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REVISED ORDINANCES 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF BELLEVILLE, 
 
 WITH THE 
 
 CITY CHARTER AND AMENDMENTS: 
 
 WITH 
 
 AJNT APPENDIX, 
 
 CONTAINING THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, AND 
 THE GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS RELATING TO THE 
 CITY OF BELLEVILLE, AND TO INCORPORATED 
 TOWNS AND CITIES: 
 
 TOGETHER WITH A 
 
 BRIEF HISTORY OF BELLEVILLE, 
 
 BY EX-GOYERNOR JOHN REYNOLDS. 
 
 REVISED BY 
 
 T. J. KRAFFT, CITY ATTORNEY, 
 
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 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL. 
 
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 PRINTED BY G. A. HARVEY. 
 
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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 
 
 I pursue the good old fashion to give a short introduction of the 
 following pages to the public. 
 
 The city government of Belleville has decided to publish a short and 
 authentic history of the city from its earliest days to the present time. It 
 is hoped that both the city and the public will be benefited by the work. 
 The public at a distance will be made better acquainted, by a correct 
 history, with the benefits and advantages of this city than they are at 
 present, and thereby many efficient business men, mechanics, and others, 
 to advance their interest and business, will be induced to see and settle in 
 Belleville. 
 
 Under this view of the subject, the Hon. the Corporation of the City of 
 Belleville, with the worthy Mayor, Mr. Goedeking, at their head, will 
 receive the thanks and approbation of the public for presenting the 
 following pages, giving a true statement of the rise, progress and future 
 prosperity of the city of Belleville. 
 
 I was requested by the Mayor and City Government to write the above 
 history, and all I can say on the subject is, that the publio may rest 
 assured that the statement of facts contained in the following pages will 
 be true and correct, so far as I am able to present them. I was a resident 
 of the country and county long before Belleville had an existence, and 
 have witnessed its rise and progress to the present time. I have been a 
 resident of the city for more than thirty years, and I hope, taking all 
 ^ these considerations together, that I will be able to give to the public a 
 true and correct history of the city of Belleville. 
 
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 JOHN REYNOLDS. 
 
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 P. S.—The city government decided to publish the ordinances of the 
 city of Belleville at all events, and it also decided to append to the 
 y ordinances the following history of the city. 
 
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THE HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 THE POSITION OF THE CITY OF BELLEVILLE, AND ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS. 
 
 The city of Belleville is situated upon a gently rising eminence, near 
 the centre of St. Clair county, Illinois, in latitude 38° and 36' north, and 13° 
 west longitude, and west of Washington City. The location, and the beauty 
 of the surrounding country, is not surpassed by any place in Southern Illi¬ 
 nois. Although objected to by some, the climate is a happy medium be¬ 
 tween the extremes of the North and South, and in it a laboring man can 
 perform as much work as in any climate in America. I believe the 
 largest and most wealthy cities on the globe are found within the range of 
 this temperature, although the degrees of latitude may be different. 
 
 This city is situated in the midst of the most fertile and productive 
 agricultural regions in the United States, and the county of St. Clair, of 
 which Belleville is the seat of justice, is admitted to be among the most 
 wealthy and productive counties in the State, or in the whole valley of 
 the Mississippi. This city is situated on the elevated country about mid¬ 
 way between the Mississippi and Kaskaskia rivers, and surrounded by a 
 plain of beautiful, undulating country, whose beauty is not surpassed in 
 the State. On any elevated point in, or near, the city, a great portion of 
 the country, as far as the eye can extend, may be seen at a single glance, 
 and the rich soil, and the well improved farms, extending in every direc¬ 
 tion around, would surely make any one believe that he beheld the finest 
 agricultural country in the Union. 
 
 It is not only the county of St. Clair that surrounds this city with its 
 inexhaustible agricultural wealth, but almost the same quality of soil and 
 improvements extend a great distance to the East, North and South, from 
 whence Belleville derives a great commercial business. It is the country 
 
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 that makes the city, ancL in the same proportion that the agricultural 
 interests rise in any country, will be the progress and prosperity of the 
 cities. The cities of the West have kept pace with the country, and the 
 same degree of improvement will mark the progress of Belleville, if the 
 citizens will observe a liberal and wise policy. There are no cities on the 
 continent that have sprung up so fast, and so great, as St. Louis, Cincinnati 
 and Chicago, and the great productiveness of this mammoth valley of the 
 West has caused it. The ultimate high destiny of this city, and its trium¬ 
 phant success, no reasonable man can doubt. 
 
 The increasing growth and prosperity of Belleville have never been 
 arrested, and even in this crisis of the country, the city has not ceased to 
 improve and advance in wealth. I pretend not to say that this city has 
 advanced as much the past season as it has done in some years before, but 
 I do believe that it has improved more, and done better, than almost any 
 other city of the W T est, with the same population. Some competition and 
 friendly emulation do not injure an individual, or city, and the city of 
 Belleville, though it has for its neighbors many small towns, and the great 
 city of St. Louis, yet it has no fears of being injured, or retarded in growth, 
 by the competition or rivalship of these towns. This city has, and enjoys 
 a friendly intercourse, and pleasant business relations, with the surround¬ 
 ing towns, and is not injured, but benefited by the friendly connection. 
 
 Belleville is the largest and most flourishing city in Southern Illinois, 
 and may be termed, with propriety, the Queen of Egypt, but having no 
 blood relationship with Queen Cleopatra. Under all circumstances, this 
 city must, in its future, rise into an importance and greatness that will 
 surprise its most ardent admirers and friends. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 THE CONCEPTION OF BELLEVILLE-ITS LOCATION AND ITS BIRTH. 
 
 Every intelligent man in the West knows, that most of this giant valley 
 of the Mississippi was owned by the State of Virginia, up to the great 
 river above mentioned, and that Virginia, in the year 1778, soon after the 
 conquest of the country from England by Gen. Clark, laid out a county, 
 including all the inhabitants in the colonies on the Mississippi, and called 
 it “The County of Illinois.” In 1784, Virginia conveyed all this vast 
 region of country to the Confederacy of the States, and Arthur St. Clair, 
 the Governor of the North-west Territory, established the county of St. 
 Clair in 1790, which county included all the settlements on the Mississippi. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 In 1795 Randolph county was laid off, and Kaskaskia was the seat of 
 justice for that county, and Cahokia for St. Clair. 
 
 In this early period there was not one American settlement within the 
 present limits of this county, except Piggot’s Fort, in the present Monroe 
 county, in the American Bottom, east of Columbia, and perhaps a few 
 families within the immediate vicinity of the Fort. The Indian war raged 
 at this time. 
 
 In process of time the American people settled in St. Clair county, on 
 the high lands, east of the American Bottom, and the French colonies on 
 the Mississippi were found to be in a minority at the ballot box. The 
 conception of moving the county seat of St. Clair, from the French village 
 of Cahokia, to some eligible point more in the centre of the county, was 
 discussed among the people in the summer of 1813, and the tine phrenzied 
 conception, more substantial than the imagination of the great poet, 
 assumed “a local habitation and a name.” It was decided at the ballot 
 box that the county seat was to be moved from Cahokia to a more central 
 position in the county, and members were elected to the Legislature to 
 give birth to the conception. The following is a copy of a record, found 
 in the proceedings of the Court of Common Pleas, of St. Clair county, at 
 the December term, 1813 : 
 
 Ordered: “That the Clerk notify John Hay, James Lemen, Isaac 
 Enochs, Wm. Scott, Jun., Nathan Chambers, Jacob Short and Caldwell 
 Cains, Commissioners appointed by the Legislature to fix upon a place for 
 the seat of justice of this county, and that they meet at the house of Col. 
 Whiteside, on the 25th of January next, and to make return at our next 
 February term, under their hands and seals.” 
 
 At the April term of the same court (1814) the above named Commis¬ 
 sioners made the following report, which is recorded on page 103, of the 
 Court Records: 
 
 “ In pursuance of a law passed by the Legislature of the Illinois Terri¬ 
 tory, on the 10th day of December, 1813, at the village of Kaskaskia, for 
 the purpose of fixing on the place of holding courts in the counties of 
 Madison, St. Clair and Johnson, and by virtue of a written order, issued 
 from the Court of Common Pleas, directed to us, Commissioners for the 
 county of St. Clair, to meet on the 25th day of January, 1814, at the 
 dwelling house of Col. William Whiteside, for the purpose of fixing the 
 seat of justice for the said county of St. Clair, we, the Commissioners, met 
 agreeable to order, (all being present,) and made no decision, for the want 
 of the law, and the proper officer to administer the oath required in that 
 case. We then adjourned, and appointed to meet on Monday, the 14th 
 
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 of February, at the village of Cahokia, and we met accordingly, and post¬ 
 poned our decision for further consideration and view of situation and 
 place. Then appointed to meet at the dwelling house of George Blair, 
 and met accordingly, (all being present.) A majority could not agree, 
 then we again postponed our decision, and appointed to meet on Thursday* 
 the 10th of said instant, (March,) at the said dwelling house of George 
 Blair, (all being present,) and we, a majority of said Commissioners, have 
 agreed and fixed the county seat for St. Clair county on the land of George 
 Blair, and have marked the place for that purpose, about twenty-five rods 
 north-east from the dwelling house of the said George Blair, in his corn¬ 
 field, and we, a majority of said Commissioners, further report the said 
 George Blair has proposed and agreed to give a donation for the use and 
 benefit of said county of St. Clair, of a public square, containing one acre 
 of land, for the purpose of erecting public buildings thereon, and to relin¬ 
 quish twenty-five acres of land adjoining next around the public square, 
 and he also proposes to give every fifth lot of land of the twenty-five acres, 
 exclusive of the streets, a donation for the use and benefit of the county. 
 
 “Given under our hands and seals, this 10th day of March, 1814. 
 
 ISAAC ENOCHS, 
 JAMES LEMEN, 
 
 JACOB SHORT, 
 NATHAN CHAMBERS, 
 JOHN HAY, 
 
 SEAL.] 
 
 SEAL. 
 
 SEAL. 
 
 SEAL. 
 
 SEAL. 
 
 “ George Blair comes into court and says he will have conveniences 
 made by next June term to hold the court at this place at that term. 
 And Mr. Blair received six dollars for hauling benches, seats and tables of 
 the court house from Cahokia.” 
 
 At page 109 of the court records, it is ordered by the court “that a 
 court house and jail be erected at the new county seat.” This decree of 
 the court was made at the March term, 1814, and the next term of the 
 court was held in Belleville. 
 
 I understood at the time, that George* Blair gave the name of Belleville 
 to the new county seat, and the public acquiesced in it. The name Belle¬ 
 ville has become familiar by use, and it is a short and an agreeable 
 sounding word. The name is French, and means in English “ a fine, or 
 beautiful city,” and has in reality come to be what its name indicates. 
 Most of the city of Belleville is built on section twenty-one, township one, 
 north cf range eight west. 
 
 The above chapter of records shows the location of Belleville, and its 
 rise, progress and future prospects, and demonstrates the truth that the 
 selection of the site was wise and judicious. 
 
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 CHAPTER III. 
 
 GEORGE BLAIR AND BELLEVILLE. 
 
 George Blair is magnified into some notoriety and fame by his connec¬ 
 tion with the city of Belleville, and the same is carried out without much 
 of his agency or talents. He is made conspicuous and distinguished 
 amongst men by force of circumstances—a destiny which he did not 
 control. He was an ordinary man; but he owned the land on which this 
 city was founded, and by thus riding on the back of Belleville, without 
 any great merit, his name will be transmitted to late posterity. 
 
 The first time I saw Mr. Blair was in the fall of 1806, and I was well 
 acquainted with him from that time until his death. He then resided in 
 a log cabin, covered with split boards and weight poles, and occupied a 
 point a few feet east of the mansion of Mr. Russell Hinckley, in this city. 
 This log cabin and this man were somewhat similar in their humble 
 positions at this time, in 1806, and were the primitive specimens of men 
 and houses that then appeared in Belleville. Mr. Blair located at this 
 place to enjoy the fine spring water that at this time is used in Mr. 
 Hinckley’s steam mill. 
 
 And to return again to the notoriety of the land proprietors on which 
 cities are founded—Mr. Blair is not the first that has become conspicuous 
 on such occasions. We read that a vessel, filled with men, women and 
 children, of the Greek nation, was driven ashore in an humble condition, 
 and asked only for as much earth as a bull’s hide would cover on which 
 to live. The request was granted ; but the cunning Greeks cut the bull’s 
 hide into small strips, and, by this cunning device, the bull skin was 
 extended around a considerable tract of land, on which these immigrants 
 built a city. Mr. Blair was a man of medium size and middle age in 
 1814, and possessed nothing attractive about him. He was not wealthy 
 at the time ; but he had purchased two militia rights of one hundred acres 
 each, and located them on the land whereon Belleville is built. He had 
 a small farm, extending from his log cabin to about the north side of the 
 public square, in the present city of Belleville, and it was not well 
 cultivated. Mr. Blair, like many other persons, had a natural and inborn 
 hatred to work, and scarcely ever permitted his peace of mind to be 
 disturbed by any kind of labor whatever. 
 
 Mr. Blair immigrated with his father to Illinois in the year 1796, and 
 had not the means of any, or much, education. He was no scholar, but 
 supposed he was, and he had the imprudence on all occasions, in and out 
 of order, to use words of wondrous length, and mostly inapplicable. 
 
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 Although he was idle and indolent, he contracted no immoral habits so 
 far as I saw in him. 
 
 Mr. Blair erected the first private mansion in the town of Belleville. 
 Mr. Etienne Pensoneau built the first court house about the same time— 
 in the summer of 1814. This mansion (Blair’s) was the first hotel erected 
 in Belleville; and is to this day standing erect, in defiance of time and 
 want of paint, on the south-east corner of Illinois and Second South streets. 
 The walls of this venerable house are composed of large hewn logs, laid 
 horizontal, and weather-boarded over. It is two stories high, and had but 
 two rooms below, when it was first built, so far as I recollect. 
 
 I was always a guest of Mr. Blair’s hotel, when there was no other; 
 and I can testify that the landlord was blessed with a good nature and a 
 benevolent spirit; but “ mine hostess” was pretty much the reverse of her 
 husband, as the truth of history will not permit me to call him “ her lord 
 and master.” 
 
 Mr. Blair procured Mr. John Messenger, I am informed, as I cannot 
 find any record of it, to survey and lay off the town of Belleville. I have 
 examined an ancient plat of the city, in a book of the County Court 
 Records, at page 8, deposited in the present County Clerk’s Office, and I 
 find that the plat of the city was laid down on a scale of four chains to 
 the inch, and on the cardinal points. The streets, I am informed, were 
 named by Mr. Blair, as well as the city itself. The most eastern street 
 in the town was called Church street, and on westward are Jackson, 
 High, Illinois, Spring and Hill streets. The streets north and south from 
 the public square are numbered 1st, 2d and 3d. The street extending 
 east and west through the public square is called on the plat St. Clair 
 street, but, by common usage, it has become known as Main street. This 
 and Illinois street are marked on the plat sixty-six feet wide; and all the 
 others forty-nine and one-half feet wide. There are nine lots in a block; 
 and the lots extending east and west are one hundred and ten feet long, 
 and those extending north and south are ninety-nine feet wide. The 
 blocks on this map are not numbered, but the lots are numbered from one 
 to two hundred and seventy-six, ending at the north-east corner of Church 
 and First North streets. 
 
 This survey was made, I presume, in the summer of 1814; but some 
 years thereafter, I saw by the Record Book, that Governor Edwards 
 perfected the survey, and had it recorded in the Recorder’s Office of St. 
 Clair county. 
 
 What strange and mysterious changes and events will take place with 
 individuals as well as with nations. When I first saw Mr. Blair, in 1806, 
 
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 he was a very obscure and poor personage, living in a small log cabin. 
 The fine steam mill of Mr. Hinckley is erected on the spring of water 
 which Mr. Blair used in his humble log cabin. And now what a change 
 in the log cabin and uncultivated corn field ! The first city in Southern 
 Illinois now covers his corn field and log cabin with large and stately 
 buildings. Himself being connected with the city of Belleville is raised at 
 least into notoriety from his former obscurity. 
 
 A greater event has occurred in the Mississippi valley than the above. 
 Since my residence in the West this great valley has been converted from 
 a wilderness to a civilized and improved country, teeming with a happy 
 and prosperous population. When we first settled in Illinois scarcely any 
 population existed in the whole valley of the West, except a few people, 
 sparsely settled in French colonies on the Mississippi and Wabash rivers, 
 and some under the drippings of the Alleghany Mountains in Tennessee, 
 Kentucky and the North-West Territory. But now many millions of 
 people occupy the Western valley; and the whole Union has grown, not 
 only in the extension of settlements, but the population increased from 
 a fraction over three millions in the Revolution, until the late census of 
 the Republic amounts to thirty-two millions of inhabitants. No such 
 event has ever occurred on the earth before as the growth and importance 
 of the United States, not only in population, but in all the various branches 
 of business that produce prosperity, comfort and happiness to the human 
 family. 
 
 I will go one step further into the mysteries and unaccountable events 
 that mark the progress of civilized and Christian man—and that is, the 
 present civil war raging in the United States, wherein nearly one million 
 of soldiers are enlisted in the different armies. No nation ever presented 
 such a spectacle as this. It appears that Divine Wisdom, to whom all 
 philosophers and Christians bow, with that humiliation and devotion due 
 from the creature to the Creator, has made the United States his grand 
 theatre on which to demonstrate some human problems, of which other 
 portions of the earth have no conception. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Mr. John Hay was the next permanent citizen of Belleville after the 
 proprietor, Mr. Blair, and remained in the city until his death in 1843. 
 He was the generalissimo of the pen for the whole county at that day 
 (1814,) as he had been for many years before in Cahokia, while the seat 
 
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 of justice was located at that village. He was the son of Major Hay, the 
 English Governor of Upper Canada, while the English possessed the 
 country south of the Lakes. Mr. Hay had received a liberal education, 
 and was a classical scholar. He settled in Cahokia, and, as a matter of 
 course and necessity, all the offices that required talents, writing and 
 penmanship were bestowed upon him. He was the general and undis¬ 
 puted writer of wfils and contracts, when the parties had any property ? 
 which was seldom the case. I knew in those days Mr. Hay’s wills by 
 heart. They were almost always exactly similar, and emanated from the 
 honesty of his intentions. 
 
 Mr. Hay was never idle nor indolent, but worked while life lasted. He 
 was not wealthy, but he enjoyed a good degree of happiness in his quiet 
 home with his wife. He raised a large and respectable family, and died 
 as he had lived, beloved and respected by all who knew him. In his office 
 he was kind and accommodating. When I would enter his office in those 
 early times, he would exclaim, “Dod drot it, John ! What do you want?” 
 All my friends called me at that early day, John, and nothing more. He 
 united himself with the Roman Catholic Church, and died in that faith, 
 praising God. 
 
 It was remarked in a preceding chapter that the Court House was 
 contracted to be built in Belleville in the summer of 1814, and Etienne 
 Pensoneau erected it in the centre of the public square. This building 
 was considered quite large for the time and occasion. It was two stories 
 high, and the Court Room below occupied the whole edifice. It was a 
 frame building, and never received a coat of paint. The upper story 
 contained the Jury Rooms and Clerk’s Offices. This Court House 
 remained in its position, in the middle of the public square, until the brick 
 Court House, lately torn down, was finished in 1833. 
 
 A Jail was built by Mr. Sharp near the spot where the Clerk’s Office, 
 lately removed, stood on the public square. It was the voice of public 
 opinion in olden times that the public square was the place for the public 
 buildings, and no where else. I do not know that the wisdom of the 
 present day is any better. I believe there is not, perhaps, a more tasty, 
 elegant and beautiful Court Room in the State than is contained in the 
 new Court House in this city; but it is in the third story, counting the 
 basement, and inconvenient for people to mount two flights of stairs to 
 enter this saloon of justice. The masses should be accommodated on or 
 near Mother Earth, without the time and labor of mounting two flights of 
 stairs. 
 
 It was in this Jail that William Bennett was confined before he was 
 
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 hung for the murder of Stuart. What solemn and awful feelings a human 
 being must have on such occasions! 
 
 Mr. Chapman erected the first mill that appeared in or near Belleville. 
 It was a water mill, and built in 1814, on the western side of Richland 
 Creek, not far above the bridge on the road leading from here to Waterloo. 
 Mr. Pensoneau purchased the mill; but it soon ceased to do any good, 
 for want of water. 
 
 I believe it was in the fall of the year 1814 that the Hon. Jesse B. 
 Thomas held Court in a log house in Belleville, a few yards north of the 
 house Mr. Blair built for his hotel; and before his Honor I appeared for 
 about the first time as a lawyer to practice the profession. Diffidence was 
 a chronic disease with me ; and I never have been able to entirely cast it 
 away to the present hour. My first effort to address the Court was 
 exceedingly painful, and the more philosophy I exerted to discard this 
 foolish sensibility the worse the effort made it. 
 
 Gen. Henry, exceedingly popular for his services in the Blackhawk war, 
 and the citizens of Springfield, his residence, gave him a party, but his 
 diffidence was so great and obdurate, that he could not and did not 
 appear in public at the banquet. It is strange that a man may have the 
 courage to face the messengers of death on the battle field as he would 
 the idle wind, yet he could not conquer diffidence. 
 
 It appears that Joseph Kerr had the first store of dry goods in Belle¬ 
 ville. They were opened in 1814, at Mr. Chapman’s mill. He was a 
 brother of Matthew Kerr of St. Louis, from whom he obtained his stock 
 of goods. Messrs. Lindle, Ringgold, Wilkinson, Pensoneau, and per¬ 
 haps others, opened dry goods stores suitable to the times. 
 
 In the year 1815, Mr. Ruben Anderson moved from Cahokia and settled 
 in Belleville. He resided in a small log cabin on Illinois street, not far 
 north of Mr. Blair’s hotel. Mr. Anderson went into the hotel business, 
 was soon elected constable, and served, perhaps, as deputy sheriff. He 
 possessed an active, spirited mind, and was an agreeable companion in, 
 and very fond of, social and gay society. This fondness for the gay and 
 mirthful often predominated over his better judgment. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS AND BUILDINGS IN BELLEVILLE. 
 
 The site of Belleville is much changed since the location of the town 
 in 1814. Parts of it are filled up with earth, and other parts cut away. 
 A pond of water occupied part of the block south of Main street, and be- 
 
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 tween High and Jackson streets. This sheet of water extended west into 
 High street, covering the ground w’here the elegant building of Mr. S. 
 Stookey now stands. This pond, after heavy rains, was seventy or eighty 
 yards long, and thirty or forty wide. It extended in a south-east direc¬ 
 tion from the west corner of the block. This low ground, containing this 
 water, is now filled up, and is one of the most eligible blocks of the city. 
 
 James Tannehill immigrated to Belleville in 1817, and built the largest 
 house then in town. This building occupied the corner lot south of Main 
 street, and adjoining the public square on the west, the very spot on 
 which Mr. Maus’ hotel now stands. This pioneer edifice was composed 
 of frame work and hewn logs, and what is strange, the logs were placed 
 upon the frame work. The main building was two stories high, but addi¬ 
 tions and sub-additions were made to it until the whole structure looked like 
 a French village. This hotel at that time was probably the largest in 
 southern Illinois. It stood the storms and tempests, and the moisture and 
 miasma of a backwoods hotel, for a period of forty years, and then yielded 
 to the stately and elegant National Hotel. 
 
 Mr. Tannehill was not adapted to the profession of a landlord. He was 
 too kind and easy with his guests, requiring them to pay their bills only 
 when it suited their convenience. He and family labored hard for the 
 public, but they never received any adequate compensation for it. He 
 was a wagon maker, and this trade, with his hotel, kept him about even 
 with the world. 
 
 This famous hotel had many landlords. It passed into the hands of 
 Judge Latham of Edwardsville, and he had it kept by Mr. Garrison and 
 lady. Judge Latham was a bachelor, with considerable wealth for that 
 day. After a while it passed into the hands of Wm. Orr, Esq., wherein 
 he died of cholera in 1832. Mr. Maus then become proprietor, and con¬ 
 tinued in it, until he erected his splendid house before alluded to. 
 
 Another hotel was erected by Daniel Wise in 1815, fronting on Main 
 street, a little east of the Primm House. This edifice was considered at 
 the time rather a large building, and it made a tolerably comfortable 
 hotel. At one period Mr. Bottsford -was the ruling spirit of this hotel, 
 and gave general satisfaction to the public. The building passed from 
 Mr. Wise into the hands of Mr. Robison, an Englishman. This gentle¬ 
 man had no family. He was a warm and zealous Roman Catholic, and 
 gave the property to that church. My readers will be pleased when I call 
 their attention to the different passions which governed these two men, 
 Latham and Robison. I knew them well, and can testify that they pos¬ 
 sessed rather better than ordinary talents. Each was well educated. Mr. 
 
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 Robison was a school teacher, and discharged his important duties to the 
 satisfaction of his employers. Latham possessed in his heart too much 
 gallantry for his landlady, that would lead any man to ruin and death 
 if persisted in. The pure and holy passions of Mr. Robison chastened 
 his heart, and elevated his existence into elysian fields of bliss in this life, 
 with a well founded hope of a seat at the right hand of God. 
 
 Another conspicuous and permanent log house was erected by Mr. 
 Kerr in 1815, and occupied the lot on which Mr. Jacob Knoeble’s fine 
 brick hotel now stands. This famous edifice passed through many hands 
 and many scenes. In 1844 it was removed, and the spacious Belleville 
 House was placed upon the ground, an ornament to the city. In 1815, 
 Dr. Estes purchased a residence a few hundred yards south of the public 
 square, and made some improvements upon it, and then left the city. At 
 that early day this locality was considered out of the suburbs of the 
 town. The city now extends all around the premises. Mr. Chandler, the 
 proprietor of these lots, has so improved them, that the ladies, at least, 
 would pronounce it a “sweet place.” 
 
 In the year 1817, Mr. Daniel Murray emigrated from Baltimore and 
 settled in Belleville. This gentleman, the head of a large and respectable 
 family, and they, with the patriarch at the head, made quite an addition 
 to the young town. Mr. Murray purchased and erected a house on the 
 lot in the north-east corner of Mr. Hinckley’s mill block. He was a man 
 of sound, solid mind, and exemplary morals. An excellent member of 
 society, he and his family gave weight and standing to good morals and 
 correct principles. This family has branched out from a noble and worthy 
 stock, and bids fair to do honor to their ancestry. 
 
 Under an act of the State legislature in 1818, or 1819, the town of 
 Belleville was incorporated. Mr. D. Murray was President of the first Board 
 of Trustees. It will be seen by this that corporations are no new things 
 in Belleville, as the first one is more than forty years old. 
 
 John Murray came to Illinois with his father when he was eighteen 
 years old, and he has been a continued and permanent resident of Belle¬ 
 ville for more than forty-five years. He is a prominent and efficient citi¬ 
 zen, and well deserves to be styled one of the fathers of Belleville. He 
 has held various offices of honor and responsibility, and has performed his 
 duties in public and private to the satisfaction of the community. 
 
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 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 HARD TIMES.-BELLEVILLE STANDS STILL-DEBTORS, ETC. 
 
 The war with England had exhausted the country, and the paper cur¬ 
 rency throughout the nation was broken down and become worthless. 
 These difficulties in the currency, or rather in the want of currency, 
 reached Illinois and Belleville, as it did all other parts of the Union. 
 From 1818 to about 1826, Belleville was almost stationary, and increased 
 in wealth and buildings but little. During part of this time business was 
 measurably suspended, and weeds sprouted and grew upon the public 
 square. Different means were resorted to by the legislature to free the 
 people from embarrassment. In these hard times cows and calves sold 
 for five dollars. Stay laws, bankrupt acts, state banks and many other 
 remedies were adopted, but I believe they injured more than they bene¬ 
 fited the people. 
 
 Three lawyers, William Meas, A. C. Stuart and Robert K. McLaughlin, 
 reached Belleville about the same time in 1815, and each erected a house 
 and became a permanent resident. Mr. Meas built a log house, two 
 stories high, on Illinois and 1st South street, in which he lived and died. 
 Mr. Stuart erected a frame house, two stories high, on a lot purchased 
 from William Phillips. This house is still standing in the south-eastern 
 suburbs of the city. Mr. McLaughlin built a house adjoining the public 
 square, on the site now occupied by the residence of Mr. James Mitchell. 
 He used it as a hotel, and entertained the non-resident lawyers when 
 attending court. I recollect that in the year 1817, Judge Pope and the 
 Hon. D. P. Cook, attended this term of the court in Belleville. 
 
 Mr. Meas, at the time he located in Belleville, was the Attorney 
 General of the Territory of Illinois. He was a good, sound lawyer, and 
 had a good practice, but he never became wealthy by it. The learned 
 professions do not obtain wealth as many other pursuits in business. Very 
 few lawyers, preachers or doctors, become wealthy by their professional 
 business. It is speculation in the west that has made the active business 
 man wealthy. The rise of property—real estate—has made many princely 
 fortunes in the valley of the Mississippi—within a few years past, in the 
 cities of Chicago, St. Louis and even in Belleville. I know that it is 
 mainly by the growth of the country, and the increase in the value of real 
 estate that have made so many men enter the lists of millionaires. A 
 scientific, professional man, who attends to his business, has not the time, 
 nor inclination, to throw away his science and literature, and enter the 
 arena of speculation. 
 
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 Belleville lingered along in poverty and log cabins for many years after 
 its location. Mr. Etienne Pensoneau, who purchased the land on which 
 Belleville is built, from Mr. Blair, possessed some wealth, but he did not 
 advance the growth of the town by it. He had a small store of dry 
 goods, some negro slaves, the mill on Richland creek, and much other 
 property, but he had not the least notion that the improvements of the 
 city would advance his wealth. Mr. P. was a Canadian Frenchman, and 
 did not talk or understand much of the English language. 
 
 About the year 1816 , Mr. Taylor, an eastern man, preached in the 
 court house, and observed in his sermon, that there would be two servants 
 in a mill—one would be taken and the other left. Pensoneau was 
 exceedingly irritable and hasty. This expression, falling from an abolition 
 preacher, put Pensoneau in a flame. As soon as the preacher descended 
 from the pulpit, Mr. P. rushed at him with the double tree of a wagon to 
 demolish him, believing it was the intention of the preacher to take one 
 of his slaves from the mill. This affair made much sport at the time. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 PROGRESS OF BELLEVILLE.-MEN AND HOUSES. 
 
 Governor Edwards purchased out Belleville from Pensoneau, which 
 gave the town its first grand advance. This event, followed by the erection 
 of a flouring mill on High street, (not far south of Main,) started Belleville 
 into existence, and it has enjoyed a steady growth from that time to the 
 present. 
 
 No individual in Illinois was as well calculated to start a town into 
 existence, with the proper means in its reach, as Governor Edwards. He 
 was then a private citizen, and possessed wealth and talents, and a 
 becoming ambition to increase his fortune. He permitted no honorable 
 occasion to eseape where he could make money. 
 
 He was a man of fine talents, rather on the brilliant and showy order, 
 and was an accomplished orator, and, also a classical scholar. He never 
 abandoned his literary studies until the hour of his death. Possessing a 
 fine library, he used his books not for show in a book case, but for the 
 intrinsic merit of the works. He was active and enterprising in politics, 
 and had many bitter enemies as all great men have. The men opposed 
 to Governor Edwards in politics never gave him the credit for talents and 
 
 merit that he deserved, in my opinion. I knew him well from his first 
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 entrance into the Territory in 1809, until his death in 1832, by the 
 cholera, and my opinion is founded on the personal knowledge I had of 
 him. 
 
 In the year 1818, St. Clair county, and Belleville itself, received several 
 wealthy and respectable families from Bottetort county, Virginia. This 
 acquisition of immigrants added much to the welfare of Belleville, as well 
 as to the county at that early day. Soon after their arrival in the State, 
 James Mitchell, John II. Dennis and B. J. West, then a youth, settled in 
 Belleville, and they are still living in the city. Messrs. Mitchell and 
 West were merchants for many years, and the latter still continues 
 the business to this day. Mr. Mitchell erected two frame houses, the one 
 he lives in, and the other occupied by Messrs. West & Co. as a store, which 
 fronts on the east side of the public square. They were considered in 
 their youthful day about the best houses in town. 
 
 Mr. Mitchell was appointed justice of the peace in 1821, and acted in 
 that office and that of postmaster for many years. Mr. Dennis has been 
 engaged mostly as a teacher, and most of the youth of this city, for forty 
 years, have been taught by him. He is now the school commissioner for 
 the county, and he gives life, vigor and efficiency, to the whole free school 
 system. These two gentlemen, for their age, long residence in Belleville, 
 and for their worth and merit, may be termed two of the fathers of the 
 city. 
 
 About the year 1818, before Gov. Edwards moved to Belleville, he and 
 Mr. McLaughlin erected a brick house, fronting on Main street, near the 
 place'Vhere the brick house of Mr. Murray stands at present. About the 
 same time three other brick houses were built—one by Samuel Crane on 
 High Street, where W. S. Thomas resides—another by a carpenter named 
 Taft, on the spot which is now occupied by the new court house—and the 
 third by S. Hull, on High street, south of Second. This venerable build- 
 ing is yet standing, but alas, it is deserted, and those who built it have 
 ceased to live. 
 
 Messrs. Blackwell, Hay, John Murray, Wilkinson, McLauglin, and most 
 of the leading and prominent citizens, made up a joint stock company, 
 built a house, and filled the library with a goodly number of books for that 
 early day in the west. This institution was kept up for many years, and 
 no doubt was of essential service to those who read and studied the works 
 contained in the library. 
 
 In or about the year 1819, Messrs. Wilkinson A Ringgold erected a flour¬ 
 ing mill on High street as above stated. This mill was the illustrious prede¬ 
 cessor of the famous flouring mills, known all over the west as the “ Harrison 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 mills,” which now stand on Main street near Richland creek. The 
 Harrison company have disposed of the mills, but left their name 
 attached to them. The original mill on High street was propelled by 
 oxen walking on an inclined wheel. Steam mills in 1819 were not a 
 demonstrated discovery, and many “tread mills” were found all over the 
 country. I owned a fine one in Illinoistown before steam mills were 
 introduced. This tread mill on High street was sold to Jacob Whiteside, 
 who sold it to Thomas Harrison and Sons. The Harrison family worked 
 and prosecuted the manufacture of flour and the milling business, with an 
 energy and sound practical judgment that have been a great benefit to 
 the town and country, and have made the whole family immense fortunes. 
 When Belleville was humble, weak, and the breath nearly out of it, this 
 mill did it more service than any other institution, man or men, in the 
 town. 
 
 Not long before 1 moved to Belleville, in 1831, the Harrisons had 
 abandoned the ox part of the mill, and introduced steam power. The 
 first night we were in Belleville we heard the puffing of the steam, and 
 were much puzzled to know what it was. 
 
 In 1818—19, mechanics began to appear in the town, and to make 
 livings for themselves by their trade. Smith and Small were blacksmiths, 
 and commenced business. With Mr. Small, Mr. Conrad Bornman, then a 
 young man, came to Belleville, and has resided in, or near it, where he 
 now resides, ever since. I never saw a more marked case of success with 
 any man, by a prudent, wise, and honest course of life, than is presented 
 by Mr. Bornman. He was then a stranger from Germany, and could 
 scarcely speak the English language, and without money or friends. He 
 abandoned the blacksmith trade, and learned the trade of making and 
 laying brick. He is now wealthy, and possesses a high standing for 
 probity and honesty wherever he is known. 
 
 Mr. Bornman was the first German who settled in Belleville so far as I 
 know, and deserves and receives commendation for his irreproachable 
 character. 
 
 About the years 1826—7—8, the country began to increase in num¬ 
 bers, and to be developed. Belleville grew in proportion to the country, 
 and has been growing every year since. 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 HEALTH OF BELLEVILLE-IMPROVEMENTS-IMMIGRATION-BITUMINOUS COAL. 
 
 There can be nothing more important than the health of a place where 
 any person may reside. I have often expressed it that a person knowing 
 
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 the facts, and bringing his family into a sickly country, commits a great 
 sin. The mind and body are enfeebled and made weak by a sickly 
 climate, while the reverse is true of those born and reared in a healthy 
 atmosphere. In early times the whole state of Illinois was more or less 
 subject to bilious diseases. The strong, rank vegetation being removed, 
 and the soil well cultivated, a purer and healthier atmosphere has been 
 created. The high grass and weeds do not appear any where as they did 
 in pioneer times. The decomposition of this excess of vegetation in 
 former times rendered the atmosphere impure and injurious to health; 
 whereas there is no strong and heavy vegetation like that in early times. 
 The lakes and swamps in the river and creek bottoms are being filled up 
 with earth, and becoming dry ground and healthy. This at least is the 
 common way to account for the change from the chills and fevers of the 
 fall season to good health. 
 
 It is true that the State is at this time one of the most healthy in the 
 Union, and the city of Belleville enjoys as much health as any city in 
 America. This city is not annoyed by lakes or swamps near it, and the 
 atmosphere must be good and pure, as there are no causes to produce the 
 contrary result. The annoying insects known as musquitoes never trouble 
 the people here. 
 
 Belleville is located, as has been stated, on the high lands about 
 equi-distant from the Mississippi and Kaskaskia rivers, about fourteen 
 miles from either. The well water is pure and limpid. The wells are 
 usually eighteen or twenty feet deep, and at the bottom is generally 
 found a limestone rock. I do not believe any country affords better 
 water than the State of Illinois, (except mountainous countries,) and 
 this city is not behind any other section of the State in the abundance of 
 pure, excellent water. 
 
 The blacksmiths, Smith, Small and others, were the first to use bitu¬ 
 minous coal in their shops, and discovered it first in High Prairie, six or 
 seven miles south of Belleville. The first regular coal mine was opened 
 by William Fowler in 1825, and he found a ready sale for it in the city 
 for fuel. This mine was opened south of Belleville, in the bluff, where 
 Richland creek strikes the high lands and makes a sharp curve to the 
 left. Since this mine was opened, it has been discovered that the whole 
 southern part of the State is a coal field, and in and around this city the 
 article may be found any where by sinking a shaft to it. Frequently 
 three different strata are found one over the other, and the lowest the best 
 coal, and often eighty or one hundred feet below the surface of the earth. 
 
 Belleville stands above a coal mine, and the article may be found any 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 place by digging for it. After the rich and fertile soil which surrounds 
 the city, and our proverbially good health, stone coal is the next item 
 of valuable interest and commercial importance. No one element will 
 advance the solid and permanent interests of a city more than the article 
 of coal. I saw in England that coal was essential to the improvement 
 and prosperity of the country, and it is so in this country. Stone coal is 
 the very soul and life of manufactures, and with this powerful engine of 
 prosperity, Belleville is destined to remain the largest city in Southern 
 Illinois. 
 
 In connection with the speedy growth of the city, the McAdamized 
 road and the railroad have performed great and important service. These 
 two speedy and cheap communications with the Mississippi and St. Louis, 
 have placed this city for business purposes on the bank of the river. 
 These two roads arc checks to one another, and wagons or cars can be 
 used at the pleasure of the public. I am informed that no railroad in 
 America is better stock than the Belleville road, and that the turnpike 
 pays a reasonable dividend on its capital stock. Flour can be conveyed 
 from Belleville to the river about as cheap and speedy as it can be trans¬ 
 ported from the mills in the western suburbs of St. Louis to the levee. 
 
 While on the subject of roads I must mention the plank roads—one 
 leading to Freeburg, seven miles—one to Mascoutah, ten miles, and one to 
 Shiloh, five miles. These roads have already been of great service to 
 the country and city. 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 PROFESSIONAL MEN IN BELLEVILLE. 
 
 I believe worthy and respectable gentlemen of the learned professions 
 give a community an elevated character and high standing that add much 
 to the prosperity and general welfare of the country. To become great 
 and eminent in the profession of the law requires much study and labor. 
 The student of law, to become profound, must enter the field of science 
 and literature, and become a thorough scholar. It is nonsense for any 
 man to attempt to become great and learned in the science of the law 
 unless he has good talents and remains steadfast in his profession and 
 labors hard. 
 
 As already stated, Messrs. Mears, McLaughlin and A. C. Stuart were 
 the first lawyers who located in Belleville. Mr. Stuart was a man of 
 genius, talents and learning, but he came to an untimely death by indulg- 
 
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 ing too much in social and wild society. The public regretted his loss, 
 and his family were left to buffet the world without a father. 
 
 Mr. Mears was a well read lawyer. Gov. Edwards appointed him Attor¬ 
 ney General of the Territory of Illinois, and he made an excellent officer 
 to prosecute offenses. He died poor, in 1826. 
 
 Mr. McLaughlin did not practice law a great while, but turned his atten¬ 
 tion to merchandizing. He was once clerk of the county court. In a few 
 years he moved to Vandalia, where he still resides. 
 
 David Blackwell became a resident lawyer in Belleville in 1819, and 
 remained here until his death. He was a good, sound lawyer, and prac¬ 
 ticed his profession exclusively. He edited a paper at the seat of govern¬ 
 ment, Vandalia, but returned to Belleville, where he died. He was an 
 honest, correct man, and opposed the introduction of slavery into the State. 
 
 J. W. Whitney and John Turney, Esqs., resided in Belleville for 
 some time. I think Mr. Whitney came to the town in 1816, and Mr. 
 Turney shortly afterwards. The former moved to Pike county, and died 
 not long ago; he was familiarly known as “My Lord Coke.” The latter 
 moved to Galena, and was a member of the Legislature in 1826, at Van¬ 
 dalia ; he was a good lawyer, and an agreeable man; he died while he 
 was quite a young man. 
 
 Adam W. Snyder, Esq., moved to Belleville in the year 1825, and was 
 a resident of the town for many years. He built an elegant brick house; 
 he occupied, at that time, a whole square, fronting on Spring and First 
 North streets. At the time this house was erected, in 1835, I presume it 
 was the best house in town. Mr. Snyder was not only a popular lawyer, 
 but much of his life was spent in public employment. He was a man of 
 genius and talents, and possessed exceedingly popular manners. He 
 remained in friendly fellowship with the jurors, who nearly always set it 
 down that he was right in his address to them. He was elected to the 
 General Assembly often, and to Congress. He was always a Democrat, 
 and was a candidate for Governor when he died, and would, no doubt, 
 have been elected had he lived. 
 
 Non-resident lawyers attended Belleville in great numbers. Col. Benton^ 
 Judge Pope, Daniel P. Cook, E. K. Kane, Thomas Reynolds, Sidney 
 Breese, Starr, Winchester, myself, and perhaps others I may have forgot¬ 
 ten. St. Louis furnished many talented and eminent lawyers, among them 
 Col. Rufus Eaton, Edward and C. S. Hempstead, J. W. Peck, U. S. Judge, 
 David Barton, and his brother Joshua, Lucas and McGinnis, and perhaps 
 others, whom I do not recollect. 
 
 The Belleville bar, in olden times, was the strongest in all the western 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 valley, taking into consideration the talents and the great number of 
 members. I give the names of the bar here, that the present generation 
 may look back with honest pride to the Belleville bar, in the times which 
 never can return: Hon. Jesse B. Thomas, and Hon. William Sprigg, TJ. S. 
 Judges for the Territory—one or the other presided in the courts, and the 
 bar was composed, at different sessions of the court, of Col. Benton, David 
 Barton, Gov. Edwards, Judge Pope, Hon. E. K. Kane, Hon. Daniel P. Cook, 
 Mr. Lucas, Hon. Thos. Reynolds, Hon. Sidney Breese, Hon. A. W. Snyder, 
 Col. Rufus Eaton, Judge Peck of Missouri, Starr, Blackwell, Edward 
 Hempstead, and C. S. Hempstead of Galena. I was an humble member 
 of the Belleville bar until 1818, when I presided as Judge until 
 1824. A great many of the above names became so famous and well 
 known, that they were like household words—on the tongue of everv one. 
 
 The human frame is created with such wonderful nicety and complexity, 
 that imprudent actions will injure us, and the mudsills of our existence 
 give way—then we take our flight to the spirit world; but so long as our 
 abode is on this mundane sphere, our afflictions require at times medical 
 skill. More that two thousand years ago we read that the Greek nation 
 had an Esculapius to administer to the infirmities of the body. All man¬ 
 kind, civilized or savage, intelligent or ignorant, from the time of the 
 Greek physician to the present time, in the small town of Belleville will 
 be found with the medical profession among them. 
 
 Dr. Estes was the first physician that settled in this town, at the time 
 and place above stated, and practiced his profession while he remained 
 here. He had a strong mind, but it was not properly balanced. 
 
 Dr. Schogg appeared in Belleville about this time. He was a noxious 
 vapor, shedding light and darkness so close to each other, that he put the 
 whole town into an uproar. He had two shooting matches, using pistols, 
 with two individuals, and their targets were their own bodies. The com¬ 
 bats arose from the same cause wherein Troy was destroyed. 
 
 Dr. Jos. Green made this town his residence about this important period 
 of the doctors, and he was the reverse of belligerent life. He was well 
 read, and an excellent physician, only he was too slow in approaching his 
 patients’ bedside. He was a humane man, and would frequently get down 
 off his horse and lead the animal, to rest him. He feared his own weight 
 would oppress the horse. 
 
 Dr. Wm. G. Goforth located in this town about 1816 or 1817, and after 
 a mixed and singular life, died in it in 1835. This son of Esculapius was 
 a singular species of humanity, taking either into view, his mind or his 
 body. He looked and acted like no one else; nevertheless, he was my 
 
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 THE HISTORY OF THE 
 
 physician amongst all the literary and scientific doctors. He cured me, 
 and that was all I desired. He cast away his books and depended mainly 
 on his efforts in the practice. His perception of the patient, feeling the 
 pulse, seeing the tongue, decided the case, and the subsequent treatment 
 was quick as thought. 
 
 The clergymen in olden times were like angels visits, “ few and far 
 between.” The Roman Catholic congregation in this town, in ’36, erected 
 a large and substantial church, located in the south-west part of the city; 
 officiating ministry are well sustained in this diocese. A large and excel¬ 
 lent organ is used in this church, and the congregation is large. 
 
 A small Methodist church was erected in 1830, and the new Methodist 
 church in the year 1847. This last named edifice is large, comfortable, 
 and well adapted for the house of God. 
 
 The Baptist Society has erected a neat, handsome, but small church, on 
 Main, near Jackson street. 
 
 Another elegant and well-ordered church building stands on Jackson 
 street, not far from Second South street. A venerable church was erected 
 many years ago, and is located in the north-west suburbs of Belleville. A 
 fine, new church is located on Second North street, and near Spring street. 
 The last named edifice is made and finished in tasty style, and reflects 
 credit on all concerned in this good and praiseworthy work. Mankind 
 cannot pass, with any degree of happiness, through this vale of tears, 
 without some philosophic religion, virtue, civilization, and all the Christian 
 blessings. We should relapse into the savage state, or barbarism, were we 
 not sustained by the law of “ Love thy neighbor as thyself.” 
 
 Rev. Mr. Oglesby visited this town, and preached in it, in early times. 
 Or. Casad has officiated as a clergyman in Belleville in pioneer times. 
 Gov. Kinney has also preached in this new town. About the year 1821, 
 Dr. J. M. Peck preached at times in this new county seat. About the 
 year 1819, Rev. Mr. Edmonds was established in Belleville as a permanent 
 local preacher; ever since,Belleville has been a station with the Methodist 
 church. 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 PEOPLE-STORES-HOTELS— BEER. 
 
 All the benefits, blessings and advantages presented in the preceding 
 pages, induced a hardy and enterprising race of men to locate and settle 
 in Belleville. During many years past, and now, the city, West and North 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 Belleville, and all the surrounding suburbs, would, I presume, amount to 
 ten thousand inhabitants; and, I believe there is no city in the universe 
 where the people, for the same number, labor more, and use more energy 
 to make a living, than they do in Belleville. In many other places in the 
 Union, more lazy and idle people will be seen than in this city. 
 
 With this labor, energy, and consequent wealth, the public sustains 
 about thirty-five stores, of all descriptions, including dry goods, hardware, 
 millinery, and groceries. It is estimated that these stores do a business 
 to the Amount of four hundred thousand dollars per annum, when the 
 ordinary business is not interrupted by the war. There are three drug 
 stores which do an annual business, in common years, to the amount 
 of fifteen thousand dollars. Many of the dry goods stores are beautiful 
 and truly fascinating. Very few stores in any city can surpass those in 
 Belleville, and the goods themselves are worthy of all commendation. 
 But when it is known that annually four hundred thousand dollars worth 
 is sold at these stores, it will establish the fact that the city and country 
 liberally patronize the merchants of this city, and it is hoped both parties 
 will be benefited by these commercial relations. 
 
 There are four well established and profitable lumber yards in Belleville, 
 and the country and town are abundantly supplied with the finest lumber 
 and shingles that any country can produce. The wealthy farmers who 
 are increasing the cultivated lands, make plank fencing, and they mostly 
 call on the lumber merchants of this city for the supply. It is estimated 
 the amount of lumber in all the yards annually would be one hundred 
 thousand dollars, and the sale of plank seventy-five thousand dollars. 
 
 The hotels m this city are comfortable and substantial buildings, and 
 well calculated to accommodate the public. They are numerous, and still 
 increasing. Boarding houses are also numerous and well constituted. In 
 the city of Belleville about twenty business and efficient hotels are kept in 
 a plain, comfortable manner, suited to the traveling public, and others who 
 may give them their patronage. About fifteen are in operation on Main 
 street, and the buildings employed are generally fine brick houses, many 
 of them three stories high, well finished and furnished. The other public 
 houses are erected in other parts of the city and West Belleville, and 
 conduct about the same class of houses as their neighbors do. About 
 half the hotels on Main street are conducted in fine three-story brick 
 houses, and Mr. Maus has erected an elegant new T hotel house four stories 
 high. The amount of stock employed in all these hotels would be about 
 one hundred thousand dollars, and the business annually about the same. 
 The long established and successful house recently opened by Mr. Ellis, 
 
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 and formerly occupied by Mr. Primm, stands on the corner of Spring and 
 First South streets, and is at present in complete and successful operation. 
 
 The competition amongst the hotels, like all other business, keeps the 
 whole community of public houses down to the proper standard as to 
 price aud accommodation. The most powerful regulator of human 
 actions is competition. 
 
 The ale and beer of Belleville are known all over the West, and are 
 drank on and near the Mississippi from St. Anthony’s Falls to the Gulf of 
 Mexico. I presume that no city in America, with the same population 
 as Belleville, can equal the capacities of the breweries in this city, and 
 also the excellent quality of beer and ale manufactured in them. The 
 greater portion of the ale manufactured in this city is shipped ordinarily 
 to the Southern market. The following table of the ale and beer made in 
 this city, yearly, is true and correct: 
 
 Simon Eimer. 8,000 bbls. 
 
 Neu & Ginz. 6,000 “ 
 
 John Klug. 4,000 “ 
 
 NenhofF. 3,000 “ 
 
 Stolezle. 3,500 “ 
 
 Hebberer. 2,500 “ 
 
 Schuchman. 2,000 “ 
 
 Priester & Fillinger. 1,500 “ 
 
 Total.30,500 bbls. 
 
 The above table presents the truth of the manufacture of one article in 
 this city, which would be beyond belief if the facts were not authenticated 
 by those conversant with the subject. The above article of beer alone 
 will go far to satisfy any intelligent, impartial mind, that the country 
 possesses great resources in hops, barley and other ingredients in the 
 manufacture of beer; and the city itself must be a place of energy, 
 business habits and intelligence in the science of brewing, or the above 
 amount of beer could not be produced. 
 
 Mr. Eimer came to the city in 1844, and was not wealthy at the time; 
 but his sound judgment and business habits in the manufacture of ale and 
 beer have rendered him one of the largest operators west of the Alleghany 
 Mountains. His large field of operation was in the South ; and at present 
 his ample means of business, also his energy and talents, are suspended 
 until the country is clear of its present embarrassment. His brewery is 
 the largest in the Mississippi valley. It is called the “ Washington 
 Brewery,” and, with Mr. Eimer’s residence, covers about half a block, 
 fronting on Richland, and bounded on the north and south by Second and 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
 21 
 
 Third South streets. Steam propels all the machinery of the factory, and 
 almost everything that moves in the building. His beer cellars are two 
 stories down, and when any one descends into “the lower depths,” it is 
 somewhat like he had left the mundane world. Mr. Barkley was called 
 the great beer man of London, and I think Mr. Eimer is entitled to be 
 called the Barkley of Belleville. 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 MILLS, SHOPS AND STABLES. 
 
