AUJfflBMAIif aWD-WABD THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY oT \ %% V / ^ A ' W. E. Clinton, .-V,? BINDER, -er V Joliet, III. Return this book on or before the Latest Date stamped below. University of Illinois Library Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2016 https://archive.org/detaiis/citycharterrevisOOjoii THE‘^ 8PISED OMIMICES : OF THE : CITY OF JOLIET, ILLINOIS. ^=sa%^Q%es=^ Together with Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, Relating to the City, REVISED AND ARRANGED BY ROBERT T. KELLY. Published by Authority of the City Council. f JOLIET. NEWS STEAM PRINTING HOUSE. 1884. V TABLE OF CONTENTS. CITY CHARTER. ■4 C' o ate and reduction of taxes, etc, - 109-110 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Aiiiiexiiig and excluding territory, - 111- Issuing warrants on county treasurer, etc, Water works, - - - - 114- Operating water works, - - 120- Vacation of streets, alleys and highways, Brido-es, - -* . *122- City boundaries, ^ _ Schools, ^ - 125- ORDINANCES, I. Animals, pound and pound-keepers, II. Arrests, III. xiuctions and auctioneers, IV. Billiard, pool and bagatelle tables, etc, V. Bridges, .. . . VI. . Bridewell, - - VII Buildings, VIII. City attorne}^ IX. Corporation counsel, X. City clerk, XI. City collector, XII. City treasurer, XIII. Corporate seal, XIV. City surveyor, XV. City council. -113 113 - 120 ^ - 121 -' 121 -124 125 -130 131 135 138 140 141 143 146 148 149 151 153 156 157 158 161 VI TABLE or CONTENTS. XVI. City warrants, - - 167 XVII. Dogs, - - - 169 XVIII. Election — contest of, - 172 XIX. Fees, - - - 175 XX. Eire department, - - 176 XXL • Fire limits, - - - 182 XXII. Fiscal year, - - 188 XXIII. Gunpowder, - - - 188 XXIV. Health, - - - . 16« XXV. Intoxicating liquors, - - 200 XXVI. Licenses, - - 205 XXVII. Markets, - - - - 206 XXVIII. Misdemeanors, - - 209 XXIX. Nuisances, - - ” 225 XXX. Offices, - - - 230 XXXI. Oil, - - - - 232 XXXII. Oil inspector, - - 234 XXXIII. Pawnbrokers, - - - 236 XXXIV. Peddlers, - - 237 XXXV. Police department, - - 239 XXXVI. Police magistrate, - - ’ 243 XXXVII. Porters and runners, - - 119 XXXVIII. Public library, - - 252 XXXIX. Railroads, - - - 253 XL. Scavengers, - - 259 , XLI. Schools, - - 264 ' XLII. Shows and exhibitions, - - 271 XLIII. Shooting galleries, - - 272 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Vll XLIY. ^Sidewalks, _ _ _ 273 XLV. Streets and superintendent of streets, 27(i XLVI. Supplies and cdaims, - - 287 XLVII. Trees, - - - 289 XLVIII. Vehicles, - - 290 XLIX. Vagrants, . - _ 296 L. Wards, - - 299 LI. W eights and measures, - - 301 LII. Wood and hay, - - - 304 LI II. Ordi nances, - - - 306 Adopting and publishing ordinance, * 308 o PREFACE. Juliet was incorporated, by an act of the Legislature, as a village in the year 18J7, and was governed by a president and board of trustees, till 1841, when by an act of the Leg- islature the village charter was repealed and the trustees resigned, leaving “Juliet” without an organization till June 19, 1852, at which time the city of Joliet, was incor- porated by an act of the Legislature, the act of incorpora- tion was approved by the electors July 5, 1852, by a vote of 2(>8 for, 133 against. The lirst set of ordinances for the government of the city were adopted August 20, 1852. In the year 1857, a new charter for the city of Joliet was passed by the State Legislature, which remained in force (with some minor amendments) until August 5, 1876, at wdiich time by a vote of the city the general “Act to pro- vide for the incorporation of cities and villages, approved April 10, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872,” was adopted by a vote ot 1076 for, to 307 against.. The charter for 1857, and ordinances were published in book form in the year 1863, and was again published in the year 1869. On the 27th of April, 1877, the general incorporation act adopted August 5, 1876, together with a revision of the ordinances was published in book form. Tn the present PREFACE. IX publication the general incoporation Statutes, together with acts of the General Assembly of the State, relating to the city and all general ordinances now in force, special ordinances (not repealed) being still in force, but not pub- lished in the revision. This volume is respectfully submitted to the City Coun- cil and public. Hoping that herein will be found a correct and reliable compilation of the municipal laws and regula- tions of our city to the present time. Joliet, April, 1884. JULIET VILLAGE OFFICERS FROM 1837 TO 1841, TRUSTEES. 1837. Joel A. Matteson, President; J. J. Garland, Dan- iel Reed, David L. Roberts,* Fenner Aldrich, Robert C. Duncan. 1838. Amos Fellows, President; Bennet Allen, G. H. Woodruff, J. C. Newkerk, W. A. Boardman. 1839. William Schofield, President; Chas. Clement, W. A. Chatfield, George Woodruff , F. Mitchell. 1840. Joel George, President ; John L. Wilson, W. A. Chatfield, James Brodie,* Chas. Sayre, Richard Doolittle. By an act of the Legislature, the act organizing the Village of Juliet was repealed; the Trustees, thereupon, on the 3d day of March, A. D. 1841, resigned their respective offices, from which time, 'until the City of Joliet was in- corporated by act of the Legislature, June 19, A. D. 1852, there was no organization. *Elected to fill vacancy. JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT From Incorporation in 1852 to the Year 1884, 1852. C. C. Van Horn, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — M. H. Cutter, David Casseday. Second ward — Jacob Gorges, Michael Shields. 1'hird ward — Edward AVilcox, Thomas J. Kinney. Fourth ward — F. L. Cagwin, S. N. Bowen. Fifth ward — P. O’Connor, Uri Osgood. S. AV. Stone, Clerk. AV. A. Strong, Treasurer. 1853. C. C. Van Horn, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — N. H. Cutter, Benj. Richardson. Second ward — Patrick Hart, Simon Houser. Third ward — Edmund AVilcox, Firman Mack. Fourth ward — F. L. Cagwin, S. AV. Bowen. Fifth ward — P. O’Connor, Uri. Osgood. S. AA". Stone, Clerk. AV. A. Strong, Treasurer. XII JOLIET CITY GOVERNIVIENT. 1854. J. E. Streeter, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — Benj. Kichardson, "^Thos. B. Jones; jC. E. Munofer. Second ward — Patrick Hart, Simon Houser. Third ward — Edmund Wilcox, Firman Mack. Fourth ward — F. L. Cagwin, S. W. Bowen. Fifth ward — Patrick O’Connor, O. W. Stillman. S. W. Stone, Clerk. W. A. Strong, Treasurer. 1855. N. D. Elwood, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — N. H. Cutter, C. E. Munger. Second ward — Patrick Hart, Simon Houser. Third ward — Firman Mack, T. R. Hunter. Fourth ward— F. L. Cagwin, Geo. Woodrufi*. Fifth ward — O. W. Stillman, George Snoad. Sixth ward — Wm. Adam, "^E. T. Durand, f Timothy Kelly. S. W. Stone, Clerk. Charles Snoad, Collector. W. A. Strong, Treasurer. 1856. N. D. Elwood, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — N. H. Cutter, J. C. Williams. Second ward — Patrick Hart, Simon Houser. Third ward — T. R. Hunter, F. K. Bailey. ^Resigned — fTo fill vacancy. JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT. XIII Fourth ward — Geo. Woodruft\ J. McRoberts. Fifth ward— Geo. Snoad,R. E. Goodell. Sixth ward — Wm. Adams, Charles E. Ward. ^Charles Snoad, Clerk. TH. Logan, Clerk. Peter Filer, Collector. O. W. Stillman, Treasurer. 1857. Firman Mack, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First Ward — J. C. AYilliams, A. Amsden. Second ward — Patrick Hart, John Belz. Third ward— F. K. Bailey, MTn. Smith. Fourth ward — X. D. El wood, *J. McRoberts, tGeo. W oodrulf . Fifth ward — R. E. Goodell, John Flack. Sixth ward — V. Drosler, C. E. AVard. S. S. Bulfum, Clerk. E. M. Bray^ Collector. Edmund Wilcox, Treasurer. 1858. Firman Mack, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward— Albert Amsden, R. S. Johnson, Second ward— Patrick Hart, John Belz. Third ward— M^m. Smith, H. B. Godard, b ourth ward — N. D. Elwood, E. C. Fellows. ^Resigned— tTo fill vacancy X!V JOLIKT CITY GOVEKN31ENT. Fifth ward — R. E. Goodell, John J. Flack. Sixth ward — V. Drosler, E. L. Booth. S. (). Buflfum, City Clerk. E. M. Bray, Collector. Edmund Wilcox, Treasurer. 18o9. Frank Goodspeed, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — R. S. Johnson, H. D. Higinbotham. Second ward — Patrick Hart, John Gorges. Third ward — H. B. Godard, F. A. Barthleson. Fourth ward — N. D. Elwood, E. C. Fellows. Fifth ward — R. E. Goodell, J. J. Flack. Sixth ward — E. L. Booth, P. O’Connor. Samuel D. Smith, C ty Cler\. John Weber, Collector. Edmund Wilcox, Treasurer. 1860. Frank Goodspeed, Mayor. ALDEHMEN. First ward — ^^H. D. Higinbotham, H. Howk. Second ward — Patrick Hart, John Gorges, d'hird ward — F. A. Bartleson, W. A. Strong, Jr. Fourth ward — N. D. Elwood, Giles Heath. Fifth ward — J. J. Flack, John Scheldt. Sixth ward — P. O’Connor, W. B. Caswell. Samuel D. Smith, Clerk. A. Houghteling, Collector. Thomas Hatton, Jr., Treasurer. JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT. XV 1 1861 . ^5herman W. Bowen, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — H. Howk, William Werner. Second ward — Patrick Hart, John Theiler. Third ^vard — William A. Strong, J. A. Scheidt. Fourth ward — Giles Heath, M. L. Cook. Fifth ward — R. E. Goodell, John Scheidt. Sixth w’ard — W. B. Caswell, Edwin Porter. Samuel D. Smith, Clerk. M. Sebastian, Collector. Benjamin Richardson, Treasurer. 1862 . S. W. Bowen, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — Wm. Werner, R. Doolittle. Second ward — John Theiler, Patrick Galvin. Third ward — W. A. Strong, Jr., A Scheid. Fourth ward — Giles Heath, M. L. Cook, Fifth ward — R. E, Goodell, John Leo. Sixth ward — W. B. Caswell, Edwin Porter. Samuel D. Smith, Clerk. James O’Reilly, Collector. Abijah Cagwin, Treasurer. 1863 . W. A. Strong, Jr., Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — R. Doolittle, H. D. Higinbotham. Second ward — P. Galvin, H. Herschback. Third ward — F. Pa sold, T. R. Hunter. Fourth ward — F. L. Cagwin, C. A. Austin. XVI JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT. Fifth ward — John Leo, S. K. Casey. k!>ixth ward — Edwin Porter, W. B. Caswell. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. I. T. Millspaugh, Collector. Abijah Cag-win, Treasurer. 1864. Edwin Porter, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — R. Doolittle, H. D. Higginbotham. Second ward — Anthony Scheldt, H. Herschbach. Third ward — T. R. Hunter, M. A. Ulrich. Fourth ward — F. L, Cagwin, C. A. Austin. Fifth ward — S. K. Casey,'*' John Chidsey,t Michael Clabby. Sixth ward — W. B. Caswell, N. D. Tighe. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. John Lennon, Collector. Abijah Cagwin, Treasurer. 1865. Edwin Porter, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — R. Doolittle, T. L. Breckenridge. Second ward — Anthony Scheldt, M. Moran. Third ward — M. A. Ulrich, W. F. Barrett. Fourth ward — C. A. Austin, W. S. Brooks. *Resiy:ned — ffo fill vacancy JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT, XVII Fifth ward — M. Clabby, S. W. Bowen. Sixth ward — N. D. Tighe, Thos Keegan. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. Win. Stapleton, Collector. Wm. Smith, Treasurer. * 1866 . S. W. Bowen, Mayor, ALDERMEN. First ward — T. L. Breckenridge, William Werner. Second ward — Anthony Scheidt, M. Moran. Third ward — W. F. Barrett, O. H. Woodruft'. F'ourth ward — Geo. Miinroe, Elvis Harwood. Fifth ward — M. Clabby, John Koney. Sixth ward — N. D. Tighe, Thos. Keegan. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. David F. Ward, Collector. Abijah Cagwin, Treasurer. 1867 . Elvis Harwood, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — H. Howk, Wm. Werner. Second ward — A. Scheidt, M. Moran. Third ward— O. H. Woodruff, F. Pasold. Fourth ward — Chas. Clement, M. C. Bissell. Fifth ward — John Roney, W. H. Carlin. Sixth ward — Eugene Daly, N. D. Tighe. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. C. W. Staehle, Collector. M. Clabby, Treasurer. XVIII JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT. 1868. Elvis Harwood, Mayor. ALDERMEN, First ward — H, Howk, Calvin Know I ton. Second ward — ^A. Seheidt, Thos. Moran. Third ward — F. Pasold, H. Strickland. Fourth ward— “Chas. Clement, M. C.^-BisselL Fifth ward — W. H. Carlin, John Roney. Sixth ward — Eugene Daly, P. O’Connor. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. Michael Moran, Collector. John Lennon, Treasurer. 1869. W . A. Steel, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — Calvin KnoAvlton, Win. E. Henry. Second Avard — A. Scheldt, M. Moran. Third A\"ard — John Stock, H. Strickland. Fourth ward — ^Chas Clement, W. S. Brooks. Fifth ward — John Roney, M. Lennon. Sixth ward — P. O’Connor, N. D. Tighe. ‘ W. II. Zarley, Clerk. F. Pasold, Collector. M. A. Ulrich, Treasurer. 1870. \V. A. Steel, iVIayor. ALDERMEN. First Avard — Wm. E. Henry, T. L. Breckenridge. Second ward — M. Moran, Jos. Bartholme. JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT. XIX Third ward — Edmund V^'ilcox, elohii Stock. Fourth ward — Chas Clement, \\". S. Brooks. Fifth ward — M. Lennon, Jacob Adler. Sixth ward — John 'Theiler, Robert Walsh. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. Chas. P, Beebe, Collector, W. D. Fay, Treasurer. 1S71, Edwin Porter, Mayor, ALDERMEN. First ward — Wm. E. Henry, T. L, Breckenridge, Second ward — J. Bartholme, Jacob Houser. T'hird ward — Edmund VV'ilcox, SamT. D. Smith. Fourth ward — Chas Clement, F. Layfield. Fifth ward — Jacob Adler, W . E. Spears. Sixth ward — R. VVTdsh^ John D’Arcey. W, H. Zarley, Clerk, ‘ Dennis Mullens, Collector. / W. D. Fay, Treasurer. 1872. W. A. Steel, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — AVm. E. Henry, eJas. (L El wood. Second ward — A. Scheldt, Jacob Houser. Third ward — S. D. Smith, W. F. Barrett, Fourth ward— F. Laytield, John R. ('asey. XX JOLIET CITY GOYERN3IENT. Fifth ward — Jacob Adler, W. E. Spears. Sixth ward — R. Walsh, John D’Arcey. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. Ignats Weisharr, Collector, M, Lennon, Treasurer. 1873. Win. E. Henry, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — Jas. G, El wood, L. E. Dill in an. Second ward — A. Scheldt, M. Moran. Third ward — W. F. Barrett, Chas. Wunderlich. Fourth ward — J. R. Casey, F. Layfield. Fifth ward — J. Adler, Jas. P. Murphy. Sixth ward — R. Walsh, Chas. E. Ward. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. O. H. Woodrulf, Collector. M. Lennon, Treasurer. 1874. Anthony Scheldt, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — L. E. Dillman, J. M. Browne, Second ward — M. Moran, Fred Sehring. Third ward — C. Wunderlich, E. W. Crandall. Fourth ward — F. Laylield, Henry Young. Fifth ward — J. P. Murphy, J. I. Mather. Sixth ward — C. E. Ward, (). Hicks. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. Mathew Tuohy, Collector. M. Lennon, Treasurer. JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT. XXI 1875 . W. A. Steel, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — J. M. Browne, A. Flack. Second ward — F. Sehring, Joseph Stoos. Third ward — C. Wunderlich, R. Sandiford. Fourth w^ard — H. Young, Dennis McDonald. Fifth ward — J. P. Murphy, J. I. Mather. Sixth ward — O. Hicks, Jos. Davidson. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. M. A. Ulrich, Collector. John Grorges, Treasurer. 1876 . Royal E. Barber, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — M. A. Flack, Dorrance Dibell. Second ward — F. Sehring, Jos. Stoos. Third ward — H. N. Marsh, C. Wunderlich. Fourth w^ard — Dennis McDonald, Frank Haviland. Fifth ward — J. P. Murphy, M. Lennon. Sixth ward — J. Davidson, J. A. Hanna. W. H. Zarley, Clerk. James Bowlan, Collector. John Gorges, Treasurer. 1877 . James G. Elwmod. Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — M. G. Demmond, Wm. Evans,* Thos. H. Riley, t ^Resigned — fTo fill vacancy XXII JOLIET CITY GOVEKXMENT. Second ward — F. \V. Woodruff, Wm. Gleason. Third ward — F. Sehring, A. Scheidt. Fcnirth ward — T. A. .Mason, Frank Hoffman. Fifth ward — J. A. Hanna, Peter Collins. « Sixth ward — M. Lennon, H. Fanning. Seventh ward — Dorranee Dibell, J. P. King. W. 11. Zarley, Clerk.* Wm. 'ronner. Clerk. f Chas. Werner, Collector. John Gorges, Treasurer. 1S78. Jas, G. El wood. Mayor, # ALDERMEN. First ward — M. G. Deminond, Frank E. Freeman, Second ward — F. W. Woodruff*, Wm. Gleason. Third ward — F. Sehring, M. Moran. Fourth ward — T. A. '^hison, 11. N. Marsh. Fifth ward — Peter Collins, P. C. Haley. Sixth ward — 11. Fanning, 11. Schoettes. Seventh ward — Dorranee Dibell, J. P. King. Wm. Tonner, Clerk. Chas. AVerner, Collector. John Gorges, d’reasurer. 1S79. Edwin Porter, Mayor. ALDER3IEN. First ward — F. E. ETeeman, Chas. Pettigrew. Second ward — ¥. W, Woodruff’, Dennis ^IcDonald. Third ward — M, ]Moran, ^lichael Scheidt, ■'^Resigned — fTo fill vacancy OOLIET CITY GOVERNIVIENT, XXIIl Fourth ward — H. N. Marsh, E, D. Avery. Fifth ward — P. C. Haley, Jos. Davidson, Sixth ward — H. Schoettes, J. C. Murphy, Seventh ward — Dorrance Dibell, 11 . L. Seward. Robert T, Kelly, Clerk. A. Cagwin, Collector, John Scheldt, Treasurer. 1880, Edwin Porter, Mayor, ALDEPJVIEN. First ward — Chas. Pettigrew, Christopher Smith. vSecond ward — D. McDonald, Thos. H. Riley. Third ward — M. vScheidt, M. Moran. Fourth ward— E. D, Avery.* II. W. Cope,t H. N. Marsh, Fifth ward — Jos. Davidson, P. C. Haley. » Sixth ward — J. C, Murphy .J elohn Mason, t H. Fanning Seveiith ward — ^R. L. Seward, 11, C. Knowlton, R.T, Kelly, Clerk, elas, G. Patterson, Collector. John Scheldt, Treasurer. 1881. Edwin Porter, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — C. J. Smith, Jno Gorman. Second ward — Thos. II. Riley, Edward Lawler. Third ward — M. Moran, Fred Schring. ’^Resign«d— tTo fill vac.-tiuy — fDied. XXIV JOLIET CITY GOVERN3IENT. Fourth ward — H. N. Marsh, H. W.Cope. Fifth ward — P. G, Haley, H. A. Smith. Sixth ward — H. Fanning, J. T, Donahue. Seventh ward — H. C. Knowlton, R. L. Sevvard, Kobt. T. Kelly, Clerk. Jas. G, Patterson, Collector. Jos. Stoos, Treasurer. 1882. Edwin Porter, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — John Gorman, Wm. Maloney. Second ward — Edward Lawler, D. McDonald. Third ward — F. Sehring, M. Moran. Fourth ward — H. W. Cope, E. D. Avery. Fifth ward — H. A. Smith, P. C. Haley. Sixth ward — J. T. Donahue, Peter Hebert. Seventh ward — K. L. Seward, Jas. Goodspeed. Robert T, Kelly, Clerk. John Ryan, Collector. Jos. Stoos, Treasurer. 1883. Thos. J. Kelly, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — M. Maloney, John Gorman. Second ward — D. McDonald.* Thos.. Riley ,t Ed. Lawler. Third ward — Fred Sehring,* John Schuch,t M. Moran. Fourth ward — E. D. Avery.J Sebatian Lagger, Jr.,t H. W. Cope. ^Resigned — |To fill vacancy — JDied. JOLIET CITY GOVERNMENT. XXV Fifth ward — P. C. Haley, Peter Collins. Sixth ward — Peter Hebert, John T. Donahue. Seveiith ward — Jjimes Goodspeed, A. F. Knox. P. T, Kelly, Clerk. John ^1. Swiggert, Collector. John Gorg'es, Treasurer. 1884. Thos. J. Kelly, Mayor. ALDERMEN. First ward — flohn Gorman, C. J. Smith. Second ward — Edward Lawler, T. H. Piley. Third ward — John Sehuch, M. Moran. Fourth ward — H, W . Cope, Sebastian Lagger, Jr. Fifth ward — Peter Collins, P. C. Haley. Sixth Avard — J. T, Donahue, James Egan. Seventh ward — A. F. Knox, Dan’l. E. Winters. Robert T. Kelly, Clerk. John Ryan, Collector. John Gorges, Treasurer, CITY CHARTER AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of Cities and Villages. [Approved April 10, 1872. In force July 1, 1872. L. 1871-2, p. 218. With the several amendments thereto.] Adopted BY the City of Joliet, August 5, 1876, Section 1. Be it enacted hy the people of the State of Illi- nois^ represented in the General Assemhly^ as follows: ARTICLE I. OF THE ORGANIZATION OF CITIES. 1 . How City may Adopt this Act. That any city now existing in this state may become incor- porated under this act in manner following: Whenever one-eighth of the legal voters of such city, voting at the last [ireceding municipal election, shall petition the mayor and council thereof to submit the question as to whether such city shall become incorporated under this act, to a vote of the electors in such city, it shall be the duty of such mayor and council to submit such question at the next municipal (dection of such city; or on the third Tuesday in Ajiril, as provided for in article four (4) of said act for holding 2 cm^ OF JOLIET. municipal elections. Provided^ There shall be sufficient time intervening to give the notice required by law. [As amended by act approved and in force Feb. 26, 1881. L. 1881, p. 58.] 2. Notice op Election. § 2. The mayor of such city shall give at least thirty days’ notice of such election, by publishing a notice thereof in one or more newspapers within such city, but if no news- paper is published therein, then by posting at least five copies of such notice in each ward. 8. The Ballot — Bestu t. § 3. The ballots to be used at such election shall be in the folio wiim form: “For citv orsfanizntion under general law;” or, “ Against city organization under gen- eral law.” The judges of such election shall make returns thereof to the city council, whose duty it shall be to canvass such returns and cause the result of such canvass to be entered on the records of such city. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be for city organ- ization under the general law, such city shall thence- forth be deemed to be organized under this act; and the city officers then in office shall, thereupon, exercise the powers conferred upon like officers in this act, until their successors shall be elected and qualified. 4. How Towns may Become Cities. § 4. Any incorporated town or village, in this state, having a population of not less than one thousand (1,000) inhabitants, may become incorporated as a city in like manner as hereinbefore provided ; but in all such cases the |)resident and trustees of such town or village shall, re- spectivel}s perform the same duties relative to such change of organization as is above required to be performed by the cm' CHAKTEK. mayor and council of cities. [As amended by act approved May 25tli, 1877. In force July 1st, 1877. L. 1877, p. 54.] o . Okganizing a City — Petition— Election — Result. § 5. Whenever any area of contiguous territory in this state, not exceeding four square miles, shall have resident thereon a population of not less than one thousand inhabit- ants, which shall not already be included within any incor- porated town or city, the same may become incorporated as a city in manner following : Any fifty legal voters thereof may file in the office of the clerk of the county court, of the county in Avhich such inhabitants reside, a petition, ad- dressed to tlie judge of such court; and if the territory described in said petition shall be in more than one county, then the petition shall be addressed to the judge of tin* <*ourt where a greater part of such territory is situated: which petition shall define the boundaries of such proposed city, and state the number of inhabitants residing within such limits, and also state the name of such })roi)osed city, and shall contain a prayer that the ipiestion be submitted to the legal voters residing withiji such limits, whether they will organize as a city under this act. It shall be the duty of the county judge to fix a time and iilace within the Iioundaries of such proposed city, at which an election may be held to determine such question ; and such judge shall name the persons to act as judges in holding such eleidion, and shall i-oposed city. And the third section of this article shall be applicable to such election: /^rovu/ed, thnt returns of such election shall be made to and canvassed by the county judge and any two justices of the peace whom he shall call to his assistance, ijistead of the city council; and the result of su(*h eleedion 4 CITY OF JOLIET. shall be entered upon the records of such county court. If a majority of the votes cast at such election shall be “For city org-auizatiou under general law,” the inhabitants of such territory, described in such petition, shall be deemed to be incorporated as a city, under this act, and with the name stated in the petition. [See § 17(i.j 0. Courts to take Judicial Notice.of Organization, Etc. § 6. All courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the existence of all villages and cities organized under this act; and of the change of the organization of any town or city from its original organization to its organization under this act, and from the time of such organization, or change of organization, the provisions of this act shall be applicable to such cities and villages, and all laws in conflict therewith shall no longer be applicable. But all laws or part of laws, not inconsistent with this act, shall continue in force and ap- plicable to any such city or village, the same as if such change of organization had not taken place. 7. Election of Officers. § 7 , • It shall be the duty of the president and board of trustees of any town which shall liaA^e voted to change its organization to a city, under this act, to call and give no- tice of an election to elect city officers, and to designate the time and place or places of holding the same. Such notice shall be published in a newspaper, if there be one, within the town, or posted in ten public places, for at least twenty days before such election. Such president and trus- tees shall appoint the judges and clerks to hold such elec- tion, canvass the returns thereof, and cause the result to be entered upon the records of the town; and the provisions of this act, relative to the election of (*ity officers, shall lx* CITY CIIARTEK. applicable thereto; but, at such election, aldermen maybe (dected on a g*enei*al ticket. S. When County Judge to Give Notice of Election, Etc. § 8. In case of cities org’anizingf under section five (5) of this article, the county judge shall call and give notice of the election, and perform the same duties relative thereto as is above reipiired to he performed by president and trustees of such town, and in canvassing such returns shall call to his assistance two justices of the peace. [See § 53.] 9. Term of First Officers. § 9. The city officers elected under either of the pre- ceding sections, shall hold their resiieidive offices until the next succeeding regular election for such officers, respect- ively, and until their successors are eleeted and (pialified, as provided in this act. 10 . Corporate Name — Powers. § 10. Cities organized under this act sliall he liodies politic and corporate, under the name and style of “City of (name),” and under such name may sue and he sued, con- tract and he contracted with, acquire and hold real and personal jiroperty for corporate purposes, have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and exercise all the ])owers hereinafter eonferred. 11 . Pi iiOR O rdinances, Etc., in Force Until, Etc. § 11. All ordinances, resolutions and by-laws in forci' in any city or town when it shall organize under this act, shall continue in full force and eftect until repealed or amended, notwithstanding such change of organization ; and the makingof such change of organization shall notin' <*onstrued to effect a change in the legal idi'iitity, as a cor- ])oration, of such city or town. G cm' OF JOLIET. 12 . Rights, Etc., of old Corporations to Vest in New. § 12. All rights and property of every kind and de- scription which were vested in any municipal corporation under its former organization, shall be deemed and held to bo vested in the same municipal incorporation upon its be- coming incorporated under the provisions of this act; but no rights or liabilities, either in favor of or against such corporation, existing at the time of so becoming incor- porated under this act, and no suit or prosecution of any kind, shall be afiected by such change, but the same shall stand and progress as if no change had been made : Pro- vided^ that when a difterent remedy is given by this act, which may properly be made applicable to any right ex- isting at the time of such city so becoming incoi’iiorated under this act, the same shall be deemed cumulative to the remedies before provided, and used accordingly. 13. Record of Result of Election. § 13. The corporate authorities of any city or village which may become organized under this act shall, within three months after organization hereunder, cause to be filed in the office of the recorder of deeds, in the county in which such city or village is situated, a certified copy of the entry made upon the records of the city, village or county court, of the canvass of the votes, showing the re- sult of such election, whereby such city or village became so organized — and such recorder of deeds shall record the same. And such corporate authorities shall also cause a like certificate to be filed in the office of the secretary of state, who shall file the same, and keep a registry of cities and villa«res oro*anized under this act. 14 -. City Register’s Office Abolished. § 14. If any city organized, or which may hereafter or- ganize under this act, shall have had by the terms and CITY CIIAKTEK. ( provisions of its s[)ec*ial charter, a city register’s office or other office in which deeds, mortgages or other instruments were required or antliorized by law to be recorded in lieu of recording the same in the recorder’s office in any count}' where said city was situated, such city register’s office or recorder’s office shall be discontinued under this act, and the city register or recorder or other officer having the custody of the records, books and papers pertaining to such city register or recorder’s office, shall deposit such records and books and papers in the office of the recorder of deeds of the county in which such city is situated, and shall take the receipt of the recorder of deeds therefor; and such records, and books, and papers, shall from thereafter be deemed and held for all purposes a part of the records of the recorder’s office of such county, and shall have like legal effect as if the same had been originally a part of the records of such county recorder’s office for all purposes Avhatsoever, and the same or certified transcripts made therefrom, shall have like force and effect as evidence as other records of said recorder’s office. [Added by act approved May 15, 1871); in force July 1, 1879. L. 1879, p. (>5. ARTICLE II. or THE MAYOR. 15. Mayor— His Qualifications. Section 1. The chief executive officer of a city shall be a mayor who shall be a citizen of the United States, a qual- ified elector, reside within the city limits, and hold his office for two years, and until his successor is elected and quali- fied. 16. Vacancy one Year or Over. § 2. Whenever a vacancy shall happen in the office of 8 CITY OF JOLIET. the mayor, when the iiuexpired term shall be one year or over from the date when the vacancy occurs, it shall be filled by an election. 17. Vacancy Less than one Yeah. § 3. If the vacancy is less than one year, the city coun- cil shall elect one of its number to act as mayor, who shall possess all the rights and powers of the mayor until the next annual election, and until his successor is elected and qualified. 18. Mayor Pro Tem. § 4. During a temporary abseu(*e or disability of the mayor, the city council shall elect one of its number to act as mayor who during such absence or disability, shall possess the powers of mayor. 10. Vacancy BY Removal from City. § 5. If the mayor, at any time during the term of his office, shall remove from the limits of the city*, his office shall thereby become vacant. 20. Mayor to Preside— Casting vote, § (). The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the city council, but shall not vote except in case of a tie, when he sliall give the casting vote. 21. When he may Remove OFFicERv«i. § 7. The mayor shall have power to remove any officer appointed by him, on any formal charge, whenever he shall be of the opinion that the interests of the city demand such removal, but he shall report the reasons for such removal to the council, at a meeting to be held not less than five days, nor more than ten days after such removal; and if the mayor shall fail or refuse to file with the city clerk a statement for the reasons of such removal, or if the council CITY CHAIITEn. <) l)y ;i two-thirds (I) vote of all its mombers authorized hy law to he elected, by yeas and nays, to lie entered n})on its record, disapiirove of such removal, sindi officer shall th(‘re- upon beeoine restored to th(‘ office from which he was so re- moved ; bnt he shall . Release of Prisoners. § !). He may release any person imprisoned for viola- tion of any city ordinance, and shall re[)ort such release, with the cause thereof, to the council at its first session thereafter. 24. General Duties. § 10. He shall jierforni all such duties as are or may lx* prescribed by law or by city ordinances, and shall take cari' that the laws and ordniances are faithfully executed. 2.>. Power to Examine Records, Etc. § 11. II(‘ shall have power at all times to examine and inspect the books, records and ))ai)ers of any airont, em- ploye or officer of the city. 2(>. Messages to Council. § 12. 4'he mayor shall, annually, and from tiim* to time, irive the conneil information relative to the affairs of the city, and shall reeonnn(*nd for their consid(‘ration such ni(‘asures as he may decan (‘xjiedient. 10 cm" OF JOLIET. 27 . To Call out Militia, Etc. — Riots, Etc. § 13. lie shall have power, when necessary, to call on every male inhabitant of the city over the age of eighteen years, to aid in enforcing the laws and ordinances, and to call out the militia to aid in suppressing riots and other disorderly conduct, or carrying into effect any law or or- dinance, snlijeet to the authority of the governor as eoni- mander-in-ehief of the militia. 28. Misconduct, Etc., of Mayok or Othku Officer — Pkntlty. § 14. In ease the mayor or any other municipal officer shall at any time iie guilty of a palpable omission of duty, or shall wilfully and corruptly be guilty of oppression, maleonduet or malfeasance in the discharge of the duties of his office, he shall lie liable to indictment in any court of competent jurisdiction, and, on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000; and the court in which such conviction shall be had shall enter an order removing such officer from office. 2t). Revising Ordinances After Change of Organization. § 15. He may appoint, by and with the consent of the city council, immediately after such change of organization, one or more competent persons to prepare and submit to the city council for their adoption or rejection, an ordinance in revision of the ordinances of such city, and for the gov- ernment of such city, the compensation of such reviser or revisers to be determined and fixed by the city council and paid out of the city treasury. ARTICLE III. OF THE CITY COUNCIL. .SO. Council— How Composed. § 1. The city council shall consist of the mayor and aldermen. CITY CHAKTEK. 11 81. Number of Aldermen. § 2. The number of aldermen, when not elected hy the minority representation plan, shall he as follows: In cities not exeeedino* three thousand inhabitants, six aldermen; exeeedino' three thousand but not exceeding fiye thousand, eight aldermen; exceeding tiye thoiisand and not exceeding ten thonsand, ten aldermen ; exceeding ten thousand and not exceeding thirty thonsand, fourteen aldermen ; and two additional aldermen for eyeiy twenty thonsand inhabitants oyer thirty thonsand. Provided, however, that in cities of oyer 100,000 inhabitants, there shall be elected thirty-six aldermen, and no more. [See § 17().] 32. Term of Office. § 8. Aldermen shall hold their term of office for the term of two years, and until their successors are elected and ([ualitied. 33. Vacancy. § 4. If any yacancy shall occur in the office of alderman by death, resignation, remoyal or otherwise, such yacancy shall be tilled by election. 34. Qualifications op Aldermen. § 5. Xo person shall be eligible to the office of aider- man unless he shall be a qualified elector, 'and reside within the ward for which he is elected, nor shall he be eligible if he is in arrears in the payment of any tax or otlier liability due to the city ; nor shall he be directly or indirectly in- terested in any contract whateyer to which the city is a ])arty ; nor shall he be eligible if he shall haye been con- yicted of rnalfeasan(*c, bribery or other corrupt jiractices or crimes; nor shall he be eligible to any office, the salary of which is payable out of the eity treasury, if at the time of his appointment he shall be a member of the city council ; \2 (IITY OF JOLIET. nor shall any nieiiiber of the cit}^ council at the same time hold any other office under the city government ; nor shall he be either directly or indirectly, individnall}^ or as a inem- her of a tirm, engaged in any business transaction (other than official) with such city, through its mayor or any of its authorized boards, agents or attorneys, whereby any money is to be })aid, directly or indirectly, out of the city treasury to such menilier or hrms. ^55. Couxcrii Judce of its Me.mbeiis. § I). The city conncil shall be judge of the election and ([nalihcation of its own members. .U>. Rules — Expulsion — Bribery. § 7. It shall determine its own rules of proceeding, punish its members for disorderly conduct, and with the concurrence of two-thirds of the aldermen elect, may expel a member, but not a second time for the same offense: Provided^ that that any alderman or conncilman who shall have lieen convicted of bribery shall thereby be deemed to have vacated his office. 37. Quorum — Compelling Attendance. § 8. A majority of the aldermen elect shall constitute a (]nornni to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn Tom time to time, and may compel the attendance of ab- sentees, under such penalties as may be prescribed IVy ordi- nance. 3s. 42. Yeas AXi> Mays— Record — Vote Required. § Id. d'iic yeas and nays shall be taken upon the pas- sa«*e of all ordinances, and on all propositions to create any liability ayninst the. city, or for the expenditure or appro- liriation of its money, and in all other eases at the reipiest of any memhm*, which shall be entered on the jonrnal of its proeeedinys : and the coneurrenee of a majority of all the members elected in the city eomieil shall be necessary to the passaye of any such ordinance or proposition : Provided^ it shall requii’e two-thirds of all the aldermen elect to sell any cit}' or s<-hool pro[)erty. 43. Not to Rescind Vote at Special Meetings, Unless, Etc. § 14. No vote of the city council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at a special meetiny, unless at such special meetiny there be present as larye a immlier of aldermen as were present when such vote was taken. 44. When Report Laid Over. § 15. Any report of a committee of the council shall be deferred, foi- tinal action thereon, to the next reyular meet- iny of the same after the report is made, upon the request of any two aldermen jiresent. 4.>. Territorial Jurisdiction. § 1(). The city council and board of trustees shall also have jurisdiction in and over all places within one-half mile of the city or villaye limits, for the purpose of en- forciny health and (piarantinc ordinances and reyulations thereof. [See §§ 72, 170.] u (HTY OF JOLIET. 46 Special MeetijsG. § 17. Tlie mayor or any three alclermen may call special meeting’s of the city council. 47 . Ordinances — Approval — V eto, § IS. All ordinances passed by the city council shall, before they take effect, be deposited in the office of the city cderk; and if the mayor approves thereof, he shall sign the same, and such as he shall not approve he shall return to the council, with his objections thereto, in writing, at the next regular meeting of the council , occurring not less than hve days alter the passage thereof. Such veto may extend to any one or more items or appropriations contained in any ordinance making an appropriation, or to -the entire ordinance; and in case the veto only extends to a part of such ordinance, the residue thereof shall take effect and be In force. But in case the mayor shall fail to return any ordinance, with his objections thereto, by the time afore- said, he shall be deemed to have approved such ordinance, and the same shall take effect accordingly. IS. Reconsideration — Passing over Veto. § 19. Upon the return ot any ordinance by the mayor, the vote by which the same was pavssed shall be reconsid- ‘red by the council; and if, after such reconsideration, Uvo-thirds of all the members elected to the city council diall agree, by yeas and nays, to pass the same, it shall go into effect, notwithstanding the mayor may refuse to ap- prove thereof. The vote to pass the same over the mayor’s veto shall be taken by yeas and nays, and entered on the journal., ARTICLE IV. ELECTIONS. 49 . Annual Election. § 1. A general election for city officers shall be held on CITY CIIARTEIJ. 15 tlio tliiril "Fiios hiv of A])i‘il, of (‘ucli year: Provided^ that ill cities w’liich iiiclii(le wliolly witliin their corporate limits a town or towns, such election shall he held on the first Tuesday of Ajiril. [As amended by act ap])i‘oved and in force March 1), 1^77. L. 1>S77, p. 54.] .■>0. Election of Mayoh. City Clerk, Attorney and Treasi rer. § 2. At tin* ^en(‘ral election held in 1877, and biennially thereafter, a mayor, a city clerk, a city attorne}^ and a city treasurer shall be elected in each city: Provided^ Wva\. no person shall b(‘ elected to the office of city treasurer for two terms in succession. [As amended by act ap})roYcd and in force March 2(>, 1877. L. 1877, p. 54.] 51. Who ENTiTr.Eo to Vote. § y>. All jiersons entitled to vote at any oeneral election for state officers, within any city or villaofe, haviiu^ resided therein thirty days next preceding thereto, may vote at any election for city or villa<)fe officers. 52. Wards. § 4. The city council may, from time to tim(‘, divide the city into one-half as many wards as the total nunibcu* of aldermen to which the city is entitled ; and one alderman shall, annually, be elected in and for each ward, to hold his office for two years, and until his successor is elected and (pialified. In the formation of wards the pojmlation of each shall be as nearly eipial and the ward shall b(‘ of as conijiact and conti^ruous territory as practicalile. 53. Aldermen at first Election — Classifip:d. § 5. At the first election under this act, thei’e shall be elected the full nunib(*r of aldei-mento which the city shall be entitled. At the first meeting' of the city council aft(‘r such election, the aldei-men eha-ted shall lx* divided, by lot, into two classes; those of the first class shall eon- CITV or JOIJKT. tiinie ill office for one year, and tliose of rlie second for two years. And upon any increase of tie* nnmh(T of aldennen, at tlieir first election, one-half sliall lie elected tor one year, and one-half for two years. ’ A . Mixoiuty Representation. § h. Whenever this act shall he snl)initt(‘(| to the (jnal- ified electors of any city for adoption, there shall be sub- mitted at the same time, for adoption or reicction, the (piestion of minority representation in the city ronncil or, lea’islative authority of snch city. At the sai2 MS any such city or village may by ordinance impose. Foukteenth — To regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder; and to require the owner or occu- pant of any premises to keep the sidewalks in front of, or along the same, free from snow and other obstructions. Fifteenth — To regulate and prevent the throwing or de- positing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage or any oftensive matter in, and to prevent injury to, any street, avenue, alley or public ground. Sixteenth — To provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs and gutters. Seventeenth — To regulate and prevent the use of streets, sidewalks and public grounds for signs, sign-posts, awn- ings, awning-posts, telegraph poles, horse troughs, racks, posting hand bills and advertisements. Eighteenth — To regulate and prohibit the exhibition or carrying of banners, placards, advertisements or handbills in the streets or public grounds, or upon the sidewalks. Nineteenth — To regulate and prevent the flying of flags, banners or signs across the streets or from houses. Twentieth — To regulate traffic and sales upon the streets, sidewalks and public places. TVenty-first — To regulate the speed of horses and other animals, vehicles, cars and locomotives within the limits of the corporation. Twenty-second — To regulate the numbering of houses and lots. Twenty-third — To name and change the name of any street, avenue, alley, or other public place. Twenty-fourth — To permit, regulate or prohibit the lo- cating, constructing or laying a track of any horse railroad in any street , alley or public ])laee; but sneli permission shall not be for a longer time than twenty years. Twenty-fifth — To })rovide for and change the location, irrade and erossinofs of ain^ railroad. Twenty-sixth — To require railroad eompanies to fence their respective railroads, or any portion of the same, and to construet cattle-gnards, crossino-s of streets, and piddie roads, and keep the same in repair, within the limits of th(‘ corporation. Tn case any railroad company shall fail to comi)ly with any such ordinance, it shall be liable for all damages the owner of any cattle or horses or other domestic , animal, may sustain, by reason of injuries thereto while on the track of such railroad, in like manner and extent as under the general laws of this state, relative to the fencing of railroads; and actions to recover such damages may be instituted before any justice of the peace or other court of competent jurisdiction. Twenty-seventh — To require railroad com])anics to keep Hagmen at railroad crossings of streets, and provide pro- tection against injury to person and property in the use of such railroads. To compel such railroads to raise or lower their railroad tracks to conform with any grade which may, at any time, be established by such city, and where such tracks run lengthwise of any such street, alley or highway, to k(;ep their railroad tracks on a level with the street sur- face, and so that such tracks may be crossed at any placa' on such street, alley or highway. To compel and recallin' railroad companies to make and kee}) o])on and to keep in repair ditches, drains, sewers and culverts along and under tiieir railroad tracks, so that filthy or stagnant jiools of water cannot stand on their grounds or right of way, and 24 CITY OF JOLIET. SO that the natural drainage of adjacent property shall not be impeded. Twenty-eighth — To construct and keep in repair bridges, viaducts and tunnels, and to regulate the use thereof. Taventy-ninth — To construct and keep in repair cuh^erts, drains, sewers and cesspools, and to regulate the use thereof. Thirtieth — To deepen, widen, dock, cover, wall, alter or change the channel of water courses. Thirty-first — To construct and keep in repair canals and slips for the accommodation of commerce. Thirty-second — To erect and keep in repair public land- ing places, wharves, docks and levees. Thirty-third — To regulate and control the use of public and private landing places, wharves, docks and levees. Thirty-fourth — To control and regulate the anchorage, moorage and landing of all water craft and their cargoes Avithin the jurisdiction of the corporation. Thirty-fifth — To license, regulate and prohibit Avharf- boats, tugs and other boats used about the harbor or Avithin such jurisdiction. Thirty-sixth — To fix the rate of Avharfage and dockage. Thirty-sea ENTH — To collect wharfage and dockage from all boats, rafts or other craft landing at or using any public landing place, Avharf, dock or levee Avithin the limits of the corporation. Thirty-eighth — To make regulations in regard to the use of harbors, toAving of vessels, opening and passing of bridges. Tmim-NINTH — To appoint harbor masters and define their duties. CITY chartp:k. 25 Fortieth — " lo provide for the cleaiisin«* and puritication of waters, water courses and canals, and the draining or filling of ponds on private property, whenever necessary to ])revent or abate nuisances. P\)RTY-FiRST — To liccuse, tax, regulate, suppress and ])rohibit hawkers, pedlers, pawn-brokers, keepers of ordi- naries, theatricals and other exhibitions, shoAVS and ainnse- inents, and to reA'oke such licenses at pleasure. Forty-second — To license, tax and regulate hackmen, draymen, omnibus driA^ers, carters, cabmen, porters, ex- ])ressmen, and all others pursuing like occupations, and to ])rescribe their compensation. FoRTi’-THiRD — To liceiisc, regulate, tax and restrain run- ners for stages, cars, public houses, or other things or per- sons. Forty-fourth — To license, regulate, tax or prohibit and suppress billiard, bagatelle, pigeon-hole or any other tables or implements kept or used for a similar purposes in any place of public resort, pin alleys and ball alleys. PVjrty-fifth — To suppress baAvdy and disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame or assignation, Avithin the limits of tlur <*ity, and Avithin three miles of the outer boundaries of the city; and also to suppress gaming and gambling houses, lotteries, and all fraudulent devices and practices for the purpose of gaming or obtaining money or property; and to prohibit the sale or exhibition of obscene or immoral ])ubli- cations, prints, pictures or illustrations. Forta -SIXTH — To license, regulate and prohibit the selling or giA ing away of any intoxicating malt, Aunous, mixed or fermented liquor, the license not to extend beyond the mun- icipal year i]] wdiich it shall be granted, and to determine cm' OF JOLIET, 2 () the aiiioimt to be paid for such license ; Provided^ that the city council in cities, or president and board of trustees in villao-es, may g'rant permits to driig’ojsts for the sale of liquors for medicinal, mechanical, sacramental and chemical purposes only, subject to forfeiture, and under such restric- tions and regadations as may be provided by. ordinance: Provided^ further^ that in gi’anting' licenses such corporate authorities shall comply with Avliatever gfeneral law of the state may be in force relative to the gTanting’ of licenses. Form'-SEVENTTi — The foreo-oino* shall not be construed to aftect the provisions of the charter of any literary institu- tion heretofore ovanted. Fouty-eigiith — And the city council in cities, and presi- dent and board of trustees in villagfes, shall also have the poAver to forbid and ])unish the selling or giving aAvay of ain" intoxicating, malt, vinous, mixed or fermented liquor to any minor, apprentice or servant, or insane, idiotic or distracted ])erson, habitual drunkard, or person intoxicated.- Fokty-nixth — To establish markets and market-houses, and i)i’ovide for the regulation and use thereot. Fiftieth — To regrilate the sale of meats, poultry, fish, but- ter, cheese, lard, A^egetables, and all other provisions, and to proAude for ]>lace and maimer of selling the same. Fifta'-ftrst — To preA^ent and ]umish forestalling and re- grating’. Fifty-second — To regulate the sale of bread in the city or A'illage; prescribe the AA^eight and quality of the bread in the loaf. Fifta'-tmiud — To provide for and regulate the inspection of meats, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, cotton, tobacco, flour, meal and other provisions. CITY charts: 27 FiFTY-fX)iTmi — To regulate the inspection, Aveighiiig and measuring' of brick, lumber, tire wood, coal, bay, and any article of mercbandise. , Fifty-fifth — To provide for the inspection and sealing of wc'igbts and measures. Fifty-sixth — To enforce the keeping and use of proper wcio’bts and measures by vendors. Fifty-seventh — To regulate the construction, repairs and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps, sewers and gutters. Fifty-eighth — To rc'gnlate places of amusement. Fifty-ninth — To prevent intoxication, fighting, quarrel- ing, dog fights, cock fights, and all disorderly condnet. Sixtieth — To regulate partition fences and party Avails. SixTY-riKST — To prescribe the thickness, strength and manner of constructing' stone, brick and other buildings, and construction of fire escapes therein. Sixty-second — T he city council, and the president and trustees in \dllages, for the purpose of guarding against the calamities of fire, shall have poAver to prescribe the limits within Avhich Avooden buildings shall not be erected or repaired, Avithout permission, and to^direct that all and any buildings Avithin the fire limits, Avhen the same shall have been damaged by fire, decay, or otherAvise, to the extent of fifty per cent of the Audue, shall be torn doAvn or removed, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining such damage. Sixty-third — To prevent the dangerous construction and condition of ehimneys, fire-places, hearths, stoves, stove- pipes, ovens, boilers, and apparatus used in and about any building or manufactory, and to cause the same to be re- moved or placed in a safe condition, Avhen considered dan- CITY or JOLIET. :>8 i^erous; to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manu- factories dangerous in causing and promoting tires; to prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places, and to cause all such buildings and enclosures as may be in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition. Sixty-fourth — ^To erect engine houses, and provide tire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders, and other imple- ments for prevention and extinguishment of tires, and pro- vide for the use and manag'ement of the same by voluntary tire companies or otherwise. SixTi'-FiFTH — To regulate and prevent storage of gun- powder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive ma- terial, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires; also to regulate and restrain the use of fire-works, fire-crackers, torpedoes, Roman candles, sky-rockets,and other pyrotechnic displays. SixTY-sixTH — To regulate the police of the city or village, and pass and enforce all necessary police ordinances. SixTY-SEVEXTH — -'I'o provide for the inspection o^' steam boilers. Sixty-eighth — To jirescribe the duties and powers ot a superintendent of police, policemen and watchmen. Sixty-ninth — To establish and erect calabooses, bride- wells, houses of correction and workhouses, for the refor- mation and confinement of vagrants, idle and disorderly })ersons, and persons convicted of violating any city or vil lage ordinance, and make rules and regulations for the gov- ernment of the same, and appoint necessary keepers and as- sistants. CITY CHAETER. 29 Sea'entietii — To use the eoiiiity jail for the confinement or punishment ofoftenders, subject to such conditions as are imposed by law, and with the consent of the county hoard. Se\ EXTY-FiKST — -To pi’ovide by ordinance in regard to the relation between all the ofiicers and employes of the cor- poration in resiiect to each other, the corportiou and the ))coplc. Sevexty-second— T o prevent and suppress riots, routs, attrays, noises, disturbances, disorderly assemblies in any public or private place. Seventy-third — To prohibit and punish cruelty to ani- mals. Sevexty-foukth — To restrain and punish vagrants, men- dicants and prostitutes. Seventy-fifth — To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the same; and to impose fines upon parties' who may create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist. Seventy-sixth — To appoint a board of health, aud pre- scribe its powers and duties. Seventy'-seventh — To erect and establish hospitals and medical dispensaries, and control and regulate the same. Seventy-eighth — To do all acts, make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promotion of health or the suppression of disease. Seventy-ninth — To establish and regulate cemeteries, within or without the corporation, and acquire lands therefor, by purchase or otherwise, and cause cemeteries to be removed, and prohibit their establishment within one mile of the corporation. ao CTm" OF JOLIET. Kkjiitieth — To regulate, restrain and prohibit the run- ning at large of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, geese and dogs, and to impose a tax on dog's. Eigjitv-fikst — To direct the location and regulate the* management and construction of packing’ houses, renderies, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories and tan- neries, within the limits of the city or villages and within the distance of one mile without the city or village limits. Kighit-second — To direct the location and regulate the use and construction of breAveries, distilleries, livery stables, blacksmith shops and foundries Avithin the limits of the city or village. EiGnTY-TiiiRD — To prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment Avithin, or Avithin one mile of the limits of the corporation. Eighty-fourth — To compel tin' oAvnier of any grocery, cellar, soap or talloAV chandlery, tannery, stable, pig-sty, privy, seAver, or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove the same, and to regulate the location thereof. EiGirrY-FiFTH — The city council, or trustees of a villagCy shall have poAver to provide for the taking of the city or village census; but no city or villag’e census shall be taken by authority of the council or trustees oftener than once in three years. EiGHTY-sixni — -To provide for the erection and care of all ]uiblic buildings necessary for the use of the city or vil- lage. EiGirrY-SEVENTH — To establish ferries, toll bridges, and license and regulate tlie^ same, and, from time to time, fix tolls thereon. [See § 18G.] CIT^' CITARTEIU •u Eighty-eiCtHTit — To anthorize tlie construction of mills, mill-races and feeders on, through or aerovss tlie streets of the city or village, gt such places and under such restrictions as they shall deem proper. Eigtitv-nixth — The city council shall have power, hy con- demnation or otherwise, to extend any street, alley or high- way over or across, or to construct any sewer under or through any railroad traek, right of way, or land of anj^ rail- road company (within the corporate limits); but where no rompensation is made to such railroad (‘omjniny, the city shall restore such railroad track, right of wniy or land to its former state, or in a sufficient manner not to have im])a‘/red its usefulness. Nixr:TiETif — The city council or board of trustees shall have no power to grant the use of, or. the right to lay downi, any railroad track in any street of the city, to any steam or horse railroad company, except upon a petition of the owners of the land representing more than one-half of the frontage of the street, or so much thereof as is sought to be used for railroad purposes. Ninety-first — To tax, license and regulate auctioneers, distillers, brewers, lumber yards, livery stables, ])ublic scales, money changers and brokers. NixEri’-SECOXi) — To prevent and regulate the rolling of hoops, ])laying of. ball, flying of kites, or any other amuse- ment or practice having a tendency to annoy persons passing in the streets or on the sidewalks, or to frio'hten teams and horses. Nixr:TY-THiRD — To regulate and j)rohibit the keeping of' uny lumber yard, and the placing or jiiling or selling any lumber, timber, wmod or other combustilile material, within the fire limits of the city. 32 CITY OF JOLIET. Ninety-fourth — To provide, by ordinance, that all the paper, printing, stationery, blanks, fuel, and all the supplies needed for the use of the city, shall be furnished by contract, let to the lowest bidder. Ninety-fifth — To tax, license and regulate second-hand and junk stores, and to forbid their purchasing or receiving from minors, without the written consent of their ])arents or guardians, any article whatsoever. Ninety-sixth — To pass all ordinances, rules, and make all regulations, proper or necessary, to carry into effect tin* powers granted to cities or villages, with such fines or pen- alties as the city council or board of trustees shall deem proper: Provided^ no fine or penalty shall exceed $200, and no imprisonment shall exceed six months for one oflense. Style ob’ Ordinances. § 2. The style of the ordinances in cities shall be: “Be it ordained by the city council of ” fto. Pi RLiCATiON OB’ Ordinances — When Take Efb^ect. § 3. All ordinances of cities and villages imposing any fine, penalty, imprisonment or forfeiture, or making any appropriation, shall, within one month after they are passed, be published at least once in a newspaper published in the city or village, or, if no such newspaper is published therein, by posting copies of the same in three public places in the city or village; and no such ordinance shall take eftect until ten days after it is so published. And all other ordi- nances, orders and resolutions shall take effect from and after their passage, unless otherwise provided therein. 66. Proof of Ordinances. § 4. All ordinances, and the date of publication thereof, may be proven by the certificate of the clerk, under the seal cm' CHARTER. 33 of the corporation. And when printed in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be published by authority of the board of trustees or the city council, the same need not be otherwise published ; and such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the passage and legal publication ot such ordinances, as of the dates mentioned in such book or pamphlet, in all courts and places without further proof. 67. Suits for Violating Ordinances. § 5. All actions brought to recover any fine, or to en- force any penalty under any ordinance of any city or vil- lage, shall be brought in the corporate name of the city or village as plaintift*; and no prosecution, recovery or ac- quittal, for the violation of any such ordinance, shall con- stitute a defense to any other prosecution of the same party for any other violation of any such ordinance, although tlie different causes of action existed at the same time, and, if united, would not have exceeded the jurisdiction of the court or magistrate. 68. Fi^^es and Licenses — Paid to Treasurer. § 0. All fines and forfeitures for the violation of ordin- ances, when collected, and all moneys collected for licenses or otherwise, shall be paid into the treasury of the corpora- tion, at such times and in such manner as maybe prescribed by ordinance. 69. Summons — affidavit— Punishment. § 7. In all actions for the violation of any ordinance, the first process shall be a summons ; Provided^ howeve?', that a warrant for the arrest of the offender may issue in the first instance upon the affadavit of any person that any such ordinance has been violated, and that the person mak- ing the coni])laint has reasonable grounds to believe the 34 CITY OF JOLIET. party charged is guilty thereof; and any person arrested upon such warrant shall, without unnecessary delay, he taken before the proper officer to be tried for the alleged ottense. Any person upon whom any hue or penalty shall be imposed, may, upon the order of the court or magistrate before whom the conviction is had, be committed to the county jail or the calaboose, city prison, workhouse, house of correction, or other place provided by the city or village for the incarceration of offenders, until such fine, penalty and cost shall fully be paid ; Provided^ that no such im- prisonment shall exceed six months for any one offense. The city council or board of trustees shall have power to provide, by ordinance, that every person so committed shall be required to work for the corporation, at such labor as his or her strength will permit, within and without such prison, work-house, house of correction, or other place pro- vided for the incarceration of such offenders, not exceeding ten hours each working day ; and for such work the person so. employed to be allowed, exclusive of his or her board, $2 for each day’s work on account of such fine and cost. 70 . JUKTSTUCTION OF JUSTICES, EtC. § 8. Any and all justices of the peace and police magis- trates shall have jurisdiction in all cases arising under the provisions of this act, or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof. 71 . Constable or Sheriff may Serve Process, Etc. § 9. Any coiistable^or sheriff of the county may serve any process, or make any arrests authorized to be made by any city officer. 72 . Jurisdiction Over Waters — Street Labor. § 10. The city or village government shall have juris- diction upon all waters within or bordering upon the same, CITY CHAKTER. 