THE J©HH C]RBf^\K JLSjBJ^AT^Y ^5 CMI C AG O. U^^^^ CM^/m^rTM^/^r/l^?^ Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2010 witli funding from CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Researcli Libraries in Illinois http://www.archive.org/details/acttoamendactentOOchic TO AMEND ";FE A*^^"^ ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REDUCE THE LAW mCOEPOEATING THE CITY 0? CHICAGO AND THE SEVERAL ACTS AMENDATORY THEREOF, XTO ONE ACT, AND TO AMEND THE SAME. APPROVED FEBRUARY U, 1851 ;" ORDINANCES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL, PASSED FROM SEPTEMBER 22, 1856, TO APRIL 5, 1858.^ CHICAGO: DAILY PRESS BOOK AM) JOB STEAM PRINT, 43 CLARK STREET. 1858. DEACCES3iOMED BY CHICAGO HlSTOi^lCAL SOCIETY ERINTED COLLECTIONS. n. / yj6 CITY CHARTER. AN ACT To amend the act entitled '■'■An act to reduce the La%a incoTporating the City of Chicago^ and the several Acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to amend the same,'''' approved February 14, 1851. Section 1. Be it enacted hy the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly : The Common Council shall, before the next annual election, divide the wards of said city into so many and such convenient election districts, as to the said Common Council shall seem proper, and to appoint places for holding elections therein, and appoint the board of inspectors therefor as now provided by the law ; and for this purpose they are hereby authorized to appoint three additional inspectors of election for each election district so created, whose qualifications and duties shall be as now prescribed by the City Charter. Sec. 2. All ordinances, petitions and commixnications to the Common Council shall, unless by unanimous consent, be referred to appropriate committees, and only acted on by the Council at a subsequent meeting on the report of the committee having the same in charge ; and any report of a committee of the Council shall be deferred to the next regular meeting of the same, and the publication of the said report in the corporation paper may be required, by the request of any two aldermen present. Sec. 3. Every act, ordinatnce or resolution, passed by the Com- mon Council, before it shall take efi'ect, shall be presented, duly certified by the city clerk, to the mayor fo^- his approbation. If he approve, he shall sign it, if not he shall return it with his objections in writing to said Common Council, who shall enter said objections upon their record and proceed to reconsider it; "^k CI "7^ '^ ' 1 '"/'x * TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT. and if, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of all the members elected shall agree to pass the same, it shall take effect as an act or law of the corporation. !Sec. 4. If the mayor shall not return any act, ordinance or resolution so presented to him, within five days, it shall take effect in the same manner as if he had signed it. Sec. 5. No contracts shall be hereafter made by the Common Council or any committee or member thereof, and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers or departments of said city government, whether the object of expenditure shall have been ordered by the Common Council or not, unless an appropriation shall have been previously made concerning such expense. The making of contracts and siiperintendence of all public works undertaken at the expense of said city, shall be committed by law or ordinance of the corporation to some proper officer or depart- ment, under proper rules and regulations preventive of fraud or collusion therein. And no member of the Common Council, head of a department, clerk, city officers, assistant or employe in any department of said city, shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, work or business, or the sale of any article the expense, price or consideration of which is paid from the city treasury, under the penalty of his immediate removal from office. Sec. 6. All officers of the city whose election by the people is not provided for in this act, or the act to which this is an amend- ment, shall, after the next annual election, be appointed by the mayor of said city, by and with the advice and consent of the Common Council ; any provision of law in relation to the appoint- ment or election of such officers, now in force, providing for such appointment or election in any other manner, being hereby expressly repealed. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Sec. 7. There shall be after the next annual election, and there is hereby established in the city of Chicago, an executive depart- ment of the municipal government of said city, to be known and styled the " Treasury Department," which shall embrace a city TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT. comptroller, the city treasurer and the city collector or collectors, and all or any receivers of the city revenues which are now or may be appointed by law, and all such clerks and assistants, including an auditor, as the Common Council may, by ordinance, see fit to prescribe and establish. Sec. 8. The said treasury department shall have control of all the fiscal concerns of the said corporation, and shall prescribe the forms of keeping and rendering all city accounts whatever, and all accounts rendered to or kept in the several departments of the city government, shall be subject to the revision and inspection of the officers of this department. It shall settle and adjust all claims whatever for the corporation or against them, and all accounts whatsoever in which the corporation. is concerned either as debtor or creditor. Sec. 9. There shall, after the next annual election in said city, be appointed by the mayor, with the advice and consent of the Common Council, some discreet and able accountant to be styled the " City Comptroller," who shall be chief of said treasury depart- ment and hold his office until removed or a successor be appointed, who shall receive such compensation for his services as may be established by law, and who shall be removable at all times at the pleasure of the mayor with the concurrence of the Common Council, and he shall give bonds with securities to the amount of not less than ten thousand dollars, and the amount of his bond may be increased to such sum as may be fixed by the Common Council ; said bond to be approved by the mayor and Common Council, and filed in the city clerk's office and entered on record. He shall also be sworn the same as other officers to the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. Sec. 10. The comptroller shall, immediately after his appoint- ment, open and keep in a neat, methodical manner, a complete set of books, under the direction of the mayor and finance committee, wherein shall be stated, among other things, the appropriations of the year for each distinct object and branch of expenditure, and also the receipts from each and every source of revenue so far as he can ascertain the same. Said books and all papers, vouchers, contracts, bonds, receipts and other things kept in said office shall be subject to the examination of the mayor, the members of the Common Council or any committee or committees thereof. TEEASUKY DEPAETMEl^T. Sec, 11. The Comptroller shall be charged with and shall exercise a general supervision over, all the officers of the city- charged in any manner with the receipt, collection or disbursement of the city revenues, and the collection and return of such revenues into the city treasury. He shall be the fiscal agent of said city, and as such shall have charge of all deeds, mortgages, contracts, judgments,, notes, bonds, debts, choses in action, belonging to said city, and shall possess and carefully preserve all assessment and tax warrants, and the returns thereof made by any collector or receiver of taxes and assessments, and all leases of markets, wharfing privi- leges and other public property of said city. He shall also have supervision over the city debts, contracts, bonds, obligations, loans and liabilities of the city, the payment of interest, and over all the proj^erty of the city and the sale or the disposition thereof; over all legal or other proceedings in which the interests of the city are involved, and with the approval of the mayor to institute or dis- continue such proceedings, and to employ additional counsel, where he thinks the city interests require it, and generally in subordina- tion to the mayor and Common Council, to exercise such super- vision over all interests of said city, as in any manner may concern or relate to the city finances, revenues and property. Sec. 12. It shall be the comptroller's duty to examine, adjust and audit all accounts, claims and demands for or against the city ; and no money shall, after his appointment as aforesaid, be drawn from the treasury, or paid by the city to any person or persons, unless the balance due or payable be first settled and adjusted by the said comptroller ; and for the purpose of ascertaining the true state of any balance or balances so due, he shall have and he is hereby clothed with full power and authority to administer an oath or oaths to the claimant or claimants, or any other person or per- sons whom he may think proper to examine as to any fact, matter or thing concerning the correctness of any account, claim or demand presented, and the person so sworn shall, if he swear falsely, be deemed guilty of willful and corrupt perjury, and be subject to punishment accordingly, the same as in all other cases. Sec. 13. All money found to be due and payable by the comp- troller to any person or persons, shall be drawn for by said comptroller by warrant on the treasurer, which shall be coun- tersigned by the mayor, stating therein the particular fund or appropriation to which the same is chargeable and the person to TREASURY DEPARTMENT. whom payable ; but if said comptroller should, upon any examina- tion of any account as aforesaid, still doubt as to its correctness, he shall submit the same to the mayor and finance committee for then" decision thereon, which decision shall be binding upon the city and filed among his other vouchers in the comptroller's office; and after the appointment of said comptroller no money shall be drawn from the treasury, except on the warrant of the comptroller drawn as aforesaid. Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of said comptroller as nearly as may be, to charge all ofiicers in the receipt of revenues or moneys of the city, with the whole amount from time to time of such receijits ; and in regard to all tax and assessment warrants for the collection of revenue, and all licenses or permits whatever, issued or granted under any ordinance or law of the city by virtue of which money is receivable or to be received or paid into the city treasury, from or by any person or persons, he shall countersign the same, charging the proper officer the amount collectable thereon; and no tax or assessment warrant, license or other permit issued or granted imder which the collection of any money for said city may be authorized shall be of any validity or force whatever, unless countersigned by said comptroller. He shall also require of all officers in receipt of city moneys that they shall submit reports thereof with vouchers and receipts of payment therefor, into the city treasury weekly or monthly, or as often as he shall see fit to require the same by any regulation which he may adopt, and if any such officer shaU neglect to make an adjust- ment of his accounts when so required as aforesaid, and to pay over such moneys so received, it shall then be the duty of the said comptroller to issue a notice in writing, directed to such officer and his securities, requirmg him or them within ten days to make settlement of his said accounts with the comptroller, and to pay over the balance of moneys found to be due and in his hands belonging to said city, according to the books of said comptroller ; and in case of the refusal or neglect of such officer to adjust his said accounts, or pay over said balance to the treasury as required, it shall then be the duty of the said comptroller to make report of the delinquency of such officer to the mayor, who shall at once siispend him from office; and the mayor of said city is hereby authorized, upon the happening of such event, to declare said office vacant with the concurrence of the Common Council, and to TEEASUEY DEPAETMENT. nominate a successor, in case of removal, ^^ho shall be appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Common Council to fill said office for the imexpired term of the officer so dismissed as aforesaid. Sec. 15. The comptroller shall make out an annual statement for publication, in the month of February in each year, two weeks at least before the annual election, giving a full and detailed state- ment of all the receipts and expenditures of money during the year ending on the first day of said month. The said statement shall also detail the liabilities and resources of said city, the condition of all unexpended appropriations and contracts unfulfilled, and the balances of money then remaining in the treasury, with all sums due and outstanding; the names of all persons who may have become defaulters of the city, and the amount in their hands unac- counted for, and all other things necessary to exhibit the true financial condition of the city ; which statement, when examined and approved by the finance committee, shall be published by him in the corporation newspaper; at least one week before the annual election. Sec. 16. The said comptroller shall, also, in the month of April in each year, before the annual appropriations are made by the Common Council, submit to the same a report of the estimates necessary, as nearly as may be, to defray the expenses of the city government during the ensuing fiscal year, commencing on the first day of the said month of April ; he shall, in said report, class the difl'erent objects and branches of said city expenditure, giving, as nearly as may be, the amount required for each ; and for this purpose he is authorized to require of all city officers and heads of departments, their statements of the condition and expense of their respective departments and offices, with any proposed improve- ment and the probable expense thereof, of contracts already made and unfinished, and the amount of any unexpended appropriations of the preceding year. He shall also, in such report, show the aggregate income of the preceding fiscal year from all sources ; the amount of liabilities outstanding upon which interest is to be paid, and of bonds and city debts payable during the year, when due, and where payable, so that the Common Council may fully understand the money exigencies and demands of the city for the ensuing year ; but in no event shall the Common Council make the current appropriations of any year exceed in amount the income DUTIES OF THE TEEASUKER. of the city during the preceding year as ascertained by the comp- troller in his said statement, unless in the payment of interest on the public debts of the city they shall provide according to law by taxation or otherwise, some additional fund out of which such excess of appropriations may be made to meet such indebtedness. Sec. lY. The comptroller shall also keep in his office a correct list of all local and piiblic improvements ordered by the Common Council and under contract by the city, copies of which shall be furnished him by the city clerk, and all contracts and estimates made by the Common Council or any officer of said city in relation to such improvements, for any work contracted or undertaken, done or finished, shall be filed in said comptroller's office ; and no contract made, shall be of an validity, unless countersigned by said comptroller. DUTIES OF THE TKEASURER. Sec. 18. The city treasurer shall, hereafter, keep his office in some place to be designated by the Common Council, approj)i'iated to the keeping of such office, in the treasury department. He shall keep his books and accounts in such manner as the city comptroller or Common Council may prescribe, and such books and accounts shall be always subject to the inspection of said comptroller and the finance committee. Sec. 19. All warrants drawn upon the treasurer must be signed, by the comptroller and countersigned by the mayor, stating therein the particular fund or appropriation to which the same is charge- able, and the person to whom payable, and no money shall be otherwise paid than upon such warrants so drawn. Sec. 20. He shall keep a separate account of each fund or appro- priation, and the debts and credits belonging thereto. Sec. 21. He shall give every person paying money into the city Treasury a duplicate receipt therefor, specifying the date of pay- ment, iipon what account paid ; and he shall also file copies of such receipts with the city Comptroller at the date of his monthly reports, as herein provided. Sec. 22. The Treasurer shall, at the end of each and every month, and oftener if required, render an account to the comp- 10 DUTIES OF THE TEEASUEEii. troller, showing the state of the treasury at the date of such account, and the balance of moneys in the treasury. He shall also accompany such account with the duplicate of all receipts issued by him for moneys received into the treasury, together with all warrants redeemed and paid by him, which said receipts and warrants, with any and all other vouchers held by him, shall be delivered over to the comptroller, and filed with his said account in the comj)troller's office upon every day of such settlement. Sec. 23. The treasurer shall keep all moneys in his hands be- longing to the city, in such place or places of deposit as the Com- mon Council may hereafter by ordinance provide, order, establish or direct ; and such moneys shall be kept distinct and separate from his own moneys ;.and he is hereby expressly prohibited from using, either directly or indirectly, the corporation money or warrants in his custody and keeping for his own use and benefit, or that of any other person or persons whomsoever ; and any violation of this provision shall subject him to immediate removal from office by the mayor, with the concurrence of the Common Council, who are hereby authorized to declare said office vacant; and the mayor, in case of said removal, shall nominate a successor, who shall be ap- pointed to said office upon the confirmation of the said Common Council, and hold his office for the remainder of the unexpired term of such officer so removed. Sec. 24. The treasurer shall also report to the Common Council annually, in the month of February, at least two weeks before the election, and oftener if required, a full and detailed account of all receipts and expenditures, and the state of the treasury. He shall also keep a register of all warrants redeemed and paid into the treasury during the year, describing such warrant, its date, amount, number, the fund from which payable, and persons to whom paid, specifying also the time of receipt thereof, and all such war- rants shall be examined at the time of the making such annual report to the Common Council by the finance committee, who shall examine and compare the same with the books of the comptroller, and report discrepancies, if any, to the Common Council. CITY COLLECTOES. 11 CITY COLLECTORS. SEOTioif 25. The city collector hereafter to be elected by the people, shall keep his office in siich place or places as may be designated and provided by the Common Council, appropriated to the keeping of such office in the treasury department, and shall keep in said office, besides his collection and revenue warrants, such other books, vouchers, records and accounts, as the comptrol- ler may, by regulation of the department, direct and prescribe, ■which books and records, with all other papers, shall remain in and pertam to said office, and be handed over to the successor or successors of said officer. Sec. 26. All the city collector's papers, books, warrants and vouchers, shall be examined by, and the same are hereby placed under the supervision of, the treasurer and comptroller, together with the finance committee ; and the said collector and his assist- ants shall, on receipt of the same, pay overall moneys collected by him of any person or j^ersons to the city treasiu-er, taking his re- ceipt therefor, which said collector or assistant shall immediately file in the comptroller's office. Sec. 27. From and after the passage of this act, there shall be no special collectors of the city revenue or assessments, appomted by the Common Council, other than as assistants to the said city collector, who shall be, in all cases, principal in the collector's bureau of the treasury department. Sec. 28. The city collector shall make report, in writing, to the comptroller weekly, or oftener, if recpiired, of the amount of all moneys collected by him; the accoimt upon which collected, and shall file with him the vouchers or receipts of the treasurer for the amoimt so collected. Sec. 29. The city collector is hereby expressly prohibited from keeping the moneys of the city in his hands, or that of any person or corporation to his use, beyond the time prescribed for the pay- ment of the same to the city treasurer ; and any violation of this provision shall subject him to removal from office, in the manner now provided by law, and it is hereby declared to be the duty of the mayor, upon such removal being made, to nominate and appoint a successor, with the advice and consent of the Common Council. 12 CITY COLLECTOKS. Each assistant collector shall be subject to removal at the pleasure of the finance committee, whenever they may deem the i^ublic interest to require it, and their places be filled as provided by law. Sec. 30. The city collector shall, on the first day of February of each year, submit to the Common Council and finance committee, a statement of all the moneys by him collected during the year, and the particular warrant, assessment or account upon which collect- ed, and the balance of moneys uncollected on the warrants in his hands or returned to the comptroller, and a copy of such statement shall also be filed with the comptroller. Sec. 31. The finance committee and the comptroller shall annually meet in the month of February, and compare all such reports and statements as are made by the comptrollei-, treasurer and collector, and report thereon to the Common Council, Sec. 32. In the adjustment of the accounts of the treasurer and collector with the comptroller, there shall be an appeal to the finance committee, whose decision in all matters of controvesy arising between said ofiicers in the treasury department shall be binding, unless the Common Council shall otherwise direct and provide. Sec. 33. The comptroller, city treasurer and city collector, shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the Common Council, appoint such various assistant collectors, clerks and sub- ordinates, in their respective offices, as the Common Council may authorize. Said subordinates shall in all cases be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties, as other ofiicers. Sec. 34. The said comptroller, collector and treasurer, shall perform such other duties, and be subject to such other rules and regulations, as the Common Council may from time to time by ordinance provide and establish. Sec. 35. The treasurer and city collector, and collectors and all receivers of city money, are hereby required to keep safely, without loaning or using, all the city or public moneys collected by them, or otherwise at any time placed in their custody or disposal, till the same is paid over or directed by the proper officer, warrant. Jaw, or order of the cor]3oration, to be transferred or j^aid out, and to make all payments and transfers promptly when thereto required CITY COLLECTOES. 13 by any law or order of said corporation, or under any regulation of the comi^troller. And if any one of said officers, or of those connected with them, in the collection, safe keeping, disbursing of said city revenues, shall convert to his or their own use, in any way whatever, or shall use by way of investment in any kind of pro- perty or merchandise, or shall loan, with or without interest, any j)ortion of said city moneys entrusted to him or them for safe keep- ing, disbursement, payment, transfer, or for any other purpose, every such act shall be deemed and adjudged to be an embezzle- ment of so much of the said moneys as shall be thus taken, con- verted, invested, used or loaned, which is hereby declared a felony, and any officer or agent of said city, and all persons advising or participating in such act, or being a party thereto, shall, upon con- viction before any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, be sentenced to imprisonment for a term of not less than six months nor more than ten years, in the penitentiary of this state ; and also be fined in a sum equal to the amount of the money embezzled. Sec. 36. All returns and accounts made or required to be ren- dered under this act, by any of the officers in said treasury depart- ment, shall be verified by the oath of the person rendering it ; in which said oath it shall be declared that said statement so far as he knows or has reason to believe, is a fair, accurate and full state- ment of all the moneys in his hands, or which he or any one for him has received since his last official account was rendered ; and that he has not directly or indirectly used, loaned, invested or converted to his own use, or sufiered any one to use, loan, invest, or convert to their or his use, any of the moneys receivable or received by him ; but that he has acted diligently and without any collusion or fraud in the collection of the public moneys of said city, and that he hath rendered a true and full account thereof in his said state- ment; which oath shall be attached to and filed Avith said accounts in the proper office of the comptroller or city clerk, as the case may be; and in case the said statement, or any of them, shall be false, the said person so making such statement shall be deemed gnilty of willful and corrupt perjury, and shall be punished accordingly. 14 COLLECTION OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. COLLECTION OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. Sec. SV. The annual assessment rolls shall hereafter be returned to the Common Council, who shall proceed in the manner now presci'ibed by law to revise and correct the same ; and when revised, corrected and confirmed by them, the Common Council shall then proceed by ordinance, passed as in other cases, to levy the annual taxes authorized by law. Sec. 38. All orders issued for the collection of the annual taxes, and all special warrants issued for the collection of any special assessments or tax authorized by law, shall be made out in the manner now required by the city charter, be countersigned by the comptroller and delivered to the city collector on or before the 2d Tuesday of October, in every year after the passage of this act. Sec. 39. The collector shall forthwith publish a notice in the corporation newspaper, that such warrants are in his hands for collection, briefly describing the nature of ea(!h, and requesting all persons forthwith to make payment thereof at liis office, or that the same will be collected at the cost and expense of the persons liable to the payment of such taxes and assessments ; said notice to be published for thirty days. Sec. 40. If, from any cause, the taxes and assessments charged in said collection warrants are not collected or paid on the lands or lots described in such warrants, on or before the first Tuesday in January, ensuing the date of said warrants, it shall be the duty of the collector to prepare and make report thereof to some court of general jurisdiction to beheld in Chicago, at any vacation, special or general term thereof, for judgment against the lands, lots and jDarcels of land, for the amount of taxes, assessments, interest and costs respectively due thereon ; andhe'shall give ten days' notice of his intended application before the first day of the saidterm of the said court, briefly specifying the nature of the respective warrants upon Avhich such application is to be made, and requesting all persons interested therein to attend at such term; and the adver- tisement so published shall be deemed and taken to be sufficient and legal notice, both of the aforesaid intended application by the collector to said court for judgment, and a refusal and a demand to pay the said taxes and assessments. COLLECTION OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. 