 The mechanics and shops are efficient in Belleville. There are in the 
 city twenty-five blacksmiths, including locksmiths and gunsmith. The 
 business of a blacksmith is essential to the well-being of society, and 
 without them society and civilization could not exist. Moreover, the 
 manufacture of iron, and the skillful work in it, is the best evidence of the 
 advance of intelligence and reformation from the savage and barbarous 
 state. The Indians of North America had no iron tools when Columbus 
 discovered the country. The Aztec natives of Mexico used copper to 
 some small extent for tools. 
 
 There are in Belleville seven regular carpenter shops, and perhaps 
 several more. An intelligent mechanic thinks, in ordinary times, the 
 amount of work performed in all these shops would amount, annually, to 
 two hundred and thirty thousand dollars. It must be recollected that 
 some of the carpentering in Belleville is for the country. 
 
 There are in Belleville about twenty-five boot and shoe shops, and the 
 same number of tailor shops. It is astonishing to know the great amount 
 of boots and shoes made and sold here. The tailors are also busily 
 engaged, night and day, to accommodate their customers. The country 
 depends much upon the city mechanics for their boots, shoes and clothes. 
 
 Belleville contains about eight saddler shops and two book binderies; 
 also four printing presses, two American and two German; also two 
 factories of soda water and two of candy. 
 
 There are in Belleville about thirteen wagon shops and three carriage 
 manufactories. Wagons are manufactured in great numbers here for the 
 surrounding country, hundreds of miles back in the interior. The amount 
 of money derived from the sale of wagons and carriages is enormous—the 
 latter alone bringing twenty thousand dollars annually. 
 
 Three very extensive factories for the manufacture of agricultural 
 implements are constantly in motion. The amount of these implements 
 
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 sold annually reach the sum of three hundred thousand dollars; and the 
 implements manufactured at other places, and sold here, will raise the 
 sum to one hundred thousand more. Two iron and brass founderies are 
 kept constantly employed on these machines, and on such other work as 
 the city and country demand. 
 
 Four large malt factories are doing a flourishing business, selling about 
 fifty thousand dollars’ worth of malt yearly. 
 
 There are three door and sash factories, doing a business of about sixty 
 thousand dollars annually, and one furniture manufactory, doing a large 
 business. One tannery tans a large amount of leather. 
 
 Three large distilleries are running day and night, converting enormous 
 quantities of corn and rye into whisky. 
 
 The revenue of the meat market for the city amounts to a large sum, 
 besides the quantity slaughtered here and sold in foreign markets. 
 
 A woolen factory stands in the suburbs of Belleville. It is a neat 
 establishment, and has done a profitable business for the owner, John 
 Winter. This woolen cloth factory should be the entering wedge to the 
 erection of a cotton cloth factory. 
 
 A gas factory is established in the city of Belleville that has done much 
 for the benefit and comfort of the citizens. Most of the public streets are 
 furnished with gas light, and also many of the private houses. 
 
 A cotton yarn factory, together with cotton cloth for shirtings and 
 ordinary uses, would be a profitable investment, and would also do the 
 country and city much service. 
 
 Belleville is eminently calculated to become a great manufacturing city ; 
 and, in a few years, when the country is again in its old channel of 
 prosperity, the interests of intelligent and talented men will see that this 
 city is the best point in the Western valley for a cotton cloth and yarn 
 factory. The health is good; provisions cheap and good; a free State, 
 and the morals of the people not bad; churches and religion available 
 when called for; and why not more profitable to establish a cotton cloth 
 factory in Belleville than in Lowell, or in any of the New England States. 
 The cost of transportation of the raw cotton to the Eastern States, and 
 back again manufactured, would amount to a large sum; and all would be 
 saved by manufacturing the cotton goods where they will at last be sold. 
 There is no power of mechanism or machinery in the East that we in 
 Belleville do not possess. The factory hands—men, women, and children, 
 if necessary—can be transported to this city, both cheap and speedy, so 
 that the cost of conveyance would be trifling. If the Yankee people have 
 the acumen to make money that they are represented to possess, they will 
 
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 be out here, armed and equipped, not for war, but to make the number of 
 cotton cloth factories that the country may require, when peace is again 
 restored. 
 
 We'have three complete livery stables, and two of them, Messrs. 
 Stookey’s and Bouquet’s, have had a long and successful existence. The 
 other stable, Mr. Davidson’s, has only recently been established. 
 
 I will take this occasion to say to the public, that horse dealing and 
 horse commerce are conducted at these stables to some extent, and the 
 people having horses to sell may find a market at them. The stables of 
 Messrs. Stookey and Davidson are located on High and First South street, 
 and that of Mr. Bouquet is on Illinois street, between First and Second North, 
 The amount of money invested in these stables, including horses, car¬ 
 riages, &c., would be about sixty thousand dollars, and the business done 
 would be about the same per year. 
 
 In ordinary years a great quantity of brick was made in this city, 
 and put up into buildings. The bricklayers and stone masons form a 
 numerous and respectable community. 
 
 There are in this town four steam flouring mills, and the amount 
 passing through their hands annually is six hundred thousand dollars. 
 Mr. Hinckly will manufacture yearly about seventy thousand barrels; Mr. 
 Whitmore, one hundred thousand, and Mr. Reis four hundred and fifty 
 thousand. Wheat is the staple article with the farmers of Illinois, and it 
 requires a number of mills to grind it. 
 
 The Harrison mills stand on the west end of Main street, and have 
 made the first proprietors a fortune. This mill is the legal heir of the ox 
 mill of Wilkison and Ringgold, erected in 1819, and was a treadmill on 
 an inclined wheel. This mill gave a start to the town of Belleville, and 
 it has continued to do good to the proprietors and the public from that 
 day to the present. It is hoped it may remain long in the land, shedding 
 bread all around it. 
 
 Richard Rapier came to Belleville, with three hundred barrels of 
 whiskey in 1821, and died here in 1850. Among other things, this 
 eocentric man built a steam flouring mill, over the spring of George Blair, 
 and sold it. 
 
 Mr. R. Hinckley has erected one of the finest mills in Illinois, adjoining 
 the Rapier Mill. The new mill has in it five run of burrs, and can 
 manufacture, in a year, seventy thousand barrels of flour. 
 
 Maguire & Co. erected an excellent mill on the eastern limits of the city 
 that acts well its part. 
 
 On the east end of Main street Mr. Meister has built a small steam 
 flouring mill, and the gearing is leather bands. 
 
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 THE HISTORY OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 BANKS, NEW COURT HOUSE, MINES, RAILROADS, SCHOOLS, ROADS AND 
 
 VINEYARDS. 
 
 There are two banks in Belleville, and they are considered safe, solvent 
 institutions. Mr. Hinckley’s is of long standing, and has weathered all 
 financial storms, as yet. The other bank is younger, but seems to be 
 strong and vigorous. 
 
 The new Court House in Belleville is perhaps equal to any other in the 
 State, except that at Chicago, and it may not be inferior to that of the 
 “Lake City.’’ This new edifice is beautifully situated on a lot, fronting 
 south of the public square, and is built two lofty stories high, besides the 
 basement. It is roofed with iron and copper, and the floors spread with 
 slabs of cut rocks, from Europe, so that the whole is considered positively 
 fire-proof. The joists and stairs of the building are made of iron. The size 
 and proportions of this grand temple of Justice accords with the age and the 
 advance of civilization. It is constructed grand and magnificent, in due re¬ 
 spect to the march towards human perfection, and is well adapted to repre¬ 
 sent the best county in the State. It is erected for use and ornament, sub¬ 
 stantial and beautiful, and has succeeded in both designs. The basement story 
 is solid, composed of strong rock walls, more like a prison than a place of 
 voluntary confinement. It is filled like a bee-hive with lawyers. The 
 next story of brick is filled with the offices of the county ; and the third 
 story contains the court and jury rooms. The former is well adapted to 
 the use and comfort of those who administer the law within its walls. The 
 cost of this edifice is nothing, when it is in the care and keeping of the 
 wealthy county of St. Clair. It cost one hundred thousand dollars; but 
 this is lost sight of when we view this splendid edifice, and the wealth of 
 the people of this county. 
 
 The new system of Free Schools seems to succeed tolerably well in this 
 city, and great numbers of children are educated in them. A tax is 
 imposed on the people, sufficient to maintain schools all the year round; 
 and all children, over the age of six years, are entitled to attend them. As 
 far as I can ascertain, there are about twelve hundred children educated at 
 the public expense. I think a poll tax should be imposed on all, and 
 then tax the people to make up the balance. 
 
 A female academy has been recently established here that is calculated 
 to do much service to the country. The building is large and commodious, 
 fronting on Third South and Race streets. This college and appurtenances 
 cover almost a whole block, and the building does honor to the projectors 
 
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 and patrons of the Institution. It is built of brick, three stories high, and 
 finished in the most approved style of architecture. It is large, and well 
 filled with young ladies. This Institution is managed by the Roman 
 Catholic Society, and conducted by Rules and Regulations well calculated 
 to improve the hearts and heads of the students. 
 
 The coal trade of Belleville to St. Louis, and the consumption of coal in 
 this city, is almost beyond belief, if the statistics were not carefully taken 
 from the books of the companies. There are twenty-three coal mines 
 opened and worked, adjacent to Belleville, and between this city and the 
 Mississippi bluff, on the railroad. The average amount of coal conveyed 
 daily on this road to East St. Louis is sixteen thousand five hundred 
 bushels. The above figures need no comment; and the public will be 
 amazed at the amount of coal transported from here to the river. 
 
 I remarked, on a former page, that the two complete and excellent 
 roads, the Macadamized and Railroad, place Belleville on the banks of the 
 Mississippi as to commercial purposes; and I again call the attention of 
 the public to it. 
 
 I have received a report from one of the officers managing the Belleville 
 Railroad, and the report states that an average of three hundred passengers 
 per day are conveyed over the above road. The Macadamized road does 
 its full share in this glorious work of advancing the best interests of this 
 country. When peace is again restored, this railroad from the river will 
 be extended East, to connect with roads pointing to the Atlantic. 
 
 The great amount of business done on the railroad from Belleville to 
 St. Louis, and to the cities of Boston and New York, is astonishing, and 
 shows the great resources of the country. 
 
 In the year 1859 were shipped 182,184 barrels of flour. The next year 
 the wheat crop was not so good, and only 104,247 barrels of flour were 
 shipped, and in 1861, 125,831, amounting in three years to 461,831 barrels 
 of flour. 
 
 Counting the barrels of flour at $5 per barrel, the amount would be 
 $2,309,153. 
 
 It must be recollected that a considerable amount of flour is also 
 conveyed in wagons on the turnpike road each year from Belleville, which 
 would add considerably to the above. 
 
 Sixty-five cars freighted with coal to the river pass daily over the rail¬ 
 road from Belleville and return. 
 
 Much of the flour shipped from Belleville is sent direct to New York 
 and Boston, and is not reshipped on the passage. 
 
 The gentlemanly and polite agent of the railroad, Mr. Miller, furnished 
 the above information, which no doubt is correct. 
 
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 THE HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Adjacent to the city of Belleville are vineyards to the amount of about 
 sixty acres, including the small pieces, cultivated by separate individuals. 
 An average, for five years, each acre will produce about four hundred and 
 fifty gallons per acre. I repeat the remark, that pure, limpid water, is the 
 drink made for man; but when the people must, against the law of 
 nature, indulge in artificial drink, beer or wine is better than brandy or 
 whisky. The use of beer or wine may have a tendency to arrest the habit 
 of strong drinking, and thereby much good may be done to the human 
 family in the choice of evils. 
 
 When the city shall contain a population of twenty or thirty thousand, 
 and all the mechanical arts are in operation a densely populated country 
 may require, it is supposed by many that an Artesian well will be necessary 
 to supply the water for the steam. The coal can be procured in any 
 place, but water for steam purposes is more difficult to obtain. The 
 Harrison Mills obtain water for steam from a pond, which affords a 
 plentiful supply. 
 
 An Artesian well may succeed in this city, and, if it does not, water in 
 abundance may be obtained by artificial ponds. 
 
 The coal, the health, the good soil, and the wealthy agricultural country 
 in all directions around the city, must, in a few years, make Belleville a 
 great manufacturing place; and, in that event, water for steam can be 
 procured either by an Artesian well, or by constructing artificial ponds. 
 
 The improvement of a city is as necessary as the improvement of a 
 country. Without Macadamized streets travel with heavy loads in carts, 
 wagons, &c., would be prevented by the mud. 
 
 I call the attention of the old residents of this city to the mud in Main 
 street before it was improved. I recollect well when Main street in St. 
 Louis was impassable with heavy loads by reason of the mud. The 
 corporation has improved and paved the sidewalks, and caused it to be 
 done by the property-holders adjoining the pavements. The sidewalks 
 are ten feet wide, and the length of the pavement now done is eighteen 
 and two-third miles long. The macadamized streets are eight and two- 
 third miles in this city. 
 
 The governments of the city were not alike in the care and caution of 
 expending the city funds. The present administration is wise and 
 economical in the imposing of the taxes and the work performed in the city. 
 
 In conclusion of this hastily-written pamphlet, I can say that the 
 citizens of this city are as moral, industrious and economical as the 
 common masses of mankind. It is all nonsense to say mankind in any 
 country, or in any condition, are perfect, and that no errors will be 
 
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 committed; but I do say that the people of Belleville are a moral, 
 orderly and law-abiding community, and that property and persons arc 
 protected and sustained both by public opinion and the proper execution 
 of the laws. At no time in Belleville have the laws been opposed by a 
 mob. I believe a regular constituted mob never raised its hideous head 
 in this city. There is no noise nor brute force exerted in the streets at 
 night or day to interrupt any one more than must be expected wherever 
 mankind exists. 
 
 The police regulations of the city are good, and well executed, when 
 there is occasion for it. This efficient arm of morality and religion, 
 together with the solemn sounds from the pulpit, warning sinners from 
 crimes, makes Belleville what it ought to be, a sober, moral community. 
 
 At times, before the war, an excess of martial music might be heard in 
 the streets on the Sabbath; but at present the day is as still as any Scotch 
 town in the old country. 
 
 Now, I pretend not that this short history will induce any immigrant to 
 come and settle in this city, except he thinks lie can better his condition. 
 I believe many working mechanics, and others, who have moderate 
 means, or none, can come here and become wealthy, respectable citizens, 
 if they pursue an honest course of industry. Property is cheaper here 
 than in St. Louis; and it will probably rise as much here as there, in 
 proportion to the first cost. I think any good, working mechanic, or 
 other person, will do well to visit this city, and, I think, will do better, if 
 he becomes a citizen in it. 
 
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 3 
 
CHARTER AND ORDINANCES. 
 
 The present revision of the “Ordinances of the City of Belleville,” is 
 the second published by order of the City Council. It differs from the 
 first, published in 1S55, only in so far as the new charter, granted to the 
 city in 1859, and the increasing population, business and wants of the city 
 made new ordinances and regulations necessary for the public good. In 
 accordance with the principle, that “few laws faithfully observed, are more 
 conducive to the public good, than many laws indifferently obeyed,” it 
 will be found that the ordinances are, comparatively speaking, few in 
 number, plain and easily understood and observed. 
 
 The new city charter, passed in 1859, has taken the place of the charter 
 of the “City of Springfield,” which latter the city of Belleville first adopted 
 in 1850. But as our present incorporation was first organized under the 
 charter of the city of Springfield, and as, by the general State law, all 
 incorporated towns and cities have all the powers, granted in the said 
 charter of the city of Springfield, it was thought expedient to reprint it in 
 the present volume. The matters contained in the general and special 
 laws, relating to the city of Belleville, and to incorporated towns and cities 
 generally, presented here in a convenient form, will, it is hoped, prove 
 convenient for reference, not only to the officers of the city, but to the 
 citizens generally; and the history of the city of Belleville, written by our 
 old and distinguished fellow citizen, John Reynolds, which forms the 
 introduction to this volume, will be read with profit and pleasure by all 
 who take an interest in our growing and flourishing city. 
 
 TIIE REVISOR. 
 
CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
 - — - .— 
 
 AN ACT GRANTING A NEW CHARTER TO THE CITY OE BELLE- 
 YILLE, AND TO REDUCE THE SEVERAL ACTS INCORPORATING 
 SAID CITY INTO ONE ACT.—Ix force Eeb. 18 , 1859 . 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 Boundaries. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly, That the city of Belleville shall comprehend 
 all that district of territory embraced within the following limits, to-wit: 
 A territory one mile square, the centre of which shall be the point where 
 the centre of Main street intersects the centre of Illinois street. And the 
 city council shall have the power to enlarge the boundaries of the city, by 
 ordinance, to any extent, not exceeding one-half of a mile south, east and 
 north, and west to any extent, not exceeding one mile: Provided , 
 however, that the incorporated town of West Belleville shall not be 
 annexed to the city of Belleville, without the consent of a majority of the 
 voters, to be ascertained by an election to be held for that purpose, or by 
 and with the consent of a majority of the board of directors of the town of 
 West Belleville. 
 
 Name. 
 
 § 2. The inhabitants of said city shall be a corporation, by the name of 
 “The City of Belleville and by that name shall have perpetual succes¬ 
 sion, sue and be sued, and complain and defend in any court; may make 
 and use a common seal, and alter and change the same at pleasure; may 
 take, hold and purchase such real, personal or mixed estate as the purposes 
 of the corporation may require, within or without the limits of the city, 
 and may sell, lease or dispose of the same for the benefit the city. 
 
 Wards. 
 
 § 3. The city of Belleville shall be divided into four wards, the boun¬ 
 daries of which shall be fixed by the city council, and shall be by the city 
 council changed, from time to time, as they shall see fit, having regard to 
 the number of free white male inhabitants, so that each ward shall contain, 
 as near as may be, the same number of white male inhabitants. The city 
 council may create additional wards, as occasion may require, and fix the 
 boundaries thereof. 
 
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 THE CHARTER OF THE 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 Officers. 
 
 § 1. The municipal government of the city shall consist of a city 
 council, to be composed of the mayor and two aldermen from each ward. 
 The other officers of the corporation shall be as follows: A city register, 
 a city marshal, a city treasurer, a city attorney, a city assessor, a city 
 collector, a city surveyor and engineer, a city weigher and market master, 
 and a city street inspector, who, in addition to the duties prescribed in this 
 act, shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by ordinance. 
 There shall also be such other officers, servants and agents of the corpora¬ 
 tion as may be provided by ordinance. All officers to be appointed by 
 the city council, unless otherwise provided by ordinance, and to perform 
 such duties as may be prescribed by ordinance: Prodded , that the city 
 council may consolidate two or more offices in one person, as they may 
 deem best for the city. 
 
 Term of Office. 
 
 § 2. All officers elected or appointed under this act, except aldermen, 
 shall hold their offices for one year and until the election or appointment 
 and qualification of their successors, respectively. All officers appointed 
 by the city council shall be appointed on the first Monday in May, in each 
 year, or as soon thereafter as may be. All officers elected or appointed to 
 fill vacancies, shall hold for the unexpired term only and until the election 
 or appointment and qualification of their successors. 
 
 Aldermen — Classes. 
 
 § 3. The several wards of the city shall be represented in the city 
 council by two aldermen from each ward, who shall be bona fide freehol¬ 
 ders and residents thereof, and hold their offices for two years, from and 
 after their election, and until the election and qualification of their 
 successors. They shall be divided into two classes, consisting of one 
 alderman from each ward, so that one from each ward shall be elected 
 annually. The aldermen whose term of office do not expire on the third 
 Monday of April next shall be placed in the first class, and no election 
 shall be held to supply their places. 
 
 Special Election — Removal — Proviso. 
 
 § 4. If, from any cause, there shall not be a quorum of aldermen, the 
 register shall appoint the time and place of holding a special election to 
 fill such vacancies, and to appoint judges, if necessary. If any alderman 
 shall remove from the ward represented by him his office shall thereby 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 become vacant. Any alderman or officer elected or appointed to any 
 office, may be removed from such office, by a vote of two-thirds of all the 
 aldermen authorized to be elected: but no alderman or officer shall be 
 removed, except for good cause, nor unless first furnished with the charges 
 against him and heard in his defense. The city council shall have power 
 to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, when 
 necessary, for the purpose of such trial, and shall proceed, within ten 
 days, to hear and determine the merits of the case; and if such officer 
 shall neglect to appear and answer to such charges then the city council 
 may declare the office vacant: Provided , the mayor may suspend such 
 officer or alderman until the disposition of the charges. 
 
 Vacancy . 
 
 § 5. Whenever any vacancy shall occur in the office of mayor or 
 alderman, such vacancy shall be filled by a new election; and the city 
 council shall order a special election, within ten days after the happening 
 of such vacancy. Any vacancy occurring in any other office may be filled 
 by appointment of the city council; but no special election shall be held 
 to fill vacancies if more than nine months of the year has expired. 
 
 Eligibility. 
 
 § 6. All citizens of the United States qualified to vote at any election 
 held under this act shall be qualified to hold any office created by this 
 act; but no person shall be eligible to any office, under this or any other 
 act in relation to said city, who is now or may hereafter be a defaulter to 
 said city, or to the State of Illinois, or to any other city or county thereof; 
 and any person shall be considered a defaulter who has refused or neglected, 
 or may hereafter refuse or neglect, for thirty days after demand made, to 
 account for and pay over to the party authorized to receive the same, any 
 public money which may have come into his possession ; and if any 
 person holding any such office, or place within this city, shall become a 
 defaulter, whilst in office, the office or place shall thereupon become vacant. 
 
 Tie. 
 
 § 7. When two or more candidates for any elective office shall have an 
 equal number of votes for such office the election shall be determined by 
 the casting of lots in the presence of the city council. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Election. 
 
 § 1. A general election of all the officers of the corporation required to 
 be elected by this act, or any ordinance of the city, shall be held in each 
 
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 THE CHARTER OP THE 
 
 of the wards of the city, on the third Monday of April, in each year, at 
 such places as the city council may appoint, and of which ten days’ pre¬ 
 vious public notice shall be given, by written or printed notices, in three 
 public places in each ward, or by publication in the newspapers publishing 
 the ordinances of the city, by the city register. 
 
 Manner of Conducting Elections. 
 
 § 2. The manner of conducting and voting at the elections held under 
 this act, and contesting the same, the keeping the poll lists, canvassing of 
 the votes and certifying the returns, shall be the same, as nearly as may 
 be, as is now, or may hereafter, be provided by law at general State 
 elections: Provided , the city council shall have power to regulate 
 elections and the appointment of the judges thereof. The voting shall be 
 by ballot, and the judges of the election shall take the same oath and 
 shall have the same power and authority as the judges of general elections. 
 After the closing of the polls the ballots shall be counted, in the manner 
 provided by law, and the returns shall be returned, scaled, to the city 
 register, within three days after the election ; and, thereupon, the city 
 council shall meet and canvass the same and declare the result of the 
 election. The persons having the highest number of votes for any office 
 shall be declared elected. It shall be the duty of the city register to 
 notify all persons elected or appointed to office of their election or 
 appointment, and unless such persons shall qualify within twenty days 
 thereafter the office shall become vacant. 
 
 Qualification of voters — Oath. 
 
 § 3. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election under this act 
 who has not been a resident of said city at least twelve months next pre¬ 
 ceding said election ; he shall have been, moreover, an actual resident of 
 the ward in which he proposes to vote for ten days previous to such 
 election, and, if required by any judge or qualified voter, shall take the 
 following oath before he is permitted to vote : “ I swear (or affirm) that I am 
 of the age of twenty-one years, and have been a resident of this State one 
 year and a resident of this city one month immediately preceding this 
 election:” Provided , that the voter shall be deemed a resident of the 
 ward in which he is accustomed to lodge. 
 
 § 4. No election shall be held in any grocery or beer house or other 
 place where intoxicating liquors are vended by retail. 
 
 Arrests on election day. 
 
 § 5. The persons entitled to vote at any election held under this act 
 shall not be arrested on civil process, within said city, upon the day on 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 which said election is held ; and all persons illegally voting at any election, 
 held under this act or the ordinances of the city in pursuance thereof, 
 shall be punishable according to the laws of the State. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 Take oath. 
 
 § 1. Every person chosen or appointed to an executive, judicial or 
 administrative office under this act shall, before he enters upon the dis¬ 
 charge of the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath of office 
 prescribed in the constitution of this State, and file the same, duly certi¬ 
 fied by the officer before whom it was taken, with the city register. 
 
 Oath of Mayor. 
 
 § 2. The mayor shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, in 
 addition to the usual oath, swear or affirm “that he will devote so much 
 of his time to the duties of his office as an efficient and faithful discharge 
 thereof may require.” lie shall preside over the meetings of the city 
 council, and shall take care that the laws of this State and the ordinances 
 of this city are duly enforced, respected and observed within this city, and 
 that all other officers of the city discharge their respective duties; and he 
 shall cause negligence and positive violation of duty to be prosecuted and 
 punished ; he shall, from time to time, give the city council such informa¬ 
 tion and recommend such measures as he may deem advantageous to the 
 city. 
 
 Riot. 
 
 § 3. He is hereby authorized to call on any and all white male inhabit¬ 
 ants of the city or county, over the age of eighteen years, to aid in enforcing 
 the laws of the State, or the ordinances of the city, and in case of riot, to 
 call out the militia, to aid in suppressing the same or carrying into effect 
 any law or ordinance; and any person who shall not obey such call shall 
 forfeit to said city a fine of not less than five dollars. 
 
 Exhibit of the books. 
 
 § 4. He shall have power, whenever he may deem it necessary, to 
 require of any of the officers of the city an exhibit of all of his boohs 
 and papers; and he shall have power to execute all acts that may be 
 required of him by this act or any ordinance made in pursuance thereof. 
 
 Indictment. 
 
 § 5. He shall be liable to indictment in the circuit court of St. Clair 
 county for palpable omission of duty, wilful oppression, malconduct or 
 partiality in the discharge of the duties of his office, and, upon conviction, 
 
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 THE CHARTER OF THE 
 
 shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars ; and the court 
 shall have power, upon recommendation of the jury, to add, as part of the 
 judgment, that lie be removed from office. 
 
 Ordinances and resolutions. 
 
 § G. All ordinances and resolutions shall, before they take effect, be 
 placed in the office of the city register, and, if the mayor approve thereof, 
 he shall sign the same; and such as he shall not approve, he shall return 
 to the city council, with his objections thereto, at the same meeting of the 
 said council which passed said ordinances or resolutions. Upon the return 
 of any ordinance or resolution by the mayor, with his objections, the vote 
 by which the same was passed shall be reconsidered, and, if after such 
 reconsideration, a majority of all the members elected to the city council 
 shall agree by the “ ayes and nocs,” which shall be entered upon the 
 journals, to pass the same, it shall go into effect; and if the mayor shall 
 neglect to approve or object to any such proceedings, after the same shall 
 be in the possession of the register aforesaid, the same shall go into effect. 
 
 Vacancy. 
 
 § V. In case of vacancy in the office of mayor, or his being unable to 
 perform the duties of his office, by reason of temporary or continued 
 absence or sickness, the city council shall appoint one of its members, by 
 ballot, to preside over their meetings, whose official designation shall be 
 “ Acting Mayor;” and the alderman so appointed shall be vested with all 
 the powers and perform all the duties of mayor until the mayor shall 
 resume his office or the vacancy be filled by a new election. 
 
 Fire Wardens. 
 
 § 8. The members of the city council shall be, ex officio , fire wardens 
 and conservators of the peace within the city, and shall be exempt from 
 jury duty and street labor, or the payment of street taxes during their 
 term of office. 
 
 Register. 
 
 § 9. The register shall keep the corporate seal and all papers and books 
 belonging to the city. lie shall attend all meetings of the city council, 
 and keep a full record of their proceedings on the journals; and copies of 
 all papers duly filed in his office and transcripts from the journals of the 
 proceedings of the city council, certified by him, under the corporate seal, 
 shall be evidence in all courts, in like manner as if the originals were pro¬ 
 duced. He shall, likewise, draw all warrants on the treasurv and counter- 
 sign the same and keep accurate account thereof in a book provided for 
 that purpose. He shall, also, keep an accurate account of all receipts and 
 
CITY OP BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 expenditures, in such manner as the city council may direct; and he shall 
 have power to administer any oath required to be taken by this act. 
 
 City Attorney . 
 
 § 10. It shall be the duty of the city attorney to perform all professional 
 services incident to his office, and, when required, to furnish written 
 opinions upon questions and subjects submitted to him by the mayor or 
 the city council or its committees. 
 
 Treasurer . 
 
 § 11. The city treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the city, 
 and shall keep an accurate account of all receipts and expenditures in 
 such manner as the city council shall direct. All moneys shall be drawn 
 from the treasury in pursuance of an order of the city council, by a 
 treasury warrant, signed by the mayor or the presiding officer of the city 
 council, and countersigned by the register. Such warrant shall specify 
 for what purpose the amount therein named is to be paid. The treasurer 
 shall exhibit to the city council, at least twenty days before the annual 
 election of each year, and oftener, if required, a full and detailed account 
 of all receipts and expenditures since the date of the last annual report, 
 and also the state of the treasury; which account shall be filed in the 
 office of the register. 
 
 Marshal. 
 
 § 12. The city marshal shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed 
 by the city council, for the preservation of the public peace, the collection 
 of license moneys, fines or otherwise. He shall possess the powers and 
 authority of a constable, at common law and under the statutes of this 
 State, and receive like fees, but shall not serve civil process without first 
 entering into bond, as such constable, to be approved by the county court? 
 as in other cases. He shall execute and return all process issued by any 
 proper officer, under this act or any ordinance in pursuance thereof. 
 
 Surveyor. 
 
 § 13. The city engineer or surveyor shall have the sole power, under 
 the direction and control of the city council, to survey, within the city 
 limits; and he shall be governed by such rules and ordinances and receive 
 such fees and emoluments for his services as the city council shall direct 
 and prescribe. He shall possess the same power, in making plats and 
 surveys within the city, as is given by law to county surveyors, and the 
 like effect and validity shall be given to his acts and to all plats and 
 surveys made by him as are or may be given by law to the acts, plats and 
 surveys of the county surveyor. He shall, when required, superintend the 
 
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 construction of all public works ordered by the city, make out the plans 
 and estimates thereof, and contract for the execution of the same, lie 
 shall perform all surveying and engineering ordered by the city council, 
 and shall, under their direction, establish the grades and boundaries of 
 streets and alleys; but such plans, estimates and contracts, grades and 
 boundaries shall be first reported to the city council and approved by 
 them, or they shall not be valid. 
 
 Assessor. 
 
 § 14 The assessor shall perform all duties in relation to the assessing of 
 property, for the purpose of levying the taxes imposed by the city council. 
 In the performance of his duties he shall have the same powers as are or 
 may be given by law to county or town assessors, and be subject to the 
 same liabilities. On completing the assessment lists, and having revised 
 and corrected the same, he shall sign and return them to the city council. 
 
 Collector. 
 
 § 15. The collector shall collect all taxes and assessments which may be 
 levied by the city council, and perform such other duties as may be herein 
 prescribed or ordained by the city council. 
 
 Weigher. 
 
 § 16. The weigher shall attend at the public scales for which he is 
 appointed and weigh every load of hay, stone coal or other thing which 
 may be presented to be weighed, and to give the person presenting the 
 same a certificate of net weight thereof, and to perform such other duties 
 in the measurement of wood and other things as may be required of him 
 by ordinance or resolution. ^ 
 
 Market Master. 
 
 § 17. The market master shall have the direction and management of 
 the market house and market place, and shall do and perform such acts 
 and duties as may be required of him by ordinance or resolution. 
 
 Street Inspector. 
 
 § 1S. The street inspector shall superintend all local improvement in 
 the city, and carry into effect all orders of the city council in relation 
 thereto. It shall also be his duty to superintend and supervise the opening 
 of streets and alleys, and the grading, improving and repairing thereof, 
 and the construction and repairing of bridges, culverts and sewers; to 
 order the laying, relaying and repairing of sidewalks; to give notice to 
 the owners of property adjoining such sidewalks, when required, and upon 
 the failure of any person to comply with such notice, to cause the same 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 to be laid, relaid or repaired, and apportion the cost thereof among the 
 persons or lots properly chargeable therewith, and deliver the amount 
 thereof to the city register, to be laid before the city council; to make 
 plans and estimates of any work ordered in relation to streets and alleys, 
 bridges, culverts or sewers ; to keep full and accurate accounts, in appro¬ 
 priate books, of all appropriations made for work pertaining to his office, 
 and of all disbursements thereof, specifying to whom made and on what 
 account; and he shall render monthly accounts thereof to the city council. 
 
 City Council . 
 
 § 19. The city council shall have power, from time to time, to require 
 further and other duties of all officers, whose duties are herein prescribed, 
 and prescribe the powers and duties of all officers elected or appointed to 
 any office under this act, whose duties are not herein specified, and fix 
 their compensation, They may also require ail officers, severally, before 
 they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, to execute a bond to 
 the city of Belleville, in such sum and with such securities as they may 
 approve, conditioned that they shall faithfully execute the duties of their 
 respective offices, and account for and pay over and deliver all moneys 
 and other property received by them ; which bond, with the approval of 
 the city council certified thereon by the register, shall be filed in his 
 office, except the bond of the register, which shall be in the keeping of the 
 mayor. 
 
 Delivery of Books, etc., to Successors. 
 
 § 20. If any person having been an officer of said city, shall not within 
 ten days after notification and request, deliver to his successor in office all 
 the property, books, papers and effects, of every description, in his pos¬ 
 session, belonging to the city, or appertaining to his said office, he shall 
 forfeit and pay, for the use of the city, fifty dollars, besides all damages 
 caused by his refusal or neglect so to deliver; and such successor may 
 recover possession of the books, papers and effects belonging to his office 
 in the manner prescribed by the laws of this state. 
 
 Commissions. 
 
 § 21. The officers elected or appointed under this act shall be commis¬ 
 sioned by warrants, under the corporate seal, signed by the mayor or pre¬ 
 siding officer of the city council and register. 
 
 article v. 
 
 City Council — Quorum. 
 
 § 1. The mayor and aldermen shall constitute the city council of the 
 city. The city council shall meet at such time and place as they shall, by 
 
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 resolution, direct. The mayor, when present, shall preside at all meetings 
 of the city council, and shall have only a casting vote; in his absence any 
 one of the aldermen may be appointed to preside. A majority of the 
 persons elected aldermen shall constitute a quorum. 
 
 Compensation. 
 
 § 2. No member of the city council shall, during the period for which 
 he is elected, receive more than fifty dollars for his services as alderman, 
 or be appointed to, or be competent to hold any office of which the emol¬ 
 uments arc paid from the city treasury, or paid by fees directed to be paid 
 by any act or ordinance of the city council, or be allowed to vote in any 
 matter in which he is directly interested, personally or pecuniarily. 
 
 Meetings. 
 
 § 3. The city council shall hold twelve stated meetings, one in each 
 month during the year; and the mayor and aldermen, or any two aider- 
 men, may call special meetings by notice to each of the members of the 
 council, served personally or left at their usual places of abode. Petitions 
 and remonstrances may be presented to the city council; and they shall 
 determine the rules of their own proceedings, and be the judges of the 
 election and qualification of their own members, and shall have power to 
 compel the attendance of absent members. 
 
 Finances , etc. 
 
 § 4. The city council shall have control of the finances and of all 
 property, real, personal and mixed, belonging to the corporation, and 
 shall likewise have power, within the jurisdiction of the city, by ordinance. 
 
 First .—To borrow money on the credit of the city, and issue the 
 bonds of the city therefor ; but no sum of money shall be borrowed at a 
 higher rate of interest than the rate allowed by law, nor shall a greater 
 sum or sums be borrowed, or at any time outstanding, the interest upon the 
 aggregate of which shall exceed the one-half of the city revenue arising 
 from the ordinary taxes within the city for the year immediately pre¬ 
 ceding ; and no bonds shall be issued or negotiated at less than par value. 
 The appropriations of the city council for payment of interest, for improve¬ 
 ments and for city expenses, during any one fiscal year shall not exceed 
 the amount of the whole ordinary revenue of the city for the fiscal year 
 immediately preceding; but the city council may apply any surplus 
 money in the treasury to the extinguishment of the city debt, or to the 
 creation of a sinking fund for that purpose, or to the contingent fund, for 
 the contingent expenses of the city. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 Second. —To appropriate money and to provide for the payment of the 
 debts and expenses of the city. 
 
 Third. —To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious 
 diseases into the city; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and to 
 enforce them within the city, and within five miles thereof. 
 
 Fourth. —To make regulations to secure the general health and comfort 
 of the inhabitants; to prevent and abate and remove nuisances and pun¬ 
 ish the authors thereof by penalties, fines and imprisonments; to define 
 and declare what shall be deemed nuisances, and authorize and direct 
 summary abatement thereof. 
 
 Fifth. —To provide the city with water ; to make, regulate and estab¬ 
 lish public wells, pumps, and cisterns, hydrants and reservoirs, in the 
 streets within the city, or beyond the limits thereof, for the extinguish¬ 
 ment of fires and the convenience of the inhabitants, and to prevent the 
 unnecessary waste of water. 
 
 Sixth. —To have the exclusive control and power over the streets, alleys 
 and highways of the city, and to abate and remove any encroachments or 
 obstructions thereon ; to open, alter, abolish, widen, extend, straighten, 
 establish, regulate, grade, clean or otherwise improve the same ; to put 
 drains and sewers therein, and prevent the incumbering thereof in any 
 manner, and protect the same from any encroachment or injury. 
 
 Seventh. —To establish, erect, construct, regulate and keep in repair 
 bridges, culverts and sewers, sidewalks and crossways, and regulate the 
 construction and use of the same, and to abate any obstructions or en¬ 
 croachments thereof; to establish, alter, change and straighten the chan¬ 
 nels of water courses and natural drains; to sewer the same, or wall them 
 up and cover them over, and to prevent, regulate and control the filling up, 
 altering or changing the channels thereof by private persons. 
 
 Eighth. —To provide for lighting the streets and erecting lamp posts 
 and lamps therein, and regulate the lighting thereof; and from time to 
 time create, alter or extend lamp districts; to exclusively regulate, direct 
 and control the laying and repairing the gas pipes and gas fixtures in the 
 streets, alleys and sidewalks. 
 
 Ninth. —To establish and erect markets and market houses and other 
 public buildings of the city, and provide for the government and regulation 
 thereof and their erection and location, and to authorize their erection in 
 the streets and avenues of the city, and the continuation of such as are 
 already erected within the same. 
 
 Tenth. —To provide for the inclosing, regulating and improving all 
 public grounds and cemeteries belonging to the city, and to direct and 
 
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 regulate the planting and preserving of ornamental and shade trees, in the 
 streets and public grounds. 
 
 Eleventh .—To erect and establish one or more hospitals or dispensaries, 
 and control and regulate the same. 
 
 Twelfth .—To prevent the incumbering of streets, alleys, sidewalks or 
 public grounds with carriages, wagons, carts, wheelbarrows, boxes, lumber, 
 timber, firewood, posts, awnings, signs, or any other substance or material 
 whatever; to compel all persons to keep snow, ice, dirt and other rubbish 
 from the sidewalks and street gutters in front of the premises occupied by 
 them. 
 
 Thirteenth .—To license, tax and regulate merchants, commission mer¬ 
 chants, inn keepers, insurance brokers and auctioneers, and to impose 
 duties upon the sales of goods at auction ; to license, tax, regulate, 
 suppress and prohibit hawkers, peddlers, pawnbrokers, grocery keepers 
 and keepers of ordinaries, theatrical or other exhibitions, shows and 
 amusements. 
 
 Fourteenth .—To license, tax, regulate and suppress hackmen, draymen, 
 omnibus drivers, porters and all others pursuing like occupation, with or 
 without vehicles, and prescribe their compensation; and to restrain and 
 regulate runners for stages, cars and public houses. 
 
 Fifteenth .—To license, tax and regulate billiard tables, ten pin alleys 
 and ball alleys; to suppress and restrain disorderly houses, tippling shops, 
 bawdy houses, gaming and gambling houses, lotteries and all fraudulent 
 devices and practices, and all playing of cards, dice and other games of 
 chance, with or without betting, and to authorize the destruction of all in¬ 
 struments and devices used for the purposes of gaming. 
 
 Sixteenth .—To authorize the proper officer of the city to grant and issue 
 licenses, and to direct the manner of issuing and registering thereof, and 
 the fees and charges to be paid therefor. No license shall be granted for 
 more than one year, and not less than three dollars nor more than five 
 hundred dollars shall be charged for any license under this act; and the 
 fees for issuing the same shall not exceed one dollar; but no license, for 
 the sale of wines or other liquors, ardent or vinous, fermented or malt, at 
 wholesale or retail, by grocery keepers, inn keepers or others, shall be 
 issued for less than fifty dollars. 
 
 Seventeenth .—To restrain, regulate and prohibit the selling or giving 
 away of any intoxicating or malt liquors, by any person within the city, or 
 within half a mile of the boundary of the city, excepting those which are 
 in the town of West Belleville, except by persons duly licensed by the city. 
 To forbid and punish the selling or giving away of any intoxicating or 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 malt liquors to any minor, apprentice or servant, [without the consent] of 
 the parent, guardian, master or mistress. 
 
 Eighteenth .—To prevent, restrain and punish forestalling and regrating; 
 to regulate the inspection and vending of fresh meats, poultry and vege¬ 
 tables ; of butter, lard and other provisions; and the place and manner of 
 selling fish, and inspecting the same. 
 
 Nineteenth .—To establish standard weights and measures, and regulate 
 the weights and measures to be used within the city, in all cases not other¬ 
 wise provided by law. To require all traders or dealers in merchandise or 
 property of any description, which is sold by measure or weight, to cause 
 their measures and weights to be tested and sealed by the city weigher or 
 other person appointed by the city council, and to be subject to his inspec¬ 
 tion. The standard of such weights and measures shall be conformable to 
 those established by law or ordinance. 
 
 Twentieth .—To regulate, license and prohibit butchers ; and to revoke 
 their license for malconduct in the course of trade. 
 
 Twenty-first .—To regulate and provide for the inspecting and measur¬ 
 ing of lumber, shingles, timber, posts, staves, heading and all kinds of 
 building materials; and for the measuring of all kinds of mechanical 
 work; and to appoint one or'raore inspectors or measurers. 
 
 Twenty-second .—To provide for the inspection and weighing of hav, 
 lime and stone coal, and the place and manner of selling the same. To 
 regulate the measurement of firewood, charcoal and other fuel, to be sold 
 or used within the city, and the place and manner of selling the same. 
 
 Twenty-third .—To regulate the inspection of beef, pork, flour, meal, 
 salt and other provisions, malt whisky and other liquors, to be sold in 
 barrels, hogsheads and other vessels or packages; To appoint weighers, 
 guagers and inspectors, and prescribe their duties and regulate their fees; 
 Provided , that nothing herein shall be so construed as to require the 
 inspection of any articles enumerated herein which are to be shipped 
 beyond the limits of the state, except at the request of the owner thereof, 
 or his a^ent. 
 
 Twenty-fourth .—To regulate the weight and quality of bread to be sold 
 or used within the city. 
 
 Twenty-fifth .—To direct, license and control all wagons and trains 
 conveying heavy loads within the city, and prescribe the width of the rim 
 and tire of the same. 
 
 Twenty-sixth .—To regulate the size and quality of bricks to be sold or 
 used within the city, and the inspection thereof. 
 
 Twenty-seventh .—To create, establish and regulate the police of the 
 
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 city; to appoint watchmen and policemen, and prescribe their duties and 
 powers. 
 
 Twenty-eighth. —To prevent and suppress any riot, rout, affray, noise, 
 disturbance or disorderly assembly, in any public or private house within 
 the city. 
 
 Twenty-ninth. —To prohibit, prevent and suppress horse racing, immo¬ 
 derate riding or driving in the streets, and to authorize persons immoder¬ 
 ately riding or driving, as aforesaid, to be stopped by any person; to 
 prohibit and punish the abuse of animals; to compel persons to fasten 
 their horses, or other animals, attached to vehicles or otherwise, while 
 standing or remaining in the streets. • 
 
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 Thirtieth. —To restrain and punish vagrants, mendicants and street 
 beggars and prostitutes. 
 
 Thirty-first. —To regulate, restrain or prohibit the running at large of 
 horses, mules, jackasses or jennies, cattle, swine, sheep, goats and geese, 
 and to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same for 
 costs of the proceedings, and the penalties incurred; and to impose 
 penalties on the owners thereof for a violation of any ordinance in relation 
 thereto; to regulate, restrain and prohibit the running at large of dogs, 
 and to authorize their destruction when at large contrary to ordinance, 
 and to impose penalties on the owners or keepers thereof. 
 
 Thirty-second. —To prohibit and restrain the rolling of hoops, flying of 
 kites, or any other amusements or practices tending to annoy persons 
 passing on the streets, or to frighten horses or teams; to restrain and 
 prohibit the ringing of bells, blowing of horns or bugles, crying of goods, 
 and all other noises, performances and practices, tending to the collecting 
 of persons on the streets or sidewalks, by auctioneers and others, for the 
 purpose of business, amusement or otherwise. 
 
 Thirty-third. —To abate all nuisances which may injure or affect the 
 public health or comfort, in any manner they may deem expedient. 
 
 Thirty-fourth. —To do all acts and make all regulations which may bo 
 necessary or expedient for the promotion of health and the suppression of 
 disease. 
 
 Thirty fifth. —To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, 
 soap or tallow chandler, or blacksmith shop, tannery, stable, privy, sewer 
 or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or 
 abate the same, as may be necessary for the health, comfort and conven¬ 
 ience of the inhabitants. 
 
 Thirty-sixth. —To direct the location and regulate the management and 
 construction of breweries, tanneries, blacksmith shops, foundries, livery 
 
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 stables and packing houses; to direct the location and regulate the 
 management and construction of’ and restrain, abate and prohibit within 
 the city, and to the distance of one mile from the limits thereof, distilleries, 
 slaughtering establishments, establishments for steaming or rendering lard, 
 tallow, offal and such other substances as may be rendered, and all other 
 establishments or places where any nauseous, offensive or unwholesome 
 business may be carried on. 
 
 Thirty-seventh .—To regulate the burial of the dead; to establish and 
 regulate one or more cemeteries; to regulate the registration of births 
 and deaths; to direct the returning and keeping of bills of mortality, and 
 to impose penalties on physicians and sextons and others for any default 
 in the premises. 
 
 Thirty-eighth .—To provide for the taking an enumeration of the 
 inhabitants of the city. 
 
 Thirty-ninth .—To erect and establish a work house or house of correc¬ 
 tion ; make all necessary regulations therefor, and appoint all necessary 
 keepers or assistants. In such work house or house of correction may be 
 confined all vagrants, stragglers, idle and disorderly persons, who may be 
 committed thereto, by any proper officer, and persons sentenced by any 
 criminal court or magistrate in and for the city, or for the county of St. 
 Clair, for any assault and battery, petit larceny or other misdemeanor, pun¬ 
 ishable by imprisonment in any county jail; and any person who shall fail 
 or neglect to pay any fine or penalty or costs imposed by any ordinance 
 of the city for any misdemeanor or breach of any ordinance of the city, 
 may, instead of being committed to the county jail of St. Clair county, be 
 kept therein, subject to labor and confinement. 
 
 Fortieth .—To authorize and direct the taking up and providing for the 
 safe keeping and education, for such periods of time as may be deemed 
 expedient, of all children who are destitute of proper parental care, 
 wandering about the streets, committing mischief, and growing up in 
 mendicancy, ignorance, idleness and vice. 
 
 Forty-first .—To fill up, drain, cleanse, alter, relay, repair and regulate 
 any grounds, lots, yards, cellars, private drains, sinks and privies; direct 
 and regulate their construction, and cause the expense thereof to be 
 assessed and collected in the same manner as side-walk assessments. 
 
 Forty-second .—To direct and control the laying and construction of 
 railroad tracks, bridges, turn-outs and switches, in the streets and alleys, 
 and the location of depot grounds within the city. To require that rail¬ 
 road tracks, bridges, turn-outs, and switches shall be so constructed and 
 
 laid as to interfere as little as possible with the ordinary travel and use of 
 
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 THE CHARTER OF THE 
 
 the streets and alleys, and that sufficient space shall be left on either side 
 of said tracks for the safe and convenient passage of teams and persons. 
 To require railroad companies to keep in repair the streets through which 
 their track may run, and to construct and keep in repair suitable crossings 
 at the intersections of streets and alleys and ditches, sewers and culverts, 
 when the city council may deem necessary. To direct and prohibit the 
 use and regulate the speed of locomotive engines within the inhabited 
 parts of the city. To prohibit and restrain railroad companies from doing 
 storage or warehouse business or collecting pay for storage. 
 
 Forty-third .—The city council shall have power to pass, publish, amend 
 and repeal all ordinances, rules and police regulations not contrary to the 
 constitution of the United States or of this State, for the good govern¬ 
 ment, peace and order of the city and the trade and commerce thereof, 
 that may be necessary or proper to carry into effect the powers vested by 
 this act in the corporation, the city government or any department or 
 officer thereof; to enforce the observance of all such rules, ordinances and 
 police regulations and to punish violations thereof by fines, penalties and 
 imprisonment in the county jail, city prison or work house or both, in the 
 discretion of the court or magistrate, before whom conviction may be had, 
 but no fine or penalty shall exceed five hundred dollars nor the imprison¬ 
 ment of six months for any offence; and such fine or penalty may be 
 recovered with costs in an action of debt, in the name or for the use of 
 the city, before any court having jurisdiction, and punishment inflicted; 
 and any person upon whom any fine or penalty is imposed, shall stand 
 committed until the payment of the same and costs; and in default thereof, 
 may be imprisoned in the county jail, city prison or work house, or 
 required to labor on the streets or other public works of the city, for such 
 time and in such manner as may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 Forty-fourth .—To recall and withdraw from circulation any of the 
 matured city bonds for city indebtedness for the purpose of paying the 
 same, or to have new bonds reissued to those who are legally entitled to 
 them, but in no case shall such bonds be disposed of under par, nor shall 
 any greater rate of interest be paid than ten per cent, per annum. 
 
 Forty-fifth .—To regulate and license all the groceries and beer houses, 
 shows, menageries and other exhibitions within half a mile of the estab¬ 
 lished boundaries of the city, excepting those within the limits of the 
 town of West Belleville. 
 
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 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 Taxes , etc. 
 
 § 1. The city council shall have power within the city, by ordinance— 
 
 First .—To levy and collect annually taxes not exceeding five mills to 
 the dollar, on all assessed value of real and personal estate, and property 
 within the city, and all personal property of the inhabitants thereof, made 
 taxable by the laws of the State for State purposes, to defray the general 
 and contingent expenses of the city, not herein otherwise provided for, 
 which taxes shall constitute a general fund. 
 
 Second .—Also to levy and collect a special tax on all property described 
 in section first of not exceeding two mills on the dollar, which two mills 
 shall constitute a sinking fund, to be wholly applied in the payment of the 
 bonds and obligations of the city not due, and maturing on or before the 
 first of January, 1863, and for no other purpose whatever. 
 
 Third .—Also to levy and collect, upon all property in such districts as 
 they shall from time to time create, a tax sufficient to defray one-half of 
 the expenses of erecting lamp posts and lamps and lighting the streets in 
 such districts, and the tax thus collected shall be exclusively expended 
 for such purposes in the districts paying the same. 
 
 Fourth ,.—To require (and it is hereby made the duty of) every male 
 resident of the city over the age of twenty-one years, and under the age 
 of fifty years, to labor three days in each year upon the streets and alleys 
 of the city ; but any person may, at his option, pay in lieu thereof two 
 dollars : Provided , the same shall be paid within ten days after notification 
 by the street inspector. In default of payment as aforesaid the sum of 
 three dollars and costs may be collected, and no set off shall be allowed in 
 any suit brought to collect the same. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 Public grounds , cfic. 
 