35 to the extent of three miles beyond the limits of the city or village, but not to exceed the limits of the state; and may, by ordinance, require every able-bodied male inhabitant, of such city or village, above the age of twenty-one years and under the age of lifty 3 ^ears, (excepting paupers, idiots, lunatics, and such others as are exempt by law), to labor on the streets and alleys of such city or village, not more than three days in each year; but such ordinance shall pro- vide for commutation of such labor at not more than one dollar and lifty cents per day. [As amended by act ap- proved April 10th,* 1875. In force July 1, 1875.] ARTICLE VI. OFFICERS — THEIR POWERS AND DUTIES. 73 . Officers. § 1. There shall be elected, in all cities organized under this act, the following officers, viz: a mayor, a city council, a city clerk, city attorney, and a city treasurer. 74 Other Officers — Duties of City Marshal. § 2. The city council may, in its discretion, from time to time, by ordinance passed by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elected, provide for the election by the legal voters of the city, or the appointment by the mayor, with the approval of the city council, of a city collector, a city marshal, a superintendent of streets, a corporation council, a city comptroller, or any or either of them, and such other officers as may by said council be deemed necessary or ex- pedient. The city council may by a like vote, by ordinance or resolution, to take effect at the end of the then fiscal yejir, discontinue any office so created, and devolve the duties thereof on any other city officer, and no officer filling CITY OF JOLIET. 3() jiiiy such office so discontinued, shall have any claim against the city on account of his salary, after such discontinuance. The city marshal shall perform such duties as shall be pre- scribed by the city council for the preservation of the public peace, and the observance and enforcement of the ordin- ances and laws ; he shall possess the power and authority of a constable at common law, and under the statutes of this state. 75. Appointments — Vacancies — Duties — Powers. § 3. All officers of any city, except where herein other- wise provided, shall be appointed by the'mayor, (and vacan- cies in all offices except the mayor and aldermen shall be filled by like appointment), by and with the advice and consent of the city council. The city council may, by ordinance, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, prescribe the duties and define the powers of all such officers, together with the term of any such office ; Provided^ the term shall not ex- ceed two years. [See §§ 16, 10, 33.] 76. Oath — Bond. § 4. All officers of any city or village, whether elected or appointed, shall, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or , affirmation. I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of Illi- nois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of... according to the best of my ability. Which oath or affirmation, so subscribed, shall be filed in the office of the clerk. And all such officers, except alder- men and trustees, shall before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, execute a bond with security, to be approved, by the city council or board of trustees, payable to the city or village, in such penal sum as may, by reso- CITY CHARTER. 37 lution or ordinance, be directed, conditioned for the faithful })erformance of the duties of the office and the payment of all moneys received by such officer, according to law and the ordinances of said city or village ; Provided^ however^ that in no case shall the mayor’s bond be fixed at a less sum than three thousand ($3,000); nor shall the treasurer’s bond be fixed at a less sum than the amount of the estimated tax and special assessments for the current year — which bonds shall 1)3 filed with the clerk (except the bond ot the clerk, which shall be filed with the treasurer). 77 . Commission — Certificate— Delivery to Successors. § 5. All officers elected or appointed under this act (except the clerk, aldermen and mayor, and trustees), shall be commissioned by warrant, under the corporate seal, signed by the clerk and the mayor or presiding officer of the city council or board of trustees. The mayor or president of the board of trustees shall issue a certificate of ap- pointment or election, under the seal of the corporation, to' the clerk thereof, and any person having been an officer of the city or village, shall, within five days after notification and request, deliver to his successor in office all property, books and •effects of every description in his possession, be- longing to the city or village, or appertaining to his said office ; and upon his refusal to do so, shall be liable for all the damages caused thereby and to such penalty as may by ordinance be prescribed. 78 . Qualification of Officers. § 6. Ko person shall be eligible to any office who is not a qualified elector of the city or village, and who shall not have resided therein at least one year next preceding his election or appointment, nor shall any person be eligible to any office who is a defaulter to the corporation. 88 CITY OF JOLIET. 79. Not Interested in Contracts, Etc. § 7. No officer shall lie directly or indirectly interested in any contract work, or business of the city, or the sale of any article, the expense, price or consideration of which is paid from the treasury, or by any assessment levied by any act or ordinance; nor in the purchase of any real estate or other property belonging to the corporation, or which shall be sold for taxes or assessments, or by virtue of legal process at the suit of said corporation. 80. Bribery — Penalty. § 8. Every person who shall promise, offer or give, or cause, or aid, or abet, in causing to be promised, offered or given, or furnish or agree to furnish, in whole or in [)art, to be promised, offered or given to any member of the city council or board of trustees, or any officer of the corporation, after or before his election or appointment as such officer, any moneys, goods, rights in action, or other property or anything of value, or any pecuniary advantage, present or prospective, with intent to inllnence his vote, opinion, judgment or action on any question, matter, cause or proceeding Avhich may lie then pending, or may by laAV be brought before him in his official capacity, shall, upon conviction, lie imprisoned in the penitenti;iry for a term not exceeding tAVo years, or shall be lined not exceeding $5,000, or both, in the disrection of the court. Every officer who shall accept any such gift or promise, or undertaking to make the same under any agreement or understanding that his vote, opinion, judgment or action shall be in- llnenced thereby, or shall be given in any question, matter, cause, or proceeding then pending, or Avhich may by hxAv be brought before him in his official capacity, shall, upon (ionviction, be disqiialilied from holding any public office, CITY CIIAHTEH, 39 trust, or api)oiiitnient uiulor the city or villaa’e, and shall forfeit his office, aiul shall he punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not exeeediiio- two years, or by a fine not exceeding |'r),0(K), or both, in the discretion of the court. Every person offiending* against either of the provisions of this section shall lie a competent witness against any other person offending in the same transaction, and may be com- ])elled to appear and give evidence before any grand jury or in any court in the same manner as other persons; but the testimony so given shall not be used in any prosecution or proceeding, civil or criminal, against the person so testifying, 51. Mayok tb'c , Not to Hold Other Office. § 9. Xo mayor, aldermen, city clerk, or treasurer, shall hold anv other office under the city o’overnmeiit during' his • t. o <- term of office. 52. Duties of Clerk. § 10. The clerk shall keep the corporate seal, to be pro- vided under the direction of the city council or board of trustees, and all papers belonging to the city or village ; he shall attend all meetings of the city council or board of trustees, and keep a full record of all its iiroceedings in the journal; and copies of all papers duly filed in his office and transcripts from the journals and other records and files of his office, certified by him under the corporate seal, shall be evidence in all courts in like manner as if the originals were ])roduccd. 83. Record of Ordinances. § 11. The clerk shall record, in a book to be kept foi* that pur[)ose, all ordinances passed by the city council or board of truste(*s, and at the foot of the record of each ordi- 40 CITY OF JOLIET. nance so recorded shall make a memorandum of the date of the passage and of the publication or posting of such ordi- nance, which record and memorandum, or a certified copy thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the passage and legal publication or posting of such ordinances for all pur- poses whatsoever. 84. Conservators op the Peace— Powers. § 12. The trustees in villages, the mayor, aldermen, and the marshal and his deputies, policemen and watchmen, in * cities, if any such be appointed, shall be conservators of the peace ; and all officers created conservators of the peace by this act, or authorized by any ordinance, shall have power to arrest, or cause to be arrested, with or with- out process, all persons who shall break the peace, or lx? found violating any ordinance of the city or village, or any criminal law of the state, commit for examination, and if necessary, detain such persons in custody over night or Sunday in the watch-house, or any other safe place, or until they can be brought before the proper mag- istrate, and shall have and exercise such other powers, as conservators of the peace, as the city council or board of trustees may prescribe. All warrants for the violation of ordinances, and all criminal warrants to whomsoever directed, may be served and executed within the corporate limits of any such city or village by any policemen of such city or village ; such policemen being hereby clothed with all the common law and statutory power of constables for such purposes. [As amended by act approved June 14, 1883, In force July 1, 1883. L. 1883, p. 58.] 8.5. Compensation of Mayor. § 13. The mayor of any city shall receive such compen- CITV CIIAUTER. 41 satioii us the city council may by ordinance direct, but his compensation shall not be chang-ed during his term of office. S6. Compensation of Aldermen and Trustees. § 14. The aldermen and trustees may receive such com- pensation for their services as shall be fixed by ordinance; Provided^ however^ such compensation shall not exceed |d to each alderman or trustee for each meeting* of the city council, or board of trustees, actually attended by him, and no other compensation than for attendance upon such meeting*s shall be allowed to any alderman or trustee for any services whatsoever. Such compensation shall not be changed, after it has been once established, so as to take effect as to any alderman or trustee voting for such change, during his term of office. ■S7. Compensation of Other Officers. § 15. All other officers may receive a salary, fees, or other comiiensation to be fixed by ordinance, and after the same has been once fixed such fees or compensation shall not be increased or diminished, to tak(‘ efiect during the term for which any such officer was elected or appointed; and every such officer shall make and return to th(> mayor, or president of the board of trustees, a semi-annual report, verified by affidavit, of all such fees aud emoluments re- ceived by him. 88, Administering Oaths. § K). The mayor of any city, and the clerk of ain* city or village, shall have power to administer oaths and affi’rma- tions upon all lawful occasions. 42 CITY OF JOLIET. AETICLE VII. OF FIN^VNCE. 80. Fiscal Year. § 1. The fiscal year of each city or village organized un- der this act shall commence at the date established by biAV for the annual election of municipal officers therein, or at such other times as may be fixed by ordinance. 00. Annual Appropriation Ordinance. § 2. The city council of cities, and board of trustees in villages, shall, within the first quarter of each fiscal year, pass an ordinance, to be termed the annual appropriation bill, in which such corporate authorities may appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of such corpor- ation; and in such ordinance shall specify the objects and purposes for which such appropriations are made, and the amount appropriated for each object or purpose. No fur- ther appropriations shall be made at any other time within such fiscal year, unless the proposition to make each appro- priation has been first sanctioned by a majority of the legal voters of such city or village, either by a petition signed by them, or at a general or special election duly called therefor. 91. Limitation — Emergency— Borrowing Money. § 3. Neither the city council nor the board of trustees, nor any department or officer of the corporation, shall add to the corporation expenditures in any one year anything over and above the amount provided for in the annual appro- priation bill of that year, except as is herein otherwise specially provided; and no expenditure for an improve- ment to be paid for out of the general fund of the corporation shall exceed, in any one year, the amount OITY CHARTER, 43 provided for such improvement in the annual appro- priation bill ; Provided^ however^ that nothing herein contained shall prevent the city council or Imard of trustees from ordering, by a two-thirds vote, any improvement the necessity of which is caused by any cas- ualty or accident happening after such annual appropria- tion is made. The city council or board of trustees may, by a like vote, order the mayor or the president of the board of trustees and finance committee to borrow a suffi- cient amount to provide for the expense necessary to.be in- curred in making any improvements, the necessity, of which has arisen as is last above mentioned, for a space of time not exceeding the close of the next fiscal year — which sum, and the interest, shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the next general tax levy, and embraced therein. Should any judgment be obtained against the corporation, the mayor, or president of the board of trustees and finance committee, under the sanction of the city coun- cil or board of trustees, may borrow a sufficient amount to pay the same, for a space of time not exceeding the close of the next fiscal year — which sum and interest shall, in like manner, be added to the amount authorized to l)e raised in the general tax levy of the next year, and embraced therein. ?)2. Contracting Liabilities Limited. § 4. Xo contract shall be hereafter made by the city council or board of trustees, or any committee or member thereof; and no expense shall be incurred by any of the officers of the departments of the corporation, whether the object of the expenditures shall have been ordered by the city council or board of trustees or not, unless an appro- priation shall have been previously made concerning such 44 (^ITY OF JOLIET. expense, except as herein otherwise expressly provided. 1)3. Dutfes of Tueasureu. § 5. The treasurer shall receive all moneys belongino^ to the corporation, and shall keep his books and accounts in such manner as may be prescribed l)y ordinance, and such books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection of any member of the city council or board of trustees. 1)4. Separate Accounts. § G. He shall keep a separate account of each fund or approjiriation, and the debts and credits belonging thereto. 1)5. Receipts. § 7. He shall give every person paying money into the treasury a receipt therefor, specifying the date of payment, and upon Avhat account paid; and he shall also file copies of such receipts with the clerk, at the date of his monthly reports. 1)(>. Monthly Statements Warrants- -Vouchers — Register. • § e one), the clerk, treasurer and collector, shall, several 1}% appoint such vari- CITY CHARTER. 51 ons clerks rikI subordinates in their respective offices as the city council or board of trustees may authorize, and shall be held, severally, responsible tor the fidelity of all persons so appointed by them. 111 . Fohkign Insurance Companiks — License, Etc. — Penalties. § 23. All corporations, companies or associations not incorporated under the laws of this state, engaged in any city in afiecting fire insurance, shall pay to the treasurer the sum of $2 upon the $100 of the net receipts by their agenc}^ in such city, and at that rate upon the amount ot of all premiums Avdiich, during the half year ending on ev- ery first day of July and January, shall have been received for any insurance eftected or agreed to be effected in the city or village, b}^ or with such corporation, companies or associations, respectively. Every person who shall act in any city or village as agent, or otherwise, for or on behalf of any such corporation, company, or association, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of July and January, in each year, render to the comptroller (if any there be, if not, to the clerk), a full, true, and just account, verified by his oath of all premiums which, during the half year ending on every first day of July and January preceding such report, shall have been received by him, or any other person for him, in behalf of any such corporation, company or associ- ation, and shall specify in said account the amounts re- ceived for fire insurance. Such agents shall also pay over to the treasurer, at the time of rendering the aforesaid ac- count, the amount of rates for which the company or com- panies represented by them are severally chargeable by virtue hereof. If such account be not rendered on or be- fore the day hereinbefore designated for that purpose, or 52 CITY OF JOLIET. if the said rates shall reniain unpaid after that date, it shall be unlawful for any corporation, company or assocuation so in default to transact any business of insurance in any such city or village, until the said requisitions shall have been fully complied with; but this provision shall not re- lieve any company from the payment of any risk that may lie taken in violation hereof. Any person or persons vio- lating Jiny of the provisions of this section shall be subject to indictment, and upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be lined in any sum not ex- ceeding $1,000, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, in the direction of the court. Said rates may also be recovered of such corporation, company or association, or its agent, by action in the name and for the use of any such city or village, as for money had and received for its use; Provided^ that tliis section shall only apply to such cities and villages as have an organized lire department, or maintain some organization for the prevention of lires. ARllCLE VIII. OF THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF T.4XES. 112. Okdinance Levying Tax. § 1 . The city council in cities, and board of trustees in villages, may assess and collect taxes for corporate pur- poses, in the following manner: The city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, shall, on or before the third (3rd ) Tuesday in Septemher, in each year, ascertain the to- tal amount of appropriations for all corporate purposes legally made, and to be collected from the tax levy of that fiscal year, and, by an ordinance specifying in detail the pur- poses for which such appropriations are made, and the sum CITY CHARTEK. 58 or amount a[)propriated for each purpose, respectively, levy the amount so ascertained upon all the property subject to taxation within the city or village, as the vsame is assessed and equalized for state and county purposes for the current year. A certified copy of such ordinance shall be filed with the county clerk of the proper county, whose duty it .shall be to ascertain the rate per cent, which upon the total valuation of all property subject to taxation within the city or village, as the same is assessed and equalized for state and county purposes, will produce a net amount not less than the amount so directed to be levied; and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to extend such tax, in a separate column, upon the book or books of the collector or collectors of the state and county taxes, within such city or village ; Provided^ i\\^ aggregate amount of taxes levied for any one year, exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness or the interest thereon, shall not exceed the rate of two (2) per centum, upon the aggregate valuation of all property within such city or vil- lage, subject to taxation therein, as the same was equalized for state and county taxes of the preceding year. (As amended by act approved May 28, 1879. In force July 1, 1879; 1. 1879, p. (hk) 113. Manner of Collecting. § 2. The tax so assessed shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and by the same officers as state and county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officers collect- ing the same to the treasurer of the city or village. 114. Time of Paying Over, § 8. It shall be the duty of the officer collecting such tax to settle Avith and pay over to such treasurer, as often . r>4 CITY OF JOLIET. as once in two weeks from the time he shall commence the collection thereof, all such taxes as he shall then have col- lected, till the whole tax collected shall be paid over. 115 . When Tax Levied for PAiiTicuiiAR Purpose. § 4. Whenever any city or village is required to levy a tax for the payment of any particular debt, appropriation or liability of the same, the tax for such purpose shall be included in the total amount assessed by the city coun- cil or board of trustees, and certified to the county clerk as aforesaid ; but the city council or board of trustees shall determine, in the ordinance making such assessment, what })roportion of such total amount shall be applicable to the payment of such particular debt, appropriation or liability; and the city or village treasurer shall set apart such pro- portion of the tax collected and paid to him for the pay- ment of such particular debt, appropriation or liability, and shall not disburse the same for any other purpose until such debt, appropriation or liability, shall have been dis- charged. 116 . Uniformity. § 5. All taxes levied or assessed by any city or village, except special assessments for local improvements, shall be uniform upon all taxable property and persons within the limits of the city, and no property shall be exempt there- from other than such property as may be exempt from tax- ation under the constitution and general law of the state. AR^nCLE IX. SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. 117 . Powers Conferred. § 1. That the corporate authorities of cities and villages CITY CHARTER. {ire herelw vested with power to make local improvements by special assessment or by special taxiition, or both, of contiguous property, or general taxation, or otherwise, as they shiill l)v ordinance prescribe. 118. Ordinance for Improvement. § 2. When any such city or village shall, by ordinance, provide for the making of {iny local improvement, it shall, by the same ordinance, prescribe whether the same shall be made by special assessment or by special taxation of contiguous property, or general taxation, or both. 119. When Property is Taken, Etc. § 3. Should said ordinance provide for improvements which require the taking or damiiging of property, the proceeding for making just compensation therefor shall be {IS follows: 120. Petition. § 4. Whenever any such ordinance shall be passed by the legislative authority of any such city or village, for the making of any improvement mentioned in the first sec- tion of this iict, or any other loc{il improvement that such city or village is authorized to make, the making of which will require that private property be tiiken or damaged for public use, such city or village shall file a petition in som(‘ court of record of the county in which such city is situat(*d, in the name of the city, praying tluit “the just compens{i- tion to be made for private property to be taken or dam- aged for the improvement or purpose specified in such or- dinance shall lie ascertained by a jury.” 121. Form of Petition. § 0 . Such petition shall contain a copy of tin* said ordi- 50 CITY OF JOLIET. nance, certified by the clerk, under the corporate seal ; a reasonably accurate description of the lots, parcels of land and property which will be taken or dainag-ed, and the names of the owners and occupants thereof, so far as known to the board or officer filing the petition, and where any knoAYii owners are non-residents of the state, stating the fact of such non-residence. 122. Summons — ^Publication— Notice. § 6. Upon the filing of the petition aforesaid, a sum- mons, which may be made returnable upon any day in term time, shall be issued and served upon the persons made parties defendant, as in cases in chancery. And in case any of them are unknown, or reside out of this state, the the clerk of the court, upon an affidavit being filed showing' such fact, shall cause publication to be made in some news- paper printed in his county, or, if there be no newspaper published in his county, then in some newspaper published in this state containing notice of the pendency of such pro- ceeding, the parties thereto, the title of the court, and the time and place of the return of the summons in the case, and the nature of said proceeding'; such publication to be made for tour weeks consecutively, at least once in each week, the first of which shall be at least thirty days before the return day of such summons. Notices so given by pub- lication shall be sufficient to authorize the court to hear and determine the suit, as though all parties had been sued 1>3^ their proper names and had been personally served. [As amended by act approved and in force March 30th, 1874.] 123. Heautno — JUKY. § 7. Upon the return of said summons, or as soon there- after as the business of the court will permit, the said court 57 CITY CHARTER. shall proceed to the hearing of such petition, and shall im- panel a jury to ascertain the just compensation to be paid to all sucli owners and occupants aforesaid; but if any de- fendant ort party in interest S'liall - demand, or the court shall deem it proper, separate juries may be impaneled as to tbe compensation or damages to be paid to any one or more of such defendants or parties interested. . [As amended by act approved and in force March 30th, 1874.] 124. Jury to Ascertain Compensation — Admitting Other Parties. § 8. Such jury shall also ascertain the just compensa- tion to be paid to any person claiming an interest in any lot, parcel of land or property, which may be. taken or damaged by such improvement, whether or not such per- vson’s name, or such lot, parcel of land, or other property, is mentioned or described in such petition : Provided^ such persons shall first be admitted as a party defendant to said suit by such court, and shall file a statement of his interest in and description of the lot, parcel of land, or other prop- erty in respect to which he claims componsatiob. 125. Viewing Premises — Ownership, Etc. . § 9. The court may, upon the motion of such city or village, or of any person claiming such compensation, di- rect that said jury (under the charge of an officer of the court) shall view the premises which it is claimed by any party to said proceeding will be taken or damaged by said improvement, and in any case, where there is no satisfac- tory evidence given to the jury as to the ownership of, or as to the extent, of the interest of any defendant in the property to be taken or damaged, the jury may return their verdict as to the compensation or damage to be paid for the property or part of property to be taken or dam- 58 CITY OF JOLIET. aged, and for the entire interest therein. [As amended by act approved and in force March 30, 1874. 126. Judgment — New Parties — Further Proceedings. § 10. Upon the return of such verdict, the court shall order the same to be recorded, and shall enter such judg- ment or decree thereon as the nature of the case may re- quire. The court shall continue or adjourn the cause, from time to time, as to all occupants and owners named in such petition who shall not have been served with process, or brought in by publication, and shall order a new summons to issue and new publication to be made ; and upon such occupant or owners being brought into court, shall impanel a jury to ascertain the compensation so to be paid to such defendant or defendants, for private property taken or damaged; and like proceeding* shall be had for such pur- pose as hereinbefore provided for the ascertaining of com- pensation to other owners. 127. Powers OP Court . § 11. The court shall have power, at an}' time, upon proof that any such owner or owners named in such peti- tion, who has not been served with process, has ceased to be such owner or owners since the filing of such petition, to impanel a jury and ascertain the just compensation to be made for the property (or the damage thereto) which had been owned by the person or persons so ceasing to own the same; and the court ma}^, upon the finding or findings of any jury or juries, or at any time during the course of such proceedings, enter such order, rule, judgment or de- cree as the nature of the case may require, 128. Ownership — Further Powers of Court. § 12. No delay in making an assessment or eompensa- CITY CHARTER. 59 tioii shall be occasioned by any doubt or contest which may arise as to the ownership of the property, or any part thereof, or as to the interest of the respective owners or claimants, but in such case the court may impanel a jury and ascertain the entire compensation or damage that should be paid for the property, or part of property, and the entire interests of all parties therein, and may require adverse claimants to interplead so as to fully determine their rights and interests in the compensation so ascer- tained. And the court may make such order as may be necessary in regard to the deposit or payment of such com- pensation. 129. Persons under Disability. § 13. When it shall appear, from said petition or other- wise, at any time during the proceedings upon such peti- tion, that any infant, or insane or distracted person, is in- terested in any property that is to be taken or damaged, the court shall appoint a guardian, ad litem^ for such infant or insane or distracted person, to appear and defend for him, her or them; and the court shall make such order or decree as it shall deem proper to protect and secure the in- terest of such infant, or insane or distracted person, in such property, or the compensation which shall be awarded therefor. 130. Judgment — Effect— Appeal, Etc. § 14. Any final judgment or judgments, rendered by said court, upon any finding or findings of any jury or ju- ries, shall be a lawful and sufficient condemnation of the land or property to be taken upon the payment of the amount of such finding as hereinbefore provided. It shall be final and conclusive as to the damages caused by such 60 CITY OF JOLIET. improvement, unless such judgment or judgments shall be appealed from ; but no appeal or writ of error upon the same shall delay proceedings under said ordinance, if such city or village shall deposit, as directed by the court, the amount of the judgment and costs, and shall file a bond in the court in which such judgment was rendered, in a sum to be fixed and with security to be approved by the judge of said court, which shall secure the payment of any future compensation which may at any time be finally awarded to such party so appealing or suing out such writ of error, and his or her costs. 131. OuDEii Foil Possession. . § 15. The court, upon proof that said just compensation so found by the jury has been paid to the person entitled thereto, or has been deposited as directed by the court (and bond given, in case of any appeal or writ of error), shall enter an order that the city or village shall have the right, at any time thereafter, to take possession of or damage the property, in respect to which such compensation shall have been so paid or deposited, as aforesaid. ^ 132. When Improvement Made by General Tax. § 16. When the ordinance under which said improve- ment is ordered to be made shall provide that such im- provement shall be made by general taxation, the cost of such improvement shall be added to the general appropria- tion bill of such city or village, and shall be levied and collected with and as part of the general taxes of such city or village. * ’ 133. Special Taxation. . . § 17. When said ordinance under which said local im- provement shall be ordered shall provide that such im- 61 . OITY CHARTER, provemeiit shall be made by special taxation of contiguous property, the same shall be levied, assessed and collected in the way provided in the sections of this act providing 'for the mode of making, levying, assessing and collecting special assessments. SPECIAL ASSESSMENT. 134. How Made. § 18. When the ordinance under which said local im- provement is ordered to be made shall provide that such im- provement shall be wholly or in part made by special assess- ment, the proceedings for the making such special assess- ment shall be in accordance with the [sections of this act [article] from 18 to 51 inclusive. 135. Ordinance for — Sidewalks — Owner’s Rights. § 19. Whenever such local improvements are to be made wholly or in part by special assessment, the said council in cities, or board of trustees in villages, shall pass an ordi- nance to that effect, specifying therein the nature, charac- ter, locality and description of such improvement: Provid- ed^ that whenever any such ordinance shall provide only , for the building or renewing of any sidewalk, the owner of any lot or piece of land fronting on such sidewalk shall be allowed fifteen days after the time at which said ordi- nance shall take effect in which to build or renew such sidewalk opposite his land, and thereby relieve, the same from assessment: Provided^ that the work so to be done shall in all respects conform to the requirement of such or- dinance. 136. Estimate OF Cost. § 20. The city council or board of trustees shall appoint 62 CITY OF JOLIET. three of its members, or any other three competent persons, who shall make an estimate of the cost of the improvement contemplated by such ordinance, includiiig* labor, materials and all other expenses attending the same, and the cost of making and levying the assessment, and shall report the same in writing to said council or board of trustees. 137. Order pgr Proceedings in Court. § 21. On such report being made, and approved by the council or board of trustees, as the case may be, it may or- der a petition to be filed by such officer as it shall direct,in the county court of his county, for proceedings to assess the cost of such iniprovement iji the manner provided in this act. 138. Petition to Court. § 22. The petition shall be in the name of the corpora- tion, and shall recite the ordinance for the proposed im- provement and the report of such commission, and shall pray that the cost of such improvement may be assessed in the manner prescribed by law. « 139. Appointment of Commissioners— Oath. § 23. Upon the filing of such petition the court shall appoint three competent persons as commissioners, who shall take and subscribe an oath, in substance as follows, to wit: ' State of Illinois, ) „„ County, ] We, the undersigned commissioners, appointed by the county court of county, to assess the cost of (here state in general terms the improvement), do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that we will a true and impartial assessment make of the cost of said improve- ment upon the city (or village) of. , and the property benefitted by such improvement, to the best of our ability, and according to law. CITY CHARTER. G3 140. Duty of Commissioners. § 24. It shall be the duty of such commissioners to ex- amine the locality where the improvement is proposed to he made, and the lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land that will be specially benefitted thereby, and to estimate what proportion of the total cost of such improvement will be of benefit to the public and what proportion thereof will be of benefit to the property to be benefitted, and ap- portion the same between the city or village and such property, so that each shall bear its relative equitable pro- portion; and having found said amounts, to apportion and assess the amount so found to be of benefit to the property upon the several lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land in the proportion in which they will be severally benefitted by such improvement: Provided^ that no lot, block, tract or parcel of land shall be assessed a greater amount than it will be actually benefitted: And, provided y further, that it shall not be necessary for said commissioners to examine the locality except where the ordinance provides for the opening, widening or improvement of streets and alleys. [As amended by act approved and in force March 30, 1874. [§ 25, repealed by act approved April 25, 1873. 141, Assessment Roll — Return. § 2G. They shall also make or cause to be made an as- sessment roll, in which shall appear the names of the own- ers, so far as known, a description of each lot, block, tract or parcel of land, and the amount assessed as special bene- fits thereto, and in which they shall set down as against the city or village the amount they shall have found as liublic benefit, and certify such assessment roll to the court ))y which they were appointed, at least ten days before the OTY of JOLIET. first day of the term at which a final hearing thereon shall be had, [As amended by act approved and in force March 30, 1874. 142. Notice BY Mail, Posting AND Publication. , » § 27. It shall also be the duty of such commissioners to give notice of such assessment, and at the term of court at which a final hearing thereon will be had, in the following manner: .« First — They shall send by mail to eahh owner of prem- ises assessed, whose name and place of residence is known to them, a notice, substantially in the ’following form: Mr Your (here give a short description of the premises) is assessed S. . . .for public improvement. The assessment roll will be re- turned to the . . . term of the county court of . , . county. (Here give date). - Commissioners. Second — They shall cause at least ten days notice to be given, by posting notices in at least four public places in such city or village, two of which shall be in the neighbor- hood of such proposed improvement; and when a daih' newspaper is published in such city or village, by publish- ing the same at least five consecutive days in such daih' newspaper, or if no daily newspaper is published in such city or village and a weekly newspaper is published there- in, then, at least once in each week, for two consecutive weeks, in such weekly newspaper, or if no daily or weekly newspaper is published in such city or village, then in a newspaper published in the county in which such city or village is situated. The notice may be substantially as fol- lows : CITY CHARTER. 65 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE. Notice is hereby given to all persons interested, that the city council (or board of trustees, as the case may be), of having ordered that (here insert the description and nature of improvements substatially as in ordinance) have applied to the county court of county for an assessment of the cost of said improvements, according to benefits; and an assessment thereof having been made and returned to said court, the final hearing thereon will be had at the term of said court, commencing on the day of , A. D., 18.... All persons desiring may then and there appear and make their defense. Here give date. Commissioners. [As amended by act approved April 25, 1873. In force July 1, 1873. 143 . Proof op Notice. § 28. On or before the final hearing, the affidavit of one or more of the commissioners shall be filed in said court, stating that they have sent or caused to be sent by mail, to the owners whose premises have been assessed, and whose name and place of business are known to them, the notice hereinbefore required to be sent by mail, to owners of premises assessed. They shall also cause to be filed the affidavit of the person who shall have posted the notices required by this act to be posted, setting forth when and in what manner the same were posted. Such af- fidavits shall be received prirna facie evidence of a com- pliance with this act in regard to giving such notices. They shall also file a certificate of publication of said no- tice in like manner as is required in other cases of publica- tion of notices. [As amended by act approved April 25, 1873; in force July 1, 1873. CITY OF JOLIET. ()6 144 . Continuance when Notice not in Time. _ § 29. If ten days shall not have elapsed between the tirst publication or the putting up of such notices and the tirst day of the next term of such court, the hearing shall be continued until the next term of court. 145 . Objections — Judoment by Default. § 30. Any person interested in any real estate to be ef- fected by such assessment, may appear and file objections to such report, and the court may make such order in re- gard to the time of filing such objections as may be made in cases at law in reg'ard to the time of filing pleas. As to all lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land to the assess- ment of which objections are not filed within the time or- dered by the court, default may be entered, and the assess- ment confirmed by the court. 14 (>. Heauing — Jury. § 31 . On the hearing, the report of the commissioners shall be competent evidence, and either party may intro- duce such other evidence as may tend to establish the right of the matter. The hearing shall be conducted, as in other cases at law, and if it shall appear that the premises of the objector are assessed more or less than they will be bene- fitted, or more or less than their proiiortionate share of the cost of the improvement, the jury shall so find, and also find the amount for which such premises ought to be assessed, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly. 147 . Precedence. § 32. The hearing' in all cases arising under this act shall have precedence over all other cases in such court, except criminal cases. CITY CHAKTEK. ()7 14S, Court may Modify, Etc., the Assessment. § 83; The court before Avhicli any .such proceeding may be pending, shall have anthorit}^ at any time before final adjournment [judgment], to modity, alter, change, annul or confirm any assessment returned, as aforesaid, or cause any such assessment to be recast by the same commission- ers whenever it shall be necessary for the attainment of justice, or may appoint other commissioners in the place of all or any of the commissioners first appointed, for the purpose of making such assessment, or modifying or alter- ing, changing or recasting the same, and may take all such proceedings and make all such orders as may be necessary to make a true and just assessment of the cost of such im- ))roA ement according to the principles of this act, and may from time to time, as may be necessary, continue the ap- plication for that purpose as to the whole or any part of the premises, 149. Judgment Seyeral — Apueal, etc. — Lien, § 34. 4'he judgment of the court shall have the effect of a seveml judgment as to each tract or parcel ot land assessed, and any appeal from such judgment or writ of error shall not invalidate or delay the judgment except as to the prop- erty concerning which the appeal or writ of error is taken. Such judgment shall be a lien upon the property assessed, from the date thereof until payment shall he made. 150. Judgment Certified to City Clerk — Filing — Warrant. § 35. The clerk of the court in which said judgment is rendered shall certify the assessment roll and judirment to the clerk of such city or village, or if there has been an ap- peal or writ of error taken on any part of such judgment, then he shall certify such part of the judgment as is not in- 68 CITY OF JOLIET. eluded in such appeal or writ of error. The clerk of the city or village shall file such certificate in his office and issue a warrant for the collection of such assessment. 151. Form of Warratjt. § 36. The warrant in all cases of assessments under this act shall contain a copy of such certificate of the judgment, describing the lots, blocks, tracts or parcels of land assessed, and the respective amounts assessed on each lot, block, tract or parcel of land, and shall be delivered to the officer author- ized to collect such special assessments. Such warrant shall give sufficient authority to collect the assessments therein specified. 152. Collector’s Notice — Form op. § 37. The collector receiving such warrant shall imme- diately give notice thereof by publishing such notice in one or more newspapers in such city or village, if such news- paper is there ; and if there is no such newspaper, then by posting four copies thereof in public places along the line of the proposed improvement. Such notice may be substan- tially in the following form : SPECIAL ASSESSMENT NOTICE. SPECIAL WARRANT, NO. Public notice is hereby given that the (here insert the title of court) has rendered judgment for a special assessment upon property benefitted by the following improvement (here insert the character and location of the improvement in general terms) as will more fully appear from the certified copy of the judgment on file in the office of the clerk of the city (or village) of ; that a warrant for the collection of such assessments is in the hands of the undersigned. All persons interested are hereby notified t(> call and pay the amount so asseseed, at the collector’s office. (Here insert location of office) within thirty days from the date hereof. ' Dated this day of ,A.D., 18.. Collector. cm' CHARTEK. C)9 lo3. Manner op Collecting — Entry of Payment. § 38. It shall be the duty of the collector into whose hands the warrant shall so come, as far as practicable, to call upon all persons resident within the corporation whose names appear on the assessment roll, or the occupants of the property assessed, and personally, or by written or printed notice left at his or her usual place of abode, inform them of such assessment, and request payment of the same. Any such collector omitting so to do shall be liable to a penalty of $10 for every such omission, but the validity of the special assessment, or the right to apply for and obtain judgment for any such special [assessmentj shall not be affected by such omission. It shall be the duty of such collector to write the word “paid” opposite each tract or lot on which the assessment is paid, together with the name and post office address of the person making the payment, and date of payment. 154. Report OP Delinquent List to County Collector — Evidence — Defense. § 39. It shall be the duty of the collector of special as- sessments, within such time as the city council or board of trustees may by ordinance provide, to make a report in writing — to the general officer of the county authorized, or to be designated b}^ the general revenue law of this state, to apply for judgment and sell lands for taxes due the county and state — of all the lands, town lots and real prop- ert}' on which he shall have been unable to collect special assessments, with the amount of special assessments due and unpaid thereon, together with his warrant, or with a brief description of the nature of the warrant or warrants received by him authorizing the collection thereof; which report shall be accom])anicd by the oath of the collector 70 cm' OF JOLIET. that the list is a correct return and report of the lands, town lots and real property on which the special assess- ments levied by authority of the city of (or village’ of as the case may be), remain due and unpaid; that he is unable to collect the same or any part thereof and that he has given the notice required by law that said warrants had been received by him for collection. Said report, when so made shall hG prlma facie evidence that all the forms and requirements of the law in relation to mak- ing said return have been complied with, and that the special assessments mentioned in said report are due and unpaid. And, upon the application for judgment upon such assessment, no defence or objection shall be made or heard which might have been interposed in the proceeding* for the making of such assessment, or the application for the confirmation thereof. 155. ArcLrcATroN fou Judoment — Wei at Law Governs. § 40. When said general officer shall receive the report provided for in the preceding section, he shall at once pro- ceed to obtain judgment against said lots, parcels of land, and property for said special assessments remaining due and unpaid at the same time and in the same manner as is or may be by law provided for obtaining* judganent against- lands for taxes due and unpaid the county and state; and shall in the same manner proceed to sell the same for the said special assessments remaining due and unpaid. In ob- taining* said judgment and making* said sale, the said offi- cer shall be governed by the general revenue laws of this state, except when ' otherwise provided herein. No appli- cation for judgment against lands for unpaid special assess- ments shall be made at a time different from the annual ap[>lication for judgment against lands, upon which gen- OTTY CHAKTEK. 71 oral taxes remain due and unpaid. The application for judo-nient upon delinquent special assessments in each year shall include only such special assessments as shall have been returned as delinquent to the county collector, on or before the first day of April, in the year in which such ap- plication is made. [As amended by act approved June 1. Return ok Sales — Redemption. § 41. After making said sales, the list of lots, parcels of lands and property sold* thereat shall be returned to the office of the county clerk, and redemption may be made UvS provided for by the general revenue law of this state, 157 . Penalty when Lands are Sold for Tax, Etc. § 42. If the collector shall receive any moneys for taxes or assessments, giving a receipt therefor for any land or parcel of land, and afterwards return the same as unpaid to the state officers authorized to sell lands for taxes, or shall receive the same after making such return, and the same be sold for tax or assessment which has been so paid and receipted for by himself or his clerks, he and his bond shall be liable to the holder of the certificate given to the purchaser at the sale, for double the amount of the face of the certificate, to be demanded in two years from the date of the sale, and recovered in any court having jurisdiction of the amount; and the city or village shall, in no case, be liable to the holder of such certificate. 158 . Paying Over — Compensation. § 43. The collector or collectors and the general officer aforesaid, to whom the said warrant shall be re turned, shall pay over to the city or village treasurer to which it shall belong, all moneys colleeted by them, respectively, upon or 72 CITY OF JOLIET. by virtue of such warrant, or upon any sale for taxes or otherwise, at such time or times and in such maimer as shall be prescribed by ordinance, and shall be allowed such compensation for their services in the collection of such assessment as the ordinance of the city or village may pro- vide, except when such compensation is fixed by general law. 159. General Revenue Laws Apply. § 44. The general revenue laws of this state, in refer- ence to proceedings to recover judgments for delinquent taxes, the sale of property thereon, the execution of cer- tificates of sale and deeds thereon, the force and effect of such sales and deeds, Jind all other laws in relation to the enforcement and collection of taxes and redemption from tax sales, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be applicable to proceedings to collect such special assess- ment. 160. City or Village May Buy in. § 45. Any city or village interested in the collection of any tax or special assessment, may beeome a purchaser at aii}^ sale of real or personal property to enforce the collec- tion of the same, and may, by ordinance, authorize and make it the duty of one or more city or village officers to attend such sales, and bid thereat in behalf of the corpora- tion. 161. When Asskssmemt Set Aside — New Assessment. § 46, If any assessment shall be annulled by the city council or board of trustees, or set aside by any court, a new assessment may be made and returned, and like notice given and proceedings had, as herein required in relation to the first; and all parties in interest shall have the like CITY CHAHTEK. 73 riofhts, and the city council or board of trustees and court shall perforin like duties and have like power in relation to an\^ subsequent assessment, as are hereby given in relation to the tirst assessment. 1(>2. Supplemental Assessments. § 47. If, in any case, the first assessment prove insufii- eient, a second may be made in the same manner, as nearly as may be, and so on, until sufficient moneys shall have been realized to pay for such public improvement. If too large a sum shall, at any time, be raised, the excess shall be refunded ratably to those by whom it was paid. 163. New Assessments Against Delinquents — Lien — Limitation. § 48. If, from any cause, any city or village fail to col- lect the whole or any portion of any special assessment which may be levied, which shall not be cancelled and set aside by the order of any court for any public improve- ment authorized to be made and paid for by special assess- ment, the city council or board of trustees may, at any time within five years after the confirmation of the origi- nal assessment, direct a new assessment to be made upon the delinquent property for the amount of such deficiency, and interest thereon from the date of such original assess- ment — which assessment shall be made, as near as may be, in the same manner as is herein prescribed for the first as- sessment. In all cases where partial payment shall have been made on such former assessment, they shall be cred- ited or allowed on the new assessment to the property for which they were made, so that the assessment shall be * equal and impartial in its results. If such new assessment prove ineffectual, either in whole or in part, the city coun- cil or board of trustees may, at any time within said period 74 CITY OF JOLIET. of five years, order a third, and so on, to be levied in the same manner and for the same purpose, and it shall consti- tute no legal objection to such assessment that the property may have changed hands, or been incumbered, subsequent to the date of the original assessment, it being the true in- tent and meaning of this section to make the cost and ex- pense of all public improvements, to be paid for by a spec- ial assessment, a charge upon the property assessed there- for, for the full period of five years, from the confirmation of the original assessment, and for such longer period as may be required to collect, in due course of law, any new assessment ordered within that period. 104 . Contracts Payable from Assessments. § 49. All persons taking any contracts with the city or village, and who agree to be paid from special assessments, shall have no claim or lien upon the city or village in any event, except from the collections of the special assessments made for the work contracted for. 105 . How Contracts Let — ^Approval. § 50. All contracts for the making of any public im- provement, to be paid for in whole or in part by a special assessment, and any work or other public improvement, when the expense thereof shall exceed $500, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, in the manner to be f)re- scribed by ordinance — such contracts to be approved by the mayor or presiclent of the board of trustees : Provided^ however^ any such contract may be entered into by the proper oflicer without advertising for bids, and without such approval, by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen or trustees elected. CITY CHARTER. 75 166. Lien. §51. All special assessments levied by any city or vil- lage under this act, shall, from the date of assessment, be a lien upon the real estate upon which the same may be im- posed, and such lien shall continue until such special as- sessments are paid. And the same proceedings may be re- sorted to by the collector, upon any warrant or order issued or made for the collection of special assessments, as in the ease of the collection of state and county taxes under the general laws of the state. 167. Collection by Suit. § 52. At any time after the same becomes due, it shall and may be lawful for any collector therefor to commence suit in any court of record, in the corporate name of such city or village, against any person or persons, for the total amount of special assessments which such person or persons are liable lor the payment of. Such siu’t shall be com- menced by petition, and shall state the several amounts of the special assessments sought to be recovered, and give a a general description of the warrant or warrants issued for the collection thereof. Upon the filing of the petition a .summons shall be issued, served and returned as in other suits in such court. Upon the return of such summons duly served, the court shall forthwith proceed to the hear- ing of said petition without formal pleadings, and may ren- der judgment for all or any part of the special assessments, as the right and justice of the case may require. The orig- inal, or a certified copy (by the clerk under the corporate seal,) of such warrant or warrants and list or lists, or so much thereof as refers to the special assessments sought to be recovered, shall be prima facie evidence of the right of said collector to a judgment in favor of such corporation. 76 • CITY OF JOLIET. Execution shall issue on such judgment as in other cases, hut such execution may be first levied upon and collected from any personal property of the defendant; or the court, ill which such proceedings were had, may, upon com- plaint of the city or village, issue a scire facias against the person or persons liable for such payment, to show cause Avhy execution should not issue ag’ainst him or them for the amount of such assessment; and if, upon the return of such scwe facias^ good cause is not shown why execution should not issue, the court may award execution against such per- son or persons in the usual form ot execution upon judg- ments at law. 168 . Supplemental Petition to Assess Benefits in Condemnation Case. § 53. Whenever any city or village shall apply to any court for the purpose of making just compensation for property taken or damaged by such proceedings as are au- thorized by this act, such city or village may file in the same proceeding a supplemental petition, praying the court to cause that an assessment be made for the purpose of raising- the amount necessary to -pay the compensation and damages which may be or shall have *been awarded for the property taken or damaged, with costs of the proced- ing. The said court shall have power, at any time after such supplemental petition shall have been filed, to ap- point three commissioners to make such assessment, and to ascertain, as near as may be, the costs incurred to the time of such appointment, and the probable further costs of the proceedings, including therein the estimated costs of mak- ing and collecting such assessment, and shall direct such costs to be included by such commissioners in making said assessment. Like proceedings in making said assessment 77 0;ITY CHARTER. shall be had, and the assessment shall be made, collected and enforced in the same manner, as near as may be, as is provided in this article in other cases. [As amended in act approved, and in force, March 30, 1874. 169. Adoption of this Article. § 54. Any city or incorporated town or village may, if it shall so determine by ordinance, adopt the provisions of this article without adopting the whole of this act; and Avhere it shall have so adopted this article, it shall have 'the right to take all proceedings in this article provided for, and have the benefit of all the provisions hereof. ARTICLE X. ( MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS . ) — AVATER. 170. Water — Borrow Money. § 1. The city council or board of trustees shall have the pOAver to provide for a supply of Avater by the boring and sinking of artesian Avells, or by the construction and regu- lation of Avells, pumps, cisterns, reserA^oirs or AA^ater Avorks, and to boiT-OAV money therefor, and to authorize any person or private corporation to construct and maintain the same at such rates as may be fixed by ordinance, and for a period not exceeding thirty years; also to prevent the unnecessary Avaste of water; to prevent the pollution of the Avater, and injuries to such wells, pumps, cisterns, reservoirs or Avater Avorks. 171. Acquiring Property for Water Works- Jurisdiction over. § 2. For the purpose of establishing or supplying water Avorks, any city or village may go beyond its territorial limits and may take hold and acquire property liy purchase 78 CITY OF JOLIET. or otherwise ; shall have power to take and condemn all necessary lands or property therefor, in the manner pro- vided for the taking or injuring private property for pub- lic uses; and the jurisdiction of the city or village to pre- vent or punish any pollution or injury to the stream or source of water, or to such water works, shall extend live miles beyond its corporate limits, or so far as such water works may extend. 172. Regulations — Rates, Taxation, Ftc. § 3. The city council or board of trustees shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations concern- ing the use of water supplied by the water works of said city or village, and to do all acts and make such rules and regulations for the construction, completion, management or control of the water works, and for the levying and collecting of an}- water taxes, rates or assessments, as the city council or board of trustees may deem necessary and expedient; and such water taxes, rents, rates or assess- ments may be levied or assessed upon any lot or parcel of ground having a building or buildings thereon, which shall abut or join any street, avenue or alley in such city or vil- lage through which the distributing pipes of such water works (if any) of said city or village are or may be laid, which can be conveniently supplied with water from said pipes: Provided^ [whether] the water shall be used on such lot or parcel of ground or not; and the same, when so lev- ied or assessed, shall become a continuing lien or charge upon such lot or parcel of ground, building or buildings, situated thereon, and such lien or charge may be collected or enforced in such manner as the city council may, by or- dinance prescribe. And the corporate authorities may levy a general tax for the construction and maintenance of CITY CILVRTER. 79 such water works, and appropriate money therefor. 173, Tax-payers May Enforce Rights in Name op City. § 4. A suit may be brought by any tax-payer, in the name and for the benefit of the city or village, against any person or corporation to recover any money or property belonging to the city or village or for any money which may have been paid, expended, or released without author- ity of law: Provided., that such tax-payer shall file a bond for all costs, and be liable for all costs in case the city or village be cast in the suit, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly. 174. Maps — Approval of. § 5. The city council or board of trustees shall have power to provide, by ordinance, that any map, plat, or subdivision of any block, lot, sub-lot, or part thereof, or of any piece or parcel of land, shall be submitted to the city council or board of trustees, or to some officer to be desig- nated by such council or board of trustees, for their or his approval ; and in such cases no such map, plat or sub- division shall be entitled to record in the proper county or have any validity until it shall have been so approved, 175. Inhabitants Competent as Jurors, Etc. § 6, No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice or juror, by reason of his being an inhabitant or freeholder in said city or village, in any action or proceeding in which said city or village may be a party in interest. • 176, Population — Census. § 7. Whenever in this act any provision thereof is based upon the number of inhabitants [the number of inhabi- tants] of the city or village shall be determined -by refer- 80 CITY OF JOLIET. ence to the latest census taken by authority of the United States or this state, or of such city or village; and it shall ])e the duty of the secretary of state, upon the publication of any state or United States census, to certify to each. city or village the number of inhabitants, as shown by such census. Any city or village may, by ordinance, provide for the taking of a census of the population thereof, in or- der to determine the number of such population for any and all purposes of this act. And the several courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the population of {iny city or village, as the same may appear from the latest federal, state, city or village census so taken. 