of impounded ani- 
 mal 2 5 
 
 Against unknown owner of animal 3 6 
 
 To be made by Health Officer against nuisances 90 4 
 
 CONSERVATORS OF THE PEACE All city 
 
 officers to be, powers, etc 176 12 
 
 CONDEMNATION Of weights and measures, 
 
 when made 92 5 
 
 Of meat, etc 39 6 
 
 CONSTRUCTION Of act of 1867 of Charter 176 13 
 
 Of certain words 98 5 
 
 Of Ordinance on Railroads as to repeal 109 9 
 
 Of ordinances generally. (See ORDINANCES.) 
 
 CONCERT (See SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS.) 
 
 CONCEALED WEAPONS Penalty for carrying.. 54 9 
 To be forfeited to city 55 10 
 
 CONTAGIOUS DISEASE Power of Council con- 
 cerning T 3, 167 
 
 Penalty for bringing into city 60 14 
 
 Attendant physician to change clothing, etc 60 16 
 
 Health Officer to be notified of. 60 17 
 
 CONTINUANCE When to be granted, length of 
 
 time, etc 70 5 
 
 Defendant to give bail in case of. 70 
 
 CONTRACTS To be drawn by Attorney 84 
 
 For supplies for city 117 
 
 (See SUPPLIES and CLAIMS.) 
 
 CORPORATE SEAL Of city kept by Clerk 163 
 
 COSTS City exempt from 175 
 
 Council may require to be worked out....f 41, 171 
 
 Of impounding paid to pound-keeper 
 
 Animals may be redeemed by paying 
 
 Security for not required from city ( 
 
 Not to be taxed against city ( 
 
 Of abating nuisance, who to pay 
 
 COUNCIL (See CITY COUNCIL.) 
 
 COUNTY CLERK Estimates for taxes certified to 1 
 Manner of extending taxes by 
 
 COUNTY COLLECTOR Delinquent taxes return- 
 ed to 1 
 
 To make statements to Council 
 
 COURT Word defined
 
 264 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC . 
 
 CROSSINGS Penalty for suffering animal or ve- 
 
 h'cle to stand upon 62 3 
 
 Penalty for otherwise obstructing 63 16 
 
 Obstruction of deemed nuisance 78 24 
 
 To be maintained by railroad companies 107 1 
 
 Penalty for failing to construct after notice 107 - 
 
 When Council may order to be built 108 3 
 
 Cost of recovered from railroad company 108 3 
 
 Obstruction of by railroad company 108 5 
 
 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS Penalty for 58 13 
 
 CURBING How constructed 77 18 
 
 When a nuisance 77 18 
 
 CULVERTS To be maintained by railroad com- 
 panies 107 1 
 
 CUSHING'S MANUAL To govern proceedings 
 
 of Council 11 C 
 
 ID. 
 
 DAIRY When a nuisance 74 6 
 
 DAMAGES For default of City Engineer 87 2 
 
 "DEAD BEAT" Deemed to be vagrant 65 1 
 
 DEED Form of for cemetery lots 7 5 
 
 DELINQUENT TA^ES Collector to report to 
 
 Council 86 3. 
 
 DEPUTIES Pound-keeper may appoint 5 10 
 
 City Weighermay appoint 89 1 
 
 DIRT Power of Council to require removal off 33, 170 
 
 Penalty for letting remain on sidewalk 62 6 
 
 DIGGING In street prohibited 64 18 
 
 DISORDERLY CONDUCT Penalty for 53 1 
 
 DISORDERLY HOUSE Power of Council to sup- . 
 press ^ 12, 168 
 
 Penalty for keeping 56 7 
 
 DISTILLERY Power of Council over f 16, 168 
 
 When a nuisance 76 16 
 
 DISTURBING PEACE Penalty for 54 3 
 
 DITCH Failure to refill or to keep guarded, nui- 
 sance 77 20 
 
 DIVISION STREET Grade of. 32 6 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 DOGS Power of Council over f 28, 170 
 
 To be registered, tax, etc 12 1 
 
 To wear check upon collar 12 2 
 
 To wear collar with owner's name... . 12
 
 INDEX. 265 
 
 Not to go at large without collar . PA 12 "3" 
 
 Proclamation of Mayor respecting '.'". 14 4 
 
 Violations, penalty 
 
 DOUGLAS STREET Grade of....'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.".''.''.' .' 31 Q 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 DRAM SHOPS Power of Council over 1 12,166 
 
 Definition of. 52 4 
 
 Penalty for keeping without license 52 4 
 
 Penalty for improperly keeping open 52 6 
 
 When frequenters of deemed vagrants 65 1 
 
 DRAIN Private, power of city over 172 3 
 
 Obstruction of nuisance....'. 75 8 
 
 Penalty for injuring 61 1 
 
 When a nuisance 74 7 
 
 DRAYS Council may license ^[9, 167 
 
 Rate of license for 49 2 
 
 Charges for carrying property on 50 4 
 
 Standing place for 50 7 
 
 Penalty for letting stand on street 63 13 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 DRIVERS Of fire engine, duties 21 
 
 Of hose cart, duties 21 8 
 
 DRUNKENESS Penalty for 58 14 
 
 Of policeman deemed cause for dismissal 101 10 
 
 EL 
 
 EAST STREET Grade of. 27 6 
 
 ELECTION Of Mayor and Alderman 158 2-3 
 
 For city officers, when held 159 
 
 Failure to elect, vacancies 159 9 
 
 Council to give notice of 160 
 
 Council to regulate generally 160 
 
 Qualifications of voters 161 
 
 Place of designated, notice, etc 13 
 
 Council to appoint Judges of, oath, etc 1 
 
 Clerks of, how selected 13 
 
 Manner of voting, returns, etc ] 
 
 Tie vote, how decided 1 
 
 Opening and closing poles, proclamation 15 
 
 Ballot boxes 15 
 
 Poll books, form, how kept 1 
 
 Counting of ballots 15 
 
 Form of election returns 1 
 
 EMPIRE STREET Grade of. 32 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 34
 
 266 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. sac. 
 
 ENGINE HOUSE Penalty for defacing .............. 61 2 
 
 ENGINEER Of fire steamer ............................ 21 6-7 
 
 (See CITY ENGINEER.) 
 
 KSTIMATES Of taxes presented to Council ....... 115 1 
 
 Certified by Council to Clerk ....................... 115 2 
 
 EXCAVATIONS Penalty for making without 
 
 permission ................................................ 64 20 
 
 Permits for, stipulation, etc .......................... 64 20 
 
 Failure to refill or guard nuisance .................. 77 20 
 
 When a nuisance ....................................... 78 24-25 
 
 For laying service pipe ......................... ^ 13, 128 
 
 Manner of refilling ............................. if 14, 129 
 
 EXECUTION Issued for fine, form, etc .............. 71 13 
 
 EXHIBITIONS (See SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS.) 
 
 EXPRESS WAGON Rate of License for ........... 49 2 
 
 Charge for carrying property on ................... 50 4 
 
 FALSE ALARM Penalty for making ................ 55 11 
 
 FALSE WEIGHTS Penalty for using ............... 93 8 
 
 FARO BAN K Penalty for keeping ................... 57 10 
 
 FEES (See FEES AND SALARIES.) 
 
 FEES AND SALARIES Impounding fees, judg- 
 
 ment for ............................................. 3 5 
 
 Pay of Mayor and Aldermen ........................ 16 1 
 
 Fees of Marshal and Policemen for serving pro- 
 
 cess ................................................... 16 2 
 
 Fees of Jurors ........................................... 17 3 
 
 Fees of Witnesses ....................................... 17 4 
 
 Fees of Judges and Clerks of election ............ 17 5 
 
 Impounding fees fixed ................................. 17 6 
 
 Fees for keeping and feeding animals ............ 17 6 
 
 Fees of City Sexton .................................... 18 7 
 
 Fees of Oil Inspectors. ................................ 18 8 
 
 Fees of Inspector of Weights and Measures... 18 9 
 
 Fees of City Measurer ................................. 18 10 
 
 Fees of City Weigher ............................... 19 11 
 
 Compensation of other officers ..................... 19 12 
 
 Manner of paying salaries ........................... 19 13 
 
 Pay of Water Board ............... . .................... 120 3 
 
 Pay of Assistants of Supt. of Water Works. ..120 4 
 Power of Council tofix fees .................. ^ 24, 169 
 
 FENCE Penalty for defacing ............................ 61 2 
 
 Posting bills on, nuisance ............................. 74 5 
 
 FERRULES Water Board to establish price of
 
 INDEX. 267 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 To be two feet or more apart J 21,130 
 
 Size of. $ 22,130 
 
 FIGHTING Penalty for 54 4 
 
 FIFTH WARD Boundaries of. 118 1 
 
 FILTH Depositing in well or cistern a nuisance... 7o \- 
 Penalty for placing on commons 75 11 
 
 FINANCE COMMITTEE Appointment of. 10 4 
 
 Assessor to settle with 86 3 
 
 To present estimates for taxes to Council 115 1 
 
 To examine collector's books, etc 116 "> 
 
 To make settlement with collectors 116 5 
 
 Order for foreign claims issued to 118 5 
 
 FINES AND PENALTIES Council may provide 
 
 for recovery of * 41, 171 
 
 Council may imprison on refusal to pay.-Tf 41, 171 
 
 Power to require, worked out Tf 41, 171 
 
 How sued for 69 
 
 Not satisfied by imprisonment 72 15 
 
 Proceedings to recover generally 68-72 
 
 FIRES Council may provide for extinguishment 
 
 of. 1 14, 168 
 
 Council may regulate conduct of person att 15, 168 
 
 FIRE COMPANIES Power of Council to organ- 
 ize 1 14, 168 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT How composed.: 5 
 
 Powers and duties of Chief Engineer 20 
 
 Apparatus to be kept in order 20 
 
 Who to command at fires, etc 2 
 
 Engineer absent, who to command 21 
 
 Engineers of steamers, duties, etc 21 
 
 Amount of steam carried, signals, etc ^ 
 
 Drivers of engines and hose carts, duties, etc... 21 
 
 Duties of members in case of fire 22 
 
 Conduct and deportment of members . 
 