 § 1. The city council shall have power to open and lay out public 
 grounds, or squares, streets, alleys and highways, and to alter, widen, 
 contract, straighten and discontinue the same. But no street, alley or 
 highway, or any part thereof, shall be discontinued or contracted without 
 the consent, in writing, of all persons owning land or lots adjoining said 
 street, alley or highway. They shall cause all streets, alleys and highways, 
 or public squares or grounds laid out by them, to be surveyed, described 
 and recorded in a book, to be kept by the register, showing accurately 
 and particularly the proposed improvements, and the real estate required 
 to be taken; and the same, when opened and made, shall be public high¬ 
 ways and public squares. 
 
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 Compensation. 
 
 § 2. Whenever any street, alley or highway, public ground or square, 
 is proposed to be laid out, opened, altered, widened or straightened, by 
 virtue hereof, and the amount of compensation cannot be agreed upon, 
 the city council shall give notice of their intention to appropriate and 
 take the land necessary for the same, to the owner thereof, by publishing 
 said notice for ten days in the newspaper publishing the ordinances of the 
 city; at the expiration of which time they shall choose, by ballot, three 
 disinterested freeholders, residing in the city, as commissioners, to ascertain 
 and assess the damages and recompense due the owners of said real estate 
 respectively, and at the same time to determine what persons will be bene¬ 
 fited by such improvement; and assess the damages and expenses thereof 
 on the real estate benefited thereby, in proportion, as nearly as may be, 
 to the benefits resulting to each. A majority of all the aldermen author¬ 
 ized by law to be elected, shall be necessary to a choice of such commis¬ 
 sioners. 
 
 Sworn. 
 
 § 3. The commissioners shall be sworn faithfully and impartially to 
 execute their duties to the best of their abilities. Before entering upon 
 their duties, they shall give at least five days’ notice to all persons inter¬ 
 ested of the time and place of their meeting for the purpose of viewing 
 the premises and making their assessments; which notice shall be given 
 personally, if the owners are residents and known, or by publication in the 
 newspaper publishing the ordinances of the city, if non-residents or un¬ 
 known ; they shall view the premises, and in their discretion, receive any 
 legal evidence, and may, if necessary, adjourn from day to day. 
 
 Valuation—How Made. 
 
 § 4. If there should be any buildings standing, in whole or in part, 
 upon the land to be taken, the commissioners, before proceeding to make 
 their assessment, shall first estimate and determine the whole value of such 
 building to the owner, aside from the value of the land, and the actual 
 injury to him in having such building taken from him; and secondly, the 
 value of such building to him, to remove. 
 
 Notice. 
 
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 § 5. At least five days’ notice shall be given to the owner, of such 
 determination, when known, and a resident of the city, which may be 
 given personally or in writing, left at his usual place of abode. If a non¬ 
 resident, or unknown, like notice to all persons interested shall be given, 
 by publication in the newspaper publishing the ordinances of the city. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 Such notice shall specify the buildings and the award of the commission¬ 
 ers, and shall be signed by them. It shall also require the persons inter¬ 
 ested to appear by a day to be named therein, or give notice of their 
 election to the city council, either to accept the award of the commission¬ 
 ers, and allow such building to be taken, with the land condemned or 
 appropriated, or of their intention to receive such building at the value 
 set thereon by the commissioners to remove; if the owner shall agree to 
 remove such building, he shall have such reasonable time for that purpose 
 as the city council may direct. 
 
 Sale of Building. 
 
 § 6. If the owner refuses to take the building at its appraised value, to 
 remove, or fails to give notice of his intention as aforesaid, within the time 
 prescribed, the city council shall have power to direct the sale of such 
 building, at public auction, for cash or on a credit, giving five days’ public 
 notice of the sale. The proceeds of the sale shall be paid to the owner, or 
 deposited to his use. 
 
 Assessment of damages. 
 
 § 7. The commissioners shall thereupon proceed to make their assessments, 
 and determine and appraise to the owner the value of the real estate appro¬ 
 priated, and the injury arising from the condemnation thereof, which shall 
 be awarded to such owner as damages, after making due allowance there¬ 
 from for any benefit which such owner may derive from such improvement. 
 In the estimate of damage to the land, the commissioners shall include 
 the value of the building, (if the property of the owner of the land,) as 
 estimated by them as aforesaid, less the proceeds of the sale thereof; or 
 if taken by the owner, at the value to remove, in that case they shall only 
 include the difference between such value and the whole estimated value 
 of such building. 
 
 Strike balance. 
 
 § 8. If the damages to any person be greater than the benefits received, 
 or if the benefit be greater than the damages, in either case the commis¬ 
 sioners shall strike a balance and carry the difference forward to another 
 column, so that the assessment may show what amount is to be received 
 or paid by such owners, respectively, and the difference only shall in any 
 case be collectable of or paid to them. 
 
 § 9. If the lands and buildings belong to different persons, or if the 
 land be subject to lease or mortgage, the injury done to such persons, 
 respectively, may be awarded to them by the commissioners, less the benefit 
 resulting to them, respectively, from the improvement. 
 
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 THE CHARTER OF THE 
 
 Return of assessment by Commissioners . 
 
 § 10. Having ascertained the damages and expenses of such improve¬ 
 ment, as aforesaid, the commissioners shall thereupon apportion and assess 
 the same, together with the costs of the proceedings, upon the real estate 
 by them deemed benefited, in proportion to the benefit resulting from the 
 improvements, as nearly as may be, and shall describe the real estate upon 
 which their assessment may be made; when completed, the commissioners 
 shall sign and return the same to the city council within forty days of their 
 appointment. 
 
 Notice. 
 
 § 11. The register shall give ten days’ notice, by publication in the 
 newspaper publishing the ordinances of the city, that such assessment has 
 been returned, and on a day, to be specified therein, will be confirmed by 
 the city council, unless objections to the same are made by some person 
 interested. Objections may be heard before the city council, and the 
 hearing may be adjourned from day to day. The council shall have 
 power, in their discretion, to confirm or annul the assessment, or refer the 
 same back to the commissioners. If annulled, all the proceedings shall be 
 void; if confirmed, an order of confirmation shall be entered, directing a 
 warrant to issue for the collection thereof. If referred back to the same 
 or other commissioners, they shall proceed to make their assessment, and 
 return the same in like manner, and give like notice as herein required in 
 relation to the first; and all parties in interest shall have the like notice 
 and rights, and the city council shall perform like duties and have like 
 powers in relation to any subsequent determination as are herein given in 
 relation to the first. 
 
 Remove Commissioners. 
 
 § 12. The city council shall have power to remove commissioners, and 
 from time to time to appoint others in place of such as may be removed, 
 or refuse, neglect, or are unable, from any cause, to serve. 
 
 Lands Taken. 
 
 § 13. The land required to betaken for the making, opening,widening, 
 straightening or altering any strteet, alley or other highway, or public 
 ground or square, shall not be appropriated until the damages awarded 
 therefor to any owner thereof, under this act, shall be paid or tendered to 
 such owner or his agent, or in case such owner or his agent cannot be 
 found within the city, deposited to his or their credit in some safe place of 
 deposit other than the hands of the treasurer; and then, and not before, 
 such lands may be taken and appropriated for the purpose required in 
 
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 making suck improvements, and such streets, alleys or other highways for 
 public grounds may be made and opened. 
 
 § 14. When the whole of any lot, parcel of land or other premises, 
 under lease or contract, shall be taken for any of the purposes aforesaid, 
 by virtue of this act, all the covenants, contracts and engagements between 
 landlords and tenants or any other contracting parties, touching the same 
 or any part thereof, shall, upon the confirmation of the report of the 
 commissioners, respectively, cease and be absolutely discharged. 
 
 When part taken. 
 
 § 15. When part only of any lot, parcel of land or other premises, so 
 under lease or contract, shall be taken for any of the purposes aforesaid, 
 by virtue of this act, all the covenants, contracts, agreements and engage - 
 ments respecting the same, upon the confirmation of the report of the 
 commissioners, shall be absolutely discharged, as to that part thereof so 
 taken, but shall remain valid as to the residue thereof, and the rents, 
 consideration and payments reserved payable and to be paid for, or in 
 respect to the same, shall be so proportioned as that the part thereof justly 
 and equitably payable for such residue thereof, and no more, shall be paid 
 or recoverable, in any respect of the same. 
 
 Appeal. 
 
 § 16. Any person interested may appeal from any final order of the city 
 council for opening, altering, widening or straightening any street, alley 
 or other highway or public ground, to the circuit court of St. Clair county, 
 by notice, in writing, to the mayor, at any time before the expiration of 
 twenty days after the passage of said final order. In case of appeal, the 
 city council shall make a return within thirty days after notice thereof, 
 and the court shall, at the next term after the return filed in the office of 
 the clerk thereof, hear and determine such appeal, and confirm or annul 
 the proceedings, from which judgment no appeal or writ of error shall lie. 
 Upon the trial of the appeal, all questions involved in said proceedings, 
 including the amount of damages, shall be open to investigation by affidavit 
 or oral testimony adduced to the court; or upon application of the city or 
 any party, the amount of damages may be assessed by a jury in said court, 
 without formal pleadings, and judgment rendered accordingly; and the 
 burden of the proof shall, in all cases, be upon the city to show that the 
 proceedings are in conformity with this act. 
 
 Landlord pay assessments. 
 
 § 17. In all cases where there is no agreement to the contrary, the 
 owner or landlord, and not the tenant or occupant, shall be deemed the 
 
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 person who shall and ought to pay and bear every assessment made for 
 the expense of any public improvement. Where any such assessment shall 
 be made upon or paid by any person, when, by agreement or by-law, the 
 same ought to be borne or paid by any other person, it shall be lawful for 
 one so paying to sue for and recover of the person bound to pay the same? 
 the amount so paid, with interest. Nothing herein contained shall, in any 
 way, impair or affect any agreement between landlord and tenant, or other 
 person, respecting the payment of such assessments. 
 
 Charges. 
 
 § 18. The city council may, by ordinance, make any change they may 
 deem advisable in the proceedings herein prescribed, for ascertaining the 
 damages and injury occasioned to any person, or real estate, by reason of 
 the condemnation of such real estate, or any real estate upon which any 
 buildings may be situated, in whole or in part, and the assessment of such 
 damages and injury upon persons or real estate benefited by the improve¬ 
 ment, and in all such other respects as experience may suggest. 
 
 Rights of infants. 
 
 § 19. When any known owner, or other person having an interest in 
 any real estate, residing in the city or elsewhere, shall be an infant, and 
 any proceedings shall be had under this act, the judge of the circuit court 
 of St. Clair county, the county judge of said county, or any judge of the 
 supreme court, may, upon the application of the city council, or such infant 
 or his next friend, appoint a guardian for such infant, taking security from 
 such guardian for the faithful execution of such trust, and all notices and 
 summons required by this act shall be served on such guardian. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 Improvements of streets , dtc. 
 
 § 1. The city council shall have power, from time to time, to cause any 
 street, alley or other highway to be graded, regraded, leveled, paved or 
 planked, and keep the same in repair, and alter and change the same. 
 
 Sidewalks. 
 
 Second. —To cause sidewalks and crosswalks, main drains and sewers 
 and private drains to be constructed and laid, relaid, cleansed and repaired, 
 and regulate the same. 
 
 Public Square. 
 
 Third. —To grade, improve, protect and ornament any public square, 
 or other public ground, now or hereafter laid out. 
 
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 Collect City Taxes. 
 
 Fourth .—The city council shall have additional powers to assess and 
 collect of the owners of lots or real estate on any street or other highway, 
 or any part thereof, in the jame manner as other city taxes, or in such 
 manner as may be prescribed by ordinance, for the purpose of grading, 
 macadamizing, paving or planking such street or other highways : Pro¬ 
 vided , that such tax shall not exceed five mills per annum of the value of 
 the property assessed. 
 
 City Districts. 
 
 § 2. That, for the purpose of establishing a system of sewerage and 
 drainage, the city council may have power to cause the city to be laid off 
 into districts, to be drained by principal and lateral or tributary sew%rs or 
 drains, having reference to a general plan of drainage, by sewers and 
 drains, for the whole city, and number and record the same. 
 
 Special Tax. 
 
 § 8. That whenever a majority in number of the owners of real estate 
 within any district shall petition the city council for the construction of 
 such drains or sewers in such district, the city council shall, have power to 
 levy and collect a special tax on the real estate within the district so 
 drained, and not to exceed five (5) mills to the dollar, per annum, on the 
 assessed value thereof, for the purpose of constructing such sewers and 
 drains; which tax [shall] be annually levied and collected as other city 
 taxes by law, and shall constitute a lien on the real estate in the district 
 in which it is assessed; and the city council shall have pover to provide 
 for the construction and letting of such sewers and drains, or such parts 
 thereof as they shall deem necessary, and may from time to time extend, 
 enlarge or alter the same, upon such terms and conditions as they shall deem 
 necessary; and the city council shall have power to borrow money for the 
 construction of such sewers and drains, payable in principal and interest 
 from the special tax collected in such districts, or the city council may 
 apportion the estimated cost of such drains and sewers, and collect the 
 same by a series of annual assessments. But no ordinance creating such 
 debt, special tax or apportionment shall be repealed or altered until the 
 debt created thereby shall have been paid. 
 
 Sidewalks. 
 
 § 4. All owners or occupants of lots or lands in front of, adjoining or 
 upon whose premises the city council shall order and direct sidewalks or 
 private drains, communicating with any main drain, to be constructed, 
 
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 graded, repaired, relaid or cleansed, or shall declare any such land or lots 
 to be nuisances, and order the same to [be] graded, filled up and drained, 
 or otherwise improved, shall make, grade, repair or relay such side-walks, 
 or make, repair or cleanse such private drain, or grade, fill up, drain or 
 otherwise improve such lot or land at their own cost and charges, within the 
 time and in the manner prescribed by ordinance or otherwise, and if not 
 done within the time and in the manner prescribed, the city council may 
 cause the same to be constructed, repaired, relayed, cleansed, filled up, 
 graded, drained, or otherwise improved, and assess the expense thereof, 
 by an order, to be entered in their proceedings, upon the lots and lands 
 respectively, and collect the same by warrant and sale of the premises, as 
 in other cases. A suit may also be maintained against the owner or 
 occupant of suck premises, for the recovery of such expenses as for money 
 paid and laid out to his use at his request. 
 
 Tax for the removal of nuisances. 
 
 § 5. In all cases where expenses may be incurred in the removal of any 
 nuisance, the city council may cause the same to be assessed against the 
 real estate chargeable therewith, in the same manner prescribed in the 
 foregoing section. Such expenses may be likewise collected of the owner 
 or occupant of such premises, in a suit for money expended to his or their 
 use; and in case the same should not be chargeable to any real estate, 
 suit may in like manner be brought for such expenses against the author 
 of such nuisance, if known, or any person whose duty it may be to remove 
 or abate the same. 
 
 Cleansing of alleys. 
 
 § 6. The city council shall have power to compel the owners of lots or 
 ground frontirg or adjoining any private or public alley, to keep said alley 
 clean, and, if necessary, to direct the same to be paved, macadamized, 
 planked, or otherwise, and the costs thereof to be assessed and collected 
 in the same manner as sidewalk assessments. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 Assessors and assessment lists. 
 
 § 1. The city council shall have power, by ordinance, to prescribe the 
 form [of] assessment lists, and prescribe the duties and define the powers 
 of assessors. They may also make such rules and give such directions in 
 relation to Tevising, altering or adding to the lists as they may deem 
 proper and expedient. 
 
 § 2. The annual assessment lists shall be returned by the assessor on or 
 
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 before the first Monday in August in each year, but the time may be 
 extended by order of the city council. On the return thereof, the city 
 council shall fix a day for hearing objections thereto, and the register shall 
 give notice of the time and place of such hearing, by publication in the 
 newspaper publishing the ordinances of the city; and any person feeling 
 aggrieved by the assessment of his property may appear at the time speci¬ 
 fied, and make his objections. The city council shall have power to supply 
 omissions in said assessment lists, and, for the purpose of equalizing the 
 same, to alter, add to, take from, and otherwise correct and revise the same, 
 or to refer the same back to the assessor, with instructions to correct and 
 revise the same. 
 
 Assessment lists filed. 
 
 § 3. When the assessment lists have been corrected and revised, the 
 same shall be filed, and an order confirming the same and directing the 
 warrant to be issued for the collection thereof shall be entered by the 
 register. The city council shall thereupon, by an ordinance or resolution, 
 levy such sum or sums of money as may be sufficient for the several pur¬ 
 poses for which taxes are herein authorized to be levied, not exceeding the 
 authorized per centage, particularly specifying the purposes for which the 
 same are levied, and if not for general purposes, the division of the city 
 upon which the same are laid. 
 
 Assessments a lien. 
 
 § 4. All taxes and assessments, general or special, levied or assessed by 
 the city council under this act, or any ordinance in pursuance thereof, shall 
 be a lien upon the real estate upon which the same may be imposed, voted 
 or assessed for two vears from and after the corrected assessment lists shall 
 be confirmed, or the passage of the order for assessment, and on personal 
 estate, from and after the delivery of the warrant for the collection thereof 
 until paid, and no sale or transfer shall affect the lien. Any personal 
 property belonging to the debtor may be taken and sold for the payment 
 of taxes on real or personal estate, and the real estate shall be liable for 
 the taxes on personal estate in case of removal, or when the tax cannot 
 be made out of the personal estate, in the same manner as is prescribed by 
 the laws of the State : Provided , that in case the collection of any assess¬ 
 ment shall be delayed by injunction, or other judicial proceedings, the same 
 shall continue a lien, unless set aside, upon the real estate, for the period 
 of two years from and after the final disposition of such injunction or other 
 judicial proceeding. 
 
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 Issue warrants for taxes. 
 
 § 4. The register shall issue a warrant or warrants for the taxes, and 
 rule therein separate columns, in which the taxes levied shall be respectively 
 set down opposite the name of the person or such real estate subject thereto. 
 Each column shall be headed with the name of the tax therein set down 
 
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 Warrants signed by Mayor . 
 
 § 6. All warrants issued for the collection of general or special taxes 
 and assessments shall be signed by the mayor and register, with the corpo¬ 
 rate seal thereto attached, and shall contain true and perfect copies of the 
 corrected assessment lists, upon which the same may be issued. They 
 shall be delivered to the collector for collection within thirty days after the 
 filing of the corrected lists, unless further time for this purpose shall be 
 given by the city council. If not otherwise paid, the collector shall have 
 power to collect said taxes, with interest and costs, by suit m the corporate 
 name, or by distress and sale of personal property as aforesaid, after a 
 demand and refusal to pay the same: Provided, a notice, published by the 
 collector for ten days in the newspaper printing the ordinances of the city, 
 shall be deemed a demand, and a neglect to pay taxes for twenty days 
 thereafter shall be deemed a refusal. The assessor’s list shall, in all cases, 
 be evidence on the part of the city corporation. 
 
 Collector collect taxes. 
 
 § 7. All taxes and assessments, general or special, shall be collected by the 
 collector in the same manner and with the same power and authority as 
 is given by law to collectors of county and State taxes. He shall pay the 
 same as fast as collected into the city treasury, and his duty in regard to 
 returning warrants and settling with the city, and his liabilities, in case of 
 default or misconduct, shall be the same as prescribed by law: Provided , 
 the city council shall have the powers, duties and liabilities of collectors by 
 ordinance. 
 
 Non-payment. 
 
 § 8. Whenever the city council shall by ordinance, resolution, or other 
 proceeding, in conformity with and by virtue of this act, levy any tax, 
 either for general or special purposes, or make any assessment on any lot, 
 ground or real estate, for the purpose of improving any street, sidewalk or 
 alley, or for grading any lot or real estate, and such tax or taxes shall not 
 be paid within the time fixed by ordinance, the collector shall give thirty 
 days’ notice by advertisement in the newspaper publishing the city 
 ordinances, that he will apply to the county court of St. Clair county, for 
 the purpose of obtaining a judgment against such delinquent lot or parcel 
 
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 of real estate, for the amount of taxes or assessments and costs due and 
 unpaid; and the county court shall hear and determine said application 
 and render judgment against said delinquent real estate in the same 
 manner, and said judgment shall have the like effect as though said 
 delinquent list had beten returned to the county court by the sheriff or 
 collector of the county in the collection of State and county taxes, and the 
 county court shall issue its precepts or order to the collector of the city, 
 directing him to sell said real estate at public auction, to pay said delinquent 
 taxes, assessments and costs. The city council shall have full power to 
 adopt any regulation or proceeding they may deem necessary to carry this 
 section into effect, and to fix the time of said application to the county 
 court and the time and place of the sale of said real estate. 
 
 Sale for taxes. 
 
 § 10. All sales shall be conducted in the manner required by law, 
 but the city council shall have power to prescribe the manner of conduct¬ 
 ing the same. The sale shall be made for the smallest portion of ground, 
 to be taken from the east side of the premises, for which any person will 
 take the same, and pay the taxes or assessments thereon, with interest and 
 costs of sale. Duplicate certificates of sale shall be made and subscribed 
 by the collector, one of which shall be delivered to the purchaser, and the 
 other filed in the office of the register, which certificate shall contain the 
 name of the purchaser, a description of the premises sold, the amount of 
 taxes or assessments, with the interest and expenses for which the same 
 was sold, and the time when the right to redeem will expire. The collec¬ 
 tor shall be allowed the same fees for selling as are allowed by law for 
 similar services, or his fees may be regulated by ordinance. The register 
 shall keep a record of such sales, which shall be open to public inspection 
 at all reasonable times. 
 
 Redemption. 
 
 § 11. The right of redemption in all cases of sales for taxes or assess¬ 
 ments, shall exist to the owner, his heirs, creditors, or assigns, to the same 
 extent as is allowed by law in cases of sales of real estate for taxes, on the 
 payment in specie of double the amount for which the same was sold, and 
 all taxes accruing subsequent to the sale, with interest. If the real estate 
 of any infant, feme covert , or lunatic, be sold under this act, the same may 
 be redeemed at any time within one year after such disability is removed. 
 In case of redemption, the money may be paid to the purchaser, or for him 
 to the city register, who shall make a special deposit thereof with the 
 treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. If not redeemed according to law, 
 
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 the city council shall, upon the return of the certificate, or proof of its loss, 
 direct a deed to be executed to the purchaser, under the corporate seal, 
 signed by the mayor or presiding officer of the city council, and counter¬ 
 signed by the register conveying to such purchaser the premises so sold 
 and unredeemed as aforesaid. An abstract of all deeds so made and 
 delivered shall be entered by the register in the book wherein tax sales are 
 recorded. A fee of one dollar may be charged by the register for any 
 deed so issued. 
 
 Deed. 
 
 § 12. The assignee of any tax certificate of any premises sold for taxes, 
 or assessments, under authority of the city, shall be entitled to receive a 
 deed of such premises, in his own name, and with the same effect as though 
 he had been the original purchaser. 
 
 § 13. If at any sale of real or personal estate for taxes or assessments, 
 no bid shall be made for any parcel of land, or any goods and chattels, the 
 same shall be struck off to the city, and thereupon the city shall receive, 
 in the corporate name, a certificate of the sale thereof, and shall be vested 
 with the same rights as other purchasers at such sales. 
 
 Deeds evidence. 
 
 § 14. All deeds made to purchasers of lots sold for taxes or assessments, 
 by order of the city council, shall be prima facie evidence in all contro¬ 
 versies and suits in relation to the right of the purchaser, his heirs or 
 assigns, to the premises thereby conveyed, of the following facts: 
 
 First .—That the land or lot conveyed was subject to taxation or assess¬ 
 ment at the time the same was advertised for sale, and had been listed and 
 assessed in the time and manner required by law. 
 
 Second .—That the taxes or assessments were not paid at any time before 
 the sale. 
 
 Third. —That the land conveyed had not been redeemed from the sale 
 at the date of the deed, and shall be conclusive evidence of the following 
 facts: 
 
 First. —That the land or lot was advertised for sale the length of time 
 and in the manner required by law. 
 
 Second .—That the land was sold for taxes or assessments, as stated in 
 the deed. 
 
 Third. —That the grantor in the deed was the purchaser. 
 
 Fourth .—That the sale was conducted in the manner required by law; 
 and in all controversies and suits involving the title to land claimed and 
 held under and by virtue of such deed, the person or persons claiming title 
 
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 adverse to the title conveyed by such deed, shall be required to prove, in 
 order to defeat the said title, either that the land was not subject to taxa¬ 
 tion at the date of the sale, that the taxes or assessments had been paid, 
 that the said land had never been listed or assessed for taxation or assess¬ 
 ment, or that the same had been redeemed according to the provisions of 
 the act, and that such redemption was made for the use and benefit of the 
 persons having the right of redemption under the laws of the State; but 
 no person shall be permitted to question the title acquired by the said 
 deed, without first showing that he, she or they, or the person under whom 
 he, she or they claim title, had title to the land at the time of the sale, or 
 that the title was obtained from the United States, or this State, after the 
 sale, and that all taxes due upon the lands have been paid by such persons 
 or the person under whom he claims title as aforesaid. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 Wooden buildings. 
 
 § 1. The city council, for the purpose of guarding against the calamities 
 of fire, shall have power to prohibit the erection, placing or repairing of 
 wooden buildings, within the limits prescribed by them, without their 
 permission, and direct and prescribe that all buildings within the limits 
 prescribed shall be made or constructed of fire-proof materials, and to 
 prohibit the rebuilding or repairing of wooden buildings within the fire 
 limits, when the same shall have been damaged to the extent of fifty per 
 cent, of the value thereof, and to prescribe the manner of ascertaining such 
 damage. To declare all dilapidated buildings to -be nuisances, and to 
 direct the same to be repaired, removed or abated in such manner as they 
 shall prescribe and direct; to declare all wooden buildings within the fire 
 limits, which they may deem dangerous to contiguous buildings, or in 
 causing or promoting fires, to be nuisances, and to require and cause the 
 same to be removed or abated in such manner as they shall prescribe. 
 
 Chimneys. 
 
 § 2. The city council shall have power— 
 
 First .—To regulate the construction of chimneys and flues so as to 
 admit of chimney sweeps, or other mode of cleaning, and to compel the 
 sweeping and cleaning of chimneys. 
 
 Second .—To prevent and prohibit the dangerous construction and 
 condition of chimneys, flues, fire places, stove pipes, ovens, or any other 
 apparatus used in or about any building or manufactory, and to cause the 
 same to be removed or placed in a secure and safe condition, and to cause 
 such as may be dangerous to be put in safe condition. 
 
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 Ashes , etc. 
 
 Third. —To prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places, and to appoint 
 one or more officers to enter all buildings and inclosures, to examine and 
 discover whether the same are in a dangerous state, and to cause such as 
 may be dangerous to be put in safe condition. 
 
 Fire Buckets. 
 
 Fourth. —To require the inhabitants to provide as many fire buckets, 
 and in such manner and time as they shall prescribe, and to regulate the 
 use thereof in times of fire, and to require all owners and occupants of 
 buildings to construct and keep in repair wells or cisterns upon their 
 premises. 
 
 Fifth. —To regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories and 
 w T orks dangerous in promoting or causing fires. 
 
 Sixth. —To regulate, prevent and prohibit the use of fire works and fire 
 arms. 
 
 Gunpowder , etc. 
 
 Seventh. —To direct and prohibit the management of houses for the 
 storing of gunpowder, and other combustible and dangerous materials, 
 within the city ; to regulate the keeping and conveying of the same, and 
 the use of candles and other lights in stables and other like houses. 
 
 Eighth. —To regulate and prescribe the manner, and order the building 
 of parapet and partition walls and of partition fences. 
 
 Ninth. —To compel the owners or occupants of houses or other build¬ 
 ings to have scuttles in the roofs, and stairs or ladders leading to the same. 
 
 Authority of the mayor and other officers in case of fire. 
 
 Tenth. —To authorize the mayor, fire wardens or other officers of said 
 city, to keep away from the vicinity of any fire all idle and suspicious 
 persons, and to compel all officers of the city, and all other persons, to aid 
 in the extinguishment of fires, and in the preservation of property exposed 
 to danger thereat, and in preventing goods from being stolen. 
 
 Eleventh. —And generally to establish such regulations for the prevention 
 and extinguishment of fires as the city council may deem expedient. 
 
 Fire Engines. 
 
 § 3. The city council may procure fire engines, and all other apparatus 
 used for the extinguishment of fires, and have the charge and control of 
 the same, and provide fit and secure houses and other places for keeping 
 and preserving the same; and shall have power— 
 
 First. —To organize fire, hook, hose, axe and ladder companies. 
 
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 Second .—To appoint, during their pleasure, a competent number of 
 able and reputable inhabitants of the city firemen, to take care and have 
 the management of the engines and other apparatus and implements used 
 and provided for the extinguishment of fires. 
 
 Prescribe the duties of firemen. 
 
 Third .—To prescribe the duties of firemen, and to make rules and 
 regulations for their government, and to impose reasonable penalties upon 
 them for a violation of the same, and for incapacity, neglect of duty or 
 misconduct, to remove them. 
 
 Engineers. 
 
 Fourth .—The city council shall have power to appoint a chief and 
 assistant engineers of the fire department, and they, with the other 
 firemen, shall take the care and management of the engines and other 
 apparatus and implements provided and used for the extinguishment of 
 fires, and their powers and duties shall be prescribed and defined by the 
 city council. 
 
 Firemen to be exempt from serving as Jurors, etc. 
 
 § 4. The members of the city council and firemen shall, during their 
 terms of service as such, be exempted from serving on juries, in the militia, 
 or working on the streets, or paying tax for the same. The name of each 
 fireman shall be registered with the register of the city, and the evidence 
 to entitle him to the exemption provided in this section, shall be the 
 certificate of the register, under the corporate seal, for the year for which 
 exemption is claimed. 
 
 ARTICLE XI. 
 
 Health Commissioners. 
 
 § 1. The board of health shall consist of one alderman from each ward, 
 to be appointed, annually, by the mayor; and the mayor, or presiding 
 officer of the city council, shall be president of the board, and the city reg¬ 
 ister shall be their clerk, and keep minutes of its proceedings. 
 
 Duty. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of health officers to visit every sick person 
 who may be reported to them as hereinafter provided, and to report, with 
 all convenient speed, their opinion of the sickness of such person to the 
 clerk of the board, and to visit and inspect all houses or places in which 
 they may suspect any person to be confined with any pestilential or infec¬ 
 tious disease, or to contain unsound provisions, or damaged or putrid animal 
 or vegetable matter, or other unwholesome articles, and to make report of 
 
 the state of the same, with all convenient speed, to the clerk of the board. 
 
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 Removal of diseased persons. 
 
 § 3. All persons in the city, not residents thereof, who may be infected 
 with any pestilential or infectious disease, or all things which, in the opinion 
 of the board, shall be infected by or tainted with pestilential matter, and 
 ought to be removed, so as not to endanger the health of the city, shall, 
 by order of said board, be removed to some proper place, not exceeding 
 five miles beyond the limits of the city, to be provided by the board, at 
 the expense of the person removed, if able ; and the board may order any 
 furniture or wearing apparel to be destroyed, whenever they may deem it 
 necessary for the health of the city, by making just compensation. 
 
 Prescribe powers and duties of the Commissioners. 
 
 § 4. The city council shall have power to prescribe the powers and 
 duties of the board of health, and to punish, by fine or imprisonment, or 
 both, any refusal or neglect to obey the orders and regulations of the board. 
 
 § 5. The health officers may be authorized by the city council, when 
 the public interests require, to exercise, for the time being, such powers, 
 and perform such of the duties, of the marshal or supervisor, as the city 
 council may, in their discretion, direct, and shall be authorized to enter all 
 houses and other places, private or public, at all times, in the discharge of 
 any duty under this act, or any ordinance. 
 
 Physicians to make report. 
 
 § 6. Every person practicing physic in this city, who shall have a patient 
 laboring under any malignant, infectious or pestilential disease, sh;dl forth¬ 
 with make report thereof, in writing, to the clerk of the board, and for 
 neglect to do so shall be considered guilty of misdemeanor, and liable to 
 a fine of fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered, with costs, in an action 
 of debt, in any court having cognizance thereof, or before a justice of the 
 peace, for the use of the city. 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 Miscellaneous Provisions—Publish statements. 
 
 § 1. The city council shall, at least ten days before the annual election 
 in each year, cause to be published in the newspaper publishing the ordi¬ 
 nances of the city, a correct and full statement of the receipts and expen¬ 
 ditures from the date of the last annual report, together with the source 3 
 from whence the former are derived, and the mode of disbursement, and 
 also a distinct statement of the whole amount assessed, received and 
 expended in the respective wards and divisions, for making and repairing 
 streets, highways and bridges for the same peiiod, together with such 
 
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 information as may be necessary to a full understanding of the financial 
 concerns of the city. 
 
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 Exempt from road labor. 
 
 § 2. The inhabitants of the city of Belleville are hereby exempt from 
 working upon any road or highway beyond the limits of the city, and 
 from paying the tax in lieu thereof without said limits. 
 
 § 3. The street inspector shall demand the services of all persons who 
 are required to labor on the streets and alleys of the city, at such time and 
 place, and in such manner, as the city council may direct or the inspector 
 shall deem necessary. He shall deliver, or cause to be delivered or left at 
 the usual place of abode or business of any person so required to labor as 
 aforesaid, a written or printed notice, or partly written or printed notice, 
 in such form as the city council shall prescribe; which notice shall be given 
 at least five days previous to the first day on which he or they are required 
 to labor, requiring such person to appear at such time and place as may 
 be designated, for the purpose of laboring upon the streets and alleys. 
 But a similar notice, published for ten days in the newspaper publishing 
 the ordinances of the city, by the inspector, or posted in three of the 
 public places of the ward or district, shall be deemed a sufficient notice 
 to require all persons to appear and labor as aforesaid. Upon the neglect 
 of any person to appear and labor as aforesaid, or to pay the tax in lieu 
 thereof, the collector shall collect from each person, in the same manner 
 as other taxes, the sum of three dollars, with his commission for collecting 
 the same added thereto. 
 
 Fines , etc. 
 
 § 4. All fines, forfeitures and penalties collected for offences committed 
 within the city shall be paid into the treasury of said city by the officers 
 collecting the same, and all fines and forfeitures collected of any citizen of 
 said city for any conviction in the circuit court, shall be paid over in like 
 manner. 
 
 Richland creek. 
 
 § 5. The water course known as Richland creek in said city, or any 
 natural branch leading thereinto, shall not be filled up, altered or changed, 
 except in the manner prescribed by the city council; and the city council 
 shall have power to establish and direct, and prescribe the manner of alter¬ 
 ing, changing and straightening, and to wall, fill up, culvert or sewer the 
 same. 
 
 Numbering lots. 
 
 § 6. The city council shall have power to cause the blocks and lots of 
 the city to be surveyed, platted and numbered in consecutive numbers from 
 
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 one upwards, and to designate and number all fractional or other lots or 
 blocks in such manner as they may prescribe by ordinance, and such plat, 
 designation and numbers, when made and duly recorded, shall be a good 
 and valid description of said blocks and lots or fractional blocks and lots. 
 To establish, mark and declare the boundaries and names of streets and 
 alleys ; to require that all additions hereafter made to said city, or all lands 
 adjoining or within the same, laid out into blocks or lots, shall be so laid 
 out and platted as to correspond and conform to the regular blocks, streets 
 and alleys already laid out and established within the city. 
 
 Expenditures. 
 
 § 7. The city council shall, in all expenditures for purposes strictly local, 
 expend annually, in the several natural divisions of the city, such propor¬ 
 tion, as near as may be, of the whole expenditures for like purposes during 
 the same period, as will correspond to the several sums contributed by each 
 division to the general fund ; street taxes shall be expended in the several 
 wards or districts where the persons paying the same may respectively 
 [reside]. 
 
 Penalty of Inspector. 
 
 § 8. The street inspector, in addition to the penalties prescribed by or¬ 
 dinance, shall, for willful neglect of duty, be liable to indictment and fine, 
 in the same manner as supervisors under the State laws. 
 
 Remittance of Fines. 
 
 § 9. Neither the city council or mayor shall remit any fine or penalty 
 imposed upon any person for a violation of any laws or ordinances of said 
 city, or release from confinement, unless two-thirds of all the aldermen 
 elected shall vote for such release or remission ; nor shall anything in this 
 act be so construed as to oust any court of jurisdiction to abate and remove 
 nuisances within its jurisdiction, by indictment or otherwise. 
 
 Vote of City Council. 
 
 § 10. No vote of the city council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at 
 a special meeting, unless the meeting be called in whole or in part for that 
 purpose, and the aldermen be notified, and unless at such special meeting 
 there be present as large a number of aldermen as were present when the 
 vote was taken. 
 
 Ordinances and By-Laws to be Published. 
 
 g 11. Every ordinance, regulation and by-law imposing any penalty, 
 fine, imprisonment, or forfeiture for a violation of its provisions, shall, after 
 the passage thereof, be published once in the newspaper publishing the 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 ordinances of the city, and proof of such publication, by the affidavit of the 
 printer or publisher of such newspaper, taken before any officer authorized 
 to administer oaths, and filed with the register, or any other competent 
 proof of such publication, shall be conclusive evidence of the legal publica¬ 
 tion and promulgation of such ordinance, regulation or by-law in all courts 
 and places. 
 
 Cemetery. 
 
 § 12. The cemetery lots which may belaid out and sold by the city or 
 private persons, for private places of burial, shall, with the appurtenances, 
 forever be exempt from execution and attachment. 
 
 Suits Brought in the Name of the City. 
 
 § 13. All actions brought to recover any penalty or forfeiture incurred 
 under this act, or any ordinance, by-law or police regulation made in pur¬ 
 suance thereof, shall be brought in the corporate name. It shall be law¬ 
 ful to declare generally in debt, for such penalty, fine or forfeiture, stating 
 the clause of this act or the by-law or ordinance under which the penalty 
 or forfeiture is claimed, and to give the special matter in evidence under it. 
 
 First Process. 
 
 § 14. In all prosecutions for any violation of any ordinance, by-law or 
 other regulation, the first process shall be a summons, unless oath or affir¬ 
 mation be made for a warrant, as in other cases. * 
 
 Executions. 
 
 § 15. Execution may be issued immediately on rendition of judgment. 
 If the defendant has no goods, or chattels, or real estate, within the county 
 of St. Clair, whereof the judgment can be collected, the execution shall re¬ 
 quire the defendant to be confined in the county jail, or woik house, or 
 city prison, for a term of not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the 
 court rendering judgment; and all persons who may be committed under 
 this section shall be confined one day for each one dollar of such judgment 
 and costs. All expenses incurred in any prosecution for the recovery of 
 any fine, penalty or forfeiture, when collected, shall be paid into the city 
 treasury. 
 
 Penalty. 
 
 § 16. Any person who shall injure or destroy any bridge or any public 
 building or other property belonging to the city, or shall cause or procure 
 the same to be injured or destroyed, shall be subject to a penalty not 
 exceeding five hundred dollars for such offence, to be recovered by the city 
 in an action of debt, and may be imprisoned not exceeding six months, in 
 the discretion of the court before whom such conviction may be had, and 
 
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 Buch person shall also be liable in a civil action at the suit of the city, for 
 the damages occasioned by such injury or destruction. 
 
 Freeholders not Exempt as Judges, etc. 
 
 § 17. No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, witness or juror, 
 by reason of his being an inhabitant or freeholder in the city of Belleville, 
 in any action or proceeding in which said city may be a party in interest. 
 
 Ordinances in Force. 
 
 § 18. All ordinances, regulations and resolutions now in force in the 
 city of Belleville, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force 
 under this act until altered, modified or repealed by the city council after 
 this [act] shall take effect. 
 
 Suits. 
 
 § 19. All rights, actions, fines, penalties and forfeitures, in suit or 
 otherwise, which have accrued under the several acts consolidated herein, 
 shall be vested in and prosecuted by the corporation hereby created. 
 
 Property. 
 
 § 20. All property, real, personal or mixed, belonging to the city of 
 Belleville is hereby vested in the corporation created by this act, and the 
 officers of said corporation now in office shall respectively continue in the 
 same, until superseded in conformity to the provisions hereof, but shall be 
 governed by this act, which shall take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Published ordinances. 
 
 § 21. All ordinances of the city, when printed and published by 
 authority of the city council, shall be received in all courts and places 
 without further proof. 
 
 Style. 
 
 § 22. The style of all ordinances shall be, “Be it ordained by the City 
 Council of the City of Belleville.” 
 
 § 23. Any tract of land adjoining said city which may be laid off into 
 blocks or lots, and duly platted according to law, and any tract of land 
 adjoining the city, with the consent of the owner thereof, shall and may 
 be annexed to said city, and form a part thereof. 
 
 This act not to invalidate acts of city council. 
 
 § 24. This act shall not invalidate any legal act done by the city 
 council of the city of Belleville, or by its officers, nor divest their successors 
 under this act of any rights of property or otherwise, or liability which 
 may have accrued to or been created by said corporation prior to the 
 passage of this act. 
 
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 Police magistrate. 
 
 § 25. The city council shall have power to require the police magistrate 
 to report and settle quarterly, or oftener, and to conform to the ordinances 
 and resolutions passed from time to time. 
 
 Fees. 
 
 § 26. The police magistrate and all other officers of the city shall not 
 be entitled to receive any fees from the city when from any cause the city 
 shall be unsuccessful in the prosecution of any action, or should be unable 
 to collect any fine and costs, or until the money has been collected by the 
 officer authorized to collect the same. 
 
 Breakers of peace. 
 
 § 27. All officers of the city created conservators of the peace by this 
 act, or authorized by any ordinance, shall have power to arrest or cause to 
 be arrested, with or without process, all persons who shall break the peace, 
 or threaten to break the peace, or be found violating any ordinance of this 
 city, commit for examination, and, if necessary, detain such person in 
 custody over night, or the Sabbath, in the watch-house, or other safe place, 
 or until they can be brought before a magistrate, and shall have and exer¬ 
 cise such other powers as conservators of the peace as the city council may 
 prescribe. 
 
 Power of council heretofore. 
 
 § 28. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to deprive the city 
 council of said city of any powers or authority conferred upon the same by 
 the act incorporating said city, and the various acts amendatory thereto. 
 but the city council shall possess and enjoy all the powers and authority 
 heretofore conferred upon the same, except so far as such powers and 
 authority are expressly modified or repealed by this act, or the acts here¬ 
 tofore mentioned. 
 
 Digest of ordinances. 
 
 § 29. There shall be a digest of the ordinances of the city, which are 
 of a general nature, published within one year after the passage of this act, 
 and a like digest within every period of five years thereafter. 
 
 § 30. This act shall be deemed a public act, and may be read in evidence 
 without proof, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof in all courts and 
 places, and shall take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, February 18, 1859. 
 
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 AN ACT 
 
 TO AMEND THE CHARTER OF THE CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
 Section - 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly , That the city council of the city of Belle¬ 
 ville shall have power, within the jurisdiction of said city, by ordinance, to 
 regulate cemeteries and burying grounds, within two miles of the city, and 
 to punish by fines, penalties or imprisonments, all persons who shall tres¬ 
 pass upon, or desecrate the same, or violate the provisions of any ordinance 
 in relation thereto, in the same manner as if the offense were committed 
 within the city. 
 
 § 2. The city council shall have power to adopt a plan for the laying 
 out, and platting of all additions which may be made to the city, or of 
 subdivisions of lands lying within the city, or within one-half mile of the 
 limits thereof, so as to establish regularity, and uniformity in the streets 
 and highways of the city and vicinity, and to require that all additions, 
 and subdivisions, which may be so laid out, or platted, shall conform to 
 such plan; and no map or plat of any addition, to said city, or of any 
 subdivision of lands lying within the same, or within one-half mile of the 
 limits thereof shall be entitled to record, or shall be recorded in the office 
 of the recorder of St. Clair county, until the same shall have been approved 
 by the city council of said city, and all such additions or subdivisions, 
 shall be null and void, unless a correct map or plat thereof shall be 
 approved by the city council of said city before the same is filed for record. 
 
 § 3. No person shall be entitled to vote at any election in said city, who 
 has not been a citizen of the State of Illinois for at least one year, and of 
 said city, for at least six months, and of the ward in which he proposes to 
 vote, for ten days next preceding such election, and if required by any 
 judge or qualified voter, he shall take the following oath before he shall 
 be permitted to vote. “ I swear (or affirm) that I am of the age of twenty- 
 “ one years, and have been a resident of this State one year, a resident of 
 “ this city six months, and a resident of this ward ten days immediately 
 “preceding this election.” 
 
 § 4. The salary of the mayor of said city shall not be more than three 
 hundred dollars per year. And no alderman shall receive more than fifty 
 dollars per year for any services rendered by him as member of the city 
 council. 
 
 § 5. Police magistrates shall, upon proper information of any violation 
 of any penal clause of the city charter, or of any penal ordinance of the 
 city, issue a warrant to the city marshal, or any police constable, or any 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 other officer, authorized to execute the same, commanding him to forthwith 
 apprehend the offender, and bring him before him, or any competent court, 
 and if upon the trial it shall appear satisfactory to the court or jury, after 
 hearing the evidence, and proofs adduced in the case, that the aceused is 
 guilty of the offense complained of, such fine, penalty, forfeiture or impris¬ 
 onment shall be imposed or adjudged against the offender, as may be 
 prescribed by the charter or ordinances. No process shall be necessary, 
 where the offender is arrested without warrant, and brought before the 
 court, but an entry of the cause, place and time of arrest shall be made 
 upon the docket of the court, and trial had in the same manner, as if 
 process had been issued. 
 
 § 6. The city may sue and declare for several fines, penalties, or for¬ 
 feitures, for violations of the charter or ordinances of the city, and recover 
 judgment for as many offenses as may be proven, not exceeding the juris¬ 
 diction of the court and may prove, any offense committed before the 
 commencement of the suit. 
 
 § 7. The city may appeal in all cases arising under the charter and 
 ordinances of the city without giving security ; and the mayor, in cases of 
 appeals by the city, shall execute bond under the corporate seal, without 
 sureties, and a resolution or ordinance of the city council authorizing the 
 same shall be sufficient authority therefor. Nor shall the city in any case 
 be required to file bond, or security for costs. 
 
 § 8. The city council shall have power to levy and collect, besides the 
 general tax, a special tax, on all taxable property, of not exceeding two 
 mills on the dollar, which two mills shall constitute a sinking fund, to be 
 applied wholly in the payment of the bonds and obligations of the city 
 due, or maturing on or before the first of January, 1865, and for no other 
 purpose whatever. 
 
 § 9. The city council may authorize the mayor and register to issue 
 bonds to the amount of five thousand dollars, payable in not less than ten, 
 nor more than fifteen years, and bearing ten per cent, interest per annum, 
 the proceeds of which shall be applied to the building of cisterns, or to 
 subscription for stock to aqueduct, or water works ; said bonds not to be 
 disposed of for less than par, provided that no such bonds shall be issued, 
 unless a majority of the tax payers, to whom the question shall be sub¬ 
 mitted, shall have decided in favor thereof. 
 
 § 10. Section 29 of the 13th article of the charter of said city, approved 
 February 18th, A. D., 1859, is hereby repealed, and no act of the city 
 council for the non-observance of said section shall in any way be affected 
 or impaired, any more than if said section had never been a part of the 
 charter of said city. 
 
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 §11. Every act, and every part of any act in conflict with the provis¬ 
 ions of this act are hereby repealed. This act to take effect, from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 22d, 1861. 
 
 No. I. 
 
 Accounts against the city—Ordinance relating to accounts. 
 
 Section 1 . No mayor, alderman or other officer of the city of Belleville, 
 shall be allowed to keep or withhold any money collected by him, or that 
 may come into his hands by virtue of his office, or otherwise, for the pay¬ 
 ment of any salary, claim or account which may be due and owing to 
 him by the city : Provided , that this section shall not be construed as 
 applying to the costs and fees due in the police magistrates’ courts, the 
 commissions allowed for collections, and the fees allowed for weighing. 
 Any person so withholding or neglecting to pay over said money to the 
 proper officer, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 § 2. No account or claim against the city of Belleville, upon any con¬ 
 tract made or incurred by any officer, by authority of the city council, or 
 of any ordinance or resolution, except for salaries of city officers, or for 
 payments specifically ordered to be made by the city council or ordinance, 
 shall be considered, audited, or allowed, or any warrant issued for the 
 payment thereof, unless accompanied with the certificate of the officer by 
 whom or under whose authority the same was incurred or contracted, 
 stating “that he has examined the account, and believes it to be true and 
 just, and in accordance with the contract.” 
 
 No. II. 
 
 Additions—Ordinance relating to additions. 
 
 Section 1 . Any addition which may hereafter be laid out on land, 
 within the limits of the city of Belleville, or on land adjoining the said 
 city limits, by subdividing said lands into parts of an acre, lots or blocks, 
 shall conform to and correspond with the regular blocks of the original 
 town plat, and with the additions corresponding therewith, so as to estab¬ 
 lish regularity and uniformity in the streets and alleys of said city, and of 
 the avenues leading to it. 
 
 § 2. A plain and correct map of such addition intended to be laid out, 
 shall be made and submitted to the city council for its approval, before 
 the same can be filed for record. If the city council approve of the 
 addition as laid out, such approval shall be entered on the record of the 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 proceedings of the council, and certified by the city register on the map 
 or plat to be entered for record at the recorder’s office of St. Clair county. 
 
 § 3. The city council may, for good and sufficient reasons, permit any 
 person to lay out any addition or subdivision within the city of Belle¬ 
 ville, or adjoining the limits thereof, in any other manner or on a different 
 plan than specified in Section first; such permission and approval to be 
 certified as provided in Section second. 
 
 No. III. 
 
 Auctions and auctioneers—Ordinance concerning auctions and auctioneers. 
 
 Section 1 . All sales at public auction within the city of Belleville, shall 
 be made by an auctioneer, who shall first have obtained a license according 
 to the ordinance, and shall have paid therefor the sum of thirty-five dollars 
 to the city register, and shall also have executed a bond to said city, with 
 security, to the satisfaction of the mayor, in the penal sum of two thousand 
 dollars, conditioned for the payment of all duties that are, or may be 
 imposed by this, or any subsequent ordinance, on sales made by him; 
 said license not to be granted for less than one year, and to be in force 
 from the date thereof. 
 
 § 2. Every person who may wish to obtain a license, as above men¬ 
 tioned, shall apply in writing to the mayor or city council, setting forth 
 in his application the proposed place of business, and the name or names 
 of his securitv or securities: and in no case shall the said license be 
 
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 transferable. 
 
 § 3. Any person who shall sell, or attempt to sell, at public auction in 
 said city, any goods, chattels, or personal property whatever, without first 
 having obtained a license therefor, as above required, shall forfeit and pay 
 for each offense a fine of not less than five, nor more than two hundred, 
 dollars. 
 
 § 4. A duty of ten per cent, shall be assessed and paid to the city 
 register, at least once a month, upon all sales of personal property of every 
 description, made by any auctioneer who shall not have been a resident of 
 the city of Belleville one year prior to the date of his license, and who 
 shall have brought, or caused to be brought, to said city, any goods, 
 chattels, or personal property, for the express purpose to dispose of them 
 by auction. It shall be the duty of such auctioneer to render a monthly 
 account of his sales to the city register, dating from the day of his license, 
 exhibiting the amount of sales made by him, or under his authority, and 
 the duties that have accrued thereon; and for a failure to do so for the 
 space of three days after the expiration of the month, his license may be 
 
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 declared forfeited, and he shall be subject to a further penalty of five 
 dollars for each and every day such duties and accounts shall be withheld; 
 this section, however, not to apply to persons who have been residents of 
 the city of Belleville one year prior to the date of their license. 
 
 § 5. Every account so rendered shall have an oath attached thereto, 
 signed by said auctioneer, setting forth the amount of sales made by him, 
 also the amount of duties due said city, and that no misrepresentations or 
 deceit have been used, whereby to defraud the said city, either in sales 
 made or the accounts so rendered. 
 
 § 6. All sales made at public auction under and by virtue of legal 
 process, shall be exempted from the operation of the provisions of this 
 ordinance. 
 
 No. IV. 
 
 Attorney of the city—Ordinance relating to the city attorney, 
 
 Section 1 . A suitable person, who shall have been a resident of this 
 city, and licensed to practice law in the courts of this State, at least two 
 years before his appointment, shall be appointed city attorney, or city 
 counselor, and shall hold his office for one year. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of the city attorney— 
 
 First. —To prosecute and defend all suits and actions originating and 
 pending in any police magistrates’ or justices’ of the peace court in this 
 city, to which the city is a party, or in which, in the opinion of the mayor, 
 the interests of the city are brought into controversy, or in which the 
 official acts of any of its officers, servants, or agents are involved. 
 
