CITIES AND VILLAGES.

AUTHORIZING ISSUE OF BONDS-REFERENDUM.

1. Amends section 2, Act of 1909.

§ 2. Seperate ballot-form.

(HOUSE BILL No. 801. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act requiring cities, villages and incorporated towns to submit certain ordinances authorizing the issue of bonds, except to refund any existing bonded indebtedness, to the voters of any such city, village or incorporated town,” approved June 4, 1909, in force July 1, 1909.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act requiring cities, villages and incorporated towns to submit certain ordinances authorizing the issue of bonds, except to refund any existing bonded indebtedness, to the voters of any such city, village or incorporated town," approved June 4, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 2. A statement of the substance of such ordinance in the manner hereinafter provided shall be printed on a ballot, which shall be separate and distinct from the ballot, for candidates for office, stating the amount of the bond issue provided for in such ordinance and the purpose or purposes for which such bonds or obligations are to be issued; but it shall not be necessary to print in full such ordinance on the ballot.

The ballot to be used at any such election in voting under this Act shall be substantially in the following form:

AN ACT to authorize any city or village to sell real estate or its right and title therein, and to sell, convert or otherwise dispose of personal property belonging to it, when such real or personal property shall no longer be necessary or useful to, or its longer retention be for the best interests of, such city or village, and to repeal an Act named therein. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any city or village incorpo

rated under any general or special law of this State, which shall have acquired or hold any real estate for any purpose whatsoever, is hereby authorized and empowered by ordinance passed by three-fourths of the members of the city council of any such city, or of the board of trustees of any such village, at any regular meeting or at any special meeting called for such purpose, to sell such property when the same shall, in the opinion of such majority of such city council or board of trustees, be no longer necessary, appropriate or required for the use of such city or village, or profitable to, or its longer retention be for the best interests of, such city or village.

§ 2. Such ordinance shall specify the location of such real estate, and the use thereof, and before any sale shall be made under or by virtue of any such ordinance, by the city council of any such city, or the board of trustees of any such village, such ordinance and proposal to sell shall be published in one of its daily or weekly papers for a period of not less than sixty days, and if no paper be published in such city or village, then it shall be published in some paper of general circulation in this State nearest to such city or village. Such notice shall contain an accurate description of such property, the purpose for which it is used, and at what meeting the bids will be considered and opened, and shall advertise for sixty days for bids therefor. All such bids shall be opened only at a regular meeting of such city council or board of trustees, and shall be accepted only upon a vote of three fourths of the members of such city council or board of trustees: Provided, however, that the city council or board of trustees may, by a majority vote, reject any and all bids.

§ 3. Upon any bid having been accepted, and the purchase price duly paid or secured, the mayor and city clerk, or the president of the board of trustees and the clerk of such board, shall have the power to convey such real estate and transfer the same to such party or parties whose bids have been accepted, by proper deed or deeds of conveyance, stating therein the price therefor, with the seal of the corporation.

§ 4. Whenever any city or village incorporated under any general or special law of this State shall own any personal property which, in the opinion of three-fourths of the members of the city council of any such city or of the board of trustees of any such village, shall be no longer necessary or useful to, or its longer retention be for the best interests of such city or village, such majority of such city council or board of trustees may, at any regular meeting or at any special meeting called for such purpose, by ordinance authorize the sale of such personal property in such manner as it may designate, with or without advertising the same, or such majority of such city council or board of trustees may at such meeting authorize any of its officers to convert such personal property into some other form that is useful to such city or village by using the material in same, or such majority of such city council or board of trustees may at such meeting authorize any of its officers to convey or turn in any article or articles of such personal property as part payment on a new purchase of any similar article or articles: Provided, however, that no article shall be turned in as part of the

purchase price on any purchase except when competitive bids have been received in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance after notice to all bidders that such article will be turned over as part of the purchase price.

5. That an Act entitled, "An Act to authorize cities and villages to convey any real or personal estate, or their right and title therein, when the same shall be no longer necessary for, or profitable to, or its longer retention be for the best interests of such city or village," approved March 22, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, be and the same is hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 27, 1917.

CERTAIN LANDS GRANTED TO CITY OF CHICAGO.

§ 1. Certain described lands granted to city of Chicago for street purposes.

(HOUSE BILL No. 666. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.)

"AN ACT granting all interest and title of the State of Illinois in certain lands to the city of Chicago, for street purposes."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all right, title and interest of the State of Illinois in and to the land described as follows be, and the same are hereby, granted and conveyed to the city of Chicago, to be held for street purposes, that is to say:

The strip of land thirty-three (33) feet wide, lying south of and adjoining the south lines of sections eleven (11) and twelve (12) and extending from the westerly United States meander line of Lake Calumet to the easterly shore line of said lake; all in township thirty-seven (37) north, range fourteen (14) east of the third (3rd) principal meridian, north of Indiana boundary line.

