MUNICIPAL CODE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 South Park CommissioNERs 
 
 WITH 
 
 GENERAL LAWS 
 
 AND 
 
 SPECIAL ORDINANCES 
 
 AS REVISED AND CODIFIED 
 BY 
 
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 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF 
 THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 APPROVED MARCH, 1897. 
 
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 MUNICIPAL CODE 
 
 SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS 
 
 GENERAL LAWS 
 
 AND 
 
 SPECIAL ORDINANCES 
 
 AS REVISED AND CODIFIED 
 
 BY 
 
 JAMES R. MANN. 
 
 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY 
 OF THE SOUTH PARK COMAHSSIONERS. 
 
 APPROVED MARCH, 1897. 
 
 CHICAGO: 
 E. B. MYERS .<: COMPANY 
 LAW PUBLISH KKS. 
 1897. yf- ■
 
 
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 ORDINANCE 
 
 CONCERNING THE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING OF THE MU- 
 NICIPAL CODE OF THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That the Municipal Code of the South Park Commis- 
 sioners as revised and codified in chapters and sections by James 
 R. Mann, South Park Attorney, together with the general laws af- 
 fecting said South Park Commissioners, and Charters and Special 
 Ordinances granting certain privileges, be, and the same are here- 
 by ordered printed and published by authority of the South Park 
 Commissioners in book form, and the said Municipal Code of the 
 \ South Park Commissioners is also hereby ordered printed and pub- 
 
 Vi lished by the authority of the South Park Commissioners in 
 
 C^ pamphlet form. 
 
 ■» 
 
 State of Illinois, 
 County of Cook. y ss. 
 
 S South Park Commissioners. 
 
 ■• I, E. G. Shumway, Secretary of the South Park Commissioners in 
 
 ^ the County and State aforesaid, and keeper of all papers, entries, 
 
 J| records and ordinances of said South Park Commissioners, do hereby 
 
 y;* certify that the above and foregoing is a true copy of an ordinance 
 
 entitled "An ordinance concerning the printing and publishing of the 
 
 Municipal Code of the South Park Commissioners," passed by the 
 
 South Park Commissioners at a regular meeting held on the 10th 
 
 day of March. A. D. 1897. 
 
 I further certify that I am the keeper of the original ordinance of 
 which the foregoing is a certified copy, and that the same is on file 
 in my office. 
 
 IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed 
 the seal of the South Park Commission- 
 ers this day of 
 
 A. D. 1897. 
 
 Secretary of the South Park Commissioners. 

 
 SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS 
 
 FROM 
 
 Organization of the Board to 1897. 
 
 ORIGINAL COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED APRIL 16, 1869. 
 
 Chaunxey T. Bowen. Paul Cornell. 
 
 George \V. Gage. John M. Wilson. 
 
 L. B. SiDWAY. 
 
 TERM OF SERVICE. 
 
 Chauncey T. Bowen, April 16, 1869, to February, 1871, resigned; 
 
 March, 1873, to June, 1877, resigned. 
 Potter Palmer to succeed Chauncey T. Bowen, resigned, February, 
 
 1871, to :\Iarch, 1875. 
 George W. Gage, April 16, 1869, to September 25, 1875, deceased. 
 Paul Cornell, April 16, 1869, to March, 1882. 
 L. B. SiDWAY, April 16, 1869, to March, 1879. 
 James Morgan, March, 1875, to March, 1880. 
 Cornelius Price, to succeed George W. Gage, deceased, December 
 
 4, 1875, to March, 1881. 
 John B. Sherman, to succeed Chauncey T. Bowen, resigned, June, 
 
 1877, to March, 1898. 
 John R. Walsh, March, 1879, to March, 1889. 
 Martin J. Russell, March, 1880, to March, 1894, resigned. 
 Bernard Callaghan, March, 1881, to March, 1886. 
 Louis Wahl, March, 1882, to March, 1889, resigned. 
 William Best, March, 1886, to March, 1901. 
 Ja.mes W. Ellsworth, to succeed Louis Wahl, resigned, March, 1889, 
 
 to March, 1902. 
 Joseph Donnersberger, March, 1889, to March, 1899. 
 Jefferson Hodgkins, to succeed Martin J. Russell, resigned, 
 
 March, 1894, to March, 1900.
 
 OFFICERS, 1896-7. 
 
 President, 
 
 Auditor, 
 
 Secretary^ 
 
 Treasurer, 
 
 Superintendent, 
 
 Attorfiey, 
 
 James W. Ellsworth 
 Jefferson Hodgkins 
 Edward .G. Shumway 
 John R. Walsh 
 J. F. Foster 
 James R. Mann 
 
 OFFICERS, 1897-8. 
 
 President, 
 
 Atiditor, 
 
 Secretary, 
 
 Treasurer, 
 
 Superintenden t, 
 
 At-torney, 
 
 James W. Ellsworth 
 Joseph Donnersberger 
 Edward G. Shumway 
 John R. Walsh 
 J. F. Foster 
 James R. Mann
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Chapter 
 Chapter 
 Chapter 
 Chapter 
 Chapter 
 Chapter 
 Chapter 
 Chapter 8 
 Chapter 9 
 Chapter 10 
 Chapter 11 
 Chapter 12 
 
 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Actions, arrests, trials and punishment 5 
 
 Animals, bicycles and other vehicles 13 
 
 Boulevards, carriage-walks and street openings.. 17 
 
 Buildings 21 
 
 Contracts and disbursements 27 
 
 Meetings and rules of order 30 
 
 Misdemeanors 32 
 
 Officers 42 
 
 Ordinances 45 
 
 Police department 47 
 
 Railroads 50 
 
 Repeal 52 
 
 STATUTES AND DECISIONS, 
 RELATING TO THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 Original Charter 53 
 
 Amendment to charter, Act of April 16, 1869 68 
 
 Completion and Management: 
 
 Bonds and special assessments authorized — Act of June 16, 
 
 1871 70 
 
 Drives to Public Parks: 
 
 Commissioners authorized to take streets for drives, Act of 
 
 April 9, 1879 87 
 
 Amendment to section 2 of Act of April 9, 1879 89 
 
 Amendment to section 1 of Act of April 9, 1879, as amended. 91 
 Act of June 21, 1895 93 
 
 Transfer of Parks to Commissioners: 
 
 Transfer of parks under the control of cities to the commis- 
 sioners authorized. Act of April 11, 1885 102 
 
 Condemnation to make boulevards of uniform width. Act of 
 June 14, 1887 103 
 
 Improvement and Maintenance of Parks: 
 
 One mill tax. Act of June 26, 1885 105 
 
 One mill additional tax. Act of June 17, 1893 106 
 
 Two mill additional tax. Act of June 17, 1895 107 
 
 Sale of lands not needed for park purposes 108
 
 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 Appointment of commissioners by governor 109 
 
 Extension of drives on Lake Shore.,. Ill 
 
 Logan Monument: 
 
 Commissioners appointed and authorized to erect monu- 
 ment, Act of February 10, 1887 114 
 
 Amendment, authorizing use of parlv for location of monu- 
 ment. Act of May 31, 1887 115 
 
 World's Columbian Exposition, Act of August 5, 1890 117 
 
 Maintenance of Boulevards: 
 
 Park authorities authorized to levy special tax. Act of June 
 
 17, 1893 122 
 
 Field Museum: 
 
 Museums in public parks, Act of June 17, 1893 125 
 
 Improvement by Special Assessment: 
 
 Local improvements by special assessments authorized. Act 
 of June 24, 1895 126 
 
 LANDS. 
 
 Lands originally taken 135 
 
 Alteration in Boundary Lines: 
 
 Resolution authorizing petition to Circuit Court for change 
 
 in boundaries 137 
 
 Order in Circuit Court, entered May 20, 1872 140 
 
 Resolution showing boundary lines as changed 145 
 
 Michigan Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street Boulevards: 
 
 Resolution of commissioners taking parts of Michigan ave- 
 nue and Thirty-fifth street as boulevards 147 
 
 Ordinance of city council giving consent to transfer to com- 
 missioners of Michigan avenue to Thirty-fifth street and 
 part of Thirty-fifth street 148 
 
 Resolution of commissioners, taking Michigan avenue, from 
 
 Thirty-fifth street to Fifty-fifth street 150 
 
 Ordinance of city council giving consent to transfer to com- 
 m.issioners of Michigan avenue, from Thirty-fifth street 
 to Thirty-ninth street 150 
 
 Ordinance of the village of Hyde Park giving consent to 
 transfer to commissioners of Michigan avenue, from 
 
 Thirty-ninth street to Fifty-fifth street 152 
 
 East Jackson Street: 
 
 Ordinance of city council giving consent to transfer to com- 
 missioners of Jackson street, east of the river 154 
 
 Ordinance of city council amending the ordinance giving 
 consent to transfer of Jackson street 157 
 
 Agreement betw^een commissioners and city, providing for 
 free water to commissioners 158
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS. iii 
 
 Ordinance taking Jackson street under control of commis- 
 sioners 159 
 
 Resolution of commissioners taking Jackson street 161 
 
 Lake Front Park: 
 
 Ordinance of city council granting consent to commissioners 
 
 to take and control Lake Front Park 162 
 
 Ordinance of commissioners taking Lake Front Park 166 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS AND 
 
 COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe R. R 169 
 
 Bonds issued in connection with the World's Fair 172 
 
 Chicago & Caluriet Horse & Dummy Ry. Co 180 
 
 Chicago & Northern Pacific R. R 182 
 
 Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit R. R. Co 186 
 
 Chicago & Western Indiana R. R 189 
 
 Chicago City Railway Co 196 
 
 Chicago Telephone Co 245 
 
 Field Columbian Museum 246 
 
 Grand Trunk Railroad 248 
 
 Hyde Park Gas Co 251 
 
 Japanese Buildings in Jackson Park 252 
 
 United States Life Saving Station 255 
 
 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. Co. and Chicago, Rock 
 
 Island & Pacific R. 'R. Co 257 
 
 Mutual Fuel Gas Co 263 
 
 Pennsylvania Railroad Co 264 
 
 Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. Co 270 
 
 Universal Gas Co 274 
 
 World's Columbian Exposition 275
 
 MUNICIPAL CODE 
 
 OF TIIK 
 
 SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 ACTIONS, ARRESTS, TRIALS AND PUNISHMENT. 
 
 1. Actions, how brought. 10. Who may make arrests. 
 
 2 and 3. Statement. 11. Detention of prisoners. 
 
 4. Suit for fines, penalties, etc. 3 2 and 13. Special bail. 
 
 5. First process— different of- 14. Judgment against surety. 
 
 fenses. 15. Manner of trial. 
 
 6. Form of summons. 16. Commitment. 
 
 7. Complaint, warrant to issue. 17. Imprisonment till fine paid. 
 
 8. Form of warrant. 18. Power to remit fine. 
 
 9. Arrest without process. 19. Penalty. 
 
 Be It Ordaixkt) by the South Park CoAr.MissioxERs: 
 
 Section 1. Actions, how brought. Actions, suits 
 and prosecutions, for the violation of any ordinance of 
 the South Park Commissioners, shall be i)rosecuted in 
 the name of the "South Park Commissioners," before 
 nuy police magistrate or any justice of the peace of any 
 of the towns of South Chicago, Hyde Paik and Lake, in 
 the County of Cook and State of Illinois. 
 
 Sec, 2. Statement, cause of action. IW loic any 
 suit sliall b«' brought \u tlic name of theSouthl/arkConi- 
 missioners for the recovery of any fine, penalty or for- 
 feiture, by suiinuons only, the person prosecuting, or 
 some one on his beliall", shall file a written statement, 
 signed by him, substantially setting forth tlic cause of 
 action.
 
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 Sec. 3. Statement, defect in form. The statement 
 made may include several persons charged with the 
 same violation of any ordinance. No snit shall be dis- 
 missed for any defect of form in the statement. All pa- 
 pers and processes may be amended in the discretion of 
 the court before whom the action is pending. 
 
 Sec. 4. Suit for fines, etc. All fines, forfeitures, 
 penalties and costs, imposed against any person by any 
 ordinance, for the breach thereof, maj be recovered by 
 suit, and judgment may be rendered and collected by 
 execution or other process, and all fines and mone^^ so 
 collected shall be paid to the South Park Superin- 
 tendent within ten daj^s after collection. 
 
 Sec. 5. First process, different offenses. In all ac- 
 tions and suits for the violation of any ordinance, the 
 first process shall be a summons in all cases w^here no 
 warrant is issued, and where arrest upon view, without 
 process, is not made. No prosecution, recovery or ac- 
 quittal, for the violation of any ordinance, shall consti- 
 tute a defense to any other prosecution of the same 
 party for any other violation of such ordinance, al- 
 though the different causes of action existed at the same 
 time, and if united, would not have exceeded the juris- 
 diction of the court, justice or magistrate. 
 
 Sec. 6. Summons, form of. Summons may be in 
 the following form, to-wit: 
 
 State of Illinois, \ 
 
 Countv of Cook, ( 
 
 ' > ss. 
 
 City of Chicago, I 
 
 South Park Commissioners./ 
 
 The People of the State of Illinois, to any captain or 
 
 sergeant of police, or policeman or special policeman of
 
 ACTIONS, ARRESTS, TRIALS AND PUNISHMENT. 7 
 
 the South Park Commissioners or the City of Chicago, 
 or to any constable of said county, GREETING : You 
 are hereby commanded to summon A. B. to apx)ear be- 
 fore me at my office at on the 
 
 day of A. D., 18. ., at . . o'clock . .m., to 
 
 answer the complaint of the South Park Commission- 
 ers, for a failure to pay the said South Park Commis- 
 sioners a certain demand not exceeding two hundred 
 dollars; and hereof make due return as the law directs. 
 Given under my hand and seal this day of 
 
 A. D., 18.. 
 
 (Seal.) 
 
 Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Sec. 7. Complaint, warrant to issue. Whenever 
 any person shall make complaint in writing, verified by 
 affidavit, to an,y police magistrate or justice of the 
 peace, as aforesaid, having his office in any of the towns 
 aforesaid, and shall state in said complaint that any or- 
 dinance of the said South Park Commissioners has been 
 violated, and that he, the comj^lainant, has reasonable 
 grounds to believe that the pei*son charged in such com- 
 plaint with such violation is guilty thereof, said magis- 
 trate or justice may issue, in the first instance, a war- 
 rant for the arrest of the person so charged. 
 
 Sec. 8. Warrant, form of. Warrants may be in 
 the following form : 
 
 State of Illinois, 
 County of Cook, 
 City of Chicago, 
 South Park Commissioners. 
 
 The People of the State of Illinois, to any captain or 
 sergeant of police, or policeman or special policeman
 
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 of the South Park Commissioiiers or the City of Chi- 
 cago, or to any constable of skid count}- , GREETING : 
 Whereas, an affidavit has been made before the under- 
 signed, a justice of the peace of said county, by 
 
 that on or about the 
 
 day of A. D., 18. ., within the jurisdiction of 
 
 said city, in violation of Section . . , of an ordinance of 
 
 the South Park Commissioners, passed on the 
 
 day of A. D., 18.., 
 
 You are, therefore, hereby commanded to arrest the 
 
 said and bring forthwith before 
 
 me at my office at , then and there to an- 
 swer to the said South Park Commissioners on the 
 charge above specified, and abide such further order 
 as may be made concerning such charge; and hereof 
 make due service and return as the law directs. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal this day 
 
 of A. D., 18.. 
 
 (Seal.) 
 
 Justice of the Peace. 
 
 Sec. 9. Arrest without process. Whenever any 
 person shall be arrested on view without process, and 
 shall be taken before any court, the magistrate or jus- 
 tice shall note upon his docket the cause of such arrest, 
 as stated by the officer making the arrest, and proceed 
 to hear and determine the cause in the same manner as 
 if the defendant had been arrested by warrant. 
 
 Sec. 10. Arrest, who may make. The captain or 
 police sergeant, special and other police officers, hav- 
 ing jurisdiction within the South Park district, are 
 hereby severally authorized to arrest on view, with or 
 without process, any person who may break the peace
 
 ACTIONS, ARRESTS, TRIALS AND PUNISHMENT. 9 
 
 or violate auv ordinauce of the South Park Commis- 
 sioners, and to take such person before anj' police mag- 
 istrate or justice of the peace whose oflSce is located in 
 any town within said South Park district, without un- 
 necessary delaj^ 
 
 Sec. 11. Detention of prisoners. In case such ar- 
 rest is in the night or on Sunday, the person arresting- 
 may detain the person arrested over night or over Sun- 
 day in any police station of the City of Chicago within 
 said South Park district, or any safe place, until such 
 person so arrested can be brought before said magis- 
 trate or justice of the peace for trial, without unneces- 
 sary delay. 
 
 Sec. 12. Continuance, special bail. If for any 
 cause a continuance is granted a defendant under ar- 
 rest, he ma}' give special bail for his appearance before 
 the court. 
 
 Sec. 13. Personal property taken as bail. In 
 place of special bail, money or personal property and 
 choses in action, of sufficient value to satisfy the prob- 
 able judgment or fine and costs, may, in the discretion 
 of the court, be taken; in which case, an endorsement, 
 pledging the property taken for the appearance of the 
 defendant at a certain time and place before a certain 
 justice of the peace, shall be put upon the back of the 
 said warrant, and signed b}' the person under arrest. 
 And in case the person arrested shall have in his or her 
 possession, a bicycle, the officer making the arrest, 
 may, in his judgment, receive from such person, such 
 bicycle, and a pledge in the following form, to-wit: 
 
 I, A. B., pledge the following described i)roperty, to- 
 wit: for my appearance before 
 
 , a justice of the i)eace, on the
 
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 day of , A. D., 18. ., at . . o'clock . .in., on 
 
 said day at his office, hereby waiving any and all rights 
 of exemption. 
 
 WITNESS my hand and seal, this day cf 
 
 A. D., 18.. 
 
 (Signed.) A. B. (Seal.) 
 
 and npon receiving such property and pledge, the offi- 
 cer making the arrest may permit the person arrested 
 to go free. 
 
 Sec. 11. Judgment against surety; sale of per- 
 sonal property. Upon the trial of any cause in which 
 special bail shall have been given, if the defendant shall 
 be found guilty, judgment shall be rendered against 
 both principal and surety (in the special bail) for the 
 amount of the fine assessed by the court or jury, and all 
 costs that may have accrued. In case personal prop- 
 erty or choses in action were given in lieu of special 
 bail, and judgment is rendered against the defendant, 
 execution shall issue, and said property be sold under 
 it. Exemption rights shall be waived by making such 
 pledge of said property or choses in action. When ar- 
 rests are made at night, or on Sunday, the captain and 
 sergeants of police may take special bail, in form pro- 
 vided by this chapter. 
 
 Sec. 15. Manner of trial. The manner of conduct- 
 ing trials, granting continuances and changes of venue, 
 subpoenaing witnesses, summoning and impaneling 
 juries, and taking api^eals, shall be the same as in civil 
 cases before justices of the peace. 
 
 Sec. 16. Commitment. Commitment of any person 
 shall be by process under the hand of the court, which 
 shall have made the order for such commitment.
 
 ACTIONS, ARRESTS, TRIALS AND PUNISHMENT. 11 
 
 Hec. 17. Imprisonment for non-payment of fine. 
 In all cases where any persoii, convicted of a bieacli of 
 any of the ordinances of the South Park Commissioners, 
 shall fail, neglect or refuse forthwith to pay any fine or 
 penalty and costs which may be adjudged against him, 
 it shall be competent and lawful for the court or justice 
 of the peace before whom such conviction is had, to or- 
 der that such person so convicted as aforesaid, shall be 
 committed to the jail of Cook County, to the bridewell 
 or house of correction, or an}- police station of the City 
 of Chicago or other place provided by the South Park 
 Commissioners for the incarceration of offenders in 
 such cases, there to remain until such fine, j)enalty and 
 cost shall be fully paid or otherwise legally discharged; 
 Provided, that no such imprisonment shall exceed six 
 months for any one offense. In all cases where any 
 person is so committed to the bridewell or house of 
 correction of the Citj^ of Chicago, he or she shall be re- 
 quired to work at such labor as his or her strength 
 will i^ermit, not exceeding ten hours each working day, 
 and for such work, the person so employed shall be al- 
 lowed, exclusive of his or her board, fifty cents for each 
 day's work, to be applied in payment and satisfaction 
 of the fine and costs imposed upon such person. 
 
 Sec. 18. Power to remit fine. The President of 
 the South Park Commissioners shall have the power to 
 commute, release, remit, suspend or diminish any judg- 
 ment or fine rendered or imposed for violation of any 
 ordinance, but no other officer, judicial or ministerial, 
 shall have power, except by direction of the President 
 of the South Park Comniissioners, to commute, release, 
 remit, suspend or diuiiiiisli any judgnuMit or fine ren- 
 dered or imposed for violation of any ordinance, nor lo
 
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 give time for the payment of any sueli judgment or fine; 
 but tlie officer rendering sueli judgment, shall, unless 
 the same be paid immediately^ upon the rendition of the 
 same, issue the proi>er i:)rocess for the collection of sucli 
 judgment or for the committal of the j)erson against 
 Avhom the same was rendered. 
 
 Sec. 19. Penalty. Every person convicted of a vio- 
 lation of any provision, clause or section of this ordi- 
 nance or any ordinance of the South Park Commission- 
 ers, shall be fined not to exceed two liundred dollars for 
 each offense.
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 ANIMALS, BICYCLES AND OTHEF VEHICLES. 
 
 20. Domestic animals at large. 28.' Teams and traffic wagons 
 
 21. Domestic animals — Con- prohibited. 
 
 tinned. 29. Hitching, etc. 
 
 22. Animals prohibited. 30. Carriage lights. 
 
 23. Leading animals. 31. No obstructing of cross- 
 
 24. Speed. walks. 
 
 25. Grass and foot paths. 32. No animal to stand unless 
 
 26. Obstructing the way — Solicit- hitch 3d. 
 
 ing passengers. 33. Penalty. 
 
 27. Funerals. 
 
 Section 20. Domestic animals, at large. The run- 
 ning of horses, cattle, swine, sheep, goats, geese and 
 other domestic animals, except such as are owned by 
 the South Park Commissioners, is hereby prohibited 
 within the parks, or on or along the boulevards, streets 
 and driveways, and no owner of any such animal shall 
 permit the same to run at large, contrary to the pro- 
 visions of this section, Tinder a penalt}' of not less than 
 two dollars for each offense for every animal so per- 
 mitted to run at large. 
 
 Sec. 21. Animals, driving of. No person shall 
 bring, drive or lead any cattle, sheep, goats, swine or 
 geese within the parks, or on or along the boulevards, 
 streets or driveways. 
 
 Sec. 22. Animals prohibited. The bringing or use 
 of any kind of animal into or within the parks or on oi- 
 along the boulevards, streets or driveways, is hereby ex- 
 pressly prohibited, except horses and other beasts of 
 burden. 
 
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 Sec. 23. Leading animals; drawing second ve- 
 hicle; bells on sleigh. No person shall lead any 
 horse, mule or other animal on said boulevards, streets 
 or driveways, nor draw a second carriage, buggy, or 
 vehicle of any description with any team or other ve- 
 hicle at one time; nor drive any horse before any sleigh 
 or sled, unless there shall be a sufficient number of bells 
 attached to the harness of such horse to warn persons 
 of their approach. 
 
 Sec. 24. Speed; not more than two abreast. No 
 animal, velocipede, tricycle, bicycle or other vehicle 
 shall be ridden or driven in said park, or along said 
 streets, boulevards or driveways, at a speed exceeding- 
 eight miles an hour, except that horses may be speeded 
 on such parts of said boulevards as may be set apart 
 by the Commissioners for said purpose, and then under 
 such regulations as the Commissioners may prescribe; 
 and no animals, velocipedes, tricycles, bicycles or other 
 vehicles shall be ridden or driven more than two 
 abreast. All animals, velocipedes, tricj^cles, bicycles or 
 other vehicles, while in motion, shall keep to the right. 
 
 Sec. 25. Vehicles and animals on grass and foot- 
 paths. No velocipede, bicycle, tricycle, wheelbarrow, 
 handcart or other vehicle, or horse or other animal, 
 shall be permitted on the foot-walks of said parks, nor 
 upon the sidewalks, curb-stones or grass-plots or plant- 
 ing spaces of said boulevards, streets or driveways, nor 
 to cross the same, nor shall any vehicle or horse or other 
 animal go or be taken upon any part thereof, except 
 upon the carriage-drives and upon such places as are 
 appropriated for carriages at rest.
 
 ANIMALS, BICYCLES AND OTHER VEHICLES. 15 
 
 Sec. 2(1. Obstruction of ways; soliciting passen- 
 gers. No velociix?de, tricycle, bicvcle, wheel bariow, 
 handcart, carriage or other vehicle or animal, shall be 
 permitted to , stand upon said roadways or carriaji,e- 
 drives to the obstruction of the way or the inconveni- 
 ence of travel, nor shall any person solicit passengers 
 for hire thereon, without the written i>ermit of said 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 27. Funeral procession. No funeral proces- 
 sion or hearse shall be j^ermitted in said parks, nor upon 
 such boulevards, streets or driveways; Provided, how- 
 ever, that nothing- herein shall be construed to prevent 
 the removal of any deceased body from any house abut- 
 ting upon such boulevards or streets and the forming 
 of a funeral procession therefrom, but such deceased 
 body, hearse or procession shall not be permitted to 
 proceed further thereon than the nearest cross-street in 
 the direction in which such procession or hearse shall 
 move. 
 
 Sec. 28. Traffic wagons prohibited. No omnibus, 
 wagon, cart, dray, truck or other vehicle for carrying 
 goods, merchandise or wares, or other articles, except 
 such as are engaged in repairing or constructing said 
 parks, boulevards, streets or driveways, shall be al- 
 lowed thereon; Provided, however, that wagons or 
 other vehicles carrying goods, merchandise or other ar- 
 ticles, to or from any house or premises abutting upon 
 any of such boulevards or streets, shall be permitted to 
 enter thereon at the cross-street nearest said house or 
 premises, in the direction in which the same are mov- 
 ing and deliver or receive such goods, merchandise, or 
 other articles, but shall not proceed thereon further
 
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 than the nearest cross-street thereafter; and, Provided, 
 Further, that at any time before the hour of two o'clock 
 in the afternoon of each day, delivery wagons having 
 wheels with tires of not less than three and one-half 
 inches in width and drawn by one horse only, shall be 
 allowed to proceed on and along said boulevards and 
 streets; but this provision shall not apply to any of 
 the driveways within the limits of the parks. 
 
 Sec. 29. Hitching animals, dumping coal. No per- 
 son shall hitch a horse or other animal to any lamp- 
 post, tree, or fire hydrant, nor ride nor drive over the 
 curb-stones, sidewalks, or grass plots, nor dump any 
 coal thereon. 
 
 Sec. 30. Vehicles carrying lamps, lighted at night. 
 Velocipedes, bicycles, tricycles, carriages, cabs and oth- 
 er vehicles usually carrying lamps, must carry lamps 
 •and keep them lighted at night. 
 
 Sec. 31. No obstructing of cross-walks. All cross- 
 walks must be kept clear and no carriages, wagons, 
 carts, sleighs, or other vehicles, horses or other animals, 
 will be permitted to stand thereon except so far as may 
 be necessary in crossing the same. 
 
 Sec. 32. No animal to stand unless hitched. No 
 person shall permit any horse or other animal to stand 
 upon any portion of said boulevards, streets or drive- 
 ways, unless the same shall be securely hitched, and, 
 when the driver is not in charge, securely checked. 
 
 Sec. 33. Penalty. Any person violating any clause, 
 section or prosdsion of this chapter, shall be fined in a 
 sum not exceeding one hundred dollars for each of- 
 fense.
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 BOULEVARDS, CARRIAGE-WALKS AND STREET OPENINGS. 
 
 34. Width of carriage-walks. 39. Openings for house connec- 
 
 35. Composition of carriage- tions. 
 
 walks. 40. Special deposit. 
 
 36. How walks laid. 41. Removal of sidewalk. 
 
 37. Grade and location. 42. Connections, how made. 
 
 38. Stop-cock boxes. 43. Refunding deposit. 
 
 Section 34. Carriage-walks, width of. Carriage- 
 walks shall not be less than fonr nor more than eight 
 feet in width, except that a permit niaj be issued to a 
 church, hotel, stable or business house for a wider car- 
 riage-walk when the Commissioners shall be satisfied 
 that the same is necessary. 
 
 Sec. 35. Composition of. Such carriage-Avalks 
 shall be composed of either artificial or natural stone, 
 as may be directed by the Commissioners. If of arti- 
 ficial stone, it shall be not less than four inches in thick- 
 ness, composed of crushed granite and Portland ce- 
 ment mixed and laid in the proj)ortioiis and manner di- 
 rected by the Commissioners, and shall rest upon a base 
 of at least five inches of cinders or broken stone; the 
 end coming to the curb line shall be finished as directed 
 by the Commissioners. 
 
 If of natural stone, it shall be the same kind and of 
 the same thickness as the adjoining walk, free from 
 any defects. The tops, sides and ends of the flag-stones, 
 shall be dressed in the same manner as the surface of 
 the adjoining walk. In case the length of the carriage- 
 walk be six feet or less, it shall be composed of one 
 flag-stone only, and in no case shall it be composed of 
 more than two flag-stones. 
 
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 18 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 Sec. 36. Walks, how laid. In cases where the 
 carriage- walk is laid to a curb 'line, the joints at the 
 curb and sidewalk must be close, not exceeding one- 
 eighth of an inch; at the curb the carriage- walk shall 
 be flush with the top of the curb, its end abutting 
 the back end of the curb, and this end, if of natural 
 stone, shall rest upon two stone piers not less than 
 sixteen inches square and two feet and nine inches 
 deep, and like piers shall be built under the middle 
 joints if the carriage-walk is comiDOsed of two flag- 
 stones; the end of the flag-stone adjoining the sidewalk 
 shall rest upon a foundation of the same character that 
 supports such sidewalk, and shall be flush with the 
 surface. 
 
 Sec. 37. grade and location. In 
 
 case the carriage-walk extends to a gutter where there 
 is no curb the end shall be brought to a grade given by 
 the engineer, and shall be squareh^ dressed off in the 
 same manner as its surface for its full thickness. In 
 case the carriage-walk runs back from the sidewalk, it 
 must extend to the lot-line or join some permanent step 
 or cojjing, and its surface must be a continuation of the 
 pitch of the sidewalk. The edges of all carriage-walks 
 shall be laid at right angles to the line of the adjoining 
 sidewalk. 
 
 Sec. 38. Stop-cock boxes. Stop-cock boxes for 
 either gas or water pij)es and sewer ventilating pipes 
 shall be covered with a neat, closely fitting, iron cover, 
 set to the surface gTade. 
 
 Sec. 39. Openings for house connections, permit. 
 No person shall be allowed to open or dig up any of 
 the boulevards, streets or driveways without a per-
 
 BOULEVARD AND STREET OPENINGS. 19 
 
 luit frinu the coiiimissioiieis. Such peiniit ma}' be is- 
 .sued by the secretary to any owner of property' abutting 
 upon such boulevards or streets who shall desire to 
 make house connections witli the sewers, water, gas or 
 other pipes laid in such boulevards or streets, or to re- 
 pair the same, subject to the provisions, conditions and 
 regulations hereinafter contained. 
 
 Sec. 40. , deposit. The applicant for 
 
 such permit shall deposit with tlie secretary such a sum 
 of money, not exceeding five hundred dollars in any one 
 case, as the superintendent shall estimate will fully 
 cover the expense to be incurred by the commissioners 
 in connection with said opening. 
 
 Sec. 41. , removal of sidewalk. 
 
 When the making of such connection or repairs shall 
 require the removal of any stone sidewalk, such re- 
 moval shall be made by the employes of the commis- 
 sioners, under the direction of the superintendent. 
 
 Sec. 42. Connections, how made. The trench 
 necessary for such connection or re])airs shall be made 
 by the applicant or his employes, with the view to the 
 slightest possible damage to the roadway, planting 
 place and sidewalk. 
 
 No person shall be permitted to tunnel under the 
 sidewalks, but pipes may be drawn through a hole 
 made under sidewalks, provided such hole is not more 
 than one inch larger in diameter than the pipe itself. 
 
 The grade and line of any pipes must not be such as 
 to interfere with the curbing or other pipes now in 
 said boulevards and streets. 
 
 When connections are to be made of different kinds
 
 20 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 of pipes, all must be made simultaneously, and by 
 means of a single trench when pr*acticable. 
 
 Sec. 43. Refunding deposit. After the connection 
 shall have been made or the repairs completed for which 
 such permit shall have been issued, the trench shall be 
 back-filled and the road-way, i^lanting space and side- 
 walk restored to their former condition by the employes 
 of the commissioners, under the direction of the super- 
 intendent. The superintendent shall certify to the sec- 
 retary the actual expense incurred in connection with 
 the work done under said permit, and the secretary 
 shall refund to the person to whom said permit shall 
 have been issued, the difference, if any, between the 
 amount deposited and the amount so certified by the 
 superintendent.
 
 ClIAPTEK l\. 
 
 BUILDINGS. 
 
 44. Extending into boulevards. 50. Bond to open or take up 
 
 45. Extension of electric lights, boulevard. 
 
 balconies, windows, etc. 51. Removal of house or build- 
 
 46. Construction of vaults. ing. 
 
 47. Awnings. 52. Permit for deposit of build- 
 
 48. Prismatic lights. ing material. 
 
 49. Use of boulevards, etc., for 53. Danger signals, red lights. 
 
 depositing building ma- 54. Removal of obstructions, 
 terial. 55. Penalty. 
 
 Section 44. Extending into boulevards. There 
 shall be nothing erected or constructed on the face of 
 any building, or in any way connected therewith, which 
 shall extend into or over any of the boulevards, streets 
 or avenues under the control of the South Park Com- 
 missioners, except as hereinafter stated. 
 
 Sec. 45. Extending of electric lights, windows, 
 balconies. Gas and electric lamps may extend from 
 a building not to exceed three and one-half feet bej'ond 
 the lot line; Provided, that the lowest point of such 
 lamps shall not be nearer than twelve feet to the grade 
 of the sidewalk adjoining the building. Bay windows, 
 balconies and other structural projections, except as 
 herein otherwise permitted, may extend from a build- 
 ing not to exceed two and one-half feet beyond the lot 
 line; Provided, that such projections shall not be nearer 
 than sixteen feet to the grade of the sidewalk adjoining 
 the building. 
 
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 22 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 Sec. 46, Vaults. On Michigan AAenue north 
 of Thirty-second Street, and on Jackson Street, 
 property-owners may construct a vault under 
 the sidewalk and planting space in front of their 
 property to the curb-line of any width they de- 
 sire, such vaults to be covered with flag-stones not less 
 than eight feet in length and four feet in width, of a 
 thickness satisfactor}- to and supported in a manner 
 approved by and with such finish at the curb-line as 
 shall be directed by the South Park Commissioners. No 
 coal holes or lights will be permitted in the eight feet 
 adjoining the lot-line, excejjt as provided for in section 
 48, of this ordinance. 
 
 In other parts of Michigan Avenue and upon the 
 other boulevards, streets and avenues under the con- 
 trol of the South Park Commissioners, such vaults may 
 be constructed, but between the sidewalk and the curb- 
 line the}^ shall not exceed eight feet in Avidth, nor shall 
 more than one vault be constructed in front of any one 
 lot. 
 
 No vault shall be constructed without a permit from 
 the South Park Commissioners, and such permit shall 
 only be issued after the i>lans for such vault shall have 
 been submitted to and approved by said South Park 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 47. Awnings. Flexible canvas awnings, 
 which can be closed up against the building, will be 
 permitted, extending not to exceed eight feet from the 
 lot line, and at no point closer than eight feet to the 
 grade of the sidewalk. Such awnings shall be sup- 
 ported entirely from the building, must be kept in good 
 repair and shall be removed on the first of November in 
 each year, and not replaced until the first of April of
 
 BUILDINGS. 23 
 
 the succeeding" 3'ear. If any provision of this section 
 is not strictly complied with, permission to maintain 
 such awnings will be revoked. 
 
 Sec. 48. Prismatic lights. Prismatic lights not 
 to exceed four feet in width joining the lot line Avill 
 be allowed only in places on Michigan Avenue north 
 of Thirty-second Street where the sidewalk extends to 
 the curb-line continuously from the nearest street in- 
 tersection and on Jackson Street, such lights to be set 
 to the sidewalk grade. 
 
 Sec. 40. Use of boulevards for depositing build- 
 ing material. Before permission shall be given 
 to use any part of an}' boulevard, avenue or street un- 
 der the control of the South Park Commissioners for 
 the purpose of erecting or repairing any building, 
 or for depositing any building material thereon, or 
 for making any use thereof in connection with the 
 erection or repairing of any building, the plans for the 
 elevation of said building, which shall front upon said 
 boulevard, street or avenue, showing in detail the i)ro- 
 jections, if any, over the lot line, shall be submitted to 
 the South Park Commissioners, and if in the course of 
 the erection or repairing of said building any changes 
 are made in such elevation in regard to said projec- 
 tions, plans for such changes must be submitted to the 
 said South Park (\)mmissioners; no such projection 
 shall be constructed without a permit from said South 
 Park Commissioners. All permits for such use of said 
 boulevards, streets and avenues shall be revocable in 
 the discretion of the South Park Conimissiouers. 
 
 Sec. 50. Bond to open or take up boulevard. 
 Ilereafter, before any permit is issued to open or lake
 
 24 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 up any of the bouleTards, streets or driveways, or place 
 any building material or other o]bstruction thereon, the 
 applicant for such permit shall execute a bond to the 
 South Park Commissioners in the penal sum of ten 
 thousand dollars, indemnifying said Commissioners 
 against any damages on account of injury to persons or 
 property which may be occasioned by or result from 
 the issuing of such permit, or the opening or using of 
 such boulevard, street or drivcAvay, or any part thereof, 
 for the purjjose stated in such permit. 
 
 Sec. 51. Moving buildings. No person shall be 
 permitted to move any house or building on, along or 
 across any of said parks, boulevards, streets or drive- 
 ways, except under the following circumstances: 1. 
 A person having a permit from the City of Chicago to 
 move a frame buihling along a street which intersects 
 a boulevard or street under the control of the South 
 Park Commissioners, may obtain a i>ermit to move the 
 same across the said boulevard or street, upon deposit- 
 ing with the Secretary such a sum of money, not ex- 
 ceeding two hundred dollars in any one case, as shall 
 be sufficient to cover all damages to the roadway. 2. 
 A person having a permit from the City of Chicago to 
 move a frame building located on a lot which abuts 
 upon a boulevard or a street under the control of the 
 South Park Commissioners, may obtain a permit from 
 the Secretary to move the said house from the said lot 
 to the nearest street corner, to be thence moved upon 
 the intersecting street, upon depositing with the Sec- 
 retary such a sum of money, not exceeding two hun- 
 dred dollars in any one case, as the superintendent 
 shall estimate will fully cover all damages to the side- 
 walks, roadway, grass-plots, lamp posts, trees and other
 
 BUILDINGS. 25 
 
 property and improvements upon said boulevard or 
 street. Said permit shall be issued only upon the ex- 
 press condition that said moving shall be commenced 
 and completed between the liours of one and six A. M., 
 and that the occupancy of the said boulevard or street 
 shall continue only between said hours. 
 
 After said moving shall have been completed the 
 roadway, grass-plots, sidewalks, lamp x>osts, trees and 
 other property and improvements shall be restored to 
 their fornier condition by the employes of the Commis- 
 sioners, under the supervision of the superintendent. 
 The superintendent shall thereupon certify to the sec- 
 retary the actual expense incurred in such restoration, 
 and the secretary shall refund to the person to whom 
 such permit shall have been issued the difference, if 
 any, between the amount deposited and the amount 
 so certified by the superintendent. 
 
 Sec. 52. Permit for deposit of building material. 
 No person shall place or deposit or allow to be placed 
 or deposited on any of said boulevards or streets any 
 building material AvhatsoeA'er, or any articles or things 
 which would obstruct or hinder travel thereon without 
 the written permission of the said Commissioners, 
 which said permit shall state hoAv gi'eat a space will be 
 allowed on which the same may be placed or deposited, 
 and the leng-th of time during which said permit shall 
 be in force. 
 
 Sec. 53. Danger signals— red lights— sidewalk. 
 Every person having the use of any portion of said boul- 
 evards or streets or sidewalks for the purpose of erect- 
 ing or repairing any building, or for any other purpose, 
 shall cause two red lights to be placed in a conspicuous
 
 26 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 place, one at each end of such obstruction, from dusk 
 until sunrise of the next day, during the time such ob- 
 struction shall remain, and shall also construct and 
 maintain proper safeguards, and a good and safe plank 
 sidewalk around such obstruction, which sidewalk shall 
 be at least two feet wide. 
 
 Sec. 54. Removal of obstructions. Any walk, pro- 
 jection or other obstruction, which shall be constructed, 
 erected, placed or moved in, over or upon any of the 
 boulevards, streets or avenues under the control of the 
 South Park Commissioners, contrary to anj^ of the pro- 
 visions of this chapter, shall be removed by the South 
 Park superintendent. 
 
 Sec. 55. Penalty. Any person who shall violate 
 any of the provisions of this chapter or any section 
 thereof, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than 
 ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars for each 
 and every offense, and punished accordingly.
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 CONTRACTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 56. Contracts to be advertised. 61. Payment of bills. 
 
 57. Contracts, execution of. 62. No work to be ordered or 
 
 58. Contractors, bonds. money paid except by reso- 
 
 59. Manner of drawing warrants. lution of Board. 
 
 60. Time of drawing warrants. 
 
 Section 50. Contracts to be advertised. All con- 
 tracts exceeding in amount the sum of five hundred dol- 
 lars for work, materials or supplies, shall be let by the 
 Commissioners, after advertisement, to the lowest trust- 
 worthy and responsible bidder, such advertisement in 
 all cases to reserve the right to reject any and all bids: 
 Provided, however, that such contract may be let with- 
 out advertisement if authorized by a vote of four (.Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 57. Contracts, execution of. All such con- 
 tracts shall be executed in dujdicate by the presi- 
 dent and secretar}^, on the part of the Commissioners, 
 and by the contractor, and attested by the seal of the 
 Commissioners; one original copy so executed shall be 
 kept by the secretary in his office and the other shall be 
 given to the contractor. 
 
 Sec. 58. Contractors, bonds. Whenever any work 
 or improvement is lot by contract, the contractor sliall 
 make, execute and deliver to the Commissioners a bond 
 with good and sufllicient sureties, in such amount as 
 shall be adequate to insure the performance of the 
 work in the time and manner in such contract specified, 
 
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 28 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 and also to save and indemnify, and keep harmless, 
 the Commissioners against all, liabilities, judgments, 
 costs and expenses which may in any wise _ accrue 
 against the Commissioners in consequence of granting 
 such contract, or which may in any wise accrue from 
 the carelessness or neglect of such contractor, and con- 
 ditioned also for the payment of all claims and demands 
 whatsoever which ma}^ accrtie to each and every person 
 who may be emploj^ed b}' such contractor, or by any 
 sub-contractor of such contractor in and about the per- 
 formance of such contract; which said bond shall be 
 approved by the president before the delivery to the 
 contractor of the duplicate contract hereinbefore pro- 
 vided. 
 
 Sec. 59. Warrants, manner of drawing. All war- 
 rants for the payment of money shall be drawn on the 
 treasurer by the secretary and shall be signed by the 
 secretary and countersigned by tlie auditor. 
 
 Sec. GO. Warrants, time of drawing. Warrants 
 for the payment of the regular salaries of the officers 
 and of the regularly accruing interest upon the bonded 
 indebtedness raaj be drawn and issued as the same 
 become due and payable. jS^o other warrants shall be 
 drawn except upon the order of the Commissioners, 
 made and entered of record at a meeting thereof. 
 
 Sec. 61. Payment of bills. All claims and bills 
 other than salaries and interest shall be filed with the 
 secretary, and, after examination by the auditor, pre- 
 sented by the secretary to the Commissioners at the 
 next meeting, and, if approved and ordered paid by 
 the Commissioners, warrants shall be drawn therefor 
 in the manner above set forth.
 
 CONTRACTS AND DISBURSEMENTS. 2D 
 
 Sec. 02. No work to be ordered or money paid 
 except by resolution of board. No Commissioner 
 nor any committee of the Commissioners, nor any officer 
 or em^jlo^^e thereof, shall direct the commencement or 
 prosecution of any work, or the purchase of any mate- 
 rial or supplies, nor authorize any expenditure of mon- 
 ey without the direct order or resolution of the Com- 
 missioners, made and entered of record at a meeting 
 thereof, except that in cases of obvious necessity the 
 president and superintendent, or either of them, may 
 exercise a wise discretion, but where such action 
 shall involve the expenditure of more than fifty dolhirs 
 it shall be especially reported to the Commissioners at 
 their next meetinsf.
 
 CHAPTER yi. 
 
 MEETINGS AND RULES OF ORDER. 
 
 63. Meetings. 67. Committees. 
 
 64. Special meetings. 68. Ordinances. 
 
 65. Annual meeting. 09. Vote on expenditure. 
 
 66. Quorum. 70. Reports. 
 
 Section G3. Regular meetings. Regular meetings 
 of tlie Commissioners shall be held on the second 
 Wednesday of each month, at half-past two o'clock in 
 the afternoon. 
 
 Sec. 64. Special meetings. Special meetings may 
 be called by the president whenever he sli^ll deem it 
 necessary, and shall be called by the secretary at the 
 request of any two Commissioners. Written notice 
 shall be given to each Commissioner of the time and 
 l^lace of each special meeting. 
 
 Sec. 05. Annual meeting. The annual meeting of 
 the Commissioners shall be held at the time appointed 
 for the first regular meeting after the appointment and 
 qualification of the Commissioners annually appointed. 
 
 Sec. 66. ftuorum. Three Commissioners shall con- 
 stitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
 
 Sec. 67. Committees. Committees may be ap- 
 pointed from time to time, as necessity may require, in 
 such manner as the Commissioners may, by resolution, 
 determine. 
 
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 MEETINGS AND RULES OF ORDER. 31 
 
 Sec. as. Ordinances and reports to be in writ- 
 ing. All oi'diiiauces and reports of couiiuittees and 
 meetings shall be in writing. 
 
 See. 09. Vote, manner of. The yeas and nays 
 shall be taken upon the passage of all ordinances and 
 upon all propositions to create any liability, or for the 
 expenditure or appropriation of money, and in all cases 
 at the request of any Commissioner, which shall be en- 
 tered upon the journal of the proceedings. 
 
 Sec. TO. Reports, action on deferred. Any re- 
 l^ort of a committee shall be deferred for final action 
 thereon to the next regular meeting after the report 
 thereof at the request of any two Commissioners pres- 
 ent.
 
 CITAPTER VII. 
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 
 
 71. 
 
 Playing of games. 
 
 88. 
 
 72. 
 
 Frightening animals. 
 
 89. 
 
 73. 
 
 Fire-arms and fire-works. 
 
 90. 
 
 74. 
 
 Hindering employes. 
 
 
 75. 
 
 Peddlers. 
 
 91. 
 
 76. 
 
 Indecent language, gamb- 
 
 
 
 ling, drunkenness. 
 
 92. 
 
 77. 
 
 Playing musical instru- 
 ments, displaying flags, 
 
 93. 
 
 
 etc., processions, etc. 
 
 94. 
 
 78. 
 
 Bathing and fishing. 
 
 
 79. 
 
 Injury to park property. 
 
 95. 
 
 80. 
 
 No travel except on "Com- 
 mon." 
 
 96. 
 
 81. 
 
 Posting of notices, bills, etc. 
 
 97. 
 
 82. 
 
 Advertising. 
 
 98. 
 
 83. 
 
 Refuse and garbage. 
 
 
 84. 
 
 Coal on grass-iplots. 
 
 99. 
 
 85. 
 
 Fence around grass-plots. 
 
 100. 
 
 86. 
 
 Breach of peace, riot, dis- 
 
 
 
 orderly conduct, etc. 
 
 101. 
 
 87. 
 
 Vagrancy. 
 
 
 Indecent exposure, etc. 
 Cruelty to animals. 
 Deformed, etc., person, ex- 
 posure of. 
 Lewd acts" in public— ob- 
 scene gesture. 
 Birds, protection of. 
 Distribution of handbills, 
 
 etc. 
 Goods, wares, etc., on 
 
 streets— Nuisance. 
 Drunkenness. 
 Obscene or indecent books, 
 
 pamphlets, etc. 
 Cheating device. 
 Dangerous openings in side- 
 walk. 
 Vagrants. 
 Removing 
 
 walks. 
 Penalty. 
 
 snow from side- 
 
 Section 71. Playing of games. No person sball 
 play at any game whatsoever in or upon any of the 
 parks, boulevards, streets or driveways, under the con- 
 trol of the South Park Commissioners, except upon such 
 portions thereof as may be designated from time to time 
 by the South Park Superintendent, and under such 
 rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him, and 
 any jjerson violating this section shall be subject to a 
 fine of not to exceed Tw^enty-flve Dollars for each and 
 every offense.
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 33 
 
 Sec. 72. Frightening horses, etc., by sport. No 
 person shall engage in anv sport or exercise upon sncli 
 boulevards, streets or driveways as shall be liable to 
 fri^liten horses, injure passengers, or embarrass the 
 ])assa*;e of vehicles thereon, under a penalty of not to 
 exceed Twenly-tive Dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 73. Fire-arms, missiles, and fire- works. No 
 person shall fllre or discharge any gun or i)istol or carry 
 fire-arms, or throw stones or other missiles Avitliin said 
 parks, boulevards, streets or driveways; nor shall any 
 person fire, discharge or set off any rocket, cracker, 
 torpedo, squib or other fire-works, or things containing 
 any substance of an explosiAC character, under a pen- 
 alty of not to exceed Twent^'-five Dollars for each and 
 every offense. 
 
 Sec. 74. Hindering employes. No person shall in- 
 terfere with, converse with, or in any manner hinder 
 park employes while engaged in constructing or repair- 
 ing iinj portion of the parks or boulevards, under a 
 penalty of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars for each 
 and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 75. Peddlers. No person shall expose any ar- 
 ticle or thing for sale, or do au}^ hawking or peddling 
 therein or thereon, under a penalty of not to exceed 
 
 Twenty-five Dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 * 
 
 Sec. 7G. Indecent language, gambling, drunken- 
 ness. No person shall use abusive, insulting or ob- 
 scene language, or language calculated to occasion 
 a breach of the peace, nor shall any person tell foi-- 
 tunes, play at any games of chance, be drunk, or do 
 any indecent acts therein, under a penalty of not to ex- 
 ceed Tw^entv-five Dollars for each and everv offense.
 
 34 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 Sec. 77. Playing musical instruments, displaying 
 banners, etc., parades, etc. No person, without the 
 consent of the South Park Commissioners, shall play 
 any musical instrument, or carry or display any flag, 
 target, banner or transparency, nor shall any militar}^ 
 or target conii)any or band or procession be permitted 
 to parade, march, drill or perform any evolutions or 
 ceremonies in the parks, or along and upon said streets, 
 boulevards or driveways, or do or perform any act tend- 
 ing to cause persons to congregate therein or there- 
 upon, and no club, association or party of bicycle or 
 tricycle riders shall make runs, or have parades upon 
 said streets, boulevards or driveways without first ob- 
 taining a permit from the South Park Commissioners, 
 under a penalty of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars 
 for each and everj^ offense. 
 
 Sec. 78. Bathing and fishing. No person shall 
 bathe or fish in the waters of the parks, or go, or send, 
 or ride any animals into the same, nor shall an^^ person 
 disturb any fish, fowl or other animals kept therein, 
 or throw anything into the waters or place anything 
 upon the grounds thereof, under a penalty of not to ex- 
 ceed Twenty-five Dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 79. Injury to park property. No person 
 shall cut, break, mark upon, or in any way injure or 
 deface any of the trees, shrubs, plants, turf, grass, lamp- 
 posts, fences, bridges, buildings, or other constructions 
 or property, in or upon said parks, boulevards, streets 
 or driveways, under a penalty of not to exceed Fifty 
 Dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 80. No travel except on common. No per- 
 son shall climb or walk upon any wall or fence of said
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 35 
 
 parks, nor cross nor travel upon any grass or lawn 
 therein, except where the word "Common" shall be 
 posted to indicate the permission so to do, nor shall any 
 person cross or travel on the grass-plots, or planting- 
 spaces npon such boulevards, streets or driveways, un- 
 der a penalty of not to exceed TAventy-five Dollars for 
 each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 81. Posting of notices, bills, etc. No person 
 shall post or fix an}- notice or bill, or other writing or 
 printing on auA' tree, lamppost, hydrant, curb-stone, 
 coping, flag-stone, fence, wall, building or other place, 
 under the control of the South Park Commissioners, 
 under a penalty of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars 
 for each and ever}- offense. 
 
 Sec. 82. Display of advertising . No person shall 
 drive any vehicle displaying any placard or advertise- 
 ment of any kind, along said boulevards, streets or 
 driveways; nor shall any person displa^^ any placards 
 or any advertisements of any kind on or along the same, 
 under a penalty of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars for 
 each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 83. Garbage on sidewalks, etc. No ashes, 
 garbage, or rubbish of any kind, shall be put on the 
 roadways, sidewalks, or grass-plots or planting-spaces, 
 .of such boulevards, streets or driveways, under a penal- 
 ty of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars for each and 
 every offense. 
 
 Sec. 84. Coal on grass-plots. No person shall be 
 permitted to duuip or deposit any coal on said grass- 
 ph)ts or i)lanting-spaces or sidewalks, under a penalty 
 of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars for each and every 
 offense.
 
 36 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 Sec. 85. Fence around grass-plots. No person 
 shall be permitted to build or place any fence or other 
 barrier around said grass-plots or planting-spaces, un- 
 der a penalty of not to exceed Twenty-five Dollars for 
 each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 86. Breach of peace, riot, disorderly con- 
 duct, etc. No person shall make, aid, countenance or 
 assist in making any improper noise, riot, disturbance, 
 breach of the peace, or diversion tending to a breach 
 of the peace within any of the parks, or boulevards, or 
 other public places under the control of the South Park 
 Commissioners, or be guilty of any disorderly conduct 
 therein, or collect, with other persons, in bodies or 
 crowds for unlawful purposes, or for any purpose, to 
 the annoyance or disturbance of citizens or travelers, 
 under the penalty of not less than Two Dollars nor 
 exceeding One Hundred Dollars for each and every of- 
 fense. 
 
 Sec. 87. Vagrancy. Any person wandering abroad 
 and begging, or who goes about from door to door, or 
 places himself in the streets, or other j)nblic places to 
 beg or receive alms, shall be deemed a vagrant, and 
 ujjon conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than 
 Five Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars for 
 each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. 88. Indecent exposure, etc. If any person 
 shall appear in any public place, under the control of 
 the South Park Commissioners, in a state of nudity, or 
 in a dress not properly belonging to his or her sex, or 
 in an indecent or lewd dress, or shall make any inde- 
 cent exposure of his or her person, or be guilty of any
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 37 
 
 lewd ov indeceut act or behavior, lie or she shall be sub- 
 ject to a line of not less than Ten Dollars nor more than 
 Two Ilundi'cd Dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 Sec. S!). Cruelty to animals. Whoever shall be 
 guilty of crnelty 1o any animal in any way of the ways 
 mentioned in this section shall be fined not less than 
 Three Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars for 
 each offense, viz: 
 
 1. By overloading-, overdriving, overworking, cruelly 
 beating, torturing, tormenting, mutilating, or cruelly 
 killing any animal, or causing or knowingly allowing 
 the same to be done. 
 
 2. By cruelly working any old, maimed, infirm, sick 
 or disabled animal, or causing or knowingly allowing 
 the same to be done. 
 
 3. Bj unnecessarily failing to provide any animal in 
 his charge or custody, as owner or othei'wise, with 
 proper food, drink and shelter. 
 
 4. By abandoning any old, maimed, infirm, sick or 
 disabled animal. 
 
 5. By carrying or driving, or causing to be carried 
 or driven or kept any animal in an unnecessarily cruel 
 manner. 
 
 Sec. 90. Deformed, etc., person, exposure of. No 
 person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed 
 so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, or an im- 
 proper person to be allowed in public [daces, shall ex- 
 pose himself or herself to public view in or upon any 
 of the parks, boulevards or other public places under
 
 C8 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 the control of the South Park Commissioners, under the 
 penalt}^ of not to exceed Ten Dollars for each and every 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 91. Lewd acts ki public — obscene gesture. 
 
 Any iDerson Avho shall commit any indecent, lewd or 
 filthy act in any place, or shall utter any lewd or filthy 
 words, or use any threatening or abusiye language in 
 the hearing of other persons publicly, or shall make any 
 obscene gesture, to or about any other person publicly, 
 shall be deemed a disorderly person, and shall be sub- 
 ject to the penalty of not less than Five Dollars nor 
 more than Two Hundred Dollars for each and every 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 92. Birds, protection of. No person shall kill 
 or wound, o-r attempt to kill or wound, by the use 
 of fire-arms, bow and arrow, pelting with stones 
 or otherwise, any bird within the territory under 
 the control of the South Park Commissioners, or 
 shoot an arrow, or throw a stone, or club, or 
 other missile at any bird within any private grounds 
 near or abutting upon any of the territory under the 
 control of the South Park Commissioners, under the 
 penalty of not less than Two Dollars nor more than 
 Ten Dollars for each offense. 
 
 Sec. 93. Distribution of hand bills, etc. No per- 
 son or persons shall distribute, cast, throw, or j)lace in, 
 upon, or along any of the boulevards, streets, parks or 
 other public places under the control of the South Park 
 Commissioners any hand-bills, pamphlets, circulars or 
 other advertisements for any purpose whatever, under 
 a penalty of not less than Five Dollars nor more than 
 Twenty-five Dollars for each and every offense.
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 39 
 
 Sec. 94, Goods, wares, etc., on streets; Nuisance. 
 It shall constitute, and it is hereby declared, a nuisance 
 for any person to set or place, or cause to be set or 
 placed, or permit to remain, an}- goods, wares, mer- 
 chandise or other propert}^ of any kind on any street, 
 boulevard, sidewalk or driveway, for a longer time than 
 two hours. Any person who shall so obstruct the street, 
 sidewalk, boulevard, or driveway, in front of an}- store 
 or dwelling with any goods, wares, merchandise, or 
 other property of any kind, for a longer period than 
 aforesaid, shall be subject to the penalty of not less 
 tlian Five Dollars nor more than Fifty Dollars for each 
 and every offense, and it shall be the duty of the South 
 Park Superintendent to forthwith remove and abate 
 such nuisance. 
 
 Sec. 95. Drunkenness. No person shall be intoxi- 
 cated in any street, highway, thoroughfare, park or 
 public place, or in any private house or i)lace, to the 
 disturbance of any person. 
 
 Sec. 90. Obscene or indecent books, pamphlets, 
 etc. No per.son shall exhibit, sell or offer to sell, give 
 away or offer to give away, or have in his possession, 
 with or without iuteut to sell or give away, auy obscene 
 or indecent book, ]»aniphlet, paper, drawing, lithograph, 
 engraving, picture, daguerreotype, photograph, stere- 
 oscopic picture, model, cast, instrument or any article 
 of indecent or immoral use. 
 
 Sec. 97. Cheating device. No person shall man- 
 age, use or practice any game or device whatever, with 
 intent to cheat or defraud another.
 
 40 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 Sec. 98. Dangerous openings in sidewalks. No 
 person shall keep or leave oi>e'n aii}^ cellar door, or 
 liratiug of any vault, ou any liiginvay or sidewalk, or 
 suffer the same to be left or kept open, or suffer any 
 sidewalk in front of his premises to become or continue 
 so out of repair as to endaiiger life or limb. 
 
 Sec. 90. Vagrants, etc. Vagrants, mendicants, 
 idle and dissolute persons, who go about begging, or 
 l)lace themselves in any highway to beg or receive alms, 
 persons who use any juggling or unlawful games, com- 
 mon drunkards, prostitutes, IcAvd, wanton and lasciv- 
 ious persons in speech or behavior, or common raiders 
 and brawlers, persons who habitually neglect their em- 
 ployment or calling, and do not provide for themselves 
 or for the support of their families, and all persons 
 who, not having visible means to maintain themselves, 
 are without employment, and habitually frequent 
 houses of ill-fame, gaming houses, dram-shops or sa- 
 loons, may be imprisoned not to exceed six months, or 
 fined not to exceed two hundred dollars. 
 
