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 CITY OF CHICAGO. 
 
 1867. 
 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 E. B. MYERS & CHANDLER, 
 
 LAW BOOKSELLERS AND PUBLISHERS, 
 
 87 WASHINGTON STEEET. 
 1867. 
 
DEACCESSIONED BY 
 
 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 
 
 PRINTED COLLECTIONS 
 
CITY CHARTER, 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 Supplementary to "An Act to reduce the Charter of the City of Chicago, and the 
 several acts amendatory thereof, into one act, and to revise the same," approved 
 February 13, 1863, and the several amendments thereto. 
 
 Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois^ represented in the 
 General Assembly : 
 
 CHAPTEE I. 
 
 ASSESSMENTS, TAX COMMISSIONEK, ETC. 
 
 Section 1. The mayor shall, on the first Monday of March, 
 A. D. 1867, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and quadrennially 
 thereafter, appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the 
 common council, a commissioner of taxes, who shall have been a 
 resident of the city for three years, and a freeholder in said city 
 for at least one year prior to his appointment. Said commissioner 
 shall take and subscribe an oath of office, and shall enter into a 
 bond in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, with two or more 
 sureties to be approved by the mayor, for the faithful performance 
 of his official duties. The salary of said commissioner shall be 
 annually fixed in the appropriation bill by the common council. 
 
 Sec. 2. The commissioner first appointed shall, immediately 
 after his qualification, proceed to divide said city into as many and 
 such convenient assessment districts, not exceeding eight, as he 
 shall deem expedient, which shall be known and designated 
 numerically : Provided, however, in making such districts, regard 
 shall be had to the natural divisions of said city : And provided 
 further, That such division of said city into districts shall be sub- 
 
CITY CHARTER. [cH. 
 
 mitted to, and be subject to the approval of the common council : 
 Aiid irrovided farther^ That such districting shall only be subject 
 to modification or alteration by a vote of three-fourths of all the 
 aldermen elected, such vote to be taken by ayes and nays, and 
 entered on the records of the council. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said commissioner shall keep in suitable books to be 
 provided for that purpose, a record of all information which he 
 may be able to obtain in respect to the taxable property and per- 
 sons liable to taxation in said city, and all changes in the owner- 
 ship of real estate in said [city], o^ which he can obtain informa- 
 tion. He shall have power to appoint suitable persons as clerks 
 in said office, the number to be limited and salaries fixed by the 
 common council, whose business it shall be, under his direction, to 
 make and from time to time amend and correct the record of the 
 property in the office of said commissioner, both as regards the 
 ownership and extent of such property, by a daily examination of 
 maps and conveyances which shall be left for record in the office 
 of the recorder of Cook county, and also all maps in the office of 
 the board of public works, which examination he shall be entitled 
 to make free of all charges whatsoever during office hours. 
 
 Sec. 4. The, common council shall, on the first Monday of 
 March, A. D. 1867, or within thirty days from said time, and 
 biennially thereafter, appoint by ballot one assessor for each division 
 of the city, who shall be a freeholder in said division, and have 
 resided therein at least one year preceding his appointment. The 
 said commissioner of taxes, and the said assessors, shall constitute 
 the "Board of Assessors," the said commissioner being ex officio 
 president of said board. 
 
 Sec. 5. Said assessors, so appointed, shall take and subscribe 
 an oath of office, and shall enter into bonds in the penal sum of 
 five thousand dollars, with two or more sureties, to be approved 
 by the mayor, for the faithful performance^ of their duties. The 
 commissioner of taxes is hereby authorized to administer any oath 
 required to be taken b}^ this act or by any law of this State. The 
 said assessors are also hereby severally authorized to administer 
 
1.] ASSESSMENTS, TAX COMMISSIONER, ETC. 5 
 
 any oath required by this act, or by the revenue or assessment 
 laws of the State. 
 
 Sec. 6. The assessors shall, as soon after the first Monday of 
 May in each year, as may be, under the direction and supervision 
 of the commissioner of taxes, proceed to examine and determine 
 the valuation of the taxable real and personal estate in their 
 respective districts. Schedules of all the taxable real estate in the 
 several districts shall be furnished by the commissioner of taxes 
 to aid them in the performance of their duties, upon which they 
 shall enter their valuations. Said commissioner, in making out 
 said schedules, may take as his guide the assessment list or collec- 
 tor's book of the previous year, and the list of subsequent con- 
 .veyances, and such other data as he can find to make them as 
 nearly correct as possible. Said appraisal, together with their 
 appraisal of all the personal estate taxable in said city, shall be 
 completed and filed in the ofiice of said commissioner on or before 
 the first Monday of August, in each year, unless further time shall 
 be granted by the common council. 
 
 Sec. 7. Said assessors shall not in any case assess taxable real 
 or personal estate any less than its real or true value, as defined 
 by the State revenue laws. All personal property of every nature 
 and kind, having its actual situs within the city, shall be assessed 
 for municipal purposes, in the district where the same may be 
 found, whether the owner resides in the city or not ; this provision 
 to extend to and include the proportion of rolling stock of all such 
 railroad or railway companies as run cars or trains into the city, 
 by lease of road-bed or track, or by contract or arrangement with 
 any other railway company or corporation. Such proportion to 
 be ascertained and apportioned in accordance with the statutes 
 regulating the assessment of the rolling stock of such companies 
 the same as though such company owned the track or road-bed. 
 
 Sec. 8. The assessors of the several districts shall be furnished 
 with the necessary blanks to' take a list of taxable property in 
 their several divisions, by the commissioner of taxes. They shall 
 call at the office, place of business or residence of each person 
 required by law to list 'his property, and at the ofiice of every 
 
6 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 incorporated company, and require such, person, or tlie president, 
 cashier, treasurer, secretarj^ or other officer of such incorporated 
 company, to make a correct statement of his or its taxable prop- 
 erty, in accordance with the provisions of law ; and the person' 
 listing the property shall enter a true and correct statement of such 
 property, and the value thereof, in a written or printed blank, 
 prepared for that purpose, which statement, after being filled out, 
 shall be signed by the person listing the propert}^, and shall also 
 be verified- by his oath or affidavit. 
 
 Sec. 9. In every case wher« any person shall neglect or refuse 
 to make out and deliver to the assessor the statement required by 
 this act, or by the revenue laws of the State, verified by oath or 
 affirmation, in addition to the penalties in such case provided by . 
 such laws, the common ■ council of said city may provide such 
 other and further penalties as will secure compliance. 
 
 Sec 10. In every case where any person or officer of a corpo- 
 ration, whose duty it is to list any personal property, moneys, 
 credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies or 
 otherwise, or any property of a personal nature liable to assess- 
 ment for taxation, shall have refused or neglected to list the same 
 when called on for that purpose by the assessor, or to take and 
 subscribe an oath or affirmation in regard to the truth of his state- 
 ment, required to be made as aforesaid, or by any law of the 
 State, when required by the assessor, the assessor shall enter oppo- 
 site the name of such person in an appropriate column, " refused 
 to list," or " refused to swear ; " and in every case where any per- 
 son required to list property for taxation shall have been absent, 
 or unable from sickness to list the same, the assessor shall enter 
 opposite the name of such person, in an appropriate column, the 
 word "absent " or "sick." When the assessors shall have com- 
 pleted the assessment of the taxable real and personal estate of 
 said city, they shall file the same in the office of the commissioner 
 of taxes, and fix u23on a day for the hearing of objections thereto, 
 and the said commissioner shall give notice of the time and place 
 of such hearing by six days' publication thereof in the corpora- 
 tion newspaper. Any person feeling aggrieved by the assessment 
 
1.] ASSESSMENTS, TAX COMMISSIONER, ETC. 7 
 
 of his property, may appear at the time specified and make his 
 objections. 
 
 Sec. 11. The said assessors, together with the commissioner of 
 taxes, constituting the board of assessors, shall meet ^t the time 
 and place designated, to revise and correct their assessments. 
 They shall hear and consider all objections which may be made, 
 and shall have power to make all proper corrections and supply 
 omissions in the assessments, and, for the purpose of equalizing the 
 same, to alter, add to, take from, and otherwise correct and revise 
 the same. They shall continue in session during the business 
 hours of each and every secular day for the period of twenty suc- 
 cessive days. Thereafter no change, amendment, abatement or 
 alteration shall be made, nor shall any tax or portion thereof be 
 •tefunded. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum. 
 
 Sec. 12. When said revision shall have been completed, the 
 commissioner of taxes shall enter, in one or more books to be 
 prepared for that purpose, a complete list of all the taxable real 
 estate in said city, according to the schedules as returned and 
 revised by the board of assessors, showing, in a proper column, to 
 be ruled for that purpose, the names of the different owners, so far 
 as known to the said assessors ; and in another column, the 
 amount of the valuation made in each case. Said books shall also 
 have ruled therein an appropriate column for extending or insert- 
 ing the amount of the tax which may be levied on said property. 
 Said book or books shall together constitute the tax list of real 
 estate for such year. - The commissioner of taxes shall also enter 
 in another book or books, to be prepared for that purpose, a com- 
 plete list of the taxable personal estate in said^ city, as returned 
 and revised by the assessors, showing in the proper column the 
 names of the different persons whose property has been assessed, 
 and in other columns the valuations made by the assessors. Said 
 books shall also have ruled therein, an appropriate column for 
 extending or inserting the taxes which may be levied thereon. 
 Said book shall constitute the personal tax list for such year. 
 The commissioner of taxes shall add up the valuations in each 
 list, and the aggregate amount thereof shall be entered by him at 
 the foot of the appropriate column on the last page. When said 
 
CITY CHARTER. ' [cH. 
 
 tax lists shall have been so completed, they shall be signed by 
 said assessors, or a maj6rity of them, and the tax commissioner, 
 after having been ascertained to be correct, and left in the custody 
 of said commissioner of taxes, and shall constitute the only record 
 to be referred to in any case in which their said assessments may 
 be drawn in question. 
 
 Sec. 13. The common council shall thereupon, by an ordi- 
 nance or resolution, levy such sum or snms of money as may be 
 sufficient for the several purposes for which taxes are herein 
 authorized to be levied, (not exceeding the authorized per cent- 
 age,) particularly specifying the purposes for which the same are 
 levied. 
 
 Sec. 14 It shall be the duty of the commissioner of taxes to 
 estimate the several taxes levied by the common council, comput- 
 ing them together as one tax, and to insert the total amount of 
 such taxes in the appropriate column of the several tax lists, oppo- 
 site to the person or property chargeable therewith. When com- 
 pleted, the tax commissioner shall attach to each of said tax lists a 
 warrant, to be signed by the mayor, comptroller and tax commis- 
 sioner, and the city clerk shall affix the corporate seal and coun- 
 tersign the same, directed to the collector, commanding him to 
 make, levy and collect, as the taxes for such year, the several 
 sums of money set opposite to the real and personal estate, or 
 persons in said tax lists mentioned or described, of the goods and 
 chattels of the respective owners of such real and personal estate ; 
 which warrants shall also designate the names and rates of the 
 several taxes included therein. 
 
 ■ Sec. 15. Said tax lists, with the warrants attached, shall be 
 delivered to the collector by the comptroller, as heretofore, who 
 shall in all things proceed as now required by law. 
 
 Sec. 16. Every person who shall be guilty of willful and cor- 
 rupt false swearing or aifirming in taking any oath required by 
 this chapter, shall be deemed guilty of willful and corrupt perjury, 
 and shall be punished accordingly. 
 
I.] ASSESSMENTS, TAX COMMISSIONER, ETC. 
 
 Sec. 17. The common council, in order to remedy any unfore- 
 seen defect or omission, shall have the power at any time, upon 
 the recommendation of the commissioner of taxes, by ordinai^ce, to 
 so modify or add to the requirements of this chapter, as to perfect 
 the assessments to be made in said city for municipal purposes : 
 Provided^ however^ that no such modification or addition shall be 
 made unless at a regular meeting, after due publication thereof, 
 and then only by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elected, 
 said vote to be taken by ayes and noes, and entered on the minutes 
 of the council ; and in case the same is vetoed by the mayor, it 
 shall require three-fourtlis of all the aldermen elected to pass the 
 same over such veto. 
 
