sale of tax anticipation warrants in accordance with the provisions of this section, shall not be used to provide revenue for the annuity and benefit fund herein provided for.

§ 51. (a) For the purpose of paying prior service annuities and widows' prior service annuities provided for in this Act, and all annuities, pensions and benefits which have been or which shall be allowed or granted under and by virtue of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants," approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, as subsequently amended, or under and by virtue of section 50 of this Act; also for the purpose of paying that part of any annuity described in either sections 55, 55, 56 or 561⁄2 of this Act, for which money is not provided under any foregoing section or sections of this Act; also for the purpose of providing a sufficient amount of money in the investment and interest fund, described in subdivision 1 of section 54 of this Act, to make possible the transfer of moneys from said fund to other funds of the annuity and benefit fund herein provided for as stated in said subdivision 1 of section 54, such city shall contribute the sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) each year, which amount may in the discretion of the city be exceeded under the terms and conditions provided in paragraph (b) of this section to the annuity and benefit fund herein provided for, beginning in the first year after the year in which this Act shall come into force and effect in such city: Provided, however, if in any one year such sum of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000), together with all other sums required during such year for the purposes of the annuity and benefit fund herein provided for, in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall constitute an amount in excess of the total amount received into said annuity and benefit fund during such year, all sums required for purposes other than those stated in this section, shall be applied for such purposes, and the balance of the said total amount received shall be applied for the purposes named in this section.

(b) All such amounts contributed by the city shall be placed in the prior service annuity fund described in subdivision (f) of section 54 of this Act. When the assets of the said prior service annuity fund shall equal the liabilities thereof (including in addition to all other liabilities of such fund, the present values, according to the American Experience Table of Mortality, and interest at the rate of four (4) per cent per annum, of all annuities present or prospective, to be paid from said prior service annuity fund), the city shall cease to contribute the sum stated in paragraph (a) of this section, or any part thereof: Provided, however, if at any time the assets of the said investment and interest fund shall not be sufficient to permit of a transfer of moneys from said fund to any other fund of the annuity and benefit fund herein provided for, in accordance with the provisions of subdivision 1 of section 54 of this Act, the city shall, as soon as possible and practicable thereafter, contribute a sum or sums sufficient to make possible such transfer of the amount

or amounts of money required: And, provided further, if by reason of annexation of territory and the employment by such city of any policeman employed in any such territory at the time of such annexation, after the city shall have ceased to contribute as provided in paragraph (a) of this section, contributions of money to provide prior service annuity and widow's prior service annuity, (either or both), for or on account of such policeman, shall become necessary for such annuity purposes, the city shall, as soon as possible and practicable thereafter, contribute a sum or sums sufficient to provide such annuities. However, the city shall not, in any event, contribute any amount in excess of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) in any one year for any and all purposes stated in this section, except during the years in which the tax levy may be over eight-tenths (8/10) of one (1) mill on the dollar, as provided in section 11 of this Act, during which years the amount of one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) may be exceeded by such amount as the excess of the tax levy over eight-tenths (8/10) of one mill on the dollar will provide.

APPROVED February 17, 1928.

(Smith-Hurd, p. 540.)

(SENATE BILL No. 5. APPROVED FEBRUARY 17, 1928.)

AN ACT to amend section 3 of "An Act to enable cities and villages having a population not to exceed five hundred thousand (500,000), to establish and maintain public and municipal coliseums," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as amended.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. That section 3 of "An Act to enable cities and villages having a population not to exceed five hundred thousand (500,000), to establish and maintain public and municipal coliseums," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 3. If the majority of all the votes at such election is "For the levy of a tax for a public municipal coliseum," the city council of such city or board of trustees of such village shall in the next annual tax levy include a tax not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar for the establishment of such municipal coliseums in such city or village, and thereafter may annually levy a tax not to exceed one (1) mill on the dollar for the maintenance thereof and payment for the use of any money loaned or advanced for the purpose of buying a site and building such municipal coliseum, and repayment of any such money so borrowed or advanced, payment for the use of such money to be in such form and manner as the board of directors may determine, the amount so paid not to exceed five per cent per annum on any such money so loaned or advanced. The city council of any

such city, or the board of trustees of any such village, may when the same is not necessary for any other municipal purpose, authorize the use of any real estate owned by such city or village for such public municipal coliseum.