177. Municipal Year. t §8. The term “municipal year” shall be construed to mean the period elapsing between the regular annual elec- tions unless otherwise provided by ordinance. 178. City or Village Need not Give an Appeal Bond. § 9. When in any suit the city or village prays an ap- peal from the judgment of any court of this state to a higher court, it shall not be required to furnish an appeal bond. STATUTES RELATING TO CITIES AND VILLAGES. ACTIONS TO RECOVER FINES AND PENALTIES. an act entitled “an act in regard to suits by incorporated cities and villages, and to enforce penalties and recover fines for violating the ordinances thereof.” [Approved May 31, 1879. In force July 1, 1879.] 179. Suits — How Brought, Etc. § 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all actions to re- cover any fine, or to enforce any penalty, under any ordi- nance of any city or village in this state, shall be brought in the corporate name of the city or village, as plaintiff, and no prosecution, recovery or acquittal, for the violation of any such ordinance shall constitute a defense to any other prosecution of the same party, for any other violation of any such ordinance, although the different causes of ac- tion existed at the same time, and, if united would not have exceeded the jurisdiction of the court or magistrate. ELECTIONS. AN ACT to provide for the time of opening and closing the polls during elections of cities, towns and villages in this state. [Approved May 29, 1879. In force July 1,1879.] 180. Time op Opening and Closing Polls. Be it ermcted hy the People of the State of Illinois, reyyre- sented in the General Assembly, That in all city, town or 82 CITi' OF JOLIET. A'illage elections, in this state, the polls shall remain open from eight (8) o’clock A. M. until seven (7) o’clock P. M.,- any law in any special charter to the contrary notwith- standing. (L. 1879, p. 70.) FERRIES AND BRIDGES. AN ACT to enable cities and villages, incorporated under any general or special law of this Slate, to acquire by pnrcbase, lease or gift, establish, maintain, li- cense and regulate ferries, bi idges, the approaches thereto and tolls thereon. [Approved May 22, 1877. In force July 1,1877. Laws 1877, p 61; Legal News Ed., p. 63.] 181 . License and Regulate. § 1. Be it enacted'hy the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly^ That it shall be lawful for the corporate authorities of any city or village, now or hereafter incorporated under any special or general law of this state, to acipiire by purchase, lease or gift, and mabi- tain, license and regnlate ferries and bridges, so acquired, and the approaches thereto, not exceeding four acres of land tor each ferry or bridge, within the corporate limits thereof, and from time to time fix tolls thereon. [Note — This act supersedes the one on same subject, approved March 27, 1874. See R. S. 1874, p. 244. HOUSES OF ILL-FAME. AN ACT to prevent the licensing of houses of ill-fame, and the olHcial inspection or medical examination of the inmates thereof, in the incorporated cities, towns and villages of this state. [Approved and in force March 27, 1874.] 182 . Licensing and Medical Inspection Forbidden. § 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly ^ That it shall be unlaw- ful for the corporate authorities of any city, town or vil- lage in this state to grant a license to any person, male or female, to keep what is known as a house of ill-fame or house of prostitution. And it shall be unlawful for any STATUTES. *, or which may hereafter exist under the hiAvs of this state, to interfere in the management of any house of ill-fame or house of prostitution, or to provide in any manner for the medical inspection or examination of any inmate of the same. 183 . P]mergency. § 2. Whereas, the legislative authorities of certain cities in this state are about to license houses of ill-fiime, there- fore an emergency exists why this act should take effect iinmediatel}^; theretore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its j)assage. L.VBOR OX STREETS. AN ACT providing for lab(^- on the streets and alleys of all cities and villages in this state. [Approved May 31, 1879. In force July 1 , 1879. L. 1879, p. 79. 184 . Labor OX Streets, Etc. § 1. Be it enacted hy tho. People of the State oi Illinois^ repre8ento,d in the General As-^emhly\ That the city council in all cities, and the president and board of trustees in all villages in this state, may have power, by ordinance, to rc- (juire every able-bodied male inhabitant of any such city or village, above the age of tAventy-one years and under the age of fifty years, (excepting paupers, idiots, lunatics, and such others as are exempt by laAV,) to labor on the streets and alleys of any such city or village, not more than two (2) days, in each year; but such ordinance shall provide for commutation of such labor at seventy- five cents per day. 84 CITY OF JOLIET. 185. Fines and Penalties. § 2. Any such city council or president and board of trustees of any such village shall have power, by ordinance, to provide such fines and penalties as may be necessary to enforce the provisions of this act. LEASING LANDINGS AND LEVEES. AN ACT to authorize incorporated cities, towns or villages in this state, situated upon the banks of navigable rivers, to lease parts of their public landings or levees. [Approved Marcn 31, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 186. When Landings and Levees may be Leased. § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois^ represeated in the General Assembly, That whenever, in the opinion of the legislative authority of any incorporated city, or of the president and board of trustees of any incor- porated city, town or village of this state, situate upon the banks of any navigable river, the lands acquired and owned by any such city, town or village, for the purpose of a public landing or public levee, are not immediately required for such purpose, then any such city, town or vil- lage may lease such parts of such landing or levee as may be thought best by the legislative authority of such city, or president and board of trustees of such town or village, for the purpose of erecting manufactories, warehouses or grain elevators thereon : Provided, no such lease shall ex- tend beyond the period of twenty-five years from its execu- tion. 187, What Lands — When Lease may Take Effect — Defnition — Restriction . § 2. That the right of any such city, town or village to lease any part of the land in the foregoing section, shall embrace all such lands as may have been conveyed to the same: Provided, however, no such lease shall take eftect or STATUTES. 85 ])e 111 force until approved by an order, resolution or ordi- nance of the legislative authority of such city, or president and board of trustees of such town or village. The words “legislative authority,” when used in this act, shall be held to include the common council. The provisions of this act shall not apply to cities having over one hundred thousand inhabitants. LIBRAEIES. AN ACT to authorize cities, incorporated towns and townships to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading-rooms. [Apj^roved and in force M arch 7, 1872. L . 1871-2, p . 60 . ] 188. Establishment BY City — Tax — Fund. § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assembly^ That the city council ot each incorporated city shall have the power to establish and maintain a public library and reading room for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of such city, and may levy a tax of not to exceed one mill on the dollar annually, and in cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants not to ex- ceed one-half of a mill on a dollar annually, on all the taxa- ble property in the city ; such tax to be levied and col- lected in like manner with the general taxes of said city, and to be known as the “library fund;” and the said an- nual library taxes in cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, shall not be included in the aofofreirate amount of taxes as limited by section one of article eight of “An act for the incorporation of cities and villages,” approved April 10, 1872. 189. Emergency. § 2. (Omitted.) [As amended by act approved and in force March 20, 1883. Is. 1883, p. 112. CITY OF JOLIET. 8 () 11 ) 0 . Directors. § 2. When any city council sluill have decided to estab- lish and maintain a public library and reading-room, under this act, the mayor of such city shall, with the approval of the city council, proceed to appoint a board of nine di- rectors for the same, chosen from the citizens at large with reference to their fitness for such office; and not more than one member of the city council shall be at any one time a member ot said board. 11 ) 1 . Term of Office -Removal. § 3. Said directors shall hold office, one-third for one year, one-third for two years and one-third for three years from the first of July following their aiipointment, and at their first regular meeting shall cast lots for the respective- terms; and annually thereafter the mayor shall, before the first of July of each year, appoint as before three directors, to take the place of retiring directors, who shall hold office for three years and until their successors are ap- [lointed. The mayor may, by and with the consent of the city council, remove any director for misconduct or neg- lect of duty. 11 ) 2 . Vacancies — Compensation. § 4. Vacancies in the board of directors, occasioned by removals, resignation, or otherwise, shall be reported to the city council and be filled in like manner as original appointments, and no director shall receive compensation as such. 11 ) 3 . Organization — Powers of Directors — Funds. § 5. Said directors shall immediately after appoint- ment meet and organize by the election of one of their number president, and by the election of such other offi- (;ers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and STATUTES. 87 adopt such by-lcTWS, rules and re<>Tdations for their own iruidance and for the govenmient of the library and read- ing-room as may be expedient, not inconsistent with this act. They shall have the exclusive control of the expendi- ture of all moneys collected to the credit ot the library fund, and of the construction of any library building, and of the supervision, care and custody of the grounds, rooms or buildings constructed, leased or set apart for that pur- l)ose : Provided^ that all moneys received for such library shall be deposited in the treasury of said city to the credit of the library fund, and shall be kept separate and apart from other moneys of such city, and drawn upon by the proper officers of said city, upon the properly authenti- cated vouchers of the library board. Said board shall have power to purchase or lease grounds to occupy, lease or erect an appropriate building or buildings for the use of said library; shall have- power to appoint a suitable libra- rian and necessary assistants, and fix their compensation, and shall also have power to remove such appointees; and shall, in general, carry out the spirit and intent of this act, in establishing and maintaining a ])ublic library and reading room. 191. Who may Use LrimAUY. § 6. Every library and reading-room, established under this act, shall be forever free to the use of the inhabitants of the city where located, always subject to such reasona- ble rules and regulations as the library board may adopt, in order to render the use of said librarv and reading-room of the greatest benefit to the greatest number; and said board may exclude from the use of said library and reading room any and all [lersons who shall willfully violate such rules. And said boai*d may extend the privileges and use 88 CITY or JOLIET. of such library and reading--rooms to persons residing out- side of such city in this state, upon such terms and condi- tions as said board may from time to time by its regula- tions prescribe. [As amended by act approved March 27, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 195. Report of Directors. § 7. The said board of directors shall make, on or before the second Monday in June, ah annual report to the city council, stating the condition of their trust on the first day of June of that year, the various sums of money received from the library fund and from other sources, and how such moneys have been expended and for what purposes; the number of books and periodicals on hand; the number added by purchase, gift or otherwise, during the year; the number lost or missing; the number of visitors attending; the number of books loaned out, and the general character and kind of such books; with such other statistics, infor- mation and suggestions as they may deem of general inter- est. All such portions of said report as relate to the re- ceipt and expenditure of money, as well (as) the number of books on hand, books lost or missing, and books pur- chased, shall be verified by affidavit. 196. Penalties. § 8, The city council of said city shall have power to pass ordinances imposing suitable penalties for the punish- ment of persons committing injury upon such library or the grounds or other property thereof, and for injury to or failure to return any book belonging to such library. 197. Donations. § 9. Any person desiring to make donations of money. STATUTES. 89 persoiiLil property or real estate for the benefit of such li- l)rary, shall have the right to vest the title to the money or real estate so donated in the board of directors created under this act, to l)e held and controlled by such board, Avhen accepted, according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or Ijequest of such property ; and as to such property the said board shall be held and considered to be special trustees. 10 and 11 refer to libraries in incorporated towns. § 12. Emergency. (Omitted.) OFFICERS OF CITIES. AN ACT to prevent fraudulent and corrupt practices in the making or accepting of official appointments and contracts by public officers. [Approved April 9 1872. In force July 1, 1872. L. 1871-2. p. 612.] § 1. Be it enacted hy the Peojjle of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assembly, * * ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 198. Aldermen of Cities — Trustees of Villages. § 2. That it shall be and is hereby declared unlawful for any alderman of any city, or member of the board of trus- tees of any village of this state, during the term of office for which he is elected, to accept or be appointed to or hold any office by the appointment of the mayor or presi- dent of the board of trustees thereof; and any and all such election or appointment shall be absolutely null and void. 199. Not to be Interested in Contracts — Not to Act as Attorney TO Procure — Bribery. § 3. It shall not be lawful for any person, now or here- after holding any office, either by election or appointment, under the constitution of this state, to become in any man- 90 CITT OF JOLIET. ner interested, either directly or indirectly, in his own name or in the name ot any other person or corporation, in any contract, or the performance of any work in the making or letting of which such officer may be called upon to act or vote. And it shall not be lawful for any such officer to represent, either as agent or otherwise, any per- son, company or corporation, in respect of any application or bid for any contract or work in regard to which such officer may be called upon to vote. Nor shall any such of- ficer take or receive, or offer to take or receive, either di- rectly or indirectly, any money or other thing of value, as a gift or bribe, or a means of influencing his vote or action in his official character; and any and all contracts made and procured in violation hereof, shall be null and void. 200 . I^ENALTY. § 4. Any alderman, member of a board of trustees, su- pervisor or county commissioner, or person now or here- after holding any office, either by election or appointment under the constitution of this state, or any law now or hereafter in torce in this state, who shall violate any of the provisions of the preceding sections, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, may be pun- ished by confinement in the penitentiary for a term not less than one year nor more than five years or fined in a sum not less than |2()0 nor more than $1,000, or both, in the discretion of the court before which such conviction shall l)e had ; and in addition thereto, any office or official posi- tion held by any person or persons so convicted shall,, by the fact of such conviction, become vacant, and shall be so declared as a part of the judgment of court; and the person or persons so convicted shall be disqualified from holding any office or position of trust and confidence in this state STATITES. in for the period of two yeai-s from and after the date of sueh eonviction. OIL INSPECTION. AN ACT to revise the law in relation to oil Inspection. [Approved Mai'ch 12, 1874. In force July 1, 1874. 201 . Appointment OF Inspectors — Term of Office — Deputies, § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Idinois, represented in the General Assembly^ That the mayor of any city, Avith the approval of the city council, and the board of trustees of any village or toAvn may, and on the petition of any five inhabitants thereof, shall appoint one or more inspectors for the inspection of coal oil, naphtha, gasoline, benzine and other mineral oils or fluids, the product of pe- troleum, and fix their compensation, to be paid by the party requiring their services. Every such inspector shall hold his office for one year and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed from office. He may appoint deputies for Avhom he shall be responsible, and Avho shall take the same oath, and be liable to the same ])enalties as the inspector. 202 , Oath — Bond — Suit on, § 2. EA'ery such inspector, before entering upon the du- ties of his office, shall take and subscribe the folloAving oath ; I do soleinly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that 1 will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the State of Il- linois, and that T will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of oil in- spector according to the best of my ability. He shall also execute a bond payable to the people of the state, in such sum as shall be reipiired by the city council or board of trustees, Avith one or more sureties, to be a^)- 92 CITY OF JOLIET. proved by the mayor or president of the board of trustees, conditioned for the faithtul discharge of the duties of his office. Any person aggrieved by the misconduct or neglect of such inspector may maintain suit thereon for his own use. 203. Inspector to Test, § 3. Upon the application of any manufacturer, refiner or producer of, or any dealer in, any such oil or fluid, or of any officer or person to test any such oil or fluid, such in- spector shall test the same with all reasonable dispatch by applying the fire test, as indicated and determined by J. Tagliabue’s pyrometer, or some other instrument or means equally accurate, with which he shall have provided him- self at his own expense. 204r. Test— Casks Marked — Inspector not to Trade in Oil. § 4. If the oils or fluids so tested will not ignite or ex- plode at a temperature less than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, the inspector shall mark, plainly and indelibly on each cask, barrel or package “approved, fire test being but if said oils or fluids will ignite at a temperature less than one hundred and fifty-degrees Fah- renheit, as aforesaid, then the inspector shall mark on each cask, barrel or package “condemned for illuminating pur- poses; fire test being ”. Said inspector, while in office shall not buy, sell, barg’ain or trade, directly or indi„ rectly, in any of the said oils or fluids. 205. Record Kept and Open to Examination. § 5. He shall also, within twenty-four hours after mak- ing an inspection, make a free and fair entry thereof in a record book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be open to all persons wishing to examine the same. STATUTES. 93 !206. Penalty for Misconduct in Office. § 6. Any such inspector or deputy who shall falsely brand any package, cask or barrel, or be .guilty of any fraud, deceit, misconduct or culpable negligence in the performance of any of his official duties, shall be fined not exceeding $200, and be liable to the party injured for all damages occasioned thereby, 207. Penalty for Neglect to Give Notice of, or Selling Oil not Inspected— Counterfeit Brands, Etc. § 7. Any manufacturer, refiner or producer of, or any dealer in coal oil, naphtha, gasoline, benzine, or other min- eral oil or fluid, the product of petroleum, in any city, vil- lage or town in which such inspector is appointed, who shall neglect to give notice to such inspector, of any such oil or fluid in his possession not already inspected by some authorized inspeator of this state, Avithin two days after the same is made or refined by him or received into his possession, or shall offer any such oil or fluid for sale be- fore the same has been so inspected, or shall sell or attempt to sell to any person, tor illuminating purposes, any such oil Avhich is below the approved standard — ^that is, having igniting point less than one hundred and fifty degrees Fah- renheit, as indicated and determined in the manner herein provided, or shall use any package, cask, barrel or other thing having the inspection brand thereon, the oil or fluid therein not having been inspected, or shall counterfeit any brand, shall be fined not exceeding $200 and be liable to the party injured for all damages occasioned thereby, and all the casks, barrels or packages so falsely used, am/ their contents, shall be forfeited and may be seized and sold. 208. Fines, now Recovered and Disposed of. § 8. The fines herein provided may be recovered in the 94 CITY OF JOLIET. luime of the People of the State of Illinois, before any jus- tice of the peace of the county where the offense is com- mitted, one-half shall be paid to the informer, and the other half and the proceeds of the sale of all casks, barrels and packages, and the contents thereof seized, as herein provided, shall be paid into the city, village or town treas- ury. POLICE MAGISTIiATES, AN ACT to authorize the election of jxjlice magistrates in towns, cities and vil lages where the same are not now provided tor by law. [Approved and in force April 13, 1875. Laws 1875, p. 91. ] 209. Election — Term op Office — Jurisdiction and Fees. § 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all towns, cities and villages in the state which have been incorporated un- der charters granted by special acts, or under a general act, when the law under which they are incorporated does not authorize the election of a police magistrate, be and they are hereb}" authorized to elect one police magistrate at the first annual election of town, city or village officers that shall occur after the passage of this act, and quadren- nially thereafter. Such police magistrates shall hold their offices for the same term, be commissioned and qualified, and have the same jurisdiction and fees as police magis- trates of villages have under the general law for the incor- poration of cities and villages. 210. Emergency. § 2. As the first annual election of toMTi, city, and vil- lage officers in many of the towns, cities and villages in this state by this act authorized to elect a police magistrate. STATUTES. 95 will occur before the first clay of July next, after the ad- journment of this General Assembly; therefore an emer- irency exists requiring this act to take effect im- mediately ; therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage: Provided, that t\\Q> tion for police magistrates in cities that have one or more police magistrates, elected under a former organization as a town or city, shall not be held until the term for which said police magistrate or magistrates were elected has ex- pired. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. AN ACT to regulate the means of egress from public buildings. [Approved March 28, 1874. In force July 1, 1874 ] 211 . Doors to Open Outward. § 1. Be it enacted hy the Pe^j^le of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all public build- ings now in process of construction or hereafter to be built or constructed, which may or shall be used for churches, school-houses, operas, theatres, lecture rooms, hotels, pub- lic meetings, town halls, or which may or shall be used for any purpose whereby a collection of people may be assem- bled together for religious worship, amusement or instruc- tion, shall be so built and constructed that all doors lead- ing from the main hall or place where said collection of people may be assembled, or from the principal room that may be used for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be so swung upon their hinges and constructed that said doors shall open outward; and that all means of egress for the public from the main hall or principal room and from the building shall be by means of doors which shall open out- ward from the main hall or building. m CITY OF JOLIET. 212. Penalty. § 2. That any person or persons who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act shall be fined in any sum not less than |100 nor more than $1 ,000. 213. When Public Buildings May be Closed. § 3. That in all cities and towns having' a population of two thousand inhabitants and upwards, the mayor, or other corporate authorities of said town or city shall be empow- ered and he is hereby authorized to close and prohibit, all public building's hereafter erected from being used in vio- lation of this act. PUNISHMENT OF PERSONS VIOLATING ORDI- NANCES. AN ACT to provide for the punishment of persons violating any of the ordi- nances of the several cities and villages in this state, [Approved and in force April 12, 1S79. L, 1879, p. 79 . ] 214. Violations op Ordinances — How Provided. § 1. JJe it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assembly, That in all actions for the violation of any ordinance of any city or village organ- ized under any general or special law of this state, the first process shall be a summons. Provided, however, that a war- rant for the arrest of the offender may issue in the first in- stance, upon the affidavit of any person that any such ordi- nance has been violated, and that the person making the complaint has reasonable grounds to believe the party charged is guilty thereof; and any person arrested on such warrant, shall, without unnecessary delay, be taken before the proper officer, to be tried for the alleged offense. Any person upon whom any fine or penalty shall be imposed may, upon the order of the court or magistrate before whom the STATUTES. 97 conviction is had, he committed to the county jail or the calaboose, city prison, Avork-honse, house of correction, or other place provided 1>y such cities or villag-es by ordinance for the incarceration of such oftenders until such fines, pen- alty and cost shall be full}^ paid ; Provided^ that no such imprisonment shall exceed six months for any one offense. The city council or board of trustees ot any such cities or villages shall have power to provide by ordinance that ev- ery person so committed shall be required to work at such labor as his or her strength will permit, within and with- out such prison, Avorkhouse, house of correction, or other place provided tor the incarceration of such off'enders, not to exceed ten hours each Avorking day ; and tor such Avork the person so employed or Avorked, shall be alloAved,exclu- si\^e of his or her board, the sum of fifty cents for each da}^’s AAmrk on account of such fine and costs. 215. Repeal. § 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent Avith the foregoing section are hereby repealed. 216. Emergency. § 3. Whereas, in some of the cities and Aullages in this state there is no authority for the imprisonment of offend- ers in Avork-houses or houses of correction, and requiring such offenders to Avork, therefore an emergency is declared to exist, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage. ROADS AND BRIDGES, AN ACT in regard to roads and bridges in counties under township organization, and to repeal an act and parts of acts therein named. [Approved June 23, 1883. In force July 1, 1883. L. 1883, p. 137.] ♦ ♦♦♦*** 217. Commissioners — Certificate — Tax Extended — How Col- lected AND Paid. § 16, The commissioners, at said semi-annual meeting, 98 CITY OF JOLIET. shall make a certificate of the rate per centum finally agreed upon, by virtue of sections thirteen and fourteen of this act, also the amount to liquidate road and ditch dam- ages, and shall cause such certificate to be delivered to the town clerk, to be kept by him on file for the inspection of the inhabitants of said town ; and the town clerk shall at once certify these two items of levy to the county clerk, to be by him extended as one tax upon the collector’s books of said town, to be collected as other taxes, and when col- lected shall be paid to the treasurer of the commissioners by the collector as fast as the same is collected, except such rate per cent, as shall be allowed tor collecting the same; Provided, that one-half the tax provided to be levied in section thirteen of this act, and collected for road and bridge purposes on the property lying within an incorpor- ated village, town or city in which the streets and alleys are under the care of the corporation, shall be paid over to the treasurer of such village, town or city, to be appropri- ated to the improvement of roads, streets and bridges, either within or without said village, town or city, and within the township, under the direction of the corporate authorities of such village, town or city; Provided, further, that whenever any of said tax is expended beyond the lim- its of said village, town or city, it shall be with the consent of the road commissioners of the town. SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS. AX ACT to enable the corporate authorities of ciiies to establish and fix the sal- aries of city officers . [Approved and in force April 23, 1873,] 218 . When TO be Fixed — Not Changed During Term. § 1. Be it enacted hy the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, It shall and may be lawful for the common council or legislative authority ot STATUTES. 99 any city in this state to establish and fix the amount of sal- ary to be pahl any and all city officers, as the case maybe except members of such legislative body, in the annual ap- propriation bill, or ordinance made for the purpose of pro- viding for the annual expenses of any such city, or by some ordinance prior to the passage of such annual appropria- tion bill or ordinance; and the salaries or compensation thus fixed or established, shall neither be increased nor di- minished by the said common council or legislative author- ity of any such city, after the passage of said annual appro- priation bill or ordinance, during the year for which such appropriation is made, and no extra compensation shall ever be allowed to any such officer or employee over and above that provided in manner aforesaid. 219 . Emergency. § 2. Whereas the corporate authorities of certain cities in this state have no power to establish or fix the salaries of their city officers in certain cases, whereby an emergen- cy exists requiring this act to take immediate effect : there- fore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. SIDEWALKS. AN ACT to provide additional means for the construction of sidewalks in cities, towns, and villages. [Approved April 15, 1875. In force July 1. 1875. Laws 1875; p. 63.) 220 . Sidewalks by Taxation. § 1. Be it enacted hj the People of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assemhly, That in addition to tlie mode now authorized by law, any city or incorporated town or village may, by ordinance, provide for the con- struction of sidewalks therein, or along or upon any street 100 CITY OF JOLIET. or part of street therein, and may, 1>y such ordinance, pro vide for the pa^nnent of the whole or any part of the cost thereof, by special taxation of the lot, lots or parcels of land tonching’ upon the line where any such sidewalk shall be ordered, and such special taxation may be either by a levy upon an}^ lot of the whole, or any part of the cost of making' any such sidewalk in front of such lot or parcel of land, or by levying the whole or any part of the cost upon each of the lots or parcels of land touching upon the line of such sidewalk, pro rata upon each of said lots or parcels according to their respective values — the values to be de- termined by the last preceding assessment thereof for the purpose of state and county taxation; or the whole or any part of the cost thereot may be levied upon such lots or parcels of land in proportion to their frontag’e upon such sidewalks, or in proportion to their superficial area as may be provided by ordinance ordering the laying down of such sidewalk ; and in case such ordinance shall only require the payment of a part of the cost of such sidewalk to be paid by a special tax as aforesaid, then the residue of such cost shall be paid out of any fund of such city, town, or village, raised by general taxation upon the property thereof, and not otherwise appropriated. 221 , WlIAT OllDINANCE MAY PROVIDE. § 2. Said ordinance shall define the location of such pro- posed sidewalk with reasonable certainty, shall prescribe its width, the materials of which it shall be constructed, and the manner of its construction, and may provide that the materials and construction shall be under the supervision of, and subject to, the approval of some offi- cer or board of officers of such city, town or village, to be designated in said ordinance. Said ordinance shall be pub- STATUTES. 101 lislied as required hy law for other ordinances of said city, town or village, and may require all owners of lots or parcels of land touching the line of said proposed sidewalk to construct a sidewalk in front of their respective lots or parcels in accordance with the specifications of said ordi- nance, within thirty days after such piddication, and in de- tanlt thereof, said materials to he furnished and sidewalk constructed hy said city, town or village, and the cost, or such part thereof as may l)e fixed in said ordinance, may be collected from the respective owners of said lots or ])arcels of land as hereinafter provided. 222 . In Case Owner Neglects to Constkcct. •§ 3. In case of the default of any lot owner or owners to construct the sidewalks, as required by ordinance, and the same sliall l)e constructed by the city, town or village, the cost thereof, or such part of the cost thereof as may have been fixed by said ordinance, may be recovered of the owners so in default by an action of debt in the name of the city, town or village, against such owners respectively in any court of competent jurisdiction, or upon the com- pletion of the Avork by such city, town or village. Such or- dinance may provide that a bill of the cost of such sidewalk showing in separate items the cost of grading, materials, lay- ing doAvn, and supervision, shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such city, toAvn or village, certified to by the offi- cer or board designated by said ordinance to take charge of the construction of said sidcAvalk, together Avith a list of the lots or parcels of land touching upon the line of said sidcAvalk, the names of the owners thereof, and the front- age, superficial area, or assessed value as aforesaid, accord- ing as said ordinance may proAude for the lev}'. of said costs by frontage, superficial area, or assessed Arabic; whereupon 102 CITY OF JOLIET. said clerk shall proceed to prepare a special tax list against said lots or parcels, and the owners thereof, ascertaining- b}' computation the amount of special tax to be charged against each of said lots or parcels and the owners thereof on account of the construction of said sidewalk, according to the rule fixed for the levy of such special tax by said or- dinance, which special tax-list shall be filed in the office of said clerk ; and said clerk shall thereupon issue warrants directed to such officer as may be designated in such ordi- nance, for the collection of the amount of special tax so ascertained and appearing from said special tax-list to be due from the respective owners of the lots or parcels of land touching upon the line of said sidewalk; and such of- ficer shall proceed to collect such warrants in the same manner as constables are authorized to collect executions, and make return thereof, together with the moneys col- lected, to the clerk ot such city, town or village, within sixty days from the date of their issue; and in case any such warrant shall be returned, as to the whole or any part thereof, “no property found,” other warrants may issue, and proceedings by garnishment may be resorted to, as in cases of garnishment in aid of the collection of judgments at law, and all moneys so collected and paid over to said clerk shall be, by him, immediately paid over to the treas- urer of said city, town or village. 223 . Special Tax — Duty of Clerk — Report. § 4. Upon failure to collect such special tax as hereto- fore provided in this act, it shall be the duty of said clerk, within such time as such ordinance may provide, to make report of all such special tax in writing, to such general officer of the county as may be authorized by law to apply for judgment ag'ainst, and sell lands for taxes due county STATUTES. 103 or state, of all the lots or parcels of lands upon which such special tax shall he so unpaid ; with the names of the re- spective owners thereof, so far as the same are known to said clerk, and the amount due and unpaid upon each tract together with a copy of the ordinance ordering the con- struction of said sidewalk, which report shall be accom- panied by the oath of the clerk that the list is a correct re- turn of the lots and parcels of land on which the special tax levied by authority of said city, town or village, for the cost or partial cost (as the case may be) of the sidewalk in said ordinance specified, remains due and unpaid, and that the amounts therein stated as due and unpaid have not been collected, nor any part thereof. Said reports, when so made, shall be jprhna facta evidence that all the forms and requirements of the law in relation to making such re- turn have been complied with, and that the special tax, as mentioned in said report, is due and unpaid. 224 . Genekal Officer to Obtain Judgment — By What Laws Gov- erned, § 5. When said general officer shall receive the afore- said report, he shall at once proceed to obtain judgment against said lots or parcels of land for said special tax re- maining due and unpaid, in the same manner as maybe provided by law for obtaining judgment against lands for taxes due and unpaid to the comity and state, and shall in the same manner proceed to sell the same for the said spec- ial tax due and unpaid. In obtaining said judgment and making said sale, the said officer shall be governed by the general revenue laws of the state, except when otherwise provided herein, and said general laws shall also be applic- able to the execution of certificates of sale, and deeds there- on, and the force and effect of such sales and deeds; and all 104 CITY OF JOLIET, other law&iii relation to the enforcement and collection of taxes, and redemption from tax sales, shall be applicable to proceeding’s to collect such special tax, except as herein otherwise provided. 225 . When Constructed by Owner May Obtain Ohde:r. § d. Whenever payment of the costs of any such side- walk is required to be made in part by special tax, and in part out of any general fund of such city, town, or village and the owner of any such lot or parcel of land shall con- struct such sidevvnilk in accordance wdth the ordinance pro- viding for its construction, such owner shall file with the (derk of such city, town or village, an itemized statement of the cost of such sidewalk so constructed, by him verified by affidavit, together with a certificate of the officer or board directed by such ordinance to superintend the con- struction thereof, that such sidewalk has been constructed and fully completed by'such owner in accordance with such ordinance, and the council of such city, town or village, shall thereupon, at its first meeting thereatter, allow an order to be issued to such owner, an order on the treasurer of such city, town or village, for the cost of the construc- tion of such sidewalk, less the amount of special tax charge- able to the lot or parcel of land of such owner on the line of which such sidewalk has been so constructed. SEWERAGE, AN ACT to enable cities, towns and villages to contract with each other for sew- erage. [Approved May 14, 1879, In force July 1, 1879. L. 1879, p. 75.] 226 . Municipal Corporations May Contract with Each Other FOR Sewerage. § 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assemhly, That whenever any STATUTES, 105 city, or incorporated town or village, shall be adjacent or contiguous to any other city, or incorporated town or vil- lage, they shall be authorized to contract with each other upon such terms as may be agreed upon between them, to allow and permit the one the use and benefit of any sewer or drain, or of any system of sewerage or drainage hereto- fore constructed, or which may l)e hereafter constructed by the other, and further that any such sewer or drain or sys- tem of sewerage or drainage constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed by the one, may be extended or furnished to the inhabitants of the other, and they may by contract with each other provide for the joint construction of any sewer or drain by the municipalities so contracting, and for the common use thereof by the inhabitants of such municipalities. 227. Contracts — How Made. § 2. The contract contemplated in section one of this act may be made by ordinance or resolution duly enacted or passed by the common council, board ot trustees, or other proper legislative authority of the city or incorporated town or village confirming or agreeing to such contract and every such contract when ratified or confirmed by the proper corporate authorities of the municipal corporations who are parties thereto, shall be in all respects valid and binding. SEWERAGE, WATER AND LIGHT TAXES. AN ACT in relation to the levy and collection of taxes for sewerage and water •works in cities of this state, that may have established a system of sewerage and water works for such city, and to repeal an act therein named, and to authorize the cities, villages and incorpomted towns of this state to levy and collect taxes to pay for water and light. [Approved June 21, 1883. In force July 1.1883. L. 1883. p. 68.] 228. Sewerage Fund Tax. § 1. Be it enacted hy the Peoyyle of the Stale of Illinois,, represented in the General Assembly,, That the legislative 106 CITY OF JOLIET. authority of any city which now has, or may hereafter es- tablish a system of sewerage for such city shall have power annnally, to levy and collect a tax upon the taxable real and personal estate of such city, not to exceed one mill on a dollar, for the extension and laying of sewers therein, and the maintenance of such sewers, which tax shall be known as “The sewerage fund tax,” and shall be levied and collected in the same manner that other general taxes of any such city are levied and collected: Provided^ however, that the board of public works of such city, if any, or the head of the sewer department of such city, shall first certi- fy to such legislative authority the amount that wi,ll be necessary for such purpose : Provided, further, that a two- third majority of all the members elect of the legislative authority of such city, may levy a tax for such purposes, not to exceed three mills on each dollar of the taxable property of such city. 229 . Water Fund and Light Ta^. § 2. The legislative authority of any city Avhich now has, or which may hereafter have established or hired wa- ter works, for the supply of water to the inhabitants there- of, shall have power to amiually levy and collect a tax upon the taxable real and personal estate of any such city, Avhether organized under a special charter or the general law, not to exceed one mill on the dollar, for the extension of water mains or pipes therein, and the maintenance of such water-works, or to the creation of a sinking fund to be applied to the establishment of water works, which tax shall be known as the “water fund tax,” and shall be levied and collected in the same manner that other general taxes of any such city are levied and collected : Provided, that the board of public works of such city, if any, or the head STATUTES. 107 of the water department of such city, shall first certify to such legislative authorit}^ the amount that will be neces- sary for such purposes, and shall further certify that the reA^enue or income from such Avater Avorks Avill be insuffi- cient therefor : Provided further, that tAvo thirds majority of all the members elect of the legislatiA^e authority of such city may iGvy a tax for such purposes, not to exceed three mills on each dollar of the taxable property of such city ; And 2^'f'ovided, furthiv, that the legislative authority of each of the cities, villages and incorporated toAvns. in this state, Avith the concurrence of tAvo-thirds of the members thereof, shall be authorized to levy, and collect annually, upon the taxable property Avithin its limits, in addition to all other taxes noAV authorized by laAV, a tax of not exceed- ing three mills on the dolLar of such taxable property to be used exclusiA^ely for the purpose of lighting streets, and a further tax of not exceeding tAVo mills on the dollar of such taxable property to be used exclusively for the purpose of supplying Avater to such city, village or incorporated town. Provided, also, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to increase the amount of aofS'reo^ate taxes that may be levied in any one year by any city or village, as provided in section one (1), of article VIII of an act entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and vil- lages.” Approved Apil 10, 1872. 230. Repeal, § 3. An act, entitled “an act in relation to the levy and collection of taxes for se Average and Avater works in the cities of this state, that may have established a system of seAverage and Avater AVorks for such city.” Approved and in force April 22, 1871, is hereby repealed. 108 CITY OF JOLIET. TAXES. AN ACT in regard to the assessment and collection of municipal taxes. [Ap- proved May 23, 1871. In force July 1. 1877. Laws 1877.] 231. TIow May be Assessed and Collected. § 1. Be it enacted hy the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, Thiit all cities, vil- lages and incorporated towns, in this state whether organ- ized under the general law or special charter, shall asssess and collect their taxes in the manner provided for in article eight (8) of the act entitled, “An act to provide for the in- corporation of cities and villages,'’ approved April 10, 1872, and in the manner provided for in the general rev- enue laws of this state; and all acts or parts of acts, incon- sistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. [See §§ 112, 116, also “Eevenue,” ch. 120, § 122. [Note— T ins act in etfect repeals that ot April 15, 1873, See R. S. 1874, p. 254 The act of May 5, 1877, for collection of back taxes, and of May 21 1877, to cure de- fects in water assessment are omitted, being temporary. SURPLUS FUND OF TAX. AN ACT to prohibit any city, town or village in this state from receiving from the county treasury a greater proportion of the surplus fund or tax than shall be received by any other city, town or village within the same county. [Ap- proved May 4, 1877, and in force July 1, 1877. Laws 1877, p. 55.] 232. Proportion OF Tax. § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assembly, That no city, town or village within any county in this state, shall be entitled to or shall receive from the county treasury of such county any greater proportion of surplus of all taxes which may be collected for county purposes, than any other city, town or village within the county. 233. Drawback — Amount City, Etc., May Receive. § 2. Nor shall any such city, town or village be entitled STATUTES. 109 to, or receiv^e from the comity treasurer any greater draw- back of its proportion of the taxes paid into the comity treasury, by reason of any appropriation liy the comity board, out of the comity treasury for the making and re- pairing of roads and highways, the building and repairing of bridges in such comity, without any such city, town or village within such coimtyj than is now allowed by law to all other cities, towns and villages within the same comity. Any acts, or parts of acts, conflicting with this act, are hereby repealed. REBATE AND REDUCTION OF TAXES, ETC. AN ACT to prevent the unjust collection, hy incorporated cities and towns, of taxes levied upon property destroyed by tire, and to authorize the common council of such cities, or board of trustees of such towns, to change or amend appropriation bills, to pa^^s new appropriation bills, to reduce taxes and spec- ial assessments in certain cases and to discontinue special improvements. [Approved and in force Jannary 18, 1872. L. 1871-2, p. 270.] 234 . itEBATE When Property Destroyed. § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State oj Illinois^ represented in the General Assembly^ That whenever, in any incorporated city or town in this state, any property listed or assessed for municipal taxation, shrll have been or shall hereafter be destroyed by Are, in whole or in part, before the levy of the municipal taxes of such city thereon, or be- fore the municipal taxes levied thereon shall have been collected, it shall and may be lawful for the mayor of such city or town — if there be no mayor, then the president of the board of trustees, the city comptroller if there be one; and if not, then the city clerk or town clerk, and the tax commissioner, if there should be one; if not, then the chairman of the finance committee of the city council or b I of trustees — to rebate or remit so much of such tax or no ClTl" OF JOLIET. taxes, so levied upon such property, as in their opinion should be rebated or remitted by reason of such property having been, in whole, or in part destroyed by fire. 235 . Reduce or Release Tax or Assessment. § 2, That whenever, in any incorporated city or town in this state, any large portion of the taxable property of such city shall have been or shall hereafter be destroyed by fire, so as to seriously impair or affect the ability of the property owners of such city or toAvn to pay taxes or special assessments thereon, and an appropriation bill has been made or passed, or special improvements ordered before such fire, and the tax or assessment for the payment or raising of the same has not been levied or collected, it may be lawful for the city council or board of trustees of any such town to alter, revise, change, reduce or vacate or re- peal such appropriation bill, or any part of the same, and to order the discontinuance of said special improvements, or any of the same, or to reduce the amount of taxes or special assessments ordered to be levied, or assessed, or col- lected for any general or special purpose, and to pass a iieAV appropriation bill; Avhich new appropriation bill shall have the same force Jind effect as if the same had been passed within the time prescribed by the charter of any such city or such corporate town. 236 . Emergency. § 3. Whereas a large amount of property listed for tax- ation in the city of Chicago, and in other cities and towns ot this state, has been destroyed by fire before the taxes thereon have been paid, which taxes it would be unjust to collect, it is declared that an emergency exists that this law go into force immediately, and therefore it is enacted hat this law shall be in force from and after its passage. STATUTES. Ill ANNEXING AXI) KXCLUDIXG TERRITORY. AN ACT to provide for anrexiii" and oxcludinj? territory to and from cities, towns and villaj^es, and to unite cities, towns and villages. [Approved April 10, 1872. In force July 1, 1872. L, 1871-2, p. 264.] 237 . Petition to kk Annexed — Annexing. § 1. ]h it ev acted h\j the recycle of the State of Illinois represented in the General As>^einhly, That on petition, in writin;:^, signed by not less than three-fourths of the legal voters, and by the owners ot not less than three-fourths (in value) of the property in any territory contiguous to any city or incorporated village or town, and not embraced within its limits, the city council or board of trustees ot said city, village or town (as the case may be,) may, by or- dinance annex su(‘h territory to such city, village or town, upon the filing of a co[>y of such ordinance, with an accurate map of the territory annexed (duly certified by the mayor of the city or president of the board of trustees of the vil lage or town,) in the office of the recorder of deeds in the county where the annexed territory is situated, and having the same recorded therein: Provided^ that no portion, less than the whole of an incorporated city, town or village, shall be annexed to another incorporated city, town or vil- lage, exce[)t in the mode provided in tliis act for the annex- ation of the whole of an incorjiorated city, town or village, to another city, town or village. 238 . Annexing One Coupouation to Another, § 2, Any incorporated city, village or town may be an- nexed to another incorporated city, village or town, by or- dinance iiassed by a two-thirds vote ot all the aldermen or trustees elect of each corporation desiring annexation : Pro- vided^ such annexation shall not elfector impair any rights or liabilities either in favorof or against such corporations; ;'.:rl suits tVmnded u[)On such ifights and liabilities may be 112 CITY OF JOLIET. commenced, and pending suits may be prosecuted and car- ried to final judgments and execution, the same as if such annexation had not taken place. In making such annexa- tion, the corporations so uniting may by ordinance, fix the terms of the annexation, which shall have the force and eftect of a binding contract: Provided^ however^ that no such ordinance shall be of any binding force or effect until submitted to a vote of the legal voters of such city, town or village, at a general election thereof, and adopted by a majority of all the voters voting thereon at such election, notice of Avhich shall be given at the same time and in the same manner as required for the election of the officers of such city, town or village: And ^ provided^ that the vote shall beby ballot, which shall be “for union ordinance” or “against union ordinance,” and shall be received, can- vassed and returned the same as ballots for municipal offi- cers of such city, town or village. Note.— Sections 3 to 8 inclusive, of this act, have been oinittei under the case of \he City of Galesburg vs. Hawkinson. 75 111. 152. 239 , Map and Ordinance Recorded. § 9. When any territory is annexed to any city, village or town, as provided in this act, it shall be the duty of the mayor of the city, or the, president of the board of trustees of the village or town, (as the case may be,) to cause an ac- curate map of such added territory, together with the or- dinance for the annexation, certified by such mayor, and if a decree or order of the court has been made therefor, a copy of the same, to be filed for record and recorded in the recorder’s office for the county in which such added ter- ritory is situated. If territory is disconnected or excluded trom any city, village or town, a copy of the ordinance or decree therefor shall be so filed for rf^cord and recorded. statutp:s. 113 24:0. School Districts. § 10. .Vll school districts, and other corporations incor- porated for school purposes under special acts of the legis- lature, desiring to annex or disannex territory, may pro- ceed under the provisions of this act. 241. J CDiciAL Notice. §11. All courts in this state shall take judicial notice of cities, towns and villages, and of the changes of their territory, made under the provisions of this act. ISSUING A AEKANTS ON COUNTY TREASUREE, ETC. 4N ACT to provide for the immiier of issuing warrants upon the treasurer of any county, township, city, school district, or other municipal corporation and ju- rors’ certificates. Approved May 31st, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. L. 1879, p 78. 242. When Warrants May re Drawn on County Treasurer, Etc. § 1. Be it enacted hy the Feoy^le of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assemhly^ That warrants payable on demand shall hereafter be drawn and issued upon the treasurer of this state, or of any county, township, city, school district, or other municipal corporation, or against any fund in his hands, only when at the time of the draw- ing and issuing of such warrants, there shall lie sufficient money in the appropriate fund in Ihe treasury to pay said warrants. 243. May re Issued in Anticipation of Taxes. § 2. That whenever there is no money in the treasury of any county, township, city, school district, or other mu- nicipal corporation to meet and defray the ordinary and necessary expenses thereof, it shall be lawful for the proper authorities of any county, township, city, school district, or other municijial corporation to provide that warrants may 114 CITY OF JOLIET. be drawn and issued against and in anticipation of the col- lection of any taxes, already levied by said authorities for the payment of the ordinary and necessary expenses of any such municipal corporation, to the extent of seventy-live per centum of the total amount ot said tax levy; Provided, that warrants drawn and issued under the provisions of this section shall show upon their face that they are pay- able solely from said taxes when collected, and not other- wise, and shall be received b}^ any collector of taxes in payment of taxes against which they are issued, and which taxes, against which said warrants are drawn, shall be set apart and held tor their payment. 244 . Juror’s Certificates. § 3. All Juror’s certificates shall hereafter be issued in confonnity with the provisions of this act. WATER WORKS. AN ACT authorizing cities, incorporated towns and villages to construct and * maintain water works. [Approved and in force April 15, 1873.] 245 . Power to Supplv Water — Letting Contract. § 1 . Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all cities, incor- porated towns and villages in this State be and are hereby authorized, and shall have power to provide for a supply of Avater for the purposes of fire protection, and for the use of the inhabitants of such cities, incorporated toAvns or vil- lages, by the erection, construction and maintaining of a system of AvaterAVorks or by uniting with any adjacent city, incorporated toAvn or Aullage, in the erection, con- struction and maintaining of a system of AvaterAA orks for STATUTES. 115 the joint use of such cities, incorporated towns or villages, or by procuring such supply of water from any adjacent city, incorporated town or village already having water- works; Provided^ that all contracts for the erection or (‘onstrnction of such works, or any part thereof, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder therefor, upon not less than three weeks’ public notice of the terms and conditions upon which the contract is to be let having been given, by publication in a newspaper published in such city, town, or village; or if no newspaper is published therein, then in some newspaper published in the county; And, pi^ovided farther, that no member of the City Council or Board of Trustees, or Mayor, shall be directly or indirectly inter- ested in any such contract ; and in all cases the Council or Board of Trustees, as the case may be, shall have the right to reject any or all bids that may not be satisfactory to them. [As amended b}" act approved and in force May 14, 1879. L. 1879. p. 04.] 246 . Borrow Money — Tax. § 2. Such cities, incorporated towns and villages may borrow money and levy and collect a general tax in the same manner as other municipal taxes may be levied and collected, for the erection, construction and maintaining of such waterworks, and appropriate money for the same. 247 . May Acquire Property for Works, Etc. § 3. For the purpose of erecting, constructing, locating, maintaining or supplying such water works, any such city, incorporated town or village may go beyond its territorial limits, and may take, hold and acquire property and real estate, by purchase or otherwise; and shall also have the power to take, hold and acquire and condemn any and all CITY OF JOLIET. 11 G necessary property and real estate for the location, erec- tion, construction and maintaining’ of such water Avorks, in the manner provided for the taking and condemning of private property for public use; and may also acquire and hold real estate and other property and rights necessary for the location, erection, construction and maintenance of such Avater AVorks by purchase or otherAvdse; and the juris- diction of such city, toAvn or village to prevent or punish any pollution or injury to the stream or source of water for the supply of such Avater Avorks, shall extend ten miles beyond its corporate limits. 248. Rules — Tax — Assessment — Lien. • § 4. The Common Council of such cities, or Trustees of such toAvns or villages, shall have power to make and en- force all needful rules and regulations in the erection, con- struction and management of such Avater AVorks, and for the use of Avater supplied b}^ the same. And such cities, towns or villages shall have the right and poAver to tax, assess and collect from the inhabitants thereof such tax, rent or rates for the use and benefit of Avater used or sup- plied to them by such water AVorks, as the Common Council or bojird of trustees, as the case may be, shall deem just and expedient. And all such Avater taxes, rates or rents shall be a lien upon the premises and real estate upon or for Avhich the same is used or supplied. And such taxes, rent or rates shall be paid and collected, and such lien enforced, in such manner as the Common Council shall by ordinance direct and proAude. 24^). Special Assessaient. § 5. The expense of locating', erecting' and constructing reservoirs and hydrants for the purpose of fire protection. STATUTES. 117 and the expense of eonstrncthio’ and laying’ water main pipes, or sneli part thereof as may be just and lawful, may be assessed upon and eolleeted from the property and real estate specially benefitted thereby, if any, in snob manner as may be provided for the making' of special assessments for other public improvements in such cities, towns or villages. 2.)0. Separate Taxes, § (). All the income received by snch cities, towns or villages from snch water works, from the payment and col- lection of water taxes, rents or rates, shall be kept in a separate fund, and shall first be applied in the payment and discharge of the costs, interest on bonds, or money bor- rowed and used in the erection and construction of such water works and miming expenses thereof, and any sur- plus may be applied in such manner as the Common Coun- cil or board of trustees may direct. S-ll. When Act NOT Apply. § 7. The provisions of this act shall not apply to cities, towns or villages in which water works are now managed or controlled by a board of public works. '2.