 The board of assessors hereby created shall perform all the 
 duties in relation to assessing property, for the purpose of levying 
 the taxes imposed by the common council. The assessors, in the 
 performance of their duties, shall have the same powers, and be 
 subject to' the same liabilities as are or may be given by law to 
 town assessors, unless otherwise provided in this chapter. 
 
 The State laws for the assessment of all taxable real and per- 
 sonal property now in force, or that may hereafter be adopted, 
 unless in conflict with this- chapter, or the acts to which this is an 
 amendment, shall apply and govern in making municipal assess- 
 menta 
 
 Sec. 18. Personal property shall be listed for municipal pur- 
 poses, with reference to the quantity on hand and owned on the 
 first day of April in the year for which the property is required to 
 be listed, including the property purchased on that day. 
 
 Sec. 19. When any person shall commence merchandizing in 
 said city after the first day of April in any year, the average value 
 of whose personal property employed in merchandizing shall not 
 have been previously entered on the assessor's list for taxation in 
 said city, it shall be the duty of such person to make out a sworn 
 statement of the probable average value of the personal property 
 by him intended to be employed in such business, until the first 
 day of April thereafter, and deliver the same to the tax commis- 
 sioner, who shall enter the same on the tax list of the proper 
 division or district, and shall pay to the collector of said city a 
 
10 CITY CHARTER. [cH. 
 
 sum which shall bear the same proportion to the levy for all pur- 
 poses on the average value so employed, as the time from the day 
 on which he shall commence merchandizing aforesaid to the first 
 day of April next succeeding shall bear to one year. 
 
 Sec, 20. When any person, firm or corporation shall commence 
 or engage in the business of insurance, banking, dealing in stocks 
 of any description, or in' buying or selling any kind of bills of 
 exchange, checks, drafts, bank notes, promissory notes, or other 
 kind of writing obligatory, or in any other business whatever, after 
 the first day of April in any year, the average value of whose per 
 sonal property so employed in such business shall not have been 
 so entered on the assessor's list for taxation in said city, it shall be 
 the duty of such person, or firm, or such corporation, by its pres- 
 ident, secretary, or principal accounting ofiicer, to make a sworn 
 statement, and deliver the same to the tax commissioner, giving 
 fully the probable average value of the property by him, them or 
 it intended to be employed in such business until the first day of 
 April thereafter, which amount shall be entered on the tax list and 
 the tax collected as in other cases. 
 
 Sec. 21. Should any person, fii-m or corporation fail or neglect 
 to make out sworn statements of their property as required by the 
 two preceding sections, and report the same to the tax commis- 
 sioner, it shall be the duty of the assessors to assess them as therein 
 required, as nearly as may be, adding thereto ten per cent in addi- 
 tion to the existing provisions of law. 
 
 Sec. 22. If any real or personal property shall have been here- 
 tofore or shall hereafter be omitted in the assessment, or on which 
 the city for any cause shall have failed to collect the tax of any 
 year or number of years, the same, when discovered or ascertained, 
 shall be assessed by the assessor for the time being and placed on 
 the assessment list with the arrearages of tax that should have 
 been assessed, with six per cent, interest thereon from the time the 
 same ought to have been paid. 
 
2.] BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 11 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 
 
 Section 1. The board of public works shall consist of three 
 commissioners, who shall be appointed on or before the first Mon- 
 da}^ of April next by the mayor of the city of Chicago, with the 
 advice and consent of the common council — one from the south, 
 one from the west and one from the north divisions of said city^ 
 each of whom shall have been a resident of said city at least three 
 years and a resident freeholder in the division of said city for 
 which he is appointed, at least one year immediately preceding- 
 such appointment Said commissioners, when appointed, shall 
 hold their offices for the term of years following : The one for the 
 south division of said city,'for six years ; the one for the west 
 division of said city, for four years ; the one for- the north division 
 of said city, for two years, and until the appointment and qualifi- 
 cation of their successors. The term of office of one commissioner 
 of said board shall expire every second year, so that one commis- 
 sioner of said board shall be appointed every second year, from the 
 division of the city in which the- commissioner resides whose term 
 of office expires ; such appointment being for the full term of six 
 years. Should a vacancy occur, it shall be filled by appointment 
 by the mayor, with the advice and consent of the common council, 
 for the unexpired term. 
 
 Sec. 2. All acts or parts of acts now in force, relating to. the 
 board of public- works as now constituted, not inconsistent with 
 the provisions of this act, are continued in force and shall apply, 
 to the board of public works as provided for in this act, and all: 
 the powers and duties confeiTcd therein on the present board shall- 
 . be and are hereby conferred upon the board ^f public works as . 
 provided for by this act ; and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent 
 herewith shall be repealed from and after the first Monday of 
 April, A. D. 1867, and all such acts or parts of acts to be con- 
 tinued in full force and effect until said date. The terms of office 
 of the present board of public works shall expire on said day,, or 
 so soon as their successors are appointed and qualifi,ed after such 
 
12 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 date. The salary of the board of public works, as provided for 
 in this act, shall be not less than three thousand dollars annually, 
 to be fixed by the common council. 
 
 Sec. 3. The board of public works of said city, in addition to 
 the power hereinbefore conferred, are hereby authorized, from 
 time to time, as it shall be deemed by them for the interest of 
 said city, so to proceed, to advertise for proposals for the construc- 
 tion or reconstruction, or relaying of all or any portion of the 
 sidewalks which may be required to be constructed or recon- 
 structed, or relaid during the whole or any part of the municipal 
 fiscal year in which such proposals are received, according as the 
 same shall be ordered by the common council or by said board, 
 according to the provisions of the act of which this is supple- 
 mentary, the general provisions of said act relative to the letting 
 of work and the execution of contracts, except so far as incon- 
 sistent with the powers hereby granted, to -apply to this section. 
 
 Sec 4. In case the prosecution of any public work should be 
 suspended in consequence of the default of any contractor, or in 
 case the bids for doing any such work should be deemed excessive, 
 or the persons making proposals not responsible or proper persons, 
 the board of public works may, if the common council shall, by 
 resolution, by a three-fourths vote of all the members elected, 
 authorize them to do so, employ workmen and procure the necessary 
 tools and machinery and materials, to perform or complete any 
 improvement ordered by the council, provided the expense thereof 
 shall not exceed five thousand dollars. . 
 
 Sec. 5. The common council shall have power to cause public 
 sewers to be constructed and laid in the streets and alleys and 
 public grounds of said city ; to establish or change the dock lines 
 of Chicago river and of Chicago harbor so as to facilitate navigation 
 on the same ; and to cause water and gas service pipes, with their 
 necessary stop-cocks and other fixtures, to be constructed and laid 
 so as to connect with the gas or water mains in the streets of said 
 city. 
 
2.] BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. !>"> 
 
 Sec. 6. The provisions of the acts to whicli this, is supple- 
 mentary as to the manner of making application for any improve- 
 ments to be executed by said city, are hereby made to apply to 
 the improvements specified in the foregoing sections. 
 
 Sec. 7. After a street has been filled, curbed, macadamized, 
 or paved, or filled, curbed and graveled^ it shall be lawful for the 
 common council to provide for the payment of any subsequent 
 improvement in whole or in part out ef the general fund. 
 
 Sec. 8. When in any case it shall be deemed necessary by the 
 board of public works to cause any sidewalk to be raised, lowered, 
 repaired or relaid, or any private drain to be raised, lowered, 
 repaired or cleaned, it shall be lawful for said board to require the 
 owner of the premises in front of, adjacent to or upon which said 
 improvement is to be made, to make the same forthwith, or within 
 such reasonable time as the board of public works may prescribe, 
 upon written notice to that effect ; or the board of public works 
 may cause the work to be done and paid out of any moneys in the 
 treasury at their disposal. Said board shall then report to the 
 common council the amount of said expenditure, giving a descrip- 
 tion of the lots or premises liable therefor, and the amount for 
 which each is chargeable. The common council shall thereupon 
 assess the said expenses, by an order, ordinance or resolution, upon 
 such lots respej3tively, and the same may be collected by warrant 
 and sale of the premises as in other cases. 
 
 In like manner when the common council shall have ordered 
 the construction, or reconstruction, or repair of any sidewalk, 
 private drain, or gas or water service pipe, it shall be lawful for 
 said board to cause the work to be done and paid for as above, or 
 by an agreement with a contractor, payment to be made out of the 
 special assessment to be levied for the same, and shall then report 
 to the common council the cost and expense of said work, with 
 all proceedings relative thereto, giving a description of the lots and 
 premises to which said expense is chargeable, and the common 
 council shall thereupon assess the said expenses upon such lots 
 respectively, and the same may be collected by warrant and sale 
 of the premises, as provided above. 
 
14 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 A suit may also be maintained against the owner of such 
 premises for the recovery of such expenses, as for money paid and 
 laid out for his use and at his request. The common council may 
 also, by ordinance, impose such penalties upon the owners afore- 
 said, for any neglect or refusal to comply with the aforesaid 
 requirements, not exceeding twenty dollars for each day's neglect, 
 as to the said common council shall seem most proper. All 
 assessments authorized under this section shall be collected by 
 said city, with damages at the rate of one percent, a month thereon 
 for each and every month that any such assessment shall remain 
 unpaid, thirty days after the time when public notice shall have 
 been given by the city collector that the warrant for such assess- 
 ment has been received by him for collection. . 
 
 > 
 
 Sec. 9. Section 11 of chapter IX of said act, approved February 
 13, 1863, is hereby so amended that in case of assessments made in 
 accordance with the foregoing section, damages on any assessments 
 which shall remain unpaid after the collector shall give public 
 notice that he has received the warrant for its collection, shall 
 begin to accrue at the rate of one per cent, a month thirty days 
 after the date [of] such notice. 
 
 Sec. 10. It shall be lawful for the common council, on the 
 recommendation of the board of public works, under the provis- 
 ions of section 38 of chapter VII of the said act, approved February 
 13, 1863, to levy a tax for the whole or any part of the expefise 
 for an improvement of the character specified in said section. 
 
 Sec. 11. Under the provisions of section thirty-four (34) of 
 chapter V, of the act to which this is supplementary, approved 
 February 13, 1863, the common council is hereby authorized, in 
 the event that any improvement shall be ordered after the making 
 of the annual appropriation, some portion of the expense of which 
 shall be assessed by the commissioners of the board of public 
 works on some lot or lots of land owned by said city, to appro- 
 priate and borrow money for the payment of such assessments, as is 
 provided for cases enumerated in said section. 
 
2.] " BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. 15 
 
 Sec. 12. For the purposes specified in chapter XV of the act 
 approved February 13, 1863, of which this is amendatory and 
 supplementary, the said city shall have power to borrow from time 
 to time, a sum of money not exceeding one million of dollars, and 
 to issue bonds therefor ; and all the provisions of said act, as to the 
 issue, custody and sale of water loan bonds, and the custody and 
 disbursement of the proceeds thereof, shall apply to the loan hereby 
 authorized, except as herein otherwise provided. 
 
 Sec. 13. If from any cause the city has, heretofore, or shall 
 hereafter feiil to collect any tax on the general tax warrant of said 
 city, in any year, or in case the receipt of the revenues of said city 
 shall fall short of the amounts appropriated by the common coun- 
 cil, it shall be lawful for the said council to authorize the mayor 
 and comptroller to borrow a sufficient amount of money to meet 
 any such deficiency, for any length of time not exceeding the 
 close of the next municipal year, and to issue and negotiate bonds 
 or certificates of indebtedness therefor, which said amounts shall be 
 provided for in the annual appropriation bill of the municipal year 
 next succeeding such loan. 
 