 Sec. 100. Removing snow from sidewalks. Every 
 owner or occupant of any house or other building, and 
 the owner or proprietor, lessee, or person entitled to 
 the possession of any vacant lot, and ever}^ person hav- 
 ing the charge of any church, public hall, or other 
 public building, fronting upon any of the parks or boul- 
 evards under the control of the South Park Commis- 
 sioners, shall, .during the winter season, and during 
 the time snow^ shall continue on the ground, before nine 
 o'clock on every morning when necessary clear the 
 sidewalk or sideAvalks in front of such house, or other 
 building, or in front of such lot, from snow and ice, and
 
 MISDEMEANORS. 41 
 
 keep the same free tlierefi-oin during the day; aud eveiy 
 person neglecting or refusing to comply with any of the 
 provisions of tliis section shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor and incur a penalty of not less tlian Five (f 5,00) 
 Dollars for each neglect or refusal. 
 
 Sec. 101. Penalty. Any person violating any 
 clause, section or provision of this chapter, Avhere no 
 penalty is already provided, shall be fined in a sum not 
 less than One Dollar and not exceeding One Hundred 
 Dollars for each and everv offense.
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 102. OfR'ces not provided by 108. Secretary, other duties. 
 
 charter. 109. Treasurer. 
 
 103. Officers removed. 110. Superintendent. 
 
 104. Clerks and assistants. 111. Superintendent, orders to. 
 
 105. Salaries 112. Engineer. 
 
 106. Secretary. 113. Gardener. 
 
 107. Secretary keep record of 114. Attorney. 
 
 ordinances, etc. 
 
 SectioD 102. Offices not provided by charter. 
 
 The following- named Oificers, in addition to those cre- 
 ated bj the charter, shall be appointed by the South 
 Park Commissioners, to-wit : South Park Superintend- 
 ent, South Park Attorney, South Park Captain of Po- 
 lice, and South Park Gardener. Such officers shall hold 
 office, unless sooner removed, until their successors are 
 appointed and qualified. 
 
 Sec. 103. Officers removed. Any officer appointed 
 may be suspended or removed by the Commissioners, 
 and all vacancies shall be filled by them. 
 
 Sec. 104. Clerks and assistants. The Commis- 
 sioners shall also, from time to time, appoint such 
 clerks and assistants as the service may require, and 
 dismiss the same in their discretion. 
 
 Sec. 105. Salaries. The salaries of all officers shall 
 be fixed annually by resolution and shall be payable 
 monthly.
 
 OFFICERS. 43 
 
 Sec. 106. Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the 
 coii^orate seal and affix the same to all papers which 
 require it. lie shall keep all records and papers be- 
 lonjj;ini;- to the Conimissiouers, attend all meetinj^s of 
 the Commissioners and keep a full record of their pro- 
 ceedings in the journal. 
 
 Sec. 107. Secretary to keep record of ordinances, 
 etc. All ordinances and resolutions passed by the 
 Commissioners shall be recorded by the Secretary in a 
 book to be kept for that purpose before the next reg- 
 ular meeting after their passage, and if any such ordi- 
 nance or resolution shall require publication he shall 
 cause the same to be duly published. 
 
 Sec. 108. Secretary, other duties. He shall also 
 perform such otlier duties as may be required of him by 
 law or by the ordinances or resolutions of the Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 109. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall receive 
 all the moneys belonging to the Commissioners and 
 shall pay the same out onh^ upon warrants regularly 
 drawn, as hereinafter provided. He shall make month- 
 ly reports of the receipts and disbursements of money, 
 and also submit to the annual meeting a detailed re- 
 port showing the receipts and disbursements of money 
 during the preceding year. 
 
 Sec. 110. Superintendent, authority of. The Su- 
 perintendent shall hav(' the general management and 
 control of the parks, boulevards, streets and driveways 
 under the control of the Ck)mmissioners. He shall ap- 
 point such assistants and employes as the Commission-
 
 44 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 ers may authorize, subject to their apx)roval, and he 
 shall have j)ower to remove .such assistants and em- 
 ployes as he appoints. 
 
 Sec. 111. Superintendent, orders to, of Commis- 
 sioners. He shall also receive and execute, the orders 
 of said Commissioners and comply with such rules and 
 regulations as the Commissioners ma}^, by ordinance 
 or resolution, prescribe. 
 
 Sec. 112. Engineer, The Superintendent shall 
 also be the Engineer, and have charge of the engineer- 
 ing department and do all the surve^dng and civil en- 
 gineering required. 
 
 Sec. 113. Gardener. The Gardener shall be under 
 the direction of the Superintendent, and under his di- 
 rection shall have charge of all the green-houses, 
 shrubs, flowers and other matters and things pertain- 
 ing to the nursery and horticultural department, and 
 shall perform such other duties as may be imposed 
 upon him by the ordinances or resolutions of the Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 114. Attorney. The Attorney shall have 
 charge of all litigation to which the Commissioners 
 shall be a party, and shall draft all instruments re- 
 quired by the Commissioners and give opinions in writ- 
 ing on all questions referred to him by the Commis- 
 sioners.
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 ORDINANCES. 
 
 115. Record of. 117. When minimum fine only 
 
 IIG. Two penalties — one recov- expressed — Maximum, 
 
 ery only. 118. Words, how construed. 
 
 119. Penalty, not expressed. 
 
 Section 115. Record of Ordinances. All ordi- 
 nances passed b}^ the South Park Commissioners shall 
 be recorded by the Secretary in a proper book or books 
 with indexes. The originals shall be filed in the Sec- 
 retary's oflfice. 
 
 Sec. IIT). Two penalties for same offense— one 
 recovery only. In all cases where the same offense 
 may be made punishable, or shall be created by differ- 
 ent clauses, or sections of the ordinances of the South 
 Park Commissioners, the officer, or person prosecuting', 
 may elect under which to proceed, but not more than 
 one recovery or punishment 'shall be had against the 
 same person for the same offense. 
 
 Sec. 117, When minimum fine only expressed — 
 maximum. Whenever in this or in any ordinance 
 hereafter passed a minimum but no maximum fine or 
 penalty is imposed, the Court ma}', in its discretion, 
 adjudge the offender or offenders to pay any sum of 
 money exceeding- the minimum fine or penalty so fixed, 
 not exceeding the sum of Two Hundred Dollars. 
 
 Sec. 118. Words, plural, etc., how construed. 
 Whenever any words in any ordinance importing the 
 plural number shall be used in describing or referring 
 
 45
 
 46 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 to any matters, parties or persons, any single matter, 
 party or person shall be deemed to be included, al- 
 though distributive Avords may not be used. And, 
 when any subject matter, party or person, shall be re- 
 ferred to in any ordinance by words importing the sin- 
 gular number only, or the masculine gender, several 
 matters, parties or persons, and females as well as 
 males, and bodies corporate shall be deemed to be in- 
 cluded: Provided, that these rules of construction shall 
 not be applied to any ordinance which shall contain 
 any express provision excluding such construction, or 
 where the subject matter or context of such ordinance 
 may be repugnant thereto. 
 
 Sec. 119. Penalty not expressed. Whenever in 
 any ordinance the doing of any act or the omission to 
 do any act or duty is declared to be a breach thereof, 
 and there shall be no fine or penalty declared for such 
 breach, any person who shall be convicted of any such 
 breach shall be adjudged to pay a fine of not less than 
 Three Dollars nor more than One Hundred Dollars.
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
 
 120. Police, number — Captain of 124. Duties of police. 
 
 police. 125. Po>wers of police. 
 
 121. Police — age. 126. Escape, resisting police — 
 
 122. Superintendent to appoint Penalty. 
 
 police. 127. Impersonation of police — 
 
 123. Special police. Penalty. 
 
 Section 120. Police, number— Captain. The po- 
 lice force shall consist of such number of policemen as 
 shall from time to time be appointed by authority of 
 the Commissioners, and shall be under the command of 
 the Captain of Police. The Captain of Police shall be 
 subject to the direction of the Superintendent, who 
 shall make proper rules and regulations for the disci- 
 pline of the police force not inconsistent witli the pro- 
 visions of this ordinance 
 
 Sec. 121. Police, age, requirements. The appli- 
 cants for position on the police force shall not be over 
 thirty-five years of age, nor less than five feet ten 
 inches tall, and must be expert in horsemanship and be 
 capable of protracted pliysical endurance. 
 
 Sec. 122. Police appointed by Superintendent. 
 The Superintendent shall make all ax^pointmcnts to the 
 police force, subject to the approval of the Commis- 
 sioners, and shall have power to remove any member 
 of the police force, reporting his reasons therefor to 
 the next meeting of the Commissioners. 
 
 47
 
 48 MUNICIPAL CODE. 
 
 Sec. 123. Special police. The Superintendent, in 
 case of emergency, is hereby authorized and empow- 
 ered to aj)point special policemen, and such policemen 
 shall have the same powers and authority as the regu- 
 hir police force, i)rovided that such appointment shall 
 in no case continue for more than twenty-four hours. 
 
 Sec. 124. Police duties. The seyeral members of 
 the police force, when on duty, shall devote their time 
 and attention to the discharge of the duties of their sta- 
 tion under the direction of the Captain of Police, in 
 accordance with the ordinances and the rules and reg- 
 ulations of the Superintendent, and it shall be their 
 duty to preserve, to the best of their ability, order, 
 peace and quiet, and to enforce the laws and ordi- 
 nances. 
 
 Sec. 12.5. Police powers. They shall have power 
 to arrest any person found in the act of violating such 
 laws and ordinances, or aiding or abetting any such 
 violation, and they shall take all persons so arrested 
 before some justice of the peace or police magistrate. 
 
 Sec. 126. Resisting police— escape— penalty. No 
 person shall resist any member of the police force in 
 the discharge of his duty, or in any wa}^ interfere with 
 or hinder or prevent him from discharging his duty, or 
 oif er or endeavor so to do, or in any manner assist any 
 person in custody of any member of the police force to 
 escape or attempt to escape from such custody, or res- 
 cue or attempt to rescue any person in custody, under a 
 penalty for each offense of not less than Ten Dollars. 
 
 Sec. 127. Impersonation of police— penalty. No 
 
 person shall falsely represent or personate any member
 
 POLICE DEPARTMENT. 49 
 
 of tbe police force, or pretend to be a member of the 
 police force, or maliciously and with intent to deceive, 
 use any of the signs, signals or devices adopted or used 
 by the police department, and no person shall wear in 
 public the uniform adopted as the police uniform, ex- 
 cept active members of the police force. Any person 
 violating any of the provisions of this section shall be 
 subject to a fine of not less than Ten Dollars for each 
 and everv offense.
 
 CHAPTER XL 
 
 RAILROADS. 
 
 128. Flagman, gates. 130. Obstructions at crossings. 
 
 129. Penalty. 131. Penalty. 
 
 Section 128. Flagman— gates. All railroads iiow 
 using and maintaining, or wliicli shall hereafter use 
 and maintain railroad tracks across or intersecting any 
 of the parks, boulevards, streets or driveways under 
 the control of the South Park Commissioners shall sta- 
 tion, keep and maintain at all times, at their own ex- 
 pense at each and every of such crossings and in- 
 tersections a flagman, whose duty it shall be to signal 
 persons traveling in the direction of such crossing and 
 warn them of the approach of any locomotive engine, 
 or car, or of any impending danger, and such railroad 
 companies shall construct and maintain gates at such 
 crossings and intersections whenever requested or re- 
 quired so to do by resolution of the South Park Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 129. Penalty. Any railroad or railway com- 
 pany failing to observe or comply with the provisions 
 of section one hundred and twenty-eight shall be sub- 
 ject to the penalty of not less than Ten Dollars nor 
 more than Two Hundred Dollars for each and every 
 offense, and each and every day that such failure shall 
 continue shall be deemed, and constitute, a separate 
 offense. 
 
 Sec. 130. Obstructions at crossings. No railroad 
 company, railroad engineer, train conductor or otlier 
 
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 RAILROADS. 51 
 
 railroad employe, or person, shall cause or allow any 
 locomotive engine, car or cars, or train of cars, to stop 
 or remain upon any railroad crossing across or inter- 
 secting any of the parks, boulevards or streets under 
 the control of the South Park Oommissioners for a 
 longer period than live minutes at any one time, nor 
 shall such railroad crossings or intersections, or the 
 tracks thereon be used at any time for switching pur- 
 poses. 
 
 Sec. 131, Penalty. Any railroad company, engin- 
 eer, train conductor or other railroad employe, or any 
 person who shall violate any of the provisions of section 
 one hundred and thirty shall be subject to the penalty 
 of not less than Five Dollars nor more than One Hun- 
 dred Dollars for each and every offense.
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 REPEAL. 
 
 Sec. 132. Repeal. All ordinances and parts of or- 
 dinances in conflict with this ordinance or any part 
 thereof are hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 133. In Force. This ordinance shall be in force 
 and effect upon and from its passage and due publica- 
 tion. 
 
 State of Illinois, 
 County of Cook, 
 South Park ^ ''^^• 
 
 Commissioners. 
 
 I, E. G. Shumway, secretary of the South Park Com- 
 missioners in the County and State aforesaid, and keep- 
 er of all papers, entries, records and ordinances of said 
 South Park Commissioners, do hereby certify that the 
 above and foregoing is a true cop}^ of an ordinance en- 
 titled "Municipal Code of the South Park Commission- 
 ers," passed by the South Park Commissioners on the 
 10th day of March, A. D. 1897. 
 
 I further certify that I am the keeper of the original 
 ordinance of which the foregoing is a certified copy, 
 and that the same is on file in my office. 
 
 In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand 
 and affixed the seal of the South Park Commissioners, 
 this day of , A. D. 1897. 
 
 Secretary of the South Park Commissioners. 
 
 52
 
 STATUTES AND DECISIONS EELATING 
 
 TO THE 
 
 SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 
 
 AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE LOCATION AND MAIN- 
 TENANCE OF A PARK FOR THE TOWNS OF SOUTH CHI- 
 CAGO, HYDE PARK ANfD LAKE. [APPROVED FEBRUARY 
 24, 1869.] 
 
 Section 1. Appointment— Oath— Bond. Be it en- 
 Jicted by the People (tf tlie State of Illioiiis, repre- 
 sented iu the General Assembly, That five persons, 
 who shall be appointed by the Governor of the State 
 of Illinois, together with their snceessors, be, and the}' 
 are hereby, constitnted a Board of Pnblic Park Com- 
 missioners for the towns of Sontli Chicago, Hyde Park 
 and Lake, to be known nnder the name of the South 
 Park Commissioners; and in case of the failure of any 
 of said persons to accept such appointment, and to 
 qualify thereunder as hereinafter provided, within six- 
 ty days after the passage of this act, the place of such 
 person in said commission shall be thereby vacated, 
 and it shall be the duty of a majority of the Commis- 
 sioners so accepting to appoint some suitable person 
 to till the plac(- thus made vacant, which appointment, 
 when accepted by such ncuninec, shall constitute such 
 person as a Commissioner uiuler this act. And a ma- 
 jority of said Commissioners shall so coutiuue to nomi- 
 
 53
 
 54 STATUTES. 
 
 nate until the board shall consist of five persons. Each 
 of said Commissioners, before entering upon the duties 
 of his office, shall take an oath to well and properly 
 discharge the duties of his office for the interest of the 
 public, which oath shall be reduced to writings sub- 
 scribed to by him, and filed in the office of the County 
 Clerk of Cook County. They shall each give a bond in 
 the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, with one or 
 more sureties, to be approved hj the Judge of the Cir- 
 cuit Court of Cook County to the Treasurer of Cook 
 County, conditioned for the faithful discharge of their 
 duties under this act. 
 
 Sec. 2. Term— Officers— Seal— Vacancies. As 
 soon as convenient, after the said board shall be consti- 
 tuted as aforesaid, the members thereof shall decide 
 by lot, at a meeting to be called by au}^ three of them, 
 as to the respective terms for which each member shall 
 hold his office; the number of lots shall equal the num- 
 ber of Commissioners, and the person drawing the long- 
 est term shall serve for five years from the first day of 
 March, A. D. 18G9; the one drawing the next shall 
 serve for four years from said date; the one drawing 
 the next shall serve for three jenva from said date; and 
 so on until the term of each one of said Commissioners 
 shall be definitely determined, each one serving for the 
 length of time inscribed on the lot drawn by him — the 
 last of said Commissioners serving for the term of one 
 year only from said first day of March, A. D. 1869. As 
 soon as the term of office of each of said Commissioners 
 shall be determined as aforesaid, said board shall or- 
 ganize by electing one of their number as President, 
 and one of their number as Auditor; they shall also 
 appoint a Treasurer, prescribe his duties and fix his
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 55 
 
 compensation, who shall give bond for the faithful dis- 
 charge of his duties in the penal sum of live hundred 
 thousand dollars, with not less than three sufficient 
 sureties, to be approved by the Judge of the Circuit 
 Court of Cook Count}-. They shall also choose a Sec- 
 retary^, who shall not necessarily- be a Commissioner, 
 and who shall hold his office until his successor shall 
 be appointed, as hereinafter provided; and all officers 
 appointed by the board shall be subject to removal at 
 the pleasure of the board. The said board shall adopt 
 a seal and alter the same at pleasure; they shall keep 
 a complete record of all their proceedings, which shall 
 be open at all times for the inspection of the public. 
 The said Commissioners shall receive no compensation 
 for their services, except the President, who may, in the 
 discretion of said board, have and receive such compen- 
 sation as may be fixed as hereinafter provided, not to 
 exceed three thousand dollars per annum. All vacan- 
 cies occurring in said board sliall be filled by the ap- 
 pointment of the Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook 
 County, when such vacancy or vacancies shall occur. 
 Said Board of Commissioners shall be a body politic 
 and corporate, and shall have and enjoy all the powers 
 necessary for the purposes of this act. 
 
 Sec. 3. Election. The President, Auditor, Treas- 
 urer and Secretary shall be elected annually by said 
 board, at the annual meeting thereof, and shall receive 
 such salar}^ for their services as said board shall from 
 time to time determine, not exceeding, for each of said 
 officers, the sum of three thousand dollars per anmim. 
 
 Sec. 4. Lands to be taken. The said Commis- 
 sioners, by this act, are authorized and empowered ro,
 
 56 STATUTES. 
 
 and they shall, within ninety days after their organiza- 
 tion as aforesaid, or as soon thereafter as practicable, 
 select the following described lands, situated in the 
 towns of South Chicago, H^'de Park and Lake, in Cook 
 County, Illinois, to-wit: Commencing at the south- 
 west corner of Fifty-first street and Cottage Grove ave- 
 nue, running thence south along the west side of Cot- 
 tage (k'ove avenue to the south line of Fifty-ninth 
 street; thence east along the south line of Fifty-ninth 
 street to the east line of Hyde Park avenue; thence 
 north on Hyde Park avenue to Fifty-sixth street; thence 
 east along the south line of Fifty-sixth street to Lake 
 Michigan ; thence southerly along the shore of the lake 
 to a point due east of the center of section twenty-four 
 (24), in township thirty-eight (38) north, range fourteen 
 (14); thence w^est through the center of said section 
 twentj^-four (24) to Hjale Park avenue; thence north 
 on the east line of Hyde Park avenue to the north line 
 of Sixtieth street, so called; thence west on the north 
 line of Sixtieth street, so called, to Kankakee avenue; 
 thence north on the east line of Kankakee avenue to 
 Fifty-first street; thence east to a point to the place 
 of beginning; also, a piece of land commencing at the 
 southeast corner of Kankakee avenue and Fifty-fifth 
 street, running thence west, a strip two hundred feet 
 wide, adjoining the north line of Fifty-fifth street, along 
 said Fift3^-fifth street to the line between ranges thir- 
 teen (13) and fourteen (14) east; thence north, east of 
 and adjoining said line, a strij) two hundred feet wide, 
 to the Illinois and Michigan canal; also, a parcel of 
 land beginning at the southwest corner of Douglas 
 place and Kankakee avenue, running thence south, a 
 strip of land one hundred and thirty-two feet wide
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 57 
 
 along the west side of said Kankakee avenue to a point 
 one linndred and fifty feet south of the south line of 
 Fifty-first street; also, a strip of land commencing at 
 the intersection of Cottage Grove avenue and Fifty- 
 first street, running thence east one hundred feet in 
 width on each side of the center line of Fifty-first street, 
 to a point one hundred feet east of the center line of 
 Drexel avenue; also, a strip of land extending north 
 from the intersection of Fift^'-first street with Drexel 
 avenue, one hundred feet in width on each side of the 
 center line of said avenue to the north line of Forty- 
 third street; thence northerly, a strip of land two hun- 
 dred feet in width till it meets or intersects with Elm 
 street in Cleaverville; thence northerly along said Elm 
 street, two hundred feet in width, west from the east 
 line of said street, to its intersection with Oakwood ave- 
 nue; which said land and premises, when acquired by 
 said Commissioners, as provided by this act, shall be 
 held, managed and controlled by them and their suc- 
 cessors, as a public park, for the recreation, health and 
 benefit of tlie public, and free to all i)ersons forever, 
 subject to such necessar}^ rules and regulations as shall, 
 from time to time, be adopted by said Commissioners 
 and their successors, for the well ordering and govern- 
 ment of the same. 
 
 Sec. 5. Condemnation. In case the said Commis- 
 sioners cannot agree with the owner or owners, lessees 
 or occupants of any of the said real estate selected by 
 them as aforesaid, they ma}' proceed to procure the 
 condemnation of the same in the uianner prescribed in 
 the act of the ^Jeneral Assembly of the State of Illinois, 
 entitled "An Act to auieinl tlic law condemning right 
 of way for the purpose of internal iiM])rov<MM(Mi<s," a]»-
 
 58 STATUTES. 
 
 proved June 22, 1852, and the acts amendatory thereof, 
 the provisions of which said act, and the several acts 
 amendatory thereof, are hereby extended to the park 
 and Park Commissioners to be created by virtue of this 
 act. 
 
 Sec. 6. Map. When the title to the land selected 
 for such park as herein provided shall have been ac- 
 quired by said Commissioners, by gift, condemnation, 
 or otherwise, it shall be the duty of such Commission- 
 ers to make, acknowledge, and file for record in the 
 office of the Recorder of Deeds for Cook County a map, 
 showing the said land, with a correct description, in- 
 cluding section, township and range. 
 
 Sec. 7. Assessors— Assessment, etc. As soon as 
 the amount required for the condemnation of the 
 grounds selected for said park shall have been ascer- 
 tained by said Commissioners, with reasonable cer- 
 tainty, they shall apply to the Judge of the Circuit 
 Court of Cook County for the appointment of three 
 freeholders of the County of Cook as park assessors. 
 The Commissioners shall give notice in one or more of 
 the daily newspapers published in the City of Chicago, 
 of the time when such application will be made, and all 
 parties interested may appear and be heard by the said 
 judge, touching such appointment. At the time fixed 
 for such application, the court, after hearing such per- 
 sons as shall desire to be heard touching such appoint- 
 ment, shall nominate and appoint three assessors for 
 the purposes provided in this act. The said assessors 
 shall proceed to assess the amount so ascertained upon 
 property in the towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park 
 and Lake, in Cook County, deemed benefited by reason
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 59 
 
 of the improvement occasioned by the hM-ation of said 
 park, as near as may be in proi)ortiou to the benefits 
 resulting- thereto: Provided, that the aggregate of 
 said benefits is equal to or gTeater than the amount of 
 said damages; and in case the aggregate of the benefits 
 is less than the damages, then the balance of the dam- 
 ages over the benefits shall be paid from the fund pro- 
 A'ided for in section eight of this act. Upon entering on 
 the duties of their oftice, the said assessors shall make 
 oath before the Clerk of the said Circuit Court faithfully 
 and impartially to discharge the duties of their office. 
 They shall give at least ten days' notice in one of the 
 said dail}' papers of the time and place of their meet- 
 ing for the purpose of nuiking said assessment, and may 
 adjourn such meeting from time to time until the same 
 shall be completed. In making the said assessment 
 the said assessors shall estimate the value of the several 
 lots, blocks or parcels of land deemed benefited by 
 them as aforesaid, and shall include the same, together 
 with the amount assessed as benefits, in the assessment 
 roll. All parties interested may appear before said 
 assessors, and ma}^ be heard touching any matter con- 
 nected with the assessment. When the same shall be 
 completed, it shall be signed by the assessors, and re- 
 turned to the said Circuit Court, and shall be filed by 
 the clerk thereof. The assessors shall thereupon give 
 at least ten days' notice in one of the said daily papers, 
 of the filing of said assessment roll, and they will, on a 
 day therein named, apply to the said Circuit Court for 
 confirmation of the same, which said notice shall be 
 publisluMl at least ten days before the time fixed for 
 such application. Said Circuit Court shall have power 
 to revise, correct, amend, or confirm said assessment,
 
 60 STATUTES. 
 
 iu whole or iu part, and may make or order a new as- 
 sessment, in whole or in part, and the same revise and 
 confirm npon like notice. All parties interested may 
 appear before said Circuit Court, either in person or by 
 attorney, Avheu such application shall be made, and 
 ma}^ object to said assessment, either in whole or in 
 part, provided all objections shall be in writing, and 
 shall be filed at least three days before the time fixed 
 for the apj)lication, and shall specify the lot, block, or 
 parcels of land on behalf of which objection is made. 
 After the confirmation of said assessment, the Clerk 
 of said Circuit Court shall file a copy thereof, under the 
 seal of his said court, with the Clerk of the County Court 
 of Cook County, and said assessment shall be a lien 
 upon the several lots, blocks, or parcels of land assessed 
 for the benefits as aforesaid. Ten i)er cent, of the 
 amount so ascertained shall be due and payable an- 
 nually, and the Clerk of said Cook County Court shall 
 include in the general tax warrants for each year, until 
 the whole sum shall be paid, for the collection of State 
 and county taxes in the said towns of South Chicago, 
 H^^de Park and Lake, ten per cent, of the said assess- 
 ments, in an appropriate column, to be termed "South 
 Park Assessment," with the amount to be collected op- 
 posite the seveial lots, blocks, or parcels of land as- 
 sessed as aforesaid; and like x>roceedings in all respects 
 shall be had for enforcing the collection of the same 
 as is now provided by law for the collection of State 
 and county taxes. The money collected under the pro- 
 visions of this section shall be paid to the treasurer of 
 Cook County, for which he and his sureties shall be re- 
 sponsible, as fully as for any other monej'S by him re- 
 ceived as treasurer of Cook County, and be held b}^ him
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 61 
 
 iu the same maimer and be subject to the same control 
 and direction, as i)r()vid(Ml in this act for other moneys 
 belonging- to said corporation; and the treasurer of 
 Cook County sliall be entitled to receive one-half of 
 one per cent, and no nioi-e, of said moneys as a full com- 
 pensation for receiving and disbursing the same. 
 
 Sec. 8. Bonds for deficiency. For any deficiency 
 arising- tlirough acipiiring a title to said park, and for 
 the payment of expenses of enclosing, maintaining and 
 improving- the park herein provided for, and the ex- 
 penses, disbursements and charges in the premises, the 
 said Commissioners shall have power to loan or borrow, 
 from time to time, for such time as the}' shall deem ex- 
 pedient, a sum of money not exceeding two millions of 
 dollars, and shall have authorit}^ to issue bonds, secured 
 upon the said park and improvements, Avhich bonds 
 shall issue under the seal of said Commissioners, and 
 shall be signed by said Commissioners, and counter- 
 signed by the secretary of said board, and bear inter- 
 est not exceeding scacu per cent, per annum; and it 
 shall be the duty of said Commissioners to keep an ac- 
 curate register of all bonds issued by them, showing 
 the number, date and amount of each bond, and to 
 whom the same was issued, and said register shall at 
 all times be open to the investigation of the public; 
 and for the payment of the principal and interest of 
 said bonds tlio said park and improvements shall be 
 irrevocably j^ledged, an<l the towns of South Chicago, 
 TTyde Park and I^ake shall be ii-revocably bound; and 
 said bonds may be sold by said Commissioners, u])on 
 such terms and for such prices as, in the judgment of 
 said Commissioners, can be obtained for the same iu 
 cash.
 
 62 STATUTES. 
 
 Sec. 9. Estimate for yearly tax. The said Board 
 of Park Commissioners shall annuall}^, on or before the 
 first day of December in each year, transmit to the 
 Clerk of the County Court of Cook County, an estimate, 
 in writing, of the amount of money, not exceeding in 
 any one year three hundred thousand dollars, necessary 
 for the payment of the interest on the bonds issued by 
 said board, and that in addition thereto will be required 
 for the improvement, maintenance, and government 
 of said park during the current year; and the said clerk 
 shall proceed to determine what per cent, said sum is 
 on the taxable property of said towns, according to the 
 several assessors' returns for the respective year, and 
 shall, in the next general tax warrants for the collec- 
 tion of State and county taxes in said several towns, 
 set down the amount chargeable to the several persons, 
 corporations, lots, or parcels of ground, in a separate or 
 appropriate column, and shall receive such compensa- 
 tion as now allowed by law; and the collectors re- 
 spectively shall proceed to collect the same in the man- 
 ner now provided by law for the collection of State and 
 county taxes; and all the provisions of law, in respect 
 to the collection of State and county taxes, and pro- 
 ceedings to enforce the same, so far as apj)licable, shall 
 apply to said assessments and taxes. The said sum of 
 money shall be placed b}^ the treasurer of the said 
 County of Cook, to the credit of said Board of Park 
 Commissioners, and shall be drawn by said board from 
 the county treasurer by warrant, signed by the x>resi- 
 dent and secretary of the board, and countersigned by 
 the auditor, to be appointed as aforesaid, and in no 
 other wa}^; the appointment of such auditor or comp- 
 troller having been first duly certified by such president
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 63 
 
 and secretary, and filed in the office of said treasurer 
 of Cook County. 
 
 Sec. 10. Closing highway. It shall be lawful for 
 said Comniissiouers to vacate and close up auy and all 
 public roads and highways, excej)ting railroads, which 
 may pass through, divide or separate any lands selected 
 or appropriated by theui for the purpose of a park; and 
 no such road shall be laid out through said park except 
 as the said Commissioners shall lay out and construct. 
 
 Sec. 11. No Commissioner to be interested in 
 contracts. No one of the said Commissioners shall be 
 interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract 
 entered into by them with auy other person; nor shall 
 they be interested, directly or indirectly, in the pur- 
 chase of an}^ material to be used or applied in and about 
 the uses and purposes contemplated in this act. And it 
 shall be a misdemeanor for any Commissioner to be 
 directly or indirectly interested, or in any way pe- 
 cuniarily interested in any contract or any work of any 
 kind whatever, connected with said park. 
 
 Sec. 12. Commissioners removed. The said Com- 
 missioners, or either of them, may be removed from 
 office by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, 
 upon the petition presented to him in term time or in 
 vacation, by one hundred free-lu)lders of said towns of 
 South Chicago, Hyde Park, and Lake, if it shall appear, 
 after hearing the proof before said judge, that the said 
 Commissioners, or either of them, have been guilty of 
 misdemeanor or malfeasance in office under this act; 
 and if the said judge shall remove any two or more of 
 said Commissioners from office for auy cause, before the
 
 64 STATUTES. 
 
 expiration of their term of office, he is hereby empower- 
 ed to appoint others in their stead, who shall fill such 
 offices for and during the unexpired term of such Com- 
 missioners so removed. 
 
 Sec. 13. Power to govern. The said board shall 
 have the full and exclusive poAver to govern, manage 
 and direct said park; to lay out and regulate the same; 
 to pass ordinances for the regulation and government 
 thereof; to appoint such engineers, surveyors, clerks, 
 and other officers, including a police force, as may be 
 necessary; to define and prescribe their resj)ective 
 duties and authority; fix the amount of their compen- 
 sation; and, geueralh^, in regard to said park, they 
 shall possess all the power and authority now by law 
 conferred upon, or possessed by, the Common Council 
 of the Cit}^ of Chicago, in respect to the public squares 
 and places in said city; and it shall be lawful for them 
 to commence the imi>rovemeut of said park as soon as 
 they have obtained one hundred acres of the premises 
 herein described. 
 
 Sec. 14. Office vacant. The office of any com- 
 missioner under this act, who shall not attend the 
 meetings of the board for three successive months, after 
 having been duly notified of said meetings, without 
 leave of absence from said board, may, by said board, 
 be declared vacant. 
 
 Sec. 15. Taxation. The real estate and pers(uial 
 property of said corporation shall be exempted from 
 taxation and assessment. 
 
 Sec. 16. Bonds and funds for park improve- 
 ments. All moneys belonging or to belong to any
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 65 
 
 park fund now in existence or hereafter to be created, 
 and all bonds, and the proceeds from sales thereof now 
 authorized or hereafter to be authorized to be issued 
 by the City of Chicago for park purposes, in or to which 
 the South Division of the City of Chicago may now or 
 shall hereafter be entitled to a distributive share, shall 
 be devoted and applied to the purchase or maintenance 
 and improvement of the park contemplated and creat- 
 ed by this act, under the direction and control of the 
 Commissioners provided for in this act. 
 
 Sec. 17. Bonds received in payment of assess- 
 ment. The bonds to be issued under this act may be 
 received in payment of any assessment, whether such 
 bond or assessment shall have become due or not, upon 
 such terms as shall be fair, just and equitable; and 
 upon the payment of any assessment, the land upon 
 which the same is assessed shall be free from any lien or 
 liability to pay the same; and such payment shall be 
 reported to the County Clerk of Cook County, and 
 entered upon the record of assessment. 
 
 Sec. 18. Election, judges, clerks, voters. There 
 shall be an election held in the towns of South Chicago, 
 Hyde Park, and Lake, on the fourth Tuesday in March 
 next after the passage of this act, at which election 
 the legal voters voting at such election shall vote for 
 or against this act. The tickets shall be print- 
 ed or written, "For Park" or "Against Park;" and if 
 a majority of the votes cast on the subject of park 
 shall be "For Park," then this act shall take effect 
 and be in force, but not otherwise. The Clerk of the 
 County Court of Cook County shall designate the places 
 of holding such election, and give notice thereof in 
 one or more of the daily papers published in the
 
 66 STATUTES. 
 
 County of Cook, at least six days preceding such 
 election, and shall supply the judges thereof with 
 the necessary books, papers, and boxes as in other 
 cases of election, and there shall be one ijolling or 
 voting place in each yoting precinct in said towns, as 
 the same were fixed at the last general election in the 
 County of Cook. The persons who acted as judges or 
 inspectors of election in the several precincts of said 
 towns, at the last general election in Cook County, shall 
 be the judges or insj)ectors of this election. In case the 
 judges or inspectors of election shall not attend at the 
 time for opening the polls, such judges or inspectors 
 shall be chosen by the legal voters present. The clerks 
 shall be appointed as j)rovided in elections for count}' 
 of&cers. The polls shall be opened and closed, and the 
 election conducted as elections for county officers. All 
 legal voters of said towns shall be entitled to vote at 
 such election, without any new registration; and the 
 judges or inspectors of such election shall use the reg- 
 istry list made for the general election in November, 
 1868: Provided, That whenever any person whose 
 name is not on the registry list shall offer his vote at 
 such election, the judges or inspectors shall require the 
 same evidence of his qualifications as now provided by 
 law. The said judges of election shall immediately 
 after the closing of the polls, count the ballots, fill out 
 and sign the returns and tally sheets, as now provided 
 by law in all other elections, and return the poll books 
 and ballots to the Clerk of the County Court, as in other 
 cases of election. The votes shall be canvassed in the 
 manner provided by law for the election of State and 
 county officers. The Clerk of the County Court of Cook 
 County shall, immediately after such canvass, cause a
 
 ORIGINAL CHARTER. 67 
 
 certificate of the result of such election to be filed in 
 the office of the Secretary of State, which shall be con- 
 clusive evidence of the result of said election. 
 
 Sec. 19. This act shall be a public act, and shall 
 take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 In the case of People ex rel. vs. Salomon, 51 111., 37, 
 it was held that under the act of February 21, 1809, pro- 
 viding- for the location and maintenance of a park for 
 the towns of South Cliicago, Hyde Park and Lake, those 
 towns were erected into a park district, and the people 
 of the towns affected by the act, having, by a vote, ac- 
 cepted its provisions, the Board of South Park Com- 
 missioners was thereby created and became a munici- 
 pal corporation, to which was committed the entire 
 control of the park, and in which it was competent for 
 the Legislature to vest the power to assess and collect 
 taxes within the park district so created, for the special 
 corporate pur^jose of its creation, and that it was the 
 duty of the County Clerk of Cook County to receive and 
 file an estimate, made by the Commissioners, of the 
 amount of money required for park purposes and to 
 place that amount in tlie proper tax warrants to be 
 collected from the tax payers of the district, as pro- 
 vided in the acts of the Legislature of 1809. 
 
 Tlie Court held in this case that the South Park Com- 
 missioners were, by the acts of the Legislature creating 
 it and the vote of the people in the three towns accept- 
 ing it, constituted into and made the corporate authori- 
 ty of the Towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake, 
 for the purpose of assessing and collecting taxes for 
 the purposes of establishing and maintaining the South 
 Park system. See also Dunham vs. People, 96 Ills., 331.
 
 68 STATUTES. 
 
 AN ACT AMENDATORY OF AND SUPPLEMENTARY TO AN ACT 
 TO PROVIDE FOR THE LOCATION AND MAINTENANCE OP 
 A PARK FOR THE TOWNS OF SOUTH CHICAGO, HYDE 
 PARK AND LAKE, APPROVED FEBRUARY 24, 1869. [AP- 
 PROVED APRIL 16, 1869.] 
 
 Section 1. Lands taken. Be it enacted by the 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in Gen- 
 eral Assembly, That the portion of the fourth section 
 of the act to Avhich this is amendatory and supple- 
 mental, which is in the words "A piece of land com- 
 mencing at the soutlieast corner of Kankakee avenue 
 and Fifty-fifth street; running thence west, a strip two 
 hundred feet wide adjoining the north line of Fifty-fifth 
 street," is hereby amended by substituting in lieu 
 thereof the words "A piece of land commencing at the 
 northeast corner of Kankakee avenue and Fifty-fifth 
 street, running thence west a strip two hundred feet 
 wide south of and adjoining the north line of said Fifty- 
 fifth street." 
 
 Sec. 2. Bonds issued. The bonds authorized to 
 be issued by the act of which this is amendatory and 
 supplemental, may be issued, sold, and the proceeds 
 applied for acquiring said lands, and for any and all 
 purposes in the said act mentioned. Said bonds shall 
 be retired and cancelled as fast as the money for that 
 purpose can be obtained, by the collection of the money 
 due upon the special assessment provided for in sec- 
 tion seven of the act hereinbefore mentioned, and a 
 sufficient amount of any bonds that may be issued by 
 the City of Chicago under any law now in force or here- 
 inafter enacted, and received by said Commissioners, 
 shall be applied to the purpose of retii'ing the bonds 
 authorized by said act.
 
 AMENDMENT TO CHARTER. 69 
 
 Sec. 3. The ninth section of said act is hereby so 
 amended that the words "during the current year," 
 shall read "during the next succeeding year." 
 
 Sec. 4. Removal of commissioners. That the 
 twelfth section of said act be and the same is hereby 
 amended so as to read as follows: The said Commis- 
 sioners, or either of them, may be removed from office 
 by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County, upon 
 the petition presented to him, in term time or in vaca- 
 tion, by one hundred freeholders of said towns of South 
 Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake, if it shall appear, after 
 hearing proof before said judge, that the said Com- 
 missioners, or either of them, have been guilty of mis- 
 demeanor or malfeasance in office under this act; and 
 if the said judge shall remove any one or more of said 
 Commissioners from office for any cause before the ex- 
 piration of their term of office, he is hereby authorized 
 and empowered to fill the vacancy or vacancies thus 
 created by appointing other Commissioners in their 
 place, who shall serve during the unexpired terms of 
 the Commissioners so removed. 
 
 Sec. 5. Adjoining streets. The Commissioners to 
 be appointed under said act are hereby A^ested with the 
 same powers and duties as are conferred by said act in 
 relation to lands designated for parks, over all streets 
 running longitudinally along and adjoining any and all 
 of the proposed parks, or strips of land designated in 
 said original act, as are conferred by said act in re- 
 lation to such parks and strips of land, as may be neces- 
 sary to improve and keep in repair the same, in con- 
 nection with the said parks or strips of land, witliout 
 obstructing the fences or other structures, free access
 
 70 STATUTES. 
 
 to the said streets from existing roads and streets, and 
 by owners of land abutting on tiie same. 
 
 See. 6. Election. The elections held in the towns 
 of South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake, on the twenty- 
 third day of March, A. D. 1869, under and by virtue of 
 the eighteenth section of the act to which this is an 
 amendment, are hereby legalized and confirmed, and 
 said act shall be held and deemed to have been regu- 
 larly and legally adopted by the legal voters of said 
 towns, and shall remain in full force and effect, and 
 shall be liberally construed in all courts with a view 
 to carry out and enforce the intent and meaning of the 
 same. ' . Ij •■. \ 
 
 Sec. 7. This act is hereby declared a public act, 
 and shall take effect and be in full force from and after 
 its passage. 
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE THE CORPORATE AUTHORITIES OF TWO 
 OR MORE TOWNS, FOR PARK PURPOSES, TO ISSUE BONDS 
 IN RENEWAL OP BONDS HERETOFORE ISSUED BY THEM, 
 AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE SAME: TO 
 MAKE. REVISE AND COLLECT A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT 
 ON CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY FOR BENEFITS BY REASON 
 OF THE LOCATION OF PARKS AND BOULEVARDS AND TO 
 MAKE NECESSARY CHANGES IN THEIR LOCATION. [AP- 
 PROVED JUNE 16, 1871. IN FORCE JULY 1, 1871.] 
 
 Section 1. Park Commissioners corporate authori- 
 ties. That persons who have been appointed or other- 
 wise selected, as Commissioners or officers under and in 
 pursuance of any act or acts of the General Assembly 
 of this State which has or have been submitted to the 
 legal voters of one or more towns, and by them respec- 
 tively adopted, for the purpose of locating, establishing.
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 71 
 
 enclosing:, improving or maintaining any public park, 
 boulevard, driveway, highway or other public work, or 
 iiiil)rovement, are declared to be corporate authorities 
 of such towns for the purposes named in such act or 
 acts; whether such persons are authorized to discharge 
 the duties imposed upon them as a corporation or other- 
 wise. 
 
 Sec. 2. New bonds issuable for old park bonds. 
 Corporate authorities of towns who have been author- 
 ized bv law to issue bonds for the purpose of establish- 
 ing, inclosing, improving or maintaining any public 
 park, boulevard, driveway, highway, or other public 
 work, or improvement in such towns, may issue new 
 bonds, payable not more than twenty years from the 
 date thereof, and the same exchange for bonds issued 
 by such corporate authorities for the same purpose. 
 The said corporate authorities may purchase any bonds 
 issued by them, at any rate not exceeding the par value 
 thereof, and issue in lieu of the same, bonds payable 
 as aforesaid; such new bonds shall be issued under the 
 seal of said corporate authorities, if they have one, and 
 shall be signed by them and countersigned hy their 
 Secretary, if tliey have one, and bear interest not ex- 
 ceeding seven per cent, per annum, payable semi-an- 
 nually; and the principal and interest may be made 
 payable at any place or places, within or without this 
 State. The said bonds shall also contain a provision 
 securing to said corporate autliorities the right, if the 
 said bonds or a sufficient number of them, cannot be 
 ])iirchiised at not exceeding on(^ ])er cent, above the par 
 value IIi(M'(M)f, for the yearly sinking fnnd hereinafter 
 })rovi(led, to ]»ay and retire at the end of each year 
 after the date of said bonds, or so so(»n 1 hereafter as due
 
 72 STATUTES. ' 
 
 notice shall have been given, such number of the same, 
 as may be necessary for that purpose, to be selected by 
 lot by said corporate authorities, in the manner herein- 
 after provided. — It shall be the duty of said corporate 
 authorities to keep an accurate register of all bonds 
 issued by them, showing the number, date and amount 
 of each bond, and said register shall, at all times, be 
 open to the inspection of the public. — The public park, 
 boulevard, driveway, highway, or other public work or 
 improvement, on account of which said bonds may be 
 issued, shall be irrevocably'' pledged for the payment of 
 the principal and interest thereof, and the town in 
 which such public park, boulevard, driveway, highway, 
 or other public work or improvement are in whole or 
 in part situated, shall also be irrevocably bound for 
 the payment of the same. Bonds issued under this act 
 may be exchanged as aforesaid, or sold by said corpo- 
 rate authorities for such prices as they may deem expe- 
 dient, but the proceeds of bonds sold shall only be 
 used for the payment or purchase of outstanding bonds 
 which cannot be exchanged. — The bonds received in 
 exchange or purchased as aforesaid shall be cancelled, 
 whereof an entry shall be made upon the bond regis- 
 ter of said corporate authorities, showing the date, 
 number and amount of each bond cancelled; and no 
 bonds shall be issued under this act exceeding the 
 amount already issued, nor contrary to the provisions 
 of section twelve, article nine, of the Constitution of 
 this State, nor until provision is made by law for the 
 collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the 
 interest on such bonds as it falls due, and also to pay 
 and discharge the principal thereof on or before the 
 time when the same shall become due. And whenever
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 73 
 
 any provision has been made by any act or acts of the 
 general assembly of this State for the assessment and 
 collection of an annual tax in order to pay the interest 
 on bonds issued by said corporate authorities, the pro- 
 visions of said act or acts are hereby continued and 
 extended, so as to require the assessment and collection 
 of said annual tax, not only for the purpose of said act 
 or acts named, but for the payment of the interest on 
 any bonds which may be issued under this act, and to 
 provide for the annual payment of a part of the princi- 
 pal thereof. Officers collecting said annual tax are re- 
 quired at the end of each month, to pay to said corpo- 
 rate authorities, so much of said tax as has been col- 
 lected, and for collecting and paying over of said annual 
 tax, no compensation shall be allowed except the salary 
 allowed by law to the collector thereof; and if, for any 
 cause, any portion of said annual tax required to be 
 assessed and collected as aforesaid, shall for any one or 
 more years fail to be collected, the said corporate au- 
 thorities are required to add such deficiency or defi- 
 ciencies to the amount required to be assessed in the suc- 
 ceeding year or years, and the amount of such de- 
 ficiency or deficiencies shall be by the proper officers 
 assessed and collected in the same manner as said an- 
 nual tax, and as a part thereof. — The said corporate 
 authorities are required to cause said tax and any 
 deficiencies occurring as aforesaid, to be assessed and 
 collected as required by law, and to apply sufficient 
 thereof from time to time to pay the interest upon said 
 bonds issued, and which may be issued as the said in- 
 terest shall fall due. — ^And at the end of the year after 
 the date of any bonds issued under this act, and of 
 every year thereafter, the said corporate authorities
 
 74 STATUTES. 
 
 shall, from the proceeds of said annual tax, set apart 
 not less than three and one-fourth per cent, of the whole 
 amount of bonds issued under this act, and a sum equal 
 to the annual interest on said sum at the rate of in- 
 terest borne by said bonds; which sum shall be applied 
 by said corporate authorities in the purchase of bonds 
 issued by them, if the same can be obtained at not ex- 
 ceeding one per cent, above the par value thereof; and 
 if the said corporate authorities cannot obtain said 
 bonds or sufficient of them to absorb said fund at that 
 price, then from the outstanding bonds issued under 
 this act, and not theretofore selected, shall be selected 
 by lot, so many thereof, as may be required to absorb 
 the funds so set apart for a sinking fund. The said 
 selection shall be made by said corporate authorities at 
 the end of each successive year after the date of said 
 bonds, or within one month thereafter, in the presence 
 of one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of said county, 
 who with said corporate authorities shall make and 
 sign duplicate certificates of the result thereof, one of 
 which shall be tiled in the office of the said coi^porate 
 authoritievS, and the other in the office of the County 
 Clerk of said county. Notice of said election and of 
 the numbers of the bonds so selected, shall be forth- 
 with given by said corporate authorities in one or more 
 newspapers published in said county and in the City 
 of New York, and if the owners of said bonds shall be 
 registered, notice to such owners shall also be given by 
 letter mailed to the address of such owner at his place 
 of residence, if known or shown upon said register. 
 The interest on bonds selected b}' lot, as aforesaid, shall 
 cease from and after the time when the semi-annual 
 interest on the same shall fall due next after the said
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 75 
 
 selection is made; and, from the sums so set apart for 
 a sinking fund, shall be paid the bonds so selected by 
 lot as aforesaid, with interest until payment, or until 
 the same shall cease as aforesaid. Tlie funds so set 
 apart for a sinking fund shall not be used for any pur- 
 pose other than purchasing bonds to be cancelled, and 
 paying bonds selected as aforesaid for the same pur- 
 pose. The bonds so selected, when paid, and the bonds 
 purchased, shall be cancelled, a certificate whereof, 
 stating the number, date and amount of said canceUed 
 bonds, shall from time to time be made by said corpo- 
 rate authorities, and filed in the office of the Ck)unty 
 Clerk of said county. 
 
 Sec. 3. Assessment, proceedings thereon. Corpo- 
 rate authorities of one or more towns who have been 
 authorized to make, establish or maintain any local im- 
 provement, in whole or in part, by special assessment 
 or special taxation of contiguous property, or other- 
 wise, may estimate as near as may be the probable cost 
 of the lands, taken or to be taken or purchased for such 
 improvement, or revise, enlarge and correct any esti- 
 mate theretofore made, and make a new one of the 
 same, and of the expenses of obtaining said lands, to- 
 gether with the cost of making and collecting a special 
 assessment to paj^ the cost of said lands and expenses, 
 and shall apportion the estimated costs of said lands, 
 expenses and the cost of assessment as aforesaid, u[)(»n 
 the lands situated in said towns, by said corjwrate 
 autliorities deemed benefited by reason of said local 
 improvement, as near as may be, in proportion to the 
 benefit resulting thereto. And if said corporate au- 
 thorities shall not deem the lands in said towns bene- 
 fited to the full extent of the estimated cost of the lands,
 
 76 STATUTES. 
 
 taken or to be taken or purcliased a» aforesaid, and the 
 costs and expenses aforesaid, tlien the said corporate 
 authorities shall in like manner apportion so much 
 thereof as they shall deem the lands in said town bene- 
 fited. — The said corporate authorities shall give at least 
 ten days notice in one or more newspapers published in 
 the county in which such towns are situated, of the 
 time and place of their meeting for the purpose of mak- 
 ing said assessment, and may adjourn such meeting 
 from time to time, until the same shall be completed. 
 
 In making the said assessment, the lots, blocks and 
 parcels of land deemed benefited, as aforesaid, shall be 
 assessed, according to the descriptions and divisions 
 thereof appearing of record in said county, on the day 
 of the said first meeting, for the purpose of making the 
 said assessment: but no error in the description or di- 
 vision of any lot, block or parcel of land, in making 
 said assessment, shall vitiate the same, provided the 
 premises are described with substantial accuracy. The 
 said corporate authorities shall estimate the value of 
 the several lots, blocks or parcels of land deemed by 
 them benefited as aforesaid, and shall include the same, 
 together with the amount assessed for benefits, in an 
 assessment book or roll. — All parties interested may 
 appear before said corporate authorities, and may be 
 heard touching any matter connected with the assess- 
 ment. 
 
 When the same shall be completed it shall be signed 
 by the said corporate authorities, or by a majority 
 thereof, and returned to the Circuit Court of the county 
 in which such towns are situated, and filed with the 
 clerk of said court, — whereupon the said corporate au- 
 thorities shall give at least ten days' notice of the filing
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 77 
 
 of said assessment roll, aud that tliey will on a day 
 named, apply to the said Circuit Court for confirmation 
 of the same. Said notice shall be signed by said corpo- 
 rate authorities, or by a majority of them, and shall 
 state the general nature of the improvement for which 
 said assessment was made, and the towns, township, 
 range and section in which the same is situated, with- 
 out further description of its locality; and shall also 
 state when the said assessment was filed in said court 
 and the da}^ when the said corporate authorities will 
 aj^ply to said court for confirmation of the same; but 
 said notice need not contain a description of the lots, 
 blocks or parcels of land assessed, nor the amount as- 
 sessed upon them, or any of them, nor mention any 
 particular law or laws of the State under which said 
 assessment was made; which said notice shall be pub- 
 lished in one or more newspapers published in the coun- 
 ty in which said towns are situated, at least ten days 
 before the time therein named for such application. 
 When it shall appear to said court that proper notice 
 has been given, it shall have power to hear, adjudge and 
 determine the matter of said application, and all mat- 
 ters connected therewith. Any person interested in 
 any lot, block or parcel of land assessed, may appear 
 therein, in person or by attorney, and object to said 
 assessment : Provided, All objections shall be in writ- 
 ing and be filed in said court at least three days before 
 the time fixed for said application, and shall specify the 
 lots, blocks or parcels of land wherein the said person 
 objecting is interested, in respect whereof objections 
 are made, and the grounds thereof; said court shall 
 have power to revise, correct, amend and confirm the 
 said assessment, in whole or in part, and may, without
 
 78 STATUTESi 
 
 further notice or order, make a new assessment in wliole 
 or in part, and the same confirm, or may order a new 
 assessment to be made in whole or in part, and the 
 same may revise, correct, amend and confirm upon lilve 
 notice as aforesaid, or upon such notice as it may pre- 
 scribe, but no order to make a new assessment in part 
 shall hinder or delay the confirmation of the residue, or 
 the collection thereof. From and after the time the 
 amount of any assessment shall be ascertained and con- 
 firmed by said court, as to any lot, block or parcel of 
 land so assessed, the amount thereof shall be a lien 
 thereon, and may be paid at any time. The said court 
 shall divide the amount of said assessment into install- 
 ments, and fix the amount of the first installment, but 
 the first installment shall not exceed twenty-five (25) 
 per cent, of the said assessment. 
 
 The portion of said assessment, after deducting there- 
 from said first installment, shall be divided by the court 
 into seven equal installments, Avhich said installments 
 shall be payable annually thereafter, and the court 
 shall fix the time on or before which each of said install- 
 ments shall severally be paid. All installments shall 
 bear interest at the rate of seveii per cent, per annum 
 from the time on or before which the payment of the 
 first one is to be made. The said corporate authorities, 
 or their officer, from time to time duly authorized by 
 them, and to be mentioned in some order or orders of 
 said court, which it may from time to time make, shall 
 have full power and authority to collect such assess- 
 ment from the owners of such lands, and to give all 
 proper receipts and discharges therefor. The orders of 
 said court shall be conclusive evidence of the regularity 
 of all previous proceedings necessary to the validity
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 79 
 
 • 
 
 thereof, and of all matters and things theiein recited as 
 having been heard and adjudged by said court. It shall 
 be the duty of the clerk of said court to enter in said 
 assessment book or books, or upon said assessment 
 roll, all reA'isions, corrections and amendments of such 
 assessment, and all new assessments made by the court, 
 and all revisions, corrections and amendments of the 
 same, and all orders for new assessments and all new 
 assessments made in pursuance of sucli order, and all 
 revisions, corrections and amendments of the same, to- 
 gether Avitli all orders of the court in said proceedings. 
 The said corporate authorities are required to fur- 
 nish to the clerk of said court a duplicate copy of said 
 assessment book or books, or roll, wherein shall be en- 
 tered from time to time by said corporate authorities 
 the several matters and things entered in said original 
 assessment book or books, or upon said original assess- 
 ment roll, which duplicate and the entries thereon, 
 shall from time to time, as the}' are made, be ceilitied 
 by the clerk of said court, under the seal thereof, as a 
 true cop\' of the original, and such duplicate copy of 
 the assessment book or books, or roll, certified as afore- 
 said, shall be sufficient authority to said corporate au- 
 thorities, or to their officer designated therein, to collect 
 any assessment therein confirmed as aforesaid, and to 
 receipt for and discharge the same. It shall be the duty 
 of the officer having the custody of said original assess- 
 ment book or books, or roll, to enter thereon from such 
 receipt or discharge the fact of such payment, which 
 entry shall be evidence of the same. After the proceed- 
 ings in the said Circuit Court shall be finally concluded 
 and terminated, it shall be the dut}' of the clerk tliere- 
 of to deposit said original assessment book or books.
 
 80 STATUTES. 
 
 or roll, and all proceedings relative to the same, duly 
 entered as aforesaid, and properly certified, with the 
 County Clerk of the county in which such towns are 
 situated. 
 
 In case said assessment, or any part thereof, so con- 
 firmed as aforesaid, shall not be paid at the time or 
 times fixed therefor by the orders of said Circuit Court, 
 it shall be the duty of the corporate authorities to re- 
 turn to the County Treasurer, or to some general officer 
 of said county having authority to receive State and 
 county taxes, a list of the lots, blocks and parcels of 
 land so assessed, upon which said assessment shall re- 
 main unpaid, and the amount unpaid upon each lot, 
 block or parcel of land, and from and after the return 
 of such delinquent list, the said County Treasurer or 
 other general officer of said county having authority to 
 receive said State and county taxes, as well as said 
 corporate authorities, or their officer, shall have author- 
 ity to receive any of said unpaid assessments, and to 
 give all proper receipts and discharges therefor. It 
 shall also be the duty of said corporate authorities to 
 make and certify to the County Court in which such 
 towns are situated a return, therein designating the 
 said delinquent lands and the due and unpaid assess- 
 ments against the same; and thereupon the said cor- 
 porate authorities shall give notice by publication in 
 one or more of said newspapers, that they will, on a day 
 in said notice named, apply to said County Court for 
 judgment against all delinquent lots, blocks or parcels 
 of land upon which said assessment, or any part there- 
 of, shall be unpaid. Such notice may be general, but 
 must contain a description of the lots, blocks or parcels 
 of land and the names of parties interested, if known,
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 81 
 
 and the amount due and unpaid, which notice shall be 
 published in one or more of said newspapers at least 
 ten days before the time fixed for making said applica- 
 tion, and the said application may be made on the day 
 named, or any day of the same term by the permission 
 of said court. The said corporate authorities and the 
 said County Treasurer, or other general officer of said 
 county, to whom said delinquent list shall have been 
 returned, shall respectively report to said court the 
 respective lots, blocks and parcels of Jaiid upon which 
 said assessment has been paid to theiu resi>ectively, 
 after the return of said delinquent lists as aforesaid. 
 And thereupon such proceedings, orders and judgments 
 shall be had, as nearly as may be, as in cases of delin- 
 quent lands whereof judgment is prayed for the non- 
 payment of State and county taxes; and the said judg- 
 ments shall be conclusive of the regularity of all mat- 
 ters necessary to the validity thereof, excepting the 
 giving of said notice of the application for judgment. 
 After said notice for application for judgment shall 
 have been published, the cost of publication shall be 
 added to the assessment, as in the case of State and 
 county taxes. After judgment shall have been ren- 
 dered, the same shall be executed in the same manner, 
 as nearly as may be, as is or may be provided by law for 
 executing judgments for State and county taxes; b\it 
 no judgment or sale of any lot, block or parcel of land 
 so assessed for any one installment of said assessment, 
 shall discharge the premises from any subsequent in- 
 stallment of the assessment, and proceedings for the 
 non-payment of subsequent installments may be had 
 in the same manner as if no default had been made in 
 previous ones. All moneys collected by said treasurer
 
 82 STATUTES. 
 
 or other general officer of said county, and all moneys 
 realized from the sales of saidjands upon judgments 
 as aforesaid, shall at ouce be paid over to said corpor- 
 ate authorities, who shall execute a proper receipt 
 therefor. The said County Treasurer or other general 
 officer shall not be entitled to any compensation for 
 receiving and disbursing of moneys by him under this 
 act, or for services rendered by him as herein required, 
 except the salary allowed him by law. Any and all 
 moneys collected and obtained upon or out of said as- 
 sessments, may be api^lied by the said corporate au- 
 thorities to and for any of the uses and purposes named 
 or intended by the act or acts under which they are 
 organized. And if the proceeds of said assessment shall 
 amount to a greater sum than the cost of the lands, 
 expenses and cost of assessment and collection as afore- 
 said, the overplus shall be applied by said corporate au- 
 thorities toward making the improvement which they 
 are authorized to make: Provided, that such excess 
 shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five thousand dol- 
 lars. If it exceeds that sum, then and in that case it 
 shall be refunded pro rata to the parties paying such 
 assessment. Any and all such corporate authorities as 
 aforesaid may avail themselves of the provisions and 
 privileges of this act, notwithstanding any provisions 
 in the several acts creating them. 
 