 Second. —To advise the city council, or its committees, or any city 
 officer, on such legal questions as may arise in relation to business of the 
 city. 
 
 Third. —To keep an account book showing all claims placed in his 
 hands for collection, all monies received by him on account of the city, 
 and all payments to the city treasurer. 
 
 Fourth. —To keep a book or docket in which he shall enter an abstract 
 of all suits pending, and judgments in favor of or against the city of Belle¬ 
 ville, in tabular form, substantially as follows: names of parties; suit; 
 when brought; in what court; nature of action; names of witnesses; 
 amount of judgment; date of execution; when returnable, and how 
 satisfied. 
 
 § 3. It shall be at the option of the city attorney to dismiss a suit 
 where the proofs are not sufficient to sustain the action; and it shall be 
 his duty in all cases in which he is engaged on behalf of the city, to see 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 that full and equal justice be done, not only to the city but also to the 
 other party. 
 
 § 4. In no case shall a police magistrate assess a fine against any person 
 having violated the city ordinances, without hearing the testimony in favor 
 of the city, unless by and with the consent of the city attorney. 
 
 § 5. The city attorney shall make a quarterly report to the city council, 
 an abstract of his docket, and settle with the treasurer every quarter. 
 
 § 6. The salary of the city attorney shall be one hundred and fifty 
 dollars per annum, payable quarterly. 
 
 § 7. It is hereby made the duty of the city attorney, at or before the 
 opening of the polls for any city election, to visit the different polls, and 
 to give to the judges and clerks at said polls such information and legal 
 advice as they may call for or desire. 
 
 No. Y. 
 
 Bonds—An ordinance in relation to the issuing of Bonds by the city of 
 Belleville for the grading, macadamizing and 'planking the streets of 
 said city. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 That in pursuance of the power granted to said city by an act of the 
 Legislature of the State of Illinois, entitled “ An act granting additional 
 power to the city of Belleville,” approved February 10th, 1853, the mayor 
 of said city shall cause to be issued two hundred bonds, of fifty dollars 
 each, and twenty bonds, of five hundred dollars each, said bonds to be 
 payable five years after date, with interest at the' rate of seven per cent, 
 per annum, the interest to be paid annually at Belleville or St. Louis, said 
 bonds to be signed by the mayor of said city, with the seal of the city 
 attached, and countersigned by the register; and that said mayor also issue 
 coupons for the interest payable, as the same may become due, to be 
 signed by him and countersigned by the register. 
 
 § 2. The said bonds, or the proceeds thereof, to be used solely for the 
 grading, macadamizing and planking the streets of said city. 
 
 § 3. The mayor of said city is hereby authorized to sell for cash all of 
 said bonds not used in paying for contracts for said improvements : 
 Provided, that none of said bonds shall be sold for less than ninety cents 
 to the dollar; and the mayor shall, immediately upon the receipt of the 
 proceeds of any of said bonds, pay the same to the city treasurer, and take 
 his receipt therefor. 
 
 Approved, May 23d, 1853. 
 
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 No. VI. 
 
 Bonds—Ordinance in relation to the issuing of bonds for the purpose of 
 recalling and withdrawing from circulation any of the matured bonds , 
 for city indebtedness. 
 
 Section I. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That, in pursuance of the power granted to the city of Belleville, by an act 
 of the legislature of the State of Illinois, entitled “An act granting a new 
 charter to the city of Belleville, and to reduce the several acts incorporating 
 said city into one act,” in force February 18,1859, the mayor and register 
 of the city of Belleville are hereby authorized to renew any matured bonds 
 to those who are legally entitled to them, said bonds to be of fifty dollars 
 each, and to have three years to run from the date of issue, and to be 
 accompanied by coupons for interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, 
 payable semi-annually, and to be signed by the mayor and register, and 
 both principal and interest shall be payable at the treasurer’s office in the 
 city of Belleville. 
 
 § 2. This ordinance shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its 
 passage. 
 
 Approved, October 1st, 1860. 
 
 No. VII. 
 
 Bonds—Ordinance relating to the issuing of bonds for the grading and 
 macadamizing of the streets of Belleville. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville } 
 That, in pursuance of the power granted to the city of Belleville by an act 
 of the legislature of the State of Illinois, entitled “An act granting a new 
 charter to the city of Belleville, and to reduce the several acts incorporating 
 said city into one act,” in force February 18, 1859, the mayor of said city 
 is hereby authorized, whenever instructed by resolution of the city council, 
 to issue bonds of fifty dollars each, said bonds to be payable five years after 
 date of issue, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum, the 
 interest to be paid annually at the treasurer’s office in Belleville, said bonds 
 to be signed by the mayor of the city, with the seal of said city attached, 
 and countersigned by the register, and that the mayor also issue coupons 
 for the interest, payable as they may become due, to be signed by him 
 and countersigned by the register. 
 
 § 2. That the proceeds of said bonds be used solely for the grading and 
 macadamizing of the streets of the city of Belleville. 
 
 § 3. That none of said bonds be sold for less than par. 
 
 Approved, October 1st, 1860. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 No. VIII. 
 
 Beggars—Ordinance relating to beggars. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That if any beggars, not residing within the city, shall solicit alms within 
 said city, without permission of the mayor, the marshal shall notify such 
 persons to leave the city limits; such beggars continuing to solicit alms 
 after having been notified, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined in 
 a sum not exceeding five dollars. 
 
 § 2. Any person in good health, and able to work and maintain, by 
 honest labor, who shall be found habitually strolling and begging for alms 
 within the city of Belleville, may be considered a vagrant, and dealt with 
 according to section 12, article I, ordinance 35. 
 
 No. IX. 
 
 Cemetery and Sexton—Ordinance relating to Cemetery and Sexton. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 as follows : That hereafter the body of any deceased person may be buried 
 within the lots in Walnut Hill cemetery owned by the city of Belleville, 
 as hereinafter directed, and not otherwise : The body of the first white per¬ 
 son therein buried shall be upon the corner of lot No. 544 in said ceme¬ 
 tery, and other graves of white persons shall be continued in regular order 
 on the front range of lots to the end of lot No. 518 and from thence re¬ 
 turning to lot No. 544, and continuing along the first line of graves until 
 the front range of lots are filled in the same regular order, and afterwards 
 commencing at lot No. 491 and proceeding in a like regular order until all 
 the lots owned by said city are filled. 
 
 § 2. Negroes and mulattoes may be buried in said cemetery as follows, 
 and not otherwise : The first body of such may be buried on the corner of 
 lot No. 48, and thence to continue in regular order on a straight line 
 to lot No. 54, and then continue on the back of the same in regular 
 order. 
 
 § 3. No person shall be permitted to bury in the Walnut Hill Ceme¬ 
 tery without applying to the sexton, or his agent, assistant, deputy or his 
 successor in office, or the authorized agents, under penalty of not less than 
 three nor more than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 § 4. It shall be the duty of the sexton to keep a register, in an appro¬ 
 priate book, of all persons who may be buried in the cemetery, giving, as 
 near as possible, the name, age and sex, place of birth, place of residence, 
 disease or manner of death ; and he shall receive an annual salary of 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
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 § 5. Any person making application to the sexton to bury any dead in 
 any division of the cemetery, shall furnish him with a statement of the 
 name, age, sex, place of birth, residence, disease or cause of death of the 
 person to be interred, whereupon the sexton shall issue a permit, upon the 
 payment of the fees hereinafter prescribed, viz : 
 
 For a grave of three feet and under.$0 75 
 
 “ “ four “ “ . 1 00 
 
 “ “ over four feet. 1 50 
 
 For disinterring a dead body the same fees as digging a grave of like 
 dimensions; for disinterring a dead body and re-burying the same in 
 some other part of the cemetery, the same fees as for digging two graves 
 of like dimensions. 
 
 § 6. The sexton shall be entitled to a fee of twenty-five cents for each 
 permit, for registering age, sex, birth, death, residence and cause of death ; 
 to dig, or cause to be dug, all graves in the city division of the cemetery, 
 and in private lots, where they make a request and pay the fees as pro¬ 
 vided in section five of this ordinance, and shall cause all graves in said 
 cemetery to be dug at least four feet from the top of the ground, on a level 
 at the top of the vault, and graves over five feet long shall not be less than 
 four feet six inches from the top of ground to top of vault. 
 
 § 7. The said sexton, or his assistant, shall be at the cemetery, or at 
 some suitable place designated by them, that any person desiring to have 
 a person buried may be able to find them, to present their application and 
 get their permit to have a grave dug, and the body interred and the grave 
 filled up at least eighteen inches above the lev^l of the ground at the top. 
 
 § 8. It shall be the duty of the sexton, or his agent, to preserve the 
 fences, grounds and property in repair, to prevent trespasses on said ceme¬ 
 tery, and to preserve, as far as possible, from being defaced, injured or 
 destroyed, any tombstones, monuments, inclosures or other thing erected 
 within said cemetery ; to keep, or cause to be kept, the walks and alleys 
 in the cemetery clear and free from brush, weeds or other incumbrances. 
 
 § 9. The sexton, or his assistant or agent, shall make a written report 
 signed by the sexton, every six months, which report shall be delivered to 
 the city register, and by him presented to the city council for their ap¬ 
 proval. If the city council shall think that the sexton neglects his duty, 
 they may remove him from office in the same manner as is provided for 
 the removal of any city officer. 
 
 § 10. The sexton, on resigning his office, or being removed from office, 
 shall deliver to his successor, or to the city register, all books and papers, 
 
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 register of names, and all property belonging to the city, under a penalty 
 of not more than fifty dollars. 
 
 § 11. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance, in 
 cases where there is no special penalty attached, shall be deemed guilty of 
 misdemeanor, and, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than three 
 nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 § 12. Whoever shall hunt, discharge fire arms, or otherwise trespass 
 upon any cemetery or burying ground situated within the city limits, or 
 within two miles of the city, shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding five 
 dollars. 
 
 § 13. Whoever shall carry away or remove, or shall willfully, mali¬ 
 ciously or negligently break, deface, destroy, or otherwise injure any monu¬ 
 ment, tombstone, tree, shrub or flower, railing, fence, or any other property, 
 article or thing belonging to any cemetery within the city limits, or within 
 two miles of the city, or placed or erected therein for ornament or otherwise, 
 or shall trespass upon or maltreat any grave or lot, shall be subject to a 
 penalty of not exceeding fifty dollars ; and, in addition thereto, the ex¬ 
 penses which may be incurred in repairing the injuries committed shall be 
 added to the penalty, and included in the judgment, and paid over to the 
 owner of the injured property. 
 
 No. X. 
 
 Census—Ordinance providing for taking the census of the city of Belleville, 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 The city assessor shall, every third year, take and make out an enumera¬ 
 tion of the inhabitants of the city, and return the same to the city council 
 at the same time when he returns the assessment list: Provided, That the 
 city council may, by resolution, order a census to be taken at any other 
 time or period. 
 
 § 2. The census shall be taken in each ward separately, in a suitable 
 book or books, properly ruled and headed, and shall show separately the 
 number of males and females under six years of age, the number over 
 six and under sixteen, the number over sixteen, and under twenty-one, the 
 number over twenty-one and under fifty, and the number over fifty ; also 
 the number of male members capable of bearing arms, the block or lot on 
 which they reside, the number of persons of foreign birth, and of colored 
 persons. The census shall also show the number of buildings in each block, 
 exclusive of out-buildings, and the number not situated on blocks, and the 
 materials of such buildings, the number of manufactories and business 
 
 houses of all kinds, the amount of capital invested in each, and the amount 
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 of business done annually, and the number of persons or employees em¬ 
 ployed or engaged therein, the number of school houses, colleges, churches 
 and other public buildings, and the estimated value of each ; and such 
 other statistics and information as the city council may direct. 
 
 § 3. The assessor shall call at each dwelling, manufactory, or place of 
 business, and inquire of the head or some member thereof, or person 
 connected therewith who can inform him, and ascertain the facts 
 herein required ; but if no such person can be found, he shall list them 
 from the best information he can obtain. He shall register the names of 
 all heads of families, and of all persons not belonging to any family; and 
 under the head of the family, all persons residing therein, whether as 
 boarders or otherwise, so that they be residents of the city, shall be enum¬ 
 erated. He shall register, in a separate column, the names of all male 
 persons of twenty-one years of age, and upwards, in each ward, marking 
 the letter “C” opposite the names of colored persons. 
 
 § 4. Each column shall be added up, and the amount carried forward, 
 so as to show the total number or amount of each class, and the totals of 
 each class shall be added up so as to show the totals of all classes. 
 
 § 5. Any person who shall, when requested, refuse to give to the assessor, 
 while he may be engaged in taking the census, any information within his 
 knowledge in relation to any of the facts herein required, or shall knowingly 
 give any false information in relation thereto, shall be subject to a penalty 
 of five dollars. 
 
 No. XI. , 
 
 City Council—An ordinance relating to the city council. ' 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 as follows : The city council shall be composed of the mayor and two 
 aldermen from each ward, elected according to law. 
 
 § 2. The stated meetings of the city council shall be held on the first 
 Monday of every month, at the City Hall, or at such place within the 
 limits of the city, and at such house as the city council may from time to 
 time direct. 
 
 § 3. Special meetings may be called at any time, when the interests of 
 the city requires it, by the mayor or any two aldermen, by leaving written 
 notices of the time and place of holding the same, at the residence of the 
 members, or by notifying them personally. The service of suck notice, 
 either in writing or personally, is hereby made the duty of the city marshal. 
 
 § 4. No business shall be transacted by the city council unless the 
 mayor'and four aldermen, or five aldermen without the mayor, be present. 
 The city council in its proceedings shall be governed by the following 
 
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 RULES. 
 
 First. The mayor or president shall take the chair at the hour appointed 
 for the council to meet, and shall immediately call the members to order; 
 and the president, at the instance of any two members present may order 
 the attendance of absent members. 
 
 Second. The president shall have the right to decide all questions of 
 order, subject to an appeal to the council. 
 
 Third. The president shall preserve decorum, and if any member trans¬ 
 gresses the rules of the city council, the president shall, or any member 
 may, call to order, in which case the member called to order shall imme¬ 
 diately sit down and be silent, unless permitted to explain, and the council, 
 if appealed to, shall decide the matter. 
 
 Fourth. Every member present, when a question is put, shall vote, unless 
 interested, or the council shall, for special reasons, excuse him. 
 
 Fifth. Every motion or proposition shall, if the president or any mem¬ 
 ber require it, be reduced to writing. 
 
 Sixth. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be deemed to be in 
 possession of the council, and shall be stated by the president, or being in 
 writing shall be delivered to the clerk, endorsed by the president or clerk 
 previous to debate. 
 
 Seventh. After a motion is stated by the president or read by the clerk, it 
 may be withdrawn at any time before the decision or amendment, by the 
 mover thereof. 
 
 Eighth. All questions to be put in form, “ as many as are of opinion 
 (as the case may be) say aye, contrary, no,” and in doubtful cases, the presi¬ 
 dent may direct, or any member may call for a division. 
 
 Ninth . When a question is before the council, no motion shall be re¬ 
 ceived, unless to amend, to postpone, or commit the main question, to lay it 
 on the table, for the previous question, or to adjourn. 
 
 Tenth. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, unless the council 
 is engaged in voting, and shall be decided without debating. 
 
 Eleventh. The previous question shall be put in these words : “ Shall the 
 main question be now put ?” and until decided, shall preclude all debate or 
 amendment of the main question. 
 
 Tweljtli. Any member may call for a division of the question, when the 
 same shall admit thereof. 
 
 Thirteenth. An ordinance, after commitment and report thereof, may be 
 recommitted at any time previous to its final passage. 
 
 Fourteenth. The ayes and noes shall be taken and recorded upon any 
 
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 question before the council, upon the call of any one member, but such 
 call shall not preclude amendments before the main question is put. 
 
 Fifteenth. Any member shall have the liberty to dissent from and protest 
 against any ordinance, resolution or order of the council. 
 
 Sixteenth. In filling blanks, the largest sum and longest time shall be put 
 first. 
 
 Seventeenth. All committees shall be appointed by the president, unless 
 otherwise directed by the council. 
 
 Eighteenth. At the stated meetings of the council, the journal of the pre¬ 
 ceding meeting shall be read, and the unfinished business appearing thereon 
 shall be first disposed of in order, unless otherwise directed by the council. 
 
 Nineteenth. After the unfinished business is disposed of, reports from com¬ 
 mittees shall be called for; petitions and accounts shall then be read and 
 acted upon; and then new business may be introduced. 
 
 Twentieth. When the council are called, the names of the members shall 
 be called in the order of the wards they respectively represent. 
 
 Twenty-first . The following standing committees shall be appointed by 
 the mayor, at the first meeting of the council, or as soon after as con¬ 
 venient: Committee on accounts; on assessors report; on gas light; on 
 finance; on improvements; on judiciary; on license; on marshal’s and 
 collector’s report; on police magistrate’s report; register’s and treasurer’s 
 report ; on ordinances; on weigher aud market master’s reports; on streets 
 and grades; on claims. 
 
 Twenty-second. No personalities or reflections, injurious to the feelings or 
 harmony of the council, shall be tolerated, and the members indulging in 
 any such personalities, shall be called to order by the president. 
 
 Twenty-third. No member shall vote when personally interested in the 
 discussion of the question before the council; nor shall any member be 
 security in any bond, note or obligation, given to the city, or have any 
 part or interest in any contract for work given out by the city. 
 
 § 5. In no suit in which the city of Belleville shall be a party, shall 
 any member of the city council, or officer of this city, be entitled as 
 against the city, to any witness fees, unless such fees shall have been 
 collected from the defendant. 
 
 § G. No vote of the city council shall be reconsidered or rescinded at 
 a special meeting, unless the meeting be called in whole or in part for that 
 purpose, and the aldermen be notified, and unless at such special meeting 
 there be present as large a number of aldermen as were present when the 
 vote was taken. 
 
 § 7. Neither the city council or mayor shall remit any fine or penalty 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 imposed upon any person for a violation of any laws or ordinances of 
 said city, or release from confinement, unless two-thirds of all the aldermen 
 elected shall vote for such release or remission ; and unless the magistrate 
 rendering the judgment, or the prosecuting city attorney shall recommend 
 such release from confinement or remission of fines. 
 
 No. XII. 
 
 City limits—Ordinance relating to the city limits. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That the city of Belleville shall comprehend all that district of territory 
 as follows: Extending one and a half miles from north to south, and one 
 and one quarter miles from east to west, extending north, east and south 
 three-quarters of a mile, from a line drawn through the center of Main and 
 Illinois streets of the town (now city) of Belleville, as recorded, and west 
 one-half mile from said centre line of Illinois street. 
 
 § 2. The city of Belleville shall be divided into four wards, the boun¬ 
 daries of which shall be as follows: 1st. All that north-east part of the 
 city of Belleville, bounded on the west by Illinois street, and on the south 
 by Main street, shall constitute the first ward. 2d. All that north-west 
 part of the city of Belleville, bounded on the east by Illinois street, and 
 on the south by Main street, shall constitute the second ward. 3d. All 
 that south-west part of the city of Belleville, bounded on the east by 
 Illinois street, and on the north by Main street, shall constitute the third 
 ward. 4th. All that south-east part of the city of Belleville, bounded on 
 the west by Illinois street and on the north by Main street, shall constitute 
 the fourth ward. 
 
 § 3. Any tract of land adjoining the city of Belleville, which may be 
 laid off into blocks or lots, and duly platted, according to law, and any 
 tract of land adjoining the city, with the consent of the owner thereof 
 shall and may be annexed to said city, and form a part thereof. 
 
 No. XIII. 
 
 City Surveyor—Ordinance relating to City Surveyor. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of tlie city of Belleville , 
 as follows : That there shall be appointed by the city council at the first 
 regular meeting in each year, or as soon as convenient thereafter, a com¬ 
 petent person, to be styled city surveyor, who shall have the sole power, 
 under the control and direction of the city council, to survey within the 
 city limits—to hold his office for one year, (unless sooner removed) and 
 until his successor shall be appointed and qualified. 
 
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 § 2. It shall be the duty of said surveyor to make all surveys within 
 the limits of the city that he may be called upon to make, either by himself 
 or by a competent and authorized deputy, within a reasonable time after 
 application made, and to establish corners by suitable stones, permanently 
 placed in the ground, when requested; and also to assist the street in¬ 
 spector in giving the grade on any street, laue or alley, when called on so 
 to do. 
 
 § 3. Said surveyor may appoint one or more deputies, to assist him in 
 his office. Each deputy shall take an oath similar to that taken by the 
 principal, and the principal to be responsible for the acts of his deputy. 
 
 § 4. It shall be the duty of said surveyor and deputy to supply them¬ 
 selves with suitable maps, charts and field notes of original surveys of 
 lands, which they may be called on to survey, and all surveys shall be 
 made to conform, as near as possible, to the original surveys of the lands 
 and town lots, as laid out and recorded in the recorder’s office of St. Clair 
 county, Illinois. 
 
 § 5. It shall also be the duty of said surveyor to provide himself with a 
 well bound book, in which he shall carefully and legibly record and note 
 down every survey made by him, describing, as near as practicable, the metes 
 and bounds of the land surveyed, also the name of the person for whom 
 made, and the date when made, and such record shall be subject to the 
 inspeotion of every person who may think himself interested therein, and 
 such record or a certified copy under the hand of said surveyor shall be 
 admitted as evidence in any matter wherein the city is interested. 
 
 § 6. lie shall possess the same power, in making plats and surveys 
 within the city as is given by law to county surveyors, and the like effect 
 and validity shall be given to his acts and surveys made by him, as are or 
 may be given bv law to the acts, plats and surveys of the county surveyor. 
 He shall, when required, superintend the construction of all public works 
 ordered by the city, make out the plans and estimates thereof, and contract 
 for the execution of the same. He shall also perform all surveying and 
 engineering ordered by the city council, and shall, under their direction, 
 establish the grades and boundaries of streets and alleys ; but such plans, 
 estimates and contracts, grades and boundaries, shall be first reported to 
 the city council, and approved by them, or they shall not be valid. 
 
 § *. The said surveyor and deputy shall be entitled to such compensa¬ 
 tion, from each person or persons to whom they have rendered their 
 services, as are allowed by the laws of the State of Illinois for similar 
 services. 
 
 § 8. It shall be the duty of said surveyor or deputy having any records 
 
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 in his possession, mentioned in section 5, to deliver them up to his suc¬ 
 cessor, when applied to for that purpose, and upon a failure to do so shall 
 be liable to action on his bond. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XIV. 
 
 City weigher and scales—Ordinance relating to city weigher and scales. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 There shall be a weigher of hay and stone coal, and as many others as the 
 city council may from time to time direct, in any public place within the 
 corporate limits, authorized by said city council. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of each of these officers— 
 
 First. —To attend at the public scales, for which he is appointed, from 
 sunrise to sunset of every day, (Sundays excepted,) and to weigh every 
 load of hay, stone coal, or other thing which may be presented to be 
 weighed, and to give the person presenting the same a certificate of the 
 net weight thereof, after making a proper deduction for mud and wet. 
 
 Second. —To enter in suitable books, in tabular form, every load of hay, 
 stone coal, or other thing weighed, designating the kind and weight 
 thereof, and for whom weighed. 
 
 Third. —To receive from, and to receipt to, the register for all blank 
 certificates which he may use. 
 
 Fourth. —To settle with the treasurer on the last Saturday of every 
 quarter for all blank certificates, and all money received by him, and pay 
 into the treasury all such money received by him as weigher. 
 
 Fifth. —And to perform such other duties in the measurement of wood, 
 and otherwise as may be required of him by ordinance. 
 
 Sixth. — In consideration of large establishments using coal, which are 
 considered a benefit for town, the mayor is hereby authorized, and shall 
 have power, to make special contract with coal teams, reducing the present 
 price of weighing, or other arrangements, with the consent and sanction of 
 the city council at their next regular meeting. 
 
 § 3. In weighing stone coal, the weigher shall compute eighty pounds 
 avoirdupois to be a bushel, after making suitable deduction for slate, 
 sulphur, and other foreign substances therein contained. 
 
 § 4. Each weigher shall be entitled to demand and receive from the 
 persons having weighing done the following rates, viz.: For every load of 
 stone coal, not exceeding twenty bushels, ten cents; for all loads over 
 twenty bushels, and not exceeding thirty-five bushels, fifteen cents; for all 
 loads over thirty-five bushels, and not exceeding fifty-five bushels, twenty 
 
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 cents; and for every load over fifty-five bushels, one-half cent, per bushel 
 in addition to the foregoing rates. For each load of hay, or other things, 
 twenty cents. For each horse, or neat cattle, ten cents; and other articles 
 in proportion. 
 
 § 5. No person shall buy or sell, or offer to sell, any hay or stone coal 
 in this city, until the same shall have been weighed by one of the regularly 
 appointed weighers of the city, or by a weigher of one of the scales within 
 the city authorized by any ordinance of the city, and a certificate thereof 
 given as herein required, under a penalty of five dollars for each load 
 bought, sold, or offered for sale, with costs. 
 
 § 6. Any person who shall have had any article weighed as aforesaid, 
 and received a certificate of the weight thereof, who shall before selling 
 the same diminish the weight thereof, or shall sell a part thereof, and 
 afterwards sell, or offer to sell, the remainder as being of the quantity 
 called for in the certificate, or shall change, alter, or in any manner change 
 or permit to be changed, any certificate, shall forfeit and pay to the city 
 for every offense from one to ten dollars, with costs of suit. 
 
 § 7. When any person shall sell anything, which shall have been 
 weighed as aforesaid, he shall deliver to the vendee the certificate received 
 bv him from the weigher. 
 
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 § 8. Each weigher shall weigh, when requested, any vehicle, and brand 
 or mark thereon the number or weight thereof, and thereafter it shall not 
 be necessary to reweigh the same; but when a vehicle upon which a load 
 is weighed, shall not have been previously weighed, he shall state the fact 
 upon the face of the certificate, and the person selling the load thereon 
 shall, immediately after the sale thereof, cause the vehicle to be weighed 
 and the net weight of the load ascertained. Whoever shall violate or fail 
 to comply with this section shall be fined not exceeding five dollars, with 
 costs of suit. 
 
 § 9. Each weigher shall cause the accuracy of the scales under his 
 charge to be tested by the inspector of weights and measures, whenever 
 he may have reason to believe them inaccurate, and all the repairs of the 
 same involving an expenditure shall be made by the weigher thereof with 
 the approbation of the mayor. 
 
 § 10. No person shall bring into this city for sale any stone coal, dust, 
 or fine coal, unsuited for burning in ordinary coal grates, except under 
 special contract for the sale thereof. If any person shall cause a load of 
 stone coal to be weighed, and upon delivery thereof it shall be ascertained 
 that there is contained in the load any coal dust or fine coal unsuited for 
 burning in ordinary coal grates, the person selling, or offering to sell, the 
 
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 same shall forfeit and pay not exceeding ten dollars, with costs, and also 
 be required under a like penalty to remove the same without the city, 
 forthwith. 
 
 § 11. The term fine coal, as used in the preceding section, includes all 
 coal broken into fragments less than two inches in diameter every way. 
 
 § 12. No weigher of hay or stone coal, or any of his deputies, shall 
 directly or indirectly, in person or by another, be engaged in the buying 
 or selling of hay, or stone coal, or firewood, except so far as may be 
 necessary for his own private use, under a penalty of not exceeding fifty 
 dollars, with costs of suit. 
 
 Adopted. * 
 
 No. XV. 
 
 Dogs—Ordinance concerning dogs. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, as 
 follows: Any householder in this city may keep a dog, or dogs, upon 
 paying a tax of one dollar per year upon each dog, if he cause the same to 
 be registered, put a collar on it, and have the collar marked and stamped, 
 as hereinafter required: Provided , that no dog under six months of age 
 shall be liable to be taxed. 
 
 § 2. Every owner or possessor of a dog or dogs, shall cause the same 
 to be registered in the office of the city register; before doing which he 
 shall procure and put around the neck of each dog a collar at least one 
 inch v r ide. 
 
 § 3. The register shall make no registry of any dog, unless the pro¬ 
 visions of the previous sections shall have been complied with, nor of any 
 taxable dog, unless a collector’s or marshal’s receipt for the same be pro¬ 
 duced to him. 
 
 § 4. At the time of registering any dog, the register shall stamp upon 
 the collar thereof the letters “C. T. P.,” and the year of the registry. 
 
 § 5. For registering each dog and stamping the collar thereof, the 
 person having the same done shall pay to the register a fee of fifteen cents. 
 
 § 6. Whoever shall suffer to be and remain in or about the premises 
 inhabited or occupied by him, any dog not registered or collared as 
 aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay a sum not less than three nor more than 
 ten dollars. 
 
 § 7. The city marshal shall, on or before the first day of July of each 
 and every year, give notice in the newspapers employed by the city, that 
 during the months of July, August and September following, all dogs 
 found running at large within the city, not registered and collared, as 
 
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 aforesaid, shall be slain by the marshal or his deputies, appointed and 
 authorized for that purpose; and he shall, when directed by the mayor, 
 give a like notice, embracing any other specified time, within which the 
 mayor may consider it advisable to enforce fhe slaying of dogs. 
 
 § 8. The city marshal shall commission a sufficient number of persons 
 as his special deputies, to be approved by the mayor, who shall, during 
 the time specified in the notice aforesaid, slay any dog found running at 
 large within this city not registered and collared as aforesaid. 
 
 § 9. The marshal shall certify to the number of dogs slain, and shall 
 accompany such certificate with his oath, that the same were slain; where¬ 
 upon the slayer shall receive the sum of twenty-five cents for each dog 
 slain. 
 
 § 10. Any deputy appointed under this ordinance to slay any dogs, who 
 shall slay in any manner or in any other way than is specified in this ordi¬ 
 nance, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not exceeding twenty dollars. 
 
 § 11. If any owner or possessor of a fierce or dangerous dog, permit 
 the same to go at large in this city, to the danger or annoyance of the 
 inhabitants, he shall forfeit and.pay for the first offense, a sum not exceeding 
 ten dollars, for the second not exceeding twenty dollars, and upon a 
 third conviction not exceeding thirty dollars, and the city marshal shall 
 cause the dog to be slain. 
 
 § 12. If any owner or possessor of a female dog permit her to run at 
 large while in heat, he shall forfeit and pay five dollars, and it shall be the 
 duty of the marshal and his deputies to cause any female dog running at 
 large at such time to be slain. 
 
 The word dog, wherever used in this ordinance, without qualification, 
 is intended to mean a female as well as a male dog. 
 
 § 14. No section of this ordinance shall be so construed, as to apply to 
 any dog or dogs belonging to persons coming into the city from the 
 country, without the intention of remaining in the city, or any dog or 
 dogs, which may be passing through the city with its owner or possessor. 
 
 § 15. To carry into effect the provisions of this act, the marshal shall 
 give ten days’ notice, by posting up hand-bills, in the most public places 
 throughout the city, in both the German and English languages. 
 
 § 16. Any person or persons who shall in any manner oppose, molest, 
 threaten or disturb the city marshal or his deputies, who shall kill, or be 
 about to kill, any dog or dogs as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the city of 
 Belleville a fine of not exceeding twenty dollars for each and every offense. 
 
 § 17. The city marshal shall receive twenty per cent, of all collections 
 made by himself in pursuance of this ordinance; and it shall be his duty, 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 aud that of his deputies, to enter complaint before the police magistrates 
 for all and any breaches of this ordinance. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XVI. 
 
 Elections—Ordinance relating to elections. 
 
 § 1. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , as fol¬ 
 lows : That the regular elections in the city of Belleville for mayor, 
 aldermen and city officers, shall be held on the third Monday in April 
 annually, and all voting shall be done by ballot, and according to the 
 regulations hereinafter described. 
 
 § 2. At least ten days’ public notice of the time and place of holding 
 any general election, and five days’ public notice of the time and place of 
 holding a special election, shall be given by the city register, under order 
 of the city council. 
 
 § 3. There shall be appointed, annually, three judges of election, in 
 each of the wards of this city, by the city council, to superintend all city 
 elections for the year for which they are appointed, which judges shall have 
 resided in this city at least one year next preceding their appointment. 
 
 § 4. If any person so appointed annually by the city council, shall 
 decline or refuse to serve, the city council if in session, shall appoint 
 another or others, to serve instead; but if the city council shall not be in 
 session, the mayor and aldermen of the ward, or any two of them, shall 
 appoint the judge or judges to serve instead of the person or persons 
 declining or neglecting to serve. 
 
 § 5. If any judge appointed fail to be present, or if a vacancy be not 
 filled, as before provided, at the opening of the polls, or being present 
 any judge declines to serve, a majority of the legal voters, then and there 
 present, may elect a qualified person to act as judge of that election. 
 
 § 6. The judges at any election shall, before opening the polls, appoint 
 two suitable persons to act as clerks of the election, who, together with the 
 judges, shall take and subscribe an oath, faithfully and impartially to dis¬ 
 charge their respective duties; and no officer of the city or candidate for 
 an office, shall be judge or clerk of any election in this city. 
 
 § 7. The city register shall provide a sufficient number of ballot boxes, 
 at the expense of the city, for the several wards, each of which said boxes 
 shall be furnished with a lock and key, and before any ballots shall be 
 deposited therein, the same shall be publicly opened and exhibited, so that 
 the judges and clerks may see that no ballot is in said box or boxes, after 
 which the box shall be locked and the key delivered over to one of the 
 
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 judges, and the same shall not again be opened during the same election, 
 except in the manner and for the purposes herein provided, and an opening 
 sufficiently large to admit a single folded ticket, shall be made in the lid 
 of each box. 
 
 § 8. The ballot voted by each voter shall be folded by the voter and 
 delivered to one of the judges of election, who shall, if the judges are sat¬ 
 isfied that the person offering the ballot is a legal voter, endorse on the back 
 of the ballot or ticket offered the number corresponding with the vote on 
 the poll book, without unfolding or opening the same in any manner, de¬ 
 posit the said ballot in the said ballot-box ; Provided, That no ballot shall 
 be received or counted, unless the same be written or printed on white 
 paper, without any mark or figures thereon, intended to distinguish one 
 ballot from another; and each clerk of election shall keep a poll list in 
 which he shall enter the name of each voter voting at any election, in the 
 order of voting, and each list shall be headed with the words “ Names of 
 voters.” 
 
 § 9 Every ticket so handed in at any election, shall contain the name 
 of every candidate such voter intends voting for, either in writing or in 
 print, designating the office to which he wishes eac^ to be elected ; and if 
 more persons are designated for any office, than there are vacancies to fill, 
 or officers to be elected, such part of ticket shall not be counted for either 
 of them ; but no vote shall be rejected for want of form, if the judges can 
 determine to their satisfaction the person voted for, and the office which 
 the voter intended such person to fill. 
 
 § 10. No judge or clerk of any election shall examine, or permit any 
 one to examine the ballot of any voter, handed in to be deposited in the 
 ballot-box, before placing the same therein, or permitting any one but the 
 voter handing the same in to one of the judges, to handle the same, or 
 allow any person but one of the judges, to handle a ballot-box, under a 
 penalty of not less than five, nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 § 11. It shall be the duty of the city marshal, if in the opinion of the 
 mayor it shall be deemed necessary, to deputize and station at each place 
 of holding an election, a suitable person for the purpose of preserving 
 order and decorum, and to enforce the lawful commands of the judges of 
 election. 
 
 § 12. The judges shall have power to preserve order at the polls, and 
 to command the officer in attendance to arrest and take before the police 
 magistrate any person who shall, by violent or turbulent conduct, or in any 
 other manner, intefere with, hinder, obstruct, disturb or delay the judges 
 or clerks in the discharge of their duties, or any voter in exercising the 
 
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 privilege of voting : and, for any such offense, the offender shall forfeit and 
 pay a sum to the city, not less than five or more than one hundred dollars : 
 and any judge or clerk of such election, duly appointed and notified, who 
 shall fail to attend and act at any election and to perform his duties, ex¬ 
 cept for good reasons, or who shall conduct himself at such election in a 
 riotous or disorderly manner, or who, in conducting the same, shall wil¬ 
 fully and corruptly violate the laws regulating elections, shall, for every 
 such offense, forfeit and pay to the city a fine of not less than five nor more 
 than one hundred dollars. 
 
 § 13. Whoever shall, at any election, seize or attempt to seize a ballot- 
 box or poll-book, with the purpose of carrying the same off by force, shall 
 forfeit and pay to the city a sum of not less than one hundred dollars, nor 
 more than five hundred dollars. 
 
 § 14. If a ballot-box shall be seized and carried away at any election, 
 so that the ballots therein contained cannot be counted, the wdiole election 
 shall thereby be void, and a new election shall be ordered by the city 
 council. 
 
 § 15. The judges of election shall open the polls for the reception of 
 votes at eight o’clock, a. m., and keep them open until six o’clock, p. m., at 
 which time they shall be closed. At the close of the polls, the poll-book 
 shall be signed by the judges, and attested by the clerks; the names therein 
 contained shall be counted and the number set dowrn at the foot of the 
 poll-books. The judges shall, immediately upon the close of the polls, 
 proceed to open the ballot-boxes, and call out the ballots, in the presence 
 of any candidate, or the friends of any candidates, selected by them for 
 that purpose, who may choose to be present, and ascertain the number of 
 votes given to each candidate voted for, and shall continue the counting of 
 the ballots, without intermission, until all are counted. All the ballots 
 counted shall, after being read, be strung on a strong thread or twine, in 
 the order in which they have been read, and shall then be carefully en¬ 
 veloped and sealed up by the judges, who shall direct the same to the 
 register of the city, and shall be delivered, with the poll-books to said reg¬ 
 ister, w r ho shall carefully preserve said poll-books for six months, and at 
 the expiration of that time shall destroy them; and in all cases of con¬ 
 tested election, the parties contesting the same shall have the right to have 
 the said package of ballots opened, and said ballots referred to by wit¬ 
 nesses for the purpose of such contest: but said ballots shall only be so 
 examined and referred to in the presence of the officer having the custody 
 thereof. 
 
 § 16. The judges shall make out a certified statement, to be attested 
 
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 by the clerks, of the aggregate number of votes for each person voted for 
 in the several wards of this city, which statement shall be sealed up and 
 directed to the city register, and to him delivered as soon as possible after 
 the votes are examined and counted. 
 
 § 17. It shall be the duty of the city council to hold a special meeting 
 within three days after the day on which any city election shall be held, 
 at which meeting the register shall lay before the city council the certified 
 returns aforesaid ; whereupon the said city council, after an examination 
 thereof, shall declare and enter upon their journal, the name of each per¬ 
 son voted for, at full length, the office for which he is voted for, and the 
 aggregate number of votes given to each person, and who are elected, set¬ 
 ting forth the office to which he is elected. 
 
 § 18. The city register shall, on the next day after the said special 
 meeting of the city council, make out and deliver a certificate, under the 
 seal of the city and signed by the mayor, to each person elected. 
 
 § 19. Whenever it shall be ascertained that there is an equal number of 
 votes given to two or more persons, for mayor or alderman, or any other of¬ 
 ficer in this city, made elective by the people, it shall be the duty of the city 
 council at the special meeting aforesaid, to place in a box or some conven¬ 
 ient place, as many ballots as there are persons having an equal number of 
 votes, and on one only of which ballots shall be written the name or style 
 of the office for which said persons were voted for, and some other words 
 on each of the other ballots ; and from which box or other convenient 
 place, such persons, so having an equal number of votes, shall each draw 
 one ballot, and the person drawing the ballot on which the name or style 
 of the office is written, shall be the mayor, alderman or other officer 
 elected; and in case any such person or persons are absent, or refuse to 
 draw a ballot as aforesaid, if for an alderman or any other officer, other 
 than mayor, then the mayor shall draw a ballot or ballots for such person 
 or persons; and if for mayor, then any alderman designated by the city 
 council shall draw the ballot or ballots for such candidate or candidates. 
 
 § 20. Whenever the election of mayor, aldermen, or other city officer 
 shall be contested, it shall be the duty of the person so contesting to notify 
 the person having the certificate of election, and the mayor or register of 
 the city in writing; and upon such notice being filed as aforesaid with 
 the mayor or city register, it shall be the duty of the mayor to call a 
 meeting of the city council within five days from the giving of such notice ; 
 at which meeting the city council shall examine all testimony under oath, 
 w'hich may be offered touching the case, and shall determine who is 
 elected to the place contested; and whenever the election of mayor is 
 
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 contested, the city council shall appoint one of the aldermen mayor pro 
 tern., to preside at any meeting holden for the purpose of taking testimony 
 and determining such contest, and the mayor, or mayor pro tern ., as the case 
 may be, may issue, under the seal of the city, process to procure the attend¬ 
 ance of witnesses. 
 
 § 21. In all elections in this city, the person receiving the greatest 
 number of votes for any office, shall he declared by the city council duly 
 elected. 
 
 § 22. Every judge and clerk of any election shall receive the sum of 
 one dollar per day for his services as such judge or clerk; and the poll- 
 books of election shall be made out, with the necessary certificates, in 
 blank by the city register, and delivered by him to one of the judges of 
 election in each of the wards of the city. 
 
 § 23. In case the office of mayor, of police magistrate, or of any aider- 
 man shall become vacant by reason of their removal from the city or ward, 
 death, resignation, or by any other means whatever, it shall be the duty of 
 the city council forthwith to order an election to fill the vacant office; 
 and in case the office of any other city officer should become vacant by 
 any means whatever, three months before the regular city elections, the 
 city council shall forthwith order an election to fill said, office; and in 
 case that three months should not intervene between such vacancy and 
 the regular city election, the city council may fill such vacancy by ap¬ 
 pointment until the regular election. 
 
 § 24. The city elections shall, in all cases where there is no special pro¬ 
 visions made by ordinance, be conducted, and the votes canvassed, so far 
 as applicable, in conformity with the laws of the state of Illinois. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 No. XVIII. 
 
 Fees and salaries—An ordinance relating to fees and salaries. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That the following fees and salaries shall be allowed to the officers of the 
 city: 
 
 Firsf. —The mayor shall receive a salary of three hundred dollars a 
 year, payable quarterly. 
 
 Second .— Each alderman shall receive fifty dollars per year for his 
 services; the allowance to be made quarterly upon the report of the 
 register of the city. 
 
 Third .— The city attorney shall receive a salary of one hundred and 
 fifty dollars a year, payable quarterly. 
 
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 Fourth .—The street inspector shall receive a salary of four hundred and 
 fifty dollars a year, payable quarterly. 
 
 Fifth .—The assessor shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars a 
 year, payable when the assessment is finished, upon the order of the city 
 council. 
 
 Sixth .—The register and treasurer shall receive a salary of—for the 
 register’s office, one hundred and fifty dollars, and for the treasurer’s office, 
 seventy-five dollars per year, payable quarterly. The register shall also be 
 entitled to a fee of one dollar for issuing each license, and of fifty cents for 
 taking each bond; both to be paid by the applicant. 
 
 Seventh .—The marshal shall receive a yearly salary of one hundred and 
 twenty-five dollars, payable quarterly, and shall also receive a commission 
 of five per centum on all fines and penalties collected by him for the city, 
 a commission of two per cent, on all licenses collected by him, and such 
 other fees as are allowed to constables by the laws of the State of Illinois. 
 
 Eighth .—Constables or other peace officers executing process of the 
 police magistrates, or acting under the city ordinances, shall receive the 
 fees allowed them by the State laws for like services, and also a commis¬ 
 sion of five per centum on all fines and penalties collected for the city. 
 
 Ninth .—The collector shall receive a commission of five per centum on 
 all monies collected by him as taxes, and paid into the city treasury. 
 
 Tenth .—The market master shall receive fifty dollars per year. 
 
 Eleventh .—The city surveyor shall receive such fees and compensation 
 as are allowed by State laws for similar services, or shall be fixed by 
 ordinance. 
 
 Twelfth .—The city weigher shall receive such fees as shall be allowed 
 by ordinance for his services. 
 
 § 2. No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, witness or juror, 
 in any action or proceeding in which the city of Belleville may be a party 
 in interest, by reason of his being an inhabitant or freeholder in said city, 
 or by reason of his receiving a commission on the penalty which may be 
 imposed, or by reason of his not receiving his fees or costs, in case said 
 city should be unsuccessful in the prosecution of said action, or in the 
 collection of the penalty or fine imposed upon the defendant. 
 
 § 3. The police magistrates, and all other officers of the city, shall not 
 be entitled to receive any costs or fees from the city, when, from any 
 cause, the city shall be unsuccessful in the prosecution of any action, or 
 should be unable to collect any fine and costs, or until the money has been 
 collected by the officer authorized to collect the same. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 No. XIN. 
 
 Fire Department—Ordinance relating to the Fire Department of the city 
 
 of Belleville. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 There shall be elected by the city council annually, an officer, who shall 
 be denominated the chief engineer of the fire department, and who shall 
 hold his office for one year, and until his successor shall be elected and 
 qualified. 
 
 § 2. It shall be the duty of the chief engineer to attend all fires, and 
 when there to assume and take control over all the officers of the different 
 engines and fire apparatus, and to direct where the different engines shall 
 be stationed, and to give, through the officers of the different companies, 
 any and all such orders as he shall deem necessary for the extinguishment 
 of fires. He shall have power to require any person or persons, not 
 attached to the fire department, to work in such places as he may direct, 
 aiding to extinguish a fire, or in saving of property from destruction or loss. 
 
 § 3. The said chief engineer shall have power to appoint an assistant, 
 whose directions shall be obeyed as if emanating from said chief engineer 
 himself; and any person or persons who shall refuse to obey the orders of 
 the said chief engineer or assistant, when requested as aforesaid, shall, on 
 conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a fine of not exceeding twenty dollars 
 and costs of suit. 
 
 § 4. There shall also be elected by the city council, a fire warden, who shall 
 hold his office for one year, and until his successor shall be elected and 
 qualified. It shall be the duty of said fire warden, in the first week of 
 the months of October, December and February, in each and every year, 
 and at such other times as the city council may order him, to examine the 
 buildings, stores, barns, and out-houses, and see that the same are not ex¬ 
 posed or endangered by any combustible materials; and it is hereby 
 made the especial duty of the said fire warden to examine the stores, 
 dwelling houses and other places, where fires are generally used, in the 
 compact part of the city, and see that the fires, fire-places, grates, stoves 
 and funnels, ovens, forges and other places used for the burning of fuel, 
 or any other purpose, are in a proper and safe condition, so as not to 
 endanger the buildings, lives or property situated near the same; and the 
 said fire warden shall report to the city council once in each of the months 
 above named, and oftener if required, the result of his examinations. 
 
 § 5. The said fire warden, or in his absence the city marshal, are 
 
 hereby authorized to enter any house or building, lot, yard or premises 
 
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 within the corporate limits of the city of Belleville, between sunrise and 
 sunset of any week day, for the purpose of examining any fire-places, 
 hearths, chimnies, stove or stove pipes, ovens, boilers, kettles or other 
 apparatus or fixtures which may be considered dangerous, in causing or 
 promoting fires; and when any danger shall appear from any apparatus 
 as aforesaid, of fire taking place, he shall, or any of them may, direct in 
 writing, the owner, agent or occupant of any premises containing any 
 danger, as aforesaid, to remove, alter or amend the same, in such manner, 
 and within such time as he shall deem reasonable and just; and any 
 person or persons who shall resist the entrance of the fire warden or city 
 marshal, as aforesaid, or who shall neglect or refuse to attend to 
 the directions given for altering, amending or removing any of the 
 dangers as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every offense a sum not 
 exceeding twenty-five dollars and costs of suit, and a sum of not exceeding 
 five dollars for each and every day he or they shall suffer or permit the 
 same to remain unaltered, amended or removed, after reasonable time 
 given as aforesaid, and costs of suit. 
 
 § 6. It shall be the duty of the fire warden and the city marshal on 
 any alarm of fire, to forthwith repair to the place where such fire may 
 happen, for the preservation of the public peace, and the removal of all 
 suspicious persons, or others not usefully employed in the extinguishment 
 of the fires, or the preservation of property. 
 
 § 7. It shall be the duty of the fire "warden and city marshal, upon 
 their own information, or when proper information is given to any one of 
 them of any violation of this or of the next succeeding ordinance, to lodge 
 complaint before any police magistrate of the city, for prosecution and 
 punishment of the offender; and upon his neglect so to do, he shall be 
 liable to a fine of not exceeding ten dollars for each neglect of duty, with 
 costs of suit. 
 
 No. XX. 
 
 Fives—An ordinance relating to fires. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, as 
 follows: No person shall, within the city of Belleville, set up or use a 
 stove, the top or any side of which shall be within two feet of any part of 
 the wood-work of the wall, or partition of any building, without protecting 
 such wood-work with a metallic covering, so as effectually to prevent the 
 same from taking fire. 
 
 § 2. In all cases where a stove-pipe projects or passes through the roof 
 or wood-work of a building, the pipe shall be separated from such roof or 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 wood, at least six inches, by sheet-iron or other incombustible material, 
 and shall project above or beyond the roof or wall of a wooden building, 
 as the case may be, at least three feet. 
 
 § 3. No person shall, in this city, discharge or set off any rockets or 
 other pyrotechnic exhibition, without the written consent of the mayor, 
 specifying the time and place, when and where the same may be done. 
 
 § 4. No person shall, in this city, fire or set olf any squib, cracker or 
 other fire-works. 
 
 § 5. Any person setting up any stove or furnace, in any building in this 
 city, shall place the same on a platform of brick, sheet-iron or other 
 incombustible substance, extending at least six inches in every direction 
 beyond the part of the lower plate, which fronts the door of the stove or 
 furnace. 
 
 § 6. No person shall, within the limits of the city, stack or cause to be 
 stacked, any hay, straw, corn-fodder or other combustible material, (wood 
 and coal excepted,) nor keep the same within sheds, stables, barns, or 
 other buildings not completely closed in, within sixty-five feet of any 
 building where fire may be kept. 
 
 § 1. No person shall build, make or kindle, or cause to be kindled any 
 fire in any frame building, plank or any other temporary shed of lumber, 
 or house made of lumber, without having a chimney, stove or vault, in 
 which to build, make or kindle such fire. 
 
 § 8. All persons building any chimneys or fiues in, or to any houses, 
 for the purpose of conducting smoke, shall plaster the inside with a thick 
 and good coat of mortar. 
 
 § 9. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions, contained in any of 
 the above sections, shall forfeit and pay not less than one nor more than a 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 § 10. The city shall furnish fifty well made fire-buckets, to be kept at 
 the engine house or other convenient place ready for use. 
 
 § 11. The city council shall appoint from four to eight good men in 
 each ward to act as guards over the different parts and streets of their 
 respective wards during the prevalence of any fire in the city; and 
 whenever the alarm of fire is raised, it is the duty of said guards diligently 
 to watch the different places assigned to them. 
 
 § 12. Any person who shall take away or remove without authority any 
 of the hooks and ladders, buckets, hose, engine or other fire apparatus, the 
 property of the city, individuals or companies, from the places where the 
 same are generally kept, or who shall wantonly injure or destroy any of 
 the said fire apparatus, shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding one 
 hundred dollars. 
 
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 § 13. No owner or occupant of any livery stable, tavern stable or other 
 stable in the city of Belleville, nor any person in their employ, shall be 
 allowed to use in said stables any lighted candle, or other light, except the 
 same shall be secured within a tin, horn, glass, or metal lantern, under a 
 penalty of not exceeding five dollars for each and every offense, and costs 
 of suit. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XXI. 
 
 Gas Light and Coke Company—Ordinance relating to the Belleville Gas 
 
 Light and Coke Company. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That the Belleville Gas Light and Coke Company are hereby authorized 
 to make all necessary excavations in the streets, alleys, lanes, sidewalks 
 and public grounds in the city of Belleville, for the laying of main and 
 service pipes, drips, Ac., in constructing gas works, for furnishing gas light 
 to the city and inhabitants of Belleville—causing as little obstruction to 
 the business and travel as possible, during the laying of said pipes, Ac., 
 and doing no permanent injury to said streets, alleys and sidewalks, Ac., 
 but leaving them in as good order as when they commenced their works. 
 