 Sec. 14. Upon receiving an application for the making of any 
 improvement of any street, lane or alley, the said board shall pro- 
 ceed to investigate the same ; and if they shall determine that such 
 improvement is necessary and proper, they shall report the same 
 to the common council, accompanied with a statement of the ex- 
 pense thereof, and a proper ordinance or order directing the work, 
 and shall in such estimate specify how much of said expense, in 
 their opinion, may be properly changeable to real estate especially 
 benefited by such improvement, and how much thereof may be 
 properly chargeable to and paid out of the general fund, or out of 
 the proceeds of any general tax authorized to be levied by said 
 city. Having reported on such application, and recommending 
 that the improvement be made, or disapproving of the doing of it, 
 as is provided for in the above mentioned act, the common council 
 may then, in either case, order the doing of such work or the 
 making of such public improvement, after having first obtained 
 from said board an estimate 'of the expense thereof ; and shall in 
 such order specify what amount of said estimated expense shall be 
 
16 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 assessed upon the property deemed especially benefited, and what 
 amount shall be chargeable to and be paid in of the proceeds of 
 the general fund or out of the proceeds of any general tax author- 
 ized to be levied by said city. 
 
 Sec. 15. No alderman shall, during his continuance in office, 
 receive any compeiisation for his services, or be appointed to or 
 competent to hold any office, the emoluments of which are paid 
 from the city treasury, or paid by fees, in pursuance of any act or 
 ordinance of the common council, and no member of the common 
 council, or other city officer, shall be directly or indirectly inter- 
 ested in any contract, the expense or consideration of which is to 
 be paid under any ordinance or resolution of the common council. 
 
 Sec. 16. The power of assessment conferred by section 1 of 
 the act amendatory of the revised charter of said city, approved 
 February 16, 1865, is hereby extended to and made to include the 
 laying or relaying of any gas or water service pipe, to be paid for 
 wholly or in part by special assessment, and the doing of which is 
 within the authority and discretion of the municipal government of 
 said city, and the commissioners of the board of public works shall 
 ;assess the amount directed by the common council to be assessed 
 for any such improvement, with the costs of the proceedings 
 -therein, upon the real estate by them deemed specially benefited 
 by such improvement, in proportion, as nearly as may be, to the 
 benefit resulting thereto. 
 
 Sfic. 17. In case it shall hereafter be determined by judicial 
 •decision that any of the improvements authorized by law, or by 
 ihis act, to be done or made by the city, cannot be paid for in 
 whole or in part by special assessment for benefit, then it shall 
 be lawful for the common council, and they are hereby authorized 
 to levy and collect taxes for such purposes on all the property 
 assessed in said city for taxation for general revenue purposes. 
 
3.] BOARD OF POLICE. l7 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 BOARD OF POLICE. 
 
 Section 1. The board of police, in their annual estimate of 
 police expenses, made to the city comptroller, shall, if in their 
 judgment the public weal rcquires it^ recommend to the common 
 council such additional police patrolmen, and also such additional 
 sergeants, not exceeding twenty, as may be necessary. 
 
 Sec. 2, The common council may, on sucb recommendation 
 of said board, provide by ordinance for such increase of the patrol 
 force; Provided^ however^ it shall require three-fourths of all the 
 aldermen elected to pass such ordinance, such vote to be taken by 
 ayes and noes, and entered on the records of the council. 
 
 Sec. 3. The board of police commissioners shall devote their 
 entire time, if requisite, to the duties of their office, and shall 
 receive an annual salary of not less than twenty-five hundred 
 dollars, to be fixed by the common council. The superintendent 
 of police shall receive an annual salary of not less than three thou- 
 sand dollars. The deputy superintendent shall receive an annual 
 salary of not less than twentj^-five hundred dollars. Each captain 
 of police shall receive an annual salary of not less than fifteen, 
 hundred dollars per annum. Each sergeant and policeman detailed! 
 as detectives shall receive an annual salary of not less than twelve 
 hundred dollars. Each patrolman shall receive an annual salary 
 of not less than eight hundred dollars nor more than one thousand 
 dollars, the amount to be fixed by the board of police commis- 
 sioners, with the concurrence of the common eouncil. Said salaries 
 so to be fixed, shall not be in any wise increased or diminished 
 during the municipal year. 
 
 Sec. 4. The board of police commissioners may employ neces- 
 sary clerks, and fix their annual salary, to. be paid out of the police- 
 fund. ~ 
 
 Sec. 0. It shall be lawful for the person designated by the- 
 board as the custodian or depositary of stolen property, to sell the 
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18 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 same, after due notice, at public auction, under and pursuant to 
 •sucli general orders and regulations as th^ board of police shall 
 prescribe. The proceeds of such sales, after deducting the cost of 
 storage, advertising, selling, and, in cases of animals, their keeping, 
 shall be paid over to the president of said board, to be bj him 
 paid into the city treasury, to the credit of the police life and 
 health insurance fund, as already provided by law. 
 
 '' Sec. 6. It shall be unlawful for any person other than a police 
 ■officer or patrolman to wear a star, or other similar device like that 
 of a policeman, under penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars 
 nor exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 Sec. 7. The fire marshal, the assistant fire marshals, the mem- 
 bers of the board of police, and such members of the fire depart- 
 ment as the board of police may designate and appoint, shall be 
 fire wardens, and shall have .and exercise all the rights and powers, 
 and shall perform all the duties now conferred, exercised, imposed 
 or required by law of fire waJ-dens. The fire wardens are hereby 
 authorized to enter upon and inspect any building, place or places, 
 for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same is or are in a 
 safe condition, and, if not, to direct or cause the same to be made 
 so. 
 
 Sec. S. The common council may, in the annual appropriation 
 bill, by £L vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen authorized to be 
 elected, to be taken by ayes and noes, and entered upon the records 
 of the council, on the recommendation of the board of police, fix 
 tlie salaries of the members of the fire department at not exceed- 
 ing the following sums respectively per annum : fire marshal, 
 three thousand dollars ($3,000) ; first assistant fire marshal, one 
 thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) ; second assistant iire mar- 
 shal, one thousand six hundred dollars ($1,600) ; third assistant 
 ,fire marshal, <one thousand four hundred dollars ($1,400) ; eagin- 
 »eers of fire engines, one thousand four hundred dollars ($1,400) ; 
 foremen of companies, one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200)^ 
 
3.] FIRE DEPARTMENT. 19 
 
 fire policemen, nine hundred dollars, ($900) ; and watchmen of 
 engine houses, seven hundred and twenty dollars ($720). 
 
 Sec. 9. The board of police are hereby empowered to regulate 
 the construction of chimneys, and to compel the cleaning thereof; 
 to prevent the setting up or construction of boilers, stoves, ovens, 
 or other things, in such a manner as to be dangerous ; to prohibit 
 the deposit of ashes in unsafe places ; to regulate the carrying on 
 of manufactories dangerous in causing or promoting fires ; to reg- 
 ulate or prohibit the sale or use of fireworks in said city ; to raze 
 or demolish any building, wall or erection which, by reason of fire 
 or any other cause, may become dangerous to human life or health, 
 or tend to extend a conflagration. 
 
 Sec. 10. The board of police are hereby authorized to estab- 
 lish, by order or regulation, grades in the office of assistant fire mar- 
 shals, to be known as first, second and third assistant fire marshals. 
 
 Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the said assistants, if in their 
 power, to attend all the fires happening in any division of the city, 
 and in case of the absence of the fire marshal at any fire, it shall be 
 the duty of the first assistant to take charge of the organization, 
 and he shall have and exercise all the powers of the fire marshal ; 
 and in case of the absence of both the fire marshal and first assist- 
 ant, the second assistant shall have and exercise the duties and 
 powers of fire marshal ; and in case of the absence of the marshal 
 and first and second assistants, the third assistant shall be invested 
 with the powers and perform the duties of fire marshal. 
 
 Sec. 12, The board of police may, two-thirds of the common 
 council concurring, cause the ordinary repairs of fire engines, fire 
 apparatus, and of the fire alarm telegraph, to be done in any shop 
 belonging to said city, and for that purpose may employ additional 
 mechanics and provide additional tools and machinery, if absolutely 
 required. 
 
 Sec. 13. The police commissioners of the city of Chicago are 
 hereby authorized and required to make an investigation into the 
 origin of every fire occurring in said city, and for that purpose 
 
20 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 they are hereby invested with the same powers and jurisdiction as 
 are now possessed by the police justices of said city. 
 
 Sec. 14. It shall be the duty of the common council, upon the 
 recommendation of the Chicago board of underwriters, to appoint 
 a qualified voter of the city of Chicago, when so recommended 
 by said board of underwriters, whose duty it shall be to act with 
 the board of police commissioners of said city in all matters relat- 
 ing to the organization, government, appointment and discipline 
 of the fire department in said city. The person appointed shall 
 have the same powers and authority in reference to the fire depart- 
 ment as is now by law conferred upon the several members of 
 said board of police commissioners, but he shall have no authority 
 or right to act as a member of said board for any other purpose 
 than that herein specified. 
 
 Sec. 15. The person so appointed shall hold his office for one 
 year from the date thereof, and until his successor is qualified and 
 appointed, unless sooner removed by the said common council 
 upon the recommendation of the said board of underwriters, and 
 he shall take the same oath, and make and execute the same bond 
 to said city, in the same manner as the several members of said 
 board of police commissioners are now required by law to do, and 
 he shall, under the direction of the common council and the said 
 Chicago board of underwriters, devote his exclusive attention to 
 the interest of the said fire department. 
 
 Sec. 16. The salary of the person appointed as herein provid- 
 ed, shall be fixed, at the time of such appointment, by the said 
 board of underwriters, and the salary so determined upon shall be 
 paid by the said board of underwriters in equal monthly pay- 
 ments, and no other or additional compensation shall be allowed 
 by the common council to said commissioner, for services rendered 
 in accordance with the provisions of this act, nor shall the city, in 
 any event, be liable to said commissioner for his compensation for 
 such services. 
 
 Sec. 17. When such appointment is made by the common 
 council, the person so appointed, upon taking the prescribed oath 
 
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 21 
 
 arid filing the bond required by tbis act, sball be deemed legally 
 qualified, and sball at once euter upon tbe discharge of his duties 
 as a member of said board of police commissioners in masters 
 only pertaining to the fire department of said city. 
 
 Sec. 18. In case of either the death, resignation or removal of 
 the person so appointed, the common council shall fill the vacancy 
 in the same manner as herein provided for the appointment thereof. 
 
 Sec. 19. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 20. In addition to the report now required to be made by 
 the police commissioners to the common council, they shall make 
 to the said council annually, a report of the number and location 
 of all fires occurring during each month in the year ; the charac- 
 ter of the building ; for what purpose used; the amount of insur- 
 ance oti buildings and contents, with such other facts and practi- 
 cal suggestions as they may deem beneficial. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH. 
 
 Section 1. The mayor of the city of Chicago, with six other 
 persons to be appointed on the passage of this act by the judges 
 of the superior court of Chicago, each of whom shall be a resident 
 of said city, and three of wliom, and no more, shall be physicians, 
 shall constitute the board of health of the city of Chicago. Said 
 board of health shall have, and there is hereby conferred on said 
 board, such powers and duties as may be necessary to promote or 
 preserve the safety or health of the city, or improve its sanitary 
 condition. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said board of health may enact such by-laws, rules 
 and regulations as it may deem advisable, in harmony with the 
 provisions and objects of this act and all acts the Object of which 
 is to promote and preserve the health, safety and sanitary condition 
 
22 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 of the city, now existing or that may hereafter be passed, not 
 inconsistent with the constitution or laws of this State, for the 
 regulation of the action of said board, its officers and agents, in 
 the discharge of its and their duties, and for the regulation of the 
 citizens or public, and from time to time may alter, amend or 
 annul the same. 
 