 Sec. 4. Altering location or boundaries — Dam- 
 ages. Corporate authorities of towns having the con- 
 trol or supervision of any public park, boulevard, drive- 
 way or highway, which has been located in pursuance 
 of a vote of the people of such towns, desiring to alter or 
 change the location of the same, or of any part thereof, 
 or of any of the boundary lines of the same, may, by pe-
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 83 
 
 titioiijin writing, apply to the Ciiciiit Court of the county 
 in which such towns are situated, for leave to make 
 such alteration or change. Notice of such application 
 shall be given by said corporate authorities in some 
 newspaper published in said county, at least ten days 
 before the da}^ named therein, when said application 
 will be made, all persons interested may appear before 
 said Circuit Court, either in person or by attorney, when 
 said application shall be made, and object to the grant- 
 ing thereof. After hearing all persons interested, if 
 said court shall deem the granting of said application 
 to be for the public interest, it shall make an order 
 granting to said corporate authorities leave to make 
 such alteration or change, or such part thereof, as it 
 ma}' deem for tlie public good, and granting power to 
 acquire by purchase or under any law of the State for 
 acquiring lands for public use, such additional lands 
 as such change or alteration may, in the judgment of 
 said court, render necessaiy; and if by reason of an}^ 
 such change or alteration, any parcel of laud shall no 
 longer be deemed necessary or useful for the purpose of 
 said park, boulevard, driveway or highway, the said 
 court may direct the same to be sold and conveyed for 
 the use of said park upon such terms and conditions 
 as it may think proper. Damages sustained by any per- 
 son injuriously affected by reason of any such change 
 or alteration, shall be ascertained and paid in the same 
 manner as in other cases of the exercise of the right 
 of eminent domain. The said corporate authorities 
 shall make, acknowledge and file for record in the office 
 of the recorder of deeds for such county a map showing 
 any change or alteration made under au,y order of court, 
 as aforesaid; Trovided, that no application shall be
 
 84 STATUTES. 
 
 made under or by virtue of this section after the first 
 day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sev- 
 enty-two, nor shall any change be made affecting the 
 general location of any such park after said date. 
 
 Sec. 5. Application of surplus funds.— Report. 
 When any town, towns or corporation is subject to 
 taxation or special assessment for the improvement of 
 any park or parks, approached or connected by boule- 
 vard or boulevards, the money so raised by taxation or 
 special assessment remaining unexpended after de- 
 fraying the expense for improving the boulevard or 
 boulevards (the money so raised by taxation or special 
 assessment remaining unexpended after defraying the 
 expense for improving the boulevard or boulevards) to 
 said park or parks, shall be expended upon the parks 
 (if more than one) in said town, towns or corporation, 
 pro rata, according to the number of acres in each, un- 
 less already sufficiently improved, and it is hereby 
 made the duty of the Board of Commissioners of any 
 park or parks to cause the money to be so expended. 
 The Commissioners having in charge the maintenance 
 and improvement of any public park, or parks, boule- 
 vard, driveway, highway or other public improvement 
 under or by virtue of this act, shall, on the first day of 
 December, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and sev- 
 enty-one, and annually thereafter, submit to the Board 
 of County Commissioners or Board of Supervisors in the 
 county in which the same may be located, a written or 
 printed report of all their acts and doings in relation 
 to the parks and other improvements under their su- 
 IDei'vision or control. 
 
 Sec. 6. All laws and acts inconsistent with this act 
 are hereby repealed.
 
 COMPLETION AND MANAGEMENT. 85 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 In the case of Dunham vs. People ex rel., 96 111., 331, 
 it was held that the people, by voting for the park act 
 in 1809, made the South Park Commissioners corporate 
 authorities for the towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park 
 and Lake for the purpose of assessing and collecting 
 the requisite tax upon the property within the towns, 
 and that, therefore, the South Park Commissioners, un- 
 der the law of 1871, were to be recognized as the proper 
 corporate authorities of these three towns for the pur- 
 pose of levying a special assessment to lay out the park 
 system as a local improvement, and that the South 
 Park Commissioners were proper corporate authorities 
 of the three towns named, Avithin the meaning of the 
 constitution authorizing corporate authorities of cities, 
 towns, etc., to do certain acts, but not naming "Park 
 Commissioners" in terms. 
 
 In the case of the People, ex rel., vs. Brislin, 80 111., 
 42.3, it was held that the act approved June 16, 1871, 
 authorizing the Park Commissioners to issue bonds in 
 renewal of bonds theretofore issued by them, and to 
 provide for the payment of the same, and make, revise 
 and collect a special assessment on contiguous property 
 for benefits, by reason of the location of parks, boule- 
 vards, etc., and making changes in the manner of the 
 special assessment was valid, although not submitted 
 to a vote of the people. The Court said: 
 
 "The park district, when established in pursuance of the act creat- 
 ing it, became a muncipality for certain purposes, and as such, came 
 within the domain of legislation. 
 
 "The powers of the corporate authorities of this municipality are 
 subservient to the legislative power, precisely as in the case of other 
 municipalities, and are no't interfered with by the present State 
 constitution." * * * 
 
 "We think it is a fair deduction from all the constitutional pro-
 
 86 STATUTES. 
 
 visions, and, from the very nature of our government, changes de- 
 manded bj' the exigency of the times, in regard to municipal cor- 
 porations, are within the domain of ordinary legislation." 
 
 In the case of West Chicago Park Commissioners vs. 
 the City of Chicago, 152 111., 392, the Court modified its 
 former opinions and held that the various boards of 
 Park Commissioners were municipal corporations and 
 not quasi municipal corporations, and that as such mu- 
 nicipal corporations, they have full and complete power 
 within their jurisdiction for park purposes, which pow- 
 er is exclusive. The Court said, in discussing the ques- 
 tion (page 406): 
 
 "It follows that the power of the park board over all these parks, 
 boulevards and streets, for the purposes prescribed by these statutes, 
 is plenary, while that of the city is wholly excluded. And this ex- 
 clusion, so far as it relates to any power on the part of the city 
 to govern, manage, control or interfere with these parks, boulevards 
 and streets as such, is as complete as it would have been if the parks, 
 boulevards and streets had been wholly withdrawn from the terri- 
 torial limits of the city. Indeed, the legal effect of the various park 
 acts would seem to be to take them out of the territorial jurisdiction 
 of the city, so that, so far as the power of the city in relation to 
 them is concerned, the corporate organization of the city is prac- 
 tically dissolved." * * * 
 
 "We do not intend to intimate that, in the exercise of other 
 municipal powers and functions, the city is excluded from jurisdic- 
 tion over the park property, but only that, so far as relates to the 
 laying out, improvement, management and control of the parks, the 
 jurisdiction of the park board is excliisive. For all the purposes, 
 then, of laying out, improving and maintaining parks, boulevards, 
 streets and like public grounds, the city and the Park Commission- 
 ers occupy the legal position of two independent and co-equal muni- 
 cipalities, each vested with exclusive jurisdiction over the public 
 grounds committed to its care, as trustee for the public. Neither 
 can encroach upon the territorial jurisdiction of the other, but they 
 stand, so far as these public grounds are concerned, in substantially 
 the same legal relation to each other as though their territorial 
 limits embraced adjoining but wholly separate areas. So far, then, 
 as relates to all questions of street improvements, the West Chicago 
 parks and boulevards are no more to be considered as a part of the 
 City of Chicago than they would be if they were situated within the 
 adjoining city of Evanston."
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 87 
 
 DRIVES TO PUBLIC PARKS. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS AND CORPORATE 
 AUTHORITIES TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL, AND IM- 
 PROVE PUBLIC STREETS LEADING TO PUBLIC PARKS, TO 
 PAY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT THEREOF, AND IN THAT 
 BEHALF TO MAKE AND COLLECT A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT 
 OR SPECIAL TAX ON CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY. [AP- 
 PROVED AND IN FORCE APRIL 9, 1879.] 
 
 Section 1. Power to take streets — Consents. 
 That eveiy Board of Park Commissioners sliall have 
 power to connect any public park, boulevard or drive- 
 way under its control with any paii; of any incorporated 
 city, town or village, by selecting and taking any con- 
 necting street or streets, or parts thereof, leading to 
 such park: Provided, that the street so selected and 
 taken, so far as taken, shall be Avithin the district or 
 teiTitory the property of which shall be taxable for the 
 maintenance of such park. And, provided further, 
 that the consent of the corporate authorities having 
 control of anj' such street or streets so far as taken, and 
 also the consent in writing of the owners of a majority 
 of the frontage of the lots and lands abutting on such 
 street or streets so far as taken, shall be first obtained. 
 And, provided further, that such connection or improve- 
 ment shall embrace only such street or streets as are 
 necessaiy to form one continuous improvement. 
 
 Sec. 2. Assessment for improvement. That such 
 Board of Park Commissioners or such corporate au- 
 thorities as are by law authorized to levy taxes or as- 
 sessments for the maintenance of such parks, shall have 
 power to improve such street or streets as they may 
 deem best, and for that purj)ose they are hereby author-
 
 88 STATUTES. 
 
 ized to pay for the improvement thereof, and from time 
 to time to levy or cause to be levied and collected a 
 special tax or assessment on contiguous property abut- 
 ting upon such streets so improved, for a sum of money 
 not exceeding the estimated cost of such first improve- 
 ment or improvements as shall be ordered and esti- 
 mated by such Board of Park Commissioners, but not 
 for any subsequent repairs thereof, and to that end 
 such board or corporate authorities shall have all the 
 power and authority now or hereafter granted to them 
 respectively relative to the lev\^, assessment and collec- 
 tion of taxes or assessments for corporate purposes. 
 And such special taxes or assessments as are hereby 
 authorized may be divided into not exceeding four an- 
 nual installments, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per 
 cent, per annum from the date of confirmation until 
 paid. And the said assessments or installments there- 
 of shall be collected and enforced in the same manner 
 as is provided by law for the collection and enforcement 
 of other taxes or assessments, for or on account of such 
 corporate bodies or boards, so far as the same are ap- 
 plicable. 
 
 Sec. 3. Power of commissioners. Such Park 
 Boards shall have the same power and control over the 
 parts of streets taken under this act as are or may be 
 by the law vested in them of and concerning the parks, 
 boulevards or driveways under their control. 
 
 Sec. 4. Reversion to corporate authorities— 
 When. In case any such streets or parts thereof shall 
 pass from the control of any such Park Board, the 
 power and authority over the same, granted or author- 
 ized by this act, shall revert to the proper corporate
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 89 
 
 authorities of such city, town or village respectively as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 5. Municipalities may confer control. Any 
 city, town or village in this State shall have full power 
 and authority to invest any of such Park Boards with 
 the right to control, improve and maintain any of the 
 streets of such city, town or village for the purpose of 
 canning out the provisions of this act. 
 
 Sec. 6. Emergency. Whereas, there is a necessity 
 for the immediate construction of the improvement 
 contemplated in this act, therefore an emergency ex- 
 ists, and this act shall take effect and be in force from 
 and after its passage. 
 
 (For Supreme Court decisions see post, page 05.) 
 
 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION TWO (2) OF AN ACT ENTITLED, 
 "AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS OR CORPO- 
 RATE AUTHORITIES TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL AND 
 IMPROVE PUBLIC STREETS LEADING TO PUBLIC PARKS, 
 TO PAY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT THEREOF, AND IN THAT 
 BEHALF TO MAKE AND COLLECT SPECIAL ASSESSMENT 
 OR SPECIAL TAX ON CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY," APPROVED 
 AND IN FORCE APRIL 9, 1879, AS APPROVED [AMENDED] 
 JUNE 27, 1885. [APPROVED JUNE 16, 1887. IN FORCE JULY 
 1, 1887.] 
 
 Section 1. Assessment. That section two (2) of an 
 act entitled "An Act to enable Park Commissioners or 
 corporate authorities to take, regulate, control and im- 
 prove public streets leading to public parks, to pay for 
 the improvement thereof, and in that behalf to make 
 and collect a special assessment or special tax on con- 
 tiguous property," approved and in force April 9, 1879, 
 as approved [amended] June 27, 1885, be and the same 
 is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
 
 90 STATUTES. 
 
 Sec. 2. That such Park Commissioners or such cor- 
 porate authorities as are by la,w authorized to levy 
 taxes or assessments for the maintenance of such parks 
 shall have power to imiDrove, maintain and repair such 
 street or streets in such manner as they may deem best, 
 and for that purpose they are hereby authorized to pay 
 for the improvement thereof, and from time to time to 
 leYj or cause to be levied and collected a special tax or 
 assessment on contiguous property abutting upon such 
 street so improved for a sum of money not ex- 
 ceeding the estimated cost of such first improvement or 
 improvements as shall be ordered and estimated by 
 such Board of Park Commissioners, but not for any sub- 
 sequent care, maintenance or repair thereof; and to 
 that end such board or corporate authorities shall have 
 power and authority now or hereafter granted to them 
 respective!}^, relative to the levy, assessment and collec- 
 tion of taxes or assessments for corporate purposes. 
 And such special tax or assessments as are hereb}^ au- 
 thorized may be divided into not exceeding four annual 
 installments, bearing interest at the rate of six per 
 cent, per annum from the date of confirmation until 
 paid; and the assessment or installments thereof shall 
 be collected and enforced in the same manner as is pro- 
 vided by law for the collection and enforcement of other 
 taxes or assessments for, or on account of, such corpor- 
 ate bodies or boards as aforesaid, so far as the same are 
 applicable.
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 91 
 
 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE (1) OF AN ACT ENTITLED 
 "AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS OR CORPO- 
 RATE AUTHORITIES TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL AND 
 IMPROVE PUBLIC STREETS LEADING TO PUBLIC PARKS, 
 TO PAY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT THEREOF, AND IN THAT 
 BEHALF TO MAKE AND COLLECT A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT 
 OR SPECIAL TAX ON CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY," APPROVED 
 AND IN FORCE APRIL 9, 1879, AS AMENDED BY AN ACT 
 APPROVED JUNE 27, 1885, AND IN FORCE JULY 1, 1885. 
 [APPROVED JUNE 17, 1895. IN FORCE JULY 1, 1895.] 
 
 Section 1. Power to take streets— Consents. 
 That section one (1) of an act entitled "An Act to enable 
 Park Commissioners or corporate authorities to take, 
 regulate, control and improve public streets leading to 
 public parks, to pay for the improvement thereof, and 
 in that behalf to make and collect a special assessment 
 or special tax on contiguous property," approved and in 
 force April 9, 1879, as amended by an act approved 
 June 27, 18S5, and in force July 1, 1885, be and the same 
 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 1. That every board of Park Commissioners 
 shall have power to connect any public park, boule- 
 vard or driveway under its control with any part of unj 
 incorporated city, town or village, by selecting and 
 taking any connecting street or streets or part thereof 
 leading to such park; and shall also have power to ac- 
 cept and add to any such park any street or part thereof 
 which adjoins and runs parallel with any boundary line 
 of the same. Provided, that the streets so selected and 
 taken so far as taken shall lie within the district or 
 territory, the property of which shall be taxable for the 
 maintenance of such parks. And, provided further, 
 that the consent of the corporate authorities having 
 control of any such street or streets so far as selected 
 and taken, and also the consent in writing of the own-
 
 92 STATUTES. 
 
 ers of a majority of the frontage of tlie lots and lands 
 abutting on such street or streets so far as taken shall 
 be first obtained. And, provided further, that every 
 Board of Park Commissioners who shall have exercised 
 the power hereinabove granted to select and take 
 streets, or parts of streets, for the purpose of connect- 
 ing any public park, boulevard or driveway under its 
 control with any part of any incorporated city, town or 
 village, shall have the power to abandon and surrender 
 over any street, or part of any street, forming the whole 
 or any part of such connection so made, to the proper 
 corporate authorities of the city, village, or toAvn re- 
 spectively to which the control of any such street or 
 part of a street so abandoned would revert, and for the 
 purpose of connecting the same points or of making 
 any portion of such connection, to select and take in 
 place of any streets, street or part of a street so surren- 
 dered, any other and different streets, street or part of a 
 street, which may be desirable and expedient for mak- 
 ing the said connection; but such power shall only be 
 exercised upon the consent first obtained of the proper 
 corporate authorities to whom the control of the streets, 
 street or parts of a street, so far as abandoned would 
 revert, and of the proper corporate authorities having 
 control of the streets, street or part of a street, so far 
 as proposed to be taken, and upon the consent in writ- 
 ing first obtained of the owners of a majority of the 
 frontage of the lots and lands abutting on the streets, 
 street or part of a street, so far as abandoned, and upon 
 the consent in writing first obtained of the owners of a 
 majority of the frontage of the lots and lands abutting , 
 on the streets, street or part of a street, so far as pro- 
 posed to be taken.
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 93 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS OR PARK 
 AUTHORITIES TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL AND IM- 
 PROVE PUBLIC STREETS, AND TO PAY FOR THE IMPROVE- 
 MENT THEREOF. [APPROVED JUNE 21, 1895. IN FORCE 
 JULY 1, 1895.] 
 
 Section 1. Streets taken by Park Commissioners, 
 etc. That every Board of Park Commissioners or park 
 authorities shall have power to connect any public 
 park, boulevard or driveway under its control with any 
 part of any incorporated city, town or village (?) by se- 
 leetin.c: and taking any connecting street or streets, or 
 parts thereof, leading to such park, boulevard or drive- 
 way, and shall also have power to accept and add to any 
 parks or park under their control any street or parts 
 thereof which adjoins or runs parallel with any boun- 
 dary line of the same. I'rovided, that the streets so se- 
 lected and taken, so far as taken, shall lie Avithin the 
 district or territory, the property of which shall be tax- 
 able for the maintenance of such parks, boulevard or 
 driveway. And, provided further^ that the consent of 
 the corporate authorities having control of any such 
 street or streets so far as selected and taken, and also 
 the consent in w^riting of the owners of a majority of 
 the frontage of the lots and lands abutting on such 
 streets, so far as taken, shall be first obtained. 
 
 Sec. 2. Special taxes— special assessments. That 
 such Board of Park Commissioners or park authorities 
 shall have power to improve such street or streets, or 
 parts thereof, in such manner as they may deem best 
 and as they have or may hereafter have power to im- 
 prove other streets under their control, and for that 
 purpose they are hereby authorized to pay for the im- 
 provement thereof by levying, assessing and collecting
 
 94 STATUTES. 
 
 a special tax on contiguous property abutting on said 
 street or streets, or parts thereof, so improved, or a spe- 
 cial assessment on property benefited, in the manner in 
 which said Board of Park Commissioners or park au- 
 thorities are now or may be hereafter empowered by 
 law to levy, assess and collect special taxes on contigu- 
 ous j)roperty or special assessments for benefits in other 
 cases, or to pay therefor by general taxation, or both; 
 but no such special tax or special assessment shall be 
 levied for the maintenance and repair of such improved 
 street; but the same shall be maintained and repaired 
 by said park boards or park authorities, as in other 
 cases. And such special taxes or special assessments 
 as are herebj^ authorized may be divided into not ex- 
 ceeding four annual installments, bearing six per cent, 
 per annum interest from the date of confirmation there- 
 of by the court until paid, and the same shall be col- 
 lected and enforced in the same manner as is or may 
 hereafter be provided by law for the collection and en- 
 forcement of other special taxes or special assessments, 
 for or on account of said Park Commissioners or park 
 authorities, so far as the same is applicable. 
 
 Sec. 3. Control by Park Commissioners. Such 
 park boards or park authorities shall have the same 
 power and control over the streets or part of streets so 
 selected and taken, under this act as are now or may be 
 hereafter vested in them, over and concerning parks, 
 boulevards or driveways or other streets. 
 
 Sec. 4. Reversion. In case any such streets or 
 parks thereof shall pass from the control of any such 
 Park Commissioners or park authorities, the power and 
 authority over the same, granted or authorized by this
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 95 
 
 act, shall revert to the proper corporate authorities of 
 such city, town or village respectively, as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 5. Municipality may vest control in Park 
 Commissioners. Any incorporated city, town or vil- 
 lage in this State shall have full power and authority 
 to invest any of such Park Commissioners or park au- 
 thorities with the right to control, improve and main- 
 tain any of the streets of such city, town oi' village, for 
 the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. 
 
 Sec. G. Streets already taken included. The pro- 
 visions of this act, so far as the same applies to improv- 
 ing, maintaining and repairing any street or streets, 
 or parts thereof, and of the levy, assessment and collec- 
 tion of special taxes and special assessments, shall ap- 
 ply to any street or streets, or parts thereof, that have 
 been heretofore selected and taken under the control of 
 any Park Commissioners or park authorities, and to any 
 such street or streets, or parts thereof, which, or por- 
 tions of which, have not yet been improved by such 
 Park Commissioners or park authorities. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 In the case of Kreigh vs. City of Chicago, 86 111., 407, it 
 was held that, under the law as it stood previous to the 
 act of 1879, the City Council of Chicago had no author- 
 ity to turn over a street to be improved, controlled and 
 managed by the Park Commissioners, and that such an 
 ordinance passed, though it might be a license protect- 
 ing the Commissioners from prosecution for interfering 
 with said street, it would not divest the city of its pow- 
 ers of the street. 
 
 In the case of the People ex rel. vs. .Tolni M. W;ilsli, 00
 
 96 STATUTES. 
 
 111., 232, there was involved the legality of the proceed- 
 ings by which Michigan Aveni\e, from Jackson Street 
 to Thirty-fifth Street, and Thirty-fifth Street from Mich- 
 igan Avenue to Grand Boulevard, were turned over by 
 the City of Chicago and selected and taken by the South 
 Park Commissioners as and for a boulevard. The pro- 
 ceeding was by quo warranto. The action of turning 
 over the two streets to the South Park Commissioners 
 was under the act of the Legislature of 1879. No ques- 
 tion was raised in the proceeding as to the sufficiency 
 of the consents by the owners of the abutting property. 
 The question raised was whether it was competent for 
 the General Assembly to transfer the control of the 
 streets of a city to Park Commissioners, to be by them 
 controlled for boulevard and driveway puriDoses. The 
 City Council of Chicago had passed an ordinance on 
 June 23, 1879, authorizing the South Park Commis- 
 sioners to take, regulate, control and improve the be- 
 fore described parts of Michigan Avenue and Thirty- 
 fifth Street, respectively, in manner and form provided 
 in said act of 1879. And the South Park Commission- 
 ers^ by resolution passed on July 15, 1879, did thereby 
 select and take said parts of said streets. The resolution 
 and the ordinance of the City Council is set out in full 
 in the report of the case in the Supreme Court. 
 
 The case went to the Supreme Court upon the de- 
 murrer to the plea filed by the South Park Commis- 
 sioners as individuals, the demurrer being overruled, 
 and the relator electing to stand by the demurrer. 
 
 In the plea of the defendants it was distinctly averred 
 and set up that they "have claimed, and do yet claim to 
 "have, use and enjoy control, authority and jurisdiction 
 "over said parts of Michigan Avenue and Thirty-fifth
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 97 
 
 "Street, as they well might and still may, for the pub- 
 "lic purposes and uses for which said parts of said 
 "streets were dedicated and conveyed, and under the au- 
 "thority conferred and the duties imposed upon them 
 "by law." 
 
 The Court said: 
 
 "Manifestly, so long as the streets are to be kept and used for 
 the usual and ordinary uses and purposes of streets, there could be 
 found no constitutional objection to legislation of this character. 
 But the claim here is, tnat there will be a use of the streets for 
 boulevard and driveway purposes, which will be in violation ot 
 rights guaranteed by the constitution, because it will exclude the 
 usual and ordinary uses to which streets are applied. No such use 
 is specifically charged in the information or admitted in the plea, 
 and such a use is not an indispensable condition to the jurisdiction 
 of the Park Commissioners over these streets. Will it not be quite 
 time enough to complain of acts in excess of lawful authority when 
 the right to practice them is avowed?" * * * 
 
 "We are unable to see that the use of the streets in question for 
 the usual purposes of streets, must necessarily be inconsistent with 
 their improvement and use for boulevard and driveway purposes. 
 We can not say, as matter of law, that authority to take and use 
 streets for these purposes implies, necessarily, authority to ex- 
 clude the usual and ordinary uses of streets.'' 
 
 But the Court went still further, and held that even 
 if the turning over of such streets to the South Park 
 Commissioners should change the use of the streets, 
 still that it was within the authority of the Legislature 
 to confer such right. Though, if a change of use thus 
 made damaged a private individual owning property 
 upon the street, he would be entitled, under the present 
 constitution, to sue for and recover his damages. 
 
 The Court stated that it would not assume that the 
 Park Commissioners would undertake to divest private 
 rights and appropriate them to public use without mak- 
 ing compensation or proceeding to condemn under the 
 eminent domain act.
 
 98 STATUTES. 
 
 "Upon the whole, we think the judgment below to be right. The 
 mere fact that the Park Commissioners may claim the right to do 
 some act prejudicial to the interest of individuals, furnishes no 
 reason why they may not, as affects the public, do those acts which 
 are clearly sanctioned by law. 
 
 "As respects any excess of authority, the action of the Commis- 
 sioners may be controlled by injunction; and they may be held in- 
 dividually responsible in actions by those who are pecuniarily 
 injured; and in proper cases, they may be liable to criminal prose- 
 cutions." 
 
 In the above case, People ex rel. vs. Walsh, 96 111., 
 232, there was a reservation in the ordinance passed by 
 the City Council of the City of Chicago, as follows : 
 
 "PROVIDED, ihowever, that nothing in this ordinance contained 
 shall be construed as a waiver or relinquishment by or on the part 
 of said city, of any of its rights or powers in relation to the laying 
 of water or gas mains and pipes, and the building aaid repairing 
 of sewers, in said streets, and the regulating of openings for the 
 same; all powers which said city now has in relation to water 
 and gas pipes and sewers, and their connections and the regulation 
 of the same, and the openings for the same, in streets and alleys of 
 said city, being hereby expressly reserved as to the said part of 
 Michigan Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street in as ample a manner as 
 if the aforesaid consent was not given." 
 
 It was claimed in opposition to the legalit}^ of the or- 
 dinance that under the act of 1879, if control was turned 
 over to the South Park Commissioners that it was an 
 absolute control in order to the complete execution of 
 the powers of the Commissioners, and that such control 
 was inconsistent with a partial control retained by the 
 city. 
 
 Counsel for the People said : 
 
 "The question here is, has the council assented. It had the 
 grant of powers so to do, but might or not, as it should choose; it 
 was under no moral or legal obligation. The whole ordinance read 
 together shows that it did not assent in the manner contemplated 
 or authorized." 
 
 In answer to this argument, the Supreme Court said: 
 
 "It is not attempted to be shown why an absolute control is 
 necessary in order to the execution of the powers of the Commis-
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 99 
 
 sioners. It is asserted that this necessity is inconsistent with a 
 partial control by the city, and if the necessity be conceded, the 
 conclusion would clearly be correct. But why may not the main 
 objects and purposes of the grant to the Park Commissioners be 
 entirely consistent with the exercise of the reserved powers in the 
 city?" * ♦ * 
 
 "The act of April 9, 1879, does not make it obligatory upon the 
 city to confer control over the streets upon the Park Commissioners. 
 It only enables them to do so or not as they shall choose. The 
 corporate authorities having control of any such streets, must first 
 give their consent. They are at liberty to entirely withhold it, or 
 grant it only subject to conditions. If the Park Commissioners ac- 
 cept it with conditions, the performance of the conditions then be- 
 comes obligatory. 
 
 "There is no more apparent repugnancy between the grant and 
 the reservation here than there is between a lease of lands for farm- 
 ing purposes and the reservation of the right to take timber or 
 gravel, etc., from the land, or to travel across it, or use water from 
 springs there on, or to excavate and mine for coal or other minerals 
 beneath its surface. 
 
 "The grant is merely charged with the burden of the reservation. 
 The rights of each may be enjoyed without necessary conflict." 
 
 In the case of Thorn vs. West Chicago Park Commis- 
 sioners, 130 111., 594, the West Chicago Park Commis- 
 sioners had selected and taken, under the act of 1.S71), 
 as amended by the acts of 1885 and 1887, fjortions of 
 Twelfth Street and Ogden Avenne for the jinrpose of 
 constructing a continnons boulevard leading into Doug- 
 las Park. No question was raised but that the proper 
 consent had been granted by the corporate authorities 
 of the City of Chicago. The Park Commissioners levied 
 a special assessment for the improvement of the streets 
 in question as a boulevard. Upon application for con- 
 firmation of such special assessnn'ut, objection was 
 made that the Park Commissioners had not acquired 
 jurisdiction over the streets. And the Court said (page 
 604): 
 
 "The controversy here relates to the third condition — the consent 
 of the owners of a majority of the abutting frontage. Such consent 
 of the owners of more than one-half of the frontage upon the por-
 
 100 STATUTES. 
 
 tions of the streets proposed to be converted into a boulevard con- 
 necting the park with the city, lay at the foundation of the right 
 of the Park Commissioners to assume control of the streets. The ex- 
 istence of the fact was necessary to the jurisdiction of the Park Com- 
 missioners, and the burthen was upon them to establish, prima facie 
 at least, the jurisdictional facts authorizing them to take these 
 streets for the purpose of constiiicting a boulevard appurtenant to 
 the park, and connecting the same with the city." 
 
 On the hearing, in order to show such consent of the 
 owners, the Commissioners produced a paper i^urport- 
 ing to be a. petition to the board by, and the consent of, 
 abutting property owners. It was sliown that such pa- 
 per came from the files kept b}' the Board of Commis- 
 sioners and was the written consent acted upon by the 
 board in taking the streets for tlie purpose contem- 
 j)lated. The trial court held that the production and 
 putting in evidence of the petition or consent paper 
 made a prima facie case for the Commissioners, and 
 put the burthen upon the objectors to sliow that it was 
 not the written consent of the propertj- owners, as it 
 purported to be. The Court said: 
 
 "We can not concur in the holding of the trial court. As we have 
 seen, the burthen was upon the Park Commissioners to show, aifirni- 
 atively, the jurisdictional fact of consent by the owners of the re- 
 quired amount of frontage. The evidence in respect thereof was, 
 we think, wholly insufllcient. "Waiving the matter of proving owner- 
 ship by the persons purporting to sign the paper admitted in evi- 
 dence, it is not shown that a sufficient number of such persons 
 signed the consent to constitute consent by the owners of a majority 
 of the abutting property. The only person introduced who' testified 
 generally to the execution of the writing testifies that ihe procured 
 the signatures of most of the signers, but not all, and he does not 
 testify, except in a few instances, either as to those he did or did not 
 procure. There are many signatures to the writing purporting to 
 be the consent of owners of abutting property, either of whom pur- 
 port to sign for a sufficient number of feet frontage to reduce the 
 amount to less than the required number of feet. We cannot tell 
 from the evidence contained in this record w^hether these persons 
 executed this instrument or not. The writing here offered is not
 
 DRIVES TO PARKS. 101 
 
 signed by the objectors, and we are aware of no rule by which it was 
 admissible in evidence against them, without proof of its execution. 
 "But if it could be conceded that the evidence was sufficient to 
 show the signing of the parties purporting to execute the writing, 
 the names of persons purporting to sign as owners, representing 
 over 1300 feet of this frontage, were apparently placed there by some 
 other person. There was no competent evidence tending to show 
 authority of the persons executing, or purporting to execute, the 
 consent for or on behalf of such owners. The execution or signing 
 of the name of the owner by one without authority would not be 
 binding upon the owner, and would not constitute consent, within 
 the meaning of the statute. The burthen was upon the Commission- 
 ers to show consent of the required number of owners, and to do 
 this, in this case, it was necessary to show that authority to execute 
 the consent was given by the owner on whose behalf it purported 
 to be executed. Henderson vs. Mayor of Baltimore, 8 Md., 352. 
 
 "Nor is the consent at all aided by the fact that the Park Com- 
 missioners acted upon the paper introduced in evidence, or by the 
 consent of the City of Chicago that the parts of the streets named 
 might be taken by the Commissioners for a boulevard. The action 
 of the city is wholly independent of that of the property owners. 
 And while the Park Commissioners must, in the first instance, pass 
 upon the fact of consent by the owners of abutting property, and 
 determine for themselves whether those owning a majority of such 
 property have consented to their appropriation of the street for the 
 purposes contemplated by the act, such determination can have no 
 effect when tlheir jurisdiction is challenged in endeavoring to carry 
 out the powers conferred by the statute. The power conferred upon 
 the park board affects and impairs the right of the citizen, and may 
 (and in the case of the minority of holders of abutting property does) 
 incumber his property without his consent, and may arbitrarily im- 
 pose onerous burdens for which there is no relief or redress. The 
 legislature has interposed the safeguard of requiring the consent of 
 the owners of more than one-half of the property to be affected, upon 
 the presumption, no doubt, that what will be of benefit to the grea er 
 portion will not unduly prejudice the lesser part; and when the 
 Commissioners sought confirmation of their assessment upon ap- 
 pellants' property, under the power conferred by the statute, it was 
 incumbent upon them to show compliance with the law, by which 
 alone they obtained jurisdiction to impose the burden. This they 
 have not done. Rex vs. Mayor of Liverpool, 4 Burr., 244; Smith vs. 
 City of Madison, 7 Ind., 8G; Clark vs. Washington, 12 Wheat., 40, 
 and supra.''
 
 102 STATUTES. 
 
 TRANSFER OF PARKS TO COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSION- 
 ERS HAVING CONTROL OF PARKS TO TAKE, REGULATE, 
 CONTROL AND IMPROVE PARKS NOW UNDER THE CON- 
 TROL OF INCORPORATED CITIES, VILLAGES OR TOWNS. 
 [APPROVED AND IN FORCE APRIL 11, 1885.] 
 
 Section 1. Transfer authorized.— Consents. That 
 every Board of Public Park Coininissioners shall have 
 the power to take under its control, and to regulate, con- 
 trol and govern, in the same manner as it may govern 
 other parks or boulevards under its control, any public 
 park now under the control or jurisdiction of any in- 
 corporated cit}', town or village: Provided, that the 
 park so taken shall lie within the district or territory, 
 the property of which shall be taxable for the mainte- 
 nance of the parks or boulevards under the control of 
 any such Board of Park Commissioners : And, provided 
 further, that the consent of the authorities of any city, 
 town or village having control of the park so to be 
 taken, and also the consent, in writing, of the owners 
 of a majority of the frontage of the lots and lands abut- 
 ting on the park so to be taken, shall be first obtained. 
 
 Sec. 2. Power of Park Commissioners. Sucli 
 Boards of Park Commissioners shall have the same 
 power and control over the parks taken under this act 
 as are, or may be by law vested in them, of and con- 
 cerning the parks, boulevards or driveways now under 
 their control. 
 
 Sec. 3. Reversion to corporate authorities. In 
 case any such parks so to be taken shall pass from the 
 control of any such park board, the power and author- 
 ity over the same, granted or authorized by this act,
 
 BOULEVARDS OF UNIFORM WIDTH. 103 
 
 shall revert to the proper authorities of such city, town 
 or village, as the case may be, as aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. ^. Power of city or village. Any city, towu 
 or village iu this State shall have full jjower aud author- 
 ity to vest any such Board of Public Park Commission- 
 ers with the right to control, improve aud nmintain 
 any such park within the district over which such 
 Board of Park Commissioners has jurisdiction for the 
 purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act, iu 
 accordance with its intent. 
 
 Sec. 5. Emergency. Whereas, public policy re- 
 quires that, so far as practicable, there should be, with- 
 in the jurisdiction of such park boards, but a single au- 
 thorit}' over the parks lying within such districts re- 
 spectively; therefore, an emergency exists for the pas- 
 sage of this act, and the same shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage. 
 
 CONDEMNATION TO MAKE BOULEVARDS OF 
 UNIFORM WIDTH. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS TO CONDEMN 
 LAND IN CERTAIN CASES FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING 
 STREETS SELECTED AND TAKEN FOR BOULEVARDS OF 
 UNIFORM WIDTH, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT 
 OF THE SAME. [APPROVED JUNE 14, 1887. IN FORCE 
 JULY 1, 1887.] 
 
 Section 1. Power conferred. That in all cases 
 where any Board of Park Couiuiissiouers has selected 
 and taken any street or i)art tliercof under the provi- 
 sions of an Act of the General Assembly entitled "An 
 Act to enable Park Commissionei*s or corporate author- 
 ities to take, regulate, control aud improve public
 
 104 STATUTES. 
 
 streets leading to public parks, to pay for the improve- 
 ment thereof, and in that behalf, to make and collect a 
 special assessment or special tax on contiguous prop- 
 erty," and any part or portion of said street so selected 
 and taken has not been legally laid out or dedicated to 
 the uniform width of one hundred feet, the said Board 
 of Park Commissioners shall have the power to widen 
 said street or the part of said street so selected and 
 taken to the uniform width of one hundred feet: Pro- 
 vided, that some portion of each mile of said street, or 
 the part thereof so selected and taken, shall be of the 
 width of one hundred feet at the time of such selection 
 and taking. 
 
 Sec. 2. Condemnation. Such Park Commissioners 
 are hereby vested with power to take and acquire title 
 to such pieces or parcels of land as may be necessary 
 for such widening, and may proceed to procure the con- 
 demnation of the same in the manner prescribed in the 
 Act of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to pro- 
 vide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain." 
 Approved April 10, 1872; the provisions of which said 
 act are hereby extended to said Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 3. Assessment. Such Park Commissioners 
 are hereby authorized to lev^^, or cause to be levied and 
 collected, a special assessment or special tax upon the 
 contiguous property abutting on said street or part 
 thereof so selected and taken for the purpose of raising 
 the amount necessary to pay the compensation and 
 damages for the said land necessary to be taken for such 
 widening, with the costs of the proceedings; and to 
 that end they shall have all the power and authority 
 now or hereafter granted to them relative to the levy,
 
 IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE. 105 
 
 assessment and collection of taxes or assessments for 
 corporate purposes. 
 
 \ 
 IMPKOVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF PAKKS. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS TO IMPROVE, 
 GOVERN AND MAINTAIN THE PARKS AND BOULEVARDS 
 UNDER THEIR CONTROL. [APPROVED JUNE 26, 1885. IN 
 FORCE JULY 1, 1885.] 
 
 Section 1. Park tax. That every Board of Park 
 Commissioners having a bonded indebtedness incurred 
 by vii-tne of the laws of this State which is unable, after 
 payinjifthe interest and yearly maturing- bonds, to prop- 
 erly improve, <?overa and maintain the parks and boul- 
 evards under its control, with the amount of money 
 nowauthorized by lawto be raised and setapartfor that 
 purpose, shall, in additionto the amount of money now 
 authorized to be raised by taxation on the property em- 
 braced in its park district, be allowed a sum not exceed- 
 injx one mill on each dollar of taxable property em- 
 braced in such park district, accordins^ to valuation of 
 the same as made for the purpose of State and county 
 taxation by the last assessment. And the officers au- 
 thorized by law to assess taxes for park purposes re- 
 spectively, shall, on receiving a certificate from such 
 Board of Park C<>mmissioners that the amount men- 
 tioned in such certificate, not exceeding the amount 
 aforesaid, is necessary for the proper improvement, 
 government and maintenance of the park property un- 
 der its control, assess the same upon the taxable prop- 
 erty embraced in said park district, tlie same as other 
 park taxes are by law assessed, and the same shall be 
 collected and paid over the same as other park taxes 
 are now required by law to be collected and paid.
 
 106 STATUTES. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS TO MAINTAIN 
 AND GOVERN PARKS AND BOULEVARDS UNDER THEIR 
 CONTROL. [APPROVED JUNE 17,' 1893. IN FORCE JULY 1, 
 1893.] 
 
 Section 1. Park tax. That in any town wliic-li is 
 now included within the limits of any city in this State, 
 in which a Board of Park Commissioners shall now 
 exist, having authority by law to acquire land and the 
 appurtenances in trust for the inhabitants of such town, 
 and of the division or part of such town and for such 
 parties or persons as may succeed to tlie rights of such 
 inhabitants, and for the public, as public promenades 
 and pleasure gTounds and ways, and for no other use or 
 purpose, without the consent of a majority by frontage 
 of the owners of the property fronting the same, and 
 without the power to sell, alienate, mortgage or in- 
 cumber the same, the corporate authorities of any such 
 town, authorized by law to assess taxes for park pur- 
 poses, shall, upon the receipt of a certificate in writing 
 from any such Board of Park Commissioners, on or be- 
 fore the first day of August in each year, levy and as- 
 sess, in addition to all other taxes now authorized by 
 law to be levied and assessed for the purpose of govern- 
 ing and maintaining any such parks and boulevards, 
 one mill on each dollar of taxable property in said town 
 and within the park district, subject to taxation for 
 park and boulevard purposes^ according to the valua- 
 tion of the same, as made for the purpose of State and 
 county taxation; and such additional one mill on the 
 dollar of the taxable property in said town and park 
 district shall be used and exix^nded by such Board of 
 Park Commissioners in governing and maintaining any 
 parks, boulevards or pleasureways under the jurisdic- 
 tion, management and control of any such Board of
 
 IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE. 107 
 
 Park Commissioners, and for pacing any other neces- 
 sary and incidental expenses incurred in and about the 
 management of any such i)arks and boulevards, and 
 such additional one mill shall, by the officer authorized 
 by law to assess and collect taxes for park purposes, be 
 collected and paid over, the same as other park taxes 
 are now re(]uired by law to be collected and paid over. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS TO MAINTAIN 
 AND GOVERN PARKS AND BOULEVARDS UNDER THEIR 
 CONTROL. [APPROVED JUNE 17, 1895. IN FORCE JULY 1, 
 1895.] 
 
 Section 1. Park tax. That in any town which is 
 now included within the limits of any city in this State, 
 in which a. Board of Park Commissioners shall now 
 exist, havino authority by law to acquire land and the 
 appurtenances in trust for the inhabitants of such town, 
 and for such parties or i>ers()ns as nuiy succeed to the 
 rights of such inhabitants, and for the public as public 
 promenades and pleasure grounds and ways, and for no 
 other use or purpose without the consent of a majority 
 by frontage of the owners of the property fronting the 
 same, and without the power to sell, alienate, uu>rtgage 
 or incumber the same, the corj^orate authorities of any 
 such town, authorized by law to assess taxes for park 
 purposes, shall, upon the receipt of a certificate in writ- 
 ing from any such Board of Park Commissioners, on or 
 before the first day of August in each year, levy and 
 assess, in addition to all other taxes now authorized by 
 law, to be levied and assessed for the pur])ose of govern- 
 ing and maintaining any such parks and boulevards, 
 two mills on each dollar of the taxable property in said 
 town and within the park district, subject to taxation 
 for park and boulevard purposes, according to the valu-
 
 108 STATUTES. 
 
 ation of the same, as made for the purpose of State and 
 county taxation; and such additional two mills on the 
 dollar of taxable property in said town and park dis- 
 trict shall be used and expended by sucli Board of Park 
 Commissioners in governing: and maintaining any 
 parks, boulevards or pleasureways under the jurisdic- 
 tion, management and control of any such Board of 
 Park Commissioners, and for paying any other neces- 
 sary incidental expenses incurred in and about the man- 
 agement of any such parks and boulevards, and such 
 additional two mills shall, by the officer authorized by 
 law to assess and collect taxes for park purposes, be 
 collected and paid over the same as other park taxes are 
 now required by law to be collected and paid over. 
 
 SALE OF LANDS NOT NEEDED. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS TO SELT- LAND 
 NO LONGER NEEDED FOR PARK PURPOSES. [APPROVED 
 JUNE 16, 1887. IN FORCE JULY 1, 1887.] 
 
 Section 1. Any Board of Park Commissioners liav- 
 ing the control or supervision of any public park, boule- 
 vard, driveway or highway, and having any piece or 
 parcel of land not exceeding one acre in area which 
 shall no longer be needed or deemed necessary or use- 
 ful for the pui'pose of said park, boulevard, driveway or 
 highway, may apply to the Circuit Court of the county 
 in which such piece or parcel of land is situated, by pe- 
 tition in writing, for leave to sell the same. Notice of 
 such application shall be given by said Board of Park 
 Commissioners in some newspaper published in said 
 county at least ten days before the day named therein 
 when said application will be made. All persons in- 
 terested may appear before said Circuit Court, either
 
 COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED BY GOVERNOR. 109 
 
 in person or by attorney, when said application sliall 
 be made, and object to the granting thereof. After 
 hearing all persons interested, if said court shall deem 
 the granting of said application to be for the public 
 interest, it shall direct that the property mentioned in 
 said application, or any part thereof, be sold and con- 
 veyed by the said Board of Park Commissioners for the 
 use of said park, boulevard,' driveway or highway, upon 
 such terms and conditions as tlie said court may think 
 proper. 
 
 APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS BY 
 GOVERNOR. 
 
 AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE APPOINTMENT OF PARK COM- 
 MISSIONERS BY JUDGES OF THE CIRCUIT COURT AND TO 
 PROVIDE FOR THEIR APPOINTMENT BY THE GOVERNOR 
 OF THE STATE. [APPROVED MAY 30, 1881. IN FORCE 
 JULY 1, 1881.] 
 
 Section 1. Judges not to appoint Commissioners. 
 Tliat hereafter it shall not be lawful for an^- judge or 
 judges of any Circuit Court in this State to appoint any 
 Park Commissioner or fill any vacancy in anj' sucli of- 
 fice of Park Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 2. Governor to appoint. The Governor of the 
 State of Illinoi.s shall apijoint all Park Commissioners 
 hereafter to be appointed under and by virtue of any 
 act or acts providing for the location and maintenance 
 of any i^ublic park or parks (not under the control of 
 any city, village or other municipal corporation), and 
 shall fill all vacancies which may hereafter occur in any 
 such office of Park Commissioner or Board of Park 
 C>)mmissioners by like appointment, anything in any 
 such act or acts to the contrai*y notwithstanding.
 
 110 STATUTES. 
 
 Sec. 3. How vacancy certified. Whenever any 
 vacancy or vacancies shall occur in any such Board of 
 Park Commissioners it shall be the duty of the remain- 
 ing member or members of such board to certify the 
 fact of such vacancy or vacancies to the Governor of 
 the State of Illinois. 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 In the case of Cornell vs. The People ex rel., 107 111., 
 372, it was held, that, while the people of the towns of 
 South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake, having, by vote, 
 accepted the provisions of the South Park act and there- 
 by made the Board of South Park Commissioners a 
 municipal corporation in ^^■hich the Legislature might 
 vest power to assess and collect taxes within the park 
 district for the special corporate purposes of its crea- 
 tion, and while, as a general proposition, the Legisla- 
 ture has the power to control municipal bodies which it 
 has created, and may, as a general rule, alter or amend 
 the act of incorporation at pleasure, and may enlarge 
 or diminish the corporate powers of the South Park 
 Commissioners, still it must also be held that the "cor- 
 porate authorities" intended by the constitution upon 
 whom the power of taxation may be conferred, are 
 such municipal officers as may have been elected direct- 
 ly by the people or appointed in some mode to which 
 the people of a given district have, by vote, given their 
 assent, and that, therefore, the Legislature has no au- 
 thority to change the method of appointing the corpor- 
 ate authorities of the South Park district, who are the 
 South Park Commissioners. The original method of 
 appointment having been provided in the charter and 
 accepted by vote of the people, no such change could be
 
 EXTENSION OF DRIVEWAYS ON LAKE SHORE. Ill 
 
 made except by being assented to by a vote of the 
 people. 
 
 The act of the Legislature, therefore, providing that 
 the South Park Ooniniissiouers shoukl be appointed by 
 the Governor of the State instead of circuit judges of 
 Cook County was held unconstitutional and void. 
 
 And in The People ex rel. vs. Morgan, 90 111., 558, it 
 was held that the Circuit Court judges were properly 
 exercising a legal authority in appointing the South 
 Park Commissioners. 
 
 EXTENSION OF DRIVEWAYS ON LAKE SHORE. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS HAVING CON- 
 TROL OF ANY BOULEVARD OR DRIVEWAY BORDERING 
 UPON ANY PUBLIC WATERS IN THIS STATE TO EXTEND 
 THE SAME. [APPROVED JUNE 4, 1889. IN FORCE JULY 1, 
 1889.] 
 
 Section 1. Extension of boulevard or driveway— 
 Not to interfere with navigation. That every board 
 of Park Commissioners, existing under the laws of this 
 State, that now has, or may hereafter have, control over 
 any boulevard or driveway connecting with any public 
 park under the control of such board, and bordering 
 upon any public waters in this state, shall have power, 
 subject to the limitations in this act contained, to ex- 
 tend such boulevard or driveway, of the width of not 
 mon^ than two hundred feet over and upon the bed of 
 such i)ublic waters: Provided, however, that no such 
 boulevard or driveway shall be extended, under the pro- 
 visions of this act, in such a manner as to interfere with 
 the navigation of such public waters for the purposes 
 of commerce; and that the lands adjacent to such pub- 
 lic waters and connected with tlie termini of such
 
 112 STATUTES. 
 
 boulevard or driveway as extended under the provis- 
 ions of this act, shall lie within the district or territory, 
 the property of which shall be taxable for the main- 
 tenance of the parks under the control of such board. 
 
 Sec. 2. Plans, consent to be obtained, riparian 
 rights. Whenever an^^ such board of Park Commis- 
 sioners shall determine to extend any such boulevard 
 or driveway under this act, said board shall prepare a 
 plan of such proposed extension, and make an estimate 
 of the cost thereof, and shall obtain the consent in writ- 
 ing of the owners of at least two-thirds of the frontage 
 of all of the lands not appropriated to or held for public 
 use abutting on such public waters in front of which 
 it is proposed to extend such boulevard or driveway for 
 the making of such extension, and shall also obtain the 
 consent of the supervisor and assessor, corporate au- 
 thorities of the town or towns in which the lands abut- 
 ting on such public waters in front of such proposed 
 extension may lie, to the making of such extension. 
 The riparian or other rights of the owners of lands on 
 the shore adjoining the waters in which it is proposed 
 to construct such extension, the said board of Park Com- 
 missioners may acquire by contract with or deeds from 
 any such owner; and in case of inability to agree with 
 any such owner, proceedings may be had to condemn 
 such rights according to the provisions of article nine 
 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorpora- 
 tion of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, 
 and the amendments thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. Powers of board, submerged lands. Upon 
 complying with section two of this act, said board shall 
 have power to contract in writing with any person or
 
 EXTENSION OP DRIVEWAYS ON LAKE SHORE. 113 
 
 persons for the construction of such extension of such 
 boulevard or driveway, according to such plan, and 
 under the supervision of said board, and in all cases 
 where an}^ boulevard or driveway is extended under the 
 provisions hereof, the submerged lands lying between 
 the shore of such public waters and the inner line of the 
 extension of such boulevard or driveway shall be ap- 
 propriated by the board of Park Commissioners to the 
 purpose of defraying the cost of such extension, and 
 to that end such board of Park Commissioners are au- 
 thorized to sell and convey such submerged lands in 
 fee simple by deeds duly executed on its behalf by its 
 president and under its corporate seal, and eveiy deed 
 executed in pursuance hereof shall vest a good title in 
 the grantee to the premises intended to be conveyed 
 thereby. 
 
 Sec. 4. Title and control. Upon the completion of 
 any such extension of such boulevard or driveway, the 
 title thereto, and to the bed thereof, shall be vested in 
 such board of Park Commissioners for the purpose of a 
 boulevard or driveway, and shall become a part of the 
 public park or parks under the control of such board, 
 and shall thencefor-th be maintained and controlled by 
 such board in the manner provided by law for the gov- 
 ernment and maintenance of other boulevards and 
 driveways under its control. 
 
 Sec. 5. Termini of streets, construction of act. In 
 case any public streets shall extend to the shore line of 
 said public waters in front of which extension of such 
 boulevard or driveway shall be constructed under this 
 act, and such streets, if extended, would cross such ex- 
 tension, such streets (unless the municipality in control
 
 114 STATUTES. 
 
 thereof shall otherwise direct) shall extend to the in- 
 side line of such extension of said boulevard or drive- 
 way. Nothing in this act shall be construed to repeal 
 section twenty of an act entitled "An act in regard to 
 the completion of public parks and the management 
 thereof," approved June 16, 1871, and amendments 
 thereto heretofore mada, or which may be hereafter 
 made, unless expressly so declared. 
 
 LOGAN* MONUMENT. 
 
 AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($50,- 
 000) TO ERECT A MONUMENT TO JOHN A. LOGAN AND FOR 
 THE APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS THEREFOR. [AP- 
 PROVED FEBRUARY 10, 1887. IN FORCE JULY 1, 1887.] 
 
 Section 1. Commissioners. Be it enacted by the 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in the Gen- 
 eral Assembly, That Henry W. Blodgett, William C. 
 Goudy, Robert T. Lincoln, John M. Palmer, Milton 
 Hay, Richard S. Tuthill, William H. Harper, Melville 
 W. Fuller, John R. Walsh, Oliver A. Harker, William 
 S. Morris and George W^. Smith, be, and they are here- 
 by, constituted commissioners to erect a monument in 
 honor of John A. Logan, deceased, at such point in the 
 City of Chicago, or elsewhere in the State of Illinois, as 
 may be selected by his widow, and they are hereby 
 authorized and empowered to receive proposals and to 
 contract for the completion of such monument, and to 
 receive subscriptions therefor: Provided, that such 
 commissioners shall not obligate the State of Illinois to 
 exceed the sum named in section three of this act. 
 
 Sec. 2. Compensation. Such Commissioners shall 
 receive no compensation for their services.
 
 LOGAN MONUMENT. 115 
 
 Sec. 3. Appropriation. For the purpose of de- 
 fraying; the cost of such luoiiuinciit, beyoud such 
 amounts as ma}" be received by yoluntary contribu- 
 tions, the sum of fifty thousand dolhirs (|50,000) is 
 hereby appropriated out of the State Ti'easury, and the 
 Auditor of Public Accounts is liereby authorized to 
 draw his warrant on the State Treasury for such 
 amount, out of the moneys in the treasury not other- 
 wise appropriated, upon the certificate of a majority of 
 such Commissioners from time to time during' the 
 progress of the work. 
 
 AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1, TO ADD SECTION 4, AND TO 
 AMEND THE TITLE OF AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO 
 APPROPRIATE FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($50,000) TO 
 ERECT A MONUMENT TO JOHN A. LOGAN, AND FOR THE 
 APPOINTMENT OF COMMISSIONERS THEREFOR,'' AP- 
 PROVED FEBRUARY 10, 1887, AND TO ADD THE EMERG- 
 ENCY CLAUSE TO SAID ACT AS SECTION 4. [APPROVED 
 AND IN FORCE MAY 31, 1887.] 
 
 Section 1. Commissioners. Be it enacted by tlie 
 People of the State of Illinois, represented in the (ien- 
 eral Assembly, That section 1 of an act entitled "An 
 Act to appropriate fifty thousand dollars (|50,000) to 
 erect a monument to John A. Logan and for the ap- 
 pointment of commissioners therefor," approved Feb- 
 ruary' 10, 1887, be and the same is hereby amended, so 
 as to read as follows: 
 
 "Section 1. Re it enacted by the People of the State 
 of Illinois, represented in the (Jeneral Assembly, That 
 Henry W. Blodgett, William (\ (loudy, Kobert T. Lin- 
 coln, John M. Palmer, Milton Hay, Richard S, Tuthill, 
 William H. Harper, Melville W. Fuller, John K. Walsh, 
 Oliver A. Harker, William S. Morris and Oeorge W. 
 Smith, be, and they are hereby constituted commis-
 
 116 STATUTES. 
 
 sioners to erect a moiinmeut in lionor of John A. Logan, 
 deceased, at such point in tlie City of Chicago, or else- 
 where in the State of Illinois, as may be selected by his 
 widow, and they are hereby authorized and empowered 
 to receive proposals and to contract for the completion 
 of such monument, and to receive subscriptions there- 
 for: Provided, That such Commissioners shall not obli- 
 gate the State of Illinois to exceed the sum named in 
 section three of this act: and provided, further. That 
 if the place selected by the widow of said John A. Lo- 
 gan for the site of such monument shall be located in or 
 upon any public park or boulevard under the govern- 
 ment and control of any board of park commissioners, 
 such board of park commissioners shall be, and they 
 are hereby authorized, empowered and directed to al- 
 low such monument to be placed upon the site so se- 
 lected b}' said widow, and to provide that such monu- 
 ment shall be made the permanent resting place of the 
 remains of said John A. Logan, and of his said widow 
 after her death." 
 
 Sec. 2. Emergency added. That said act named 
 in the caption hereto be, and the same is hereby fur- 
 ther amended, by adding the emergency clause thereto 
 as section 4, so as to read as follows: 
 
 "Sec. 4. Whereas, An emergency exists, this act 
 shall take effect and be in force from and after its 
 passage." 
 
 Sec. 3. Amends title. That the title of said act 
 be so amended as to read as follows: "An Act to 
 appropriate fifty thousand dollars (-150,000) to erect a 
 monument to John A. Logan, for the appointment of 
 commissioners therefor, and to provide for the location
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 117 
 
 of the same in or upon a public park or boulevard un- 
 der the government and control of a board of park com- 
 missioners, and to provide for makino- the same the 
 l)ernianent resting place of the said John A. Logan and 
 of his widow after her decease." ' 
 
 Sec. 4. Emergency. Whereas, An emergency ex- 
 ists, this act shall take effect and be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 WOKLD'S COLUMBIAN EXrOSlTlOX. 
 
 AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE "WORLDS COLUMBIAN EX- 
 POSITION." [APPROVED AND IN FORCE AUGUST 5, 1890.] 
 
 Whereas, The Congress of the United States has 
 passed an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the cele- 
 brating the four hundredth anniversary of the discov- 
 eiy of America, by Christopher Columbus, by holding 
 an international exhibition of art, industries, manu- 
 factures, and the product of the mine and soil, in the 
 City of Chicago, in the State of Illinois;" approved 
 April 25, 1890, and 
 
 Whereas, The people of the State of Illinois appre- 
 ciate the honor conferred upon their State by the loca- 
 tion of said international exhibition, now known as the 
 "World's Columbian Exposition," within its limits, mu<1 
 are in syni]>athy with the objects and }>nr])oses of said 
 exposition, and desirous of contributing to the success 
 thereof by the adoption of legislation ancillary to the 
 sai<l Act of Congress aforesaid; now, therefore, 
 
 Section 1. Use of lands authorized. Be it en- 
 acted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly: That there shall be, and is 
 hereby, granted to the authorities having the charge
 
 118 STATUTES. 
 
 and management of said World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, the use and occupation of all lands, or right there- 
 in, of the State of Illinois, whether submerged or other- 
 wise, within the present limits of the City of Chicago, 
 or adjacent thereto, which may be designated and se- 
 lected by said authorities as the site or sites for the 
 holding of said World's Columbian Exposition. The 
 use and occupation hereby granted shall not continue 
 longer than one year after the close of said exposition. 
 And the use of any submerged lands which may be 
 filled, or reclaimed under the provisions hereof, shall 
 accrue to the City of Chicago, to be forever maintained 
 as a public park; and when any part thereof is diverted 
 to any other use, the title and possession to all of said 
 lands shall revert to the State of Illinois. 
 
 Sec. 2. Public grounds may be used— Consent 
 —Easement— Damages. There is also hereby grant- 
 ed to the authorities having the charge and man- 
 agement of said World's Columbian Exposition, for 
 such term as may be necessary for the accomplishment 
 of the objects thereof, the use and enjoyment of any 
 public grounds, or park grounds, and rights appurten- 
 ant thereto, the title to, or control over which may be 
 vested in the City of Chicago, the corporate authorities 
 of the City of Chicago consenting thereto, with the right 
 and authority to improve the same for the purposes of 
 the said World's Columbian Exposition, in such man- 
 ner as to the said authorities shall seem necessary and 
 expedient; and in case improvements of a permanent 
 character, enlarging said public grounds, shall be made 
 for the accommodation of said World's Columbian Ex- 
 position, all such enlargements shall, at the expira- 
 tion of the term herein limited, remain a part of said
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 119 
 
 public grounds, without prejudice to any private rights 
 therein as the same existed prior to the passage of this 
 Act; Provided, that the buiklings erected upon said 
 public grounds, or any enlargement thereof, may be 
 removed and disposed of by the authorities erecting the 
 same within one year from and after the close of said 
 exposition, unless otherwise arranged and agreed be- 
 tween the corporate authorities of said City of Chicago 
 and the authorities who erected the same; and if the 
 said City of Chicago shall agree to purchase said build- 
 ings, said authorities shall not ask or obtain from said 
 city for said buildings a sum greater than the actual 
 cost of building the same. 
 