15 Sec. 41. The collector shall obtam a copy of the said advertise- ment or advertisements, together with a certificate of the due pub- lication thereof, from the printer or publisher of the newspaper in which the same was published, and shall file the same with the clerk of said court at the said term, together with a copy of said report. Sec. 42. The clerk of said court, xipon the filing of such report or reports, and certificate of publication, by the collector, in each case, shall receive and record the same in a book kept for that purpose, in which shall be entered all judgments, orders and other proceedings of said court in relation thereto, and the same shall be preserved as other records of his ofliice ; and the said clerk shall place the said report or reports and the certificate attached to each, at the head of the common law docket for said term, in the following form as nearly as may be, to- wit : City of Chicago vs. John Doe and others — Suit for Taxes. Or, if it be an assessment for some specified improvement, shall also enter said repoi-t or reports returned by said collector, in sim- ilar forms as nearly as- may be, or as follows : City of Chicago vs. John Doe and others — Suit for assessment on warrants for paving street or the opening of street . Or such other title as will suflaciently indicate the nature of the improvement for which the charge or assessment is due ; entering a separate suit upon each of said warrants upon w^hich such reports are made. Sec. 43. It shall be the duty of the court upon calling the docket of said term, if any defence be ofl^ered by any of the owners of said property, or any person having a claim or intei'est therein, to hear and determine the same in a summary way, without pleadings ; and if no defence be made the said court shall pronounce judgment against the said several lots, lands, pieces or parcels of land, as described in said collector's reports; and shall thereupon direct said clerk to make out and issue an order for the sale of the same, which said order shall be in form as nearly as may be of that prescribed in the twenty-ninth section of an act, entitled an act concerning the public revenue, approved February 26th, 1839, by the general assembly of this state : Provided, that in all such cases where .a defence is interposed, the trial of any issue or issues therein shall have priority over all other cases in said court, and shall be disposed of with as little delay as possible consistently with the 16 COLLECTION" OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. demands of public justice at said term. But should justice require that for any cause the suit as to one or more owners should be delayed for more than twenty days, judgment shall then be ren- dered as to the other owners and lands, and process shall issue for the sale thereof the same as in all other cases. Sec. 44. It shall be the duty of the clerk of such court within twenty days after such order is granted as aforesaid, to make out under the seal of said court a copy of said collector's report in such case, together with the order of the court thereon which shall con- stitute the process on which all lands, lots, sub-lots, pieces and parcels of land shall be sold for the amount of any taxes, assess- ments, interest and costs so levied, assessed or charged upon them, as provided in this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, or under any section or provision hereof, and the said city collector is hereby expressly authorized and empowered in like manner, as sheriffs may do, acting under process offi. fa. under the laws of the state to make sale of such lands, lots, pieces, or parcels of land upon twenty days' notice, which, instead of posting, he shall publish in some newspaper prmted in said city. Sec. 45. The said notice so to be published in each case of a judgment upon any special or general collection warrants, and reports as aforesaid, shall contain a list of the delinquent lands and town lots to be sold, the names of the owners, if known ; the amount or taxes, interests and costs, or the amount of the assessments, interests and costs, as the case may be, due respectively thereon, and the accoiint upon which the same is due; the court which pro- nounced the judgment, and that the same will be exposed to public sale at a time and place to be named in said advertisement by said collector. The proceedings may be stopped at any time upon payment of said taxes, or assessments, interests and costs to said collector. Sec. 46. In all proceedings and advertisements for the collection of such taxes and assessments and the sale of lands therefor, figures may be used to denote lots, sub lots, lands and blocks, sections, ranges and parts thereof, the year and the amounts, as now provided by law in like places. Sec. 47. The sale shall be conducted in the manner provided by law in like cases, and shall be of the smallest portion of ground (to COLLECTIONS OF TAXES AND ASSESSMENTS. IT be taken from the east side of the premises) for which any jDerson may take the same and pay the amount of assessments or taxes thereon, with interest and costs. Sec. 48. In all other respects the same proceedings shall be had as to issuing certificates of sale, the making of deeds, and the redemption in cases of sale, as are now provided in the act to which this is an amendment, except that all dujjlicate certificates of the sale of any premises made by such collector, shall be here- after filed by the comptroller, and redemption shall be made by the payment of the amount of redemption money to the treasurer, and taking his voucher therefor, and filing the same in the office of said comptroller, who shall thereupon cancel and annul said certifi- cate and sale upon his records. Sec. 49. The deeds made to purchasers shaU be -prima facie and conclusive evidence to the same extent as to facts, and have the same conclusive force and efiect as to the rights of purchasers at such sales, as is now provided by law in the act to which this is an amendment. Sec. 50. Any change made in the incumbent of the ofiice of the city collector during the pendency of any such proceedings shall not operate to afiect or delay the same, but the successor or succes- sors in ofiice of such collector shall be authorized to do all acts necessary to complete such proceedings the same as if his prede- cessor had continued in office. In case of a vacancy occurring in any such office, the proceedings shall be prosecuted by the city comptroller until such vacancy is filled by election or otherwise. Sec. 51. After the next annual election, all sales of property for the non-payment of taxes and assessments, for any improvement of what kind soever, shall be held at the same time with the general sale of property for non-payment of city taxes in each year, unless in particular cases said sale is stayed by examination or process of law, the intent hereof being that there shall be but one general collection by sale of all taxes and assessments whatsoever in each and every year, which sale shall take place in the manner herein before provided and at the same time in each year. Sec. 62. The Common Council may direct all special warrants for the collection of any special assessments levied on any property for any improvement, to issue and be delivered to the city collector 2 18 POLICE COURT. forthwith, who shall notify by advertisement all persons interested to pay the same immediately ; but in all cases were said assess- ments are not paid, on or before the day of the filing of the col- lector's report for judgment in any court of general jurisdiction, ten per cent, shall be collected as additional costs, and be added to and collected with the other assessments and expenses authorized to be collected on the property assessed; and for this purpose the collector shall add to his said report, on a separate column, the amount of such additional cost: Provided^ That from and after the expiration of thirty days' notice to be published in the corpora- tion newspaper by the city collector that he has received such special warrant for collection, he shall be authorized and he is hereby required to demand and collect for the use of said city at the rate often per cent, per annum on the amount of every assess- ment made upon any real estate within said city, computed from the day of the date of said warrant to the day of the payment thereof. POLICE COURT. Sec. 53. That after the next municipal election, the Common Council of said city shall designate the two or more justices of the peace, now provided for under the act to which this is an amend- ment, and who are to have jurisdiction in all actions for the recovery of any fine and penalty under the laws, ordinances and police regu- lations of said city. Sec. 54. The said justices of the peace so designated shall here- after constitute and be styled the police court of said city, and said justices shall continue under such designation to take jm-isdic- tion as justices of the peace for one year, or until their successors be appointed, in all actions for th« recovery of any fine or penalty Tinder the laws of said city, and all ordinances, by-laws or police regulations thereof; that while so employed under such designa- tion, as such justice, one of them shall hold a session of said police court daily (Sundays excepted), at the city hall, in such place as the said Common Council may provide and appoint, untU the business before them or him is disposed of Sec. 55. The said justice may be compensated by a salary, to be fixed by the Common Council to do the business of said police POLICE COURT. 19 court, in lieu of all other compensation or fees whatever, accruing from the business to be disposed of, and the said justices so desig- nated shall not enter upon their duties nor be appointed to hold such court as justices of the peace aforesaid, unless they first sign and execute an express relinquishment in writing in favor of the city, of all other fees, emoluments, or compensation whatever, than what may be provided by a salary to be fixed as aforesaid by the Common Council under this act, and such express relinquishment shall be filed in the comptroller's office, and thereafter all justices' fees and costs collected in all actions brought for said city, under the city charter, shall be paid into the city treasury as other revenue of the city. Sec. 56. There shall be elected by the people at the next muni- cipal election, and biennially thereafter, one " Police Court clerk," who shall hold his office for two years, and imtU his successor is elected and qualified. He shall take an oath, the same as other officers elected under this act and the act to which this is amenda- tory, and shall execute a bond with sufficient security to the city, to be approved by the comptroller and mayor in such sum as shall be fixed by the Common Council. He shall receive a fixed salary for his services the amount thereof to be determined by the Com- mon Council under this act. He shall have power to administer oaths and appoint deputies when in the opinion of the Common Council it may be necessary ; in which case said deputies shall be nominated by said clerk and approved by the Common Council, and the Common Council may prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of such deputies. Sec. 57. In case of the temporary inability or absence, or in case of a vacancy of the clerk and there is no deputy, the police court may appoint some competent person to discharge the duties of the office until the vacancy is filled or ceases. Sec. 68. The duties of the police clerk shall be to keep a full, detailed and complete account on his docket of all cases and per- sons ai'rested and brought before the police court, or any of them; how tried and disposed of; the number of cases disposed of; the cases in which moneys have been collected; and the cases in which money is to be collected ; the amount of all forfertures, penalties, and fines assessed, or the punishment fixed in each case, with the fees and costs accrued and accruing thereon, and to col- 20 POLICE COUET. lect, prosecute and receive payment of all sncli fees, fines, penal- ties and forfeitures, and all judgments and executions, and all moneys -whatever accruing or to be paid in for the use of said city from the enforcement of any of the laws thereof, and forthwith to pay over the same to the treasurer of said city, except the consta- bles' and witness' fees, which shall be paid to the respective parties entitled thereto. Sec. 69. It shall be his duty to see that all cases are properly prosecuted before said police court in the absence of the city attorney. He shall take care that said fines, penalties, forfeitures, fees, judgments and executions are collected in all cases as speedily as may be, and the police justices shall, so far as is possible, aid said clerk in the collection thereof. Sec. 60. The said police clerk shall, at the end of every week, make a report to the comptroller of the amount of such fines, fees, penalties and forfeitures, as he may have collected and pay over the same to the city treasurer, and file his receipt therefor with the said comptroller. He shall also specify in his said reports the number of cases pending ; the number of cases in which any fine, forfeiture or penalty has been inflicted, and the amount thereof, and also the amount of moneys outstanding to be collected in such cases ; and the state of each case respectively, and upon making each and every such statement he shall verify the same by oath taken before some competent ofiicer, that such statement is a full, fair and complete statement of the moneys received and collected by him. Sec. 61. In case of the failure of such clerk to make such report, and pay over said moneys weekly, as herein required, a notice shall be served upon him by the comptroller, that, within ten days, he is required to make such returns, and pay over all moneys received, and, in case of the failure of said clerk to pay over said moneys, and make such report to the satisfaction of said comptroller, he shall be suspended and removed from office, and thereupon the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the Common Council, shall appoint his successor to fill the vacancy during the unexpired term. Sec. 62. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said police court to receive and safely keep in his possession, in such place as may be provided by the Common Council therefor, all articles of stolen POLICE COUET. 21 proj^erty, of every description, found upon or taken from the possession of any person or persons arrested for, or charged with, crime within said city, by any police officer, constable, or conservator of the peace therein, or any sheriff or officer of the county of Cook. Sec. 63. Upon the finding of any articles of property, stolen or taken, from any person or persons charged with crime, it shall be the duty of all officers finding the same, or arresting such persons, to lodge the said property in possession of said police clerk, and take his receipt therefor. Sec. 64. The said police court clerk shall keep a record of all such articles and number the same, stating the description of the article or articles, fi'om whom taken, by what officer or person deposited, where found, the person losing the same (if known) ; and it shall be his duty to deliver said articles over to such person or persons as may be entitled thereto, vmder the order of the court in which the person upon whose possession the property is found, or from whom it is taken, is tried, discharged or convicted. Sec. 65. In all cases where such person or persons are dis- charged upon arrest, and there is no legal claimant appearing to replevy or try the right of property, as against such persons arrested, it shall be the duty of the court to order the restitution of the property in all cases. Sec. 66. In case of the neglect or refusal of any officer, or conservator of the peace, to so deposit the property taken or found upon the possession of any person or persons arrested, he shall be subject to indictment, and be fined in a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, and in no case less than the value of the property, and be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed one year, and the sentence of the court, in such cases, ipso facto ^ shall vacate the office of the person so convicted. Sec. 67. The Common Council, if it think proper, may, by ordinance, provide for the appointment of a prosecuting attorney for said police court, to manage all city cases before it, and, in such case, may provide for his compensation by a salary. Sec. 68. In case of the appointment of such prosecuting attor- ney of the police court, he shall prosecute all cases before it, and 22 FEES AND SALAEIES. also superintend the collection of fees, fines, forfeitures, judgments and executions, and keep a docket thereof, and file a monthly- report of the number of all cases commenced, and all cases dis- posed of, with the names of the parties sued, and the amount of fines, fees and forfeitures collected ; with the number of cases where moneys are uncollected, and the amount thereof, and file such reports in the city comptroller's office. Sec. 69. The clerk of the police court and police prosecuting attorney (if any), shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinance of the Common Council from time to time. Sec. 70. Appeals and change of venue may be taken from the police justices, in all cases, the same as before other justices of the peace; but all such appeals shall hereafter be taken to the Recorder's Court of the city of Chicago. FEES AND SALARIES. Sec. 71. From and after the first Tuesday of March next, all fees, perquisites and emoluments of ofiice whatever, by way of compensation for the performance of any official duty or duties, are hereby expressly prohibited to be retained by any officer whose compensation is provided to be paid by a salary, to be fixed by the Common Council under this act ; and all fees, perquisites and emoluments whatever, received or paid, or payable, to any officer, justice of the peace, mayor, clerk, attorney, collector, treasurer, commissioner of public works, comptroller, or other person, whose compensation is to be so paid by a fixed salary, shall belong to and be j)aid, by such person or persons, into the city treasury of said city, the same as all other revenues belonging thereto; and any violation of this provision shall subject the offender to removal from his office, and the amount received by him shall be recoverable by action of debt or assumpsit, in favor of such city. Sec. 72. The mayor of said city shall, after the next annual election, receive an annual salary of thirty-five hundred dollars, in lieu of all other compensation whatever. Sec. 73. The said salaries shall be payable monthly or quarterly out of the appropriate fund, voted by the Common Council to pay the same, upon the warrant of the comptroller, as in other cases. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FUND. 23 Sec. V4. The Common Council may, by ordinance, establish salaries, as a fixed compensation for such other officers of said city as are not named herein, in thek discretion, and may provide for their removal from office, in'case they receive or retain other or greater fees than so paid or fixed by the corporation for their services. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FUND. Sec. 75. The said Common Council shall have power to annually levy and collect a school tax, not exceeding two mills on the dollar, on all real and personal estate within said city, to meet the expenses of purchasing grounds for school houses, and building and repairing school houses, and supporting and maintaining schools. Sec. 76. It is also hereby enacted that the school tax levied on said real and personal estate, for the year A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-six, by the Common Council of said city, be, and the same is, hereby expressly legalized ; and the collector of said city is hereby directed and authorized to collect the same, as in all other cases, the same as if such levy had been authorized by law, all other provisions of any law or enactment, now in force, in conflict with the exercise of the power hereby conferred being hereby expressly repealed. Sec. V7. The Common Council of said city shall, before the first Tuesday of May after the passage of this act, appoint fifteen school inspectors, who shall be denominated and styled the board of edu- cation of said city. The said board shall be divided into three classes, of five members each; those of the first class shall vacate their seats at the expiration of the first year; those of the second class at the expiration of the second, and those of the third class at the expira- tion of the third year; so that five new members shall be aj)point- ed in every year to succeed those whose terms of office will expire. The board of aldermen, in electing the first board, shall designate the class or term of office to which each inspector is to belong ; and the members of said board so elected shall enter upon the discharge of their duties on the said first Tuesday of May, and shall hold their offices for one, two and three years, according to their re- spective class, as designated by the said Board of aldermen when 24 CITY CEMETEEIES. they are so elected, aud the same shall be entered upon the journal of proceedings of said board. Sec. 78. After the first annual election of said board of inspec- tors, the board of aldermen shall annually thereafter, on or before the first Tuesday of May in every year, appoint five inspectors of said board of education, who shall hold their offices for three years and until their successors are elected and qualified, and shall enter upon the discharge of their duties on the said first Tuesday of May in each year. Sec. 79. The duties of said board of education shall be the same as now are or may be hereafter prescribed by the laws or ordinances of said city. Sec. 80. All provisions of law providing for the appointment or election of school trustees in said city, after the first Tuesday in March next, are hereby expressly repealed. CITY CEMETERIES. Sec. 81. The city of Chicago is hereby authorized to purchase, hold, take and convey, such tracts of land without the city limits, for the purpose of establishing such cemeteries for the interment of the dead therein, as they may think necessary, which shall be exempt from taxation under any law of this state. Sec. 82. The Common Council of said city is hereby author- ized and empowered to pass such ordinances, rules and regulations, with regard to the improvement, preservation, laying out, orna- menting, and the sale of burial places or lots in such cemeteries as they may think necessary for the interment of the dead therein, which ground or grounds so laid out shall be placed under the superintendence of the board of public works of said city. Sec. 83. As soon as said grounds are regulated and laid out, a map or plat thereof shall be made out by the city mayor, and a copy thereof filed in the comptroller's office, who shall have charge of the sale and disposition of all lots therein, under the ordinances and regulations of the Common Council. The proceeds of such sales shall be paid into the city treasury, and be credited and charged MISCELLANEOUS PEO VISION'S. 25 on the books of the treasury department to a "Cemetery Fund," to be kept distinct from all other funds of said city. Sec. 84. The said Common Council is also fully empowered and authorized to provide for the punishment, by ordinance, of all per- sons who shall, without said city limits, be guilty of any violation ofthe regulations, rules and ordinances, established by said city in relation to such cemeteries ; and such violations may be punished by fine and imprisonment, as in other cases, by any com-t of com- petent jurisdiction within said city, and all process issued for the arrest of any person or persons guilty of such violation, may be executed without said city limits, by any officer or constable thereof, the same as if such oflence had been committed within the boundaries of the corporation. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Sec. 85. All ordinances, regulations and resolutions, now in force in the city of Chicago, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force under this act, until altered, modified or repealed by the Common Council, after this act shall take effect. Sec. 86. All actions, rights, fines, penalties and forfeitures, in suit or otherwise, which have accrued under any act to which this act is an amendment, or under any ordinance of said city now in force, shall be vested in and be prosecuted by the corporation, and all proceedings now or hereafter commenced for the opening of any street or streets in said city, and the assessment of real estate for any such improvement, is hereby expressly legalized and affirmed, and the Common Council is hereby expressly authorized to con- tmue such proceedings, and open said street or streets ; any defect, decree or order, of any court to the contrary notwith- standing. Sec. 87. All such parts of the act to which this is an amendment, and the several acts amending or in any manner affecting the same, or as are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed ; but so much and such parts thereof as are not inconsistent with the pro- visions of this law, shall not be construed as repealed, altered or 26 MISCELLANEOUS PEO VISION'S. modified, or in any form affected thereby, but shall continue and remain in full force and virtue. Sec. 88. All that part of the city which lies west of the south branch of the Chicago river, and south of aline running east and west along the center of Randolph street, and north of the center of Harrison street, shall be denominated the Fifth Ward ; and All that part of said city which lies west of the south branch of the Chicago river, and south of a line in the center of Harrison street, shall be denominated the Tenth Ward. Sec. 89. All aldermen and officers now elected or appointed in and for the said fifth ward of said city, shall continue in their respective offices to the end of then* respective terms for which they were elected or appointed, any provision of law now in force to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 90. An election shall be held in and for the said tenth ward at the next annual election, for two aldermen to represent such ward in the Common CouncU, as also a police constable for said ward ; and all provisions of law relating to the several wards of said city shall, so far as they may be applicable, apply to said tenth ward; and in all such elections the qualifications and duties of aldermen shall be the same as required by law in other cases. PUBLIC PARKS Sectioi^ 1. The judge of the Cook County Court of Common Pleas shall, within six months after the passage of this act, or so soon after the annual election as may be, appoint three discreet and disinterested freeholders of said City, as Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, to lay out a Public Park in the South Division of said city. Sec. 2. Upon the appointment of said commissioners they shall severally take an oath before some authorized person, that they will proceed faithfully and impartiully to discharge the duties required of them under this act. In case of the death, resignation, disqualification or refusal of either of, or any of said commissioners to act, the said judge of said court shall appoint some disinterested and discreet freeholder of said city to act in the place or stead of the commissioner so dying, resigning or refusing to act. Sec. 3. Upon the qualification of said commissioners, they shall proceed to have surveyed, laid out and appropriated, a public park in said south division of Chicago, which shall embrace an area of not less than one hundred acres of land, nor more than three hun- dred acres, which shall forever remain open and dedicated to the free use and exercise of all citizens of said city, subject to the regulation of the Common Council thereof. Sec. 4. The said land so to be taken shall be laid out and appro- priated as aforesaid, south of Twelfth street, west of Michigan avenue and east of Stewart avenue, and as nearly central as may be between Lake Michigan and the south branch of the Chicago river; and from such blocks, pieces and parcels of land within said terri- tory as may lie contiguous to each other, extending southwardly to the southern limits of said city, and widening the area southward of such park, in such places and in such proportion as the commis- sioners may think will combine taste and utility with cheapness of price in the land to be taken. 