 Sec. 3. The six members appointed as herein provided shall 
 be divided into three classes : the first class shall hold office for 
 two years ; the second class for four years, and the third class for 
 six years ; and they shall determine by lot at the first meeting of 
 said board which two of them shall hold office for the respective 
 terms of two years, four and six years. Vacancies occurring in 
 the said board by the expiration of the term of office of either class, 
 shall be filled by appointment by the judges of the superior court 
 of Chicago for six years ; any vacancy caused by either removal, 
 resignation or death, shall be filled in like manner for the unexpired 
 term. The members of said board appointed as herein provided, 
 shall receive an annual salary of not less than five hundred dollars, 
 to be fixed by the common council. Before entering upon the 
 duties of their office, they shall take the oath prescribed for State 
 officers in the constitution of the State, and they shall also give 
 bonds to the said city in the sum of twenty -five thousand dollars 
 each, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as 
 members of the board of health under the provisions of this act, 
 said bonds to be approved by the judges of the superior court of 
 Chicago, and filed with their oath of office in the office of the city 
 clerk. And in case of failure to comply with the require- 
 ments of this section, prior to the first meeting of said board, the 
 office of such member, so failing to take the prescribed oath and 
 give a bond, shall be deemed vacant, and shall be filled as in this 
 act provided. The members of the board of health may be 
 removed from office for like cause and in like manner as the board 
 of police or the members of the board of public works. 
 
 Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the board of health, on or before 
 the first Monday in April of each year, to report in writing the 
 condition of the health department, and a statement of the expend- 
 itures of the health board for the year, to the common council. 
 
4.] BOAP.D Oir HEALTH. 
 
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 Sec. 5. The said board of health shall meet at the office of the 
 mayor of the city of Chicago, on or before the first Monday of 
 April next, and organize by the election of one of their number 
 president and by appointing a ' competent person to be secretary 
 of said board, and the successive presidents of said board of health 
 shall be annually elected 'from the members thereof The secre- 
 tary shall keep a correct and complete record of all the acts, doings 
 and proceedings of said board ; he shall receive an annual salary 
 to be fixed by the board, and shall hold office during the pleasure 
 of said board, but shall not be a member thereof. 
 
 Sec. 6. The board of police shall appoint such additional 
 police patrolmen, to be subject to the rules and regulations of the 
 police department, as the board of health may, from time to time, 
 in writing, request, to be detailed as a sanitary squad, and be paid 
 out of the health fund, the length of time for which they are 
 wanted to be stated in said written request 
 
 Sec. 7. It shall be the duty of the board of health to prepare 
 and submit to the comptroller, on or before the first day of May m 
 every year, an estimate of the whole cost and expenses of provid- 
 ing for and maintaining the health department of said city during 
 the current fiscal year, which estimate shall be laid, by said 
 comptroller, before the common council with his annual estimate. 
 The common council may provide for the amount so required in 
 the general tax levy to be laid on said city. Said money shall be 
 paid into the city treasury, and shall be styled " the health fund," 
 and shall be drawn out for health purposes on the warrant of the 
 city comptroller, which shall be countersigned by the president or ^ 
 acting president of the board of health. The warrant of the 
 comptroller shall not be drawn on said fund except on the certifi- 
 cate of the president or acting president of said board of health. 
 
 Sec. 8. In case of pestilence or epidemic disease, or of danger 
 from anticipated or impending pestilence or epidemic disease, or in 
 case the sanitary condition of the city should be of such a charac- 
 ter as to warrant it, it shall be the duty of the said board of health 
 to take such measures, and to do, and order, and cause to be done, 
 such acts for the preservation of the public health (though not 
 
24 CITY CnAETER. [CH. 
 
 herein, or elsewliere, or otherwise authorized), as it may, in good 
 faith, declare the public safety and health to demand. 
 
 Sec. 9. The common council, for the purpose of providing for 
 the contingency mentioned in the preceding section, may order the 
 mayor and comptroller to borrow a sufficient amount to cover such^ 
 extraordinary expenditure for a space of time not exceeding the 
 close of the next municipal year, _which sum, together with the 
 interest, shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised in 
 the next general tax levy, and embraced therein. 
 
 Sec. 10. Any person or corporation who shall violate any of 
 the provisions of the health laws or ordinances of the city, or any 
 of the by-laws, rules or regulations of the board of health, in 
 addition to existing penalties, shall be subject to a fine of not less 
 than five nor more than five hundred dollars, and on failure to 
 promptly pay the same, may be imprisoned in the county jail, 
 bridewell, or house of correction, as in other cases of failure to pay 
 a fine, or such person may be both fined and imprisoned, in the 
 discretion of the court or magistrate. 
 
 Sec. 11. All laws, or parts thereof, relating to the health 
 department of the city of Chicago, now in force, not inconsistent 
 with this act, are continued in force, and all powers therein con- 
 ferred on the present board of health, not inconsistent herewith, 
 are hereby conferred on the board of health of the city of Chicago, 
 as provided for in this act : Provided^ that nothing in this act con- 
 tained shall be construed as in any manner giving to the said 
 board of health any power or control as police commissioners over 
 the police department of the city of Chicago. 
 
 CHAPTEE V. 
 
 COMMON COUNCIL. 
 
 Section 1. The common council of the city of Chicago shall 
 have power, by ordinance : 
 
 First — To prevent the interment of the dead within the present 
 or future limits of the city. 
 
5.] COMMON COUNCIL. 25 
 
 Second — To provide for the vacation of the several cemeteries 
 in said city by the purchase and extinguishment of the titles of lot 
 owners, or otherwise. 
 
 Third — To purchase grounds and erect thereon a city hall, 
 and provide for the payment thereof by the issuing and negotia- 
 ting of the bonds of said city, or by the levy and collection of 
 taxes, or partly by both : Provided, however, that no such levy 
 shall in any one year exceed two mills on the dollar on the 
 assessed value of the real and personal estate in the city, made 
 taxable by the laws of this State. 
 
 Fourth — To provide for the inspection and regulation of sta- 
 tionary steam engines and boilers. 
 
 Fifth — To appropriate not exceeding ten thousand dollars 
 ($10,000) in any one year from the city treasury for celebrating 
 the Fourth of July, for funeral occasions, and to defray the ex-, 
 penses of entertaining official visitors of sister cities : Provided, 
 however, such order or appropriation shall be passed only by the 
 votes of at least three-fourths of all the aldermen elected, such vote 
 to be entered by ayes and noes on the records of the common 
 council. 
 
 Sixth — To prescribe, regulate and ^control the time or times, 
 manner and speed of all boats, crafts and vessels, passing the 
 bridg'js over the Chicago river a!nd its branches. 
 
 Seventh — To control and regulate the construction of buildings, 
 chimneys and stacks, and to prevent and prohibit the erection or 
 maintenance of any insecure or unsafe buildings, stack, wall or 
 chimney, in said city, and to declare them to be nuisances, and to 
 provide for their summary abatement 
 
 Eighth — To cause the seizure and destruction or other dispo- 
 sition of tainted or unwholesome meat, butter, vegetables, fruit or 
 provisions. 
 
 Ninth — To authorize the use of the streets and alleys in said 
 city by railroad companies, or city railway companies, for the pur- 
 pose of laying tracks and running cars thereon : Provided, however,. 
 permission or authority shall not be given, nor shall any such 
 grant or permission already given be extended, unless by vote at 
 least [of] three-fourths of all the aldermen elected, such votes to 
 be entered by ayes and noes on the records of the council : And 
 provided, further, that no grant, consent, contract or permission 
 
26 OITY CHARTEE. [CH. 
 
 heretofore given or made, or hereafter to be made or given, shall 
 in any case be extended until within one year of the expiration of 
 such grant, consent, contract or permission : And provided, further, 
 that in case of a veto by the mayor, any such grant or permission 
 shall receive the votes of three-fourths of all the aldermen elected, 
 to take effect as an act or law of the corporation. 
 
 Tenth — To direct, regulate and prohibit the location and man- 
 agement of houses for the storing of gunpowder, or other combus- 
 tible material, within the city and within one. mile of the limits 
 thereof 
 
 Eleventh — To declare that it , shall be unlawful for any hall, 
 theatre, opera-house, church, school-house, or building of any kind 
 whatsoever, to be used for the assemblage of people, unless the 
 same is provided with ample means for the safe and speedy egress 
 of the persons therein assembled in case of alarm. 
 
 Twelfth — To control, regulate or prohibit the use of steam 
 whistles within the limits of the city. 
 
 Thirteenth — To provide for the borrowing, from time to time, a 
 sum of money not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars in the 
 aggregate, to pay existing debts incurred by said city for sewerage 
 works, and to increase the sewerage works of said city : Provided, 
 however, the said loan or loans shall be made in strict conformity 
 with the provisions of chapter sixteen of the act of 1863, to which 
 this is an amendment. 
 
 Fourteenth — To direct and require the board of public works to 
 let the cleaning of the streets, alleys, lanes and highways, or ordin- 
 ary repairs on the same, or any portion or part thereof, to the 
 lowest reliable and responsible bidder or bidders. The said letting 
 and contracts to be in all respects governed by the provisions of 
 the law in regard to the letting of contracts for improving the 
 streets: Provided, however, it shall require two-thirds of all the 
 aldermen elected to pass any such ordinance, such vote to be taken 
 by ayes and noes, and entered on the records of the council. 
 
 Fifteenth — To direct and authorize the board of health to let the 
 scavenger work, night or day, or both, to the lowest reliable and 
 responsible bidder or bidders, or in case a proper contract cannot 
 be made, to authorize said board to do said work. Such letting to 
 be governed in all respects, as nearly as may be, by the provisions 
 of the charter in reference to the letting of street improvements. 
 
5.] COMMON COUNCIL. 27 
 
 Sixteenth — To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing by 
 any person under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any 
 pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, 
 brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, 
 or any other dangerous or deadly weapons, and to provide for the 
 confiscation or sale of such weapons. 
 
 Seventeenth — To sell or otherwise dispose of any grounds hereto- 
 fore purchased for a bridewell or house of correction. 
 
 Eighteenth — To purchase grounds either within or without the 
 corporate limits of said city, and erect the necessary buildings 
 thereon for a city bridewell or house of correction. 
 
 Nineteenth — To provide for the payment of the same by the 
 levy and collection of taxes, or the issue and negotiation of bonds, 
 or partly by both. 
 
 Twentieth — To adopt all necessary rules and regulations for the 
 government of said institution, and the proper discipline of the 
 inmates thereof, and also to purchase all materials, tools and 
 machinery necessary to secure the most beneficial results from the 
 labor of said inmates. 
 
 Twenty-first — To require the superintendent, warden or keeper 
 to keep such book or books of account as shall fully and in detail 
 show all the receipts and expenditures of said institution, and to 
 require a report of the condition thereof from time to time. 
 
 Twenty-second — The common council shall have power to require 
 the board of police commissioners to detail a sufficient number of 
 men from the police force of the city to take charge of the public 
 pounds of said city, and to properly enforce the poi:^nd ordinances 
 thereof, and to provide for the election of one or more pound- 
 keepers, and to provide for the payment of such pound-keepers, 
 either by salary or fees, or partly by both, and to make all neces- 
 sary rules and regulations for the enforcement of any pound ordi- 
 nance of said city. 
 
 Twenty-third — To allow dummies or steam engines to be used 
 on the street railways of said city, by ordinance and contract with 
 said railway companies, and to direct the kind of dummies to be 
 used, the time and speed of running the same, and the price at 
 which passengers shall be conveyed : Provided^ the fare on such 
 railways shall not exceed five cents for each passenger within the 
 present or future limits of said city, nor exceeding eight cents 
 
28 CITY CHARTER. [oH. 
 
 from any point within such limits to any point not more than three 
 miles outside such limits ; also at any time to order a total or partial 
 discontinuance of the use of such dummies and steam engines in 
 said city : Provided^ also, that it shall require three-fourths of all 
 the aldermen elected to pass any such ordinances or make any such 
 contract: And provided further, that no privilege to use or run 
 dummies or steam engines, or other than horse motive power, shall 
 ever be allowed upon any street or horse railway except the party 
 or parties, company or corporations asking for such privilege 
 shall first enter into and execute an irrevocable contract with the 
 city of Chicago, with approved bond in a sum not less than one 
 hundred thousand dollars, to forever thereafter give and pay over 
 into the city treasury, at the end of each and every month, one-fifth 
 of each and every fare collected and received by said company, 
 party or corporation, from persons or passengers carried or trans- 
 ported over said railway, and for tickets and commutation. Such 
 monthly payments to be accompanied by a sworn statement of the 
 president or secretary of the company, showing the actual amount 
 received during the month by them for fares, tickets, or commu- 
 tations, and the books of said party, company or corporation to 
 be thereafter at all times open to inspection by any duly author- 
 ized city official. 
 