 Use of liquors prohibited ' 11 
 
 Intoxication of members ** 
 
 Police to assist, alarms, etc 
 
 Violations, penalty ; JJ 
 
 Fire limits, what embraced in J 
 
 Erecting wooden building in tire limits ^ 
 
 Wooden building, when a nuisance i 
 
 Committee on fire department...... 10 
 
 Penalty for driving vehicle over hose J 
 
 FIRE ENGINES Power of Council to purchas t >...l< 
 FIRECRACKERS Penalty for exploding m city., c
 
 268 INDEX. 
 
 PAOK. SEC. 
 
 FIRE LIMITS What embraced in 23 1 
 
 Erecting wooden buildings in, penalty 23 2 
 
 Wooden building in, a nuisance 24 3 
 
 (See FIRE DEPARTMENT.) 
 
 FIRE PLUG Penalty for taking water from, etc.. 122 10-11 
 (See WATER SUPPLY.) 
 
 FIRE WOOD Inspection of, authorized 1 22,169 
 
 FIREARM Penalty for discharging in city 58 1 
 
 FIRST WARD Boundaries of, fixed ." 118 15 
 
 FLAGMEN When kept by railroad company 108 4 
 
 FOUNTAINS Not used over six hours per day 
 
 f 11,124 
 
 Penalty for using in time of fire 1 11,124 
 
 FOURTH WARD Boundaries of, fixed 118 1 
 
 FOWLS When keeping of, a nuisance 73 1 
 
 FRONT STREET Grade of. 29 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 FUNERAL Penalty for disturbing 54 7 
 
 GK 
 
 GALVANIC BATTERY When to be licensed... 51 3 
 (See LICENSES.) 
 
 GAMING Power of Council to prohibit 1 12,168 
 
 GAMING HOUSE Power of Council to prohibit, 
 
 112,168 
 
 Power of Council to "suppress" i 37,170 
 
 Penalty for keeping or permitting 57 10 
 
 Penalty against inmates and frequenters of 57 11 
 
 GAS Committee on appointed 10 4 
 
 GATE When a nuisance 76 14 
 
 GEESE Not to go at large 1 i 
 
 Fees for impounding, feeding, etc 17 6 
 
 GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS Committee on 
 
 appointed 11 4 
 
 GIFT Policeman not to accept 102 11 
 
 GOAT Not to go at large '. 1 i 
 
 GOODS Suspended over sidewalk, nuisance... . 78 
 
 GRADE BOOK To be kept by Engineer 87 3 
 
 GRADES Engineer to keep in book, etc 87 3 
 
 Engineer to give, when 87 3 
 
 How computed, base plane 24 1 
 
 To be at intersections of centre lines of streets 24 2 
 
 Grades of building lines, sidewalks, etc 25 3 
 
 Commissioner to give, when 25 4 
 
 Sidewalk off grade, penalty 25 4
 
 INDEX. 269 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Sidewalk on grade, nuisance 25 5 
 
 Grades established 25-32 6 
 
 Grade of Mason Street 25-26 
 
 Grade of Oak street 26 
 
 Grade of Lee street. 26 
 
 Grade of Madison street 26-27 
 
 Grade of Centre street 27 
 
 Grade of Main street 27 
 
 Grade of East street 27-28 
 
 Grade of Prairie street 28 
 
 Grade of Gridley street 28 
 
 Grade of McLean street 28 
 
 Grade of Boon street 28 
 
 Grade of Wright street !28-29 
 
 Grade of South Grove street 29 
 
 Grade of Olive street 29 
 
 Grade of Grove street 29 
 
 Grade of Front street 29 
 
 Grade of Washington street 29-30 
 
 Grade of Jefferson street 30 
 
 Grade of North street 30 
 
 Grade of Market street 30-3 
 
 Grade of Woodward street - 
 
 Grade of Douglas street <. 
 
 Grade of Mulberry street 
 
 Grade of Locust street J 
 
 Grade of Chestnut street... 
 
 Grade of Walnut street ..31-32 
 
 Grade of Empire street 32 
 
 Grade of Division street 
 
 Construction of chapter on grades c 
 
 GEATING When left open, a nuisance 77 
 
 GRIDLEY STREET Grade of 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 GROCERS Power of Council to license 1 
 
 GROCERY Power of Council over f 16, 16* 
 
 GROVE STREET Grade of. ' 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 GUN Penalty for firing in city....... 
 
 GUN-COTTON Penalty for weighing by gasl 
 
 When a nuisance .;.""",' 
 
 GUNPOWDER Penalty for weighing by gasli 
 
 When storage of a nuisance . 
 
 Power of Council to regulate storage of..l 17, 1 
 GUTTER Penalty for placing rubbish in t
 
 270 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SBC. 
 
 Obstruction of a nuisance. 75 8 
 
 HACKNEY COACH Power of Council to license 
 
 19,167 
 
 Rate of license for 48 2 
 
 Rate of charges for, by the hour 49 4 
 
 Standing place for 50 7 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 HAND-BILL Placing of on property, a nuisance. 74 5 
 
 HAWKERS (See PEDDLERS.) 
 
 HAY Inspection authorized 1 2, 169 
 
 Market place of, fixed 64 19 
 
 HEALTH OFFICER Appointment and bond of.. 90 1 
 
 General duties of. 90 
 
 Penalty for disobeying order of. 90 3 
 
 To complain against authors of nuisances 90 4 
 
 Marshal and policeman to assist 90 5 
 
 Council may retire from pay 91 6 
 
 Duties to devolve upon Street Commissioner... 95 2 
 
 To be member of police department 99 1 
 
 Duties in case of contagious disease 60 17 
 
 HERDING Of animals, deemed a running at large 6 15 
 
 HIDES When a nuisance 75 9 
 
 HOGS Keeping of in city, when nuisance 73 1 
 
 (See SWINE.) 
 
 HORSES Not to go at large 1 1 
 
 Penalty for driving immoderately 58 2 
 
 Penalty for scaring 59 5 
 
 Penalty for leaving unfastened 59 6 
 
 Unmanageable, not to be taken on street 59 7 
 
 Feeding on street, etc 62 7 
 
 Hitching to trees, lamp posts, etc 62 8 
 
 HORSE RACING Power of Council to prohibit 
 
 1 25, 169 
 
 HORSE RAILWAYS Power of Council to reg- 
 ulate .^..173 4 
 
 HOSE Private, not used in time of fire f 11, 124 
 
 Size of for sprinkling streets 1 13, 124 
 
 Penalty for driving vehicle over 63 17 
 
 HOSPITALS Council authorized to establish 
 
 1 34, 170 
 
 HOTEL KEEPERS May take out porter's license, 
 
 etc 45 3 
 
 (See PORTERS and RUNNERS.) 
 
 HOUSES Posting bills on, a nuisance 71 5 
 
 Council may cause to be numbered Tf 23, 169
 
 INDEX. 271 
 
 HOUSE OF ILL-FAME-Penalty for keeping 0*' 
 
 permitting 56 g 
 
 Penalty against inmates of 56 9 
 
 Frequenters of, deemed vagrants 65 1 
 
 Licensing of, prohibited 206 
 
 HOUSE OF PROSTITUTION Power of Council 
 
 to suppress | 37, 170 
 
 (See HOUSE OE,!LL-FAME.) 
 
 HYDRANTo Council may regulate f 31, 170 
 
 Penalty for taking water from, etc 122 10-11 
 
 Where may not be placed ^ 20, 130 
 
 (See WATER SUPPLY.) 
 
 HYDROPHOBIA Prevention of, Mayor's procla- 
 mation 12 4 
 
 I. 
 
 I., B. & W. R. R Right of way granted to.. .110-112 1-5 
 
 ICE Power of Council to compel removal of..1 33, 170 
 
 Penalty for letting remain on sidewalk 62 t! 
 
 IMMODERATE DRIVING penalty for 58 2 
 
 Power of Council to prohibit 1 25, 169 
 
 IMPOUNDING Of animals 1-6 
 
 (See ANIMALS, POUNDS AND POUND-KEEPERS.) 
 Power of Council 1 27, 170 
 
 IMPRISONMENT Power of Council to prescribe 
 
 141,171 
 
 Of persons failing to pay fines 71 12-15 
 
 INFECTIOUS DISEASE Penalty for bringing 
 
 into city 60 14 
 
 INSPECTION Of weights and measures 91 
 
 (See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.) 
 
 Of oil, etc 94 1-2 
 
 Of lumber and other articles, power of Coun- 
 cil respecting 1 22, 169 
 
 Of oil, State law concerning 207-209 
 
 INSPECTOR (of Weights and Measures) Ap- 
 pointment and bond of 
 
 What standards used by - 
 
 General duties of 91 
 
 Duties of on complaints, etc '. i 
 
 When to condemn instruments 92 
 
 To make yearly report - 
 
 Penalty for using uninspected scales, etc i 
 
 Penalty for hindering or delaying Inspector 
 
 Inspector to seal standards for Measurer i
 
 272 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC . 
 