 § 2. Any person or persons, making, or causing to be made, any exca¬ 
 vation, or removing any pavement, curbstone or guttering, or otherwise 
 damaging or doing injury to any street, alley, lane, avenue, pavement or 
 gutter, within the city of Belleville, for the purpose of laying gas pipe, 
 water pipe, or of setting lamp posts, or for any other purpose whatever, 
 and not leaving the said street, alley, lane, avenue, pavement or gutter in 
 as good, substantial, neat and permanent a manner as the same was before 
 said excavation or removal, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 
 upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum of not less than ten dollars for 
 each offense, and shall be subject to an additional fine of five dollars for 
 each day said excavation or removal remains unrepaired. 
 
 § 3. Any person or persons who shall willfully, or maliciously, or neg¬ 
 ligently, or by letting their team run away, injure, break or destroy any 
 lamp post, lamp, pipe, or any of the fixtures of the gas works of the Belle¬ 
 ville Gas Light and Coke Company, shall be fined in a sum not less than 
 three, nor more than twenty-five dollars, and shall also pay the amount of 
 the damage so done. 
 
 § 4. Any person or persons who shall willfully or maliciously interfere 
 with any lamp post, or lamp, belonging to the gas works, in the streets or 
 public places, in the city of Belleville, by letting on the gas, or by shutting 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 off the gas, or by lighting the same, or by putting it out, shall be liable to 
 a penalty of not less than three, nor more than twenty-five dollars for each 
 and every offense. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XXII. 
 
 Gas light and special tax—Ordinance relating to gas light and special tax. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 That Main street, from the line between Belleville and West Belleville, to 
 Oak street; Illinois street, from Washington street to Fifth (5th) South 
 street; High street, from First North street to Fourth (4th) South street; 
 Richland street, from First North to Third South street; Jackson street* 
 from Main street to Second South street; Charles street, from Main street 
 to First South street; First South street, from Shawneetown road to 
 Charles street; Shawneetown road, from First South street to Second 
 South street, shall compose the gas district, and shall be lighted with gas; 
 the lamps to be lighted at early candle light, and to burn till twilight in 
 the morning, except in clear moonlight nights. 
 
 § 2. No lots or real estate fronting on any streets lighted by gas shall 
 be assessed, as aforesaid, to a greater depth from such street than one 
 hundred and sixty-five (165) feet, nor shall any such property on the 
 corner of streets, having two fronts, b'e assessed more than once. 
 
 § 3. The lots and real estate contained within the above described lines 
 of boundary, shall constitute and be called a gas district, and the city 
 council may hereafter, by resolution, add to and extend said gas district; 
 and whenever the gas district shall have been extended, and other real 
 estate added to the gas district above described, the same shall be subject 
 to the same taxation and to all the other rules and regulations herein 
 contained. 
 
 § 4. It shall be the duty of the city council annually to levy a special 
 tax on all real estate located within the limits of the gas district, in the 
 same manner as general taxes are levied, assessed and collected, sufficient 
 to defray one-half of the expenses of lighting the streets within the gas 
 district. 
 
 § 5. Whenever a reasonable number of the owners of lots or other real 
 estate fronting on any street, shall petition the city council to add such 
 street and property to the gas district, the council shall refer said petition 
 to a committee, whose duty it shall be to examine into the expediency of 
 granting said petition, with reference to the interest of the city and the 
 gas company; and if said committee shall report in favor of said petitioners, 
 
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 and the city council shall receive and approve of their report, then the 
 street and property described in said petition shall be added to the gas 
 district by resolution ; and it shall be the duty of the city council annually 
 to have assessed, levied and collected a special tax, as specified in section 
 
 4, and enter into a contract with the gas light and coke company, or their 
 authorized agents, to light the new addition to the gas district, as specified 
 in section 1 : Provided , that if, in the opinion of the city council, the 
 interests of the city would not be promoted by the lighting of a particular 
 street, lane, avenue, road or alley, the same may be suspended: and, 
 Provided also, that no street or property fronting thereon shall be added 
 to the gas district, and charged with gas light tax, before the service pipe 
 has been laid and lamp posts erected. 
 
 § 6. It shall be the duty of the gas light and coke company to extend 
 the main and service pipe, and to erect lamps and lamp posts, and to light 
 and keep the lamps, posts and pipes in good repair, as may from time to 
 time be required by the city council. 
 
 § 7. It shall be the duty of the city register, whenever a special tax 
 shall be assessed as above described, upon the real and personal estate in 
 any lamp district petitioned for and added to the gas district, as in section 
 
 5, to rule appropriate columns in the assessor’s book for general taxes, for 
 the entry of a special tax, to be termed a street lamp tax, and the same 
 shall be assessed by the assessor in the ordinary manner, and collected by 
 the collector at the same time, and with the same pow T ers and restrictions 
 as the general taxes are now collected, or may from time to time be 
 collected. It is also hereby made the duty of the register to keep separate 
 and accurate accounts of all the expenditures and the monies collected 
 herein by said special tax. 
 
 § 8. If any awning, tree, sign post, board, or other obstruction of gas 
 light, shall be suffered by the owner or occupant of any premises to grow, 
 or remain in such manner as to obstruct the reflection of the public lamps, 
 it shall be the duty of the street inspector, under the direction of the 
 mayor or committee on gas light, to notify the owner or occupant of the 
 premises forthwith to remove the same in manner to be specified. If any 
 person or persons shall refuse or neglect to comply with such notice, they 
 shall be subject to a penalty of five dollars for each refusal or neglect. 
 
 Approved. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 No. XXIII. 
 
 Grade—Ordinance in relation to the grade of the city of Belleville , of 
 
 sidewalks and streets. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That the grade as set and established in the year 1850 by the president 
 and board of trustees of the town of Belleville, and as recorded and 
 entered in the books and maps in the register’s office, be and is hereby 
 considered as the grade of the city of Belleville ; that the street inspector 
 and other agents of the city shall work according to the said grade; and that 
 all persons, before they build, should consult the same to prevent injury 
 or damage to their property. 
 
 § 2. Whenever any street has been graded, macadamized or planked, 
 under the authority of the city, it shall be the duty of the owners of the 
 lots adjoining said street, within ninety days after the city has finished the 
 improvements of said street, to pave, grade, or plank the side-walk in 
 front of their respective lots ; Provided , that in case the city council 
 should have passed a special ordinance respecting the grading, paving or 
 planking of such side-walks, then the said special ordinances shall govern 
 and be followed. 
 
 § 3. Whenever the city council shall by ordinance direct the owner or 
 owners of any lots, to plank, pave or grade any side-walk within the city 
 of Belleville, and the owner or owners of such lot or lots shall neglect 
 or refuse to plank, pave or grade said side-walks within the time pre¬ 
 scribed by the city council in said ordinance, the owner or owners so 
 neglecting or refusing shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding twenty- 
 five dollars, and for every week that he or they refuse or neglect to plank, 
 pave or grade said side-walks after being once fined, to an additional fine 
 of not exceeding ten dollars; Provided , that this ordinance shall not 
 deprive the city of any other remedies given by ordinance in such case. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 No. XXIV. 
 
 Gun 'powder and gun cotton—An ordinance relating to gun powder and 
 
 gun cotton. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , as 
 follows : No person or persons who is or are not a retailer or retailers of 
 gun powder or gun cotton, or explosive cotton, or engage in quarrying 
 rock, shall keep, have, possess or store, at or in any one place, within the 
 limits of the city of Belleville, any gunpowder, gun cotton, or explosive 
 cotton, except in a quantity not exceeding one pound for his or their use. 
 
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 § 2. No retailer of gunpowder, gun cotton, or explosive cotton, or per¬ 
 son engaged in quarrying rock, shall keep, have possess, or store at, or in 
 any one place within the limits of the city, at any one time, more than one 
 keg, or twenty-five pounds, of gunpowder, gun cotton, or explosive cotton. 
 
 § 3. If an affidavit be made before the mayor, showing probable cause 
 for the belief that any person keeps, has, possesses, or conceals any gun¬ 
 powder, gun cotton or explosive cotton, in violation of this ordinance, he 
 shall issue to the city marshal a search warrant, commanding him to search 
 such suspected place named in the affidavit, in quest of such gunpowder, 
 gun cotton, or explosive cotton, and which shall be forthwith rigidly ex¬ 
 ecuted. 
 
 § 4. Whoever shall violate any provision of this ordinance shall be 
 liable to a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 No. XXV. 
 
 Hotels and Boarding Houses—Ordinance relating to Hotels and Boarding 
 
 Houses. 
 
 Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , That all 
 proprietors of hotels or boarding houses be required to keep a registry, and 
 require of all persons sojourning with them to register their names, 
 together with their places of residence and their destinations, and keep 
 said registry open to the inspection of all city officers. 
 
 Any persons violating or not complying with the above ordinance shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined accordingly. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 No. XXVI. 
 
 Hogs—Ordinance to prevent hogs from running at large. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That any person or persons who shall own, or have in his or their 
 possession, any hog or hogs, within the city limits, and shall permit or 
 suffer such hog or hogs to run at large, in any street, alley, or open lot, or 
 place within the city limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, 
 on conviction, be fined accordingly. 
 
 § 2. If any hog or hogs be found running at large, within the city, it 
 shall be the duty of the city marshal to enter into a contract with some 
 responsible person or persons, who shall have the marshal’s authority, in 
 writing, to catch said hog or hogs so running at large, and to feed and 
 keep them confined in some lot or pen until the owner shall pay to the 
 
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 marshal a fine of two dollars for every head, and all costs incurred by the 
 city in impounding the same. 
 
 § 3. If any hogs impounded, as aforesaid, shall not be claimed or taken 
 away by the owner, it shall be the duty of the marshal to sell the same 
 at the place where they are kept, to the highest bidder, on the first and 
 third Saturday of every month, after having given two days’ notice of the 
 time and place of such sale. 
 
 § 4. The marshal shall, after the sale of any hog or hogs, having first 
 paid all the expenses of impounding, keeping, etc., pay all monies received 
 by him, as aforesaid, at such sales, and for fines, to the city treasurer. 
 
 § 5. The marshal shall receive fifty cents for every hog impounded, 
 from the owner, and, in case of sale, he shall be entitled to one dollar for 
 every hog sold by him, to be paid by the city. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 Infectious or contagious diseases—Ordinance in relation to infectious and 
 
 contagious diseases. 
 
 Section: 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville. 
 All persons having small pox, varioloid, or other contagious or infectious 
 diseases in the city, are hereby required to keep closely confined within 
 their respective houses, or places of residence ; the city marshal, upon 
 due information of anv such infectious or contagious disease existing 
 shall cause suitable notices, with the name or character of the disease 
 printed or written in large letters thereon, to be posted up in two conspic¬ 
 uous places near the building, or place in which such contagious or 
 infectious disease exists, and have such notices kept up during the preva¬ 
 lence of such disease. Any person failing to comply with the requirements 
 of this section shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding one hundred 
 dollars. 
 
 § 2. If any person shall leave his or her place of abode, and be found 
 going about the city after the small pox or varioloid eruption has made 
 its appearance upon him or her, they shall forfeit and pay to the city a fine 
 of not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 § 3. The mayor of the city, in connection with one alderman from each 
 ward, shall constitute a board of health, which shall exercise a general 
 supervision over the public health of the city, and shall make, from time to 
 time, such sanitary regulations as they may deem expedient or necessary 
 to promote or preserve the same, or to prevent the introduction or 
 spreading of any contagious, malignant or pestilential disease. 
 
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 § 4. Any practicing physician who shall have any patient within the 
 city of Belleville laboring under any contagious, infectious or pestilential 
 disease shall forthwith make report thereof, in writing, to the mayor, 
 describing the locality of the patient, so that he may be easily found, and, 
 upon failure so to do, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty 
 dollars. 
 
 No. XXVIII. 
 
 Licenses—Ordinance relating to licenses. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to exercise within the 
 limits of the city of Belleville the business of an auctioneer, broker, pawn¬ 
 broker, banker, dealer in exchange or money changer, hawker or peddler, 
 insurance agent or broker, or to keep a beer house, coffee house, grocery, 
 house of entertainment, drinking saloon, billiard table, nine or ten pin 
 alley, shuffle board, bagatelle table, ordinary, or to run an omnibus, 
 carriage, cart, wagon, dray or other vehicle in the city for hire, or to own, 
 conduct, or manage for gain, a theatre or other exhibition, show or 
 amusement, without having first obtained a license for such purpose. 
 
 § 2. There shall be levied and collected for every license granted for 
 one year, for any business or object hereinafter specified, the following 
 sums: 
 
 First. —Upon a merchandise or real estate broker’s license, twenty-five 
 dollars. 
 
 Second. —Upon a banker’s, money broker’s, pawnbroker’s or exchange 
 dealer’s license, one hundred dollars. 
 
 Third. —Upon an auctioneer’s license, thirty-five dollars. 
 
 Fourth. —Upon a hawker’s or peddler’s license, as follows : for one year 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
 Hawkers’ and peddlers’ licenses may also be granted for periods less 
 than a year, as follows: 
 
 For six months.$15 00 
 
 For three months. 8 00 
 
 For one month. 5 00 
 
 For one week. 3 00 
 
 Fifth. —Upon a license to keep a billiard table, twenty-five dollars for 
 each table. 
 
 Sixth. —Upon a license to keep a nine or ten pin alley, ten dollars. 
 Seventh. —Upon a license to keep a bagatelle table or pigeon holes, five 
 dollars. 
 
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 Eighth. —Upon a license to keep an ordinary, ten dollars. 
 
 Ninth. —Upon a license for a circus, menagerie or caravan, twenty-five 
 dollars for each day’s exhibition of the same. 
 
 Tenth. —For every equestrian exhibition, musical party, concert, exhi¬ 
 bition of rope or wire dancing, puppets, wax-figures, paintings, statuary, 
 tricks of legerdemain, pugilism, or any other exhibition, show or amuse¬ 
 ment, lecture or readings, delivered or exhibited for gain, four dollars for 
 each day : Provided , That for lectures on art, science and literature, and 
 for musical parties or concerts, and exhibitions of paintings or statuary, 
 given or made by citizens of this city, and thespian performances for be¬ 
 nevolent purposes, no license shall be required. 
 
 Eleventh. —Any person who may carry about the streets any hand- 
 organ, or other musical instrument, for the purpose of performing thereon, 
 either on any street, place, or in any house, for gain, shall pay a license of 
 one dollar per day. 
 
 § 3. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to permit theatri¬ 
 cal performances in his or their house, nor shall any person or persons 
 conduct or manage a theatre, without first obtaining a license therefor. 
 Upon such person or persons paying to the city register twenty-five dollars, 
 and one dollar to the register for issuing the license, the license granted 
 shall continue in force for one year from its date; but half yearly licenses 
 may be granted for fifteen dollars, and quarterly licenses for eight dollars, 
 under this section. 
 
 Omnibusses , Carriages , Wagons and Carts. 
 
 § 4. The register may grant a license to any person or persons apply- 
 for the same, to run any wagon, omnibus, cart or carriage, for the purpose 
 of carrying freight or passengers within the limits of the city of Belleville, 
 at the following rates: 
 
 For any two horse wagon, passenger omnibus or carriage for the term of one year.. $5 00 
 “ “ “ “ “ six months .. 3 00 
 
 “ “ “ “ “ three months.. 2 00 
 
 For any one horse wagon, cart or dray, for the term of one year. 3 00 
 
 “ “ “ “ “ six months. 2 00 
 
 “ “ “ “ “ three months. 1 50 
 
 Rates for hauling and carrying Passengers within the City Limits. 
 
 § 5. All hacks, carriages, omnibusses, wagons and carts, which have 
 obtained a city license according to ordinance, shall be allowed the follow¬ 
 ing rates for hauling within the city limits: 
 
 First .—For each and every passenger carried to or from the railroad 
 depot, to any part of the city, the sum of ten cents. 
 
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 Second .—For each two horse wagon load of goods, wares or merchan¬ 
 dise, to or from the railroad depot to any part of the city, or from any 
 point in the city to any other place within the city limits, the sum of 
 twenty-five cents. 
 
 Third .—For each and every one horse wagon load of goods, wares or 
 merchandise, to or from the railroad depot to any part of the city, or from 
 any point in the city to any other place within the city limits, the sum of 
 twenty cents. 
 
 Fourth .—For each and every cart load of goods, wares or merchandise, 
 to or from the railroad depot, or from any other point in the city to any 
 other place within the city limits, the sum of fifteen cents. 
 
 Fifth .—Any person or persons refusing or neglecting to comply with 
 the provisions of this section, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five 
 dollars for each offense or over charge. 
 
 License for sale of Intoxicating Liquors. 
 
 § 6. All persons keeping a grocery, beer saloon, coffee house, or house 
 of entertainment, wherein spiritous, vinous or mixed liquors, beer, ale, 
 porter or any other malt liquors, cider, or any fluid containing alcohol, are 
 sold in a less quantity than one gallon, shall be required to obtain therefor 
 a license. 
 
 § 7. Before a license shall be issued to any person to retail any liquors 
 under the provisions of the above section, such person shall execute a bond 
 to the city of Belleville in the sum of five hundred dollars, signed by at 
 least two freeholders of the city as sureties, to be approved by the city 
 council, and conditioned that the person to whom such license is granted, 
 shall keep an orderly, well regulated house, and shall observe and obey all 
 laws and ordinances now in force, or such as may hereafter be in force, 
 regulating and governing retailers of liquors. Such bond shall be executed 
 before the register, filed in his office, and laid before the city council for 
 its approval; and any breach of its conditions may, in the discretion of the 
 said council, work a forfeiture of the license of the person so offending. 
 
 § 8. The city register is hereby authorized to issue a license to any 
 person who desires to keep a grocery, beer saloon, coffee house, or house 
 of entertainment, wherein spiritous, vinous or mixed liquors, beer, ale, 
 porter, or any other malt liquors, cider, or any other fluid containing 
 alcohol, are sold in a less quantity than one gallon, and who has entered 
 into bond as above specified, upon such person paying said register seventy- 
 five dollars for one year’s license, or forty dollars for half a year’s license; 
 and in addition one dollar for issuing the license, and fifty cents for taking 
 the bond. 
 
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 § 9. No license shall be granted for a longer period than one year, and 
 all licenses shall be issued by the city register under the seal of the city, 
 signed by the mayor and countersigned by the register, and shall, as near 
 as may, be in the following form : 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, ) 
 
 CITY OF BELLEVILLE. $ 
 
 I,-, Mayor of the city ot Belleville, to all who shall see these 
 
 presents, greeting: 
 
 Know ye, that whereas-on the — day of-, A. D. 18—, 
 
 paid to the Register of the city the sum of-dollars, being the tax 
 
 imposed on-or-and otherwise complied with the city ordi¬ 
 nance, in this behalf, therefore the said-is hereby authorized and 
 
 empowered to-for the term of-. 
 
 This — day of —, A. D. 18—. 
 
 Attest: Mayor. 
 
 [seal.] Register. 
 
 § 10. No license shall be valid until signed and countersigned as afore¬ 
 said, nor shall any person be deemed licensed until a license shall be duly 
 issued to him. Each license shall be dated the day of the issuing thereof, 
 but if the applicant has been acting without license, then it shall be dated 
 from the time he so commenced acting. 
 
 § 11. All licenses granted shall be subject to all ordinances in relation 
 to licenses which may be in force at the time of the issuing thereof, or 
 which may be subsequently passed by the city council; and if any person 
 licensed shall violate any provision of any ordinance in relation to his 
 license, he may be proceeded against for any penalty imposed, and on 
 conviction his license may be forfeited or revoked, in the discretion of the 
 city council, or of the court, or magistrate, before whom the conviction 
 took place. 
 
 § 12. No license granted shall be assignable or transferable; nor shall 
 any person be authorized to do business or act under such license, but the 
 person to whom it is granted; nor shall any license authorize any person 
 to act under it at more than one place at the same time, or at any other 
 time than is therein specified. Whoever shall violate any provision of 
 this section, shall be deemed to be acting without license, and shall be 
 subject to the same penalty as is prescribed for acting without license. 
 
 § 13. The register shall keep a license register, in which he shall enter 
 the name of each person licensed, for what purpose licensed, the place of 
 business, the date of the license, the amount paid, and the date of the 
 expiration of the same, and shall report the same to the city council at 
 
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 every regular monthly meeting. He may charge a fee of one dollar for 
 every license issued, and fifty cents for every bond taken; both fees to be 
 paid by the applicant for license. 
 
 § 14. The city marshal shall enforce all ordinances in relation to 
 licenses, and shall, from time to time, examine the license register, and 
 prosecute all persons who may be acting without license, and shall collect 
 from them the sum which may be taxed for their license, and which shall 
 not have already been paid to the register. He shall be entitled to a 
 commission of two per cent, from the amount collected for licenses, and 
 his receipt shall be good to the extent and purport thereof; but no person 
 shall be considered as licensed, until license shall be issued in due form, as 
 required by ordinance. 
 
 § 15. Whoever shall engage in any business or employment enumer¬ 
 ated in this ordinance (No. XXVIII) without having first obtained license 
 therefor—or whoever shall violate, or neglect, or refuse to conform to, and 
 observe, the provisions of this ordinance, or any other of them—provided 
 there is no specific penalty already assessed—shall be liable and subject to 
 pay a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered 
 as in other cases of breach of city ordinances. 
 
 Licenses of groceries beyond , and within , half a mile of the city limits. 
 
 § 16. All persons living beyond the limits of the city of Belleville, and 
 within one-half mile of the limits of said city, who keeps a grocery, beer 
 saloon, coffee house or house of entertainment, wherein spirituous, vinous 
 or mixed liquors, beer, ale, porter, or any other malt liquors, cider, or any 
 fluid containing alcohol, are sold in a less quantity than one gallon, shall 
 be required to obtain a license therefor. 
 
 § 17. The city register is hereby authorized to issue licenses for one 
 year to the persons described in section sixteen, upon payment of the sum 
 of fifty dollars—and for half a year, upon payment of the sum of thirty 
 dollars, and the usual fees to the register: Provided , That the applicants 
 shall first have given bond as prescribed in section seven of this ordinance, 
 and provided, also, that sections sixteen and seventeen shall not apply to 
 persons living in the town of West Belleville. 
 
 § 18. Whoever shall violate, or neglect, or refuse to conform to and 
 observe the provisions contained in sections sixteen and seventeen, shall be 
 liable to a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be recovered as in 
 other cases of breach of ordinances, and shall, also, be liable to have his 
 license revoked and declared forfeited. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 Licenses of non-resident or transient traders. 
 
 § 19. No person or persons, not being a resident or residents of the city 
 of Belleville, shall, within the city of Belleville, sell, barter or offer for 
 sale, or expose to sale, any goods, wares, merchandize, boots, shoes, cloth¬ 
 ing, cigars, or lumber of any kind whatever, other than agricultural 
 products of this or any other State, and articles manufactured in private 
 families within the limits of said city, either by card, sample or other 
 specimen, or by written, printed or trade list, or catalogue, whether such 
 persons be the makers thereof or not, without first having obtained a 
 license so to do; and such license shall be issued by the city register to 
 only the person applying for the same, upon the payment of the sum of 
 one hundred dollars, which license shall be for the term of one year, and 
 no longer. 
 
 § 20. Each person licensed as a trader, as aforesaid, shall give a bond 
 with two good securities, in the sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned 
 to guard the public against fraud or misrepresentation on the part of the 
 trader. 
 
 § 21. That from and after the passage of this ordinance no person, or 
 persons, resident, or residents of this State, and of the city of Belleville, 
 and licensed therein, shall suffer or permit any person, or persons, not a 
 permanent resident, or residents, of this State, and of this city, and not in 
 his or their regular service or employ, to sell any goods, wares, merchan¬ 
 dize, boots, shoes, clothing, cigars or lumber, by sample, card or other 
 specimen, or by written, printed or trade lists, under his or their firm or 
 copartnership, or at the store, counting room or warehouse, in his or their 
 occupation, or used as his or their place of business. 
 
 § 22. The term of transient or non-resident trader shall be construed 
 to mean any person not permanently transacting business within the city, 
 and not having paid all city taxes upon his stock in trade, regularly and 
 legally assessed and collected upon the stock in trade of permanent mer¬ 
 chants or traders. 
 
 § 23. Any person or persons offending against the provisions of this 
 ordinance, upon conviction before a police magistrate, shall be adjudged to 
 pay a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars. 
 
 License of Lnsurance Agents. 
 
 § 24. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, in the city of 
 Belleville, to exercise the business, trade or avocation of an agent for any 
 insurance company or companies, in any way or manner whatever, either 
 by taking or negotiating for insurance on life or property, or by aiding in 
 
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 the effecting of an insurance on life or property, or to follow the business 
 of an insurance broker, without first having obtained a license for that 
 purpose; and no license shall be issued for a shorter time than one year, 
 and for a sum of not less than twenty dollars for each and every company 
 for which the applicant may act as agent. 
 
 § 25. Any person violating any of the provisions contained in section 
 twenty-four shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay not less than five nor more 
 than one hundred dollars for every offense. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 No. XXIX. 
 
 Marshal—Ordinance relating to the City Marshal. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, as 
 follows: It shall be the duty of the city marshal to execute all writs, or 
 other process issued by the mayor or police magistrate; collect all fines, 
 forfeitures and penalties, which may accrue to said city, not otherwise 
 provided for by ordinance, and in performance of any duty not enjoined 
 on him, by any ordinance or resolution of the city council, he shall be 
 invested with such powers as are conferred upon constables by the laws of 
 this State; to remove all nuisances in conformity with any ordinance or 
 resolution of the city council; give to the mayor information of the 
 breach of the ordinances of the city that may come to his knowledge ; 
 and generally to do and perform all duties which may be enjoined on him 
 by ordinance or resolution of the city council. 
 
 § 2. The marshal shall be the acting head of the police; he shall 
 cause the public peace and quiet to be preserved, and shall see that all the 
 laws and ordinances of the city of Belleville are enforced and complied 
 with; and whenever any violation of said ordinances shall come to his 
 knowledge, whether by personal observation or by information of others, 
 he shall make the requisite complaint, or cause it to be made, before the 
 police magistrate, and prosecute the offender and attend to the procuring 
 the evidence for the city: Provided , That if the marshal shall have any 
 doubts as to there being sufficient grounds for the complaint, he may 
 require the informant to make the necessary statement under oath to the 
 police magistrate before instituting suit; and, Provided , also , that the 
 marshal in performance of these duties, shall be considered as acting imme¬ 
 diately under the mayor of the city, and as subject to his directions. 
 
 § 3. The marshal shall attend all suits before the police magistrate in 
 which the city is a party on behalf of the city, and if necessary call in 
 the city attorney, to direct the prosecution of the offender. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 § 4. The marshal shall also, by himself or deputy, attend all meetings 
 of the city council, shall notify each alderman of any special meeting 
 which may be called, keep the key of the rooms of the city council, and 
 keep them in proper order and condition for the meetings and other 
 business of the council and mayor. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XXX. 
 
 Market—Ordinance relating to Market and Market Master. 
 
 Section 1. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That the market house, or public square, or any other square which the 
 city council may buy for a market square, and the necessary space around 
 it, shall be considered the market place, and any person who shall sell or 
 offer for sale, except in the market place aforesaid, any fresh beef or pork, 
 veal, lamb or mutton, in less quantity than one quarter, or that shall sell 
 any poultry or vegetables, or butter, or any other article, between daylight 
 and nine o’clock a. m. in the months of April, May, June, July, August, 
 September, October and November, shall forfeit and pay to the city not 
 less than one dollar, nor more than ten dollars, with costs of suit: Pro¬ 
 vided, that nothing in the preceding section shall be so construed as to 
 prevent any farmer or producer from selling his meat by the quarter, or 
 any person who follows the business of packing beef or pork, from selling 
 bacon of their own curing, spare ribs, sausage meat, and other offal in the 
 winter months at any time out of market. 
 
 § 2. The market master shall have the direction and management of 
 the market house and market place, shall direct the location of wagons 
 and vehicles used in bringing articles to market, shall preserve order and 
 peace therein, suppress quarreling and fighting, enforce the regulations, 
 give to persons attending the necessary information, if required, and keep 
 the market clean and neat. 
 
 § 3. No person shall tie or hitch any animal to any part of the market 
 house, at any time, or at any time ride or drive, or lead any animal into 
 or under the market house, or the pavement connected therewith, or injure, 
 cut, deface, or in any wise befoul the market house, or be found lying in 
 the market house on any bench, block or table, or remove any block, bench 
 or table, or any other fixtures in said market house from its place, or 
 intentionally obstruct, hinder, abuse, or threaten the market master, when 
 in the discharge of his duty; or suffer or permit any dog to follow him or 
 her to market, during market hours, or otherwise obstruct with any thing 
 
 whatever, a free passage through the market house ; or throw any melon 
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 rinds or other garbage, offal, dirt, filth, or animal matter in the same, 
 under a penalty of from one to twenty-five dollars. 
 
 § 4. All measures, scales and weights used in said market, shall be 
 scaled and tested by the scale of weights and measures of this city, as 
 soon as practicable, and meat sold in market shall be weighed with scales 
 and weights; corn, meal, hominy, oats, potatoes, turnips, carrots, apples, 
 peaches and other vegetables of the same class, shall be sold by pint, quart, 
 gallon, peck, half peck or half bushel, and shall be heaped ; other articles 
 sold by measure, may be sold by strike measure ; butter sold or offered 
 for sale in market, shall be put up in half pound, one pound, two or three 
 pound rolls, and butter sold or offered for sale in market not of full weight, 
 may be confiscated by the market master and sold for the use of the city. 
 
 g 5. If any person selling any meat, victuals or provisions in said 
 market, shall sell to any other person any article generally sold by weight 
 or measure, by false weight or false measure, or shall expose to sale, as 
 having been correctly weighed or measured, any such article, and as being 
 of a certain weight and measure, when in truth and in fact the same shall 
 fall short thereof, such article may be confiscated by the market master, 
 and sold for the use of the city; and every person so offending shall be 
 liable to a fine of not more than ten dollars for every such offense. 
 
 § 6. No person shall, by himself, agent or servant, sell or cut in pieces, 
 for the purpose of selling, any fresh meat, excepting fresh venison, poultry, 
 fish or wild game, in any quantity less than a quarter, in the city, without 
 first having obtained a license, as hereinafter provided, under a penalty of 
 not exceeding ten dollars for each offense : Provided, that persons who 
 follow the business of packing beef or pork, may sell spare ribs, sausage 
 meat, or other offal at any time. 
 
 § 1. Any person wishing to become a butcher or vendor of fresh meat 
 in the city shall obtain a license from the city register, by paying the sum 
 of thirty dollars; and all persons having obtained a license, as aforesaid, 
 shall be entitled to occupy a stall in the market house, which shall be 
 selected for him by the market master, if said license shall have been 
 granted after the annual sale of the stalls in the market house shall have 
 taken place. 
 
 g 8. It shall be the duty of the market master to sell on the first 
 Monday of April in each year, between the hours of ten o’clock a. m. and 
 four o’clock p. m., the choice of the stalls in the market house, having first 
 given ten days’ notice in the newspapers employed by the city; and the 
 lowest bid to be received by the market master from any licensed butcher 
 shall be thirty dollars, the amount of his license. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 § 9. The market master shall give to each purchaser of a stall a 
 certificate of purchase for one year, describing said stall by its number or 
 name ; but in no case shall a certificate be given, or possession of a stall 
 be delivered, until the amount bid shall have been paid to the market 
 master: Provided, however, that the amount paid to the city by any 
 butcher for his license shall always be deducted from the amount bid for 
 his stall. 
 
 § 10. All the stalls or stands, in or about the market house, remaining 
 unoccupied after the annual sale, may be leased at any time by the market 
 master, to any person wishing to attend market, tor the purpose of selling 
 vegetables, fish or other marketing, for any sum not under three dollars. 
 
 §11. The register shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar for each 
 license issued to a butcher, and the market master to a fee of fifty cents 
 for each stall or stand sold or leased by him, and a permit issued therefor, 
 all to be paid by the applicant. If any lessee of a stall or stand shall fail 
 to pay the amount of his rent, his lease may be considered as forfeited, and 
 the stall or stand be again leased to any other person by the market master 
 on such terms and in such manner as he shall judge to the interest of the 
 city. 
 
 § 12. It is further the duty of the market master to protect the blocks, 
 tables, benches and fixtures of those owning stalls or stands from being 
 injured, or being occupied by others than their owners; to pay over at 
 least once every week to the treasurer the monies received for stalls, 
 stands or otherwise, and also to make a report of the same to the city 
 council at each regular monthly meeting. 
 
 § 13. The market master shall, ex officio, be inspector and sealer of 
 weights and measures; shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, 
 take the official oath; shall give bond in the penalty of five hundred 
 dollars, conditioned for a faithful discharge of his duties, and the payment 
 of all monies due the city, with security, to be approved by the city 
 council; and for any violation of any section of this ordinance, or official 
 misconduct, shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding fifty dollars. 
 
 § 14. Whoever shall buy at market, before nine o’clock a. m., meat, 
 fish, vegetables, or any other market matters, for the purpose of disposing 
 of them again at market, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on con¬ 
 viction, be fined in a sum not exceeding five dollars for each offense. 
 
 Approved. 
 
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 ORDINANCES OF THE 
 
 No. XXXI. 
 
 Nuisances—Ordinance relating to Nuisances. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Belleville, 
 as follows: Each and every tenement in this city, used as a drinking 
 house, hotel, tavern, or place of business, shall be furnished with a suita¬ 
 ble privy, the vault of which shall be sunk under ground at least five feet 
 deep, and walled with brick or stone, and shall be so constructed, that the 
 inside of the same shall be at least two feet distance from the line of every 
 adjoining lot, unless the owner of the adjoining lot shall agree otherwise, 
 and also the same distance from every street, lane or avenue. 
 
 § 2. The marshal, upon being notified that any tenement so used, is 
 not provided with a suitable privy, shall give notice in writing to the 
 owner or his agent to provide a privy as above required, and if the owner, 
 or agent shall not comply with the above ordinance within twenty days, 
 the marshal shall proceed against said owner or agent, as directed in 
 other cases for violations of city ordinances. 
 
 § 3. If the owner or his agent of any tenement, which is not provided 
 with a privy, as above required, cannot be found, the marshal shall give notice 
 in some newspaper employed by the city, requiring such owner or agent, 
 within a reasonable time to be designated in said notice, to cause a proper 
 and sufficient privy to be constructed; and, in case of neglect or refusal to 
 obey such notice, the marshal shall cause such privy to be made, and 
 charged as special tax upon such tenement, to be levied and collected as 
 other special taxes. 
 
 § 4. Any person who shall throw or cause to flow, any water, slop, dirt, 
 fluid or filth of any kind, on any sidewalk, street, alley, or any premises 
 whatever, or into any stream of water within the city limits, by which a 
 nuisance is created, shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars; and 
 for every day after being notified by the marshal, or other city officer, to 
 remove the nuisance thereby created, an additional fine of not exceeding 
 five dollars. 
 
 § 5. Any person who shall keep or allow to remain upon his premises, 
 within the city limits, any nuisance, such as carrion, stagnated water, a 
 hog-pen, privy, or any other thing, which may be injurious to the health 
 of, or offensive to the neighborhood, or by which an offensive smell may 
 be created ; and any person who shall, in carrying on his business, en¬ 
 danger the health of the neighborhood, or create an offensive smell, shall 
 be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and for every day after being 
 notified by the marshal, or other city officer, to remove the nuisance 
 thereby created, an additional fine of not exceeding five dollars. 
 
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 § 6. No person shall throw into any highway, thoroughfare or other 
 public place, any animal or vegetable substance whatever, or any straw, 
 hay, ashes, soot, or any article or substance whatever. 
 
 § 7. No person shall conduct into any highway, thoroughfare, or other 
 public place or premises of another, any filth or unclean water from his 
 house, kitchen or other tenement, or suffer any such water to escape from 
 his premises upon such place. 
 
 § 8. The owner or possessor of any animal which may die within the 
 city, shall within twenty-four hours thereafter, cause the carcass to be re¬ 
 moved at least half a mile beyond the limits of the city. 
 
 § 9. No person shall deposit any dead animal, excrement or filth from 
 privies, or carrion, within one-half mile of the city limits. 
 
 § 10. The owner or occupant of any livery or other stable within this 
 city, shall keep his stable and stable-yard clean, and shall not permit more 
 than five cart loads of manure to accumulate, and remain in or near the 
 same, at any time, between the first day of May and the first day of Octo¬ 
 ber ; nor shall he wash or clean any carriage or horse, or cause it to be 
 washed or cleansed, on any street or sidewalk, or other public place, nor 
 suffer any water used in washing horses or carriages to flow over and 
 spread on any sidewalk. 
 
 § 11. No butcher or other person shall kill or slaughter any beeves, 
 sheep or other animals, within this city, unless the house, yard, pen or 
 place where such killing shall take place, be provided with a tight plank 
 floor, one side of which shall descend towards a gutter, leading to a tub or 
 reservoir, which shall be placed to receive the blood and offal passing 
 therein, which shall be emptied and conveyed out of the city at the end of 
 each day, when killing has been done on the premises. 
 
 § 12. Every slaughter-house shall be white-washed at least twice in 
 each year, and shall always be kept clean, so as to annoy no one in the 
 vicinity. 
 
 § 13. No distiller, brewer, soap-boiler, tallow-chandler, or dyer, in this 
 city, shall bimself, or by another, out of, or from, any still-house, brewery, 
 or work-shop, pour foul or nauseous liquor of any kind whatever, into or 
 upon any adjacent ground, or into any street, alley, or other public place. 
 
 § 14. No soap-boiler or tallow-chandler shall keep, collect or use, or 
 cause to be kept, collected or used, in the city, any stale, putrid or stink¬ 
 ing fat, grease, or other matter. 
 
 § 15. The marshal, or such other officers or agents as may be desig¬ 
 nated or employed by the board of health for that purpose, are authorized 
 to enter and examine all premises, cellars and other places within the city. 
 
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 If they find any offensive substance, or stagnant or filthy water, to cause 
 the same to be removed at the expense of the owner or occupiers of the 
 premises, unless such owner or occupier upon notice, immediately cause 
 the same to be removed. 
 
 § 16. No person shall bury or cause to be buried, the body of any 
 deceased person within the limits of the city. 
 
 § 17. No person shall collect or keep any hog or hogs in a pen, or 
 otherwise confine any hog or hogs in this city, so as to be offensive or an 
 annoyance to any person. 
 
 § 18. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, in 
 cases where no specific penalty is provided, shall be subject to a fine of 
 not less than three nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every 
 violation, and not exceeding twenty dollars in addition for each and every 
 day that such violation shall be suffered or continued. 
 
 § 19. The mayor and one alderman from each ward shall be, and are 
 hereby constituted, a board of health, and it shall be their duty diligently 
 to examine into the condition of the various wards of the city, and make 
 thorough inquiry with respect to all cases which may be obnoxious or 
 prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants of said city, or any portion 
 thereof; and all such cases are hereby declared nuisances, and the mayor 
 shall order the removal of the same by giving reasonable notice; and any 
 person or persons causing such nuisance, or upon whose premises, whether 
 as owner or occupier, such nuisance shall exist, shall, in obedience to the 
 notification of the mayor, remove the same, and for every refusal or neglect 
 so to do, shall pay and forfeit to the city a sum not exceeding twenty-five 
 dollars. 
 
 § 20. If the owner or owners of any building or lot within the limits of 
 the city of Belleville, which shall need any cleaning, altering or amending, 
 so as to remove whatever may be injurious to the general health of the 
 city, shall not reside in the county of St. Clair, the same may be done by 
 the said city, and the expenses thereof collected from said owner or owners 
 by suit or otherwise, by proceeding against the lot as in case of special tax. 
 
 § 21. If any person shall be notified by the proper officer, or by any 
 member of the board of health, to remove any nuisance from his or her 
 lot, or the lot on which he or she may reside, or of which he or she shall 
 be agent, and said owner, occupier or agent shall fail forthwith to remove 
 and correct the same, it shall be the duty of the mayor to remove or correct 
 the same; and the sum of money expended by the city as aforesaid, in 
 removing or correcting such nuisance, may be recovered from the owner 
 or occupier of such lot, from which such nuisance is removed, as a fine in 
 
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 an action of debt, or otherwise by proceeding against the lot as in case of 
 special tax. 
 
 § 22. If any cellar in this city shall at any time contain any standing 
 water, the same shall be, and is hereby declared to be, a nuisance, and the 
 owner or occupier thereof shall forthwith, upon notice given by the proper 
 officer, proceed to fill up or drain such cellar so as to effectually remove 
 such nuisance; and in default thereof, it shall be the duty of the mayor to 
 have such cellar filled without delay; and the amount so expended shall 
 become a lien upon the lot, and may be collected as in case of grading and 
 filling lots under the ordinances of this city, or may be recovered of the 
 owner or occupier of the lot in an action of debt. 
 
 § 23. If any person shall place, or caused to be placed, or erected, any 
 nuisance or obstruction whatever, on any public ground, or in any public 
 street, road, alley or sidewalk in the city of Belleville, he shall be fined 
 not exceeding ten dollars, and for every day such obstruction or nuisance 
 is continued after notice to the person or persons making the same by the 
 marshal or street inspector to remove the same, an additional fine of not 
 exceeding five dollars; Provided, That any person engaged in erecting a 
 building or fence, or improving any lot on any such street, lane, avenue 
 or alley, or public ground, may deposit materials therein, and contiguous 
 to such lot for such length of time as may be necessary for such erection 
 and improvement; and Provided, further, that such obstruction shall not 
 extend to more than one-half the width of the sidewalk or street, or alley 
 adjacent to such improvement, the gutter always being left free and 
 unobstructed. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XXXII. 
 
 Nuisances beyond the city limits—Ordinance relating to nuisances within 
 
 a half mile of the city limits. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville : 
 Any person who shall deposit, or cause to be deposited by his servant, the 
 carcase of any dead animal, offal, excrement from privies, carrion, decom¬ 
 posed vegetable matter, or any other thing on any premises beyond the 
 city limits, and within half a mile of the limits of the city of Belleville, 
 by which a nuisance is created, shall be fined a sum not exceeding twenty- 
 five dollars. 
 
 § 2. Any person who shall throw or cause to flow, any water, slops, 
 dirt, fluid or filth of any kind on any lot or premises whatever, or into 
 Richland creek, or any other stream or water course beyond the city 
 
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 limits, and within a half mile from the same, by which a nuisance is cre¬ 
 ated, shall be fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars; and for every day 
 after being notified by the city marshal, or any other city officer, to remove 
 the nuisance thereby created, an additional fine of not exceeding five 
 dollars. 
 
 § 3. Any person who shall keep, or allow to remain upon his premises, 
 beyond the limits of the city of Belleville, and within half a mile of the 
 same, any nuisance, such as carrion, stagnated water, a hog pen, privy, or 
 any other thing, which may be injurious to the health of, or offensive to 
 the neighborhood, or by which an offensive smell may be created; and 
 any person who shall in carrying on his business beyond the limits of the 
 city of Belleville, and within half a mile of the same, endanger the health 
 of the neighborhood, or create an offensive smell, shall be fined not 
 exceeding twenty-five dollars, and for every day after being notified by the 
 marshal, or other city officer, to remove the nuisance thereby created, an 
 additional fine of not exceeding five dollars. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XXXIII. 
 
 Officers—Ordinance relating to city officers. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville : 
 No officer of the city of Belleville shall be allowed to keep or withhold 
 any money collected by him, or that may come into his hands by virtue 
 of his office, or otherwise, for the payment of any salary, claim or account 
 which may be due and owing to him by the city : Provided , This shall 
 not apply to the costs and fees in the courts, commissions on collections and 
 fees allowed for weighing. Every person elected or appointed to an office 
 under the charter or the ordinances of the city of Belleville, shall be a 
 citizen of the State of Illinois, over twenty-one years of age, and shall 
 have resided in the city of Belleville at least one year next preceding his 
 appointment or election; and no person elected or appointed to an office 
 of the city of Belleville, shall enter upon the duties of the said office until 
 duly qualified and commissioned as hereinafter provided. 
 
 § 2. Every person so elected or appointed shall, before being com¬ 
 missioned, give a sufficient bond to the city, and take and subscribe an 
 oath before a proper officer, that he will support the constitution of the 
 United States and of this State, and the charter and ordinances of this 
 city, and faithfully and promptly discharge the duties of the office to 
 which he is elected or appointed; which oath shall be filed with the city 
 register. 
 
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 § 3. Official bonds shall be made to the city of Belleville, and shall be 
 conditioned for the payment of all money received and the faithful per¬ 
 formance by the officer of all duties required of him by law or ordinance; 
 and all officers of the city, except the mayor and aldermen, shall be 
 required to execute bonds with sufficient security, which shall be approved 
 by the city council and filed with the city register. 
 
 § 4. Upon said oath and bond being filed with the register as afore¬ 
 said, he shall deliver to the person elected or appointed, a commission in 
 the name of, and signed by the mayor and countersigned by the register, 
 under the seal of the city, authorizing and empowering such person to 
 discharge the duties of the office, for the term for which he has been 
 elected or appointed, and until his successor shall have been duly qualified. 
 
 § 5. On the first Monday in May, in each year, or as soon thereafter as 
 may be, the city council shall appoint one register and treasurer; one 
 city marshal and collector; one city attorney; one city assessor; one city 
 surveyor and engineer; one city weigher and market master; one street 
 inspector; one sexton, who shall hold their offices for one year, and until 
 their successors shall be duly qualified. 
 
 § 6. The city marshal and collector, weigher and market master, sexton, 
 assessor, surveyor, engineer and street inspector may, with the consent of 
 the city council, appoint one or more deputies, who shall possess the 
 qualifications of their respective principals; such appointments shall be in 
 writing, and filed with the register, and shall be revocable at the pleasure 
 of the principal; and the principal shall be liable for the acts of his 
 deputy as if they were his own. 
 
 § 7. If a vacancy occur in any office filled by appointment of the city 
 council, it shall be the duty of the mayor immediately to call a special 
 meeting of the city council, for the purpose of filling said vacancy by 
 appointing a successor, who shall hold the office for the unexpired term of 
 his predecessor. 
 
 § 8. Any officer of this city who shall leave the same with the intention 
 of residing thereout, or to be absent therefrom, without written permission 
 from the mayor, shall thereby vacate his office. 
 
 § 9. Any officer desiring to be temporarily absent from the city, shall 
 apply to the mayor for leave of absence, which may, in the discretion of 
 the mayor, be granted in writing for any time not exceeding twenty days; 
 and when granted, shall be filed with the register; and any officer who 
 shall be absent from the city more than three days without such leave shall 
 forfeit and pay not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 § 10. Every officer shall, upon going out of office, deliver to his sue- 
 
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 sessor all books, papers, furniture and other things, appertaining to his 
 office. 
 
 § 11. Every officer shall at all times when required, submit the books 
 and papers of his office to the inspection of the mayor or any member of 
 the city council. 
 
 § 12. Any officer of this city who shall refuse or willfully fail or neglect 
 to perform any duty enjoined upon him by law or ordinance, or shall in 
 the discharge of his official duties, be guilty of any fraud, extortion, oppress¬ 
 ion, favoritism, partiality, or willful wrong or injustice, shall forfeit and 
 pay a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and may be removed from 
 office. 
 
 § 13. The mayor shall have power to suspend from office any officer 
 who shall wilfully violate any of his official obligations. 
 
 § 14. Such suspension shall be effected by an order filed by the mayor 
 with the register, accompanied with a statement of the charges upon 
 which the same is founded, a copy of which order and charges shall be 
 immediately delivered to the officer suspended, after which delivery such 
 officer shall not exercise any of the duties of the office from which he 
 shall have been suspended, under a penalty of not exceeding fifty dollars. 
 
 § 15. Immediately upon the suspension of an officer, the mayor may, 
 if necessary, appoint a person to fill the office for the time being. 
 
 § 16. The charges preferred as aforesaid the mayor shall lay before the 
 next meeting of the city council, and the city council shall without delay, 
 proceed to investigate such charges in the manner hereinafter provided. 
 The city council shall set a day, and if upon hearing the evidence against 
 and for the accused, a majority shall find him guilty of the charges, and 
 shall resolve that he be removed from office, it shall be so entered on 
 record, and the vacancy shall be filled as directed by ordinance in other 
 cases. 
 
 § 17. All fines, forfeitures and sums of money collected for penalties 
 incurred within the incorporated limits of the city of Belleville, shall be 
 paid into the treasury of the city; and the officers of the city or of the 
 county of St. Clair collecting such fines, shall make a true and correct 
 report of all such fines collected by them to the city council at the end of 
 every quarter in the year. Any officer or person who shall fail to comply 
 with the requisitions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less 
 than five nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 § 18. No city officer shall be a party in, or be interested in, or have any 
 part, either directly or indirectly, in any contract with the city, or with any 
 person or persons for excavating, repairing, grading, macadamizing, gutter- 
 
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 ing, paving or other work, wherein the city is or may be interested or 
 liable to become a party to or with the person or persons, or different kinds 
 of work above mentioned. Any city officer who shall violate the provis¬ 
 ions of this section, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five, nor 
 more than one hundred dollars for each offense, and may also be removed 
 from office at the discretion of a majority of the city council. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XXNIV. 
 
 Penal offenses and misdemeanors—Ordinance relating to penal offenses 
 
 and misdemeanors . 
 
 ARTICLE i. 
 
 Offenses affecting public order, peace and quiet. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, as 
 follows: Any two or more persons who shall in this city assemble together 
 with an intent, or being assembled, shall mutually agree to do any unlawful 
 act, with force or violence, against the property of this city, or the person 
 or the property of another, or against the peace, or to the terror of others, 
 and shall make any movement or preparation therefor; and every person 
 present at such meeting or assembly, who shall not endeavor to prevent 
 the commission or perpetration of such unlawful act, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 2. Whoever shall in this city disturb the peace of said city by violent, 
 tumultuous, offensive or obstreperous conduct or carriage, or by loud and 
 unusual noises, or by unseemly, profane, obscene or offensive language, 
 calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, or by assaulting, striking or 
 fighting another, with or without his consent, and whoever shall in this 
 city permit any such conduct, in or upon any houses or premises, owned 
 or possessed by him, or under his management or control, so that others 
 in the vicinity are disturbed thereby, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
 meanor. 
 
 § 3. Whoever shall in this city disturb or disquiet any congregation or 
 assembly, met for religious worship, by making a noise, or by rude and 
 indecent behavior, or profane discourse, or in any other manner, within or 
 near their place of worship, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 4. Whoever shall in this city disturb any lawful assemblage of people, 
 by rude and indecent behavior, or otherwise, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 § 5. Whoever shall in this city give or make a false alarm of fire, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
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 § 6. Whoever shall in this city employ any bellman, or use himself, or 
 cause to be used, any bell or sounding instrument, as a means of attracting 
 people to an auction or other place, or shall permit any such to be used 
 for or on his account, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 1. Any person who shall be found drunk, lying or roving about the 
 streets, alleys or sidewalks of the city of Belleville, or the private grounds 
 of the inhabitants, or disturbing the peace, order and quiet of the citizens, 
 by loud and unusual noises, disorderly conduct, indecent language, beha¬ 
 vior, or in any manner whatever, shall be arrested on complaint being 
 made, or on view by any peace officer; and on conviction shall be fined in 
 any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. If any such person arrested 
 should not be in a fit state to be immediately tried, or from some other 
 cause cannot have an immediate trial, and fails to give security for his appear¬ 
 ance and good behavior in the mean time, he or she shall be committed 
 to jail for trial in due time. 
 
 § 8. Whoever shall be guilty of any noise, rout or amusement, vulgar 
 or profane language, or any disorderly or immoral conduct whatever, on 
 the first day of the week, called Sunday, whereby the good order of society 
 or the peace of any private family or congregation within the city of Belle¬ 
 ville is disturbed, shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
 § 9. Any person licensed to keep a grocery or beer house, tavern, or 
 house of entertainment, who shall suffer any disorder, drunkenness, quar¬ 
 reling, fighting, unlawful games, or riotous and disorderly conduct whatever, 
 in such his house or premises, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty 
 dollars; and for repeated offenses shall have his license suppressed. 
 