 If any owners of any lands or lots abutting or front- 
 ing on any such public grounds, or park grounds, or ad- 
 jacent thereto, shall have any private right, easement, 
 interest or property in such public or park grounds ap- 
 purtenant to their lauds or lots, or otherwise, or an}' 
 right to have such public or park grounds remain open 
 or vacant and free from encroachment, the Attorney 
 General, or the State's Attorney of Cook County, may, 
 at the request of the authorities having the charge and 
 management of said World's Columbian Exposition, 
 apply to the Circuit or Superior Court of Cook County, 
 or to any judge of either of said courts in vacation, by 
 filing with the Clerk of the Court a petition in the name 
 of the people of the State of Illinois, praying that the 
 compensation to be paid for sucli right, interest, ease- 
 ment or property, or for any interference with or dam- 
 age thereto, for the term hereinafter mentioned, may 
 be ascertained by a jur^-. Such petition and all pro- 
 ceedings in relation thereto shall be, as nearly as may 
 be, as prescribed by an Act entitled "An Act to provide
 
 120 STATUTES. 
 
 for the exercise of the right of eminent domain," ap- 
 proved April 10, 1872. No private right, interest, ease- 
 ment or property shall be taken or condemned, as afore- 
 said, for a longer term than may be necessary for the 
 accomplishment of the objects and purposes of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, such term not to ex- 
 ceed five years. The compensation for the same, when 
 ascertained by a jury as aforesaid, shall be paid by the 
 said authorities having the charge and management of 
 said World's Columbian Exposition. Upon the expira- 
 tion of the term for which such right, interest, ease- 
 ment or property shall have been taken or condemned, 
 as aforesaid, the same shall immediately revert to the 
 owners thereof, or their privies in law or in estate. 
 
 Sec. 3. Commissioners may allow use of parks. 
 
 In case the site or sites for the holding of the said 
 World's Columbian Exposition, as finally located 
 and fixed by the authorities in charge thereof, shall in- 
 clude the whole or any part of any public park which 
 is or may be under the control and management of 
 Park Commissioners, then, and in that event, it shall 
 be competent, and express authority for that purpose 
 is hereby granted to the Park Commissioners having 
 the control and management of such public park to al- 
 low the use of the same, or any part thereof, for the 
 purposes of said World's Columbian Exposition upon 
 such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon be- 
 tween the said Park Commissioners and the authori- 
 ties having the management of said exposition. 
 
 Sec. 4. Park bonds— Vote. The said Park Com- 
 missioners in the charge of the public grounds, or 
 any part thereof designated and selected as the site of 
 the whole or part of the said exposition, by the authori-
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 121 
 
 ties in cliarge thereof, shall have and are hereby in- 
 vested with full power and authority. in their discre- 
 tion to issne and sell interest bearing bonds to an 
 amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, 
 the proceeds of said bonds so issued to be used and ap- 
 plied in improving the gTounds under their control 
 selected as aforesaid for the use of said exposition, and 
 authority is hereby expressly granted to the Park Com- 
 missioners issuing said bonds to levy and collect a di- 
 rect annual tax upon the property within their jurisdic- 
 tion sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as it 
 falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal 
 thereof within twenty years from the date of issuing 
 said bonds. All improvements made by the proceeds 
 of said bonds shall become a part of the public property 
 to be held and controlled by the Park Commissioners 
 issuing said bonds. But the power herein granted 
 shall not be exercised until the proposition to issue 
 such bonds shall have been submitted to a vote of the 
 legal voters of such park district and receive a majority 
 of the votes cast upon that proposition at such election. 
 Public notice of the time and places for holding such 
 election shall be given by the Park Commissioners of 
 such district not less than twenty (20) days before the 
 day appointed therefor, by publication in some news- 
 paper of general circulation in said district, and by 
 posting the same in at least ten of the most public 
 places in sairl district, and the ballots shall read "For 
 issuing the bonds," or "Against issuing the bonds." 
 The said election shall be held, and the ballots cast 
 shall be counted, and the returns thereof be canvassed 
 by the same officers and in the same manner as in the 
 case of election of county officers within said district.
 
 122 STATUTES. 
 
 Sec. 5. Emergency. Inasmuch as it is important 
 and necessary that preparatioij for the holding of 
 said WorkFs Columbian Exposition should be proceed- 
 ed witli at once, it is therefore declared that an emer- 
 gency exists, and that this Act shall take effect and 
 be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 MAINTENANCE OF BOULEVARDS. 
 
 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE CORPORATE AUTHORITIES HAVING 
 ' JURISDICTION AND CONTROL OP PARKS AND BOULE- 
 VARDS TO LEVY A SPECIAL TAX UPON CONTIGUOUS 
 PROPERTY ABUTTING ON BOULEVARDS AND PLEASURE- 
 WAYS, FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR THEREOF. 
 [APPROVED JUNE 17, 1893. IN FORCE JULY 1, 1893.] 
 
 Section 1. Special tax— Who may levy— Limit 
 as to amount. That in any town which is now in- 
 cluded within the limits of any city in this State in 
 which a board of park commissioners shall now exist, 
 having authority by law to acquire land and the ap- 
 purtenances in trust for the inhabitants of such town, 
 and of a division or part of such city, and for such par- 
 ties and persons as may succeed to the rights of such 
 inhabitants and for the public, as public promenades 
 and pleasure grounds and ways; but not for any other 
 use or purpose, without the consent of a majority by 
 frontage of the owners of the property fronting the 
 same, and without the power to sell, alienate, mort- 
 gage or incumber the same, any such board of park 
 commissioners shall have power and authority to levy 
 a special tax upon each lineal foot of the several lots, 
 blocks, pieces and parcels of land abutting on any 
 boulevard, driveway or pleasureway now under the 
 control, or hereafter to be under the control and man-
 
 MAINTENANCE OF BOULEVARDS. 123. 
 
 agement of any such board of park commissioners, but 
 such special tax so to be levied b}' any such board of 
 park commissiouers shall not exceed twenty-five cents 
 per lineal foot in au}' one year, upou the several lots, 
 blocks, parcels and pieces of laud so abutting- on any 
 such boulevard, driveway or pleasureway. 
 
 Sec. 2. Assessment Roll. It shall be and is here- 
 by made the duty of any such board of park commis- 
 sioners, on or before the tenth day of July in each year, 
 to make a separate list or roll of the several lots, blo«-ks. 
 pieces and parcels of land contiguous to and abutting 
 upon each and every boulevard under the management 
 and control of any such board of park commissioners, 
 which said separate lists or rolls shall contain a sub- 
 stantially correct description of each separate block, 
 piece and parcel of land abutting on each of any such 
 boulevards or pleasureways, and as nearly as may be, 
 and so far as known, the name of the owner or owners 
 of all such lots, blocks, parcels and pieces of real estate. 
 Said assessment roll or list shall be entitled "Assess- 
 ment Rcjll of the several lots, blocks, pieces and parcels 
 
 of real estate, contiguous to and abutting upon 
 
 boulevard, made by the. . . .park commissioners, for the 
 purpose of levying a special tax upou the real estate 
 abutting on said boulevard, to pay the cost of the main- 
 tenance and repair thereof for the year " Said as- 
 sessment roll shall contain a column, headed "Amount 
 of special tax levied for maintenance and repair," and 
 in such column shall be set down, opposite the descrip- 
 tion of each separate lot, piece or parcel of land, the 
 amount of special tax levied by any such board of park 
 commissioners for the purpose aforesaid, but in no 
 event shall the amount levied against each separate
 
 124 STATUTES. ' 
 
 lot, piece or parcel of land aggregate more than twenty- 
 five cents per lineal foot of the lots, blocks, pieces and 
 parcels of land so abutting upon such boulevard or 
 pleasureway against which the same shall be levied for 
 the purpose aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 3. Notice— Objections. After such assess- 
 ment roll shall have been completed by any such board 
 of park commissioners they shall publish a notice in a 
 daily newspaper published in the city or town in which 
 any such boulevards, driveways or pleasureways shall 
 be located, of the time and place when such board of 
 park commissioners will meet, for the purpose of con- 
 firming the said special tax hereby authorized to be 
 levied for the purpose aforesaid, and said notice shall 
 be published for ten successive days prior to the date 
 of such meeting to be held by such board of park com- 
 missioners for such purpose, and at any such meeting 
 of any such board of park commissioners for the pur- 
 pose of the confirmation of such special tax, any per- 
 son or persons interested may appear before such board 
 of park commissioners and make objection in writing 
 to said proposed special tax, and it shall be the duty of 
 any such board of park commissioners to hear and de- 
 termine the merits of any and all objections which may 
 be made to the levy and confirmation of such special 
 tax, and the finding and determination of any such 
 board of park commissioners shall be conclusive on all 
 persons objecting to the same. 
 
 Sec. 4. Assessment Roll to be delivered to As- 
 sessor — Duty of Assessor. When such board of park 
 commissioners shall have finally confirmed any such 
 special tax, it shall be the duty of such park commis-
 
 FIELD MUSEUM. 125 
 
 sioners to dul}' certify and transmit on or before the 
 first day of August in each year, the separate assess- 
 ment rolls so made and confirmed, to the Assessor of 
 the town in which said boulevard or pleasureway shall 
 be located, and upon the receipt by said Assessor of 
 such assessment roll, it shall be and is hereby made 
 liis duty as such Assessor, to extend the amount as- 
 sessed against each separate lot, piece or parcel of real 
 estate described in said assessment roll, so made by 
 such board of park commissioners, upon the general 
 assessment rolls or books made by such As>se«sor, for 
 the purpose of State, County and Municipal taxaticjn, 
 in a separate column on said assessment rolls or books, 
 lieaded "Special Tax for Boulevard Maintenance;" and 
 when such tax shall be so extended and set down in 
 the appropriate column therefor by the Town Assessor 
 of any such town, such special tax shall become a spe- 
 cific lien against each separate piece and parcel of land 
 against whicli the same is levied, and shall be payable 
 to, and collectible by, and in the same manner and by 
 the same officers as are by law required to collect and 
 enfoi'ce the payment of State and County taxes. 
 
 FIELD MUSEUM. 
 
 AN ACT CONCERNING MUSEUMS IN PUBLIC PARKS. [AP- 
 PROVED JUNE 17, 1893. IN FORCE JULY 1, 1893.] 
 
 Section 1. Museums in public parks— Their erec- 
 tion and use. That the coi-porate authorities of cities 
 and park districts having the control or supervision of 
 any public park are hereby authorized to purchase or 
 erect and maintain within such public park, edifices to 
 be used as museums for the collection and display of 
 objects ]»eitaiiiing to natural history and the arts an<l
 
 126 STATUTES. 
 
 sciences, and charge an admission fee to the same not 
 exceeding 25 cents for each visitor over ten years of 
 age and not exceeding 10 cents for each visitor of ten 
 years of age and under, the proceeds thereof to be de- 
 voted to the maintenance of such museums : Provided, 
 that all such museums shall be open to the public with- 
 out charge for two days in each week, and to the chil- 
 dren in actual attendance ujwn any of the schools in 
 this State at all times: And provided, also, that prior 
 to the iestablishment of any such museum this act shall 
 have been submitted at an^'^ election to the electors of 
 the city or park district proposing to establish the 
 same, and shall have been adopted by a majority of the 
 electors voting upon such proposition at the election 
 at whicli this act is so submitted. 
 
 IMPROVEMENTS BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENT. 
 
 AN ACT TO ENABLE PARK COMMISSIONERS OR PARK AU- 
 THORITIES TO MAKE LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS AND PRO- 
 VIDE FOR THE PAYMENT THEREFOR. [APPROVED JUNE 
 24, 1895. IN FORCE JULY 1, 1895.] 
 
 Section 1. Special assessments— Special taxes. 
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly, That all and 
 any boards of park commissioners or park authorities 
 now existing, or hereafter established for the purpose 
 of locating, establishing, inclosing, improving or main- 
 taining any public park, boulevard, driveway, highway 
 or street, are hereby vested with power and authority 
 to lev}^, assess and collect special assessments or special 
 taxes on contiguous property, or general taxes, or both, 
 or otherwise, for the purpose of improving any boule- 
 vard, highway, driveway or street which may be now
 
 IMPROVEMENT BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENT. 127 
 
 (»r may hereafter ((une under their (Mnitrol in any man- 
 ner whatsoever. 
 
 Sec. 2. Powers additional to others. The pow- 
 ei and authority hereby vested are hereby declared to 
 be additional to and not in limitation of any power and 
 authority heretofore vested in said park commissioners 
 or park authorities. 
 
 Sec. 3. Assessment— How made. Whenever any 
 such improvement shall be determined upon by said 
 park commissioners or park authorities, they shall pro- 
 vide for the same by ordinance to be entered upon their 
 records, and they shall by the same ordinance prescribe 
 whether the same shall be made by special assessment 
 or special taxation on conti<»uous projyerty, or general 
 taxation, or both, or otherwise. 
 
 Sec. 4. Proceedings. When the ordinance under 
 which said improvement is ordered to be made shall 
 provide that such improvement shall be made by spe- 
 cial assessment, the proceedings for the making and 
 levying- of the same shall be as provided hereinafter in 
 this act. 
 
 Sec. 5. Character, etc., of improvement. Such 
 f)rdinance providing for said im])rovement shall specify 
 the nature, character, locality and descripti(m of such 
 improvement. 
 
 Sec. (>. Estimate of cost. The said park commis- 
 sioners or park authorities shall make an estimate of 
 the cost of the improvement contemplated by such or- 
 dinance, including labor, materials and all other ex- 
 Ijenses attending the same, and the cost of making and
 
 128 STATUTES. 
 
 levying the said assessment, and shall enter a report 
 thereof upon their records. 
 
 Sec. 7. Order for proceedings in court. Upon 
 such ordinance being passed, and said report made and 
 recorded as aforesaid, said park commissioners or park 
 authorities may order a petition to be filed by its secre- 
 tary, or such other officer as it may direct, in the County 
 Court of their county, for proceedings to assess the 
 costs of such improvements in the manner provided 
 herein. 
 
 Sec. 8. Petition. Said petition shall be in the 
 name of said park commissioners or park authorities 
 and shall recite the ordinance for the proposed im- 
 provement, and such report of estimate of the cost 
 thereof, and shall pray that the cost of such improve- 
 ment shall be assessed in the manner i^rovided by la^^-. 
 
 Sec. 9. Assessment. Upon the filing of such peti- 
 tion, it shall be the duty of said commissioners or park 
 authorities to estimate what proportion of the total 
 cost of said improvement will be of benefit to the public 
 and what proportion thereof will be of benefit to the 
 property to be benefited, and apportion the same be- 
 tween the district subject to the maintenance of the 
 park or parks under the control of said commissioners 
 or park authorities, so that each shall bear its relative, 
 equitable proi)ortion; and having found said amounts, 
 to apportion and assess the amount so found to be of 
 benefit to the property upon the several lots, blocks, 
 tracts and parcels of land in the proportion in which 
 they will be severally benefited by such improvement: 
 Provided, No lot, block, tract or parcel of land shall be
 
 IMPROVEMENT BY SPECIAT. ASSESSMENT. 129 
 
 assessed a greater amount than it will be actually beiie- 
 tited. 
 
 Sec. 10. Assessment roll. The said coiuniission- 
 ers or j)ark authorities shall also make or cause to be 
 made an assessment roll, in which shall a])])(^ar the 
 names of the owners, so far as known, a (h'scri])tion of 
 each lot, bhxk, tract or ])arcel of land, and the amount 
 assessed as special b<^netits thereto, and in which they 
 shall set down as against the said park district the 
 amount they shall have found as public benefit, and 
 they shall certify such assc^ssment r(dl to the said c(nirt 
 at least ten days before the tirst day of the term at 
 which a final hearing thereon shall be had. 
 
 Sec. 11. City special assessment law applicable. 
 Tlie remainder of the lu'oceedings in respect to such 
 special assessment shall be in accordance with Article 
 IX of the act of the General Assembly entit led "An Act 
 to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," 
 ap])roved April 10, 1872, and all acts amendatory there- 
 of, so far as the same may be ai)])licable; and all acts 
 ]>rovi(hMl ther3in to be performed by the city or village 
 shall be ])erformed by the said ])ark cr)mniissioners or 
 park authorities, and all acts ])rovided therein to be 
 ])erforme(l by commissioners to be appointed by the 
 coni-t shall also be performed by said park commis- 
 sioners or park authorities; and wliere it is therein 
 provided that the city council or the board of trustees, 
 in case of a village, shall be named in any of said pro- 
 ce(Mlings or notices or records relating f hereto, the said 
 ])ark commissioners or park authorities shall be named 
 inst(Nid; and like notices of said proceedings sluill be 
 given and published by said park commissioners as is 
 therein ])rovided, and an affidavit of one or more of said
 
 130 • STATUTES. 
 
 park commissioners or park authorities of the giving 
 of notices, and a certificate of p^ublication of notice be 
 filed as provided therein, and tlie same time shall be 
 allowed for the filing of objections to the confirmation 
 on the part of parties interested. 
 
 Sec. 12. Hearing. In such proceedings the court 
 shall have the same powers and authority as is i)ro- 
 vided in said Article IX for proceedings thereunder, 
 and the hearing of the application for the confirmation 
 of said assessment shall be had in the same manner, 
 and appeals from any judgment entered thereon shall 
 be taken to the same court and in the same manner as 
 provided therein. 
 
 Sec. 13. Roll and judgment — How certified. 
 
 The said assessment roll and judgment thereon shall 
 be certified to the officer of said park commissioners 
 or i)ark authorities authorized to collect said special 
 assessment in the same manner as is provided in said 
 Article IX; and a like notice shall be given by said 
 collector, and said special assessment shall be collected 
 in the same manner as provided therein, and a like re- 
 port of delinquent list made to the general officer of 
 the County authorized to collect State and County 
 taxes, made up in the same manner as provided therein. 
 
 Sec. 14. Application for judgment— What laws 
 govern. Said general officer shall proceed to obtain 
 judgment for said delinquent special assessment in the 
 same manner and within and at the same time as is 
 provided in said Article IX, and shall be governed by 
 the same laws in respect thereto as is provided for 
 therein.
 
 IMPROVEMENT BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENT. 131 
 
 Sec. 15. Sales. Sales of property for impaid de- 
 linquent special assessments shall be made in the same 
 manner as provided by said Article IX, and redemp- 
 tion from said sales shall be made in the same manner 
 and npon the same terms and payment of the same 
 rates as are applicable to sales therein provided for; 
 and officers respectively making collections of said 
 special assessment, and making sales thereunder, shall 
 be subject to the same rules, regulations, be entitled to 
 the same compensation and subject to the same penal- 
 ties as is provided for In said Article IX. 
 
 Sec. 16. Park Commissioners may buy in. Park 
 Commissioners or park authorities interested in the 
 collection of any tax or assessment, may become a pur- 
 chaser at any sale of real or personal property to en- 
 force the collection of the same, and may, by ordinance, 
 authorize and make it the duty of one or more officers, 
 to be designated by them, to attend such sales and bid 
 thereat in behalf of said park commissioners or park 
 authorities. 
 
 Sec. 17. Supplemental assessments. New spe- 
 cial assessments and supplemental special assessments 
 may be levied and assessed in all cases where the same 
 are or may be authorized in said Article IX, and the same 
 shall be levied, assessed and collected as is above pro- 
 vided in cases of original special assessments, and all 
 the provisioning of said Article IX for said new as- 
 sessments, and supplemental assessments, shall apply 
 to such proceedings to be taken hereunder. 
 
 Sec. 18. Contracts. All the provisions of said 
 Article IX in resi)ect to contracts for making any such 
 improvement, and for the letting of such contracts, and 
 in respect to the lien of said special assessments and
 
 132 STATUTES. 
 
 as to the collection by suit of said special assessments, 
 the dividing the same into insttillments, and interest 
 thereon, and the collection thereof, the payments there- 
 on, the notice thereof, the confirmation thereof and 
 the payment of work done for such improyement, 
 vouchers therefor and rights of all parties thereunder, 
 the disposition of surplus moneys arising from such 
 special assessments, and the payments for compensa- 
 tion in condemnation proceedings and advancements 
 to pay for private property taken or damaged from the 
 general fund of such city or village, shall each and all 
 be applicable to such proceedings taken by said park 
 commissioners or j)ai'k authorities. - 
 
 Sec. 19. Condemnation proceedings— Special as- 
 sessment. Wherever any such park commissioners 
 or park authorities shall be vested with power to take 
 or damage private property for any purpose whatever, 
 and shall apply to any court for the purpose of making 
 just compensation therefor, they may file in the same 
 proceedings a supplemental petition praying for a spe- 
 cial assessment for the iiurpose of raising the amount 
 necessary to pay the compensation and damages which 
 may be or shall have been awarded for the property 
 taken or damaged, with the costs of the proceedings; 
 and thereupon the court shall have power to, and shall 
 proceed as in other cases of special assessment provided 
 for in said Article IX, and herein: Provided, that all the 
 provisions of said article in reference to the payment 
 for lands to be taken or damaged, and the hearing by 
 the court in respect to said payment, and in respect 
 to ordering writs of possession or in dismissing such 
 condemnation proceedings, shall be applicable in such 
 case.
 
 IMPROVEMENT BY SPECIAL ASSESSMENT. 133 
 
 Sec. 20. New assessments. Where in auy case 
 such park board or park authorities having authority 
 to improve any street or streets, or parts thereof, and 
 to pay for the improvement thereof by special assess- 
 ment, and said improvement shall have been made or 
 partly completed and a special assessment levied there- 
 for shall have been set aside by a court of competent 
 jurisdiction, or the provision in any ordinance for the 
 payment for said improvement by special assessment 
 shall have failed or been declared void by any court of 
 competent jurisdiction, then, and in any such case, the 
 said park commissioners or park authorities are hereby 
 vested with power to lew, assess and collect a new spe- 
 cial assessment on property benefited by said improve- 
 ment or completed portion thereof, in the same manner 
 as in other cases, and the lots, blocks, tracts or parcels 
 of land found benefited by said improvement or the 
 completed portion thereof, shall each severally be lia- 
 ble to pay for said benefits to the same extent and in 
 the same proportion as in other cases: Provided, that 
 the provisions and all proceedings in respect to such 
 new assessments shall relate to and bo in force in all 
 cases in which at the time of the passage of this act 
 work has been completed or partially completed under 
 au}^ special assessment proceedings or attempted spe- 
 cial assessment proceedings heretofore levied, or col- 
 lected, or attempted to be levied and collected by any 
 such board of park commissioners or park ajithorities; 
 And, provided further, that such new assessments in 
 such cases shall be levied within seven years from the 
 da<e of confirmation or attempted confirmation of such 
 original proceedings.
 
 134 STATUTES. 
 
 Sec. 21. Proceedings for new assessment. In 
 such proceedings for any new assessment it shall be the 
 duty of the said commissioners to credit on the assess- 
 ment roll, at or before filing the same in court, all pay- 
 ments that may have been made on any previous as- 
 sessment, or installments thereof, for said improve- 
 ment, by, for, or on account of any lot, block, tract or 
 parcel of land assessed therein, whether paid by sale 
 thereof or otherwise; and any objections to the con- 
 firmation of such assessment roll shall include objec- 
 tions to the allowance of credits as appears by said as- 
 sessment roll, if any there be. 
 
 Sec. 22. What ordinance shall provide. When 
 the ordinance under which said improvements are or- 
 dered to be made shall provide that such improvement 
 shall be made by special taxation of contiguous prop- 
 erty, the same shall be levied, assessed and collected in 
 the way provided in the sections of this act providing 
 for the mode of making, levying, assessing and collect- 
 ing special assessments.
 
 LANDS. 
 
 LANDS TAKEN FOR PARK PURPOSES. RESOLUTION PASSED 
 MAY 5, 1869. 
 
 U'liereas, Joliu M. Wilson, George W. Gage, Cliaiin- 
 cey T. Boweii, Leverett B. Sitlwa}' aud Paul Cornell, 
 South Park Commissioners, did, on the fourth day of 
 May, A. D. 1SG9, personally examine the lands de- 
 scribed in the South Park Act, as modified by the act 
 supplemental to and amendatory of said act, aud being- 
 all present at the meeting now being held at the olllce 
 of the Board, on this fifth day of May, A. D. 1SG9. On 
 motion of George W. Gage, seconded by Chauucey T. 
 Bowen, it was unanimously 
 
 Resolved, that they do now select the lands desig- 
 nated in said act, as modified by said act sup])lemental 
 and amendatory for said South Parks, said lauds being 
 described as follows: 
 
 "Commencing at the southwest corner of Fifty-first 
 street and Cottage Grove avenue, running thence south, 
 along the west side of Cottage Grove avenue to the 
 south line of Fiftj-ninth street; thence east along the 
 south line of Fifty-ninth street, to the east line of Hyde 
 Park avenue; thence north on Hyde Park avenue to 
 Fifty-sixth street; thence east along the south line of 
 Fifty-sixth street to Lake Michigan; thence southerly 
 along the shore of the lake to a point due east of tlie 
 center of section twenty- four (24), in l(>\Misliii» lliirly- 
 eight (38) north, range fourteen (14); thence west 
 through the center of said section twenty-four (24) to 
 Ilyde Park avenue; thence north on the east line of
 
 136 LANDS. 
 
 Hyde Park avenue to the north line of Sixtieth street, 
 so called; thence west on the north line of Sixtieth 
 street, so called, to Kankakee avenue; thence north on 
 the east line of Kankakee avenue to Fifty-first street; 
 thence east to a point to the place of beginning. 
 
 Also a piece of land commencing- at the nor-theast 
 corner of Kankakee avenue and Fifty-fifth street, run- 
 ning thence west, a striij two hundred feet wide, south 
 of and adjoining the north line of said Fifty-fifth 
 street, along said Fifty-fifth street to the line between 
 ranges thirteen (13) and fourteen (14) east; thence 
 north, east of and adjoining said line a strip two hun- 
 dred (200) feet wide to the Illinois & Michigan Canal; 
 
 Also a parcel of land beginning at the southwest cor- 
 ner of Douglas Place and Kankakee avenue, running 
 thence south a strip of land 132 feet wide, along the 
 west side of said Kankakee avenue, to a point 150 feet 
 south of the south line of Fifty-first street; 
 
 Also a strip of land commencing at the intersection 
 of Cottage Grove avenue and Fifty-first street, running 
 thence east 100 feet in width on each side of center 
 line of Fifty-first street, to a point 100 feet east of the 
 center line of Drexel avenue; 
 
 Also a strip of land extending north from the inter- 
 section of Fifty-first street with Drexel avenue, 100 
 feet in width, on each side of the center line of said 
 avenue to the north line of Forty-third street; thence 
 northerly, a strip of land 200 feet in width, till it meets 
 or intersects with Elm street, in Cleaverville ; thence 
 northerly along said Elm street, 200 feet in width, west 
 from the east line of said street to its intersection with 
 Oakland avenue; said lands situate in and being a 
 part of sections two (2), three (3), six (6), seven (7), eleven
 
 LANDS. 137 
 
 (11), fourteeu (14), sixteen (16), seventeen (17) and 
 eighteen (18), the southeast quarter of section (10) and 
 all of fractional section thirteen (13), except the north 
 twenty-four 63-100 acres, the northeast quarter of sec- 
 tion fifteen (15); the north half of section twenty- 
 four (21), in township thirty-eight north, range four- 
 teen east, and parts of sections thirty-one (31) and 
 thirty-four (31), in township thirty-nine (39) north, 
 range fourteen (14) east. 
 
 ALTERATION IN BOUNDARY LINES. 
 
 RESOLUTION PASSED MAY 8th, 1872. 
 
 Whereas, in the opinion of this Board, it is desirable 
 to make certain alterations or changes in the location 
 and boundary lines of the park laid out and established 
 under the provisions of the Act of the General As- 
 sembly of this State, approved February 24th, 1869, 
 entitled "An Act to provide for the location and main- 
 tenance of a park for the Towns of South Chicago, Hyde 
 Park and Lake," and the Act amendatory of and sup- 
 plementary to the first mentioned Act, which altera- 
 tion and changes are severally as follows: 
 
 First. An alteration or change in the boundary 
 lines of all that portion of said park lying west of a line 
 466 7-10 feet east of and parallel to the range line be- 
 tween ranges 13 and 14 east of the third principal meri- 
 dian. Instead of the lines heretofore established, the 
 boundary' lines of all that portion of the said park lying 
 west of the Hue above indicated, shall be as follows: 
 Commencing at a point on the north line of Fifty-fifth 
 street 466 7-10 feet east of the range line between ranges 
 13 and 14 aforesaid, running thence north on a line 
 parallel to said range line 366 7-10 feet; running thence
 
 138 LANDS. 
 
 west on a line parallel to the north line of Fifty-fifth 
 street, 366 7-10 feet; running thence north on a line 
 east of and parallel to the aforesaid range line and 100 
 feet distant therefrom, to the south line of Egan ave- 
 nue; running thence west along the south line of Egan 
 avenue and the same line extended west 200 feet; run- 
 ning thence south on a line west of and parallel to the 
 aforesaid range line and 100 feet distant therefrom, to 
 a point 366 7-10 feet north of the north line of Fifty- 
 fifth street extended; running thence west on a line 
 parallel to the north line of Fifty-fifth street extended 
 366 7-10 feet; running thence south on a line parallel 
 to the aforesaid range line 933 4-10 feet; running thence 
 east on a line parallel to the north line of Fiftj-fifth 
 street extended 933 4-10 feet ; running thence north on 
 a line parallel to the aforesaid range line 566 7-10 feet 
 to the place of beginning. 
 
 Second. In addition to the land now embraced with- 
 in the park limits in the south half of section 34, town- 
 ship 39 north of range 14, east of the third principal 
 meridian, and in section 3 and the north half of section 
 10, township 38, north of range 14, east of the third 
 principal meridian, there shall be annexed to and in- 
 cluded within the boundaries of the said park, all that 
 portion of Kankakee avenue, now or lately so called, 
 which lies between the south line of Douglas Place and 
 the south line of Fifty-first street; and also all that 
 portion of lots nine (9), ten (10), and eleven (11), in La- 
 vinia's Subdivision of the south half of the south half 
 of the northeast quarter of section ten (10), towushi]) 
 38 north, range 14 east of the third primnpal meridian, 
 lying west of a line drawn across said lots parallel to 
 the east line of said Kankakee avenue and one hundred
 
 ALTERATION IN BOUNDARY LINES. 139 
 
 and fifty feet east of and distant therefrom; and also 
 all that portion of Fifty-first street lying south of and 
 adjoining- said last described parcel of gronnd. 
 
 Third: In addition to the lands now embraced with- 
 in the park limits lying sonth of Fifty-sixth street and 
 east of the Illinois Central Railroad, there shall be an- 
 nexed to and included within the boundaries of the said 
 park a strip of ground extending east from the east 
 line of the Illinois Central Railroad Company's "right 
 of wa}^" fifty feet in width on each side of the center 
 line of Fifty-seventh street to the east line of Hyde Park 
 avenue. 
 
 Fourth. In addition to the lands now embraced 
 within the park limits, lying at or near the intersection 
 of Cottage Grove avenue with Fifty-first street, there 
 shall be annexed to and included within the boundaries 
 of the said park, the north half of block nine (0) in Drex- 
 el and Smith's subdivisicm of the west half of the north- 
 west quarter and the west half of the Avest half of the 
 southwest quarter of section eleven (11), township 38 
 north of range 14 east of the third principal meridan. 
 
 Fifth. There shall also be annexed and included 
 within the boundaries of the said j)ark a strip of land 
 fifty (50) feet in width on each side of a line commenc- 
 ing at the intersection of the east line of Kankakee 
 avenue, now or lately so called, with the center line of 
 Oakwood avenue in the Town of Hyde Park, running 
 thence easterly along the center line of said Oakwood 
 aA'enue, as the same is laid out, to a point directly op- 
 posite the southeast corner of lot eleven (11) in block 
 one (1) in Cleavorville addition, and running thence due 
 east to Cottage fJrove avenue; also all that part of lot 
 one (1) in block four (4) in Oleaverville addition lying
 
 140 LANDS. 
 
 north of the strip of land above described; also all that 
 portion of said Oak wood avenue lying between Cottage 
 Grove avenne and Kankakee avenue aforesaid. 
 
 Therefore, be it Resolved, That an application be 
 made by petition to the "Circuit Court of Cook County" 
 pursuant to the provisions of the statute in such case 
 made and provided for an order granting leave to the 
 said board of South Park Commissioners to make the 
 several alterations and changes in the location and 
 boundary lines of the said park which are above speci- 
 fied, and empowering the said board to acquire by pur- 
 chase or condemnation such additional lands as the sev- 
 eral alterations and changes aforesaid shall render 
 necessary. And it is hereby directed that the attorneys 
 of the board cause said application to be made imme- 
 diately and due notice tliereof to be published accord- 
 ing to law. 
 
 'to 
 
 ORDER IN THE CIRCUIT COURT. 
 
 ENTERED OP RECORD ON MAY 20, 1872. 
 
 APPLICATION OP THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS POR 
 LEAVE TO MAKE CERTAIN ALTERATIONS OR CHANGES 
 IN THE LOCATION AND BOUNDARY LINES OP THE SOUTH 
 
 PARK. : 
 
 And now on this twentieth day of May, A. D. 1872, 
 being the first day of the May term of the said Circuit 
 Court, come the Board of South Park Commissioners, a 
 body politic and corporate, duly organized under the 
 laws of the State of Illinois, having control and super- 
 vision of the public park located and established in the 
 towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake, in said 
 County of Cook, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 
 of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, ap-
 
 ALTERATION IN BOUNDARY LINES. 141 
 
 proved February 24tli, A. D. 18G9, entitled "An Act to 
 provide for the location and maintenance of a park 
 for tli'e towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake," 
 and the Act approved April ICth, 18G9, amendatory of 
 and supplementary to the first mentioned Act, and also 
 in pursuance of a vote of the people of said towns of 
 South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake, at an election 
 duly and lawfully held in each of said towns on 
 the fourth Tuesday of March, A. D. 18G9, at which 
 election a majority of the legal voters of each of said 
 towns voted in favor of the said park and of the ratifi- 
 cation and adoption of the Act of the General Assembly 
 first above mentioned: and present to the said court 
 their petition in writing, therein and thereby praying 
 that an order may be made by the said Circuit Court 
 granting leave to said South Park Commissioners to 
 make certain alterations or changes in the location and 
 boundary lines of the said park, which alterations and 
 changes are therein particularly set forth and are sev- 
 erally as follows: 
 
 First. An alteration or change in the location and 
 boundary lines of all that portion of the said park lying- 
 west of a line 4GG 7-10 feet east of and parallel to the 
 range line between ranges 13 and 14 east of the third 
 principal meridian. Instead of the lines heretofore es- 
 tablished, the boundary lines of all that portion of the 
 said park lying west of the line above indicated, shall 
 be as follows: Commencing at a point on the north 
 line of Fifty-fifth street 4G6 7-10 feet east of the range 
 line between ranges 13 and 14 aforesaid, running thence 
 north, on a line parallel to the said range line, 366 7-10 
 feet, running thence west, on a line parallel to the north 
 line of Fifty-fifth street, 366 7-10 feet; running thence
 
 142 LANDS. 
 
 uortli, on a line east of and parallel to the aforesaid 
 range line and 100 feet distant therefrom, to the sonth 
 line of Egan avenue; running thence west, along the 
 south line of Egan avenue and the same line extended 
 west, 200 feet; running thence south, on a line west of 
 and parallel to the aforesaid range line, and 100 feet 
 distant therefrom, to a point 3GG 7-10 feet north of the 
 north line of Fifty-fifth street extended; running thence 
 west, on a line parallel to the north line of Fifty-fifth 
 street extended, 300 7-10 feet; running thence south, on 
 a line parallel to the aforesaid range line, 933 4-10 feet; 
 running thence east, on a line parallel to the north line 
 of Fifty-fifth street extended, 933 4-10 feet; running 
 thence north, on a line parallel to the aforesaid range 
 line, 560 7-10 feet to the place of beginning. 
 
 Second. In addition to the lands now embraced 
 within the park limits lying in the south half of sec- 
 tion 34, township 39 north of range 14 east of the third 
 principal meridian and in section 3, and the north half 
 of section 10, township 38 north of range 14 east of the 
 third principal meridian, there shall be annexed to and 
 included within the boundaries of said park, all that 
 portion of Kankakee avenue, now or lately so-called, 
 which lies between the south line of Douglas Place and 
 the south line of Fifty-first street, and also all that por- 
 tion of lots nine (9), ten (10), and eleven (11), in Lavinia's 
 subdivision of the south half of the south half of the 
 northeast quarter of section 10, township 38 north of 
 range fourteen east of the third principal meridian, 
 lying west of a line drawn across said lots, parallel to 
 the east line of said Kankakee avenue and also all that 
 portion of Fifty-first street lying south of and adjoining- 
 said last described parcel of ground.
 
 ALTERATION IN BOUNDARY LINES. 143 
 
 Third. In addition to the lands now embraced within 
 the park limits sonth of Fift3'-sixth street and east of 
 the Illinois Central Eailroad, there shall be annexed to 
 and included within the boundaries of the said park, a 
 strip of ground extending east from the east line of the 
 Illinois Central Railroad Companj's "right of way" 50 
 feet in width on each side of the center line of Fift}'^- 
 seventh street to the east line of Hyde Park avenue. 
 
 Fourth. In addition to the lands now embraced 
 within the park limits lying at or near the intersection 
 of Cottage Grove avenue with Fifty-first street there 
 shall be annexed to and included within the boundaries 
 of the said park, the north half of block nine (9) in 
 Drexel and Smith's subdivision of the west half of the 
 northwest quarter and the west half of the west half of 
 the southwest quarter of section 11, township 38 north 
 of range 14 east of the third principal meridian. 
 
 Fifth. There shall also be annexed to and included 
 within the boundaries of the said park a strip of land 50 
 feet in width on each side of a line commencing at the 
 intersection of the east line of Kankakee avenue, now or 
 lately so-called, with the center line of Oakwood ave- 
 nue, in the town of Hyde Park, running thence easter- 
 ly along the center line of said Oakwood avenue, as the 
 same is now laid out, to a point directly opposite to 
 the southeast corner of lot eleven in block one in 
 Cleaverville addition and running thence due east to 
 Cottage Grove avenue; also all that part of lot one in 
 block four in Cleaverville addition l3'iug north of the 
 strip of land above described and also all that portion 
 of said Oakwood avenue l^'ing between Cottage Grove 
 and Kankakee avenue aforesaid. 
 
 And it appearing to the court that due and legal no-
 
 144 LANDS. 
 
 tice of the said application has been given by the said 
 South Park Commissioners by publication in the 
 Chicago Eyening Journal, a newspaper of general 
 circulation published in the City of Chicago in 
 said County of Cook, according to the pro- 
 visions of the statute in such case made and 
 provided, and the court having duly considered the said 
 petition, and carefully examined and investigated the 
 several alterations and changes in the location and 
 boundary lines of the said park specified and prayed for 
 in the said petition; and after hearing all persons inter- 
 ested who appeared having come to the conclusion that 
 the several alterations or changes in the location and 
 boundary line of the said park above specified and set 
 forth would be for the public interest, It is therewpon 
 considered^ and ordered by said Courts no persons ap- 
 pearing to object thereto, that leave be and the same 
 is hereby granted to the said South Park Commission- 
 ers to make the several alterations or changes in the 
 location and boundary lines of the said park prayed for 
 in the said petition and hereinbefore par-ticularly speci- 
 fied and set forth. 
 
 And it is further considered and ordered hy the Court 
 that full power and authority be, and the same is here- 
 by granted to the said South Park Commissioners to 
 acquire by purchase, or by condemnation under any 
 law of the state for acquiring lands for public use, all 
 such additional land as shall be required to make and 
 carry into effect the several alterations or changes 
 aforesaid.
 
 ALTERATION IN BOUNDARY LINES. 145 
 
 CHANGES IN THE BOUNDARY LINES OF THE SOUTH PARKS. 
 RESOLUTION OF SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS, PASSED 
 JUNE 28, 1872. 
 
 Resolvied, That the following alterations or changes 
 in the location of the boundary lines of the South Park, 
 authorized by the Circuit Court of Cook County, upon 
 the petition of the South Park Commissioners presented 
 to said court on the twentieth day of May, 1872, be and 
 the same are hereby adopted, to-wit: 
 
 First. In addition to the lands now embraced with- 
 in the park limits lying in the south half of section 34, 
 township 39 north, range 14, east of the third principal 
 meridian, and in section 3, and the north half of section 
 10, township 38 north; range 14, east of the third princi- 
 pal meridian, there shall be annexed to and included 
 within the boundaries of the said park, all that portion 
 of Kankakee avenue, now or lately so called, which lies 
 between the south line of Douglas Place and the south 
 Hue of Fifty-first street, and also all that portion of l(>ts 
 nine (9), ten (10) and eleven (11), in Lavinia & Co.'s sub- 
 division of the south half of the south half of the north- 
 east quarter of section ten (10), township 38 north, range 
 14, east of the third principal meridian, lying west of a 
 line drawn across said lots parallel to the east line of 
 Kankakee avenue, and one hundred and fifty feet east of 
 and distant therefrom; and, also, all that i)ortion of 
 Fifty-first street, lying south of and adjoining said last 
 described parcel of ground. 
 
 Second. In addition to the lands now embraced 
 within the park limits, lying south of Fifty-sixth street 
 and east of the Illinois Central Kailroad, there shall be 
 annexed to and embraced within the boundaries of said 
 park, a strip of gi*ound extending east from the east
 
 146 LANDS. 
 
 line of the Illinois Central Kailroad Company's "right 
 of way," 50 feet in width on eaoh side of the center line 
 of Fifty-seventh street to the east line of Hyde Park 
 avenue. 
 
 Third. In addition to the lands now embraced within 
 the park limits, lying at or near the intersection of Cot- 
 tage Grove avenue with Fifty-first street, there shall be 
 annexed to and included within the boundaries of the 
 said park, the north half of block nine (9), in Drexel and 
 Smith's subdivision of the west half of the northwest 
 quarter, and the west half of the west half of the south- 
 west quarter of section 11, township 38 north, range 14, 
 east of the third principal meridian. 
 
 Fourth. There shall be annexed to and included 
 within the boundaries of the said park, a strip of land 
 50 feet in width on each side of a line commencing at 
 the intersection of the east line of Kankakee avenue, 
 now or lately so called, with the center line of Oakwood 
 avenue, in the town of Hyde Park; running thence 
 easterly along the center line of said Oakwood avenue, 
 as the same is now laid out, to a point directly opposite 
 to the southeast corner of lot eleven (11), in block one 
 (1), in Cleaverville addition, and running thence due 
 east to Cottage Grove avenue: also all that part of 
 lot one (1), in block four (4), in Cleaveiwille addition, 
 lying north of the strip of land above described: and 
 also all that portion of said Oakwood avenue lying be- 
 tween Cottage Grove avenue and Kankakee avenue, 
 aforesaid, and be it further 
 
 Resolved, that a map showing the aforesaid altera- 
 tions or changes, be forthwith made, acknowledged and 
 filed for record, in the office of the Recorder of Deeds 
 of the County of Cook.
 
 MICHIGAN AVENUE. 147 
 
 MICHIGAN AVENUE AND THIRTY-FIFTH 
 STREET BOULEVARDS. 
 
 RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS, PASSED 
 JULY 15th, 1879. 
 
 Resolved, that the Board of South Park Commission- 
 ers do hereby select and take, in accordance with the 
 act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, 
 entitled, "An Act to enable Park Commissioners or 
 corporate authorities to take, regulate, control and im- 
 prove public streets leading to public parks; to pay 
 for the improvement thereof, and in that behalf to make 
 and collect a special assessment, or special tax on con- 
 tiguous property," approved and in force April 9th, 
 1879; that part of Michigan avenue extending from the 
 south line of Jackson streetto the south line of Thirty- 
 fifth street, and that part of Tliirty-fifth street extend- 
 ing from the east line of Michigan avenue to the east 
 line of Grand boulevard, in the City of Chicago, County 
 of Cook and State of Illinois, being parts of connecting 
 streets leading to and connecting with the South Park, 
 the consent of the corporate authorities of the City of 
 Chicago having been obtained and the consent in writ- 
 ing of the owners of a majority of the frontage of all 
 lots and lands abutting on said streets as far as taken, 
 having been obtained jis r(H]uired by said act.
 
 148 LANDS. ;, 
 
 ORDINANCE GIVING CONSENT TO THE SOUTH PARK COM- 
 MISSIONERS, TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL AND IM- 
 PROVE MICHIGAN AVENUE FROM THE SOUTH LINE OF 
 JACKSON STREET TO THE SOUTH LINE OF THIRTY-FIFTH 
 STREET, AND THIRTY-FIFTH STREET FROM THE EAST 
 LINE OF MICHIGAN AVENUE TO THE EAST LINE OF 
 GRAND BOULEVARD. [PASSED AND IN FORCE JUNE 23, 
 1879.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 Section 1. That Whereas, the General Assembly has 
 passed a certain act which Avas duly approved Apt'il 9, 
 A. D. 1879, and which, with the title thereto, is in the 
 words and figures following: (See Act of the General 
 Assembly approved April 9th, A. D. 1879. 
 
 And Whereas, the Board of South Park Commission- 
 ers are about selecting and talving for the use and pur- 
 pose in the said act mentioned that part of Michigan 
 avenue extending from the south line of Jackson street 
 to the south line of Thirty-fifth street, and that part of 
 Thirty-fifth street extending from the east line of Mich- 
 igan avenue to the east line of the Grand boulevard, 
 and the consent in writing of the owners of a majority 
 of the frontage of the lots and lands abutting on each 
 of the said streets as far as taken or proposed to be 
 taken by said board having been obtained, consent is 
 hereby given and granted to the said Board of South 
 Park Commissioners to take, regulate, control and im- 
 prove the before described parts of Michigan avenue 
 and Thirty-fifth street respectively, in manner and form 
 provided in the said act of the General Assembl}^ And 
 full power and authority is hereby granted to said Board 
 of Park Commissioners to control, improve and main- 
 tain the parts of said streets so to be taken as afore- 
 said for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of
 
 MICHIGAN AVENUE. 149 
 
 the said act of the Geueral Assembly: riovidetl, liow- 
 ever, that nothing in this ordinance contained shall be 
 construed as a waiver or relinqnishment by or on the 
 part of the said city of any of its rights or powers in 
 relation to the laying of Avater and gas mains and 
 pipes and the building and repairing of sewers, tun- 
 nels and drains in said streets, and the regulating of 
 openings for the same. All powers which said city 
 now has in relation to water and gas mains, pipes and 
 sewers and their connections and the regulation of the 
 same, and the openings for the same in the streets and 
 alleys of said city being hereby expressly reserved as 
 to the said parts of Michigan avenue and Thirty-fifth 
 street in as ample a manner as if the aforesaid consent 
 were not given. Amendment, provided, that the esti- 
 mated costs of said first improvement shall include a 
 sum sufficient to lay a pavement of the best quality, 
 stone curbing, a permanent sidewalk of uniform width, 
 and such shade trees, shrubber}^, additional lamp posts, 
 and other additions as may be deemed necessary to 
 make the same in every respect a thoroughly finished 
 boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 2. Unless the said Board of Park Commission- 
 ers shall within thirty days from the approval hereof, 
 select and take the said parts of streets for the purposes 
 aforesaid, this ordinance shall cease to be of any force 
 or effect, and the consent given by section (1) aforesaid 
 shall be deemed to be withdrawn. 
 
 Sec. 3. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its passage.
 
 150 LANDS. 
 
 RESOLUTION OF THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS, PASSED 
 DECEMBER 31, 1884, 
 
 Eesolved, That this Board does now select and take 
 that part of Michigan avenue lying between the sonth 
 line of Thirty-fifth street and the north line of Fifty- 
 fifth street for the purpose of making the same a boule- 
 vard or driveway, in accordance with the laws of the 
 State of Illinois and the ordinances of the City of Chi- 
 cago and the Village of Hyde Park. 
 
 ORDINANCE GIVING CONSENT TO THE BOARD OF SOUTH 
 PARK COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL 
 AND IMPROVE MICHIGAN AVENUE FROM THE SOUTH 
 LINE OF THIRTY-FIFTH STREET TO THE CENTER LINE 
 OF THIRTY-NINTH STREET, PURSUANT TO THE ACT OF 
 THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED APRIL 9th, A. D. 1879. 
 [PASSED AND IN FORCE OCTOBER 17, 1884.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 Section 1. That Whereas the General Assembly has 
 passed an act which was duly approved April 9, A. D. 
 1879, and which with the title thereto is in the- words 
 and figures following: (See act of General Assembly 
 approved April 9, 1879.) 
 
 And Whereas, the Board of South Park Commission- 
 ers are about selecting and taking for the uses and pur- 
 poses in the said act mentioned, that part of Michigan 
 avenue extending from the south line of Thirty-fifth 
 street to the center line of Thirty-ninth street, in the 
 City of Chicago, and a consent in writing of a majority 
 of the frontage of the lots and lands abutting on said 
 Michigan avenue so far as taken, or proposed to be 
 taken by said board, having been obtained, and the 
 Village of Hyde Park having given and granted con-
 
 MICHIGAN AVENUE. 151 
 
 sent to said Board of South Park Commissioners to 
 take, regulate and control and improve that part of 
 Michigan avenue extending from the center line of 
 Thirt3'-niuth street to the north line of Fifty-fifth street 
 or Garfield boulevard. 
 
 Now, therefore, consent is hereby given and granted 
 to this said Uoard of South Park( Commissioners to take, 
 regulate, control and imi)rove the before described part 
 of Michigan avenue, located between the south line of 
 Thirty-fifth street and the center line of Thirty-ninth 
 street, in the City of Chicago, in manner and fonn pro- 
 vided in this said act of the General Assembly, for 
 the purpose of c(muecting the Cit}^ of Chicago at the 
 intersection of Michigan avenue and Thirtj'-fifth street 
 with said Garfield boulevard. 
 
 Provided, however, that nothing in this ordinance 
 contained, shall be construed as a waiver or relinquish- 
 ment by or on the part of said city of any of its rights 
 or powers in relation to the laying of water pipes or 
 gas mains and pipes and the building and repairing of 
 sewers in said Michigan avenue, and tie regulating 
 of openings for the same. All powers which said 
 city now has in relation to water and gfis pipes and 
 sewers and their connections, and the regulation of the 
 same, and the openings for the same in streets and 
 alleys of said c-itj, being hereby expressly reserved as 
 to the said part of Michigan avenue in as ample a man- 
 ner as if the aforesaid consent were not given. 
 
 Provided that the estimated cost of fiaid first im- 
 provement shall include a sum sufficient to lay a 
 pavement of the best quality, stone curbing, a perma- 
 nent sidewalk of a uniform width, and such shade trees, 
 shrubbery, additional lamp posts, and other additions
 
 152 LANDS. 
 
 as may be deemed necessary to make the same in every 
 respect a thoroughly finished boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 2. Unless the said Board of South Park 
 Commissioners shall within six months from the ap- 
 proval hereof, select and take the said part of Michi- 
 gan avenue for the purpose aforesaid, this ordinance 
 shall cease to be of any force or effect and the consent 
 hereby given by section one aforesaid shall be deemed 
 to be withdrawn. 
 
 Sec. 3. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 ORDINANCE GIVING CONSENT TO THE BOARD OF SOUTH 
 PARK COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL 
 AND IMPROVE MICHIGAN AVENUE FROM THE CENTER 
 LINE OF THIRTY-NINTH STREET TO THE NORTH LINE OF 
 FIFTY-FIFTH STREET, PURSUANT TO THE ACT OF THE 
 GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSED APRIL 9TH, A. D. 1879. 
 [PASSED JULY 26, 1884.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND BOARD OF TRUS- 
 TEES OF THE VILLAGE OF HYDE PARK: 
 
 Section 1. That whereas the General Assembly has 
 passed a certain act, which was duly approved April 
 9th, A. D. 1879, and which, with the title thereto, is in 
 the words and figures following: (See act of General 
 Assembly, approved April 9, 1879.) 
 
 And whereas the Board of South Park Commission- 
 ers are about selecting and taking for the uses and pur- 
 poses in the said act mentioned, that part of Michigan 
 avenue extending from the center line of Thirty-ninth 
 street to the north line of Fifty-fifth street, or Garfield 
 boulevard, and the consent in writing of the owners of 
 a majority of the frontage of the lots and lauds abut- 
 ting on said Michigan avenue so far as taken or prO'
 
 MICHIGAN AVENUE, 153 
 
 posed to be takeu by said board having been obtained, 
 consent is hereby given and granted to the said Board 
 of South Parlv Commissioners to take, regulate, control 
 and improve the before described part of Michigan ave- 
 nue in maimer and form provided in the said act of the 
 General Assembly. 
 
 Provided, however, that nothing in this ordinance 
 contained shall be construed as a waiver or relinquish- 
 ment by or on the part of said village of any of its 
 rights or powers in relation to the laying of water or 
 gas mains and pipes and the building and repairing 
 of sewers in said street and the regulating of openings 
 for the same. All powers which said village now has 
 in relation to water and gas pipes and sewers and their 
 connections and the regulation of the same and the 
 openings for the same in streets and alleys of said 
 village being hereby expressly reserved as to the said 
 part of Michigan avenue in as ample a manner as if the 
 aforesaid consent were not given. 
 
 Provided that the estimated cost of said first im- 
 provement shall include a sum sufficient to lay a pave- 
 ment of the best quality, stone curbing, a permanent 
 sidewalk of uniform width, and such shade trees, 
 shrubbery, additional lamp posts, and other additions 
 as may be deemed necessary to make the same in every 
 respect a thoroughly finished boulevard. 
 
 Provided further, that said Board of South Park 
 Commissioners shall not in any one year make an as- 
 sessment for the improvement hereby contemplated of 
 more than half a mile in leng-th of said portion of said 
 Michigan avenue, and said improvement to be com- 
 menced at Thirty-ninth street and continued in contin- 
 uous prder to the south,
 
 154 LANDS. 
 
 And provided further that no improvement shall be 
 made on any portion of said ayenue described herein 
 until the sewers, gas pipes and water pipes shall have 
 been constructed and laid. 
 
 And provided further that no assessment shall be 
 made for the improvement of any portion of said ave- 
 nue south of Thirty-ninth street until an assessment 
 shall have been made for the improvement thereof be- 
 tween Thirty-ninth and Thirty-fifth streets. 
 
 Sec. 2. Unless the said Board of Park Commission- 
 ers shall, within six months from the approval hereof, 
 select and take the said part of said street for the pur- 
 pose aforesaid, this ordinance shall cease to be of any 
 force or effect, and the consent hereby given by section 
 1 aforesaid shall be deemed to be withdrawn. 
 
 EAST JACKSON STREET. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO ENABLE THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSION- 
 ERS TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL AND IMPROVE BAST 
 JACKSON STREET, FROM THE EAST LINE OP THE CHI- 
 CAGO RIVER TO THE WEST LINE OF MICHIGAN AVENUE, 
 IN THE TOWN OF SOUTH CHICAGO, IN THE CITY OF CHI- 
 CAGO, AND STATE OF ILLINOIS. [PASSED MAY 18, 1896.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 Section 1. That, whereas, the General Assembly of 
 the State of Illinois has passed an act entitled "An 
 Act to enable park commissioners or park authorities 
 to take, regulate, control and improve public streets 
 and to pay for the improvement thereof," approved 
 June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; and 
 
 Whereas, The Board of South Park Commissioners 
 are about selecting and taking for the uses and pur- 
 poses in said act mentioned, that part of East Jackson
 
 EAST JACKSON STREET. 155 
 
 street extending from the east line of the Chicago 
 River to the west line of Michigan avenue, in the Town 
 of South Chicago, in the City of Cliicago: 
 
 Now, therefore, the consent of the corporate authori- 
 ties having control of said street be, and the same is 
 hereby given and granted to the said South Park Com- 
 missioners to take, regulate, control and improve the 
 before described part of East Jackson street, between 
 the east line of the Chicago River and the west line of 
 Michigan avenue, in the Town of South Chicago, in the 
 City of Chicago, in manner and form provided in said 
 act of the General Assembly, for the purpose of form- 
 ing a boulevard connection between the park system in 
 said Town of South Chicago and the park sAstem in 
 the Town of West Chicago, both of said i^ark systems 
 being in the City of Chicago. 
 
 Sec. 2. It is expressly provided, however, that while 
 the consent and authority of the city is hereby given 
 to said South Park Commissioners to take, regulate, 
 control and improve said street for boulevard purposes, 
 said South Park Commissioners shall permit, with 
 reasonable regalation, the use of said street hereinbe- 
 fore described for trafHic teaming on said roadway for 
 the use and benefit of the abutting owners of said prop- 
 erty, any rule, regulation or ordinance of said South 
 Park Commissioners to the contrary notAvithstanding: 
 and, Provided further, that this ordinance, and the con- 
 sent hereby given, is upon the express condition prece- 
 dent that said South Park Commissioners, or their suc- 
 cessor, or successors, shall never grant or permit the 
 construction of any railroad track or tracks of anj^ kind 
 in, along or upon any part of said street hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 3. It is also expressly provided that nothing in
 
 156 LANDS. 
 
 this ordinance contained sliall be construed as a waiver 
 or relinquishment on the part of said city of any of its 
 rights or powers in relation to the la3dng of water sup- 
 ply pipes and the building and repairing of sewers and 
 the regulation of openings for the same in said East 
 Jackson street. 
 
 All powers which the city now has in relation to 
 water and gas pipes and sewers and their connections, 
 and the regulation of the same and the openings of 
 the same in the streets and alleys in said street, are 
 hereby expressly resers^ed to the city as to that part of 
 East Jackson street, in as ample a manner as if the 
 aforesaid consent were not given. 
 
 And Provided further, that nothing in this ordinance 
 contained shall be construed as a waiver or relinquish- 
 ment on the part of said city of any of its rights in and 
 to any of the underground pipes now in said street. 
 
 Sec. 4. Unless said Board of South Park Commis- 
 sioners shall within six (6) months from the approval 
 hereof, select, take and accept said East Jackson street 
 in manner and form as by law provided and upon the 
 terms and conditions aforesaid, then this ordinance to 
 be of no force or effect, and the consent hereby given 
 shall be deemed to be withdrawn. 
 
 Sec. 5. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its passage.
 
 EAST JACKSON STREET. 157 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION ONE (1) OF AN OR- 
 DINANCE ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE TO ENABLE THE 
 SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE, REGULATE, CON- 
 TROL AND IMPROVE EAST JACKSON STREET, FROM THE 
 EAST LINE OF THE CHICAGO RIVER TO THE WEST LINE 
 OF MICHIGAN AVENUE, IN THE TOWN OF SOUTH CHI- 
 CAGO, IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO AND STATE OF ILLINOIS," 
 PASSED MAY 18TH, 1896. [PASSED OCTOBER 19th, 1896.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 Section 1. That section one (1) of an ordinance en- 
 titled "An ordinance to enable the South Park Commis- 
 sioners to take, regulate, control and improve East 
 Jackson street, from the east line of the Chicago Eiver 
 to the west line of Michigan avenue, in the Town of 
 South Chicago, in the City of Chicago and State of Illi- 
 nois,'* passed May 18th, 1890, be amended so as to read 
 as follows, to wit: 
 
 Section 1. That, whereas, the General Assembly of 
 the State of Illinois has passed an act entitled "An act 
 to enable park commissionei's or park authorities to 
 take, regulate, control and improve public streets and 
 to pay for the improvement thereof," approved June 21, 
 1895, in force July 1, 1895; and 
 
 Whereas, The Board of South Park Commissioners 
 are about selecting and taking for the uses and pur- 
 poses in said act mentioned, that part of East Jackson 
 street extending from the east line of the Chicago River 
 to the east line of Michigan avenue, in the Town of 
 South Chicago, in the City of Chicago: 
 
 Now, therefore. The consent of the corporate author- 
 ities having control of said street be and the same is 
 hereby given and granted to said South Park Commis- 
 sioners to take, regulate, control and improve the be- 
 fore described part of East Jackson street, between the
 
 158 LANDS. 
 
 east line of the Chicago Kiver and the east line of Mich- 
 igan avenue, in the Town of South Chicago, in the City 
 of Chicago, in manner and form jjrovided in said act of 
 the General Assembly for the purpose of forming a 
 boulevard connection between the park system in the 
 Town of South Chicago and the park system in the 
 Town of West Chicago, both of said park systems being 
 in the City of Chicago. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 AGREEMENT EXECUTED BY DIRECTION OF T1IE SOUTH 
 PARK COMMISSIONERS AT ITS MEETING ON NOVEMBER 
 . 18TH, 1896. 
 
 In consideration of the approval by the mayor of the 
 City of Chicago, concurrently with the execution and 
 delivery of this agreement, of an ordinance passed by 
 the City Council of said city at its meeting on the IGth 
 day of November, making qualified provision for a free 
 supply of water to the South Park Commissioners by 
 said city, it is hereby agreed by said South Park Com- 
 missioners that they will expend not less than twenty 
 thousand dollars (|20,000) hereafter in each year from 
 the date hereof for the maintenance and improvement 
 of tliat portion of Jackson street in said ordinance men- 
 tioned that at any time hereafter, when requested so to 
 do by the comptroller of said city, they will make and 
 submit to said comptroller statements showing their 
 expenditures from time to time on account of said i)or- 
 tion of said Jackson street that said ordinance shall 
 be considered binding and effectual against said city 
 (notwithstanding the taking of said Jackson street by 
 said South Park Commissioners) only so long as said
 
 EAST JACKSON STREET. 159 
 
 South Park Commissioners shall fully comply with the 
 terms of this agreement, and that upon failure of said 
 South Park Commissioners to carry out this agreement 
 said city shall be considered free to repeal or rescind 
 said ordinance and to discontinue the free supply of 
 water to said South Park Commissioners, and in such 
 event said South Park Commissioners will not in any 
 way resist such action upon the part of said city. 
 