 . 18 9 
 
 Fees of Inspector 
 
 INSURANCE AGENTS- Power of Council to tax 
 
 and license 178 1 
 
 INSURANCE COMPANIES Power of Council ^ 
 
 to tax and license 178 
 
 Tax on, fixed by charter 165 
 
 Required to take license, etc 50 1 
 
 INTOXICATING LIQUORS Policemen not to 
 
 drink while on duty 102 
 
 Penalty for supplying prisoner with 66 
 
 (See LIQUORS.) 
 
 INTOXICATION Penalty for 58 
 
 Of member of fire department 22 12 
 
 vJ. 
 
 JACK Penalty for exhibiting 55 1 
 
 Power of Council to prohibit exhibition of ! 32, 1 76 
 
 JEFFERSON STREET Grade of 30 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 JUDGES OF ELECTION Power of Council to 
 
 appoint 360 
 
 Appointment of. 13 2 
 
 Oath of. 13 
 
 To make sealed returns 14 
 
 To make proclamation, etc 15 5 
 
 To examine and lock ballot boxes 15 6 
 
 Counting of ballots by 15 8 
 
 Pay of 17 5 
 
 JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Appointment of..... 10 4 
 
 JUDGMENT Entry of in case of concealed wea- 
 pons 55 10 
 
 By default, when taken 71 11 
 
 Immediate payment of required 71 12 
 
 Appeal from allowed 72 16 
 
 Against keeper of nuisance, what 79 1 
 
 JUNK DEALER (See JUNK SHOPS AND LICENSES.) 
 
 JUNK SHOPS Definition, license, etc 41 1 
 
 Rate, time, etc 41 2 
 
 Applicant required to give bond 41 2 
 
 Keeper to record description of articles 42 3 
 
 All property to be kept three days 42 4 
 
 Penalty for receiving property wrongfully 42 5 
 
 JURORS Power of Council to fix fees of.....*! 24, 169 
 
 Feesof,tixed 17 3 
 
 Number and qualifications of 70 9
 
 INDEX. 273 
 
 Fees of, to be advanced PA "% 
 
 JURY TRIAL-When allowed,' etc,'.' " 70 
 
 JUSTICE OF THE PEACE-Council may require 
 
 to give bond 175 9 
 
 IK!. 
 
 KENO TABLE Penalty for keeping 57 10 
 
 KEROSENE Penalty for drawing by gaslight 59 9 
 
 KITE FLYING Prohibited in business part of city 59 4 
 
 L. 
 
 LAMPS Public, penalty for interfering with 63 11 
 
 LARD Place of rendering, a nuisance 76 17 
 
 LAWN Penalty for driving upon 61 3 
 
 L., B. & M. R. R. Right of way granted to.112^114 1-8 
 
 LEE STREET Grade of. .. 26 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 LEVY Collector of taxes to make 86 3 
 
 LICENSES Manner of applying for and issuing... 33 1 
 
 Form and contents of license, etc 34 2 
 
 To be exhibited on demand 34 2 
 
 Construction, time, etc 34 3 
 
 Revocation, forfeiture, etc 34 4 
 
 OF AUCTIONEERS When required 34 1 
 
 Bond to be required 35 2 
 
 Rate and time of. 35 3 
 
 Application for 35 3 
 
 Construction of. 35 4 
 
 One per cent, of sales paid to city 36 5 
 
 Book to be kept 36 
 
 Statement of sales 36 
 
 Selling without license, penalty 36 7 
 
 Various frauds prohibited 36 
 
 For billiard tables and ten pin allies 36 
 
 Butcher's license, rate, etc 37 
 
 FOR HAWKERS AND PEDDLERS Peddling without 
 
 license, penalty 40 
 
 Council may exempt residents 40 
 
 Canvassing, commercial travelers, etc 40 
 
 Rate of license for peddling 40 
 
 Application -J 
 
 Junk shops to be licensed ^ 
 
 Rates for junk shops 4 
 
 License of milk men 42 
 
 35
 
 274 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SKC. 
 
 Pawnbrokers to be licensed 43 
 
 Rate of pawnbroker's license, bond, etc 43 
 
 License of porters and runners 44 1 
 
 Rate for porters and runners 45 
 
 When issued to hotel keeper for porter 45 
 
 Scavenger's license 46 1-2 
 
 License for shooting galleries 47 1-3 
 
 License for shows and exhibitions 47 1 
 
 Rate for shows and exhibitions 47 
 
 License for vehicles 48-50 1-7 
 
 License to insurance companies 50 1 
 
 License to bill posters 50 2 
 
 License for various other purposes 51 3 
 
 License for selling liquor 51 1 
 
 Application for liquor license 51 2 
 
 Applicant for liquor license to give bond 51 
 
 Appointment of committee on licenses 10 4 
 
 Plumbers required to take license T[2, 126 
 
 City Clerk to issue licenses and keep record.... 85 2 
 
 LIGHTS When kept at crossing of railroads 108 4 
 
 LIFTING APPARATUS License required for... 51 3 
 
 LIQUORS Power of Council over f 13, 168 
 
 Inspection of authorized ^ 22, 169 
 
 Penalty for keeping at engine house or fire 22 11 
 
 Penalty for selling without license 51 1 
 
 Application for license bond, etc 51 2 
 
 Terms and conditions of bond 51 3 
 
 Dramshop defined license, etc 52 4 
 
 Penalty tor selling to minor, drunkard, etc 52 5 
 
 Selling on Sunday, etc 52 6 
 
 Giving away of, and other devices 52 7 
 
 Definition of " Intoxicating Liquors,".. 52 7 
 
 LOCOMOTIVE Speed of regulated in city 108 6 
 
 Penalty for needlessly sounding whistle of 109 7 
 
 LOCUST STREET Grade of 31 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 LOTTERIES Penalty for maintaining or permit- 
 ting 7. 57 12 
 
 Sale of lottery tickets prohibited 57 12 
 
 LUMBER When to be measured 93 2 
 
 Council may provide for inspection of. f 22, 169 
 
 LUNG TESTERS License required for 51 3
 
 INDEX. 275 
 
 MADISON STREET Grade of ....... ..* A 26 * K ' 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 MAIN STREET Grade of. .................. 27 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 MANURE When a nuisance ...................... 73 
 
 MARKETS Power of Council to regulate ...18, 167 
 
 For hay, straw, wood, etc ....... , 64 19 
 
 MARKET STREET Grade of, ........... '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.".'.".'. 30 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 MARSHAL (See CITY MARSHAL.) 
 
 MASON STREET Grade of. ........................... 25 6 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 MATERIALS For use of city, how purchased ...... 117 1 
 
 (See SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS.) 
 
 MAYOR How elected, etc ............................... 158 2 
 
 To determine tie vote ................................. 158 4 
 
 Qualifications of. ........................................ 159 5 
 
 Removal of, from city .................... ............ 159 5 
 
 Charter duties of. ...................................... 161 1 
 
 Powers of. ................................................ 162 5-6 
 
 To approve or veto ordinances ........................ 162 7 
 
 Not to hold certain offices ............................. 175 10 
 
 Not to be interested in contract with city ....... 175 10 
 
 Limit of salary .......................................... 179 4 
 
 To sign deeds of cemetery lots ...................... 7 4 
 
 May call special meetings of Council ............. 10 1 
 
 Acting Mayor, to act in absence of. ................ 10 
 
 Bond required of. ....................................... 10 
 
 To appoint standing committees .................... 10 4 
 
 To enforce order in Council ...................... 1 8, 12 
 
 To issue proclamation respecting dogs ............ 12 
 
 Tie vote certified to .................................... 14 
 
 How to decide tie vote ................................. 14 
 
 Salary of, fixed .............................. ............ 16 
 
 To designate place for removal of patients ...... 60 
 
 To be head of police department ................... 99 
 
 May appoint special policemen ...................... 1C 
 
 To assign rank of policemen ........................ 101 
 
 To appoint Water Board .............................. 119 
 
 To fill vacancies in Water Board ................... 120 
 
 Appointing power of. ................................ 2( 
 
 Power to approve and veto ordinances ............ 2fc
 
 276 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 McLEAN STREET Grade of. 28 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 MEASURES (See WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.) 
 
 MEASURER (See CITY MEASURER.) 
 
 MEAT When Council may authorize seizure of... 
 
 140,171 
 
 MEAT INSPECTORS All policemen to be du- 
 ties, etc 39 6 
 
 (See BUTCHERS.) 
 
 MEETINGS Of Council, regular and special 9 1 
 
 Of Council, hour of. 11 6 
 
 Of Water Board 120 3 
 
 MECHANICAL WORK Council may provide for 
 
 measurement of. 1 2, 169 
 
 Measurement of required 93 2 
 
 MENAGERIE (See SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS.) 
 
 MENDICANTS Power of Council to restrain and 
 punish 135,170 
 
 MERCHANTS Power of Council to license..! 9, 167 
 
 MERCHANDISE Rate of charges for transport- 
 ing 49 4 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 MILK Adulteration of prohibited 43 3 
 
 MILKMEN Required to take out license 42 1 
 
 To place names on vehicles 43 2 
 
 Penalty for selling adulterated milk 43 3 
 
 MINOR Penalty for selling liquor to 52 5 
 
 Junk dealer not to receive property of. 42 5 
 
 Pawnbroker not to receive property of. 44 4 
 
 MINSTREL PERFORMANCE (See SHOWS AND 
 EXHIBITIONS.) 
 
