granted in the same manner as appeals are taken [from] and granted by justices of the peace to the circuit courts, under the laws of this state; and all such appeals shall be taken, and the bond filed with the police magistrate or justice of the peace, within five days from such trial: Provided, the said corporation shall be allowed to appeal in any case in which it is a party, by causing its president or clerk to execute a bond, in the name of the corporation, in the form now prescribed by law in other cases, without other security; and an order entered upon the records of said corporation, directing such an appeal, or approving the same, shall be sufficient evidence of authority to sign said bond.

11. The president and trustees of the town of Piper Promulgation City shall, immediately after the passage of this act, take of act. measures to promulgate the same within the limits of said

town.

12. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and Evidence of act. may be read in evidence in all courts of law and equity within this state, without proof.

marshal

constable.

and

13. The town marshal or constable, or any other offi- Jurisdiction of cer authorized to execute writs or any other process issued by the police magistrate of said town, shall have power to execute the same anywhere within the limits of the county of Ford, and shall have the same power to execute any process issued by any justice of the peace of said county, and be entitled to the same fees for traveling and other services as are allowed to constables in similar cases.

14. The town council may, at any time hereafter, provide by ordinance for future elections by the inhabitants of said town of such town officers as they may deem it advisable to have so elected.

Provide for future eections.

countytreasurer

15. All fines and penalties, recoverable by indictment Fines and penor actions, for any offenses committed within the limits of alties paid to said town, and which are now required by law to be paid. into the county treasury, or to the school commissioner of said county, shall hereafter be paid into the town treasury, for the use of said town.

16. The town council are hereby expressly and for Sale of liquors. ever prohibited from granting license to any person or per sons in said town of Piper City, to sell, traffic, exchange, barter or give away any strong beer, ale, porter, lager beer, wine, rum, gin, brandy, whisky, or intoxicating liquors, drinks or beverages of any kind whatever, including Hostetter's stomach bitters, Plantation bitters, Roback's bitters, Red Jacket bitters, Swain's Bourbon bitters, or any other bitters, of whatever name or kind, containing intoxicating liquors; and no person shall be permitted to bring into the town, or keep about his, her or their premises, saloon, cellar, dwelling-house, out-house, or in any other place in said town, or within one mile thereof, any of the above-named Vol. IV-46

Willful viola

ished.

drinks, liquors or intoxicating beverages, for the purpose of trafficking therein, in any way whatever: Provided, the town council may grant license to two discreet persons (and no more) in said town, to sell wine or other spirituous liquors for mechanical, medicinal and sacramental purposes only; and the said council shall have power, at any regular meeting, to revoke said license.

$ 17. Any persons violating any of the provisions of tions, how pun- this section of this charter shall forfeit and pay into the treasury of the corporation, for the use of the inhabitants of said town, not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense, to be recovered by an action of debt before any police magis. trate or other justice of the peace in said town; and in case any offender shall fail or refuse to pay such fine or fines and costs as may be adjudged or assessed against him, her or them, by the said police magistrate or other justice of the peace, then said offender shall forthwith be committed to the county jail, until said fine and costs are paid, or otherwise discharged by due process of law.

Sec. 16 modified.

18. Section sixteen of this act shall be so modified that, at the annual election of town council of this town, the electors may vote for or against license for the sale of ale, porter or beer by two discreet persons, to be chosen by the town council of said town; and the said council shall have power, at any regular meeting, to revoke said license. § 19. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 13, 1869.

In force March AN ACT to extend and define the corporate limits of the town of Pittsfield, 30, 1869.

Act valid.

and for other purposes therein named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the acts and proceedings done, for the purpose of incorporating the town of Pittsfield, in Pike county, Illinois, be and the same are hereby declared legal and valid; and all the ordinances passed by the board of president and trustees of said town, not inconsistent with the constitution of this state or of the United States, be and the same are hereby declared to be legal and binding, and shall remain until the same be amended or repealed by said president and trustees. And the introduction of the record book, containing the proceedings of said board, duly proved, shall be deemed and taken as evidence of the existence of said corporation, in all the courts of this state, and in addition to the modes Proof of ordi- now existing by law. All ordinances of said town may be

Dances.

proved by the seal of said corporation, and when printed or published in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be so printed or published by authority of the corporation, the same shall be received, in all courts or places, as prima facie evidence of their due passage and publication.

§ 2. The corporative limits of said town shall be and Boundaries exthey are hereby so extended and adjusted as to embrace and tended. include the following described territory, to-wit: The south half of section No. twenty-four (24), the north half of the northwest quarter of section No. twenty-five (25), the south half of the northeast quarter of section No. twenty-four (24), and the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter of said section No. twenty-four (24), and lots No. thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-eight and thirty-nine, of Peters' addition to the town of Pittsfield, all in township No. five south of the base line, range No. four west of the fourth principal meridian, in Pike county, Illinois. And all the ordinances aforesaid, heretofore passed or that may be hereafter enacted by said board, shall be in full force and effect throughout the whole of said territory: Provided, nothing herein shall be so construed as to limit the powers of said board to declare what shall be a nuisance and to prevent and remove the same, as much as one-half mile beyond the limits of said corporation: And be it further provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to deprive said corporation of all powers and benefits conferred by the general incorporation laws of this state and by the laws amendatory thereof.

constable.