 Twenty-fourth — That the common council shall have power and 
 authority to regulate and control the slaughtering of all animals 
 in the city or within four miles thereof, intended for consumption 
 or exposed for sale in the city, and to enforce by additional ordi- 
 nances any regulation, contract or law heretofore made on the 
 subject. 
 
 Twenty-fifth — To adjust and settle with property owners any 
 differences arising by reason of any changes made in the dock 
 lines by the council, on the Chicago river or its branches, if in 
 its discretion the same may be deemed just and proper. ' 
 
 Twenty-sixth — To make, publish, ordain, amend and, repeal all 
 such ordinances, by-laws and police regulations, not contrary to 
 the constitution of this State, for the good government and order 
 of the city, and the trade and commerce thereof, as may be neces- 
 sary or expedient to carry into effect the powers vested in the 
 common council, or of any officer of said city, by this act, and 
 enforce observance of all rules, ordinances, by-laws, police, sani- 
 
6.] 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 29 
 
 tary and other regulations made in pursuance of this act, or the acr, 
 to which this is an amendment, the amendments thereto, or any 
 other act concerning said city, by punishment, fine or imprison- 
 ment in the bridewell or house of correction, or both, m the discre- 
 tion of the magistrate or court before which conviction may be 
 had: Provided, however, such fine shall not exceed five hundred 
 dollars, nor the imprisonment two years. 
 
 Twenty-seventh — 1^0 prohibit the piling of lumber within the 
 fire limits, by a vote of two-thirds of all the aldermen elected. 
 
 CHAPTEE YI. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Section 1. Whenever any permit shall be issued by the board 
 of public works, granting to any person or corporation the use or 
 ■occupancy of any street, alley or highway, or part thereof, for 
 building purposes, for the depositing therein of material, or other 
 proper purpose, said board shall take from such person or corpora- 
 tion a bond, in an adequate amount, with two good and sufficient 
 sureties, conditioned that such person or corporation shall be liable 
 for any and all damages occasioned by such use or occupation, or 
 resulting therefrom; and in every case of recovery and judgment 
 ac^ainst the city, in any wise growing out of permitting or suffer- 
 ino- such use or occupation, or which resulted therefrom, where due 
 notice of the pendency of such suit has been given, such judg- 
 ment shall be conclusive, not only as to the damages recovered, 
 but as to the liability of the party or corporation and sureties. 
 
 Sec 2 Whenever in any case, injury shall be sustained by 
 any individual, in consequence of any defect in or obstruction 
 upon any sidewalk, along the premises of a non-resident owner 
 whose duty it is hereby declared to be to keep the same, at all 
 times in a good and thorough state of repair, and a suit for dam- 
 ages be commenced against the city, the city of Chicago may attach 
 such premises and hold the same to abide the judgment in the 
 case, :and in case of a judgment being had therefor against the city, 
 the city may proceed under such attachment against said premises 
 
30 ' CITY CHARTEE. [CH. 
 
 in the same manner as provided by law for creditors against non- 
 resident debtors, and the judgment against the city shall he prima 
 facie evidence in such suit or proceeding : Provided, however, That 
 such non-resident owner may, by filing a bond as in other cases of 
 attachment, obtain a release of such premises from such attach- 
 ment, and in case of such owner desiring a release of such premises 
 before the determination of such suit against the city, he may do so 
 upon giving and executing his bond, with security, to be approved 
 by the mayor, for the amount of damage claimed, conditioned to 
 hold harmless the city against whatever judgment may be ren- 
 dered in the case. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever any board or ofl&cer of the city shall let any 
 work or improvement, which shall require the digging up, use or 
 occupancy of any street, alley, highway, or public grounds of said 
 city, there shall be inserted in said contracts substantial covenants 
 requiring such contractor, during the night time, to put up and 
 maintain such barriers and lights as will effectually prevent the 
 happening of any accident in consequence of such digging up, use 
 or occupancy of said street, alley, highway, or public grounds, for 
 which the city might be liable, and also such other covenants and 
 conditions as experience has or may prove necessary to save the 
 city harmless from damages. And also to provide, in such con- 
 tracts, that the party contracting with the city shall be liable for 
 all damages occasioned by the digging up, use or occupancy of 
 the street, alley, highway, or public grounds, or which may result 
 therefrom, or which may result from the carelessness of such 
 contractor, his agents, employes, or workmen. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever any work or improvement is let by contract 
 to any person or persons, firm or corporation, the board or officers 
 of the city letting the same shall, in all cases, take a bond from 
 such person, persons, or firm or corporation, with good and suffi- 
 cient sureties, in such amount as shall not only be adequate to 
 insure the performance of the work in the time and manner 
 required in such contract, but also to save, and indemnify, and keep 
 harmless the said city against all liabilities, judgments, costs and 
 expenses which may in anywise come against said city, in conse- 
 
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 quepce of the granting of such contract, or whicli may 'dn aHyTOS? fv 
 result from the carelessness or neglect of said yerson, ,firi3. or cor- 
 poration, or his or its agents, employes or workmen, ill any respect 
 whatever ; and in every such case where judgment is recovered 
 against the city by reason of the carelessness or negligence of such 
 person, firm or corporation so contracting, or his, their or its agents, 
 employes or workmen, and when due notice has been given of the 
 pendency of such suit, such judgment shall be conclusive against 
 sach person, firm or corporation, and his, or their, or its sureties 
 on such bond, not only as to the amount of damages, but as to 
 their liability. 
 
 Sec. 5. The city clerk shall be authorized to appoint one or 
 more deputies, subject, however, to the approval of the common 
 council. Such deputies, after confirmation by the council, and 
 after having taking the oath required to be taken by the clerk, 
 may, in case of the sickness or absence of the clerk, perform all 
 the duties imposed by law, or any ordinance of the city, on said 
 clerk, and shall likewise be subject to the same liabilities and 
 penalties. 
 
 No ordinance shall be finally adopted by common council until 
 the same shall be engrossed by the clerk, unless otherwise ordered 
 by three-fourths of all the aldermen elected, except such orders 
 and ordinances as are sent to the council by the board of public 
 works, relating to public improvements paid for by special assess- 
 ments. 
 
 The city clerk shall receive an annual salary of not less than 
 twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than three thousand five 
 hundred dollars, to be fixed by the common council. 
 
 Sec. 6. The clerk shall record all orders and ordinances passed 
 by the common council, in a proper book or books, with proper 
 indexes ; and transcripts from such books, certified by him under 
 the corporate seal, shall be evidence in all courts and places, in 
 like manner as if the originals were produced. 
 
 Sec. 7. Every ordinance, resolution, order or by-law of tlje 
 .oommon council may be read in evidence in all courts and legal 
 
32 ^r.'' '^ CITY CnARTER. [CH. 
 
 V:pMc9&'fii%Vfrom''tlie votume of ordinances published, or to be 
 published', hy.priX^r: of the said common council, without any- 
 proof pf'Che"pas3ag''e" or publication thereof ; but such publication 
 shall only hQ prima facie evidence of its passage, or that the same 
 has been, duly published in the corporation newspaper. 
 
 Sec. 8. All land surveyor?, licensed by the board of public 
 works in pursuance of section six of chapter six of the revised 
 charter, approved February 13, 1863, shall have the same powers 
 to make surveys within the county of Cook as they may have 
 within the city of Chicago, and like effect and validity shall be 
 given to their acts, plats and surveys as are or may be given to 
 those of the county surveyor. 
 
 Sec. 9. So much of section twenty-five of chapter six, of 
 section twenty-two of chapter ten, of section fourteen of chapter 
 thirteen, of section thirteen of chapter fifteen, of the revised char- 
 ter of said city, approved February 13, 1863, and so much of 
 'Section thirty-three of an act approved February 16, 1865, entitled 
 *' An act to amend an act entitled An act to reduce the charter of 
 the city of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into 
 one act, and to revise the same,' " approved February 13, 1863, as 
 requires the warrants therein described to be countersigned by the 
 president or acting president of the board of public works, the 
 president or acting president of the board of police, the president 
 of the board of education, the president or vice president of the 
 board of guardians of the reform school, and by the president of 
 the board of police and the mayor, be and the same is hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Sec, 10. That the latter clause of section sixteen of chapter 
 nineteen of the revised charter, approved February 13, 1863, be 
 and the same is hereby so amended as to read as follows : " Fifteen, 
 cents shall be taxed to each lot against which judgment is rendered^ 
 five cents to be for clerk's and judge's fees, and ten cents for 
 advertising notice of sale." 
 
 Sec. 11. In case of a vacancy occun-ing in any office created by 
 this act, the mayor shall, by and with the advice and consent of 
 
7.] SCHOOLS. 33 
 
 the council, fill the sam6 for the unexpired term, if the same be 
 not otherwise herein provided for. 
 
 Sec. 12. All of the land now owned by the city in section 
 twenty-seven (27) in township forty (40) north, range fourteen east, 
 in Cook county, shall be added to, and form a part of, Lincoln 
 park, and for the purpose of connecting the same with said park, 
 the city may acquire, by purchase, gift or condemnation, a strip 
 of land not exceeding three hundred feet in width, lying between 
 said land and said park, and in case it is necessary to condemn, 
 the proceedings shall be conducted according to the provisions 
 of the charter in relation to condemning lands for streets ; but 
 the damages allowed shall be wholly paid by taxation on the 
 taxable property in the town of North Chicago, or by voluntary 
 contribution. 
 
 Sec. 13. The procedings, n®tices and ordinances of said city 
 and the departments thereof, shall be published in the newspaper 
 printed in the German language having the largest daily circula- 
 tion in said* city as fully as they are now required to be published 
 in the corporation newspaper : Provided^ that in no judicial or 
 other proceeding shall the publication in such German paper be 
 called in question, either as to the fact of its publication or to the 
 correctness thereof 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 Section 1. The common council shall have power, when 
 requested by the board of education, 
 
 First — Erect, purchase or hire buildings suitable for school 
 houses, and keep the same in repair. 
 
 Second — Buy and lease sites for school houses, with the neces- 
 sary grounds. 
 
 Tliird — Furnish schools with the necessary fixtures, furniture 
 and apparatus. 
 
 Fourth — Establish, support and maintain schools, and supply 
 3 
 
34 CITY CHARTER. [CH. 
 
 the inadequacy of the school fund for the payment of the city 
 teachers, erection and fencing school buildings, from school taxes. 
 
 Sec. 2. The board of education shall lay off and divide the 
 city into school districts, and from time to time alter or subdivide 
 the same, or create new ones, as circumstances may require. 
 
 Sec. 3. The common council shall have power annually to levy 
 and collect a school tax, including the amount levied for a sinking 
 fund, not exceeding five mills on the dollar on the assessed 
 value of all real and personal estate in the city made taxable by 
 the laws of this State, to meet the expenses of purchasing grounds 
 for school houses, erecting and repairing school houses, supporting 
 and maintaining schools, and payment of interest on school bonds ; 
 and the board of education are hereby authorized, unless prohib- 
 ited by the common council, to continue the public schools not- 
 withstanding any deficiency in the appropriation and tax levied 
 for that purpose in any year ; and, to provide for the expense 
 thereby incurred, the comptroller may, with the sanction of the 
 mayor and finance committee of the common council, .borrow the 
 necessary money, which shall be repaid out of the school tax for 
 the next year. 
 
 Sec. 4. The superintendent of public schools shall receive such 
 annual salary as shall be fixed by the board of education, at the 
 time of fixing teachers' salaries each year, which shall not be 
 increased or diminished thereafter during the year. 
 