 This agreement shall be delivered to the mayor of 
 said city concurrently with his approval of said ordi- 
 nance, and shall be fully binding and effectual against 
 said South Park Commissioners uiwn such approval. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE SELECTING AND TAKING JACKSON STREET, 
 FROM THE EAST LINE OP THE CHICAGO RIVER TO THE 
 EAST LINE OF MICHIGAN AVENUE, IN THE TOWN OF 
 SOUTH CHICAGO, IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO. [PASSED NO- 
 VEMBER 18TH, 1896.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That, whereas, the owners of a majority 
 of the lots and lands abutting on Jackson street from 
 the east line of the Chicago River to the east line of 
 Michigan avenue, in the Town of South Chicago, in the 
 City of Chicago, and within the South Park District, 
 have filed with the South Park Commissioners their 
 consents respectively in writing, that the South Park 
 Commissioners may select and take said Jackson street 
 from the east line of Michigan avenue to the Cliicago 
 River, in accordance with tlie statute in such case made 
 and provided. 
 
 And, whereas, the City Council of the City of Chicago, 
 which is the proper corporate authority of said City, 
 having control of such street, has, b}' proper ordinance
 
 160 LANDS. 
 
 passed on the 18th day of May, 1896, as amended by an 
 ordinance passed on the 19th day of October, 1896, con- 
 sented that the South Park Commissioners may select 
 and take said Jackson street from the east line of the 
 Chicago Eiver to the east line of Michigan avenue, in 
 aecordance with the provisions of the acts of the Legis- 
 lature of the State of Illinois, upon the conditions in 
 said ordinance set forth. 
 
 And, whereas, the City Council of the City of Chicago, 
 as an inducement to the South Park Commissioners to 
 select and take said part of said Jackson street, has hj 
 an ordinance duly passed, agreed that if the said South 
 Park Commissioners shall select and take that part of 
 said Jackson street as aforesaid, the City of Chicago 
 will furnish to the South Park Commissioners the 
 water needed to be used in connection with the parks 
 and boulevards under the control of the South Park 
 Commissioners, free of expense, but subject to such 
 reasonable regulations and rules concerning the use 
 thereof, as may be provided from time to time by the 
 Commissioner of Public Works of the City of Chicago. 
 
 Now, therefore, Jackson street from the east line of 
 the Chicago River to the east line of Michigan avenue, 
 in the Town of South Chicago, in the City of Chicago, 
 and in the South Park District, is hereby selected and 
 taken by the South Park Commissioners, and full power 
 and authority to regulate, control, improve and main- 
 tain said part of said Jackson street so selected and 
 taken as aforesaid, are hereby vested in and assumed 
 by the South Park Commissioners; provided, however, 
 that the selection and taking of the said part of said 
 Jackson street is, nevertheless, upon the terms and con- 
 ditions set forth in the said ordinance of the City Conn-
 
 EAST JACKSON STREET. 161 
 
 cil of the City of Chicago passed on the 18th day of 
 May, 1896, and that nothing in this ordinance contained 
 shall be construed as a waiver or relinquishment by or 
 on the part of the City of Chicago of any of its rights 
 or powers in relation to the laying of water mains and 
 pipes and connections therewith, and the construction 
 of sewers and drains in said street, and the regulating 
 of openings for the same, or the repair of said water 
 mains, pipes, sewers or drains in said street, and all 
 powers that the City of Chicago now has in relation 
 to the water mains, pipes and sewers and their connec- 
 tions, and all underground pipes now in said street, and 
 the regulation of the same, and the openings for the 
 same in the streets of said city, are hereby expressly 
 reserved to said City as to that part of said Jackson 
 street hereinabove selected and taken by the South 
 Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 RESOLUTION, PASSED NOVEMBER 18TH, 1896. 
 
 Whereas, The South Park Commissioners has, by 
 ordinance duly passed on this date, selected and taken 
 Jackson street, in the City of Chicago, from the east 
 line of the Chicago River to the east line of Michigan 
 avenue, in accordance with the ordinance passed by the 
 City Council of the City of Chicago, on the eighteenth 
 day of May, 1896, as amended by an ordinance passed 
 on the nineteenth day of October, 1896. 
 
 Now, therefore, be it resolved, that the South Park 
 Commissioners hereby accept that part of said Jackson 
 street aforesaid in accordance with said ordinance 
 passed by the City Council of the City of Chicago.
 
 162 LANDS. 
 
 LAKE FRONT PARK. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE GRANTING CONSENT TO THE SOUTH PARK 
 COMMISSIONERS TO TAKE, REGULATE, CONTROL AND 
 GOVERN ALL THAT PART OP THE LAKE FRONT PARK 
 LYING SOUTH OF THE NORTH LINE OF JACKSON STREET, 
 EXTENDED EAST. [PASSED JULY 27TH, 1896.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF 
 CHICAGO: 
 
 Section 1. That consent be, and the same is hereby 
 given to the South Park Commissioners to take, regu- 
 late, control and govern, in the same manner as it may 
 govern other parks or boulevards under its control, all 
 that certain public park situated in the Town of South 
 Chicago, in the City of Chicago, and known as the Lake 
 Front Park, or Lake Park, except, however, that por- 
 tion lying north of the north line of Jackson street ex- 
 tended on a straight line east from Michigan avenue to 
 the Illinois Central Railroad Company's right of way, 
 and west of the right of way of the Illinois Central Rail- 
 road Company, including in the consent hereby given 
 all land which may be hereafter reclaimed adjoining- 
 said park, and all right and control in and over any re- 
 claimed land, and any water rights in connection with 
 the said park which now exist, or which may be here- 
 after provided under any ordinance or contract now in 
 existence. And the said South Park Commissioners 
 shall have the right to control, improve and maintain 
 so much of the said pork as it is hereby authorized to 
 take. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance is passed subject to the pro- 
 vision that all the rights acquired by the Illinois Cen- 
 tral Railroad Company under the ordinance passed by 
 the City Council on the 21st day of October, 1895, and 
 under the contract entered into between the City of Chi- 
 cago and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, dated
 
 LAKE FRONT PARK. 163 
 
 the 20th day of November, 1895, shall be respected by 
 the said South Park Commissioners, and all contracts 
 entered into by the said Illinois Central Railroad Com- 
 pany in prosecution of the work to be done by it, and in 
 accordance with the said above described agreement 
 and ordinance prior to the acceptance of this ordinance 
 by the South Park Commissioners shall be respected 
 by the said South Park Commissioners. And the South 
 Park Commissioners shall receive and enjo}^ all rights 
 and benefits secured by said agreement and ordinance 
 to the City of Chicago so far as the same apply to those 
 parts of said park thus taken by said South Park Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 3. The City of Chicago hereby reserves the right 
 to lay and repair any water main, sewer or electric 
 light conduit in the same manner and to the same ex- 
 tent as it now has authority to do so. 
 
 Sec. 4. This ordinance is passed and the grants 
 therein contained are subject to the further provision 
 and condition, to wit: That the Field Columbian Muse- 
 um, a corporation organized and incorporated under 
 the laws of the State of Illinois, shall have the right 
 and privilege, and such right and privilege are hereby 
 granted, to locate, construct and maintain its perma- 
 nent buildings and structures for the use and occu- 
 pancy of said museum upon the public park hereinbe- 
 fore described under section 1 of this ordinance; and 
 the following described piece, part or parcel of said 
 park is hereby designated and set apart for such use 
 and purpose of said Field Columbian Museum, to wit: 
 a certain piece or parcel of land 1,300 feet in lengtli by 
 900 feet in width, more particularly described and lo- 
 cated as follows: — the west line thereof to be 225 feet
 
 164 LANDS. 
 
 east of the present right of way and property of the 
 Illinois Central Railroad. 
 
 It is further herein provided that the said Field 
 Columbian Museum may enter into possession of said 
 piece or parcel of land at any time whenever it desires 
 to commence the construction of its said buildings or 
 other improvements upon said premises and from that 
 date to have the exclusive control and right of occu- 
 pancy of said premises, together with all structures and 
 other improvements thereon ; and it is further provided 
 that the public shall at all times have free and reason- 
 able access to said museum grounds over and through 
 said park hereinbefore described and by the terms of 
 this ordinance transferred to said South Park Com- 
 mission. 
 
 Sec. 5. And be it further ordained that in the event 
 said South Park Commission shall decline to accept 
 said transfer of said park as herein provided, then the 
 grant to said Field Columbian Museum with all privi- 
 leges contained in section 4 of this ordinance shall be 
 and hereby is made perpetual, and it is hereby declared 
 that said piece or parcel of land described in said sec- 
 tion 4 is hereby dedicated to the uses and privileges of 
 said Field Columbian Museum as in this ordinance ex- 
 pressed and contained. 
 
 Sec. 6. That portion of the lake front dedicated 
 to the use of the Field Columbian Museum is so dedi- 
 cated on the express condition that unless the work of 
 construction of such museum shall be started within 
 one year from the passage of this ordinance said space 
 shall revert to the South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. All that portion of said Lake Front Park 
 lying east of the easterly line of the Illinois Central
 
 LAKE FRONT PARK. 165 
 
 Railroad Company's right of way and lying north of 
 the north line of Monroe street extended to the east 
 limits of said park at the outer sea wall shall be and 
 the same is hereby dedicated to the use of the local 
 military companies of the Illinois National Guard for 
 the purpose of parade grounds and a site for armory 
 and other like uses by said military organizations. 
 
 Sec. 8. Unless the said South Park Commissioners 
 shall within four months from the passage of this ordi- 
 nance accept the same and take so much of said park 
 as consent is hereby given for, this ordinance shall 
 cease to be of any force or effect and the consent hereby 
 given shall be deemed to be withdrawn. 
 
 Sec. 9. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 Which ordinance, on file in the office of the City Clerk 
 of Chicago is endorsed as follows: 
 
 "The ordinance is approved upon condition that the 
 South Park Commissioners shall, in their acceptance of 
 said ordinance definitely locate the parcel of land 
 granted and dedicated to the Field Columbian Museum 
 in section 4 of this ordinance, and the acceptance by 
 the proper officers of said museum of such location; 
 and, in the event of the South Park Commissioners not 
 accepting this ordinance, the parcel of land 1,300 feet 
 by 900 feet granted and dedicated to the Field Colum- 
 bian Museum is to center on Congress Street extended ; 
 and upon the further condition that the South Park 
 Commissioners accept East Jackson street as per ordi- 
 nance passed by the City Council of the City of Chicago 
 under date of May 18th, 1896.* 
 
 (Signed) GEO. B. SWIFT, 
 
 Chicago, August 1st, 189G. Mayor." 
 
 *This ordinance having been passed by the City Council on July 
 27th, 1896, and having not been vetoed by the Mayor at the next regu- 
 lar meeting of the Council, which was held on September 14th, 
 1896, thereupon became a valid ordinance. The foregoing approval 
 is not considered valid.
 
 166 LANDS. 
 
 ORDINANCE TAKING UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE SOUTH 
 PARK COMMISSIONERS A PART OP LAKE PARK IN THE 
 CITY OF CHICAGO. [PASSED NOVEMBER 27TH, 1896.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That, whereas, the owners of a majority 
 of the frontage of the lots and lands abutting on Lake 
 Park, otherwise known as Lake Front Park, in the 
 Town of South Chicago, in the City of Chicago, and 
 within the South Park District, and also the owners 
 of a majority of the frontage of the lots and lands abut- 
 ting upon that part of the said Lake Park, described 
 as all of said Lake Park except that portion lying 
 north of the north line of Jackson street extended on 
 a straight line east from Michigan avenue to the Illi- 
 nois Central Railroad Company's right of way, and west 
 of the right of way of the Illinois Central Railroad 
 Company, have filed with the South Park Commission- 
 ers, their respective consents in writing that the South 
 Park Commissioners may take under its control, and 
 regulate, control and govern in the same manner as it 
 may govern other parks under its control, the said 
 Lake Park or any part thereof. 
 
 And, whereas, the said Lake Park, otherwise known 
 as Lake Front Park, is a public park under the control 
 or jurisdiction of the City of Chicago. 
 
 And, whereas, the City Council of the City of Chi- 
 cago, which is the proper corporate authority of said 
 city having control of said Lake Park, has by an ordi- 
 nance passed on the 27th day of July, 1896, consented 
 that the South Park Commissioners may take, regulate, 
 control and govern, in the same manner as it may gov- 
 ern other parks or boulevards under its control, all of 
 said public park, known as the Lake Front Park or
 
 LAKE FRONT PARK. 167 
 
 Lake Park, except, however, that portion lying uortli 
 of the north line of Jackson street extended on a 
 straight line east from Michigan avenue to the Illinois 
 Central Eailroad Company's right of way and west of 
 the right of way of the Illinois Central Railroad Com- 
 pany, including, as is set out in said ordinance, in the 
 consent thereby given, all land which may be there- 
 after reclaimed adjoining the said park, and all right 
 and control in and over any reclaimed land, and any 
 water rights in connection with the said park which 
 then existed, or which might be thereafter provided 
 under any ordinance or contract then in existence. 
 
 Now, therefore, all that certain public park situated 
 in the Town of South Chicago, in the Cit}^ of Chicago, 
 and within the Soutli Park District, and known as the 
 Lake Front Park or Lake Park, except, however, that 
 portion lying north of the north line of Jackson street 
 extended on a straight line east from Michigan avenue 
 to the Illinois Central Railroad Company's right of 
 way, and west of the right of way of the Illinois Central 
 Railroad Company, including all laud which may be 
 hereafter reclaimed adjoining said park, and all right 
 and control in and over anj' reclaimed land, and any 
 water rights in connection with the said park which 
 now exist or which may be hereafter provided under 
 any ordinance or contract now in existence, is hereby 
 taken under tlie control of the South Park Commission- 
 ers, and full power and authority to regulate, control, 
 govern, improve and maintain said part of said Lake 
 Park so taken as aforesaid, are hereby vested in and 
 assumed by the South Park Commissioners: Provided, 
 however, that the taking under control of tlie said part 
 of said park is nevertheless subject to all of the legal
 
 168 LANDS. 
 
 provisions, eonditions and reservations set forth in the 
 said ordinance passed by the City Council of the City 
 of Chicago on the 27th day of July, 1896.. And the 
 South Park Commissioners hereby accept all rights 
 and benefits secured to the City of Chicago, under a 
 contract entered into between the City of Chicago and 
 the Illinois Central Railroad Company, dated the 20th 
 day of November, 1895, and an ordinance passed by 
 the City Council of the City of Chicago on the 21st day 
 of October, 1895, so far as the same applies to those 
 parts of said park thus taken by the South Park Com- 
 missioners. And, provided further, that the South 
 Park Commissioners does not by the filing of said con- 
 sents of said property owners waive any of its legal 
 rights in regard to the said part of said park so taken 
 and the control and government thereof which it would 
 otherwise have. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after its passage.
 
 MISCELLANEOUS OEDINANCES, 
 
 RESOLUTIONS 
 
 AND COMMUNICATIONS. 
 
 ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RAILKOAD. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING RIGHT TO ATCHISON, TOPEKA & 
 SANTA FE RAILROAD COMPANY IN CHICAGO TO CROSS 
 WESTERN AVENUE BOULEVARD. [PASSED OCTOBER 12, 
 1887.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That permission and authority be and 
 the same is hereby granted to tlie Atchison, Topeka & 
 Santa Fe Railroad Company in Chicago to lay down, 
 oj)erate and maintain a double-track railway across the 
 Western Avenue boulevard in the Town of Lake, Cook 
 County, Illinois, in the manner and subject to the pro- 
 visions and restrictions hereinafter contained. 
 
 Sec. 2. The north rail of the said tracks shall be laid 
 as nearly as practicable parallel to and not more than 
 twelve feet south of the south line of Forty-ninth street 
 as the same crosses said boulevard; the south rail of 
 said tracks shall be laid parallel to and not more than 
 twenty-two feet south of said north rail; and the said 
 tracks shall be laid under the supervision and direc- 
 tion of the Superintendent of the South Park Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said railroad company shall plank and 
 keep in constant repair the spaces between said tracks 
 to the full width of said boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said railroad company shall, whenever 
 so directed by the South Park Commissioners, keep and
 
 170 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 maintain a flagman at such crossing of said boulevard 
 or shall construct and maintain gates thereat, as shall 
 be required by the South Park Commissioners; and 
 shall also use and maintain such other means in use 
 by railway companies as shall from time to time be 
 directed by said South Park Commissioners to insure 
 the safety of persons using said boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 5. The said railroad company shall at no time 
 and under no circumstances permit any of its cars or 
 locomotives to stand upon said tracks to the obstruc- 
 tion of travel upon said boulevard, or any part thereof. 
 
 Sec. 6. The permission, authority and privileges 
 hereby granted are upon the further express condition 
 that the said railroad company, whenever so directed 
 by the South Park Commissioners, in compliance with 
 any general order in regard to tiie construction of via- 
 ducts and the lowering of the tracks crossing the boule- 
 vards under the control of said South Park Commis- 
 sioners in any particular district, shall construct and 
 maintain a viaduct over said boulevard and railway 
 crossing, and shall lower the said tracks in the man- 
 ner required by the said South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. The privileges hereby granted are upon the 
 further express condition that said railroad company 
 shall at all times comply with and be subject to all gen- 
 eral and speciail ordinances of said South Park Com- 
 missioners, now in force or which may hereafter be 
 passed concerning the use and occupation of streets 
 and boulevards and the running and operating of cars 
 thereon or across the same by railway companies, so 
 far as the same apply or relate to the privileges hereby- 
 granted. 
 
 Sec. 8. The permission and authority hereby granted
 
 A. T. & S. F. R. R. COMPANY. 171 
 
 are upon the further express condition that the said 
 railroad company shall forever indemnify and save 
 harmless the said South Park Commissioners from any 
 and all legal actions, damages, decrees and the costs 
 and expenses of the same which may be recovered or 
 obtained against the South Park Commissioners for or 
 by reason of, or growing out of, or resulting from the 
 passage of this ordinance, or any matter or thing con- 
 nected therewith, or by the exercise by the company of 
 the privileges hereby granted, or from any act or acts 
 of said company under or by virtue of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. Should the said company at any time fail to 
 comply w^ith the conditions and provisions of this ordi- 
 nance, or any of them, or with the general ordinances 
 of the South Park Commissioners, the said South Park 
 Commissioners may order said tracks to be taken up 
 and removed by said company and on its failure so to 
 do within ten days after notice of such order, may 
 cause the same to be taken up and removed at the ex- 
 pense of the said company. 
 
 Sec. 10. All the provisions of this ordinance shall 
 be equally binding upon the said railroad company, its 
 successors, assigns and lessees. 
 
 Sec. 11. This ordinance shall be in force only from 
 and after the written acceptance of the same and its 
 provisions by the said Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
 Railroad Company, in Chicago duly signed and under 
 its corporate seal, shall be filed with the secretary of 
 the South Park Commissioners. Unless such accept- 
 ance be so filed within thirty days of the time of the 
 passage hereof this ordinance shall be null and void.
 
 BONDS. 
 
 ORDINANCE TO ISSUE BONDS. [PASSED JANUARY 14, 1891.] 
 
 Whereas, The General Assembly of the State of Illi- 
 nois passed an act entitled, "An act in relation to the 
 World's Columbian Exposition," approved August 5, 
 1890, the third and fourth sections of which are as fol- 
 lows: 
 
 Section 3. In case the site or sites for the holding 
 of the said World's Columbian Exposition, as finally lo- 
 cated and fixed by the authorities in charge thereof, 
 shall include the whole or any part of any public park 
 which is, or may be, under the control and management 
 of park commissioners, then and in that event it shall 
 be competent, and express authority for that purpose 
 is hereby granted to the park commissioners having 
 the control and management of such public park to 
 allow the use of the same or any part thereof, for tlie 
 purposes of said World's Columbian Exposition, upon 
 such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon be- 
 tween the said park commissioners and the authorities 
 having the management of said exposition. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said park commissioners in charge of 
 the public grounds or any part thereof, designated and 
 selected as the site of the whole or part of the said 
 exposition by the authorities in charge thereof, shall 
 have and are hereby invested with full power and 
 authority in their discretion to issue and sell interest- 
 bearing bonds to an amount not exceeding five hundred 
 thousand dollars, the proceeds of said bonds so issued
 
 BONDS. 173 
 
 to be used and applied in improving the grounds under 
 their control, selected as aforesaid for the use of said 
 exposition, and authority is hereby expressly granted 
 to the park commissioners issuing said bonds to levy 
 and collect a direct annual tax upon the property 
 within their jurisdiction sufficient to pay the interest 
 on said bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and dis- 
 charge the principal thereof, within twenty years from 
 the date of issuing said bonds. All improvements made 
 by the proceeds of said bonds shall become a part of the 
 public property, to be held and controlled by the park 
 commissioners issuing said bonds. But the power here- 
 in granted, shall not be exercised until the proposition 
 to issue such bonds shall have been submitted to a vote 
 of the legal voters of such park district, and receive 
 a majority of the votes cast upon that proposition at 
 such election. Public notice of the time and places for 
 holding such election shall be given by the park com- 
 missioners of such district not less than twenty (20) 
 days before the day appointed therefor, by publication 
 in some newspaper of general circulation in said dis- 
 trict, and by posting the same in at least ten of the most 
 public places in said district, and the ballots shall read 
 "For issuing the bonds," or "Against issuing the 
 bonds." The said election shall be held and the ballots 
 cast shall be counted, and the returns thereof be can- 
 vassed, by the same officers and in the same manner 
 as in the case of election of county officers within said 
 district. 
 
 And, whereas, the site for holding the said World's 
 Columbian Exposition, as finally located and fixed b^- 
 the authorities in charg? thereof, includes Washington 
 Park, Jackson Park, and the Midway Plaisance, public
 
 174 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 grounds which are under the control and management 
 of the South Park Commissioners; 
 
 And, whereas, the South Park Commissioners in 
 charge of the said public grounds designated and se- 
 lected as aforesaid as the site of a part of the said expo- 
 sition by the authorities in charge thereof, have allowed 
 the use of the same for the purposes of said World's 
 Columbian Exposition upon the terms and conditions 
 which have been agreed uijon between the said South 
 Park Commissioners and the authorities having the 
 management of said exposition: 
 
 And, whereas, a proposition to issue the bonds re- 
 ferred to in said section 4 of the act above mentioned 
 was submitted to a vote of the legal voters of the park 
 district, consisting of the Towns of South Chicago, 
 Hyde Park and Lake, at an election held therein on the 
 fourth day of November, A. D. 1890, in the manner and 
 after giving the public notice of the time and places of 
 holding such election prescribed in said section: 
 
 And, whereas, the said proposition received a major- 
 ity of the votes cast upon that proposition at such elec- 
 tion; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That interest bearing coupon bonds to 
 the amount of five hundred thousand dollars be issued 
 by the South Park Commissioners, each of said bonds 
 to be for the sum of one thousand dollars, bearing 
 date on the first day of February, A. D. 1891, to be pay- 
 able twenty years after the date thereof, and to bear 
 interest at the rate of five per cent, per annum from the 
 date thereof, said interest to be payable semi-annually, 
 on the first day of August and the first day of Febru- 
 ary in each and every year on the presentation and
 
 BONDS. 175 
 
 surrender of the proper interest coupons, forty of 
 wliicli coupons to evidence such interest shall be at- 
 tached to each of said bonds; said bonds to be num- 
 bered consecutively from and including; number one 
 uj) to and including number five hundred; and the pnn- 
 cipal and interest of said bonds to be payable at the 
 Chicago National Bank, in the City of Chicago, State 
 of Illinois. Each of said bonds shall pass by delivery 
 or may be registered at the office of the secretary of the 
 South Park Commissioners, in the City of Chicago, 
 State of Illinois; and after such registration of owner- 
 ship, certified on said bond by the said secretary, no 
 transfer shall be valid except on the transfer books 
 kept for that purpose by the said secretary, unless the 
 last transfer shall be to bearer, which shall restore 
 transferability by deliver}^; but each of said bonds 
 shall be subject to successive registrations and trans- 
 fers to bearer at the option of each holder. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said bonds shall be executed under the 
 seal of the South Park Commissioners and shall be 
 signed by the said South Park Commissioners and 
 countersigned by the secretary, and shall be sold at 
 not less than par and accrued interest; provided, how- 
 ever, that if any of such bonds shall not be sold until 
 after maturity of any of the interest coupons thereto 
 attached, said matured interest coupons shall be 
 cut off and canceled before delivery, and such bonds 
 may be sold for not less than par, and the interest ac- 
 crued on the next interest coupon becoming payable 
 after such delivery. 
 
 Sec. 3. The proceeds arising from the sale of 
 such bonds so issued shall be used and applied in im- 
 proving the grounds under the control of the South
 
 176 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. i 
 
 Park Commissioners selected as aforesaid for tlie use 
 of said exposition. 
 
 Sec. 4. A direct annual tax shall be levied and 
 collected upon the property within the jurisdiction of 
 the South Park Commissioners, sufficient to pay the in- 
 terest on said bonds as it falls due, and also pay the 
 principal thereof within twenty years from the date 
 of issuing said bonds; and, to that end, the South 
 Park Commissioners shall levy in each year a direct 
 annual tax sufficient to pay the annual interest on said 
 bonds, and also to pay the proper proportion of the 
 principal thereof, and the proceeds of such annual tax, 
 after deducting the amount necessary to pay such an- 
 nual interest, shall be set apart and applied by said 
 South Park Commissioners to the purchase of bonds 
 issued in accordance with the provisions of this ordi- 
 nance, if the same can be obtained at par and accrued 
 interest; and if the said South Park Commissioners can- 
 not obtain said bonds, or sufficient of them at said 
 price to absorb said sum so set apart, then from the 
 outstanding bonds issued in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of this ordinance there shall be selected by lot 
 so many thereof as may be required to absorb the sam 
 so set apart for a sinking fund. The said selection 
 shall be made by the said South Park Commissioners at 
 the end of each successive year, after the date of said 
 bonds, or within one month thereof, in the presence 
 of one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Cook Coun- 
 ty, Illinois, who, with said corporate authorities, shall 
 make and sign a certificate of the result thereof, which 
 certificate shall be filed with the secretary. Notice 
 of such selection and of the numbers of the bonds so 
 selected shall be forthwith given by the secretary in
 
 BONDS. 177 
 
 oue or more newspapers published in the said City of 
 Chicago; and, if said bonds so selected shall be regis- 
 tered, notice shall also be sent by mail to the address 
 of the owners thereof, if shown upon the transfer books 
 kept by the secretary. The interest on the bonds se- 
 lected by lot, as aforesaid, for redemption shall cease 
 from and after the time when the semi-annual interest 
 on the same shall fall due next after the said selection 
 is made. From the sum so set apart for a sinking fund 
 there shall be paid the bonds so selected, as aforesaid, 
 with interest until payment, or until the same shall 
 cease, as aforesaid. The sum so set apart for a sinking 
 fund shall not be used for any other purpose except for 
 paying for bonds purchased and redeeming bonds se- 
 lected, as aforesaid. All bonds purchased or redeemed 
 under the provisions of this section shall be canceled, 
 and a certificate thereof stating the number, date and 
 amount of said canceled bonds shall, from time to time, 
 be made by said corporate authorities and filed with 
 the secretary. 
 
 Sec. 5. The credit of the South Park Commissioners 
 is irrevocably pledged to the payment of all of said 
 bonds and the interest thereon. 
 
 Sec. 6. The form of said bonds shall be as follow^s: 
 
 UNITED STATES OF A^IERICA, 
 State of Illinois, 
 CHICAGO SOUTH PARK BOND. 
 
 KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS: 
 
 That the South Park Commissioners, a public munici- 
 pal cori>oration of the State of Illinois, acknowledges 
 itself to owe and promises to pay unto the bearer here-
 
 178 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 of the sum of One Thousand Dollars, in lawful money 
 of the United States of America, on the first day of 
 February, in the year one thousand nine hundred and 
 eleven, at the Chicago National Bank in the City of 
 Chicago, with interest at the rate of five per cent, per 
 annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of 
 August and February in each year on the presentation 
 and surrender of the annexed coupons as they sever- 
 ally mature. This bond is one of a series of bonds of 
 like amount, tenor and effect, and numbered consecu- 
 tively from and including number one up to and in- 
 cluding number five hundred, issued by the South 
 Park Commissioners by authority of and in pursuance 
 of the provisions of an Act of the General Assembly of 
 the State of Illinois, entitled "An Act in relation to the 
 World's Columbian Exposition," approved August 5, 
 1890, the provisions of which said Act, so far as they 
 relate to the power and authority to issue the said 
 bonds and the manner and conditions in and upon 
 which said power and authority shall be exercised, 
 have in all things been complied with. A direct annual 
 tax will be levied and collected in each year upon the 
 property within the jurisdiction of the South Park 
 Commissioners to paj^ the annual interest maturing on 
 said bonds and a certain proportion of the principal, 
 so that the entire issue of said bonds shall be paid off 
 and discharged within twenty years from the date 
 thereof. All of said bonds, including this bond, is is- 
 sued subject to the condition that, if suflflcient of said 
 bonds can not be purchased by the said South Park 
 Commissioners in each year at par and accrued inter- 
 est to absorb the proportion of such annual tax which 
 shall be set apart for the redemption of said bonds.
 
 BONDS. 179 
 
 then, and iu that event, a. suflficient number of said 
 bonds to absorb said fnnd at that price shall be select- 
 ed by lot from the bonds of this issue then outstanding 
 and shall be redeemed, notice of such selection and the 
 numbers of the bonds so selected to be given in the 
 manner prescribed by ordinance. 
 
 The interest on the bonds selected by lot, as afore- 
 said, shall cease from and after the time when the 
 semi-annual interest on the same shall fall due next 
 after such selection is made, if not presented for re- 
 demption before that time. The credit of the South 
 Park Commissioners is irrevocably pledged to the pay- 
 ment of all of said bonds and the interest thereon. 
 This bond shall pass by delivery, or may be registered 
 at the office of the secretary of the South Park Com- 
 missioners in the City of Chicago, Illinois; and after 
 such registration of ownership, certified hereon by 
 said secretary, no transfer shall be valid except on the 
 transfer books kept for that purpose by said secretary, 
 unless the last transfer shall be to bearer, which shall 
 restore transferability by delivery; but this bond shall 
 be subject to successive registrations and transfers to 
 bearer at the option of each holder. 
 
 In AYituess AVhereof the said South Park Commis- 
 sioners have hereunto subscribed their names and af- 
 fixed the corporate seal and caused this bond to be 
 countersigned by the secretary on this first day of 
 
 in the year of our Lord one thousand 
 
 eight hundred and ninety-one. 
 
 I South Park 
 y Commissioners. 
 
 COUNTERSIGNED: 
 
 Secretary.
 
 180 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 INTEREST COUPON. 
 
 (125.00.) 
 
 South Park Commissioners will pay the bearer 
 at the Chicago National Bank in the City of Chicago 
 
 on the first day of , A. D. 18 . . . . , 
 
 twenty-five Dollars, being six months' interest on Bond 
 
 No 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 CHICAGO AND CALUMET HORSE AND DUMMY 
 RAILWAY COMPANY. 
 
 AGREEMENT, BETWEEN THE CHICAGO & CALUMET HORSE 
 AND DUMMY RAILWAY COMPANY AND THE SOUTH PARK 
 J COMMISSIONERS TO CROSS OAKWOOD BOULEVARD. 
 [PASSED JULY 8, 1885.] 
 
 At a regular meeting of the Board of South Park 
 Commissioners, held at their office in the City of Chi- 
 cago, on the eighth day of July, 1885, a quorum being 
 present, an application being made to the Board of 
 South Park Commissioners, by the Chicago & Calumet 
 Horse and Dummy Railway Company, for permission 
 to cross Oakwood boulevard at its intersection with 
 Cottage Grove avenue. 
 
 Now, therefore, subject to the conditions hereinafter 
 expressed, permission is hereby granted by the said 
 Commissioners to the said Chicago and Calumet Horse 
 and Dummy Railway Company, to lay down and op- 
 erate its said track upon these conditions, that is to 
 say: 
 
 First. After putting the track down, the road is to 
 be replaced in perfect order and condition as it now is, 
 at the expense of the said railway company, and to be 
 so kept at all times by it.
 
 CHICAGO & CALUMET H. AND D. R. COMPANY. 181 
 
 Second. No cars, horses or other obstructions are 
 ever to stop or stand upon the boulevard. All stop- 
 pages, to take on or let off passengers or for other pur- 
 poses, are to be before reaching or after crossing the 
 boulevard. 
 
 Third. The said railway company is to enter into an 
 agreement with the South Park Commissioners to com- 
 ply with all the conditions hereinbefore and hereinaf- 
 ter contained, and also that if at any time the said con- 
 ditions and restrictions are not complied with or the 
 track and the cars thereon become, in the opinion of 
 the commissioners, too great an obstruction to driving 
 upon the boulevard, or if the commissioners for any 
 other reason desire the track to be removed, then the 
 said railway company is to remove the said track, and 
 replace the road and boulevard in perfect order and 
 condition, as it now is, all at the expense of the said 
 railway company. 
 
 Fourth. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 in granted, said company shall not make use of steam 
 power, nor anything but horse power, in propelling, 
 conducting or operating its cars across said boulevard, 
 nor permit any dummy or other engine to cross, or re- 
 cross, the same at any time. 
 
 Fifth. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary and subject to such further or other restrictions 
 as said commissioners, or their successors, may from 
 time to time deem advisable, and also subject to be 
 wholly revoked in the discretion of the said commis- 
 sioners.
 
 182 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 CHICAGO AND NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE RIGHT TO THE CHICAGO AND 
 NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY TO CROSS 
 WESTERN AVENUE BOULEVARD AND GARFIELD BOULE- 
 VARD. [PASSED NOVEMBER 2, 1891.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That permission and authority be and 
 the same are hereby granted to the Chicago and North- 
 ern Pacific Railroad Company to lay down, operate 
 and maintain a double track railway across the West- 
 em avenue boulevard and the Garfield boulevard, in 
 the City of Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, in the man- 
 ner and subject to the provisions and restrictions here- 
 inafter contained. 
 
 Sec. 2. The tracks across said Western avenue bou- 
 levard shall be laid east of and parallel with, and at 
 the present grade of the tracks of the Union Stock 
 Yards and Transit Company; and the distance be- 
 tween the centers of the tracks of said Chicago and 
 Northern Pacific Railroad Company aiid between the 
 center of the west track of said Chicago and Northern 
 Pacific Railroad Company and the center of the east 
 track of said Union Stock Yards and Transit Compa- 
 ny, shall not be more than fourteen feet. 
 
 Sec. 3. The tracks across said Garfield boulevard 
 shall be laid west of and at the present grade of the 
 tracks of the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Cliicago and St. 
 Louis Railway Company, and the west rail of the west 
 track of said Chicago and Noi'thern Pacific Railroad 
 Company shall cross the north line of said boulevard 
 at a distance of not more than fifty-six and one-half 
 feet from the west line of the right-of-way of said Pitts- 
 burgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway Com-
 
 CHICAGO & NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 183 
 
 panj, and said west rail of said west track shall cross 
 the south line of said boulevard at a distance of not 
 more than eighty feet from said west line of the right- 
 of-way of said Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. 
 Louis Railway Company. 
 
 Sec. 4. Said railroad company shall construct its 
 tracks across said boulevards with an iron guard rail 
 on the inside of each of the rails thereof, and shall 
 plank said crossings and keep the same in repair to the 
 full width of said boulevards, all under the direction 
 of the superintendent of said South Park Commission- 
 ers; and said railroad company shall not change the 
 grade of its tracks across said boulevards without the 
 consent of said South Park Commissioners; and said 
 railroad company shall, at its own cost and expense, 
 furnish and deliver suitable material for constructing, 
 repairing and maintaining the approaches to said 
 tracks, including both the driveways and planting 
 spaces of said boulevards, at such places and at such 
 times as shall be directed by said South Park Commis- 
 sioners, and all alterations made necessary in said bou- 
 levards to make the driveways and planting spaces 
 thereof conform to the grade of said railroad tracks, as 
 herein specified, shall be made at the sole cost and ex- 
 pense of said railroad company and under the super- 
 vision and direction of the superintendent of said 
 South Park Commissioners; and the said railroad 
 company shall also pay any and all expense incurred in 
 the removal of trees, made necessary by the construc- 
 tion of said crossing, and the full value of such trees as 
 shall be destroyed thereby. 
 
 Sec. 5. The said railroad company shall, whenever 
 so directed by the South Park Commissioners, keep
 
 184 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 and maintain a flagman at such crossings of said bou- 
 levards, or shall construct and maintain gates thereat, 
 as shall be required by the South Park Commissioners; 
 and shall also use and maintain such other means in 
 use by railway companies as shall from time to time be 
 directed by said South Park Commissioners to insure 
 the safety of persons using said boulevards. 
 
 Sec. 6. The said railroad company shall at no time 
 and under no circumstances permit any of its cars or 
 locomotives to stand upon said tracks, or any of them, 
 to the obstruction of travel upon said boulevards or 
 any part thereof. 
 
 Sec. 7. The permission, authority and privileges 
 hereby granted are upon the further express condition 
 that the said railroad company, whenever so directed 
 by the South Park Commissioners, in compliance with 
 any general order in regard to the construction of via- 
 ducts and the lowering of the tracks crossing the boule- 
 vards under the control of said South Park Commis- 
 sioners in any particular district, shall construct and 
 maintain a viaduct over said boulevards and railway 
 crossings, and shall lower the said tracks in the man- 
 ner required by said South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 8. The privileges hereby granted are upon the 
 further express condition that the said railroad com- 
 pany shall at all times comply with and be subject to 
 all general and special ordinances of said South Park 
 Commissioners, now in force or which may hereafter 
 be passed concerning the use and occupation of streets 
 and boulevards and the running and operating of cars 
 thereon or across the same by railway companies, or in 
 regard to the elevation of railroad tracks crossing said
 
 CHICAGO & NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. 185 
 
 streets and boulevards, so far as the same apply or re- 
 late to the privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 9. The permission and authority hereby grant- 
 ed are upon the further express condition that the said 
 railroad company shall forever indemnify and save 
 harmless the said South Park Commissioners from any 
 and all legal actions, damages, decrees, and the costs 
 and expenses of the same which may be recovered or 
 obtained against the South Park Commissioners for or 
 by reason of or growing out of, or resulting from the 
 passage of this ordinance, or any matter or thing con- 
 nected therewith, or by the exercise by the company 
 of the privileges hereby granted, or from any act or 
 acts of said company under or by virtue of this ordi- 
 nance. 
 
 Sec. 10. Should the said company at any time fail 
 to comply with the conditions and provisions of this or- 
 dinance, or any of them, or with the general ordinances 
 of the South Park Commissioners, the said South Park 
 Commissioners may order the said tracks to be taken 
 up and removed by said company, and on its failure so 
 to do within ten days after notice of such order, may 
 cause the same to be taken up and removed at the ex- 
 pense of the said company. 
 
 Sec. 11. All the provisions of this ordinance shall 
 be equally binding upon the said railroad company, its 
 successors, assigns and lessees. 
 
 Sec. 12. This ordinance shall be in force only from 
 and after the written acceptance of the same and its 
 provisions by the said Chicago & Northern Pacific Rail- 
 road Company, duly signed and under its corporate 
 seal, shall be filed with the secretary of the South Park 
 Commissioners. Unless such acceptance shall be so
 
 186 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 filed within thirty days of the time of the passage here- 
 of, this ordinance shall be null and void. 
 
 CHICAGO AND SOUTn SIDE IIAPID TRANSIT 
 RAILROAD CX)MPANY. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE GRANTING PERMISSION TO THE CHICAGO 
 AND SOUTH SIDE RAPID TRANSIT RAILROAD COMPANY 
 TO CONSTRUCT, ERECT, MAINTAIN AND OPERATE AN ELE- 
 VATED RAILROAD OVER AND ACROSS MICHIGAN AVENUE 
 BOULEVARD, IMMEDIATELY SOUTH OF AND ADJOINING 
 FORTIETH STREET, AND OVER AND ACROSS GARFIELD 
 BOULEVARD, BETWEEN CALUMET AND PRAIRIE AVE- 
 NUES. [PASSED SEPTEMBER 9, 1891.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That permission and authority be and 
 the same is hereby granted to the Chicago and South 
 Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company to construct, 
 erect, maintain and operate an elevated railroad over 
 and across Michigan avenue boulevard, immediately 
 south of and adjoining Fortieth street, and also over 
 and across Garfield boulevard, between Calumet and 
 Prairie avenues, the center line of the structure of said 
 elevated railroad to be about 212 feet east of Prairie 
 avenue and about 165 feet west of Calumet avenue, 
 both said boulevards being in the City of Chicago, 
 County of Cook, State of Illinois, in the manner and 
 subject to the restrictions hereinafter contained. 
 
 Sec. 2. The structure to be erected over and across 
 Michigan avenue boulevard shall span the driveway of 
 said boulevard from curb to curb, and shall be support- 
 ed by iron columns set in the line of the trees not to ex- 
 ceed four feet from the curb lines, said columns to be 
 supported upon cast-iron bases firmly bolted to proper 
 foundations of concrete and masonry constructed be-
 
 CHICAGO & SOUTH SIDE R. T. R. R. COMPANY. 187 
 
 neath the surface. The structure crossing Garfield 
 boulevard shall be in all respects similar to that cross- 
 ing Michigan avenue boulevard, except that it shall 
 consist of four spans, the northerly one of which shall 
 at its northerl}^ end be supported upon iron columns 
 set without the northerly line of said boulevard, and at 
 its southern end upon columns located within and im- 
 mediately adjoining the northern side of the planting 
 space in the center of said boulevard; the two center 
 spans shall, as to the northerly one thereof, be support- 
 ed at its northern end upon the columns carrying the 
 southern end of the span crossing the northern drive- 
 way of said boulevard, and at its southern end upon 
 columns located in the center of said planting space, 
 which said last named columns shall also support the 
 northern end of the southerly of the two central spans, 
 the southern end of which shall be supported upon col- 
 umns located at the southerly edge of the planting 
 space aforesaid, which said last named columns shall 
 also support the northern end of the southern span 
 which shall span the southerly driveway of said boule- 
 vard, and be supported at its southern end by columns 
 located without the southerly side of said boulevard, 
 all of said columns to be supported upon cast-iron 
 bases firmly bolted to proper foundations constructed 
 of concrete and masonrj^ beneath the surface. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said railroad company shall be permit- 
 ted to make all necessaiy excavations for the conven- 
 ient construction of the foundations aforesaid, but 
 shall restore the surfaces of all driveways and plant- 
 ing places so disturbed to the satisfaction of the South 
 Park Commissioners; or said South Park Commission- 
 ers may, at their option, require the said railroad com-
 
 188 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 pany, before any such excavations are made, to deposit 
 with the secretary of said Commissioners a sum in cash 
 to cover the estimated cost of making such excavations 
 and restorations, and make such excavations and res- 
 torations by their own agents and servants, and after 
 paying the costs thereof out of the cash so deposited, 
 account for and pay over to said railroad company 
 any balance remaining from said deposit, and if said 
 cost shall exceed said deposit said railroad company 
 shall at once reimburse said Commissioners for such 
 excess. 
 
 Sec. 4. The permission and authority hereby grant- 
 ed are upon the express condition that the said railroad 
 company shall promptly pay for any and all damage 
 done by it to property in the custody of said South 
 Park Commissioners, and for the cost of removing any 
 trees which it may be necessary to disturb, and shall 
 forever indemnify and save harmless the said South 
 Park Commissioners from any and all legal actions, 
 damages, decrees, and the costs and expenses of the 
 same which may be recovered or obtained against the 
 South Park Commissioners for or by reason of, or grow- 
 ing out of or resulting from the passage of this ordi- 
 nance, or any matter or thing connected therewith, or 
 by the exercise by the railroad company of the privi- 
 leges hereby granted, or from any act or acts of said 
 company under or by virtue of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 5. All structures spanning the driveways of the 
 boulevards aforesaid, shall leave a clear headroom be- 
 tween said structures and the grade of such driveways 
 at the center line of such driveways of sixteen feet, and 
 at the curb lines such headroom shall not be less than 
 fourteen feet above such driveways, and the entire
 
 CHICAGO & SOUTH SIDE R. T. R. R. COMPANY. 189 
 
 structures shall be so designed as to present as light 
 and ornamental an appearance as is consistent with 
 strength and durability for the service for which they 
 are intended, and shall be so constructed as to effec- 
 tually prevent drippings of any kind from such struc- 
 tures upon any part of said boulevards. All plans and 
 details thereof shall be submitted to and approved by 
 the South Park Commissioners before erection. 
 
 Sec. G. This ordinance shall be in force only from 
 and after the written acceptance of the same, and its 
 provisions, by the said The Chicago & South Side Kap- 
 id Transit Railroad Company, duly signed under its 
 corporate seal, shall be filed with the secretary of the 
 South Park Commissioners. Unless such acceptance 
 be so filed within 30 days from the date of the passage 
 hereof, this ordinance shall be null and void. 
 
 Sec. 7. The said company shall station a flagman at 
 the crossings of said driveways or put in some suitable 
 device to announce the approach of trains, if required 
 by the South Park Commissioners. 
 
 OUICAGO AND WESTERN INDIANA RAILROAD 
 COMPANY. 
 
 AGREEMENT ALLOWING CHICAGO & WESTERN INDIANA 
 RAILROAD COMPANY TO CROSS GARFIELD BOULEVARD. 
 [PASSED OCTOBER 27, 1879.] 
 
 Resolved, That the Chicago & Western Indiana Rail- 
 road Company have authority to cross Fifty-fifth street 
 boulevard, as requested, provided that it shall duly 
 execute the contract without delay, contained in its 
 request this day submitted to the board, which has 
 been approved by the attorney of this board, and has
 
 190 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 been handed to the agents of said company to procure 
 its execution. 
 
 The request and conditions are as follows: 
 
 TO THE BOARD OF SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 The Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Company, 
 a corporation duly organized under and by virtue of 
 the laws of the State of Illinois, hereby ask permission 
 to lay three railroad tracks across the Fifty-fifth street 
 boulevard, on a width not exceeding for all thirty-four 
 feet, on a line with Wallace street, where the same, if 
 extended, would cross said boulevard; said space not 
 to be used for switching cars or side tracks; and in 
 consideration of the granting of said permission, and as 
 a condition of the said grant and of the exercise there- 
 of, the said Chicago & Western Indiana Eailroad Com- 
 pany do hereby agree to so lay and construct said 
 tracks that the top of the rails of said railroad tracks 
 shall not, when so laid, be to exceed eighteen inches 
 above the present grade of the center of said boule- 
 vard, where now improved, and to raise or lower the 
 same, from time to time, as said Board of Park Com- 
 missioners may direct, and also to grade the driveway 
 of said boulevard from the top of said rails on a 
 straight line to the present or future grade of said 
 driveway, at a point one hundred feet east and west, 
 respectively, on said driveway, and keep the same in 
 repair to the satisfaction of said board; said grading 
 to be the full width of said driveway, as now improved, 
 and to be continued as the said improvement may be 
 widened for the whole width to which the said commis- 
 sion shall, from time to time, extend the said improve- 
 ment; said grading to be made of broken stone and
 
 CHICAGO & WESTERN INDIANA R. R. COMPANY. 191 
 
 stone screens, or with gravel as said Board of Commis- 
 sioners may direct; and also to plank the space be- 
 tween said railroad tracks, for the whole width of said 
 boulevard, and to extend the planking to such distance 
 outside of said rails as shall be directed by said board; 
 and also to make like crossings on such other drive- 
 ways as shall be hereafter constructed by said commis- 
 sioners on said boulevard, where the same shall or may 
 cross the line of said railroad tracks, and to maintain 
 the same at the cost and expense of said company and 
 its successors and assigns, and to do all and every the 
 matters and things aforesaid, under the supervision 
 and to the satisfaction of said Board of Commission- 
 ers, or such person as they may appoint. And further, 
 that said railroad company shall, at its own cost and 
 expense, maintain a flagman at such crossing and 
 crossings, as aforesaid, whenever said Board of South 
 Park Commissioners shall, by resolution, direct the 
 same to be done, and shall also establish, construct and 
 maintain, at its own expense, suitable safety gates at 
 such crossings, whenever directed to do so by resolu- 
 tion of said board; and further, that the said railroad 
 company shall, and will, comply with any and all gen- 
 eral ordinances that may be adopted by said board, es- 
 tablishing a general system of viaducts for railroads 
 crossing said boulevard between the west line of the 
 Village of Hyde Park and Ilalsted street, in the Town 
 of Lake; and further, that said railroad company shall 
 lower its tracks, if necessary, to enable said board to 
 construct such suitable and substantial driveways or 
 viaducts as the said board may hereafter order over 
 said railroad crossings, hereby permitted, of which 
 said viaducts said company shall pay the cost, expense,
 
 192 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. ' 
 
 and also all reasonable expenses afterwards, keeping 
 such viaducts in repair. And said company shall also 
 conform to any and all general ordinances of said 
 Board of South Park Commissioners, regulating the 
 speed of railroad trains or engines at the crossings of 
 said boulevard, and shall be subject at all times to all 
 of the police powers vested, or which may hereafter be 
 vested, in the said board, and to the proper exercise 
 thereof by or through the agency of said board. And 
 it is hereby further agreed and declared, by the said 
 railroad company, that the due performance on its part 
 of all and singular, the agreements and stipulations, 
 aforesaid, shall be, and the same are hereby made con- 
 ditions of the said grant, and of the exercise of the 
 privileges hereinbefore requested to be granted to said 
 company. And it is hereby further agreed that this 
 instrument shall be spread upon the regular records 
 of the proceedings of the Board of Directors of said 
 company, and to be approved by said board, and 
 proper evidence of said approval furnished to the said 
 Board of South Park Commissioners. And in case of 
 failure, neglect or refusal of said railroad company, so 
 to approve and to record this agreement, the said com- 
 pany agrees to remove said tracks from said boulevard 
 crossing, upon ten days notice, and the continuance 
 during that time of such default as aforesaid. And in 
 case of failure or neglect of said railroad company, 
 after the continuance of such default for the period of 
 ten days after notice as aforesaid, and in case of its 
 breach of any of the conditions or agreements herein- 
 before contained, the said Board of South Park Com- 
 missioners may take up and remove the said tracks 
 from said boulevard at the said crossings, provided
 
 CHICAGO & WESTERN INDIANA R. R. COMPANY. 193 
 
 said Bocird of South Park Commissioners sliall first 
 give written notice of such breach of condition at least 
 ten daj's before proceeding to take up said tracks. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE RIGHT TO THE CHICAGO AND 
 WESTERN INDIANA RAILROAD COMPANY TO LAY DOWN 
 TWO ADDITIONAL TRACKS ACROSS GARFIELD BOULE- 
 VARD. [PASSED NOVEMBER IITH, 1892.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That permission and authority be and 
 the same are herebj' granted to the Chicago and West- 
 ern Indiana Railroad Company to lay down, operate 
 and maintain two additional railwaj" tracks across 
 Garfield boulevard in the manner and subject to the 
 provisions and restrictions hereinafter contained. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said track shall be laid east of and par- 
 allel with and at the present grade of the tracks of 
 said company now across said boulevard and as near 
 thereto as practicable. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said railroad company shall construct" its 
 tracks across said boulevard with an iron guard rail 
 on the inside of each of the rails thereof, and shall 
 plank said crossing and keep the same in repair to 
 the full width of said boulevard, all under the direc- 
 tion of the Superintendent of said South Park Commis- 
 sioners; and said railroad company shall not change 
 the grade of its tracks across said boulevard without 
 the consent of said South Park Commissioners; and 
 said railroad compan}' shall at its own cost and ex- 
 pense, furnish and deliver suitable material for (on- 
 structing, repairing and maintaining the apjjroaclu's 
 to said tracks, including both the driveways and jthint-
 
 194 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 ing spaces of said bonlevard, at such places and at such 
 times as shall be directed by said South Park Commis- 
 sioners, and all alterations made necessary in said 
 boulevards to make the driveways and planting spaces 
 thereof conform to the grade of said railroad tracks, 
 as herein specified, shall be made at the sole cost and 
 exj)ense of said railway company and under the super- 
 vision and direction of the Superintendent of said 
 South Park Commissioners; and the said railroad 
 company shall also pay nuj and all expense incurred 
 in the removal of trees, made necessary by the con- 
 struction of said crossing, and the full value of such 
 trees as shall be destroyed thereby. 
 
 Sec. 4, The said railroad company shall, whenever 
 so directed by the South Park Commissioners, keep and 
 maintain a flagman at such crossing of said boulevard, 
 or shall construct and maintain gates thereat, as shall 
 be required b}" the Sontli Park Commissioners; and 
 shall also use and maintain such other means in use 
 by railway companies as shall from time to time be 
 directed by said South Park Commissioners to insure 
 the safety of persons using said boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 5. The said railroad compam' shall at no time 
 and under no circumstances permit any of its cars or 
 locomotives to stand upon said tracks, or any of them, 
 to the obstruction of travel upon sai<l boulevard or any 
 part thereof. 
 
 Sec. G. The permission, authority and privileges 
 hereby granted are upon the further express condition 
 that the said railroad company, whenever so directed 
 by the South Park Commissioners, in compliance with 
 any general order in regard to the construction of via- 
 ducts, and the lowering of the tracks crossing the
 
 CHICAGO & WESTERN INDIANA R. R. COMPANY. 195 
 
 boulevard imder the couliol of said South Park ('0111- 
 missioners in any particuhir district, shall construct 
 and maintain a viaduct over said boulevaid and rail- 
 wa3' crossing, and shall lower the said tracks in tlu^ 
 manner re(iuired by said South Park Commissioners, 
 
 Sec. 7. The privileges hereb}' granted are upon the 
 further express condition that the said railroad com- 
 pany shall at all times comi)ly with and be subject to all 
 general and special ordinances of said South ParkCom- 
 missioners, now in force or which may hereafter be 
 passed concerning the use and occupation of streets 
 and boulevards and the running and operating of cars 
 thereon or across the same by railway companies, or in 
 regard to the elevation of railroad tracks, crossing said 
 streets and boulevards, so far as the same ajjpl^^ or 
 relate to the privileges herebj^ granted. 
 
 Sec, 8. The permission and authority hereby grant- 
 ed are upon the further ex])ress condition that the said 
 railroad company shall forever indemnify and save 
 harmless the said South Park Commissioners from any 
 and all legal actions, damages, (lecr<M^s, and the costs 
 and expenses of the same wliicli may be recovered or 
 obtained against the South Park Commissioners for or 
 by reason of or growing out of, or resulting from the 
 passage of this ordinance, or any matter or thing con- 
 nected therewith or by tlie exercise by the conii)any 
 of tliejn-ivileges lier(d)y granted, or from any act or acts 
 of said company under or by virtue of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 0. Should the said company at any time fail to 
 comply with the conditions and ]»rovisious of this ordi- 
 nance or any of them, or with the general (u^linances 
 of the South Park Commissioners, the said South Park 
 Commissioners may order the said tracks to be taken
 
 196 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 up and removed b}^ said compan}^, and on its failure so 
 to do within ten days after notice of such order, may 
 cause the same to be taken up and removed at the ex- 
 pense of the said company. 
 
 Sec. 10. All the provisions of this ordinance shall 
 be equally binding upon the said railroad company, its 
 successors, assigns and lessees. 
 
 Sec. 11. This ordinance shall be in force only from 
 and after the written acceptance of the same and its 
 provisions by the said Chicago and Western Indiana 
 Railroad Company duly signed and under its corporate 
 seal, shall be filed with the Secretary' of the South Park 
 Commissioners. Unless such acceptance shall be so 
 filed within thirty days of the time of the passage 
 hereof, this ordinance shall be null and void. 
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 
 
 AGREEMENT WITH CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY RE- 
 GARDING TRACKS ACROSS GRAND BOULEVARD AT 
 THIRTY-NINTH STREET. [PASSED JUNE 8TH, 1876.] 
 
 Resolved, That the President and Secretary execute 
 the following instrument under the seal of the corpora- 
 tion and that upon compliance with its terms by the 
 Chicago City Railway Comi)any the same be delivered 
 to said compau}' for the uses and purposes therein ex- 
 pressed : 
 
 At a regular meeting of the Board of South Park 
 Commissioners held at their office on the eighth day of 
 June, 1870, a quorum being present, an application be- 
 ing made to the Board of South Park Commissioners 
 by the Chicago City Railway Company for permission 
 to cross the Grand boulevard at Thir-ty-ninth street, 
 and across the said street at that point to operate a
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 197 
 
 street railway track: Now therefore, subject to the 
 conditions hereinafter expressed, permission is hereby 
 granted by the said Commissioners to the said Chicago 
 City Railway Company to lay down and operate its said 
 track upon these conditions — that is to say: 
 
 First. After putting the track down the road is to 
 be replaced in i)erfect order an<l condition as it now 
 is, at the expense of the said railway company, and to 
 be so kept at all times by it. 
 
 Second. No cars, horses, or other obstructions are 
 ever to stop or stand upon the boulevard; all stoppages 
 to take on or let off pasengers, or for other purposes, 
 are to be before reaching or after crossing the boule- 
 vard. 
 
 Third. The said railway company is to enter into 
 an agreement with the South Park Commissioners to 
 comi)ly with all the conditions hereinbefore and here- 
 inafter contained; and also, that if at any time the said 
 conditions and restrictions are not complied with or 
 the track and cars thereon become in the opinion of 
 said commissioners too great an obstruction to driving 
 on the boulevard, or if tlie commissioners, for any other 
 reason, desire the track to be removed, then the said 
 company is to remove the said track and replace the 
 road and boulevard in perfect order and condition as it 
 now is, all at the expense of the said railway company. 
 
 Fourth. That in the exercise of the permission 
 hereby granted said company shall not make use of 
 steam power or anything but horse power in propelling, 
 conducting or operating its cars across said boulevard ; 
 nor permit any dummy or other engine to cross or re- 
 cross the same at any time. 
 
 Fifth. The permission hereby granted is to be tem-
 
 198 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 porary and subject to such further or other restrictions 
 as said commissioners or their' successors may from 
 time to time deem advisable, and also subject to be 
 wholly revoked in the discretion of the said Board. 
 
 AGREEMENT WITH CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY CONCERNING 
 CROSSING AT GARFIELD BOULEVARD AND STATE STREET. 
 [PASSED AUGUST 9, 1882.] 
 
 Kesolved, That permission be and the same is hereby 
 given the Chicago City Railway Company to construct, 
 maintain and operate its railway tracks across Gar- 
 field boulevard at its intersection with State street, in 
 the manner and subject to the conditions following: 
 
 First. Said company shall construct double tracks 
 at said crossing, and between the rails and between 
 the tracks shall lay planks or paving material in such 
 manner, and maintain the same at all times, as this 
 board shall direct. The rails or tracks so laid shall not 
 protrude above the level of the road-bed, and the rails 
 and tracks and spaces between them shall be kept 
 constantly in repair, and in such condition as in no 
 wise to cause danger or interruption to travel. 
 
 Second. No cars or horses or propelling engines con- 
 nected therewith shall be permitted to stop on said, 
 boulevard, and all stoppages to take on or let off pas- 
 sengers shall be made before reaching or after cross- 
 ing the boulevard. 
 
 Third. Should said company at any time refuse or 
 neglect to comply with the i)rovisions aforesaid, or 
 with any reasonable rule or regulation, established by 
 this board for the government of said boulevard, this 
 license shall cease and terminate, and without notice
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 199 
 
 or process of law said board may cause siicli tracks 
 and rails to be moved. 
 
 Fourth. No steam or other locomotive engine shall 
 be used by said company for propelling cars across said 
 boulevard. 
 
 Fifth. This license shall be accepted subject to all 
 the police and governmental powers of said board, and 
 to its privilege at any time to cause the removal of said 
 tracks, and the revocation of this license from what- 
 soever cause it may deem proper. 
 
 Sixth. This resolution shall take effect and be in 
 force ui>on a written acceptance of the same being filed 
 with the secretary of this board, signed by the j)resi- 
 dent of said company, with its corporate seal attached, 
 attested by its secretary; which said acceptance sliall 
 be deemed an agreement on the part of said company 
 to comply with all the terms and conditi<)ns herein ex- 
 pressed. 
 
