possessed and exercised by the board of local improvements, provided. for, in and by an Act entitled, 'An Act concerning local improvements,' approved June 14, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, and all Acts amendatory thereto and in all such cities and villages that shall hereafter adopt this Act, or that shall have heretofore adopted this Act, in enforcing said Act, concerning local improvements, herein set out, the person who spreads assessments shall be selected in each case by a majority vote of said council and its members, and all local improvements, contracts and bonds or warrants issued in pursuance thereof, or either of them, may and shall be signed by the mayor or by any three members of the council, provided, however, that nothing contained in this Act shall in any way extend or pertain to or affect any public school law in operation in any municipality which may adopt this Act, anything in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding. The executive and administrative powers, authority and duties in such cities and villages shall be distributed into and among five departments, as follows: 1. Department of public affairs. 2. Department of accounts and finances. 3. Department of public health and safety. 4. Department of streets and public improvements. The council shall, by ordinance, determine the powers and duties. of, and to be performed by, each department and assign them to the appropriate departments; shall prescribe the powers and duties of officers and employees and may assign to one or more of the departments; may require an officer or employee to perform duties in two or more departments, and may make such other rules and regulations as may be necessary or proper for the efficient and economical conduct of the business of the city or village. APPROVED June 25, 1917. SANITARY DISTRICT OF CHICAGO ENLARGED. § 1. Extends limits of district to em- § 2. Submission of question of adoption brace bonds described. of Act to voters. (HOUSE BILL No. 140. APPROVED MAY 5, 1917.) AN ACT to enlarge the corporate limits of the sanitary district of Chicago. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the corporate limits of the sanitary district of Chicago are hereby extended so as to embrace and include within the same, the territory and tracts of land situated in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, hereinafter described as follows: All that part of fractional sections fourteen (14) [,] twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) in township thirty-six (36) north, range thirteen (13) east of the third principal meridian lying north of the Indian boundary line in the township of Bremen, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois. § 2. If within one hundred and twenty (120) days after the passage of this Act a petition, signed by not less than ten (10) per cent of the legal voters within the above described territory, praying that the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the electors of said territory, shall be filed with the clerk of said sanitary district, then and in such case the question of the adoption of this Act shall be submitted to a vote of the said electors, as in said petition prayed, at any general or municipal election held after the adoption of this Act, and in such case, this Act shall not be in force unless a majority of the votes cast at said election, upon the question of the adoption of this Act, shall be in favor of the adoption thereof. It shall be the duty of the election officers having charge of the preparation of the ballots and the giving of the notices of election and of the counting and canvassing and making returns of the ballots, to take all necessary steps and do all necessary acts to cause the said question of the adoption of this Act to be submitted to a vote as hereinbefore provided, and to cause the result of such election to be canvassed and certified, as provided by law in other similar cases. APPROVED May 5, 1917. TOWN OFFICERS-CITIES OF 25,000 AND OVER. § 1. Assessor, collector and supervisorelection-vacancy. (HOUSE BILL No. 181. § 2. Repeal. APPROVED JUNE 14, 1917.) AN ACT in relation to the offices of assessor, collector and supervisor, in incorporated towns having a population of 25,000 and over by the tast school census. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That at the regular election to be held in the year 1920 for the municipal offices in every incorporated town, having a population of 25,000 and over by the last school census and not before, and every four (4) years thereafter, at such municipal election, there shall be elected an assessor, collector and supervisor of said incorporated town, to hold office for the term of four (4) years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of assessor, collector or supervisor, elected hereunder, during the first year hereof, such vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the term at the next annual election in such municipality. and during the period from any time a vacancy occurs, until any as sessor, collector or supervisor is elected and qualified, such vacancy may be filled by appointment by the president and board of trustees of such incorporated town. § 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. APPROVED June 14, 1917. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to enable cities and villages to establish and maintain public tuberculosis sanitariums," approved March 7, 1908, in force July 1, 1908, and as subsequently amended, by the Act approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, by adding to said Act five (5) new sections to be numbered 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 respectively. 