 § 10. The mayor and city council shall have power, upon complaint 
 being made, to revoke any license granted to keep a grocery, beer house, 
 tavern, or house of entertainment, whenever they may be satisfied that 
 the privileges granted have been abused, or that the person to whom the 
 license was granted has violated the law. 
 
 § 11. Every male person above eighteen years of age who shall neglect 
 or refuse to join the posse of the marshal or any peace officer of the city 
 of Belleville, by neglecting or refusing to aid and assist in arresting any 
 person against whom there may have issued any civil or criminal process, 
 or who may have escaped after having been arrested, or by neglecting or 
 refusing to aid and assist in preventing any breach of the peace ; any riot, 
 affray, or disturbance of the peace, or the commission of any criminal 
 offenses, being thereto lawfully required by any peace officer of the city, 
 shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 § 12. Any person able to work and maintain himself in some honest 
 and respectable calling, not having visible means of support, who shall live 
 idly without employment, or loiter or stroll about begging, or frequenting 
 gaming houses, disorderly or bawdy houses, groceries, tippling houses, or 
 other places where intoxicating liquors are sold, or who shall otherwise 
 lead an idle or profligate course of life; or any person who shall keep 
 any gaming house, or keep or exhibit any gaming implements for the pur¬ 
 pose of gaming therewith, or shall pursue gaming, or who shall keep, 
 maintain, or be an inmate of any house of prostitution; or who shall have 
 in his possession any implement used for counterfeiting, or for the commis¬ 
 sion of burglary, or for picking locks or pockets, or any Mexican puzzle, or 
 other implement or device used by cheats and swindlers, without being 
 able to give a good account of his possession of the same; or who shall 
 trespass upon private property in the night time, or habitually sleep in 
 sheds, stables, outhouses, or in the open air, without being able to give a 
 good account of himself or herself, shall be deemed a vagrant, and shall 
 be subject to a penalty of not exceeding fifty dollars. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 article II. 
 
 Offenses against public morals and decency. 
 
 > 
 
 Section 1 . Whoever shall in this city be found in a state of intoxication in 
 any highway, thoroughfare or other public place, shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 2. Whoever shall in this city appear in any public place in a state of 
 nudity, or in a dress not belonging to his or her sex, or in an indecent or 
 lewd dress, or shall make any indecent exposure of his or her person, or 
 be guilty of any indecent or lewd act or behavior, or shall exhibit, sell, or 
 offer to sell, any indecent or lewd book, picture, or other thing, or shall 
 exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral or lewd play or other represen¬ 
 tation, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 3. Whoever shall in this city set up or keep any gaming table or 
 gambling device, at which any game of chance shall be played for money 
 or property, or anything representing money or property, or shall, at any 
 such table or device, or at any game of chance bet, win, or lose any money 
 or property, either in specie or in anything representing the same, or shall 
 suffer any such table or device, at which any game of chance is played, to 
 be set up or used in any tenement in his possession, or under his control, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall forfeit and pay a sum 
 of not less than twenty-five dollars for every offense; and it shall be the 
 
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 duty of the mayor, on receiving satisfactory information of any such table 
 or device being set up and used, to issue his warrant to the city marshal, 
 commanding him to destroy the same, which warrant shall be immediately 
 executed. 
 
 § 4. Whoever shall in this city keep a bawdy house, house of ill-fame 
 or of assignation, or be an inmate of, or be in any way connected with, or 
 contribute to the support of any disorderly house or place for the practice 
 of fornication or adultery, or shall permit any tenement in his possession 
 or under his control to be used for any such purpose, shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 5. Whoever shall in this city make any indecent exhibition publicly 
 of any stud horse, or jackass, or let any such horse or jackass to mares or 
 jennies, or any bull to cows, within the limits of this city, unless in some 
 enclosed place out of public view, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
 meanor. 
 
 § 6. If any bitch shall be found running at large while in heat, the 
 owner, possessor or keeper thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less 
 than one nor more than ten dollars. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Offenses affecting public safety and policy. 
 
 Section 1 . Whoever shall, in this city ride or drive any beast of burden 
 or draft, in any highway, thoroughfare or other public place, quicker than, 
 or beyond a moderate gait, unless in a case of urgent necessity, or shall 
 ride or drive any such animal so as to cause such animal or any vehicle 
 thereto attached, to come in collision with, or strike any other object or any 
 person; or shall by negligence or improper treatment suffer, or cause any 
 such animal or team to run away, or shall leave any such animal standing 
 in any public place, without being fastened, or so guarded, as to prevent 
 its running away, or shall turn such animal loose in any thoroughfare, or 
 shall inhumanly, unnecessarily, or cruelly beat, injure or otherwise abuse 
 any dumb animal, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 2. Whoever in this city, being the owner or keeper of any mischievous 
 animal, and shall suffer the same to run at large, knowing the said animal 
 to be mischievous, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 3. Whoever shall, in any highway or thoroughfare of this city, fly a 
 kite, or use any sport or exercise, likely to scare horses, injure passengers, 
 or embarrass the passage of vehicles, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
 meanor. 
 
 § 4. In all cases of persons meeting each other riding or driving vehicles, 
 
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 in any highway or thoroughfare in this city, each person so meeting, shall 
 turn off and go to the right side of the street, so as to enable such persons 
 or vehicles to pass each other without accident; whoever shall violate this 
 section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 5. Whoever shall, in this city, burn any shavings, straw, hay, brush, 
 wood, or any other materials, in any street, or alley, or lot, so as to 
 endanger his or any other person’s property, shall be deemed guilty of a 
 misdemeanor. 
 
 § 6. No person shall, within the limits of the city of Belleville, fire or 
 discharge any cannon, musket, rifle, fowling-piece, or other fire arms, or 
 air gun, except in cases of necessity, or in the performance of a public or 
 lawful act of duty, or discharge or set off any cracker, rocket, torpedo, 
 squib, or other fire-works, within the limits of said city, without written 
 permission from the mayor first obtained, which permission shall limit the 
 time of such firing, and may be revoked any time after it has been granted ; 
 whoever shall act contrary to the provisions contained in this section shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 7. No person within the city of Belleville shall vend, give or sell any 
 deadly poison, knowing the same to be such, without marking the same 
 in legible characters, “ poison,” nor to any person to him or her unknown, 
 under a penalty of five dollars for each offense. 
 
 § 8. Any person or persons driving any loose head of cattle, horses, or 
 any other animals, or any vicious or unruly animals through the streets of 
 the city, who shall drive or run the same at a rate of more than four miles 
 per hour, or shall drive or run the same with any dog or dogs, through the 
 streets of said city, shall be fined a sum not less than three nor more than 
 twenty-five dollars; this ordinance to apply to butchers as well as other 
 persons. 
 
 § 9. Any person or persons who shall, by themselves or their agents or 
 servants fire off any blast, or dig, or open any stone quarry within the city 
 limits of Belleville, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not 
 less than five, nor more than one hundred, dollars for each offense. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 article IV. 
 
 Offenses concerning the streets , squares and private property. 
 
 § 1. Whoever shall, in this city lead, ride, drive, or place any beast of 
 burden or vehicle on any paved or planked sidewalk or footway, otherwise 
 than going into or out of premises, owned or occupied by him or his 
 employer, or shall hitch or fasten any animal to any railing, fence, or 
 
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 ornamental or shade tree, lamp post or awning post, not belonging to him 
 or his employer, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 2. Whoever shall, in this city, dig or cause to be dug any excavation 
 in or adjoining any highway, thoroughfare or other public place, and shall 
 not, during the night, cause the same to be fenced in with a sufficient 
 fence, to prevent persons from falling iuto such excavation, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 3. Whoever shall, in this city, dig or cause to be dug in any highway, 
 thoroughfare, or sidewalk, or vault, and shall not arch or cover the same 
 over, and secure the grating or covering of the opening thereof, in such 
 manner as to prevent persons, animals and vehicles from falling in the 
 same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 4. Whoever owning or occupying any building in this city, shall not 
 cause the pipes conducting the water from the eaves of the building to be 
 so constructed as not to spread the water over the sidewalk, shall be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 5. Whoever in this city shall keep or leave open any cellar door, or 
 grating of any vault, on any highway, alley or sidewalk, or shall suffer any 
 such door or grating, belonging to premises occupied by him, or any such 
 place, to be in an insecure condition, whereby passers by may be in danger 
 of falling into a cellar or vault, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 6. Whoever shall in this city, without permission from the mayor, dig 
 up, or haul away any ground, or quarry stone, or cut down any tree or 
 trees, or make any alteration whatever, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
 meanor. 
 
 § V. Any person who shall undermine in any manner whatever any 
 street, alley, or any other ground or real estate belonging to the city or 
 any private person, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
 § 8. Whoever in this city shall, without written permission from the 
 mayor, set up or cause to be set up any awning post, or other posts, on 
 any street, alley, or sidewalk, less than ten feet wide, and whoever shall 
 suspend or put up any awning less than eight feet in height above the 
 sidewalk, or any sign, sign box or fixture, which shall extend over or upon 
 any sidewalk more than two feet from the inside line of such sidewalk, or 
 shall suspend any merchandise, or other articles in front of any house, 
 more than two feet from the wall thereof, and less than eight feet above 
 the ground, and whoever shall, without necessity, place or throw, or cause 
 to be placed or thrown upon any street, alley or sidewalk, or public place, 
 any article whatever, so as to obstruct the same, shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor. 
 
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 § 9. Whoever shall in this city willfully break any window glass in any 
 house of another, or cut, break or otherwise injury any lamp post, awning 
 post, sign, ornamental or shade trees, railing, fence or other enclosure, or 
 any property belonging to the city, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
 meanor. 
 
 § 10. Whoever in this city shall throw or cast any stone, or any other 
 missile upon or at any building, tree or other public or private property, 
 or at any person in any street, avenue, alley, lane, public place or grounds 
 in this city, and whoever in this city shall throw or cast any stone or 
 missile in, from, or into any street, avenue, alley, or lane or public place 
 in this city, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding five dollars. 
 
 § 11. Any person occupying or obstructing the public square of 
 Belleville in any way with any house, tenement, moveable house, or house 
 on wheels, or any unusual wagon or obstruction to said square, after having 
 first received three days’ notice from the proper officer to remove the 
 same, shall be fined not exceeding five dollars for every day’s obstruction 
 after such notice shall have been given. 
 
 § 12. Any person or persons who shall willfully, maliciously or for 
 their own benefit, dig or cause to be dug, or injure in any way, by digging 
 any street, lane, square or alley of this city for the purpose of letting off 
 water, or for any other purpose, without the consent of the mayor so to 
 do, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than five nor more 
 than fifty dollars for every such offense, and be liable for damages that 
 may accrue to the city or individuals by said misdemeanor. 
 
 § 13. Any person or persons hereafter injuring or abusing the fence of 
 the old graveyard, or tying horses or other animals, or otherwise damaging 
 said fence, graveyard, or tombs within said fence, shall forfeit and pay to 
 the city not less than one nor more than five dollars for each and every 
 breach of this ordinance. 
 
 article v. 
 
 Offenses against official authority. 
 
 § 1. Whoever shall in this city falsely represent himself to be an officer 
 of this city, or shall without being duly authorized by the city exercise or 
 attempt to exercise any of the duties, functions or powers of a city officer, 
 or shall hinder, obstruct, resist, or otherwise interfere with any city officer 
 in the discharge of his office duties, or attempt to prevent any such officer 
 from arresting any person, either by force or by carrying information to 
 such person, or attempt to rescue from such officer any person in his 
 
 custody, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
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 § 2. Every male person above eighteen years of age who shall neglect 
 or refuse to join the posse of the marshal, or any other peace officer of the 
 city of Belleville, by neglecting or refusing to aid and assist in arresting 
 any person against whom there may have issued any civil or criminal 
 process, or who may have escaped after having been arrested, or by 
 neglecting or refusing to aid and assist in preventing any breach of the 
 peace, any riot, affray or disturbance of the peace, or the commission of 
 any criminal offense; being thereto lawfully required by the mayor, 
 marshal, or any other peace officer of this city, shall upon conviction be 
 fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 Penalties. 
 
 § 1. Whoever shall be convicted of a misdemeanor under any provision 
 of this or any other ordinance, in a case where no specific penalty is 
 
 prescribed, shall forfeit and pay to this city a sum not less than two nor 
 more than one hundred dollars. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 Miscellaneous Provisions. 
 
 § 1. No person or persons who has or have not received a license for a 
 stall in the market house shall sell within the city of Belleville fresh meat 
 of any sort by a less quantity than the quarter, under a penalty of not less 
 than one dollar nor more than ten dollars for every offense. 
 
 § 2. Any person who shall knowingly sell or offer for sale by himself or 
 agent, anv blown veal, mutton or meat of anv kind, shall be fined in a sum 
 not exceeding five dollars. 
 
 § 3. Any person who shall sell or offer for sale himself, or by his agent, 
 any flesh of any diseased animal, or tainted, spoilt or unwholesome meat 
 or provisions, or any pernicious or adulterated drink or liquors, shall be 
 fined not exceeding twenty-five dollars. 
 
 § 4. Any person who shall willfully injure or mutilate the market house 
 or any other property of the city of Belleville, or shall run any wagon or 
 vehicle under said market house, or upon any plank or brick pavement of 
 said city, or ride or drive any horse, mule or oxen on said pavement, or 
 attach any horse, mule or ox to said market house, shall be fined not 
 exceeding five dollars. 
 
 § 5. Whoever in this city shall bury the body of any deceased person 
 within the limits of the city of Belleville, or shall take up and remove any 
 body now buried within said city limits, after the first day of April and 
 
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 before the first day of December, shall be fined not less than one nor more 
 than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 § 6. Any person who shall in any manner desecrate the old grave yard 
 within the city limits, by turning into it any stock, horses, mules, cows, 
 hogs, or any thing that will endanger any enclosure or tombstone ; or who 
 shall run over or deface the rising ground over any grave, or molest, cut or 
 carry away any plank or any thing belonging to said grave yard, or who 
 shall after disinterring any body in said grave yard not properly fill up and 
 level the hole or cavity made by him, shall be fined not exceeding twenty- 
 five dollars. 
 
 § 7. Any person who shall willfully or negligently break or abuse the 
 pumps in the public well and cistern on the public square, or shall pump 
 out of said well or cistern any water without needing the same for himself 
 or family, or for watering horses or cattle, or some other purpose, shall be 
 subject to a fine of not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 § 8. Any person who shall rob any orchard, garden yard, or other 
 premises of any fruit, flowers, shrubbery or any other thing, or wilfully 
 destroy any such fruit, flowers, shrubbery or other thing, shall be subject 
 to a fine of not exceeding ten dollars. 
 
 No. XXXV. 
 
 Private Property—An Ordinance regulating the proceedings when Private 
 
 Property is taken for Public Uses. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 as follows: When it is necessary to take private property for establishing, 
 opening, widening or altering any public street, avenue, lane, alley, square, 
 or other public place, the city council, if propositions which are satisfac¬ 
 tory shall be submitted by the owners of the property, may approve the 
 same, and at once make the necessary appropriations, and order the street 
 inspector to open the same without delay, according to the plan proposed, 
 and take possession of the property for public use. 
 
 § 2. Whenever the city council shall order by resolution to open, alter 
 or widen any street, alley or other public place, it shall be the duty of the 
 mayor to have the same surveyed in conformity to the plans indicated by 
 resolution, and to make a proper plat of such survey, showing the names 
 of the parties owning the land proposed to be taken, which survey and 
 plat shall be certified to by the city surveyor. 
 
 § 3. If the amount of compensation for private property to be taken for 
 the purpose of laying out, opening, altering, widening or straightening any 
 street, alley, highway, or public ground or square, can not be agreed upon 
 
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 with the owner?, the city council shall give notice of their intention to 
 appropriate and take the land necessary for the same, to the owner thereof, 
 by publishing said notice for ten days in the newspaper publishing the city 
 ordinances, at the expiration of which time they shall choose, by ballot, 
 three disinterested freeholders, residing in the city, as commissioners to 
 make the necessary assessments, and take such proceedings as are prescribed 
 in article seventh, sections one to nineteen, of the charter of the city of 
 Belleville, granted February 18th, 1859. 
 
 Approved. 
 
 No. XXXVI. 
 
 Process—Ordinance concerning Proceedings before the Police Magistrate 
 
 for Fines and Penalties. 
 
 Section I. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 as follows : Whenever any fine, forfeiture or penalty shall be imposed for 
 the breach of any of the ordinances of this city, the same may be sued for 
 before the police magistrate in the form of actions of debt or trespass by 
 common summons, or by warrant, as the case may be, according to the 
 practice of justices of the peace. 
 
 § 2. Actions for violations of ordinances may be commenced by any 
 person filing with the police magistrate an affidavit, stating the nature of 
 the offense, or by the marshal or any officer of the city, by filing a state¬ 
 ment in writing as near as may be in the following form, to-wit: 
 
 A. B. to the city of Belleville, Dr. dollars for violating an 
 
 ordinance No. , by (here insert the nature of the act and offense.) 
 
 City of Belleville, 188 
 
 C. D., Marshal. 
 
 Provided, That in all cases where a warrant for the arrest of any de¬ 
 fendant is to be issued, the complaint or statement shall be made under 
 oath. 
 
 § 3. No action shall be dismissed before the police magistrate for any 
 defect of form in said statement, affidavit, summons or warrant, if the 
 offense be substantially set forth in the statement or affidavit filed, so as 
 to give the defendant notice of the charge which he is required to answer, 
 and such statement or affidavit may include several persons charged with 
 the same offense. 
 
 § 4. Upon such affidavit or statement being filed, the police magistrate 
 shall docket the case in his docket in the usual manner required by law, 
 and shall issue summons or warrant, as the case may require. When a 
 person has been arrested on view or otherwise, according to law, without 
 
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 a warrant, the police magistrate shall enter in his docket the fact of his 
 arrest and by whom made, and also take from the officer making the 
 arrest an affidavit of the cause of such arrest. 
 
 § 5. If an action shall be commenced against any person who is 
 charged with having committed an act punishable under the laws of the 
 State of Illinois, or any person being a non-resident of the city, or if the 
 police magistrate shall be of opinion that a speedy proceeding is necessary 
 to secure the punishment of the offender, he shall issue a warrant which 
 may be substantially as follows, to wit: 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 
 County of St. Clair and City of Belleville. 
 
 The people of the State of Illinois to the marshal of the city of Belleville 
 
 or any constable of said county, Greeting : 
 
 Whereas, the marshal (or as the case may be) has complained under 
 oath before me, that A. B. has violated ordinance No. of the city of 
 Belleville by (here insert the nature of the offense.) 
 
 You are hereby commanded to take the body of A. B. and bring him 
 forthwith before me to be dealt with according to law. 
 
 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this—— 
 day of-18 . 
 
 C. D., Police Magistrate. 
 
 § 6. Any person in the custody of the city marshal, or other officer, for 
 the violation of any ordinance, may be admitted to bail by executing a bond 
 to the city with sufficient security, to be approved by the police magistrate, 
 in double the amount of the penalty for the offence charged, conditioned 
 that he will appear upon a day therein named before the police magistrate, 
 and answer the accusation for which he has been arrested, and not depart 
 the court without leave; which bond shall be attested by the police 
 magistrate and filed in his office, and a note thereof shall be entered upon 
 his docket. 
 
 § 7. If the defendant fail to appear according to the conditions of the 
 bond, or appearing, shall depart the court without leave, the police 
 magistrate shall enter judgment against him and his securities for the 
 penalty of said bond, and all costs. 
 
 § 8. Any judgment entered up under the provisions of the preceding 
 section may be set aside by the police magistrate within six days after 
 the rendition of said judgment, if the defendant shall personally appear 
 before the police magistrate, paying the costs and showing good cause for 
 setting aside the judgment by affidavit of himself or one creditable person 
 for him. 
 
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 § 9. A party in custody who cannot be tried on accoupt of the 
 absence of witnesses, drunkenness, or other cause, and who cannot give 
 bail for his appearance, may be confined in the county jail not exceeding 
 three days, and in such case the police magistrate shall deliver to the 
 marshal or other officer a commitment stating the cause of the detention. 
 
 § 10. When a defendant, duly summoned, fails to appear at the time 
 the suit is set for trial, the police magistrate shall hear and examine the 
 testimony offered on the part of the city, and shall render judgment by 
 default against the defendant for such amount under the ordinances as he 
 may deem just. 
 
 § 11. Judgment by default rendered under the preceding section, may 
 be set aside by the police magistrate, and a new trial granted within ten 
 days after the rendition: Provided , the defendant shall within ten days 
 make application and show good cause for such setting aside; and pro¬ 
 vided he shall pay all the costs which have accrued, unless he prove to 
 the satisfaction of the police magistrate that he was prevented by unavoid¬ 
 able circumstances from attending the trial. 
 
 § 12. In all cases of appeals the police magistrate shall make out and 
 certify a full transcript of the proceedings had in such suit, as the same is 
 recorded on his docket. 
 
 § 13. When the marshal or constable is of kin to the prosecutor or 
 defendant in a suit, or the defendant or prosecutor shall file an affidavit 
 that the marshal or constable is so prejudiced against him that justice may 
 not be done in the selection of a jury, the police magistrate shall issue the 
 venire to some other disinterested constable of the county, or some other 
 person, if such constable cannot conveniently be had. 
 
 § 14. The verdict of the jury shall be in the following form: “We, the 
 jury, find the defendant not guilty,” or “We, the jury, find the defendant 
 guilty, and assess the fine at-dollars.” 
 
 § 15. If the jury find the defendant guilty, they shall assess the 
 penalty, except'in case the same is specifically fixed by ordinance at a 
 given sum. 
 
 § 16. Upon the rendition of judgment against any defendant for the 
 violation of any ordinance of this city, the police magistrate shall forthwith 
 issue an execution directed to the city marshal or any constable in the 
 county, which shall be made returnable in thirty days, and shall otherwise 
 be in the same form and governed by the same regulations, as executions 
 issued by justices of the peace under the laws of this State; and upon 
 return of any such executions unsatisfied for want of property, it may at 
 any time thereafter, in the discretion of the police magistrate, be lawful 
 
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 for him to issue another execution, in such form, clearly to express the 
 objects of this provision, as he may adopt, directing the proper officer, if 
 the same be not satisfied within ten days after date, to commit the body 
 of the defendant to the city or county jail, or to put him undfer the care of 
 the street inspector until such fine and costs in the execution shall be 
 liquidated by confinement in such jail, or worked out on the streets under 
 the ordinances of this city; and the officer in his return shall express how 
 said execution was satisfied. 
 
 § 17. If any defendant in execution shall refuse to pay the fine and 
 costs, and the execution shall be returned unsatisfied for want of property 
 to levy upon, he shall be confined in the jail or work house one day for 
 each one dollar of such fine and costs, or if the fine and costs are to be 
 liquidated by working on the streets, he shall work one day for every 
 dollar contained in the execution. 
 
 § 18. Witnesses summoned in any suit before the police magistrate, 
 and attending the trial, shall be entitled to fifty cents for each day’s 
 attendance, to be recovered of the party convicted. 
 
 § 19. In all prosecutions instituted by the City of Belleville, any officer 
 of said city shall be a competent witness, notwithstanding such officer may 
 be entitled to a portion of the fine or penalty, or to a fee from the same. 
 
 § 20. Whenever an execution against a defendant in favor of the city is 
 returned “ no property found,” the police magistrate may, upon oath being 
 made by any officer of said city, or by any citizen, issue a garnishee 
 process, according to the laws of this State, and the practice of justices of 
 the peace, and every such officer, for such purpose, shall be deemed and 
 taken to be the agent of said city. 
 
 § 21. When an affidavit, on the part of the city, shall be required in 
 any case before the police magistrate, it may be made by any city officer, 
 or by any person to whom the facts are known. 
 
 § 22. Parents, guardians, masters and mistresses, shall be bound for 
 the payment of any fine, forfeiture or penalty assessed against any minor 
 under their respective charge or care, under the provisions of any ordinance 
 of this city, and execution shall issue thereon as in other cases : Provided , 
 it shall be the duty of the marshal or constable to notify any such parent, 
 guardian, master or mistress of such minor, if they are known, of the time 
 and place of trial for any violation of ordinance, and in case such parent, 
 guardian or master is not known, or resident of the city, the officer shall 
 in his return or statement make known such fact. 
 
 § 23. In all prosecutions for fine or penalty, where the defendant shall 
 be acquitted, if it shall appear to the police magistrate that there was no 
 
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 reasonable ground for the prosecution, or that it was instituted vexatiously 
 and maliciously, he may give judgment against the prosecutor or com¬ 
 plainant for costs of said suit, and issue execution thereon; and in all cases 
 arising under the ordinances the police magistrate may, if it shall appear 
 to him just and equitable, apportion the costs between the parties and 
 complainant or prosecutor, according to justice. 
 
 § 24. The police magistrate and city marshal, in all matters pertaining 
 to the duties of their respective offices in judicial proceedings, and con¬ 
 cerning which there is no specific provisions by the charter or ordinances 
 of the city, shall be governed by the laws of the state of Illinois, and 
 the practice established relating to the proceedings of justices and con¬ 
 stables. 
 
 § 25. The marshal and constable shall, at all times, be vigilant in en¬ 
 forcing the ordinances of the city, and shall arrest, on view, any person 
 committing an offense, or who threatens to do so in their presence ; if any 
 such person arrested cannot have an immediate trial, he or she shall be 
 committed to jail for trial in due time; any person, so arrested and held 
 in custody, shall be entitled to a trial within twenty-four hours from the 
 time of the arrest, except when Sunday shall intervene, unless the trial be 
 postponed by the police magistrate for good cause or from unavoidable 
 circumstances. 
 
 § 26. If the marshal or constable shall willfully neglect to discharge 
 any duties required of them by the charter of the city or by the ordinances 
 thereof, or shall commit any positive violation of duty, they shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than 
 
 one nor more than one hundred dollars. 
 
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 § 27. The marshal, or any other officer of the city authorized to exe¬ 
 cute process of the police magistrate, shall be allowed five per cent, of the 
 fines and penalties respectively collected by them for the use of the city of 
 Belleville. 
 
 § 28. The mayor and aldermen of the city shall be, ex-officio , conserva¬ 
 tors of the peace within the city. They shall, as such, arrest, or cause to 
 be arrested, with or without process, all persons who shall break the 
 peace, or threaten to break the peace, or be found violating any ordi¬ 
 nance of this city, commit for examination, and, if necessary, detain such 
 persons in custody over night, or the Sabbath, in the jail or watch-house, 
 or until they can be brought before a magistrate. 
 
 § 29. If, after the conviction of any offender, before the police magis¬ 
 trate, for the violation of any ordinance, or if, at any other time, upon due 
 information under oath made, it be moved by the city attorney, or other 
 
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 officer of the city, to put the defendant under bonds, and require him to 
 give security for his good behavior and to keep the peace, the magistrate 
 shall hear the testimony under oath, and, if he is satisfied that the defend¬ 
 ant has used threats to disturb the peace, or to commit any other unlawful 
 act against persons or property, or that he is of bad character and fame, and 
 that there is danger that such defendant will disturb the peace, or commit 
 those unlawful acts, or that the public peace and good would be promoted 
 by his being bound over, he shall require the said defendant to enter into 
 bonds, with good security, in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to 
 keep the peace for a time not exceeding twelve months. The condition of 
 this recognizance shall be : that the defendant shall keep the peace against 
 all persons, or against particular persons named in the information, and 
 appear again before the police magistrate at a time fixed in said recog¬ 
 nizance, to be dealt with according to law. If the defendant shall fail to 
 give a recognizance with sufficient security, it shall be the duty of the 
 magistrate to commit him to jail until such security be given. If the 
 defendant, having entered into recognizance, shall appear before the magis¬ 
 trate at the time fixed in said bond, the magistrate shall examine the 
 witnessess, and either continue the recognizance, commit the defendant to 
 jail, or discharge him, as to the said magistrate shall appear right and just, 
 having due regard to the public peace and good and to the safety of the 
 citizens: Provided, That the person committed to jail for want of entering 
 into such recognizance, shall not stay in jail longer than one month, 
 and may be discharged sooner, at the discretion of the police magistrate. 
 
 No. XXXVII. 
 
 Public Well—Ordinance relating to the Public Well. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 as follows : If any person shall at any time willfully or negligently break 
 or abuse the pump in the public well on the public square, or shall pump 
 out of said well any water, without needing the same for himself or family, 
 or for watering horses or cattle, or for some other lawful purpose, or if any 
 person shall willfully or negligently throw any filth, dirt or dirty water 
 into the public cistern, he shall be subject to a fine of not exceeding twenty 
 dollars. 
 
 No. XXXVIII. 
 
 Revenue and Taxes—Ordinance in relation to, and for the Collection of, 
 
 Taxes and other Revenue of the City. 
 
 ARTICLE i. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, as 
 follows: The rate of tax for the fiscal year commencing on the first of May 
 
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 of each and every year, shall in future, unless altered by ordinance, be fifty 
 cents on every hundred dollars’ worth of real and personal estate assessed 
 for taxation, and subject to the same by law within the city limits of the 
 city of Belleville, to be applied to the contingent and other expenses of the 
 city; also twenty cents on every hundred dollars’ worth of real and per¬ 
 sonal estate so assessed, to constitute a sinking fund, and to be wholly 
 applied to the payment of city bonds and obligations now due and 
 maturing. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 Assessor and Assessment. 
 
 § 1. At the first regular session of the city council after the first day of 
 May in every year, it shall be the duty of the mayor to appoint, by and 
 with the consent of the board of aldermen, a competent person as assessor, 
 who shall have resided in the city at least three years. 
 
 § 2. The said assessor, upon entering upon the duties of his office, shall 
 subscribe an oath faithfully to discharge the duties of the office of assessor 
 to the best of his knowledge and ability : and shall also enter into bond to 
 the city with at least two securities to be approved by the mayor, condi¬ 
 tioned for the prompt and faithful discharge of his duties. 
 
 § 3. The assessor shall enter upon the discharge of his duties on the 
 second Monday of May in each year, and the city register shall deliver to 
 him the entire preceding assessment list of the city, and well bound books, 
 with separate columns for the names of the owners of property, the kind 
 of property, the value of the ground, and the value of the improvements, 
 the value of each kind, and the total value of every persons’ taxable prop¬ 
 erty and such other columns as may be deemed necessary. 
 
 § 4. Upon the receipt of the lists and books mentioned in the preceding 
 section, the assessor shall proceed to examine and assess all property 
 within this city subject to taxation at its true value, and when the same 
 is real estate, giving the quantity and metes and bounds thereof, and the 
 value of the ground and that of the improvements, separately, and shall 
 charge all personal property, monies and credits to the owner, with his 
 real estate, if he has any. 
 
 § 5. Said lists shall be arranged by blocks or lots, according to their 
 numerical order on the plats of the city and additions. 
 
 § 6. The assessor in making the city assessment shall have all the 
 power and authority conferred by State laws upon the county assessor, 
 and is authorized to demand of every person owning or having charge of 
 any taxable property as agent, guardian, curator, trustee, or otherwise, a 
 
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 list of all such property, with such description as will enable him to list 
 and assess the same, and shall have power, and is required when not 
 satisfied with such list, to examine the party under oath, touching the 
 same; and any person refusing to take such oath shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred 
 dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail for not less than three nor more 
 than twenty days. 
 
 § 7. If the assessor find property within the city, the owner of which 
 is unknown, he shall list it as the property of an unknown owner. 
 
 § 8. If the assessor shall discover any taxable property which has not 
 been assessed in previous years, the same shall be assessed for each year 
 it was not assessed, and the assessor shall note the same upon the assess¬ 
 ment. 
 
 § 9. It shall be the duty of the assessor to return to the city council 
 the whole assessment of the property within the city within ninety days 
 after receiving the books from the register. 
 
 § 10. Upon the receipt of the assessment lists, the mayor shall call a 
 meeting of the city council to hear and determine all appeals from the 
 assessment, and correct all errors that may be found in the lists. 
 
 § 11. The register shall give ten days notice of the time and place of 
 the meeting of the city council as a court of appeals, by publishing the 
 same in the newspapers employed by the city, and all persons who consider 
 themselves aggrieved by the assessment of their property, may appeal to 
 the city council sitting as a court of appeals, and any such appeal may be 
 made either verbally by the appellant, or handed in in writing, and shall 
 state specifically the grounds of the appeal, and the matter or thing com¬ 
 plained of, and no other matter shall be considered by the board. 
 
 § 12. The city council sitting as a court of appeals shall hear and 
 determine all appeals in a summary way, and correct any errors which 
 they may discover in the assessment lists, and may place upon such lists 
 any assessable property not already listed ; and may increase or diminish 
 any assessment as they may think just and equitable : Provided , however, 
 that before the assessment of any property is finally increased, the person 
 to whom such property is assessed, or his agent, if a resident of the city, 
 shall be notified either personally or by writing left at his usual place of 
 residence, of such intention to increase his assessment, and of the time and 
 place of the session of city council sitting as a court of appeals, and shall 
 be permitted to introduce any testimony relating to the value of his 
 property. 
 
 § 13. When the city council, sitting as a court of appeals, shall have 
 
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 corrected and adjusted the lists, it shall be delivered to the city register, 
 who shall make a correct copy thereof, and deliver said copy to the city 
 collector, and take his receipt for the aggregate amount thereof, and charge 
 the same to him. 
 
 § 14. The assessor shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars, payable 
 when the assessment is finished, received and approved by the city council. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Collector and collection of taxes. 
 
 Section 1 . At the first regular session of the city council after the first 
 day of May, in each year, there shall be appointed a collector of the city 
 revenue, who shall enter upon the duties of his office on the second 
 Monday in May. 
 
 § 2. The official bond of each collector shall be in double the sum of 
 the amount of the assessed taxes, with at least two sufficient securities to 
 be approved by the city council. 
 
 § 3. It shall be the duty of the collector to collect all accounts for 
 taxes placed in his hands for collection, to keep in suitable books separate 
 accounts of monies and orders received by him on behalf of the city, with 
 the date of the receipt, the name of the person paying, and object of taxa¬ 
 tion, to pay to the treasurer on the last day of every week all monies or 
 orders collected by him, taking duplicate receipt therefor, one of which 
 shall be filed with the city register without delay. 
 
 § 4. Upon the receipt of the tax list or assessor’s books the collector 
 shall give notice thereof by publication in the newspapers employed by 
 the city, requiring all persons to pay their taxes; and the taxes shall be 
 considered as due and payable on and from the day of the publication of 
 the said notice. 
 
 § 5. If the taxes are not paid within twenty days after the first publication 
 of said notice, the collector may, if he chooses, call upon such person 
 residing in the city who shall have failed to pay his taxes, and may make 
 a demand of the same at his or her usual place of residence. 
 
 § 6. The amount of taxes shall be a lien on personal property, and shall 
 attach from and after the time the assessment list is received by the col¬ 
 lector, and no transfer of the matter shall effect the claim of the city, but 
 the said property may be seized by the collector wherever found, and 
 removed, if necessary, and sold to discharge the taxes of the person owning 
 the same at the time of such assessment, together with the costs and 
 charges of collection. 
 
 § 7. In collecting the city taxes and assessments, general or special, the 
 
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 collector of the city shall have the same power and authority as the county 
 and State collector; a notice, published by the collector for ten days in the 
 newspaper printing the city ordinances, shall be deemed a demand, and a 
 neglect to pay taxes for twenty days thereafter shall be deemed a refusal; 
 and the collector and the assessor’s list shall, in all cases, be competent 
 witness and evidence on the part of the city corporation. 
 
 § 8. In case any person shall refuse or neglect to pay his or her taxes 
 when demanded, or within ten days thereafter, the collector may levy the 
 same together with the costs and charges that may accrue, by distress and 
 sale of the personal property of such person as ought to pay the same 
 wherever the same may be found in the city. 
 
 § 9. The collector shall give public notice of the time and place of sale, 
 the property to be sold, and the name of the delinquent, at least ten days 
 previous to the day of sale, by advertisements to be posted up in at least 
 three public places in the city. 
 
 § 10. Such sale shall be by public auction, and if practicable no more 
 property shall be sold than sufficient to pay the taxes, costs and charges 
 due; the same shall, if convenient, be sold in parcels, and if sold for more 
 than the amount necessary, the surplus shall be returned to the owner. 
 
 § 11. The collector shall be allowed the same fees and charges for 
 making distress and sale of personal property for the payment of taxes as 
 is allowed by law to constables for making levy and sale of property on 
 execution. 
 
 § 12. Whenever any tax is paid, the collector shall give the person 
 paying the same a receipt, specifying the name of the person for whom 
 paid, the amount paid, what year paid for, and the property on which the 
 same was assessed. 
 
 § 13. If any person, owning lands or town lots or parts of lots, in the 
 city of Belleville, shall fail to pay the taxes assessed thereon by said city, 
 by the first day of January in each year, it shall be the duty of the 
 collector to publish an advertisement in the newspaper employed by the 
 city for publishing the ordinances, at least thirty days previous to the 
 March term of the county court of St. Clair county, which advertisement 
 shall contain a correct copy of the collector’s books of all the delinquent 
 lots and lands, upon which the taxes remain due and unpaid, and the 
 collector shall, at the foot of the delinquent list, give notice that he will 
 apply at the county court of St. Clair county, to be holden on the first 
 Monday of March, for a judgment against said lands and lots, for the taxes 
 and costs due thereon, and for an order to sell said lands and lots, for the 
 satisfaction thereof. Said advertisement shall also contain a notice that 
 
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 the collector will, on the second Monday succeeding the first Monday of 
 the term of the county court, at which judgment will be obtained against 
 said delinquent lands and lots, expose the same to public sale, at the Court 
 House, between the hours of ten o’clock a. m. and six o’clock p. m., for 
 the amount of taxes and costs due thereon. The collector shall at least 
 five days before the commencement of the term of court at which judg¬ 
 ment is to be obtained, file a copy of the advertisement or delinquent list, 
 published as aforesaid, with the county clerk, and, also, one with the city 
 register, and these shall then be deemed and taken to be sufficient and 
 legal notice, both of the intended application to the county court for 
 judgment, and, also, for the sale of lands and lots under the order of said 
 court. The county court shall proceed according to the State laws in 
 relation to the collection of State and county taxes. The court shall 
 hear and determine said application and render judgment against the de¬ 
 linquent lands and lots in the same manner, and said judgment shall have 
 the like effect as though said delinquent list had been returned to the 
 county court by the sheriff’ or collector of the ‘county in the collection of 
 State and county taxes, and the county court shall issue its precepts or 
 order to the collector of the city, directing him to sell said lands and lots 
 at public auction, to pay said delinquent taxes and costs. 
 
 § 14. On the first day of the term at which judgment on the delinquent 
 lots and lands is prayed, it shall be the duty of the collector to file an 
 affidavit which shall be attached to the delinquent list, and which shall be 
 as nearly as may be, in the following form: 
 
 I,-collector of the city of Belleville, for the year 18 , do 
 
 solemnly swear, that the foregoing is a true and correct record of the 
 delinquent lands and town lots within the corporate limits of the city of 
 Belleville, upon which I have been unable to collect the taxes, as required 
 by ordinances for the year 18 , and that said taxes now remain due and 
 
 unpaid, to the best of my knowledge and belief. And said affidavit shall 
 be taken as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein 
 contained, and if there shall be no proof to the contrary, the court shall 
 render judgments against said lands and lots. 
 
 On the day and at the place designated in his notice, the collector shall 
 proceed to sell the lots and lands, or so much thereof as will pay the taxes 
 and costs severally assessed thereon. All sales shall be conducted as pre¬ 
 scribed by State law. The sale shall be made for the smallest portion of 
 ground, to be taken from the east side of the premises, for which any 
 person will take the same, and will pay the taxes and costs thereon. 
 Duplicate certificates of sale shall be made out and subscribed by the 
 
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 collector and register, one of which shall be delivered to the purchaser, 
 and the other filed in the office of the register. The collector shall be 
 allowed the same fees for selling as are allowed by State law for similar 
 services. The register shall keep a record of such sales, which shall be 
 open to public inspection at all seasonable times. 
 
 § 15. Whenever the said collector, by reason of not getting the assess¬ 
 ment in time, or for any other cause, shall be unable to get judgment 
 against the delinquent lands and lots at the March term of the county 
 court of St. Clair county, it shall be his duty to get the said judgment on 
 any succeeding term of said court, as directed by the city council; said 
 judgment and order of sale to be obtained, and the sale of the delinquent 
 lands and lots, and the proceedings thereon to be conducted in the same 
 manner and time, and to be of the same force and effect as if made on 
 the second Monday succeeding the first Monday of the March term of 
 the county court of St. Clair county, and as described in sections 13th 
 and 14th. 
 
 § 16. The register shall attend all sales of lands and lots for taxes made 
 by the collector, and make a record thereof in a book to be kept for that 
 purpose, therein describing the several tracts of land and lots as they are 
 described in the delinquent list, stating in separate columns the tax, cost, 
 and how much and what part of each tract or lot was sold, to whom sold, 
 and all such tracts or lots as remain unsold for want of bidders, shall be 
 entered as sold to the city. 
 
 § 17. The city register shall make out and deliver to the purchasers 
 of any lands or lots sold for the payment of taxes as aforesaid, a certificate 
 of purchase, which is to be countersigned by the collector, describing the 
 lands or lots sold as the same were described in the delinquent list, the 
 amount of taxes and costs for which the same was sold, the time when 
 the right to redeem will expire, and that payment has been made therefor, 
 which certificate shall be assignable by indorsement. 
 
 § 18. The city register shall make out a certificate to the city for all the 
 lands and lots that were bid in for the city, similar to that given to other 
 purchasers, and such sale to the city shall have the same effect as if made 
 to an individual. 
 
 § 19. Real estate sold under the provisions of this chapter, may be 
 redeemed at any time before the expiration of two years from the date of 
 sale, by the payment to the city register of double the amount for which 
 the same was sold, and all taxes accruing after such sale, unless such sub¬ 
 sequent taxes have been paid to the collector as may be shown by the 
 collector’s receipt, by the person redeeming, with six per cent, interest 
 
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 thereon from the first day of March in each year, up to the time of pay¬ 
 ment ; Provided , That if the real estate of any infant, femme covert , or 
 lunatic, be sold for taxes, the same may be redeemed at any time within 
 one year after such disability is removed, upon the terms specified in this 
 section. 
 
 § 20. At any time after the expiration of two years from the sale of 
 any real estate for taxes, if the same shall not be redeemed according to 
 law, the city council shall, upon the return of the certificate, or proof of 
 its loss, direct a deed to be executed to the purchaser, under the corporate 
 seal, signed by the mayor or presiding officer of the city council, and 
 countersigned by the register conveying to such purchaser the premises so 
 sold and unredeemed as aforesaid. An abstract of all deeds so made and 
 delivered shall be entered, by the register, in the book wherein tax sales 
 are recorded; and such deeds shall be of the same force and effect as deeds 
 executed by collectors of counties under the laws of this State. The 
 assignee of any tax certificate, shall be entitled to receive a deed for the 
 premises sold, in his own name, and with the same effect as though he had 
 been the original purchaser. 
 
 § 21. All the moneys received by the register shall be paid to the city 
 treasurer for the use of the purchaser or his legal representatives, or for 
 that of the city, and he shall make an entry of such redemption of every 
 tract of land or lot on the same line on which the sale of said land or lot 
 is recorded in the book kept for that purpose, as required in section seven¬ 
 teenth of this ordinance. 
 
 § 22. Money paid into the treasury in redemption of real estate pur¬ 
 chased at a tax sale by an individual, and to which such purchaser is 
 entitled, shall be paid to him by the treasurer upon his applying therefor, 
 and producing the register’s certificate of purchase, and endorsing thereon 
 a receipt for the amount. 
 
 § 23. The register shall receive one dollar for every deed made to an 
 individual purchaser, and shall be allowed to charge twenty-five cents for 
 every lot redeemed, to be paid by the person receiving the deed or 
 redeeming. 
 
 § 24. The collector or register shall not directly or indirectly be con¬ 
 cerned in the purchase of any property sold for taxes, under penalty of 
 two hundred dollars. 
 
 § 25. The city register shall make out a list of all the lands or lots 
 which have been bid in by the city for taxes, and not redeemed, and make 
 out written notices or give notice in any newspaper employed by the city, 
 as required by the sixth section of an act, entitled, “An act to amend the 
 
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 several acts concerning the public revenue,” approved by the general assem¬ 
 bly of this State on the 8th day of February, A. D. 1849, and he shall see 
 that all the conditions required in said section are complied with; the 
 marshal shall serve the notices and make the affidavit required, and the 
 register and marshal shall receive a reasonable compensation for services 
 rendered under this section. 
 
 § 26. The collector of this city, the city register, the printer of the 
 delinquent list, and other officers, shall receive for their services rendered 
 under this ordinance, the same fees as are allowed for similar services ren¬ 
 dered under the laws of this State. 
 
 § 27. The collector shall receive five per centum of the amount collected 
 as compensation for his services in collecting the revenue of the city. 
 
 No. XXXIX. 
 
 Register and treasurer—Ordinance relating to register and treasurer. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 as follows: The register shall keep the corporate seal, and all papers and 
 books belonging to the city. He shall attend all meetings of the city 
 council, and keep a full record of their proceedings on the journals, and of 
 all ordinances which they may pass, and superintend the printing of the 
 same; and copies of all papers duly filed in his office, and transcripts from 
 the journals of the proceedings of the city council, certified by him under 
 the corporate seal, shall be evidence in all courts, in like manner as if the 
 originals were produced. He shall also draw all warrants on the treasury, 
 which warrants shall specify for what purpose the amount therein named 
 is to be paid, and countersign the same, and keep accurate accounts thereof 
 in a book provided for that purpose. 
 
 § 2. The register shall keep an accurate account of all receipts and 
 expenditures, and a full record of all financial operations of the city. He 
 shall furthermore have power to administer all and any oath required to 
 be taken under the charter and under the ordinances of the city. 
 
 § 3. The treasurer shall receive and safely keep all money or city scrip, 
 orders or coupons of bonds, which may be paid over to him by the collector 
 or other officers, on account of the city, and give receipts therefor; he 
 shall disburse any money in the treasury upon the warrant of the mayor, 
 countersigned by the register, in conformity with the order of the city 
 council, and he shall receive from the collector or other officer of the city, 
 and receipt therefor as money, any scrip or orders issued under the ordi¬ 
 nances of the city, and shall, whenever required, report to the city council 
 10 
 
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 a full statement of all the money, scrip or orders received by him, and on 
 what account. 
 
 § 4. The register and treasurer shall keep a regular and fair account of 
 all monies received and disbursed by him, showing the date of the receipt 
 and disbursement thereof, of whom received, to whom paid, and on what 
 account. 
 
 § 5. He shall, at the end of each year, twenty days before the election, 
 make out and deliver to the city council a full and complete statement of 
 all monies or other indebtedness received by him, for the year next pre¬ 
 ceding and show in what manner he has disbursed the same. 
 
 § 6. He shall, every year, make out a full and detailed statement of the 
 city debt, showing to whom the same is due, on what account due, what 
 portions of the same have been paid within the year on account of principal, 
 and what amount of interest, and whether the same is funded or unfunded 
 debt, and what amount yet remains to be paid. 
 
 § 7. He shall receive and enter upon record in an appropriate book, 
 the assessment lists of the assessor, and ascertain and carry out in an 
 appropriate column, under the order of the city council, the amount of tax 
 levied upon each individual’s property as returned to him by the assessor, 
 and deliver a fair and exact copy thereof to the collector as provided by 
 ordinance. 
 
 § S. He shall countersign all licenses issued by the mayor, and receive 
 the money therefor; and receipt for the same; and keep in his books a 
 separate account of all the monies paid him for licenses, and report the 
 same to the city council. 
 
 No. XL. 
 
 Slaughter houses and Pens—An ordinance relating to Slaughter houses 
 
 and Pens. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville ? 
 That any house, slaughter house, pen, stable, or other place used for 
 butchering, killing or keeping hogs, oxen, cows, sheep, or other animals, 
 or any building, erection or other enclosure not necessary for the use of 
 families, which shall cause or produce an unwholesome or offensive smell 
 or other annoyance to the inhabitants of said city, shall be deemed and is 
 hereby defined a nuisance. 
 
 § 2. That hereafter, no slaughter house, pen, stable, or other place used or 
 to be used for slaughtering or killing hogs, oxen, cows, sheep, or other ani¬ 
 mals, shall be erected, established or located by any person or persons 
 within the corporate jurisdiction or limits of the city of Belleville. Any per- 
 
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 son or persons establishing, erecting or locating any building as aforesaid, 
 within the limits of the said city of Belleville, for the use or purpose afore¬ 
 said, and failing to abandon or quit the same, or shall not cease using the 
 same for slaughtering as aforesaid, when notified by the marshal of said 
 city so to do, shall be liable to a fine of not exceeding one hundred dollars : 
 Provided , That this ordinance shall have no reference to the months be¬ 
 tween the first day of November and the first day of March in each year. 
 
 No. XLI. 
 
 Shade Trees—Ordinance relating to Shade Trees. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That whenever any owners or lessees of lots within the city limits shall 
 plant or cause to be planted any shade trees on the side walk in front of 
 their respective property, and said trees are growing twelve months after 
 the time of planting said trees, said owners or lessees shall be entitled to 
 twenty-five cents for every good shade tree so planted, said trees, how¬ 
 ever, shall be planted one foot from the edge of the curb of the side walk, 
 and to be planted twenty feet apart. The persons so planting trees are to 
 notify the street inspector, whose duty it shall be to keep a book and a 
 record of all the trees planted or claimed to have been planted under this 
 ordinance. 
 
 No. XIII. 
 
 Special tax—An ordinance relating to special tax. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That whenever, in the opinion of the city council it shall become neces¬ 
 sary to grade or fill up any land or lot, or to fill up, or grade, or repair, or 
 pave any sidewalk, on any street, avenue or alley, or any part thereof 
 within the city limits, the city council may, by ordinance or resolution, 
 direct the owners of said property to have said grading, filling up, or 
 grading and paving, or repairing, done by a certain time therein named, 
 and the publication of said ordinance shall be sufficient notice to owners 
 or holders of said lands or lots fronting on any such streets where such 
 grading and paving are required to be done. 
 
 § 2. Whenever the owner or holder of any lot or land shall neglect 
 or refuse to grade or fill up the same, or to repair or to grade and pave his 
 sidewalk, in front of said lot, on any street, alley, avenue or public place, 
 in conformity to section one, the street inspector shall contract for the 
 same to be done at the expense of the city, and shall make his report of 
 
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 the expense thereof to the city council, and the city council shall, by 
 ordinance, levy a special tax against said lot or land, of sufficient amount 
 to pay all expenses, and ten per cent, damages on the money paid by the 
 city. 
 
 § 3. As soon as the report of the street inspector has been received, 
 and the contractors, workmen or laborers’ claims for work done under the 
 above ordinance have been allowed, the city register shall forthwith make 
 out and deliver to the collector a warrant, containing a list of the lots or 
 parts of the lots subject to a special tax, as aforesaid, with the amount of 
 such assessment against each owner, for their collection, taking his 
 receipt, and charging him with the amount thereof, and the collector shall 
 proceed to collect the same by calling upon and demanding the amounts 
 due of the owners or agents of the said real estate, respectively, if they 
 can be found in the city. 
 
 § 4. If the said special taxes remain unpaid for twenty days after the 
 receipt of the said warrant and list by the collector, it shall be his duty to 
 publish an advertisement in the newspaper employed by the city for 
 publishing the ordinances, at least thirty days previous to the first 
 succeeding term of the county court of St. Clair county, which advertise¬ 
 ment shall contain a correct description of the delinquent lands or lots on 
 which the special tax remains unpaid, and the amount of said special tax, 
 and the collector shall at the foot of said delinquent list give notice that 
 he will apply to the county court of St. Clair county for a judgment 
 against said lands and lots for the special taxes due thereon, and for an order 
 to sell said lands and lots for the satisfaction thereof. Said advertisement 
 shall also contain a notice that the collector will, on the second Monday 
 succeeding the first Monday of the term of the county court, at vffiich 
 judgment will be obtained against said delinquent lands and lots, expose 
 the same to public sale, at the court house, between the hours of ten 
 o’clock a. m. and six o’clock p. m. for the amount of the special taxes and 
 costs due thereon. 
 