APPROVED June 27, 1917.

COMMISSION FORM OF GOVERNMENT—ABANDONMENT.

1. Amends section 49 of Article XIII, Act of 1872.

§ 49. Abandonment of organization-Petition.

(HOUSE BILL No. 755. FILED JUNE 28, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 12, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, by amending section forty nine (49) of Article XIII (thirteen) thereof.

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 12, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section forty nine (49) of Article XIII (thirteen) to read as follows:

§ 49. Any city or village which shall have operated for more than two years under the provisions of this Act, may abandon such organization hereunder and accept the provisions of the general law of the State then applicable to cities and villages, by proceeding as follows:

Upon the petition of not less than twenty five (25) per cent of the electors of such city filed with the city clerk, the city council shall submit to the electors of such city or village, or the election commissioners in cities, towns and villages which have adopted the city election law, at a special municipal election to be held within sixty (60) days after the filing of said petition with the city clerk, or the election commissioners in cities or villages which have adopted the city election law, the following proposition to-wit: ["]Shall the city of..... .. (or village) abandon its organization under the commission form of municipal government and become a city (or village) under the general law" Provided, that such proposition shall not be submitted oftener than once in two years. If a majority of the votes cast at such election be in favor. of such proposition, the officers elected at the next succeeding annual city or village election shall be those then prescribed by the Act to which this Act is an amendment and upon the qualifications of such officers such municipality shall become a city (or village), but such change shall not in any manner or degree affect the property rights or liabilities of any nature of such municipality, but shall merely extend to such change in its form of government. The first set of alderman [aldermen] or board of trustees so elected shall be the same number as provided for in such municipality at the time of its adoption of this Act, with the same ward and precinct boundaries and shall have the same elective officers as before. If the election for city and village officers after the proposition to abandon its organization under the commission form of municipal government and to become a city (or village) under the general law shall have carried at such election, shall be held in an even numbered year, the persons elected to the offices of mayor, village president, city clerk and such other two-year offices, as the law or ordinances shall provide for in any such city or village, shall hold their offices for the term of one year and at the next annual election the persons elected to the offices of mayor, or village president, city clerk and such other two-year offices as the laws or ordinances shall provide for any such city or village, shall hold their offices for the term of two years. One-half of the alderman [aldermen] elected in cities at said election shall hold their office for the term of one year and the other one-half for the term of two years. The alderman [aldermen] elected in each ward shall by lots determine which. alderman shall serve for two years and which for one year.

The petition contemplated by this section shall be the same, the election ordered and conducted and the results declared generally as provided for in section 42 of this Act, insofar as the provisions thereof may be applicable.

FILED June 28, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

CITIES OF CERTAIN CLASSES TO PROVIDE FOR PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS, CONCERTS, ETC.

1. Power of city council to contract for exhibitions, concerts, entertainments, etc. (SENATE BILL No. 267. FILED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT entitled, "An Act to enable cities of over five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants to provide for and conduct public exhibitions, concerts, entertainments and celebrations, and to provide for the payment of the cost and expense of the same.'

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the city council of all cities. of over five hundred thousand (500,000) inhabitants shall have power and authority to order and direct that any city official may provide for or enter into any contract with any person or persons, firms or corporations, for the purpose of arranging for the holding or giving of any general public exhibitions, concerts, dances, entertainments or celebrations, or on any pier owned or controlled by said city extending out into any lake or harbor adjacent to said city, and to provide for the payment of any expense necessarily incurred in the contracting for holding or giving of the same out of the miscellaneous receipts of such city not otherwise appropriated for.

FILED June 26, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

ELECTION OF OFFICERS WHERE CONTESTS OF MAYOR AND
COMMISSIONERS PROSECUTED.

§ 1. Amends section 18, of Article XIII, Act of 1872.

§ 18. As amended, provides contests of election of mayor and commissioners shall be had in the County or Circuit Court, and that the council shall not be the judge of the election of its own members.

(HOUSE BILL No. 120. APPROVED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section eighteen (18) of article thirteen (XIII) of an Act entitled: "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, by amending section eighteen (18) of article thirteen (XIII) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, epresented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act o provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 0, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be, and the ame is hereby amended, by amending section eighteen (18) of article hirteen (XIII) thereof, so that the said section, when amended, shall ead as follows:

" 18. ["]Any candidate whose name appears upon the primary allot at any primary election held under this Act may contest the elec