 The secretary of this board is hereby directed to 
 transmit to said company a copy of this resolution, 
 duly certified under his hand and the seal of this board. 
 
 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY AND THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS TO CROSS 
 MICHIGAN AVENUE AT THIRTY-FIRST STREET. [PASSED 
 JULY 16, 1884.] 
 
 At a regular meeting of the Board of South Park 
 Commissioners, hehl at th<'ir office in the (Mty of Chi- 
 cago, on the Kith day of July, 1SS4, a (piorum being 
 ])reseut. An application being made to the Board of 
 South Park Commissioners by tlie Cliicago City Kail- 
 way Company for permission to cross Michigan Ave-
 
 200 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 nue boulevard at its intersection with Thirty-first (31st) 
 street south. 
 
 Now, therefore, subject to the conditions hereinafter 
 expressed, permission is hereb}^ granted by the said 
 Commissioners to the said Chicago City Eailway Com- 
 pany to lay down and operate its said track upon those 
 conditions — that is to say: 
 
 First. After putting the track down, the road is to 
 be replaced in perfect order and condition as it now is, 
 at the expense of the said railway company, and to be 
 so kept at all times by it. 
 
 Second. No cars, horses or other obstructions are 
 ever to stop or stand upon the boulevard. All stop- 
 pages to take on or let off passengers, or for other pur- 
 poses, are to be before reaching or after crossing the 
 boulevard. 
 
 Third. The said railway company is to enter into an 
 agreement with the South Park Commissioners to com- 
 ply with all the conditions hereinbefore and herein- 
 after contained and also that if at any time the said 
 conditions and restrictions are not complied with, or 
 the track and cars thereon become, in the opinion of 
 the commissioners, too great an obstruction to driving 
 upon the boulevard, or if the commissioners for any 
 other reason desire the track to be removed, then the 
 said railway company is to remove the said track and 
 replace the road and boulevard in perfect order and 
 condition as it now is, all at the expense of the said 
 railway company. 
 
 Fourth. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, said company shall not make use of steam 
 power nor anything but horse power in propelling, 
 conducting or operating its cars across said boulevard,
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 201 
 
 nor permit any diiinniy or other engine to cross or re- 
 cross the same at any time. 
 
 Fifth. The ])ermission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary, and subject to such further or other restric- 
 tions as said commissioners or their successors may 
 from time to time deem advisable, and also subject to 
 be wholly revoked in the discretion of tlie said commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY AND THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS, FOR CROSS- 
 ING GARFIELD BOULEVARD AT WENTWORTH AVENUE 
 AND HALSTED STREET. [PASSED NOVEMBER 12, 1S84.] 
 
 At a regular meeting of the Board of South Park 
 Commissioners, held at their office in the City of Chi- 
 cago, on the 12th day of November, 1884, a quorum 
 being present, an application being made to the Board 
 of South Park Commissioners bv the Chicago City 
 Railway Company for permission to cross (lartield 
 boulevard at its intersection with AN'entworth avenue, 
 and also to cross said Garfield boulevard at its inter- 
 section with Halsted street. 
 
 Now, therefore, subject to the conditions hereinafter 
 expressed, permission is hereby granted by the said 
 commissioners to the said Chicago City Bail way Com- 
 pany, to lay down and opeiate its said tracks upon 
 these conditions — that is to say: 
 
 First. After jjutting the track down the road is to 
 be replaced in perfect order and condition as it now 
 is, at the expense of the said railway company, and to 
 be so kept at all times by it. 
 
 Second. No cars, horses or other obstructions are 
 ever to stop or stand upon the boulevard, all stoppages
 
 202 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 to take on or let off passengers or for other purposes 
 are to be before reaching or atter crossing tlie boule- 
 vard. 
 
 Third. The said railway company is to enter into an 
 agreement with the South Park Commissioners to com- 
 ply with all the conditions hereinbefore and herein- 
 after contained, and also that if, at any time, said con- 
 ditions and restrictions are not complied with, or the 
 track and cars thereon become in the opinion of the 
 commissioners too great an obstruction to driving 
 upon the boulevard, or if the commissioners for any 
 other reason desire the track to be removed, then sai<l 
 railway company is to remove the said track and re- 
 place the road and boulevard in perfect order and con- 
 dition as it now is, all at the expense of the said rail- 
 way compan}^ 
 
 Fourth. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, said <-ompany shall not make use of steam 
 power nor anything but horse power in propelling, con- 
 ducting or operating its cars across said boulevard, nor 
 permit any dummy or other engine to cross or recross 
 the same, at au}^ time. 
 
 Fifth. The pernussion hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary, and subject to such further or other restric- 
 tions as said commissioners or their successors may 
 from time to time deem advisable, and also subject to 
 be wholly revoked in the discretion of the said comuiis- 
 sioners.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 203 
 
 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM 
 PANY AND THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS, TO CROSS 
 GARWOOD BOULEVARD, DREXEL ENTRANCE, AND MID- 
 WAY PLAISANCE AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SAME 
 WITH COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE. [PASSED MAY 11, 1887.] 
 
 At a regular meeting of the Board of South Park 
 Commissioners, hekl at tlieir office in the City of Chi- 
 cago, on tlie eleventh (hij of May, 1887, a quoi-uni being 
 present, an application being made to th(^ Soiitli Park 
 Commissioners by tlie Chicago City Railway, for per- 
 mission to cross with its cable raihvay tracks Oakwood 
 boulevard, Drexel entrance to Washington Park and 
 Midway Plaisance, at the intersection of the same with 
 Cottage Grove avenue. 
 
 Now, therefore, subject to tbe conditions hereinafter 
 expressed, permission is hereby granted by the said 
 commissioners to the said Chicago City RailwaA'^ Com- 
 pany, to lay down and ojierate its said track upon the 
 conditions — that is to say: 
 
 First. After putting the track down the road is to 
 be replaced in pei'fect order and condition, as it now 
 is, at the expense of the said railway company, and to 
 be so kept at all times by it. 
 
 Second. No cars, horses, or otlier obstructions, are 
 ever to stop or stand ui)on tlie boulevards. All stop- 
 pages to take on or let off ])asscngers, or for otlier yiur- 
 poses, are to be before reacliiiig or after crossing the 
 boulevard. 
 
 Third. The said railway company is lo eiilcr into 
 an agreement with (lie South Park Coiiimissioners to 
 comply with all the conditions hereinbefore and here- 
 inafter contained, and also that if at any time the said 
 conditions and restrictions are not complied with, or 
 the track and cars t her -on become in the opinion of
 
 204 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 the commissioners too great an obstruction to driving 
 upon the boulevards, or if the commissioners for any 
 other reason desire the track to be removed, then the 
 said railway company is to remove the said track, and 
 replace the roads and boulevards in perfect order and 
 condition, as it now is, all at the expense of the said 
 railway company. 
 
 Fourth. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted said company shall not make use of steam 
 power, nor anything but horse or cable power, in pro- 
 pelling, conducting or operating its cars across said 
 boulevards, nor permit any dummy or other engine to 
 cross or recross the same at any time. 
 
 Fifth. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary, and subject to such further or other restric- 
 tions as said commissioners or their successors may 
 from time to time deem advisable, and also subject to 
 be wholly revoked in the discretion of the said com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sixth. That the grade of the top of the rails, at all 
 points in the crossings named, shall be determined by 
 the Park Commissioners, and that the location of man 
 holes, etc., within the park limits, shall also be fixed 
 by the commissioners. 
 
 Seventh. That the rate of speed at which cars shall 
 cross such park territoi*y shall not exceed, under any 
 circumstances, five miles per hour. 
 
 Eighth. That the railway company will, at their ex- 
 pense, keep a good flagman at crossings where the 
 Park Commissioners think it necessary, and that one 
 be placed at Oakwood and Fifty-first street as soon 
 as the operation of the cable commences. 
 
 Ninth. That the permission should be given with
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 205 
 
 the express condition that the eonipanv will, at their 
 own expense, make such alterations in their tracks, 
 etc., particularly at the Midway Plaisance, as may 
 be deemed desirable by the Tark Commissioners, as 
 further improvements are made, and that the com- 
 pany agree to pay any additional cost which may arise 
 in the construction of bridges that may hereafter be 
 determined upon by the Park Commissioners, on ac- 
 count of making such bridges suitable for the convey- 
 ing of the cable and cars. 
 
 Tenth. That the construction of the road across llie 
 places named shall be carried on at the times and in 
 the manner directed by the Park Commissioners, The 
 object being to occupy the crossings for as short a time 
 as possible. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAINTAIN AND OPER- 
 ATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY ACROSS MICHI- 
 GAN AVENUE, GRAND BOULEVARD AND DREXEL BOULE- 
 VARD AT FORTY-THIRD STREET, ACROSS MICHIGAN AVE- 
 NUE AT TWENTY-SIXTH STREET AND ACROSS WESTERN 
 AVENUE BOULEVARD AT ARCHER AVENUE. [PASSED NO- 
 VEMBER 9, 1887.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertaking 
 by the Chicago City Railway Company to comply with 
 the conditions of this ordinance, ])ermission is hereby 
 granted to said Chicago City Railway Company to lay 
 down, maintain and operate a double track street rail- 
 way across Michigan avenue, Crand boulevard and 
 Drexel boulevard at Forty-third street, across INfichi- 
 gan avenue at Twenty-sixth street, and across Western 
 Avenue boulevard at Archer avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said tracks shall be laid under the super-
 
 206 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 Aision and diiectioii ol' the siipeiiutendent of the South 
 Park Commissioners, and after tracks are laid, the 
 roadways shall be replaced in perfect order and condi- 
 tion as they now are, at the expense of the said railway 
 company, and to be so kept at all times by it in such 
 manner as shall be directed by said superintendent. 
 
 Sec. 3. No cars, horses, or other obstructions shall 
 ever stop or stand upon the said boulevards, or ave- 
 nues, or crossings; and all stoppages to take on or let 
 off passengers, or for other purposes, shall be before 
 reaching or after crossing the boulevards. 
 
 Sec. 4. If at any time said conditions and restric- 
 tions are not complied with, or the track and cars 
 thereon become, in the opinion of the South Park Com- 
 missioners, too great an obstruction to driving upon 
 the said boulevards or avenues, or if the Commission- 
 ers for any other reason desire the said tracks to be 
 removed, then said railway company is to remove the 
 said tracks and rei>lace the roadways and boulevards 
 in perfect order and condition, as the}'- now are, all at 
 the expense of the said railway compan^^ 
 
 Sec. 5. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, said company shall not make use of steam 
 power, nor anything but horse power in propelling, 
 conducting or operating its cars across said boulevards 
 and avenues, nor permit any dummy or other engine 
 to cross or recross the same at any time. 
 
 Sec. 6. That permission hereby granted is to be 
 temporary, and subject to such further or other restric- 
 tions as said South Park Commissioners or their suc- 
 cessors may from time to time deem advisable, and 
 also subject to be wholl}^ revoked in the discretion of 
 the said Commissioners.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 207 
 
 Ser, 7. This ordiiunice shall be in force from nii«l 
 after its ^vritten acceptance by said Chicaj>() City Kail- 
 way (V)mpany. Unless sncli acceptance be filed Avith 
 the secretary of said South Park Commissioners within 
 thirty days after the passa.ue hcr-eof, this ordinance 
 shall be null and void! 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAINTAIN AND OPER- 
 ATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY ACROSS GAR- 
 FIELD BOULEVARD AT ASHLAND AVENUE. [PASSED AU- 
 GUST 14, 1889.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertakinG; 
 by the Chicago (Hty Kailwa}' Comjiany to c<»mply with 
 the conditions of this ordinance, permission is hereby 
 granted to said Chicago City IJailway Company to lay 
 down, maintain and ojterate a double track street rail- 
 way across Cartield boulevard at Ashlaml avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said tracks shall be laid under the 
 supervision and direction of the Su])erinteudent of the 
 South Park Commissioners, and after tracks are laid 
 tlu^ rctadway shall be replaced in ])ei*fect order and 
 condition, as it now is, at the expense ot the said rail- 
 way company, and to be so kept by it at all times in 
 such manner as shall be directed by said superintend- 
 ent; and said Chicago City Kailwa}' Comiiauy shall 
 pave the entire intersection with granite or brick pav- 
 ing blocks at any time when the South Park Commis- 
 sioners shall consider it necessary so to do, and shall 
 make an order for such improvement. 
 
 Sec. 3. No cars, horses, or other obstructions shall 
 ever stop or stand ui>cn the said boulevard or crossing;
 
 208 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 and all stoppages to take ou or let off passengers, or 
 for other purposes, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing the boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 4. If at any time said conditions and re- 
 strictions are not complied with, or the track and 
 cars thereon become, in the opinion of the South Park 
 Commissioners, too great an obstruction to driving 
 upon said boulevard or avenue, or if the Commission- 
 ers for any other reason desire the said tracks to be 
 removed, then said railway company is to remove the 
 said tracks and replace the roadway and boulevard in 
 perfect order and condition as they now are, all at the 
 expense of the said railway company. 
 
 Sec. 5. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted said company shall not make use of steam 
 power, nor anything but horse power in propelling, 
 conducting or operating its cars across said boulevard, 
 nor permit any dumni}', or other engine, to cross or re- 
 cross the same at any time. 
 
 Sec. 6. That permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary and subject to sucli further or other restrictions 
 as said South Park Commissioners or their successors 
 may, from time to time, deem advisable, and also sub- 
 ject to be wholly revoked in the discretion of the said 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by said Chicago City Rail- 
 way Company. Unless such acceptance be filed with 
 the secretary of the said South Park Commissioners 
 within thirty days after the passage hereof, this ordi- 
 nance shall be null and void.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 209 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAINTAIN AND OPER- 
 ATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY ACROSS GRAND 
 BOULEVARD AND MICHIGAN AVENUE AT FORTY-SEVENTH 
 STREET. [PASSED MAY IITH, 1892.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the nndertakini;- 
 by the Chicago City Railway Company to compl}' with 
 the conditions of tliis ordinance, permission is hereby 
 granted to said Chicago Cit}- Railway- Company to lay 
 down, maintain and operate a double track street rail- 
 way across Crand boulevard and Michigan avenue at 
 Fortj'-seventh street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said tracks shall be laid under the su- 
 pervision and direction of the Superintendent of the 
 South Park Commissioners, and after tracks are laid, 
 the roadway' shall be replaced in perfect order and 
 condition, at the expense of the said railway compam*, 
 and to be so kept by it at all times in such manner 
 as shall be directed by said Superintendent; and 
 when said tracks are laid the said railway company 
 shall pave the s])ace between their rails and for a 
 space of twelve feet in width on each side of the outer 
 rails in said Crand boulevard and Michigan avenue 
 crossings, with granite blocks in a manner satisfactory' 
 to said South Park Commissioners; and said railway 
 company shall pave the entire intersection of said 
 crossings with granite or brick paving blocks at any 
 time when the South Park Commissioners shall con- 
 sider it necessary so to do, and shall make an order 
 for such improvement 
 
 Sec. 3. No cars, horses, or other obstructions shall 
 ever stop or stand upon the said crossings; and all stop- 
 pages to take on or let off passengers, or for other pin-
 
 210 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 poses, shall be before reaebino- or after crossing the 
 said boulevard and avenue. 
 
 Sec. 4. If at any time said conditions and restric- 
 tions are not complied with, or the tracks and cars 
 thereon become, in the opinion of the South Park Com- 
 missioners, too great an obstruction to driving upon 
 said boulevard or avenue or if the commissioners for 
 any other reason desire the said tracks to be removed, 
 then said railway company is to remove the said tracks, 
 and replace the roadway and crossings in perfect order 
 and condition as they now are, all at the expense of 
 the said railway company. 
 
 Sec. 5. That in the exercise of the permission hereby 
 granted, the said Chicago City Railwa^^ Company shall 
 not make use of steam power in propelling or operating 
 its cars across said boulevard and avenue, nor permit 
 an}' dummy or other engine to cross or recross the 
 same at any time. Provided, however, that if said com- 
 pany should determine to operate and propel its cars at 
 the points mentioned b}" electricity, the said company 
 is hereby permitted to so propel and operate its cars, 
 but it is especiall}' provided and understood that no 
 pole for carrying the electric wire shall be placed 
 within the lines of said boulevard and avenue, or cross 
 the same except only by the consent and approval of 
 the Superintendent of the South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 6. That permission hereby granted is to be 
 temporary and subject to such further or other restric- 
 tions as said South Park Cx^mmissioners or their suc- 
 cessors may, from time to time, deem advisable, and 
 also subject to be wholly revoked in the discretion of 
 the said Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. This ordinance shall be in force from and
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 211 
 
 after its written juceptance by sai<l Chicago City Kail- 
 way C<niii)aiiy; unless such acceptance be filed with 
 the S(M'i-etaiy of the said South l*ai-k Commissioners 
 within thirty days after the i)assage hereof, this ordi- 
 nance shall be null and void. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAINTAIN AND OPER- 
 ATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY ACROSS WEST- 
 ERN AVENUE BOULEVARD AT THIRTY-FIFTH STREET. 
 [PASSED OCTOBER 12TH, 1892.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertaking 
 by the Chicago City Railway Company to comply with 
 the conditions of this ordinance, permission is hereby 
 granted to said Chicago City liailway Company to lay 
 down, maintain and operate a double track street rail- 
 way across Western Avenue boulevard at Thirty-tifth 
 street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That said tracks shall be laid to the grade 
 and line indi<ated by the South Park Commissioners 
 and under th«^ sui»ervisi(»u and <lirection of the Super- 
 intendent of the South Park Commissioners, and after 
 tracks are laid, the roa<lway shall be replaced in i)er- 
 fect order and condition, as i1 now is, at the exiKMise 
 of the said railway comi>any, and to be so kejtt by it 
 at all times in such manner as shall be direi'ted by said 
 Superintendent, and said Chicago City Railway Com- 
 pany shall pave the si)ace between the rails and for 
 twelve feet on each side of the outer rail, from the east 
 line of the boulevard to the east line of Western Ave- 
 nue road, to the grade given by the South Park Com- 
 missioners, with granite paving blocks.
 
 212 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 3. No cars, horses, or other obstructions shall 
 ever stop or stand upon the said Iboulevard or crossing, 
 and all stoppages to take on or let off passengers, or 
 for other purposes shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing the boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 4. If at any time said conditions and restric- 
 tions are not complied with, or the tracks and cars 
 thereon become in the opinion of the South Park Com- 
 missioners too great an obstruction to driving upon 
 said boulevard, or if the Commissioners for any other 
 reason desire the said tracks to be removed, then said 
 railway company is to remove the said tracks and re- 
 place the roadway and boulevard in perfect order and 
 condition as they now are, all at the expense of the 
 said railway compan}^ 
 
 Sec. 5. That in the exercise of the permission hereby 
 granted, said companj^ shall not make use of steam 
 power, nor anything but horse power in propelling, 
 conducting or operating its cars across said boulevard, 
 nor permit any dummy or other engine to cross or re- 
 cross the same at an}" time. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the permission hereby granted is to be 
 temporary and subject to such fnrtlier or other restric- 
 tions as said South Park Commissioners or their suc- 
 cessors may from time to time deem advisable, and also 
 subject to be whoU}' revoked in the discretion of said 
 commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by said Chicago City Rail- 
 way Company. Unless such acceptance be filed with 
 the Secretary of the said South Park Commissioners 
 within thirty days after the passage hereof, this ordi- 
 nance shall be null and void.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 213 
 
 AMENDMENT TO ORDINANCE GRANTING THE CHICAGO CITY 
 RAILWAY COMPANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAIN- 
 TAIN AND OPERATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY 
 ACROSS WESTERN AVENUE BOULEVARD AT THIRTY- 
 FIFTH STREET. [PASSED NOVEMBER IITH, 1892.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That section 5 of an ordinance lieretofore 
 passed on the 12th day of October, 1892, by the South 
 Park Commissioners, being an ordinance granting to 
 the Cliicago City Railway Company permission to lay 
 down, maintain and operate a double track street rail- 
 May across Western Avenue Boulevard at Thirty-fifth 
 street, be, and the same is hereby' amended by striking 
 from said ordinanc(,' said section 5, and inserting in 
 lieu and stead thereof the following: 
 
 Sec. 5. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted said Chicago City Railway Company shall 
 not make use of steam power nor anything but horse 
 power and electric power in propelling, conducting 
 and operating its cars across said boulevard, nor per- 
 mit any dummy or other engine to cross or recross the 
 same at au}' time. 
 
 Sec. 2. This ordinance shall be in force and take ef- 
 fect from and after its written acceptance by said Chi- 
 cago City Railway Company, and unless said accept- 
 ance be filed with the secretary of the Board of South 
 Park Commissioners within 80 days after its passage 
 this ordinance shall be null and void.
 
 214 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING TO CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY PERMISSION TO OPERATE, WITH ELECTRIC POWER 
 ACROSS GARFIELD BOULEVARD AT INTERSECTION OF 
 HALSTED STREET. [PASSED SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1894.] 
 
 Whereas, on November 12tli, 1884, tlje Chicago (ity 
 Kailway Company was given permission to cross Gar- 
 field boulevard at Halsted street, subject to certain 
 conditions imposed upon said Chicago City Kailway 
 Company; 
 
 And, whereas. The said Chicago City Railway Com- 
 pany is now desirous of using electric power for the 
 propelling of its cars, instead of horse power; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertak- 
 ing b}^ the Chicago City IJailway Company to comply 
 with the conditions heretofore imposed upon it in ref- 
 erence to the crossing of Garfield boulevard at its inter- 
 section with Halsted street, and also to comply with 
 the conditions of this ordinance, permission is hereby 
 given to said (^^hicago City Railway Company to make 
 use of electric power in propelling, conducting or op- 
 erating its street cars across Garfield boulevard at its 
 intersection with Halsted street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said tracks now on said boulevard 
 shall be replaced or made suitable to the use of street 
 cars propelled by electric power, under the supervis- 
 ion and direction of the superintendent of the South 
 Park Commissioners, and after the tracks are so re- 
 newed or made suitable to the purpose of street cars 
 propelled by electric power, the roadway shall be re- 
 placed in perfect order and condition at the expense 
 of said railway company, and to be so kept by it at its 
 expense at all times in such manner as shall be direct-
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 215 
 
 ed by said superintendent, and when said tracks are 
 so renewed or made suitable to the i)urpose of street 
 cars propelled by <de<tric p(»wer, the said railway com- 
 pauy shall pave the s])a(e between their rails, and also 
 the space on each side of their tracks extending- to the 
 gutter line established by the South Park roniniission- 
 ers Avith granite paving block in a numner satisfactory 
 to the said South Park Commissioners, and shall main- 
 tain this pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said railway company shall have the 
 privilege of erecting four iron posts in Gartield boule- 
 vard at the crossing of ilalsted street at })oiuts imli- 
 cated by the South Park Commissioners; that said 
 posts shall be of character and size satisfactory to the 
 said Park Commissioners; that the trolley and sup- 
 porting wires held by the said four posts shall be at 
 an elevation above the surface of said boulevard indi- 
 cated by the said South Park Commissioners, not, how- 
 ever, to be less than sixteen fet^; that no feed wire or 
 wires shall cross the said boulevard above the surface 
 of said boulevard. 
 
 S<M-. 4. That no feed wiiM^ or wires or any other con- 
 ductors, conveyors or conduits other than the trolley 
 and supi)ortihg wires above referred to shall be placed 
 or maintained by th(^ said railway comj)an3^ across said 
 boulevard; that if any feed wire (►r wires are necessary 
 to be run across the said boulevard, special i)ermission 
 shall first be obtained thereto from the South Park 
 Commissioners, and if permission is granted such feed 
 wires shall be carri(Ml under ground under the direc- 
 tions prescribed and conditions imposed by the South 
 Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 5. No street cars, horses or other obstructions
 
 216 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall ever stop or stand upon the said crossings, and 
 all stoppage of cars to take on or let oft' passengers, or 
 for other purposes, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing the said boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 6. The said railway company shall not at any 
 time operate or propel its cars across the said boule- 
 vard at a rate of speed exceeding four miles an hour. 
 
 Sec. 7. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted the said Chicago City Railway Company 
 shall not make use of any other ]30wer in propelling 
 and operating its cars across said boulevard than the 
 power for which permission is hereby granted, nor 
 shall the said electric power be any other than by 
 means of electric motors placed on said street cars and 
 operated by an electric current generated by stationary 
 machinery at a distance and conveyed to the said 
 street cars through the agency of an overhead trolley 
 wire. 
 
 Sec. 8. The said Chicago City Railway ComiDany 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the said South Park 
 Commissioners against and from any and all damages, 
 judgments, decrees and costs and expenses which said 
 South Park Commissioners may suffer and which may 
 be recoverable or obtained against said South Park 
 Commissioners for or by reason of the granting of the 
 privileges hereby conferred upon said railway com- 
 pany or for or by reason of, or growing out of, or result- 
 ing from, the exercise by said railway company of the 
 privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 9. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary and subject to such further or other restrictions 
 as said South Park Commissioners or their successors 
 may from time to time deem advisable and also sub-
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 217 
 
 ject to be wliully revoked iii the discretiou of the said 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. Tliis ordinauee shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by the said Chicago City 
 Kailwa}^ Company, and unless such acceptance be filed 
 with the secretary of the South Park Conimissioners 
 within thirty daj^s after the passage hereof this ordi- 
 nance shall be null and void. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING TO CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY PERMISSION TO OPERATE WITH ELECTRIC POWER 
 ACROSS MICHIGAN AVENUE AT INTERSECTION OF 
 THIRTY-NINTH STREET, GRAND BOULEVARD AT INTER- 
 SECTION ,0F THIRTY-NINTH STREET, AND GARFIELD 
 BOULEVARD AT INTERSECTION OF WENTWORTH AVE- 
 NUE. [PASSED OCTOBER 31ST, 1894.'] 
 
 Whereas, The Chicago City Kail way Company lias 
 tracks across Michigan avenue at Thirty-ninth street, 
 Grand Boulevard at Thirty-ninth street, and (Jarfield 
 I»oulevar<l at AVentworth avenue, subject to certain 
 conditions imi>osed by ordinances giving permission to 
 hw said tracks; 
 
 And whereas. The said Chicago City llaihvay (\>m- 
 pany is noAv desirous of using electric power for the 
 |)ro]Mdling of its cars instead of horse jiower; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in considcn'ation of the undertaking 
 by the Chicago City Kailway Company to comply with 
 the conditions heretofore imposed upon it in reference 
 to the crossing of Michigan avenue at Thirty-ninth 
 street, Grand Boulevard at Thirty-ninth street, and Gar- 
 field Boulevard at Went woith avenue; and also to com-
 
 218 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 ply with the conditions of tliis ordinance, permission i.s 
 hereby given to said Chicago City Railway Company to 
 make use of electric power in propelling, condncting 
 and operating its cars across Michigan avenue at Thir- 
 ty-ninth street, Grand Boulevard at Thirty-ninth 
 street, and Garfield Boulevard at Wentworth avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said tracks now on said avenue and 
 boulevards shall be replaced or made suitable to the 
 use of street cars propelled by electric power, under 
 the supervision and direction of the superintendent of 
 the South Park Commissioners, and after the tracks 
 are so renewed or made suitable to the purpose of 
 street cars propelled by electric power, the roadway 
 shall be replaced in perfect order and condition at (he 
 expense of said railway company, and to be so kept 
 by it at its expense at all times, in such manner as shall 
 be directed by said superintendent; and when said 
 tracks are so renewed or made suitable to the purpose 
 of street cars propelled by electric power the said rail- 
 way company shall pave the space between the rails, 
 and also the space on each side of their tracks extend- 
 ing to the gutter line establislied by the South Park 
 Commissioners with granite paving block, or brick, or 
 such material as directed by and in a manner satis- 
 factory to said South Park Commissioners, and shall 
 maintain this pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said railway company shall have the 
 privilege of erecting four iron posts in Grand Boule- 
 vard at the crossing of Thirty-ninth street, and four 
 iron posts in Garfield Boulevard at the crossing of 
 Wentworth avenue, at points indicated by the South 
 Park Commissioners;, that said posts shall be of the 
 character and size satisfactory to said Commissioners;
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 219 
 
 that the trolley aud supporting wires held by said four 
 posts shall be at an elevation above the surface of said 
 avenue aud boulevards indicated bv said South Park 
 Commissioners, not, however, to be less than sixteen 
 feet; that no feed wire, or wires, shall cross the said 
 avenue and boulevards above the surface of said ave- 
 nue and boulevards. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no feed wire or wires or any other con- 
 ductors, conveyors or conduits other than the trolley 
 and supporting wires above referred to, shall be placed 
 or maintained by said railway company across said av- 
 enue or boulevards; that if any feed wire or wires are 
 necessary to be run across the said avenue or boule- 
 vards special permission shall first be obtained thereto 
 from the South Park Commissioners, and if permis- 
 sion is granted such feed wires shall be carried under 
 ground under the directions prescribed and conditions 
 imposed by the said South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 5. No street cars, horses or other obstructi(»ns 
 shall ever stop or stand upon said crossings, and all 
 stoppages of cars to take on or let off passengers, or 
 for any other ]>urpose, shall be bef<u"e reaching or afler 
 crossing the said avenue^ or boulevards. 
 
 Sec. H. The said railway comj)any shall not at any 
 time ojM^rate or propel its cars across the said avenue 
 or boulevards at a rate of speed exceeding four miles 
 an hour, having first made a full sto]) before <Mitering 
 on said avenue or boulevards. 
 
 Sec. 7. That in the exercise of the ]>erniission here- 
 by granted the said Chicago City Kailway ('ompany 
 shall not make use of any other power in ]tro])elling 
 and operating its cars across said avenue or boulevards 
 than the power for w hich permission is hereby granted,
 
 220 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 nor shall the said electric power be any other than by 
 means of electric motors placet! on said street cars and 
 operated by an electric cnrrent generated by station- 
 ary machinery at a distance and conveyed to said street 
 cars through the agency of an overhead trolley wire. 
 
 Sec. 8. That said Chicago City Railway Company 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the said South Park 
 Commissioners against and from any and all damages, 
 judgments, decrees and costs and expenses which said 
 South Park Commissioners may suffer, and which may 
 be recoverable or obtained against said South Park 
 Commissioners for or by reason of the granting of the 
 privileges hereby conferred upon said railway com- 
 pany, or for, or by reason of, or growing out of, or re- 
 sulting from, the exercise by said railway company of 
 the privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 9. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary and subject to such further or other restrictions 
 as said South Park Commissioners, or their successors, 
 nmy from time to time deem advisable, and also subject 
 to be wholly revoked in the discretion of said Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by said Chicago City Rail- 
 way Company, and unless such acceptance be filed with 
 the secretary of the South Park Commissioners within 
 thirty days after the passage hereof this ordinance 
 shall be null and void.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 221 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING TO THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY 
 COMPANY PERMISSION TO OPERATE WITH ELECTRIC 
 POWER ACROSS MICHIGAN AVENUE AT INTERSECTIONS 
 OF TWENTY-SIXTH STREET, THIRTY-FIRST STREET AND 
 FORTY-THIRD STREET, ACROSS GRAND BOULEVARD AT 
 INTERSECTION OF FORTY-THIRD STREET, AND ACROSS 
 DREXEL BOULEVARD AT INTERSECTION OF FORTY-THIRD 
 STREET. [PASSED DECEMBER 12TH, 1894.] 
 
 Whereas, The Chifaj^o City Railway Company has 
 tracks across Mi(hi<;aii avenue at Twenty-sixtli street, 
 Thirt} -tirst street and Forty-tliird street, (hand Boule- 
 vard at Forty-third street, and Drexel Boulevard at 
 Forty-third street, subject to certain conditions im- 
 posed by ordinances giving" permission to lay said 
 tracks; 
 
 And, whereas. The Chicago City Ilailway Company 
 is now desirous of using electiic power for the propell- 
 ing of its cars, instead of horse power; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertaking 
 by the Chicago City Railway Company to comply with 
 tlie conditions heretofore imposed upon it in reference 
 to the crossing of Michigan avenue at THventy-sixth 
 street, Thirty-first street and Forty-third street, (Jrand 
 Boulevard at Forty-third street and Drexel Boulevard 
 at Forty-third street, and also to comply with the con- 
 ditions of this ordinance, i)ermissioii is hereb,y given 
 to said Chicago City Railway Companj^ to make use of 
 electric power in propelling, conducting and operating 
 Its cars across Michigan avenue at Twenty-sixtli stn^et. 
 Thirty-first street and Forty-third street, (Irand Boule- 
 vard at Forty-third street and Drexel Boulevard at 
 Forty-third street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said tracks now on said avenue and
 
 222 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 boulevards shall be replaced or made suitable to tlie 
 use of street ears propelled by electric power, under 
 the supervision and direction of the superintendent of 
 the South Park T'omniissioners, and after the tracd^s 
 are so renewed or made suitable to the purpose of street 
 cars propelled by electric power the roadway shall be 
 replaced in perfect order and condition at the expense 
 of the said railway company, and to be so kept b}" it 
 at its expense at all times, in such manner as shall be 
 directed by said superintendent, and when said tracks 
 are so renewed or made suitable to the purpose of 
 street cars propelled by electric power the said rail- 
 way company shall pave the space between the rails, 
 and also the space on each side of their tracks extend- 
 ing to the gutter line established by the South Park 
 Commissioners, with granite paving blocks, or brick, 
 or such material as directed by, and in a manner satis- 
 factor}^ to said South Park Commissioners, and shall 
 maintain this pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said railway company shall have the 
 privilege of erecting four iron i:>osts in Grand Boule- 
 vard at the crossing of Forty-third street and four iron 
 posts in Drexel Boulevard at the crossing of Forty- 
 third street, at points indicated hj the South' Park 
 Commissioners; that said posts shall be of the charac- 
 ter and size satisfactory to said Commissioners; that 
 the trolley and supporting wires held hj said four 
 posts shall be at an elevation above the surface of said 
 avenue and boulevards indicated by said South Park 
 Commissioners, not, however, to be less than sixteen 
 feet; that no feed wire, or wires, shall cross the said 
 avenue and boulevards above the surface of said ave- 
 nue and boulevards.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 223 
 
 See. 4. Tliut IK) iVed wire or wires, or any other con- 
 (liiclors, conveyors or condnits, other than the troHey 
 and su]>|»ortinj;' wires above referred to, shall he 
 placed or iu;iintained hy said railway company across 
 said avenue or bouhnards; that if any feed wire or 
 wires are necessary to be run across the said avenue 
 or boulevards special permission shall first be obtained 
 thereto from the South Park Commissioners, and if 
 ])erniission is granted, such feed wires shall be carried 
 under ground under the directions prescribed and con- 
 ditions imposed by the said South Park Cjommissioners. 
 
 Sec. 5. Xo street cars, horses or other obstructions 
 shall ever stop or stand upon said crossings, and all 
 stopi)ages of ears to take on or let off passengers, or 
 for any other purpose, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing the said avenue or boulevards. 
 
 See. (). The said railway coui])anv shall not at any 
 time operate or propel its ears across the said avenue 
 or boulevards at a rate of speed exceeding four miles 
 an hour, having first made a full stop before entering 
 on said avenue or boulevards. 
 
 Sec. 7. That in the c'xereise of the permission here- 
 by granted, the said (-hicago (Mty Railway <'om])any 
 shall not make use of any other ])<)wer in ])ro])elling 
 and operating its ears across said avenue or boulevards 
 tliMu the power for which permission is hereby grant- 
 ed; nor shall the said electric ])ow''r be any other than 
 b}' means of electric motors placed on said street ears 
 and operated by an electric current generated by sta- 
 tionary iiia<hiuery at a distance and conveyed to said 
 street ears through the agency of an overhead trolh'y 
 wire. 
 
 Sec. 8. The said Chicago City Railway Company
 
 224 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall indemnify and save liai'mless the said South Park 
 Commissioners against and froin any and all damages, 
 judgments, decrees and costs, and expenses which 
 said South Park Commissioners may suffer, and which 
 may be recoverable or obtained against said South 
 Park Commissioners for or by reason of the granting 
 of the privileges hereby confeiTed upon said railway 
 company, or for, or by reason of, or growing out of, or 
 resulting from, the exercise by said railway company of 
 the privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 9. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary and subject to such further or other restrictions 
 as said South Park Commissioners, or their successors, 
 may from time to time deem advisable, and also sub- 
 ject to be wholly revoked in the discretion of said Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. And, whereas, there was heretofore grant- 
 ed a permit, by sundry ordinances, to Chicago City 
 Railway Company to propel its cars b^^ electricity 
 across Grand Boulevard and Michigan avenue at For- 
 ty-seventh street, and also Garfield Boulevard at Hal- 
 sted street, and also Western Avenue Boulevard at 
 Thirty-fifth street, upon terms and conditions therein 
 respectively contained, and wherein respectively there 
 is no provision compelling the cars to come to a full 
 stop before crossing said respective boulevards. 
 
 NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBV FURTHER ORDAINED 
 BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS, 
 
 That said Chicago City Railway Company shall at 
 each of the intersections herein last mentioned, to- 
 wit: At Grand Boulevard and Michigan avenue, at 
 Forty-seventh street, Garfield Boulevard at Halsted 
 street, and also at Western Avenue Boulevard at Thir-
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 225 
 
 tv-fifth street, cause each and every car before cross- 
 ing said respective boulevards to come to a full stop. 
 
 Sec. 11. That uo car of the Chicago City Railway 
 Company propelled by electricity shall cross any bou- 
 levard under the control and jurisdiction of the South 
 Park Commissioners at a greater rate of speed than 
 four miles per hour. 
 
 Sec. 12. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by said Cliicago City 
 Hallway Company, and unless such acceptance be filed 
 with the secretary of the South Park Commissioners 
 within thirty days after the passage hereof this ordi- 
 nance shall be null and void. 
 
 ORDINANCa GRANTING TO THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY 
 COMPANY PERMISSION TO OPERATE WITH ELECTRIC 
 POWER ACROSS GARFIELD BOULEVARD AT THE INTER- 
 SECTION OF ASHLAND AVENUE, AND WESTERN AVENUE 
 AT THE INTERSECTION OF ARCHER AVENUE. [PASSED 
 MAY 8TH, 1895.] 
 
 Whereas, The Chicago (^\tj Railway Company has 
 tracks across Garfield Boulevard at Ashland avenue, 
 and Western avenue at Archer avenue, subject to cer- 
 tain conditions imposed by ordinances giving permis- 
 sion to lay said tracks; 
 
 And, whereas. The Chicago City Railway Company 
 is now desirous of using electric power for the propell- 
 ing of its cars, instead of horse power; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertak- 
 ing by the Chicago CMty Railway Company to comply 
 with the conditions heretofore imposed upon it in ref-
 
 226 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 ereiice to tlie crossing of Garfield Boulevard at Ash- 
 land avenue, and Westerr. avenue at Archer avenue, 
 and also to comply with the conditions of this ordi- 
 nance, permission is hereby given to said Oliicago City 
 Eaihvay Company to nmke use of electric power in 
 propelling, conducting and operating its cars across 
 Garfield Boulevard at Ashland avenue and Western 
 avenue at Archer avenue. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said tracks now on said avenue 
 and boulevard shall be replaced or made suitable to the 
 use of street cars propelled hj electric power, under 
 the supervision and direction of the superintendent of 
 the South Park Commissioners, and, after the tracks 
 are so renewed or made suitable to the purpose of 
 street cars propelled by electric power, the roadway 
 shall be replaced in perfect order and condition at the 
 expense of the said railway company, and to be so kept 
 by it at its expense at all times in such manner as shall 
 be directed by said superintendent, and when said 
 tracks are so renewed or made suitable to the purpose 
 of street cars propelled by electric power the said rail- 
 way company shall pave the space between tjie rails, 
 and also the space on each side of the tracks extending 
 to the gutter line established by the South Park Com- 
 missioners, with granite paving blocks, or brick, or 
 such material as directed by, and in a manner satisfac- 
 tory to said South Park Commissioners, and shall 
 maintain this pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said railwa}'^ company shall have the 
 privilege of erecting four iron posts in Garfield Boule- 
 vard at the crossing of Ashland avenue, and such 
 number of iron posts as may be directed by the South 
 Park Commissioners, not exceeding five, in Western
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 227 
 
 avenue at the crossin*; of Archer avenue, at points indi- 
 cated by the South Park Commissioners; that said 
 posts shall be of the character and size satisfactory to 
 said Commissioners; that the trolley and supporting- 
 wires held by said posts shall be at an elevation above 
 the sui-face of said avenue and boulevard indicated by 
 .said South Park Commissioners, not, however, to be 
 less than sixteen feet; that no feed wire, or wires, shall 
 cross the said avenue and boulevard above the surface 
 of said avenue and boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no feed wire or wires, or any other con- 
 ductors, conveyors or conduits, other than the trolley 
 and supporting* wires above referred to, shall be placed 
 or maintained by said raihvay company across said 
 avenue or boulevard; that if any feed wire or wires 
 are necessary to be run across the said avenue or boule- 
 vard special permission shall first be obtained thereto 
 from the South Park Commissioners, and if permis- 
 sion is granted such feed wires shall be carried under 
 ground under the directions prescribed and conditions 
 imposed by the said South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 5. No street cars, horses, or other obstructions 
 shall ever stop or stand upon said crossings, and all 
 stoppages of cars to take on or let off passengers, or for 
 any other purpose, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing the said avenue or boulevard. 
 
 Sec. (\. The said railway company shall not at any 
 time operate or propel its cars across the said avenue 
 or boulevard at a rate of speed exceeding four miles an 
 liour, having first made a full stop before entering on 
 said avenue or boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 7. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted the said Chicago City Railway Company
 
 228 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall not make use of any other power in propelling 
 and operating its cars across said avenue or boulevard 
 than the power for which permission is hereby grant- 
 ed, nor shall the said electric power be any other than 
 by means of electric motors placed on said street cars 
 and operated by an electric current generated by sta- 
 tionary machinery at a distance and conveyed to said 
 street cars through the agency of an over-head trolley 
 wire. 
 
 Sec. 8. The said Chicago City Railway Company 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the said South Park 
 Commissioners against and from any and all damages, 
 judgments, decrees and costs, and expenses which said 
 South Park Commissioners ma^^ suffer and which may 
 be recoverable or obtained against said South Park 
 Commissioners for or b^^ reason of the gTanting of the 
 privileges hereby conferred upon said railway compa- 
 ny, or for, or by reason of, or growing out of, or result- 
 ing from the exercise by said railwa^^ company of the 
 privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 9. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary and subject to such further or other restric- 
 tions as said South Park Commissioners, or their suc- 
 cessors, may from time to time deem advisable, and 
 also subject to be wholly revoked in the discretion of 
 said Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance b}" said Chicago City Rail- 
 way Company, and unless such acceptance be filed 
 with the secretary of the South Park Commissioners 
 within thirty days after the passage hereof this ordi- 
 nance shall be null and void.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 229 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING TO THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY 
 COMPANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAINTAIN AND 
 OPERATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY AT FORTY- 
 SEVENTH STREET ACROSS WESTERN AVENUE BOULE- 
 VARD. [PASSED JULY 8TH, 1895.] 
 
 Whereas, The City Council of the City of Chicago 
 heretofore, to-wit: on the 8th day of July, A. D. 1895, 
 duly passed an ordinance granting and pennitting the 
 Chicago City Railway Company the right to lay down, 
 maintain and operate by electricity and other power, 
 a double track street railwa}^ ui>on and along Forty- 
 seventh street from the present terminus of the tracks 
 on said Forty-seventh street to the intersection of 
 Archer avenue with said street; therefore, 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of'the undertaking 
 by the Chicago City Railway Company to comply with 
 the conditions of this ordinance permission is hereby 
 granted to said Chicago City Railwa^^ Company to lay 
 down and maintain a double track street railway 
 across Western Avenue Boulevard at Forty-seventh 
 street, and to operate the same with electricity or horse 
 power. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said tracks shall be laid under the super- 
 vision and direction of the superintendent of the South 
 Park Commissioners, and after said tracks are laid the 
 roadway shall be replaced in perfect order and condi- 
 tion at the expense of said railway company, and to be 
 so kept by it at all times, in such manner as shall be 
 directed by the superintendent of the South Park 
 Commissioners, and when said tracks are laid the said 
 railway company shall pave the space between the 
 rails and also on each side of its tracks extending to
 
 230 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 the curb and cross-walk lines as established by the 
 Park Commissioners in said Western Avenue Boule- 
 vard crossing, with granite blocks or such other Jiia- 
 terial as the South Park Commissioners ma}^ deter- 
 mine and direct, and in a manner satisfactory to said 
 superintendent; and shall maintain such pavement in 
 good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. That said railway company shall have the 
 privilege of erecting the necessary iron posts on West- 
 ern Avenue Boulevard crossing of Forty-seventh 
 street; that such posts shall be of a character and size 
 satisfactory to said Commissioners; that the trolley 
 and overhead wires held by said poles shall be at an 
 elevation above the surface of said boulevard indicated 
 by the said South Park Commissioners, not, how^ever, 
 to be less than sixteen feet ; that no feed wire or w^ires 
 shall cross said Western Avenue Boulevard crossing of 
 Forty-seventh street above the surface of said boule- 
 vard, and such wire or wires, if any are used, shall be 
 placed underground at said Western Avenue Boule- 
 vard crossing of Forty-seventh street, and under the 
 direction and supervision of the superintendent of said 
 South Park Commissioners; said posts shall be placed 
 in such a way and manner as is satisfactory to the su- 
 perintendent of the said South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no street cars or other obstructions 
 shall ever stop or stand upon said crossing, and all 
 stoppages of cars to take on or let off passengers, or 
 for any other purpose, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing said boulevard, and all cars approaching 
 said boulevard shall come to a full stop before crossing 
 the same. 
 
 Sec. 5. Said railway company shall not at any time
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 231 
 
 operate or propel its cars across said boulcYard at a 
 rate of speed exceeding four miles an hour. 
 
 Sec. 6. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, the Chicago City Bailway Company shall 
 not make use of any other power, nor propel or operate 
 its cars across said boulevard, than the power for 
 which permission is hereby granted, nor shall said elec- 
 tric power be other than by means of electric motors 
 placed on the street cars and operated by the electric 
 current geneiated by stationary machinery placed at 
 a distance and conveyed to said cars through the 
 agency of an overhead trolley wire. 
 
 Sec. 7. That the Chicago City Eailway Compa'ny 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the South Park 
 Commissioners against and from any and all danmges, 
 decrees and costs and expenses which said South Park 
 Commissioners may suffer, or which may be recover- 
 able or obtained against said South Park Commission- 
 ers for or by reason of the granting of the privileges 
 hereby conferred upon said company, or for or by rea~ 
 son of, or growing out of, or resulting from the exer- 
 cise by said company of the privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 8. The permission hereby granted is subject to 
 such further order or other restrictions as the South 
 Park Commissioners, or their successors, may from 
 time to time deem advisable. 
 
 Sec. 9. That a grooved or such other rail as the 
 South Park Commissioners may direct sliall be laid by 
 the Chicago City Railway Company, in the Western 
 Avenue Boulevard crossing at Forty-seventh street, 
 the section of which shall be approved by the South 
 Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. Tills ordinance shall be in force from and
 
 232 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 after its written acceptance by said Oliicago City Rail- 
 way Company, and unless such acceptance be filed 
 with the secretary of the South Park Commissioners 
 within thirty days after its passage this ordinance 
 shall be null and void. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE GRANTING THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY 
 COMPANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAINTAIN AND 
 OPERATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY ACROSS 
 DREXEL BOULEVARD AT FORTY-SEVENTH STREET. 
 [PASSED OCTOBER 9TH, 1895.] 
 
 Whereas, The City Council of the Cit}' of Chicago 
 heretofore, to-wit: on the 8th day of July, A. D. 1895, 
 duly passed an ordinance granting and permitting the 
 Chicago City Eailway Company to lay down, maintain 
 and operate by electricity a double track street railway 
 upon and along Forty-seventh street from Cottage 
 Grove avenue to the lake; therefore, 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF SOUTH PARK COMMIS- 
 SIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertak- 
 ing by the Chicago City Eailway Company to comply 
 with the conditions of this ordinance, permission is 
 hereby granted to said Chicago City Eailway Company 
 to lay down and maintain a double track street rail- 
 way across Drexel Boulevard at Forty-seventh street, 
 and to operate the same with electricity or horse 
 power. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said tracks shall be laid under the super- 
 vision and direction of the superintendent of the South 
 Park Commissioners, and after said tracks are laid 
 the roadway shall be replaced in perfect order and con-
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 233 
 
 dition at the expense of said railway company, and to 
 be so kept by it at all times, in su'li manner as shall 
 be directed by said snperinteudent, and when said 
 tracks are laid the said railway company shall pave 
 the space between the rails and also the space on each 
 side of its tracks extending to the curb and cross walk 
 lines as established by the South Park Commissioners 
 in said Drexel Bonlevard crossing, with granite blocks 
 or such other material as the South Park Commission- 
 ers may determine and direct, and in a manner satis- 
 factory to said superintendent, and shall maintain 
 such pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 8. That said railway comi>any shall have the 
 i:>rivilege of erecting four iron posts in Drexel Boule- 
 vard crossing of Forty-seventh street; that such posts 
 shall be of a chara<ter and size satisfactory to said 
 Commissioners; that the trolley and overhead wires 
 held by said poles shall be at an elevation above the 
 surface of said boulevard indicated by the said South 
 I^irk Commissioners, not, however, to be less than six- 
 teen feet; that no feed wire or wires shall cross said 
 Drexel Boulevard at Forty-seventh street above the 
 surface of said boulevard, and such feed wire or wires, 
 if any are used, shall be placed under ground at said 
 Drexel Boulevard crossing of Forty-seventh street, 
 and under the direction and supervision of the super- 
 intendent of sai<l South Park Comujissioners; said 
 posts shall be placed in such a way and manner as is 
 satisfactory to the superintendent <»f the South Park 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no strei^t cars or other obstructions 
 shall ever stop or stand ujion sj»id crossing, and all 
 stoppages of cars to take on or let off passengers, or
 
 234 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 for any other purpose, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing- the said boiileyarcl, and all cars approaching 
 said boulevard shall come to a full stop before crossing 
 the same. 
 
 Sec. 5. Said railway company shall not at any time 
 operate or propel its cars across the said boulevard at 
 a rate of speed exceeding four miles an hour. 
 
 Sec. 6, That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, the Chicago City Railway Company shall 
 not make use of any other power, nor propel or operate 
 its cars across said boulevard, other than the power 
 for which permission is hereby granted; nor shall said 
 electric power be other than by means of electric mo- 
 tors placed on street cars and operated by electric cur- 
 rent generated by stationary machinery placed at a 
 distance and conveyed to said ears through the agency 
 of an overhead trolley wire. 
 
 Sec. 7. That the Chicago City Raihvay Company 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the said South Park 
 Commissioners against and from any and all damages, 
 decrees and costs and expenses Avhich said South Park 
 Commissioners may suffer, or which may be recover- 
 able or obtained against said South Park Commission- 
 ers, for or by reason of the granting of the privileges 
 hereby conferred upon said company, or for, or by rea- 
 son of, or growing out of, or resulting from the exercise 
 by said company of the privileges herein granted. 
 
 Sec. 8. The permission hereby granted is subject 
 to such further order or other restrictions as the South 
 Park Commissioners, or their successors, may from 
 time to time deem advisable. 
 
 Sec. 9. That a grooved or such other rail as the 
 South Park Commissioners may direct shall be laid by
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 235 
 
 the Chicago City Railway Company in the Drexel Bou- 
 levard crossing at Forty-seventh street, the section of 
 which shall be approved by the South Park Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. That the Chicago City Railway Company 
 shall, upon an order to that effect from the South l*ark 
 Commissioners, put in grooved or other rails of a sec- 
 tion satisfactory to the South Park Commisioners at 
 any of the points where the said company's tracks 
 cross the boulevards under the control of the South 
 Park Commissioners, when the said company for any 
 reason desire to replace the rails at such crossings. 
 
 Sec. 11. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by said Chicago City 
 Railway Company, and unless such acceptance be filed 
 with the secretary of the South Park Commissioners 
 within thirty days after its passage this ordinance 
 shall be null and void. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING TO THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY 
 COMPANY PERMISSION TO OPERATE WITH ELECTRIC 
 POWER ACROSS MICHIGAN AVENUE AT INTERSECTION 
 OF FIFTY-FIRST STREET. [PASSED DECEMBER IITH, 1895.] 
 
 Whereas, The Chicago City Railway Company has 
 tracks across Michigan avenue at Fifty-first street, 
 subject to certain conditions imposed by ordinance giv- 
 ing permission to lay said tracks; 
 
 And, Whereas, The Chicago City Railway Company 
 is noAV desirous of using electric power for the propell- 
 ing of its cars, instead of horse power; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertak- 
 ing by the Chicago CHty Railway Company to comply
 
 236 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 with the conditions heretofore imposed upon it in ref- 
 erence to the crossing of Michigan avenue at Fifty-first 
 street, and also to comply with the conditions of this 
 ordinance, permission is hereby given to said Chicago 
 City Eailway Company to make use of electric power 
 in propelling, conducting and operating its cars across 
 Michigan avenue at Fifty-first street. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said tracks now at the said inter- 
 section of Michigan avenue and Fifty-first street shall 
 be replaced or made suitable to the use of street cars 
 propelled by electric power, under the supervision and 
 direction of the superintendent of the South Park Com- 
 missioners, and after the tracks are so renewed or 
 made suitable to the purpose of street cars propelled 
 by electric power the roadway shall be replaced in 
 perfect order and condition at the expense of the said 
 railway company, and to be so kept by it at its expense 
 at all times, in such manner as shall be directed by 
 said superintendent, and when directed so to do by the 
 South Park Commissioners the said railway company 
 shall pave the space between the rails, and also the 
 space on each side of its tracks extending to the gut- 
 ter and cross walk lines established by the South Park 
 Commissioners, with granite paving blocks, or such 
 other material as directed by, and in a manner satis- 
 factory to, said South Park Commissioners, and shall 
 maintain this pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the trolley wires shall be at an eleva- 
 tion above the surface of Michigan avenue at said in- 
 tersection of Fifty-first street indicated by said South 
 Park Commissioners, not, however, to be less than six- 
 teen feet; that no feed wire, or wires, shall cross the 
 said avenue above the surface of said avenue.
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 237 
 
 Sec. 4. That no feed wire, or wires, -or any other 
 conductors, conveyors or conduits, other than the trol- 
 ley wires above referred to, shall be placed or main- 
 tained by said railway company across said avenue; 
 that if any feed wire <»r wires are necessary to be run 
 across the said avenue special permission shall first be 
 obtained thereto from the South Park Commissioners, 
 and if permission is granted such feed wires shall be 
 carried under ground under the directions prescribed 
 and conditions imposed b}' the said South l*ark Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 5. No street cars, hoii^es or other obstructions 
 shall ever stop or stand upon said crossing, and all 
 stoppages of cars to take on or let off passengers, or 
 for any other purpose, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing the said avenue. 
 
 Sec. 6. The said railway company shall not at any 
 time operate or propel its cars across said avenue at a 
 rate of speed exceeding four miles an hour, having first 
 made a full stop before entering on said avenue. 
 
 Sec. 7. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, the said Chicago City Kailway Company 
 shall not make use of any other power in propelling 
 and operating its cars across said avenue than the 
 power for which permission is herebj- granted; nor 
 shall the said electric power be any other than by 
 means of electric motors placed on said street cars and 
 operated b}' an electric current generated by station- 
 ary machinery at a distance and conveyed to said 
 street cars through the agenc}^ of an overhead trolley 
 wire. 
 
 Sec. 8. The said Chicago City Railway Company 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the said South Park
 
 238 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 Commissioners against and from any and all damages, 
 judgments, decrees and costs, £lnd expenses which said 
 South Park Commissioners may suffer, and which may 
 be recoverable or obtained against said South Park 
 Commissioners for or by reason of the granting of the 
 privileges hereby conferred upon said railwa^^ com- 
 pany, or for, or b}' reason of, or growing out of, or re- 
 sulting from, the exercise by said railway company of 
 the privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 9. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary and subject to such further or other restrictions 
 as said South Park Commissioners, or their successors, 
 may from time to time deem advisable, and also sub- 
 ject to be wholly revoked in the discretion of said Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by the said Chicago City 
 Railway Company, and unless such acceptance be filed 
 with the secretary of the South Park Commissioners 
 within thirty days after the passage hereof this ordi- 
 nance shall be null and void. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTIN(; THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY PERMISSION TO LAY DOWN, MAINTAIN AND OPER- 
 ATE A DOUBLE TRACK STREET RAILWAY ACROSS GAR- 
 FIELD BOULEVARD AT CENTER AVENUE. [PASSED APRIL 
 8TH, 1896.] 
 
 Whereas, The City Council of the City of Chicago 
 heretofore, to-wit: on the 9th day of July, A. D. 1894, 
 duly passed an ordinance gi'anting and permitting the 
 Chicago City Railway Company the right to lay down, 
 maintain and operate by electricity a double track
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 239 
 
 street railway upon and aloug Center avenue from 
 F(»r( y-s(-v<'nlli sheet !(► Sixty-third street; therefore, 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF SOUTH PARK COMMIS- 
 SIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in oonsideration of the undertaking 
 by the Chicago City Railway Company to comply with 
 the conditions of this ordinance, permission is hereby 
 granted to said Chicago City Railway Company to lay 
 down and maintain a double track street railway 
 across Garfield Boulevard at Center avenue, and to op- 
 erate the same with electricity or horse power. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said tracks shall be laid under the supervis- 
 ion and direction of the superintendent of the South 
 Park Commissioners, and after said tracks are laid the 
 roadway shall be replaced in perfect order and condi- 
 tion at the expense of said railway company, and to be 
 so kej)t b}' it at all times in such manner as shall be 
 directed by the superintendent of the South Park Com- 
 missioners, and when said tracks are laid the said rail- 
 way company' shall pave the space between the rails 
 and also on each side of its tracks extending to the curb 
 and cross walk lines as established by the South Park 
 Commissioners in said Garfield Boulevard crossing, 
 with granite blocks or such other material as the South 
 Park Commissioners may determine and direct, and in 
 a manner satisfactor}^ to said superintendent, and shall 
 maintain such pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said railway company shall have the 
 privilege of erecling four iron posts on Garfield Boule- 
 vard crossing of Center avenue; that such posts shall 
 be of a character and size satisfactory to said Com- 
 missioners; thai llic h-olley and overhead wires held 
 by said poles shall be al an eh^vation above the surface
 
 240 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 of said bouleyaid indicated by the said South Parlv 
 Commissioners, not, however, 'to be- less than sixteen 
 feet; that no feed wire or wires shall cross said Gar- 
 field Boulevard at ("enter avenue above the surface of 
 said boulevard, and such feed wire or wires, if any are 
 used, shall be placed under ground at said Garfield 
 Boulevard crossing of Center avenue, and under the 
 direction and supervision of the superintendent of said 
 South Park Commissioners; said posts shall be placed 
 in such a way and manner as is satisfactory to the su- 
 perintendent of said South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no street cars or other obstructions 
 shall ever stop or stand upon said crossing, and all 
 stoppages of cars to take on or let off passengers, or 
 for any other purpose, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing said boulevard, and all cars approaching said 
 boulevard shall come to a full stop before crossing the 
 same. 
 
 Sec. 5. The said railway company shall not at an}' 
 time operate or propel its cars across said boulevard 
 at a rate of speed exceeding four miles an hour. 
 
 Sec. (j. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, the Chicago City Railwaj* Company shall 
 not make use of any other power nor propel or op<^'rate 
 its cars across said boulevard, than the power for 
 which permission is liereb}'^ granted, nor shall said elec- 
 tric power be other than by means of electric motors 
 placed on the street cars and operated by the electric 
 current generated by stationary machinery placed at 
 a distance and conveyed to said cars through the 
 agency of an overhead trollej^ wire. 
 
 Sec. 7. That the Chicago Citj Railway Company 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the South Park Com-
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 241 
 
 missioners against and from any and all damages, de- 
 crees and costs and expenses which said South Park 
 Commissioners may suffer, or which may be recover- 
 able or obtained against said South Park Commission- 
 ers for or by reason of the granting of the privileges 
 hereby conferred upon said company, or for or by rea- 
 son of, or growing out of, or resulting from the exercise 
 by said company of the privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 8. The permission hereby granted is subject to 
 such further order or other restrictions as the South 
 Park Commissioners, or their successors, may from 
 time to time deem advisable. 
 