 MISDEMEANORS Chapter 11, page 53. 
 DIVISION 1. OFFENSES AGAINST THE PUBLIC PEACE 
 AND QUIET. Assault, assault and battery 
 
 and affrays 53 1 
 
 Disorderly conduct, breach of the peace 53 2 
 
 Disturbing peace of city, etc 54 3 
 
 Traducing, challenging, fighting, etc 54 4 
 
 Collecting in crowds, etc 54 5 
 
 Disturbing congregation or assembly 54 6 
 
 Disturbing funeral 54 7 
 
 Sunday labor or amusement 54 8 
 
 Carrying concealed weapons 54 9-10 
 
 False alarm, etc .55 n
 
 INDEX. 277 
 
 DIVISION 2. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS^ 
 AND DECENCY. Exhibiting jack or stud in 
 
 street 55 1 
 
 Indecent exposure of person 55 
 
 Sale of obscene books, etc 56 
 
 Having obscene books in possession 56 4 
 
 Exhibiting obscene play 56 5 
 
 Obscene writing or figure 56 6 
 
 Keeping disorderly house 56 7 
 
 Keeping house of ill-fame 56 8 
 
 Inmate of house of ill-fame, etc 56 9 
 
 Keeping gaming house 57 10 
 
 Inmate of gaming house 57 H 
 
 Betting " 57 11 
 
 Selling Pools 57 11 
 
 Lotteries, lottery tickets, etc 57 12 
 
 Cruelty to animals 58 13 
 
 Drunkenness 58 14 
 
 DIVISION 3. OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 CONVENIENCE AND HEALTH Firing cannon, 
 
 guns, fire-crackers, etc 58 1 
 
 Immoderate driving 58 2 
 
 Failure to mark poison 58 3 
 
 Dangerous sports, kite flying, etc 59 4 
 
 Frightening horses 59 
 
 Leaving animal unfastened 59 
 
 Taking" runaway horses upon street 59 7 
 
 Failure of driver of vehicle to pass to the right 59 
 Weighing of gunpowder or gun-cotton by gas- 
 light 59 
 
 Drawing kerosene, etc., by gaslight 59 
 
 Permitting vicious animals to go at large 59 
 
 Placing or occupying chairs in aisles 60 
 
 Turning stream of water upon person or prop- 
 erty 60 
 
 Selling unwholesome provisions..... f 
 
 Bringing contagious disease into city f 
 
 Nurse going upon street 
 
 Physician to change clothing, penalty ( 
 
 Health officer to be notified in case of small-pox 60 
 DIVISION 4. OFFENCES CONCERNING PROPERTY- 
 
 Injury to pavements, sidewalks, etc 
 
 Obstructing public improvements 
 
 Injuries to bridges, buildings, etc 61 
 
 Driving upon sidewalk or lawn I
 
 278 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Placing rubbish on sidewalk or street 62 4 
 
 Suffering snow to remain on sidewalk 62 5 
 
 Suffering ice or dirt to remain on sidewalk 62 6 
 
 Feeding in fire limits or on paved street 62 7 
 
 Turning animals into public enclosure 62 7 
 
 Hitching animals to trees, lamp posts, etc 62 8 
 
 Throwing stones, etc 62 9 
 
 Trespass to private premises 63 10 
 
 Interfering with street lamps 63 11 
 
 Taking water from city cistern or well 63 12 
 
 Vehicles standing on streets 63 13 
 
 Getting upon cars while in motion 63 14 
 
 Ball playing upon public grounds 63 15 
 
 Obstructing street, sidewalk, etc 63 16 
 
 Driving vehicle over fire hose 63 17 
 
 Removing earth from streets 64 18 
 
 Market place for hay, straw, etc., penalty 64 19 
 
 Excavations in streets and alleys 64 20 
 
 DIVISION 5. VAGRANTS Definition of Vagrant... 65 1 
 
 Penalty for vagrancy 65 2 
 
 Penalty on second conviction of vagrancy 65 3 
 
 DIVISION 6. OFFENCES AGAINST OFFICIAL AUTHOR- 
 ITY Falsely personating an officer 66 1 
 
 Wearing policeman's star or badge 66 1 
 
 Resisting or delaying officer 66 2 
 
 Assisting prisoner to escape 66 3 
 
 Refusing to assist policemen 66 4 
 
 DIVISION 7. GENERAL PROVISIONS Attempt to 
 
 commit offense 67 1 
 
 Accessories defined 67 2 
 
 Offences by agentb, servants, etc 67 2 
 
 Offences not provided for 67 3 
 
 Power of policemen to arrest stragglers 57 4 
 
 Boys abroad at night 68 5 
 
 Marshal to enter gaming house 68 6 
 
 DIVISION 8. PROCEEDINGS TO RECOVER FINES AND 
 
 PENALTIES Actions to be in name of city. 68 1 
 
 City not to pay cost 69 1 
 
 Suit may be commenced by summons 69 2 
 
 Suit maybe conducted like action of debt before 
 
 justices 69 2 
 
 When warrant shall be issued 69 3 
 
 Form of affidavit 69 4 
 
 Continuances 70 5 
 
 Recognizance required on continuance 70 5
 
 INDEX. 279 
 
 Magistrate to place true name on docket 70 ""i 
 
 Amendments allowed 70 7 
 
 When process not necessary 70 8 
 
 Bill of particulars, when filed 70 8 
 
 Trial by jury 70 9 
 
 Duty of officer making arrest 71 10 
 
 Defendant failing to appear 71 11 
 
 Defendant kept in custody till fine is paid 71 12 
 
 Executions, form of, etc 71 13 
 
 Prisoner to be compelled to work 72 14 
 
 Re-arrest of prisoner in case of escape 72 15 
 
 Effect of discharge when fine is not worked out 72 15 
 
 Appeals 72 16 
 
 MOIETY Allowed to person informing against 
 
 butchers 39 
 
 When not allowed to officer 39 
 
 How allowed in case of butchers 39 8 
 
 MONTH Construction of word 98 
 
 MONEY-CHANGERS Council may license...^ 9, 167 
 
 MULE Not to go at large 1 1 
 
 Immoderate driving of prohibited 58 
 
 MULBERRY STREET Grade of. 31 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 nsr. 
 
 NAME Of defendant, unknown 70 6 
 
 True name of defendant to be placed on docket 70 6 
 
 NORTH STREET Grade of. 30 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 NOTICE To unknown owner of animal, form, etc 
 Of sales of impounded animal, etc 
 
 NUISANCES Power of Council over 1 4, 167 
 
 ENUMERATION AND PUNISHMENT OF NUISANCES. 
 
 When animal deemed a nuisance 
 
 Dog, when deemed nuisance 13 
 
 Stables and hog pens 73 1 
 
 Manure 
 
 Gunpowder and gun-cotton 'J 
 
 Tar, pitch, rosin, etc J* 
 
 Bills and placards 
 
 Dairies . 
 
 Foul premises 
 
 Obstruction of streams, gutters, etc JO 
 
 TT . j to 
 
 Hides
 
 280 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Discharging foul liquids or substances upon the 
 
 streets 75 10 
 
 Slops, filth, dead animals, etc 75 11 
 
 Throwing filth in well or cistern 75 12 
 
 Bill-boards 76 13 
 
 Gates opening outward 74 14 
 
 Slack and refused coal 76 15 
 
 Soap factories and other like establishments.... 76 16 
 
 Slaughter houses, etc 76 17 
 
 Curbing 77 18 
 
 Trap doors, gratings, etc 77 19 
 
 Dangerous sidewalk 77 19 
 
 Ditches, drains, excavations, etc 77 20 
 
 Unsafe scaffolds 77 21 
 
 Unsafe signs, awnings, etc v 78 22 
 
 Trees, clothing, etc., overhanging sidewalk 78 22 
 
 Wooden awnings and awnings with support 78 23 
 
 Obstructions, excavations, etc 78 24 
 
 Coal vaults 78 25 
 
 Unsafe buildings, etc 78 26 
 
 Council may stop the e rection of unsafe buildings 79 27 
 ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES Court, on conviction, 
 
 to order abatement 79 1 
 
 Penalty for continuing nuisance 79 2 
 
 Summary abatement of nuisance 79 3 
 
 How officer to proceed in abating 80 4 
 
 Defendant to pay cost of abatement 80 5 
 
 Health officer to complain against nuisances 90 4 
 
 NURSE Of small-pox patient, not to go on street 60 15 
 
 o. 
 
