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§ 4. In the event the canvass of the votes at said election shall show that the majority of the voters of said village voting at such election have voted for the voluntary dissolution of the said village, then there shall be no further elections held in the territory of which said village was composed, for the election of village officers; but the then acting officers shall proceed to close up the business affairs of such village, and do and perform all of the acts required of them prior to that time, in order to so close up the affairs of such village; and said village officers shall have power to make levy of taxes for the purpose of paying any outstanding debts or obligations of any such village, but shall have no power to do anything or act creating any new obligation on said village.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the village clerk and the president of the board of trustees of said village, under their hands and official seals, to give to the Secretary of State of this State, within ten days of such election, notice of the result of such election if the election should result in the dissolution of such village, and to file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such village is situated, a statement showing the result of the election to dissolve such village organization, said notice to be filed within ten days of said election. Should the result of the election be against such dissolution, then no such notices shall be required.

§ 6. When the acting village officers of the said villages where the election has resulted in a vote favoring dissolution, have paid all of the debts and obligations of the said village, and shall have closed up all of the business pertaining to said village organization, then the said village clerk, and the president of the board of village trustees shall file with the county clerk of the county in which said village is located, a statement, verified by their affidavits, showing that all of the debts and charges against said village, and all obligations of said village have been fully paid and discharged. And when the said statement shall have been so filed, then the said village organization shall be dissolved, and all officers of such village, whether the term or terms for which they have been elected shall have expired or not, shall cease to have any power or authority, and the territory of which said village had been composed shall not be regarded as being in any incorporated village. APPROVED June 7, 1911.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 649. APPROVED MAY 22, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, by adding to article 3 a new section to be known as section 2a.

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 provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, be amended by adding to article 3 thereof a new section to be known as section 2a, to read as follows:

§ 2a. Whenever it is shown by any national, State, school or city census, when the same is officially published, that any city organized under the provisions of this Act is divided into a greater number of wards and has elected a greater number of aldermen than are authorized by section 2 of this article of this Act, the said divisions into wards and the election of said aldermen shall, nevertheless, be valid and binding, and the said aldermen shall be deemed to legally hold their said offices for, during and until the next annual city election for city officers to be thereafter held in accordance with law; and all Acts of the city council. of such city, and all ordinances by it passed, during the said period, if in other respects in compliance with law, are hereby declared legal and valid. In all cases when any such city is bv such census found to contain more wards than it is entitled to by law, it shall be the duty of the city council of such city by ordinance to redistrict such city into as many wards only as the same is entitled to, not less than sixty days before the time fixed by law for the holding of the next succeeding general election for city officers, and at said election there shall be elected only such number of aldermen as, with the aldermen theretofore elected, and whose term of office shall not expire with such election, as that the number of aldermen of the said city shall not exceed the number of aldermen which the said city is by law entitled to. If, in such redistricting of such city into wards, the terms of two aldermen, who reside in any such new ward, shall not expire with such succeeding election, no election for aldermen shall be held in such ward, at such election, but such holdover aldermen shall, until the next succeeding general election for city officers to be held thereafter, be held and deemed in law to be and constitute the aldermen for such new ward. At such next succeeding election two aldermen shall be elected in such new ward, one for the term of one year and one for the term of two years: Provided, that in all cases, contemplated by this Act, if a census shall be taken pursuant to law and the

result of which shall have been published not less than sixty days prior to the time fixed by law for the holding of the general election for city officers thereafter in such city, it is made to appear that such city has regained a population sufficient to entitle it to the original number of wards and aldermen, then, and in such case, no new division into wards and reduction of the number of aldermen therein, shall be necessary.

§ 2. WHEREAS, By the national census taken in the year 1910, it is made to appear that certain cities in this State are divided into more wards, and have at the general election for city officers held in the year 1911, elected a greater number of aldermen than they are, by law, entitled to, whereby a question has arisen as to the validity of such election, therefore, an emergency exists, and this Act shall be in force from. and after its passage.