>2. Emergency. § 8. AVhereas, many ot the cities embraced in this act are entirely without adequate protection from fires, and are without lawful authority to provide the necessary means of protection authorized by this act; therefore, an emergency exists that this act should take effect immediate- ly; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 118 CITY OF JOLIET. AN ACT to provide for the laying of Water Supply Pipes by Bonds and Special As- sessments, payable in installments. [Approved and in force, March 17. 1874 ] 253. Bonds — assessments payable in installments. § 1. Be it enacte^i hg the People of the State of lUinois^ represented in the General Assembly^ That whenever the corporate authorities of any city, town or village shall'pro- vicle, by ordinance, for the laying of Avater supply pipes, to be paid for by a special assessment to be made under the provisions of article nine of the act of the general assem- bly, entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,” approved April 10, A. D. 1872, such corporate authorities may, in their discretion, provide in such ordinance, or by an ordinance to be adopted at any time prior to the issuance of the warrant to the collector for the collection of such assessment, that the amount of the estimated cost of such improvement shall be provided for in the folloAviiig manner, to-Avit : That bonds of the city, toA\m or village, as the case may be, shall be issued for such portion of the estimated cost of such improvement as shall be apportioned to the city, toAvn or village as public lienefit, payable at such time or times, within tAventy years, as may be provided by said ordinance, or it may in such or- dinance be provided that all or any portion of the amount, so apportioned as public benefits, may be made by general taxation in accordance Avith the provisions contained in said article nine, and that the portion of sai d estimated cost Avhich shall be assessed upon property specially benehtted, shall be payable in such annual installments, not exceeding ten in number, as may in such ordinance be prescribed: Provided^ that nothing in this section shall authorize any city, toAvn or village to issue such bonds to an amount, in- eludinii: all existing: indebtedness, in e.Kcess of the chartei* STATUTES, 119 statutory or constitutional limitation ot the indebtedness of such city, town or village. 254. When INSTALLMENTS payable — INTEREST. § 2. Whenever such corporate authorities shall have provided by ordinance for the making of such improvement in the manner prescribed in section one of this act, the first installment of the amount assessed upon property specially benefitted shall be payable immediately upon the issuance, by the clerk of such city, town or village, of his warrant to the collector, and the subsequent installments shall be payable annually thereafter, with interest until paid, at such rate as shall be prescribed in such ordinance not ex- ceeding ten per cent per annum. 255. Applies TO assessments already ordered. § 3. This act shall apply to assessments already ordered for the purpose set forth in section 1 of this act, and to the ordinances in relation thereto, as well as to ordinances hereafter to be adopted. 25B. Emergency. § 4. Whereas, certain cities, towns and villages are about to lay water supply pipe, and are desirous of availing themselves of the provisions of this act, therefore, an emer- gency is declared to exist, and this act shall take effect and be in force trom and after its passage. AN ACT to enable cities and villages to contract for a supply of water tor public use, and to levy and collect a tax to pay for water so supplied. [Approved April 9, 1872, in force July 1, 1872. L. 1871-2 p. 271.] § 1. Be it enacted hy the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General AssemHy^ That in all cities and 120 CITY or JOLIET. villages where water works may hereafter. l>e colis true ted l)y ail iiieorporated company, the city or village authorities ill such cities and villages may contract with such incor- porated company tor a supply of water for public use for a period not exceeding thirty years. 258. Tax. § 2. Any such city or village so contracting may levy and collect a tax on all taxable property within such city or village, to pay for the water so supplied. OPERATING WATER WORKS. AN ACT to aid cities owning or operating water works to secure an additional or lietter supply of pure wax er. [Approved and in force May 27, 1881- L. 1881, p. 157.] 250. §1. 7 je it enacted hy the Pe'^ple of the State of Illinois^ represented in thr, General Assembly^ That all cities owning or operating water works under any charter gTanted by act of any general assembly of this state, or under the general incorporation laws of this state, whether by boards of Avater (‘ommissioners or by officers appointed for that purpose, are hereby granted the following powers and privileges for the purpose of increasing or bettering the source of supply from Avhich sucli Avater is obtained. 2G0. Powers of boakd — may raise aioney — -a^ote. § 2. Whenever, in the judgment of a majority of any board of Avater commissioners, or if there be no such board, then in the judgment of the majority of the city council ot any city owning or operating such Avater Arorks, it shall be necessary for the pulilic health, or for an}* other cause. STATUTES, 121 to increase the source of water supply, or to substitute for it such better source as in their judgment the interests of such city may demand, such board of water commissioiiers or city council may, in addition to the powers already con- ferred upon them by act of any general assembly of this state, construct wells either by boring or excavation and protect and etpaip the same after construction or may lease water privileges, from private parties or corporations own- ing wells already or hereafter to be constructed, and may l)ay for such construction or lease and for the expenses maintained in operating the same out of any earnings of such water works under their control which may be in their hands at the time of the taking effect of this act, or which may accrue to them hereafter; Provided^ that no money shall be expended under the provisions of this act for the purposes herein specified until the question of the expenditure of such money for the purposes aforesaid shall have been submitted to a vote of the people of the city in which such water works may be situated, at any election for city officers or special election called tor that purpose by the city council of said city, and shall have secured a ma- jority of the votes cast at such election: Provided further ^ that no money shall be expended under the provisions of this act for the purpose aforesaid other than the surplus earnings of such water works. Emergency. § 3. (Omitted.) VACATION OF STKEETS, ALLEYS AND HIGHWAYS. AN ACT to revise the law in relation to the vacation of streets and alleys. [Aj> proved March 24th, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 261 . Three-fourths VOTE required — Damages. § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of IHinois^ represented in the General Assembly^ That no city council of 122 CITY or JOLIET. any city, or board of trustees of any village or town, wheth- er incorporated by special act or under any general law, shall have power to vacate or close any street or alley, or any portion of the same, except under a three-fourths ma- jority of all the aldermen of the city or trustees of the vil- lage or town authorized by law to be elected ; such vote to be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the records of the council or board. And when property is damaged by the vacation or closing of any street or alley, the same shall be ascertained and paid as provided by law. 262. Rights of adjoining owners. § 2. When any street, alley, lane or highway, or any part thereof, has been or shall be vacated under or by virtue of any act of this state or by order of the city council of any city, or trustees of any village or town, or by the commis- sioners of highways, county board, or otlier authority au- thorized to vacate the same, the lot or tract of land immed- iately adjoining on either side shall extend to the central line of such street, alley, lane or highway or part thereof so vacated, unless otherwise specially provided in the act, or- dinance or order vacating the same, unless, in consequence of more of the land for such street, alley, lane or highway having been contributed from the land on one side thereof than the other, such division is inequitable, in which case the street, alley, lane or higliAvay so vacated shall be di- vided according' to the equities of the adjoining owner. [L. 1865, p. 130, § 1. BRIDGES. AN ACT to enable cities and villages to build, acquire and maintain bridges and ferries, outside of their corporate limits, and to control the same. [Approved and in force May 5, '.879 .] 263. May Construct Ferries and Bridges. § 1. Be it enacted hy the Pe^^^yyle of the State of Illinois, represented in, the General Assembly, That it shall be law- STATUTES. 123 fill for any city or village within the state to build or ac- quire by purchase, lease or gift, -and to maintain ferries and bridges, and the approaches thereto, not exceeding four acres of land for each ferry or bridge within the cor« porate limits, or at any point within five miles of the cor- porate limits of such city or village. That all such ferries and bridges shall be free to the public, and that no toll shall ever be collected by any such city or village au- thority. 264. Control by City, § 2. Every bridge and ferry so owned or controlled by such city or village, and the approaches thereto, when out- side of the corporate limits, shall be subject to the munici- pal control and ordinances of such city or village, the same to all intents and purposc^s, and in effect as though such bridge or ferry and the approaches thereto, were situated within the corporate limits of such city or village, and in such case, the county may assist in the construction of said bridge, as is now provided by law. 265. Emergency. § 3. Whereas, certain cities in this state have built bridges outside of their corporate limits, over which they have no police control; therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from and after its passage. AN A.CT to regulate the manner of travel upon bridges, the whole or a part of which are owned or controlled by cities, villages and towns of this state, and to provide for the enforcing of the same. [Approved and in force May 13, 1879. 266. Penalty for Fast Driving, Etc. § 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois^ represented in the General Assembly, That whoever shall 124 CITY OF JOLIET. ride or drive faster than a walk over any bridge in this state, owned or controlled, either the whole or a part thereof, by any city, village or town of this state, shall for each offense be fined in a sum not exceedino- ten dollars nor O less than one dollar: Provided^ that a notice shall be posted on such bridge, warning against riding or driving on such bridge faster than a walk, such line to be recovered with costs, before any justice of the peace or police magis- trate of the county wdiere the ofteiise is committed, upon sworn complaint in writing, upon which a warrant for the arrest of the offender shall issue, and it shall be the duty of ever}^ constable of the county, and ever marshal, police- man and police constable, and all other officers of such city, village or town, owning or controlling the whole or in part such bridge, having the power to make arrests, whenever aforesaid offense is committed in the view of such officer or officers, to forthwith take in custody the person or persons so committing aforesaid offense, and bring* him or them be- fore any justice of the peace or police magistrate of the county, to be dealt with according to law, and such officer so taking* in custody such offender, or any officer of such city, village or town, owning or controlling the whole or a part of such bridge where such offense is committed, may make the complaint upon which warrant shall issue against the offender. All fines collected under this act, shall be paid into the common school fund of the county. Wheveas^ the law is inadequate for the protection of bridges which are owned or controlled, the whole or part thereof, by cities villages and towns of this state, therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect from and after its pas- sage. STATUTES. 125 CITY BOUNDARIES. AN ACT to amend the Charter of the City of Joliet. [Approved March 1, 18H7; Private Laws, 1867, p. 619. 267 . § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of lllmow^ • represented in the General Assembly^ That section one of chapter one, of the charter of the city of Joliet, be so amended that the boundaries of said city shall be described as follows, to-wit: That all of sections nine, ten, fifteen and sixteen, in township thirty-five, north range ten, east of the third principal meridian, except that part of section fifteen (15), lying south and east of the center of Hickory creek, and that part of said sections ten and fifteen (10 and 15), lying east of the center of Spring creek, and also ex- cepting the east-half of the east-half of section ten (10), the boundaries shall also include the south-half of the south- half of section four (4), township thirty-five north, range ten, east of the third principal meridian. SCHOOLS. PRIVATE LAAVS OF 1857, PAGES 219, 220, 221. Seo. 1. City divided into two districts. Boundaries of. “ 2, Inspectors. Election of. “ 3. School property vested in the city. ■“ 4. Council have power — 1. To erect school houses. 2. To buy or condemn sites and lots for school houses. 3. To furnish school houses with necessai-y fixtures. 4. To maintain schools. 5. To fix compensation of teachers. 6. To prescribe school books, etc. 7. To prescribe the duties of the board of school inspectors. 8. To demand of the treasurer of school fund of T. 35, R. 10 E. certain portion of said .school fund. 9. General powem. 5. Inspectors, duties of ** 6. Additions to city for school purposes . City to levy taxes, etc. Separate ballot boxes to be provided. 126 CITY OF JOLIET. 26S. § 1. The city of Joliet shall be divided into two school districts, as follows: All that portion of the city lying west of the DesPlaines river, shall constitute school dis- trict number one, and all that lying east of said river shall constitute district number two. 269. § 2. There shall be elected at the first election held un- der this act, three school inspectors in each school district; one in each district to hold his office one year; one two years; and one three years, to be determined by lot, so that one inspector shall be elected in each district in each year thereafter, to hold his office for three years. 270. § 3. That all buildings, lots, and property belonging to the several school districts within the jurisdiction of said city, are hereby vested in said city for school purposes. 271. § 4. The city council shall have power: First — To build, erect, repair, purchase, hire or lease, I>uildiiigs for school houses and other school purposes. Second — To buy, condemn and appropriate, or lease sites and lots for school houses and the necessary grounds. Third — To furnish schools and school houses with the necessary library, furniture, apparatus, fixtures, appurte- nances and conveniences. Fourth — To establish and maintain schools, and to levy and collect taxes for the payment of teachers, and all other expenses necessary for the proper support of such schools. Fifth — To fix the amount or compensation to be allowed to teachers. STATUTES. 127 i^iXTH — To prescribe the school hooks to be used, and the studies to be taught in the different schools. Seventh — To prescribe the duties of the board of school inspectors. Eighth — To demand and receive from the trustees of schools of township thirty-five north, range ten, in the county of Will, and from the treasurer of the school fund of said township, semi-annually such portion of the inter- est of said school fund and such other funds as the school districts ot said city or the schools therein, are now or hereafter may be by law entitled to receive. Ninth — And generally have and possess all the rights, powers and authority necessary for the proper regulation and management of schools in said city, and to enact and enforce such ordinances, by-laws and regulations, as may be necessary to carry their powers and duties into effect. 272 , § 5. It shall be the duty of the board of school inspec- tors on or before the last Tuesday in each school year, to publish in the corporation newspaper, a full report of the number of pupils instructed in the year preceeding ; the sev3 eral branches of education pursued by them ; the amount paid to each teacher; the incidental expenses of each school, and the receipts and expenditures of the respective schools, specifying the sources of such receipts, and the ob- ject of such expenditures. 273 . § 6. That all that part of section three, which is east of the Des Plaines river, the whole of section two, the west half of section eleven, the east quarter ot section ten, in township thirty-five north, range ten, east of the third 128 CITY OF JOLIET. principal meridian, be, and the same are, added to, and made a part of school district No. two* and section four, and that part of section three lying west of the Des Plaines river in the same township, is hereliy added to, and made a part of school district No. onef in said city of Joliet, for school purposes and no other, and the said city is hereby fully authorized and empowered to levy and collect taxes, on all property of all kinds in said territory hereby an- nexed, the same as in other parts of said city, for the erect- ing buildings, leasing and repairing school houses, and furnishing the same, purchasing libraries and the neces- sary apparatus therefor, the support and maintenance of schools, and for all other school purposes, and tor no other purpose; and to have and exercise all necessary jurisdic- tion over said territory, and the property, and rights of property therein, fully to carry out and into effect the pro- visions of this section ; and the legal voters of said territo- ries hereby attached, are hereby authorized to vote tor school inspectors of said city, in any ward ot said city, in their respective school districts, and are hereby declared eligible to the office of school inspectors in their respective school districts. Separate ballot boxes for each ward shall be provided, in which the inspectors of election shall re- ceive all votes cast for school inspectors, the names for which shall be on a separate ticket. AN ACT to extend the jurisdictior of the City of Joliet for school purposes. Ap- proved Februaiy 16, 1865. Sec 1. Addition to the city for school purposes. S. E. quarter section 5 added. § 1. Be it enacted ly the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the south east NOTES.“*Section 6 amended. See post section 221, 323. tSection 6 amended . See post section 218. STATUTES. 129 quarter of section number live in township number thirty- live, and range nnmber ten, in the county of AYill and state of Illinois, be added to the city of Joliet for school pur- poses, and for no other purposes, and tlie inhabitants there- of to have like rights and franchises, and, be subject to like duties and taxes in all school matters with the other in- habitants of said city. 275 . § 2. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. AN ACT to amend the Charter of the City of Joliet, Approved March 1, 1867. Pr. L. 1867, pp 619 and 621. Sec 2. Council to levy tax. 10. Addition for school purposes. 276 . § 1. Be it en/acted hy the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: 1st. That article sec- ond, of section one, of chapter live be so amended as to read as follows, to-wit: To annually levy and collect a school tax, not exceeding ten mills on the dollar, on all real and personal estate, to meet the expenses of purchas- ing grounds for school houses, for building and repairing school houses, and supporting and maintaining schools. 277 . § 10. That that part of the north east quarter of section twenty-one, township thirty-live north, range ten east, etc., which lies east of the Chicago & St. Louis Kailroad, be and the same is added to, and made a part of, school district No. two (2) in the city of Joliet, in Will county. 278 . § 11. All acts and parts of acts coming in conllict with provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 130 CITT OF JOLIET. This act shall take effect and be in force from and alter its passage. AN ORDINANCE under the act of April 10, 1872. Sections 1 and 10, Rev. Statutes of 1874, [pp. Ill and 112 of this compilation.] Passed and approved March 14,1877 279 . Be it ordained hy the City Council of the City of Joliet^ § 1 . That that part of the south half of section fifteen (15), in township thirty-five (35) north, and of range ten 10) east (of the third P. M., which lies south of Hickory creek, (except the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of said section), be, and it is hereby annexed to school dis- trict No. 2, of the city of Joliet, for school purposes. ORDINANCES. AN ORDINANCE IN Revision of The General Ordinances, -;OF THE:— CITY OF JOLIET, Be it ordained hy the City Council of the City of Joliet: CHAPTER I. ANIMALS, POUND AND POUND KEEPERS. Sec. 1. Animals running at large. 2. Penalty for. 3. Duty ot officers in this chapter. 4. If defendant not found, case continued. 5. When proceeds of sale exceed judgment. 6. Before sale, owners may redeem. 7. Penalty for breaking open city pound. 8. Penalty for hindering an officer. 9 . Bridewell keeper to be poundmaster. 10. Poundmaster keep register. § 1. That it shall he unlawful for any swine, mule, horse, sheep or goat to run at large within the limits of the city of Joliet ; and it shall also he unlawful for neat cattle to rim at large within the limits of said city, hetweeii the hours of eight o’clock in the atternoon and five o’clock in the morning, and such running at large is hereby declared a nuisance. 132 ORDINANCES. § 2. If any person shall suffer or allow any swine, horse, mule, neat cattle, sheep or goat to run at large in the city of Joliet, in violation of the ioregoing section, such person or persons shall be deemed the author of such nuisance as mentioned in the said section, and on conviction shall be subject to a line of not less than two dollars and not more than twenty-five dollars, and costs of suit for each and every offense. § 3. If any swine, horse, mule, neat cattle, sheep or goat shall be found running at large within the limits of the city of eJoliet at a t:me when they are prohibited from being at large by this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets, poundm ister or police officer or officers to take up said swine, horse, mule, neat cattle, sheep or goat, and put them into the common pound, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the police magistrate or justice of the peace on complaint made, to issue a warrant against the owner or owners of said swine, horse, mule, neat cattle, sheep or goat, as in other ca-es, and upon return of said warrant, the fact of said animals rnnning at large shall be tried and proceedings be had as in other cases before said police magistrate; and in case it shall be found by the court or jury that the said swine, horse, mule, neat cattle, sheep, or goat were found running at large in the city of Joliet, by permission of the said defendant, the court shall assess a fine in accordance with Section Two of this chapter, and as a part of said judgment the court shall make an order that the said officer or officers shall sell said animals at public sale, upon first publishing notice thereof in the corporation newspaper for one week, to the highest bidder for cash, to satisfy said judgment and costs: Pro- ANIMALS. 133 videdy said judgment and costs are not paid by said defendant. § 4. In case the said warrant shall be returned by said officer “the defendant not found,” the case shall be con- tinued until publication of notice of said suit, which publi- cation shall be for one Aveek in said newspaper, and at the end of such time, proceedings shall be had as in Section Three. § 5. When the proceeds of the sale of any SAvine, horse, mule, neat cattle, sheep or goat shall exceed the amount of judgment and costs, and expense of taking up and sus- tenance, it shall be the duty of such officer so selling, to pay into the cit}^ treasury such surplus, and the oAvner or OAAUiers of the animals so sold, shall be entitled to a av ar- rant on city treasury for such excess, upon presenting to the mayor and city clerk satisfactory evidence of his rights thereto. § 6. At any time before the sale of any animal or ani- mals impounded, the owner or oAvners thereof may redeem the same by paying to the pound-keeper the impounding fee and costs of sustenance, as prescribed in this ordinance, and in case proceedings shall have been instituted before a judicial officer, the cost of such proceedings and the amount of the judgement if judgement shall have been re- covered under this ordinance, together Avith subsequent accrued costs of sustenance, shall be the redemption money to be paid. § 7. If any person shall break open, or in any manner directly or indirectly aid or assist in^ or counsel or advise breaking open any city pound for said animals found run- ning at large, he shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less 134 ORDINANCES. thiiii five dollars, nor more than twenty dollars for such offense. § 8. No person shall hinder, delay or obstruct any officer eng-aged in taking to any city pound, any animal liable to be impounded, under a penalty of not less than three dol- lars, nor more than ten dollars, for each offense. \ § 9. The bridewell-keeper shall be the pound keeper, and shall receive for each animal put into said pound, the sura of twenty-five cents, and shall be allowed by the court a reasonable charge for the care and keeping of said swine, horse, mule, neat cattle, sheep or goat, and that the per- son catching such animals shall be allowed twenty-five cents when such person is not an officer of the city. Dur- ing the stay of any animal in the pound, he shall feed and water the same, the costs of which, as also the impounding fees the claimant of such animal shall pay to the pound- keeper before such animal shall be released. § 10. The poundmaster shall keep a book which shall be open to the inspection of any and all persons, in which he shall record a description of all animals impounded, with date of the impounding of each and the owner’s name if known, and also a statement of what disposition is made of such animal, when and by whom redeemed, or, in case of sale, the date of sale and the name of the purchaser and the amount received therefor ; and said poundkeeper slndl within thirty days after every sale of animals, as herein provided, pay into the city treasury all moneys received by him in excess of the costs, fees and expenses allowed in this chapter. ARRESTS. 135 CHARTER II. AKRESTS. Sec. 1 . Ai-rests may be made without Avarrant. 2. Arrests regulated ; appearance, and Avhere. 3. VVlien defendant is drunk to be confined till sober; n»agistrate may confine till sober. 4. Resisting or obstructing cfiicers: penalty for. 5. Penalty for false representation as an officer. § 1. That ill cases arising under any of the ordinances of said city, the mayor, chief-of-police, policemen, aldermen and watchmen or any conservator of the peace, are hereby authorized and it shall be their duty to arrest, with or with- out process, and take before any police magistrate or justice of the peace of said city, any person or persons Avho shall break the peace or be found violating any ordinance of this city, and said officers or any of them, are hereby authorized and it shall be their duty to arrest without warrant, and take before such magistrate any person or persons for an actual or alleged violation of any ordinance of said city where there is danger of the offender escaping before a Avarrant can be procured, and any of said officers shall if they deem the same necessary, Avhether acting under or Avithout AA^arrant, execution, or ca sa, call to their aid or assistance any person or persons over the age of tAventy-one years, and any person or persons who shall refuse or neglect to give such aid and assistance when called upon by aiiA^ of said officers, shall be fined not less than five dollars nor more than tAventy-five dollars. § 2. That whenever any person or persons shall be arrested by any officer authorized to make arrests in said city, for a breach of any ordinance of said city now in force, or that may hereafter be jiassed, after the hour of 136 CITY OF JOLIET. seven 'o'clock, P. M., between the first clay of April and the first day of October, or after the hour of five o’clock P. M., between the first day of October and the first day of April, it shall be lawful tor the said officer to confine the offender in the city bridewell in said city, and the keeper of said bridewell is hereby authorized and recpiired to receive such offender or offenders, there to remain until the hour of nine o’clock the succeeding day, when it shall be the dut}" of said officer to carry such offender before a police magis- trate or justice of the peace, of said city, to be dealt with according to law and the ordinances of said city: Provided^ That if said offender shall be arrested after the above hours on Saturday night, or at any time on Sunday, he shall remain in confinement or in the custody of said offi- cer or officers, until the hour of nine o’clock on Monday morning, when he shall be taken before a police magis- trate or justice of the peace, and be dealt with as is or may be provided by ordinance. § 3. In all cases where any person or persons shall hereafter be arrested, with or without warrant, for a breach of any ordinance of said city now in force, or that may hereafter be passed, and such person or persons shall, at the time of his or her arrest be drunk or intoxicated, the officer making the arrest shall convey the person or persons arrested to the city bridewell or some other secure place of confinement in said city, and there detain him or her or them until such person or persons shall be perfectly sober ; and it shall then be the duty of the officer making the arrest to take such offender before a police magistrate or justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law and the ordinances of said city. And any officer who shall fail to take such offender before a police magistrate or jus- AK RESTS. 137 tice of the peace, shall he suspended in his official duties bv the eonneil. And the police nia^'istratc or jnstiee of the peace of said city shall also have power and authority to order any person to be detained in custody in the man- ner and for the time aforesaid, who shall be brought before them charged with the violation or breach of any ordinance, and who at the time of his appearance shall be drunk or intoxicated. § 4. Whoever shall hinder, obstruct, resist, interrupt or interfere with, or aid, encourage or countenance another person in hindering, obstructing, resisting, interrupting or interfering with any officer of said city in the discharge of his official duties, or shall rescue, or attempt to rescue from any such officer any person in his custody, or shall prevent, or attempt to prevent any such officer from arrest- ing any person, or shall hinder, obstruct, resist, interrupt or interfere with any person called upon or authorized by any such officer to aid him in making an arrest, or to assist him in his official duties, shall be deemed guilty of a mis- demeanor, and, on conviction shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars tor every oftense. § 5 . Whoever shall in this city falsely represent himself to be an officer of this city, or shall Avithout being duly authorized by the city, exercise or attempt to exercise any of the duties, functions or i)OAvers of a city officer, shall b(‘ deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall forfeit and pay not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 188 OIIDINANCES. CHAPTP:ii III. AUCTIONS AND AUCTIONEEKS. Sec. 1. Unlawful to exercise the business of auctioneer. 2. To give bond and pajunent for lice,nse. o. Application for license, bow made. 4. Application for permit to sell household goods. 5. Guiltj" of any device or trick. — Penalty. 6. Exemi^tion. Si:cTiON 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person within said eity to exereise the business, trade or vocation of an auctioneer, nor to sell or vend at public auction any goods, wares, merchandise, or real estate, or any interest therein, without first having obtained from said eity a license or permit for that purpose, as hereinafter provided, and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than twent}' dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for every ofiense. § 2. Every person who may wish to obtain a license shall execute a bond to said city with security, to be ap- proved by the mayor or city council, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful observ- ance of the ordinances and regulations of the city couneiE and shall also pay to the city treasurer the sum of one hundred dollars for a license for the period of one year, and for any period less than one year at the rate of ten dollars per day. § 3. Every person who shall apply for a license, shall state in writing toThe mayor or eity eouneil, the proposed place of business, and in no ease except as hereinafter, otherwivse provided, shall the license be transferred or the place of busbiess ehang'cd except by the consent of the eity AUCTIOXS AND AUCTIONEEKS. 13t> (‘oulicil ; nor shall any persons have more than one anetion or sale-room under one license; nor shall they permit any other ])erson or })ersons to sell under their license. § 4. That on the application of any person in writini>- fora permit to sell honsehold «*oods at the residence of such applicant at auction, or upon the application of any regular (h'aler as above, who has been in sneh business more than one year for a permit to close out his stock of goods at anc- tion, and n[)on })ayin(‘iit by sneh applicant in advance, of the Slim of two dollars i)er day, for each day such. sale shall continue, the mayor shall grant to any auctioneer having a license who shall be named in such a[)plication, a permit to sell at auction at the residence or place of business of such applicant. Such a})plication slndl designate the place where such sale is to be made and the name of the auct oncer, and shall be tiled ivith the city clerk. § 5. Any auctioneer who shall exhibit and otter for sale and sell at auction any article, and who shall afterward snbstitnte any article in lien of that ottered to and pnr- (diased by the bidder; or whoever shall while engaged in or al)ont the making of any auction sale, be guilty of any device, trick or fraudulent practice with intent thereby to deceive or defraud any bidder, shall be tined not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dol- lars, and upon the conviction of any auctioneer of cither of the ottenses named in this section, his license may b(' re- voked by the mayor. § 6. All sales at public auction made by sheritfs, masters in chancery, coroners, colleeters, constables, policemen, ex- ecutors and administrators, and sales under mortgage and trust deeds, by virtue of their res[)cctive offices, arc hereby exempted from the operations ot this ordinance. 140 ORDINANCES. CHAPTER IV. BILLIARD, POOL AND BAGATELLE TABLES, A.\D BOWLING ALLEYS. 1 . Unlawful to keep billiards, etc., penalty. 2 . Application for license and payment. 3. IVn.dty for allowing minors, etc., to play billiard.«, etc. 4. When closed— penalty . Section 1. That it shall not be hnvful for any person to keep within said city any billiard, pool, or bagatelle table, or any bowling alley, to be used or played upon by others for hire or gain, without first having obtained a license, under a penalty of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. § 2. It shall be the duty of the applicant to pay into the city treasury the sum of ten dollars for each billiard, pool, or bagatelle table, or bowling alley, so kept for use, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the city clerk to issue a license to such ayiplicant, under the corporate seal, signed by the mayor and (‘ountersigned by himself; each and every license issued under this ordinance shall expire on the first day of July in each year, and no license shall be granted for a longer period than one year. § 3. It shall not be lawful for any person having a license from said city to keep billiard, pool, or bagatelle tables, or bowling alleys, to sufier or permit any minor under the age of twenty-one years to play on any such tables, or on any bowling alley, nor to frequent, remain at, or be harbored in any room wherein the same are kept for use, except such minor be employed in the place where such billiard hall or bowling alley is so kept, and any person liKIDOES. 141 violating this section, shall on conviction, be hned not less than three dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each otfense. ^ § 4. All billiard and pool rooms and bowling alleys within the city of Joliet shall be kept closed on Sundays; and on week days they shall be closed by eleven o’clock in the evening of each day and be kept closed until five o’clock in the morning of the next day following. Any person vio- hiting this section shall for each oftense be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. nHAPTEK V. IIKIDGES. SEC. 1. Must not drive faster than a walk; penalty. • 2. Only ten head of cattle, etc., to be driven on at a time, 3. Cersons shall not stop imneces.sarily with teams on bridges, 4. Crowds and obstructions, on; penalty. Section 1. That no person shall ride, lead, or drive any team, wagon, dray, cart, or other vehicle, or conveyance nor any horse, mare, ox, or other animal, over or across any iron or wooden bridge within the city limits, at a faster gait or pace than a common walk, and any person or per- sons who shall be guilty of a violation of this section, shall, for each oflensc, forfeit and pay to said city the sum of five dollars. § 2. Xo person or jicrsons shall drive or assist in driv- ing, on or across any one of the iron or wooden bridges U2 ORDINANCES. within the city to exceed ten head of cattle or horses, at any one time, in a drove, and any person violatino* the provisions of this section, shall, on conviction he fined not less than five dollars, nor more than one hmidi-ed dollars for each often se. § d. If any pc'rson or persons shall imnecessjirily or willfnlly remain, or stop with any team, or teams, horses, oxen, wagon, sleigh, sled or any other vehicle whatever upon any of the bridges within said city of Joliet, such per- son or persons shall, on convi(*tion thereof be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than oiu' hundred dollars for ea(*h oftense. § 4. Xo })erson or persons shall gather in assemblies or crowds on any of the bridges of this city, or the approaches leading to the same, so as to obstruct in ain^ manner the passage of foot passengers, teams, carriages or persons across the same, oi- be and remain upon any of the side- walks or main passages of any of the bridges of this city, nor upon the railings of the said bridges, longer than Avill be necessary to pass over the same, under a penalty of not less than three* dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for every such oftense. lUnDKWELL. 143 niAPTEK VI. BRIDEWELL. Si-;c. 1. PoM'er of bridewell keeper. I . Diity of, mmageiiieiit of labor. Kee]) a record. 4. Report, find pay over moneys collected . 5. BrideAvell to be kept clean . fi. To keep persons until expiration ot commitment. 7. Persons committed shall obey keeper. 8. Duty of keeper and as.sistants to arrest persons who interfere. 9. Chief of Police to make requisition for sii])plies. 10. Chief of Police to superintend the bridewell. I I. Mayor and committee on police to visit bridewell. Section' 1. Thiit the keeper of the bridewell shall have the custody, ride, ehari>’e and keeping of the bridewell and all persons committed thereto, mider the supervision and direction of the mayor and chief of police. § 2. It shall be the duty of the keeper of the bridewell to receive into and confine in the bridewell all persons com- mitted thereto hy any police magistrate, justice of tlie [)eaee, or criminal court authorized by law or ordinance to commit to said bridewell ; and to keep such person or per- sons at labor or otherwise, according to his or lier or their respective sentences. The labor of persons so committed to the bridewell, under a sentence to labor, shall be super- intended, directed and managed by the chief of police, pro- vided, however, tliat when such labor is directed by the cliief of police to be done on streets and alleys of this city, then such labor shall be superintended and managed by the suiierintendent of streets. It shall also be the duty of the kee[)er of the bridewell to receive and confine in said bride- well all persons who by the ordinances of the (‘itv are di- rected to be confined theriq’n. 144 ORDINANCES. § 3. The keeper of the bridewell shall keep a record, in which he shall enter the name of every person committed to said bridewell, the nature of the offense, by whom and where committed, and the date when, how and by what authority discharged; and he shall carefully preserve a "copy of every order and warrant of commitment. § 4. The said keeper shall, on or before the first Monday of every month, pay into the city treasury all money received by him for fines, costs. oi’ otherwise; and he shall report monthly to the city council all moneys so received by him; also the names of all persons confined in the bridewell, natui-e of offense and length of time for whicli they were committed, the amount of the fines and costs, and if discharged before the expiration of the time for which they were committed, the reason for, and by whom discharged. § 5. The bridewell shall at all times be kept clean and in good order and in a healthy condition, and the prisoners therein shal^ be furnished with a supply of good and whole- some food each day; and it shall be the duty of the keep- er of the bridewell to see that this section is strictly complied with, and he shall maintain towards persons under his chargee a uniformly humane and dignified deportment. § (). He shall keep all persons committed to his charge for the length of time they are committed, or until dis- charo’ed bv due course of law, or order of the mayor or city council. § 7. Every person committed to the bridewell shall obev the keeper in all his lawful demands, and shall not molest or hinder him or any of his assistants in the dis- BRIDEAVELL. 145 charge of their duty, and shall not escape or attempt to escape therefrom, or destroy or injure any property apper- taining to the bridewell, and shall not transgress or violate the rules of discipline or any of them. Any person violat- ing any of the provisions of this act shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars and imprisoned not exceed- ing ninety days, at the discretion of the police magistrate or justice of the peace. § 8. It shall be lawful for the keeper, and the assistant keepers of the bridewell, or either of them, and it is hereby made their duty respectively, to arrest or cause to be arrested and taken before any police magistrate or justice of the peace of this city, any person who shall molest or in any manner interfere with the keeper of the bridewell or with either of the assistant keepers or with any person in his or their custody or charge, as a prisoner, while in the discharge of his or their duty, either in the bridewell or elsewhere, and any person who shall molest or interfere' with the keeper, or assistant keepers, ot the bridewell, or with any person in his or their custody or charge, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars. § 9. The chief of police shall make from time to time» a requisition to the city council for the supplies needed at the bridewell, and no supplies are to be purchased or expenditures made for the bridewell without a requisition therefor having first been allowed by the city council, except in cases of emergency arising through accident, and in cases where for the safe keeping of the prisoners therein confined, immediate repairs are necessary; then the chief of police by and with the consent of the committee on police, may make such necessary pin-chases and expendi- tures. 146 ORDINANCES. § 10. It is hereby made a part of the duties of the ehief of police to superintend the bridcAvell and to take the meas- ures necessary to a compliance with this ordinance. § 11. The mayor and committee on police shall visit the bridewell as often as once a month, and see that the same is kept in good order and condition and that the rules and regulations thereof are strictly complied with. CHAPTER YII. BUILDINGS. Sec. 1. Buildings, how numbered on east side of river. 2. Buildings, how numbered on west side of river. 3. Buildings, how numbered on streets running north and south. 4. City Council to cause plates of numbers to he prepared. 5 . Size of number, etc . 6. Neglecting or refusing to number— penalty. Section 1, It is hereby made the duty of the owners or occupants of all buildings situated in the city of Joliet, on either side of each and every street, to number them in the manner herein, and as may be hereafter provided by the city council. Each street that terminates at the river, shall commence at such point, fixing the even number on the south side of each street, and terminating at the east end of said street ; also those streets which run across the Des Plaines Iliver, shall commence at the point of intersec- tion on the east side of said river, and terminating at the east end of said streets, and all streets not running to the river and running east and west, shall commence at the western termination and terminate at the east end of said street, and all the even numbers shall be on the soutji side of said street BUILDINGS. 147 § 2. Tlmt CBch stioet ruriiiin<)’ east and west on the west side of the Des Plaines river in said city, and terininatino’ at said river, shall eoininenee mnnhering' at the river, and terminate at the west end of said streets; and also those streets riinnino- across said river,, shall commence at the point of intersection and terminate at the west end of said streets, and all streets rimning east and west, on the Avest side of said river, and not rnnnino- to the river, shall com- mence at the eastern terminus of said streets and terminate at the west end ot said streets. § 3. That each street rimninof north and south or nearly north aiid south shall commence numbering at the intersec- tion of Jetferson street on the east side of the river, and at- the intersection of Exchange street on the west side of the river. Streets not running to Jefferson or Exchange streets, and rnnning north and south; shall commence nnmliering at the lerniinns nearest to said Jefferson and Kxchano-e streets, the odd numbers to be fixed on the Avest >■ side of each and every street and the even numbers on the east side of the street. § 4. The city council shall cause the city surveyor from time to time to prepare maps or plats of the several streets, shoAving the numbers of all lots or houses, and the city surveyor shall assign to each lot or house its proper number, one hundred numbers to be assigned to each block, the said surA'eyor shall deliver free of charge to the oAvner or occupant a certificate designating the number or num- bers of his premises or building. § o. Each of the figures of every number shall lie not less than tAvo and one-half inches in length, lieing so marked as to be distinctly and easily read; said numbers shall be placed in a conspicuous place ou the side of or 148 ORDINANCES. iibove the front door of the buildings to which the same are attached. § 6. Any owner or occupant of any building that is now, or ina}^ be hereafter erected on either side of each and every street in the city ot Joliet, who after being notified by the mayor, chief of police or city surveyor, that the street numbers are on record at the .city surveyor’s office, shall for ten days neglect or refuse to number any buildings owned or occupied by him, in conformity with the provisions of this ordinance, o-r who shall number such building without having first obtained from the city sur- veyor a certificate des gnating the proper number of such building’, shall be subject to a penalty of three dollars and a further penalty of five dollars for every twenty days thereafter that he shall neg-lect or refuse to number said building, or shall maintain thereon a number without said certificate having first been obtained from said surveyor. CHAPTER vm. CITY ATTOENEY. Sec. 1. Duties of city attorney. 2. Salury of. 3. City Council may employ additional counsel. 4. Report required. Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the city attor- ney to appear for the city in all cases wherein the city is a party in all courts, to give legal opinions when required upon subjects submitted to him by the mayor or city coun- cil, or by any department of the municipal government, to draft ordinances, to aid in revising the city ordinances, and to act as the legal advisor of the mayor, the city conn • cil, and committees thereof and all other officers of the city, CITY ATTORNEY. 149 in all matters pertaining to the city. It shall also be the duty of the city attorney to attend the sessions of the city council, and to draft contracts, deeds, bonds and all other legal papers, .when directed by the city council or com- mittees thereof. § 2. That the salary of the city attorney to be fixed by the city council at the sum of six hundred dollars per annum. § 3. That the city council may at any time employ counsel to assist the city attorney in any case or legal pro- ceedings wherein the city is a party ; the compensation of said additional counsel to be paid by the city. § 4. He shall annually on or before May 1st in each year, report in writing to the city council a statement of all suits instituted and pending in courts of record in which the city of Joliet is plaintiff or defendant, and the steps that may have been taken in court to bring such suits to final issue, to be accompanied with such explanatory remarks as said attorney may see fit to append — to the end that the council may be kept fully advised as to the legal affairs of the city. CHAPTER IX. CORPORATION COUNSEL. Sec . 1 . Mayor may appoint. 2. Term of office and salary. 3. Duties of. 4. When additional counsel necessary. 5. Compensation, etc. Section 1. That the mayor, by and with the advice and 150 OUDIXANCES. consent of tlie city conn(‘il, nniy appoint a corporation counsel. § 2. The term of office of the first appointee under this ordinance shall* commence on the first day of September, A. D., 18 3. That the fire marshal shall be subject to the control of the mayor and council, and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the mayor and council, and may be re- moved at the end of any month if the mayor and council so elect. FIRE DEPART]MENT. 177 § 4. That the fire marshal shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the council at the first reg*ular meeting in May of each year. § 5. That the engineers and drivers shall remain at their respective engine houses and devote their whole time to the city, under control of the fire marshal. § 6. That the mayor and fire marshal shall appoint all members of the fire department, and the fire marshal shall provide a stoker for the engines, from his firemen, § 7. 4'hat the exclusive control of the fire department in all matters except expenditures is hereby vested in the mayor and fire marshal. § 8. That the fire marshal is hereby vested with full and complete control and charge of the fire engines, and all apparatus and fixtures, belonging to the same, and he shall personally see that they are all kept in good condition, and for that purpose he shall be the sole judge, and shall have full power to direct as to the manner in which the same shall be kept, and when it is necessary to clean and attend to the same. § 9. No money shall be paid out for said fire department, or repairs made, or supplies of any kind purchased for said fire department, without the permission of the city council, except in case of minor expenses by some sudden exigency, and in such case the committee on fire' and water, and fire marshal shall have power to act. ' § 10. No company shall be permitted to go with their engines or other apparatus beyond the limits of the city without the consent of the city council, unless it be to at- tend fires in adjacent cities or the suburbs, when it will be necessary to obtain the consent of the mayor, or in his ab- sence the consent of the committee on fire and water. 178 ORDINANCES. § 11. The fire marshal shall keep the following de- scribed books, subject at all times to the inspection of the members of the city council. A book containing a com- plete list of all olficers and men in the service of the city as firemen, showing the nativity, age and former occupation of each member, name of his office or duty, the company to which he belongs^ the date of his entering service, and such other facts as may be deemed necessary, also a record of fires in a book suitably headed, of alarm, location, class of building, name of owner and occupant, use, cause of fire, personal injuries or death of firemen or citizens, total amount of loss, and total amount of insurance; he shall al- so make out an annual report, exhibiting in detail, the operations of the fire department, under his supervision the preceding year, including an exhibit in detail of receipts and expenditures, with an inventory of all the property be- longing to the department at the date of his report, and re- port the same to the city council at the first regular meet- ing in May of each year. § 12. That the fire marshal shall have sole control of the police when at fires, as well as all persons present, and may appoint persons to assist in protecting property in such manner as he may deem necessary, the council to pay such persons a reasonable compensation for service so rendered when so recommended by the fire marshal. § 13. The fire marshal is hereby authorized to examine any building in the city as often as he may deem necessary, and to cause the owners or occupants thereof to make such repairs as may be necessary for the protection of property and life; and no building erected within the city limits in which fire is to be used, shall be plastered until inspected !)y the fire marshal, the owners or builders of any such FIRE DEPARTIVIENT. ' 179 biiildiiio’ to report to the tire marshal when such building is ready for inspection. § 14. Aii}^ person refusing or neglecting to make such repairs as provided in the foregoing section, when ordered so to do by the tire marshal, or such report as therein pro- vided, shall, at the expiration of five days from the time of such notification concerning repairs or failure concerning such report, on conviction forfeit and pay a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars for such refusal or neglect. Provided^ however, that any party feeling himself aggrieved by the act of the fire marshal, may, be- fore prosecution is commenced, have an appeal to the com- mittee on fire and water, and, if upon investigation, the committee find that said party has not violated Section Thirteen of this chapter, then no prosecution shall be com- menced. If, however, the committee find that said party has violated said Section Thirteen of this chapter, then the fire marshal may proceed against said otfenders as in other cases. § 15. No wagon, street railroad car, or other vehicle, shall be driven over any unprotected hose of the fire de- partment of the city of Joliet, when laid down on any street or alley, to be used at any fire or alarm of fire, without' the consent of the fire marshal or the assistant in command, and any person violating this section shall be subject to the penalty of not less than three dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each oflfense. The fire marshal shall procure and cause to be carried with each hose cart at every alarm of fire, efficient protectors, which shall be laid down when said hose is laid on any street or alley, in such manner as to protect said hose from injury when ve- hicles are driven over the same. 180 ORDINANCES. § 16. The fire marshal shall designate some discreet and competent person, who shall have command at all fires from which such fire marshal may from any cause be absent, and when so designated, and the members of the fire depart- ment duly notified thereof, he shall exercise like powers as might be exercised by the fire marshal if present. § 17. It shall be the duty of all persons in the city, who deal in gunpowder, to report to the fire marshal, in writ- ing, in the month of September of each year, the average quantity of gunpowder kept upon the premises, and where kept; a failure of any person dealing in gunpowder to re- port as above, will subject the offender, upon the com- plaint of the fire marshal, to a fine of not less than ten dol- lars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. § 18. That it shall not hereafter be lawful for any per- son to erect or use, any stove or stovepipe, in the city of Joliet, except in accordance with the following provisions of this chapter. § 19. Every stove in use shall be placed upon a floor or platform of bricks or zinc, or other incombustible material, of sufficient thickness and extent to prevent all danger of fire to any floor or other woodwork from such stove ; and all other fire places and hearths of every description shall be kept in good and sufficient repair to prevent any danger from fire ; stovepipes shall not be less than three inches from wood or other combustible materials, unless there is a double circle of tin connected together, and air holes be- tween the connection and the wood or other combustible substances; and all horizontal pipes, or portions of pipe not perpendicular, shall be supported by wires or other proper supporters, so as to prevent all danger of the falling of such pipes; no stovepipe shall discharge or terminate at FIRE DEPARTMENT. 181 any distance less than three teet from the roof, or any other wood- work ot any building so as to endanger the same, nor into any street or alley. § 20. It shall be the duty of the mayor, aldermen, chief of policemen and fire marshal of the fire department in said city, to examine carefully at all times during the year, every house, store, warehouse, shop or building, and places for the keeping and deposit of ashes, chips or shavings, and also to remove and abate any cause from which immediate danger of fire may be apprehended ; and to cause all build- ings, chimneys, stoves, pipes, hearths, ovens, boilers, ash houses, ash barrels, smoke houses, and all fixtures, things and apparatus used in or about every building which shall be found in such a condition as to be considered unsafe, to be without delay, at the expense of the owner or occupant thereof, put in such condition as not to be dangerous in causing or promoting fires. § 21. No hay, straw, or other combustible material or substance shall be placed or deposited in said city, within twenty feet of any place where fire or ashes are kept, un- less the same be kept in a close and secure building. § 22. No person shall deposit or stack any hay, straw, or other combustible substance within forty feet of any dwelling house or other building in said city, where fire may be kept. § 23. No lighted candle or lamp shall be used in any stable, barn, or other place or building where hay, straw, or other combustible material shall be kept, unless the same shall be well secured in a lantern ; nor shall any fire be kept in any stove or other place in any such building or room where combustible material is kept, unless in such manner as the fire marshal and chief of police, by written 182 ORDINANCES. permission, shall authorize and allow, nor shall any person carry fire in or through any street or lot or other public or private place, except the same be placed or covered in some close or secure pan or vessel. § 24. No person shall, in any of the streets, lanes, ave- nues, alleys public, square or grounds of said city, make or kindle any. fire; nor shall any person make or kindle any fire on any private lot in said city, if there be danger of fire to any buildings in the neighborhood of the same. § 25. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of the foregoing sections of this chapter, shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than three dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for every of- fense. § 26. It shall be the duty of the officers named in the Twentieth Section of this chapter to see that all the provis- ions herein are complied with, and to make complaint be- fore a police magistrate for any violation of the same. CHAPTER XXI. FIRE LIMITS, SEC. 1. Defining flre limits. 8 . Defining how buildings shall be erected. 8. Sheds, privies, deposits of ashes. 4 . Plans of buildings in fire limits to be submitted to committee. 5. Who constitute the building committee. 6. Committee to examine and investigate plans, etc. 7. Wooden buildings, removal, repairs, etc . 8. Amount of damage, referred to committee. ' 9. l^enalties for violations of this chapter. 10. What buildings declared a nuisance. Section 1. That all that part ot the city of Joliet em- braced within the following limits, shall hereafter be known as the fire limits of the city of Joliet: On the east FIKE LIMITS. 183 side of the riA*er as follows : Beginning at the east bank of the Desplaines river, at the center ot Van Buren street, running south on the east bank of said river, to the center of Washington street, thence east on Washington street to the center line of Joliet street, thence south on the center line of Joliet street to the center line of La- fayette street, thence east on the center line of La- fayette street to the center line of Chicago street, thence north on the center line of Chicago street to the center line of Washington street, thence east on the center line of Washington street to the center line of Mich- igan street, north on the center line of Michigan street to the center line of Van Buren street, thence west on the center line of Van Buren street to the centre line of Scott street, thence north on the center line of Scott street to the center line of ^Vebster street, thence west on the center line of AVebster street to the center line of Ottawa street, thence south on the center line of Ottawa street to the cen- ter line of Cass street, thence west on the center line of Cass street to the center line of Joliet street, thence south on the center line of Joliet street to the center line ot Van Buren street, thence west on the cejiter line of Van Buren street to the place ot beginning. On the west side of the river the fire limits shall be as follows : Beginning at the west bank of the Desplaines river, at the center of Western avenue, thence west on t^'ie center lineol Western avenue to the center line of Block ten, west Joliet, thence south on the center lines of Blocks ten, fif- teen and nineteen, west Joliet, and Blocks six and sixteen in school section addition, to Marion street, thence east on said Marion street to the west bank of the Desplaines 184 OEDINANCES. river, thence north on the line of the west bank of the river to the place ot beginning. § 2. No building shall hereafter be erected within the fire limits, without permission first being obtained of the city council, unless the same shall be constructed in con- formity with the following provisions : First. — All outside walls shall be made of stone, brick, or other fire proof material. Second.