 Sec. 5. The common council shall have the power, and is 
 hereby authorized to provide by ordinance for issuing and nego- 
 tiating the bonds of the city of Chicago, paj^able, principal and 
 interest, in New York, in twenty years from date, and bearing 
 interest at a rate not exceeding seven per cent, per annum, payable 
 semi-annually, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand 
 dollars, for the purpose of purchasing and improving school 
 grounds, and erecting or constructing school houses. Said bonds 
 shall be in the ordinary form of bonds of said city, and shall be 
 issued in denominations of five hundred or one thousand dollars 
 each, as the mayor and comptroller may deem for the best interest 
 of the city ; and an annual tax of not exceeding one-fourth of one 
 
7.] SCHOOLS. 85 
 
 mill on the dollar, on the assessed value of all taxable real and 
 personal estate in said city, shall be levied and collected as a sink- 
 ing fund to pay said bonds at their maturity, and for the payment 
 of such bonds as may have been previously issued for schools or 
 school purposes. Such sinking fund when collected shall be in- 
 vested first in school bonds, and if these cannot be obtained, then 
 in city bonds. " . ' 
 
 Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the common council to provide 
 for the issuing of as many of said bonds as the board of education 
 may require from time to time, and the proceeds of said bonds, 
 when sold, shall be held as other school funds, and only paid out 
 for permanent purchases or improvements of school grounds, and 
 the construction of new school buildings. 
 
 Sec. 7. The board of education shall have power to confer the 
 usual collegiate degrees, whenever they shall deem it best for the 
 educational interests of the city, and to prescribe the necessary and 
 proper rules for the same. 
 
 Sec. 8. The board of education shall elect, bienniailly, a clerk, 
 whose office shall be denominated "clerk of the board of educa- 
 tion," and whose salary shall be fixed annually by said board. 
 The duties of said clerk shall consist of keeping the records and 
 minutes of the board, and to be official his signature must be 
 attached to them on the books and records of the board. He shall 
 also take general charge of the rooms of the board^ and the prop- 
 erty contained therein. 
 
 Sec. 9. The common council is empowered to establish evening 
 schools, the same to be under the control of the board of educa- 
 tion, and the funds for their support to be raised by special appro- 
 priation by the common council. 
 
 Sec. 10. All laws or parts of laws conflicting or inconsistent 
 with these amendments, are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 11. This act shall be a public act and shall be in forca 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved March 9, 1867. 
 
36 AMENDATORY ACTS. 
 
 AI^ ACT 
 
 IN REGARD TO THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OP THE CITY OF 
 
 CHICAGO. 
 
 Section 1, Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois in 
 the General Asse^fibly, That nothing contained in any act of this 
 general assembly heretofore passed, shall in any manner be con- 
 strued so as to repeal section sixteen of an act approved February 
 15th, 1865, entitled " An act to amend an act entitled ' An act to 
 reduce the charter of the city of Chicago and the several acts 
 amendatory thereof into one act, and to revise the same,' " ap- 
 proved February 13th, 1863. 
 
 Sec 2. This act shall be a public act and take effect from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 Approved March 7, 1867. 
 
 AE" ACT 
 
 In amendment of and supplementary to an act entitled "An Act to reduce the 
 • Charter of the City of Chicago, and the several acts amendatory thereof, into 
 one act, and to revise the same," approved February 13th, 1863, and the act 
 amendatory thereof, approved February 15th, 1865, 
 
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the 
 General Assembly: 
 
 Section 1. The common council of the city of Chicago shall 
 have power to establish or change the dock lines of Chicago river 
 and of Chicago harbor so as to facilitate navigation on the same ; 
 to cause lamp posts to be erected upon any of the streets of said 
 city, and to cause water and gas service pipes, with their necessary 
 stop cocks and other fixtures, to be constructed and laid so as to 
 connect with the gas or water mains in the streets of said city. 
 
 |. Sec. 2. The provisions of the acts to which this is supplement- 
 ary and amendatory, as to the manner of making application for 
 any improvement to be executed by said city, are hereby made to 
 apply to the improvements specified in the foregoing section. ■ 
 
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. 37 
 
 Sec. 3. Upon receiving an application for the' making of any 
 improvement, the doing of which is within the discretion and con- 
 trol of the municipal government of said city, excepting sewers and 
 main water pipes, the said board shall proceed to investigate the 
 same, and if they shall determine that such improvement is neces- 
 sary and proper, they shall report the same to the common council, 
 accompanied with a statement of the expense thereof, and a proper 
 ordinance or order directing the work, and shall in such estimate 
 specify how much of said expense in their opinion may be prop- 
 erly chargeable to real estate especially benefited by such im- 
 provement, and how much thereof may be properly chargeable to 
 and paid out of the general fund, or out of the proceeds of any 
 general tax authorized to be levied by said city. Having reported 
 on such application, and recommending that the improvement be 
 made, or disapproving of the doing of it, as is provided for in the 
 above mentioned act, the common council may then, in either case, 
 order the doing of such work, or the making of such public 
 improvement, after having first obtained from said board, an 
 estimate of the expense thereof, and in such order specify what 
 amount of said estimated expense shall be assessed upon the 
 property deemed specially benefited, and what amount shall be 
 chargeable to and be paid in of the proceeds of the general fund, 
 or out of the proceeds of any general tax authorized to be levied 
 by said city. 
 
 Sec. 4. Whenever any order shall be passed by the common 
 council of said city, pursuant to the authority conferred by chapter 
 seven of the act of 1863, of which this is an amendment, for the 
 filling, grading, leveling, paving, curbing, walling, graveling, 
 macadamizing, planking or repairing of any street, lane, alley or 
 highway, or for the construction, reconstruction, laying or relaying 
 of any sidewalk, or any private drain, or for the making of any 
 public improvement on account of which authority is given by 
 said chapter seven (7) to levy a special assessment (excepting 
 sewers and main water pipes), or whenever any such order shall 
 be so passed, for the estabhshing or changing the dock-lines 
 of Chicago river ^or of Chicago harbor, or for the laying of 
 gas or water service pipes, or for the erection of lamp-posts, 
 upon any of the streets of said city, the commissioners of 
 
38 AMENDATORY ACTS. 
 
 the board of public works shall, forthwith, proceed to assess 
 the amounts directed by the common council to be assessed for 
 that purpose, with the costs of the proceedings therein, upon the 
 real estate by them deemed specially benefited by any such im- 
 provement, in proportion, as nearly as may be, to the benefit 
 resulting thereto. The assessment in such cases shall be made 
 and returned, and may be confirmed and collected in the manner 
 provided by chapter seven of the act above mentioned, so far as 
 the provisions of said chapter are applicable, and excepting in 
 cdses where such order of council shall require the appropriation 
 or condemnation of any land or real estate, according to the pro- 
 visions of sections twenty-three and twenty-four of said chapter. 
 
 Sec. 5. Under the provisions of section 34 of chapter 2 of the 
 act of which this is supplementary, approved February 13, 1863, 
 the common council is hereby authorized, in the event that any 
 improvement shall be ordered after the making of the annual 
 appropriation, some portions of the expense of which shall be 
 assessed by the commissioners of the board of public works, on 
 some lot or lots of land owned by said city, to appropriate and 
 borrow money for the payment of such assessments, as is provided 
 for other cases enumerated in said section. 
 
 Sec. 6. Upon the passage of any order referred to in the 
 fourth section of this act, the board of public works may, in their 
 discretion, cause said improvement to be made, and paid for out 
 of any moneys in the treasury at their disposal, and afterwards 
 cause the expense thereof, together with all costs, to be reimbursed 
 by a special assessment, to be levied and collected as in other 
 cases. 
 
 Sec. 7. Section thirty-nine of chapter seven of the act of 
 1863, of which this is amendatory, is hereby amended by striking 
 out therefrom the words " of all improvements at the intersections 
 of streets or alleys, or of streets and alleys (excepting sidewalks 
 and area or street walls)." 
 
 Sec. 8. Sections one, three and five of the act approved Feb- 
 ruary 15th, 1865, in amendment of said act, approved February 
 13th, 1863, are hereby repealed. 
 
RE If OEM SCHOOL. ' 39 
 
 Sec. 9. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take 
 effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved Mardi 6, 1867. 
 
 A.^ ACT 
 
 m REFERENCE TO THE REFORM SCHOOL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO, 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly, That warrants for commitment 
 of any child to the Chicago reform school, shall run in the name 
 of the people of the State of Illinois. And all warrants on which 
 any boy has been heretofore committed may be amended by the 
 authority issuing the same, or their successors in office, by insert- 
 ing the words, " The People of the State of Illinois" over such 
 mittimus, and thereafter the same effect shall be given to such mit- 
 timus as if such words had been originally inserted. 
 
 Sec. 2. Parents and guardians are hereby permitted and 
 empowered to place in said school, by permission of the guardians 
 and superintendent of said school, any child of theirs, or under 
 their control, between the ages of six (6) and sixteen (16) years, 
 and when said child is so received, it shall be subject to the same 
 rules, and may be held for the same time, and on the same terms 
 in every respect as if it had been committed to said school by the 
 provisions of law in reference to said school, and shall be dis- 
 charged fi'om said school in the same manner as by law the other 
 inmates of said school are discharged, and said parent or guardian 
 shall pay the officers of said school, for the use of the reform school 
 fund, such sums annually as may be agreed upon by the parties. 
 
 Sec. 3. If any officer or other person procure the escape of any 
 boy or girl, committed to the Chicago reform school, or connive at 
 or aid, conceal or assist in any such escape, or assist any person after 
 such escape, he, she or they shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a 
 
40 AMENDATORY ACTS. 
 
 fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100), and be confined in 
 the county jail not exceeding six (6) months. 
 
 Sec. 4. That section seven (7), of chapter fourteen (14), of an 
 act approved February 13th, 1863, entitled " An act to reduce the 
 city of Chicago, and the several acts in amendment thereof into 
 one act, and revise the same," be and the same is hereby repealed, 
 and that the duties of commissioner, imposed by section eight (8) 
 of said act, be performed by either of the judges of the superior 
 or circuit court in said city, and whenever any police magistrate 
 or justice of the peace of said city, shall have brought before him 
 any boy or girl, within the ages of six (6) or sixteen (16) years, 
 who he has reason to believe is a vagrant, or is destitute of proper 
 parental care, or is growing up in mendicancy, ignorance^ idleness 
 or vice, he shall cause such person, together with the warrant on 
 which he was arrested, and the list of witnesses which may be 
 necessary to establish the situation and condition of such boy or girl, 
 to be transmitted to one of the judges of the superior or circuit 
 court, either in term time or vacation, and thereupon it shall be the 
 duty of such judge to proceed in the same manner, and give the 
 same notice that said commissioner is in said section eight (8) 
 required to give, and if vipon such examination said judge shall 
 be of opinion that the said boy or girl is a proper subject for com- 
 mitment to the reform school, and that his moral welfare, and the 
 good of society, require that he should be sent to said school for 
 instruction, employment, and reformation, he shall so decide, and 
 shall direct the clerk of the court of which he is judge to make 
 out a warrant of commitment to said reform school, and such 
 child shall thereupon be committed, and such judge and the clerk 
 of the court shall receive of the city of Chicago, the same fees 
 that are prescribed by law for fees in civil cases. 
 
 Sec. 5. This act shall take effect from and after the date of its 
 passage. 
 
 Approved March 5, 1867. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 APPROPRIATION for Fourth of July celebration, etc., . . .25 
 
 ASSESSMENTS, when and how made, . . . . 5, 6, 7 
 
 special assessments, . . . . . 37,38 
 
 ACTS REPEALED. Part of sec. 25, chap. 6, of Revised Charter of 1863, . 22 
 
 part of sec. 22, chap. 10, of Revised Ciiarter of 1863, . . 32 
 
 part of sec. 13, chap. 15, of Revised Charter of 1863, . . 32 
 
 part of sec. 33, of act of 1 865, .... 32 
 
 all inconsistent or conflicting laws, . . . .35 
 
 sees. 1, 3 and 5, of act of 1865, .... 38 
 
 ACTS AMENDED. Part of sec. 16, chap. 19, of Revised Charter of 1863, 
 sec. 39, of chap. "J, of Revised Charter of 1863, 
 
 ACTS NOT REPEALED. Sec. 16, of act of 1865, . . 
 
