6. Be it further enacted, that whenever any of the authorities of contiguous district shall, under the provisions of this Act, have essed its consent to the taking of the control and jurisdiction of the s and boulevards in said contiguous district, or which are to be ed therein, and the said board of public park commissioners shall taken control as authorized under this Act, then said contiguous tory shall be considered as annexed to said park district of said ic park commissioners (but for park purposes only) as fully as if nally included therein, and all rights, powers, jurisdiction and conof such contiguous district and the authorities thereof in relation ark and boulevard matters shall be and are hereby made null and , and any such rights, powers, jurisdiction and control in relation arks and boulevards of such contiguous district, whether granted by ic or private statute, or otherwise, if any such exist, shall be and are by repealed and abrogated.

7. Whenever five (5) per cent of the legal voters residing within contiguous territory, which is proposed to be annexed to such park ict, shall petition the county judge to submit the proposition ther or not such contiguous territory shall be annexed to such park rict, it shall be the duty of the county judge to submit such proposiat the next general election, provided that such petition shall be ented to said county judge not less than fifteen (15) days before general election. The proposition so to be voted on shall be on a rate ballot, and shall read as follows: "For annexation of (here rt name of city, town, village, township or district proposed to be exed) to (here insert the name of the public park district) and nst annexation of (here insert name of city, town, village, townor district proposed to be annexed) to (here insert the name of the ic park district)."

nd if it shall appear that a majority of the voters of such city, , village, township or district so voting upon the question, shall evoted in favor of such annexation, the public authorities of such town, village, township or district shall give their consent thereto. 8. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, this Act shall take effect from after its passage.

PPROVED May 25, 1911.

AN ACT entitled "An Act to establish and maintain parks and parkways in towns and townships."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre sented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of promoting the health and welfare of its citizens, any town or township within whose limits there is not at the time a board of park commissioners invested by law with control over any park lying wholly or in part within said town or township, may acquire and improve lands, to be set apart and forever held as one or more parks, or parkways, to be kept and maintained for the free use of the public.

§ 2. Whenever in any such town or township, not less than fifty of its voters who voted at the last general election held in the said town or township, shall petition the county judge wherever such town or township is located, to appoint a board of town or township park commissioners, said county judge shall thereupon make and enter ar order duly appointing three citizens of such town or township to constitute such board of town or township park commissioners; but no such appointment shall be made, of any citizen, unless upon petition to such county judge of not less than fifty legal voters of said town or township requesting his appointment as such commissioner.

One of said commissioners shall hold office until the next annual election thereafter for the election of town or township officers; one shall hold office until the second annual town or township election thereafter, and one until the third annual town or township election thereafter. The county judge shall determine the term of each appointee, and thereafter at each annual town or township election one park commissioners [commissioner] shall be elected to succeed the commissioner, whose term is about to expire. Said park commissioners shall serve without compensation.

Vacancies occurring shall be filled for the unexpired term or terms) by the county judge.

The commissioners shall organize by electing one of their number chairman and one secretary, and shall keep a record of their proceedings. which shall, at all reasonable times, be open to inspection, the same as are other town or township records.

It shall be the duty of such park commissioners to locate and acquire the lands for parks and parkways leading thereto, of such town or town

; to determine the cost; estimate the cost of improving the same,. submit said estimate to the voters of said town or township, as inafter provided; to improve, manage and control such park or s, their maintenance and improvements and to make and enforce onable and proper rules and regulations for their beneficial use, pation and enjoyment by the public.

he commissioners may acquire land for such purposes through dona, devise, purchase or condemnation. When by purchase or connation, not exceeding twenty acres shall be acquired for any one :. Bonds of the township for raising money to acquire and improve parks and parkways may be issued in the manner hereinafter ided.

3.

Whenever fifty or more legal voters of any town or township in State of Illinois shall file a petition in writing in the office of the nty clerk asking that an election be held to authorize the issuance onds for the purpose of providing for the purchase and improvement ne or more public parks or parkways in said town or township, and . petition shall designate the amount of bonds proposed to be issued the acquirement and improvement thereof, it shall be the duty of county court of the county wherein said town or township is located, submit to the legally qualified voters of the said town or township question of issuing bonds for the purpose, to the amount named in petition, at a general or special election to be held in said town or nship, and for that purpose the said court shall appoint a day upon ch such election shall be held, and thereupon the county clerk shall pare a notice of such election, which shall state the date upon which h election will be held, the polling places, and the amount of bonds posed to be issued. Said notice of election shall, by the county clerk, under his authority, be posted in at least six places in the town or nship, at least twenty-one days prior to the election, and such notice 11 be published in a newspaper published in said town or township or ing a general circulation therein, at least once each week for three cessive weeks; the first publication to be made at least twenty-one s prior to the date of election.