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 enable cities and villages to establish and maintain public tuberculosis sanitariums," approved March 7, 1908, in force July 1, 1908, and as subsequently amended, by the Act approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915,be, and the same is hereby amended, by adding to said Act, five (5) new sections to be numbered 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 respectively, which sections so added shall read as follows: § 16. Where a tuberculosis sanitarium, organized under the provisions of this Act, is being maintained in any city or village of less than one hundred thousand inhabitants, the tax levy for the support of such sanitarium, so maintained may be increased to a sum not to exceed two mills on the dollar, and when so increased shall be levied and collected as hereinbefore provided. § 17. The board of directors of such tuberculosis sanitarium so maintained, shall determine the necessity of such increased tax levy; and when the same is deemed necessary the board shall recommend in writing to the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, the necessity of such increased tax levy and the number of mills tax desired to be levied. § 18. Whenever the board of directors of any sanitarium so established and maintained, shall recommend in writing an increased tax levy to the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, the city council or board of trustees shall pass an ordinance for the establishment and levy of such increased tax so recommended. § 19. Whenever any ordinance is passed to increase the tax levy for any sanitarium so maintained, the said ordinance or resolution shall be submitted to the voters of such city or village, as the case may be, at the next succeeding general or special election, or at any election called for that purpose, and the said ordinance or resolution shall become operative, effective and valid if approved by a majority of the voters voting upon the question. § 20. Such ordinance shall be printed on a ballot in full, which shall be separate, and distinct from the ballot for candidates for office. The proposition upon the ballot to be used for any such election in voting under this Act, shall be substantially in the following form: For the increase of the tax levy for maintaining the tuberculosis sanitarium to ... mills on the ..... dollar as provided in ordinance number Against the increase of the tax levy for maintaining the tuberculosis sanitarium to ... ... mills on the (HOUSE BILL No. 93. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.) AN ACT to amend section 6 of "An Act to enable cities and villages to establish and maintain public tuberculosis sanitariums," approved March 7, 1998, in force July 1, 1908, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly: That section 6 of an Act entitled, “An Act to enable cities and villages to establish and maintain public tuberculosis sanitariums," approved March 7, 1908, in force July 1, 1908, as amended, be amended to read as follows: § 6. Said directors shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize by the election of one of their number president and one as secretary and by the election of such other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt such by-laws, rules and regulations for their own guidance and for the government of the sanitarium and the branches, dispensaries and auxiliary institutions and activities connected therewith as may be expedient, not inconsistent with this Act and the ordinances of such city or village. They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditure of all moneys collected to the credit of the tuberculosis sanitarium fund and of the construction of any sanitarium building or other buildings necessary for its branches, dispensaries and other auxiliary institutions and activities in connection with said institution, and of the supervision, care and custody of the grounds, rooms or buildings constructed, leased or set apart for that purpose: Provided, that all moneys received for such sanitarium shall be deposited in the treasury of said village or city to the credit of the tuberculosis sanitarium fund, and shall not be used for any other purpose and shall be drawn upon by the proper officer of said city or village upon the properly authenticated vouchers of the sanitarium board. Said board shall have the power to purchase or lease ground within or without the limits of such city or village, and to occupy, lease or erect an appropriate building or buildings for the use of said sanitarium, branches, dispensaries and other auxiliary institutions and activities connected therewith, by and with the approval of the city council or board of trustees as the case may be; and shall have the power to appoint suitable superintendents or matrons or both and all necessary assistants and other employees and fix their compensation, and shall also have the power to remove such appointees, and shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of this Act in establishing and maintaining a public sanitarium, and one or all of said directors shall visit and examine said sanitarium at least twice in each month and make monthly reports of its condition to the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be. In any city which has adopted or hereafter shall adopt the civil service law for cities entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities, approved March 20, 1895, all appointments with the exception of superintendents and all removals of all matrons and other assistants shall be made pursuant to the provisions of said civil service law and not otherwise; provided that where in any city any persons are occupying any of said positions pursuant to appointment and certification thereon by the civil service commission of such city made after examination, such persons shall hold said positions as though duly appointed after examination under the provisions of said civil service law, and all other matrons, and assistants not so appointed after examination shall have the status of temporary appointees under said civil service law. All officers and employees of any such public tuberculosis sanitarium shall severally be deemed officers or employees as the case may be, of the city or village in which such sanitarium is established. (SENATE BILL NO. 315. APPROVED JUNE 14, 1917.) AN ACT to amend sections 11 and 12 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois," approved May 11, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, as subsequently amended: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 11 and 12 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of the State of |