 X 
 
 ALDERMEN not to receive compensation, . . . ' 
 
 nor be parties to contracts with city, 
 
 ASSESSORS. Common Council to appoint, . . ". 
 
 qualifications of, . 
 
 assessors and commissioner of taxes to constitute " board of assessors, 
 to take oaths, ..... 
 
 to file bonds, • . . . , . 
 
 bonds to be approved by mayor, . 
 
 authorized to administer oaths, .... 
 to value real and personal estate yearly, 
 commissioner of taxes to furnish schedules to assessors, 
 commissioner of taxes to take assessment list or collector's books of 
 
 previous year as a guide, .... 
 
 appraisal to be filed on or before the 1st Monday of August, 
 unless time extended by council, .... 
 to assess real or personal estate at its true value, . 
 to assess property in tlie district where found, 
 this to include proportion of rolling stock of railroads, etc. , 
 the proportion to be ascertained in accordance with statutes, 
 to be furnished with necessary blanks, 
 to call at office, place of business or residence of each person required 
 
 to list his property, .... 
 
 to call at ofBce of every corporation, 
 person or corporation so listing, to enter true and correct statement on 
 
 blanks provided, . . 
 
 such statement to be signed, and verified by oath or affidavit, 
 on refusal to list, ..... 
 on refusal to swear, ..... 
 
 in case of absence or sickness, 
 when assessment completed, to be filed in office of commissioner of 
 
 taxes, ..... 
 
 4, 
 
 32 
 38 
 
 36 
 
 16 
 16 
 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 4 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 6 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 5 
 
 5 
 5 
 
 6 
 6 
 6 
 6 
 6 
 
42 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 ASSESSORS — continued. 
 
 and fix day for hearing objections, .... 6 
 
 person aggrieved may appear and make objections, . .6,7 
 
 board of assessors to meet and revise assessments, . . Y 
 
 board of assessors to have power to make corrections, . . 1 
 
 board of assessors to continue in session twenty days, . . 7 
 
 after which, no change to be made nor tax refunded, . . - 7 
 
 a majority of board to be a quorum, ... 7 
 
 tax lists to be signed by assessors and commissioner of taxes, . 8 
 
 which shall constitute the only record, ... 8 
 board of assessors to perform all duties in relation to assessing property, 9 
 
 have the same powers, etc., as town assessors, . . .9 
 
 and be subject to same liabilities, .... 9 
 
 State laws for assessment to apply, etc., . . .9 
 
 unless in conflict with chapter one, ... 9 
 
 personai property, how listed, . . . .9 
 in case of commencing merchand'sing after April 1st, party to make out 
 
 sworn statement of probable average value, . . .9 
 
 such statement to be delivered to commissioner of taxes, . 9 
 
 and proportionate amount to be paid to collector, . . 9,10 
 
 similar provisions in relation to corporations, . . 10 
 
 in case of person, firm or corporation failing to comply, assessors to 
 
 assess, and add ten per cent., .... 10 
 in case of omission to assess property, arrearages to be charged, and six 
 
 per cent, interest, - . . . .10 
 
 BOARD OF ASSESSORS. Of whom constituted, . . .4 
 
 to meet and revise assessments, . . . . 1 
 
 to have power to make corrections, . . . . . 7 
 
 to continue in session twenty days, .... 7 
 
 after which, no change to be made, . . . .7 
 
 majority to be a quorum, .... 7 
 
 to perform all the duties in relation to assessments, . . 9 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH. Of whom to be constituted, . . 21 
 
 how appointed, . . . . . .21 
 
 nature of powers of, . . . . .21 
 
 may enact by-laws, etc., .... 21,22 
 
 board to be divided into three classes, ... 22 
 
 vacancies in, how filled, . . . . .22 
 
 salaries of, . . . . . .22 
 
 to take oath and give bond, . . . . .22 
 
 may be removed for cause, . . . . 22 
 
 annual statement of expenditures, etc., when to be made, . . 22 
 organization of, when and where to be made, . . .23 
 
 secretary of, how appointed, . . . . .23 
 
 secretary of, duties of, . . . . . 23 
 
 board of police to appoint additional patrolmen as a sanitary squad, 23 
 
 conditions of such appointment, . . . .23 
 
 statement of expenses, etc., to be made to comptroller, when, . ' 23 
 
 how expenses to be provided for, . . . .23 
 
 president or acting president to countersign warrants, . . 2?> 
 
 extra powers of, in case of pestilence, etc., . . 23, 24 
 common council may order borrowingof money in case of pestilence,etc, 24 
 
 violations of health ordinance, how punished, . . '24 
 
 acts and parts of acts, repealed or continued in force, . . 24 
 
 council to direct board of health to let scavengering, . . 26 
 
 BOARD OF POLICE to recommend additional patrolmen, . .17 
 
 to recommend additional sergeants, .... 17 
 
 to devote entire time, if requisite, to duties, . . .17 
 
 salaries of board of police, officers, etc., . ' . . 17 
 
INDEX 
 
 43 
 
 BOARD OF TOJACE — continued. 
 
 may employ clerks, . . . . . .11 
 
 custodian may dispose of stolen property, . . . 17, 18 
 
 proceeds, how disposed of, . . . . .18 
 
 not lawful for others than officers and patrolmen to wear stars, etc., 18 
 
 to regulate construction of chimneys, . . . .19 
 
 to regulate boilers, stoves, etc., .... 19 
 
 to regulate deposit of ashes, . . . . .19 
 
 to regulai e the carrying on of manufactories, ... 19 
 
 to regulate the sale or use of fireworks, . . . .19 
 
 to demolish dangerous buildings, etc., ... 19 
 to establish grades in office of assistant fire marshals, . . 19 
 repairs of fire engines, powers of board of police in relation to, 19 
 repairs of fire apparatus, powers of board of police in relation to, . 19 
 repairs of fire alarm telegraph, powers of board of police in relation to, 19 
 origin of fires, board of police to inquire into, . . .19 
 ; common council to appoint additional police commissioner on recom- 
 mendation of board of underwriters, . . .20 
 duties of such commissioner, ... 20 
 term of office of, . . . . .20 
 
 (•: • shall take oath and execute bond, . . . 20 
 
 salary of, how fixed, . . . . .20 
 
 salary of, by whom to be paid, . . .20 
 
 when such commissioner considered qualified, . 20, 21 
 
 vacancies in board of poHce, how tilled, . .■ . 21 
 
 board of police, annual report of, . . . .21 
 
 to appoint sanitary squad, .... 23 
 
 BOARD OF PUBLIC "WORKS, commissioners of, when and how appointed, 11 
 term of office, . '. . . . • H 
 
 salaries of, . . . . . . .12 
 
 additional powers of, . . . . 12, 13, 14, 16 
 
 Duties of, as to dock lines, . . . . .12 
 
 as to sidewalks, . . . . . 12, 13 
 
 in default of contractors, . . . . .12 
 
 as to gas or water service pipes, . . 12, 13, 16 
 
 as to improvements of streets, . . . 13, 15 
 
 as to general improvements, . 
 
 as to permits, . 
 
 as to contracts, 
 
 as to liability for damages in relation to, 
 
 as to requiring bonds, 
 
 as to estimates for benefits, 
 
 as to paying for public works out of general fund, 
 
 as to public sewers, . - . 
 
 as to special assessments, 
 suit may be maintained against owner of premises, 
 duties of, as to damages on unpaid assessments, 
 duties of, as to levying a tax for certain improvements, 
 council to direct board of public works to let street cleaning, etc., 
 land surveyors appointed by board of public works, powers of, . 
 an act in relation to board of public works, 
 duties of, as to special assessments, 
 
 duties of, as to improvements ordered after making of annual appropri- 
 ation, .... 
 
 BONDS. Assessors to file, .... 
 assessors' bonds to be approved by mayor, 
 commissioner of taxes to file bonds, 
 tax commissioner's bond to be approved by mayor, 
 non-resident owners to give bonds in case of release, 
 such bonds to be approved by mayor, 
 
 31 
 . 29 
 
 30 
 
 . 30 
 
 29, 30 
 
 . 16 
 
 13 
 
 . 12 
 
 13 
 
 . 14 
 
 14 
 
 14, 16 
 
 . 26 
 
 32 
 
 . 36 
 
 37, 38 
 
 38 
 
 4 
 4 
 3 
 3 
 30 
 
44 
 
 INDEX 
 
 BRIDEWELL. As to bridewell grounds, 
 as to purchase of other grounds for, 
 as to payment for same, 
 as to rules for governing same, 
 as to wardens, etc., furnishing report to council, . 
 
 BUILDIN&S. As to construction of, 
 
 BY-LAWS. May be read in evidence, 
 
 without proof of passage or publication, 
 
 publication only prima facie evidence of passage, . 
 CEMETERIES. As to intermeuts, 
 
 as to vacation of, . 
 
 as to extinguishing titles of lot owners, 
 CITY CLERK to seal and countersign tax warrants, 
 
 to have power to appoint deputies, 
 
 subject to approval of council, 
 
 deputies to be confirmed by council, 
 
 deputies, powers of, . 
 
 deputies, liabilities and penalties of, 
 
 to engross ordiuances and orders, 
 
 except in certain cases, 
 
 salary of, . 
 
 to record orders and ordinances in proper books, 
 
 transcripts of such books to be evidence, 
 
 CITY HALL. As to purchasing ground for erection of, 
 as to levying taxes therefor, 
 
 COLLECTOR. Tax warrants to be directed to, 
 
 tax lists, with warrants, to be delivered to, 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF TAXES. When and how appointed, 
 qualifications of, . . . 
 
 to take oath of office, 
 
 to file bond, . . . . • 
 
 bond to be approved by mayor, 
 salary to be fixed in appropriation bill, 
 to divide city into assessment districts, 
 assessment districts to be approved by common council, 
 districting to be subject to modification or alteration only on a vote of 
 
 three-fourths of the aldermen elected, 
 to keep suitable records and books, . 
 to have power to appoint clerks, 
 number of clerks to be limited by council, 
 salaries of clerks to be fixed by council, . 
 duties of clerks, .... 
 commissioner of taxes and assessors to constitute board of assessors 
 commissioner to be ex officio president of board of assessors, 
 authorized to administer oaths, .... 
 assessors, under direction and supervision of commissioner of taxes, to 
 
 value real and personal estate yearly, 
 to furnish schedules to assessors, 
 to take assessment 'ist or collector's list of previous year as a guide, 
 appraisal to be filed in office of commissioner of taxes on or before 1st 
 
 Monday in August, ..... 
 unless time extended by council, 
 assessment, when completed, to be filed in office of commissioner of 
 
 taxes, . . . . ~. . 
 
 to give notice of time and place of hearing objections, 
 board of assessors to meet and revise assessments, 
 board of assessors to have power to make corrections, etc., . 
 board of assessors to continue in session twenty days, 
 
I N DE X. 45 
 
 COMMISSIONER OF 1 AXES — coTdinued. 
 