 OAK STREET Grade of. 26 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 OATH Of judges and clerks of election 14 2 
 
 Deemed to include affirmation 98 5 
 
 Council may require of officers ^ 1, 167 
 
 To be taken by city officers, 82 4 
 
 OBSCENE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, ETC. Selling 
 
 in city 56 3 
 
 Penalty for having in possession 56 4 
 
 OBSCENE PLAY Penalty for exhibiting in city. 56 5 
 
 License not to authorize 48 3 
 
 OBSCENE WRITING OR FIGURE Penalty 
 
 for making in city 56 6
 
 INDEX. 281 
 
 OBSTRUCTIOtf-Of streets, alleys, etc., when 
 
 nuisance ................................... 7g 24 
 
 Of streets, alleys, etc., penalty ...... ......] .' 63 16 
 
 Of water courses .......................... 75 g 
 
 Of street by railroad company ............. ..108 5 
 
 OFFAL Rendering of in city, nuisance 17 
 OFFICIAL BOND-(See BOND, and OFFICERS')" 
 OFFICE To be kept by Inspector of Weights and 
 
 Measures ................................... 91 3 
 
 Of Superintendent of Water Works... .120 5 
 
 OFFICER Penalty for falsely personating ........... 66 1 
 
 Penalty for resisting or delaying .................... 66 2 
 
 In charge of prisoner, duty of...., 72 14 
 
 OFFICERS Chapter 13, page 81. 
 DIVISION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS Appointment 
 
 and term of officers .............................. 81 1 
 
 Qualifications of officers ........................ . ..... 81 2 
 
 Bonds of officers ........................................ 82 3 
 
 Oath to be taken by officers .......................... 82 4 
 
 Officers to be commissioned, form, etc ............ 82 5 
 
 DIVISION 2. CITY ASSESSOR Appointment and 
 
 bond of Assessor ................................. 83 1 
 
 To be governed by statutes ............................ 83 2 
 
 Appointment of Township Assessors for city... 83 3 
 DIVISION 3. CITY ATTORNEY Qualifications and 
 
 bond ................................................ 83 1 
 
 Duties of Attorney ..................................... 83 
 
 DIVISION 4. CITY CLERK Bond of City Clerk... 84 1 
 Duties, etc ............................. .~ ................. 85 2 
 
 Office hours of Clerk ............... ... ............ 1 7, 85 
 
 DIVISION 5. CITY COLLECTOR Bond of City Col- 
 
 lector ................................................ 85 1 
 
 Duties, etc ................................................ 86 
 
 Settlement of Collector ................................ 86 
 
 To report delinquent taxes to Council ............ 86 
 
 Appointment of Town Collectors for city ........ 86 4 
 
 DIVISION 6. CITY ENGINEER Appointment and 
 
 bond of Engineer ................................. 86 
 
 Stipulation in Engineer's bond ..................... 86 
 
 Duties of City Engineer generally .................. 87 
 
 Materials, maps, records, etc ........................ 
 
 Not to do outside work, etc .......................... 
 
 To be ex-qfficio commissioner of sidewalks, etc.. 88 
 DIVISION 7. CITY WEIGHER Appointment and 
 
 bond of .............................................. 89 
 
 36
 
 282 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Deputies 89 
 
 General duties of weigher 89 
 
 Record of weights kept 89 3 
 
 False certificates of weight, penalty 89 4 
 
 DIVISION 8. HEALTH OFFICER Appointment and 
 
 bond 90 1 
 
 General duties 90 
 
 Penalty for disobeying orders of. 90 3 
 
 To prosecute nuisances 90 4 
 
 Marshal and policemen to assist 90 5 
 
 Council may retire from pay 91 6 
 
 DIVISION 9. INSPECTOR OF WEIGHTS AND MEAS- 
 URES Appointment and bond 91 1 
 
 Clerk to procure standards for 91 2 
 
 To keep office in city 91 3 
 
 Inspection made by 91 3 
 
 Duty on complaint being made 92 4 
 
 When to condemn scales, etc 92 5 
 
 Report made to Council 92 6 
 
 Penalty for using uninspected instruments 92 7 
 
 Using false weights, penalty 93 8 
 
 Hindering or delaying inspector 93 9 
 
 DIVISION 10 MEASURER Appointment and bond 93 1 
 
 Articles to be measured 93 2 
 
 Certificate of measurement 93 2 
 
 False certificate 94 3 
 
 Refusal to measure, penalty 94 4 
 
 DIVISION 11 OIL INSPECTOR Appointment and 
 
 bond 94 1 
 
 Duties of. 94 2 
 
 DIVISION 12 STREET COMMISSIONER Bond of..... 95 1 
 
 Duties of. 95 2 
 
 DIVISION 13 TREASURER Bond of. 96 1 
 
 General duties of. 96 2 
 
 What accounts kept by 96 3 
 
 CHARTER PROVISIONS CONCERNING OFFICERS 158 1-11 
 
 When to enter upon duties 160 10 
 
 Compensation of to be fixed by Council 160 11 
 
 Powers and duties of generally 161 1-12 
 
 To be conservators of peace 176 12 
 
 Appointment and removal of officers 203-204 
 
 Act concerning salaries of officers 218-219 
 
 (For POLICE OFFICERS see POLICE DEPARTMENT.) 
 
 OIL When to be inspected 94 2 
 
 Act concerning inspection of. 207-209
 
 INDEX. 283 
 
 OIL INSPECTOIU-Appointment and bond of.... .^94 "} 
 
 Inspection made, report, etc 94 
 
 Fees of, fixed ' ig 
 
 OLIVE STREET Grade of. ....I!!!!!!!!!"! \ 29 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 OMNIBUS Power of Council to license \ 9, 167 
 
 Rate of license for 43 2 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 ORDER For abatement of nuisance 79 1 
 
 For payment of money, clerk to keep account of. 85 -2 
 
 For sale of impounded animal 83 5 
 
 Form of, in case of animal 4 8 
 
 For cemetery purposes, what to contain 8 6 
 
 For supplies, copies filed with clerk 118 3 
 
 Fo! payment of foreign claim, how issued 118 5 
 
 ORDINANCES Power of Council to pass...l 42, 171 
 
 Style and publication of. 174 1 
 
 Power of Mayor to approve or veto 162 7 
 
 Council may impose fines for breach ^[ 41, 171 
 
 How proved 174 
 
 To remain in force under new charter 174 
 
 Further power of Mayor to veto, etc 204 
 
 Passage of, over Mayor's veto 204 
 
 To lie over one week after presentment 11 
 
 All licenses to be subject to 34 
 
 Publication of, made by Clerk 97 
 
 When to take effect 97 
 
 Offenses punishable under two sections 97 
 
 Construction of singular and plural words, etc. 97 
 
 To include corporations '-'7 
 
 Construction of words, "court," "month," 
 
 " sworn," 98 
 
 Rules of costruction applied 98 
 
 Construction of repeals 
 
 General repeal ^ 
 
 Adopting and publishing ordinance 13^ 
 
 Duty of City Attorney to draft 1 6, 84 
 
 IF. 
 
 PANORAMA (See SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS.) 
 
 PASSENGERS Rate of charges for carrying 4 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 PAVEMENT Penalty for injuring I 
 
 PAWNBROKERS Power of Council to license, 
 
 ^[ 9, 167
 
 284 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Who deemed a pawnbroker 43 
 
 Required to take out license 43 1 
 
 Rate, time, bond, etc . 43 
 
 To record description of property 44 
 
 Penalty for receiving property unlawfully 44 4 
 
 Time of receiving property 44 5 
 
 PEDDLERS Power of Council to license f .9, 167 
 
 Penalty for failure to take out license 40 1 
 
 Residents may be exempted 40 
 
 Canvassers, commercial travelers, etc 40 
 
 Rate wbat articles exempt 40 
 
 Application 41 4 
 
 Violations penalty 41 
 
 PELTS When a nuisance 75 9 
 
 PEN For cattle, hogs, etc., when a nuisance 73 1 
 
 PENALTIES Council may provide for recovery 
 
 of. 1 41, 171 
 
 Council may cause to be worked out i 41, 171 
 
 Not to exceed one hundred dollars f 42, 171 
 
 Penalty for permitting animals to go at large... 1 1 
 
 For breaking pound, etc 5 13 
 
 For wrongfully taking up animal 6 14 
 
 For digging grave in lot of another 7 3 
 
 Against Treasurer for neglect, etc 8 6 
 
 For various trespasses in cemetery 9 10-11 
 
 For failure to comply with dog ordinance 13 5 
 
 Against City Weigher for extortion 19 11 
 
 For keeping or using liquor at engine house, 
 
 etc 22 11 
 
 For violating fire rules 22 14 
 
 For keeping billiard table or ten pin-alley with- 
 out license 36 1 
 
 For keeping billiard room, etc., open on Sunday 37 2 
 
 For permitting minors to play at billiards or 
 
 ten-pins 37 3 
 
 For butchering without license 37 1 
 
 Against butcher for failing to keep book 38 2 
 
 Against butcher for making false report 38 3 
 
 For killing diseased animal 38 4 
 
 For selling diseased meat 38 5 
 
 For selling condemned meat 39 7 
 
 For peddling without license 40 1 
 
 For keeping junk shop without license 41 1 
 
 Against milkmen for failing to take out license 43 1
 
 INDEX. 285 
 
 Against milkmen for failing to place name on""' 
 
 vehicle 4g 9 
 
 For selling adulterated milk '."' 
 