28 PUBLIC PAEKS. Sec. 5. The said commissioners may requii-e the assistance of . the city surveyor and engineer, in making all necessary sm'veys, plats and profiles of said public grounds ; and as soon as said com- missioners shall determine upon the grounds to be appropriated annd take, they shall file a plat thereof in the city clerk's office, and shall submit one other copy with a report signed by said com- missioners to the court of common pleas, in vacation or term time, which shall be spread upon the records of said court ; and thereupon the said lands, lots and pieces and parcels of land designated on such plat, shall be and they are hereby declared to be a public park and common, in said city ; said reports shall be filed within three months from the appointment of said commissioners. Sec. 6. After the filing of said report, it shall be the duty of said commissioners as soon as conveniently may be, to make just and true estimates of the loss and damage to the respective owners, lessees, parties and persons respectively entitled unto or interested in the lands designated in their said report and included within the boundaries of said public park or common; together with the ten- ements, hereditaments and premises and their appurtenances, and each and every part and parcel thereof as far as can be ascertained by them ; and shall state in their report, in general terms, the respective sums to be allowed and paid to the owner or owners and proprietors generally of such lands, tenements, hereditaments and premises, or the appurtenances and privileges to the same belonging^ or appertaming, and the loss and damages to the owners thereof (if known, and if unknown shall so state in said report), in respect to the whole estate and interest of whomsoever may be entitled unto or interested in said lands, by and in consequence of relinquishing the same to the city of Chicago for said public park. Sec. 1. It shall not be necessary to specify the name of the estates of the diiferent owners, proprietors or parties interested, or of any or either of them, but generally to put down the damage to the property taken or described in such report. Sec. 8. Upon the coming in of such report, signed by said com- missioners or any two of them, the said court shall by rule or order, after hearing any matter or thing which shall be alleged against the same, either confirm the said report, or refer the same back to the said commissioners for revisal and correction, or to new com- missioners to be appointed by said court, to reconsider the subject PUBLIC PAEKS. 29 matter thereof, and the same bemg retm-necl by such new commis- sioners, the court shall proceed in like manner as before provided, as right and justice may require, until a report shall be made or returned in the premises, which the said court shall confirm, and such report when so confirmed, shall be final and conclusive, as well upon said city as upon all owners or others interested in the lands so appropriated and designated as aforesaid, and from thence- forth the said city shall be seized of all said premises to the use of a public park for the people of Chicago forever. Sec. 9. The said commissioners shall also in their said proceed- ings, assess the said damages and costs, or so much thereof as is just and equitable, upon all property benefitted in proportion as nearly as may be to the benefit resulting thereto from such improve- ment to the owners of all such property benefitted ; and shall in like manner include the same in their said rej^ort, with the descrip- tion of all the said property benefitted, and the names of the owners where known, and where unknown shall so state in their said report, and upon the confirmation of said report, the said court shall enter an order against said lands assessed for the amount of such assessment, including all costs and expenses of said proceedings; under which order the collector of said city shall be designated to collect the same of the respective owners, and in case of default, to sell such lands and all interest therein at public sale, upon twenty days' notice, in the same manner that other sales are authorized to be made for the non-payment of taxes and assessments of said city. Sec. 10. For the payment of so much of the damages awarded by the commissioners of estimate and assessment, and the expenses, disbursements and charges in the premises, as shaU exceed the amount or sums that may be assessed by said commissioners upon the parties and persons, lands and tenements deemed by them bene- fitted by the laying out of such public park, it shah be lawful for the mayor and Common Council to raise such excess by loan, by the creation of a public fund or stock to be called the " Chicago Park Stock," which shall bear an interest not exceeding ten per centum per annum, and shall be redeemed within a period of time not exceeding fifty years after the passage of this act and for the payment of which the piece of land so taken, as aforesaid, shall be irrevocably pledged. Sec. 11. The mayor and Common Council shall determine what 30 PUBLIC PAEKS. shall be the nominal amount or value of each share of stock, and of what number of shares the same shall consist, and the mayor of said city is hereby authorized to sell and dispose of such shares on such terms as the Common Council may prescribe. Sec. 12. In order to pay the interest on said stock hereby author- ized, the Common Council of said city shall, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to order, and cause to be raised annually by tax on the property, real and personal, subject to taxation within the south division of said city, a sum of money sufficient to pay the interest annually accruing on said stock, which amount shall be levied and collected in addition to the ordinary taxes yearly and every year, for the payment of such interest. Sec. 13. After the report and order of confirmation is entered by the court as herein provided, the city shall make provision for the payment of all damages within six months from the confirma- tion thereof, and in case the same is not paid to the persons entitled thereto, or deposited to their use with the clerk of the said coiu't of common pleas, an action may be maintained by any person or per- sons entitled thereto against the corporation for the amount of his share of said damages. Sec. 14. In case at any time that all the aldermen of the West or North Divisions of said city, shall agree in presenting a petition to the said Cook County Court of Common Pleas, for the laying out a pai'k in their respective divisions, the court shall proceed to appoint commissioners, and all the provisions of this act shall in like manner apply to the respective divisions, where the laying out such park is desired, in the manner aforesaid, the same as if said divisions were respectively named herein. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. SAMUEL HOLMES, Speaker of House of Representatives. JOHN WOOD, Speaker of the Senate. Approved February 16, 1857. WILLIAM H. BISSELL. PUBLIC PAEKS. 31 United States op America, State of Illinois. I, OziAS M. Hatch, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of enroled law now on file in my office. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the great seal of [seal.] state to be affixed. Done at the city of Springfield, this 18th day of February, A. D. 1857. O. M. HATCH, Secretary of State. A.lsr A-CT To amend the Act entitled ^^ An Act to reduce the laio incorporating the City of Chicago, and the several Acts amendatory thereof into one Act, and to amend the same,'''' approved February 14, 1851. Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly : In order to carry out fully the object and intent of the sixty-second section of the fourth chapter of the act to which this is an amendment, the Common Council of the city of Chicago is hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain at its option, either within or without the corporate limits of said city, a Reform School, and to assess a tax upon the real estate in said city, year by year, for the support of the same, not exceeding, however, two mills, and to be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time that the general taxes of the city are now ; but no such tax shall be levied or collected in any year when there shall remain, from the taxes assessed for such purpose for any previous year or years, and col- lected and paid into the treasiuy and unexpended for the purposes of such school, a sum of money that, in the estimation of the Board of Guardians of such school, shall be deemed sufficient for the support of the Reform School for such year. Sec. 2. The Reform School now established by the ordinance of the Common Council of the city of Chicago, is hereby declared to have been and to be established in conformity with the provisions of the said sixty-second section mentioned in the foregoing section, and the said ordinance and the amendments thereto are hereby continued in force and eifect until altered, changed or amended by said Common Council, and the said Common Council is hereby authorized to alter, change, amend or repeal, in its option, the said ordinance, at any and all times when it shall deem proper ; but not so as to contravene any provisions contained herein, or any laws of the state now or hereafter existing. BEFOEM SCHOOL. 33 Sec. 3. Each and all courts having criminal jurisdiction in the county of Cook, and each and all police magistrates in the city of Chicago shall sentence to the said reform school, every male under the age of seventeen years and over the age of six years, who shall be convicted before such court or magistrate of vagrancy, or of any oiFense punishable by law by fine or imprisonment, and who the said courts or police magistrates shall be of opmion would be a fit and proper subject for commitment to said reform school, and an order to such eflect shall be entered of record in the proceed- ings of said court or magistrate; and thereupon it shall be the duty of said court or magistrate, by warrant in due form of law, to commit such boy to said reform school, and all warrants of com- mitments of such boys, shall express the crune or complaint for which such commitment is made and the age of the boy, but no such warrant of commitment shall be considered bad for want of form or technicality, and the same may be directed to the sheriff or any constable of Cook county or of the city of Chicago, who shall execute the same and deliver the boy or boys named in such warrant to the superintendent of the reform school with the war- rant, and for such services shall b3 paid the same fees and in the same manner as are now provided in case of the commitment of a criminal to the Cook county jail, for a misdemeanor or ofiense punishable by imprisonment in the county jail. Sec. 4. Each and every boy above the age of six years and under the age of seventeen years, who shall be legally committed to said school as provided in the foregoing section, shall be kept disciplined, instructed, employed and governed under the du-ection of the board of guardians of said school, until he be either reform- ed and discharged, or be bound out by said guardians, or until he shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years ; and all com- mitments to said reform school shall be to such efiect and need not express the time for which such boy shall be committed, and the said board of guardians are hereby clothed with the sole power to discharge any boy or boys from said reform school, who have been or may hereafter be legally committed to such reform school, and such power of discharge shall rest solely with said board of guardians, and with no other person or body politic or corporate, but it shall be the duty of the said board of guardians, and they shall have power to return any boy to the authorities of the county or city from which any such boy may be or shall have been received, whom 34 REFORM SCHOOL. the said guardians may deem to be an improper subject for their care and management, or who shall be found to be incorrigible, or whose continuance in the schoolthey may deem prejudicial to the manage- ment and discipline thereof, or who in their judgment ought for any cause to be removed from said school, and in every such case it shall be the duty of said guardians to transmit to the coixrt or magistrate by whom the said boy was committed to said school, a statement of the reasons for said discharge, and it shall be the duty of the authorities of the city or county, to whom such boy shall be returned, to produce such boy before the court or magis- trate by whom such boy was committed, as soon as the same can reasonably be done, and such court or magistrate shall have power thereupon to make such order and have such proceedings as Avould have been legal in the first instance, and as would have been made or had in case said boy had not been sent to said reform school. Sec. 5. Said guardians shall have power to bind out all boys committed to their charge for any term of time until they shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, as apprentices or servants to any inhabitant of this state, and the said guardians and master or mistress, apprentice or servant, shall respectively have all the rights and privileges and be subject to all the duties set forth in chapter sixth of the Revised Statutes, entitled " Apprentices," in the same manner as if said binding or apprenticing were made by any two overseers of the poor, or by the mayor or any two aldermen of any city ; and the same clauses and provisions required to be inserted in the indentures of apprentices in such cases shall be inserted in all indentures that may be executed by the said guardians. No person receiving an apprentice under the provis- ions of this act shall be at liberty to assign or transfer the indenture of apprenticeship without the consent in writing of said guardians, and in case the master or mistress of such apprentice shall be dissatisfied with his behavior, or for any other cause may desire to be relieved from said contract, upon application, said guardians may in then- discretion cancel the said indenture and resume the charge and management of such boy, and shall have the same power and authority in regardto him as before such indenture was made ; and if any master or mistress shall be guilty of any cruelty, mis-usage, refu- sal or neglect to furnish necessary provisions, clothing, or any other violation of the terms of the indenture towards any boy so bound to service, such boy may make complaint to the board of guardians EEFOEM SCHOOL. 35 of said school, or to any court or magistrate having power to commit boys to said school, who shall thereupon summon the parties before said court or magistrate and examine into, hear and determine said complaint, and if upon examination such complaint shall appear to be well founded, such court or magistrate shall, by certificate under seal, discharge such boy from all obligations of future service and restore him to said school to be managed and taken care of in like manner and with the same powers as before such indenture, and a right of action shall immediately accrue against such master or mistress as for a violation of the covenants of such indenture. Upon the death or removal from the State of Illinois of any master or mistress to whom any boy be bound as aforesaid, the executor or administrators of such master or mistress that may have so deceased, or said master or mistress in person who are about to remove, with the consent of the boy so bound to service, signified in a writing acknowledged and approved by the said guardians, may assign the indenture or contract of services to some other person, which assignment shall transfer and rest in such assignee all the rights of the original master or mistress, and also make the assignee subject to all the obligations of such original master or mistress ; and it shall be the duty of every person to whom any boy is so apprenticed as aforesaid, to report to said guardians as often as once in each year, and at all other times when required of by said guardians, the conduct, behavior, the condition and health of such apprentice, and whether such apprentice is still living with him or them, and if not where such apprentice may be, and such other facts with regard to such apprentice as may be important for said guardians to know. Sec. 6. In case a reform school, or schools, or other institution of a like character, and for a like purpose, should at any time be established by the state as a state institution, the Common Council of the city of Chicago are* hereby authorized and empowered to remove and transfer to such state institution, as soon as the same shall be in operation, or at any time thereafter, all the boys that may at such time be in the Chicago Reform School, and thereafter aU such boys so removed and all other boys that may at any time thereafter be sent to the Chicago Reform School, or that the board of guardians of said Chicago Reform School would otherwise be authorised to take and receive into the Chicago Reform School, shall be sent to and received and taken by such State Reform . 36 EEFOEM SCHOOL. School, and shall be under the control, guardianship and custody of the board of guardians or other governing board of such State Reform School or institution in the same way and manner, and to the same extent in all resj^ects as if such boy and boys had been sent or sentenced to any such State Reform School or institution in the first instance, and agreeably to the law or laws that may be or have been for such case made and provided ; such removal and removals of such boys from said Chicago Reform School to such State Reform School, or other similar institution, shall be made under the direction of the mayor and Common Council of the city of Chicago, and any police officer or constable, one or more, of said city of Chicago, that may be directed by said mayor and Common Council to make such removal, are hereby clothed with the same power to take such boys through any county in the state and deliver such boys to such State Reform School or other institution established for similar purposes, as a sherifl!' now has by law to remove a convict from the comity where convicted to the state penitentiary. Sec. 7. By permission of the Common Council of the city of Chicago, male juvenile delinquents, between the ages of six years and seventeen years, that may be proper subjects for said reform school, may in like manner as hereinbefore provided for, in the case of male juvenile delinquents in said city of Chicago be sentenced by any court of criminal jurisdiction, or police magis- trate, or police justice, in any county or city of this state to said Chicago Reform School, subject however to such rules and regula- tions as the said Common Council may establish, and the expense at said school of such boys so committed shall be respectively borne and paid by the counties or cities where such boys may be respectively convicted. Sec. 8. This act shall take efiect and be in force from and after its passage. SAMUEL HOLMES, Speaker of the Hoxise of Representatives. JOHN WOOD, Speaker of the Senate. Approved February 14, 1857. WM. H. BISSEL. KEFORM SCHOOL. 37 UxiTED States of America, and State of Illinois. ) ' I, O. M. Hatch, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of an enroled law now on file in my office. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal [sEAi.] of State. Done at the city of Springfield this 20th day of February, A. D. 1857. O. M. HATCH, Secretary of State. '^fo. Z CITY ORDINANCES AN ORDINANCE Concerning Nuisances. Whereas, by the seventeenth subdivision of Section Four of Chapter Four of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled '•'■An act to reduce the laws incorporting the City of Chicago and the several acts amendatory thereof ijito one act^ and to amend the same^'' A^yproved^ February 14, 1851, the Com- mon Council of the city of Chicago is empowered as follows, to wit : Seventeenth^ To direct the location and management of, and regu- late breweries, tanneries and packing houses, and to direct the location, management, and construction of, and regulate, restrain, abate and prohibit within the city, and the distance of foiu* miles therefrom, distilleries, slaughtering establishments, establishments for steaming or rendering lard, tallow, offal and such other sub- stances as can or may be rendered; and all establishments or places where any nauseous, offensive or unwholseme business may be carried on : Frovided, That for the purposes of this section the Chicago river and its branches to their respective sources, and the land adjacent thereto or within one hundred rods thereof shall be deemed to be within the jurisdiction of the city, and whereas, also, the Common Council of the said city by the thirty- thuxl and fifty-ninth subdivisions of the section, chapter and act aforesaid are further empowered as follows, to wit : Thirty-third, To abate and remove nuisances and punish the authors thereof, by penalties, fine and imprisonment, and to define and declare what shall be nuisances, and authorize and direct the summary abate- ment thereof. Fifty-ninth, To abate all nuisances which are or 40 COlSrCERNESTG NUISAlSrCES. may be injurious to the public health in any manner they may deem expedient. Therefore, SECTi02f 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : First — That all places and establishments within the coi'porate limits of the city of Chicago, and within the distance of tico ndles therefrom used for the steaming or rendering of lard, tallow, offal or dead animals ; Second — All places and establishments within the corporate limits of the city of Chicago, and the distance of two miles therefrom, used for the steaming or rendering of such other sub- stances as may or can be rendered — which in being so rendered shall cause the business thereof to be nauseous, offensive, unwhole- some or injurious to the public health ; and Third — All distilleries and slaughtering establishments within the corporate limits of the city of Chicago, be and the same are hereby prohibited, and the same are hereby severally declared nuisances. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the health officer or any member of the board of health to serve a notice upon any owner or occu- pant of any or either of the places, establishments or nuisances aforesaid (if such owner or occupant can readily be found, if not, to post up such notice upon some conspicuous place thereon), requiring such nuisance or business to be abated within ten days from the date thereof. In case such nuisance or business shall not be abated within the period specified in said notice, it shall be the duty of the city marshal and health officer, or either of them, forth- with to summarily abate or remove the same, and for that purpose may call upon or employ such assistants as by them may be deemed necessary, and aU expenses and costs of such abatement or removal shall be enforced and collected of the owner or occupant, or by assessment upon the real estate — as is now provided, and any owner or occupant who shall not comply with the above notice, so as aforesaid served within the time specified, or any person, owner, or occupant who shall resist or interfere with any officer or person* while engaged in the discharge of the duty aforesaid, shall on con- viction pay a fine of not less than two dollars nor more than one hundred dollars ; and such owner or occupant shall also be liable to pay an additional fine of fifty dollars for every twenty- four hours EELATINa TO HAY AND WOOD STANDS. 41 such nuisance or business shall be continued after the expiration of the time mentioned hi said notice. Sec. 4. This ordinance shall take effect in twenty days after its due publication, and shall not affect any establishment or business for the carrying on of which a permit by the mayor or Common CouncU has been granted in pursuance of the ordinances of the city during the period of such permit; and all ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistant herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed Se2)t. 22, 1856. APPROVED, THOS. DYER, Ilayor. ATTEST, H, W. ZiMMEEMAJsr, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE To amend an Ordinance entitled " An Ordinance relating to Hay and Wood Stands,'''' passed May 5th, 1851, atid the amendment thereto of November I2th, 1855. Section 1. JBe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That in the West Division of the city of Chicago, the center of the street, extending from a point one hundred feet west of the west end of the market house to the east line of Ilal- sted street, leaving all the planking on each side of said center clear and unoccupied, be and the same is hereby designated as the Hay and Wood Stand of the West Division, and that the provi- sions and penalties of the ordinance to which this is an amendment shall extend to this. Passed September 22d, 1856. Appkoved, THOS. DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. W. Zi:^rMERMAN, City Cleric. 42 EELATmG TO STEEETS AND ALLEYS. AN ORDINANCE To amend an Ordinance concerning Peddlers, passed August 25th, 1851. Section 1. _Z?e it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That hereafter the mayor shall be authorized to issue licenses to any person, in his discretion, to peddle books and news- papers, on payment of the usual fees. Such license may be revoked at any time in the discretion of the mayor. Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take effect after due publication. Passed September 22d, 1856. Appkoved, THOS. DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. W. ZiMMEKMAN, City ClevTc. AN ORDINANCE In, relation to obstruction in Streets and Alleys. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That whenever any side or crosswalk planking, pave- ment, street or alley in said city, shall be torn or dug up or in any manner interfered with by the board of sewerage commissioners of said city, the boai'd of water commissioners of the city of Chicago, the Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company of said city, or any per- son or persons, or corporation, acting by lawful authority and in pursuance thereof, it shall be the duty of the person or persons, or corporation so tearing, digging up or in any manner interfering with such side or crosswalk, planking, pavement, street or alley, to repair, replace and restore the same to the same condition, as near as may be, as that in which it was before being so torn or dug up or interfered with, immediately upon the completion of the drain, sewer, pipe laying, or other purpose for which the same was so torn or dug up or interfered with, and as fast as practicable during the progress of the work. BILLIAED TABLES, ETC. 43 Sec. 2. Any person, persons or corporation violating or failing to comply with the first section of this ordinance, or sufiering, per- mitting or allowing his, her or their or its contractors, agents or servants acting under his, her, their or its direction or authority, to violate the same, shall forfeit a penalty of not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars for every such violation. Passed October 21 th, 1855. Approved, THOS. DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. W. ZiMMEKJsrAK", City ClerJc. AN ORDINANCE Concerning Billiard Tables^ Bowling Alleys and Shooting Galleries. Section 1. Be it ordaiyied by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That no person or persons shall have or keep for his or their gain within said city, any billiard table, pin alley, nine or ten pin alley, ball alley or shooting gallery, under a penalty of five dollars for each and every month each and every billiard table and each and every alley in any pin or ball alley and shooting gallery shall be so kept and used by him or them. And the owner or owners of any building in which any such billiard table, ball alley or shooting gallery shall be so had and and kept, shall be liable to the like penalties as above prescribed. Sec. 2. Section 9 of Chapter XXXVIII. of the Revised Ordi- nances, is hereby repealed : Provided^ That such repeal shall not afiectany penalty or forfeiture heretofore incm'red under said section, or any suit now pending for any such penalty or forfeiture. Passed November 11th, 1856. Appeoved, THOS. DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. W. ZiMMEEMAisr, City ClerJc. 44 CONCERNING FT. WAYNE AND CHICAGO R. R. AN ORDINANCE Ameoiding an Ordinance passed February I3th, 1854, concerning the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company^ novo the Pitts- burgh, Ifort Wayne and Chicago Railroad Company. Re it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That permission and anthority be and is hereby given, the Pitts- burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Raih-oad Company to lay down, maintain and operate a raikoad track or tracks, with necessary switches, turnouts, and side tracks in the streets in the city of Chicago, running north and south on the center line of section twenty-one, in township thirty-nine, north of range fourteen east, of third principal meridian, from the south line of North street to the north line of Twelfth street, and thence in Beach street to Harrison street. Provided, Said railroad company shall enter into bonds with the city of Chicago, to be filed in the clerk's office of said city, condi- tioned that said railroad company will afibrd facilities to the owners of property on said streets running north and soutli, for doing busi- ness on said railroad, by putting in side tracks necessary for that purpose and operate the said track, so as to carry the cars of said railroad company, and of all other connecting railroads, on fair and reasonable terms, to and from said property, and also to hold and save harmless the said city of Chicago from all damages in conse- quence of this act : And provided, also. That nothing herein granted shall prevent the Common Council of the city of Chicago authoriz- ing the construction of a slip or slips across said streets. And provided further. That the privileges hereby granted, shall be enjoyed subject to all general ordinances, that now are or here- after may be in force concerning railroads in said city. Provided, The tracks of said road shall be so laid as to interfere as little as possible with the usefulness of said streets, as road or carriage-ways, by grading, filling and planking or McAdamising them in such way as to allow free passage for carriages across and alongside its tracks, and in such manner as the Common Coimcil shall direct, and also by changing the grade of said streets at any time it may be ordered by the Common Council, and that they will EELATING TO JOLIET AND CHICAGO R. E. CO. 45 comply with all the restrictions imposed by the ordinance to which this is an amendment. Passed November 11th, 1856. Appeoved, THOS. DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. W. Zimmerman, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Changing the titne o^ co?nmeneement and ending of Puhlic Schools. Pe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the terms of the public schools shall commence on the second day of January, the Monday after the last Friday in April, and the first Monday in September, and close two weeks before the last day of Friday in April, the second Friday in July, and the twenty- first day of December : Provided, That when the second day of Januaiy occurs later than Wednesday, then the schools shall not commence till the following Monday. The principals of the several schools shall, during one week of the spring vacation, superintend the cleansing of the school buildings, from the appropriations made for this purpose. Passed JVbvember 24:th, 1S5Q. Appeoved, THOS. DYER, 3Jayor. Attest, H. W. ZiMMEEMAN, City Clerh AN ORDINANCE Jn relation to the Jbliet and Chicago Pailroad Company. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That permission be and the same is hereby given, and granted to the Joliet and Chicago railroad company to intro- duce said railroad mto the city on the street known as the Archer Road, from a point commencing on the section line between sec- tions twenty-eight, twenty-nme, to Grove street, and from thence 46 RELATING TO JOLIET AND CHICAGO E. E. CO. through Grove street to the north line of North street; and to use and occupy so much of said streets as may be necessary for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and using and occupying a single and double railroad track through said streets, with such turnouts and branches, extending to adjoining lands, as may be deemed necessary for the successful use and occupation of said road, upon the following conditions : First — That said company shall plank, pave or McAdamize the whole surface of said streets between the points indicated above, and forever maintain such planking, paving, or McAdamizing in good order and condition. Second — That the place occupied by said Railroad shall not exceed fifteen feet in width on the Archer road and shall not exceed twenty-four feet in width on Grove street, and shall be taken from the north-west side of Archer road. Third — That said company shall so construct said work, that carriages may pass along said streets, and may also conveniently cross said road. Sec. 2. Upon the acceptance of this ordinance by the said company (which shall be within ninety days from the passage hereof), a contract embracing the provisions herein contained shall be executed, sealed and delivered, on the part of the city of Chicago, by the mayor thereof, and on the part of the Joliet and Chicago Railroad Company, by the president thereof, both in the usual legal form. Sec. 3. The work provided in this ordinance shall be done under the supervision of the City Superintendent, or such other officer or agent as the Common Council may direct. Sec. 4. Said Railroad Company shall save the city harmless from all costs, damages and suits arising from the occupation of said streets, by said company, from any and all persons whatsoever. Sec. 5. This permission is granted subject to all general rail- road ordinances of the city of Chicago now in force, or that may hereafter be passed, in relation to crossing streets, rates of speed, and other matters of public convenience and necessity. Sec. 6. Said railroad company shall afford all necessary facilities to the owners of property on said streets for doing business on CONCEENma SOUTH BRANCH CAl^-AL CO. 4*7 said road, by putting on side tracks necessary for such purposes, and to operate said tracks so as to carry the cars of said road, and all other railroads connecting, or desirous of making connections with said road, on fair and reasonable terms to and from said property. Sec. 7. Said company shall make, maintain, and keep in good repair, all road and slip bridges between the said points. Passed January 5th, 1857. Appkoved, THOS. DYER, J/ayor. Attest, H. W. ZiMMEEiTAN, City Cleric. AN ORDINANCE Alloioing South Branch Canal Company to lay down Railroad Tracks in streets in the West Division. Sectiois" 1. JBe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago, That permission be, and is hereby granted to the Chicago South Branch Canal Company to construct, maintain, and operate, in the West Division of said city one or more railroad tracks, with all necessary switches, turnouts, turntables, in, upon, or through any and all lands owned or controlled by said company, between the Air Line Railroad Track and South street. Sec. 2. Said company may lay down said track or tracks across any street within the boundaries aforesaid, wherever any such street crosses their intended line of railroad ; also the right to construct and use all depots necessary to accommodate the business of said company: Provided, That convenient crossings be made by said company, where the said tracks cross the line of streets. Sec. 3. Said company may construct, maintain and operate one or more railroad tracks through, or upon, any lands they own or control, in Green's South Branch addition to Chicago ; and, also, occupy such portion of the streets in said addition, for railroad purposes, as were provided for by reservation in the record of the plat of said addition. 48 CONCERNING MILK Sec. 4. Said company may join any railroad company, in the erection and use of any railroad bridge heretofore authorized, or which may hereafter be authorized to be constructed across the South Branch of the Chicago river, and the said South Branch canal company, and any railroad company, may jointly use each other's track, or tracks, and bridge or bridges, within the city and form material connections, upon such terms as may be agreed u2>on by the parties interested. Sec. 5. Said company may run their trains, by locomotives, within the limits herein described, at a speed not exceeding six miles per hour, subject to such laws and ordinances as are now in force, or that may, from time to time, be passed by the Common Council of said city, establishing and regulating speed and motive power within said city. I*assed January 5th, 1857. Approved, THOS. DYER, il/ayor. Attest, H. W. Zimmerman, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concerning Milk. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That no person shall sell, offer to sell or dispose of any impure, unwholesome, adultered or diluted milk in said city. Sec. 2. Any person or persons who shall violate any provision hereof shall pay a penalty, of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, to the city of Chicago for each offense. Passed February 9th, 1857. Approved, THOS. DYER, Matjor. Attest, H. "W. Zimmerman, City Clerk. CONCERmTfG CHICAGO AND MILTTAUKEE E. E. CO. 49 AN ORDINANCE Amending Article 11.^ Chapter LIL, of the Municipal Zaios, enti- tled, '■'■An Ordinance, in relation to Schools and School Officers.'^'' JBe it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That all that portion of the North Division of the city of Chicago, lying east of the center of Clark street, and south of the center of Division street, and now comprehended m school districts numbers four and five, shall, hereafter, be known and designated as school district number ten of the city of Chicago. Passed February 2d, 1857. Approved, THOS. DYER, Ilaijor. Attest, H. W. ZiMMEEiiAX, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concerning the Chicago and 3Iilwaukee Railroad Company. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad Company be, and the same is hereby authorized to lay down and maintain the track for its railroad, with all necessary side tracks and switches through and along so much of Jefferson street and West Kinzie street as shall be necessary to connect the track of said railroad with the track of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad on Kmzie street. Passed February 'Id, 1857. Approved, THOS. DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. "W. ZiM]irEEMAx, City Clerk. 50 AMENDATOEY OF CHAPTER SIXTY-TWO. AN ORDINANCE Amendatory of Chapter LXII. of the Municipal Laws. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That section fifteen (15) of chapter LXII. of the municipal laws, entitled "An Ordinance Concerning Vehicles," be amended as follows, to wit : By adding at the end of said section the following words : Provided, That hackney coaches may stand in front of any or either of the hotels, or other public buildings, in said city, in case the owners of such hackney coaches shall first obtain the written permission of the occupant or occupants of such hotel or building for that purpose, and the written permission of the mayor of said city, and until such written permission shall be revoked by such occupant or the said Mayor. Sec. 2. That section eighteen of said ordinance be amended by adding at the end of said section the following words: Provided, That the provision of this section shall not apply to licensed hack- men asking or soliciting custom for his hack while wearing the badge specified in said section. Sec. 3. Section seventeen of said chapter is hereby repealed, so far as the same prohibits licensed hackmen or drivers from being or remaining more than ten feet from his hack ; and section sixteen is hereby repealed. Sec. 4. All penalties and forfeitures heretofore incurred, and all suits and proceedings now pending, for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture under said chapter, shall not be affected by the repeal of any section thereof by this ordinance. Passed January \%th, 1857. Appeoved, THOMAS DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. W. Zimmeemajj, City ClerJc. ESTABLISHING- STREET GRADES. AN ORDINANCE Establishijig the Grades of Fine and Sand Streets. Sectiox 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That in that part of the north division bonnded north by Chicago avenue, east by Sand street, south by the Chicago river, and west by Rush street, the grades of sidewalks be fixed as follows : [These heights are referred to the plane of low water, A. D. 1847, as established by the commissioners of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, the said plane being eight feet and twenty -three hundredths (8yVo) below the water table of " Loomis'' Store,'*^ on the south-west corner of Clark and South Water streets.] Feet. Dec. On Pine street, at the corner of Chicago avenue 11 On " " " " " Superior street 11 3 On " " " " " Huron " 11 6 On " " " " " Erie " 11 8 On " " " " " Ontario " 12 1 On " " half way between 12 3 On " " at the corner of Ohio " 12 1 On " " " " " Indiana " 11 7 On " " " " " • Illinois " 11 5 On " " " " " Michigan " 11 1 On " " " " " N. Water " 10 9 On Sand " " " " Chicago avenue 10 5 On " " " " " Superior street 10 8 On " " " " " Huron " 11 1 On " " " " " Erie " 11 3 On " " " " " Ontario " 11 6 On " " half way between " " 11 8 On " " at the corner of Ohio " 11 6 On " " " " " Indiana " 11 2 On " " " " " Illinois " 11 On " " " " " Michigan " 10 6 On " " " " " K Water " 10 6 Sec. 2. The heights fixed above shall be the grades of the curb- stone of the sidewalk at the four corners of the intersection and 52 SUPPEESSING OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS. the grade, and the grade shall be drawn straight from corner to corner. The sidewalk shall incline uj)ward, from the curbstone toward the line of building, at the rate of one inch in three feet. Passed February 2d, 1857. Approved, THOMAS DYER, Mayor. Attest, H. W. Zimmerman, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE To siqypress Obscene Publications. . Whereas, obscene, licentious, disreputable and demoralizing pub- lications, tending to corrupt society, are continually hawked about and sold in the public streets of our city, producing a state of morbid recklessness among our citizens, and is encour- aging a deplorable system of moral depravity with our people, Therefore, Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That from and after the passage and due publication of this ordinance, any person or persons, of what age soever, who shall be engaged in selling, delivering, giving away or in any way disposing of, or in any way whatsoever giving, or attempting to give, information of the contents of any book, pamphlet, or other publication, in writing or printed, to any person or persons of minor or mature age, within the city of Chicago, containing immoral, obscene, licentious, disreputable and demoralizing ai'ticles of information, by inuendo or otherwise, against any citizen or citizens resident of said city, or containing any dissolute, unchaste, indecent, disreputable and demoralizing caricature or caricatures, directly or indirectly reflecting upon any person or persons, or that may be imderstood as reflecting upon any citizen or citizens, or that may, or can be, or is, construed as applying to any person or persons in said city, in any manner whatsoever, shall be imme- diately arrested, with or without a warrant, as disorderly persons and disturbers of the public peace, by any police officer, on or off duty, or by any police constable, or by any alderman of the city of Chicago, who shall forthwith bring the offender or offenders before supPEESsma obscene public atiois^s. 53 any police justice of the said city for trial, as in other cases, and, if adjudged guilty of violating any of the provisions of this section, he, she or they, for every violation thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars, nor over fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail or city bridewell for a period not less than twenty, nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, as the court shall direct. Sec. 2. If the proprietor, agent or agents, servant or servants, or any other person or persons, minors or others, engaged, employed, or otherwise, being in and about any bookstore, news depot, or other place, public or private, in the city of Chicago, shall be found vending, giving away, or in any manner disposing of, or causing to be disposed of, or causing to be exposed to public notice, or placed where persons can procure any immoral, obscene, corrupt, licentious and demoralizing publication, written or printed ; or dissolute, unchaste, indecent, disreputable, demor- alizing caricature or caricatures, intending to represent, or that, in any manner, may or can be imderstood, or may, or can be, or is, construed, or from which any insinuation may, or can be, or is, gathered to mean or have reference to any person or persons in the city of Chicago, said ofi^ender or ofl:enders shall be arrested and brought before any police justice, as aforesaid, and, on conviction of the violation of any provision of this section, he, she or they shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than seventy-five dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail or city bridewell not less than thirty days, nor more than sixty days, or by both said fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court : Provided, That upon the conviction of any person or persons who shall be engaged in publishing, aiding and assisting, in any manner, the publication, and causing to be distributed any publication mentioned or designated in this ordinance, he, she or they, for every violation thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail or city bridewell, for a period of not less than thirty days, nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, as the court may decide. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the city marshal, captain of police, and every police oflicer, or any police constable of the city of Chicago, to make an immediate arrest of any person or persons herein mentioned or meant, for any violation of the provisions of this 54 ESTABLISHING DOCK LINES. ordinance, and take the person or persons so arrested before one of the police justices of said city, to be dealt with in manner herein provided, and to retain said defendant or defendants till further ordered by the court. Aaiy neglect of duty on the part of any officer mentioned in this section, or refusal to carry out its pro- visions, or the i^rovisions of this ordinance, shall, on complaint to the Common Council, or to any alderman of said city, be forthwith suspended and removed. Sec. 4. If any publication mentioned or designated in, or is understood to come under the provisions of this ordinance, is found in the possession of any person or persons, or association of persons, he, she or they shall be j)unished according to the provisions of the first section of this ordinance : Provided., That the publisher or publishers, abettor or abettors, shall be punished in the manner provided in the last clause of section second of this ordinance. Sec. 5. All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, conflicting with, or inconsistent with, this ordinance, is hereby repealed. Passed February 23d, 1857. Appeoved, THOMAS DYER, 3Iayor. Attest, H. W. Zimmerman, City Ckr/c. AN ORDINANCE Establishing Poch Pities of South PrancJi from center of Madison street to center of Van Pur en street. Section 1.. Pe it ordained by the Common Council of the city of Chicago : That the dock lines on the south branch of the Chicago river be established as follows : On the east side of said river commencing at a point m the center of East Madison street, two hundred and fifty three (253) feet west of the west Ime of South Market street (South of Madison street produced), and running thence in a straight line four hundred and seventy-one and three- quarters (471.75) feet, more or less, to a point in the center of Monroe street, two hundred and eighty (280) feet west of the west line of Market street : thence in a straight line four hundred and COEPOEATION NEWSPAPEES. 55 sixty-three (463) feet, more or less, to a ijoint in the center of Adams street, two hundred and forty-one (241) feet west of the west Ime of Market street ; thence in a straight line four hundred and forty- one (441) feet, more or less, to a point in the north line of Jackson street, one hundred and twenty and six-tenths (120.6) feet west of the west line of Market street ; thence in a straight line four hmidred and ninty-seven (497) feet, move or less, to a point in the center of Van Bureu street, ninty-six (96) feet west of the west Ime of Market street. On the west side of the river commencing at a point in the center of TVest Madison street two hundred and seventy-five (275) feet east of the east line of Canal street, running thence in a straight line four hundred and seventy and four-tenths (470.4) feet, more or less, to a pomt in the center of Monroe street, two hundred and fifty-five (255) feet east of the east line of Canal street; thence in a straight line four hundred and sixty-four and four-tenths (464.4) feet, more or less, to a point in the south line of Adams street, two hundred and ninty-three and one-half (293^) feet east of the east Ime of Canal street ; thence m a straight line four hundred and seventy-eight (478) feet, more or less, to a point in the center of Jackson street, four hundred and ten (410) feet east of the east line of Canal street; thence in a straight line four hundred and sixty- two and a half (462^) feet, more or less, to a point in the center of Van Biiren street, four hundred and thirty (430) feet east of the east line of Canal street. Passed March \Uh, 1857. Appkoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H, W. Zi]MMErv3iAX, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE In relation to Corporation Neiospaper. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the Chicago Daily Democratic Press^ be, and the same is hereby, designated as the corporation newspaper of the said city for the coming year and until another is duly designated, and that the following rates of compensation be allowed : 56 COEPOEATION NEWSPAPER. For publishing tlie Council proceedings thirty cents per thousand ems, or such price as may be usually paid as the first cost of set- ting type by the principal printing establishments of the city. For publishing all advertisements except as hereinafter specified, the same price, viz : the cost of setting the type shall be paid for the first insertion, and an equal amount for each subsequent inser- tion of said advertisements. The said newspaper shall also be allowed eight cents per lot, as the price authorized to be paid for advertising the delinquent tax list of lots and lands, authorized by law to be sold for taxes or assessments. And all job printing shall be charged the usual prices paid for said work in the principal job printing establishments in the city. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, That the Staats Zeitmig, a daily newspaper printed in the German language, be allowed the same price, viz : the cost of setting the type for publishing the Common Council proceedings, and the advertisements of the city deemed necessary by the Comptroller, for the first insertion and the same amount for each subsequent insertion. Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That any other daily newspaper printed either in the German or English language, that shall publish the Council proceedings and the advertisements of the city, deemed necessary by the Comptroller, shall receive one-half the cost of set- ting the type. But the proprietors of all papers availing themselves of this provision, shall signify their willingness to do so within ten days from the passage of this ordinance, and they shall continue to publish the said Council proceedings and advertisements, as deemed necessary by the Comptroller, during the entire year, and they shall receive no compensation for their services until the close of the year. For publishing notices of local assessments and side- walk notices, eight dollars shall be charged by the city, from which a deduction of twenty-five per cent, shall be made, or the sum of six dollars shall be paid to the said corporation newspaper, the same not being payable until the money or so much as may be necessary to pay said bill, for publishing such local assessments and sidewalk notices, shall have been collected and paid into the city treasury. Passed March 16th, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, W. H. Zimmerman, City Clerh. EELATINa TO EEFORM SCHOOL. 