— Outside walls not exceeding twenty-four feet in height from the top of the sidewalk to the under side of the joists or rafters (except for mills, stores, breweries, and warehouses,) shall not be less than eight inches in thickness, if of brick, nor less than sixteen inches if of stone; but stores, mills, breweries and warehouses, ex- ceeding twenty-four feet in height as aforesaid, shall not be less than twelve inches in thickness, if of brick, nor less than eighteen inches in thickness if of stone. Third.— -All joist, beams and other timbers inside or out- side shall be separated at least four inches from each other, with stone or brick laid in mortar, and all wooden lintel pieces in the front or rear walls shall recede from the out- side of the walls at least four inches, except that lintels of timber may be used in rear of cast iron fronts, and plates of wood may he used in cornices covered with copper, tin, iron, or other fire proof materials, which recede four in- ches from the outside or front as aforesaid. Fourth, — Roofs, cornices and gutters, shall be covered on the outside surface with copper, tin, iron, or other fire proof material, and all buildings to be used for stores or warehouse purposes which exceed twenty-four-feet in height from the top of the sidewalk to the under side of the raft- ers, shall have shutters, to all outside doors and windows FIRE LIMITS. 185 (except ill front) made of iron or covered with iron or other fire proof material, but steeples, cupolas, spires of churches or other public buildings belonging to Will county or the city, which shall stand ten feet from any ^other building may be covered with boards or shingles. Fifth. — There shall not be more than thirty feet space between outside walls of any building, unless such build- ing shall be supported by iron or other columns or sup- porters of fire proof material. Sixth. — All end walls shall extend above the slating of the roof, at least seven inches of three courses of brick, and in no case shall the planking or slating of the roof extend across the end of the wall. § 3. Sheds, not exceeding twelve feet in height at the peak or the highest part thereof, and privies, not exceed- ing ten feet square and twelve feet in height at the peak, may be constructed of wood, and shall not be subject to the provisions of this chapter; Provided^ that the term shed be so construed as to mean a structure with a roof sloping one way, with one or more sides to said structure entirely open. But all depositories for ashes, within or without the fire limits shall be built of brick or other fire- proof material, without wood in any part thereof. § 4. That all persons desiring to erect any building or buildings within the fire limits of the city of Joliet, as es- tablished by this chajDter, or to alter or repair any such building or buildings, shall, before commencing the same, submit the plans and specifications to the committee on buildings provided in Section 5 of this chapter. § 5. That said committee on buildings, shall consist of the city engineer and the three members of the committee 186 ORDINANCES. on public grounds and buildings, as appointed by the mayor. § 6. It shall be the duty of said committee on buildings to examine and investigate all plans .and specifications sub- mitted to them for inspection, and to issue a written or printed permit to construct, alter or repair the building or buildings, in such cases only where the plans and specifi- cations are in conformity with the provisions of this chap- ter: Providing^ however, that no permit shall be required for ordinary repairs, either internal or external, which do not increase the size of the building or alter the conditions as afire risk. § 7. No wooden building or part of building, or any part of a wooden building within the fire limits shall be raised, repaired, enlarged, or removed to any other place within the same, nor shall any wooden building be removed into the fire limits, without permission first being obtained of the city council; Provided^ that when the side- walk may be raised above the threshold of any building, said building may be so raised, and so far raised as to keep the first floor a reasonable distance, not to exceed six inches above the sidewalk, nor shall any wooden building within said limits which hereafter may be damaged to the extent of fifty per cent, of the value thereof, be lepaired or rebuilt, nor shall any such building, when the damage is less than fifty per cent, of its value, be so repaired as to be raised higher than the highest part left standing after such damage shall have occured, or so as to occupy a greater space than before the injury thereto. § 8. The amount or extent of damage that may be done to any building may be determined by three disinterested persons, residents of the city, one of whom shall be selected FIRE LIMITS. 187 by the owner of the building, the second by the mayor or any two members of the committee on buildings, and the two so chosen shall select a third, and the decision of the per- sons so appointed shall be final and conclusive ; and it shall be the duty of the owner of any building before said reference is made, to deposit with the city clerk the sum of six dol- lars, which sum shall be applied to the payment of refer- ence expenses, the remainder, if any, shall be returned to such owner. § 9. Any owner, builder, or other person who shall own, build, or aid in the erection of any building, or part of building, within the said limits contrary to, or in any other manner, than authorized by the provisions of this chapter, or who shall own, remove, or assist in removing any wooden building within said limits, from one place to another therein, or who shall own, remove or assist in re- moving any such building from without said limits into the same, or own, repair or assist in repairing any damaged wooden building, contrary in either case to any provisions ef this chapter, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court, for the first offense, and to like fine for every forty-eight hours such person shall fail to comply with the provisions of this chapter, or continue in the violation thereof. If any person shall violate any other provision of this chapter he shall be subject to like fine. § 10. Any wooden building which may be erected, en- larged, removed or repaired, or in process of erection, enlargement, removed or repaired contrary to this chapter, shall be deemed a nuisance ; and upon information it shall be the duty of the mayor, after due notice to the owner or 188 ORDINANCES. builder thereof, to abate the same, by an order in writing- to require the chief of police to raze such building to the ground. The expense of such removal shall be reported by the chief of police for assessment by the city council, and may be collected of the party offending, by suit. CHAPTER XXII. FISCAL YEAK. Sec . 1. Fixing the fiscal year. Section 1. That the fiscal year, as contemplated by Sec- tion 89 of an act entitled “An act tor the incorporation of cities and villages,” approved April 10th, 1872, and in force July 1st, 1872, and adopted by the city of Joliet, August 5th, 1876, shall commence on the first day of July of each year, and end on the 30th day of June, next succeeding. CHAPTER xxm GUNPOWDEE. Sec. 1. Gtmpowder, how and where stored. 2, Certain quantities may be kept by retailers, how and on what terms. 3. Duty of mayor to search for powder. Section 1. That no person shall keep or store any gun- powder in any house, store or warehouse, or other place within the corporate limits of the city, under a penalty of one hundred dollars for every offense, unless the same is stored in a fire proof magazine, to be located and approved GUNPOWDER. 189 by the mayor and fire marshal of the fire department; Provided, That this Section shall not be deemed applicable to retailers of gunpowder. § 2. No retailers of gunpowder shall keep or store any quantity thereof greater than twenty-five pounds weight ill any storehouse, shop or place within the corporate limits of the city, except in the magazine aforesaid; Provided, also, that said quantity of twenty-five pounds weight shall be kept in close tin or copper canisters, containing not over five pounds each ; and no such retailer of gunpowder shall be permitted to sell, retail or give away the same in said city after candle lighting in the evening : and every person violating the provisions of this Section shall be sub- ject to a penalty of not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. § o. It shall be the duty of the mayor, when complaint is made to him by any city officer, or upon the affidavit of any citizen, stating there is probable cause to suspect any person of keeping or concealing any gunpowder contrary to the provisions ot this chapter, to take with him the chief of police, or any police officer, and search and examine any place within the corporate limits of the city, to ascertain the truth of such allegation or suspicion; and if it be found on examination of any premises as aforesaid, that gunpowder is therein concealed, the offender shall be sub- ject to a }3cnalty of one hundred dollars, and a turther sum of one hundred dollars for every twenty-four hours that said gunpowder may remain within the corporate limits of the city, after one day’s verbal or written notice has been given by the mayor, chief of police, or fire marshal, to re- move the same. 190 ORDINANCES, CHAPTER XXIV. HEALTH. Skc. 1. Board of health to consist of, and how organized. 2. Division of districts, salary. 3. Duties of chief of police. 4. Board to exercise supervision over health of city. 5. Neglect to comply with orders of the hoard. 6. Persons removed for contagious disease . 7. Penalty tor bringing persons, etc., with contagious disease. 8. No resident, etc., to leave infected house. 9. E xposing infected clothing, penalty . 10. Board to compel boats to perform quarantine duty. 11. Board to have full power to enter into any boat for examination. 12. Penalty for refusing the board to enter houses, etc., to examine. 13. Board of health may require vaccination. 14. Board of health to make rules for government of quarantine . 15. Power of board to abate nuisance. 16. Penalty tor refusing to comply with order ol board. 17. No privy to be cleaned till disinfected. 18. Board to require person.s to be vaccinated. 19. Persons prohibited from offering tainted meat, penalty. 20. Unlawful to slaughter bruised or maimed animals. 21. Unlawful to transport meat, etc., through the city in daytime, uncovered. 22. Unlawful to transport bones or grease from market uncovered. 23. Unlawful to sell skimmed milk. 24. Board to exercise a sanitary supervision over health of city. 25. Board concurrent with city council to define nuisances. 26. All persons required to obey board of health, penalty. 27. Every person practicing physic in city to report, penalty. 28. Board to examine accounts and report monthly. 29. Board to keep account of expenses . 30. Unlawful to keep hogs penned in certain localities. 31. In absence of president' board to elect chairman pro tem. Section 2. That the board of health of the city of Joliet shall consist of three persons, who shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the city council, and shall hold their office for one year from the time they are ap- pointed. The city clerk shall be an ex ojfich member and act as secretary of said board. The board shall organize by electing one of their number president, and shall meet in die council room in said city, once every two weeks, be- ween the first day of May and the first day of f October in HEALTH. 191 each year, and once a month from the first day of October till the first day of May, and at such other times as may be deemed adA i sable by the President of said board. A major- ity of said board shall constitute a qiiornm to do business. The proceedings of said board of health shall be conducted as near as may be, in conformity to the rules and regu- lations of the city council. § 2. For the purpose of looking after the health of said city there shall be one member of said board from each of the tolloAAnng districts : First District. — All the territory lying east of the Chicago & Alton Kailroad ; Second Dis- trict. — All the territory lying betAveen the Chicago & Alton Railroad and the Desplaines river; Third District. — All the territory lying Avest of the Desplaines riA^er. Each member of said board shall receive as compensation for his services the sum of one hundred dollars per annum Avdthout any other fee or emolument for their services. § 3. The chief of police shall attend all meetings of the board of health, and cause all precepts and notices signed by the president and attested by the clerk, or a majority of the board, to be served, and he shall execute or cause to be executed all orders of said board Avhich may be directed to him. § 4. Said board shall exercise a general supervision over the health of the city of Joliet, with full poAver and author- ity to take all steps, and use all measures necessary to promote the cleanliness and health thereof, to abate nuisances of oa^- ery description, both on public and private property; to prevent the introduction into the city of malignant and in- fectious diseases, and to renioA^e or otherAvise dispose of any person attacked l>y any such diseases, and to adopt in reference to such persons any regulations or measures 192 ORDINANCES. deemed advisable, and to establish rules and regulations for the general health of the city. § 5. It shall be the duty of the president of the board of health, together with the clerk or a majority of the board of health, to serve a notice in writing, signed by the president of the board of health, and attested by the clerk thereof, upon the owner, occupant or agent of any building or premises, in or upon which any nuisance maybe found, or who may be the owner or cause of such nuisance, re- cpiiring them to abate the same in such manner as they shall in said notice direct. § 6. Whenever it shall appear to the board of health, that any person has been attacked with any contageous dis- ease, said board shall have full power to cause said person to be removed immediately to some retired place; and said board shall take such measures as may be deemed advisable to prevent' as far as possible the spread of conta- gion or infection, and cause the person afflicted to receive proper and humane attention. § 7. If any person in charge of any boat, vessel, rail- road car, or any other conveyance, shall knowingly land or bring on shore at, or convey to the city of Joliet, or within five miles of the corporate limits thereof, any per- son infected with any contageous disease, or any goods or effects of any such person, without permission from the board, he shall forfeit and pay to the city of Joliet, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars. § 8. Xo person who is a resident, inhabitant, lodger or visitor in any house in the city of Joliet, in which any other person shall be sick or affected with smallpox or HEALTH. 193 varioloid, shall after the time -when such person shall ])ecome so sick or affected, depart from such house or build- ing, or go upon the streets or alleys of the city, nor upon any adjacent lot, nor outside of said building and upon the lot on which said building is situated, without the written permission of the president or a majority of the board of health; and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for the first offense, and for the second ofiense to be imprisoned not to exceed ten days. § 9. Any person who shall expose any clothing, or any article or thing used or kept within any house where any person shall be sick or affected Avith small pox or varioloid in the city of Joliet, except under the order and direction of the board of health, shall be fined not less than five nor more than tw^enty-five dollars for every such offense. § 10. That the board of health shall have full power and authority to compel all boats, vessels and Avater craft, to perform quarantine for such length of time, not exceed- ing thirty days, as said board may determine, and in case the person in charge of any such water craft shall fail or refuse to comply Avith the order of the board of health, the president of said board shall have power to call to his assistance the poAv^er of the entire police force of the city, and remove said boat, vessel or water craft to a place to be designated by said board, and require the person in charge of such boat or vessel to thoroughly cleanse and fumigate said boat or vessel so removed. § 11. The board of health shall have full power and authority at all times, or any officer by them designated for that purpose, to enter into any boat, vessel or other water craft, for the purpose of examining the same, and 194 ORDINANCES. the person in charge of any such boat, vessel or other water craft, shall, at the time of the examination, make a true statement of the condition of all persons on board of same, from the time such boat or vessel or craft departed from the port or place whence she departed, up to the time of such examination, and for a failure to comply with the requirements of this section, such person shall forfeit and pay to the city of Joliet the sum of not less than twenty- five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars. § 12. The board of health or any member thereof, are hereby authorized and empowered in the day time to enter all houses and other places in this city, whenever in their judgment the public interest requires them so to do, and any person who shall interfere or prevent them or either of said board or any person by them lawfully authorized, shall forfeit and pay to the city of Joliet, not less than five nor more than two hundred dollars. § 13. That the board of health may take such measures as they from time to time deem proper to prevent the spread of the smallpox by issuing an order requiring all persons in the city, or any part thereof, requiring vaccin- ation, to be vaccinated within such time as they shall pre- scribe, and all persons refusing or neglecting to obey such order, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars. Provided^ that it shall be the duty of the board to provide for the vaccination of such persons as are unable to pay for the same at the expense of the fijity. § 14. The said board of health shall make such rules and regulations for the government of a quarantine or health of the city as from time to time they may deem necessary, and it shall be the duty of all persons in quar- HEALTH. 195 an tine and all officers or others employed by the city in and about said quarantine to carry out and obey the same. § 15. The board of health shall have full power and au- thority to remove and abate immediately, summarily, and without process of law, all nuisances of whatever descrip- tion or character that may be found within the city of Joliet, or within five miles of the limits of said city of Jol- iet, and which said board of health deem injurious to the sanitary condition of the city, or likely to promote, cause, or induce pestilence in any part of said city. § 16. Whenever it shall come to the knowledge of the board of health, that any trade, manufactory, occupation or work, is kept, conducted, or carried on, or performed within said city, and that the same is likely to promote or cause disease, or endanger the health of the city, said board shall cause a written notice to be served on the person or persons carrying on or conducting the same, said notice to be given as provided for in Section 5 of this chapter re- quiring the person or persons operating or conducting the same, to discontinue said occupation or business within the time specified in said notice, and on failure of such person or persons to discontinue said business or occupation, with- in the time specified in said notice, they shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for every twelve hours said business is operated and conducted after the service of said notice, and the expiration of the time within which said business was ordered to be discontinued, shall constitute a separate offense, and the court before whom the conviction may be had, as a part of its judgment, may order the closing up of said manufactory or place, and enforce the same by proper process. § 17, No privy shall be cleaned, nor the contents there" 19G OEDINANC^S. of removed until the same shall be thoroughly disinfected, and then not without a written permit from a member of the board of health, which permit shall state when and in what manner the contents of said privy shall be removed ; and any person violating any of the provisions of this Sec- tioiTi, shall be fined in a sum not less than ten, nor more than one hundred dollars. § 18. It shall be the duty of the board of health to cause all persons to be vaccinated or re-vaccinated in houses in- fected with small-pox ; any person or persons in any house infected with smallpox refusing to be vaccinated or re-vac- cinated, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dol- lars nor more than one hundred dollars. § 19. If any person shall sell or expose for sale in any market house in this city, or other place in said city, any emaciated, putrid or tainted meat or provisions, which for these or other causes the board of health may deem un wholesome, such person or persons shall be fined in a sum not less than ten nor more than than two hundred dollars for each and every offense ; and it shall be the duty of the board of health to cause such meat or provisions to be im- mediately seized or confiscated. § 20. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to slaughter within the limits of this city, or five miles there- of, any animal that is maimed, bruised, afflicted with swel- lings, sores, or disease of any kind or nature. Fora vio- lation of any of the provisions ot this Section the person violating the same shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars. §']21. It shall be imlawtul for any dealer, his agent or servant, to transport any fish, veal, pork, mutton or meat of any kind through any street, alley, or public places •HEALTH. 197 within the limits of the city of Joliet between the hours of •five o’clock in the forenoon and nine o’clock in the after- noon of any day, without entirely covering the same with ‘ some material impervious to blood, which shall altogether conceal it from view. This chapter shall be construed to include retail dealers in the delivery of small quantities to their customers and others, and also to wholesale dealers and others, in the transportation of slaughtered animals or parts thei'eof, from the slaughter house to the markets and other places where the same are exposed for sale. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this Section shall be subject to a fine of not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars. § 22. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons en- gaged in gathering bones and grease from the markets or other place-! in the city, to transport, haul or carry the same through the streets, alleys or public places therein, without having the wagon, cart or vehicle, in which the same is so carried or hauled, tightly or securely covered to the satisfaction of the board of health, or some officer by them duly authorized. Nor shall any such cart, wagon or vehicle stand in or upon any street, alley or public place at any time longer than ‘shall be sufficient to transact such business, and in any case not to exceed fifteen minutes at any one time. For a violation of any of the provisions of this section, the person violating the same shall be subject to a fine of not less than three nor more than fifty dollars. § 23. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell or expose for sale within the city of Joliet, milk known as “skimmed milk,” or milk produced by cows fed on un- wholesome food, such as still or brewers’ slop or malt, or from J unhealthy cows, without at the time of such sale 198 ORDINANCES. stating the character of the milk, and any person violating the provisions of this section, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. § 24. It shall be the duty of the board of health : First. To have and exercise a general supervision over the sanitary condition of the city, and to report at the meetings of said board all nuisances or other causes likely to be detrimental to the general health of the city. Second. Upon the president or any member of the board of health being informed of the existence of any con- tagious disease, to inquire immediately into the facts, and report the same to the board. Third. It shall be the duty of the president of the board of health to see that all orders of the board are obeyed by both ofiicers and citizens. § 25. The board ot health is hereby invested with, and shall have and exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the city council of the city of Joliet, with full power and authority to define and declare what shall be deemed nuisances, and to authorize the summary abatement thereof. § 26. All persons are hereby required to obey the or- ders, precepts, regulations and requirements of the board of health, and any person or persons failing^ retusing or neglecting so to do, shall forfeit and pay to the city of Joliet a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. § 27. Every person practicing physic within the city of Joliet who shall have a patient laboring under any pesti- lential or malignant disease shall forthwith make a report thereof in writing to the clerk of said board; and lor neg- lecting so to do shall be considered guilty of a misdemean- or, and shall forfeit and pay to the city of Joliet a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. HEALTH. 199 § 28. Said board ot health shall examine all accounts for expenses incurred by its authority, and such as are ap- proved shall be certified by the president, and attested by the clerk thereof, and reported monthly at each regular meeting of the city council, who shall cause warrants to be drawn on the city treasurer for the amount due each person. § 29. Said board shall keep in proper books, full and correct accounts of all its expenses, together with a full and complete record of its proceedings. § 30. That it shall be unlawful for any person to keep any hogs penned up, or any place for rendering lard or any other fat, or keep any smoke-house within the following boundaries, that is to say, south of Benton street and north of Marion street, west of the Chicago, Alton & St. Louis railroad, and east of the Des Plaines river, any person vio- lating this section shall be fined not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. § 31. In case of the absence of the president of the board of health, a quorum being present, the board shall elect one of their body chairman pro tern, the person so elected shall preside at such meeting, and have and exer- cise. all the powers of the president of the board of health during such meeting. 200 ORDINANCES, CHAPTER XXV, INTOXICATING LIQUORS, Sect. D Unlawful to sell intoxicating^ liquors without license. 2. City Council authorized to grant licenses. 3. No license to he granted to an in temperate man or gambler . 4. All licenses granted shall name the person and place, where. 5. Licenses shall be posted X7p in the room where liquors are sold. 6. In certain cases Mayor to issue proclamation. 7. Minors prohibited from frequenting tippling houses. 8. Unlawful to permit playing of musical instruments,^ etc. Section 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person in said city, excepting^ bottlers, brewers, distillers and regu- larly licensed dram shop keepers, to directly or indirectly sell or give away intoxicating liquors in any quantity whatsoever, and it shall be unlawful for any person in said city, excepting regidarly licensed dram shop keepers, to sell intoxicating liquors in quantities less than one gallon. This chapter shall not apply to the sale of intoxicating liquor sold by druggists for medicinal purposes only. Any person violating any of the provisions of this sec- tion, whether principal, agent, barkeeper, clerk or servant, shall on conviction forfeit and pay not less than twenty- five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or be im- prisoned in the bridewell for a term not exceeding sixty da}^s at hard labor, or both, as the court may order. Regularly licensed dram shop keepers shall be deemed to be those persons who shall have procured a license in ac- cordance with the provisions of. this chapter. § 2. The city council is hereby authorized to grant li- censes to keep dram shops, for the sale of spirituous, vin- ous, fermented and intoxicating liquors, to any person who shall apply therefor to the city council in writing, upon INTOXICATING LIQUORS 201 such person executing to the city of Joliet a bond with at least two good securities, to be approved by the city coun- cil, in the penal sum ot five hundred dollars, conditioned that the party so licensed shall faithfully observe and keep all ordinances heretofore passed, or to be passed, during the period of such license, and that he will not keep open his bar, or place for the sale of such liquors, nor sell, give awa}% or in any manner deal in by himself, servant, or any other person, any spirituous, vinous, or mixed, fermented or intoxicating liquors on Sunday, or on any general or municipal election day, and paying for such license for the use of said city at a rate that may be from time to time established per annum. On compliance with the foregoing requirements, a license shall be issued to the applicant, which shall authorize the person or persons therein named to sell, barter, give away and deliver wines and other liquors in the place designated in the application, Provided'. That the city council shall not grant a license to any per- son or persons, in pursuance of this chapter, to keep a dramshop for the sale of spirituous, vinous, fermented or intoxicating liquors, of any kind, unless he, she or they shall first give a bond in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, payable to the people of the State of Illinois, with at least two good and sufficient sureties, freeholders of the county of AYill, to be approved by the city council, conditioned that he or she or they will pay to all persons all damages that they may sustain, either in person or property, or means of support by reason of the person so obtaining a license, selling or giving away intoxicating liquors. The city council before approving such bond, shall cause to be examined under oath, any person offered aS security upon such bond, and may require him or her to 202 ORDINANCES. subscribe and swear, to his or her statement in regard to his or her pecuniary liability to become such security. § 3. That no license to sell spirituous liquor within the city of Joliet shall hereafter be granted to any person who, from habits of intemperance or gambling, would be deemed incapable of keeping an orderly house, and the mayor may refuse to issue any license for the keeping of a dram shop, until the council shall have determined the fitness of the applicant, and whenever any dram shop shall be kept in any unruly and disorderly manner, it shall be deemed a nuisance, and the keeper thereof shall be deemed the author of such a nuisacce, and, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars, and be subject to a revo- cation of his license in the discretion of the mayor of said city, and all payments made on said license shall be for- feited to said city of Joliet, § 4. All licenses granted under this chapter shall set forth the name of the person licensed, the place where said li- quors are proposed to be sold, and the terms and condi- tions upon which sajd license is granted, as required to be set forth in the bond of the applicant, and such license shall not authorize such person to sell any of said liquors at any other or diflerent time or place, nor upon any other terms and condition than such as are stated therein. That any person who may obtain a license, or who shall have hereto- fore obtained a license from said city to sell any of said liquors, or to keep a “dram shop,” shall not be permitted, either by himself, herselt or agent, to keep such house, shop, “dram shop,” or place for the sale of said liquors open on Sunday, nor sufler any person to frequent the same on said days, or drink any of said liquors therein^ whether they pay for the same or not; nor shall any such INTOXICATING LIQUOES. 203 house, shop, “dram shop” or place be kept open during the week days later than eleven o’clock, P. M., nor opened sooner than five o’clock, A. M., on any such day; nor shall any such licensed person, either by himself, herself, or agent, sell or give away any of said liquor to any minor under the age of 21 years, nor permit any minor in or about his premises, unless the same is employed as a clerk by such person; nor sell or give away, either by himself, herself or agent, any of said liquors to any person who^is intoxicated, or to any person who is in the habit of getting intoxicated, or who is an habitual drunkard, or permit any person who is intoxicated, in or about such house, shop, “dram shop,” or place; nor permit any gambling or riotous, disorderly, indecent or otfensive conduct of any kind whatever, to be practiced in or about any premises occupied by him or them for the purpose of selling of any of said liquors, and any person convicted of any of the of- fenses enumerated in this section shall be fined for each offense not less than five dollars, nor more than one hun- dred dollars. § 5. All persons licensed under this chapter for the sale of said liquors shall immediately cause said license to be, and remain posted, upon some conspicuous part of the room, or place kept or used for the sale of said liquors; and any person so licensed, who shall not cause said license to be and remain posted as aforesaid; or who, not being so licensed, shall cause or permit any document or paper pur- porting to be a license, to be, or remain posted, as afore- said, shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, nor less than three dollars. § 6. In all cases where, in the opinion of the mayor or city council, the public peace is likely to be endangered 204 ORDINANCES. by the keeping open of licensed “dram shops,” or houses for the sale of any of said liquors, it shall be lawful for the mayor to issue his proclamation, under the seal of the city, commanding and enjoining all persons licensed by said city to sell any of said liquors, and their servants and agents, to close their shops and places of business for such time as the mayor or city council shall deem necessary ; and neither to sell, give away, or sufler to be drank, any of said liquors in or about their premises during the time mentioned in said proclamation; and if any person shall disobey said proclamation by keeping open his shop, “dram shop,” or place of business, or by selling, giving away, or suffering to be drank, on or about his premises any of said liquors, he shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars, and the license of such party so convicted may be revoked by the mayor of said city. § 7. It shall be unlawful for any persons under the age of twenty-one years, to be in or about or to frequent any tippling house, billiard hall, bowling' alley, or place where intoxicating liquors are sold, without first having the written consent of their parents or guardians, clearjy spec- ifying the place or places, and the time when such minor may go to or frequent or be in such tippling house, billiard hall, bowling alley, or place where intoxicating liquors are sold, or unless such minor be accompanied by such pa- rent or guardian, and that for each violation of this chapter said minor shall be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty- five dollars, and for such a failure to pay such fine the per- son so convicted shall be committed to the bridewell. § 8. That Tt shall be unlawful for the keeper of any dram shop, saloon, barroom, room or cellar, kept for the sale of spirituous, vinouSj, malt or fermented liquors, to LICENSE. 205 play or permit to be played any musical instrument, or to sing, or permit to be sung, any song or other piece of mu- sic, or to permit dancing of any description in such “dram shop,” saloon, barroom, room, or cellar, where such liquor is sold, or in any room, or anteroom, yard, place or prem- ises adjoining; or run in connection with such “dram shop,” saloon, barroom, room or cellar, and used by the patrons thereof as a sitting room, or place in which such liquor is drunk. CHAPTER XXVI. LICENSES. Sec. 1. Licenses. 2. Not assignable. 3. For wliat time granted, how issued. Section 1. That all licenses which may be issued under any ordinance of the city council, shall be subject to the ordinances and regulations, which may be in force at the time of the issuing thereof, or which may be subsequently made by the city council; and if any person so licensed shall violate any of the provisions thereof, he shall be liable to be proceeded against, for any fine or penalty imposed thereby, and his license shall be subject to be revoked in. the discretion of the mayor or city council. § 2. No license granted under any ordinance shall be assignable or transferable, without permission of the city council, to be granted by a majority of all the aldermen elected; nor shall any such license authorize any person to do business or act under it, but the person named therein, unless such ordinance shall otherwise provide. 206 OEDINANCES. § 3. No license shall be granted for a longer period than one year, and all licenses shall be signed by the mayor, and countersigned by the city clerk, under the corporate seal. And in all cases where it is not otherwise expressly pro- vided, the mayor shall have power to hear applications and grant license upon the terms specified by the ordinances of the city. CHAPTEE XXVII. MARKETS. Sec. 1. Butchers subject to this chapter j license; amount paid for; proviso', 2. Sale of fresh meat to be licensed; penalty. 3. Sale of unwholesome meat prohibited; penalty . 4. Meats to be weighed; penalty. 5. Stalls to be kept neat; filth not to be deposited iii streets. 6. Duties of maj^or and health officers. 7. Butchers shall not slaughter cattle, etc,, in city limits, unless by permit from council. 8. Duties of mayor and health officers when combination exists to raise price of meat. 9. When licenses expire. 10. Word butcher defined. Section 1. That the mayor thereof shall, from time to time, issue licenses under his hand and seal of the city, to as many and such persons as the city council shall direct, to exercise and carry dii the business of butchers in such- place as may be designated in such license, and not else- where, and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter; Provided, however, that before the mayor shall issue a li- cense as aforesaid, the person applying for the same shall pay into the city treasury a sum fixed by the council there- for; Provided, further, that any person licensed as a butcher as aforesaid, upon the payment of a further sum, fixed by the council, into the city trea&ury, shall be li- MARKETS. 207 censed to own and run a delivery wagon or cart for the ac- commodation of his customers, and also peddle meat through the city. § 2. No person shall, by himself, agent or servant, sell or cut in pieces, for the purpose of selling, any fresh meat, (excepting fresh venison, poultry, or wild game), in any fjuantity in the said city, without first having obtained a license as heretofore provided, nor at any other place than the aforesaid market house or stall, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense; Provided, however, that nothing herein stated shall prohibit any person from selling beef or other fresh meat by the qu irter, or aii}^ greater quan- tity at any time or place in the city, the same being the produce of their own farm or raising. § 3. If any person shall expose for sale in any market house, or elsewhere in said city, any emaciated, tainted, diseased or putrid meat or provisions, which from these or other causes, may become unwholesome, such person shall forfeit the penalty of five dollars for each offense, and t he unwholesome meat or other provisions so exposed for sale shall, without delay, upon view of the mayor or health of- ficers, be seized and destroyed. § 4. All meats sold at the market or licensed stalls, ex- cepting shanks, heads, and plucks, poultry or wild game, shall be previously weighed in a scale by weights or a beam, that are correct, and in case any fraud shall be com- mitted in the weight of any meat, and in case any meat, excepting as aforesaid, shall be sold without being weighed, as herein directed, the- person selling the same shall forfeit the sum of five dollars for each offense. § 5. Every butcher or other person shall keep his mar- ket, market cellar, or stall in the city, neat and free from 208 OEDINANCES. filth of all kinds, and the mayor or health officers shall at all times have free access thereto, under the penalty of five dollars, to be paid by the butcher or other person who shall refuse or prevent such access. No butcher or other person shall sweep or deposit any dirt, or filth of any de- scription in, or upon, the public passage way or ways, or streets adjacent to said markets respectively; any person violating the provisions hereof shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars. § 6. It shall be the duty of the mayor and health officers on complaint being made to them, to examine the weights, and all articles in the market of which complaint shall be made, or suspected to be unwholesome, or blown, or stale, plaited, raised or stuffed meat, or measly pork, or flesh of animals dead by accident or disease, or known or suspected to be diseased at the killing of the same, and no person shall hinder, obstruct or molest any officer in the perform- ance of the duties hereby enjoined, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each offense. § 7. No butcher shall slaughter, or cause to be slaugh- tered, or dress any cattle, calves, sheep or swine, within the limits of this city; or erect, construct, fit up or use any building for the purpose aforesaid, without a permit from the city council of said city, under a fine of of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for every offense, and a like fine to the owner or occupant for every day such building may be used for any of the purposes above mentioned. § 8. It shall be the duty of the mayor and health officers when it shall come to their knowledge that any person or MISDEMEANORS. 209 persons so licensed are engaged in any combination to raise the price of meat, or who shall be guilt}^ of forestall- ing thereon, to report the same to the city council at their next meeting ; and if the same shall thus appear, the city council may, in their discretion, declare the license forfeited and revoke the same. § 9. A ll licenses so issued shall .expire and cease on the first day of July after the granting thereof, unless sooner revoked by the city council, and shall be renewable by the said mayor, under the direction of the city council, on ap- plication. § 10. The word “butcher,” in the sense used in this chapter, is hereby defined to mean a vendor of meats. CHAPTER XXVIII. MISDEMEANORS. ARTICLE 1. OFFENSES AGAINST PUBLIC MORALS AND DECENCY. Sec 1. Penalty for being intoxicated. 2. Penalty for swimming and bathing. 3. Stud horses and bulls, penalty for exhibiting. 4. Houses of ill fame, penalty for keeping. 5. Indecent*exposure, penalty for. 6 Animals, penalty for beating, etc. 7. Gaming prohibited. 8. Construction of this chapter. 9. Disorderly and gaming houses. 10. Gaming, penalty for gambling. 11. Disorderly houses, officers may enter. 12. Inmates prostitution or gaming houses. 13. Keepers of gaming rooms not to allow young persons therein. 14. Bitches, penalty for running at large. 15. Unlawful to receive from minors. Section 1. That if any person shall be found in a state of intoxication in any highway, thoroughfare, or other public place in this city, or shall solicit alms from any person. 210 OEDINANCES. without written permission from the mayor, he shall be subject to commitment for examination, and fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. §. 2. No person shall swim or bathe in the river, canal, or creeks, within the city limits, between sunrise and one hour after sunset; nor elsewhere in said city, between the hours aforesaid, to the annoyance of any family. Any vio- lation hereof shall subject the offender to a fine of not less than two dollars, and not exceeding twenty dollars. § 3. No person or persons shall indecently exhibit any stud horse, jack or bull, or let such horse or jack to any mare, mares or jennie, or any bull to any cow or cows, within the limits of the city, unless in some inclosed place out of public view, under a penalty of not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. § 4. If any person shall be guilty of keeping or main- taining, or shall be an inmate of, or in any way connected with, or in anyway contribute to the support of any disor- derly house, or house of ill-fame, or place for the practice of fornication; knowingly own, or be interested as .propri- etor or landlord of any such house shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in the further sum of one hundred dollars for every twenty- four hours the said house shall be continued after the first conviction, or after any such person shall be ordered by any member of the city council, the chief of police or any po- liceman, or any fireman, to suppress, restrain or discon- tinue the same. § 5. If any person shall appear in a public place in a state of nudity, or dress not belonging to his or her sex, or in an indecent or lewd dress; or shall make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or be guilty of any lewd or MISDEMEANORS. 211 indecent act or behavior, or shall use any insulting or ob- scene language, or shall exhibit, sell or oiler to sell, any in- decent or lewd book, picture, or other thing, or shall ex- hibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play, or representation, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than three dollars, nor exceeding one hundred dollars. § 6. Whoever shall be guilty of cruelty to any animal in any of the ways mentioned in this section, shall be sub- ject to a fine of not less than five dollars and not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each offense, viz : First. By over-loading, over-driving, over-Avorking, cruelly beating, torturing, tormenting, mutilating, or cru- elly killing any animal, or causing or knoAvingly alloAving the same to be done. Second. By cruelly working any old, maimed, infirm, sick or disabled animal Avhich is in unfit condition for work, or causing or knowingly alloAving the same to be done. Third. By unnecessarily failing to provide any animal in his charge or custody as owner or otherwise, Avith proper food, drink and shelter, and in case of a conviction under this paragraph the court may, in addition to the fine, assess a reasonable charofe aofainst the defendant for food, care and shelter of said animal, to be paid to the person provid- ing said food, drink, shelter and care. Fourth. By conveying or driving or keeping, or causing to be carried or driven or kept, any animal in an unneces- sarily cruel manner. § 7. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to keep, have, or permit to be used in any building or place within the limits of this city, and occupied or controlled by such persons, any E. O. table, faro bank, shuffle board. 212 ORDINANCES. bagatelle, playing cards, or any other 'instrument, device or thing used for gambling, wherein, or with which money, liquor, or other articles shall in any manner be played for. § 8. This chapter shall be understood to apply, in a special manner, to any device for gambling, or playing any games of chance, when money, or anything else shall be played for, on any street, or other place in doors, or out, any building or tent, near or anywhere about any can- vass or tent erected for the purpose of exhibiting any cir- cus, show, caravan of animals, or any other public exhibi- tion, which shall be calculated to attract a crowd of peo- ple; and if any person or persons shall be convicted of vio- lating either sections seven or eight of this chapter, he or they shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars for each and every offense, and that all devices above de- scribed shall be destroyed by the chief of police. § 9. If any person or persons shall keep a disorderly or gaming house, such person or persons shall, for each and every offense, forfeit and pay a penalty of twenty-five dol- lars for every forty-eight hours during which such person or persons shall continue to keep the same after the first conviction of any violation of this section. § 10. If any person or persons shall play at cards, or at any game, or with any instrument or thing used for gam- bling, within said city, wherein, or with which money, liquor, or any article of value shall be played for, each and every person shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and not less than ten dollars. § 11. If the owner or keeper of, or any person within any gambling house, or room, any disorderly house, or any house of ill-fame, within this city, shall refuse to permit MISDEMEANORS. 213 the mayor, any alderman, the chief of police, or any police- man to enter the same, it shall be lawful for the mayor, or any alderman to enter, or cause the same to be entered by force, by breaking the doors or otherwise, and to arrest, with or without warrant, all suspicious persons found therein; any person obstructing or resisting the mayor, aldermen, chief of police, or any policeman in the perform- ance of any act authorized by this section, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. § 12. That it shall be unlawful for any person to visit houses of prostitution or gaming houses or places wherein games are played for money or other valuable thing, whether such person shall play at any game himself or be a mere looker on, knowing or having reason to know the place to be a house of prostitution or a gambling house, and any person found in any such house or place shall upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars. § 13. Any person who shall keep a billiard room, or ball alley ,or room for any other gaming device, open to the public, within the city of Joliet, and shall entice or suffer any minor or person under the age of twenty-one years, to play at any game of chance, shall be fined fifty dollars and costs for such offense. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing any such room to be kept open for the purpose of permitting persons of adult age to play at any games as above mentioned. § 14. If any bitch shall be found running at large while in heat, the owner thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than one dollar, nor exceeding ten dollars. § 15. It shall not be lawful for any person to purchase or receive from minors, without the written consent of 214 OEDINANCES. their parents or guardians, any article or property what- ever, and any person violating this section shall forfeit and pay not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for every offense. AKTICLE II. OFFENSES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC SAFETY. Sec 1. Penalty for renting buildings for houses of ill-fame. 2. Fire arms not to be used in the city, 3. Fast driving prohibited . 4. Poison not to be sold unless labeled . 5. Scaffolds to be properly erected. 6. Kites, penalty for flying in streets, etc. 7. Stones, penalty for throwing. 8. Horses to be hitched. 9. Draymen, etc , to fasten wheel with chain. 10. Horses, penalty for frightening. 11. Breaking or obstructing public lamps, penalty. 12. Persons meeting in vehicles to turn to the right. 13. Cellar doors to be kept closed . 14. Obstructions in slough drain, 15. Unlawful to wash buggies, etc., at public wells, penalty. 16. Where omnibuses prohibited from stopping. 17. Stand for drays and other vehicles. 18. Unlawful to mar or injure fences, posts, etc. Section 1. That if any person, being the owner of, or agent for any building' situated in the city of Joliet, shall let or lease any such building in whole or in part, to any person or persons, to be used or occupied as a house of ill- fame, or place for the practice of fornication, or shall let or rent any such building to ahy person or persons while knowing or suspecting at the time of such letting or rent- ing, that said building would be used as a house of ill-fame or place for the practice of fornication, or shall permit any person or persons to occupy such building, knowing or suspecting that such building is, or will be used by such person or persons as a house of ill-fame, or place for the practice of fornication, shall, on conviction, be fined in a MISDEMEANORS. 215 sum not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. § 2. That no person shall fire or discharge any common gun, fowling piece, pistol or fire arms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker, or other thing containing powder, or other combustible or explo- sive material within the limits of the city, without per- mission from the city council, or written permission from the mayor, which permission shall limit the time of such firing, and shall be subject to be revoked by the mayor or city council at any time after it has been granted. Any violation hereof shall subject the party offending to a fine of not less than two dollars nor exceeding ten dollars. § 3. No person shall immoderately ride or drive any horse in any avenue, street alley or lane within the limits of the city, under a penalty of not less than two dollars, nor more than ten dollars, and it is hereby made the duty’ of every oflScer, and it shall be lawful for any citizen to stop any person who may be immoderately riding or driv- ing as aforesaid. § 4. No person shall vend, give or deliver within this city, any deadly poison, knowing the same to be such, without marking the same in legible characters “poison,” under a penalty of five dollars for each offense. § 5. All scaffolds erected in this city for use in the erec- tion of buildings of stone, brick or other materials, shall be well and safely supported, and of sufficient width and properly secured, so as to insure the safety of persons walking thereon, or passing under or by the same, against the tailing thereof, or of such materials as may be used, placed or deposited thereon. Any scaffold which may be otherwise erected, shall be deemed a nuisance. And any 216 ORDINANCES. person who shall erect, use or cause to be erected or used, any scaffold contrary to the provisions hereof, shall be subject to a fine ol not less than five dollars and not exceed- ing one hundred dollars, and to a like fine for every day the same same shall remain after notice to remove. § 6. No person shall raise or fly a kite in any part of any street, avenue or lace of this city, devoted to busi- ness, or in which there may be much transacting, under a penalty of one dollar tor each offense. § 7. No person shall throw or cast any stone or any other missle upon or at any building, tree, or any other public or private property, or upon or at any person or persons in any street, avenue, alley, public place or in any inclosed or uninclosed ground in this city, or aid or abet in the same, under a fine for each offense, of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars. § 8. No person shall leave any horse, horses or other animals attached to any carriage, vagon, cart, sleigh, sled or other vehicle, in any of the streets, avenues, alleys or lanes of this city, without securely fastening such horse, horses or other animals, under a penalty for each offense, of not less than two dollars nor more than ten dollars. § 9. Every truckman, drayman or cartman shall have a strong chain attached to the body of his truck, dray or cart, which shall be made fast to one of the wheels when- ever the horse in such truck, dray or cart shall be left standing alone, in any of the streets, avenues, alleys or lanes of this city, under a penalty of two dollars for each offense. § 10. Any person who shall use any sport or exercise likely to scare horses, injure passengers or embarrass the MISDEMEANORS. 217 passage of vehicles, shall be subject to a fine not exceed- ing ten dollars. O §11. Any person breaking, 'mutilating or obstructing any of the public lamps, or who shall break, misplace or carry away any of the street signs now or hereafter to be placed on any of the public lamps in the city of Joliet, shall be liable to a fine of five dollars. § 12. In all cases of persons meeting each other in vehicles, in any highway or thoroughfare or upon or near any bridge, each person so meeting, shall.in all cases turn oft* and go to the right side; whoever shall violate this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than two dol- lars nor exceeding fifty dollars ; he shall likewise be sub- ject to the payment of all damages which may arise from collision, unless he shall be able to prove that the col- lision was wholly owing to the fault or misconduct of the other party. § 13. Any person who shall keep or leave open any cellar door, or trap door, or the grating of any vault on any highway or sidewalk, or suft*er the same to be left or kept open; or whoever shall make, keep or maintain any uncovered opening in any sidewalk or passageway, or who shall suffer any sidewalk in front of his premises to become or continue so broken as to endanger life or limb, shall be deemed guilty of a nuisance and subject to a fine of not less than five dollars in every case. § 14. If any person or persons shall place any obstruc- tion or deposit any dirt, straw, filth, old lumber or any article or thing whatever in the drain running through the city of Joliet on the east side of the Des Plaines river, and commonly known as the slough di’ain, he, she or they-, so 218 ORDINANCES. ofFeii cling- shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dol- lars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. § 15. That it shall be unlawful for any person to wash buggies, carriages or vehicles of any description, whatever, or to wash animals of any kind, at any of the public wells, hydrants, or watering troughs in the city of Joliet; any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. § 16. It shall *be unlawful tor omnibus and hack drivers to stop their vehicles on Jefferson street at the Chicago and Alton railroad depot at any time. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this section shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars for each and every off*ense. § 17. It shall be unlawful for any owner or driver of any dray, truck, baggage, express, or other vehicle, to al- low the same, owned or driven by them, to stan«l while waiting for customers, on any street or alley, within the limits of the city, except upon the east side of Ottawa street, and between Jefferson and Washington streets, and except two hundred feet north side of W^ashington street, east of Collins street; and for any violation of this section the party so offending, shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars. § 18, No person shall wantonly mar, injure, deface or destroy any fence, guide post, sign board or awning in any street or public place in the city, under a penalty of not less than five dollars for each offense. MISDEMEANORS. 211) ARTICLE III. OFFENSES EFFECTING THE PUBLIC PEACE. Sec 1. All cases of assault. 2 Disturbance of the peace by various means. 3. Disorderly conduct, fighting, etc. . 4. Penalty for urging dogs to fight. 5. Religious worship, penalty for disturbing. 6. Ringing of bells, etc., penalty for. 7. Disorderly houses, etc., penalty for keeping. 8. Obstructing street corner or public places, penalty. 9. Interfering with fire or police alarm, penalty. 10. Unlawful to have in possession burglar nippers, etc. 11. Police, special duty of, power to arrest on the Sabbath. Section 1, That in all cases of assault, and assault and battery that shall be committed within the limits of the city of Joliet, may be brought before the police magistrate of the city, and on conviction thereof, the person guilty may be fined not less than three dollars, or more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court having juris- diction. § 2. That it shall not be lawful lor any person or per- sons within the city of Joliet to disturb the peace of any street, lane, avenue, alley, neighborhood, family or persons by loud or unusual noises, or by blowing of trumpets, horns, or other instruments, or by beating of drums, tam- bourines, kettles, pans, or other sounding vessels or imple- ments, or by loud or boisterous laughing, or by singing, bellowing, whooping, screaming, hallooing, scolding, tra- ducing, threatening, quarrelling, swearing, cursing, chal- lenging to fight, uttering obscene language or conversation, or by creating false alarms,as by crying “fire,’’^ or “watch,” nor shall any person or persons disturb the peace as afore- said by any other device or means whatever; and every person convicted of any of the offenses enumerated in this section, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than five dol- 220 OKDINANCES. lars, nor more .than one hundred dollars for every offense. And any person who shall make, aid, countenance or as- sist in making any riot, disturbance, breach of peace, or diversion in the streets, or elsewhere within said city; and all persons who shall collect in crowds for an unlawful purpose, or for any purpose to the annoyance or disturb- ance of citizens or travelers, shall be severally subject to a fine ot not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars. § 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons within said city to conduct himself or themselves in a tu- multuous, riotous, indecent, disorderly or offensive man- ner ; nor shall it be lawful for any person or persons with- in said city to fight by agreement or mutual consent, nor to strike, fight or assault any other person or persons, nor to commit an assault and battery upon the person of an- other; nor shall it be lawful for any person to aid, or abet, or assist, or encourage any person to fight, or to commit an assault or assault and battery upon the person of an- other; and every person convicted of any of the offenses enumerated in this section shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than three, nor more than one hundred dollars for every offense. § 4. If any person shall be present at any dog fight, when the animals meet accidentally, and shall, by any ges- ture or words of encouragement, urge the dogs to fight; or if any persons or persons shall, by agreement, set dogs to fighting within the limits of this city, or shall encouf- age them after they have commenced lighting, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- tion thereof shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than two dollars, nor more than one hundred, for eveiy offense; and 3IISDEMEAN0RS. 221 it is hereb}' made the duty of the mayor, chief of police, and all police officers, to suppress all such dog fights, and to arrest and prosecute all persons, engaged in urging the said dogs to fight, or in any manner encouraging them to fiofht, within the meaninor ol this section. § 5. Any person who shall disquiet or disturb any con- gregation or assembly met for religious worship, by making a noise, or by rude and indecent behavior, or profane discourse within their place of worship, or so near the same as to disturb the order and solemnity of the meeting, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars. § 6. Any person who shall employ any bellman, or cause to be used, any bell or bugle, or other sounding in- strument, or who shall employ any device, noise or per- formance tending in either case to the collection of persons on the streets, sidewalks, or other public places to the ob- struction of the same, for any purpose whatever, without permission from the mayor in writing, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. § 7. Any grocer, dram shop keeper, inn keeper, or other person who shall keep any common, ill-governed or disor- derly house, or shall suffer any person to play at cards or other games of chance, in any public sitting room on his premises, with or without betting, shall be subject to be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than ten dollars, and if licensed, shall be subject, on conviction to a forfeiture of his license, to be entered in every case as a part of the judgment. § 8. IN'o person shall obstruct or encumber any street corner, or other public place of the city by lounging in or about the same; and after being rerpiested to move on by 222 ORDINANCES. any police officer, the person so offending shall be subject to the penalty of not less than two dollars for each offense. § 9. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than such as are employed in the city fire or police departments, to open, meJdle Avith, derange, or in any manner interfere Avith any signal box or police or fire alarm telegraph Avire, or to turn in any alarm thereon, except in cases of fire or other emergency requiring’ the presence of the fire depart- ment or police officers. Any person found guilty of any of the offenses herein mentioned shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars for each offense. § 10. It shall be unlawful tor any person to have in his possession any nippers of the description knoAvn as burg- lar’s nippers, pick lock, skeleton key, key to be used Avith a bit or bits, jimmey, or other burglar’s instrument or tool of Avhatsoever kind or description, unless it be shoAvn that such possession is innocent or for a lawful purpose, under the penalty of not less than tAventy dollars, or imprison- ment in the brideAvell for not less than one month, or both, § 11. It is hereby made the special duty of the chief of police, aldermen and policemen of the city, upon their OAvn vieAv of the commission of any of the offenses contained in this chapter, on the Sabbath day, to arrest, Avith or without process, any person engaged therein, and to com- mit them to the brideAvell, there to remain in close custody until the following day, Avhen such officer shall present his complaint of such offense to the police magistrate or any justice of the peace in the city, Avho shall then proceed to try said prisoner or prisoners in accordance with the pro- visions of the ordinances of said city. MISDEMEANORS. 223 ARTICLE IV. OFFENSES EFFECTING STREETS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY. Sec^ 1. Drains, etc., penalty for digging. 2. Stone and gravel not be removed without permission. 3. Sidewalks not to be injured; penalty of. 4. Animals not to be fastened to fences, trees, etc. 5. Bridges, engine, houses, etc., penalty for injuring, etc. 6. Bond required. Section 1. No person shall dig any hole, drain or ditch in any street, alley or sidewalk in this city, without having first obtained a written permission from the mayor or the superintendent of streets, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offense, and a like penalty for every day the same may remain unfilled. § 2. Any person who shall, without having first obtained a written permission from the superintendent of streets, or alderman of the ward in which the same may be, dig, remove or carry away, or cause or procure the same to be done, any sod, stone, earth, sand or gravel from any street, alley or public ground in this city, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, nor less than ten dollars for each offense, and every load or parcel removed shall be deemed a separate offense. § 3. Any person who shall injure or tear up any pave- ment, side or cross walk, drain or sewer, or any part thereof, or who shall dig any hole, ditch or drain in any street, pavement or sidewalk, without due authority, or who shall hinder or obstruct the making or repairing any pavement, cross or sidewalk which is or may be mak- ing under any ordinance or resolution of the city council, or who shall hinder or obstruct any person employed by the city council or superintendent of streets, or the person 224 ORDINANCES. employed by him in making or repairing any public improvement, or work ordered by the city council shall, for every oftense, be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. § 4. Any person who shall hitch or fasten any horse or other animal to any fence, railing, ornamental or shade tree, or to any lamp post, or Avho shall injure or destroy any ornamental or shade tree, shrub lamp, post, fence, rail- ing, in or upon any public ground, street, alley or other public place, or upon any private premises, shall in every case be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars, nor exceeding one hundred dollars. § 5. Any person who shall injure or destroy, or assist in injuring or destroying any bridge or its appurtenances, or any fire engine house, or any other public building or property belonging to the city, shall be subject to a fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, and to the payment of all damages. § 6. That no person shall receive the permission pro- vided in this chapter to dig any hole, drain or ditch in any street, alley or sidewalk, or encumber or obstruct any street, alley or sidewalk in any manner whatever, without first filing with the city clerk a good and suflicient bond, to be approved by the mayor and city clerk, conditioned for the payment of all damages to persons and property that may .be sustained in consequence of the granting of such permission, audit is made the duty of the superintend- ent of streets to see that this section is strictly enforced. • NUISANCES. 225 ARTICLE T. IMPRISONMENT. Sec. 1. Magistrates may imprison . Section 1. That all cases arising under this chapter, punishable as misdemeanors, by the laws of this state, the court or magistrate before Avhom conviction may be had, shall have power, in addition to the penalty, of causin the offender to be imprisoned for a period not exceedin six months, in their discretion. CHAPTER XXIX NUISANCES. Sec. 1. Nuisances defined. 2. What shall he deemed a nuisance; penalty. 3. Cellars, drains, etc., to be closed. 4. Distilleries, etc., not to allow nuisances. 5. Nuisances, penalty for allowing on grounds. 6. Soapboilers, penalty for keeping on premises. 7. Tanneries, etc. 8. Dead animals on river bank to be removed. 9. Must not deposit filth, offal, etc., in the city. 10. Must not discharge offensive substance in the river, etc. 11. Not place dead animals in the city. 12. Owners ot dead animals to remove the same. 13. Health officers, duty of. Owners to be assessed for abatement of nuisances. 14. Charges for removing nuisances, how collected. 15. Nuisances to be removed by health officers, etc. 16. Penalty for refusing to obey orders. 17. Jurisdiction in offenses known to the common law as nuisances. Section 1. That any pen, place or premises in or upon any grounds, in which more than ten hogs, shoats and pigs shall be confined or kept at any one time. 2nd. Any pen, place or premises in which a less number of hogs, shoats and pigs than ten, shall be so kept as to be offensive or annoying to any person. 3d. And any hand-bill or play card of any description which shall be stuck or posted on oq aq 226 ORDINANCES. any public or private house, store or other building, or upon any fence or other premises, without permission of the owner or occupant of the same, are hereby severally defined and declared to be nuisances. § 2. Any person who shall own, or keep> or rise any pen or pens, place or premises, or shall post or stick any hand-bill or play card contrary, in either case, to the fore- going provision, shall be deemed the author of a nuisance, and on conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not less than three dollars, and not exceeding twenty-five dollars in each case, and to a like fine for every day he shall fail or refuse to abate such nuisance, when notified by an officer to abate the same. § 3. If any person shall suffer or permit any cellar, vault, private drain, pool, privy, sewer or grounds, upon any premises belongingto, or occupied by him, to become nauseous, foul, offensive or injurious to the public health, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars, and not exceeding fifty dollars in every case, and to a like fine for every day the same shall continue, after notice to re- move and abate such nuisance. § 4. Any distiller, tanner, brewer, soap boiler, tallow chandler, dyer, livery stable keeper, or other person who shall himself or by another, discharge out of, or permit to blow from any still house, work shop, manufactory, livery stable or other house, any foul or nauseous liquor, or sub- stance of any kind whatever, into or upon any adjacent ground or lot, or into any street, alley, or other public place, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars, and not exceeding fifty dollars for every offense. § 5. If any person shall own, occupy or keep any grounds or other premises in such condition as to be offen- NUISANCES. 227 sive and a nuisance to the neighborhood, or to any person or family, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars, and not exceeding fifty dollars, and to a like fine for every day such nuisance shall continue after notice to abate the same. § 6. Any soap boiler, tallow chandler, or other person, who shall keep, collect, or cause to be kept or used, any stale or stinking fat, grease or other matter, or any tanner, skinner or other persop who shall bring to, or keep for a period of twenty-four hours, in any part of the city, ex- cept when the same are to be manufactured, any undressed or uncured hides, skins, or leather, or blubber, shall be sub- ject to a penalty of five dollars for each oflrense. § 7. Any factory, building, or structure of any kind, or tallow chandler’s shop, soap factory, tannery, distillery, livery stable, cattle yard or shed, barn, packing house, or rendering establishment, which shall become nauseous, foul or offensive, is hereby declared a nuisance, and the person or persons owning, keeping or maintaining any such factory, shop, yard, house, building or structure afore- said, shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense. § 8. If any person shall allow or suffer any horse or other animal belonging to him, or in his charge, which may come to its death by drowning or otherwise, to lie upon the banks of the river or canal in the city, or in, or upon any street or alley or other ground or place, public or pri- vate, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dol- lars, and not exceeding teii dollars in every case. § 9. It shall not be lawful for any person to throw or deposit, or cause to be thrown or deposited at any place in said city, any vegetables, meat, slops or other offal or filth 228 ORDINANCES. which, by putrefaction or decomposition, will produce an offensive smell, or whereby the health of any portion of the community may be affected or endangered : and every person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay not less than two dollars, nor more than fifty dof lars for each and every offense. § 10. Any person who shall discharge, or cause to be discharged into the Desplaines river, or Hickory or Spring creeks, within the limits of said city, any dead animal or animals, offensive substance or thing which may or shall produce an offensive or nauseous smell, or which might af- fect the purity of the water^ or endanger the health of any portion of the citizens, shall be deemed guilty of creating a nuisance ; and every person so offending shall, on convic- tion, forfeit and pay not less than two dollars, and not more than fifty dollars for every offense. And it shall be the duty of the chief of police or superintendent of streets to cause any such animal or animals to be removed imme- diately if practicable, and charge the expense thereof to the offender or offenders, and sue for and collect the same by action of debt, in the name of the city of Joliet. § 11. No person shall place or deposit, or cause to be placed or deposited, at any place in said city, any dead horse, cow, hog, dog, or the carcass or remains of any ani- mal whatever; and every person violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay not less than two dol- lars, nor more than one hundred dollars for every offense, and all expenses of removing and burying the same, which shall be taxed and collected as, costs ag*ainst such person. § 12. When any dead animal shall be found in said city it shall be duty of the xDerson owning such animal at the ime of its death, or of the person who deposited or caused NUISANCES. 229 the same to be deposited, to remove said animal forthwith, beyond the limits of the city, and bury the same at least two feet below the surface of the earth, and if the owner of such animal, or the person who deposited it, on being notified thereof, either verbally or in writing, by the chief of police, superintendent of streets, or any policeman or other person, shall, after a reasonable time, refuse and neg- lect to remove and bury the same as herein required, he shall be fined in a sum not less than two dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for every offense; and shall also pay the expense of removing and burying the same, which shall be taxed and collected as costs against such person. § 13. For the purpose of carrying the foregoing provis- ions into effect, it shall be the duty of the health officers, superintendent of streets, chief of police, and such other officer as may be directed or deputied by the mayor, or board of health, or city council, from time to time, to as- certain and cause all nuisances arising under this chapter to be abated. In all cases when a nuisance shall be found in any building, or upon any grounds or other premises, which can be charged by assessment with the expenses of removal, notice shall be given to the owner or occupant of such building or other premises as aforesaid, when known und can be found, to remove such nuisance; and in case of his refusal or neglect to comply with such notice, the offi- cers shall abate the same and report the expenses thereof to the city council. § 14, In all cases arising under this chapter, or any or- dinance,where the expense of removing any nuisance cannot be made chargeable to any real estate by assessment, no- tice may be given to the author of such nuisance when known, to abate the same, in the manner required by the 230 ORDINANCES. foregoing section ; and in case of his neglect or refusal to abate the same in accordance with such notice, he shall be chargeable with the .expenses which may be incurred by the officer in the removal thereof, to be collected by suit or otherwise , in addition to the fine or penalty. § 15. Whenever any nuisance whatever, shall be found on any premises, or elsewhere within the city, contrary to any ordinance, the mayor and board of health, or health officers, are hereby respectively authorized, in their discre- tion, to cause the same to be summarily abated in such manner as they may direct. § 16. If any person or persons shall neglect or refuse to obey any order or decision of the board of health, or any order of the mayor or health officers, requiring such person or persons to clean up his or their premises, or to remove any nuisance, he, she, or they shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense. § 17. In all cases where no provision is herein made de- fining what are nuisances and how the same may be re- moved, abated or prevented in addition to what may be de- clared such herein, those offenses which are known to the common law of the laud and the statutes of Illinois as nui- sances, may, in case the same exist within the city limits, or within one mile thereof, be treated as such, and pro- ceeded against as is in this chapter provided, or in accord- ance with any other law which shall give the officer trying the same, jurisdiction. CHAPTER XXX. OFFICEES. SEC. 1. The Mayor shall appoint and the council confirm. 2. Officers to give bonds. Section 1. That the mayor by and with the consent of OFFICERS, 231 the city council, shall appoint on the first regular meeting in may of each year : One chief of police, one captain of police, a bridewell keeper, and as many regular policemen as the city council may determine. One fire marshal. A city collector, A corporation counsel, A city surveyor, A city superintendent of streets, an oil inspector, a sealer of weights and measures, and a board of health, who shall hold their respective ofiSces for one year, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, unless removed by the mayor and city council, and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the city council. The term of of- fice of such ofiScers to commence at the time provided by ordinance. § 2. Every officer of said city, except aldermen, shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, give bond to the city of Joliet in such sum as the city council may designate, or as may be specially provided by ordinance, with two or more good and sufficient securities, residents of this city, to be approved by the city council; which bond, when not otherwise provided by law or ordinance, shall be conditioned for the prompt and faithful perform- ance by such officer of all acts and duties required of him as such officer by any law of the State of Illinois or ordin- ance of the city of Joliet, then in force, or that may be subsequently passed, and for the prompt accounting for, and payment to the city or its proper officers of, all mon- eys that may come into his hands by virtue of his office. 232 ORDINANCES. CHAPTER XXXI. OIL. Sec. I. Unlawful to keep certain quantity for sale or storage. 2. How oU may be kept by dealers. 3. Penalty for violation. Section 1. It shall be unlawful lor any person, persons or corporation to store or keep for sale within the corporate limits of the city of Joliet, any coal oil, naptha, gasoline, benzine or any other mineral oil or fluid the product of petroleum, exceeding a quantity of five barrels of fifty gallons each. And it shall be unlawful to keep for sale or storage any of said oils or fluids excepting such as will stand a fire test ot 150 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the inspection provided for in the ordinances of the city ; and it shall not be laAvful to keep any quantity of said oils or fluids exceeding one barrel of fifty gallons in each part of a building excepting in a cellar the walls of which are of stone or brick and the floor at least five feet below the grade of the adjacent streets; and no such oil or fluid shall be kept or stored in front of any building, or on any street, alley, wharf, lot or sidewalk, for a longer time than is sufficient to receive in store, or in delivering the same, and such time shall in no case exceed six hours. § 2. Any person, persons or corporation having within the city a fire proof warehouse, detached and clear of other buildings, and at least fifty feet distant, and exclu- sively used for the storage of such oils and fluids as men- tioned in this chapter and properly ventilated for that pur- pose, having beneath- its ground floor an open space or cel- lar, three teet in depth below the surface of the adjacent OILS. 233 o^roiincl, on procuring the approval in writing of the fire marshal, may apply to the city council for a permit to use said Tvarehouse exclusively for said purpose; and if the city council, with the consent of the mayor, shall grant such permit then while the same shall remain in force the parties using such warehouse shall not be subject to the provisions of the foregoing section. § 3. Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter, or any manufacturer, refiner or dealer in any of said oils or fluids who shall neglect to give notice to the oil inspector of this city, of any such oil or fluid in his possession, not already inspected by some authorized inspector of this state, within two days after the same is made, refined or received by him, or shall offer any such oil or fluid for sale before the same has been inspected, or who shall attempt to sell to any per- son, for illuminating purposes, any such oil which is below the standard test, as mentioned in Section One of this chapter, or shall use any package, cask, barrel or other thing having the inspector’s brand thereon, the oil or fluid therein not having been inspected, or shall counterfeit any brand, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dol- lars for each oflTense. 234 ORDINANCES. CHAPTER XXXir. OIL INSPECTOK. Sec. 1. How appointed. 2. Bond to be given. 3. Duties of. 4. Oils, how tested. 5. Kecoi’d to be kept. 6. False brands, penalty, 7. Fees of inspector. Section 1. That the mayor, by and with the consent and advice of the city council and on petition of any five inhal> itants of said city, shall appoint one or more inspectors for the inspection of coal oil, naptha, g'asoline,benzine and other mineral oils or fluids, the product of petroleum. The com- pensation of said inspector or inspectors to be paid by the party requiring' their services, at the rates hereinafter pro- vided. Every such inspector shall hold his oflSce for one year, and until his successor is qualified, unless sooner re- moved from office. Such inspector or inspectors may ap- point deputies for whom he shall be responsible, and who shall take the same oath, and be liable to the same penal- ties as the inspector. § 2. Every such inspector before entering upon the du- ties of his office shall take and subscribe the oath of office provided by law, and he shall also execute bond to the peo- ple of the state of Illinois in the penal sum of $500, with one or more good sureties to be approved by the mayor of said city, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the du- ties of his office. Any person aggrieved by the misconduct or neglect of such inspector may maintain suit therein for his own use. § 3- It shall be the duty of such inspector, upon the ap- OIL INSPECTOE. 235 plication of any manufacturer, refiner or producer of, or any dealer in any such oil or fluid or any person, to test the same with all reasonable dispatch, by applying the fire test as indicated and determined by J. Tagliabue’s pyrome- ter, or some other instrument or means equally accurate, with which he shall provide himself at his own expense. § 4. If the oils or fluids so tested will not ignite or ex- plode at a temperature of one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, the inspector shall mark, plainly and indelibly on each cash, barrel or package, “Approved, fire test being ,” but if said oils will ignite on a temperature of one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, as aforesaid, then the inspector shall mark on each cask, barrel or package, “Con- demned for illuminating purposes, fire test being Said inspector, while in ofiice shall neither buy, sell, bar- gain nor trade, directly or indirectly in any of said oils or fluids. § 5. He shall within twenty-four hours after making any inspection, make a full and fair entry thereof in a rec- ord book to be kept for the purpose, which book shall be open to all persons wishing to examine it. And he shall also make monthly reports to the city council, setting forth therein the amount, kind and quality of all oils or fluids inspected by him, with the names of the owners of each parcel, together with such other information as the city eouncil may direct. § 6. Any such inspector or deputy who falsely brands any package, cask or barrel, or be guilty of any fraud, de- ceit, misconduct or culpable negligence in the performance of any of his official duties, or who shall neglect, refuse or fail to comply with any of the requirements of this chap- 236 OEDINANCES. ter, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor to exceed one hundred dollars for each offense. § 7. The fees of the oil inspector shall be as follows, to be paid by those requiring his services: For each package cask or barrel, when inspected in less quantities than fifty barrels, casks or packages, ten cents. When inspected in quantities of fifty barrels, casks or packages, or more, five cents; when inspected in tank, at the rate of five cents for each forty gallons. CHAPTER XXXIII. PAWNBROKEES. Sec. 1. Defined. 2. To procure license. 3 City council to grant license. 4. To keep regi ster. Section 1. That any person who loans money on deposit or pledge of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than real estate, or who deals in the purchasing of personal property, or other valuable thing, other than real estate, on condition of selling the same back again at a stipulated price, is hereby defined and declared to be a pawnbroker. § 2. That no person shall carry on or conduct the busi- ness or calling of a pawnbroker in this city without a li- cense, under a penalty of twenty dollars for every offense. § 3. The city council are hereby authorized to grant a pawnbroker’s license to any person of good character who may apply therefor, and enter with two sufScient sureties into a joint and several bond to the city of Joliet in the PEDDLERS. 237 penalty of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the due ob- servance of all such ordinances ot the city council as may be passed or in force respecting pawnbrokers, at any time durinof the continuance of such license. Whenever such license shall be granted it shall be the duty ot the appli- cant to pay the sum of fifty dollars into the city treasury, and thereupon the city clerk shall issue a license in due form, under the corporate seal, signed by the mayor and countersigned by himself, the term of such license to be for one year. § 4. Every pawnbroker shall keep a book in which shall be fairly written in ink at the time of each loan an accur- ate account and description of the goods, article or thing pawned or pledged, the amount loaned thereon, the time of pledging the same, the rate of interest to be paid on such loan, and the name and residence of the person pawn- ing or pledging the said goods, article or thing. No entry made in such book shall be erased, obliterated or defaced. CHAPTER XXXIV. PEDDLERS. Sec. 1. Peddlers defined. 2. To procure license. 3. Mayor to grant license, time, etc. 4. Name and No. placed on vehicles. 5. Ordinance, how construed. Section 1. That every person who shall sell or offer any goods, wares or merchandise, or other article of value for sale, at any place, in or upon any of the streets, avenues, alleys, docks, wharves, or other public or private places, or private houses of this city, shall be deemed a peddler. 238 ORDINANCES. § 2. Every person canvassing or taking orders for books, pictures, publications or other articles, shall be deemed a peddler within the scope of this chapter, and be required to take out a peddler’s license ; but no license shall be required for the delivering of any article when the order therefor was taken under a license; if, however, no license was taken out by the canvasser, the article shall not be delivered without a peddler’s \ Provided , that regu- lar commercial travelers, employed by wholesale houses and selling articles of merchandise to the regular dealers of the city, shall not be deemed to be within the moaning of this chapter. § 3. It shall not be lawful for any peddler to exercise his calling within the city without first having obtained a license therefor, under a penalty of not less than five dol- lars nor more than fifty dollars for every oftense. § 4. The mayor is hereby authorized to grant peddlers’ license to any person who may apply therefor, upon the payment of not less than two dollars nor more than fifty dollars, into the city treasury, said license to continue in force for any period not exceeding one year. § 5. Any person who shall exercise the vocation of a peddler by means of wagon, cart, or other vehicle, shall cause his name, together with the number of his license, to be plainly painted on the outside of his vehicle, in letters and figures not less than one inch in length; any violation of this section shall subject the offender to a fine of not less than three dollars, nor more than fifty dollars for each of- fense. § 6. This chapter shall not be so construed as to apply to any person or persons coming into the city from the POLICE DEPARTMENT. 239 country with teams or otherwise w^ith any produce for market, or to any person selling vegetables, berries, or the produce of their own farms or premises, nor shall the same be construed as applicable to children under the age of fif- teen years peddling apples or other fruits, provided they do not occupy a stand; nor shall it apply to the peddling of newspapers, or to the sale of goods, wares, or merchan- dise manufactured in the city of Joliet by the person or persons selling the same. chapter XXXV. POLICE DEPARTMENT. * Sec. 1. Police department established . 2. The mayor to be head of police. 3. Duties of chief of police. 4. Term of office and removal. 5. Authority to serve wari-ants. 6. Officers, penalty for fraud etc,, may be removed, 7. Qualification of officers. 8. Penalty for resisting, etc. 9. All persons to assist officers, penalty for refusing. 10. Officer at police headquarters, records, etc. 11. Regulations, uriform, etc. Section 1. That there be, and hereby is, established a police department for the city of Joliet, which shall con- sist ot one chief of police, one captain, and such other po- licemen as shall, from time to time, be appointed by the mayor, by and with the consent of the city council, who shall act and be known as police oflicers of said city. § 2. The mayor shall be the head of the police depart- ment, and shall superintend and direct the police generally, and from time to time give such directions as he may deem proper and necessary for the preservation of the peace and good order and enforcing of the laws and ordinances of 240 ORDINANCES. said city, and may from time to time, when deemed advis- able, appoint special policemen and night watchmen. Ev- ery member of the police department shall wear a suitable badge to be furnished by the city, and any member who shall lose or destroy the same, shall be required to pay the cost of replacing it, and whenever any member shall leave the department, he shall immedi itely deliver his badge to the chief of police. § 3. It shall be the duty of the chief of police to cause the public peace to be preserved, and to see that all laws and ordinances are enforced, and whenever any violation thereof shall come to his knowledge, or be reported to him he shall cause the requisite complaint to be made, and see that the evidence is procured for the successful prosecutioa of the offender or offenders; he and his subordinates shall obey all such police rules as may be established for the reg- ulation of the police department. The chief of police shall attend the sessions of the city council and board of health. § 4. The police officers shall hold their office for the time sj^ecified in the order making their appointment, pro- vided, that no police officer shall hold his office for a longer term under one appointment, than one year, and provided, they may be removed by the mayor, whenever, in his opinion, the interest of the city requires such re- moval, and he shall report such removal with his reasons therefor, to the city council at its next regular meeting, and if the city council^ by a two-thirds vote of all its mem- bers, by yeas and nays, to be entered upon its record, shall disapprove of such removal, such officer shall thereby be- come restored to the office from which he was removed. § 5. It shall be the duty of the police officers to aid and assist the chief of police in the execution of the duties POLICE DEPAKTMENT. 241 herein enjoined, and they shall have power and authority in the city, to serve and execute warrants and other process for the apprehension and coniinitment of persons charged with any minor misdemeanor, or held for examination or trial, or taken in execution for the commission of any crime or misdemeanor or violation of any law or ordinance of the city. § 6. Any police officer who shall neglect or refuse to perform any duty required of him by the ordinances of this city, or who shall in the discharge of his official duties, be guilty of any fraud, extortion, oppression, favor- itism, partiality or willful wrong or injustice, shall forfeit and pay a penalty not less than ten dollars and not exceed- ing one hundred dollars for each offense and shall also be subject to removal from office. Any police officer found in any dram shop (except in the discharge of his duties as policeman) or playing any game of chance, or found in a state of intoxication during the discharge of his official duties, shall be removed from office. § 7. Every person appointed to the office of police, shall be at the time of his appointment, a citizen of the United States, and shall have resided in this city one year iiext preceeding his appointment, and a qualified voter in this city at the time of such appointment, and previous to exercising any functions of his office, shall, before some person legally, authorized to administer the same, take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of the State of Illinois, and he shall cause such oath to be filed in the office of the city clerk. §- 8. Whoever in the city shall resist any police officer or member of the police department, in the discharge of his duty, or shall in any way interfere with, or hinder or 242 ORDINANCES. prevent him from discharging his duty as such officer or member of the police department, or who shall offer or endeavor to do so, and whoever shall in any manner assist any person in custody of any police officer or member of the police department to escape or attempt to escape from such custody, or shall rescue or attempt to rescue any person so in custody, shall be fined not less than three dol- lars nor more than one hundred dollars. § 9. It shall be the duty of all persons in the city, when called upon by any police officer or member of the police department, to prorhptly aid and assist him in the execution of his duties. Whoever shall neglect or refuse to give such aid and assistance, shall be fined not exceed- ing one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court or magistrate convictine:. o o § 10. One member of the police shall at all times be at police headquarters, and whenever any person shall be arrested it shall be the duty of the person making such arrest to cause the prisoner to be immediately taken to police headquarters, and the officer on duty there shall set down in a book to be kept for that purpose, the name of the prisoner, the nature of the offiense charged against him, the name of the complaining witness together with the names of all witnesses on behalf of the city, and their resi- dence if known, and take necessary measures to secure the attendance of such witnesses at the time of trial. The chief of police shall also cause to be kept, books of record of the police force, showing arrests, complaints against policemen, time lost by policemen, names of sus- pected persons and places and of all property placed in his charge; and such other books and records as shall be required by the business of the department. POLICE MAGISTRATE. 243 § 11. The mayor and chief of police shall make suitable regulations, under which the officers and men of the depart- ment shall be required to wear any appropriate uniform and badge, by which, at all times the authority and rela- tions of such officers and men in said department may be known, as the exigency of their duties may require. CHAPTER XXXVI. POLICE MAOISTEATE. Sec 1 . Where suits to he brought ; complaint. 2. If Judgment not paid, what proceedings; torm of execution; proviso. 3. Defendant must work out fine. 4. If defendant refuse to work, duty of officer. 5. Supei-intendent of streets may restrain defendants. 6. How the officers to execute writs. 7. Police magistrate and justices to tax costs. 8. Amount of fees allowed magistrates and other officers. 9. City attorney to try suits. 10. Magisti-ates to act as police court 11. Magistrates and justices to report quarterly. 12. Penalty for failing to report. 13. When costs not allowed. Section 1. That the police magistrate and justices of ' the peace of the said city are hereby vested with jurisdic- tion in all actions, suits or prosecutions brought for the recovery of any fine, forfeiture or penalty under the char- ter of any ordinance, by-law, or police regulation passed by the city council ; and such magistrate or justices of the peace shall have power to fine or imprison, or both, in their discretion, whenever such discretion shall be vested in them by said act or acts, or any by-law, ordinance or police reg- ulation aforesaid; such actions, suits and prosecutions shall be commenced and prosecuted in the manner required by the charter, and the acts that have been or may hereaf- ter be passed amendatory thereto. 244 ORDINANCES. § 2. Immediately upon the conviction of any person for any breach of any ordinance, by-law or police regulation of said city, the police magistrate or justice of the peace shall enter judgment against him for the amount of fine and costs of prosecution ; and in case the person convicted shall not have sufficient property to pay the amount of costs and fine imposed upon him under this chapter, he shall be required to pay the same by manual labor, as pro- vided by the ordinances of said city, at the rate ot fifty cents per day, until such fine or judgment and all costs thereon shall be fully paid ; and immediately upon the ren- dition of judgment it shall be the duty of the police magis- trate, or justice of the peace to issue an execution in the following form as near as may be, to-wit: State of Illinois, ) County of Will, V ss. City of Joliet. ) The people of the State of Illinois to any constable ot said county or to any police officer of said city greeting : Whereas, the city of Joliet has this day obtained judg- . ment before the undersigned, a police magistrate (or one of the justices of the peace) of the city of Joliet, against for violation of an ordinance of said city, lor dollars fine, and dollars costs of prose- cution, these are therefore to command you to levy said fine and the costs, of the goods and chattels of the said within the said and expose the same for sale agreeable to law ; and for want of sufficient property wherewith to levy and make said fine and costs, you are hereby commanded to take the body of the said and you him safely deliver to the keeper of the bridewell of said city, and the said bridewell keeper is hereby commanded to receive and safely keep him in POLICE MAGISTRATE. 245 custody by virtue hereof and require and compel the said to labor at manual labor as by the ordi- nances of said city provided, at the rate of fifty cents per dry until the whole amount of said fine and costs are paid, and make return hereof to me. Given under my hand and seal this. day of 188... Police Magistrate or J. P. [L.S.] Provided^ however^ that the justice of the peace or police magistrate before whom the conviction is had, may, in his discretion, issue an execution directed to any constable of said county, or any police officer of said city, to take the body of the defendant, and in default of payment, that he be confined in the city bridewell or in the county jail until the payment thereof. Provided^ also, th'at no such impris- onment shall exceed six months for any one offense. Such persons shall be confined at the rate of one day for each fifty cents of said fine or judgment and costs, and may be compelled to labor as provided by the ordinances of said city. § 3. In all cases under this chapter, where the defend- ant is required to work out his fine and the costs on the streets, alleys and sidewalks, the chief of police or other of- ficer having him in custody, shall deliver him, together with the amount due and endorsed on said execution the commitment to the superintendent of streets, or the bride- well keeper, and said superintendent of streets or the bride- well keeper shall require said defendant so delivered to him, to perform the amount of labor required of him by this chapter; and when said person shall have worked out the amount of said fine or judgment and costs and charges, on the streets, as herein required, the said superintendent 246 ORDINANCES. of streets shall thereupon notify the officer thereof, and the said officer shall make return to the police magistrate or justice ot the peace of the said execution and commitment, that the judgment is satisfied and the fine and costs are paid by labor on the streets, and said person shall there- upon be immediately discharged. § 4. Every person who shall refuse or neglect to labor diligently as above required, at least ten hours per day and until judgment so rendered against him, or the fine and costs are paid by said labor at the rate of fifty cents per day, shall be taken to the city bridewell of the city of Jol- iet, and there kept on bread and water alone until he shall work on the streets and alleys as required by this chapter, or pay the amount of such judgment of fine and costs. Pro- vided, however, that no person shall be required to labor upon the streets or alleys of said city, whose health or strength will not admit. '§ 5. The superintendent of streets or bridewell keeper is hereby authorized and empowered, in his discretion, to place and impose such restraint upon any person required to work out the amount of judgment of fine and costs as is required by the ordinance, as may be necessary and proper to prevent such person from escaping from the custody of such superintendent of streets or bridewell keeper during the time he is required to labor as aforesaid. § 6. The officer who shall execute any writ or other process issued by a police magistrate or justice of the peace of said city shall, unless otherwise directed by this or some other ordinance of said city, proceed in the execution of his duty in the same manner as constables are required to proceed under the laws of this state, and the police magis- trate or justice of the peace in issuing process and on the POLICE MAGISTRATE. 247 return thereof shall, unless otherwise directed by this or some other ordinance of said city, be g-overned by the laws of this state appertaining to proceedings before justices of the peace. § 7. The police magistrate or justice of the peace shall tax as part of the costs, all fees due any officer under or by virtue of this chapter or any ordinance of said city, and in cases where the defendant is acquitted the complainant or prosecuting witness may be. adjudged to pay the costs if it appears to the magistrate or justice of the peace that the prosecution was instituted, maliciously, vexatiously or without probable cause. § 8. The police magistrate, justice of the peace and other officers shall be entitled to the same fees in all cases arising under the ordinances of said city as are allowed to justices of the peace and constables in criminal cases, by the laws of this state. The officer making the arrest under the ordinance of said city without a warrant, shall be entitled to the same fee as though he had made the arrest with a warrant ; Provided^ however, that where the officer executing process or making arrests is paid a salary by the city, the fees taxed as his costs shall be paid into the city treasury by the police magistrate or justice of the peace taxing the same. And when the costs are not paid by the defendant, in money, the city, and not the officer, will receive the credit for such fees. § 9 It shall be the duty of the police magistrate or justice of the peace through the chief of police or other officer, to inform the city attorney of any and all com- plaints or affidavits made before them for a violation of any ordinance of said city, and it shall be his duty to 248 ORDINANCES. appear on behalf of the city when necessary, and prosecute all suits commenced for a breach of any ordinance. § 10. It shall be the duty of said magistrate or justice of the peace when called upon to act as a police court in the hearing and disputation of all cases arising under this chapter which may be brought before him from the bride- well, or otherwise. § 11. It shall be the duty of said police magistrate or justice of the peace to make a report of the fines assessed and collected by them or either of them, and also report when said fines have been worked out on the streets, alleys and sidewalks, and present the same monthly to the city council of the said city of Joliet, and to pay the money so collected into the city treasury i and also to present with each and every such report the receipt of the city treasurer for the amount of fines so collected and paid in. § 12. Any police magistrate or justice of the peace who shall fail to make his report as required by this chapter shall be fined 'in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. § 13. That no costs shall be allowed to any justice of the peace of the city of Joliet in any suit or proceeding instituted or tried before such justice of the peace, in the name of the city of Joliet, unless the commencement of such suit or proceeding be authorized and ordered by the proper city officer or officers. PORTERS AND RUNNERS. 249 CHAPTER XXXVII. PORTERS AND .RUNNERS. Sko 1. To be licensed. 2. Keepers of hotels may have license revoked . 3. To procure license- To -wear a badge . 4. To first procure a license. .'i. Not to use deceit, etc- 6. Fees for carrying. 7, Not to make noise and disturbance. 8, Maj’ be arrested; further powers. 9. Penalty for violation. Section 1 . That any person of good moral character, on application to the mayor, shall be entitled to receive a license to act as public porter or runner, upon his execut- ing for the use of the city of Joliet, a bond with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the mayor, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned to observe and keep all ordinances on this subject, and upon the payment of the sum of three dollars per annum in addition thereto; Provided^ That all licenses issued or granted under this chapter shall expire or be renewed on the first day of September in each and every year. § 2. The keeper or keepers ot any public house or hotel who shall have obtained a license for any porter or runner in his, her of their employ may, at his, her or their option, have the same revoked, and be entitled to another for the remaining portion of the year, for which such license shall originally have been granted without additional ihQVQiov Provided^ That no such license shall be changed or transferred to any other hotel or public house, without an order from the mayor or city council for. that purpose first had and obtained, and each and every keeper 250 ORDINANCES. or proprietor of any such hotel or public house, shall be personally liable for each and every violation of this chap- ter or any clause thereof, when committed by any porter or runner in his, her or their employ, or who shall be act- ing under the license granted to any such hotel or public house, keeper or proprietor or either of them for the use of such hotel or public house. § 3. No person shall act as public porter or runner, either for himselt, or any hotel, or public house, or in any manner act in that capacity, or ask the patronage or cus- tom of any traveler or any other person for any public house, hotel, railroad depot or station, transportation company, or other place of business, of the person or per- sons, company or line of corporation, by whom he shall be employed, unless he shall first obtain a license, or be fur- nished with one by the person or persons for whom he is . acting, according to the provisions hereof; he shall also, when so acting as public porter or runner as aforesaid, wear conspicuously in front of his hat or cap, or breast, a badge with the name of the public house, or other place for which he is acting, with the number of his license painted or engraved thereon, in legible characters or let- ters, not less than five-eighths of an inch in length tor each character or figure. § 4. No person shall at any railroad depot or station, or other place in the city, ask or solicit any traveler or other person or persons, to ride in or use any hackney coach, cab, omnibus or other vehicle which runs for hire and for the conveyance of passengers, unless he or they shall have a license for that purpose first had and obtained; Provided^ that, nothing herein contained is intended to prevent the owners or. licensed drivers of any hackney coach, cab or PORTERS AND RUNNERS. 251 omnibus, from notifying any person tliat his hackney coach, cab or omnibus is licensed and runs for hire for the conveyance of passengers. § 5. Xo porter or runner shall at any time or place make use of any device, deceit, imposition or false repre- sentation, in relation to the change of fare, character, cus- tom or location of any public house or hotel, private house, street, place of business, locality or number whatever, in said city, or in relation to the time or place of the arrival or departure of any stage, railroad car or train, or other conveyance, to any stranger, non-resident or citizen, or in any other manner use any deceit as to the arrival or depar- ture of any stage, railroad car or train, or other convey- ance, or as to any locality, place, name or number, or be guilty of any misrepresentation or evil practice toward any emigrant or other person. § 6. Public porters shall be entitled for each trunk or package which they may carry, fifteen cents for any dis- tance not exceeding one-fourth of a mile, and twenty-live cents for any distance exceeding one-fourth of a mile, and no public porter shall demand or exact any greater sums than are herein permitted. § 7 Xo porter shall at any time or place, when engaged in his employment, make any unusual noise or disturbance, or make use of profane, obscene or boisterous language, or use any language or be guilty of an act calculated to dis- turb strangers or citizens. § 8 The mayor, any alderman, policeman, chief of police or any other conservators of the peace, or member of the police under his directions, shall have power to arrest and commit any porter or runner for examination, who shall be engaged in the commission of any act prohib- 252 ORDINANCES. ited by this chapter. They shall also have power to give any directions which may be required for the preservatio»n of the peace, or the convenience of the public at any rail- road termination, and no person shall refuse to obey any such direction, or shall resist such officer in the discharge of any duty. § 9. Any person who shall violate any section or any clause or provision of this chapter, or shall fail to perform any act or thing required hereby shall on conviction, be fined in a sum of money not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the city bridewell for the space of not exceeding ninety days at hard labor, or both, in the discretion of the court before whom such conviction shall be had ; and if eommitted by any such licensed porter or runner herein provided for, his license may be revoked, in the discretion of the mayer. CHAPTER XXXVIII. PUBLIC LIBRARY. Skc. 1 . Penalty for injuring or destroying books or papers. 2. Penalty for injuring grounds, buildings or fixtures. 3. Penalty for failing to return books of libmry . 4. Fines collected, how applied. Section 1. That any person who shall willfully or mal- iciously cut, write upon, injure, deface, tear or destroy any book, newspaper, plate, picture, engraving or statue, belonging to the Public Library^ shall be liable to a fine of not less than three dollars, nor more than fifty dol- lars for every such offense. § 2. Any person who shall willfully or maliciously commit any injury upon the Joliet Public Library, or upon RAILROADS. 253 the oTouncIs, buildings, furniture, fixtures or other prop- erty belonging to, or in possession of said library, shall be liable to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for every such offense. § 3. Any person who shall fail to return any book belonging to the Joliet Public Library, according to the requirements of the by-laws, rules or regulations made and adopted by the directors of such library, for the govern- ment thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than three dollars nor more than ten dollars for every such oflense. § 4. All fines collected by virtue of this chapter, shall be paid into the city treasury to the credit and benefit of the library fund, unless otherwise provided by law. CHAPTER XXXIX. RAILKOADS. Sec. 1. Duty of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific R. R. Co. 2. Duty of Chicago, Alton & St. Louis R. R. Co. 3. Duty of Michigan Central R. R. Co. 4. Duty of flag and gatemen. 5. Penalty for violation . 6. Speed of locomotives. 7. Stopping or remaining on streets. 8. Whistling. 9. Opening of cylinder cocks. 10. Penaltv for violation. 11. Penalty for getting on cars in motion. 12. Unlawful for the C. R. I. & P. R. R. Co. to remain, etc. 13. Penalty for violation . 14. Repealing Sec. 3, chap. 36, 1 ’evised ordinances, 1859. 15. Procedure for the erection of gates, etc. 16. Railroad companies to erect and maintain, penalty. 17. Gates, etc., to be erected and maintained at sole cost of raiN road. Section 1. That it shall be the duty of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad company to erect and maintain, at its own expense, gates at the following points 254 ORDINANCES. where the tracks of said railroad company cross streets of the city, and keep at each of such crossings a gate tender, to wit: At the Railroad or Bluff street crossing from 7 A. M. till 8 P. M. each day; at the Joliet, Ottawa, Washing- ton, Chicago and Scott street crossings, from 6 A. M. till 8 P. M. each day; at the Jefferson street crossing at all times both day and night; at the Eastern avenue, Collins street and Herkimer street crossings from 7 A. M. till 8 P. M. each day. § 2. 4 hat it shall be the duty of the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis railroad company to erect and maintain, at its own expense, gates at the following points where the tracks of said railroad company cross streets of the city, and keep at each of such crossings a gate tender, to-wit : At the Jefferson and Cass street crossinofs at all times both day and night ; at the Washington street crossing from 6 A. M. till 8 P. M. of each day; at the intersection of Eastern avenue and Fourth avenue from 6 A. M. till 10 P. M. ; at the Jackson and Clinton street crossings from 6 A. M, till 8 P. M. § 3. That it shall be the duty of the Michigan Central railroad company to station, keep and maintain at its own expense gates and gate tenders at the point where said railroad crosses Eastern avenue at all times both day and night ; also where said line crosses Washington street from 7 A. M. till 7 P. M. ; also where said line crosses at the in- tersection of Jefferson and Collins streets from 7 A. M. till 8 P. M. ; also where said line crosses Herkimer street from 7 A. M. till 7 P. M. § 4. It shall be the duty of the flagmen or gate tenders of the above railroads, by means of a flag in the day time, and a colored light at night, to warn all teams or vehicles RAILROADS. 255 of any nature, and all or any persons, of the approach of any engine or engines, car or trains of cars approaching in the direction of said crossing on the line of said railroads. § 5. For every violation of any of the provisions of the foregoing sections of this chapter, the corporation or cor- porations, person or persons so violating the same, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court of com- petent jurisdiction, in an action of debt, and each three days said railroad companies fail, neglect or refuse to com- ply with the provisions of this chapter, shall be held and taken to be a separate offense. § 6. That it shall not be lawful for any railroad con- ductor, engineer, or any other of their employes or agents to cause or permit the running of locomotives, or passen- ger, freight or other trains at a greater speed than six miles per hour within the city limits. § 7. That no railroad company, railroad engineer or train conductor, or other person shall cause or allow any locomotive, railroad passenger car, or freight car, or other railroad cars to stop on, or remain upon any streets within said city, longer than five minutes, (except as provided in section 7, chapter 37, revised ordinances 1869,) at any one time, and then only when it is absolutely necessary to pre- vent accidents, except in case of accidents or injury to per- son or property. § 8. That no railroad com pany shall cause or allow the whistle of any locomotive engine to be sounded within the city, except necessary brake signals and such as may be absolutely necessary to prevent injury to persons and to property other than their own, and that in their possession as freight. 256 ORDINANCES. § 9. No railroad company shall cause or allow the cyl- inder cock or cocks of any or either of their several loco- motive engines to be opened so as to permit steam to escape therefrom at any time while running upon or along any railroad track laid in any street, or when the engine is in immediate proximity to any street or railroad crossing in said city: Provided, however, that when such engine shall be standing at such point in said city, and for three revolu- tions of the driving wheel after being put in motion, the said cocks may be opened for the purpose ot allowing con- densed steam to escape. § 10. Any railroad corporation, railroad company, rail- road engineer, train conductor, or person violating or fail- ing to observe any ot the provisions of this chapter, shall, for each violation of, or failure to observe the same, be fined in a sum not less than ten and not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered before any court of competent ju- risdiction. § 11. No person not in the employ of any railroad com- pany shall, while any locomotive engine or train of cars are in motion, within the limits of said city, get on or take hold of any part of said engine or train, or get on at any depot or crossing with the intention of getting off again at any other point in said city, without the express permis- sion of the engineer or conductor, under a penalty of five dollars, and it is hereby strictly enjoined on every officer of the city to see to it that this chapter is strictly enforced. § 12. That it shall be unlawful for the Chicago, Eock Island and Pacific railroad company or any of its agents or employes, or any railroad company, its agents or em- ployes to allow any locomotive, engine or cars of whatso- ever kind or description to encumber or remain upon the RAILROADS. 257 railroad track laid upon public grounds^dedicated as “pub- lic grounds’’ by James B. Campbell, known as the Court House Square, or upon public grounds dedicated as “pub- lic grounds” by Albert W. Bowen, and known as the Jail Square, for a longer time than five minutes. § 13. Any railroad company or its agents, or employes, violating the provisions of Section Twelve of this chapter shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than two dollars for each and every offense, and fifty dollars per hour for each and every hour said public ground shall re- main obstructed after conviction of the offense. § 14. That Section Three of chapter thirty-six of the revised ordinances of 1869, of the city of Joliet, entitled “an ordinance concerning right of way, etc., of Chicago, Kock Island and Pacific railroad compeny,” and all ordi- nances in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby re- pealed. § 15. Whenever, on any street crossed by the track or tracks of any railroad company, the city council shall deem it necessary to require said railroad company to provide protection against injury to persons and property at such crossings by the erection and maintenance of gates, guards or other protection, or the construction of a viaduct, said city council may, by ordinance, so declare and direct that any such railroad coinpau}^ shall, within a certain time, to be fixed by the city council erect, construct and maintain a sufficient safeguard at such classing, specifying the kind of protection to be erected, constructed and maintained as aforesaid, whether it be a gate or gates, or viaduct or other efficient protection ; and it shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets to serve upon the said railroad company named in said ordinance, a certified copy thereof 258 ORDINANCES. within thirty days after the passage of said ordinance, and at the same time to notify the said railroad company, in writing, of the time fixed by the city council within which the protection so ordered shall be constructed. § 16. Whenever any railroad company shall have been directed by the city council to erect, construct and main- tain at any street crossed by said track or tracks, any gate or gates, viaduct or other protection, as provided in the last preceding section, every such company shall, within the time prescribed erect, construct and thereafter main- tain the protection specified in said ordinance, under the penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for every offense, and for each and every three days after the expiration of the time so fixed for the construction of such protection, any such company that shall refuse or neglect to proceed to the erection and con- struction of the kind of protection specified in such ordi- nance, shall constitute a new and distinct offense. § 17. Every such gate, guard, viaduct and the ap- proaches thereto, or other protection when so ordered as aforesaid, shall be erected and constructed at the sole cost and expense of said railroad company, under the supervi- sion of the superintendent of streets, aud the same shall forever and thereafter be kept and maintained by such rail- road company in proper care and condition, at its own costand expense, and without expense or cost to the city of Joliet, under the supervision of the superintendent of streets and to his satisfaction. SCAVENGEKS. 259 CHAPTER XL. SCAVENGEES. Sec 1. 2 . 3. 4. 5. 6 . 7. 8 . 11 . 14. 15. To be licensed. Penalty— permits, how granted. License, how granted, and cost. Permits to be obtained from the Board of Health. Make return to Board of Health. Work to be done in an inotfensive manner. Contents of vaults to be conveyed beyond the city limits. Wagon to be painted and numbered. Vaults not to be cleaned during day time. Amounts allowed to be sharged. When health otilcer to notify owner of pidvy vaults. In case owner not found in city. Engaging in the business without license, penalty. Board of Health to cause notices to be left, etc.. Refusal after notice served. Section 1. The mayor of the city shall, from time to time, grant licenses to any person, company or corpora- tion, to engage in the business of emptying, cleaning or removing the contents of privy vaults; and every' person, company or corporation engaged in said business, shall be deemed a night scavenger within the meaning of this chapter. § 2. No person, company or corporation within the city of Joliet, shall empty, clean or remove the contents of any privo vault, or in any manner engaged in the business of night scavenger, without first having obtained a license so to do under the penelty of not less than ten dollars for each offense; Provided^ that the owners, occupants or agents of privy vaults within the city desiring to clean and remove the contents thereof themselves, without the aid of night scavengers, may be allowed to do so upon the written permission of the mayor or board of health, and 260 ORDINANCES. then only in such a manner as he or they in said permit shall direct. § 3. Every person, company or corporation applying for such licenses, shall pay to the city clerk the sum of five dollars, and execute a bond to the city in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, with not less than two sureties to be approved by the mayor, conditioned that said scavenger will comply with the provisions of this chapter, and every ordinance which may be hereafter passed by the city council touching their said employment, and will also comply with and obey the directions and regulation of the board of health of the city made in persuance of the law. § 4. No licensed person, company or corporation with- in the city of Joliet shall remove or cause to be removed, the contents of any privy vault without a permit first ob- tained from the board of health, under the penalty of not less than five dollars for each offense. Every such permit shall give the name of the scavenges, describe the premises where the work is to^ be done, and state where the contents thereof shall be deposited. § 5. Each scavenger shall make return to the board of health, of every permit issued to him, within five days after the work shall have been performed, certifying to the number of yards or loads removed from the vault or vaults therein described, and the place where the same was depos- ited, under the penalty of not less than ten dollars for each offense. § 6. The cleaning, emptying and removing of the con- tents of privy vaults shall be done in an inoffensive manner, and any scavenger having begun any such scavanger-work shall, without any interruption or delay, finish the same, and shall in every instance leave the privy in as good con- SCAVENGERS* 261 ditioii upon the vault as when the work was undertaken. § 7. The contents of privy vaults so removed by any scavenger shall be conveyed beyond the city limits in air- tight tanks or vessels, and shall be disposed of in such a manner as to cause no offense, said tanks or vessels shall be kept clean and inoffensive when not in actual use. § 8. Scavengers who engage in the business of remov- ing the contents of privy vaults at night, shall cause to be painted upon the wagon box of their wagons, in letters and figures, their names and the number of their licenses, together with a lighted lamp with plain glass fronts and sides, with the number of the license of such wagon painted with black paint on the sides and front of each of said lamps, in distinct and legible figures, at least two inches in size, and so placed that said lamps may be distinctly seen, and said num])er easily read. § 9. No privy vault shall be opened nor the contents thereof disturbed or removed between the hours of six o’clock A, M. and ten o’clock P. M. of any day, nor shall such contents be deposited or buried within the city, ex- cept upon the permission of the board of health of said city and in such manner and places as shall be by them directed. And if any night scavenger shall not bury said contents as above provided, and cover the same so as to prevent any smell arising therefrom, his license shall immediately be forfeited and annulled. Any person violating any provis- ion of this section shall be subject to the penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars for each offense. § 10. Night scavengers shall be allowed to charge and receive fv^r each load so by them taken and removed, of not less than twenty-seven cubic feet, a sum not exceeding five dollars for each and every load so removed. 