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have the power as such board of review to assess, equalize, review or revise the assessment of property. The boards of review herein provided for shall meet as soon after the taking effect of this Act as shall be practicable, not later than the third Monday in June, and shall thereupon at once enter upon the discharge of their duties.

§ 50. The State Board of Equalization shall hereafter assemble annually on the first Tuesday after the tenth day of August. The sessions of the board may be adjourned from day to day as may be necessary: Provided, that the final adjournment of said board shall be on or before the first day in November and that no per diem compensation shall be paid any member of said board for services rendered after the date fixed for the final adjournment.

APPROVED May 18, 1907.

BOARD OF REVIEW-CLERK IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.

§ 1. Amends section 30, Act of 1898.

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As amended, provides for appointment of clerk of board of review in certain countles of less than 125,000.

(HOUSE BILL No. 109. APPROVED MAY 13, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section thirty (30) of “An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898, as amended by Act approved and in force May 11,

1901.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section thirty (30) of "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 11, 1901, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 30. In counties under township organization of less than 125,000 inhabitants, the chairman of the board of supervisors and two (2) citizens of said county, to be appointed by the county judge, on or before June 1st of each year, shall constitute the board of review to review the assessments made by the county supervisor of assessments, one of said citizens shall be appointed by said county judge from each of the political parties polling the highest vote at the general election next preceding such appointment. In case of a vacancy in such board, then the county judge may appoint a citizen of such county to fill such vacancy until such time as said office can be filled by the officer herein named. The chairman of the county board shall be the chairman of the board of review. The members of the board of review shall receive as compensation the sum per day for each day of service as shall be fixed by the county board; their time of service to be made out in due form, with day and date, and sworn

to by the members thereof: Providing, further, that in counties of less than 125,000 inhabitants, the members of the board of review by a majority vote may select some suitable person to act as clerk of said board of review, and such clerk shall receive as compensation the sum per day for each day of service as shall be fixed by the county board; the time of services of such clerk to be made out in due form, with day and date, and sworn to by such clerk.

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AN ACT to provide for the necessary revenue for State purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there shall be raised, by levying a tax by valuation upon the assessed taxable property of the State, the following sums for the purposes hereinafter set forth:

For general State purposes, to be designated "Revenue Fund," the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) upon the assessed value of the property for the year A. D. 1907; five million dollars ($5,000,000) upon the assessed value of property for the year A. D. 1908; and for State school purposes, to be designated "State School Fund," the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) upon the assessed taxable property for the year A. D. 1907, and the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) upon the assessed taxable property for the year A. D. 1908, in lieu of the two mill tax.

§ 2. The Governor, the Auditor and Treasurer shall annually compute the several rates per cent required to produce not less than the above amounts, anything in any other Act providing a different manner of ascertaining the amount of revenue required to be levied for State purposes to the contrary notwithstanding, and when so ascertained, the Auditor shall certify to the county clerk the proper rates per cent therefor, and also such definite rates for other purposes as are now or may hereafter be provided by law, to be levied and collected as State taxes, and all other laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED May 27, 1907.

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(HOUSE BILL NO. 646. APPROVED MAY 24, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section 29 of an Act entitled "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898, as amended by Act of May 18, 1905.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section twenty-nine (29) of an Act entitled "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898, as amended by Act of May 18, 1905, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 29. As soon as the county assessor or supervisor of assessments shall have completed the assessment in the year A. D. 1907, he shall cause to be published a full and complete list of such assessment by township or assessment districts, which publication shall be made on or before July 10 of each year in some public newspaper or newspapers published in said county: Provided, that in every township or assessment district in which there is published one or more newspapers of general circulation the list of such township or assessment district shall be published in one of said newspapers so published in said township or assessment district: And, provided, that said newspaper shall not receive for the publishing of said assessment list to exceed three (3) cents per name for each person or corporation so assessed, and if impossible to secure publication at that price, that the publication be let to the lowest bidder at a price not exceeding five cents per tract, and shall furnish to the county assessor, the county supervisor of assessments and the board of review as many copies of said paper containing the assessment list as they may require, said papers so furnished not to cost to exceed five (5) cents per copy: Provided, further, that after the year 1907, the publication shall only be of the assessment of personal property and the changes made, if any, in real estate, but the real estate assessment shall be published in full every four (4) years, beginning with the year 1907: Provided, further, that in counties of 125,000 inhabitants or over, no assessment of real estate shall be published as herein provided until such assessment shall have been equalized, revised or affirmed by the board of review, and when the board of review shall have acted upon the assessment list of real property, as herein provided in the year 1907 and every four years thereafter, the assessors and board of review shall cause to be published a full and complete list of such assessment on real property, together with all changes made by the board of review under the authority of this Act, such changes to be indicated in a separate column, such publication to be in pamphlet form by election districts