 § 5. The collector shall, at least five days before the commencement of 
 the term of court, at which judgment is to be obtained, file a copy of the 
 advertisement or delinquent list, published as aforesaid, with the county 
 clerk, and also one with the city register, and these shall then be deemed 
 and taken to be sufficient and legal notice both of the intended application 
 to the county court for judgment and also for the sale of lands and lots 
 under the order of said court. 
 
 § 6. The county court shall proceed according to the State laws in 
 relation to the collection of State and county taxes; the court shall hear 
 
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 and determine said application, and render judgment against the delin¬ 
 quent lands and lots in the same manner; and said judgment shall have 
 the same effect as though said delinquent list had been returned to the 
 county court by the sheriff or collector of the county in the collection of 
 State and county taxes; and the county court shall issue its precept or 
 order to the collector of the city, directing him to sell said lands and lots 
 at public auction, to pay said delinquent special taxes and costs. 
 
 § 7. On the first day of the term, at which judgment against the 
 delinquent lots and lands is prayed, it shall be the duty of the collector to 
 file an affidavit, which shall be attached to the delinquent list, and which 
 shall be, as nearly as may be, in the following form : 
 
 I-, collector of the city of Belleville, do solemnly swear that the 
 
 foregoing is a true and correct list of delinquent lands and lots in the city 
 of Belleville, upon which I have been unable to collect the special taxes, 
 as required by ordinance No. —, and that said special taxes or assessments 
 now remain due and unpaid, to the best of my knowledge and belief. 
 
 Said affidavit shall be taken as prima facie evidence of the truth of the 
 statements therein contained; dnd, if there shall be no proof to the 
 contrary, the court shall render judgments against said lands and lots. 
 
 § 8. On the day and at the place designated in his notice, the collector 
 shall proceed to sell the lots and lands, or so much thereof as will pay the 
 special taxes and costs severally assessed thereon. All sales shall be 
 conducted, as prescribed by State law, if not otherwise determined by 
 ordinance. The sale shall be made for the smallest portion of ground, to 
 be taken from the east side of the premises, for which any person will 
 take the same, and will pay the special tax and costs thereon. Duplicate 
 certificates of sale shall be made out and subscribed by the register and 
 collector, one of which shall be delivered to the purchaser, and the other 
 filed in the office of the register. The collector shall be allowed the same 
 fees for selling as are allowed by State law for similar services. The 
 register shall keep a record of such sales, which shall be open to public 
 inspection at all seasonable times. 
 
 § 9. The real estate sold for special tax or assessment may be redeemed 
 by the owner, his heirs, creditors or assigns, at any time within two years 
 from the day of sale, on the payment in specie of the amount for which it 
 was sold, with interest at the rate of ten per cent, per annum thereon, and 
 all taxes accruing subsequent to the sale, with ten per cent, interest thereon. 
 If the real estate of any infant, feme covert , or lunatic, is sold under this 
 ordinance, the same may be redeemed at any time within one year after 
 such disability is removed. 
 
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 § 10. The money paid at redemption may be paid to the purchaser, or 
 for him to the city register, who shall make a special deposit thereof with 
 the treasurer. If not redeemed according to law, the city council shall, 
 upon the return of the certificate of sale, or of proof of its loss, direct a 
 deed to be executed to the purchaser, under the corporate seal, signed by 
 the mayor or presiding officer of the city council, and countersigned by 
 the register, conveying to such purchaser the premises so sold and unre¬ 
 deemed as aforesaid. An abstract of all deeds so made and delivered shall 
 be entered by the register in the book wherein special tax sales are recorded. 
 A fee of one dollar may be charged by the register for any deed so issued. 
 
 § 11. The assignee of any certificate of sale of any premises so sold for 
 special taxes or assessments under authority of the city, shall be entitled to 
 receive a deed of such premises, in his own name, and with the same effect 
 as though he had been the original purchaser. 
 
 § 12. If at any sale for special taxes or assessments, no bid shall be 
 made for any parcel of land, the same shall be struck off to the city, and 
 thereupon the city shall receive, in the corporate name, a certificate of the 
 sale thereof, and shall be vested with the 'same rights as other purchasers 
 at such sales. 
 
 § 13. This ordinance shall not be so construed as depriving the city of 
 any other collateral rights and remedies for the collection of special taxes 
 or assessments against the owners of property ; but the city may proceed 
 against the owner, either for the penalty named in the respective ordi¬ 
 nances, or institute an action of debt or assumpsit against him, as for 
 money paid out and expended to the owners use at his request. 
 
 No. XLIII. 
 
 Sidewalks and pavements—Ordinance relating to sidewalks and pavements. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 The owners, occupants or lessees, for a term of years in front of, adjoining 
 or upon whose premises the city council shall order and direct by ordi¬ 
 nance or resolution, sidewalks or pavements to be constructed, graded, 
 repaired, relaid or cleansed, or shall declare any such premises or lots to be 
 nuisances, and order the same to be graded, filled up, cleaned, drained or 
 otherwise to be improved, shall comply with such ordinance or resolution, 
 and construct, grade, repair, relay and cleanse such sidewalk or grade, fill 
 up, clean and drain, or otherwise improve said premises at their own cost 
 and charges, within the time, and in the manner specified in said ordinance 
 or resolution. In case of non-compliance with said ordinance or resolu¬ 
 tion, they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 § 2. If the said work is not clone within the time, and in the manner 
 prescribed, the city council may also cause the said sidewalks to be con¬ 
 structed, graded, repaired, relaid or cleansed, or such premises graded, filled 
 up, cleansed or drained, or otherwise improved, and assess the expense 
 thereof, by an order, to be entered in their proceedings, upon the lots and 
 lands respectively, and collect the same by warrant and sale of premises, 
 as in the case of special tax and assessment. A suit may also be brought 
 by the city against the owner or occupant of such premises, for the recovery 
 of such expenses as for money paid and laid out to his use and at his 
 request. 
 
 § 3. All sidewalks shall be ten feet and four inches wide, including the 
 curbstone, and on a level with the established grades of the streets : Pro¬ 
 vided, that sidewalks in streets or roads which are less than forty-nine feet 
 in width shall be eight feet wide; no cellar door shall be built above the 
 level of the pavement, and no step or steps into any house or building 
 shall extend on the sidewalk more than two feet, nor shall any person 
 make or cause to be made any appurtenances attached to any building, or 
 any awming less than eight feet above the pavement; nor shall any passage 
 from a cellar extend more than two feet upon the pavement, or sidewalk, 
 and in such case the person making or causing to be made such passage 
 shall erect a railing on the side of the same towards the street to prevent 
 persons from falling in the same. 
 
 § 4. Any person who shall make a sidewalk or pavement of a less 
 width than is above required, or shall make or cause to be made cellar 
 doors higher than the pavement, or shall place any steps or obstructions 
 on the sidewalks extending more than two feet on the same, or shall make 
 or cause to be made any appurtenance tacked to a building extending on 
 the sidew T alk more than two feet, or over the sidewalk, and less than eight 
 feet high, or shall make or cause to be made a passage into a cellar con¬ 
 trary to the provisions of the first section of this ordinance, shall be fined 
 not less than one dollar nor more than twenty-five dollars. 
 
 § 5. All appurtenances attached to buildings and extending over the 
 pavements or sidewalks, and less than eight feet above the same, are 
 hereby declared a nuisance; and it shall be the duty of the owners thereof 
 to remove the same; and upon their neglect to remove the same after 
 notice received, the street inspector shall cause them to be removed. 
 
 § 6. Any person who shall continue any obstruction mentioned in the 
 above section, after being notified by the street inspector, or other officer, 
 to remove the same, shall be fined one dollar for every day he continues 
 the same after such notice. 
 
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 § 7. Where any sidewalk or pavement, or cellar door on the same, 
 within the city, gets out of repair by being worn out or torn up in any 
 way, it shall be the duty of the street inspector, with the advice and con¬ 
 sent of the mayor, to give immediate notice to the owner or owners of the 
 property fronting thereon, to repair the same without delay; and any 
 person or persons neglecting or refusing to repair the same, after thirty 
 days having expired after such notice being given, shall be fined for each 
 and every day’s refusal or neglect the sum of not less than three, nor more 
 than ten, dollars. 
 
 § 8. The sidewalks or pavements around the public square in the city 
 of Belleville, shall be made fourteen feet wide, including the curb stones, 
 and it is hereby made the duty of the street inspector to have the curb 
 stones set to their proper grade, if the owners fronting said pavements do 
 not comply with the provision of this section within ninety days from its 
 passage. 
 
 No. XLIV. 
 
 Streets , street inspector and alleys—Ordinance relating to streets , street 
 
 inspector and alleys. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville: 
 All grading and improvements of the streets, alleys and public places 
 within the city of Belleville, shall be done at the general expense of the 
 city, and paid for out of the general fund. If the city council should 
 deem it necessary to macadamize, pave or otherwise improve any street, 
 alley or public place, the same shall be referred to the committee on streets 
 or improvements, or to any other appropriate committee, who shall exam¬ 
 ine into the proposed improvements, make an estimate of the probable 
 cost thereof, and report the same with the proper specifications to the 
 city council for their action. 
 
 § 2. On the first Monday in May in each year, or as soon thereafter as 
 may be, the city council shall appoint a suitable person as street inspector 
 of the city of Belleville, who shall be qualified and commissioned as other 
 city officers, and, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall 
 give bond to the city in such sum, and with such securities, as the city council 
 may approve, and who shall hold his office for one year, or until his suc¬ 
 cessor is appointed and qualified. 
 
 § 3. It shall be the duty of the street inspector to superintend and 
 personally supervise all local improvements in the city, and carry into effect 
 all orders of the city council in relation thereto. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 § 4. It shall be his duty to superintend and supervise the opening of 
 streets and alleys, and the grading, improving and repairing thereof, and 
 the construction and repairing of bridges, culverts and sewers; to order 
 the laying, relaying and repairing of sidewalks; to give notice to the 
 owners of property adjoining such sidewalks, when required, and upon 
 the failure of any person to comply with such notice to cause the same to 
 be laid, relaid or repaired, and apportion the cost thereof among the per¬ 
 sons or lots properly chargeable therewith, and deliver the amount thereof 
 to the city register, to be laid before the city council; to make plans and 
 estimates of any work ordered in relation to streets and alleys, bridges, 
 culverts or sewers; to keep full and accurate accounts and records, in 
 appropriate books, of all appropriations made for work pertaining to his 
 office, and of all disbursements thereof, specifying to whom made, and on 
 what account. 
 
 § 5. The street inspector shall keep a record of all the working tools, 
 and other property in his possession, belonging to the city, and be respon¬ 
 sible for the same, and shall deliver up to his successor in office such 
 record, tools, and all other property or things, and shall receive therefor a 
 receipt from such successor, which shall be filed by the city register. 
 
 § 6. The street inspector shall cause to be removed, under the ordinances 
 of the city, all nuisances which may be found in any street, alley, or any 
 sidewalk, or pavement, or public ground, when the person liable for the 
 same cannot be found before said removal, but if the individual liable, as 
 aforesaid, shall be known, it shall be the duty of the street inspector to 
 notify said individual to remove the same without delay; and upon his 
 failure to do so, the street inspector shall cause the same to be removed, 
 and twice the costs of such removal shall be recoverable of the person 
 liable, by an action of debt, to be brought by the street inspector, or any 
 other city officer. 
 
 § 7. It shall be the duty of the street inspector to cause to be carried 
 into effect all ordinances of the city concerning streets, alleys, sidewalks, 
 and other public places, or the preventing and removing of all nuisances and 
 obstructions therefrom. 
 
 § 8. The street inspector shall, in every month, make out and lay before 
 the city council, at every regular meeting thereof, a full statement and 
 detailed account of all work and expenses made by him, or under his direc¬ 
 tion, for the previous month or months, and also specify how much of 
 such work and expenses were made in and for the different wards of the 
 city. 
 
 § 9. All reports and accounts that come through the street inspector, 
 
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 before being allowed or passed upon by the city council, shall be certified 
 to by him under his oath and name. 
 
 No. XLY. 
 
 Seal—An Ordinance relating to the Seal of the City of Belleville. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 That a seal in a circular form, with the words “ Seal of the City of Belle¬ 
 ville, Illinois,” in the exterior circle, and the figure of an eagle in the middle 
 of the said seal, shall be and is hereby declared to be the seal of the city 
 of Belleville, to be had and used in all cases that have been, or shall here¬ 
 after be, provided by the laws of the United States, the laws of the several 
 respective states of the United States, and the ordinances of the city of 
 Belleville, and in all other cases in which, by the laws and customs of na¬ 
 tions, it is necessary to use a seal by a corporation. 
 
 No. XLYI. 
 
 Watchmen—Ordinance relating to Watchmen of the City. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 That the mayor is hereby authorized to commission any private night 
 watch, paid and employed by residents or property holders of the 
 city of Belleville; Provided, how r ever, that said watchmen shall be resi¬ 
 dents of said city, and that the mayor be satisfied of their being of good 
 character. 
 
 § 2. Said watchmen shall have power to arrest all and any person in the 
 city, found in the act of violating any law or ordinance, or aiding or abett¬ 
 ing in any such violation, and shall arrest all and any persons found under 
 suspicious circumstances, and who cannot give a good account of them¬ 
 selves, and shall take all persons so arrested to the county jail, or such 
 other places as may be designated by ordinance. 
 
 § 3. Each watchman, upon receiving his commission, is required to take 
 the same oath as the city marshal. 
 
 § 4. Any person who shall falsely represent any of the members of the 
 night police, or who shall maliciously, or with intent to deceive, use or 
 imitate any of the signs, signals or devices adopted and used by the night 
 watch, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 
CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
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 No. XLVII. 
 
 Wells and Cisterns on Sidewalks — Ordinance relating to constructing 
 
 Wells and Cisterns on Sidewalks. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville, 
 Any person or persons wishing to dig any well or cistern on any sidewalk 
 or pavement in the city of Belleville, for his own convenience, or for the 
 benefit of the public, or for safety in case of fire, shall be, and are hereby 
 permitted to do so : Provided , That, in so doing, said well or cistern shall 
 be so constructed, with a proper pump, that it shall not in any way ob¬ 
 struct said sidewalk or pavement, and that it be submitted to the street 
 inspector for his approval. 
 
 § 2. Any person or persons so constructing or digging, and not com¬ 
 plying with the provisions of this ordinance, shall be fined in a sum not 
 exceeding fifty dollars. 
 
 No. XLVIII. 
 
 Ordinance relating to the Revised Ordinances. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Belleville , 
 That the ordinances of the city of Belleville from numbers one to numbers 
 forty-nine, inclusive, as revised and adopted by the city council of Belleville 
 on the third day of March, 1862, and published, in book form, by authority 
 of the said city council, are hereby enacted and declared to be the 
 ordinances of the city of Belleville. 
 
 § 2. That all ordinances of a general, public and permanent nature, 
 heretofore passed, not contained in the volume entitled “ Revised Ordi¬ 
 nances of the City of Belleville,” of 1862, and conflicting with the revised 
 ordinances of 1862, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 § 3. All ordinances of a private, local, or temporary nature, now in 
 force and not embraced in the volume of revised ordinances of 1862, shall 
 continue in force and expire according to their respective provisions or 
 limitations. 
 
 § 4. The repeal of any ordinance, by this or any other ordinance, shall 
 not affect any act done, or right accrued or established in any preceding 
 action, suit or prosecution, or other thing had or done previous to 
 the time when such repeal shall take effect; but every such act, right 
 and proceeding shall remain and continue as valid and effectual as if the 
 provisions of such ordinance had remained in force. 
 
 § 5. No action, prosecution, suit or proceeding pending at the time any 
 ordinance or part of ordinance shall be repealed, shall be affected in any 
 
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 way by such repeal, but any such action, prosecution, suit or proceeding 
 shall proceed in all respects as if such ordinance or part of ordinance had 
 not been repealed. 
 
 § 6. All ordinances contained in the volume entitled “ Revised Ordi¬ 
 nances of the City of Belleville,” of 1862, shall be deemed to have been 
 passed and approved on the same day, notwithstanding they may have 
 been passed and approved on different days or times. 
 
 Approved, March 3d, 1862. 
 
 FRED. H. PIEPER, City Register. 
 No. XLIX. 
 
 Certificate of Authentication. 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 
 CITY OF BELLEVILLE. 
 
 We, the undersigned, Mayor and Register of the city of Belleville, do 
 hereby certify that the foregoing are true and authentic copies of the 
 Revised Ordinances of the city of Belleville, as the same were revised and 
 adopted by the city council of the city of Belleville, on the 3d day of 
 March, 1862, and that the same were printed and published by the 
 authority of the said city council. 
 
 In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and 
 affix the corporate seal of the city of Belleville, this 3d 
 day of March, A. D. 1862. 
 
 HENRY GOEDEKING, Mayor. 
 FRED. H. PIEPER, City Register. 
 
LIST OF OFFICERS 
 
 1850. 
 
 Mayor : THEOD. J. KRAFFT. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward —John R. Nolen. 4tli Ward —David W. Hopkins. 
 
 2d “ Peter Wilding. (afterwards Joseph Kirkpatrick.) 
 
 3d “ Francis Stoltz. 
 
 (afterwards Charles Merck.) 
 
 1851 . 
 
 Mayor: EDWARD ABEND. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward —John R. Nolen, 3d Ward —Charles Merck. 
 
 (afterwards John Murray.) 4th “ Joseph Kirkpatrick. 
 
 2d Ward —Peter Wilding, 
 
 1852 . 
 
 Mayor : JOHN W. PULLIAM. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward—J ohn Murray. 3d Ward—C harles Merck. 
 
 2d “ Peter Wilding. 4th “ Joseph Kirkpatrick. 
 
 1853 . 
 
 Mayor : JOSEPH B. UNDERWOOD. 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward —John R. Nolen. 3d Ward —James W. Hughes. 
 
 2d “ Peter Wilding. 4th “ Joseph Kirkpatrick, 
 
 (afterwards Edward Tittman.) (afterwards Jas. Affleck.) 
 
 1854 . 
 
 Mayor : WM. C. DAVIS. 
 
 1st Ward—P hillip Huff. 
 
 John R. Nolen. 
 2d “ Francis Stoltz. 
 
 John Klug. * 
 
 (Afterwards JAMES W. HUGHES.) 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 3d Ward —James W. Hughes, 
 
 (afterwards John Maus.) 
 Anthony Lobsinger. 
 
 4th Ward —James Affleck. 
 
 William Erhardt. 
 
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 LIST OF OFFICERS. 
 
 1855 . 
 
 Mayor: JAMES W. HUGHES. 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward- 
 
 —John R. Nolen. 
 
 3d Ward —Anthony Lobsingk 
 
 
 Philip Huff. 
 
 Simon Eimer. 
 
 2d “ 
 
 Francis Stoltz. 
 
 4th “ James Affleck. 
 
 
 Thomas Heberer. 
 
 William Erhardt. 
 
 
 
 1856 . 
 
 1st Ward —John R. Nolen. 
 Philip Huff. 
 
 2d “ Francis Stoltz. 
 
 Jacob Lauffert. 
 
 Mayor: JAMES W. HUGHES. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 3d Ward —Anthony Lobsinger. 
 Simon Eimer. 
 
 4th “ James Affleck. 
 
 William Eriiardt. 
 
 1857 . 
 
 Mayor: EDWARD ABEND. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward — Louis Rausciikolb. 3d Ward —Peter Lill. 
 
 Frederick H. Pieper. Anthony Lobsinger, 
 
 2d “ Baruch Kanman, (afterwards John Friedman.) 
 
 Francis Stoltz, 4th Ward —James Affleck. 
 
 (afterwards John Gundlach.) Rudolph Willman. 
 
 1858 . 
 
 Mayor: EDWARD ABEND. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward —Frederick H. Pieper. 3d Ward —Henry Brua. 
 
 Lewis Rauschkolb. Peter Lill. 
 
 2d “ Frederick Moehlman. 4th “ James Affleck. 
 
 Baruch Kanman. Rudolph Willman. 
 
 1859 . 
 
 Mayor: PETER WILDING. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward —Lewis Rausciikolb. 3d Ward —Henry Brua, 
 
 Adam Aulbach. (afterwards Simon Eimer. 
 
 2d “ Frederick Moehlman, 4th “ John Bieser. 
 
 J. Frederick Baumann. Rudolf Willman. 
 
 3d “ Anthony Lobsinger, 
 
 (afterwards Peter Lill). 
 
LIST OF OFFICERS. 
 
 159 
 
 1S60. 
 
 Mayor : PETER WILDING. (Afterwards FREDERICK H. PIEPER.) 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward —Adam Aulbach. 3d Ward —Peter Lill. 
 
 Lewis Rauschkolb. 4th “ William Jansen. 
 
 2d “ Jacob Stitzelberger. John Bieser, 
 
 G. Frederick Baumann, (afterwards Charles Dolich.) 
 
 3d “ Simon Eimer, 
 
 (afterwards John Freidman.) 
 
 1861. 
 
 Mayor: HENRY GOEDEKING. 
 
 Aldermen: 
 
 1st Ward —Adam Aulbach. 3d Ward —Peter Lill. 
 
 Lewis Rauschkolb. John Freidman. 
 
 2d “ Jacob Stitzelberger. 4th “ William Jansen. 
 
 G. Frederick Baumann. Jacob Brosius. 
 
AN ACT 
 
 TO INCORPORATE THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 ARTICLE I. 
 
 Boundaries and general powers. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly , That the inhabitants of the town of 
 Springfield, in the county of Sangamon, and the State of Illinois, be and 
 they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and 
 style of the city of Springfield, and by that name shall have perpetual 
 succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may change 
 and alter at pleasure. 
 
 § 2. All that district of country enclosed within the following bounda¬ 
 ries, to-wit: Being in Sangamon county and State of Illinois, one mile 
 square; the State House is [being] the centre of [said city of Springfield.] 
 
 § 3. The president and board of trustees of the town of Springfield, shall 
 on or before the first day of March next, or as soon thereafter as practi¬ 
 cable, divide the said city of Springfield, into four wards, as nearly in 
 population as practicable, particularly describing the boundaries of each. 
 
 § 4. Whenever any tract of land adjoining the city of Springfield shall 
 or may have been laid off into town lots and duly recorded as required by 
 law, the same shall be annexed to and form a part of the city of Springfield. 
 
 § 5. The inhabitants of said city, by the name and style aforesaid, shall 
 have power to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded, defend and 
 be defended in all courts of law and equity, and in all actions whatever. 
 To purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, beyond the city, 
 for burial grounds, as for other public purposes, for the use of the inhabi¬ 
 tants of said city. To sell, lease, convey or dispose of property, real and 
 personal, for the benefit of the city, and to improve and protect such 
 property, and to do all other things in relation thereto as natural persons. 
 
CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 161 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 Of the city council. 
 
 Section 1 . There shall be a city council, to consist of a mayor and 
 board of aldermen. 
 
 § 2. The board of aldermen shall consist of one member from each 
 ward, to be chosen by the qualified voters for two years. 
 
 § 3. No person shall be an alderman unless at the time of his election 
 he shall have resided six months within the limits of the city, and shall 
 be at the time of his election a bona fie free holder in said city, and 
 twenty-one years of age, and a citizen of the United States. 
 
 § 4. If any alderman shall, after his election, remove from the ward 
 for which he is elected, or cease to be a free holder in said city, his office 
 shall thereby be vacated. 
 
 § 5. At the first meeting of the city council the aldermen shall be 
 divided by lot into two classes, the seats of those of the first class shall be 
 vacated at the expiration of the first year, and of the second class at the 
 expiration of the second year, so that one-half of the board shall be elected 
 annually. 
 
 § 6. The city council shall judge of the qualifications, elections, and 
 returns of their own members, and shall determine all contested elections. 
 
 § 7. A majority of the city council shall constitute a quorum to do 
 business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel 
 the attendance of absent members under such penalties as may be pre¬ 
 scribed by ordinance. 
 
 § 8. The city council shall have power to determine the rule of its pro¬ 
 ceedings, punish its members for disorderly conduct, and with the concur¬ 
 rence of two-thirds of the members elected, expel a member. 
 
 § 9. The city council shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from 
 time to time, publish the same, and the yeas and nays when demanded by 
 any member present, shall be entered on the journal. 
 
 § 10. No alderman shall be appointed to any office under the authority 
 of the city, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which 
 shall have been increased during the time for which he shall have been 
 elected. 
 
 § 11. All vacancies that shall occur in the board of aldermen shall be 
 filled by election. 
 
 § 12. The mayor and each alderman, entering upon the duties of their 
 office, shall take and subscribe an oath “That they will support the con¬ 
 stitution of the United States, and of this State, and that they will well 
 
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162 
 
 CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 and truly perform the duties of tlieir office to the best of their skill and 
 abilities.” 
 
 § 13. Whenever there shall be a tie in the election of aldermen, the 
 judges of election shall certify the same to the mayor, who shall determine 
 by lot in such manner as shall be provided by ordinance. 
 
 § 14. There shall be twelve stated meetings of the city council in each 
 year, and at such times and places as may be prescribed by ordinance. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 Of the chief executive officers. 
 
 Section 1 . The chief executive officer of the city shall be a mayor, who 
 shall be elected by the qualified voters of the city, and shall hold his office 
 for one year, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. 
 
 § 2. No person shall be eligible to the office of mayor, who shall not 
 have been a resident of the city for one year next preceding his election, 
 or who shall be under twenty-one years of age, or who shall not at the 
 time of his election be a bona fide freeholder in said city, and a citizen of 
 the United States. 
 
 § 3. If any mayor shall, during the time for which he shall have been 
 elected, remove from the city, or shall cease to be a freeholder in said city, 
 his office shall be vacated. 
 
 § 4. When two or more persons shall have an equal number of votes 
 for mayor, the judges of election shall certify the same to the city council, 
 who shall proceed to determine the same by lot in such manner as may be 
 provided for by ordinance. 
 
 § 5. Whenever an election of mayor shall be contested, the city council 
 shall determine the same in such manner as may be provided by ordinance. 
 
 § 6. Whenever any vacancy shall happen in the office of mayor, it shall 
 be filled by election. 
 
 ARTICLE IV. 
 
 Of Elections. 
 
 Section 1 . On the third Monday of April next, an election shall be held 
 in each ward of said city, for one mayor for the city, one alderman from 
 each ward, and forever thereafter, on the third Monday of April after, each 
 year there shall be an election held for one mayor for the city, and two 
 aldermen from two of the wards; the first election held for mayor and 
 aldermen shall be held, conducted, and returns thereof [made] as may be 
 provided by ordinance of the present trustees of the town of Springfield. 
 
CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 163 
 
 § 2. All free white male inhabitants, citizens of the United States, of 
 the age of twenty-one years, who are entitled to vote for State officers, and 
 who shall have been actual residents of said city six months next preceding 
 said election, shall be entitled to vote for city officers: Provided , that the 
 said voters shall give their votes for mayor and aldermen in wards in which 
 they respectively reside, and in no other; and that no vote shall be 
 received, at any of said elections, unless the person offering such vote 
 shall have been au actual resident of the ward, where the same is offered, 
 at least ten days next preceding such election. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 Of the legislative powers of the city council. 
 
 Section 1. The city council shall have power and authority to levy and 
 collect taxes upon all property, real and personal, within the city, not 
 exceeding one half per cent, per annum upon the assessed value thereof, 
 and may enforce the payment of the same in any manner prescribed by 
 ordinance, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States and of 
 this State. 
 
 § 2. The city council shall have power to require of all officers appointed 
 in pursuance of this charter, bonds, with penalty and security, for the 
 faithful performance of their respective duties, as may be deemed 
 expedient, and also to require all officers appointed, as aforesaid, to take 
 an oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices 
 upon entering upon the discharge of the same, 
 
 § 3. To establish, support and regulate common schools; to borrow 
 money on the credit of the city : Provided , that no sum or sums of money 
 shall be borrowed at a greater interest than six per cent, per annum, nor 
 shall the interest on the aggregate of all the sums borrowed and outstanding 
 ever exceed one-half of the city revenue arising for taxes assessed on real 
 property within the corporation. 
 
 § 4. To make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious 
 diseases into the city ; to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and 
 enforce the same. 
 
 . § 5. To appropriate and provide for the payment of the debt [and] 
 expenses of the city. 
 
 § 6. To establish hospitals, and make regulations for the government 
 of the same. 
 
 § 7. To make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabi¬ 
 tants ; to declare what shall be a nuisance, and to prevent and remove the 
 same. 
 
164 
 
 CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 § 8. To provide the city with water; to dig wells and erect pumps in 
 the streets for the extinguishment of fires, and convenience of the 
 inhabitants. 
 
 § 9. To open, alter, widen, extend, establish, grade, pave or otherwise 
 improve and keep in repair streets, avenues, lanes and alleys. 
 
 § 10. To establish, erect and keep in repair bridges. 
 
 § 11. To divide the city into wards, and specify the boundaries thereof, 
 and create additional wards, as the occasion may require. 
 
 § 12. To provide for lighting the streets and erecting lamp posts. 
 
 § 13. To establish, support and regulate night watches. 
 
 § 14. To erect market houses, establish markets and market places, and 
 provide for the government and regulation thereof. 
 
 § 15. To provide for erecting all needful buildings for the use of the 
 city. 
 
 § 16. To provide for enclosing, improving, and regulating all public 
 grounds belonging to the city. 
 
 § 17. To license, tax, regulate auctioneers, merchants and retailers, 
 grocers, taverns, ordinaries, hawkers, peddlers, brokers, pawn-brokers, and 
 money changers. 
 
 § 18. To license, tax and regulate hacking, carriages, w T agons, carts and 
 drays, and fix the rates to be charged for the carriage of persons, and for 
 the wagonage, cartage and drayage of property. 
 
 § 19. To license and regulate porters and fix the rates of porterage. 
 
 § 20. To license and regulate theatrical and other exhibitions, shows 
 and amusements. 
 
 § 21. To tax, restrain, prohibit and suppress tippling houses, dram 
 shops, gaming houses, bawdy and other disorderly houses. 
 
 § 22. To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to 
 organize and establish fire companies. 
 
 § 23. To regulate the fixing of chimneys and the flues thereof, and stove 
 pipes. 
 
 § 24. To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin and other 
 combustible materials. 
 
 § 25. To regulate and order parapet walls and partition fences. 
 
 § 26. To establish standard weights and measures, and regulate the 
 
 weights and measures to be used in the city, in all other cases not provided 
 
 for bv law. 
 
 •/ 
 
 § 27. To provide for the inspection and measuring of lumber and 
 other building materials : and for the measurement of all kinds of mechan¬ 
 ical works. 
 
CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 165 
 
 § 28. To provide for the inspection and weighing of hay, lime, and 
 stone coal, the measuring of charcoal, firewood, and other fuel, to be sold 
 or used within the city. 
 
 § 29. To provide for and regulate the inspection of tobacco, and of beef, 
 pork, flour, meal, and whisky in barrels. 
 
 § 30. To regulate the weight, quality and price of bread sold and used 
 in the city. 
 
 § 31. To provide for taking the enumeration of the inhabitants of the 
 city. 
 
 § 32. To regulate the election of city officers, and to provide for re¬ 
 moving from office any person holding an office created by ordinance. 
 
 § 33. To fix the compensation of all city officers, and regulate the fees 
 of jurors, witnesses and others, for services rendered under this act or any 
 ordinance. 
 
 § 34. To regulate the police of the city, to impose fines, and forfeitures, 
 and penalties for the breach of any ordinance, and provide for the recov¬ 
 ery and appropriation of such fines and forfeitures, and the enforcement of 
 such penalties. 
 
 § 35. The city council shall have exclusive power within the city, by 
 ordinance, to license, regulate, and suppress and restrain billiard tables, 
 and from one to twenty pin alleys, and every other description of gaming 
 or t gambling. 
 
 § 36. The city council shall have power to make all ordinances which 
 shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers 
 specified in this act, so that such ordinance be not repugnant to, nor incon¬ 
 sistent with, the eonsitution of the United States, or of this state. 
 
 § 3*7. The style of the ordinances of the city shall be : “Be it ordained 
 by the city council of the city of Springfield.” 
 
 § 38. All ordinances passed by the city council shall, within one month 
 after they shall have been passed, be published in some newspaper pub¬ 
 lished in the city, and shall not be in force until they shall have been pub - 
 fished as aforesaid. 
 
 § 39. All ordinances of this city may be proven by the seal of the cor¬ 
 poration, and when printed and published by authority of the corporation, 
 the same shall be received in evidence in all courts and places without 
 further proof. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 Of the Mayor. 
 
 Section 1 . The mayor shall preside at all meetings of the city council, 
 and shall have a casting vote and no other. In case of non-attendance of 
 
166 
 
 CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 the mayor at any meeting, the board of aldermen shall appoint one of 
 their own members chairman, who shall preside at that meeting. 
 
 § 2. The mayor or any two aldermen may call special meetings of the 
 city council. 
 
 § 3. The mayor shall, at all times, be active and vigilant in enforcing 
 the laws and ordinances for the government of said city; he shall inspect 
 the conduct of all subordinate officers of said city, and cause negligence 
 and positive violation of duty to be prosecuted and punished; he shall 
 from time [to time] communicate to the aldermen such information, and 
 recommend all such measures, as in his opinion may tend to the improve¬ 
 ment of the finances, the police, the health, security, comfort and 
 ornament of the city. 
 
 § 4. He is hereby authorized to call on any male inhabitant of said 
 city over the age of eighteen years to aid in enforcing the laws and ordi¬ 
 nances ; and in case of riot, to call out the militia to aid him in suppressing 
 the same, or in carrying into effect any law or ordinance, and any person 
 who shall not obey such call shall forfeit to the said city, a fine not 
 exceeding five dollars. 
 
 § 5. He shall have power, whenever he may deem it necessary, to 
 require of any of the officers of the said city an exhibit of his books and 
 papers. 
 
 § 6. He shall have power to execute all acts that may be required of 
 him bv any ordinance made in pursuance of this act. 
 
 § 7. He shall be commissioned by the governor as a justice of the 
 peace for said city and county, and as such shall be a conservator of the 
 peace in the said city ; and shall have power and authority to administer 
 oaths, issue writs and processes under the seal of the city, to take deposi¬ 
 tions, the acknowledgments of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments 
 of writing and certify to the same under the seal of the city, which shall 
 be good and valid in law. 
 
 § 8. He shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all cases arising under the 
 ordinances of [the] corporation, and concurrent jurisdiction with all justi¬ 
 ces of the peace in all civil and criminal cases within the limits of the city, 
 arising under the laws of the State, and shall receive the same fees and 
 compensation for his services in similar cases. 
 
 § 9. He shall also have such jurisdiction as may be vested in him by 
 ordinance for the purpose of enforcing the health and quarantine ordinan¬ 
 ces and regulations thereof, and he shall receive for his services such salary 
 as shall be fixed by ordinance of the city. 
 
 § 8. [10.] In case the mayor shall, at any time, be guilty of palpable 
 
CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 167 
 
 omission of duty, or shall willfully and corruptly be guilty of oppression, 
 mal-conduct, or partiality in the discharge of the duties of his office, he 
 shall be liable to he indicted in the circuit court of Sangamon county, 
 and, on conviction, he shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars ; 
 and the court shall have power, on recommendation of the jury, to add to 
 the judgment of the court, that he he removed from office. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 Proceedings in special cases. 
 
 Section 1 . When it shall be necessary to take private property, for 
 opening, widening, or altering any public streets, lanes, avenue, or alley? 
 the corporation shall make a just compensation therefor to the person 
 whose property is so taken ; and if the amount of such compensation 
 cannot be agreed upon, the mayor shall cause the same to be ascertained 
 by a jury of six disinterested freeholders of the city. 
 
 § 2. When the owner [s] of all the property and [on any] street, lane, 
 avenue, alley, proposed to be opened, widened or altered, shall petition 
 therefor, the city council may open, widen, or alter such street, lane, ave¬ 
 nue, or alley, upon condition to be prescribed by ordinance, but no 
 compensation shall in such case be made to those whose property shall be 
 taken, for opening, or altering such street, lane, avenuS, or alley, nor shall 
 there be any assessment of benefits or damages that may accrue thereby 
 to any of the petitioners. 
 
 § 3. All persons empannelled to enquire into the amount of benefit or 
 damages which shall happen to the owners of property proposed to be 
 taken for opening, widening, or altering any street, lane, avenue, or alley, 
 shall be first sworn to that. effect, and shall return to the mayor their 
 inquest in writing, and signed by the jurors. 
 
 § 4. In ascertaining the amount of compensation for property taken for 
 opening, widening or altering any street, lane, avenue or alley, the jury 
 shall take into consideration the benefit as well as the injury happening bv 
 such opening, widening or altering such streets, lanes, avenues or alleys. 
 
 § 5. The mayor shall have power, for good cause shown within ten 
 days after any inquest shall have been returned to him, as aforesaid, to set 
 the same aside, and order a new inquest to be made. 
 
 § 6. The city council shall have power, by ordinance, to levy and collect 
 a special tax on the holders of the lots in any street, lane, avenue or alley, 
 or part of any street, lane, avenue or alley, according to their respective 
 fronts owned by them, for the purpose of paving and grading the side¬ 
 walks, and lighting such streets, lanes, avenues or alleys. 
 
168 
 
 CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 Miscellaneous Provisions. 
 
 Section 1 . The inhabitants of the city of Springfield are hereby 
 exempted from working on any road beyond the limits of the city, and 
 from paying any tax to procuTe laborers upon the same, and from any tax 
 for county purposes except upon real estate : Provided , the corporation 
 shall support and provide for all the resident paupers of said city, and pay 
 the expenses of the circuit court in all criminal cases aiising out of the 
 offenses of any citizen of said city, as also jail fees which may accrue 
 therefrom, viz: boarding and lodging of criminals, or charges that may be 
 just and equitable. 
 
 § 2. The city council shall have power for the purpose of keeping the 
 streets, lanes, avenues or alleys in repair, and require any male inhabitants 
 in said city, of twenty-one years of age, to labor on said street, lane, 
 avenue or alleys, not exceeding three days in each and every year; and 
 any person failing to perform such labor, when duly notified by the 
 supervisor, shall forfeit and pay not to exceed one dollar per day for each 
 day so neglected or refused. 
 
 § 3. The city council shall have power to provide for the punishment 
 of offenders, by imprisonment in county or city jail, in all cases when such 
 offenders shall fail or refuse to pay the fines and forfeitures which may be 
 recovered against them. 
 
 § 4. The city council shall cause to be published, annually, a full and 
 complete statement of all moneys received and expended by the corporation 
 during the preceding year, and on what account received and expended. 
 
 § 5. All ordinances and resolutions passed by the president and trustees 
 of the town of Springfield shall remain in force until the same shall have 
 been repealed by the city council hereby created: Provided , no contract 
 or agreement shall be affected thereby. 
 
 § 6. All suits, actions and prosecutions instituted, commenced or 
 brought by the corporation hereby created, shall be instituted, commenced 
 and prosecuted in the name of the city of Springfield. 
 
 § 7. All actions, fines, penalties and forfeitures, which have accrued to 
 the president and trustees of the town of Springfield, shall be vested in ? 
 and prosecuted by, the corporation hereby created. 
 
 § 8. All property, real and personal, heretofore belonging to the 
 president and trustees of the town of Springfield for the use of the said 
 inhabitants of said town, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be 
 vested in the corporation hereby created. 
 
CHARTER OF SPRINGFIELD. 
 
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 § 9. This charter shall not invalidate any act done by the president and 
 trustees of the town of Springfield, nor divest them of any right which may 
 have accrued to them prior to the passage of this act. 
 
 § 10. The president and trustees of the town of Springfield shall, 
 immediately after the passage of this law, within the limits of the city of 
 Springfield, issue their proclamation for the election of officers, and cause 
 the same to be published in all the newspapers in said city, for four weeks 
 in succession prior to the day of election for said officers. 
 
 § 11. Appeals shall be allowed from the decision in all cases arising 
 under the provisions of this act or any ordinance passed in pursuance 
 thereof, to the circuit court of Sangamon county, and every such appeal 
 shall be taken and granted in the same manner and like effect as appeals 
 are taken from, and granted by, justices of the peace to the circuit court 
 under the law of this State. 
 
 § 12. Whenever the mayor shall absent himself from the city, or shall 
 resign, or die, or his office shall otherwise be vacated, the board of aider- 
 men shall immediately proceed to elect one of their number president, 
 who shall be the mayor y>ro tern. 
 
 § 13. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and may be read 
 in evidence in all courts of law and equity in this State without proof. 
 
 § 14. All acts or part of acts coming within the provisions of this 
 charter, or contrary to or inconsistent with its provisions, are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 § 15. The city marshal, or any other officer authorized to execute writs 
 or other process issued by the mayor, shall have power to execute the 
 same any where within the limits of the county of Sangamon, and shall 
 be entitled to the same fees for traveling as are allowed to constables in 
 similar cases. 
 
 § 16. It shall be the duty of the president and trustees of the town of 
 Springfield, immediately after the passage of this act, to cause the same 
 to be published two weeks in succession in two of the public journals 
 printed in said town, and thereafter give notice for a public meeting of the 
 legal voters of said town, who shall have been resident citizens thereof at 
 least six months preceding said meeting, to be held at the court house on 
 the first Monday of April next, for the purpose of then and there voting 
 for the adoption or rejection of this act. The majority of the legal voters 
 there present shall determine the adoption or rejection of the same : Pro¬ 
 vided. that at any subsequent meeting, like notice being given as aforesaid, 
 the same may be adopted and take effect immediately thereafter. 
 
 Approved by the council, Feb. 3, 1840. 
 
AN ACT 
 
 TO INCORPORATE TOWNS AND CITIES. 
 
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 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly, That any incorporated town or city in this 
 State may have power to provide by ordinance that every person against 
 whom any judgment may hereafter be recovered, in favor of said town or 
 city, for a penalty or fine for a breach of any ordinance, instead of being 
 committed to jail, may be required to labor on the streets until the whole 
 fine and costs shall be paid, at the same rate per day as may be allowed 
 as a forfeiture for a failure to perform street labor under the direction of 
 the street commissioner. 
 
 § 2. The corporate authorities of any city or town in this State may 
 have power to declare what shall be a nuisance, and to prevent and remove 
 the same as much as one-half mile beyond the limits of the corporation, 
 with full power to impose a fine for a violation of any ordinance to that 
 effect. 
 
 § 3. Whenever it may be necessary to pave or grade any street or 
 front lots, or to fill up or alter any lot that may be declared to be a nuisance, 
 said corporate authorities may have power, upon the failure of the owner 
 of any lot to pave, grade or fill up said lot, or to pay the taxes or fine 
 that may be assessed on the owner or owners thereof, to require that said 
 lot, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be sold for the payment 
 of the tax or fine and cost, in the manner authorized for the collection of 
 other taxes, and all assessments so made shall constitute a lien on said lot. 
 
 § 4. The corporate authorities of all towns and cities incorporated 
 under chapter twenty-five, entitled “corporations,” of the revised code, or 
 under any special act, shall have power to pass all the ordinances and 
 by-laws, and possess all the powers authorized under the laws and amend¬ 
 atory acts incorporating either of the cities of Springfield or Quincy : Pro¬ 
 vided, that towns containing a population of less than fifteen hundred 
 white inhabitants shall have no other officers or allow any other compen¬ 
 sation than is allowed under chapter twenty-fifth of the revised code, 
 unless expressly authorized by law. 
 
 § 5. The inhabitants of any town containing a population of not less 
 than fifteen hundred inhabitants may be incorporated by the name and 
 
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 style of the “city of-,” when a majority of the legal voters thereof 
 
 shall vote in favor of being incorporated as a city, at an election to he 
 held at the court house, notice being given, by being published for two 
 weeks in succession in any newspaper published in said town, by the 
 president and trustees of said town, or by giving such notice as may be 
 prescribed under an ordinance passed by the president and trustees of 
 said town. 
 
 § 6. All the articles and provisions in either of the acts incorporating 
 Quincy or Springfield, prescribing the duties of the president and trustees, 
 ordering an election of city officers, prescribing the powers of the city, of 
 the city council, executive officers, elections, legislative powers of city 
 council, of the mayor, proceedings in special cases, and miscellaneous pro¬ 
 visions, shall be the rule by which the corporate authorities of any city 
 incorporated under the provisions of this act shall be governed : Provided , 
 no city incorporated under this act shall be exempt from the payment of 
 a county tax, nor be required to support the paupers. 
 
 § 7. The boundaries of any city incorporated under this act may include 
 one mile square, and any tract of land adjoining laid off into town lots and 
 duly recorded as required by law, and any tract of land adjoining said city, 
 with the consent of the owner thereof, within the limits of one-half mile 
 from the boundary of said city. 
 
 § 8. The inhabitants of any town or city, in the corporate name, may 
 purchase, receive, and hold real estate beyond the limits as [of] their 
 corporate limits for the purpose of burying grounds. 
 
 § 9. Whenever the corporate authorities of any town or city may wish 
 to have the taxes, authorized to be levied under and by virtue of their 
 respective charters, or under the general act, upon filing a certificate of 
 the rate authorized under the authority of the said corporation, in the office 
 of the clerk of the county court, it shall be the duty of the collector of 
 taxes for the State and county, to collect the taxes for said town or city, 
 upon the assessment of the value of all the property within the limits of 
 said corporation, as ascertained by the assessment for State and county 
 purposes, and enforce the payment thereof in the same manner, and with 
 all the rights, power and authority as he has to collect State and county 
 taxes, and shall pay the same over to the order of the corporate authorities 
 at the same time he is required to pay over the county revenue, and the 
 court of the proper county shall render judgment and order sale of any 
 lot or tract for the non-payment of the tax and cost due said town or city, 
 as is or may be provided for State and county taxes; and judgment and 
 sale shall be rendered for the aggregate amount due for county, State and 
 
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 town, or city taxes. The collector shall receive the same compensation 
 for collecting the taxes for any town or city, as is allowed for the collection 
 of the State and county revenue; to be paid out of the funds of the corpo¬ 
 ration, and he shall be liable on his bond for the faithful performance of 
 the duties required under this act. 
 
 § 10. This act to take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 10, 1849. 
 
TOWN ORDINANCE. 
 
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 Election for City Incorporation of the town of Belleville. 
 
 Inasmuch as the town of Belleville now contains nearly four thousand 
 inhabitants, notice is hereby given, that an election will be held at the 
 court house in the town of Belleville on Saturday the 30th day of March, 
 A. D. 1850, between 8 a. m. and G p. m. for and against City Incorporation 
 as “the city of Belleville,” with the privileges of the city of Springfield, 
 in accordance with the act entitled “An act to incorporate towns and cities.’’ 
 
 Approved February 10th, 1849. 
 
 Attest: Henry Schleth, Clerk. 
 
 FRANCIS STOLTZ, 
 
 President of Board of Trustees of the town of Belleville . 
 
 Belleville, Illinois, April 3d, 1850. 
 
 At a meeting of the President and Trustees of the town of Belleville, 
 the clerk delivered the Poll Book of the election held on Saturday the 
 30th of March last, from which it appears that of the number of 201 
 votes cast, there were given 185 for the city charter, and against the same 
 13 votes. H. Schleth, Clerk. 
 
 Belleville, Illinois, April 8th, 1850. 
 
 Be it ordained by the President and Trustees of the town of Belleville , 
 That, Whereas at an election held at the court house in the town of 
 Belleville on the 30th day of' March last, a majority of the legal voters, 
 then and there present, have declared thenaselves in favor of the incorpo¬ 
 ration of the town of Belleville as a “City,” with the privileges of the city 
 of Springfield; and whereas, the charter of said city of Springfield requires 
 that the town of Belleville, for the purpose of election, be divided into 
 four wards. Now, therefore, in conformity with the requisitions of said 
 charter of Springfield, the town of Belleville shall be hereafter and is 
 hereby divided into four wards, the boundaries of which shall be as follows, 
 to-wit: 
 
 1. All that north-east part of the town of Belleville, bounded on the 
 west by Illinois street and on the south by Main street, shall constitute the 
 First Ward. 
 
 2. All that north-west part of the town of Belleville, bounded on the 
 east by Illinois street, and on the south by Main street, shall constitute the 
 Second Ward. 
 
 3. All that south-west part of the town of Belleville, bounded on the 
 east by Illinois street, and on the north by Main street, shall constitute the 
 Third Ward. 
 
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 4. All that south-east part of the town of Belleville, bounded on the 
 west by Illinois street, and on the north by Main street, shall constitute 
 the Fourth Ward. 
 
 Approved April 8th, 1850. H. Schleth, Clerk. 
 
 
 SPECIAL AND GENERAL LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS 
 
 . RELATING TO 
 
 The City of Belleville and to incorporated Towns and Cities. 
 
 An act to legalize the incorporation of the City of Belleville , and the official 
 
 acts of the City Council of said city , and to empower said city to borrow 
 
 money at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per centum per annum. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly , That the incorporation of the town of Belleville 
 as a city, on the thirteenth day of March, A. D. one thousand eight 
 hundred and fifty, in pursuance of the fifth section of an act entitled “An 
 act to incorporate towns and cities,” passed February 10th, 1849, be and 
 the same is hereby legalized. 
 
 § 2. That all the official acts of the city council and mayor, or either 
 of them, of said corporation, done since the election of its members, and 
 which, in case of the original legality of said incorporation, would have 
 been according to law up to the period when this act shall take effect, be 
 and the same are hereby legalized. 
 
 § 3. That the third section of the fifth article of the charter of said 
 city of Belleville be so amended as to authorize and empower said city of 
 Belleville to borrow money, at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per 
 centum per annum. 
 
 § 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 13th, 1851. 
 
 An act concerning fines and forfeitures within the limits of the city of 
 
 Belleville. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois ,. repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly , That hereafter all fines and forfeitures 
 collected for penalties incurred within the incorporated limits of the city of 
 Belleville, in St. Clair county, shall be paid into the treasury of said city 
 by the officers collecting the same. 
 
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 § 2. The provisions of the preceding section shall apply to and be in 
 force in the city of Chicago. 
 
 § 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 17th, 1851. 
 
 An act granting additional powers to the city of Belleville. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly , That the city council of the city of 
 Belleville, shall be, and they are hereby authorized for the purpose of 
 grading, macadamizing, and planking the streets of the city of Belleville, 
 to issue their bonds bearing interest at a rate not exceeding seven per cent, 
 to any amount; the interest thereon not to exceed in the aggregate one- 
 half of the city revenue arising from taxes assessed upon real estate within 
 the incorporation ; Provided , That no bond bearing interest shall be 
 issued of a less denomination than fifty dollars; nor shall any bond be 
 made payable at a greater distance of time than five years from the date 
 of said bond; and the interest thereon to be paid annually. 
 
 § 2. The city council of the city of Belleville shall have power and 
 authority to purchase, erect, maintain, and regulate, and otherwise provide 
 for poor houses, work houses, and houses of correction, and appoint the 
 necessary officers for the government of the same. 
 
 § 3. That whenever a work house shall be erected and organized in 
 accordance with the provisions of section two of this act, the city council 
 of the city of Belleville may, by ordinance, provide that any person who 
 shall fail or neglect to pay any fine or cost imposed on him ; or her, by 
 ordinance of said city for any violation or breach thereof may, instead of 
 being committed to jail, be committed to the work house until such fines 
 and costs are fully paid; and every person so committed to the work house 
 shall be required to work for the city, at such labors as his or her health 
 and strength will permit, within or without said work house, not exceeding 
 ten hours each day, Sundays excepted ; and for such work and labors the 
 person so employed shall be allowed, including his or her board, seventy- 
 five cents per day for each day’s work, which amount shall go toward 
 paying such fine and cost. 
 
 § 4. The city marshal may serve any process issued under and by virtue 
 of the charter and ordinances of the city of Belleville at any place within 
 the county of St. Clair. 
 
 § 5. That the city of Belleville in adopting, under and by virtue of the 
 
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 act to incorporate towns and cities, approved February 10th, 1849, the 
 charter of the city of Springfield adopted the original charter, entitled, an 
 act to incorporate the city of Springfield, approved February 3d, 1840. 
 That none of the acts amendatory to the charter of the city of Springfield 
 shall apply to or be considered as forming any part of the charter of the 
 city of Belleville. That said city of Belleville shall hold and possess all 
 the rights and powers specified in said original charter, and such as are 
 given by an act to legalize the incorporation of the city of Belleville and 
 the official acts of the city council of said city, and to empower said city 
 to borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent, per 
 annum, approved February 13th, 1851. Provided , the same do not conflict 
 with the constitution or law of the State now in force. 
 