262 ORDINANCES.' § 11. Whenever, in the opinion of the board of health or health officer, any privy vault shall be offensive and need cleaning, it shall be his duty to notify the owner, agent or occupant to cleanse the' same within a period named in said notice, and unless the person so notified shall comply within the time mentioned, it shall be the duty of said officer to cause said vault to be cleaned by one or more of the city scavengers aforesaid, and such person failing to comply with said notice, shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hun- dred dollars. Provided^ that nothing in this section con- tained shall discharge the owner, agent or occupant of the premises from any liability otherwise provided, to pay all the expenses of such cleaning. § 12. In case no owner or agent can be found in the city, such officers shall cause such offensive vault to be cleaned, and in either case the expense shall be collected as in other cases of the removal or abatement of nuisances. § 13. Any person without license as aforesaid, who shall engage in business as night scavenger, or who shall under- take to remove any contents ot any privy vault within the city without license or permit, as aforesaid, shall, on con- viction thereof, pay a fine of not less than ten dollars, or more than fifty for each offense ; and any night scavenger so as aforesaid licensed, or owner, agent or occupant, so as aforesaid acting under permit as aforesaid, who shall fail to comply with any order, direction or regulation of the board of health, or who shall violate any provision or sec- tion, or clause of any provision or section of this chapter where no other penalty is imposed, shall, on conviction thereof, pay^ a fine of not less than five dollars, and shall, SCAVEJs^GEKS. 263 at the discretion of the mayor of the city ot Joliet, forfeit his license. § 14. The board of health shall cause a printed notice to be left at each and every hotel, tavern, eating house and dwelling house in the city, stating that a scavenger will call for offal, garbage, swill (and on improved streets, ashes] at certain times mentioned in the notice, and requir- ing such offal, garbage, swill, [and on improved streets, ashes] be ready in suitable vessels for the scavenger when he calls for the same. A copy of Section Fifteen of this chapter shall be appended to such notice. § 15. Any person who shall, after notice, neglect or re- fuse to have the offal, garbage or swill, upon his or her premises, ready for the scavenger in the manner and at the time mentioned in said notice, shall pay a penalty of three dollars for each and every day such offal, garbage or swill shall remain on such premises after the same has been called for by tlie scavenger. Said scavenger shall be al- lowed to charge and receive for each load of such offal, gar- bage or swill so by them them taken, a sum not exceeding one dollar. 264 ORDINANCES. CHAPTER XLI* SCHOOLS. Sec 1. Division of city into districts. 2. District No. 1 extent of. 3. District No. 2, extent of. 4. Schools to be maintained. 5. Children under five and over twenty-one. 6. How maintained, teachers how paid. Tax levied to defmy expense of schools. 7. Teachers to keep schedules. 8. Board of school inspectors, establish rules. 9. Meeting of inspectors, proviso. 10. School inspectors to have entire control of schools. 11. Inspectors to adopt a System of schools. 12. Board to fix compensation of teachers, subject to. IS. To have well bound books, keep record. 14. To report to city council. 15. Duty of teachers to hold institutes. 16. Board to report to council. 17. Claims audited by boai*d, and filed with city clerk. 18. Board to report to state superintendent. 19 Board to present to the council reQuisitions for printing. 20. To report tuition fees every three months and pay same to treasurer. . Section 1. That the city of Joliet shall be divided into two school districts, as follows: all that part of said city lying west of the Desplaines river shall constitute district No. 1, and all that part of said city lying east of the said river shall constitute district No. 2. § 2. District No. 1, in addition to that part ot the ter- ritory within the city limits, west of the Desplains river, shall comprise that part of section three west of the Des- plaines river, section four (4), and the southeast quarter of section five (5), town thirty-five (35), north of ‘range ten (10), east of the third principal meridian. § 3. District No. 2, in addition to that part of the terri- tory within the city limits east of the Desplaines river shall comprise section two (2), that part of section three (3) east of the Desplaines river, the west half of section eleven SCHOOLS. 265 (11), the east half of the east half of section ten (10), and that part of the south half of section fifteen, south and east of Hickory creek, (except the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter, and except that part of the north half lying east of Spring and Hickory creeks,) and that part of the northeast quarter of section twenty-one (21), lying east of the St. Louis railroad, in town thirty-five, north of range ten east of third principal meridian. § 4. There shall be established and maintained in the city a sufficient number of common schools to provide in- struction to all the children thereof over the age of five, and under the age of twenty-one years ; and there shall be at least one such school in each district now or hereafter to be created, and all of said schools shall be free to all children of suitable .ages, within their respective districts. § 5. Children under five or over twenty-one years of age, and those not belonging in the district shall not be admitted into the common schools of either of the districts of the city, except upon such terms as may be prescribed by the board of school inspectors, or with the written per- mission of said board. § 6. All the common schools of this city shall be sup- ported at the public expense. The teachers of said schools shall be paid out of that portion of the interest or income which the city of Joliet, or the schools or scholars therein are, or may be hereafter, by law entitled to receive of the school fund, by law appropriated to the payment of teach- ers for township 35 N. R. 10 east, and the balance (if any there be) due teachers over and above the sum paid by such interest luud, together with all other expenses necessary for the proper management and support of the common schools of said city, shall be paid to the order of the board 266 ORDINANCES. of school iiispectors‘ out of a fund to be raised for that pur- pose by tax on all the taxable property in said city and school districts. And all taxes collected and paid into the city treasury for school purposes shall be kept as a sepa- rate and distinct fund, for the support of schools exclu- sively. § 7. All teachers of common schools in the said city shall keep a schedule of the number of scholars attending school, as now required by law, and the money in the hands of the treasurer of the trustees of schools, for town- ship 35, N. R. 10 E., or so much thereof as shall be appro- priated to the school district of said city, or appropriated to their use, shall be paid to the said teachers on their schedules properly certified by the school inspectors and returned to the proper officer, in such proportion and measure as the statute provides. § 8. The board of school inspectors, when organized by electing from their own number a chairman and secretary, may establish all such laws, rules and regulations for their own government, not inconsistent with their authority and duties, as may in their opinion be necessar 3 ^ Said board may in their discretion, pay their secretary as remunera- tion for his services a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars per annum. § 9. Said board shall meet regularly on the first Mon- day that immediately precedes the regular monthly meet- ing of the city council, at the city hall^^r at such other place as may be designated by the president of the school board (withourexpense to the city), for the transaction of business. Special meetings may be called at any time at the request of the president or any two members, where- upon the secretary shall give seasonable notice to each of SCHOOLS. 267 the inspectors of the time i^nd place, o^ holding such meet- ing; Provided^ That no powers belonging to the said board shall be exercised thereby, except at meetings regu- larly convened in the manner above specified. § 10. The board of school inspectors shall take the en- tire superintendence and control of common schools within the city; shall employ all teachers, make necessary repairs, furnish fuel, furniture, and all other things necessary for the proper and successful carrying on and maintaining of said schools; Provided^ That no contract for the employ- ment of teachers shall be binding until confirmed by the city council, and provided further, that no teacher shall be employed to teach in any of said schools until he or she shall have exhibited to said board a certificate of qualifica- tion of the first or second grade, according to the classes to be taught under the direction of the school board, from the county superintendent of public instruction of Will county; said board shall visit all the public schools as often as once in each month, for the purpose of inquiring into the progress of the scholars, and the government of the schools ; shall prescribe the studies to be taught, the books and apparatus to be used, and the method of discip- line to be pursued, and shall carefully see to it that all the schools are in all respects maintained and managed in a proper manner ; that after the present school year, no language except the English shall be taught in any of the schools of said district, except that by the direc- tion of the board of school inspectors, the Latin language may be taught in the high school departments, and pro- vided also, that the same grade shall be maintained in both districts No. 1 and No. 2 until otherwise ordered by the city council. 268 ORDINANCES. § 11. The said inspectors shall have power to adopt a system of schools in each district, consisting of different grades, and assign suitable teachers to each, and to deter- mine what scholars are sufficiently advanced to enter the higher grades, judging by the qualifications alone of the scholars, and also to dismiss or remove any teacher when- ever, from the want of proper qualification or other cause, the interest of the school shall require such removal or dis- missal, and all teachers shall be employed subject to this right and duty on the part of the board of school inspec- tors. § 12. Said board shall fix the compensation to be paid to the teachers employed in said schools, subject however, to confirmation by the city council. § 13. The said board of inspectors shall furnish them- selves with a well bound book, at the expense of the school tax fund, in which shall be kept a faithful record of all their proceedings. They shall also file and preserve all the vouchers and accounts which may be allowed by them, and at the expiration of their term of office the same shall be lodged with the city clerk, and the records be delivered to their successors in office. § 14. The said board of inspectors shall, at the end of each term, report to the city council the condition of the sch^^ols, the progress and improvement made by the pupils, and the number taught in each district, the amount of teachers" wages and other expenses, and such other infor- mation as may be important; and may make suggestions to the city council in relation to the building and furnishing of school houses, or procuring apparatus or libraries, or creating new districts, or other matters which the interests of schools may, in their judgment require. And it shall be SCHOOLS. 269 their duty to report their doings, or furnish any other in- formation relating to schools, to the city council at any time when required so to do. § 15. It shall be the duty of the teachers in the public schools of this city to meet on the second Saturday of every month, under the direction of the inspectors, at such place in said city as they may designate, to hold a teachers’ in- stitute for their own improvement in teaching. All pub- lic schools shall be taught five days in each week. § 16. It shall be the duty of the board of school inspec- tors, before the first day of July in each year, to report to the city council the amount which will be required to sus- tain the schools for the ensuing year, giving in detail the items of such expenditure, which sum, if deemed reason- able and right by the council, shall be exclusively set apart for school purposes as soon as the taxes are collected ; Provided^ That when such sum is so set apart, said board shall expend no more of said money so set apart for any one item than is appropriated for such item, unless the con- sent .of the council shall be first obtained thereto. § 17. That all claims, bills, amounts and demands what- soever against the city for school supplies, teachers’ sala- ries, furniture, repairs, or in any way connected with the maintenance of schools shall be audited by said board, and when so audited shall be certified by the president of said board and the secretary thereof, and filed with the city clerk, to be by him presented to the city council for their approval, consideration or allowance, and when so allowed, said bills shall be published with the council proceedings the same as other bills against the city, and paid by orders drawn by the mayor and city clerk on the proper fund, as in other cases. 270 OEBINANCES. § 18. It shall be the duty of the board of school inspec- tors, on or before the first Monday in October always pre- ceding each regular session of the general assembly of the state, or annually, if required by the state superintendent, to make and enter a statement or report, to the commis- sioner of schools for the county of Will, of all such statis- tics and other information in regard to the public schools of the city, and an enumeration of children or other per- sons as is required to be communicated by township boards of trustees or directors, as is required by law. § 19. It shall be the duty of the board of school inspec- tors, from time to time, as required, to present to the city council, requisitions for any and all printing that may be required by such school board, and no printing shall be ordered by said school board until said requisition has been allowed by the city council, and then only the amount so allowed by the city council. § 20. It shall be the duty of the school board to pay into the city treasury all moneys received by them for tuition fees, and report every three months to the council all such tuition fees received by said board, and said board shall file with each report the receipt of the city treasurer for the full amount of such fees received by them. SHOWS EXHIBITION. 271 CHAPTER XLII. SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS. Sec. 1. Managers of theatres, circuses, etc. to obtain license. 2. License to be granted on following terms . 3. License to opera house, etc. 4. License to specify the object. 5. Penalty for violation. 6. Not to apply to citizens of Joliet . Section 1. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to own, contract, or manage for gain within the city, any theatre, circus, caravan, or other exhibition, or show of amusement, or exhibit any natural or artificial cu- riosities, or any panorama or other show or device of any kind, or give any concert or other musical entertainment without a license. § 2. Licenses may be granted for the purpose contem- plated in this ordinance, upon the following terms and con- ditions, to wit: First. To circus companies, their managers or agents,to exhibit for one day, not less than fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars; two days, one hundred dollars, and twenty-five dollars per day for every day after two days. Side-shows, ten dollars per day for each show. Second, To managers or agents of theatres, shows ,man- ageries, concerts or exhibitions, performances or entertain- ments of any kind, whatever, as contemplated in this chap- ter, for the sum of two dollars to ten dollars for each and every day such person shall exhibit, perform or show. § 3. That the proprietor or lessee of any public hall or opera house in this city may take out a license for one year for the sum of fifty dollars payable in advance, which if so 272 OEDINANCES. taken out, shall be in lieu of a license for each entertainment held therein during the period covered by such license. § 4. All licenses issued under the provisions hereot shall specify the object, and length of time for which the same shall have been respectively granted. Licenses granted under the provisions hereof shall at all times be subject to the ordinances of the city, existing when issued, or subse- quently passed. It shall be the duty of the person licensed to keep good order about his place of exhibition or amuse- ment, and for that purpose to keep at his own expense a sufficient police force. § 5. If any person shall violate, or aid or assist in the violation of any provision of this chapter, or neglect or refuse to conform thereto, he shall be subject to a fine of not less than thirty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court, for every such viola- tion, and to a revocation of his license, at the pleasure of the city council. § 6. This ordinance shall not apply to private musical parties, concerts or exhibitions, or church or charity con- certs and entertainments given by the citizens of this city. CHAPTER XLIII. SHOOTING GALLERIES. Sec. 1. Shooting galleries licensed. 2. Rate of license. 3. C onstruction of 1 icense . Section 1. No person shall own, keep or run any shoot- ing gallery or place for target shooting, without first SIDEWALKS. 273 obtaining a license therefor, iincler a penalty of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. § 2. The rate of license for shooting galleries and places for target shooting, shall be, for one year, ten dollars; and for any shorter period, the sum ot not less than fifty cents, nor more than two dollars per day for the number of days covered by the license. § 3. No license shall authorize the firing of any gun or any firearm within the city, in contravention of any ordi- nance of the city, nor shall'it authorize the establishment or keeping of any shooting gallery or place for target prac- tice in any alley of the city, or in, or upon any uninclosed place, nor shall any such gallery or place for target prac- tice be kept in any alley or un inclosed place within the city, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars. CHAPTER XLIV. SIDEWALKS, StJC. 1. Sidewalks not to be obstructed; penalty. 2. May place goods within three feet of building, 3. Not to be obstructed by teams. 4. Not to drive over sidewalk. 5. Awnings, etc., how put up. 6. Crosswalks to be kept free. 7. Mayor to cause obstructions to be removed. 8. Not allowed to erect railing, etc., with spikes attached. Section 1 . That no person shall place any goods or merchandise tor sale or exhibition upon any sidewalk, or suspend any goods over the same for sale or show, except as provided in the next section; or place or deposit thereon, or cause or suffer the same to be done, any cask, barrel. Wood, stone, plank, boards, salt, or any other article or 274 ORDINANCES. thing whatever, under a penalty of three dollars for each offense, and a like penalty for each and every hour the same shall remain after a notice by the mayor or other city officer to remove the same. § 2. It shall be lawful for any person to place, hang, or set out for sale any goods, wares and merchandise, on or over the sidewalk in front of, and within fhree feet of his store or building; Provided, such goods, wares, or mer- chandise shall not be place t, hung, or set within three feet of any stairway. It shall also be lawful for any person to place, and leave for a period not to exceed one hour, on four feet of the outer edge of the sidewalk, in front of his store or building, any goods, wares and merchandise, which he shall be in the act of receiving or delivering. § 3. No person shall at any time fasten any horse or horses in such a way that the horse, vehicle, reins or lines shall be an obstruction to the free use of any sidewalk un- der the penalty of one dollars for each offense, and the per- son in whose possession or use such horse or horses shall then be, shall be deemed the offender, unless he can prove the contrary to the satisfaction of the magistrate before whom he shall be prosecuted. § 4. No person or persons shall push or draw back any horse, wagon, or cart, or other vehicle over any sidewalk, or use, ride, or drive any horse, wagon, sled, or sleigh thereon, except where suitable crossing places are provided under the penalty of one dollar for each offense. § 5. No owner or occupant of any dwelling Irouse, store or other building shall fix, put up or erect, or suffer the same to remain fixed, put or erected, any sign or show bill, show case, canvass or other thing projecting from any building, or hanging over the sidewalk more than three SIDEWALKS. 275 feet ill front of, and from the wall of such buildiniy, under a penalty of live dollars for each offense, and a like pen- alty of live dollars for every forty-eigdit hours the same shall remain, after being requested to remove the same by the mayor or any city officer. § G. All crosswalks in the city shall be kept reserved free from any sleighs, wagons, carts or carriages, and horses or other animals, being placed or suffered to stand thereon, except so far as may be necessary in crossing the same, and the owner or driver of any sleigh, wagon, cart, or other carriage, or horse or other animal, offending herein shall forfeit and pay a penalty of three dollars. § 7. The mayor is hereby authorized to cause any post or other obstruction erected, placed or continued on any sidewalk contrary to the provisions hereof, to be removed, after due notice has been given to remove the same, and a neglect to comply with such notice. § 8. No person being the owner, lessee or agent of any building in this city, shall erect or maintain, or permit to be erected or maintained, on or about the stairway or in the entrance to such building, or on or about its exterior building line, or upon any portion of the sidewalk adjacent to such building, any railing, fence, guard or protection of any kind, upon which said railing, fence, guard or other protection there shall be affixed, or placed, or in any man- ner attached, any spike, nail or other pointed instrument of any kind or description, under the penalty of not less than ten dollars for each offense; and each and every day any such person shall fail or neglect to remove from any such railing, fence or other protection, any such spike, nail or other pointed insti-ument, after notice in writing from 276 ORDINANCES, the superintencleiit of streets so to do, shall constitute a new, separate and distinct offense. CHAPTER XLV. STREETS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. ARTICLE I. STREETS. Sec 1. Not to be encumbered. 2, Superintendent of streets, etc., to remove obstructions from streets. 3. Articles, etc., found in the streets may be sold. Proceeds of sale, how disposed of. 4 Duties of superintendent of streets. 5. Wagons, etc., not allowed to stand in streets. 6. Buildings, etc., not to be moved through streets without leave. 7. Time of removal to be specified. 8. Penalty of. 9. Buildings, etc., not to be placed on streets and alleys. 10. Buildings, etc., to be removed trom streets. 11. Penalty for refusing to remove obstructions. 12. When obstrueted; teams, how removed 13. Dirt and rubbish not to be placed in streets. j 14. Water not to be obstructed. 15. Stone, gravel, etc. , not to be removed ; when s^rld. 16. Penalty for removing material etc, 17. Excavations to be protected, etc. 18. Setting of poles, consent of mayor and superintendent of streets neces sary . 19. Power of magistiutes. 20. Committee on public improvements, appointed. 21. Duty of committee. 22. Petitions for improvement referred to committee. 23. No certificate of acceptance to be given until satisfactory to committee. 24. No special improvement to be discontinued until costs are paid. 25. Committee required to report on all new improvements. 26. Duty of city attorney. Section 1 . That no person shall encumber or obstruct any street, alley, public landing, wharf, or pier, or other public place, by placing therein, or thereon, any building materials, or any article or thing whatever, without first having obtained written permission from the superintend-' ent of streets, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense and a further penalty of five dollar& for each day or part of STREETS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. 277 a clay such obstruction or incumbrance shall remain. (See page 224, Sec. 6.) § 2. The superintendent of streets or any alderman of the city, mayor, or any police officer are hereby authorized to order any article or thing whatever, which may encum- ber or obstruct any street, alley, public landing, wharf or pier, to be removed, and if such article or thing shall not be removed within two hours after notice to the owner thereof to remove the same, or if the owner cannot be read- ily found for the purpose of such notice, to cause the same to be removed to some suitable place to be designated by the mayor or any alderman, and the owner of any articles so removed shall forfeit a penalty of ten dollars in addition to the costs of such removal. § 3. Any article or thing which may be removed in ac- cordance with the preceding section shall be advertised and sold by the superintendent of streets, or chief of police, at the end of thirty days after such removal, unless the same shall be sooner claimed by the owner, and the penalty and costs paid by him ; and the officer making such sale shall immediately thereafter pay the proceeds thereof into the city treasury, and shall furnish the treasurer with a state- ment of the articles sold and the amount for which the same was sold, and the balance (if any) after deducting the penalty and cost, shall be paid to any person or persons furnishing satisfactory proof of ownership. § 4. The superintendent of streets shall not grant per- mission to place or keep any building materials in any of the streets and alleys of this city for a longer period than four months, and such permission shall not authorize the obstruction of more than one-half of the carriage way, and one-half of the sidewalk, except in cases of urgent necessity 278 OKDINANCES. and for short periods, and such permission shall be deemed void as to any person who shall extend the obstruction be- yond the limits prescribed therein. § 5. No wasfon, sled, sleigh, carriage or vehicle of any kind or description, or any part of the same, without horses or other beasts of burden, shall be permitted to re- main or stand in any street or alley of this city for more than three hours, for the purpose of being repaired, or for any other purpose, under a penalty of two dollars, and any such wagon, sled, sleigh, carriage or vehicle, or any part of the same may be removed by the superintendent of streets, as provided by section two of this article. § 6. No person shall remove, or cause to be removed, or aid or assist in removing any building into, along or across any street, alley or public ground in this city, without first obtaining written permission from the mayor, and conform- ing to such restrictions and con^litions as he may prescribe, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered from the owner of the building, or any person aiding in its re- moval, and a like penalty for every twenty-four hours the same shall remain in or upon any street, alley or public ground. § 7. Every permission gi’anted by the mayor as con- templated in the preceding section, shall specify the period of time to be occupied by such removal, which time shall, in the case be no longer than is absolutely required there- for, but such time may be extended for good and sufficient cause. § 8. The owner of any building, or the contractor for its removal, either or both, who shall suffer the same to re- main in any of the streets or alleys, or upon any of the public grounds of the city, for a longer period than speed- STREETS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. 279 fiecl in the permission ot the mayor, shall forfeit a penalty of ten dollars, and a like penalty for every twenty-four hours the same shall be continued. § 9. No person shall erect or place any ])uilding, in Mdiole or in part, upon any street, alley, sidewalk, or any other public ground within this city, under a penalty of fifty dollars. § 10. The owner of any building, fence or other obstruc- tion now standing, or which may be hereafter erected or placed upon any street, alley, sidewalk, or any other pub- lic ground Avithin this city, shall remove the same Avithin ten da}^s after he shall be required to do so, by a notice in Avriting, signed by the mayor, under a penalty of one hun- dred dollars for every thirty days the same shall so remain. § 11. Whenever the oAvner of any building, fence, or other obstruction, upon any street, alley, sideAvalk, or pub- lic ground in this city, shall refuse or neglect to remove the same after notice provided for in preceding section, the same shall be deemed a nuisance, and it shall be laAvful for the mayor to cause the same to> be removed or taken doAvn, in his discretion, and the expense thereof shall be recover- able of the owner, in an action of assumpsit, or by assess- ment on the premises, in the manner provided in the ordi- nance relative to nuisances, and every person Avho shall op- pose or resist the execution or the order of the mayor in the premises, shall forfeit a penalty of one hundred dollars. § 12. Whenever, from any cause, any street or alley of this city shall be obstructed by a press ot teams attached to A^ehicles, loaded or otherAvise, the mayor, any alderman, ehief of police, policeman or superintendent of streets, may give such directions in regard to the removal of such teams, vehicles, etc., as in the opinion of such officer, may be re- 280 ORDINANCES. qilired by the public convenience, and any person or per- sons refusing* or neglecting to obey such directions, shall forfeit and pay a sum of not less than one dollar, nor ex- ceeding ten dollars, and may be arrested forthwith to an- swer such refusal or neodect. O § 13. No person shall deposit any dirt, straw, filth, chips, shells, or other rubbish in any street, alley, or other public place in this city, under a penalty of two dollars for every such offense, and a like sum for every hour the same shall remain, after notice to remove the same, by any mem- ber of the police department. § 14. No person shall stop or obstruct the passage of the water of any streeet, gutter, or public sewer, culvert, water pipe or hydrant, laid or placed by the city, under the penalty of not less than three dollars for each offense. § 15. The stone, gravel, sand or other material of which the streets of this city are composed, belonging exclu- sively to said city, and to be used only for grading and improving the respective streets to which said materials pertain, and that the surplus materials over and above what are needed in grading said streets, shall be valued or appraised by some competent authority, under the direc- tion of the city council, and sold for the benefit of the per- sons obliged to pay the expenses of the gi*ading and improvement of the said street. Any case now in progress and uncompleted for the grading and improvements of any of the streets of this city, where any of the materials com- posing said streets have been rera'oved by any special com- missioners of this board, on any contracts or sub-contracts under such commissioners from said streets, and used for any purpose other than the grading and improving the street from which said materials were taken, that said material be STREETS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. 281 specially valued by some competent authority, appointed by the city council, and the amount of value so appraised shall be deducted by the said commissioners for said grad- ing and improvement of such street (if the money be in their hands), from the amount of money contracted to be paid for such grading and improvements, which sum of money so deducted shall be paid into the treasury to the credit of the improvement fund of the particular street to which said material belongs. § 16. If any commissioner, sub-commissioner, contrac- tor, sub-contractor, or other person shall remove any material from any street or streets of this city, and use the same for any other purpose than the grading or improve- ment of said street, the said material not having been valued and paid for as aforesaid, any such commissioner, contractor or sub-contractor or other person, shall be deemed a trespasser, and be subject as such for all value of said material, and all damages that shall occur to any street or streets, or persons owning property thereon, by suit in the name of the city corporation of Joliet. § 17. In all cases where the city council has heretofore granted or may hereafter grant to any person or corpora- tion the privilege of laying gas or water or other mains or pipes in the streets of the city, it shall be the duty of such persons or corporations to safely guard all excavations made in laying such mains or pipes, and to fill such exca- vations as soon as the character of the work will permit, and without any unnecessary or unreasonable delay, and to resolve the surface of said street to the same condition as before said excavations were made ; and any persons or corporations making any such excavations shall be liable to the city of Joliet for all damages which said city may 282 ORDINANCES. be compelled to pay by reason of any injury occurring from the making of such excavation, such persons or corpora- tions shall be subject to all reasonable rules and regulations which the city council may prescribe as to the length of time which any street may be obstructed by such excavation. § 18. That all parties, companies and corporations shall before they set any poles for the transmission of electricity for telegraphing, telephoning or electric lighting in any street or alley of the city of Joliet, consult the mayor and street superintendent in relation to the placing or setting of the same, and only place such poles or dig out said streets, or in any manner disturb the same except by the consent of the said mayor and street superintendent, and and at such places as they shall direct, and in such manner as they shall designate. Any violation of this section shall forfeit all rights conferred upon such person, company or corporation to the use of the streets and alleys of said city of Joliet. § 19. In any case arising under this chapter the court or magistrate before whom conviction may be had, shall have power in their discretion to punish by imprisonment in addition to the prescribed penalty or fine for a period not exceeding thirty days. § 20. There shall be appointed a committee on public improvements, to consist of three members ; the said com- mittee to be appointed in the same manner and governed by the same general rules as other standing committees of this council. § 21. It shall be the duty of this committee to exercise a general oversight and supervision of the streets, alleys and sidewalks of the city, and of the construction, repairs, and changes of the same; to receive and note all complaints STREETS AND SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. 283 made by citizens or others in regard to their condition ; to direct, advise with and assist the superintendent of streets in making such repairs, changes or improv^ements as the safety or convenience ot the public may require, and in the enforcement of the laws of the state and ordinances and rules of the city relating thereto ; to make such rules and orders, subject to the approval of the council, as shall be calculated to secure the best possible condition of our pub- lic thoroughfares ; and such other duties as the interests confided to their care shall require, or the city council direct. § 22. All petitions or motions for the special improve- ment of streets, alleys or sidewalks, shall be referred to the committee on public improvements, and it shall be its duty to inquire into the necessity and feasibility of the pro- posed improvement ; and in case they shall consider it nec- essary and practicable, they shall proceed to estimate its cost, and the proportion, if any, that should be assessed upon the city, acting as commissioners for that purpose, and report the same to the next regular meeting of the council, together with such other facts bearing upon the question as shall be calculated to enable the city council to come to a proper decision in the matter. § 23. In case the ordinance under which the proposed improvements are to be made shall allow the property owners to make their own improvements, it shall be the duty of this committee, acting in concert with the superin- tendent of streets, to see that the improvements made by the different parties are uniform in their appearance and character, and that the streets and alleys if any, crossed by the said improvement, if improved by the city, are uniform in construction and material with the portion done by in- 284 ORDINANCES. dividuals; and no certificate shall be given to any individ- ual for improvements so made, until the work shall be done to the satisfaction of the committee and in accordance with the profiles and specifications of the city surveyor, norun- til his proportion of the costs and expenses necessary to enforce the proper prosecution of the said improvement are paid. § 24. No street, alley, or sidewalk improvement, for which the preliminary steps have been taken in answer to the prayer of a petition of parties interested shall be dis- continued until all costs incurred up to the time of discon- tinuance are paid and the city relieved from all further lia- bility ; and until the city is so relieved it shall be the duty of the proper officers to enforce the completion of the said improvement by due process of law, if necessary. § 25. No new improvement shall be commenced by this committee, except in case of extreme emergency, without first reporting its importance or necessity to the city coun- cil, and obtaining its consent thereto, and in all cases when improvements or changes are ordered by the committee, the cost which would fall in whole or in part upon individuals, any citizen feeling himself aggrieved by the action ot the committee, may appeal to the city council for redress. § 26. It shall be the duty of the city attorney to attend to all cases brought before the courts to enforce special improvements, to guard the interests of the city and its citizens in the prosecution of such suits and to see that the costs are assessed upon the basis of services actually rendered; the claims for such services being verified by the oath of the claimant. SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. 285 ARTICLE n. SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. Sec. 1. Appointment of. 2. Duties of. 3. Duties on repairs. 4. Ordinances, how construed. Section 1. That on the first regular meeting in May in each year the mayor, by and with the consent of a majority of all the aldermen elected to the council, shall appoint a superintendent of streets, who shall perform such duties as the council may, from time to time prescribe, and shall receive for his services such compensation as the city coun- cil may determine. Said superintendent of streets shall be employed and paid by the month, and may be discharged at the close of any month, by the mayor and council. He ’ shall be a special policeman without extra compensation. § 2. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets to superintend all local improvements, embracing the grading and draining of streets, the co-nstruction of sewers, ditches and sidewalks, and to personally see that all con- tracts executed by the authority of the city, for improve- ments and public works, are fulfilled according to the re- spective plans and specifications, and it shall be the further duty of such superintendent of streets to carry into effect all such orders, resolutions and ordinances passed from time to time by the city council, as relates to his duties, and to cause all ordinances of the city respecting streets, alleys, public grounds, sidewalks, drains and sewers, to be obeyed and enforced. § 3. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets, whenever any portions of the public streets and 286 ORDINANCES. alleys or bridges require repairs to report to the city council the particular repairs that are required, and his estimate ot the cost of the same, when, if the city council so order, the superintendent of streets shall procure the necessary hands, teams and implements, and proceed to do the work that may be ordered, keeping the time of all hands, teams and implements employed by him, and report to the city council, showing the amount due to each person so employed and also the ward in which such labor was performed. It shall be the further duty of such superintendent to report monthly to the city council all work done during the month, and all expenses incurred in his department, and to pay into the city treasury all money which may be received by him on account of said city, and to include a statement of same in his monthly report. § 4. Nothing in this article or any ordinance, order or. resolution of the city council shall be construed as author- izing the superintendent of streets to make any expendi- tures of money or labor on the streets or alleys, unless he shall have previously reported to the city council that the same is necessary, together with his estimate of the cost of the same, and the special authority and permission of the city council be first given for its performance. SUPPLIES AND CL AILS. 287 CHAPTER XLVI. SUPPLIES AND CLAIMS. Skc. 1. Time contracts; duration, etc. 2. Requisition; -when made. 3. Who to purchase; order and bill. 4. Claims for goods not ordered, not to be allowed. 5. Bill; what to contain; certificate. 6. Printed blanks when not to be purchased. 7. All claims to be filed five days before regular council meeting. 8. School board to file statement of claims audited by them. Section 1 . All supplies or materials for the city of Joliet shall, when practicable, be purchased under time contracts the same to be let upon advertisement to the lowest and best bidder, as the city council may determine, no time contract to furnish any supplies or materials shall cover a longer period than one year. § 2. Any officer or person having charge of any depart- ment of the city government shall, whenever any supplies or materials are needed in his department, for the furnish- ing of which the city does not hold a time contract, make out and present to the city council, a written requisition setting forth the article or articles needed and the price thereof, if known. § 3. The council shall, at the time of order ing the pur- chase of any supplies, designate who is authorized to make the purchase; and every officer or person ordering any article from a distance for the city, shall file with the city clerk a copy of the order sent by him with terms of pur- chase, and also the bill of the article so ordered, as soon as the same is received. § 4. No account or claim for any article furnished to the city shall be allowed unless such article was ordered to 288 ORDINANCES. be purchased by the city council, or unless the purchase thereof was the result of an emergency which could not reasonably have been forseen in time to present a requi- sition to the council. § 5. Every bill presented to the city council for allow- ance shall contain an itemized statement of the articles for which payment is sought, and shall be certified to by the officer under whom the liability was incurred; and said officer in certifying to the bill shall indicate the place where, and purpose for which the same was used. § 6. That no officer of the city or member of the school board shall have any power or authority to order blanks from the city printer, exce’pt upon the size and form of blanks described in and covered by the contract of the city printer, without the vote of the city council first had specially authorizing and ordering the same and designat- inof the size and form of such blanks. § 7. All claims, bills or accounts, shall be filed with the city clerk at least five days before the regular meeting of the city council. If not so filed, the same shall lay over until the next regular meeting of the city council. § 8. The board of school inspectors by their proper officers are hereby required and directed to file with the city clerk a statement of all bills and accounts, audited by them, and the amount of each bill and the name of the person entitled to such allowance. TREES. 289 CHAPTER XLYII. TREES, S KO . 1. Not to obstruct lamps. 2. Penalty. 3. Not to injure. 4. How trimmed, penalty. Section 1. If any trees shall be suffered by the owner or occupant of the premises to grow in such a manner as to obstruct the reflection of the public lamps, it shall be the duty of the superintendent of streets to notify the owner or occupant of the premises forthwith to trim the same in the manner to be specified in the notice, § 2. If any person shall refuse or neglect to comply with such notice, it shall be the duty of said superintend- ent to cause such trees to be trimmed, and the person so refusing or neglecting shall be subject to a penalty of one dollar for each tree he was so .notified, and refused or neg- lected to trim. § 3. No person, other than the owner of the abutting property, shall cut down, destroy, break, or in any way injure any tree or shrub standing in any street or public place, except by permission of the city council or the su- perintendent of streets, under the penalty of not less than five dollars for such offense, § 4. All trees kept, maintained, or cultivated in any of the streets or public places of the city, shall have the boughs or branches cut or trimmed close to the trunk of the tree, at least ten feet above the ground, and it shall not be lawful to keep, maintain or cultivate trees in any of the streets or other public places in the city, excepting in 290 ORDINANCES. the manner provided in this section, under the penalty of ten dollars for each offense. CHAPTER^ XLVIII. VEHICLES. Sec 1. Persons transporting for hire must have license . 2, Hackney carriages defined , • 3. How license granted. 4. Vehicles to be numbered. 5. Owners of vehicles responsible for goods. 6. Penalty for refusing to carry persons, etc. 7. Penalty for using Indecent and profane language. 8. Fee allowed to teamsters, draymen, etc. j 9. Fee allowed hackmen, etc. 10. Draymen, etc. , to load and unload goods. 11 . Penalty for taking a larger fee than allowed . 12. Not to apply to merchants and laboring teamsters. 13. Penalty without license. , 14. Sprinklers to be licensed. 15. Bond required, i-ate, etc. 16. Persons governed by ordinances of city. Section 1. That no person shall charge, receive, or de- mand any pay for the hauling or transporting any article or personal property whatever in or upon any wagon, cart, dray, or other vehicle, nor for the hire or use of the same, within the limits of said city, without first having obtained a license so to do as hereinafter provided. § 2. Every four wheeled vehicle, drawn by two or more horses or mules, which shall be kept or used within said city, for the purpose of carrying persons from one place to another through or in said city (mail stages only excepted) or from said city to places without the same, or from places without said city, to any place within the same, for hire or payment received by the owner, agent or driver thereof, is hereby declared and taken to be a hackney carriage, within the meaning of this chapter ; and no person shall keep and VEHICLES. 291 use any such hackney carriage in said city for hire or pay for the purposes herein stated without first having obtained a license so to do as hereinafter required. § 3. The mayor is hereby authorized to license, under his hand, attested by the clerk, and seal of the city, any person or persons residents of said city, to keep and use for the conveyance of any person or any article of personal property whatever, any or either of the carriages or vehi- cles aforesaid, upon his or their entering into a bond with sufficient sureties to be approved by the mayor, in the pen- alty of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the payment of all penalties and damages which said owner or owners, and the driver or drivers thereof may incur, or be liable to liay under any by-law or ordinance of said city, now in force, or that shall hereafter be established. The said ap- plicant shall pay' into the city treasury the sum of one dol- lar for license for drays or any vehicle drawn by one horse or other animal, and for any vehicle drawn by two or more iiorses or mules, the sum of two dollars; and no license shall be granted for a less term than one year, and, unless revoked,shall continue in force until the first day of March, after the date of the issuing thereof. Licenses issued under this chapter are not transferable. § 4. Every wagon, cart, dray, hackney carriage, or other vehicle licensed under this chapter shall bear its number, as registered by the city clerk, in plain and conspicuous figures at least three inches in length, and be placed in the most conspicuous place on the vehicle, the licensee to have the same done at his or their own expense; and any person who shall refuse or neglect to keep his wagon, cart or dray, hackney carriage, or other vehicle numbered in accordance with the number furnished by the clerk, as herein required. 292 ORDINANCES. or if he shall have more than one number on the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars for every day he shall use said wagon, cart, dray or other vehicle, without having the sgme num- bered as aloresaid. § 5. The owners of vehicles, and all persons taking out license under this chapter, shall be responsible for all goods, wares, property and merchandise delivered to their care, or to the care of any driver or persons having charge of any licensed wagon, cart, dray, hackney carriage or other vehicle. § 6. If any owner, driver or person in charge of any wagon, cart, dray, hackney carriage, or other vehicle li- censed as aforesaid, shall, while unemployed, and on any street or alley, or upon the public landing, or at any rail- road depot, or place in said city, refuse to haul a load or loads for any person, or refuse to carry any passengers and their basfsraofe, who shall tender him the resfular fare or fee th orth by the Plainfield road and Spring street and a line running from west end of Spring street to Center street, on the East by the centre of the Des- Plaines river and that part of Center street which lies between the Plainfield road and where the line running west from Spring street strikes Center street, on the South by Exchange street, and on the AVest by the west city limits. The Fifth AVard shall include the territory bounded on the North by Exchange street, on the East by the centre of the DesPlaines river, on the South by the DesPlaines river and the south city limits and on the AA^est by the w’est city limits. The Sixth AYard shall include the territory bounded on the North by the DesPlaines river and Washington street, on the East by the centre of the main line of the Chi- cago & Alton railroad, on the South by the south city lim- its, and on the West by the centre of the DesPlaines river. The Seventh AA^ard shall include the territory bounded on the North by the centre of the main line of the Chicago, Pock Island & Pacific company's railroad, on the East by the east city limits, on the South by the south city limits, and on the AYest by the centre of the main line of the Chicago & Alton railroad. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 301 CHAPTER LI. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Sec. 1. Regulator of. 2. Council to appoint sealer. 3. Duties of; hindering or delaying inspector. 4. Fee of sealer; additional fees of. 5. To inspect on request; complaint, etc. 6. Not to use weights, etc., unsealed; penalty. 7. Sealer to make a register; report. 8. When to deliver weights and measures to city clerk. Section 1 . That hereafter there shall be an inspector of weights and measures within this city, and the standard adopted by the state of Illinois shall be the test by which they shall be compared and determined. § 2. The mayor and city council shall appoint an inspector of weights and measures at the first regular meet- ing in May of each year, or as soon thereatter as may be, who shall continue in office for one year, or until his suc- cessor is appointed. Every such inspector shall for the faithful performance of his duties, execute a bond to the city of Joliet in the sum of one thousand dollars, with sureties to be approved by the mayor, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties. § 3. It shall be the duty of the inspector of weights and measures, at least once in every year, to examine and test the accuracy of all weights, measures and scales, or other instruments or things used by any person for weigh- ing or measuring any articles for sale in said city of Joliet to stamp with a suitable seal, all weights, measures and scales so used, which he may find correct, and deliver to the owner thereof a certificate of their accuracy ; to con- demn all weights, measures and scales which he may find 302 ORDINANCES. incorrect upon such inspection, and to cause the owner thereof to have them corrected and made conformable to said standard. Any person refusing to exhibit any weights, measures or scales, or instruments for weighing or measur- ing, to said inspector, for the purpose of examination and inspection as aforesaid, or obstructing him in the perform- ance of his duty, or using any weights, measures and scales which have been condemned, before the same have been prepared and adjusted, shall forfeit a penalty of not less than three dollars nor more than ten dollars for each offense, recoverable before any court or justice having jurisdiction of the same within the city. § 4. The inspector of weights and measures shall be allowed to receive the following. fees for services rendered by him under this chapter, said fees to be paid by the owner or owners of the scales or measures : For inspecting and sealing railroad or track scales of ten tons and upwards, each, live dollars. For inspecting and sealing scales of four to ten tons capacity, each, one dollar and fifty cents. For inspecting and sealing hay, coal and depot scales, each, one dollar. For inspecting and sealing dormant scales, each, seventy- five cents. For inspecting and ' sealing hopper scales, each, one dollar. For inspecting and sealing movable platform scales, each, fifty cents. For inspecting and sealing counter scales, each twenty- five cents. For comparing and sealing any measure of the capacity of a bushel or more, each, ten cents. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 303 For comparing and sealing any measure of the capacity of a half bushel or less, each, five cents. For comparing and sealing liquid measures, each, five cents. For comparing, inspecting and sealing cloth and wood measures, each, five cents. The inspector of weights and measures shall also be entitled to receive a fair compensation for his labor and material necessary to make weights and measures accurate. § 5. It shall be the duty of said inspector, whenever complaint is made to him by any person interested, or whenever he may have reason to believe that any weight, measure, scale, balance or other instrument used for weigh- ing or measuring in said city is incorrect, or whenever thereto requested by the owner of, or person using any such, to inspect and test the same, without regard to the date of any previous inspection; Provided^ that said inspector shall not be entitled to charge for any except the regular yearly inspection, except in cases where requested to inspect by the owner or user, or when the weight, measure, scale, balance or instrument inspected is found to be inaccurate and untrue, when the regular fees may be charged. § 6. No person shall make use of weights, measures, scales, or other instruments for weighing or measuring any articles for sale in the city, until the same has been duly examined and sealed by the sealer of weights and measures under a penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty- five dollars. Any person or persons altering any weights, measures or scales, causing the same to weigh incorrectly shall, on conviction thereof, before any justice in said city, be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. 304 ORDINANCES. § 7. It shall be the duty of the said sealer to make a register of all weights, measures, scales, beams and steel- yards or other instruments inspected by him, in which he shall state the name of the owners of the same, and whether they are conformable to the standard of the state. And it shall also be his duty to report to the city council, once in every three months, the names of all persons whose weights, measures, scales, beams and steelyards are incor- rect, and to deliver a copy of his register to the clerk of the city. § 8. Whenever the inspector of weights and measures shall resign, be removed from office, or remove from the city, it shall be his duty to deliver to the city clerk all the standard beams, weights and measures in his possession. CHAPTER Lll. WOOD AND HAY. Sec. 1. Inspector to be appointed. 2. Duties of; fees of; 3. All wood to be well packed ; penalty. 4. All wood to be inspected ; penalty . 5. Inspector to have place of business. 6. Wood and hay stands; where located. Section 1. That there shall be appointed by the city council, from time to time a competent person, who shall be denominated measurer and inspector of fire wood, who shall hold his office until the election and qualification of his successor. § 2 . It shall be the duty of said inspector and measurer to keep a book in which he shall make an entry of each load by him inspected, and on the last Saturday of every month he shall make a full return to the city clerk of the WOOD AND HAY, 305 number of loads, and the quantity of wood inspected and measured by him. The said inspector shall be allowed to charge and receive ten cents for each cord or load of larger or smaller quantities, not exceeding five cords and five cents for every cord over five cords inspected and measured in one lot, to be paid by the seller. § 3. Every load of wood offered for sale in this city, shall be packed as closely together as it can conveniently be put, and no crooked wood shall be stored in any such load, but all crooked wood shall be sold by itself as refuse wood. Every person violating' this section shall forfeit a penalty of one dollar for each offense. § 4. All firewood sold by the load in this city, shall be inspected and measured by said inspector, and the judg- ment of said inspector as to the quality, quantity and kind shall be conclusive ; and such inspector shall give a certifi- cate of the quality, quantity and kind in each load, for whom, and the date when it was measured, which certifi- cate shall be surrendered to the purchaser. Any person or persons selling wood, who shall violate the provision of this section, shall be fined in a sum of not exceeding five dollars for each offense. § 5. It shall be the duty of the said inspector to be at at all reasonable times in attendance at such place or places as may be designated as“wood and hay stands,” within the city, for the purpose of inspecting and measuring wood and weighing hay. § 6. That no person or persons having wood or hay for sale, by the wagon or cart load, shall stop or wait for a purchaser on any street, lane or public grounds in the city of Joliet, except as hereinafter provided, to wit: On any part of Washington street, between the west line of the 306 ORDINANCES. alley running north and south between Joliet and Ottawa streets, and DesPlaines street. Chapter liii. ORDINANCES. Sec. 1. Ordinances to be recorded ; publication. 2 Repealing ordinance when to take eftect; suits, etc., not to be affected by repeals. 3. Concerning same offense under different clauses, 4. Construction of words. 5 . Penalties in cases not provided for. 6. Acting mayor to have full powers; ^‘reasonable time*' and “notice" defined. Section 1. All ordinances hereafter passed by the city council shall be recorded by the city clerk, in the book of ordinances, and shall be published in the corporation news- paper. § 2. Whenever an ordinance or a part of an ordinance shall be repealed or modified by a subsequent ordinance the ordinance or part of ordinance thus repealed or modi- fied shall continue in force until the due publication of the ordinance repealing or modifying the same, when such pub- lication shall be required to give efiect thereto, unless therein otherwise expressly provided; but no suit, pro- ceeding, right, fine or penalty instituted, created, given, secured or accrued under any ordinance previous to its repeal shall in anywise be alfected, released or discharged^ but may be prosecuted, enjoyed and recovered as fully as if such ordinance had continued in force, unless it shall be therein otherwise expressly provided. § 3 In all cases where the same offense may be made punishable, or shall be created by different clauses or sec- ORDINANCES, 307 tions of the ordinances of the city, the prosecuting officer may declare upon all ol said clauses, sections or ordinances; but not more than one recovery shall be had against the same person for the same offense. § 4. Whenever any words in any ordinance importing the plural number shall be used in describing or refering to any matters, parties or persons, any single matter, party or person shall be deemed to be included, although distrib- utive words may not be used. And when any subject mat- ter, party or person shall be referred to in any ordinance by words importing the singular number only, or the mas- culine gender, several matters, parties or persons, and females as well as males, and bodies corporate, shall be deemed to be included; Provided, Thdii these rules of con- struction shall not be applied to any ordinance which shall contain any express provisions excluding such construction or where the subject matter or context of such ordinance may be repugnant thereto. § 5. Whenever in any ordinance the doing of any act or the omission to do any act or duty is declared to be a breach thereof, and there shall be no fine or penalty declared for such breach, any person who shall be convicted of any such breach shall be adjudged to pay a fine of not less than three dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. § 6. Whenever any power shall be vested in the mayor, or he shall be required to do any act or perform any execu- tive function, in his absence it shall be the duty of the acting mayor or presiding officer of the city council, for the time being, to exercise such power or perform such act or executive function as fully as if expressly named in the ordinance, unless it shall be therein otherwise expressly provided, or such act would be in derogation of the charter. 