suitable location for burial purposes; which ground when purchased shall be subject to the control of the board of trustees of said

town.

§ 19. The president and trustees and other officers of the corporation shail, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, take an oath or affirmation, before some judge or justice of the peace, to support the constitution of the United States and of this state, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their several offices.

Oath.

§ 20. The president and trustees shall have the power to levy a Property and property and per capita tax for road purposes, as is now conferred poll tax. by law upon the county commissioners' courts ; and for this purpose their jurisdiction shall extend over persons and property within said corporation, and to all persons residing within one mile from said corporation, on the public roads leading therefrom, and it shall be the duty of said board of trustees to provide for working and to keep in repair all public highways leading from said town, for the distance of one mile from the boundaries thereof, and the inhabitants taxed or subject to taxation by said corporation, for road purposes, shall not be liable to other similar taxation by the county for road purposes.

ed.

§ 21. Whenever a majority of the legal voters, being inhabitants of any addition to sail town, not by this act embraced within the limits of said corporation, shall petition the said the board of trustees to be incorporated in the boundaries of said town, it shall be the duty of said board to make an order, to be entered upon their minutes, that the boundaries of said incorporation be extended so as to embrace Boundaries such addition; and they shall cause a certified copy of such order may be extend to be filed with the recorder of said county of Lake, who shall transcribe the same upon the records of said county. And the said board may at any time, after the expiration of two years from the passage of this act of incorporation, change or modify the boundaries of the several wards of said town; Provided, that no order of said board, making such change or alteration, shall take effect until the same shall be submitted to the qualified voters of said town at an election to be held for that purpose, and be approved by the vote of a majority of the persons voting for or against such alteration; And provided, further, that said board shall cause a certified copy of the order making such change or alteration, after being so ratified, to be filed with the recorder of said county, who shall transcribe the same upon the record of his office.

town officers.

§ 22. For the purpose of organising said town under the pro- Election of visions of this charter, an election shall be held in each of the wards of said town on the second Monday of March next, and the qualified voters thereof may proceed to vote for a president of said town, two trustees in each of the three wards, a treasurer, and a town constable. Said election shall be held in the first ward, at the district school house in said ward; in the second ward, at the court-house, in said ward; and in the third ward, at the district school house in said ward. Hiram Hugunin and Arther Patterson shall be judges of such election in the first ward; John A. Tazewell and Daniel Brewer shall be judges of such election in the second ward; and Ira Porter and Wm. Ladd shall be judges of such election in the third ward. Said judges of election shall conduct the same agreeably to the pro

Voters to vote

this act.

visions of this act and the laws of this state regulating elections. And the said judges shall make return of said election, duly ceruined, with the poll-books, to the clerk of the county commissioners' court of Lake county, the next day after such election; and said clerk, together with any two justices of the peace of said county, shall proceed to open said returns and canvass said votes, and the person having the greatest number of votes for the office of president shall be duly elected, and the two persons in each ward who shall have the highest number of votes for trustees shall be duly elected trustees for said wards respectively, and the person having the highest number of votes for treasurer shall be duly elected, and likewise the person having the nighest number of votes for constable shall be duly elected. If more than two persons in the respective wards shall have an equal number of votes for trustees, the said clerk and justices shall proceed to determine by lot which of said persons in the respective wards shall be trustee or trustees, and in like manner shall determine by lot in case two or more persons shall receive an equal and highest number of votes for the offices of president, treasurer, and constable, which of said such persons so receiving an equal number of votes shall be entitled to such offices respectively. And said clerk and two justices shall make an abstract of the returns of said election, certifying under their hands, and deliver the same to the person who shall be elected president, and the said president shall thereupon notify the persons who are elected trustees and other officers of their election, and shall appoint a time and place for said trustees to meet for the purpose of organising said board; Provided, that if from any cause the said election shall not be held on the second Monday of March, as above provided, the same shall in that case be held. on the first Monday of April

next.