 Sec. 9. That a grooved or such other rail as the 
 South Park Commissioners may direct shall be laid by 
 the Chicago City Railway Company in the Garfield 
 Boulevard crossing at Center avenue, the section of 
 which shall be approved by the South Park Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by said Chicago City Rail- 
 way Company, and unless such acceptance be filed witli 
 the secretary of the South Park Commissioners witliin 
 thirty days after its passage, this ordinance shall be 
 null and void. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY THE RIGHT TO CHANGE THE MOTIVE POWER OF 
 ITS CARS CROSSING THIRTY-FIFTH STREET BOULEVARD 
 ON INDIANA AVENUE, AND CROSSING MICHIGAN AVENUE 
 BOULEVARD ON EIGHTEENTH STREET, FROM HORSE TO 
 ELECTRIC POWER. [PASSED NOVEMBER 18TH, 1896.] 
 
 Whereas, The Chicago City Railway Company has in 
 operation on Indiana avenue, crossing Thirty-fiftli 
 street boulevard, and on Eighteenth street, crossing
 
 242 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 Micliigau aveiine boulevard, a double track street rail- 
 way, by horse cars, which it desires to change to elec- 
 tric power, ill and by means of the overhead trolley-; 
 therefore, 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertaking 
 by the ('hicago City IJailway Company to comply with 
 the conditions of this ordinance, permission is hereby 
 granted to said Chicago Cit}^ Railway Company to 
 maintain the double track street railway crossing 
 Thirty-fifth street boulevard on Indiana avenue, and 
 crossing Michigan avenue boulevard on Eighteenth 
 street, and to operate the same by electricity. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said tracks or rails at the respective 
 crossings shall be changed from girder to grooved rails 
 of a pattern satisfactoiy to the superintendent of the 
 South Park Commissioners, and be laid under the su- 
 I>ervision and direction of the superintendent of tlie 
 South Park Commissioners, and after said tracks are 
 laid the roadbed shall be placed in perfect order and 
 condition at the expense of said Chicago City Railway 
 Company, and to be so kept by it at all times and in 
 such manner as shall be directed by the superintendent 
 of the South Park Commissioners; and when said 
 tracks are laid and in operation b}' electricity, at 
 the respective crossings, the said Chicago City Railway 
 Company shall pave the space between the rails; and 
 also on each side of its tracks, extending to the curb 
 and cross walk lines, as established by the South Park 
 Commissioners, on said Thirty-fifth Street boulevard at 
 Indiana avenue, and on said Michigan Avenue boule- 
 vard at Eighteenth street, with granite blocks or such 
 other material as the South Park Commissioners may
 
 CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY COMPANY. 243 
 
 determiue and direct, aud in a manner satisfactoiT to 
 said sni^eriutendent of the Sonth Park Commissioners, 
 and shall maintain such pavement in good condition. 
 
 Sec. 3. That the trolley wire shall be at an eleva- 
 tion above the surface of the street, at the respective 
 crossings, indicated by the South Park rommissioners, 
 not, however, to be less than sixteen feet. 
 
 Sec. 4. That no feed wire or wires, or any other con- 
 ductors, couA^eyors, or conduits other than the trolley 
 wires above referred to, shall be placed or maintained 
 by said company above and across said respective 
 boulevards at the places aforesaid; that if any feed wire 
 or wires are necessary to be run across the said respec- 
 tive boulevards at the crossings aforesaid, permission 
 shall be tirst obtained therefor from the South Park 
 Commissioners, and if permission is granted, such feed 
 wires shall be carried underground under the directions 
 and conditions prescribed and imposed by the South 
 Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 5. No street cars, horses or other obstructions 
 shall stop or stand upon said crossings, aud all stop- 
 pages of cars to take on and let off passengers, or for 
 any other reason, shall be before reaching or after 
 crossing the said respective boulevards, at the inter- 
 sections aforesaid; and all cars approaching said boule- 
 vards shall come to a full stop before entering on the 
 same. 
 
 Sec. 0. The said Chicago City Railway Company 
 shall not, at any time, operate or propel its cars across 
 said respective boulevards at the crossings aforesaid, 
 at a rate of speed exceeding four miles an hour. 
 
 Sec. 7. That in the exercise of the permission here- 
 by granted, the said Chicago Cit}' Railway Company
 
 244 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 shall not make use of any power (except horses) in the 
 propelling and operating of its' cars across said boule- 
 vards, at the crossings aforesaid, other than the power 
 for which permission is hereby granted, nor shall the 
 electric power be other than by means of electric 
 motors placed on said street cars and operated by the 
 electric current generated by stationary machinery 
 placed at a distance and conveyed to said cars through 
 the agency of an overhead trolley wire. 
 
 Sec. 8. The said Chicago City Railway Company 
 shall indemnify and save harmless the said South 
 Park Commissioners against and from any and all dam- 
 ages, judgments, decrees and costs, and expenses which 
 said South Park Commissioners Jnaj suffer, or which 
 may be recoverable or obtained against said South 
 Park Commissioners, for or b}' reason of the granting of 
 the privileges hereby conferred upon said company, or 
 for or by reason of, or growing out of, or resulting from 
 the exercise by said company of the privileges hereby 
 granted. 
 
 Sec. 9. The permission hereby granted is to be tem- 
 porary, and subject to such further or other restrictions 
 as the South Park Commissioners, or their successors, 
 may from time to time deem advisable, and also to be 
 wholly revoked, in the discretion of said South Park 
 Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 10. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its written acceptance by the Chicago City Rail- 
 way Company, and unless such acceptance be filed with 
 the secretary of the South Park Commissioners within 
 thirty days after its passage, this ordinance shall be 
 null and void.
 
 CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY. 245 
 
 CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY. 
 
 ORDINANCE GIVING PERMISSION TO THE CHICAGO TELE- 
 PHONE COMPANY TO CONSTRUCT A CONDUIT ON THE 
 EAST SIDE OF COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE FROM A POINT 
 100 FEET NORTH OF THE CENTER LINE OF FIFTY-FIRST 
 STREET TO A POINT 350 FEET SOUTH THEREOF (AND 
 ACROSS COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE TO THE NORTH LINE 
 OF FIFTY-FIRST STREET), AND ON THE EAST SIDE OF 
 COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE ACROSS THE MIDWAY PLAI- 
 SANCE. [PASSED NOVEMBER 12TH, 1890.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the nndertaking 
 b\' the Chicago Telephone Company to coniplj- with the 
 conditions of this Ordinance, permission is hereby 
 given to said Chicago Telephone Company to construct 
 a conduit on the east side of Cottage Grove avenue 
 from a point 100 feet north of the center of 51st street 
 to a point 350 feet south thereof and "across Cottage 
 Grove avenue at the north line of 51st street" and on 
 th§ east side of Cottage Grove avenue across the Mid- 
 wa}' Plaisance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The conduits shall be placed to the lines and 
 grades given by the Park Commissioners, and the man- 
 holes, if any are absolutely necessary, shall be located 
 where the Park Commissioners direct and covered in 
 a manner that shall be satisfactory to said commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Sec. 3. The work (»f laying the conduit shall be done 
 when and where, and in such manner as shall be speci- 
 fied by the Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Park Cor.iniissioners shall r('i)hu'e all 
 road material that is displaced by the opening of the 
 trench, and the Chicago Telephone Company shall pay
 
 246 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 to the Park Commissioners a31 tlie expenses and costs 
 thereof. 
 
 See. 5. If at any time the conditions and restric- 
 tions imposed by the Park Commissioners are not com- 
 plied with, or should the Park Commissioners in any 
 manner, in making- future improvements in these lo- 
 calities, deem said conduit an obstruction, or think it 
 advisable to have same relaid to other lines, or entire- 
 ly removed from these streets, then said Telephone 
 Company agrees to remove or relay said conduit as 
 ordered by the Park Commissioners, and to replace the 
 roadways and boulevards in perfect order and condi- 
 tion as they now are, all at the expense of said Tele- 
 phone Company: and to comply with the orders and 
 conditions of said Park Commissioners in relation 
 thereto. 
 
 Sec. 0, That the permission hereby granted is to be 
 temporary and subject to such further restrictions as 
 said Park Commissioners, or their successors may, 
 from time to time deem necessary, and also subject to 
 be wholly revoked in the discretion of the Park Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. This Ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its acceptance by said Chicago Telephone Com- 
 pany; but unless accepted within 30 days from the pas- 
 sage thereof, this ordinance shall be null and void. 
 
 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. 
 
 ORDINANCE CONCERNING A MUSEUM IN JACKSON PARK. 
 [PASSED SEPTEMBER 12TH, 1894.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. The Field Columbian Museum is hereby 
 authorized to maintain in the Fine Arts Building in
 
 FIELD COLUMBIAN MUSEUM. .247 
 
 Jackson Park a nmseiim for the collection and (lisplay 
 of objects pertaining to natural history and the arts 
 and sciences. 
 
 Sec. 2. So long as the said Field Columbian Mu- 
 seum shall occupy said building, it shall maintain said 
 museum and building, and keep the same in good or- 
 der and rc])air, and the said South I\irk Commissioners 
 shall i)ay to tlu^ said Field Columbian Museum the sum 
 of Hfte^'n thousand dollars (115,000) pei- year, i)ayable 
 in monthly installments, of twelve hundred and lifty 
 dollars (•1fl,250) each, commencing on the first day of 
 October, 1894. And the said South Park Commission- 
 ers shall be at no further expense of any kind or char- 
 acter in regard to said museum, or the maintenance 
 thereof, or in regard to the said building, or the main- 
 tenance or repair thereof. 
 
 Se<'. 3. The said Field Columbian Museum may 
 charge an aduiission fee to the said museum not ex- 
 ceeding twenty-five cents for each visitor ov<m' ten years 
 of age, and not ex<-(MMling ten cents for each visitor of 
 ten years of age and under, the ])ro(eeds thereof to be 
 deA^oted to the maintenance «)f such museum ; provided, 
 that such museum shall be o])en to the ])ublic without 
 charge on Saturdays and Sundays in each week; and 
 to children in actual atTen<lauce upon any of the schools 
 of this state, at all times. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said mustMim shall be kc^pt open every 
 day in the year; from May first to Sept<Muber first, fiom 
 nine o'clock a. m. to six o'clock p. m. ; and from Septem- 
 ber first to May first, from nine (Tclock a. m. to four 
 o'clock p. m. 
 
 Sec. 5. The South Park Commissioners and their
 
 248 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 officers shall have admission to said building at all 
 times without charge. 
 
 Sec. 6. All improvements in, betterments upon, 
 and additions to said building made by the said Field 
 Columbian Museum shall become the property of the 
 South Park Commissioners without any additional 
 payment therefor, except the said yearly sum above 
 mentioned. 
 
 Sec. 7. This ordinance shall be accepted in writing 
 by the said Field Columbian Museum within thirty 
 days after its passage, otherwise it shall be null and 
 void. 
 
 GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. 
 
 ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE CROSSING OF WESTERN 
 AVENUE. [PASSED AUGUST 10, 1881.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That permission and authority be, and 
 the same is hereby granted, to the Grand Ti'unk Junc- 
 tion Railway Company to construct and maintain a 
 double track railway on and across the Western Ave- 
 nue boulevard, in the Town of Lake, Cook County, Illi- 
 nois, in the manner and subject to the restrictions fol- 
 lowing, to-wit: 
 
 The north rail of the said tracks shall be laid parallel 
 to and not more than one hundred (100) feet south of 
 the south line of Forty-ninth street, as the same crosses 
 said boulevard, and the south rail of said tracks shall 
 be laid parallel to and not more than twenty-two (22) 
 feet south of said north rail. 
 
 The said tracks shall be laid and constructed under 
 the direction of the South Park Commissioners, and 
 said railway company shall plank and keep in constant
 
 GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY. 249 
 
 repair the spaces between said tracks to the full width 
 of said boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said railway companj' and its successors 
 shall, whenever so directed by said South Park Com- 
 missioners, keep and maintain a flagman at such cross- 
 ing of said boulevard, and use and maintain such other 
 means in use by railway companies, as shall from time 
 to time be directed b}^ said South Park Commissioners 
 to insure the safety of persons using said boulevard, 
 and at no time and under no circumstances shall said 
 railway company permit any of its cars, locomotives, or 
 any other obstacle, to stand upon said tracks crossing 
 said boulevard, to the obstruction of said boulevard or 
 any part thereof. 
 
 Sec. 3. Whenever so directed by said South Park 
 Commissioners in compliance with any general order 
 providing for the construction of viaducts over the 
 boulevards, under the control of said South Park Com- 
 missioners, in any particular district, the said railway 
 company and its successors shall construct a A^iaduct 
 over said boulevard and railway crossing in the man- 
 ner directed by said South Park Commissioners, and 
 any failure to so construct such viaduct shall avoid and 
 render null the permission hereby granted to cross said 
 boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said railway company shall at all times 
 hereafter comply with all general or special ordinances 
 of said South Park Commissioners, passed, or to be 
 passed, concerning the use and occupancy of streets 
 and boulevards, and the running and operating of cars 
 thereon or across the same by railway companies, so 
 far as the same relate to the privilege hereby granted.
 
 250 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 and snch compliance is made a condition of the grant- 
 ing and continuance of the privil'ege hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 5. The permission and authority hereby grant- 
 ed are upon the further express condition that the said 
 railway company shall, and will forever, indemnify and 
 save harmless the said South Park Commissioners 
 against, and from any and all, legal damages, judg- 
 ments, decrees and costs, and expenses of the same, 
 which may be recovered or obtained against said South 
 Park Commissioners for or by reason of the granting 
 of such privileges and authority, or for or by reason of 
 or growing out of or resulting from, the passage of this 
 ordinance, or any matter or thing connected therewith 
 or with the exercise by said company of the privileges 
 hereby granted, or from any act or acts of said com- 
 pany under or by virtue of the provisions of this or- 
 dinance. 
 
 Sec. 6, This ordinance shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after its acceptance, in writing, duly 
 signed by the said Grand Trunk Junction Railway 
 Company. 
 
 By which said acceptance the said company shall 
 agree to comply with the terms and conditions of said 
 ordinance, and upon a breach of any of the terms and 
 conditions herein named, it shall forfeit all the rights 
 conferred hereby, after reasonable notice in writing by 
 said South Park Commissioners of their election to 
 have said rights forfeited.
 
 HYDE PARK GAS COMPANY. 251 
 
 HYDE PARK GAS COMPANY. 
 
 RESOLUTION GIVING PERMISSION TO HYDE PARK GAS COM- 
 PANY TO LAY MAIN PIPE ACROSS MIDWAY PLAISANCE. 
 [PASSED JUNE lOTH, 1891.] 
 
 Resolved, That subject to the conditions herein- 
 after expressed, permission is hereby given by tlie South 
 Park Commissioiiers to the Hyde Park Gas Company to 
 lay its main pipe across the Midway Plaisance, at its 
 intersection with Cottage Grove avenue upon these con- 
 ditions, that is to say: 
 
 First, After hiying the pipe the trench shall be well 
 puddled when being back filled and the surface left in 
 as good condition as before opening. 
 
 Second. The pipe shall be laid in such a manner as 
 not to entirely obstruct the 60th street crossing of Cot- 
 tage Grove avenue at any time, a good safe crossing- 
 being maintained. 
 
 Third. The usual regulations in all cases where 
 openings are made in the streets as to damages, barri- 
 cades and signals shall apply. 
 
 Fourth. The Hyde Park Gas Co. hereby agree that 
 they will alter the location of their l)ipes, or entirely 
 remove them from across the Midway Phiisance, should 
 the improvements made or to be made, therein require 
 in the judgment of the South Park Commissioners, such 
 alteration or removal, and immediately upon the order 
 of the South Park Commissfoners, and at no expense 
 to the said Commissioners.
 
 252 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 JAPANESE BUILDINGS IN JACKSON PARK. 
 
 LETTER READ AT A MEETING OP THE BOARD ON FEBRUARY 
 19, 1892. 
 
 The following letter was laid before the Board and 
 read from the Japanese Imperial Commission of the 
 Columbian Exposition, viz.: 
 
 Imperial Japanese Commission for the Columbian Ex- 
 position, 1893, 907 Chamber of Commerce, Chicago, 
 Illinois, Feb. 11, 1892. 
 
 To the South Park Comniissioners. 
 
 Gentlemen : 
 
 It is my happy privilege to say to you in behalf of 
 the president of the Imperial Japanese Commission 
 that our government proposes to have a Historical 
 Building erected and a Landscape Garden laid out 
 worthy of Japan in the ES:position Ground of the 
 World Fair of 1893. 
 
 It is the intention of our government that the build- 
 ing together with the garden shall be presented to Chi- 
 cago as a gift at the termination of the Exposition, not 
 only as a souvenir of the sincere friendship existing so 
 long between the United States and our Empire, but 
 with the hope that the building and garden, which will 
 be of quite Oriental Style, may become a source of 
 pleasure to the citizens of your great Garden City, 
 which we consider is, and must remain, the center of 
 Western Civilization. 
 
 Upon this presentation we deem it desirable to place 
 before you certain conditions for your acceptance, 
 namely: 
 
 First. That the building and garden shall remain
 
 JAPANESE BUILDINGS IN JACKSON PARK. 253 
 
 permanently at the place of erection and la3'ino- out, 
 and be maintained in good condition by your Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Second. That in at least one of the rooms of the 
 building some Japanese works of art will be on exhibi- 
 tion for the public view. 
 
 I need hardly say that it will be on a rare occasion 
 that the building will require reparation, as it will be 
 built of most durable material ; the roof to be covered 
 with tiles peculiar to Japan, in proof of this, the origi- 
 nal after which this is to be modeled, has stood more 
 than nine hundred j^ears, and as to the garden, its 
 maintenance will require no more attention than your 
 own garden. 
 
 In connection with this matter, I may mention that 
 I have applied to the Exposition Authority for the site 
 of forty thousand square feet for our building and gar- 
 den, to be given us, i. e.. Wooded Garden (Island), and 
 the matter of 3'our favorable determination is earnest- 
 ly awaited. 
 
 I remain, gentlemen, 
 
 Yours very respectfully, 
 
 (Signed) S. TEGIMA, 
 Japanese Commission. 
 
 Whereupon it was 
 
 Resolved, Tliat the terms of the proposition be ac- 
 cepted and that the following letter be transmitted to 
 the president of the Japanese Commission of the Co- 
 lumbian Exposition, viz.: 
 
 To the President of the Imperial Japanese Commission 
 
 for the Columbian Exposition. 
 Dear Sir: 
 
 The South Park Commissioners acknowledge with
 
 254 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 pleasure the munificent proposition of the Goyernment 
 of Japan to leave as a monument of its good will the 
 buiklings and their environment which it proposes to 
 erect at the World's Columbian Exposition to be held 
 in Jackson Park. The skill and grace of the artists 
 and artisans of Japan are world famous and the Park 
 Commissioners recognize that the gracious and kindly 
 gift will be a very great, and since it is the pleasure of 
 the Japanese Government, may well be a permanent at- 
 traction for the residents and the visitors of the great 
 city of the New World. The proposed construction 
 being of a single story will fit appropriately into a beau- 
 tiful landscape and being wholly free from the obtru- 
 sive character which is to be avoided in landscape arch- 
 itecture will adorn, not dominate, a large pleasure 
 ground, the chief object of which is to approximate na- 
 ture and avoid appearances of constructive art. 
 
 The Commissioners will accept with gratitude the 
 munificent proposition of the Japanese Government 
 and will feel delight in the performance of the implied 
 obligation to maintain buildings and grounds in per- 
 fect order. 
 
 In the name of the people of Chicago who find recrea- 
 tion in the parks, the Commissioners offer their grateful 
 acknowledgments to the government of Japan for its 
 generous proposition. 
 
 (Signed) JOSEPH DONNERSBEKGER, 
 President South Park Commissioners. 
 
 COMMUNICATION READ AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD ON 
 DECEMBER 13TH, 1893. 
 
 The following communication from the Imperial 
 Japanese Commissioner for the World's Columbian Ex- 
 position was read:
 
 JAPANESE BUILDINGS IN JACKSON PARK. 255 
 
 111 compliance with the proposal of the Imperial ola- 
 
 paiiese Commission, dated Febniaiy 11, 1802, offeiinji, 
 
 as a gift the "Ilooden" and its ct)ntents, the national 
 
 exhibits of Japan, as iier list herewith, to the Cit}- of 
 
 Chicaj'-o, on condition that the same shall be preserved 
 
 permanently after the World's C'olnmbian Exposition 
 
 is closed; and the acceptance of this offer by the South 
 
 Park Commission, representing the City of Chicago, on 
 
 BVbruary 19, 1892, I hereby, in the name of the Empire 
 
 of Japan, and by the authority conferred upon me l)y 
 
 its government, most solemnly convey and transfer the 
 
 property and all rights of and in the said exhibits cou- 
 
 taining in the list above alluded, to the South Park 
 
 Commission of Chicago, State of Illinois, the United 
 
 States of America. 
 
 (Signed) NOBUAKARA YAMATAKA. 
 
 LIFE SAVINd STATION. 
 
 ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE MAINTENANCE OF A LIFE 
 SAVING STATION IN JACKSON PARK. [PASSED JUNE 8TH, 
 1892.] 
 
 Whereas, Py an ordinance passed by the South Park 
 Commissioners on the nineteenth day of September, 
 1890, permission and authority were given to ihe 
 World's Coluuibiaii Exposition, a corjMnation, to use 
 Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance for the jiurijoses 
 of the World's Columbian Exp«)sition ui)ou the terms 
 and c<mditions in said ordinance set fortli, which said 
 ordinance further ])rovided that the said I'ark and 
 Plaisance should be restored to the possession of the 
 South Park Ccunmissioners ou the first day of January, 
 1894, and that all buihliugs and constructions should 
 be removed from said Park and Midway Plaisance j)rlor 
 to the first day of May, 1895; and
 
 256 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 Whereas, the United States of America propose to 
 naalie an exhibit at said Exposition, and as a part there- 
 of propose to erect in Jackson Park a Life Saving Sta- 
 tion; and 
 
 Whereas, the United States of America have applied 
 to the South Park Commissioners for j)ermission to 
 maintain and operate said Life Saving Station in said 
 Jackson Park after tlie possession of said park shall 
 have been restored to the said Park Tommissioners; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. Permission and authority are hereby 
 granted to the United States of America to retain and 
 to maintain and operate said Life Saving Station and 
 its appurtenances, after the possession of said Jack- 
 son Park shall have been restored to the South Park 
 Commissioners, upon that i3art of Jackson Park de- 
 scribed as follows: Commencing at a point 2,452 feet 
 N. and 2,332 ft. E. of the S. W. corner of section 13-38-14, 
 which iDoint is at the intersection of square lines "W" 
 and "50'' as shown on South Park Improvement Plans 
 of Jackson Park, thence west 200 ft. to the water line 
 of the artificial lake, thence northeasterly following 
 the water line of said artificial lake to a point 270 ft. 
 north of the place of beginning, thence south to the 
 place of beginning, containing about 47,000 square feet. 
 
 Sec. 2. Persons in the employ of the United States 
 of America at or in connection with said Life Saving 
 Station shall have full right of egress and ingress and 
 shall have the right to transport necessary material 
 and supplies thereto o^er Jackson Park under such 
 rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the 
 South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said piece of land above described shall
 
 LIFE SAVING STATION. 257, 
 
 not be enclosed with any fence, wall or hedge, nor 
 shall the lines thereof be indicated in any manner ex- 
 cept as permitted by the Sonth Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 4. The United States of America shall main- 
 tain the above described piece of ground in such man- 
 ner that it will, as nearly as possible, appear a part of 
 the surrounding park. 
 
 Sec. 5. No intoxicating liquors shall be sold on s^aid 
 piece of land. 
 
 Sec. 6. No bituminous coal shall be used for heat- 
 ing or other purposes at said Life Saving Station, but 
 only such combustibles shall be used as will produce 
 the least smoke. 
 
 Sec. 7. This ordinance shall be accepted in writing 
 by the United States of America by its proper officer 
 within sixty days after its passage, otherwise it shall 
 be null and void. 
 
 LAKE SHORE & MICHIGAN SOUTHERN RAIL- 
 WAY COMPANY AND CHICAGO, ROOK IS- 
 LAND & PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. 
 
 ORDINANCE PERMITTING THE ELEVATION OF TRACKS OVER 
 GARFIELD BOULEVARD. [PASSED MAY 13TH, 1895; 
 AMENDED JUNE lOTH, 1895.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That consent, authority and permission 
 are hereby granted to the Lake Shore & Michigan 
 Southern Railway Company, and to the Chicago, Rock 
 Island & Pacific Railway Company, to elevate the plane 
 of their railway tracks across Garfield boulevard in ac- 
 cordance with the provisions and upon the conditions in 
 this ordinance set forth. 
 
 Sec. 2. The structure to be erected over and across
 
 258 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 the said boulevard shall consist of three spans. The 
 northerly span shall be supported at its north end upon 
 a stone abutment constructed north of the north line 
 of said boulevard, and at its south end upon an iron 
 column located a short distance south of the south line 
 of the north driveway of said boulevard, as hereinafter 
 provided for. The southerly span shall be supported 
 at its south end upon a stone abutment constructed 
 south of the south line of said boulevard, and at its 
 north end upon an iron column located a short distance 
 north of the north line of the south driveway of said 
 boulevard; and the middle span shall be supported 
 respectively upon the south and north supports of tlie 
 northerly and southerly spans. 
 
 Sec. 3. The surface of the boulevard shall pass be- 
 neath the said elevated structure by means of a subway 
 under said tracks to be constructed by said railway 
 companies, wholly at their own expense, which subway 
 shall be so constructed that a minimum clearance or 
 head-room of not less than thirteen and one-half feet 
 shall be maintained at all points between the road- 
 ways in said subway and the overhead structure, and 
 so that the top of the said roadways shall be fifteen and 
 three-tenths feet above the plane commonly known and 
 called "City Datum" in the City of Chicago under the 
 entire distance of said elevated structure; and the side- 
 walks in said subway shall be so constructed that a 
 minimum clearance or head-room shall be maintained 
 at all points of not less than eight feet and ten inches 
 between the highest point of said sidewalks and the 
 lowest point of said overhead structure. The floor of the 
 said elevated structure across said boulevard shall be 
 fabricated in iron or steel, and shall be of the charac-
 
 L. S. & M. S. RY. CO. AND C. R. I. & P. RY. CO. 259 
 
 ter technically designated and known as "solid con- 
 struction," so as to be tightly floored over its entire 
 length and width. 
 
 Sec. 4. Said railway companies shall construct two 
 roadways in Garfield boulevard, each forty feet in 
 width, from a point two hundred and twenty-five (225) 
 feet west of their right of way to a point two hundred 
 and fifty (2.50) feet east of their right of wa}^, and so 
 graded as to pass under the elevated structure of said 
 railways with the minimum clearance as provided in 
 the foregoing section. The north line of the north 
 driveway shall be placed fifteen feet south of the north 
 line of the boulevard, and the south line of the south 
 driveway shall be placed fifteen feet north of the south 
 line of the boulevard. Except where there is a stone 
 curb wall, said driveways shall be constructed with 
 combined concrete curb and gutter on each side there- 
 of. Said driveways shall be paved or macadamized 
 with a macadam pavement not less than nine inches in 
 thickness, similar to the pavement of the roadways of 
 Garfield boulevard immediately east and west thereof. 
 The space between said driveways, to be constructed 
 as aforesaid, shall be properly graded up for a planting- 
 space, except under the said elevated structure, and 
 there, such space shall be paved with a vitrified brick 
 pavement upon a gTade as nearly level with the plant- 
 ing space of said boulevard, on either side of said ele- 
 vated structure, as practicable. 
 
 The said railway companies shall also construct and 
 maintain an outlet sewer with such number of catch 
 basins and manholes as shall be directed by the super- 
 intendent of the South Park Commissioners, for the 
 purpose of draining the said subway, and which sewer,
 
 260 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 catch basins and manholes shall be so constructed and 
 maintained as to fully drain the same, and run from 
 thence and empty into the sewer now constructed at 
 State street. 
 
 The sidewalks and all necessary crosswalks shall be 
 restored or constructed by said railway companies so 
 as to conform to the provisions of this ordinance, and 
 so as to meet the approval of the superintendent of the 
 South Park Commissioners. The said railway compa- 
 nies shall do all the work and furnish all the addition- 
 al material required in order to carry out the provisions 
 of this section, wholly at their own expense. 
 
 Sec. 5. The streets and alleys which open into or 
 intersect Garfield boulevard where the said approaches 
 are to be constructed, shall be properly graded down 
 into the boulevard at the expense of said railway com- 
 panies and repaved where they are now paved. 
 
 Sec. 6. If in the construction of said subway, or the 
 approaches thereto, it shall become necessary to change 
 the location of any water pipe, sewer, or electrical con- 
 duit, the same may be deflected from the position in 
 which they are found and placed in brick conduits es- 
 pecially constructed for that purpose and carried en- 
 tirely around said subway on either side thereof, or tlie 
 same may be lowered, but all of said work shall be done 
 by and at the entire expense of the said railroad com- 
 panies. 
 
 Sec. 7. The plans and specifications for the said ele- 
 vated structure, and for the columns and stone masonry 
 supporting the same, and for the construction of the 
 said subway, and the depression and construction of 
 the driveways, pavement and sidewalks, as well as the 
 construction of said sewer, and the changing of the
 
 Lu S. & M. S. RY. CO. AND C. R. I. & P. RY. CO. 261 
 
 said water pipes, sewer and electrical system, as well 
 as all other work to be done in accordance with the 
 provisions of this ordinance, shall be submitted to and 
 approved by the South Park Commissioners, or by their 
 superintendent, before any work shall be done under 
 this ordinance, and such plans, when so approved, shall 
 be taken to constitute a part of this ordinance, and all 
 of the work upon or in connection with any of the mat- 
 ters or things provided to be done under this ordinance 
 shall be done and performed subject to the inspection 
 and approval of the superintendent of the South Park 
 Commissioners but wholly at the expense of said rail- 
 way companies. 
 
 Sec. 8. Permission and authority are hereby given 
 to said railway companies, whenever the same shall be 
 necessary in carrying on the work of elevating their 
 railway tracks, as herein authorized, to temporarily 
 obstruct said boulevard, or part thereof, in such man- 
 ner and for such length of time as may be approved by 
 the superintendent of the South Park Commissioners, 
 and the said railway companies are hereby authorized 
 in the prosecution of said work to erect and maintain 
 a temporary structure or structures across said boule- 
 vard which shall be necessary or convenient to enable 
 them to prepare for, or to erect, the permanent elevated 
 structure herein provided for, subject to like approval 
 of the superintendent of the South Park Commission- 
 ers, and if, at anj time, the said work shall not be prose- 
 cuted with reasonable rapidity or in a proper manner, 
 then the South Park Commissioners reserve the right 
 to remove any obstructions, and lo M<>\) the said work 
 and to take full possession and control of that portion 
 of said Garfield boulevard, notwithstanding this ordi-
 
 262 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 nance and any permit which ^ may have been issued 
 thereunder, and to place such boulevard in reasonably 
 good condition again, and in such case the said rail- 
 way companies, jointly and severally, agree to refund 
 to the South Park Commissioners any and all expenses 
 which said South Park Commissioners may be at in 
 doing such work. 
 
 Sec. 9. The said railway companies, jointly and sev- 
 erally, and their respective lessees, successors and as- 
 signs, by the acceptance of this ordinance respectively 
 agree that they and each of them will forever indemnify 
 and save harmless the said the South Park Commis- 
 sioners from any and all damages, judgments, decrees, 
 costs, attorney's fees and expenses for which the said 
 the South Park Commissioners may be liable, or which 
 may be recovered by reason of the passage of this or- 
 dinance, or the construction, maintenance and use of 
 the said elevated structure, or of any telegraph or sig- 
 nal device placed thereon by said railway companies, 
 or either of them, or by reason of the construction, 
 maintenance or operation of said elevated railways (or 
 the depression of the said boulevard under said ele- 
 vated structure), or in any way resulting from the pas- 
 sage of this ordinance, or from the exercise by said 
 railway companies, or either of them, of any of the pow- 
 ers or privileges herein in this ordinance granted, or 
 acts required to be performed; and if the South Park 
 Commissioners shall be required to defend any suits 
 brought on account of the passage of this ordinance, 
 or any of the acts done by the said railway companies, 
 or either of them, under the same, then the said rail- 
 way companies, jointly and severally, agree to pay a
 
 MUTUAL FUEL GAS COMPANY. 263 
 
 reasonable amount for attorney's fees incurred by the 
 South Park Commissioners in defending the same. 
 
 Sec. 10. The said railway companies, jointlj^ and 
 severally, agree by the acceptance of this ordinance to 
 forever light the said subway heretofore authorized to 
 be constructed, in such manner as may be at any time 
 directed by the South Park Commissioners, by order 
 or resolution therefor. 
 
 Sec. 11. This ordinance shall take effect and be in 
 force as soon as the said Lake Shore «fe Michigan South- 
 ern Riiilway Company and the Chicago, Rock Island & 
 Pacific Railway Company, shall each file their formal 
 acceptance with the secretary of the South Park Com- 
 missioners, provided, however, that if said acceptance 
 shall not be filed with the said secretary, as aforesaid, 
 within sixty days from the passage of this ordinance, 
 then this ordinance shall be void and of no effect. 
 
 MUTUAL FUEL GAS COMPANY. 
 
 RESOLUTION GRANTING PERMISSION TO THE MUTUAL FUEL 
 GAS COMPANY TO LAY PIPES ACROSS MIDWAY PLAIS- 
 ANCB. [PASSED APRIL 9, 1890.] 
 
 Resolved, That the Mutual Fuel Gas Company have 
 permission to cross the Midway Plaisance at its inter- 
 section with Cottage Grove avenue subject to the fol- 
 lowing conditions, viz.: 
 
 First. After laying the pipe the trench shall be well 
 puddled when being back filled, and the surface left in 
 as good condition as before opening. 
 
 Second. The pipe shall be laid in such a manner as 
 not to entirely obstruct the 60th street crossing of Cot- 
 tage Grove avenue at any time, a good safe crossing 
 being maintained.
 
 264 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 Third. The usual regulations in all cases where 
 openings are made in the streets as to damages, barri- 
 cades and signals shall apply. 
 
 Fourth. The Mutual Fuel Gas Company hereby 
 agree that they will alter the location of their pipes, 
 or entirely remove them from across the Midway Plais- 
 ance, should the improvements made or to be made 
 therein require, in the judgment of the South Park 
 Commissioners, such alteration or removal, and imme- 
 diately upon the order of the South Park Commis- 
 sioners, and at no expense to the said Commissioners. 
 
 PET!^NSYLVANIA COMPANY. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING PERMISSION TO ELEVATE THE 
 TRACKS OF THE PITTSBURG, FORT WAYNE & CHICA- 
 GO RAILWAY COMPANY ACROSS GARFIELD BOULEVARD. 
 [PASSED NOVEMBER 27, 1896.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That consent, authority and permission 
 are hereby granted to the Pennsylvania ComjDany, ope- 
 rating the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railway 
 to elevate the plane of its railway tracks across Gar- 
 field boulevard in accordance with the provisions and 
 upon the conditions in this ordinance set forth. 
 
 Sec. 2. The structure to be erected over and across 
 the said boulevard shall consist of three spans. The 
 northerly span shall be supported at its north end upon 
 a stone abutment constructed north of the north line 
 of the said boulevard, and at its south end upon iron 
 columns located a short distance south of the south 
 line of the north driveway of said boulevard, as herein- 
 after provided for. The southerly span shall be sup- 
 ported at its south end upon a stone abutment con- 
 structed south of the south line of said boulevard, and
 
 PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY. 265 
 
 at its north end upon iron cohimns located a short dis- 
 tance north of the north line of the south driveway of 
 said boulevard. The middle span shall be supported 
 respectively upon the north and south supports of the 
 northerly and southerly spans. 
 
 Sec. 3. The surface of the boulevard shall pass be- 
 neath the said elevated structure by means of a subway 
 under said tracks to be constructed by said company, 
 wholly at its own expense, which subway shall be so 
 constructed that a minimum clearance or head room 
 of nor less than thirteen and one-half feet shall be 
 maintained at all points between the roadways in said 
 subway and the overhead structure, and so that the 
 toi> of the said roadways shall be 12i feet above the 
 plane commonly called "City Datum" in the City of 
 Chicago, under the entire distance of said elevated 
 structure; and the sidewalks in said subway shall be 
 so constructed that a minimum clearance, or head- 
 room, shall be maintained at all points of not less tlian 
 eight feet and ten inches between the highest point of 
 said sidewalks and the lowest point of said overhead 
 structure. The floor of the said elevated structure 
 across said boulevard shall be fabricated in iron or 
 steel, and shall be of the character technically desig- 
 nated and known as "solid construction" so as to be 
 tightl}" floored over its entire length and width. 
 
 Sec. 4. Said company shall construct two roadways 
 in Garfield boulevard, eacli fovtj feet in width, from a 
 point two hundred and seventy (270) feet west of their 
 right of way to a point two hundred and seventy (270) 
 feet east of their right of way, and so graded as to pass 
 under the elevated structure of said railway with the 
 minimum clearance as provided in the foregoing sec-
 
 266 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 tion. The north line of the north driveway shall be 
 placed fifteen feet south of the north line of the boule- 
 vard, and the south line of the south driveway shall be 
 placed fifteen feet north of the south line of the boule- 
 vard. Except where there is a stone curb wall, said 
 driveway shall be constructed with combined concrete 
 curb and gutter on each side thereof. Said driveways 
 shall be paved or macadamized with a macadam paA^e- 
 ment not less than nine inches in thickness — ^similar 
 to the pavement of the roadways of Garfield boulevard 
 immediately east and west thereof. The space be- 
 tween said driveways to be constructed as aforesaid, 
 shall be properly graded up for a planting space, ex- 
 cept under the said elevated structure, and there such 
 space shall be paved with a vitrified brick pavement 
 upon a grade as nearly level with the planting space 
 of said boulevard on either side of said elevated struc- 
 ture as practicable. 
 
 The said company shall also construct and maintain 
 an outlet sewer, with such number of catch basins and 
 manholes as shall be directed by the Superintendent 
 of the South Park Commissioners, for the purpose of 
 draining the said subway, and which server, catch- 
 basins and manholes shall be so constructed and main- 
 tained as to fully drain the same into some city sewer 
 designated by the Park Commissioners and in a man- 
 ner satisfactory to said South Park Commissioners. 
 
 The sidewalks and all necessary cross walks shall 
 be restored or constructed by said company so as to 
 conform to the provisions of this ordinance, and so 
 as to meet the approval of the Superintendent of the 
 South Park Commissioners. The said company shall 
 do all the work and furnish all the additional material
 
 PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY. 267 
 
 required in order to carry out the provisions of this 
 section, wholly at its own expense. 
 
 Sec. 5. The streets and alleys which open into or 
 intersect Garfield boulevard where the said approaches 
 are to be constructed shall be properly graded down 
 into the boulevard at the expense of said company, and 
 repaved where they are now paved. 
 
 Sec. 6. If in the construction of said subway, or the 
 aproaches thereto, it shall become necessary to change 
 the location of any water pipe, sewer, or electrical con- 
 duit, the same may be deflected from the position in 
 which they are found and placed in brick conduits 
 especially constructed for that purpose and carried en- 
 tirely around said subways on either side thereof, or 
 the same may be lowered; but all of said work shall 
 be done by and at the entire expense of the said com- 
 pany. 
 
 Sec. 7. The plans and specifications for the said 
 elevated stinicture, and for the columns and stone ma- 
 sonry supporting the same, and for the construction 
 of the said subway, and the depression and construc- 
 tion of the driveways, pavement and sidewalks, as well 
 as the construction of said sewer, and the changing of 
 said water pipes, sewer and electrical system, as well 
 as all other work to be done in accordance with the 
 provisions of this ordinance, shall be submitted to and 
 approved by the South Park Commissioners, or by 
 their Superintendent, before any work shall be done 
 under this ordinance, and such plans when so approved 
 shall be taken to constitute a part of this ordinance, 
 and all of the work upon or in connection with any 
 of the matters or things provided to be done under this 
 ordinance shall be done and performed subject to the
 
 268 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 inspection and approval of the Superintendent of the 
 South Park Commissioners, but wholly at the expense 
 of said company. 
 
 Sec. 8. Permission and authority are hereby given 
 to said company, whenever the same shall be necessary 
 in carrying on the work of elevating its tracks, as 
 herein authorized, to temporarily obstruct said boule- 
 vard, or part thereof, in such manner and for such 
 length of time as may be approved by the Superintend- 
 ent of the South Park Commissioners; and the said 
 company is hereby authorized in the prosecution of 
 said work to erect and maintain a temporary structure 
 or structures across said boulevard which shall be nec- 
 essary or convenient to enable it to prepare for or to 
 erect the permanent elevated structure herein provided 
 for subject to like approval of the Superintendent of 
 the South Park Commissioners; and, if at anytime, the 
 said work shall not be prosecuted with reasonable 
 rapidity, or in proper manner, then the South Park 
 Commissioners reserve the right to remove any ob- 
 struction and to stop the said work and to take full 
 possession and control of that portion of said Garfield 
 boulevard, notwithstanding this ordinance and any 
 permit which may have been issued thereunder, and 
 to place such boulevard in reasonable condition again; 
 and in such case the said company agrees to refund to 
 the South Park Commissioners any and all expenses 
 which said South Park Commissioners may be at in do- 
 ing such work. 
 
 Sec. 9. The said company, and its successors and 
 assigns, by the acceptance of this ordinance, agrees 
 that it, and each of them, will forever indemnify and 
 save harmless the said South Park Commissioners
 
 PENNSYLVANIA COMPANY. 269 
 
 from any and all damages, judgments, decrees and 
 costs, attorneys' fees and expenses for which the said 
 South Park Commissioners may be liable, or which 
 may be recovered by reason of the passage of this ordi- 
 nance, or the construction, maintenance and use of 
 said elevated structure, or of any telegraph or signal 
 device placed thereon by said company, or by reason 
 of the construction, maintenance, or operation of said 
 elevated railway, or the depression of the said boule- 
 vard under said elevated structure, or in any way 
 resulting from the passage of this ordinance, or from 
 the exercise by said company of any of the powers or 
 privileges herein in this ordinance granted, or acts 
 required to be performed; and if the South Park Com- 
 missioners shall be required to defend any suits 
 brought on account of the passage of this ordinance, or 
 any of the acts done by said company under the same, 
 then said company agrees to pay a reasonable amount 
 for attorneys' fees incurred by the South Park Com- 
 missioners in defending the same. 
 
 Sec. 10. The said railway company agrees by the 
 acceptance of this ordinance to forever light the said 
 subway, heretofore authorized to be constructed, in 
 such manner as may be at any time directed by the 
 South Park Commissioners by order or resolution 
 therefor. 
 
 Sec. 11. It is hereby expressly provided that unless 
 the work herein provided to be done by the said com- 
 pany shall be completely finished on or before two 
 years from the passage of this ordinance, then the con- 
 sent and authority hereby granted shall be null and 
 void and of no effect. 
 
 Sec. 12. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
 
 270 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 force as soon as the Pennsylvania Company, operating 
 the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne &' Chicago Railway, shall 
 file its formal acceptance with the Secretary of the 
 South Park Commissioners; provided, however, that 
 if said acceptance shall not be filed with the said Sec- 
 retary, as aforesaid, within sixty days from the passage 
 of this ordinance, then this ordinance shall be void and 
 of no effect. 
 
 PITTSBURG, CINCINNATI, ClilCAGO & ST. LOUIS 
 RAILWAY COMPANY. 
 
 ORDINANCE GRANTING THE RIGHT TO THE PITTSBURG, 
 CINCINNATI, CHICAGO AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY COM- 
 PANY TO LAY TWO ADDITIONAL MAIN TRACKS ACROSS 
 WESTERN AVENUE BOULEVARD. [PASSED OCTOBER 12, 
 1892.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That permission and authority be and 
 the same are hereby granted to the Pittsburg, Cincin- 
 nati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Company to lay 
 down, maintain and operate two main tracks across 
 the Western Avenue boulevard in the City of Chicago, 
 Cook County, Illinois, in addition to the two main 
 tracks heretofore laid down, maintained and operated 
 across said boulevard by said railway company, in the 
 manner and subject to the provisions and restrictions 
 hereinafter contained. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said four tracks as well as the two 
 tracks of the Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad Com- 
 pany authorized to be laid by ordinance of the South 
 Park Commissioners adopted November 2, 1891, and 
 the present tracks of the Union Stock Yards and Tran- 
 sit Co. shall be laid, maintained and operated across
 
 p., C, C. & ST. L. RY. CO. 271 
 
 said boulevard at the present grade of said railwa}' 
 company in conformity with the plat of said tracks, 
 which plat is incoi^jjorated herewith and made part of 
 this ordinance; the scale, side track and switches of 
 said railway company now^ in said boulevard shall be 
 removed. 
 
 Sec. 3. Said Railway Company shall construct its 
 tracks across said Boulevard with an iron guard rail 
 on the inside of each of the rails thereof, and shall 
 plank said crossings and keep the same in repair to 
 the full width of said Boulevard, all under the direc- 
 tion of the Superintendent of said South Park Com- 
 missioners; and said Railway Company shall not 
 change the gTade of its tracks across said Boulevard 
 without the consent of said South Park Commissioners ; 
 and said Railway Company shall at its own cost and 
 expense furnish and deliver suitable material for con- 
 structing, repairing and maintaining the approach to 
 said tracks, including both the driveways and planting 
 spaces of said Boulevard, at such places and at such 
 times as shall be directed by said South Park Com- 
 missioners, and all alterations made necessary in said 
 Boulevard to make the driveways and planting spaces 
 thereof conform to the grade of said railway tracks, as 
 herein specified, shall be made at the sole cost and ex- 
 pense of said Railway Company and under the super- 
 vision and direction of the Superintendent of said 
 South Park Commissioners; and the said Railway Com- 
 pany shall also pay any and all expense incurred in the 
 removal of trees, made necessary by the construction 
 of said crossing, and the full value of such trees as 
 shall be destroyed thereby. 
 
 Sec. 4. The said Railway Company shall, whenever
 
 272 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 SO directed by the South Park Commissioners, keep and 
 maintain a flagman at such crossing of said boulevard, 
 or shall construct and maintain gates thereat as shall 
 be required by the South Park Commissioners to in- 
 sure the safety of persons using said Boulevard. 
 
 Sec. 5. The said Kailway Company shall at no times 
 and under no circumstances permit any of its cars or 
 locomotives to stand upon said tracks, or any of them, 
 to the obstruction of travel upon said Boulevard or any 
 part thereof. 
 
 Sec. 6. The permission, authority and privileges 
 hereby granted are upon the further express condition 
 that the said Eailway Company, whenever so directed 
 by the South Park Commissioners in compliance with 
 any general order in regard to the construction of via- 
 ducts and the lowering of the tracks crossing the 
 Boulevards under the control of said South Park Com- 
 missioners in any particular district, shall pay their 
 just and equitable proportion of the cost of construct- 
 ing and maintaining a viaduct over said Boulevard and 
 railway crossing, and shall lower the said tracks in 
 the manner required by said South Park Commission- 
 ers. 
 
 Sec. 7. The privileges hereby granted are upon the 
 further express condition that the said Railway Com- 
 pany shall at all times comply with and be subject to 
 all general and special ordinances of said South Park 
 Commissioners now in force, or which may hereafter 
 be passed concerning the use and occupation of said 
 Boulevard and the running and operating of cars there- 
 on or across the same by railway companies, or in re- 
 gard to the elevation of railroad tracks crossing said
 
 p., C, C. & ST. L. RY. CO. 273 
 
 Boulevard, so far as the same appl}^ or relate to tbe 
 privileges hereby granted. 
 
 Sec. 8. The permission and authority hereby grant- 
 ed are upon the further exi)ress condition that the said 
 I\ailway Company shall forever indemnify and save 
 harmless the said South Park Oommissioners from any 
 and all legal action, damages, decrees, and the costs 
 and expenses of the same which may be recovered or 
 obtained against the South Park (\miniissioners for or 
 by reason of or growing out of, or resulting from the 
 l>assage of this ordinance, or any matter or thing ( on- 
 neeted therewith, or by the exercise by the company of 
 the i)r'ivileges her(d)y granted, or from any act or acts 
 of said compau}^ under or by virtue of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. Should the said company at any time fail 
 to comply with the conditions and provisions of this 
 ordinance, or any of them, or with the general ordi- 
 nances of the South Park Commissioners, the said 
 South Park Commissioners may order the said tracks 
 to be taken up and removed by said company, and on 
 its failure so to do within ten days after notice of such 
 order, may cause the same to be taken up and removed 
 at the expense of the said company. 
 
 Sec. 10. All the provisions of this ordinance shall 
 be e(jually binding upon the said railway company, its 
 successors, assigns, and lessees. 
 
 Sec. 11. This ordinance shall be in force only from 
 and after the written acceptance of the same and its 
 provisions by the said Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago 
 and St. Louis Railway Company, duly signed and un- 
 der its corporate seal, shall be tiled with the Secretary 
 of the South Park Commissioners. Unless such ac- 
 ceptance shall be so filed within thirty days of the time
 
 274 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 of the passage hereof, this ordinance shall be null and 
 void. 
 
 UNIVERSAL GAS COMPANY. 
 
 ORDINANCE GIVING PERMISSION TO THE UNIVERSAL GAS 
 COMPANY TO LAY AN 8 INCH GAS MAIN IN THE EAST 
 SIDE OF COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE FROM A POINT 100 
 FEET NORTH OF THE CENTER LINE OF 51ST STREET TO 
 A POINT 350 FEET SOUTH THEREOF, AND IN THE EAST 
 SIDE OF COTTAGE GROVE AVENUE ACROSS THE MIDWAY 
 PLAISANCE. [PASSED NOVEMBER 14, 1894.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That in consideration of the undertaking 
 by the Universal "Gas Company to comply with the con- 
 ditions of this ordinance, permission is hereby given 
 to said Universal Gas Company to lay an 8-inch gas 
 main in the east side of Cottage Grove Avenue from a 
 point 100 feet north of the center line of Fifty-first 
 Street to a point 350 feet south thereof, and in the east 
 side of Cottage Grove Avenue across the Midway Plais- 
 ance. 
 
 See. 2. The gas main shall be placed to the lines and 
 grades given by the South Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 3. The work of laying the gas main shall be 
 done when and where, and in such manner as shall be 
 specified by the Park Commissioners in the permit 
 issued to said company, and said company shall deposit 
 with the Park Commissioners, before the issuing of 
 such permit, an amount satisfactory to said Park Com- 
 missioners to cover the expense of repairing any dam- 
 age which may be done in the laying of said gas main. 
 
 Sec. 4. The Park Commissioners shall replace all 
 road material that is displaced by the opening of the 
 trench, and the Universal Gas Company shall pay to
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 275 
 
 the Park Commissioners all the expense and costs 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 5. If at any time the conditions and restrictions 
 imposed by the Park Commissioners are not complied 
 with, or should the Park Commissioners in making fur- 
 ther improvements in these localities, deem said gas 
 main an obstruction, or think it advisable to have same 
 relaid to other lines, or entirely removed from these 
 streets, then said Universal Gas Company agrees to re- 
 move or relay said gas main as ordered by the South 
 Park Commissioners, and to replace the roadway and 
 boulevards in perfect order and condition as they now 
 are, all at the expense of said Universal Gas Company, 
 and to comply with the orders and conditions of said 
 Park Commissioners in relation thereto. 
 
 Sec. 6. That the permission hereby granted is to be 
 temporary and subject to such further restrictions as 
 said Park Commissioners, or their successors, may, 
 from time to time, deem necessary, and also subject to 
 be wholly revoked in the discretion of the Park Com- 
 missioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. This ordinance shall be in force from and 
 after its acceptance by said Universal Gas Company, 
 but unless accepted within thirty days from the pass- 
 age thereof this ordinance shall be null and void. 
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 
 
 • 
 
 ORDINANCE TO ALLOW THE USE OF JACKSON PARK AND 
 THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. [PASSED SEPTEM- 
 BER 19, 1890.] 
 
 Whereas, At Act of the General Assembly of tlie 
 State of Illinois entitled, "An Act in relation to the
 
 276 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 World's Columbian Exposition," provides that in case 
 the site or sites for the holding- of the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, as finally located and fixed by the au- 
 thorities in charoe thereof, shall include any part of 
 any public park which is or may be under the control 
 and management of the Park Commissioners, then, and 
 in that event, it shall be competent, and express au- 
 thority for such purpose is thereby granted to the Park 
 Commissioners having the control and management 
 of such public park, to aHow the use thereof, or any 
 part thereof, for the purposes of the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, upon sucli terms and conditions as 
 may be agreed upon between the said Park Commis- 
 sioners and the authorities liaving the management of 
 said exposition; and 
 
 Whereas, Said Act furtlier provides that tlie said 
 Park Commissioners in charge of the public grounds, 
 or any part thereof designated and selected as the site 
 of the whole or any part of said exposition, shall have 
 authority, in their discretion, to issue and sell bonds 
 to an amount not exceeding f 500,000, the proceeds oP 
 said bonds to be applied to the improving of the 
 grounds under their control selected as aforesaid for 
 said exposition; said power, however, not to be exer- 
 cised until the proposition to issue such bonds shall 
 have been submitted to the vote of the legal voters of 
 such park district and receive a majority of the votes 
 cast at such election ; and 
 
 Whereas, The World's Columbian Exposition, a cor- 
 poration organized under the laws of the State of Illi- 
 nois for the purpose of said exposition, have offered to 
 the World's Columbian Commission, appointed under 
 an Act of Congress of the United States, Jackson Park
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 277 
 
 and the Midway riaiBance as the site for a part of the 
 said exposition, and the said Commission has accepted 
 the same for the pnrposes of said exposition; and 
 
 Whereas, A proposition to issne bonds to an amount 
 not exceeding;- 1500,000, n])()n the terms and in tlie man- 
 ner and for the purposes specified in said Act of the 
 (reueral Assembly of the State of Illinois, is to be snb- 
 mitt(Ml to the leg'al voters of the park district comi)ris- 
 iug the towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake: 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. Permission and authority are hereby 
 given to the World's Columbian Exi)osition, a corpora- 
 tion, to use Jackson I'ark and the Midway Plaisauce 
 for the purposes of the World's Columbian Exposition 
 ui>on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said corporation, the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, at an^^ time after the acceptance of 
 this ordinance and the approval of the first bond to be 
 given by said corporation as hereinafter set forth, shall 
 have the right to enter upon said premises and take 
 possession of such portions thereof as may be necessary 
 in constructing the buildings and making other prepa- 
 rations for snch exposition, and may make such 
 changes in and such use of said premises, or any part 
 thereof, as may be necessary for the purposes of such 
 exposition. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said corjtoration, the Worhl's Columbian 
 Exposition, shall have the right to enclose Jackson 
 Park and the Midway Plaisanc(% or eilher of theui, by a 
 fence or wall, jn-ovidcd, however, that the entrances to 
 Jackson Park and I he roadways across the Midway 
 Plaisance shall not be closed prior to the first <hiy of 
 October, 1892. The said corporation, the World's Co-
 
 278 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 luinbian Exposition, may take all necessary measures 
 to prevent the encroachment of persons and vehicles 
 upon such portions of said Jackson Park and the Mid- 
 way Plaisance as may be in actual use in the prepara- 
 tion for such exposition. 
 
 Sec. 4. Such parts of Jackson Park and the Midway 
 Plaisance as shall not be in actual use for the con- 
 struction of buildings and other preparations for said 
 exposition shall be under the care and supervision of, 
 and shall be maintained by, the said South Park Com- 
 missioners until the first day of October, 1892, but the 
 said South Park Commissioners shall not be responsi- 
 ble for the care, safety or maintenance of any build- 
 ings, work or construction of any kind, or any property 
 of tlie World's Columbian Exposition, or of any other 
 persons, person or corporation upon said premises. 
 
 Sec. 5. On the first day of October, 1892, the South 
 Park Commissioners shall turn over to the said cor- 
 poration, the AVorld's Columbian Exposition, the entire 
 possession, control and management of Jackson Park 
 and the Midway Plaisance, and thereafter until the 
 first day of January, 1894, the said corporation, the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, shall have the full con- 
 trol of the same for the purposes of the said exposition 
 and shall make all rules and regulations in regard to 
 the entrance to said premises, provided, however, that 
 until the first day of April, 1893, the South Park Com- 
 missioners, their officers, agents and employes, shall 
 at all times have free access to said Jackson Park and 
 Midway Plaisance for the construction of the Lake 
 Shore Improvement and of such other work as the 
 South Park Commissioners may desire to prosecute. 
 From the first day of October, 1892, said World's Co-
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 279 
 
 liimbian Exposition shall also pay all the cost of the 
 care and maijitenance thereof, and the South Park 
 Commissioners shall be at no expense whatsoever in 
 regard thereto. 
 
 Sec. 6. 'On the first day of January, 1894, the said 
 park and plaisance shall be restored to the possession 
 of the South Park Commissioners, except such parts 
 thereof as shall be occupied by the buildings or other 
 constructions of the said World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion; but the said corporation, the World's Columbian 
 Exposition, shall have the right to remove all such 
 buildings and constructions from said premises, pro- 
 vided that all of such buildings and constructions 
 which shall be upon the north eighty-four acres of 
 Jackson Park, being the present fully improved por- 
 tion thereof, shall be removed prior to the first day of 
 May, 1894, and all the buildings and constructions 
 upon the other portions of said park and upon said 
 Midway Plaisance shall be removed prior to the first 
 day of May, 1895, and all such buildings and construc- 
 tions which shall not be removed within the times 
 above limited shall become the property of the South 
 Park Commissioners. 
 
 Sec. 7. The use of said Jackson Park and Midway 
 Plaisance is granted for tlie purposes of said exposi- 
 tion upon the further express condition that the said 
 park and plaisance shall be used during the periods 
 above mentioned only for the purposes of said exposi- 
 tion and subject to the foregoing terms and conditions, 
 and also upon the further condition tliat the said park 
 and plaisance shall be surrendered to the South Park 
 Commissioners in as good a condition as they now are. 
 An acceptance of this ordinance by the World's Coluiii-
 
 280 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 bian Exposition shall ooustitute on its part an agree- 
 ment to fully comply with all tlie terms and conditions 
 of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 8. In case the proposition to issue bonds, as 
 provided in said Act of the General Assembly of the 
 State of Illinois, shall receive a majority of the votes 
 cast at the election at which such proposition shall be 
 submitted, the South Park Commissioners will exer- 
 cise the power therein conferred, and issue bonds to the 
 amount of 1 500,000.00, as in said Act provided, and 
 from the proceeds of such bonds will expend the 
 amount necessary to complete the Lake Shore improve- 
 ment, which, it is estimated, will cost about |270,- 
 000.00, and will expend the balance thereof in the im- 
 provement of Jackson Park; making said improve- 
 ments in consonance with the plans, and available for 
 the purposes of the said exposition, as far as compati- 
 ble with such improvements being of a permanent char- 
 acter, and of permanent benefit in the development of 
 said park. 
 
 Sec. 9. This ordinance shall be accepted in writing 
 by the said corporation, the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, within thirty days after its passage; otherwise, 
 it shall be null and void. The said corporation, the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, shall also file a bond 
 in the penal sum of |100,000.00, to be approved by the 
 South Park Commissioners, said bond to be condi- 
 tioned for the faithful performance of all the terms 
 and conditions herein prescribed, and also to indemnify 
 and save harmless the South Park Commissioners 
 against all damages on account of the use of said 
 grounds for the purposes of said exposition or the pas- 
 sage of this ordinance.
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 281 
 
 The said World's Cohiiiibiau Exposition shall also, 
 before the removal of any of its buildings or construc- 
 tions placed upon Jackson Park or the Midway Plais- 
 ance, file with said South Park Commissioners an addi- 
 tional bond in the penal sum of one hundred thousand 
 dollars, with good and sufficient sureties, conditioned 
 for tJie faithful performance of all the terms and con- 
 ditions herein prescribed; and also to indemnify and 
 save harmless the South Park Commissioners against 
 all damages on account of the use of said grounds for 
 the purposes of said exposition or the passage of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 ORDINANCE AMENDING AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN OR- 
 DINANCE TO ALLOW THE USE OF JACKSON PARK AND 
 THE MIDWAY PLAISANCE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION." [PASSED APRIL 13, 
 1892.] 
 
 Whereas, The South Park Commissioners on the 
 19th day of September, A. D. 1890, passed an ordinance 
 entitled "An ordinance to alloAv the use of Jackson 
 Park and the Midway Plaisance for the purposes of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition," which said ordinance 
 provided among other things that the entrances to 
 Jaickson Park should not be closed prior to the first day 
 of October, 1892, and that such parts of Jackson Park 
 as should not be in actual use for the construction of 
 buildings and other preparations for said exposition 
 should be under the care and supervision of and should 
 be maintained by the said South Park Commissioners 
 ftntil the first day of October, 1892. 
 