 Against pawnbroker for failure to take "license" 43 1 
 
 Against pawnbroker for other violations 44 3 
 
 Against pawnbroker for receiving stolen prop- 
 
 _ ertv .-: 44 4 
 
 * or receiving property in pawn after 9 o'clock. 44 5 
 Against porters and runners for failure to take 
 
 license 45 j 
 
 Against porter for failure to wear badge 45 4 
 
 Against porter for annoying travelers 45 5 
 
 Against scavenger for failure to pay license 46 1 
 
 For scattering filth upon streets 46 3 
 
 For cleaning privy in daytime 46 4 
 
 For keeping shooting gallery without license... 47 1 
 
 For exhibiting show without license 47 1 
 
 For failing to number vehicle 49 3 
 
 For refusal to transport persons or property 50 6 
 
 Against insurance company for failure to take 
 
 license 50 1 
 
 Against bill posters 50 2 
 
 For selling liquor without license 51 1 
 
 For selling liquor without giving bond 52 3 
 
 For keeping dramshop without license 52 4 
 
 For selling liquor to minor or drunkard 52 
 
 For keeping open dramshop on Sunday, etc 52 6 
 
 For various misdemeanors 5372 
 
 For offenses not otherwise provided for 67 3 
 
 For disobeying order of liealth Officer 90 3 
 
 For using improper weights or measures 92 5-8 
 
 For hindering inspector, etc 93 9 
 
 For exhibiting false certificate of measurement 94 
 
 Against Measurer for neglect of duty 94 
 
 For interfering with Water Works, etc 122 10-11 
 
 For sprinkling streets at wrong time f 12, 124 
 
 Against City Weigher for neglect of duty 89 
 
 For continuing nuisance 79 
 
 Proceedings to recover penalties 68-72 1-16 
 
 Manner of suing for penalties.... 69 
 
 For erecting wooden building in fire limits 
 
 For constructing sidewalk off grade 25 
 
 Against auctioneers 
 
 PEST HOUSES Power of Council to establish! 4, 17< 
 PETITIONS To Council to be in writing 11
 
 286 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 PETROLEUM When a nuisance 74 4 
 
 PHYSICIANS To change clothing in case of 
 
 small-pox 60 16 
 
 PIGEON-HOLE TABLES License for, required.. 37 1 
 (See LICENSES.) 
 
 PIN ALLEYS Power of Council over f 30, 170 
 
 PIfcTOL Penalty for firing in city 58 2 
 
 Council may prohibit carrying of. T 38, 171 
 
 (See WEAPON.) 
 
 PITCH When a nuisance 74 4 
 
 PLACARD To be posted in case of small-pox 61 17 
 
 Posting of on property, a nuisance 74 5 
 
 PLATS Of water mains, etc 121 7 
 
 Council to approve 176 11 
 
 Act of Legislature concerning 210-214 
 
 Of city cemetery, to be made 6 2 
 
 PLUMBERS Rules for government of. 126 13 
 
 Required to be licensed and give bond 1 2, 126 
 
 When deemed to forfeit license 1 3, 127 
 
 Report of 1 16, 129 
 
 To give certificate of repairs i 13, 130 
 
 Not to leave water on premises *j[ 19, 130 
 
 Not to make attachment without permission.... 
 
 117,129 
 
 POISON Penalty for failing to mark 58 3 
 
 POLICE Power of Council to provide, etc..l 36, 170 
 
 Committee on, appointed 10 4 
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT Of what officers com- 
 posed 99 1 
 
 Mayor to be head of 99 2 
 
 Power of members 99 3 
 
 Duties of City Marshal 100 4-6 
 
 Marshal to keep property of department 100 5 
 
 Stars of special policemen 100 5 
 
 Marshal to make monthly report 100 6 
 
 Duties of subordinate members 101 7 
 
 Appointment of special policemen 101 9 
 
 Causes of removal of members 101 10 
 
 Rules and regulations of department 102 11 
 
 Police uniforms 104 12 
 
 Members of, may call on bystanders for aid 66 4 
 
 Members of, to arrest stragglers 67 4 
 
 Power of Council 1 36 170 
 
 POLICE HEADQUARTERS Persons arrested to 
 
 be taken to ^ 18, 104 11
 
 INDEX. 287 
 
 Policemen to report at, for roll call.., . f 20*104 
 POLICEMEN-Duty of to take up animals... 
 
 Fees of 16 
 
 Not to receive impounding fees 17 ~\ 
 
 To assist at fires 10 
 
 To carry fire alarm 
 
 To assist Health Officer ' 99 
 
 General duties of. 101 
 
 Hank of to be assigned 101 9 
 
 Causes for removal of 101 10 
 
 (See SPECIAL POLICEMEN.) 
 
 POLICE REGULATIONS Licenses subject to... 34 4 
 POLICE CONSTABLES Council may require to 
 
 give bond 175 9 
 
 POLICE MAGISTRATES Council may require 
 
 to give bond 175 9 
 
 Election of, authorized 216 1-2 
 
 Fees of witnesses attending before 17 4 
 
 When to issue warrants 69 3 
 
 POLICE AND FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND 
 
 Act of Legislature concerning 214215 
 
 POLLS Of city election, when opened and closed. 15 5 
 
 POOL When a nuisance 74 7 
 
 POOLS Penalty for selling 57 11 
 
 POOL TABLES License for required 37 1 
 
 PORK Inspection of authorized 1 22, 169 
 
 PORTERS AND RUNNERS Power of Council 
 
 to regulate 1 10, 168 
 
 License and bond required of. 44 
 
 Rate and time 45 
 
 Hotel keepers may take out license 45 
 
 To wear badge with name 45 
 
 Penalty against, for misconduct 45 5 
 
 POUNDS -Power of Council to establish f 27, 170 
 
 Pound-keeper to provide 
 
 Penalty for breaking open 5 
 
 POUND-KEEPER Appointment and bond of. 
 
 To provide pounds and impound animals 
 
 To make complaint against owner 
 
 To post notices to owners 
 
 To post notice of sale, and sell 5 
 
 May appoint deputies 
 
 Additional appointed 
 
 Book kept, surplus proceeds, etc 
 
 Penalty for hindering or delaying
 
 288 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SBC. 
 
 Fees of. ..................................................... 17 6 
 
 PRAIRIE STREET Grade of. .......................... 28 
 
 (See GRADES.) . 
 PRIVIES Power of Council over ....> ........ 1 17, 168 
 
 When a nuisance ........................................ 74 7 
 
 Cleaning of by scavenger ............................. 46 4 
 
 PRINTING Committee on appointed ................. 10 4 
 
 PRISONER To be compelled to work ................ 72 14 
 
 Escaping may be re-arrested ......................... 72 15 
 
 Attempting to rescue, etc ............................. 66 3 
 
 PRIZE PACKAGES Sale of prohibited ............ 57 12 
 
 PROCESS Amendment of, allowed ................... 70 7 
 
 When not required ..................................... 70 8 
 
 PROPERTY Of city, vested in corporation ........ 175 5 
 
 PROOF Of publication of ordinances ................ 174 1 
 
 PROSTITUTES Power of Council to restrain and 
 
 punish ......................................... f 35,170 
 
 PROCLAMATION On opening and closing polls 15 5 
 
 Of Mayor respecting dogs .......... ................. 12 4 
 
 PROVISIONS Unwholesome, Council may cause 
 seizure of .......................................... ^[ 40, 171 
 
 PUBLICATION Of ordinances, how proved ...... 179 3 
 
 Of ordinances, Clerk to make ....................... 79 1 
 
 Of revised ordinances authorized .................. 134 
 
 Of notice to unknown owner of animal .......... 3 6 
 
 PCJBLIC BUILDING Penalty for placing chair 
 
 in aisle of. ........................................... 60 11 
 
 RAILROAD Penalty for getting upon car while 
 
 in motion ............................................ 63 14 
 
 Committee on appointed .............................. 10 4 
 
 Companies to maintain crossings ................... 107 1-2 
 
 Cost of crossings recovered from company ...... 108 3 
 
 Watchmen, etc .......................................... 108 4 
 
 Obstruction of street by company .................. 108 5 
 
 Rate of speed regulated ............................... 108 6 
 
 Sounding whistle ....................................... 109 7 
 
 Street cars, stopping place" for ....................... 109 8 
 
 Construction of ordinance ........................... 109 9 
 
 Right of way of I., B. & W. R. R ............ 110-112 
 
 Right of way of L., B. & M. R. R ........... 112-114 
 
 Power of City Council over ................. f 19, 168 
 
 RAILROAD COMPANIES (See RAILROADS.)
 
 INDEX. 289 
 
 RANK Of policemen ..^01 "9 
 
 RAVINE Obstruction of nuisance.. 
 
 REBATE OF TAXES-Act of legislature' concern- 
 
 mg 217-218 
 
 RECORD Of water permits to be kept 121 5 
 
 Kept by Clerk of Water Board ......121 6 
 
 REGISTRATION Of voters when not required. ..179 6 
 RENDERING ESTABLISHMENTS-Power of 
 
 Council over ^ ig, 168 
 
 When nuisance 75 17 
 
 REQUISITIONS For supplies to be 'made to* 
 
 Council 117 2 
 
 (See SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS.) 
 
 RESERVOIRS Council may regulate | 31, 170 
 
 REPEAL Of ordinance, construction of. 98 7 
 
 Of former ordinances 98 8 
 
 REPORT Of City Attorney .". 84 2 
 
 Of City Collector 86 3 
 
 Of City Engineer 87 3 
 
 Of Inspector of Weights and Measures 92 6 
 
 Of Oil Inspector 94 
 
 Of Street Commissioner 95 2 
 
 Of City Treasurer 96 2 
 
 Of City Marshal 100 6 
 
 Of Water Board 121 8 
 
 Of Plumbers j 16, 169 
 
 RETAILERS Power of Council to license.... f 9, 167 
 
 RETURNS Of election transmitted to Clerk 14 
 
 REVENUE Charter provision concerning 164 1-3 
 
 Finance committee to present estimates 115 
 
 Council to certify amount to Clerk 115 
 
 Manner of extending taxes 116 
 
 Delinquent taxes, report of collectors, etc 116 
 
 Settlement with collector 116 
 
 All payments to be made to Treasurer 116 6 
 
 REVISION Of ordinances adopted 134 
 
 REVOLVER Penalty for firing in city 58 
 
 (See WEAPONS.) 
 