in lieu of publication in a newspaper: And, provided, that the board of review shall cause to be mailed to each taxpayer in said election precinct a copy of the said list for his precinct: Provided, further, that in case said assessment is not published in conformity with law and was not mailed in accordance with the provisions of this Act, the failure to so publish the same or mail the same shall not be considered as a valid objection to a judgment for tax sale in the county court. The expense of such printing and publication shall be paid out of the county treasury.

§ 2. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore this Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED May 24, 1907.

TAX BOOKS-DELIVERY TO COLLECTOR.

1. Amends section 52, Act of 1898.

$ 52. County clerk to deliver tax books to collector on January 2d.

(HOUSE BILL No. 130. APPROVED MAY 13, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section 52 of an Act entitled, "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 52 of, "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898, be, and hereby is amended to read as follows: § 52. The county clerk shall hereafter deliver to the town, district county collectors the books for the collection of taxes on the second day of January following the year on which such taxes are levied. APPROVED May 13, 1907.

ROADS AND BRIDGES.

APPROACHES TO BRIDGES.

1. Approaches to bridges on or near town and county lines.

(HOUSE BILL No. 677. APPROVED JUNE 4, 1907.)

AN ACT making it the duty of counties under township organization and towns in counties under township organization to build, construct and maintain approaches to bridges located on or near town and county lines.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That approaches to all bridges hereafter built and constructed under and by virtue of sections

twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) of an Act entitled, "An Act in regard to roads and bridges in counties under township organization and to repeal an Act and parts of Acts therein named," approved June 23, 1883, in force July 1, 1883; as amended by Act approved April 12, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, shall be built, constructed and maintained by the respective towns or counties within which such approach or approaches may be located, and all approaches to any and all such bridges as have been heretofore built and constructed under and by virtue of the provisions of said sections twenty-one (21) and twenty-two (22) shall be maintained be [by] the respective town or county within which such approach or approaches are now located. APPROVED June 4, 1907.

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AN ACT to enable cities and villages to build, acquire and maintain bridges and approaches thereto outside their corporate limits, and to control the same, and to issue bonds to pay for such bridges and approaches, and to pledge such bridge and approaches and the income therefrom for the payment of such bonds and the interest

thereon.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be lawful for any city or village within this State to build or acquire by purchase, lease or gift, and to maintain bridges and the approaches thereto within the corporate limits, or at any point within three miles of the corporate limits of such city or village. That all such bridges shall be free to the public, and no toll shall ever be collected by any such city or village authorities except as hereinafter in this Act provided.

§ 2. That in all cases where a bridge shall heretofore have been built or shall hereafter be built across a navigable stream by any city or village in whole or in part without the territorial limits of such city, where the population of such city or village furnishing the principal part of the expenses thereof shall not exceed five thousand inhabitants, and where it is necessary to maintain a draw and lights, then a reasonable toll may be collected by the city or village building such bridge, to be set apart and appropriated to the expense of maintaining such bridge and keeping such bridge in repair, and of maintaining, opening and closing proper draws therefor, and lights, and to the payment of bonds or interest thereon, issued therefor, as hereinafter provided.

§ 3. Every bridge so owned, acquired or controlled by such city or village and the approaches thereto when in whole or in part outside the corporate limits thereof shall be subject to the municipal control

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