 This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 10th, 1853. 
 
 An act authorizing the city of Belleville to issue bonds. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly , That the mayor and aldermen of the city 
 of Belleville shall issue bonds from time to time, of one hundred dollars 
 each, which, in all, shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars.' Said bonds 
 shall bear an interest not exceeding ten per cent, per annum, payable on 
 or before the expiration of thirty years from the time they are issued, and 
 be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the secretary or clerk of the 
 board of aldermen. The said bonds may be sold in any market, but not 
 below par, and the proceeds of the sales of said bonds shall be appropriated 
 by said board to improve the city of Belleville, and to erect a market 
 house and other public buildings in said city. 
 
 § 2. The taxes that may hereafter be collected in the city of Belleville, 
 all the public property of said city, and the faith and credit of said city 
 are hereby pledged and made accountable for the perpetual payment of 
 said bonds and the interest thereon, which interest shall be paid annually 
 in the city of Belleville. 
 
 § 3. The mayor and the aldermen of the city of Belleville are hereby 
 authorized and empowered to purchase and to hold for the use of said city 
 a lot or lots of ground whereon to erect a market house and other public 
 buildings for the convenience of said city. 
 
 § 4. This act shall be submitted to the legal voters of the incorporated 
 limits of the city of Belleville, at the next election for mayor and aldermen, 
 
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 for their approval or rejection. The votes shall be counted as in other 
 elections. The votes given for or against this act shall be recorded by the 
 board, and, if a majority be for it, this act shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, February 10th, 1853. 
 
 An act for the better government of towns and cities and to amend the 
 
 charters thereof. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly , That there shall be established in each of 
 the towns and cities of this State, inferior courts of civil and criminal 
 jurisdiction, which shall be called police magistrates’ courts. 
 
 § 2. That there shall be elected in each of the incorporated towns and 
 cities of this State, the population of which shall not exceed six thousand, 
 
 an officer, who shall be styled police magistrate of the city of-, or 
 
 town of-, as the case may be; in each city of this State, having a 
 
 population of over six thousand and not exceeding twelve thousand, there 
 shall be elected two police magistrates; and in the cities of this State, 
 whose population shall exceed twelve thousand, there shall be elected 
 three police magistrates; said magistrates shall be elected by the legal 
 voters of such city or town, at the next regular election for city or town 
 officers, and every four years thereafter. - 
 
 § 3. Said police magistrate, when elected, shall be commissioned and 
 qualified in the same manner as justices of the peace are, and shall have in 
 their respective counties the same jurisdiction, power and emoluments as 
 other justices of the peace in this State, and they shall also have jurisdiction 
 in all cases arising under the ordinances of their respective towns and cities 
 and for any breaches thereof, where the amount claimed shall not exceed 
 one hundred dollars; and in all cases arising under the ordinances of 
 towns and cities, said magistrates shall be entitled to the same fees as 
 justices of the peace now are for similar services, and to be collected in the 
 same manner : Provided, the city or town authorities of any such town or 
 city may make such additional allowance to such police magistrates as they 
 may deem just and expedient; and, in all cases arising under the ordinances 
 of any such town or city, change of venue shall be allowed from one police 
 magistrate to another in cities where there is more than one such magis¬ 
 trate, and in all towns and cities from such police magistrate to the nearest 
 
 justice of the peace; to be applied for in the same manner and granted on 
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 the same conditions and in the same manner as changes of venue from 
 justices of the peace now are. 
 
 § 4. The rules of practice and proceeding before such police magistrates 
 shall conform to the practice and proceedings before justices of the peace, 
 except in cases where such rules of practice or of proceeding shall be 
 changed or modified by the charter of such town or city, in which case 
 such rules of practice and proceeding shall conform to the said charter. 
 
 § 5. The city marshal of such towns or cities, and all constables of the 
 county in which said town or city may be situated, and all the town or 
 police constables of such towns or cities, respectively, shall be and are 
 hereby authorized to execute all process and orders issued or made by said 
 police magistrates in their respective counties. 
 
 § 6. Appeals shall be allowed from the decision of police magistrates in 
 all cases, to be applied for and taken in the same manner that appeals from 
 justices of the peace may be taken. 
 
 § 7. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, February 27th, 1854. 
 
 An act to amend the charter of the city of Belleville. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly: That the city of Belleville shall hereafter extend 
 one mile square, and no more: Provided , however, the same may be 
 extended, not exceeding two miles square, by a majority of the qualified 
 voters for State officers, residing within the limits of the proposed extension 
 voting therefor, at any regular election for mayor of said city. 
 
 § 2. Previous to such vote being taken, the city council shall, by order, 
 propose and specifically prescribe the limits of such extension, which order 
 shall be inserted in and made a part of the election notices. 
 
 § 3. In addition to the powers already given to the city council of said 
 city to levy and collect taxes, said council may levy and collect a special 
 tax on all property within said city not exceeding one-fifth per cent, per 
 annum on the assessed value thereof, to be applied exclusively to erecting 
 and furnishing common school houses, and sustaining common schools 
 within said city, to be assessed and collected with, and in the same manner 
 as, other city taxes: Provided that a majority of the legal voters of said 
 city, at the next general election for mayor, voting on the subject, shall 
 vote in favor of the school tax. 
 
 § 4. The marshal elected, and all constables residing in said city, shall 
 
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 have power, and are hereby required, to preserve the peace and good order 
 of said city, to serve all process, to make all arrests and returns as are 
 necessary to carry into effect the jurisdiction herein conferred. 
 
 § 5. All city officers in said city shall hereafter be elected by the quali¬ 
 fied voters thereof. 
 
 § 6. It shall not be necessary for any person, if otherwise qualified, to 
 be a citizen of the United States, to entitle him to vote for city officers in 
 said city. 
 
 § 7. The board of aldermen may consist of any number of members not 
 exceeding two from each ward, as may be determined by the city council: 
 Provided that each ward shall be entitled to the same number. 
 
 § 8. At the next general election of aldermen, after said city council 
 shall determine that each ward shall be represented by two members, 
 there shall be elected from each ward the number to which it may be 
 entitled. And at the first meeting of the city council after said aldermen 
 shall have been sworn in office, they shall divide themselves, by lot or 
 otherwise, into two classes, one member from each ward in each class, 
 and the seats of those in the first class shall be vacated at the expiration 
 of one year, and those of the second class at the expiration of two years, 
 and annually thereafter there shall be elected one member from each ward, 
 who shall hold his seat for two years, and until his successor is elected and 
 qualified. 
 
 § 9. Any officer willfully neglecting to perform his duties as required by 
 this act, shall be fined not less than ten, nor more than one hundred, 
 dollars. 
 
 § 10. Juries and appeals shall be allowed on the same conditions as 
 allowed by the general laws, applicable to justices of the peace. 
 
 § 11. Justices of the peace, the marshal and constables shall be allowed 
 the same fees for their services as are allowed to justices of the peace and 
 constables by the general laws. 
 
 § 12. This is to be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, March 1st, 1854. 
 
 An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend the charter of the city of 
 
 Belleville ,” approved March ls^, 1854. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , represented 
 in the General Assembly: That hereafter in all cases properly cognizable 
 before the police magistrate of said city, and the said magistrate shall be 
 absent, or otherwise unable to attend to the same, the mayor of said city 
 
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 shall have power to designate some other justice of the peace of said city 
 to discharge the office of said police magistrate in such cases, who, for the 
 time being, shall have and exercise all the judicial powers of police 
 magistrate. 
 
 § 2. The city council of said city shall have power to purchase suitable 
 grounds in said city, for the erection thereon of an engine house and 
 market house, and may issue the bonds of said city therefor, in denomina¬ 
 tions not exceeding one thousand dollars, which may bear any rate of 
 interest not exceeding ten per cent., and redeemable at any time within 
 ten years from their dates. 
 
 § 3. The mayor and board of aldermen shall have power to appoint the 
 marshal, street inspector, city weigher, market master, assessor, register, 
 and treasurer of said city, and such other officers and agents of said city 
 as may by ordinance be created. 
 
 § 4. That all white male residents in said city, twenty-one years of age, 
 who shall have resided therein for six months immediately preceding any 
 election for city officers shall be entitled to vote at such election. 
 
 § 5. The city council shall have power to levy and collect a school tax 
 in said city not exceeding one-fifth per cent, upon every hundred dollars’ 
 worth of taxable property in said city, to be appropriated to school pur¬ 
 poses, under the control of said city council. 
 
 § 6. The said city council may at any time hereafter submit to the 
 legal voters of said city at any general election for city officers, or any 
 special election to be ordered by the said city council for said purpose, 
 whether the said city shall subscribe fifty thousand dollars to the capital 
 stock of the Belleville and Murphysboro’ railroad or not, and if a 
 majority of the votes cast at such election shall be in favor of such sub¬ 
 scription, the said city council may order and have issued fifty thousand 
 dollars of the said city bonds in denominations of not less than one thou¬ 
 sand dollars each, to bear an annual interest of seven per cent., payable 
 semi-annually, at such places as the said city council may designate, and 
 redeemable in twenty years from their date. 
 
 § V. All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed inconsistent with the 
 provisions of this act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved, February 15th, 1855. 
 
 An act to prevent cities or towns from issuing warrants to circulate as 
 
 money. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , repre¬ 
 sented in the General Assembly , That in all cases where any city or town 
 
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 in this State shall be indebted to any person or persons, on any account 
 whatsoever, a warrant or voucher shall be drawn on the treasurer of said 
 city or town for the whole amount found due to such person by the tribunal 
 having power to audit and allow claims against such city or town, and such 
 tribunal shall not, in any case, draw more than one warrant or voucher for 
 the amount allowed to one individual at one time. 
 
 § 2. No warrant or voucher drawn on the treasurer of city or town, 
 shall be drawn in favor of any other person than the one to whom the 
 same may be due, and such warrant or voucher may be in the form now 
 prescribed by law. 
 
 § 3. No treasurer of any town or city in this State shall pay any warrant 
 or voucher drawn on him, unless such warrant be presented for payment 
 by the person in whose favor such warrant is drawn, or his assignee, or 
 executor, or administrator. 
 
 § 4. Any officer or officers of any town or city that shall be guilty of 
 violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misde¬ 
 meanor in office; and for every such violation shall be fined in a sum not 
 exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment. 
 
 Approved, March 4th, 1845. 
 
 Certified copies of corporate proceedings, evidence. 
 
 Copies of all papers, books or proceedings, or parts thereof, appertaining 
 to transactions in their corporate capacity, of any town or city heretofore 
 incorporated, or now incorporated, or that may hereafter be incorporated, 
 under a general or special law of this State, certified to be true copies by 
 the clerk or keeper of the same under the seal of said town or city, or 
 under the private seal of said clerk or keeper, if there be no public seal; 
 the said clerk or keeper also certifying that he is entrusted with the safe 
 keeping of the originals, of which he gives certified copies, shall be 
 received as prima facie evidence of the facts so certified, in all the courts 
 of this State, in any suit or proceeding pending before them. 
 
 Approved, March 3d, 1845. [Chap. 40, Sec. 9, Rev. Stat. 
 
 An act in relation to appeals from Justices of the Peace. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly, That in all cases where jurisdiction has been 
 heretofore, or shall be hereafter given to any justice of the peace, mayor 
 
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 of a city or other officer in this State, over any fine or penalty imposed 
 for the violation of any law of this State, appeals shall be allowed, and 
 may be taken to the circuit court of the county in the same manner that 
 appeals are by law authorized to be taken, and prosecuted from judgments 
 of justices of the peace in other cases. 
 
 § 2. That in all cases of appeals from justices of the peace, mayor of 
 the city, or other officers, no appeal shall be dismissed for any informality 
 in the appeal bond. But it shall be the duty of the court before whom 
 the appeal may be pending, to allow the party to amend the same, so that 
 a trial may be had on the merits of the case. 
 
 § 3. This act shall apply as well to appeals now pending as to appeals 
 which may be taken hereafter. 
 
 § 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, February 9th, 1854. 
 
 An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act to provide for a general 
 
 system of railroad incorporations .” 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly , That whenever the citizens of any city or county 
 in this State are desirous that said city or county should subscribe for 
 stock in any railroad company already organized or incorporated, or here¬ 
 after to be organized or incorporated under any law of this State, such 
 city or county may, and are hereby authorized to purchase or subscribe 
 for shares of the capital stock in any such company, in any sum not 
 exceeding one hundred thousand dollars for each of such cities or counties; 
 and the stock so subscribed for or purchased, shall be under the control of 
 the county court of the county, or common council of the city making 
 such subscription or purchase, in all respects as stock owned by individuals. 
 
 § 2. That for the payment of said stock, the judges of the county 
 court of the county, or the common council of the city making such 
 subscription or purchase, are hereby authorized to borrow money at a rate 
 not exceeding ten per cent, per annum, and to pledge the faith of the 
 county or city for the annual payment of the interest, and the ultimate 
 redemption of the principal; or if the said judges or common council 
 should deem it most advisable, they are hereby authorized to pay for such 
 subscription or purchase in bonds of the city or county, making such 
 subscription, to be drawn for that purchase, in sums not less than fifty 
 dollars, bearing interest not exceeding ten per cent, per annum : Provided , 
 that no bond shall be paid out at a rate less than par value. 
 
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 § 3. The railroad companies already organized or incorporated, or 
 hereafter to be organized or incorporated under the laws of this State, are 
 hereby authorized to receive the bonds of any county or city becoming 
 subscribers to the capital stock of such company, at par, and in lieu of 
 cash, and to issue their bonds, bearing interest not exceeding ten per 
 centum per annum for any moneys by them borrowed for the construction 
 of their railroad and fixtures, or for the purchase of engines and cars, and 
 for such purpose may dispose of any bonds by them received as aforesaid. 
 
 § 4. No subscription shall be made, or purchase, or bond issued, by 
 any county or city under the provisions of this act, whereby any debt 
 shall be created by said judges of the county court of any county, or by 
 the common council of any city, to pay any such subscription, unless a 
 majority of the qualified voters of such county or city (taking as a standard 
 the number of votes thrown at the last general election previous to the 
 vote had upon the question of subscription under this act for county 
 officers,) shall vote for the same, and the judges of the county court of 
 any county, or the common council of any city, desiring to take stock as 
 aforesaid, shall give at least thirty days’ notice, in the same manner as 
 notices are given for election of State or county officers in said counties, 
 requiring said electors of said counties or said cities to vote upon the day 
 named in such notices, at their usual place of voting, for or against the 
 subscription for said capital stock, which they may propose to make, and 
 said notices shall specify the company in which stock is proposed to be 
 subscribed, the amount which it is proposed to take, and the time which the 
 bonds proposed to be issued are to run, and the interest which said bonds 
 are to bear; or in case it is proposed to borrow money to pay such sub¬ 
 scription, then the notices shall state the terms upon which such loan is to 
 be effected; and the opinion of the electors shall be expressed upon their 
 ballots “for subscription,” or “against subscription,” and counted and 
 returned by the judges and clerks of elections as in other cases; and if 
 a majority of the voters of said county or city, assuming the standard 
 aforesaid, shall be in favor of the same, such authorized subscription or 
 purchase, or any part thereof, shall then be made by said judges or common 
 council. In case any election had under this act is held upon a day of a 
 general election, then the number of votes thrown at such general election 
 for county officers, shall be the standard of the number of qualified voters 
 as aforesaid. No bonds shall be issued under the provisions of this act by 
 any county or city, excepting for the amounts required to be paid at the 
 time of subscription, and for the amounts of, and at the time when assess- 
 
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 ments upon all the stock-holders of said company shall be regularly 
 assessed and made payable. 
 
 § 5. This act to take effect from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, November 6, 1849. 
 
 An act authorizing incorporated cities to change , alter and vacate streets or 
 
 parts of streets. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly , That when the corporate authorities of any city 
 may deem it for the best interest of their respective cities that any street 
 or part of a street shall be changed, altered or vacated, said authorities 
 shall have the power, upon the petition of the property-holders owning 
 property on such street or part of street, to change, alter or vacate the 
 same, and to convey, by quit-claim deed, all interest which said city may 
 have had in the street or part of street so vacated, to the owner or owners 
 of lots and lands next to and adjoining the same, upon the payment by 
 such owner or owners of all assessments which may be made against their 
 lots and lands, for and on account of benefits to the same arising from 
 such change, alteration or vacation of any street or part of street, as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 § 2. The benefits and damages caused by changing, altering or vacating 
 any street or part of street, as aforesaid, shall be assessed and determined 
 in the manner pointed out by the act incorporating such city, or by the 
 ordinances thereof in other cases. 
 
 Approved, February 15th, 1851. 
 
 Extract from an act for the assessment of property. 
 
 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , represented in the 
 General Assembly: 
 
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 Property exempt from taxation. 
 
 § 3. All property described in this section, to the extent herein limited, 
 shall be exempt from taxation—that is to say : 
 
 First. —All lands donated for school purposes, and not sold or leased; 
 all public school houses, and houses exclusively for public worship, the 
 books and furniture therein, and the grounds attached to such building 
 
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 necessary for the proper occupancy, use and enjoyment of the same, and 
 not leased or otherwise used with a view to profit; all colleges, academies, 
 all endowments made for their support; all buildings connected with the 
 same, and all lands connected with institutions of learning, not used with a 
 view to profit. This provision shall not extend to leasehold estates of real 
 property, held under the authority of any college or university of learning. 
 
 Second .—All lands used exclusively as graveyards or grounds for burying 
 the dead. 
 
 Third .—All government lands belonging to the United States, and all 
 property, whether real or personal, belonging to this State, and all the 
 swamp and overflowed lands belonging to the several counties of this 
 State, so long as the same may remain unsold by such counties. 
 
 Fourth .—All buildings belonging to counties, used for holding courts, 
 for jails or for county offices, with the ground on which such buildings are 
 erected, not exceeding in any county, ten acres. 
 
 Fifth .—All lands, houses and other buildings belonging to any county, 
 town or city, used exclusively for the accommodation or the support of the 
 poor. 
 
 Sixth .—All buildings, with the furniture appertaining thereto, belonging 
 to institutions of purely public charity, together with the lands actually 
 occupied by such institutions, not leased or otherwise used with a view to 
 profit; and all moneys and credits appropriated solely to sustaining, and 
 belonging exclusively to such institutions. 
 
 Seventh .—All fire engines, and other implements used for the extin¬ 
 guishment of fires, with the buildings used exclusively for the safe keeping 
 thereof, and for the meetings of fire companies, whether belonging to any 
 town, or to any fire company organized therein. 
 
 Eighth .—All market houses, public squares, or other public grounds, 
 used exclusively for public purposes; and all works, machinery and fixtures, 
 belonging exclusively to any town or city, and used exclusively for con¬ 
 veying water to such town or city. 
 
 Ninth .—No person shall be required to list a greater portion of any 
 credits than he believes will be received or can be collected; nor any 
 greater portion of any obligation given to secure the payment of rent, than 
 the amount that shall have accrued on the lease, and shall remain unpaid 
 at the time of such listing. No person shall be required to include in his 
 statement, as a part of the personal property, monies, credits, investments 
 in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise, which he is required 
 to list, any share or portion of the capital stock or property of any com¬ 
 pany or corporation which is required to list or return its capital and 
 
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 property for taxation in this State, nor shall any partner be required to 
 list or return any property, liability or supposed balance of said partnership 
 due him, the property, effects and credits of said partnership being listed 
 by any other partner. 
 
 Approved, February 12, 1853. 
 
 An act requiring druggists and all persons dealing in medicines to label all 
 
 medicines by them sold . 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly : That all druggists, and other persons selling 
 medicines at retail, shall be required to place upon each bottle, vial, or 
 package by them sold, a label, with the name of the medicine which such 
 bottle, vial, or package contains, written or printed thereon. 
 
 § 2. Any person who shall violate the provisions of the foregoing act, 
 shall be subject to a fine of not less than one, nor exceeding five, dollars, 
 to be recovered before any justice of peaoe in an action of debt: Provided, 
 that the provisions of this act shall not apply to physicians in their practice. 
 
 Approved, February 12th, 1853. 
 
 An act to increase the school fund. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly: That all fines collected by justices of the peace 
 or other county officers, shall be paid to the school commissioner of the 
 county in which the fines are collected, and be made a part of the school 
 fund, and be distributed by said commissioner in the same manner as the 
 State funds are by law now distributed: Provided, that nothing in this act 
 shall be so construed as to require fines collected in incorporated towns and 
 cities, for the violation of the by-laws or ordinances of said towns or cities, 
 to be paid to said commissioner. 
 
 § 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 § 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, February 10th, 1853. 
 
 An act to repeal an act entitled “An act to prohibit the retailing of intoxi¬ 
 cating drinks ,” approved February 1 st, 1851. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly: That an act entitled “ an act to prohibit the 
 
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 retailing of intoxicating drinks/’ approved February 1st, 1851, be and the 
 same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved, February 7th, 1853. 
 
 An act to amend an act entitled “ An act for the better government of towns 
 and cities , and to amend the charters thereof ,” approved February , 21 th , 
 1854. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , represented 
 in the General Assembly: That all police magistrates when elected shall 
 severally hold their offices for the term of four years, and until others are 
 elected and qualified, and in case of the death, resignation or removal from 
 the town or city of any of the said police magistrates, their offices shall be 
 deemed thereby vacated, and such vacancies shall be filled by special 
 elections for that purpose, notified and conducted in the same manner as 
 is now provided by law for special elections for justices of the peace. 
 
 § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 Approved, February 15th, 1855, 
 
 An act to amend an act entitled an act for the better government of towns 
 and cities , and to amend the charters thereof. Approved , February 
 2lth, 1854. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois , represented 
 in the General Assembly , That so much of said act as requires the officers 
 therein named to be elected at the election of officers for said towns and 
 cities for the year A. D., 1854, be and is hereby so amended, that in those 
 towns and cities where they failed to elect said officers in the year 1854, 
 they may elect them at the elections to be held therein for said officers in 
 any subsequent year. 
 
 § 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, February 15th, 1855. 
 
 An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the people of the Slate of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly , That all laws or parts of laws which were in 
 force in relation to the granting of license to persons for the purpose of 
 retailing spirituous, vinous or mixed liquors, at the time of the passage of 
 
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 an act entitled “ An act to prohibit the retailing of intoxicating drinks,” 
 approved February 1st, 1851, be and are hereby re-enacted and in full 
 force and effect, as if never repealed: Provided , that no license shall be 
 granted to any person for a less sum than fifty dollars, nor more than three 
 hundred dollars per annum. This act shall take effect from and after its 
 passage. And, 'provided , further , That a grocery shall be deemed to include 
 all houses and places where spirituous or vinous liquors are retailed by less 
 quantity than one gallon. The act entitled, “ An act to amend an act to 
 reduce the laws incorporating the city of Chicago, and the several acts 
 amendatory thereof, into one act, and to amend the same,” and to amend 
 an act to charter the city of Peru, be and the same hereby is repealed, 
 and the provisions therein repealed are hereby revised and re-enacted. 
 
 Approved February 12th, 1853. 
 
 STATE LAWS RELATING TO CITIES. 
 
 An Act amendatory of the Act approved March 3c?, 1845, in relation to 
 
 Fire Companies. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois , represented 
 in the General Assembly , That, hereafter, fire companies wishing to incor¬ 
 porate under said act herein referred to, shall be allowed to record such 
 intention in the recorder’s office in the proper county, and in the register’s 
 office in all cities of this state, where such office has been established. 
 Any member of any fire companies in this state shall, during the time he 
 may remain a member of said company, and comply with the rules, and 
 perform the duties thereof, be exempt from road and street labor, or the 
 payment of money in lieu thereof. 
 
 Approved February 24. 1859. 
 
 An Act providing for the Vacation of Streets , Alleys and Town Plats. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly, That the corporate authorities of any town or 
 city shall have power to vacate streets and alleys, upon a petition of two- 
 thirds of the property holders upon said street or alley. The benefits and 
 damages caused by changing, altering or vacating any street, or part of 
 street, or alley, or part of alley aforesaid, shall be assessed and determined 
 
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 in manner pointed out by the act incorporating such city or town, or by 
 the ordinances thereof in other cases. 
 
 § 2. That so much of the second section of the act to provide for the 
 vacating of town plats, approved February 16, A. D. 1847, as provides 
 that said act shall not apply to the original plat or map of any town 
 located or laid out as or for a county seat, so long as the county seat shall 
 remain at such town, is hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved February 19, 1859. 
 
 An Act to 'provide for ascertaining the Qualifications of Voters and to 
 
 prevent illegal voting. 
 
 Whereas , The right of suffrage is the highest privilege of the citizen, 
 and should be guarded with proper vigilance against intrusion and fraud ; 
 for the purpose, therefore, of ascertaining the persons who may be entitled 
 to vote at the several elections held under the laws of this state, and to 
 prevent illegal voting thereat, 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois , represented 
 in the General Assembly, That to constitute residence under the constitu¬ 
 tion and election laws of the state, a permanent abode is necessary, and at 
 all elections, general or special, held in any town, city, district or ward, 
 every person offering to vote, who is not personally known to the judges 
 and inspectors of elections to have such permanent abode, and to have 
 resided in such election district for the space of sixty days immediately 
 preceding such election, shall, if his vote be challenged, take the oath 
 required by law, and in addition thereto, swear or affirm to his place of 
 residence, specifying the particular place and house in which he resides, 
 and stating how long he has there resided, and his business or employ¬ 
 ment ; and, if he has not resided in such house for sixty days immediately 
 preceding such election, he shall state where and in what houses he has 
 resided for the last sixty days, and, in addition thereto, such voter so 
 challenged shall be required to produce two witnesses, both of whom are 
 personally known to said judges of said election, and residents in the pre¬ 
 cinct, district or ward, or shall be proved by some legal voter or voters of 
 the precinct or district in which said vote is offered to be voted therein, 
 who shall be known to such judges, and each of them shall take the fol¬ 
 lowing oath, to be administered by one of the judges of election: 
 
 “ I do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I am a resi¬ 
 dent of this election district, and entitled to vote at this election, and that 
 
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 I have been a resident of this election district for one year last past, and 
 that I am well acquainted with the voter whose vote is now offered, that 
 he is an actual and bona fide resident of this election district, and that he 
 has resided in this state for one year last past.” 
 
 § 2. If any judge of any district shall permit any voter to vote whose 
 vote is so challenged, without the proof required in the first section of this 
 act, or shall knowingly and willfully permit any person to testify as a wit¬ 
 ness contrary to the provisions of this act. he shall be guilty of a high 
 misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in the sum of one 
 thousand dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail six months. 
 
 § 3. If any witness or voter whose vote is so challenged and sworn 
 under the provision of the first section of this act shall knowingly, willfully 
 and corruptly swear falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and 
 upon conviction thereof imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term not 
 less than three nor more than twenty-one years. 
 
 § 4. If any person shall vote more than once at any election held under 
 the authority of the laws of this State, or shall vote at any such election, 
 who is not a qualified voter at the place where he so votes, or shall offer to 
 vote after having voted once at such election, he shall, on conviction 
 thereof, be confined in the penitentiary for any time not less than one 
 nor more than five years. 
 
 § 5. At all elections, general or special, in this State, where the vote is 
 by ballot, if the judges of elections are satisfied under the provisions of 
 this act, and the other laws of this State relating to elections, that the 
 person offering the vote is the legal voter, he shall endorse the back of the 
 ticket offered, the number corresponding with the vote on the poll book, 
 and put such ticket immediately in the ballot box, and the clerk of the 
 election shall enter the name of the voter and his number on the poll book. 
 
 § 6. At the close of the polls, the poll books shall be signed by the 
 judges and attested by the clerks. The names therein contained shall then 
 be counted, and the number set dowm at the foot of the poll books. 
 
 § 7. All the ballots counted by the judges of election, shall after being 
 read, be strung on a strong thread of twine, in the order in which they 
 have been read, and shall then be carefully enveloped and sealed up by 
 the judges, who shall direct the same to the officer or officers to whom 
 by law they are required to return the poll books, and shall be delivered, 
 together with said poll books, to said officer or officers, who shall carefully 
 preserve said poll books for six months, and at the expiration of said time 
 shall destroy them, and in all cases of contested election, the parties con¬ 
 testing the same, shall have the right to have the said package of ballots 
 
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 opened, and said ballots referred to by witnesses for the purpose 
 of such contest; but said ballots shall only be so examined and referred 
 to in the presence of the officer having the custody thereof. 
 
 § 8. The provisions of this act shall apply to all general and special 
 elections hereafter held in the State, whether for general, town, municipal 
 or other offices, and no person shall be considered as having resided in 
 any ward, or election district, or precinct, unless he shall have had a per¬ 
 manent abode therein for at least thirty days immediately preceding such 
 election. 
 
 § 9. No liquor or other intoxicating drinks shall be sold or given away 
 at retail, nor shall any bar-room or place where liquor or intoxicating 
 drinks are sold at retail, be open on such election day, and it shall be the 
 duty of the sheriff, constable, public officers and magistrates to see that 
 the provisions of this section are enforced, and any violation of its pro¬ 
 visions shall be prosecuted and punished in the same manner, and to the 
 same extent, as the keeping of tippling houses open on Sunday, or the first 
 day of the week, is now punished by law. 
 
 § 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved, February 22d, 1861. 
 
 An act to prevent illegal voting at the elections. 
 
 Section 1 . Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented 
 in the General Assembly, That, to constitute residence under the election 
 laws of this state, a person shall have resided in the election precinct or 
 district for the term of sixty days, and no person shall be entitled to 
 vote at any election under the laws of this State, excepting under charters 
 for cities and incorporated towns, unless he shall have actually, and in 
 good faith, resided in the election precinct or district in which he offers 
 his vote, any law of this State to the contrary notwithstanding. 
 
 § 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be subject to 
 all the fines, penalties, and punishments that are now provided by law for 
 illegal voting. 
 
 § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved February 22, 1861. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 PAGE. 
 
 History of tlie city of Belleville. ... 5 
 
 Charter of the city of Belleville.. 35 
 
 Art. I.—Boundaries, name, wards. 35 
 
 Art. II.—Officers, term of office, aldermen. 36 
 
 Special election, removal, vacancy, eligibility, tie. 37 
 
 Art. III.—Election, manner of conducting elections, qualification ot 
 
 voters, oath, arrests on election days. 38 
 
 Art. IV.—Take oath, oath of Mayor, riot, exhibit of books, 
 
 indictment. 39 
 
 Ordinances and resolutions, vacancy, fire wardens, register. 40 
 
 City attorney, treasurer, marshal, surveyor. 41 
 
 Assessor collector, weigher, market master, street inspector. 42 
 
 City Council, delivery of books, etc., to successors, commis¬ 
 sions. 43 
 
 Art. V.—City Council, quorum. 43 
 
 Compensation, meetings, finances, etc. 44 
 
 Powers of City Council.. 44 to 50 
 
 Art. VI.—Taxes. 51 
 
 Art. VII.—Public grounds, streets, alleys. 51 
 
 Compensation, sworn, valuation, how made, notice. 52 
 
 Sale of building, assessment of damages, strike balance. 53 
 
 Return of assessment by commissioners, notice, remove commis¬ 
 sioners, lands taken. 54 
 
 When part taken, appeal, landlord pay assessments. 55 
 
 Charges, rights of infants. 56 
 
 Art. VIII.—Improvements of streets, sidewalks, public squares. 56 
 
 Collect city taxes, city districts, special tax, sidewalks. 57 
 
 Tax for the removal of nuisances, cleansing of alleys. 58 
 
 Art. IX.—Assessor and assessment lists. 58 
 
 Assessment lists filed, assessments a lien. 59 
 
 Issue warrant for taxes, warrants signed by Mayor, collector 
 
 collect taxes, non-payment. 60 
 
 Sale for taxes, redemption. 61 
 
 Deed, deeds evidence. 62 
 
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 PASS. 
 
 Art. X.—Wooden buildings, chimneys. 63 
 
 Ashes, fire buckets, gunpowder, authority of the Mayor and 
 
 other officers in case of fire, fire engines. 64 
 
 Prescribe the duties of firemen, engineers, firemen to be exempt 
 
 from serving as jurors, etc. 65 
 
 Art. XI.—Health commissioners, duty.... . 65 
 
 Removal of diseased persons, prescribe powers and duties of the 
 
 commissioners, physicians to make report. 66 
 
 Art. XII.—Miscellaneous provisions, publish statements. 66 
 
 Exempt from road labor, fines, Richland creek, numbering lots... 6*7 
 Expenditures, penalty of inspectors, remittance of fines, vote of 
 
 City Council, ordinances and by-laws to be published. 68 
 
 Cemetery, suits brought in the name of the city, first process, 
 
 executions, penalty. 69 
 
 Freeholders not exempt as judges, etc., ordinances in force, 
 suits, property, published ordinances, style, this act not to 
 
 invalidate acts of City Council. 70 
 
 Police magistrate, fees, breakers of peace, power of council 
 
 heretofore, digest of ordinances...... 71 
 
 An act to amend the charter of the city of Belleville. 72 
 
 CITY ORDINANCES. 
 
 No. I.—Accounts against the city—Ordinance relating to accounts.. 74 
 
 No. II.—Additions—Ordinance relating to additions... 74 
 
 No. III.—Auctions and auctioneers—Ordinance concerning auctions 
 
 and auctioneers. 75 
 
 No. IV.—Attorney of the city—Ordinance relating to the city 
 
 attorney. 76 
 
 No. V.—Bonds—An ordinance in relation to the issuing of bonds by 
 
 the city of Belleville for the grading, macadamizing and planking 
 
 the streets of said city. 77 
 
 No. VI.—Bonds—Ordinance in relation to the issuing of bonds for 
 
 the purpose of recalling and withdrawing from circulation any of 
 
 the matured bonds for city indebtedness. 78 
 
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 No. VII.—Bonds—Ordinance relating to the issuing of bonds for the 
 
 grading and macadamizing of the streets of Belleville. 78 
 
 No. VIII.—Beggars—Ordinance relating to beggars. 79 
 
 No. IX.—Cemetery and Sexton—Ordinance relating to cemetery and 
 
 sexton. 79 
 
 No. X.—Census—Ordinance providing for taking the census of the 
 
 city of Belleville. 81 
 
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 No. XI.—City Council—An ordinance relating to the City Council.. 82 
 
 No. XII.—City limits—Ordinance relating to the city limits. 85 
 
 No. XIII.—City surveyor—Ordinance relating to city surveyor. 85 
 
 No. XIV.—City weigher and scales—Ordinance relating to city 
 
 weigher and scales. 87 
 
 No. XV.—Dogs—Ordinance concerning dogs. 89 
 
 No. XVI.—Elections—Ordinance relating to elections. 91 
 
 No. XVIII.—Fees and salaries—An ordinance relating to fees and 
 
 salaries. 95 
 
 No. XIX.—Fire department—Ordinance relating to the fire depart¬ 
 ment of the city of Belleville... 97 
 
 No. XX.—Fires—An ordinance relating to fires. 98 
 
 No. XXI.—Gas Light and Coke Company—Ordinance relating to the 
 
 Belleville Gas Light and Coke Company. 100 
 
 No. XXII.—Gas light and special tax — Ordinance relating to gas 
 
 light and special tax. 101 
 
 No. XXIII.—Grade—Ordinance in relation to the grade of the city 
 
 of Belleville, of sidewalks and streets. 103 
 
 No. XXIV.—Gunpowder and gun cotton—An ordinance relating to 
 
 gunpowder and gun cotton. 103 
 
 No. XXV.—Hotels and boarding houses—Ordinance relating to 
 
 hotels and boarding houses. 104 
 
 No. XXVI.—Hogs—Ordinance to prevent hogs from running at large 104 
 No. XXVII.—Infectious or contagious diseases—Ordinance in rela¬ 
 tion to infectious and contagious diseases. 105 
 
 No. XXVIII.—Licenses—Ordinance relating to licenses. 106 
 
 No. XXIX.—Marshal—Ordinance relating to the city marshal. 112 
 
 No. XXX.—Market—Ordinance relating to market and market master 113 
 
 No. XXXI.— Nuisances—Ordinance relating to nuisances. 116 
 
 No. XXXII.—Nuisances beyond the city limits—Ordinances relating 
 
 to nuisances within a half mile of the city limits. 119 
 
 No. XXXIII.—Officers—Ordinance relating to citv officers. 120 
 
 No. XXXIV.—Penal offenses and misdemeanors—Ordinance relating 
 
 to penal offenses and misdemeanors. 123 
 
 Art. I.—Offenses affecting public order, peace and quiet. 123 
 
 Art. II.—Offenses against public morals and decency. 124 
 
 Art. III.—Offenses affecting public safety and policy. 126 
 
 Art. IV.—Offenses concerning the streets, squares and private 
 
 property. 127 
 
 Art. V.—Offenses against official authority...129 
 
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 PASS. 
 
 Art. VI.—Penalties. 130 
 
 Art. VII.—Miscellaneous provisions. 130 
 
 No. XXXV.—Private property—An ordinance regulating the pro¬ 
 ceedings when private property is taken for public use. 131 
 
 No. XXXVI.—Process—Ordinance concerning proceedings before 
 
 the police magistrate for lines and penalties. 132 
 
 No. XXXVII.—Public Well—Ordinance relating to the public well. 137 
 No. XXXVIII.—Revenue and taxes—Ordinance in relation to, and 
 
 for the collection of, taxes and other revenue of the city .... 137 
 Art. I.—Rate of tax. 137 
 
 Art. II.—Assessor and assessment... 138 
 
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 Art. III.—Collector and collection of taxes. 140 
 
 No. XXXIX.—Register and treasurer—Ordinance relating to register 
 
 and treasurer. 145 
 
 No. XL.—Slaughter houses and pens—An ordinance relating to 
 
 slaughter houses and pens. 146 
 
 No. XLI.—Shade trees—Ordinance relating to shade trees. 147 
 
 No. NLII.—Special tax—An ordinance relating to special tax. 147 
 
 No. XLIII.—Sidewalks and pavements—Ordinance relating to side¬ 
 walks and pavements. 150 
 
 No. XLIV.—Streets, street inspector and alleys—Ordinance relating 
 
 to streets, street inspector and alleys. 152 
 
 No. XLV.—Seal—An ordinance relating to the seal of the city of 
 
 Belleville. 154 
 
 No. XLVI.—Watchmen—Ordinance relating to watchmen of the city 154 
 No. XLVII.—Wells and cisterns on sidewalks—Ordinance relating 
 
 to constructing wells and cisterns on sidewalks. 155 
 
 No. XLVIII,—Ordinance relating to the revised ordinances. 155 
 
 No. XLIX.—Certificate of authentication. 156 
 
 List of officers. 157 
 
 An act to incorporate the city of Springfield. 160 
 
 Art. I.—Boundaries and general powers. 160 
 
 Art. II.—Of the City Council. 161 
 
 Art. III.—Of the chief executive officers. 162 
 
 Art. IV.—Of elections. 162 
 
 Art. V.—Of the legislative powers of the city council. 163 
 
 Art. VI.—Of the Mayor.*. 165 
 
 Art.VII.—P roceedings in special cases. 167 
 
 Art. VIII.—Miscellaneous provisions. 168 
 
 An act to incorporate towns and cities. 170 
 
 Election for city incorporation of the town of Belleville. 173 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 V 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Special and general laws of the State of Illinois, relating to the city 
 
 of Belleville, and to incorporated towns and cities. 174 
 
 An act to legalize the incorporation of the city of Belleville, and the 
 official acts of the City Council of said city, and to empower said 
 city to borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per 
 
 centum per annum. 174 
 
 An act concerning fines and forfeitures within the limits of the city 
 
 of Belleville. 174 
 
 An act granting additional powers to the city of Belleville., 175 
 
 An act authorizing the city of Belleville to issue bonds. 176 
 
 An act for the better government of towns and cities, and to amend 
 
 the charters thereof. 177 
 
 An act to amend the charter of the city of Belleville. 178 
 
 An act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend the charter of the 
 
 city of Belleville,” approved March 1st, 1854.. .. 179 
 
 An act to prevent cities or towns from issuing warrants to circulate 
 
 as money. 180 
 
 Certified copies of corporate proceedings, evidence. 181 
 
 An act in relation to appeals from justices of the peace. 181 
 
 An act supplemental to an act entitled “An act to provide for a general 
 
 system of railroad incorporations,”. 182 
 
 An act authorizing incorporated cities to change, alter and vacate 
 
 streets or parts of streets.... 184 
 
 Extract from an act for the assessment of property. 184 
 
 Property exempt from taxation. 184 
 
 An act requiring druggists and all persons dealing in medicines to 
 
 label all medicines by them sold. 186 
 
 An act to increase the school fund. 186 
 
 An act to repeal an act entitled “ An act to prohibit the retailing of 
 
 intoxicating drinks,” approved February 1st, 1851. 186 
 
 An act to amend an act entitled “An act for the better government of 
 towns and cities, and to amend the charters thereof,” approved 
 
 February 27th, 1854. 187 
 
 An act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks. 187 
 
 An act amendatory of the act approved March 3d, 1845, in relation 
 
 to fire companies. 188 
 
 An act providing for the vacation of streets, alleys and town plats.... 188 
 An act to provide for ascertaining the qualifications of voters, and to 
 
 prevent illegal voting. 189 
 
 An act to prevent illegal voting at elections. 191 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Accounts. 
 
 Additions. 
 
 Aldermen. 
 
 Alleys. 
 
 Appeals. 
 
 Assessor. 
 
 Assessments. 
 
 Arrests.. 
 
 Auctions and Auctioneers 
 
 Attorney. 
 
 Authentication. 
 
 Affidavit.. 
 
 Actions... 
 
 A. 
 
 .74, 153, 154 
 
 ... .72, 74 
 
 .36, 72, 74, 82, 95, 179 
 
 . . .45, 46, 51, 58, 131, 152, 153, 154 
 
 .55, 73, 134, 139, 178, 181 
 
 .42, 58, 59, 82, 96, 138, 139, 140 
 
 .53, 58, 59, 138, 139, 140, 146 
 
 .38, 132, 136 
 
 .46, 75, 76, 106 
 
 . .41, 76, 77, 95 
 
 .156 
 
 .132, 133, 134, 135, 149 
 
 .133, 155 
 
 B. 
 
 Banker.106 
 
 Bail.:...133 
 
 Bawdy houses.46, 126 
 
 Bonds of city.73, 77, 78, 175, 176 
 
 Beggars.48, 79 
 
 Bonds of officers.120, 121, 140, 152 
 
 Brokers. 106 
 
 Billiard tables.46, 106 
 
 Boundaries of the city...35, 85 
 
 First Ward.85, 173 
 
 Second Ward.85, 173 
 
 Third Ward. 85, 173 
 
 Fourth Ward..85, 173 
 
 Bridges.46 
 
 Benefits and damages by opening streets.131, 132 
 
 Belleville, town of, incorporated into city of, history of.5 
 
 Beerhouses. . .50, 106, 108, 109, 110 
 
 Bagatelle table.106 
 
 Butchers.114, 115, 117, 130 
 
Vlll 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 C. 
 
 Carts and carriages.46, 107, 108, 129, 131 
 
 Cemetery.45, 49, 09, 72, 79, 80, 81 
 
 Charter of city of Belleville.35 
 
 Charter of city of Springfield.160 
 
 Cities, how and when incorporated.. . .170, 171, 172 
 
 Census.49, 81, 82 
 
 Corporate powers of towns and cities.170, 171, 172 
 
 City Council.43, 44, 94, 82, 83, 84, 85, 131, 139, 148, 150, 151 
 
 Committees of City Council.84 
 
 City limits.85, 178 
 
 City Council, Board of Health.105 
 
 City surveyor.41, 85, 86, 87, 96 
 
 City weigher. 42, 87, 88, 89, 96 
 
 Chimnies and flues.63, 99 
 
 Collector.42, 60, 96, 140, 141, 112, 143, 144, 145 
 
 Costs.96, 120, 135, 136 
 
 Clerks of elections...91, 92, 93, 95 
 
 Contagious diseases.45, 105, 106 
 
 City attorney.41, 76, 77, 95 
 
 Commissions. 43, 52 
 
 Compensation.44, 52 
 
 Cisterns.45, 73, 155 
 
 Constables..96, 134 
 
 Chief engineer.97 
 
 Coffee houses.106, 108, 109, 110 
 
 Circus.107 
 
 Caravan.107 
 
 Cellars.119, 128 
 
 Charter of city of Springfield, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 
 
 168, 169 
 
 D. 
 
 Damages. 
 
 Dead persons. 
 
 Dead animals. 
 
 Dogs. 
 
 Disorderly conduct.. 
 Disturbing the peace 
 Disorderly houses... 
 Debts. 
 
 .53 
 
 49, 79, 118, 130 
 .117 
 
 48, 89, 90, 91, 113, 126 
 
 .48, 123 
 
 . 48, 123 
 
 .46, 126 
 
 .50, 132 
 
INDEX. 
 
 IX 
 
 Drunkenness.... 
 
 Druggists. 
 
 Driving. 
 
 Diseased persons 
 
 E. 
 
 124, 125, 134 
 
 .186 
 
 .48, 126 
 
 . 66 
 
 Elections.37, 38, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 189, 190, 191 
 
 Evidence.... . .7l, 181 
 
 Exhibitions.50, 107, 125, 126 
 
 Estate, real and personal.101, 143, 149 
 
 Exemptions.67, 184, 185, 186 
 
 Executions...69, 134, 135 
 
 Eligibility.37 
 
 F. 
 
 Fees and salaries.46, 71, 77, 80, 84, 87, 95, 96, 135, 140, 144, 145 
 
 False alarm. .123 
 
 Fines.67, 85, 134, 135, 136, 151, 152, 174, 186 
 
 Fire Department.97, 98 
 
 Fires...97, 98, 99, 100 
 
 Fire companies.,.188 
 
 Fire works.99 
 
 Fire arms, discharging...127 
 
 Firewardens...40, 97, 98 
 
 Finances.44, 45 
 
 G. 
 
 Gaming. 
 
 Gambling Houses. 
 
 Gas light and coke company. 
 
 Gas light and special tax. 
 
 Garnishee process. 
 
 Grade. 
 
 Gunpowder and gun cotton......... 
 
 Groceries. 
 
 Gas district. 
 
 H. 
 
 .46, 125 
 
 .46, 125 
 
 .100, 101 
 
 .51, 101, 102 
 
 .135 
 
 .56, 103 
 
 -- . .64, 103, 104 
 
 46, 50, 108, 109, 110 
 .101, 102 
 
 Hacks and carriages...46, 106, 107, 108 
 
 Hawkers.46, 106 
 
 Hotels and boarding houses.104 
 
 Hogs.48, 118, 104, 105 
 
 Health.65, 105, 106, 118 
 
 Horses and jacks.48 
 
 Hospitals.46 
 
X 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 I. 
 
 Incorporation of town of Belleville.173, 174 
 
 Indecent exposures and exhibitions.125, 126 
 
 Imprisonment.133, 137 
 
 Infectious diseases.105 
 
 Interest.44 
 
 Insurance agents.46, 111 
 
 J. 
 
 Jury.134 
 
 Judges of election. .91, 92, 93, 95 
 
 Judgment.133, 134, 149 
 
 L. 
 
 Licenses.46, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 124, 146 
 
 Limits of the city.85, 178 
 
 Limits of the wards.85 
 
 Livery stables.48, 49, 100, 117 
 
 Lamps and lamp posts.100, 101, 102, 129 
 
 List of officers.157, 158, 159 
 
 M. 
 
 Marshal, 41, 89, 90, 92, 96, 97, 98, 104, 105, 110, 112, 113, 116, 117, 
 
 134, 136, 175, 178, 179 
 
 Mayor.39, 82, 83, 84, 95, 109, 112, 139, 144, 146, 152, 154 
 
 Market and market master.42, 45, 96, 176, 180, 113, 114, 115, 130 
 
 Misdemeanors, 100, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 
 
 117, 118, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 
 
 Meetings of City Council..44, 82 
 
 Moneys, statement of...66 
 
 Menageries.107 
 
 N. 
 
 Nuisances. 
 
 Nuisances beyond city limits 
 
 Night watches. 
 
 Notice of meetings. 
 
 Name of incorporation. 
 
 Nine pin alleys. 
 
 .45, 48, 112, 116, 117, 118, 119, 153 
 
 .119 
 
 .154 
 
 .82 
 
 .35 
 
 .106 
 
 O. 
 
 Obstructions.119, 128, 129, 151 
 
 Oaths, official.39, 120, 154 
 
 Officers of city.36, 96, 120, 121, 122, 123, 129, 179 
 
 Ordinances.40, 68, 70, 165, 156 
 
 Office, term of.36 
 
Omnibus 
 
 Ordinary 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 XI 
 
 106, 107, 108 
 ..107 
 
 P. 
 
 Peddlers.46, 106 
 
 Penal offenses, 100, 104, 105, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115 ? 
 
 116, 118, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 
 
 Penalties.69, 130, 136, 151, 152, 181 
 
 Powder.64, 103, 104 
 
 Pump.131, 137 
 
 Public well.131, 137 
 
 Public grounds.51, 56 
 
 Private property.52, 131, 132 
 
 Process.69, 73, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137 
 
 Police.47, 112 
 
 Police magistrate.. .71, 72, 77, 95, 96, 132, 134, 135, 136, 137, 177, 178, 
 
 179, 187 
 
 Privies.48, 49, 116 
 
 Pawn brokers.46, 106 
 
 Property exempt from taxation. 
 
 Posse.124, 130 
 
 Parents and guardians.135 
 
 Q. 
 
 Qualifying of officers.120, 121 
 
 Quarelling.71,123 
 
 Qualification of voters.38 
 
 R. 
 
 Register and Treasurer, 40, 41, 89, 91, 94, 96, 108, 109, 115, 139, 140, 
 
 143, 144, 145, 146, 148, 150, 180, 181 
 
 Revenue.137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145 
 
 Rioting. .39, 48, 123 
 
 Resisting officers. 129 
 
 Redemption from sale....61, 143, 144, 149 
 
 Reports.•'.. .66, 146, 153 
 
 Railroads.50, 182 
 
 Roads (see streets.) 
 
 Road labor.67 
 
 Removal...36, 37 
 
 Resolutions. 40 
 
 Ricbland creek. .67, 119 
 
 S. 
 
 Saloons.46, 50, 108, 109 
 
 Special election.36 
 
Xll INDEX. 
 
 Salaries.72, 95, 96 
 
 Security for the peace.136, 137 
 
 Slaughter houses.49, 117, 146, 147 
 
 Shade trees.147 
 
 Special tax .51, 57, 73, 116, 147, 148, 149, 150 
 
 Springfield, charter of. ..160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169 
 
 Sidewalks and pavements.45, 56, 57, 150, 151, 152 
 
 Streets...45, 51, 131, 152, 153, 154, 184 
 
 Street inspector.42, 96, 151, 152, 153, 154 
 
 Swine. 48, 104, 105 
 
 Seal of the city.154 
 
 Sexton...79, 80, 81 
 
 Shows.50 
 
 Suits.69, 70, 112 
 
 Surveyor.41, 96, 85, 86, 87, 131 
 
 Stoves.>.98, 99 
 
 T. 
 
 Taxes.51, 57, 137, 138, 140, 141, 178, 184, 185, 186 
 
 Tippling houses.. .46 
 
 Treasurer.40, 41, 145, 146 
 
 Towns and cities.170, 171, 172 
 
 Tie .37 
 
 Theatres.46, 107 
 
 Traders, transient or non-resident.Ill 
 
 y. 
 
 Verdict.134 
 
 Voters.72, 179, 180, 189, 190, 191 
 
 Vacating streets.184, 188 
 
 Vacancy.37, 40, 121 
 
 Vagrants.48, 49, 79, 125 
 
 W. 
 
 Wards..35 
 
 Watchman .48, 154, 155 
 
 Wells and cisterns.45, 131, 155 
 
 Weigher.42, 47, 87, 88, 89, 96 
 
 Weights and measures.47, 114 
 
 Wagons.46, 47, 106, 107, 108, 113 
 
 Warrants.60, 73, 74, 132, 133, 180 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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