3. And be it further enacted, that the town constable Powers of the of said town shall have the same power and authority to serve all warrants, process, writs, executions, &c., and exercise, generally, all other powers possessed by the constables in said state, and shall be entitled to and receive the same fees therefor as other constables: Provided, he shall hold said office only during the pleasure of said board: And, provided, further, that said board shall have power to fix and regulate said fees, so far as relates to his official acts. for said corporation.

Jurisdiction of

4. Any justice of the peace, within and for the township of Pittsfield, in said county, having his office in said Justice of peace corporation limits, shall have jurisdiction of all complaints, suits and all other questions whatsoever, arising under the ordinances of said corporation, as fully and completely as the police magistrate now has by law.

yond the limits.

5. The corporate authorities of said town are hereby Exempt from released and discharged from working, repairing or main- rond tits. taining roads, highways and bridges outside of the said corporative limits.

6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 30, 1869.

In force Maroh AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act further to amend an act to ex27, 1869. tend the corporate powers of the town of Princeton, and to amend the several amendments thereto," approved February 16th, 1865.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, As follows: Sec. 4 amended. Section four (4), of said act, shall be amended to read as follows: "Section four (4).-The town council shall have power and authority to license, tax, regulate, prohibit and suppress billiard tables, pin alleys and ball alleys, and to prohibit lotteries, horseraces and other means of gambling within said town and within one mile of the bounds thereof. § 2. So much of the act to which this is an amendment as conflicts herewith is hereby repealed.

Portions of act repealed.

Evidence of.

3. This act shall be deemed a public act, and may be read in evidence, without proof, and judicial notice shall be taken thereof in all courts.

4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 27, 1869.

In force March 81, 1869.

dinances, etc.

AN ACT in relation to ordinances of the town of Plymouth.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Enforcing or president of the town of Plymouth, in Hancock county, incorporated under the general law of the state, shall have power to enforce the ordinances, known as the revised ordinances of the town of Plymouth, from number one to number thirty-nine, recorded in the book of ordinances of the town of Plymouth.

§ 2. This act shall be in force from and after its pass

age.

APPROVED March 31, 1869.

In force Feb. 19, AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Richview," approved February 16th, 1865.

1869.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the

Boundaries of common center of the town of Richview shall be at the corthe corporation. ner stone of section two (2), three (3), ten (10) and eleven (11), township two (2) south, of range one (1) west of the

third (3) principal meridian; and that the boundaries of said town shall extend and include three-fourths of a mile, each way, with the four cardinal points of the compass, from said corner stone, so as to be in a square form; and the president and trustees of said town shall have and exercise full corporate control over all the territory included in the limits of said boundaries, of one and a half miles square, for all purposes, for the good of the inhabitants of the town of Richview.

2. That so much of section 2 of the act to which this Part of section is an amendment as conflicts with or is inconsistent with 2 repealed. this amendment is hereby repealed.

of liquors.

3. That the president and trustees of said town of Prohibit Richview shall not have power or authority, nor shall the county court of Washington county, in said state of Illinois, to grant license to any person or persons to sell, at retail, any spirituous, vinous, mixed or malt liquors, within the boundaries of the corporate limits of said town of Richview, hereby created, except to druggists, who shall be regulated in their sales thereof by ordinance of the president and trustees of said town; and in no case shall druggists be allowed to sell such liquors in said town for other than medicinal, sacramental or mechanical purposes.

4. The police magistrate of said town shall have, in addition to the jurisdiction already vested in him by said act, hereby amended, jurisdiction in all actions of debt and assumpsit, in said county of Washington, in all sums not exceeding three hundred dollars: Provided, however, defendant or defendants reside in said town and service of process be had therein; and in said actions said police magistrate shall be governed by and conform to the laws now governing justices of the peace in similar actions, and shall have the same fees as justices of the peace in all such actions.

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rate.

§ 5. That section 10 of the act hereby amended shall be Billards, etc. amended hereby, so that said president and trustees shall Liquors. have power to restrain and prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in said town, and also have power to restrain and prohibit billiard tables, for public use, within the limits of the said town of Richview.

Evidence of validity of ordi

6. All ordinances of said town of Richview, passed by said president and trustees, may be proven by the seal nauces of said corporation, or by the oath of the clerk of said corporation, and when said ordinances are printed in book or pamphlet form, by authority of said corporation, the same shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state.

7. This act, and the act to which it is an amendment, Evidence of act. may be read in evidence in all the courts of this state.

8. This act shall be deemed a public act, and be in

force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 19, 1869.