Laws and Ordinances Governing the City of Chicago

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Bulletin Printing Company, 1873 - 730 pages
 

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Page 573 - Legislature and all officers, executive and judicial, except such inferior officers as may be by law exempted, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : — " I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be...
Page 561 - ... this act, to be held and controlled by such board, when accepted, according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of such property ; and as to such property the said board shall be held and considered to be special trustees.
Page 105 - ... in the discretion of the court before whom such conviction shall be had...
Page 606 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 398 - Governor, and if he approve, he shall sign it; if not, he shall return it with his objections to the house, in which it shall have originated, which shall enter the objections at large on its journals, and proceed to reconsider it.
Page 632 - Judge, have the same power to administer oaths or affirmations required, or authorized to be administered by the provisions of this act, or the act to which this is a supplement...
Page 163 - They shall make and adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations for their own guidance and for the government of the library and readingroom as may be expedient, not inconsistent with this act.
Page 560 - Said directors shall hold office one-third for one year, one-third for two years, and one-third for three years, from the first...
Page 425 - Department, shall convert to his own use, in any way whatever, or shall use, by way of investment in any kind of property...
Page 427 - ... and no expenditure for an improvement to be paid for out of the general fund of the corporation shall exceed, in any one year, the amount provided for such improvement in the annual appropriation bill...

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