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AN ACT to provide for the organization of water districts to enable certain territory to procure pure water.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Whenever a petition signed by at least five per cent of the voters resident in each city, town or village, of two or more incorporated cities, towns or villages, located in counties bordering on Lake Michigan, asking that said cities, towns or villages be organized as a water district under this Act, shall be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the greater portion of the population affected thereby resides, it shall be the duty of the county judge of said county to consider the boundaries of any such proposed district, whether the same shall be described in such petition or otherwise. Such petition shall be addressed to said county judge and shall contain a definite description of the territory to be embraced in such district and the name of such proposed water district: Provided, however, that no territory shall

be included in any municipal corporation formed hereunder, which is not situated within the limits of a city, incorporated town or village; no territory shall be included within more than one district organized for the purpose for which districts may be organized under this Act, and no city, incorporated town or village having over fifteen thousand. (15,000) inhabitants shall be included in such district as originally organized, but shall have the right to join said district as hereinafter provided.

The said petition may also provide that such proposed district shall be divided into five wards, with a definite description of the territory to be embraced in each of such wards: Provided, the population in no one of such wards shall exceed one-fourth of the population of the whole district: And, provided, that the territory in each of said wards shall be composed of territory in as compact form as practicable. It shall be the duty of the trustees at least every five years to re-apportion said district, so that the respective wards shall conform as nearly as practicable with the above requirements as to population, shape and territory. In the event that any new territory shall be annexed to said district, the said district including said annexed territory shall be re-divided by the trustees into wards before the next election of trustees.

Notice shall be given by such county judge of the time and place. where a hearing will be had on said petition, by a publication inserted in one or more newspaper[s] published in such county, or if more than one county within each county, at least twenty days prior to such hearing. At such hearing the county judge shall preside and all persons residing in such proposed district or owning land situated therein shall have an opportunity to be heard touching the location and boundary of such proposed district and the location and boundary of such proposed wards and to make such suggestions regarding the same and the county judge after hearing statements, evidence and suggestions, shall determine whether the territory mentioned in said petition is so located that it can be joined advantageously to such territory and shall fix and determine the locations and boundaries of such proposed district, and the location and boundaries of such proposed wards, and for that purpose and to that extent, may alter and amend such petition, but shall not so amend it as to include it as to include any city having a population of 15,000 or more. After such determination the county judge shall submit to the legal voters of the proposed district the question of the organization and establishment of the proposed district, as determined by him, at the next general election for county and State officers, notice of the submission of which question shall be given by said judge at least twenty days prior thereto, by publication in one or more newspapers published in such proposed district, or if no newspaper is published in said district then in one or more newspapers published at the county seat of the county in which such proposed district lies, such notice to specify briefly the purpose of such election, with a description of such proposed district. Each legal voter resident within such proposed water district shall have the

right to cast a ballot at such election with the words thereon "For Water District" or "Against Water District." The ballots so cast shall be received, returned and canvassed in the same manner and by the same officers as is provided by law in the case of ballots cast for county officers. The county judge shall cause a statement of the result of such election to be spread upon the records of the county court. If a majority of the votes cast upon the question of the incorporation of the proposed sanitary district shall be in favor of the proposed district, such proposed district shall thenceforth be deemed an organized sanitary district under this Act, and shall be a body corporate and politic under the name proposed in said petition and by such name may sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with, acquire and hold real and personal property and exercise all the powers in this Act conferred.

Any city, town or village may become annexed to such water district in like manner, as near as may be, as is provided in and by an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled, "An Act to provide for the annexation for township high schools of any school township or part of such township, not having an established township high school, to any adjacent school township having an established township high school," approved and in force April 22, 1897.

§ 2. All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of all water districts organized under this Act. Upon the organization of any water district under this Act the county judge shall call an election to elect officers and cause notice thereof to be posted or published and perform all other acts in reference to such election in like manner, as nearly as may be, as he is required to perform in reference to the election of officers in newly organized cities under the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872. The county judge shall fix not less than one place for holding said election in each organized city, village or town lying in such district.

3. In each water district organized under this Act, there shall be elected at the first election five trustees, one from each ward, one of whom shall hold his office till the next general election for county officers, one until one year after said next general election, one till three years after said next general election and one till four years after said next general election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. At the first meeting of the trustees after such election the trustees elected shall be divided by lot into five classes, the first class shall be continued in office until the next general election for county officers, the second class until one year after said next general election, the third class until two years after said next general election, the fourth class until three years after said general election, the fifth class until four years after said general election. At every regular county election held after such first election there shall be elected one trustee who shall hold his office for five years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified to succeed him, whose term of office shall expire that year.

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