 REWARD Policeman not to accept 102 
 
 RIOTS Power of Council to suppress 1 16, 168 
 
 ROAD TAX Inhabitants of city exempt from 1( 
 
 ROSIN Council may regulate storage of,...-.f 17, 168 
 
 When a nuisance 74 
 
 ROUT Power of Council to suppress 1 16, 168 
 
 37
 
 290 INDEX. 
 
 FAQE. SBC. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS For distribution 
 
 of water 122 
 
 For government of plumbers 126 13 
 
 For government of City Council 11 6 
 
 RUBBISH Penalty for placing on street 62 4 
 
 RUNNERS (See PORTERS AND RUNNERS.) 
 RUNAWAY HORSES Penalty for taking upon 
 
 street 59 7 
 
 s. 
 
 SABBATH (See SUNDAY.) 
 
 SALARIES Of officers, act concerning 218-219 
 
 (See FEES AND SALARIES.) 
 
 SALOON To be closed on Sunday 52 6 
 
 To be closed at eleven o'clock 52 6 
 
 Frequenters of, deemed vagrants 65 1 
 
 SAMPLE SELLERS Council may license... .f 9, 167 
 
 SCAFFOLD Unsafe, a nuisance 77 21 
 
 SCAVENGER To obtain license and give bond... 46 1 
 
 Rate and time of license, etc 46 2 
 
 Construction of vehicle 46 3 
 
 Time and manner of cleaning privy vaults 46 4 
 
 SCALES Weigher to have charge of. 89 2 
 
 SCHOOLS Acts of legislature concerning 219-229 
 
 SEAL Of city to be kept by Clerk 163 8 
 
 Of Inspector Weights and Measures 91 3 
 
 SECOND WARD Boundaries of. 118 1 
 
 SECURITY FOR COST City not required to give 69 ] 
 
 SERVANT Offenses comitted by 67 2 
 
 SERVICE PIPE Material used for f 4, 123 
 
 For supplying two or more premises f 5, 123 
 
 Water takers to keep in repair ^f 6, 123 
 
 When to be of lead or iron ^ 11, 128 
 
 Weight of lead pipe established ^ 12, 128 
 
 SETTLEMENT Of City Collector 86 3 
 
 SEWERS Power of Council over 1 17, 168 
 
 Penalty for injuring 61 1 
 
 Obstruction of, a nuisance 75 8 
 
 Power of Council to construct 172 3 
 
 Council may issue bonds for construction of..... 180 12 
 
 Power of City to levy tax for 129-130 
 
 When nuisance 74 7 
 
 SEXTON ( of Cemetery ) Appointment powers 
 
 and duties of. 8 7
 
 INDEX. 291 
 
 When to remove bodies PAO g 8 *g 
 
 Mortuary record, report of Sexton.!!!!!!!! 9 
 
 Trespassing, disobeying orders, etc ! ! ! 9 JQ 
 
 Going upon grounds without permission.!! 9 H 
 
 Fees of Sexton ' jo ^ 
 
 SHADE TREE Penalty for hitching animal to 62 
 
 SHEEP Not to go at large .. 
 
 SHIFTS AND KEVICES-To avoid "liquor" or"dV- 
 
 nances 52 7 
 
 (See LIQUORS.) 
 
 SHOOTING GALLERIES License required for... 47 1 
 
 Rate of license for 47 
 
 Not to authorize shooting out of door... 
 
 SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS Power of Council 
 
 to license f' n 168 
 
 License required for 47 i 
 
 Rate, etc 47 
 
 Rate for miscellaneous shows 48 
 
 License not to authorize indecent play 48 
 
 SHUFFLE BOARD Penalty for keeping 57 
 
 SIDEWALKS Power of Council to require built.,172 
 
 Duties of Commissioner of. 188 
 
 Grade of fixed 25 
 
 Persons constructing to obtain grade 25 
 
 When nuisance abatement, etc 25 
 
 Gates not to swing over 76 
 
 Committee on appointed 10 
 
 Penalty for injuring 61 
 
 Penalty for driving upon 61 
 
 Penalty for placing rubbish on 62 
 
 Penalty for letting snow remain on 62 
 
 Suffering ice or dirt to remain on 62 
 
 Penalty for obstructing 63 
 
 Posting bills on a nuisance 74 
 
 When a nuisance 77 
 
 Failure to refill excavation under 77 
 
 Obstruction of, nuisance 78 
 
 Obstruction of by railroad company 108 
 
 What time of day to be sprinkled...... ..-1 12, 12^ 
 
 Act concerning construction of by cities... 231-234 
 
 SIGN When a nuisance 
 
 SIGNALS To be given by engineer of fire engine 2 
 
 SIXTH WARD Boundaries of fixed.. 11* 
 
 SKINS When nuisance 75
 
 292 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 SLAUGHTER HOUSES Power of Council over 
 
 j. 1 17-18, 168 
 
 When nuisance 76 
 
 SLOPS When nuisance 75 11 
 
 SMALL-POX Penalty for bringing into City 60 14 
 
 Health officer to be notified of. '.. 60 17 
 
 SNOW Power of Council respecting f 33, 170 
 
 Penalty for suffering to remain on sidewalk 62 5 
 
 SOAP FACTORY Power of Council over..! 17, 168 
 
 When a nuisance 76 16 
 
 SOUTH GROVE STREET Grade of. 29 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS Engineer to be Com- 
 missioner of. 88 6 
 
 Art. 9 of general law adopted 117 1 
 
 Art. 9, etc 181-196 
 
 Apportionment of act concerning 205-206 
 
 SPECIAL POLICEMEN Appointment and qual- 
 ifications of. 101 8 
 
 SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS (See LIQUORS.) 
 
 SPORTS When Council may prohibit 1 9, 127 
 
 SPRINKLING Water rent for 1 14, 124 
 
 Of streets, (See WATER SUPPLY.) 
 
 SQUIB Penalty for exploding in city 68 1 
 
 STANDARD Of weights and measures SI 2 
 
 STABLES Power of Council over f 17, 168 
 
 When nuisance 73 1 
 
 STAND-PIPE Superintendent to keep watch of...l21 5 
 
 STACK When unsafe, a nuisance 78 26 
 
 Power of Council to stop building of. 79 27 
 
 STALLION Council may prohibit exhibition of 
 
 1 32, 170 
 
 Penalty for exhibiting on street 55 1 
 
 STAMP Used by Inspector of Weights and Meas- 
 ures 91 3 
 
 STANDING COMMITTEES Of City Council, 
 
 what 10 4 
 
 (See CITY COUNCIL.) 
 
 STIPULATION In Engineer's bond 87 2 
 
 STONE COAL Inspection of authorized 1 22, 169 
 
 STOP COCKS Connected with Water Works, how 
 
 constructed ! 7, 127 
 
 To be inspected by Superintendent J 9, 128 
 
 STRAGGLERS May be arrested at night 07 4 
 
 STRAW Market place for established 64 19
 
 INDEX. 293 
 
 STREAM Obstruction of, a nuisance A< 75 8 
 
 STREETS Power of Council to light, repair, etc! 
 
 .1 7,167 
 
 Power of Council over generally 172 3 
 
 Additional tax for lighting authorized 178 1 
 
 Sprinkling of. , j 12, 124 
 
 Herding or tying of animals on 6 15 
 
 Grades to be at centre lines of. 24 2 
 
 Grades of established 125-132 
 
 Gate swinging over, a nuisance , 76 14 
 
 (See STREET and ALLEYS.) 
 
 STREETS AND ALLEYS Committee on ap- 
 pointed 10 4 
 
 Penalty for placing rubbish on 62 4 
 
 Discharging filth upon, nuisance 75 10 
 
 Penalty for obstructing 63 16 
 
 Penalty for removing earth from 64 18 
 
 Making excavations in without permission 64 20 
 
 Failure to refill ditches in, nuisance 77 20 
 
 Obstruction of, a nuisance 78 24 
 
 Street Commissioner to cleanse yearly 95 2 
 
 Obstruction of by railroad company 108 5 
 
 STREET CARS Stopping place for 109 
 
 STREET COMMISSIONER Bond of. 95 1 
 
 General duties of. 95 
 
 To notify railroad companies to build crossings.107 2 
 STUD (See STALLION.) 
 
 SUITS To recover fines, where brought 175 
 
 SUMMONS When suit commenced by 69 
 
 SUNDAY Billiard rooms, etc., open on 37 
 
 Dramshop open on 52 
 
 Labor or amusement on prohibited 54 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF WATER WORKS- 
 
 Appointment and bond of. 1- 
 
 Duties of generally 1 
 
 Duty on application for water 1 2, 122 
 
 To have access to premises, etc 1 22, 1 
 
 Attachments made in presence of. t 4, 1 
 
 SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS Time contracts tor- 
 Requisition presented to Council 11 
 
 Who to purchase order bill, etc 1 
 
 When bill not allowed JJ 
 
 Bills to be itemized foreign clainaa 11 
 
 SURVEYOR (See CITY ENGINEER.) 
 SURVEYS Of city cemetery
 
 294 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 SWINE Not to go at large 1 
 
 When keeping of, a nuisance 73 1 
 
 "SWORN" Construction of word 98 5 
 
 T. ' 
 
 TALLOW When rendering of, a nuisance 76 17 
 
 TALLOW CHANDLERY Power of Council over 
 
 1 17, 168 
 
 When a nuisance ^ 76 16 
 
 TANNERY Power of \uncil over 1 17, 168 
 
 When a nuisance ...ii \ 76 16 
 
 TAR Power of Counc \egulate-storage of. 
 
 f 17, 168 
 
 When a nuisance , J 74 4 
 
 TARGET SHOOTING v bee SHOOTING GALLERY.) 
 