 And whereas. The \\'orld's Columbian Exposition 
 has made aiiplication to the South P^rk (Commission- 
 ers to enclose the whole of Jackson Park, claiming
 
 282 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 that sucli enclosure is necessary, owing to the rapid 
 advancement of the exposition work within the bound- 
 aries of said park, and to properly police the grounds. 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. Permission and authority are hereby 
 given to the World's Columbian Exposition to entirely 
 enclose Jackson Park and the entrances thereto; and 
 the entire possession, control and management of said 
 park shall be turned over to the said World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition upon the acceptance of this ordinance. 
 And the said World's Columbian Exposition shall in 
 regard to sai<l i)ark after said acceptance have the 
 same power and be subject to the same liabilities as 
 are granted to and imposed upon them by section 5 of 
 the said ordinance of which this is an amendment sub- 
 ject to the proviso contained in said section 5 of said 
 ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 2. The said ordinance above mentioned allow- 
 ing the use of Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance 
 for the purposes of the World's Columbian Exposition 
 shall remain in full force and effect except so far as it 
 is hereby amended by changing the date at which the 
 said Jackson Park shall be entirely turned over to the 
 control of the World's Columbian Exposition, from the 
 first day of October, 1S92, the day mentioned in said or- 
 dinance, to the time when this ordinance shall be ac- 
 cepted. 
 
 Sec. 3. This ordinance shall be void and of no effect 
 unless accepted in writing by the said corporation, the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, within ten days after 
 its passage, and such acceptance shall constitute on the 
 part of the World's Columbian Exposition an agree- 
 ment to fully comply with all the terms and conditions
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 283 
 
 of this ordinance and of the ordinance of which this 
 ordinance is an amendment except so far as hereby 
 amended. 
 
 RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE CLAIMS OF THE COMMIS- 
 SIONERS AGAINST THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSI- 
 TION. [PASSED DECEMBER 13, 1893.] 
 
 Whereas, The South Park Commissioners have re- 
 ceived from the Columbian Exposition through its 
 secretary, H. O. Edmonds, the following: 
 
 Extract from the minutes of a meeting of the Board 
 of Directors of the World's Columbian Exposition, held 
 Friday, December 8th, 1893: 
 
 "Resolved, That the compromise offer of settlement 
 of the South Park Commissioners, of all damages and 
 claims against this corporation, connected with, or re- 
 sulting from the occupancy of Jackson Park and Mid- 
 way Plaisance, by the World's Columbian Exposition, 
 under ordinance of said South Park Commissioners, be, 
 and the same is hereby accepted; and for the purpose 
 of concluding such settlement, the President is hereby 
 authorized to transfer and deliver to said South Park 
 Commissioners, by proper bill of sale, or other writing, 
 all the buildings and other property of this exposition 
 situate in Jackson Park or Midway Plaisance, and par- 
 ticularly described in a schedule of said property here- 
 tofore prepared and delivered said South Park Commis- 
 sioners by the President of this corporation; also to 
 pay said South Park Commissioners the sum of two 
 hundred thousand dollars (|200,000), which said sum 
 and delivery of property shall be in full i)ayment, set- 
 tlement and discharge of all liabilities and obligations 
 of every kind and character resting upon this corpora-
 
 284 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 tion, by reason of the occupancy of the above described 
 Park and Phiisance, under the ordinance hereinbefore 
 referred to; and the President is authorized and di- 
 rected to accept such discharge quittance or receipt as 
 may be necessary to effectuate the purpose of said set- 
 tlement, together with the bond, in the penal sum of 
 one hundred thousand dollars (|100,000) heretofore ex- 
 ecuted by this corporation to said South Park Com- 
 missioners; possession of all of said property, and 
 every part thereof to be given said South Park Com- 
 missioners as soon as the exhibits now installed in said 
 buildings shall be removed therefrom. 
 
 Said sale and transfer of buildings subject, however, 
 to the further condition that if the City of Chicago 
 shall elect to purchase of this corporation the Liberal 
 Arts and Manufactures Building, the title of said 
 building may be transferred by this corporation to 
 said City of Chicago, and such sale and transfer shall 
 in no wise affect or Impair this settlement; but if said 
 city shall not elect to purchase said building within 
 
 months, then the title thereto shall pass to 
 
 said South Park Commissioners." And, 
 
 Whereas, The President of the South Park Commis- 
 sioners reports that in pursuauce of the authority dele- 
 gated to him at the last meeting of the Park Commis- 
 sioners, the action of the Columbian Exposition is in ac- 
 cordance with the proposition which he submitted. 
 
 Therefore, Resolved, First, That the Park Commis- 
 sioners assent to the resolution prepared by the Co- 
 lumbian authorities, and 
 
 Second, That the President of the South Park Com- 
 missioners and their attorney be instructed to prepare
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 285 
 
 the papers and take all steps necessary to complete the 
 transaction. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE IN RELATION TO THE SETTLEMENT OF DIF- 
 FERENCES BETWEEN THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS 
 AND THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. [PASSED 
 
 DECEMBER 29, 1893.] 
 
 Whereas, The Sonth Park roniniissioners, on tlx^ 
 nineteenth day of Sei)teniber, ISOO, i)assed an ordi- 
 nance entitled "An ordinance to allow the use of Jack- 
 son Park and the Midway Plaisance for the purposes of 
 the World's (Ndunibian Exposition," which said ordi- 
 nance provided for the use of Jackson Park and the 
 Midway Plaisance for the purposes of the World's Co- 
 lumbian Exposition upon tlu^ terms and conditions set 
 forth in said ordinance; 
 
 And whereas. Anionic the terms and conditions of 
 said ordinance there was a provision that on the first 
 day of January, 1894, the said Park and Plaisance 
 should be restored to the possession of the South Park 
 Commissioners, except such parts thereof as should be 
 occupied by the buildin<;s or other constructions of the 
 said World's Columbian Exposition, but that the 
 World's Coli>mbian Exposition should have the right 
 to remove all such buildinns and constructions from 
 said premises, ])rovided that all such buildings and 
 constructions which should be upon the north eighty- 
 four acres of Jackson Park should Ix^ nMuoved prior 
 to the first da}- of May, 1894, and all the buildings and 
 constructions upon the other ])ortions of sai<l i)ark and 
 upon said Midway Plaisance should be removed ])rior 
 to the first day of May, 1895, and that all such buildings 
 and constructions which should not be removed within
 
 286 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 the times above limited should become the property of 
 the South Park Commissioners; 
 
 And whereas, It was further provided in said ordi- 
 nance that the use of said Jackson Park and said Mid- 
 way Plaisance was granted upon the further condition 
 that the said Park and Plaisance should be surrendered 
 to the South Park Commissioners in as good a condi- 
 tion as they were at the time of the passage of said or- 
 dinance; 
 
 And whereas, Said ordinance also provided that the 
 World's Columbian Exposition should file a bond in 
 the penal sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be 
 approved by the South Park Commissioners, said bond 
 to be conditioned for the faithful performance of all 
 the terms and conditions in said ordinance prescribed, 
 and also to indemnify and save harmless the South 
 Park Commissioners against all damage on account of 
 the use of said grounds for the purposes of said exposi- 
 tion, or the passage of said ordinance, and also that the 
 World's Columbian Exposition should before the re- 
 moval of any of its buildings or constructions placed 
 upon Jackson Park or the said Midway Plaisance file 
 with said South Park Commissioners an additional 
 bond in the penal sum of one hundred thousand dol- 
 lars with good and sufiicient sureties conditioned in 
 the same manner as the bond above mentioned. 
 
 And whereas. The exposition contemplated by said 
 ordinance has been held upon the said Jackson Park 
 and the Midway Plaisance, and the South Pai'k Com- 
 missioners claim damages on account of the use there- 
 of for such purpose, and the World's Columbian Expo- 
 sition, in order to relieve itself from the obligations 
 contained in said ordinance, have made a proposition
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 287 
 
 to pay to the South Park Commissioners the sum of 
 two hundred thousand doHars, and to convey to the 
 South Park Commissioners certain buildings, construc- 
 tions and personal property now owned by the World's 
 Columbian Exposition, in full settlement and dis- 
 charge of its obligations of the said ordinance; 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS: 
 
 Section 1. That upon the payment to the South 
 Park Commissioners of the sum of two hundred thou- 
 sand dollars, and the conveyance to the South Park 
 Commissioners of the buildings, constructions and per- 
 sonal property mentioned in the schedule hereto an- 
 nexed, and the delivery to the South Park Commission- 
 ers of the possession of Jackson Park and Midway 
 Plaisance and the said buildings, constructions and 
 personal property, subject, however, to the terms and 
 conditions hereinafter set forth, the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition shall be released from all its obliga- 
 tions under said original ordinance except as herein- 
 after mentioned, and its bond of one hundred thousand 
 dollars filed with said Commissioners shall be deliv- 
 ered up and canceled. 
 
 Sec. 2. The sale and transfer of the Liberal Arts 
 and Manufactures Building is upon the condition 
 that if the City of Chicago shall elect to purchase of the 
 World's Columbian Exposition the said building, the 
 sale and transfer to the South Park Commissioners 
 thereof shall become null and void, provided such 
 election shall be made prior to the first day of May, 
 1891, and if the City of Chicago shall not elect to pur- 
 chase said building prior to that date, then the title 
 to the same in the South Park Commissioners shall be- 
 come absolute.
 
 288 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 Sec. 3. The sale and transfer of said buildings is 
 upon the further condition that said buildings are to 
 remain in control of and be at the risk of the World's 
 Columbian Exposition until the exhibits or other prop- 
 ertvnot belongingto theWorld's Columbian Exposition 
 and for which tlie AYorld's Columbian Exposition is 
 responsible, are entirely removed fr(mi such buildings, 
 each building, however, to be turned over to the South 
 Park Commissioners as soon as such property is re- 
 moved therefrom; but all such buildings must be va- 
 cated and turned over to the South Park Commission- 
 ers on or before the first day of May, 1895. And while 
 said buildings shall remain in control of the World's 
 Columbian Exposition, it shall indemnify and save 
 harmless the South Park Commissioners from all lia 
 bility for accidents therein and from all damages of all 
 kinds on account of said buildings or the occupancy 
 thereof. 
 
 Sec. 4. This ordinance is passed upon the express 
 condition that all the buildings and constructions upon 
 the north eighty-four acres of Jackson Park and upon 
 the Midway Plaisahce not conveyed to the South Park 
 Commissioners shall be removed prior to the first day 
 of May, 1894, and all such buildings and constructions 
 which shall not be removed before that date shall be- 
 come the property of the South Park Commissioners, 
 
 Sec. 5. The World's Columbian Exposition shall 
 have the right to rejnove the water and gas pipes, elec- 
 tric A\ ires and electric cables not included in the said 
 schedule hereto annexed, all of such pipes, wires and 
 cables to be removed in a careful and workmanlike 
 manner, and all trenches and holes to be refilled and 
 leveled, and all such water and gas pipes, wires and
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 289 
 
 cables as shall not be removed in the north eighty-fonr 
 acres of Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance prior to 
 the first day of May, 1804, and in the remaining portion 
 of Jackson Park prior to the first day of May, 1895, 
 shall become the property of the Sonth Park Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 Schedule of buildings, constructions and personal 
 property referred to in the foregoing ordinance. 
 
 Liberal Arts and Manufactures Building. 
 
 Agricultural Building. 
 
 Electricity Building. 
 
 Machinery Hall. 
 
 Mines and Mining Building. 
 
 Transportation Building. 
 
 Forestry Building. 
 
 Horticultural Building. 
 
 Fine Arts Building. 
 
 Administration Building. 
 
 Woman's Building. 
 
 Fisheries Building. 
 
 Terminal Station, Music Hall, Casino and Peristyle. 
 
 Anthropological Building. 
 
 Stock Pavilion. 
 
 Colonnade. 
 
 Dairy Building. 
 
 Choral Hall. 
 
 Shoe and Leather Building. 
 
 Stock Barns. 
 
 Service Buildings. 
 
 Sewerage Building, with engines, boilers and all 
 other appurtenances. 
 
 Saw-mill. 
 
 Engine-houses.
 
 290 MISCELLANEOUS CRDINANCES. 
 
 Monastery or Convent of La Kabida. 
 
 Greenhouse, west of Horticultural Building. 
 
 Greenhouse, in south end of Jackson Park. 
 
 All bridges and all statuary on bridges. 
 
 Band-stands. 
 
 Piers. 
 
 Walks and roadways, and all brick now or formerly 
 used in walks. 
 
 Statue of the Republic. 
 
 Three road rollers. 
 
 Grate bars in Horticultural Building. 
 
 All tools and implements appertaining to the water, 
 sewage and landscape departments. 
 
 Arc light conductors. 
 
 Twelve hundred lamp posts. 
 
 Two hundred and ninety tons of pipe, 4-inch to 36- 
 inch, in stock. 
 
 Forty-three tons of special fittings in stock. 
 
 Plumbers' materials and tools on hand. 
 . Wrought iron pipe and fittings in stock. 
 
 Sewer pipe, man hole and catch basin covers in 
 stock. 
 
 One thousand vases, together with all the palms or 
 I)lants of any description used therein during the ex- 
 position. 
 
 Included in buildings are all constructions apper- 
 taining thereto which the Columbian Exposition is not 
 required by contract to return to the owners.
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 291 
 
 AN ORDINANCE TO ALLOW THE USE OF WASHINGTON PARK 
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPO- 
 SITION. [PASSED SEPTEMBER 23, 1890.] 
 
 Whereas, The South Park Commissioners on the 
 nineteenth day of September, A. D. 1890, passed an or- 
 dinance entitled "An ordinance to allow the use of 
 Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance for the pur- 
 poses of the World's Columbian Exposition," which 
 said ordinance was accepted by the World's Columbian 
 Exposition, corporation, as in said ordinance provided; 
 
 And whereas. The National World's Columbian 
 Commission subsequently has passed a resolution that 
 the space needed for the said exposition and to make 
 the same adequate and satisfactory to the Commission 
 requires that Washington Park be added to the sev- 
 eral plats of ground tendered to said Commission as a 
 site for the said exposition; and that the addition of 
 Washington Park may be made by the Chicago Direc- 
 tory and will be accepted by the said Commission with 
 the understanding that only so much of said several 
 plats as may be required for exposition purposes will 
 be used; 
 
 And whereas. The Board of Directors of the World's 
 Columbian Exposition have passed a resolution that 
 in the opinion of said board the honor of Chicago and 
 the necessities of the exj)osition alike require the adop- 
 tion of W^ashington Park as an important part of the 
 site for the World's Columbian Exposition: 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED: 
 
 Section 1. Permission and authority are hereby 
 given to the World's Columbian Exposition, corpora- 
 tion, to use so much of Washington Park for the pur- 
 poses of the World's Columbian Exposition as shall be
 
 292 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 necessary for such pmiDOses, except the portion thereof 
 occupied by the barn, conservatory and needed places 
 of the Park Administration, such use to be upon the 
 terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. 
 
 Sec. 2. Said corporation, the World's Columbian 
 Exposition, at any time after the acceptance of this or- 
 dinance and the approval of the first bond to be given 
 by said corporation as hereinafter set forth, shall have 
 the right to enter upon said Washington Park and take 
 possession of such portions thereof as may be neces- 
 sary in constructing the buildings and making other 
 preparations for such exposition, and may make such 
 use of said premises, except the portions thereof here- 
 by retained by the said South Park Commissioners, as 
 may be necessary for the purposes of said exposition; 
 
 Provided, however. That no change shall be made in 
 the present roads and paths in said Washington Park, 
 nor shall the present contours of the ground be altered 
 nor any of the trees or shrubs in said park be interfered 
 with. 
 
 Sec. 3. The said corporation, the World's Colum- 
 bian Exposition, shall have the right to enclose Wash- 
 ington Park, except the portions thereof hereby re- 
 tained, if such park shall be actually used as the loca- 
 tion of buildings or other constructions, forming an in- 
 tegral and substantial part of the exposition; Provid- 
 ed, however, that the entrances to said park shall not 
 be closed prior to the first day of October, 1892. Said 
 corporation, the World's Columbian Exposition, may 
 take all necessary measures to prevent the encroach- 
 ment of persons and vehicles upon said portions of 
 Washington Park as may be in actual use in the prepa- 
 ration for such exposition.
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 293 
 
 Sec. 4. Such parts of Washington Park as shall not 
 be in actnal nse for the construction of buildings and 
 other preparations for such exposition shall be under 
 the care and supervision of and shall be maintained by 
 the South Park Coniniissioners until the first day of 
 October, 1S1)2, but the South Park Commissioners shall 
 not be responsible for the care, safety or maintenance 
 of any buildings, work or construction of any kind or 
 property of the World's Columbian Exposition, or any 
 other persons, person or corporation upon said prem- 
 ises. Such parts of Washington Park as shall be in 
 actual use by the World's Columbian Exposition shall 
 be maintained by said corporation. 
 
 Sec. 5. On the first day of October, 1892, the South 
 Park Commissioners shall turn over to the said cor- 
 poration, the World's Columbian Exposition, the en- 
 tire jxjssession, control and management of such parts 
 of Washing-ton Park as shall have been prepared and 
 enclosed for the purposes of said exposition, and there- 
 after and until the first day of January, 1894, the said 
 corporation, the World's Columbian Exposition, shall 
 have the full control of the same for the pui*poses of 
 said exposition and shall make all iiiles and regula- 
 tions in regard thereto, and shall at its own cost main- 
 tain the same in good condition, and the South Park 
 Commissioners shall be at no expense in regard thereto. 
 
 Sec. 6. On the first day of January, 1894, such i>arts 
 of said Washington Park as shall then be in the pos- 
 session of the said World's Columbian Exposition, 
 shall be restored to the possession of said South Park 
 Commissioners, except such portions thereof as shall be 
 actually occupied by the buildings or other construc- 
 tions of the said World's Columbian Exposition, but
 
 294 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 the said corporation, the World's Columbian Exposi- 
 tion, shall have the right to remove all such buildings 
 and constructions from said premises, provided that 
 all of such buildings shall be removed prior to the first 
 day of May, 1S94, and all such buildings and construc- 
 tions which shall not be removed at that time shall be- 
 come the property of the South Park Commissioners. 
 Sec. 7. The use of the portions of Washington Park 
 hereinbefore mentioned is granted upon the further ex- 
 press condition that in case the World's Columbian 
 Exposition shall determine to use a" considerable por- 
 tion thereof, for the purposes of said exposition in such 
 a manner as shall require the enclosing of a consider- 
 able portion thereof, then and in that event the right 
 to use the north eighty-four acres (84) of Jackson Park 
 being the present fully improved portion thereof here- 
 tofore granted by the said ordinance passed on the 
 nineteenth day of September, 1890, shall be abrogated. 
 And, if the said World's Columbian Exposition shall 
 enter upon the said improved portion of Jackson Park 
 and take possession thereof for the purposes of said 
 exposition, then the said corporation shall have no 
 right to enclose any portion of Washington Park un- 
 der the provisions of this ordinance. If the said cor- 
 poration, the World's Columbian Exposition, shall en- 
 ter upon Washington Park and take possession of any 
 portion thereof for the purpose of preparing the same 
 for the use of said exposition in such a manner as will 
 require the enclosure of any portion of said park, then 
 the permission and authority to use the said improved 
 portion of Jackson Park, contained in the ordinance 
 heretofore passed by the South Park Commissioners 
 upon the said nineteenth day of September, 1890, shall
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 295 
 
 be entirely abrogated and all rights thereunder to the 
 use of such improved portion thereof forfeited. 
 
 Sec. 8. The use of Washington Park is granted for 
 the purposes of said exposition upon the further ex- 
 press condition that the said park, if used by said 
 World^s Columbian Exposition, shall be used during 
 the periods above mentioned only for the purjjoses of 
 said exposition and subject to the foregoing terms and 
 conditions, and also upon the further express condition 
 that the portions of said park so used shall be surren- 
 dered to the South Park Commissioners in as good a 
 condition as they now are. An acceptance of this or- 
 dinance by the World's Columbian Exposition shall 
 constitute on its part an agreement to fully comply 
 with all the terms and conditions of this ordinance. 
 
 Sec. 9. This ordinance shall be accepted in writing 
 by the said corporation, the World's Columbian Expo- 
 sition, within twent}^ days after its passage, otherwise 
 it shall be null and void. The said corporation, the 
 World's Columbian Exposition, shall also file a bond 
 in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars (|50,000) to 
 be approved by the South Park Commissioners, said 
 bond to be conditioned for the faithful performance of 
 all the terms and conditions herein prescribed and also 
 to indemnify and save harmless the South Park Com- 
 missioners against all damages on account of the use of 
 said grounds for the purposes of said exposition or the 
 passage of this ordinance. 
 
 The said World's Columbian Exposition shall also, 
 before the removal of any of its buildings or construc- 
 tions placed upon said Washington Park file with said 
 South Park Commissioners an additional bond in the 
 penal sum of fifty thousand dollars (|50,000) with good
 
 296 MISCELLANEOUS ORDINANCES. 
 
 and yiifficient sureties, conditioned for the faithful per- 
 formance of all the terms and ^conditions herein pre- 
 scribed, and also to indemnify and save harmless the 
 South Park Commissioners against all damages on 
 account of the use of said grounds for the purposes of 
 said exposition or the passage of this ordinance. 
 
 COMMUNICATION FROM THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPO- 
 SITION. [READ JANUARY 23, 1893.] 
 
 "Extract from the minutes of the Executive Com- 
 mittee of the World's Columbian Exposition, held Jan- 
 uary, 4th, 1898. 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary be instructed and di- 
 rected to transmit a copy of the action of the executive 
 committee of October 6th, 1892, relative to an encamp- 
 ment of troops in Washing-ton Park, to the Board of 
 South Park Commissioners and to state to said board 
 that it is the sense of the executive committee that this 
 corporation has no claim upon Washington Park for 
 the uses of the exposition, and does not and will not 
 assert any claim thereto. 
 
 I hereby certify that the above is a true and correct 
 copy of an extract from the minutes of the executive 
 committee of the World's Columbian Exposition, held 
 January 4th, 1893, and that I am the lawful custodian 
 of the records of said committee. 
 
 Witness my hand and the seal of the coi'poration 
 this 20th day of January, A. D. 1893. 
 (Seal.) 
 
 (Signed) H. O. EDMONDS, Secretary.
 
 WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION. 297 
 
 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED "AN 
 ORDINANCE TO ALLOW THE USE OF WASHINGTON PARK 
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE WORLD'S COLUMBIAN EXPO- 
 SITION. [PASSED JANUARY 23, 1893.] 
 
 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE SOUTH PARK COMMISSIONERS. 
 
 Section 1. That the ordinance entitled "An ordi- 
 nance to alloAV the use of Washington Park for the pur- 
 poses of the World's Columbian Exposition," passed 
 September 23d, 1890, be and the same is hereby re- 
 pealed.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Abusive language 33, § 76 ; 38, § 91 
 
 Act, lewd or indecent 38, § 91 
 
 Actions — see Suits. 
 
 Advertisements, display of 35, § 82 
 
 Advertisements, distribution of circulai'S, etc 38, § 93 
 
 Alms, receiving in parks 36, § 87 
 
 Amendments to statement of cause of action 6, § 3 
 
 Animals, in park waters, disturbing 34, § 78 
 
 Animals, cruelty to 37, § 89 
 
 Animals, domestic, at large 13, § 20 
 
 Animals, driving of 13, § 21 
 
 Animals, hitched when standing 16, § 32 
 
 Animals, hitching to lamp posts, etc 16, § 29 
 
 Animals, leading 14, § 23 
 
 Animals, on grass and footpaths 14, § 25 
 
 Animals, prohibited 13, § 22 
 
 Animals, sending into waters 34, § 78 
 
 Animals, two abreast 14, § 24 
 
 Annual meeting 30, § 65 
 
 Arrest, without process 8, § 9 
 
 Arrest, who may make 8, § 10 
 
 Ashes on sidewalks, etc 35, § 83 
 
 Assessment, authorized for making boulevards of uniform 
 
 width 104, § 3 
 
 Assessment, how made 58, § 7 
 
 Assessment, proceedings under 75 § 3 
 
 Assessment, payment of, with bonds 65, § 17 
 
 Assessment, improvement of streets taken for boulevards. . . .87, § 2 
 
 amendment 89, § 1 
 
 Assessment, improvement of streets taken for boulevards 93, § 2 
 
 Assessment, improvements by, commissioners authorized to 
 
 levy 126, § 1-2 
 
 Assessment, improvement by, proceedings 127, § 3-22 
 
 Assessment, maintenance of boulevards, assessor — duty 124, § 4 
 
 Assessment, maintenance of boulevards, notice of confirma- 
 tion — objections 3 24, § 3 
 
 Assessment, maintenance assessment roll of boulevards. .. .123, § 2 
 Assessment, maintenance of boulevards, who may levy — limitl22, § 1
 
 300 INDEX. 
 
 Assessors to be appointed 58, § 7 
 
 Assistants, appointment x 42, § 104 
 
 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Pe R. R 169 
 
 Attire — see Dress. 
 
 Attorney 44 § 114 
 
 Awnings 22, § 47 
 
 B. 
 
 Bail, arrest at nigtit or Sunday 10, § 14 
 
 Bail, judgment against surety 10, § 14 
 
 Bail, property taken as 9, § 13 
 
 Bail, sale of personal property 10, § 14 
 
 Bail, special 9, § 12 
 
 Balconies, projecting into streets 21, § 45 
 
 Band, parade of .34, § 77 
 
 Bathing in waters of parks 34, § 78 
 
 Beggars, imprisonment of 40, § 99 
 
 Begging 36, § 87 
 
 Bells on sleigh 14, § 23 
 
 Bicycle as bail — pledge 9, § 13 
 
 Bicycle, club runs 34, § 77 
 
 Bicycle — see Vehicles. 
 
 Bills, filed with secretary 28, § 61 
 
 Bills, payment of 28, § 61 
 
 Bills, posting of 35, § 81 
 
 Birds, killing or throwing at 38, § 92 
 
 Bond, of commissioners 54, § 1 
 
 Bond of contractor 27, § 58 
 
 Bond, obstruction on streets 23, § 50 
 
 Bonds, for deficiency 61, § 8 
 
 Bonds, improvement for Fair 120, § 4 
 
 Bonds issued to retire old bonds 71, § 2 
 
 Bonds issued, original 68, § 2 
 
 Bonds, ordinance to issue bonds for World's Fair Improve- 
 ment 172 
 
 Bonds, payment of assessment with 65, § 17 
 
 Books, obscene 39, § 96 
 
 Boulevards, assessment for improvement of streets taken 87, § 2 
 
 Boulevards, building material on, plans to be submitted 23, § 49 
 
 Boulevards, commissioners authorized to take streets for 87, § 1 
 
 Boulevards, improvement of streets taken for 93, § 2 
 
 Boulevards, maintenance of = 122 
 
 Boulevards, moving buildings on 24, § 51 
 
 Boulevards on Lake Shore, extension of Ill, § 1 
 
 Boulevards, on Lake Shore, plan of, etc 112, § 2 
 
 Boulevards, on Lake Shore, submerged lands , . . 112, § 3
 
 INDEX. 301 
 
 Boulevards, power of commissioners over 88, § 3 
 
 Boulevards, special assessment for maintenance of 122 
 
 Boulevards, taking up roadway, bond 23, § 50 
 
 Boulevards, streets taken as 91 
 
 Boulevards, streets taken as, by commissioners 93, § 1 
 
 Boulevards, streets taken as, power of commissioners over.. 94, § 3 
 
 Boundaries, alterations in, damages 82 § 4 
 
 Boundary lines, original 135 
 
 Boundary lines, situation of 137 
 
 Boundary lines, alteration of, under order of court 145 
 
 Breach of peace 36, § 86 
 
 Buildings, awnings 22, § 47 
 
 Buildings — extension over boulevards, etc 21 § 44 
 
 Buildings — injury to 34, § 79 
 
 Buildings — moving of on streets 24, § 51 
 
 Buildings — projection of lamps, windows, balconies, etc 21, § 45 
 
 Buildings — vaults 22, § 46 
 
 Building material on streets, bond 23, § 50 
 
 Building material on streets, plans submitted 23, § 49 
 
 Building material, permit for deposit 25, § 52 
 
 C. 
 
 Carriage walks, composition 17, § 35 
 
 Carriage walks, grade and location 18, § 37 
 
 Carriage walks, how laid 18, § 36 
 
 Carriage walks, width 17, § 34 
 
 Cause of action — see statement of. 
 
 Charter, authorizing park district 53 
 
 Charter, amendment to 68 
 
 Cheating device 39, § 97 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Drexel boulevard, at 
 
 Forty-seventh street 232 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, crossing Garfield boulevard, 
 
 at Ashland avenue 207 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Garfield boulevard, at 
 Ashland avenue, and Western avenue at Archer avenue, 
 
 change to electric power 225 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, crossing Garfield boulevard " 
 
 at Wentworth avenue and Halsted street 201 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, crossing at Garfield boule- 
 vard and State street 198 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Garfield boulevard at 
 
 Center avenue 238 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Garfield boulevard, at 
 
 Halsted street, change in motive power 214 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, crossing at Grand Boulevard 196
 
 302 ■ INDEX. 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, crossing Grand boulevard 
 
 and Mictiigan avenue, at Forty-seventh street 209 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Michigan avenue, 
 Grand boulevard, Drexel boulevard, at Forty-third street; 
 Michigan avenue, at Twenty-sixth street; Western ave- 
 nue boulevard, at Archer avenue 205 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Michigan avenue at 
 Twenty-sixth street, Thirty-first street and Forty-third 
 street; across Grand boulevard at Forty-third street; and 
 Drexel boulevard at Forty -third street; change to electric 
 
 power 221 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, crossing Michigan avenue at 
 
 Thirty-first street 199 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Michigan avenue at 
 Thirty-ninth street; Grand boulevard at Thirty-ninth 
 street, and Garfield boulevard at Wentworth avenue; 
 
 change to electric power 217 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Michigan avenue at 
 
 Fifty-first street; change to electric power 235 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, crossing Oakwood boulevard, 
 
 Drexel entrance, Midway Plaisance 203 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Thirty-fifth street at 
 Indiana avenue, and across Michigan avenue at Eight- 
 eenth street; change in motive power 241 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Western avenue boule- 
 vard at Forty-seventh street 229 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Western avenue boule- 
 vard at Thirty-fifth street; amendment regarding motive 
 
 power 213 
 
 Chicago City Railway Company, across Western avenue boule- 
 vard at Thirty-fifth street 211 
 
 Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company, elevation 
 
 of tracks over Garfield boulevard 257 
 
 Chicago Telephone Company 245 
 
 Chicago & Calumet Horse & Dummy Railway Company 180 
 
 Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad Company 182 
 
 Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company 186 
 
 Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Company 189, 193 
 
 Circulars, distribution of 38 § 93 
 
 Clerks, appointment 42 § 104 
 
 Coal on planting spaces, etc 35 § 84 
 
 Commissioners, appointment by Governor authorized. ..... .109, § 2 
 
 Commissioners, appointment by Governor illegal — See note.. 110 
 
 Commissioners, board of 54 § 1 
 
 Commissioners declared corporate authorities 70, § 1 
 
 Commissioners, first appointed 53, § 1 
 
 Commissioners, judges not to appoint 109, § 1
 
 INDEX. 303 
 
 Commissioner not to have personal interest in contracts 63 § 11 
 
 Commissioners' oath 54 § 1 
 
 Commissioners, power of, over lands acquired from municipal- 
 ity 102 § 2 
 
 Commissioners, power over streets taken as boulevards 88 § 3 
 
 Commissioners, power over submerged lands 112, § 3 
 
 Commissioners, power to govern parks 64, § 13 
 
 Commissioners, power to take streets adjoining parks 69, § 5 
 
 Commissioners, removal 69, § 4 
 
 Commissioners, report of, to County Board 84, § 5 
 
 Commissioners, term of office 54, § 2 
 
 Commissioners to receive city park funds 64, § 16 
 
 Commissioners, vacancies 55, § 2 
 
 Commissioners vacancy for non-attendance 64, § 14 
 
 Commissioners, vacancy, how certified 110, § 3 
 
 Commitment 10, § 16 
 
 Committees 30, § 67 
 
 Common, travel on 34, § 80 
 
 Complaint, warrant to issue 7, § 7 
 
 Condemnation, assessment, how made 58, § 7 
 
 Condemnation, assessors appointed 58, § 7 
 
 Condemnation, deficiency for acquiring lands 61, § S 
 
 Condemnation of lands to be taken 57, § 5 
 
 Condemnation, to make boulevards of uniform width 103, §§ 1-2 
 
 Consent to transfer of parks 102, § 1 
 
 Construction of words, etc 45, § 118 
 
 Continuance — special bail 9, § 12 
 
 Contracts, advertised 27, § 56 
 
 Contracts, commissioners no personal interest 63, § 11 
 
 Contracts, contractor's bond 27, § 58 
 
 Contracts, execution of 27, § 57 
 
 Contract, for free water 158 
 
 Corporate authorities, commissioners declared to be 70, § 1 
 
 Corporate authorities, commissioners are, cases cited 85 
 
 Costs, suit for 6, § 4 
 
 Crossings, obstructions by railroads 50, § 130 
 
 Cross-walks, obstructions on 16, § 31 
 
 Cruelty to animals 37, § 89 
 
 D. 
 
 Danger signals, on obstructions 25, § 53 
 
 Deficiency for acquiring lands, bonds 61, § 8 
 
 Deformed person, exposure of 37, § 90 
 
 Deposit, openings for house connections 19, § 40 
 
 Deposit, refunding of, for connections 20, § 43 
 
 Disorderly conduct 36, § 86
 
 304 INDEX. 
 
 Disorderly person, what may constitute 38, § 91 
 
 Disturbance .^ 36, § 86 
 
 Domestic animals — see Animals. 
 
 Dress of other sex, appearance in 36, § 88 
 
 Dress, scant or indecent, etc 36, § 88 
 
 Drexel boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing at 
 
 Forty-third street 205 
 
 Drexel boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing at 
 
 Forty-third street; change to electric power 221 
 
 Drexel boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing at 
 
 Forty-seventh street 232 
 
 Drexel entrance, crossing of Chicago City Railway Company... 203 
 
 Drexel entrance, main of Universal Gas Company, across 274 
 
 Driveways on Lake Shore Ill 
 
 Driveways on Lake Shore, title and control of made lands. ..113, § 4 
 
 Drives to public parks 87 
 
 Drunkards, imprisonment of 40, § 99 
 
 Drunkenness 33, § 76; 39, § 95 
 
 E. 
 
 East Jackson street — see Jackson street. 
 
 Election confirmed 70, § 6 
 
 Election, submission of charter to voters 65, § 18 
 
 Employes, interference with 33, § 74 
 
 Engineer 44, § 112 
 
 Escape from police 48, § 126 
 
 Expenditures, resolution of board necessary 29, § 62 
 
 Exposition — see World's Fair. 
 
 F. 
 
 Fence around grass plots 36, § 85 
 
 Field Columbian Museum 125 
 
 Field Columbian Museum, to be maintained in Jackson Park.. 246 
 
 Field Columbian Museum, located in Lake Park 163, §§ 3-6 
 
 Fine, imprisonment for non-payment 11, § 17 
 
 Fine, maximum, where minimum only expressed 45, § 117 
 
 Fine, power to remit 11, § 18 
 
 Fine, suit for 6, § 3 
 
 Fire-arms 33, § 73 
 
 Fire-works 33, § 73 
 
 First process, summons 6, § 5 
 
 Fishing in park waters 34, § 78 
 
 Flag, etc., display of 34, § 77 
 
 Flagman, at railroad crossings 50, § 128 
 
 Foot paths, animals and vehicles on 14, § 25
 
 INDEX. 305 
 
 Forfeitures, suit for 6, § 4 
 
 Fortune-telling 33, § 76 
 
 Funds, surplus, application of 84, § 5 
 
 Funeral procession 15, § 27 
 
 G. 
 
 Gamblers, imprisonment of 40, § 99 
 
 Gambling, any game to cheat or defraud 39, § 97 
 
 Games, of chance 33, § 76 
 
 Games to cheat or defraud 39, § 97 
 
 Games, frightening horses with 33, § 72 
 
 Games, playing of 32, § 71 
 
 Garbage on sidewalks, etc 35, § 83 
 
 Gardener 44, § 113 
 
 Garfield boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing 
 
 at Wentworth avenue and Halsted street 201 
 
 Garfield boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing 
 
 at Wentworth avenue, change to electric power 217 
 
 Garfield boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing 
 
 at Center avenue ." , 238 
 
 Garfield boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing 
 
 at Halsted street, change to electric power 214 
 
 Garfield boulevard, crossing of Chicago City Railway Com- 
 pany 198 
 
 Garfield boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing 
 
 at Ashland avenue, change to electric power 225 
 
 Garfield boulevard, Chicago City Railway Company crossing 
 
 at Ashland avenue 207 
 
 Garfield boulevard, crossing of Chicago & Northern Pacific 
 
 Railroad Company 182 
 
 Garfield boulevard, crossing of C. & S. S. R. T. R. R 186 
 
 Garfield boulevard, crossing of C. & W. I. R. R. Co 189, 193 
 
 Garfield boulevard, elevation of tracks of L. S. & M. S. Ry. Co. 
 
 and C, R. I. & P. R. Co 257 
 
 Garfield boulevard, elevation of P., F. W. & C. R. R. Co. 
 
 tracks, across 264 
 
 Gates at railroad crossings 50, § 128 
 
 Goods in street, etc 39, § 94 
 
 Grand boulevard, crossing of C. C. R. Co. 196 
 
 Grand boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Thirty-ninth 
 
 street, change to electric power 217 
 
 Grand boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Forty-third street, 
 
 change to electric power 221 
 
 Grand boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Forty-third street.. 205 
 Grand boulevard, crossing of Chicago C. Ry. Co. at Forty- 
 seventh street 209
 
 306 INDEX. 
 
 Grass, animals and vehicles on 14, § 25 
 
 Grass plots— nsee Planting Spaces. , 
 
 H. 
 
 Hand bills, distribution of 38, § 93 
 
 Highway, closing of, by commissioners 63, § 10 
 
 Hooden 252 
 
 Horses, frightening, by sport. 33, § 72 
 
 House connections, deposit 19, § 40 
 
 House connections, deposit refunded 20, § 43 
 
 House connections, how made 19, § 42 
 
 House connections, openings for, permit 18, § 39 
 
 House connections, stop-cock boxes 18, § 38 
 
 House connections, removal of sidewalks 19, § 41 
 
 Hyde Park Gas Co., main across Midway Plaisance 251 
 
 I. 
 
 Imprisonment for non-payment of fine 11, § 17 
 
 Improvement and maintenance of parks 105 
 
 Improvements by special assessment — see Assessment. 
 
 Indecent acts 33, § 76; 38, § 91 
 
 Injury to park property 34, § 79 
 
 J. 
 
 Jackson Park, Japanese Building, in 252 
 
 Jackson Park, use of, for World's Fair 275 
 
 Jackson street, ordinance of city making transfer 154 
 
 Jackson street, ordinance transferring street, amendment to.. 157 
 
 Jackson street, ordinance taking 159 
 
 Jackson street, resolution accepting 161 
 
 Japanese Building in Jackson Park 252 
 
 Judgment, against surety 10, § 14 
 
 Judgment, commitment 10, § 16 
 
 L. 
 
 Lake Park, ordinance taking control of 166 
 
 Lake Park, ordinance of city transferring part of park 162 
 
 Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Ry. Co., tracks over Gar- 
 field boulevard 257 
 
 Lamps on vehicles, lighted 1 6, § 30 
 
 Lamps, projecting into streets, etc 21, § 45 
 
 Lands, condemnation authorized 57, § 5 
 
 Lands, change in lands described in original charter 68, § 1 
 
 Lands, change in boundary - 137
 
 INDEX. 307 
 
 Lands, made by extension of shore drives, title and control 
 
 of 113, § 4 
 
 Lands, map of 58, § (> 
 
 Lands originally taken 135 
 
 Lands, sale of, not needed for park purposes 108 
 
 Lands, submerged, power of board 112, § 3 
 
 Lands to be taken, description of 55, § 4 
 
 Language, obscene or abusive 33, § 76; 38, § 91 
 
 Lewd act or behavior 36, § 88; 38, § 91 
 
 Life saving station 255 
 
 Lights, prismatic 23, § 48 
 
 Logan Monument, commissioners appointed 114, § 1 
 
 Logan Monument, commissioners, compensation of 114, § 2 
 
 Logan Monument, appropriation 115, § 3 
 
 Logan Monument, location in park authorized 115, § 1 
 
 M. 
 
 Map of lands taken 58, § 6 
 
 Maximum fine where minimum only expressed 45, § 117 
 
 Meetings, annual 30, § 65 
 
 Meetings, quorum 30, § 66 
 
 Meetings, regular 30, § 63 
 
 Meetings, special 30, § 64 
 
 Meetings, vote 31, § 69 
 
 Mendicants, imprisonment of 40, § 99 
 
 Merchandise, etc., in street 39, § 94 
 
 Michigan avenue to Thirty-fifth street, taken by commis- 
 sioners 147 
 
 Michigan avenue to Thirty-fifth street, ordinance of city.. 148 
 Michigan avenue, between Thirty-fifth and Fifty-fifth streets, 
 
 taken 150 
 
 Michigan avenue, between Thirty-fifth and Thirty-ninth 
 
 streets, city ordinance tiansfering 150 
 
 Michigan avenue, between Thirty-ninth and Fifty-fifth streets, 
 
 Hyde Park ordinance 152 
 
 Michigan avenue, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Eighteenth street, 
 
 change to electric power 241 
 
 Michigan avenue, crossing of C. C. Ry. Co. at Twenty-sixth 
 
 street 205 
 
 Michigan avenue, C. C. Ry. Co. at Twenty-sixth street, Thirty- 
 first street and Forty-third- street, change to electric 
 
 power 221 
 
 Michigan avenue, crossing of C. C. Ry. at Thirty-first street. . 199 
 Michigan avenue, C. C. Ry Co. crossing at Thirty-ninth street, 
 
 change to electric power 217 
 
 Michigan avenue, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Forty-third street. 205
 
 308 INDEX. 
 
 Michigan avenue, crossing of C. C. Ry. Co. at Fort3'-seventh 
 
 street 209 
 
 Michigan avenue, C. C. Ry. Co. at Fifty-first street 235 
 
 Michigan avenue, crossing of C. & S. S. R. T. R. R. Co 186 
 
 Midway Plaisance, use of for World's Fair 275 
 
 Midway Plaisance, crossing of C. C. Ry. Co 203 
 
 Midway Plaisance, main of Universal Gas Co., across 274 
 
 Midway Plaisance, Mutual Fuel Gas Co., pipes across 263 
 
 Military company, etc., drill, etc., of 34, § 77 
 
 Misdemeanor, bathing or disturbing animals in park waters. .34, § 78 
 
 Misdemeanor, breach of peace, disturbance, etc 36, § 86 
 
 Misdemeanor, ci-uelty to animals 37, § 89 
 
 Misdemeanor, displaying placards 35, § 82 
 
 Misdemeanor, drunkenness 39, § 95 
 
 Misdemeanor, dumping coal on sidewalks, etc 35, § 84 
 
 Misdemeanor, exposure of deformed person 37, § 90 
 
 Misdemeanor, fence around grass plots 36, § 85 
 
 Misdemeanor, firearms, missiles and fireworks 33, § 73 
 
 Misdemeanor, frightening horses by sport 33, § 72 
 
 Misdemeanor, game or device to cheat or defraud 39, § 97 
 
 Misdemeanor, games 32, § 71 
 
 Misdemeanor, garbage on roadways, etc 35, § 83 
 
 Misdemeanor, indecent dress or act 36, § 88 
 
 Misdemeanor, indecent language, gambling, drunkenness 33, § 76 
 
 Misdemeanor, injury to park property 34, § 79 
 
 Misdemeanor, interference with employes 33, § 74 
 
 Misdemeanor, killing birds 38, § 92 
 
 Misdemeanor, obscene books, etc 39, § 96 
 
 Misdemeanor, obstruction of streets with goods, etc 39, § 94 
 
 Misdemeanor, openings in sidewalks 40, § 98 
 
 Misdemeanor, parades, runs, banners, etc 34, § 77 
 
 Misdemeanor, peddling, etc 33, § 75 
 
 Misdemeanor, posting notices, bills, etc 35, § 81 
 
 Misdemeanor, removal of snow from walks 40, § 100 
 
 Misdemeanor, travel, on grass 34, § 80 
 
 Misdemeanor, vagrancy 36, § 87 
 
 Misdemeanor, vagrants, beggars, prostitutes, imprisonment of.40, § 99 
 
 Misdemeanor, what may be disorderly person 38, § 91 
 
 Missiles, throwing in parks, etc 33, § 73 
 
 Money, expended on resolution 29, § 62 
 
 Moving buildings on streets 24, § 51 
 
 Museums in parks, erection and use 125, § 1 
 
 Musical instrument, playing of 34, § 77 
 
 Mutual Fuel Gas Company, pipes across Midway Plaisance... 263
 
 INDEX. SOS 
 
 N. 
 
 Notices, posting of 35, § 81 
 
 Nudity, appearance in state of 36, § 88 
 
 Nuisance, what may constitute 39, § 94 
 
 O 
 
 Oakwood boulevard, crossing of C. C. Ry. Co 203 
 
 Oakwood boulevard, crossing of C. & C. H. & D. Ry 180 
 
 Oath of commissioners 51, § 1 
 
 Obscene books and pictures, etc 39, § 96 
 
 Obscene language 33, § 76; 38, § 91 
 
 Obstructions in streets, permit 25, § 52 
 
 Obstructions, goods and merchandise 39, § 94 
 
 Obstructions, danger signals, sidewalk 25, § 53 
 
 Obstructions, removal by commissioners 26, § 54 
 
 Offense, two penalties for same, one recovery 45, § 116 
 
 Offenses, different — recovery for one violation no bar 6, § 5 
 
 Office, term of 54, § 2 
 
 Officers of the board 54, § 2 
 
 Officers of the board, election of 55, § 3 
 
 Officers, attorney 44, § 114 
 
 Officers, clerks and assistants 42, § 104 
 
 Officers, engineer 44, § 112 
 
 Officers, gardener 44, § 113 
 
 Officers, not provided by charter 42, § 102 
 
 Officers, removal of 42, § 103 
 
 Officers, salaries 42, § 105 
 
 Officers, secretary, duties 43, § 106-8 
 
 Officers, superintendent 43, § 110-111 
 
 Officers, treasurer 43, § 109 
 
 Openings in sidewalks 40, § 98 
 
 Order in Circuit Court, entered May 20, 1872 140 
 
 Ordinance of city transferring Lake Park 162 
 
 Ordinance of city transfei'ring Jackson street 154, 157 
 
 Ordinance of Hyde Park, transfer of Michigan avenue be- 
 tween Thirty-ninth and Fifty-fifth streets 152 
 
 Ordinance of city, transfer of Michigan avenue, between 
 
 Thirty-fifth and Thirty-ninth streets 150 
 
 Ordinance of city, transferring Michigan avenue to Thirty- 
 fifth street 148 
 
 Ordinances, construction of words, etc 45, § 118 
 
 Ordinances, in writing 31, § 68 
 
 Ordinances, record of 45, § 115
 
 310 INDEX. 
 
 Pamphlets, distribution of 38, § 93 
 
 Parades of bands, etc 34, § 77 
 
 Park property, injury to 34, § 79 
 
 Parks, altering location, damages 82, § 4 
 
 Parks, change in boundary 137 
 
 Parks, government and control of 64, § 13 
 
 Parks, lands originally taken 55, § 4 
 
 Parks, lands, description of 135 
 
 Parks, streets adjoining, may be taken 69, § 5 
 
 Parks, use of for World's Fair 120, § 3 
 
 Parks under control of municipality, municipality may vest 
 
 control 103, § 4 
 
 Parks under control of municipality, power of commissioners 
 
 over 102, § 2 
 
 Parks under control of municipality, reversion to corporate 
 
 authorities 103, § 3 
 
 Parks under control of municipality, transfer authorized . . . 102, § 1 
 
 Payment of bills, filed and presented to board 28, § 61 
 
 Peddling 33, § 75 
 
 Person, exposure of mutilated or deformed, etc 37, § 90 
 
 Penalties, suit for 6, § 4 
 
 Penalties, two, only one recovery 45, § 116 
 
 Penalty, general 12, § 19 
 
 Penalty, violation of Chap. II 16, § 33 
 
 Penalty, violation of Chap. IV 26, § 55 
 
 Penalty, Chap. VII 41, § 101 
 
 Penalty for not maintaining flagmen 50, § 129 
 
 Penalty, obstructing at railroad crossing 51, § 131 
 
 Penalty, where not provided 46, § 119 
 
 Pennsylvania Company 264 
 
 Pictures, obscene, selling or giving away 39, § 96 
 
 Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, additional tracks 
 
 across Western avenue 270 
 
 Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago R. R. Co., elevation of, 
 
 across Garfield boulevard 264 
 
 Placards, display of 35, § 82 
 
 Plans of boulevards extended on Lake Shore 112, § 2 
 
 Planting-spaces, ashes and garbage on 35, § 83 
 
 Planting-spaces, dumping coal on 35, § 84 
 
 Planting-spaces, fence around 36, § 85 
 
 Police, appointment and removal 47, § 122 
 
 Police, number, captain 47, § 120 
 
 Police, duties 48, § 124 
 
 Police, escape from, assisting to 48, § 126
 
 INDEX. 311 
 
 Police, impersonation of 48, § 127 
 
 Police, interference with 48, § 126 
 
 Police, powers 48, § 125 
 
 Police, requirements 47, § 121 
 
 Police, resisting 48, § 126 
 
 Police, special 48, § 123 
 
 Posting notices, etc 35, § 81 
 
 President's power to remit fine 11, § 18 
 
 Prismatic lights 23, § 48 
 
 Prisoners, detention till trial 9, § 11 
 
 Processions, funeral 15, § 27 
 
 Procession, military company, etc .' 34, § 77 
 
 Projections in streets, etc 21, § 44 
 
 Projections — lamps, windows, balconies, etc 21, § 45 
 
 Prosecutions — see Suits. 
 
 Prostitutes, imprisonment of 40, § 99 
 
 O. 
 
 Quorum 30, § 66 
 
 R. 
 
 Railroads, obstructing crossings 50, § 130 
 
 Railroads, penalty for not maintaining flagmen 50, § 129 
 
 Railroads, to maintain flagmen or gates 50, § 128 
 
 Railroad, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad 169 
 
 Railroad, Chicago City Railway Company 196 
 
 Railroad, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Company 
 
 elevation of tracks over Garfield boulevard 257 
 
 Railroad, Chicago & Calumet Horse & Dummy Railroad Com- 
 pany 180 
 
 Railroad, Chicago & Northern Pacific Railroad Company 182 
 
 Railroad, Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Com- 
 pany 186 
 
 Railroad, Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad Company. .. .189, 193 
 Railroad, Grand Trunk Railroad, crossing Western avenue. . . 248 
 Railroad, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Com- 
 pany, elevation of tracks over Garfield boulevard 257 
 
 Railroad, Pennsylvania Company, elevation of, across Gar- 
 field boulevard 264 
 
 Railroad, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, addi- 
 tional tracks across Western avenue 270 
 
 Record of ordinances 45, § 115 
 
 Record, secretary to keep 43, § 107 
 
 Recovery, only one, where two penalties 45, § 116 
 
 Report of commissioners to County Board 84, § 5
 
 3-12 INDEX. 
 
 Reports, action on deferred 31, § 70 
 
 Reports in writing , 31, § 68 
 
 Reversion of streets taken as boulevards 94, § 4; 88, § 4 
 
 Riot 36'§86 
 
 Roads, closing of, by commissioners 63, § 10 
 
 S. 
 
 Salaries 42, § 105 
 
 Sale of lands not needed 108 
 
 Sale of articles in parks, etc 33, § 75 
 
 Seal of commissioners 55, § 2 
 
 Secretary, duties 43, § 106-8 
 
 Sidewalks around obstruction 25, § 53 
 
 Sidewalks, dangerous openings in 40, § 98 
 
 Sidewalks, dumping coal on 35, § 84 
 
 Sidewalks, garbage on 35, § 83 
 
 Sidewalks, goods and merchandise on 39, § 94 
 
 Sidewalks, removal of for openings 19, § 41 
 
 Sidewalks, removal of snow from 40, § 100 
 
 Sleigh, bells on 14, § 23 
 
 Snow, removal of, from walks 40, § 100 
 
 Soliciting passengers for vehicles. 15, § 26 
 
 Special assessment— see Assessment. 
 
 Speed of vehicles 14, § 24 
 
 Statement of cause of action 5, § 2 
 
 Statement of cause of action, amendments to 6, § 3 
 
 Statement of cause of action, defect in form 6, § 3 
 
 Statement of cause of action, several persons included 6, § 3 
 
 Statutes, act authorizing park district, Feb. 24, 1869 53 
 
 Statutes, act athorizing renewal bonds and special assess- 
 ment, June 16, 1871 70 
 
 Statutes, amendment to charter, April 16, 1869 68 
 
 Statutes, act authorizing taking of streets and their improve- 
 ment, April 9, 1879 87 
 
 Statutes, act amending an act in relation to streets taken as 
 
 boulevards, June 16, 1885 89 
 
 Statutes, act to amend act in relation to streets taken as 
 
 boulevards, June 17, 1895 91 
 
 Statutes, act authorizing taking of streets as boulevards, June 
 
 21, 1895 93 
 
 Statutes, act to authorize transfer of public parks to commis- 
 sioners, April 11, 1885 102 
 
 Statutes, act in relation to widening streets taken, June 14, 
 
 1887 103 
 
 Statutes, one mill tax, authorized June 26, 1885 105 
 
 Statutes, one mill additional tax authorized June 17, 1893.. 106
 
 INDEX. 313 
 
 Statutes, two mills additional tax authorized June 17, 1895... 107 
 Statutes, sale of lands not needed for park purposes, June 16, 
 
 1887 108 
 
 Statutes, appointment by judges prohibited. May 30, 1891 109 
 
 Statutes, extension of drives on Lake Shore authorized, June 
 
 4, 1889 Ill 
 
 Statutes, act authorizing Logan monument, Feb. 10, 1887 114 
 
 Statutes, act permitting location of Logan monument in park. 
 
 May 31, 1887 115 
 
 Statutes, act in relation to World's Fair, Aug. 5, 1890 117 
 
 Statutes, special tax for maintenance of boulevards, June 17, 
 
 1893 122 
 
 Statutes, museums in parks, June 17, 1893 125 
 
 Statutes, local improvements by special assessment, June 24, 
 
 1895 126 
 
 Stop-cock boxes 18, § 38 
 
 Street, merchandise, etc., in 39, § 94 
 
 Street railroads — see Railroads. 
 
 Streets, adjoining parks, may be taken 69, § 5 
 
 Streets, termini of, in extended shore drive 113, § 5 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, amendment 91 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, commissioners may take 93, § 1 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, power granted, consents 87, § 1 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, condemnation to make of uni- 
 form width, authorized 103, § 1-2 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, consent of corporate authorities 
 
 and abutting property owners necessary 93, § 1 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, controlled by commissioners 94, § 3 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, improvement of, by special as- 
 sessment 93, § 2 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, improvement of streets already 
 
 taken 95, § 6 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, municipality may confer con- 
 trol 89, § 5 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, municipality may vest control . . 95, § 5 
 Streets taken as boulevards, power of commissioners over. . .88, § 3 
 Streets taken as boulevards, reversion of, to corporate author- 
 ities 88, § 4 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards, reversion of, to original authori- 
 ties 94, § 4 
 
 Streets taken as boulevards — note and decisions 95 
 
 Suit, continuance 9, § 12 
 
 Suit, first process 6, § 5 
 
 Suit, for fines, etc 6, § 4 
 
 Suits, how brought ^ 5, § 1 
 
 Suits, penalty on conviction — see Penalties. 
 
 Suit, statement of cause 5, § 2
 
 314 INDEX. 
 
 Suit, statement of cause, several persons included 6, § 3 
 
 Suits, statement of cause, defect in iform 6, § 3 
 
 Suits, trial, manner of 10, § 15 
 
 Summons, first process 6, § 5 
 
 Summons, form of 6, § 6 
 
 Superintendent 43, § 110-111 
 
 Superintendent, authority of 43, § 110 
 
 Superintendent, order of commissioners to 44, § 111 
 
 Superintendent, shall be engineer 44, § 112 
 
 Surplus funds, application of 84, § 5 
 
 T. 
 
 Tax, yearly, estimate for 62, § 9 
 
 Tax, one mill tax authorized tor maintenance 105 
 
 Tax, one mill additional authorized 106 
 
 Tax, two mills additional authorized 107 
 
 Taxation, property of commissioners exempt 64, § 15 
 
 Thirty-fifth street, part of, taken 147 
 
 Thirty-fifth street, part of, city ordinance transferring 148 
 
 Thirty-fifth street, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Indiana avenue, 
 
 change to electric power 241 
 
 Traffic wagons prohibited 15, § 28 
 
 Transfer of parks to commissioners 102 
 
 Travel, on "common" only 34, § 80 
 
 Treasurer 43, § 109 
 
 Trees, etc., injury to 34, § 79 
 
 Trial, commitment 10, § 16 
 
 Trial, mannei of 10, § 15 
 
 U. 
 
 United States Life Saving Station 255 
 
 Universal Gas Company 274 
 
 V 
 
 Vacancies 55, § 2 
 
 Vacancy, how certified to Governor 110, § 3 
 
 Vagrancy defined 36, § 87 
 
 Vagrants, imprisonment of 40, § 99 
 
 Vaults 22, § 46 
 
 Vehicles, bearing placard 35, § 82 
 
 Vehicles, drawing more than one at a time 14, § 28 
 
 Vehicles, interference with by sport 33, § 72 
 
 Vehicles, lamps lighted at night 16, § 30 
 
 Vehicles, not more than two abreas* 14, § 24
 
 INDEX. 315 
 
 Vehicles, obstructing walks 16, § 31 
 
 Vehicles, obstruction of ways 15, § 26 
 
 Vehicles, on grass and foot paths 14, § 25 
 
 Vehicles, bells on sleigh 14, § 23 
 
 Vehicles, soliciting passengers for 15, § 26 
 
 Vehicles, speed of 14, § 24 
 
 Vehicles, traffic wagons prohibited 15, § 28 
 
 Vote, original charter to be submitted to 65, § 18 
 
 Vote, fair bonds to be submitted to vote 120, § 4 
 
 Vote, manner of 31, §69 
 
 TV. 
 
 Washington Park, use of, for World's Fair 291 
 
 Washington Park not needed by World's Fair 296 
 
 Washington Park, ordinance allowing use of, for World's 
 
 Fair, repealed 297 
 
 Warrant, form of 7^ § g 
 
 Warrant, issue on complaint 7^ § 7 
 
 Warrants, manner of drawing 28, § 59 
 
 Water, free, contract providing for 158 
 
 Ways, obstruction of, by vehicles 15, § 26 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Archer 
 
 avenue 205 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Archer 
 
 avenue, change to electric power 225 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Thirty- 
 fifth street 211 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at Thirty- 
 fifth street, amendment changing motive power 213 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, C. C. Ry. Co. crossing at I'^orty- 
 
 seventh street 229 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, crossing of A., T. & S. F. R. R 169 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, crossing of C. & N. P. R. R. Co. . . 182 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, Grand Trunk crossing 248 
 
 Western avenue boulevard, additional tracks of P., C, C. & 
 
 St. L. R. R. Co., across 270 
 
 Windows, projecting into streets, etc 21, § 45 
 
 Words, construction of 45, § 118 
 
 Work, must be authorized by resolution 29, § 62 
 
 World's Fair — bonds to improve parks — vote 120, § 4 
 
 World's Fair bonds, ordinance to issue, for improvement.... 172 
 World's Fair, lands under control of city may be used for. . .118, § 2 
 World's Fair, ordinance allowing use of Jackson Park, Mid- 
 way Plaisance, for 275 
 
 World's Fair, amendment to ordinance allowing use of Jack- 
 son Park 281
 
 316 INDEX. 
 
 World's Fair, ordinance to allow use of Washington Park... 291 
 
 World's Fair, ordinance for settlement with 285 
 
 World's Fair, parks may be used 120, § 3 
 
 World's Fair, resolution concerning claims against 283 
 
 World's Fair, use of state lands authorized 117, § 1 
 
 World's Fair, Washington Park, not needed 296 
 
 V. 
 
 Yearly tax, estimate for 62, § 9
 
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