308 ORDINANCES. Ill all cases where any ordinance shall require any act to be done in a “reasonable time,” or “reasonable notice” to be given to any person, such reasonable time or notice shall be deemed to mean such time only as may be necessary in the prompt execution of such duty or compliance with notice. ADOPTING AND PUBLISHING ORDINANCE. AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE REVISED ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF JOLIET AND PROVIDING FOR THE PUBLICATION THEREOF. Be it ordained hy the City Council of the City of Joliet \ Section 1. That the foregoing chapters, prepared and submitted by Robert T. Kelly, City Clerk of said city, numbered from one to fifty-three inclusive, and more par- ticularly described by their respective titles as follows, to wit : Chapter 1. Animals, Pound, Pound-master. 2. Arrests. 3. Auctions and Auctioneers. 4. Billiard, Pool and Bagattille Tables and Bowling Alleys. 5. Bridges. 6. Bridewell. 7. Buildings. 8. City Attorney. 9. Corporation Counsel. 10. City Clerk. ADOPTING AND PUBLISHING ORDINANCE. 309 Chapter 11. City Collector. 12. City Treasurer, 13. Corporate yeal. 14, City Surveyor, 15. City Council. 16. City Warrants^ 17. Dogs. 18. Elections. 19. Fees. 20 Fire Department, 21. Fire Limits. 22. Fiscal Year. 23, Gunpowder. 24. Health. 25. Intoxicating Liquor, 26. Licenses. 27. Markets. QO Misdemeanors, 29. Nuisances. 30. Officers. 31. Oil. 32. Oil Inspector. 33, Pawnbrokers. 34. Peddlers. 35. Police Department. 36. Police Magistrate. 37. Porters and Runners, 38. Public Library. 310 ORDINANCES. Chapter 39. Railroads. 40. Scavengers. 41. Schools. 42. Shows and Exhibitions. 43. Shooting Galleries. 44. Sidewalks. 45. Streets and Superintendent of Streets. 46. Supplies and Claims. 47. Trees. 48. Vehicles. 49. Vagrants, 50. Wards. 51. W eights and Measures. 52. Wood and Hay. 53. Ordinances. be and the same are hereby adopted and declared to be the ordinances of said city, and shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-four; and it is further hereby ordered that the said chapters and ordinances together With this ordinance, be forthwith pub- lished in book form by authority of the city council of said city. § 2. All ordinances of the city of Joliet, heretofore passed in relation to the subjefct matters of, or inconsistent with any of the provisions of the foregoing chapters men- tioned in Section One hereof, be, and the same are hereby severally repealed ; Provided such repeal shall not affect any act done, or any act accruing or accrued, or established or any office heretofore created and continued ADOPTING AND PUBLISHING ORDINANCE. 311 and provided for in any chapter mentioned in Section One hereof, or any suit, action or proceeding had or commenced in any civil case before the time when said repeal shall take effect, nor any offense committed, nor any penalty or forfeiture incurred, nor any suit or prosecution pending at the time of such repeal, for any offense committed, or for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture incurred under any of the ordinances so repealed ; Provided^ That no ordi- nance, or part of an ordinance, repealed by the city council, shall be deemed to be revived by the repeal of the repeal- insf ordinance. Passed April 14th, A. D., 1884. Approved April 16th, A. D., 1884. Attest: . THOS. J. KELLY, ROBERT T. KELLY, Mayor. City Clerk. STATE OF ILLINOIS,'! WILL COUNTY, \ SS. CITY OF JOLIET, J I, Robert T. Kelly, Clerk of the City of Joliet, and keeper of the papers, entries, records and ordinances, do hereby certify that the forego- ing is a true copy of an ordinance entitled, ‘‘An Ordinance Adopting the Revised Ordinance of the City of Joliet, and providing for the publication thereof,” passed at a meeting of the City Council of said City of Joliet, held on the 14th day of April, A. D., 1834, and approved on the 16th day of April, A. D., 1884, and duly recorded upon the records of said city, and the original of which the foregoing is a cer- 312 ORDINANCES. tified copy, is on file in the office of the City Clerk of said city. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed [L. S.] the corporate seal of the said City of Joliet this 16th day of April, A. D., 1884. ROBERT T. KELLY, City Cleric, INDEX INDEX. A. } Advertisements: Power to regulate; posting- of For work to be done by special assessment Posting of, on property without permission Aldermen : May be elected on general ticket ; when Number of, in cities . - _ Term of office of; vacancy Qualifications of - Not to hold certain offices Not to be intrusted in contract with city Rules; expulsion; bribery - - . Two may defer committee report May call special meetings of the council To be elected annually _ . _ At first election ; classified _ . . Under minority plan - . . AVhen minority plan not adopted May call special election; when Qualifications, etc - - _ . Conservators of peace Compensation authorized . - _ One only, to be director public library Unlawful to accept office by appointment of mayor \\GE. 22 74 22 () 4 11 11 11 12 12 12 Id 14 lo 15 17 U 19 d7 40 41 d(i 89 INDKX . ai6 PAGE. Not to be interested in contracts; bribery ^9 Penalty for obtaining contracts, or for bribery 90 May make arrests - - - 13o May call special council meetings - - 161 Contesting election of - - 172 May remove obstructions from streets - 277 Amusements : Power to regulate - 27 Means of egress from ; open outward - 95 Musical instruments; playing of in saloons prohibited - - - 204 To be licensed ; terms of - - - 271 Penalty for violation - - - 272 Given by citizens - - - - 272 Animals : Power to restrain from running at large 30 Prevent running at large - - 131 Proceedings; sale, etc _ . - 132 Fees for impounding . > _ 135 Dogs prohibited from running at large - 169 Abusing, overloading, etc - - 211 Annexation ot Territoy: Petition to be annexed . . . m Annexing one corporation to another - 111 Proceedings to annex territory - - 112 A ppointments : Committee to revise ordinances - 10 Mayor to make, etc . _ - - 36 Of aldermen to office void - - 89 Officers to be appointed by mayor - - 230 INDEX . 317 PAGE. Appropriations : Yea and nay vote to be taken on - 13 Mayor may veto items of - - - 14 Ordinance to be published - - 32 When to be made - - - - 42 Additional to be submitted to people 42 Expenditures, limitation of - - 42 Unexpended to be transferred to general fund 153 .Vrrests ; May be made without warrant - - 135 Arrest regulated; appearance and where 135 When defendant is drunk, to be continued • 13(> Resisting or obstructing officers - 137 Penalty for false representation as an officer 137 Ashes : Power to regulate deposit of - - 22 Officers to examine places where same are kept 181 Removal of bv scavensfer - - 263 Depositing in street, etc . _ - 280 Assessment: (t:^ee Special Assessment.) Auctions: Unlawful to exercise the business of auctioneer 138 To give bond and payment for license 138 Application for license ; how made - 138 Application for permit to sell household goods 130 P^xemptions - _ . . . 13 Bridwell and Keeper : Bridewell keeper to be poundinaster • 134 To keep register as poundmaster - 134 Keeper to receive persons confined - 13(i Power of keeper - - 143 Duty of; managenient of labor - - 143 Keep a record - - - 144 Report, and pay over moneys collected - 144 Bridewell to be kept clean - 144 To keep persons until expiration of commitment 144 Persons committed shall obey keeper - 144 Duty of keeper and assistants to arrest 14.) Chief of police to make requisition for sup[)lies 145 Chief of police to superintend the bridewell 14() Mayor and committee on police to visit bridewell 14(> Bridges: Power to construct ; regulate - - 24 Power to establish toll - . 30-82 Power to build, etc - - - 122 Controlled by city - ... 123 Penalty for fast driving on • - 123 Must not drive faster than a walk ; penalty 141 Only ten head of cattle, etc., driven on at n time 141 Persons shall not stop with teams - 142 Crowds and obstructions, on; penalty 142 Injuring or destroying bridge - 224 320 INDEX. PAGE. Buildings : Power to regulate construction of - 25 Doors to open outward; penalty - 95 When huildings may be closed - - 9(i How numbered, East Side - - 140 How numbered, West Side - - 147 How numbered, North and South 147 Plats of numbers to be prepared - 1 47 Size of number, etc - - - 147 Neglecting or refusing to number ; penalW 14N How erected in lire limits - - 184 Removal or repair of, in fire limits 186 What building declared a nuisance 187 Penalty of renting for houses of ill fame 214 Not to be placed on streets - • 276-279 c. Cities ; How organized under general laws 1-2 Laws applicable to . . - 4 Corporate name ; powers - - 5 Legal identity not affected by change of organization - - - 5 Rights, etc., of old corporation to vest in new 6 Record result of election - - 6 Number of aldermen - ^ - 11 Not to become indebted, etc - 20 Fiscal year of 42 INDEX . 321 ('ities (Cont.) page. Make improvements by special assessment 54 May buy in special assessment - 72 May adopt Article IX., etc - - 77 Tax payer may enforce rights in name of city 79 Inhabitants competent as jurors, etc 79 Municipal year . . _ 80 Aot required to furnish appeal bond - 80 May acquire bridges and ferries, and control 82 May construct sidewalks • - 99 May contract for sewers with each other 104 Annexation of territory to - - 111 How territory disconnected from - 112 May contract for water - • - 119 May levy tax for water supplied by company 120 Boundaries of city - . _ 125 W ards, how divided - - - 299 ( 'ity Attorney : Duties of - - - - 148 Salaiy - - _ _ _ 149 City council may employ additional counsel 149 Report required - - _ I 49 To try suits before magistrate or justice 247 To attend cases, special assessments - 284 CityCollector: His duties; report, etc - - 40-47 Not to detain money ; penalty - - 47-155 Bxaminatian of books; paying over 48 Office of, established - - 153 Duties of - - _ _ 153-154 Report to city council, money collected 155 (collector’s compen^iation - 155 822 IXI>EX. PAGE. City Council; Submit question of iiicorpoi-cition ; when 1 Canvass returns of election on org'anization 2 May elect nmy or pro tern _ _ 8 May disapprove of removal by two-thirds vote 8 How composed _ _ _ 10 Number of aldermen _ _ 11 Term of office of aldermen - - 11 Vacancy _ _ _ _ 11 Qualifications of aldermen - - 11 Judges ot elections, and qualification of members 12 Shall determine its own rules - 12 May expel a member - - - 12 Bribery vacates office - - 12 Quorum; compelling attendance - 12 Meetings - - - - * 12 Chairman tern - - - 12 Open doors _ _ _ ]3 Journal shall be kept - - - 13 Yeas and nays, when to be taken - 13 A majority necessary to pass ordinance - 13 Two-thirds necessary to sell property 13 Kescinding vote at special meeting 13 AVhen report laid over _ _ 13 Territorial jurisdiction _ - _ 13 Special meetings _ _ _ 14 Ordinances; approval; veto - - 11 Keconsideration ; passing over veto 14 Canvass election returns - - 19 Power to control finances - - 20 Appropriate money - - 20 INDEX. 32;^, ( ’ity Council (Cont.) page. Levy taxes _ _ _ _ 20 Control licenses _ _ _ 20 Borrow money and issue bonds - - 20 Levy tax to paj’ indebtedness - - 20 Issue bonds to meet maturing bonds - - 21 Open and improve streets, etc - - 21 Plant trees on streets - - - 21 Kegulate use of streets - - 21 Kemove obstructions from streets - - 21 Light streets - - - 21 Clean streets - - - - 21 Kegulate openings in streets - - 21 Regulate use of sidewalks - - 22 Ashes, garbage, etc -- - - 22 Crosswalks, curbs and gutters - - 22 Regulate signs, awnings, telegraph posts, etc 22 Kegulate banners, playcards, etc - - 22 Prevent flying flags or signs - - 22 Regulate traffic and sales in streets - - 22 Regulate speed of animals, vehicles and locomotives 22 Regulate house numbers . _ _ 22 Name streets - - > 22 Regulate and permit laying of railway tracks 22 Change location and grade of railroad crossings 23 Powers over railroad companies - - 23 (.Construct bridges, viaducts and tunnels 24 (Jonstruct culverts, drains, etc - - 24 Deepen and widen dock - - 24 (construct canals or slips - - 24 Construct and regulate docks, wharves and levees 24 (kmtrol anchorage, etc - . 24 324 INDEX. City Council (Cont.) page. License and resfiilate tno^s - - 24 Fix rate of wharfage, and collect - 24 Re«-nlate use harbor and brid^res - - 21 To appoint harbor masters - - 24 Clean water courses, etc - » 23 License certain callings - - 23 Suppress houses of gaming and ill fame, etc 23 License and regnlate sale of liquor - 23 Establish markets - - 2(> Power to regnlate sale of provisions - 2(i Punish forestaling and regrating - 26 Regulate sale of bread - - 26 • Inspecting of provisions, etc - , 26 Inspect, etc., any article of merchandise 27 Inspect and seal weights and measures - 27 Regnlate vaults, cisterns, pumps, sewers, etc 27 Regulate places of amusements - 27 Power to prevent intoxication, etc 27 Regulate partition fences and party walls 27 Regulate fire escapes _ _ 27 Reofulate construction of biiildinofs - 27 IT'escribe fire limits and regulate chimneys, etc 27 Fire department - - 28 Re^^ulate stora«:e of comb u stables and fire Avorks 28 Regulate police - - 28 Inspect steam boilers - - 28 listablish bridewell or house of correction 28 May use county jail - - 29 To establish the relation between officers 29 Suppress riots - • 29 Punish cruelty to animals - - 29 INDF.X, 325 <5ty Council Cont.) page. Punish Ycio-rants, beggars and prostitutes 29 Define and abate nuisances - - 29 Establish hospitals - - 29 Appoint board of health - - 29 Make health regulations - - 29 Kegulate and remove cemeteries - 29 Tax dogs . _ - 30 Regulate packing houses, renderies, etc 30 Restrain animals from running' at larg*e 30 Regulate breweries, foundries, etc - 30 Prohibit unwholesome business - - 30 Tate census - - 30 Erect public buildings - - 30 Establish ferries and toll bridges - 30 Construct mill races - - 31 Open street or build sewer through R. R. land 31 Grant permit to lay railroad tracks - 31 Prevent rolling hoops, ball playing, etc 31 Regulate lumber yards - - 31 Supplies to be furnished by contract 32 Regulate junk and second hand dealers 32 May pass ordinances with fines, etc - 32 Jurisdiction over waters; street labor 34 To be elected - - 35 Create and discontinue offices - 35 Alay prescribe duties of officers - 36 City clerk to keep journal of - 39 Eix compensation of mayor - 40 Pass appropriation bill • - 42 Expenditures limited to amount of appropriations * 42 Make temporary loan; provide for judgements 43 INDEX, PAGE Contracting liabilities limited - - Deposit city money - 44 Make improvements by special assessments 54 Appoint commissioners for special assessments 61 Order petition for special assessments filed in court 62 ]\Iay order purchase of delinquent assessments 72 May annul special assessments - 72 May order new assessments - 73 May provide water, etc - * 77 May levy and collect water tax; appropriate 78 Approve maps, subdivisions, etc - 79 Unlawful to license houses of ill fame - 82 May require labor on streets, etc - 83 To establish libraries and reading rooms - 85 May provide, that persons committed for violation of ordinances be required to work 97 To fix salaries of olhcers - ~ 98 liegulate meeting of - - 161 How special meetings called 161 No business transacted except special - 162 Rules of - - 162 vStanding committees - - 165 Try contests for aldermanic seats - 173 iViithorized to grant dram shop license - 200 To let contracts - -- 287 City Comptroller (see clerk) City Clerk Ordinances deposited in office of ~ 14 When to be elected - - 15 To notify persons elected or appointed 19 May call special election ; when - - 19 INDEX, 327 City Council (Coiit.) page. May certify ordinances ‘ - 32 File oath of officers - - 36 Bond to be liled with treasurer - 36 Receive certificate of his election from mayor 37 ^i^n commission to officer - 37 Not to hold other office - - 39 Make certified copies, etc - 39 Duties of - - ~ 39 May administer oaths - 41 Give receipt to collector - - 47 Perform duties of comptroller - 48 Keep record of bonds ; when - - 50 May appoint clerks - - 50 File certified copy of ordinance levying taxes 52 Issue warrants for special assessments - 68 To keep seal, records, etc - 151 Duties of - - 151-152 "When balances to be credited to city funds 153 Countersign city warrants, etc - 167 To deliver dog tags - - 170 Deliver evidence in contested elections to council 174 Fees - . - 175 Ex-officers member board of health 190 Countersign licenses - - 206 Claims to be filed Avith - 288 Register numbers for vehicles - 291 To record ordinances - - 306 City Register Office abolished - - 6 (fity Surveyor Office created ; bond - - 158 32S INDEX. Ci ty Survey or ( Con t . ) page . Duties of ■ - - 159 To give grades; when, etc - - 159 To keep record - - 160 Fees - _ ‘ - 1()1 To survey new streets - 161 City Treasurer When to be elected - 15 Not eligible tor two terms in succession 15 To be elected - - 35 Bond of - - 36 Not to hob I any other office • - 39 Books subject to inspection - 44 Accounts, how kept; give receipts - 44 Monthly statements, voucher; warrants 44 Deposit funds ; not use corporation funds 45 May be removed - 45 Annual report _ _ 45 Warrants on - - 46 Special assessment funds - - 46 Council may impose duties on - 50 May appeal to finance committee - 50 May appoint clerks - - 50 To give bonds » - 156 Duties of city treasurer - - 156 City treasurer to report; when, etc 156 Fees of city treasurer - ^ 157 How warrants drawn on treasurer - 167 Claims (see supplies and claims) (Compensation Uf mayor - - -40 Of alderman . . 41 INDEX. 321 ) (\^inpensation, (Cont.) page. Of other officers - - 41 Of collector - - 71-155 Not allowed library director - 83 City officers — how fixed - - 98 Of teachers; power to fix, etc . 268 Of corporation council - - 151 Of city treasurer - - 157 Of city surveyor - - 161 Board of health - - 191 Committees : Standing committees appointed by mayor 165 Duties of - - . - 166 On buildings ; consist of - 185 On public improvements ; duty - 282 Contracts : Officers not to be interested in - 38 Not to be made without appropriation - 43 Paid from special assessments - 74 How let - « _ 74 How made for joint construction of sewers 105 Supplies to be purchased under time contracts 287 Corporation Counsel: Mayor may appoint - - 149 Term of office and salary - 150 Duties of - - - 150 When additional counsel necessary - 150 Compensation, etc - - 151 Corporate Seal: Seal established; in what cases to be used 157 Remain in custody of clerk - - 158 330 INDEX. PAGE. Disorderly Houses: Power to restrain - - 27 Penalty for keeping* - - 221 Dogs : Power to tax - - 30 Not allowed to run at larofe - 109 Mayor ; to give notice - - 169 When declared a nuisance . - 170 Penalty for preventing officers - 170 Dogs to be licensed ; fee - - 170 Clerk to provide necessary tags - 170 Licensed dogs to wear collar with tags 171 When deemed a nuisance; how abated 171 Pound keeper, fees - - 171 Penalty - - 171 In lieu of other city tax - - 171 License not to permit dogs to go unmuzzled 172 When complaint made to mayor regarding bites, etc 172 Drains : Power to construct - - 24 Obstructing slough drain - 217 When bond required - - 224 When a nuisance - - 226 Obstructing passage of water - 280 Draymen, etc., (see Vehicle): Dram Shops (see Intoxicating liquors.) Election : For incorporation under general law 2 For organizing a city - - 3 Of city officers after change of organization 4 When county judge may give notice of 5 INDF.X. 331 Election, (Cont.) page. Record of results of election . - 3 Annual election - - 14 Election of mayor, etc - - 15 Who entitled to vote - - 15 Wards - - - 15 Aldermen at hrst election • - 15 Minority representation - - 16 Aldermen under minority plan - 17 Aldermen when minority plan not adopted 18 Place and notice of election - • 18 Manner of conducting, etc - 18 Result; tie - - - 19 Notice to persons elected or appointed 19 When no quorum in office - - 19 Special election - - 19 Opening and closing polls - - 81 How election oi aldermen may be contested 172 Contest heard before city council; statement 173 Council to fix time and place for depositions 173 Proofs to be filed with city clerk - 173 Proofs refered to committee - 174 When election declared null and void - 174 Ballots may be opened in contest - 174 Excavations; Permit and bond required - - 224 To be protected, etc - - 281 Ex[)enditures : Not to exceed appropriations - 42 Not to be made without appropriation 43 East Driving : Power to regulate - - 22 332 INDEX. Fast Driving, (Cont.) page. On bridge - - 123-141 Prohibited; penalty of - - 215 Fees: To be reported by city officers - - 41 Pound keeper - - 134 For billiard and pool table license • 140 Of city collector - - 155 Of city treasurer - - 157 Of city surveyor - - 161 For dog license - - 170 For impounding dog's - - 171 Of city clerk - - - 175 Of oil inspector - - 235 For pawnbrokers license - - 235 For peddlers license - - 238 For porters and runner license - 249 Of porter and runners - - 251 For scavenger license - - 250 Of scavengers - - 251 Tuition fees to be paid into treasury • 270 For circus and show license - 271 For shooting' gallery license - - 273 For vehicle license - - 291 Allowed to teamsters, draymen, etc - 293 Allowed hackmen, etc - - 293 For sprinkler license - - 295 Of scales, weights and measures - 302 Of inspector wood - - 304 Fire Department : Fire department to consist of - - 175 Compensation officers and members hxed by council 175 INDEX. 333 Fire Department, (Coni.) page. Fire marshal subject to mayor and council 176 Fire marshal appointment - - 177 Engineers and drivers to remain at engine houses 177 Mayor and tire marshal to appoint tiremen 177 Mayor and fire marshal control fire department 177 Fire marshal to control fire engines, etc 177 Cit}^ council direct payment of funds - 177 When not permitted to go out of city with engines 177 Fire marshal to keep certain books - 178 Fire marshal to have control of police at fires 178 Fire marshal to examine buildings - 178 Penalty for refusing to make reports ■ 179 No vehicle to be driven over improteeted hose 179 Fire marshal to designate person to have charge in his absence . - - 180 Gunpowder dealers to report fire to marshal 180 Direction for use of stores - 180 How stoves and pipes shall be placed and protected 180 Duties of mayor, aldermen, chief of police, etc 181 No hay or straiv shall be placed ~ 181 Stacking hay or straw - • 181 Lighted candles or lamps in barns - 181 Fires not to be kindled in streets or alleys 182 Penalty for violating - - 182 Duty of officers to see ordinance obeyed 182 Finances : Power of council to control - -- 20 Fiscal year - - 42 Annual appropriation - - 42 Appropriation not to be increased except, etc 42 May borrow money for exigency - 42 334 INDEX. Finances, (Cont.) page. Contracting liabilities limited - 43 Duty of treasurer - - - 44-156 Warrants and voucher hied; register 44 Deposit of funds, etc - - 45 Treasurer’s annual report - T5 Warrants - - -46 Special assessment funds kept seperate 46 Duties of city collector - - 46-153 Collector’s report ; publication - 47 Collector not to detain money - 47 Comptroller; powers and duties - 48 Financial duties of city clerk - 49-151 Bond ; record to be kept - - 5b Further duties may be required of officers 50 Finance committee adjust controversies, etc 50 Who may appoint subordinates - 50 Foreign insurance companies 51 Borrowing money on tax warrants - 168 Fines : For creating nuisances - - 20 Ordinance imposing to be published - 32 Suits for recovery of - - 33 Paid into treasury - - 33 Commitment for non payment of . - 33 How action brought to recover - 81 May be imposed to compel labor on the streets 84 Violating oil inspection laws - 84 For violating ordinances - - ^6 I’o be paid into city treasurer - 248 INDEX . 335 PAGE. Fire Limits: Defining fire Limits, - - - 1S2 Defining how buildings shall be erected, 184 Sheds, privies, deposit of ashes, - - 185 AVooden buildings, removal, repairs, etc., 186 Amount of damages — referred to committee, 186 Penalty for violation, - - - 187 What buildings declared a nuisance, - 187 Plans of buildings — submitted to committee, 185 Who constitute the building committee 185 Committee to examine plans, etc. - 186 Fiscal Year: Fixing of - - - - 188 FI agmen : Power to require, etc. - . - 23 Places where required - - 253-4 Penalty for violation - - - 255 Procedure for erection of gates - 257 Forms : Of ballots at election for organizing - 2 Of ordinances - - - 32 Of official oath - - - 3(> Of petition for condemnation of property, etc. 55 Of oath of commissioner to make assessment 62 Of notice to owner, of assessment - 64 Of notice of assessment for publication 65 Of special assessment warrant » • 68 Of collector’s notice of special assessment 68 Of justice’s execution * - 244 336 INDEX. G PAGE. Gaminir : Power to suppress - - - 25 Prohibited r - - ' - 211 Penalty - - - 212 Inmates of garni n«f houses - - - 213 Billiard rooms, etc; minors not allowed in 213 Grade'S ; Power to compel railroads to conform to 23 City surveyor to give grade, where, etc., 159 Grade book to be kept by city surveyor 160 Gunpowder : GunpoAvder; how and where stored - 188 Certain quantity may be kept by retailers 189 Duty of mayor to search for powder • 189 Gutters : Power to regulate - - - 22-27 Not to be obstructed - - - 280 H Hay: Market - 305 Hacks (see Vehicles). Health; Enforcement of ordinances concerning 13 INDEX. 337 Health, (Cent.) page. Board of health to consist of - - 19Q Division of districts; salary - - 191 Duties of chief of police - - 191 Board to exercise supervision - - 191 Xeglect to comply with order of board 192 Persons removed tor contagious disea.ses 192 l^enalty for bringing persons, etc., contagious disease - - - 192 No resident, etc., to leave infected house 192 Exposing infected clothing, penalty - 193 Powers in regard to boats and vessels - 193 Penalty for refusing board to enter houses 194 Board may require vaccination - - 194 Board to make rules for government of quarantine 194 Power of board to abate nuisances, penalty 195 No privy to be cleaned till disinfected - 195 .Board to require vaccination - - 193 Persons prohibited offering tainted meat 193 Unlawful to slaughter bruised animals 193 When unlawful to transport meat - 19(> Unlawful to transport bones and meat uncovered 197 Unlawful to sell skimmed milk - - 197 Board to exercise a sanitary supervision 198 Board and council to define nuisance 198 Persons required to obey board of health 198 Physicians to report, penalty - - 198 Board to examine accounts and report 199 Board to keep account of expenses - 199 Unlawful to keep hogs penned - - 199 In absence of president, board to elect chai]*nian 191> 338 INDEX. Hogs : Not allowed to run at large Penalty, etc. * - - - Unlawful to keep hogs in certain districts Butchers not slaughter in city - When hog pen a nuisance Horses : Unlawful to run at large; penal U' Proceeds of sale Redeeming, on payment fees - Penalty for exhibiting stud horses - Cruelty to ; penalty - ^ Fast driving _ - - To be hitched _ ^ . Penalty for frightening - - Houses : Of ill-fame ; power to suppress Power to establish houses of correction Prisoners to work, etc. - Of ill-fame licensing prohibited How numbered - - How constructed in fire limits - I ^ Of ill-fame, penalty for keeping Gaming prohibited - Disorderly, penalty for keeping Officers may enter - - PAGE. 131 199 208 225 131-132 133 133 210 211 215 210 210 25 28 34 82 140 184 210 211 212 213 imprisonment: Term of I - 34, 97,245' INDKX. 339 Imprisonment, (Cont.) page. When arrested, on Sunday, etc - - 135 Improvements : When made by general tax - - 60 When made by special tax - - 60 Apportion assessments for _ _ 03 To be let by contract - - - 74 Committee on public improvements - 282 Duty of ^ - - 282, 283, 284 Inspector of oils (see oil inspector.) Inspector of weights and measures (see weights and m.easures.) Insuranee : Tax on foreign companies - - - v 51 Intoxicating liquors: Unlawful to sell without license - - 200 City council authorized to grant licenses - 200 No license to be granted to an intemperate man or gambler - ' - - - 202 Licenses to name the person and place, where 202 Licenses to be posted up - - - 203 When the mayor to issue proclamation - 203 Minors prohibited from frequenting - - 204 Playing of musical instruments, etc,, unlawful 204 J •Judgment: Provide for payment of - - - 43 In condemnation proceedings - - 58-59 In special assessment _ 66-67 340 INDEX . eJiiclgment, (Cont.) page. Oil special tax for sidewalks - - J03 Jurisdiction: Territorial, of council - - - 13 General powers of council - - . 20 Over cemeteries - - - 20 Over packing houses, residences, etc* - 30 Of justices of the peace, etc. - - 34 Of council over water - - 34 Of police magistrates _ ^ c)4 K. Kites : Flying prohibited - - - 210 L. Lamps r Breaking, etc. - ^ - 217 Carrying away street sign - 217 When obstructed by trees- - - 280 Landings and Levees : May be leased, etc. - - 84 Library : Establishment ; tax ; fund “ - 85 Appointment of directors - - 8G Term of office ^ removal - - 80 Vacancies; compensation _ ^ 86 Organization; power of directors; funds 86 Who may use library _ _ 87 Keport of directors - - - 88 Penalties; donations - 88 INDEX . 341 Library, (Cont.) page. Penalty for injuring’ or destroying books or property - _ _ 252 Penalty for failure to return books to library 253 Fines collected ; how applied - - 253 Licenses : v Liquor license not to extend beyond year - 25 Power to issue ... - 25-31 Revocation of saloon license - - 202 Subject to ordinances, etc. - - 205 Rot assignable . . - _ 205 For what time granted, how issued, etc. 200 Liquor (See Intoxicating Liquor.) % M Markets : Butchers to be licensed - • - 206 Sale of fresh meat to be licensed; penalty 207 Sale of unwholesome meat prohibited ; penalty 207 Meats to be AVeighed; penalty - 207 Stalls to be kept clean; tilth not deposited -• 207 Duties of ma}mr and health officers - 208 Butchers shall not slaughter cattle , city - 208 Duty of mayor and health officer Avhen combi- nation . - . - 208 When license expires - - 200 Word butcher defined - . _ 200 Mayor : Give notice of election - - - 7 Qualifications of - - - 7 :U2 INDEX. Mayor, (Cont.) page. Vacancy in office of, how filled - - 7 Temporary absence of ; msiy or pro te7u, - 8 Vacancy by removal from city - - 8 Mayor to preside ; casting vote - 8 When he may remove officers - - 8 Powers to keep peace - - - 9 May release prisoners - - - 9 Duties of; enforce ordinances - - 9 i\Iay examine books of city officers - - 9 Messages to council , . - 9 May call out militia to suppress riot, etc. - 10 Misconduct of mayor or other officer - 10 May appoint person to revise ordinanjces - 10 May call special meeting of city council 14, 161 May veto ordinances or items therein - 14 When to be elected - - - 15 May call special election ; when - - 19 To be elected _ , - 35 Bond of; oath - - - - 36 Not to hold other office - - 39 Conservator of peace . - - - 40 Compensation of - - 40 May administer oaths - - 41 To approve contracts - - - 74 Appoint directors public libraiy - 86 May remove director public library - - 86 May prohibit use of public buildings - 95 \ppoint standing committees - - 165 Sign warrants on treasurer - - 167 Issue proclamation respecting dogs - ' - 169 Mayor and fire marshal appoint firemen - 177 INDEX. Mayor, (Com.) page. May revoke liquor license - - - 202 Sign all licenses ^ - - - 20(> Approve bond for excavating in streets, etc. 224 Appoint officers _ . - 230 Head ot police department - - 239 Cause obstruction on sidewalks removed - 275 Approve Vehicle bonds - - - 291 Acting mayor; power, etc. - - 307 Maps and Plats : To be appro v^ed by council “ - 79 When to be made by city surveyor - - 159 To be kept by city surveyor - - 130 Meetings : Mayor to preside at council - - 8 City council - _ - _ i()i By whom special may be called - 161 Board of health - - * - 190 Of school board ^ _ 266 Minors: Prohibited from frequenting billiard rooms, etc 140 Prohibited from frequenting tippling houses 21^ Unlawful to receive property from - 213 Minority representation: When submitted to electors - - ir> Misdemeanors. Penalty for being intoxicated - - 209 Penalty for swimming and bathing - 210 Studhorses; penalty for exhibiting - 210 Houses of ill fame^ penalty for keeping - 210 Indecent exposure; penalty for - - 210 Animals ; penalty for beating - - 211 344 INDEX. Misdemeanors, (Coiit.) page. Gaming prohibited _ _ _ 211 Ordinance; construction of - - 211 Disorderly and gaming houses - - 212 Gaming; penalty for gambling - 212 Disorderly houses ; olhcers may enter , - 212 Inmates prostitution or gaming houses 213 Minors in billiard rooms, etc.; prohibited 213 Bitches; penalty for running at large 213 Unlawful to receive from minors - 213 Penal t}^ for renting houses of ill fame - 214 Firearms not to be used in the city - 215 Fast driving prohibited _ _ - 215 Poison not to be sold unless labeled - 215 Scaffolds to be properly erected - - 215 Kites; penalty for flying in streets - 216 Stones; penalty for throwing - - 216 Horses to be hitched - - 216 Draymen, etc., to fasten wheel - - 216 Horses ; penalty for frightening - 216 Breaking or obstructing public lamps - 217 Persons meeting in vehicles to turn to the right 217 Cellar dot>rs to be kept closed - 217 Obstructions in slough drain - - 217 Unlawful to wash buggies, etc., at public wells 218 Where omnibuses are prohibited from stopping 218 Stands for drays and other vehicles - 218 Unlawful to mar or injure fences, etc - 218 All cases of assault - • 21D Disturbance of peace by various means - 219 Disorderly conduct; fighting, etc - 220 Penalty for urg'ing dogs to fight - - 220 INDEX. 345 Misdemeanors, (Cont.) page. Religious worship ; penalty for disturbing 221 ^ Kinging of bells, etc.; penalty for 221 Disorderly houses, etc. ; penalty for keeping 221 Obstructing public places - - 221 Police; special duty of; power to arrest 222 Interfering with fire or police alarm - 222 Unlawful to have in possession burglar’s nippers,etc 222 Drains, etc. ; penalty for digging - - 223 Stones and gravel where not to be removed 223 Sidewalks not to be injured; penalty therefor 223 Animals not to be fastened to fences, trees, etc 224 Bridges, engine houses, etc.; penalty for injuring 224 Bond required for excavation, etc - 224 Magistrates may imprison - - 225 Municipal year: Defined - > - _ 80 Musical instruments; Not to be played in dram shop - - 205 When playing a nuisance - - 221 N Night scavengers (see Scavengers), Notices; Of election for organization - - 2 Of election after change of organization 4 Of general election - * , 18 To be given elected officers - 19 Of special elections . * - - 19 346 INDEX. Notices ( Cont.) page. Of special assessments - - - 64 For collection of special assessments - ^68 Of board of health - - 192, 263 Nuisances : Power to define and abate - - 29 Nuisances defined _ _ - 225 What shall be deemed a nuisance; penalty 226 Cellars, drains, etc., to be cleaned - 226 Distilleries, etc., not to allow nuisances 226 Nuisances ;'penalty for allowing on grounds 226 Soap boilers; penalty for keeping on premises 227 Tanneries, etc - 227 Dead animals on river bank to be removed 227 Must not deposit filth, offal, etc., in the city 227 Must not discharge offensive substances in river 228 Not place dead animals in the city - 228 Owners of dead animals to remove the same 228 Health officers ; duty of - - - 229 Owners to be assessed for abatement of 229 Charges for removing; how collected - 229 Nuisances to be removed by health officers 230 Penalty for refusing to obey orders - 230 Jurisdiction in offenses known as nuisances 230 Numbering buildings: How numbered, etc - . - - 146 O Oath: Of all city officers - ' - - 36 INDEX. 347 Oath, (Cont.) page. Mayor and city clerk may administer - 41 Of commissioner’s special assessment - h2 Officers : Election after change of organization 4 Term of first officers - - « 5 How removed and restored • - ^ Misconduct and malfeasance - “ Id Their powers and duties ~ - Id Officers of the city - * - 35 Council may create or discontinue certain offices 35 Marshal, his duties - ~ * 35 Appointment and vacancies of officers 35-36 Duties and term of appointive officers 36 Oath of office ; bond - - - 36 Commission, delivery of books, etc., to successor 37 Qualifications - - - - 37 Officers not to be interested in contracts 38-89 Bribery; penalty . - - 38-89 Mayor, etc., not to hold other office - 39 Duties of clerk - - - 39 Conservators of the peace; powers ~ 40 Compensation of; fees ^ ~ 40-41 Contracting liabilities; limited ~ 43 Authorized to attend tax sales - - 72 Appeal to finance committee - - 50 VV^ho may appoint subordinates - - 50 Penalty for obtaining contracts or bribery 90 vSalaries; how fixed, etc - - 98 The mayor to appoint, council to 237 INDEX. Peddler, (Cont.) page. To procure license - - - 238 Mayor to grant license - - 238 Time license may be granted, name and - 238 Name and number placed on vehicle - 238 Ordinance; how construed - - 238 Penalty : Misconduct, mayor or other officer - 10 Ordinance imposing, to be published ' - 32 Suits for recovering, etc. - - 33 For bribery, etc. - - - 3^ On toreign insurance companies - 51 On collector for not givingnotice of special as- sessment _ - . 69 For returning paid tax delinquent - - 71 Aldermen or other officers interested in city contracts - - - - 90 For not having oil inspected - - 03 Violatino- act concerning’ buildings - \ - 9b For violation of ordinances - 96 For fast driving on b. idges - 123-141 For animals running at large - - 132 For breaking open city pound - - 133 For hindering officer taking animal to pound 134 For resisting officers _ - - 137 For false representation as an officer - 137 To auction without license - - 138 Auctioneer guilty of trick or device - 139 For running billiard tables, etc., without license 140 For keeping billiard rooms open Sundays, and after 11 p. m. - - 141 Driving more than ten cattle across bridge 141 INDEX. 351 Penalty, (Cont.) page Stopping on bridges - - - 142 Assembling on bridges > - - 142 Escaping from, or destroying bridewell property 144 Interfering with bridewell keeper - 145 For neglecting or refusing to number buildings 148 For dogs to run at large - - 170 Preveutino: officers enforcinof doff ordinance 170 For unlicensed dogs - - 171 For refusing to obey fire marshal in ordering repairs on building - - 179 For driving vehicle over fire hose - - 179 hieglect of dealers in gunpowder- to report 180 For violating fire ordinances; regulations - 182 For violating fire limit ordinance - 187 For keeping gunpowder - - - 188 ' For bringing persons, etc., with contagious disease . > . _ 192 For leaving infected house - - 192 For exposing infected clothing - - 193 Making false statement to board of health re- garding boats, etc - 194 For refusing board of health to enter houses, etc 194 For refusing to be vaccinated - - 194 For refusing to comply with order board of health 195 Cleaning privy, before same disinfected - 195 For selling tainted meat - - 193 Slaughtering bruised or maimed animals - 19(i Transporting meat, etc., through city uncovered 193 I'ransporting bones and grease through city uncovered - - - 197* For selling skimmed milk - - 197 352 rSTDEX. Penalty, (Cont.) page. For disobeying regulations of board of health 198 Physicians not reporting to board of health 198 For keeping hogs ; certain districts - 199 For selling intoxicating liquors without license 200 For keeping open Sundays, and later than 11 p. ni. 202 For not posting up license in cons[)icuous place 203 Not closing dram shops upon proclamation of mayor _ _ _ 204 Minors frequenting tippling houses 204 Playing of musical instruments in saloons, etc 204 Sale of meat without license - - 207 Selling unwholesome meat - “ 207 For selling meats by incorrect weights - 207 For depositing filth in street - - 2*)7 For hindering mayor and health officers - 208 For slaughtering cattle within the city limits 208 For forestalling price of meats - 208 For being intoxicated _ - 209 For swimming and bathing - - 210 For exhibiting stud horses, etc. - - 210 For keeping house of ill-fame 210 For indecent exposure _ - - 210 For cruelty to animals - - 211 For gambling - - - - 212 For being an inmate of disorderly and gaming houses _ _ _ - 212 Preventing ofiicers from entering gaming houses 212 Inmates of prostitution or gaming houses 213 For keepers of gaming rooms allowing minors • therein - - -* 213 For bitches running at large - - 213 INDEX. 358 i^enalty, (Cont.) • page For receiving property from minors - 213 For renting buildings for houses of ill-fame 214 Discharging firearms within the city - 215 For fast dr i vino- - - - 215 For selling poison without marking same 215 For erecting unsafe scaffolds - - 215 For flying kites in street ~ 21() ' For throwing stones - - - 21(i For leaving horses unhitched - - 216 For draymen, etc., not chaining wheels - 216 For frightening horses - - 216 For breaking or obstructing public lamps - 217 For not turning to right, with meeting vehicles 217 Leaving trap doors open - - 217 Obstructions in slough drain - “ 217 Washing buggies, etc,, at public wells - 218 For omnibus and hack to stop on Jefferson street near depot - - - 218 For drays, etc., to stand on streets, excepting as provided - - 218 Injuring fences, posts, etc. - - 218 For assault and battery - - - 219 For disturbing the peace - - 219 For disorderly conduct, fighting, etc. - 220 For ur^inof doofs to fiofht - 220 For disturbing religious worship - - 221 For ringing of bells, etc. - - 221 For keeping disorderly houses, etc, - 221 For obstructing street corner or public places 221 For interfering with fire or police alarms - 222 354 INDEX. Penalty, (Cont.) page. For having in unlawful possession burglar nip pers, etc. - - - _ 222 For digging in streets, etc. - - 223 For removing material from streets - 223 P"or injuring pavement, drain, etc. - 223 For fastening animals to fences, etc - 224 For injuring bridges or ppblic property - 224 Further penalties for misdemeanors - 223 For hog pen nuisances _ _ - 223 For posting bills on building without permission 223 For cellar, privy, vault, etc., nuisance, - 223 For distillers, tanners, stable, etc., nuisance 223 For allowing nuisance on grounds - 223 For keeping or using stale grease, etc. - 227 For keeping a foul or otfensive yard or building 227 For allowing dead animals to lie upon street, etc. - ^ - - 227-228 For depositing filth, etc., in the city - 227 For discharging offensive substance in the river, etc. - _ _ _ 228 For refusal of owner of dead animals to remove same _ _ _ _ 228 For refusing to obey order of board of health reo-ardinof nuisance - - - 230 For neglect to give notice to oil inspector 233 For oil inspector giving false bramd - 235 For running pawn shop without license 233 For peddling without license - - 238> For wagon of peddler not having number, etc. 238 For re&isting police officer - - 241 For refusing to assist police officer - 242’ mbEX% 355 Penalty, (Cont.) page. How imposed by police magistrate - 244 For prisoners refusing to work ^ ^ 24fi For neglect of police magistrate to report 248 For violation of porter and runner ordinance 252 For injuring or destroying books, etc., of pub-- lie library - - - 252 For failing to return books of library - 253 For violation by railroads of flagman ordinance 255 For running trains in city exceedino six miles per hour - - - ^ • 255 For trains stopping on crossing 255 For locomotive whistling - - 255 For opening of cylinder cocks - 256 For getting on cars in motion - - 256 For encumbering the court house square with cars 257 For railroad neglecting to erect gates, etc. 258 For engaging in. scavenger business without license . ^ ^ 259-262 For removing contents of privy without permit 260 For removing contents of vaults during day-time 261 For refusal to have offal, swill, etc., removed 263 For violating show and exhibition ordinance 272 For running shooting galleries without license 272 For keeping shooting gallery in uninclosed place 273 For obstructing sidewalks - - 273-4 For driving on sidewalks - - 274 For signs, etc., over sidewalks - - 274 For obstructing crosswalks - - 274 For maintaining spikes on or near sidewalk 275 For encumbering streets - - - 276 For wagons, etc., standing on streets - 278 356 INDEX. Penalty, (Cont.) page. For removing building without permit - 278 For ere(‘tiiig building on street, alley, etc. - 279 For obstructing street or alley - - 279 For depositing dirt, straw, etc., on street or alley 280 For obstructing passage of w^ater - - 280 For removing material from street - 281 For leaving excavations unprotected - 281 For setting telegraph poles, etc., without permit 282 For trees obstructing public lamps - 289 For neglect! im to trim trees on street - 289 For neglecting to place number on licensed vehicle - - - - 291 For refusing to carry persons - - 292 For using indecent language, etc. *. 292 For taking a larger fee than allowed - 294 For running vehicle without license - 294 For vagrancy - - - - 297 For hindering inspector of weights and measures 301 For using weights, etc., not inspected - 303 For selling wood unlawfully - 305 In cases where penalty not stated - - 307 Petroleum (See Oil.) Police : Conservators of the peace; powers - 40 Police department established - - 239 The mayor to be head of police - 239 Duties of chief of police - - - 240 Mayor may remove ; term of office - 240 Authority to serve warrants • - 240 , Officers; penalty for fraud, etc.; mayor shall be removed _ _ - 241 INDEX. 357 Police, (Cont.) page. Qualifications of officers - - 241 Penalty for resisting, etc. - - 241 All persons to assist officers; penalty for re- fusinof _ _ _ . 242 Office 'at police headquarters; records, etc. 242 Regulation uniform, etc. - - - 243 Police Magistrate : Authorizing election of; term - - 94 AVhere suits to be bought - - 243 Proceedings before - - 243-248 To tax costs _ . _ 247 Fees allowed - 247 To act as police court - - 248 To report monthly; penalty - - 248 AVhen costs not allowed - - 248 Pool tables (See Billiards.) Porters and Runners : To be licensed _ _ - 249 Keepers of hotels may have license revoked 249 To procure license; badge - - 250 Not to use deceit, etc. - - - 251 Fees _ . _ . 251 Not to make disturbance, etc. - - 251 May be arrested ; further powers - 251 Penalty - - - - 2^2 Pounds and Pound Keeper: Power to establish . - . 3() Bridewell keeper to be pound keeper - 134 Pound keeper to keep a register - 134 Duty; unlicdiised dogs - - - 171 l^owder (See Gunpowder.) 358 INDEX. Px\DE. Procedure : For iiicorporating - - - 1 For towns to become cities - -- - 2 For organizing a city - - 3 For electing officers after organizing - 4 For removal of officers - ^ S Conducting elections -- - 18 Special elections - - -- 19 Suits for violating* ordinance - - 33 Assessment and collection of taxes -- 52 Compensation for property condemned - 5G Making special assessment - G1 Special assessment, how collected - 69 Returning delinquent assessment - - 69 Lettkfg contracts - -* ^ 74 Collection of assessment by Suit -- ^ 75 To recover fines and penalties -- 8l Suits for violating ordinances - - ‘ 96 W.hen owner neglects to construct sidewalk 101 Annexing and excluding territory -- 111 Process : Suits for violating city ordinances - 33 Summons first ; warrant may issue - 33 Constable or sheriff* may serve - 34 Summons in condemnation suit - 56 Summons and warrant for violating ordinances 96 Prostitutes : Power to punish -- - 29' Penalty for visiting houses of - - 213 Penalty for renting houses Ao -- - 214 INDKX. 359 PAGE. Publication : Of ordinances in book, etc. - - 32 Of ordinances in newspapers, etc. - 32, 30G Public Library (See Library.) Pub ic Property: A"ote required to sell - - - 13 Council may control - - 20 Penalty for injuring _ _ _ 224 R Pailroads : Power to change location, grade, etc. - 23 Liable for damages to domestic animals - 23 Flagmen to be kept by - - 23 To conform to grade of streets ; open ditches 23 City may construct streets and sewers through lands - - - - 31 Power to lay track in streets; petition, etc. 31 Duty of Chicago, Pock Island & Pacific P. R. Co. 253 Duty of Chicago, Alton & St, Louis P. P. Co. 254 Duty of Michigan Central P. P. Co. - 254 Duty of flagmen _ _ _ 254 Penalty for violation - - *- 255 Speed of locomotives _ _ _ 255 Stopping or remaining on streets - 255 AVhistling _ _ _ _ 255 Opening of cylinder cocks - - 256 Penalty for violation _ _ _ 256 Penalty for getting on cars in motion - 256 360 INDEX. Railroads, (Cont.) ^ page Unlawful for C.. R. T, & P. R. R, Co., etc. 256 Penalty for violation - - 257 Repealing sec. 3, chap. 36, revised ordinances 257 Procedure for erection of gates, etc. - 257 Railroad Co. to erect and maintain gates; penalty 253 To be erected and maintained at sole cost of railroad - 253 Records : Canvass of election returns to be entered on 2 City clerk to keep ; how proved - 39' Of ordinances - 39 Of oil inspector - - 92 Of vote for vacation of street - 122 Rendering : Power to regulate - - . - 30 When nuisance; penalty - - 227 Reports : Prom mayor on removal of officers - 3 Of committee, deferred on call of two aldermen 13 Of fees received by officers - 41 Monthly report of city treasurer 44, 156 Annual report of city treasurer - 45 Of city clerk _ - - 45, 152 Of city collector - 46, 155 Of directors public library - 88 Of school inspectors - 127, 270 Of bride well keeper - 144 Of city attorney - 149 Of fire marshal - - 178 Of oil inspector - 235 Of police magistrate - 248- INDEX. 361 Reports, (Cont.) page Of superintendent of streets - - 286 Of sealer ot weights and measures - - 304 Requisitions : For supplies to be made to council - - 287 Road and Bridges : Tax amount to be paid city - - 97 Rules and order of business - - 162 Runners (See Porters and Runners.) S Salaries (See Compensation.) Saloons (See Intoxicating Liquors.) Scavengers : To be licensed - - - 259 Penalty; permits, how granted - > 259 License; bond; cost - - 260 Permits to be obtained from board of health 260 Make return to board of health - 260 Work to be done in an inoffensive manner - 260 Contents of vaults to be conveyed beyond the city - 261 Wagon to be painted and numbered - 261 Vaults not to be cleaned during day-time - 261 Amounts allowed to be charged - 261 When health officer to notify owners of privy vaults - - - 262 In case owner not found in city - - 262 Engaging in the business without license; pen- alty ... - 262 362 INDEX. Scavengers, (Cont.) page. Board of health to cause notices to be left, etc. 263 Refusal after notice served - - 263 Schools : City divided into two districts - - 126 Inspectors, election of - - 126 School property vested in the city • 126 Powers of council relative to schools - 126 Inspectors, duties of - - - 127 Additions to city for school purposes - 127-8 City to levy tax - - - 128-9 Separate ballot boxes to be provided - 128 Additions, etc. - - . - 129-30 Division of city into districts - - 264 District No. 1 ; extent of - - - 264 District No. 2; extent of - - 264 Schools to be maintained - - - 265 Children under 5 and over 21 - - 265 How maintained; teachers paid - - 265 Teachers to keep schedules - - 266 Board of school inspectors; establish rules - 266 Meeting of inspectors ; proviso - 266 School inspectors to have control of schools - 267 Inspectors to adopt a system of schools 268 Board to fix compensation of teachers; subject to 268 To have well-bound books ; keep record 268 To report to city council - - 268-69 Duty of teachers to hold institute - 269 Claims audited by board and filed with city clerk 269 Board to report to state superintendent - 270 When board to present requisition to the coun- cil . - - 270, 288 INDEX. 363 PAGE Tuition fees to be reported and paid to treasurer 270 Seal (See Corporate Seal.) Sealer Weights and Measures (See AYeig'hts and Measures.) Sewers and Drains: PoAver to construct - - - 24 Power to regulate, etc. - - 27 PoAver to compel cleaning of - - 30 Power to construct through railroad lands ' 31 Contiguous toAvns may contract for, etc. - 104 How contract for, made by contiguous towns 105 PoAver to levy and collect tax for - - 105 Obstructions in slough drain - - 217 M^'hen a nuisance _ . - 226 Obstructing passage of Avater - - 280 Shooting Galleries: License required - - - 272 Rate of license - - - - 273 Not to authorize shooting out of door - 273 ShoAvs and Exhibitions: Managers of theatres, circuses, etc., to obtain licenses - - - 271 Rate of license - - . - 271 License for opera house, etc. - - 271 License to specify the object - - 272 Penalty for violation - - 272 Not to apply to citizens of Joliet - - 272 SideAvalks : Power to lay out, establish, etc» - - 21 Power of council over - - 22 PoAver to regulate traffic on - - 22 OAvners ‘may build - - _ oi 364 INDEX. Sidewalks, (Coiit.) page. May be built by special assessment, etc, - 99 What ordinance for, may provide - 100 In case owner neglects to construct - 101 Special tax ; duty of clerk ; report - 102 Judgment and sale - - - 103 V\ hen constructed by owner, etc. - 104 Sidewalks not to be obstructed ; penalty ' - 273 May place goods within three feet of building 274 ^ot to be obstructed by teams - - 274 Not to drive over sidewalks - - 274 Awnings, etc. ; how put up - - 274 Crosswalks to be kept free - - 275 Mayor to cause obstructions to be removed 275 Not allowed to erect railing, etc., with spikes attached - _ . 275 Signs : Power to regulate - - - 22 Street signs; carrying away, etc. - 217 Not to project more than three teet - 274 Slaughtering : Power to regulate - - - 30 Not to be done within city limits - 208 Special assessments : Funds to be kept separate - - 46 Power to make - - - - 54 Ordinance for improvement - - 55 When property is taken - - - 55 Petition for compensation for damages - 55 Form of petition - * • - 55 Summons; publication; notice - 56 Hearing on petition - - - 56 INDEX. 365 Special Assessments, (Cont.) page. How compensation ascertained - 57 Admitting other parties - - - 57 Viewing premises; ownership - 57 Judgment ; new parties, etc. - - 58 Powers of court . _ - 58 Ownership of property ; deposit - - 58 Persons under disability - - 59 Judgment, efi'ect, appeal, etc. - - 59 Order for possession _ _ When improvement is made by general tax 60 Special taxation - _ _ How made - - - - 61 Ordinance for ; owners’ rights - 61 Estimate of cost - - - 61 Order for proceedings in court - 62 Petition to court - - - 62 Appointment of commissioners - 62 Duty of commissioners ; equality - 63 Return of assessment roll - - 63 Notice to owners and persons interested - 64 Proof of notice - - - 65 When notice not in time - - 66 Objections to; judgment - - 66 Cases to have precedence - - 66 Court may modify - . 67 Judgment alien; appeal - - 67 Judgment and assessment to be certified to clerk 67 Warrant to be issued by city clerk - - 67 Form of warrant - - ’ - 68 Collector’s notice - * - -68 Manner of collecting - - 69 366 INDEX. Special Assessments, (Cont.) page. Return of delinquent - - - 69 Application for jud«-nient on; sale - 70 Redemption from sale - - -71 Penalty when land sold, and tax paid - 71 Paying over compensation - - 71 General revenue laws apply - - 71 City may buy in - - - 72 May be annulled; new assessment - 72 Supplemental assessments; rebates on - 73 When new may be made - - 73 Charge on property assessed - - 73 Contracts payable from - - 74 How contracts let and approved - " 74 Lien of - - - - 75 How collected by suit - - - 75 Benefits assessed in condemnation cases - 76 Adoption of article concerning - - 77 For sidewalks * 99 When amount of may be reduced - - 104 Committee on public improvements to report, etc. ^ - 283-284 Streets : Powers concerning - - - 21 Power to regulate traffic on - - 22 Power to name and change names of - 22 Power to construct mill races in - 31 Power to open through railroad lauds - 31 Railroad tracks on - - - 31 Labor on - - - 34 Council may require labor; commutation 83 Vacation of; vote - - - 121 INDF.X. 367 Streets, (Cont.) page. Rights of owners when street vacated - 122 City surveyor to give grade, etc, - - 159 City surveyor to survey new streets - 161 Streets not to be encumbered - - 276 Superintendent of streets to remove obstructions 277 Articles, etc., found in the streets may be sold 277 Proceeds of sale; how disposed - 277 Duties of superintendent of streets - - 277 Wagons, etc., not allowed to stand in streets 278 Buildings, etc., not to be moved through streets, etc. - - - . 278 Time of removal to be specified - - 278 Penalty of > - - - 278 Buildings, etc., not to be placed on streets 279 Buildings to be removed from streets - 279 Penalty for refusing to remove obstruction 279 When obstructed; teams; how removed - 279 Dirt and rubbish not to be placed in streets 280 Water not to be obstructed - - 280 Stone, gravel and sand not to be removed from 280 May be sold ; material to be valued - 280 Penalty for removing material - - 281 Excavations to be protected, etc. - 281 Consent of mayor and superintendent of streets necessary for setting of poles - 282 Power V)f magistrates _ _ . 282 Committee on public improvements - 282 Duty of committee , - - - 282 Petitions when referred to committee - 283 Work not to be accepted until satisfactory to committee - 283 368 INDEX. Streets, (Cont.) page. No special improvement to be discontinued until costs paid - - - 284 Committee to report on all new improvements 284 Duty of city attorney reg'arding special im- provements - 284 Wood and hay market designated - 305 Street Sprinklers: • License and bond required - - 295 Superintendent of Streets; Appointment of - - - 28^ Duties of - - - - 285 Duties on repairs . - - 285 Council to give permission for expenditures on streets - - - - 286 Supplies and Claims ; Time contracts; duration, etc. - 287 Requisition; when made - - - 287 Who to purchase; order and bill - 287 Claims for goods not ordered - - 287 Bill, what to contain; certificate - 288 Printed blanks, when not to be purchased - 288 All claims to be filed five days before council meeting - - - - 288 School board to file statement of claims audited 288 Surplus : Of special assessment to be refunded - 73 Of tax to be equally divided - -- 108 Surveyor (See City Surveyor.) INDEX. 3G9 T PAGE Target Shooting (See Shooting Gallery.) Taxes : Power to levy and collect - - 20 For judgments and loans - - 42-43 Ordinance levying; limitation - 52-53 How collected _ _ _ 53 Time of paying over _ _ 53 When levied for particular purpose - 54 To be uniform _ _ ^ 54 Tax-payer may enforce rights in name of city 79 How may be assessed and collected - 108 Surplus fund ; proportion of, etc. - - 108 Rebate when property destroyed - 109 When may be reduced or released - - 110 Power to levy and collect for sewerage, water and light _ _ - - 105 Drawing warrants in anticipation of - 113 For water works - - 115-117 For water supplied by incorporated company 120 For support of schools - - 128-129 Tax levy warrants - - - 168 Dog tax - - - - 171 School tax _ _ _ 265 Telegraph ; Power to regulate poles - - 22 Poles to be placed under direction of mayor and street superintendent - 282 370 INDEX. » PAGE. theatres (See Shows and Exhibitions.) Treasurer (See City Treasurer.) Trees : Not to obstruct lamps - - 289 Penalty _ _ _ - 289 Not to injure - - - 289 How trimmed, penalty _ - - 289 Trucks (See Vehicles ) V V^acancy : In office of mayor . _ - 7-8 In office of alderman _ - 11 Office of alderman under minority plan - 17 * How filled _ _ - 36 Vacations ; Power to vacate streets, etc. - - 21 Vote required _ _ - 121 Damages, rights of owners, etc. - - 122 Vaccination : Board of health may require - - 194 Duty to cause, etc. _ _ - 196 V agrants : Power to punish _ _ - 29 What persons deemed vagrants - - 296 Duty of officers to arrest vagrants - 297 Officers to search vagrants - - 298 Vehicles: Power to regulate speed of - - 22 Power to license - _ - 25 INDEX. 371 Vehicles, (Cont.) page. Persons transporting' for hire to have license 290 Hackney carriages defined - - 290 How license granted - - - 291 Vehicles to be numbered - - 291 Owners of vehicles responsible for goods - 292 Penalty for refusing to carry persons, etc. 292 Penalty for using indecent or profane language, etc. _ _ _ _ 292 Fee allowed to teamsters, draymen, etc. - 293 Fee allowed hackmen, etc. - - 293 Drayman, etc., to load and unload goods - 294 Penalty for taking a larger fee than allowed 294 Not to apply to merchants or laboring teamsters 294 Penalty without license - - 294 Sprinklers to be licensed - - 295 Bond required; rate, etc. - - 295 Persons governed by ordinances of city - 295 Vote of Council : Mayor has casting vote - - - 8 Two-thirds restore officer - - 8 Majority to pass ordinances - - 13 Two-thirds to sell property - - 13 Two-thirds to pass over veto - - 14 Two-thirds create new offices and discontinue 35 Two-thirds order improvements after appro- priations are made - - 43 Every member to vote unless excused, etc. • 163 Ayes and noes to be taken when called for 164 372 INDEX. w PAGE. Wards : Council may divide city into Division of city into seven wards 15 299 Warrants: For violating ordinance Officers to be commissioned by - , May be served by policeman Treasurer to deposit, etc. Treasurer keep register of Form of city warrants Comptroller to have charge of ~ For collection of special assessment Manner of issuing upon treasurer May be issued in anticipation ot taxes How drawn - Clerk not to draw warrants till four days When clerk to cancel warrants and issue new Tax levy warrants - - - How paid _ - . - When authorized to borrow money on tax war- rants - - - 33, 96 37 40 44 44 46 48 68 113 113 167 167 167 168 168 168 \^^‘lter and Water Works: Power to acquire property for - - 77 City council may supply - - - 77 Power to collect water rates - - 78 4 ax for a lien; general tax - - 78 Power to levy and collect tax for - 106 INDEX. 378 Water and Water Works, (Cont.) page Power to supply water - _ - 114 Borrow money ; tax - - - 115 May acquire property for Tvorks, etc. - 115 Rules; tax; assessment; lien - - 116 Special assessment - - - 116 Separate taxes - - - 117 When act not apply - • - 117 When bonds may be issued for - 118 Payment ot bonds and interest - - 119 Cities may contract with companies for - 119 Powers to increase and better water supply 120 Layinof pipes; guard excavations, etc, - 281 Weights and Measures: Regulator of - - - 301 Council to appoint sealer - - - 301 Duties of; penalty - . _ _ gQl Fees of sealer - - - _ - 302 To inspect on request; complaint, etc. - 303 Not to use weights, etc., unsealed; penalty 303 Sealer to make register ; report - . 304 Whemto deliver weights, etc., to city clerk 304 A^4listling : Of locomotive engines, prohibited - 255 Wood and Hay; Inspector to be appointed - - 304 Duties of; fees of . . _ ;i04 All wood to be well packed ; penalty - 305 All wood to be inspected ; penalty - - 305 Penalty Inspector to have place of business - 305 Wood and hay stands; where located - 305 374 INDEX. Y PAGE* Yeas and Nays : To be taken on removal of officers ’ 8 May be demanded by any alderman 13, 1(>4 To be taken on passage of ordinances, etc. 13 To be taken on passing ordinance over veto - 14 To be taken on vacating streets - 121