 after whicli, no change to be made nor assessment refunded, . . 1 
 
 a majority of board to be a quorum, . . . . t 
 
 on completion of revision, commissioner of taxes to enter complete list 
 
 of taxable real estate in proper books, ,. . .7 
 
 also, list of taxable personal estate, .... 7 
 
 such books to constitute the tax lists, . . , .7 
 
 commissioner to add up said books, .... 1 
 
 and enter aggregate amount on last ^age, . . .1 
 
 tax lists to be signed by assessors and commissioner of taxes, . 8 
 
 and be left in custody of commissioner of taxes, . . .8 
 
 they shall constitute the only record, ... 8 
 
 tax commissioner to estimate amount of the several taxes levied by 
 
 council and compute them as one tax, . . .8 
 
 when tax lists completed, to attach warrants thereto, . . 8 
 
 warrants, by whom signed, . . . . .8 
 
 warrants, to liave corporate seal, etc. , . . . 8 
 
 warrants, to be directed to comptroller, etc., . . .8 
 
 nature of warrants, . . . . . 8 
 
 in case of commencing merchandising after April 1st, party to make out 
 
 sworn statement of probable average value, . . 9 
 
 such statement to be delivered to commissioner of taxes, • . 9 
 
 and proportionate amount paid to collector, . . . 9, 10 
 
 similar provisions in relation to corporations, . . .10 
 
 in case of neglect of person, firm or corporation to comply, assessors to 
 
 assess, and add ten per cent., . . . .10 
 
 in case of omissions to assess property, arrearages to be charged, and six 
 
 per cent, interest, . . . . .10 
 
 COMMON COUNCIL. Division of city into assessment districts to be ap- 
 proved by, . . . . . . 3, 4 
 
 districting subject to modification or alteration only on a three-fourths 
 
 vote of all aldermen elected, . . . .4 
 
 number of clerks in office of commissioner of taxes to be limited by 
 
 council, ...... 4 
 
 salaries of clerks to be fixed by council, . . . .4 
 
 to appoint one assessor for each division, ... 4 
 
 may provide other and further penalties than those provided by law, in 
 
 case of refusal or neglect to list property, ... 6 
 
 on completion of tax list shall, by ordinance or resolution, levy taxes, . 8 
 tax commissioner to estimate the several taxes levied, computing them 
 
 as one tax, etc., ..... 8 
 
 to have power to modify chap. 1, so as to perfect assessments, . 9 
 
 provided it be done only at a regular meeting, . ,' . . 9 
 
 and after due publication, . . . . .9 
 
 and only by a two-thirds vote of all aldermen elected, . . 9 
 
 if vetoed by mayor, then to require three-fourths of all aldermen elected 
 
 to pass over veto, . . . . .9 
 
 to make assessments for improvements, . . . 13 
 
 to provide for payment for certain improvements from general fund, . 13 
 may levy a tax for certain improvements, . . .14 
 
 may impose penalties for refusal to comply with requirements as to im- 
 provements, . . . . . .14 
 
 in case of improvement being ordered after passage of appropriation 
 
 bill, how to proceed, . . . . • . 14, 38 
 
 have power to borrow money and issue water loan bonds, . . 15 
 
 authorized to borrow monej' in certain ca-es, . . .15 
 
 on recommendation may increase patrol force, . . .11 
 
 but only on a three-fourths vote, . . . .17 
 
 salaries of board of police, etc., to be concurred in by, . .17 
 
 salaries of fire department, etc., to be concurred in by, . . 18 
 
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 COMMON GOXJ'S GIL — continued. 
 
 on recommendation of board of underwriters, to appoint additional com- 
 missioner of board of police, . . . .20 
 
 board of health to make annual statement of expenditures, etc., to, 22 
 
 may levy tax to pay expenses of, . . . . .23 
 
 may order money to be borrowed for use of health department in case 
 
 of pestilence, etc., . . . . ' . 24 
 
 Powers of, as to amendments, . . . . ' . 24 
 
 as to vacation of cemeteries, . . . .25 
 
 as to extinguishing of titles in, . . . .25 
 
 as to purchasing grounds for, and erecting city hall, . 25 
 
 ' as to lexying taxes therefor, . . . i . 25 
 
 as to inspection of boilers, . . , .25 
 
 as to appropriation for 4th of July, etc., . . .25 
 
 as to time and speed of vessels at bridges, , . 25 
 
 as to construction of buildings, etc., . . .25 
 
 as to seizure of tainted provisions, . . .25 
 
 as to use of streets by horse railways, . . 25, 26 
 
 as to storage of gunpowder, etc., . . .26 
 
 as to halls, churches, etc., . . . .26 
 
 as to steam whistles, . . , .26 
 
 as to borrowing money for sewerage purposes, . . 26 
 
 as to bridewell grounds, . . . .21 
 
 as to purcliase of other grounds for, . . .27 
 
 as to payment for same, . . . • . 27 
 
 as to rules for governing same, . . . .27 
 
 as to warden, etc., of same furnishing report, . . 27 
 
 as to pounds and pound-lceepers, . . . .27 
 
 as to steam dummies on street railways, . . 27 
 
 as to rates of fare on street railways, . . 27, 28 
 
 as to speed, etc., . . ... 28 
 
 as to slaughtering animals, . . . .28 
 
 as to settlements in relation to changes of dock lines, . 28 
 
 as to ordaining laws, etc., . . . .28 
 
 as to piling lumber, . . . . .28 
 
 as to approving appointment of city clerk's deputies, . 31 
 
 as to confirming city clerk's deputies, . . .31 
 as to schools, . . . . .33, 34, 35 
 
 as to dock lines, ..... 36 
 
 as to gas lamps and gas pipes, v . . .36 
 
 as to water-pipes, . . . . .36 
 
 as to general improvements, . . . .37 
 
 to direct the board of public works to let street cleaning, . 26 
 
 to direct the board of health to let scavengering, . . .26 
 
 to regulate or prohibit wearing of fire or other arms, . . 27 
 
 ordinances and orders to be engrossed, except in certain cases, . 31 
 
 salary of clerk to be fixed by, . . . . .31 
 
 orders and ordinances to be recorded in proper books, . . 31 
 
 and transcripts therefrom to be evidence, . . . .31 
 
 ordinances may be read in evidence, . . . .31 
 
 resolutions may be read in evidence, . . . .31 
 
 orders may be read in evidence, . . . .31 
 
 by-laws may be read in evidence, . . . .31 
 
 without proof of passage or publication of such ordinances, orders or 
 
 resolutions, ...... 32 
 
 publication to be only prma /ac2e evidence of passage of, . . 32 
 
 COMPTROLLER to sign tax warrants, . . . .8 
 
 to deliver tax lists and warrants to collector, ... 8 
 
 board of health to make annual statement of expenses to, . . 23 
 
 , to draw warrants on treasury to defray same, . . . 23 
 
INDEX 
 
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 CONTRACTS. Aldermen not to be parties to, . 
 officers not to be parties to, 
 
 DAMAGES, for injuries caused by defective sidewalks, . 
 for injuries caused by obstructions on sidewalks, 
 as to judgments therefor, 
 in case of non-resident owners, 
 release may be had on filing bonds, etc., . 
 bonds to be approved by mayor, 
 as to liability for damages in relation to contracts, . 
 for injuries from carelessness, etc., of contractors, 
 
 DOCK LINES. As to settlements in relation to changes of, 
 as to establishing and changing, 
 
 ENG-ROSSING-. Ordinances and orders to be engrossed, . 
 except in certain cases, 
 
 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Fire marshal and assistants, how appointed, 
 fire wardens, who shall exercise duties of, 
 fire wardens, powers conferred on, 
 salaries of members of fire department, how fixed, 
 salaries to be Avithin certain limits, 
 • board of police authorized to establish grades in office of assistant 
 
 marshal, ..... 
 deputy assistant fire marshals, their duties, 
 repairs of engines, powers of board of police in relation to, 
 repairs of fire apparatus, powers of board of police in relation to, 
 repairs of fire alarm telegraph, powers of board of police in relation 
 origin of fires, board of police to inquire into, 
 additional commissioner of board of police, how appointed, duties 
 
 salary of, etc., .... 
 
 G-AS LIGHTS. Council to order erection of gas lamps, . • . .36 
 
 council to order laying of gas pipes, . . . .36 
 
 GUNPOWDER, Etc. As to storage of, . . . .26 
 
 HALTiS, CHURCHES, Etc. As to means of egress from, . . 26 
 
 LAND SURVEYORS, appointed by board of public works, powers of, . 32 
 
 LOANS. Council to have power to issue water loan bonds, . . 15 
 
 council author zed to borrow money in certain cases, . 14, 15 
 
 council to borrow money for sewerage purpose, . . . 26 
 
 MAYOR to appoint commissioner of taxes, 
 
 to approve bond of commissioner of taxes, 
 , to approve bonds of assessors, . 
 
 to sign tax warrants, . 
 
 in case of veto of amendments to or modification of chap. 1 as to assess 
 ments, a three-fourths vote to be required to pass over veto, 
 
 to appoint commissioners of the board of public works, 
 
 to be member of board of health, 
 
 bonds of non-resident owners to be approved by, . 
 OATHS. Assessors :to take, .... 
 
 assessors authorized to administer, 
 
 commissioner of taxes to take, 
 
 commissioner of taxes authorized to administer, 
 
 OFFICERS, not to be parties to contracts with city, 
 
 ORDERS to be engrossed c:?eept in certain cases, 
 to be recorded in proper books, 
 originals and transcripts may be read in evidence, 
 without proof of passage or publication, 
 publication only prima facie evidence of publication, 
 
 . 16 
 16 
 
 . 29 
 
 29 
 
 29, 30 
 
 29, 3(1 
 
 . 30 
 
 30 
 
 . 30 
 
 31 
 
 . 28 
 36 
 
 . 31 
 31 
 
 . 18 
 
 18 
 
 , 18 
 
 18 
 
 18, 19 
 
 fire 
 
 19 
 
 . 19 
 
 19 
 
 . 19 
 
 to, 19 
 
 . 19 
 
 of, 
 
 20, 21 
 
 9 
 
 11 
 
 21 
 
 30 
 
 4 
 
 4 
 
 3 
 
 4 
 
 16 
 
 31 
 31 
 31 
 32 
 32 
 
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 ORDINANCES to be engrossed except in certain cases, 
 
 to be recorded in proper books, .... 
 
 originals and transcripts may be read in evidence, 
 
 without proof of passage or publication, 
 
 publication only prima facie evidence of passage, 
 PERJURY. Persons guilty of false swearing, etc., in relation to chap, one, 
 deemed guilty of perjury, . . . 
 
 and punished accordingly, . . . . , 
 
 POUNDS AND POUND-KEEPERS. As to establishing and appointing, 
 PRINTING-. Proceedings, notices and ordinances to be published in German 
 newspaper, ..... 
 
 and in corporation newspaper, . . . . . 
 
 PROVISIONS, Etc. As to tainted provisions, etc., 
 PUBLIC PARKS. Land to be added to Lincoln Park, . . . 
 
 how to be acquired, ..... 
 
 REFORM SCHOOL. Warrants for commitment, how made out, etc., 
 
 parents and guardians, privileges of, in relation to, 
 
 commissioner, powers of, in whom vested, 
 
 who are subjects for commitment, . . 
 
 conditions of commitment, . . . . 
 
 fees connected with commitment, .... 
 RESOLUTIONS may be read in evidence, 
 
 without proof of passage or publication, 
 
 publication only prima facie evidence of passage, . 
 SALARIES. Of commissioner of taxes to be fixed in appropriation bill, 
 
 of iissessors to be fixed in appropriation bill, 
 
 of clerks in office of commissioner of taxes to be fixed by council, 
 
 of board of police to be concurred in by council, . 
 
 of fire department to be concurred in by council, 
 
 of board of health, how fixed, 
 
 of fire department, how fixed, 
 
 of city clerk, how fixed, 
 
 of superintendent of schools, how fixed, 
 
 SCHOOLS. As to erection, purchase, hire and repair of. 
 
 as to buying and leasing sites, 
 
 as to furnishing. 
 
 as to establishing, supporting and maintaining, 
 
 as to division of city into school districts, 
 
 as to tax for school purposes, 
 
 as to salary of superintendent, 
 
 as to issue of school bonds, 
 
 as to collegiate degrees, 
 
 as to clerk of board of education, 
 
 as to evening schools, 
 SLAUGHTERING. As to slaughtering animals, 
 steam' BOILERS, Etc. As to inspection of, 
 STEAM WHISTLES. As to the blowing of, 
 STREET RAILWAYS. As to use of streets by, 
 
 as to use of dummies thereon, 
 
 as to rates of fare on dummies, 
 
 as to speed of dummies, 
 VACANCIES. How filled, 
 VESSELS. As to time and speed of, at bridges, 
 VETOES. How controlled, 
 WATER SUPPLIES. Council to cause laying of water pipes, 
 
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