§ 23. It is further enacted, This act shall not take effect or be in for or against force until after the same shall first have been submitted to a vote of the legal voters residing or owning real estate within the limits of said corporation, as described in section two of this act, and decided in favor of the acceptance of this at of incorporation by a majority of said voters voting in favor thereof. Sail election shall be held at the court-house in said town of Little Fort on the first Monday in March next. The clerk of the circuit court of said cony, together with any two justices of the peace of Little Fort pr cinct, in said county of Lake, shall be the judges of said election, who shall appoint their clerk and be sworn in the same manner as is provided for the swearing of other judges and clerks of electi. n, under the provisions of this act. The poll-boks shall be open i for the reception of votes at one o'clock in the afternoon of said day and continue open until six o'clock of the same day; and within one day after the closing of said polls the said judges shall transmit an abstract of the votes, together with one of the poll-books, to the clerk of the county commissioners' court of said county, who shall, together with two justices of the peace of said precinct, proceed to open and canvass said votes within three days after said returns shall be received by him, and after canvassing said votes, said canvassers shall file a certificate of the result of said election, showing the number of votes for and number against accepting this act, with the clerk of the said county commissioners' court; and in case a

majority of the votes cast at said election shall be in favor of accepting this act, then this act shall take effect from and after the filing of said canvassers' certificate. Notice of the time and place of said election shall be given by the clerk of the county commissioners' court of said county, by posting written or printed handbills in at least two public places in each ward of said town, at least ten days previous to the day of said election.

§ 24. And be it further e acted, That if the result of the vote upon the question of adopting or rejecting this charter shall be against the adoption of the same, then it shall be lawful for, and it is hereby made the duty of the clerk of the, county commissioners' court of said county of Lake, upon application being made to him in wring by thirty legal voters residing within the boundaries

of said town, as defined in the second section of this act, to call May call anoth. another election for the purpose of voting upon the question of er election. adopting or rejecting this charter, and if a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of the adoption, then this act shall take effect from and after the time the votes cast at said election shall have been canvassed, and a certificate, under the hands of the canvassers, filed with said clerk of the county commissioners' court. Said election shall be called by posting written or printed notices of the same in at least two public places in each ward of said town, as the same are bounded and described in the twenty-second section of this act, calling the same to be held at the court-house within ten days after the date of the said notices, and said election shall be conducted by the same judges and in the same manner as is provided in section twenty-three of this act. The application to the clerk provided for in this section shall definitely describe the boundaries to be included within the limits of the corporation; which said bounds may be the same or different from those described in the second section of this act, and if the result of said election shall be in favor of adopting this act, then the boundaries of the town shall be those described in said application, anything in said second section to the contrary notwithstanding.

ing the name

§ 25. And be it further enacted, That at the election herein pro- Vote for or vided to be held by the twenty-third section of this act, it shall also a ainst changbe law for the persons voting at said election, to vote for or of town. against the changing of the name of said town to Waukeegan, and in case a majority of said votes shall be in favor of said alteration, then and in that case the name of said town, and the style of the corporation thereof shall be changed to Waukeegan, from and after the tiling of the certificate of the result of said election. APPROVED February 12, 1849.

AN ACT to vacate a town plat in Madison county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the town plat of the town of Mount Auburn, in the county of Madison, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, vacated and annulled.

In force.

Feb. 12, 1849.

§ 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 12, 1849.

In force, AN ACT to legalise the re-survey of the town of Walnut Hill, in Marion April 13, 1849.

Survey legalised.

county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That a survey of the town of Walnut Hill, in Marion county, in the state of Illinois, inade in the year 1840, is hereby declared to be null and void.

§ 2. The survey of said town of Walnut Hill made by A. J. Pearcy, surveyor of Marion county, Illinois, and certined the tenth day of December, 1848, is hereby legalised, and all lots, streets, alleys, and avenues of said town, established by said last survey, as exhibited by the plat, made and certified on said last survey, shall be taken and esteemed as the proper lots, streets, alleys, and avenues of said town of Walnut Hill.

§ 3. The recorder of said county of Marion is hereby required to spread the said last mentioned survey and plat of record in his office, as other matter of like character. APPROVED February 12, 1849.

In force, Feb. 12, 1849.

AN ACT to change the name of the town of Wapello to Hanover.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the name of the town of Wapello, in the county of Jo Daviess, and state of Illinois, be, and the same is hereby, changed to Hanover, and that said town, by and under the name of Hanover, shall have and enjoy all the rights and privileges which it had and enjoyed under the name of Wapello, and shall be liable to and for all the debts heretofore contracted by

said town.

§ 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its

I, HORACE S. COOLEY, secretary of the state of Illinois, hereby certify the foregoing to be true and perfect copies of the enrolled laws deposited in this office; the words printed in brackets, thus [], in the several laws in which they occur, not being in the enrolled laws, but are introduced in the printed laws for the purpose of correcting and explaining the same. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, at Springfield, this 10th day of August, 1849. H. S. COOLEY, Secretary of State.