57 AN ORDINANCEi:-^=:;/:\KV Concerning Public Schools JVo.''s 8 and 9. -Se it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the City Supermtenclent and the SupermteiKlent of Schools be dh-ected, and they are hereby empowered to procure plans and specifications with estimates of cost, for two new Public School buildings, one on the lot now occupied by school No. 8, and the other on the lot occupied by school No. 9, and that they be requested to report their action under this ordinance to the Common Council at as early a day as possible. Tassed Ilarch 23d, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Jlcnjor. Attest, H. Kreismanic, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Tn relation to the Reform School. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the board of guardians of the Reform School and the committee on schools be, and they are hereby authorized to purchase, with the concurrence of the Council for the city of Chicago, such gi'ounds as they may deem fit and proper for the pxu-poses of the Reform School, and pay therefor a sum not exceed- ing twelve thousand dollars, and that .the same be purchased at as early a day as practicable. Sec. 2. The board of guardians of the Reform School, and the committee on schools be, ■ and they are hereby authorized to proceed at once, as soon as the grounds authorized to be purchased by the first section of this ordinance shall have been secured, to lay out the said grounds and to erect proper buildings and enclo- 58 CONCERNING VEHICLES. s^ui-^s, ,|pr tlj? ac^cmqctatacn of tlie institution, and that the school be, removed ,tkeiJ€ ,to as early a day as practicable. J*m^''Mut(i/Kmii, 1857. • Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Jlaijor. Attest, 11. Kkeismann, Citi/ Cleric. AN ORDINANCE Additional to the Ordinmice eoncerning Vehicles. Section 1. J^e it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That every licensed owner or driver of any hackney coach, cab, omnibus, or other vehicle for the conveyence of pas- sengers or baggage, shall, while acting as driver of such vehicle, wear conspicuously uj)on his hat or cap, a badge consisting of the word " Hacknian," or other word designating his kind of vehicle, and the number of his license. The letters of said badge shall be of brass or plated metal, not less than one inch in length and three- fourths of an inch in width, and securely attached to the hat or cap of such driver as may be from time to time directed by the mayor. Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance or who shall neglect or fail to comply with any of the requirements hereof, shall, on conviction, pay a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the City Bridewell for a term not less than ten, and not exceeding ninety days, at hard labor, or both, in the discretion of the court, before whom such conviction shall be had, and his license may be revoked in the discretion of the mayor. Passed March '^Oth, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. _ Attest, H. Kreismatstk, City Clerk. CONCEENING THE POLICE COURT. 59 AN ORDINANCE Concerning the Police Court. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the two justices of the peace in the city of Chicago hereinafter designated by the Common Council of said city, as the police court of said city under the charter of said city, and the amendments thereto, are hereby vested with jurisdiction as justices of the peace for one year, or until their successors be appointed, in all actions for the recovery of any fine or penalty under the laws of said city ; and all ordinances, by-laws, or police regulations thereof, as provided in an act to amend the act entitled "An Act to reduce the law incorporating the city of Chicago and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to amend the same, approved, February 14th, 1851." Approved, February 16th, 1857. And such justices shall have jjower to fine or imprison at hard labor, or solitary confinement, or both in their discretion, whenever such discretion shall be vested in them by said act, or by any ordinance, by-law, or police regu- lation aforesaid, and shall also have power as such court to commit to the Reform School under the act entitled "An Act to amend the Act entitled 'An Act to reduce the law incorporat- ing the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to amend the same, approved, February 14th, 1851.' " A2)proved, February 16th, 1857." Sec. 2. Said justices of the peace shall constitute and be styled " The Police Court of the city of Chicago." One of said justices shall hold a session of said court daily, Sundays excepted, and on Sundays when requested by the mayor or in cases when necessary, at the court house, and each of said justices shall receive a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly, for his services in said court, in lieu of any and all other compensation whatever accruing from the business disposed of in such court; and before they shall enter upon their duties as such police court, they shall execute and file in the office of the comptroller of said city an express relinquishment in favor of said city, of all fees, costs, and emoluments whatever, arising from the business of said court. / 60 CONCEENUSTG THE POLICE COTJET. Sec. 3. The clerk of the police court shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, payable monthly, out of the city treasury. He shall give a bond with sureties to be approved by the mayor and comptroller in the sum of five thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties required of him by law. Sec. 4. The clerk of the police court is hereby authorized to appoint a deputy clerk, subject to the approval of the Common Council; said deputy clerk shall receive an annual salary of eight hundred dollars, payable monthly, out of the city treasury, and shall be subject to the discretion of the police court until his duties shall be more fully prescribed by the Common Council. Sec. 5. That a prosecuting attorney for the police court of the city of Chicago may be appointed by the mayor, with the approval of the Common Council, whose duty it shall be to manage and prosecute all city and criminal cases and prosecutions before said court, and such attorney shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable monthly, out of the city treasury in lieu of all other fees or compensation whatever, for his services in said court. Sec. 6. The first, second and third sections of an ordinance enti- tled "An ordinance in relation to police justices of the peace," passed September 8th, 1851, and amended by revision September 16th, 1856, and an ordinance entitled "An ordinance designating certain justices of the peace to exercise the jurisdiction therein expressed, passed April 22d, 1856," and all ordinances of the Com- mon Council designating other justices of the peace, for like pur- poses, and all ordinances inconsistant with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take efiect from and after its due publication in the corj^oration paper. Passed March ^mh, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Kkeismann, City ClerJc. CONCEKNING BADGES, FIEE DEPAETMETv^T. 61 AN ORDINANCE Regulating the distrihution of Badges of the Fire Department of the City of Chicago. Article I. JBe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That all members of the fire department shall here- after, when on duty, wear the leathern cap heretofore used, or a badge as heremafter provided. Aet. II. The badge mentioned in the preceding section shall be made of Prince's metal, bearing the words "Chicago Fii-e De- partment," and each badge shall bear a distinct number in raised figures thereon, of white metal. The badge to be worn by exempt firemen as provided for in section third of this ordinance, shall be composed of white metal, bearing figures thereon of Prince's metal, in all other respects to conform to the badge hereinbefore described for active members of the fire department ; said badges shall be struck from dies, which shall be the property of the city of Chicago, and shall be deposited in the custody of the comptroller of the said city, and all of such badges shall be nmnbered as the committee of fire and water may direct. Art. III. The said badges shall be deposited with the comp- troller, who shall have, by and with the advice of the chief engineer, sole charge of the distribution of the same, and it shall be the duty of the comptroller to keep a register of all persons who may at any time receive any such badge, of the date of its delivery, the number of such badge, and the number of the company of which the person receiving such badge shall be a member, with his signature ; and also of all badges delivered to exempt firemen. Art. IV. It shall be the duty of the chief engineer to certify in writing to committee on fire and water the names of all persons who may be elected firemen, whereupon it shall be the duty of the comptroller to furnish to each of such firemen one of said badges, and to each of such exempt firemen as may be entitled thereto by the laws of the State of Illinois. Art. V. The badges of the fire department herein mentioned shall be the exclusive property of the city of Chicago, and when any member of the fire department shall resign or be removed 62 coisrcERisriJsrG badges, fire department. therefrom, it shall be the duty of the foreman and secretary of the company, to which such member was attached, to make a return of such removal or resignation forthwith to the chief engineer, and the chief engineer shall, on the first day of every month, report to the comptroller the names of such members of the fire department as shall have resigned, or been removed since his last report, and shall, with said report, return to the comptroller the badges worn by such members. Art. VI. If the foreman and secretary of any company, or either of them, shall fail to comply with the provisions of the pre- ceding section, in relation to the return of badges, no return of members elected by such company shall be received therefrom, unless good and satisfactory cause shall be shown to the com- mittee, why said badges have not been returned ; and shall any member of the fire department lose his badge, it shall be the duty of the committee on fire and water to inquire into the circum- stances of the case, and, unless they are satisfied that such loss was without faiilt, on the part of such member, they shall have power to suspend or remove him from the department, in their dis- cretion ; and, in case the loss be satisfactorily accounted for to said committee, they shall have power to grant a new badge with a difterent number. Aet. VII. Any member of the fire department, or exempt fire- man, who shall violate any of the sections of this ordinance, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, and all fines, so imposed, shall be paid to the treasurer for the use of the Firemen's Benevolent Association. Art. VIII. Any person not a member of the fire department who shall falsely represent any of the members of the fire depart- ment of this city, or who shall maliciously or with intent to deceive, use or imitate the badge herein before described, or the cap worn by the fire department, shall be subject to be fined, not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both. Passed A2:>ril 18th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor, Attest, H. W. Keeismann, City Clerk CONCEENING DUTIES AND POWERS OF POLICEMEl^T. 63 AN ORDINANCE To authorize the Chicago and 3IihcauJcee Railroad Company to lay dovm a tracJc for its railroad in Jefferson and West JTinzie streets. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the Chicago and Milwaukee Raih-oad Company is hereby authorized and empowered to lay down, use and maintain the track of its railroad through so mucli of Jefferson street and West Kinzie streets as shall be necessary to connect the track of the railroad of said company with the track of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company on West Kinzie street ; said track to be laid down and used by said company and its agents as not unneces- sarily to interfere with the public use of said streets, and the location of said track to be fixed by the agents of said company, under the direction of the city superintendent, and said road to be kept in repair*, at the expense of said company, and the grades to be altered when directed by the Common Council or city Super- intendent. Sec. 2, In consideration of the right granted to it by the fore- going section, said company shall fill said street up to grade with ground, or suitable material, and shall, also, plank or pave said street, when required so to do, by order of the Common Council. Passed April 20th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H. W. Keeis^iann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concerning the Duties and Poioers of Policemen. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the marshal, captain of the police, lieuten- ants, sergeants and policemen of the city of Chicago, shall have 64 COT^CEENINa MUNICIPAL LAWS OF CHICAGO. authority to arrest all persons in the city found in the act of violat- ing any ordinance of said city, or aiding and abetting in any such violation, to serve any process civil or criminal, original, mesne or final, issued by either of tbe justices of the peace, designated by the Common Council as the justices of the police courts of the city of Chicago. Passed April 20th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, llmjor. Attest, H. W. Keeismann, Citi/ Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Amendatory of Chapter LI. of the Municipal Laios of the City of Chicago. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the comptroller, city treasurer and city collector shall appoint annually three assistant city collectors, being one for each division of said city, who shall devote their time as such col- lectors to the collection of street taxes and the performance of such duties as shall be necessary in securing a faithful performance of labor upon the streets in their respective divisions. The compensation of such coHectors for their services shall not exceed twenty-five cents on each street tax collected, and said comptroller, treasurer and collector are authorized to make such contracts and take such bonds from such assistant collectors as they shall deem expedient and necessary to secure a faithful performance of their duties. Sec. 2. The persons appointed or hereafter to be appointed to col- lect the street taxes in lieu of labor to be performed in the several divisions of the city of Chicago, are hereby authorized to seiwe the usual notices of the street commissioners upon the persons subject to such tax on the performance of street labor, which notice shall be in substance as follows : MR. Sir : — You are hereby notified and required to appear at the street commissioner's office at t o'clock, A. M., on — , and bring with you a spade or CONCEKmNG MUNICIPAL LAWS OF CHICAGO. 65 shovel for the purpose of laboring on the streets and alleys as you shall then and there be directed by me ; in ease you shall fail so to appear and labor you are hereby required, on or before the first day above mentioned to call upon the assist. ant collector of street taxes of the division, and pay to him the sum of one dollar and fifty cents in cash, otherwise you shall pay the sum of two dollars if paid before suits are commenced ; if not, you shall be liable to be sued for the sum of three dollars without further notice. It shall be the duty of the said collector, upon payment of the aforesaid sum of one dollar and fifty cents, in accordance with the notice, by any person required to labor upon the streets and alleys as aforesaid, to issue to such person a I'eceipt for the same signed by the city treasurer, specifying it to be in full satisfaction for all labor due from such individual upon the streets and alleys for the year for which such payment is made ,* which receipt shall be a suflicient discharge to the person to whom it is issued for the year mentioned therein. Sec. 3. It shall be deemed a suflicient service of the notice men- tioned in the preceding section, if the same shall be plainly printed or written, or both, and left either at the place of residence, place of business, or with the employer, overseer or clerk of any estab- lishment, work shop or place where the person to be notified shall be employed or engaged in business; and all persons in said city are hereby required to give information to said collectors when asked so to do by said collectors, as to the names, residence occupation, age and place of business or employment, of all persons in their premises and employment, to aid the said collectors in the performance of their duties. The said collectors shall be commmissioned and qualified as police constables during their continuance in office as such col- lectors, but shall not exercise their authority and office as constables except in the prosecution of suits for the violation of the provisions of this ordinance, or the ordinance to which this an amendment ; such collectors are hereby required to prosecute all suits for the penalty for non-performance of such labor, and any person who shall tail to perform any duty required by this ordinance, or who shall violate any provision, clause or section hereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. Section eight of the ordi- nance to which this ordinance is an amendment, and all parts of said ordinance conflicting with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. 66 TO PREVENT KILLING BIRDS. This ordinance to take effect and be enforced from and after its passage. Passed A2)ril 21th, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTII, Jlayor. Attest, H. Keeismann^, Citi/ Clerk. AN ORDINANCE To j}rohibit bathing in waters of LaJce Michigan, and to preserve pure the water of the " Chicago Hydraulic Company y Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That no person shall hereafter bathe in the waters of Lake Michigan at any place between the government piers, so called, at the mouth of the Chicago river and the piers of the Chicago Hydraulic Company ; any person violating the fore- going provision shall forfeit to the city not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars for every such violation. Passed April 2lth, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismajstn, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE To Prevent the Killing of Birds in the City of Chicago. SECTiOiSr 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That the killing of birds by fire-arms, bow and arrows, stones, or in any other mode, in the city of Chicago, is hereby prohibited. Every person who shall hereafter kill or wound, or attempt to kill or wound, by the use of fire-arms, bow and arrow, pelting with stones, or otherwise, any bird within the city limits (such bird, so killed or wounded, not being the property of the person so offending), shall forfeit and pay to the city, for every bird so killed or wounded, and for every such attempt to kill or wound, not less than five, nor more than ten dollars. FrXIXG GEADES. 67 Sec. 2. Eveiy person who shall enter upon any private inclosure or public ground belonging to the city, for the purpose of doing any act prohibited in the preceding section ; and every person who shall shoot an arrow, or throw a stone, or club, or other missile, at any bird within any private grounds, or public parks, squares or grounds, shall forfeit and pay to the city not less than five, nor more than ten, dollars for each offense. Sec. 3. Every person who shall be convicted for a second time of any offense, or of any penalty herein before mentioned, who is under the age of sixteen years, may, in the discretion of the police court of the city of Chicago, be sentenced to the reform school. Passed April 21th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Fixing Grades in the South Division of the City of Chicago. Section 1. JBe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That in that part of the South Division lying north of the south line of Twelfth street, the grade of the flag-stone of sidewalks be fixed as follows : [These heights are referred to the plane of low water in A. D. 1847, as established by the trustees of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, the said plane being eight and twenty-three one hun- dredths (8.23) feet below the water table of Loomis' Store, on the south-Avest corner of Clark and South Water streets.] On Market street, at corner of Lake street, eleven and one-half (11.50) feet. On Market street, at corner of Randolph street, twelve (12) feet. On Randolph street, from south branch of Chicago river to State street, twelve (12) feet. At corners of Wabash Avenue, twelve and one-half (12.50) feet. At corners of Michigan Avenue, fourteen (14) feet. On Washington street, from south branch of Chicago river to State street, twelve and a ha^f (12.50) feet. 68 FIXING GEADES. At corners of Wabasli Avenue, twelve and seventy-five one- hundreclths (12, 75) feet. At corners of Michigan Avenue, fourteen (14) feet. On Madison street, from south branch of Chicago river to Wabash Avenue, thirteen (13) feet. At corners of Michigan Avenue, fourteen (14) feet. On Market street, at and south of Monroe street, eleven and a half (11.50) feet. On Franklin street, at and south of Monroe street, eleven and seventy-eight one-hundredths (11.78) feet. On Wells street, at and south of Monroe street, twelve and seven one-hundredths (12.07) feet. On Sherman street, at and south of Monroe street, twelve and twenty-six one-hundredths (12.26) feet. On La Salle street, at and south of Monroe street, twelve and thirty-six one-hundredths (12.36) feet. On Griswold street, at and south of Monroe street, twelve and forty-five one-hundredths (12.45) feet. On Clark street, at and south of Monroe street, twelve and sixty- four one-hundredths (12.64) feet. On Buffalo street, at and south of Monroe, twelve and eighty-three one-hundredths (12.83) feet. On Dearborn street, at and south of Monroe street, twelve and ninety-five one-hundredths (12.96) feet. On Edina Place, at and south of Monroe street, thirteen and two one-hundredths (13.02) feet. On State street, at and south of Monroe street, thirteen and twenty -two one hundredths (13.22) feet. On Wabash Avenue, at and south of Monroe street, thirteen and sixty-six one-hundredths (13.66) feet. On Michigan Avenue, at and south of Monroe street, fourteen (14) feet. Sec. 2. The heights fixed above shall be the grades of the flag- stone of the sidewalk on the oiiter edge, at the four corners of each intersection. The sidewalks shall incline upwards from the curb- stone toward the line of building at the rate of one inch in three feet. On all streets running east and west, at and south of Monroe street, the grade shall be a straight line drawn on each block, be- tween the heights fixed above for the north and south streets ; and on all streets from Monroe street to the river, running north and AMETTDATOEY OF CHAPTER FIFTY-THEEE b\) south, the grade shall be a straight line drawn on each block, between the heights fixed above for the east and west streets ; and on those portions of east and west streets south of Madison street, lying between the south branch of the Chicago river and the nearest north and south street, the grade shall descend from east and west at the rate of one inch per one hundred feet. Sec. 3. The grade of "Water street, at Market street, shall be eleven feet, running east at an equal grade, on a level, until it inter- sects the present grade. The grade of Lake street, at Market street, shall be eleven and one-half feet, running east at an equal grade, on a level, until it intersects the present grade. Sec. 4. Assessors shall be appointed by the Common Council to assess the benefits and also the damages to such parties as have built in conformity to the previously established grade, whenever the property owners on the several streets petition to have the same raised to the grade established. Fassed May 4th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Imjor. Attest, H. Kreisiiakn", Citi/ Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Ameoidatory of Chapter LIIL, Art. 2, of the 3Iunici])al Laios, Fassed Sept. 15th, 1856. Section 1. Fe it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That all awnings hereafter erected in any lamp district in said city, shall be covered with cloth, leather, or some light and pliable substance, and securely attached to the building, and properly supported by iron or other proper metallic fastenings and supports, and no awnings shall hereafter be erected or repaired in such districts, either wholly or in part, of wood. TO CONCEENING AWmiSrGS, SIGNS, ETC. Sec. 2. No clothing, goods, merchandise, wares, signs, boxes or other article or thing, shall be placed in front of any store, shop, or other place in said city, on or above the sidewalk, or in or upon any alley, so as to occupy more than three feet next to the build- ings or premises on such sidewalk or alley, or of the space above the sidewalk or alley, and such articles or things as may be placed on the sidewalk shall not be more than three feet high above the top of the sidewalk, and the articles or things that may be hung out or placed above the sidewalk shall be so placed or hung that the lowest part of such articles or things shall be at least seven feet and six inches above the top of the sidewalk, and shall not swing more than three feet from the building. No such article or thing shall be permitted to remain on any sidewalk or alley after ten o'clock at night, or on Sunday ; nor shall any owner or occupant of any lot or premises lease the space aforesaid, or permit or allow the same to be used or occupied, except for his or their own business ; nor shall said space be used for selhng any article or thing whatever. Sec. 3. All signs, devices, articles and things, now placed, hung or suspended, or that may be hereafter placed, hung or suspended, upon or above any sidewalk, or in or upon any alley, in violation of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be immediately removed ; and any person who shall violate any provision, clause or section, of this ordinance, or who shall interfere v>^ith any officer or employe of the city while enforcing any provision of this ordinance, shall, on conviction, pay a fine of not less than three dollars nor exceed- ing one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the city bridewell not exceeding thirty (30) days, in the discretion of the court or magistrate before whom such person may be prosecuted or tried. Sec. 4. All parts of the ordinance to which this is an amendment, and of all other ordinances of said city conflicting with the provis- ions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. This ordinance shall take efiect and be in force from and after its passage. Passed May Uth, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Kreismanm, City Cleric. AMEND ATOET OF CHAPTEE THIRTEEN. Yl AN ORDINANCE Concerning the Fire Department. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That there shall be a general review of the fire depart- ment, engines, and all other fire apparatus, by the mayor and aldermen once in each year, dm-ing the month of September, at such time as the chief engineer shall direct. Sec. 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed. Passed May Uth, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3fayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Amendatory of Chapter XIIL of the Municipal Laws. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That from and after the passage of this ordinance the city attorney shall receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars per annum from the city treasury, in lieu of all other fees or compensation •whatever. Passed May 2Mh, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3fciyor. Attest, H. Keeismaxn, City Clerk. 72 DUTIES OP CITY COMPTROLLER, ETC. AN ORDINANCE Defining the duties of the City Comptroller and other officers. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the city collector shall receipt for all moneys for any licenses that may have been granted, or may hereafter be applied for or granted under the authority of said city upon any account whatever. He shall also receipt for all auction dues, and all pen- alties incurred by the keeping of ball alleys and billiard tables within said city, also receipt for all moneys paid in from the licenses of theatres, shows, museums, and other entertainments of like char- acter. His receipt for the same shall be a discharge to the person to whom given, to the extent and purport thereof, but no person shall be deemed to be licensed in any case until the issuing of the license in due form as required by the ordinances of the city. Sec. 2. The city collector shall keep a record of all receipts given by him, which record shall show when, to whom, on what account given, and up to what time said receipts extend, and all moneys received by him in the discharge of his duties, shall be deposited in the city treasury at least as often as once a week. Sec. 3. Whenever it shall appear from the license register kept by the city clerk, or the books of the city collector, that any per- son holding any license or permit of any kind, or privilege granted by the city, has failed to pay the amount due thereon, whether for a penalty for billiard tables (reckoning five dollars for every table per month), or other kind of penalty, license, fine, debt or liability whatever, the clerk or city collector (as the case may be), shall report the fact to the mayor, whose duty it shall be to promptly revoke said license, permit or privilege. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the city comptroller, before draw- ing any warrant on the treasurer, to take a receipt from the person or persons in whose favor it is drawn, and this receipt shall in all cases state that said sum of money is in full of all demands what- ever, both in law and equity, against the city to that date : Pro- vided, That this section shall not apply to cases where reservations on contracts are made, the better to secure their jjrompt completion. Neither shall he j)a,y any claim ordered paid by the Common Coun- WATER COMMISSIONEES TO BOEEOW MOKEY. TS cil, until a copy of the order shall be furnished him, approved by the mayor and attested by the clerk. Sec. 5, Chapter twelfth of city ordinances entitled " An ordinance in relation to City Marshal," and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance, are hereby rei^ealed. 8ec. 6. The comptroller shall require all officers charged in any manner with the receipt of city moneys, to deposit the same in the city treasury weekly or monthly as he shall deem best, and report the same to him, with a statement showing all the sources from which the said moneys were received, accompanied with the treasurer's receipt for the amount deposited. Sec. 7. The comptroller shall reqxiire all city officers, before incurring liabilities in their respective departments, to ascertain from him whether appropriations have been made by the Common Council to meet the proposed liabilities, and that they shall not incur any liabilities whatever, imless expressly ordered by the Common Council or the written order of the comptroller. Passed May 25th, 1857. Appkoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H. Kkeisma:n-n, City ClerJc. AN ORDINANCE AutJiorizing the Board of Water Commissiojiers to borrow the sum of money herein nieoitioned. Whereas, The Board of Water Commissioners of the city of Chicago, are desirous of loaning an additional sum of money to the amount of two hundred thousand (200,000) dollars, and to issue bonds therefor, and have made a report to the Common Council of said city, under the date of May 18, 1857, setting forth and specifying in detail the nature, amount and kind of work proposed to be executed, etc., together with the estimated cost of the same, in accordance with the provisions of section six of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled " An Act in amendment of and supplemental to an Act T4 AMENDATOET OF CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. entitled ' An Act to incorporate the Chicago City Hydraulic Company,'" approved February 15, 1855, and praying the Common Council to approve the issuing of the bonds to the amount aforesaid, by the board of water commissioners for the objects and j)urposes specified in their said report, therefore, Section 1. Be it ordained by the Cotnmon Council of the city of Chicago : That the Common Council do hereby approve of the issuing by the said board of water commissioners, of the amoiint of bonds required by the estimate set forth in their said report, for the purposes and objects therein contained, and in accordance with the provisions and requirements of section five of the act mentioned in the preamble hereof, provided the whole amount of bonds so issued shall not exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars. Passed May 25th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3fayor. Attest, H. Kriesmann, City ClerJc, AN ORDINANCE Amendatory of Chapter XXII. of the Municipal Laws. Section- 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That all that part of the south division of said city embraced within the following limits, shall be hereafter known as the fire limits of the south division : Beginning at the center of the Chicago river, at its junction with the lake, thence south-westerly along the lake shore to the centre of Adams street, thence west on the center of Adams street to the center of State street, thence north on the center of State sti-eet to the center of Monroe street, thence west on the center of Monroe street to the center of the Chicago river, thence down the center of Chicago river, to .the place of beginning. FOE THE PEEVENTION OF GAMBLIIS'G. T5 Sec. 2. Permission is hereby given to all owners and occupants of buildings in the fire limits, to raise wooden buildings to the established grade, and to build basements or cellars of brick or stone under the buildings so raised. Passed Maij 2bth, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H, I\jjEisMA>^N, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE For the prevention of GamUing. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That any person who shall be a frequenter, visitor, inmate, door-keeper, solicitor, runner, agent, abettor or pimp, of or for any house, store, grocery, hall, room, or any other place where are kept any E. O. tables, keeno table, faro bank, shuffle board, bagatelle, playing cards, pigeon holes, or any other instrument, device or thing, used for gambling, w^hereon or with which money, liquor or other articles, shall be played for, shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the bridewell for a term not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court before whom si;ch conviction shall be had. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the mayor forthwith to revoke any license given to any person or persons w^ho shall violate any provision of this ordinance, or of Chapter XXXVIII. of the municipal laws, to which this ordinance is additional. Passed June 1st, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Kkeismanx, City Clerk. DUTIES OF CITY SUPERINTENDENT. AN ORDINANCE Defining the duties of the City Superintendent of Public Works. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public works to inspect, measure and receive (or cause the same to be done), all lumber, timber, stone and other materials used by or belonging to the city, for its streets or other public improvements, and to keep a full and accurate account of the quantities of the same, and from whom received, and to report the same to the comptroller immediately. Sec. 2. He shall have the entire supervision of all bridges and ferries, and of the tenders and laborers employed on and about the same. Sec. 3. It shall be the further duty of said superintendent to superintend paving, planking, McAdamizing, or otherwise improv- ing, streets and alleys within the city ; to deliver, or cause to be delivered, all materials required for such improvements, the delivery of which is not otherwise provided for. Sec. 4. He shall superintend all work under contracts, in which contracts the city of Chicago is a party, and no contractor or other person employed on any public work for the city shall receive the compensation allowed him or them on such contract, or any part thereof (unless otherwise provided for), without presenting to the comptroller a "wiitten certificate of said superintendent, showing the amount due upon such contract or work. Sec. 5. It shall be the further duty of said superintendent to make all estimates for local improvements which may be required by any committee, provided such requisition shall be in writing, and shall state the nature of improvement clearly ; and no assessment for local improvements shall be hereafter made or ordered, except the amoimt to be so assessed be based upon an estimate made by said superintendent as aforesaid. Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of said superintendent to superintend all local improvements, the cost of which has or may be assessed. CONCEENING A BATHING HOUSE, YT and to keep an accurate account of the cost and expense of each local improvement separately. Sec. 7. The said superintendent shall perform such other duties as the Common Council may from time to time direct. Sec. 8. Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, V, 8, of an ordinance entitled an ordinance creating the office and defining the duties of city superintendent, passed September 24th, 1851, are hereby repealed. Passed June 1st, 1857. Appkoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H. Keeismank, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Fixing the Salary of the City 3Iarshal. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That from and after the taking efiect of the ordinance entitled " An ordinance defining the duties of the city comptroller and other officers, passed the 25th of May, 1857," the salary of the city marshal shall be two thousand dollars per annum, in lieu of aU other compensation whatever after such date. Passed June 8th, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concernijig a Bathing House. Sectioj^ 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That permission be and is hereby granted to Augus- tus Martin to construct and build a public bathing house between the track of the Illinois Central Railroad and the break-water, east of said track, opposite the foot of Washington street, in the city of CONCEENING FIRE WOOD. Chicago, said bathing house to be of a nice and sightly ai^pear- ance, and not exceeding one hundred and twenty feet in length and fifty feet in width and twelve feet in heighth above the water, exclusive of the ornamental parts thereof And to build a proper and suitable walk from the shore to said bathing house. Said walk shall be considered as an extention of Washington street and pass across or underneath the Illinois Central Railroad track. Sec. 2. Said bathing house and said walk shall be so constructed as to prevent persons from bathing outside and exposing themselves. Sec. 3. The said bathing establishment shall be managed and conducted in an orderly, proper and decent manner, and shall be used for no other business than for bathing. Sec. 4. The power is hereby expressly reserved to the Common Council of said city by order, resolution, ordinance or otherwise, to control the said bathing establishment, and the manner of con- ducting the same, and to make such regulations in relation thereto as the interest of the public may in the opinion of the Council require. PassedJune 1st, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. ' Attest, H. Kkeismantst, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concerning Fire Wood. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That the mayor of said city with the concurrence of of the Common Council, shall annually appoint one inspector of fire wood in said city, and such assistant inspectors as may be deemed by the Common Council necessary for the public interests, ■who shall hold their oflices during the municipal year in which they shall be appointed, and imtil their successors shall be appoint- ed and qualified, or until removed by order or resolution of the Common Council. CO]S"CEENmG FIEE WOOD. T9 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of such "svood insjDector and assist- ants to measure any and all loads or piles of wood in said city, on request of any person or persons, and to give a certificate to tlie person or persons making such request, stating the amount, the date of measuring, for whom measured, the kind and description thereof for the following prices : For each wagon load, pUe or parcel containing a cord or less, ten cents ; for each pile or load containing more than one cord and not exceeding two cords, twenty cents ; for each additional cord in the same load or pile, five cents. One hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet shall be deemed a cord of wood, and the length of wood shall be measured from point to but, and not from point to point. Sec. 3. Boxes for the sale or delivery of sawed and split wood shall contain one hundred and fifty cubic feet, measured on the inside for one cord, and seventy-five and a half (7o|-) cubic feet, measured in like manner, for half a cord, and thirty-eight and one quarter cubic feet for a quarter of a cord. If wood shall be sold or kept for sale in racks or wagons, or otherwise, and shall be piled lengthwise of wagon or rack, there shall be only two lengths of the wood upon the wagon or in the rack, and such rack shall be four or eight feet long, and of a width and height sufficient to contain one-fourth, one-half, thi-ee-fourths of a cord, or one cord, measured in the inside of the rack. And if such wood shall be piled or placed crosswise of the wagon or rack, such wagon or rack may be either four, six, eight or ten feet in length, and shallhave two stakes behind and two stakes before the place for piling the wood, firmly and permanently placed in the rack or wagon, and of such height as to contain one-fourth, one-half, three-fourths of a cord, or one cord or more in like proportions, and all such boxes, wagons or racks used for selling or exhibiting for sale, any wood in said city, shall be inspected, measured and numbered by the city sealer of weights and measures, and the owner or owners thereof shall, at all times, when such wagons or racks shall be in use, keep his or their name and num- ber, and the quantity of wood such box, rack or wagon will contain, plainly and distictly painted thereon in letters of at least one and a half inches in size. And all wagons, boxes, racks or vehicles, used at and about the wood yards of the city of Chicago, and all places for the measuring of wood in said city, for retail, shall be made, measured and marked in accordance with the provisions of 80 CONCEENIIS'G FIEE WOOD. this section. And the sealers of weights and measures shall at least as often as once each month, and on the first of each month, furnish the city comptroller with a complete list of the boxes, vehicles and racks, and places so measured. Sec. 4. No person in said city shall sell, exhibit for sale, or offer to sell, by the load, any fire wood in said city, except in accord- ance with the provisions of section three of this ordinance, unless such wood shall have been previously measured by the said wood inspector, or one of his assistants. Sec. 5. The following are hereby designated places for wood stands in said city : In the center of Market street, at least twenty (20) feet from the side walks between Randolph and Madison streets. In the center of State street, between Water and Randolph streets, at least thirty (30) feet from the side walks. In the center of Randolph street, between Desplames and Halsted streets, at least thirty (30) feet from the sidewalks and market. In the center of Michigan street, at least twenty (20) feet from the sidewalk and mai-ket, between Clark and Wolcott streets. And no person shall be permitted to occupy any of such stands with a load of fire wood, unless the vehicle, box, rack, or wagon shall be made, measured, marked, and numbered, as required in section three of this ordinance, or unless such load shall have been measured by one of the said wood inspectors. Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the wood inspector, or one or more of his assistants, under his direction, at all reasonable times to attend at each of the wood stands in said city, for the pur- pose of measuring wood. They shall be furnished with pi'oper books, at the expense of the city, under the direction of the city comptroller, in which shall be printed proper blank certificates and margins, and it shall be their duty to enter therein all necessary facts pertaining to their business, and such as shall be required, from time to time, by the said comptroller, and which books and entry shall, at all times, be subject to his inspection, and shall be delivered to him for safe keeping when required. Sec. 7. The wood inspector and assistants, while on duty, are required to wear an appropriate badge, marked Wood Inspector, and no person driving any wood wagon or vehicle occupying or coNCERNnsra fire wood. 81 standing about any wood stand or other place in said city, or upon, or near any such load of wood, shall refuse to give his name and residence, or to answer any proper questions of such wood inspector or assistant, in regard to any load or loads of wood, or the owner or owners thereof; nor shall any driver or drivers, owner or owners of any wood wagons, boxes or vehicles, refuse to show any certificate of measurement of any such loads, wagons or vehicles, or show a different or fraudulent certificate thereof to any ofiicer of said city, or person requesting to purchase any load of wood, or commit any other fraudulent or deceitful practice whatever ; and all persons selling wood in any other manner than as provided in section three of this ordinance, shall deliver the certificate of measurement thereof to the purchaser. Sec, 8. All such wood inspectors and assistants are hereby appointed policemen of said city, and clothed with all the powers of policemen, while wearing their badges in the discharge of their duty as such wood inspectors and assistants ; but shall not be entitled to pay as policemen, except by order or resolution of the Common Council. Sec. 9. Any person who shall fail or neglect to comply "^"ith any or either of the requirements of this ordinance, or who shall violate any section, clause or provision of any section thereof, shall, on conviction, pay a fine of not less than three nor more than one hundred dollars. And if such person shall be the owner or driver of any vehicle, licensed by the city, his license may be revoked in the discretion of the mayor. Sec. 10. Chapters twenty-three and twenty-nine, of the munici- pal laws are hereby repealed: Provided, That such repeal shall not afi'ect any suit, action, or cause of action, now existing under the said ordinance. This ordinance shall take eflect from and after its passage. Passed June Sth, A. D. 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Ilmjor. Attest, H. Kreismann, Citi/ Clerk. 82 CONCEENING THE FIEE DEPAETMEISTT. AN ORDINANCE Amendatory of Article III., Chapter XXXII., 3Iunicipal Laios. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That hereafter any person in said city shall put out, remove, or allow to be put out or removed, from the premises or place occupied or owned by him, into any street, alley or other public place, in said city, any person having the small pox or any other infectious or pestilential disease ; but such owner or occu- pant shall immediately report such case to the health officer, or some member of the board of health, whose duty it shall be to cause the person so having such disease to be immediately removed to the hospital or other proper place. Sec. 2. Any person who shall violate any clause of the preced- ing section, or neglect to perform any duty therein required, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall pay a penalty of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, and may be confined in the City Bridewell, not exceeding sixty days, in the discretion of the court or magistrate, before whom such person shall be convicted. Passed July Qth, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H. Kreismank, City Clerk AN ORDINANCE To Amend an Ordinance concerning the Fire Department. SectiOjST 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That section two, of article one, chapter twenty-two, of the Municipal Laws, be amended in the last line thereof by inserting between the words "done" and "without" CONCERNma SEWERS. 83 tlie words "in a plain and substantial manner." This ordinance shall take effect from and after its j)assage. Passed July 6th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3fai/or. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerl: AN ORDINANCE To liejyeal the Ordinance establishing Fire limits in the West Division. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That so much and such j)arts of chapter twenty-two of the Municipal Laws as establish fire limits in the West Division be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Passed July 6th, 1857. Approved, JOHN" WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismanx, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concerning Seicers. Section 1. £e it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : The Board of Water Commissioners, the Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company, and the Board of Sewerage Commissioners of this city, shall not, after the date of this ordinance, lay down any pipe, sewer or drain in any of the streets, alleys, lanes, or public ways of this city, without giving to each other a written notice of at least ten days prior to the commencement of such work, of their intention to lay down such pipe, sewer or drain, together with either an accurate plan or clear description of the same ; and it shall be the duty of the pai'ties receiving such notice to acknowledge the same, in writing, forth- with. In case any damages or expense shall be caused to either 84 coisrcEKN'iisrG sewees. of said parties, in consequence of a default or neglect to give such notice, such damage or expense shall be paid by the party so in default. In all cases of repairs or alterations by either of the said parties, by which repairs or alterations any pipe, scAver or drain belonging to, or under the charge or supervision of, either of said parties, shall be uncovered, undermined, or in any way exposed to injury, the i:»arty making such repairs or alterations shall give immediate notice of the same to the party in charge of such pipe, sewer or drain as may be affected thereby ; and any party failing to give such notice, shall be liable for all injuries, damages and repairs resulting from such want of notice. Sec. 2. Any person who shall uncover, excavate, under or around the brick or pipe sewers laid in this city, for any purpose whatever, without the written consent of said Board of Sewerage Commissioners, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dohars, and not exceeding fifty dollars. The person or persons by whom the said work is done, and their employes, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this section. Sec. 3. Any person who shall make any connection with, or opening into, the brick or pipe sewers laid in this city, without having obtained a written permit in each case from the said sewerage commissioners, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars, and not exceeding fifty dollars, which fine shall be recoverable against the owner of the property in which such drain is made, or against the person or persons making the same, or causing the same to be made, or their employes. Sec. 4. Any person who shall lay, alter or disturb any part of a house drain, catch basin, or strainer of said drain or drains, cesspool or water closet, connected with any brick or pipe sewer belonging to said city, without being duly licensed to perform the same by said sewerage commissioners, shall be a subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and not less than ten dollars, for each offense, which shall be recoverable against the person or persons performing the work, or their employes. Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of any person or persons construct- ing or using any private drain, sewer or cesspool, water closet or pipe, or other pipe connecting with, or emptying into, any brick or pipe drain or sewer belonging to said city, to construct and COlSrCEKinNG SEWEES. 85 use the same strictly in conformity with the orders and directions of the said Board of Sewerage Commissioners, which orders and directions shall be given in writing for such purpose ; and any person who shall construct or use, or cause to be constructed or used, any such drain, sewer, cesspool, or water closet pipe, in a different manner than that so ordered and directed by said board, or in violation of the orders of said board, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, which shall be recoverable against the person or persons so constructing or using the said sewer, drain or pipe, or their employes; and the owner of the lot or lots, or premises, in which said work is constructed or used, shall be deemed and considered as authorizing such construction or use, and liable to such penalty. Sec. 6. Any owner or occupant of premises who shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, any substance, such as garbage, rags, sand, earth, or such other substances as said commissioners may find it necessary to exclude, in any of said sewers, pipes or house drains, gvillies or catch basins connected with said sewers, or allow any such substance to flow into the same, in such manner as to obstruct, or tend to obstruct, the same, shall be liable to a penalty of not exceeding fifty dollars, and not less than five dollars, for each offense, and shall be liable for all expenses incurred on account of removing said obstructions. Sec. 7. The said sewerage commissioners and their authorized agents shall have free and unobstructed access to any part of the premises where house drains, cesspools, or water closets, con- nected with or draining into said servers, are laid, for the purpose of examining the construction, condition and usage of the same, and making necessary alterations and repairs, at any time of the day between the hours of seven o'clock A. M. and six o'clock P. M. ; and any owner, occupant, or other person, refusing to allow any ofiicer or agent of said board access to any premises, for such purposes, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than five dollars. Sec. 8. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously damage, injure or obstruct any sewer or house drain, cesspool, or water closet pipe, laid or constructed under the direction of said sewerage commissioners, shall be liable to a penalty not exceed- ing one hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars, and to 86 CONCEENING PENALTIES. imprisonment not exceeding ninetv days, and to pay all expenses incurred on account of repairs and damages arising from the same. Sec. 9. All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, conflicting with the above are hereby repealed. Passed July 20th, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, JIayor. Attest, H. Kreismann, Citi/ Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concerning Penalties. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That whenever any person shall pay to the city collector the siim of twenty-five dollars, upon or before the first day of July of any year, for each billiard table, nine or ten or other pin alley, or shooting gallery that he shall own, keep, or in any way have in his posession, the city comptroller shall give such per- sons a commutation certificate, stating the number of such tables, alleys, or galleries, upon which such payment shall be made, which shall be in full discharge of any and all penalties or fines or other dues under any ordinance of said city, for owning, keeping, or in any way having in possession the number of tables, alleys, or galleries, specified, until the first day of the next succeeding July: Provided^ That any person who shall not procure a certificate of commutation for each and every such table, alley, and gallery, or who shall not voluntarily call at the collector's office and pay the full twenty-five dollars for each additional one that he may own, keep, or in any way have in his possession, by subsequent purchase or otherwise, during any fraction of a year or in any other way attempt to deceive the city authorities, his certificate of commutation shall be revoked by the mayor and he be liable to the same fines and penalties as if this ordinance had not passed. Sec. 2. All persons must elect before the first day of July, whether they will avail themselves of the provisions of this ordinance, except for the present year, when the election may be made at any time within ten days after its passage. VACATING PAET OF POLK AND EOLKER STS. 87 Sec. 3. Said certificate of commutation shall be conspicuously- posted in the room of such tables, alleys, or galleries ; and when- ever any person shall play thereon for money, liquor, or any other article or thing, the mayor shall pi-omptly revoke said certificate of commutation. Passed July 20th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mmjor. Attest, H. Kreismaistn, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Vacathiff a2^art of Polk and Holker Streets. Section 1. JBe it ordained by the* Common Council of the City of Chicago : That so much and such parts of Rolker and Polk streets as run through blocks 38, 39, 44, 45, in the canal trustees subdivision of the W. ^ and W. ^ of the N. E. i, Section 17, T. 39, R. 14, be and the same are hereby discontinued and vacated. Sec. 2. Before the discontinuance and vacation as aforesaid shall take place, the owners or proprietors of the blocks of land above mentioned shall make, execute, and acknowledge a plat of said blocks, showing the donation to the city of Chicago of three public parks of the size, dimension, and shape, marked upon the plat herewith submitted ; also said owners or pro- prietors shall cause all streets running through said blocks or either of them to be well graded, and shall improve said parks with a handsome post and board or picket fence, and plant said parks with suitable shade trees at their own proper cost and expense. JPassed Jitly 20th, 1851. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, llayor. Attest, H. Kreismank, City Clerk. VACATING PAET OF CAEKOLL STEEET. AN ORDINANCE To vacate a part of Carroll street in Block Fourteen^ Old Town, and loiden a part of Alley next north in same block. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the width of Carroll street between North Market street and the North branch of the Cliicago river, in the old town of Chicago, be so far vacated as to reduce the width thereof from eighty to fifty feet, which reduction of thirty feet is to be taken from the south side of said street, and that the width of the alleyway running through the center of block fourteen, in said old town which is now eighteen feet, be increased to forty-eight feet, and that the thirty feet thus vacated on the southerly side of Carroll street shall become vested in the owners of the respective lots fronting thereon, provided that such owners shall, within one year from the passage hereof, cede to the city of Chigago, thirty feet from the south side of all the lots bounded by the north side of said alleyway as above stated, so as to move the boundaries of the lots on the north side of said alleyway in block fourteen, thirty feet north of their present southern boundary, the whole to be done under the direction of the city superintendent, and that the said new street thus created shall be designated Foi'ks Street. A7id be it further ordained. That after such reduction in the width of Carroll street is legally completed, the end thereof fronting on the north branch of Chicago river, and extending easterly to the westerly line of the street recently opened from North Water street to Carroll street shall become vested in the owners of the lots fronting on that part of Carroll street, as a compensation for the reduction in width of said street as before provided, west twenty -five feet in width to each lot. Passed July 20th, 1857. Appkoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Jlayor Attest, H. Kreismaistn, City Clerk. AMET^DING MUNICIPAL LAWS. 89 AN ORDINANCE Bupplemental to and amendatory of Chapter XLII. of the Municipal Laws. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That hereafter no person in said city, shall in any man- ner act as runner for any public house, hotel, company, boarding house or person, unless such runner shall present to the person or persons solicited, a card plainly printed in a language understood by such person, containing the name of the person, company or place, and the business and location of the company, person or place for whom such runner may be acting, and if he be a runner for a boarding house, hotel or other place of entertainment, such card shall contain also the price of lodging, of board by the day, by the week, by the single meal, and the price of conveyance of persons and baggage to and from such boarding house, hotel or other place of entertainment, conspicuously printed on such card or bUl ; and if any such runner shall violate any provision, clause or requirement of this ordinance, or be guilty of any misrepresenta- tion or evil practice toward any emigrant or other person, or shall neglect to deliver to the person or persons solicited such card immediately after addressing such person, such person or runner shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the city Bridewell not exceeding ninety days, or both, and his license shall be revoked by the mayor. Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take efiect from and after due piiblication. Passed August 24^A, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerh. 90 FIXING GEADE OF STREETS. AN ORDINANCE Fixing the Grade of Streets in the West Division. Sectiok 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That in that part of the West Division of the city of Chicago, lying between the North and South branches of Cliicago river, the South line of Polk street, the West line of Sangamon street and the North line of Chicago avenue, the grade of the outer edge of sidewalks be fixed as follows: [These heights are referred to the plane of low water in the year 1847, as established by the trustees of the Illinois and Michigan canal, the said plane being eight feet and twenty -three one-hun- dredths (8.23) of a foot, below the water table of Loomis' store on the south-west corner of Clark and South Water streets.] On Canal street fourteen (14) feet. On Clinton street fourteen and two-tenths (14.2) feet. On Jeflerson street fourteen and four-tenths (14.4) feet. On Desplaines street fourteen and six tenths (14.6) feet. On Union street, and the line of the center thereof extended southerly to Harrison street, fourteen and eight-tenths (14.8) feet. On Halsted street fifteen (15) feet. On Green street fifteen and four -tenths (15.4) feet. On Peoria street fifteen and four-tenths (15.4) feet. On Sangamon street fifteen and six-tenths (15.6) feet. Sec. 2. On all streets running east and west, the grade shall be a straight line drawn on each block between the heights fixed above for the streets running north and south, and on those por- tions of the east and west streets lying between Canal street and the North and South branches of the Chicago river, the grade shall descend from west to east at the rate of one inch to one hundred feet. The heights fixed above shall be the grades of the sidewalks at the outer edge thereof The sidewalks shall incline upward from the outer edge toward the line of the building or lot, at the rate of one inch in three feet. Sec. 3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to confer any power on any party, person or firm, to fill streets or raise the grade of sidewalks in front of their own or any other premises, until such streets have bv the Common Council been ordered filled CHAT^GmG NAME OF EOLKEK STKEET. 91 to grade. The true intent and meaning of this ordinance, being to fix and determine the grade for streets or portions of streets to which it refers, but not to order them or any of them filled lip to such grade. Sec, 4. Whenever the Common Council shall order any street or a part of a street filled to grade, the expenses and damages shall be paid by special assessment, and not out of the general fund or any division fund. The form of proceeding shall mainly be the same as in other local improvements paid for by special assessments, and the Council shall by ballot choose three reputable, competent and disinterested freeholders residing in the city, to assess the benefits to any and all parties from such filling up, and also the damages arising therefrom, to any who have erected biiild- ings in conformity to a previously established grade in force at the time of their erecting such buildings, and governing them in determining the grade thereof. Sec. 5. Such portions of Article 2, Chapter XXYII. of the Municipal Laws, as relate to territory east of the west line of Sangamon street, are hereby repealed. Passed September ^th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Jfayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, Citi/ Clerk. AN ORDINANCE To Change the name of Roller to Throop Street. Section 1. J3e it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That the street in West Chicago running North and South from Madison street to South street, lying between Rucker street,and Loomis street and midway or nearly midway between them, and called and known as Rolker street, shall be hereafter known and designated as Throop street. Passed September ^th^ 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H. KEEis:^A^rN", City Clerk. 92 LEVYING TAXES OF 1857. AN ORDINANCE Levying Taxes for the year 1857. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the following taxes for the municipal year 1857, for the several purposes hereinafter specified, to wit : Three and a half mills on the dollar for the contingent and other expenses of the city, not otherwise specially provided for ; Two mills on the dollar to meet the expenses of purchasing grounds for school houses, building and maintaining schools ; One mill on the dollar to meet the interest accruing on the gen- eral bonded debt of the city ; Five mills on the dollar to provide for the erection of buildings, building of bridges, docking, dredging the harbor, and other per- manent improvements not otherwise provided for ; One mill on the dollar for the completion of a city hospital ; One mill on the dollar to pay for the purchase of ground, and complete the erection of city armory and fire depot, and one mill on the dollar to meet the interest accruing on the bonds issued by the sewerage commissioners of the city of Chicago, and for the creation of a sinking fund for the extinguishment of the sewerage debt; be, and the same are respectively levied and assessed upon the real and personal estate of the city of Chicago, according to the assessed value thereof for the year aforesaid. Sec. 2. Be it further ordained^ That a tax of one-half mill on the dollar be assessed iipon the real and personal estate of the South Division of said city of Chicago, according to the assessed value thereof for the year aforesaid, to defray the cost of improv- ing Dearborn park, in the said division, and that a tax of two mills on the dollar be assessed upon the real estate in the several lamp districts of said division, to defray three-fourths of the expense of erecting and lighting street lamps in said districts. , Sec. 3. Be it further ordained, That a tax of two mills on the dollar be assessed upon the real estate in the several lamp districts of the West Division of the city of Chicago, according to the assessed value thereof, for the said municipal year, to defray three- fom-ths of the cost of erecting and lighting street lamps in said districts, and a half a mill on the dollar to pay the interest on bonds VACATING AN ALLEY. 93 issued for the purchase of Union Park, be and the same are hereby severally levied and assessed upon the real and personal estate of said West Division according to the assessed value thereof, for the municipal year aforesaid. Sec, 4. Be it further ordained, That a tax of two mills upon the dollar be assessed x;pon the real estate of the several lamp districts in the North Division of the city of Chicago according to the assessed value thereof, for the year aforesaid, to defray three-fourths of the expense of erecting and lighting street lamps in said districts, and one-half mill on the dollar to pay the expense of improving Washington park. Sec. 5. That the city clerk is hereby directed to issue a warrant in due form for the collection of the taxes hereby levied, returnable in sixty days from the date thereof, in conformity with the law in such case made and provided. Passed September \Uh, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Cleric. AN ORDINANCE Vacating an Alley in hlocJc 27, S. E. Quarter Section 17, Toion 39, Eange 14 East. Be it ordained by tM Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the alley running north and south through the west half of block twenty-seven (27), in south-east quarter section seventeen (17), township 39, range 14 east, be and the same is hereby vacated. Passed October 5th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, llayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerk. 94 EELATIVE TO CURBINa STREETS. AN ORDINANCE Fixing the Conviction Fees of the Stated Attorney. Section 1. JBe it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That all conviction fees legally accruing to the state's attorney of this judicial circuit for prosecution in the recorder's court, from and after July 1st, 1857, where said attorney cannot collect the same from the defendants in the respective cases, shall hereafter be paid to said attorney by the city comptroller, out of any money in the city treasury not otherwise appropriated: Pro- vided, No money shall be paid as aforesaid except upon the certifi- cate or certificates of the clerk of said court, at the conclusion of the terms thereof, setting forth in detail the names of the convicted parties, the crimes of which they are severally convicted, the sen- tences passed upon them, and the fee legally due the prosecutor therefor; A7id provided, also, Said attorney shall, in each case of receiving money hereunder, receipt for the same, as being in full of all demands, both in law and equity against the city. Passed November 9th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Ilayor. Attest, H. Keeismakn, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Pelative to Curbing Streets. Section 1. JBe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That where any streets are now, or shall hereafter be filled to the established grade, or filled to a grade requiring curb- stone to be set on the line of sidewalk, that it shall be the duty of the superintendent of public works or other oflScer in charge of such filling, to deposit sufficient earth or other material on the sidewalk of such streets, to back up and permanently hold the curbstone. RELATIVE TO CITY SUEVEYOE. 95 Seo. 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent with this ordinance are hereby expressly repealed. Sec. 3. The power and authority is hereby vested in the super- intendent of public works and street commissioners to use and obstruct the sidewalks to any extent necessary to carry out this ordinance. Passed November 16th, 1857, Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, Cit^ Clerk. * AN ORDINANCE Relating to tlie City Surveyor. Section 1. Beit ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That it shall be the duty of the city surveyor to survey and lay out all streets, alleys and dock lines, and other j)ublic improvements ordered by the Coimnon Council, and to make plats of the same, showing the lots or portions of lots to be taken for such improvements ; to furnish the necessary lines and levels for all paving, bridges, and to do such other surveying as may be directed Tby the Common Council, or by any authorized city officer on their behalf. Sec. 2. For all service rendered to the city as above described, the city surveyor shall receive a salary, in lieu of all other fees and compensation from the city of Chicago, of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, commencing with the municipal year 1858, payable monthly, and he shall be entitled to employ such assistants and chainmen as shall be deemed necessary by the comptroller, in the performance of his duties, who shall be paid weekly for the time they are actually employed by the city, at the current rates per day for such service, their bills being duly certified as to time and value of service by the city surveyor, and sworn to when required by the mayor or comptroller. 96 ABOLISHING WAED DIVISIONS, ETC. Sec. 3, Chapter eleven of the municipal laws is hereby repealed. This ordinance shall be in force from and after the commencement of the municipal year, A. D. 1858. Passed November I6th, 1857. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismanis", Citi/ Cler/v. AN ORDINANCE Concerning Obstructions in Streets. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That section 13 of Article I. (entitled obstructions in streets and public places), of Chapter L. of the municipal laws, be so amended as to allow persons to deposit ashes in the center of any street. And it shall be the duty of the street commissioners of the different divisions to cause such ashes to be removed to such places as the superintendent of public works may direct. Passed November 16th, 1857. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Kreismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Abolishing all Divisions of Wards for Election Purposes. JBe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That the ordinance dividing the seventh ward into election dis- tricts, and also an order dividing the sixth ward into two election districts, both passed February 23d, 1857, and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances, and all other orders and parts of orders, dividing any ward of the city of Chicago into more than one election district, be, and the same are, hereby repealed and FIXING THE GEADE OF STREETS. 9*7 rescinded : Provided^ That so much of the proceedings of the last meeting as, conditionally or otherwise, ordered a poll opened at engine house number thirteen, in the sixth ward, and made Daniel Robston, Reuben Taylor and John Wettstein, inspectors, and also such as ordered a poll opened at the north-west corner of Division and Sedgwick streets, and made August Walbaum, William Rost and J. Alston, inspectors in seventh ward, be, and the same are, hereby rescinded. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage. Passed February 22d, 1858. Appeoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Fixing the Grade of Streets in the North Division. Pe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That in that part of the north division lying south of the north line of Chicago avenue, and west of the east line of Rush street, and east of the west line of Market street, the grade of the curbstone of sidewalks be fixed as follows : [These heights are referred to the plane of low water in A. D. 184Y, as established by the trustees of the Illinois and Michigan canal, the said plane being eight feet and twenty-three hundredths (8t¥o) below the water table of Loomis' store, on the south-west corner of Clark and South Water streets.] On Kinzie street eleven (11) feet. On Michigan street eleven and one-half (Hi) feet. On Illinois street, eleven and sixty- two hundredths (HyVo) f'set. On Indiana street, eleven and seventy-four hundredths (HtVo) feet. On Ohio street, eleven and eighty-six hundredths (HtVo) feet. 7 98 FIXI]SrG THE GRADE OF STREETS. On Ontario street, eleven and ninety-eiglit hundredths (llyVo) feet. On Erie street, twelve and ten hundredths {I2j\%) feet. On Huron street, twelve and twenty -two hundredths (12yYo) feet. On Superior street, twelve and thirty -four hundredths (12tVo) feet. On Chicago avenue, twelve and fifty hundredths {12 jW) feet. The grades on all streets running north and south shall be a straight line drawn on each block between the heights fixed above for streets running east and west, except as hereinafter set forth. The grade for North Water street shall be as follows: On the south side of said North Water street, at intersection of Wolcott street, nine (9) feet. At the intersection of Dearborn street, nine (9) feet. At " " Clark street, eleven (11) feet. At " " La Salle street, nine (9) feet. At " " Wells street, eleven (11) feet. At " " Franklin street, nine (9) feet. At " " Market street, nine (9) feet. On the north side of said North Water street, at the intersection of Wolcott street, nine (9) feet. At the intersection of Dearborn street, nine (9) feet. At " " Clark street, eleven (U) feet. At " " La Salle street, ten and a half (10|) feet. At " " Wells street, eleven (11) feet. At " " Franklin street, ten and a half (10-1) feet. At " " Market street, ten and a half (10^) feet. Passed February 22f?, 1858. Appkoved, JOHN WENTWORTH, Mayor. Attest, H. Keeismann, City Clerk. FOR EAISING SIDEWALKS. 99 AN ORDINANCE To repeal an Ordinance concerning the Inspection and Classifi- cation of Lumber, Lath, Shingles, etc. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the 'City of Chicago: That Chapter XXXVI. of the municiiDal laws be, and the same is, hereby repealed. Passed February 22d, 1858. Approved, JOHN WENTWORTH, 3Iayor. ■ Attest, H. Kkeismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE For Raising Bidexoalhs. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That where any street or portion of street shall be raised to the grade established by the Common Council, and curb- ed, or area walls constructed on the curb line of such street or portion of street, the report, order or resolution, directing such improvement, shall be deemed to embrace and include the raising to such established grade of so much of the sidewalk as lies distant from the street lines of such street or portion of street, one-half the width of the sidewalk as established by ordinance, whether expressed in such report, order or resolution, or not. Sec. 2. Whenever any street or portion of street has been raised to the established grade, and the sidewalks adjoining remain over twelve inches below such grade, the street commssioner of the division, or the supei'intendent of the public works shall cause a verbal, printed or written notice to be served upon the owner or occupant of the premises fronting upon such sidewalk, requiring such owner or occupant to raise to the said established grade, so much of such sidewalk as lies distant one-half the width of the 100 CONCEENING CERTAm FIRE COMPANIES. sidewalk, as establislied by the ordinance, from such premises within ten days from the date of such service. Such notice shall be served upon such owner or occupant, in the manner prescribed in Section four, Article 1, Chapter LIII., of the revised ordinances, (p. 395). If any person shall neglect or refuse to raise any side- walk after notice as aforesaid, he shall be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offence. The street commissioner shall, in all cases where parties refuse or neglect to raise sidewalks in pursuance of notice as aforesaid, or cannot be found, cause the same to be raised within a reasonable time after the expiration of the notice, as aforesaid, and rejDort the expenses to the Common Council. The report shall be made in the same form, and an assessment made and collected in the manner prescribed in Article third. Chap- ter LIII., of the revised ordinances. Passed March 22^, 1858. Appkoyed, JOHN" C. HAINES, 3Iayor. Attest, H, Kreismakn, City Cleric. AN ORDINANCE Concerning Certain Fire Companies. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That all ordinances and parts of ordinances, all orders and parts of orders, creating or in any way authorizing the exist- ance of engine companies Red Jacket, No. 4, Washington, No. 10, Red Rover, No. 14 ; also, hook and ladder company Rescue, No. 2 ; also, hose companies Illinois, No. 3, and Lady Washington, No. 5, be and the same are hereby repealed and rescinded. Passed March 22f?, 1858, Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Mayor. Attest, H. Kreisaiann, City Clerk. CHANGING NAME OF SAND STEEET. 101 AN ORDINANCE To Open an Alley in Block 45, Original Town. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago: That the south nine and one-half (9^) feet of the north thirty- five (35) feet of lot number three (3) of block number forty- five of the original tovm of Chicago, be and the same is hereby declared a public highway in accordance with the wish of the abutters as expressed in their petition, dated november 16th, 1857, on the files of the city clerk. Passed March 22f?, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Mayor. Attest, H. Kbeismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Changing the name of Sand Street to that of St. Clair Street. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the street in the North Division of said city, lying east of, and parallel with. Pine street, extending from North Water street to Chicago Avenue, and heretofore known and designated as Sand street, be, and the same shall, hereafter, be known and designated as St. Clair street. Passed March 2Qth, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, 3fayor. Attest, H. Kreis>;ann, City Clerk. 102 SALARIES OF OFFICERS. AN ORDINANCE To Repeal part of Section XYI. of an Ordinance concerning Vehicles. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the owners or drivers of hackney coaches only, be allowed to stand on the south side of South Water street, between Michigan and Central Avenues. Sec. 2. That so much of the ordinance concerning vehicles as conflict with this provision be, and the same is hereby repealed. Passed March 22c?, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Matjor. Attest, H. Kreismann, City Clerh AN ORDINANCE JFixing the Salaries of the several Officers therein named. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That annual salaries shall be paid to the several officers hereinafter in this section named, in equal monthly pay- ments ; and, in accordance with section seventy-one of the amendments to the city charter, approved February 16, 1857, all fees, perquisites and emoluments whatever, received or paid, or j)ayable to any of said ofiicers, shall belong to and be paid by such person or jDcrsons, into the city treasury, the same as all other revenues belonging thereto : Provided, That any provision of this ordinance requiring any ofl5cer to pay all fees and emoluments into SALAlJIES OF OFFICEES. 103 the city treasury, shall not be construed to in any way aj^ply to or affect the salary paid by the state to the recorder, or the fees paid to him in civil cases. Comptroller |4,000 City Clerk 1,500 Treasurer 2,000 City Superintendent 2,000 Superintendent of Special Assessments 2,000 Kecorder 3,000 Marshal 2,000 Captain of Police 2,000 " " Clerk $15 per week 1st Lieut. " 15 " 2d Lieut. " 13 " Policemen 12 " City Physician $ 500 Health Officer 1,200 Street Commissioners, each 1,200 Harbor Master 1,500 Collector 2,500 Market Clerks, each 550 Bridewell Keeper 400 Police Justices, each 2,000 School Agent 500 Book keeper in Comptroller's office 1,500 Asst. Book keeper " " 1,200 Clerk " " 1,000 Asst. Clerk in City Clerk's office . . . T 1,200 Sec. 2. That the several bridge tenders hereinafter in this section named shall be allowed the following sums monthly, viz. : On Clark street bridge $150 On Lake " " 140 On Kinzie " " 15 On Madison " " 130 On Wells " " 150 On Randolph " " 130 OuY.Buren " " 110 On Twelfth " " 75 On Polk " " 85 On Old " " 15 On Chicago Av. " 60 On Rush street " 150 On Erie " " when finished 75 On Indiana " " " " 75 104 CONCEENING THE POLICE COUET. Sec. 3. That all ordinances, or parts of ordinances, in any way conflicting with the above, be, and the same are, hereby rescinded. Passed April 5th, 1858. Appkoved, JOHN C. HAINES, Ifayor. Attest, H. Kreismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE In accordance with the requirements of Amended Charter, Section XXIIL, directing the City Treasurer lohere to Deposit his JBe it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the city treasurer be, and is hereby directed, to deposit moneys received by him at the banking house of Messrs. George Smith & Co. Passed April 5th, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Mayor. Attest, H. Kreismann, Citu Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Concerning the Police Court, and Designating two Justices to hold the same. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That William H. Stickney and Andrew Aiken, justices of the peace in the city of Chicago, be, and they are hereby designated to have jurisdiction of all actions for the recovery of any and all fines and penalties, under the laws or ordinances and police regulations of the city. Sec. 2. Said justices of the peace shall constitute and be styled the Police Court of the city of Chicago, and shall continue, under such designation, to take such jurisdiction, as justices of the CONCERNING THE POLICE COURT. 105 peace, for one year, or until their successors be aj^pointed, or until they shall be removed by the Common Council. Said justices shall hold " Police Court" daily (Sundays excepted) from 8 to 12 o'clock in the forenoon, and from 2 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon, in the room in the Armory Building now used for that purpose, or in such place as the Common Council may designate and provide, and shall, both of them, give daily attendance thereon, unless sickness or unavoidable casualty prevent. And especially shall each of them give such attendance whenever any case or cause is to come up, or be tried on account of, or in connection with which he may or shall have taken special bail. Sec. 3. In compensation for their services in said court said justices shall receive each a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, payable quarterly, said salary being in lieu of all other compensation or fees whatever, accruing from the business to be disposed of for the city in said court; and the said justices, before they shall enter upon their duties in said court, shall execute and file in the office of the City Comptroller an express relinquishment, in favor of the city, of all fees, costs and emoluments arising from the business of said court. Sec. 4. Sections one (1), two (2) and three (3) of an ordinance entitled "An Ordinance Concerning the Police Court," passed March 16, 1857, are hereby i*epealed, but suits commenced and proceedings heretofore instituted, and such as may be commenced and instituted before the justices whose commissions as justices of the peace have not yet expired, heretofore designated, at any time before the justices of the peace designated under this act shall be qualified, and shall have entered upon the duties of their office, may be prosecuted in the same manner, and with the same efiect, as if this ordinance had not been passed. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Passed April 26th, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Ma^or. Attest, H. KpvEismann, City Clerk. 106 CONCEENIlSrG MISDEMEANOES. AN ORDINANCE Opening an Alley in JBlocJc XXVL, School Section. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That the curved alley in block number twenty-six of the school section addition to the city of Chicago, as represented by the coloring in pink in the plat by the city surveyor, herewith sub- mitted and marked "B," be and the same is hereby declared a public highway, to be recorded as such in the book provided for the recording of streets and alleys opened by the Common Council. Passed April 26th, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Maijor. Attest, H. Kreismann, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Amendatory of an Ordinance concerning Offences in the nature of ITisdemeanors, passed September 15th, 1856. Section 1. Be it ordained hy the Common Council of the City of Chicago : All able bodied persons who, not having visible means to maintain themselves, are idly without employment, or are found loitering or rambling about, or wandering abroad and lodging in groceries, drinking saloons, tippling houses, beer houses, out houses, bawdy houses, houses of ill fame, houses of bad repute, vessels, sheds or barns, or in the open air, or shall be found tres- passing in the night time upon the private premises of others, and not giving a good account of themselves ; or wandering abroad and begging ; or going about from door to door begging ; or plac- ing themselves in the street, or other thoroughfares, or in public places, to beg or receive alms ; all keepers or exhibitors of any gaming table or device ; and all persons who, for the purpose of gaming, or for the purpose of watch stuffing, travel about, or go from place to place ; and all persons upon whom shall be found any instrument or thing used for the commission of burglary, larceny, or for picking locks or pockets ; or any galvanized watches AMENDATOEY OF HAEBOR ORDHSTANCE. 107 or stuffed watches, or anything used for obtainmg money under false pretences, and who cannot give a good account of their possession of the same, shall be deemed vagrants, and upon convic- tion shall be fined in a sum not less than two dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the city bridewell for a term not exceeding three months, or both. Sec. 2. That section eight of article one of said ordinance be, and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the words "twenty-five" in the last line of said section, and inserting the words "one hundred." Sec. 3. That section one of article three of said ordinance be, and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the words "twenty-five" in the eighth line of said section and inserting the words "one hundred" tlierein. Sec. 4. All parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance be, and the same are hereby rej)ealed. Passed April 26, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, 3Iayor. Attest, H. Keeismajstn, City Clerk. AN ORDINANCE Amendatory of the Harbor Ordinance. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That Paile or Division "Fifth" of "Sec. 11" of the Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance concerning the Harbor," passed May 20, 1856 [see "Municipal Laws," pp. 252 to 259], be amended by striking out of the same the words " dropped under the vessels fore-foot," and inserting in lieu of them, in the same situation or connection in the sentence, the words " or suspended from the Hawse-pipe by the ring or shackle, and below the surface of the water." Passed Ai^ril 26, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Ilayor. Attest, H. KJREisjiiANN, City Clerk. A.]Sr A.OT To Define^ Confirm and Legalize the Acts of a Fish Inspector of the City of Chicago. Sectiok 1. JBe it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assembly : That from and after the passage of this law, no fresh water fish shall be sold or received for sale, or on consignment, in or at the city of Chicago, without being first duly inspected by the legal inspector of and for the city of Chicago, appointed by virtue of this act, as hereinafter mentioned. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of every person or persons bringing or causing to be brought to the city of Chicago, for the purpose of sale, any fi-esh water fish, to have the same duly inspected by the legal inspector of the city of Chicago, before such fish shall be sold or in any way disposed of; and it shall be the duty of every person or persons receiving such fish, by consignment, for and on account of any other party, to have such fish duly inspected by the fish inspector of the city of Chicago, before delivering them to the owner or his agent or other person ; and such consignee shaU pay the fees of inspection, and shall have a lien upon such fish in his possession for the fees so advanced by him ; and it shall be the duty of every person having such fish in his possession, for the purpose of selling or of dealing in the same, and of every consignee having fish on consignment, before the said fish shall be sold or in anywise disposed of, to give notice to the mspector, and have such fish duly inspected and branded; and for this purpose, such person shall arrange the packages in a convenient manner, and have them in some suitable place. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the fish inspector, on due application of any person or persons having such fish in possession, to repaii- to the place of deposit of such fish, if the same shall be within the city limits of the city of Chicago, and shall inspect the same with as little delay as possible. 110 RELATING TO FISH IT^SPECTOE. Sec. 4. It is hereby made the duty of the fish inspector to procure sealed weights, and carefully weigh all fish ofi"ered for inspection ; and to entitle said inspector to grant a certificate of due inspection, or to brancl the packages as duly inspected, he shall first find that the contents and weights of the several packages are as follows, viz. : Each barrel shall contain 200 lbs ; each half barrel shall contain 100 lbs; each quarter barrel shall contain 50 lbs ; and each eighth barrel shall contain 25 lbs. Such inspector shall, also, on branding any package of fish as inspected, plainly and distinctly mark on the head of each package, in some indellible manner, the kind, quantity and quality of fish contained in each package, respectively, together with his name and the year and month in which the same shall have been inspected. Sec. 5. The inspectqr shall be liable, by suit, in any court having jurisdiction of the cause, for all damages that may accrue to any person or persons, or company, by reason of misfeasance or malfeasance in the inspection of any package of fish. Sec. 6. The inspector sliall be entitled to the following fees for the performance of his duties, viz. : For unheading, heading, weighing, re-packing, brining, and inspecting and branding each barrel, 25 cents; each half barrel, 15 cents; each quarter barrel, 10 cents ; each extra hoop, 5 cents ; each extra head, 25 cents. Sec. 7. The inspector shall not put his brand upon any package of fish, as duly inspected, unless the same be well hooped and headed, and in all respects sufficient to retain brine, and also be in good shipping condition. Sec. 8. No person holding the office of fish inspector for said city of Chicago, nor shall his employes or assistants, or either of them, buy or sell, or deal in, or in anywise be interested, in any fish to be sold or consigned to the city of Chicago. Sec. 9. Every fish inspector, appointed by virtue hereof, shall keep a record of the number of packages and sizes, and of the kinds and qualities of fish, and for whom inspected by hira, each year ; and shall make a report of the same to the Common Council, on the first day of Jamiary in each year. Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of the fish inspector to keep an office at a convenient place, on or near the Chicago river, which EELATING TO FISH Il!q^SPECTOE. Ill shall be kept open during business hours, and in which the inspec- tor shall at all times have some person, during his absence, to receive orders. Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the inspector of fish to see to the enforcement of this law, and that all violations of the same are prosecuted. Sec. 12. Any fish inspector violating, refusing or failing to comply with any of the provisions of this law, so far as they are made incumbent upon him, shall, for every offence, be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars ; which said fine may be collected in the same way as is provided by the Revised Statutes for the collection of fines in cases of misdemeanors. Sec. 13. Every inspector of fish, who shall be appointed in pursuance hereof, shall, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his said office, give bond, with two good and sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, and running to the people of the State of Illinois, and conditioned that he will well and faithfully perform the duties of said office and satisfy all dam- ages that may legally be demanded of him by virtue of the provisions hereof Sec. 14. The inspector appointed by virtue hereof shall have the right to ai:)point, and the same to remove at pleasure, one or more assistants, who shall have the same right to brand all pack- ages inspected by either of them in the name of the said inspector ; but each assistant shall have some distinctive mark, with which he shall designate each package inspected by himself, so as to indicate by whom the inspection was actually made ; and the said inspector shall have the right to take bond, with sufficient penalty and security, running to himself, from each of the assistants appointed by himself, and to the same tenor, as the bond herein required to be executed by said inspector ; and the said inspector shall be liable for the acts of his said assistants, and may sue on the bonds of any of them, to recover any damages that he may have suff'ered, by i-eason of their misfeasance or •malfeasance. Sec. 15. The said inspector shall have the right to sue, in any 112 EELATmG TO FISH INSPECTOE. court having jurisdiction of the action, for his fees for services performed, either by himself or his assistants by virtue hereof. Sec. 16. The inspectors, to be appointed as herein provided, shall be appointed by the Common Council of the City of Chicago as soon as convenient after the annual election of said body ; and he shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor be legally qualified. Sec. 17. The present inspector of fish, heretofore appointed by the Common Council of the City of Chicago, and now in office? shall be and continue such inspector until his successor shall be appointed and qualified, at the time herein mentioned. ' Sec. 18. This act shall become a law immediately on its passage. Approved February 18th, 1857. CONCERNING LICENSES. 113 AN ORDINANCE Concerning Licenses. Section 1. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of Chicago : That all licenses authorized and required by any Ordinance of the City of Chicago, shall be issued to such person or persons as shall comply in all respects with the different pro- visions of the ordinances of the city, and as the Mayor, in his discretion, shall deem suitable and proper persons to exercise the occupation for which he, she, or they apply to be licensed, and to no others. Sec. 2. That aU ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, be, and the same are, hereby repealed. Passed April 26th, 1858. Approved, JOHN C. HAINES, Mayor. Attest, H. Kebismajstn, City Clerk. INDEX. ALLEYS— In Block 27, Sec. 1*7, Vacated. . . 93 In Block 45, Old Town, opened. . 101 In Block 26, S. S. Add., opened. . 106 AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY CHARTER 3-26 ANCHORS. See Harbor. ANNUAL REPORT— Of Comptroller, (Sec. 15) 8 APPEALS— From Police Court, (Sec. 70) 22 ALMS— Soliciting Prohibited 106, 107 ASSESSMENT ROLLS— Annual to be returned to Council, (Sec. 37) 14 Revision and Confirmation, (Sec. 37) 14 ASSESSMENTS— Orders and Warrants, how made, (Sec. 38) 14 When delivered, (Sec. 38) 14 Notice by Collector, (Sec. 39) ... . 14 Proceedings for Judgment, (Sees. 40-43) 14, 15 Order to Sell, (Sec. 44) 16 Notice of Sale, (Sec. 46) 16 Sale, how conducted, (Sec. 47).. . 16 Issuing Certificates of Sale, (Sec. 48) 17 Force of Tax Deeds, (Sec. 49). . . 17 When Tax Sale to take place, (Sec. 51) 17 Special Warrants to issue forth- with, (Sec. 52) 18-19 Costs, (Sec. 52) 18-19 Interest on Special Warrants, (Sec. 62) 18-19 ASHES— Deposite in Streets 96 Pagb. ATTORNEY— Prosecuting, how appointed, (Sec. 67) 21, 60 Prosecuting, Salary of. 60 City, Salary of 71 State's, Conviction Fees 94 Additional, when employed, (Sec. 11) 6 awnings- How Constructed 69, 70 BADGES— Of Hackmen and Expressmen. . . 68 Fire Department, distribution of.. 61 BALL ALLEYS— Ordinance Concerning 43 BATHING— In Lake Prohibited 66 House 77, 78 BEGGARS— Punishment of. 106, 107 BILLIARD TABLES— Ordinance Concerning 43 Penalties, how paid 72 Commutation of Penalties 86 BOUNDARIES— Of Vth and Xth Wards (Sec. 88) 26 BRIDGE TENDERS— Salaries of 103 BIRDS— Killing of, Prohibited 66 CEMETERIES— Land may be Purchased for, (Sec. 81) 24 Power of Council (Sees. 82, 84), 24, 25 Cemetery Fund, (Sec. 83) 25 Violation of Ordinances (Sec. 84), 25 CITY ATTORNEY. See Attorney. 116 INDEX. Page. CITY CHARTER— Amendments to 3-26 CITY clerk- To Certify Ordinances to Mayor, (Sec. 3j 3 To Furnish List of Improvements to Comptroller, (Sec. 1*7) 9 Salary 103 CITY SUPERINTENDENT. See Superintendent. CITY COLLECTOR— Election and Duties 11-18 Special Collectors Abolished (Sec. 27) 11 When to Report 11-12 In case of Removal how Vacancy filled, (Sec. 29) 11 Punishment for Embezzlement, (Sec. 35) 12 To make Report, (Sec. 30) 12 In Settlement with Comptroller, Appeal Allowed, (Sec. 32) 12 Assistant Collectors, (Sec. 33). . . 12 Accounts to be Verified (Sec. 36), 13 To Collect Money for Licenses. . . 72 Collectors of Street Taxes ...... 64 COMMON COUNCIL— Ordinances, etc., to be referred to Committees, (Sec. 2) 3 Reports of Committees, (Sec. 2). . 3 Publication of Reports, Sec. 2). . 3 Members of, and other City Offi- cers, not to be interested in Contracts, (Sec. 5) 4 Appropriations not to exceed An- nual Income, (Sec. 16).. 8, 9 Aldermen Vth and Xth "Wards, (Sees. 89, 90) 26 COMMISSIONERS OF PARKS— How Appointed 27 COMPTROLLER— Appointment and term of Office, (Sec. 9) 5 Duties 5-9 Keep Books, etc. (Sec. 10) 5 Have Charge of everything (Sec. 11) ■ 6 Adjust Accounts of Collectors, (Sec. 12) 6 Warrants, how drawn, (Sec. 13). 6 Submit Claims to Mayor and Fi- nance Committee, (Sec. 13). . . 7 Supervision of Collection of Taxes, (Sec. 14) 1 Pagb. COMPTROLLER— Continued. To make Annual Statement of Finances, (Sec. )15 8 Make Annual Estimate (Sec. 16), 8 Keep a List of Improvements, (Sec.l7) 9 Prescribe Form of Book of Trea- surer, (Sec. 18) 9 Annual Meet'g with Finance Com- mittee, (Sec. 31) 12 Appeal from decision of, (Sec. 32) 12 Clerks and Assistants, (Sec. 33)... 12 Other Duties, (Sec. 34) 12 Countersign Warrants, (Sec. 38).. 14 Hath Charge Certificates of Sales for Taxes, (Sec. 48) 17 To fill Vacancy In Office of Col- lector, (Sec. 50) 17 To Sell Cemetery Lots (Sec. 83), 24 Ordinance Concerning 72 CONTRACTS— Not to be made without appropria- tion, (Sec. 5) 4 Making of, to be committed to De- partments, (Sec. 5) 4 To be countersigned by Comptrol- ler, (Sec. 17) 9 COURT. See Police Court. DEEDS FOR TAXES. See Assess- ments. DISTILLERIES. See Nuisances. DISORDERLY CONDUCT— Punishment 107 DOCK LINES— On South Branch 54 DRUNKENNESS— Punishment 106 EDUCATION— Board of, (Sec. 77) 23 ELECTIONS— Precincts 3, 96 FEES— Payment of, Abolished (Sec. 71), 22 FIRE DEPARTMENT— Badges of Firemen 61 General Review 71 Repairs of Engines 82 Certain Companies Disbanded. . . 100 INDEX. 117 Page. FIRE limits- Id South Division 74 Wooden Buildings may be raised, 75 In West Division Repealed 83 FIRE WOOD— Ordinance Concerning "78 FISH INSPECTOR— Act Concerning 109-112 GAMBLING— Ordinance Concerning. . .15, 106, lOY GRADES— Ordinance Establishing, South Di- vision 67-69 Ordinance Establishing, West Di- vision 90 Ordinance Establishing, North Di- vision 97 HACKMEN— Stands in front of Hotels 60 To wear Badges 58 At Central Depot 102 HARBOR— Anchors, how carried 107 INSPECTORS— Of Schools, (Sees. 77, 78) 23 Of Elections, (Sec. 1) 3 Of Wood 78-80 Of Fish 109-112 INMATES— Of Bawdy Houses 106-107 JUSTICES— Of Police Court, how appointed, (Sec. 53) 18 Salary, (Sees. 18, 19) 104-105 LAKE— Bathing in. Prohibited . * . . . t . . . 66 LATH, LUMBER, ETC.— Ordinance Repealed 99 LICENCES— To Peddlers of Books 42 Power to Revoke. . .72, 75, 81, 87, 89 Ordinance Concerning 113 LOAN— Power to make for Park (Sec. 12), 30 MARSHAL— Duty of, concerning Nuisances. . . 40 Page. MARSHAL— Continued. Ordinance Repealed 7S Salary 77 MAYOR— To Appoint Officers, (Sees. 6, 9). . 4-5 Salary, (Sec. 72) 22 To Approve Ordinances (Sec. 34), 4 To Sell Park Stock, (Sec. 11). . 30 To Revoke Licenses, 72, 75, 81, 87, 89 MISDEMEANORS— Concerning Offenses in the nature of 106, 107 MILK— Ordinance Concerning 48 NOTICE— Of Payment of Taxes, (Sec. 39). . 14 Of Tax Sale, (Sees. 45, 46) 16 NUISANCES— Ordinance Concerning 39 Certain Places, when 40 Duty and Power of Officers Con- cerning 40 NEWSPAPER— Corporation, compensation of. .55, 56 OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS— Sexton's Ordinance 52 OFFICERS- Notelected, how appointed (Sec. 6) 4 Removal for neglect to pay over money, (Sec. 14) 7 To Report to Comptroller, (Sees. 14-16) 7-8 Reports to be under oath (Sec. 36) 13 To deliver Stolen Property to Clerk Police Court, (Sees. 62, 66). . . 21 ORDINANCES— To be referred to Committee, (Sec. 2) 3 Mayor to Approve, (Sec. 2) 3 Passage after Veto, (Sec. 3) 4 To become Law if not returned in five days, (Sec. 3) 4 PARKS— Appointment of Commissioners to lay out Park, South Division, 27-30 Location of, South Div. (Sees. 3, 4) 27 Report of Commis'rs (Sees. 5-8), 28 How paid for, (Sees. 9-10) 29 Park Stock, (Sec. 10) 29 Damages, when paid, (Sec. 13).. . 29 118 INDEX Page. PEDDLERS— Of Books and Newspapers 42 POLICEMEN— Authorized to serve Process. . .63, 64 POLICE COURT— Act Creating 18-22 Justices, how appointed, (Sec. 54) 18, 59, 60, 104, 105 Salary of Justices (Sec. 66)18, 104, 105 Clerk, how elected, (Sec. 56) 19 Vacancy in Clerkship, how filled, (Sec. 57) 19 Duties of Clerk 19, 22 Removal of Clerk, (Sec. 61) 20 Ordinance Concerning, 59, 60, 104, 105 Salary of Clerk 60 Deputy Clerk 60 PORTERS AND RUNNERS— To Present Card 89 RAILROADS— Ordinance Concerning Chicago & Fort Wayne Railroad 44 Ordinance Concerning Joliet & Chicago Railroad 45 Ordinance Concerning Milwaukee Railroad 49, 63 RENDERING ESTABLISHMENTS. See Nuisances. REFORM SCHOOL— EstabHshment of, (Sees. 1, 2) 32 Tax for Support of, (Sec. 1)... . 32 Former Ordin'ce legalized (Sec. 2) 32 Who committed to, (Sec. 3) 33 How discharged from, (Sec. 4.), . 33 Punishment of Incorrigible Boys, (Sec. 4) 34 Boys bound to Apprenticeship, (Sec. 5) 34 State Reform School, (Sec. 6). . . . 35 Boys Admitted from other Coun- ties, (Sec. T) ■. 36 Ordinance Concerning Buildings. 57 RUNNERS. See Porters & Runners. SALES— For Taxes, when, (Sec. 51) 17 Order to Sell, (Sec. 44) 16 Notices of Sale, (Sec. 46) 16 How Conducted, (Sec. 47) 16 SALARIES— Of Mayor, (Sec. 72) 22 Of other OfBcers. 23, 102, 103 Page. SALAnmS— Continued. How Payable, (Sec. 73) 22 SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL FUND— Provisions of Charter 23-24 Power to levy School Tax (Sec. 75) 23 Tax of 1856 legahzed, (Sec. 76). . 23 Inspectors, how appoint'd (Sec. 77) 23 Terms of Public Schools 45 School District No. 10 49 Buildings in Districts 8 and 9 57 SEWERS— Ordinance Concerning 83-86 Notice of Laying Down Pipes, Sewers, etc. (Sec. 1) 83 Penalty for Uncovering Sewer, (Sec.2) 84 Penalty for Connecting Sewer, (Sec. 3) 84 Penalty for Disturbing Drains, (Sec. 4) 84 Penalty for Constructing Drain contrary to Instructions, (Sec. 5) 84, 85 Penalty for Depositing Substances in, (Sec. 6) 85 Penalty for refusing access to Pre- mises, (Sec. 7) 85 Penalty for Injury to Sewers, (Sec. 8) 85-86 SHOOTING GALLERIES— Ordinance Concerning 43 SIDEWALKS— Articles placed upon 70 Raising to Grade 99 SIGNS— Ordinance Concerning 70 SMALL POX— Ordinance Concercing 82 STREETS AND ALLEYS— Proocee dings to open, legalized, (Sec. 86) 25 __Obstructions by Sewerage, Water Commissioners, or Gas Co. ... 42 Right of Way to Chicago & Fort Wayne Railroad 45 Right of Way to South Branch Canal Company 47 Right of Way to Milwaukee Rail- road 49, 63 Street Taxes 64 Vacation of part of Polk and Rolker Streets 87 Vacation of part of Carroll St. . . 88 INDEX, 119 STREETS & ALLEYS— Continued. Grades of West Division 90 Name of Rolker chang'd to Throop 91 Proceedings to fill to Grade 91 Name of Sand changed to St. Clair 101 Deposit of Ashes in 9fi STOLEN PROPERTY— Delivery to Clerk Pohce Court, 20-21 STREET TAX. See Taxes. SUPERINTENDENT— Ordinance defining Duties 76 SURVEYOR— Ordinance Concerning 95 May employ Assistants 95 TAXES. See Assessments. For Interest on Park Debt (Sec. 1 2) 30 For Schools, (Sec. 75) 23 For Reform School, (Sec. 1) 32 For Streets 64 Ordinance levying tax for 1857 . . 92 TREASURER— Powers and Duties by Charter. . .9-10 Deposit of Moneys 10, 105 TREASURY DEPARTMENT— Who to constitute 45-49 Powers of, by Charter 45-49 VACANCIES— City Collector, how filled (Sec. 29) 11 Clerk of Police Court, how filled, (Sec. 57) 19 VAGRANTS— Ordinance Concerning 106-107 Paqb. VEHICLES— May stand in front of Public Places... 50 Owners and Drivers to wear Badges 58 Drivers at 111. Central Depot 102 VENUE— Changes of, in PoUce Court (Sec. 70) 22 vessels- How to carry Anchor 107 veto- How exercised by Mayor (Sec. 3), 3 WARDS— Division into Election Districts, (Seel) 3 Boundaries of Vth and Xth, (Sec. 88) 26 Divisions into Election Precincts abolished 96 WARRANT ON TREASURY— How Drawn, (Sec. 19) 9 WATER COMMISSIONERS— Ordinance Concerning Loan 74 WOOD STANDS— In West Division 41 When and by whom Occupied. . . 80 WOODEN BUILDINGS. See Fire Limits. WOOD INSPECTORS— Ordinance Concerning 78-81 Have Pohce Powers 81 jit4$u^ ^UISA i:5=^««i ^'^x^ _fai^Sifc=. --^IJij y^^^>si. ^^rK~ cf^f^ ^3S\ -^.s^^&jx ^^'^ t^S'^s^k^ ^ .nS^«' V y*;^-\