The judges and clerks at such election shall be selected and the votes vassed in the same manner and by the same authority as at other etions, and the ballot used at such election shall be prepared under the he authority.

4.

The ballot at the election hereby authorized shall be a separate ot and in substantially the following form:

OFFICIAL BALLOT.

INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS: To cast a ballot in favor of the proposition mitted upon this ballot, place a (X) mark in the square opposite the rd "Yes"; to vote against the proposition submitted upon this ballot, ce a (X) mark opposite the word "No."

Shall the following be adopted:

Proposition to issue park bonds of the town. of...... ...., county of......

State of Illinois, to the amount of..

dollars for the purpose of procuring and improving one or more small parks.

Yes

No

In case a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition so submitted shall be in favor of the issuance of bonds, it shall thereupon be the duty of the board of park commissioners of said town or township to issue the bonds of said town or township, not exceeding the amount voted upor at said election. Said bonds shall become due not more than twenty years after their date, shall be in denominations of one hundred dollars or any multiple thereof, and shall bear interest, evidenced by coupons, at a rate not exceeding five (5) per centum per annum, payable semiannually, as shall be determined by the board of park commissioners.

§ 5. Said bonds shall be sold and the proceeds thereof used solely for the purpose of procuring and improving one or more parks in said town or township; and at or before the time of delivery of said bonds for value, said park commissioners shall file with the county clerk of said county in which such town or township is situated, their certificates in writing under their hands, stating the amount of bonds to be issued their denominations, rate of interest, where payable and including therei a form of bond to be issued. In addition thereto, said board of pari commissioners shall levy a direct tax upon all of the taxable property in the town or township sufficient to pay the principal and interest of sai bonds, as and when the same respectively mature; and said certificate so filed with said county clerk shall be full and complete authority : said clerk to extend the tax named in such certificate, upon all the tax able property of the town or township, the same to be in addition to other taxes authorized by law.

§ 6. The proceeds of said bonds shall be received and held by the board of park commissioners, and expended under the direction and upea the warrant of a majority of them. Such board of park commissioners or a majority of them shall have full power and authority to choose select and designate the piece, parcel or parcels of land or property to be utilized for such park and parkways, and to determine the characte time and manner of improving, developing, maintaining and adorning the same.

§ 7. Any town or township in this State desiring to procure lands for park purposes, as in the preceding sections provided, may, through their board of park commissioners, purchase the same from the owner or owners thereof, or, at the discretion of the said park commissioners, may acquire such lands by the exercise of the power of eminent domain in the manner now or hereafter provided by the laws of the State of Illinois for the taking or damaging of private property for public pur

s. Such proceedings shall be conducted in the name of the town or ship, and title to all property acquired for such park or parks shall aken in the name of the town or township.

8. For the purpose of providing a fund for the maintenance of said <or parks, the board of park commissioners are hereby authorized evy annual taxes, not exceeding one mill on each dollar of the valuaof the property of said town or township, as assessed for taxation, any one year, which shall be levied and collected at the time and in manner that other town or township taxes are required to be levied collected. Said maintenance tax, when levied and collected, shall be t separate from all other town or township funds, and shall be applied lusively to the expenses of maintenance and up-keep, adornment and elopment of any park or parks, or parkways heretofore acquired by h town or township, or to the acquisition of other lands to be used public park purposes.

9. Whenever a park or parks are located wholly or in part in or acent to a city, incorporated town or village in the same town or nship, the board of park commissioners are authorized to negotiate th and coöperate with the proper authorities of such city, incorporated wn or village for water, fire and police protection of said park or rks and parkways.

§ 10. An Act entitled "An Act authorizing townships to acquire and intain lands for park purposes," approved March 2, 1907, and an t entitled "An Act authorizing townships to issue bonds for park rposes and providing for the payment thereof," approved March 2, 07, are hereby repealed, but any and all proceedings instituted under her or both of said Acts so repealed, and any park established thereder, shall be continued under this Act. APPROVED May 29, 1911.

(HOUSE BILL No. 589. APPROVED JUNE 7, 1911.)

N ACT to amend sections 3, 5, 23 and 34 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to the penitentiary at Joliet, to be entitled, ‘An Act to provide for the management of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet," approved June 16, 1871, in force July 1, 1871, as amended by Act approved June 7, 1897, in force July 1, 1897.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, reprented in the General Assembly: That sections 3, 5, 23 and 34 of an Act