 TAVERNS Power of Council to license 1 9, 167 
 
 TAXES Upon dogs paid to Marshal 12 1 
 
 For bewerage and water purposes 229-230 
 
 Power of Council to levy 164 1 
 
 Upon insurance companies 165 2 
 
 Citv exempt from road tax 166 3 
 
 To "be extended by County Clerk 116 3 
 
 Delinquent to be returned to County Collectorll6 4 
 
 Act concerning rebate of. 217-218 
 
 (See REVENUE.) 
 TAXATION (See REVENUE.) 
 
 TEN-PIN ALLEYS License for 37 1 
 
 When to be closed 37 2 
 
 Keeper of to exclude minors 37 3 
 
 Power of Council to license f 30, 170 
 
 THEATRE (See SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS.) 
 
 THIRD WARD Boundaries of, fixed 118 1 
 
 TIE VOTE Mayor todetermine 158 4 
 
 To be certified to Mayor 14 3 
 
 Manner of determining 14 4 
 
 TIME CONTRACTS For supplies for city 171 1 
 
 TIPPLING HOUSE Power of Council overt 12, 168 
 
 When to be closed 52 6 
 
 (See LIQUORS.) 
 
 TORPEDO Penalty for exploding in city 58 1 
 
 TOWNSHIP ASSESSOR May be appointed for 
 
 city 83 3 
 
 (See CITY ASSESSOR.) 
 TRAP DOOR Leaving open, nuisance 77 19
 
 INDEX. 295 
 
 
 TRADUCING Penalty for .............. ..^54 
 
 TRAMPS Deemed to be vagrants ....... ' 65 
 
 (See VAGRANTS,) 
 TREE Penalty for hitching horse to .................. 62 8 
 
 When a nuisance ................. 70 92 
 
 TREASURER (See CITY TREASURER'.)'" 
 
 TRESPASS Upon private premises prohibited... 63 10 
 
 TRIAL BY JURY May be demanded in prose- 
 
 cutions ................................................ 70 9 
 
 (See JURY TRIAL.) 
 TRUCKS^-Rate of license for ....... ................... 49 2 
 
 Charges for carrying property .................. 49 4 
 
 Standing place for .............. .................. 50 7 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 tr 
 
 UNIFORMS Of policemen, regulations for ......... 104 12 
 
 UNKNOWN OWNER Of animal, proceedings 
 
 against ................................................ 3 6 
 
 (See ANIMALS.) 
 UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLAGES Power of Coun- 
 
 cil to suppress .............................. ^[ 16, 168 
 
 Prohibited ................................................ 54 5 
 
 UNSAFE BUILDINGS, ETC. Power of Council 
 
 to prohibit ................................... t 39, 171 
 
 Deemed nuisances ....................................... 78 26 
 
 UNSAFE SCAFFOLD Deemed to be nuisances.. 77 21 
 UNWHOLESOME PROVISIONS Penalty for 
 
 selling ................................................ 60 13 
 
 V. 
 
 VACANCY In Water Board, how filled ............. 120 
 
 In other offices, how filled ............................ 159 
 
 VAGRANTS Power of Council to punish. ! 26, 169 
 Power of Cauncil to restrain and punish..^ 35, 170 
 Who deemed to be ...................................... 65 
 
 Penalty for vagrancy ................................... 65 
 
 Second offense ............................................ 65 
 
 VAULT When a nuisance ................................ 74 
 
 VEHICLES Power of Council over ............ 1 9, 167 
 
 For scavengers, how constructed ................... -J 
 
 When license required for ............................ ] J 
 
 Rate and time of license .............................. 4 
 
 Number of license placed on vehicle .............. 4
 
 296 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Tariff of rates fixed .................................... 49 
 
 Card of rates to be kept .............................. 50 
 
 Refusal to transport extortion ..................... 50 
 
 Standing place for vehicles ........................... 50 7 
 
 Penalty for driving against ........................... 58 
 
 When meeting, to pass to the right ........ ^ ...... 59 
 
 Standing on sidewalk or crossing, penalty ........ 62 
 
 Penalty for letting stand on street .................. 63 
 
 Penalty for driving over fire hose .................. 63 16 
 
 VENUE Change of, Council may prohibit ........... 171 
 
 VICIOUS ANIMAL Not to go at large, penalty.. 59 10 
 VOTE Of Council, how taken .......................... 11 6 
 
 VOTER Qualifications of ................................. 161 
 
 WAGON Rate of license for ............................. 49 2 
 
 Charge for carrying property on .................... 49 
 
 Penalty for letting stand on street .................. 63 13 
 
 (See VEHICLES.) 
 
 Power of Council to license .................... ^[ 9, 167 
 
 WALL Posting bills on, a nuisance .................... 74 5 
 
 Unsafe, a nuisance ...................................... 78 26 
 
 Council may stop building of ........................ 79 27 
 
 WALNUT STREET Grade of. ......................... 31 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 WARDS Established by charter ........................ 158 4 
 
 Power of Council over .......................... T[ 6, 167 
 
 City divided into ............................. ' ............ 118 1 
 
 WARRANT Council may authorize issue of ........ 171 2 
 
 When to be issued ....................................... 69 3 
 
 WASHINGTON STREET Grade of. ................ 29 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 WATCHMEN When to be kept by R. R. Co ...... 108 4 
 
 WATER Penalty for taking from fire plug, etc... 122 10-11 
 Waste of prohibited .............................. f 6, 123 
 
 Duration of lease for ........................... ^[ 16, 124 
 
 When rent for due, collection, etc ......... ^[ 17, 125 
 
 Refusal to pay rent for ......................... ^f 18, 125 
 
 Wasting of prohibited ......................... f 18, 125 
 
 When supply of may be stopped ............ ^ 23, 126 
 
 Tax for authorized ................................ 129-130 
 
 Power of Council to provide .................. ^ 5, 167 
 
 WATER BOARD To have control of Water 
 
 Works ....... ..119 1
 
 LNDEX. '2^-j 
 
 How constituted and appointed.... P n9 "2 
 
 Meetings of Board // 12Q 
 
 President vacancies, compensation, "etc.".! 
 
 City Clerk to be Clerk of. 120 
 
 Duties of Clerk J21 6 
 
 Plat of water mains 121 
 
 Report of Board g 
 
 To grant permits ' ..4 1 122 12 
 
 To establish price of ferrules ^ 2*, 123 
 
 To purchase ferrules supplies ^[ 3' 123 
 
 Meters j 21,' 125 
 
 Members to have access to premises ^ 22, 125 
 
 May rescind rulings of subordinates J 25, 126 
 
 May shut oft' supply from delinquents | 4, 132 
 
 To establish rules for assessing water rents 134 16 
 
 WATER COURSE Obstruction' of, nuisance... 75 8 
 
 WATER REXTS Manner of collecting 131 14 
 
 Clerk to make assessment book f 1, 131 
 
 Treasurer to give notice ^ 2, 131 
 
 Personal demand for by Treasurer f 2, 131 
 
 Ten per cent, for non-payment f 4, 132 
 
 Non-payment after second demand, penalty. "f 5, 132 
 
 Tariff of rates established 132 15 
 
 Power of Water Board to fix 134 
 
 Assessment of. 134 16 
 
 Water Board to enforce collection of. 134 16 
 
 WATER SUPPLY Chapter concerning 119-134 
 
 WATER WORKS Acts of legislature concerning: 
 
 234-238 
 
 To be under control of Water Board 119 1 
 
 Superintendent of appointed 120 
 
 Power of Superintendent 120 5 
 
 WEIGHER (See CITY WEIGHER.) 
 
 WEIGHTS AND MEASURES Power of Coun- 
 cil respecting If 21, 169 
 
 Inspector of appointed ' 
 
 Clerk to procure standards 
 
 Inspection of * 
 
 Inspection on request, etc 92 
 
 Condemnation of. 9- 
 
 Penalty for using uninspected 
 
 False weights and measures, penalty - 
 
 Penalty for nindering or delaying inspector i 
 
 Act of Legislature concerning 23J 
 
 WELLS Power of Council to regulate 1 31, 170
 
 298 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. SEC. 
 
 Throwing tilth in, nuisance 
 
 WEAPONS Power of Council to prohibit carry- 
 ing of. t 38, 171 
 
 Penalty for carrying , 54 9 
 
 Penalty for supplying prisoner with 66 " ;', 
 
 (See CONCEALED WEAPONS.) 
 WEST STREET Grade of...'. 26 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 WHISTLE Of fire engine when blown 21 7 
 
 Of locomotive, penalty for sounding 109 7 
 
 WITNESSES Power of Council to fix fees oft 24, 169 
 
 Fees of fixed 17 
 
 WOOD Market place for 64 
 
 WOODARD STREET Grade of 31 
 
 (See GRADES.) 
 
 WOODEN AWNING Declared a nuisance 78 2(J 
 
 WRIGHT STREET Grade of 28 
 
 (See GRADES.)
 
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