APPROVED February 17, 1928.

(Smith-Hurd, p. 444.)

(SENATE BILL No. 12. APPROVED FEBRUARY 17, 1928.)

AN ACT to amend section 12 of "An Act to create sanitary districts, and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers,” approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, as amended.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. That section 12 of "An Act to create sanitary dis tricts, and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 12. The board of trustees may levy and collect taxes for corporate purposes upon property within the territorial limits of such sanitary district, the aggregate amount of which in any one year exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness and the interest on bonded indebtedness shall not exceed one-third of one per centum of the value of the taxable property within the corporate limits as the same shall be assessed and equalized for the county taxes for the year in which the levy is made. Said board shall cause the amount to be raised by taxation in each year, to be certified to the county clerk on or before the second Tuesday in August as provided in section one hundred and twenty-two of the general revenue law. All taxes so levied and certified shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and by the same officers as State and county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officer collecting the same to the treasurer of the sanitary district, in the manner and at the time provided by the general revenue law: Provided, that no part of the taxes hereby authorized shall be used by such drainage district for the construction of permanent, fixed, immovable bridges across any channel constructed under the provisions of this Act: And provided further, that all bridges built across such channel shall not necessarily interfere with or obstruct the navigation of such channel, when the same becomes a navigable stream, as provided in section 24 of this Act, but such bridges shall be so constructed that they can be raised, swung or moved out of the way of vessels, tugs, boats, or other water craft navigating such channel: And provided further, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to compel

said district to maintain or operate said bridges, as movable bridges, for a period of nine years from and after the time when the water has been turned into said channel pursuant to law, unless the needs of general navigation on the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers, when connected by said channel, sooner require it.

(SENATE BILL NO. 11. APPROVED FEBRUARY 17, 1928.)

AN ACT to amend section 12 of "An Act to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 22, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, as amended.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. That section 12 of "An Act to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal," approved June 22, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, as amended, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 12. The board of trustees may levy and collect other taxes for corporate purposes upon property within the territorial limits of such sanitary district, the aggregate amount of which for each year shall not exceed one-sixth of one per centum of the value of the taxable property within the corporate limits, as the same shall be assessed and equalized for the State and county taxes of the year in which the levy is made, provided, however, that a like sum in addition thereto may be levied when such additional tax has been authorized by the legal voters of such district at an election duly called therefor. Such election shall be governed by the terms of this Act relating to elections held to decide on the proposition of issuing bonds of said district. The right to levy such additional tax, heretofore or hereafter authorized by the legal voters may at any time after one or more tax levies thereunder, be terminated by a majority vote of the electors of such district at an election called for such purpose by the trustees of such district; and it shall be the duty of the trustees of any such district to submit the proposition to terminate such additional taxing power when petitioned so to do by not less than ten per cent of the legal voters of such district.

Said board shall cause the amount required to be raised by taxation in each year to be certified to the county clerk on or before the second Tuesday in August, as provided in section one hundred and twenty-two of the general revenue law. All taxes so levied and certified shall be collected and enforced in the same manner and by the same officers as State and county taxes, and shall be paid over by the officer collecting the same to the treasurer of the sanitary district in the manner and at the time provided by the general revenue law.

The treasurer shall, when the moneys of the district are deposited with any bank or other depositary, require such bank or other depositary to pay the same rates of interest for such moneys deposited as such bank or other depositary is accustomed to pay depositors under like circumstances, in the usual course of its business.

All interest so paid shall be placed in the general fund of the district, to be used as other moneys belonging to such district raised by general taxation. The annual tax provided for herein and the taxes levied hereunder for the payment of the principal of and the interest upon bonded indebtedness of the district shall not be included in the aggregate of all the taxes required to be reduced under the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and all amendatory Acts thereof.

(SENATE BILL NO. 24. APPROVED FEBRUARY 17, 1928.)

AN ACT to amend section 12 of "An Act for the registry of electors and to prevent fraudulent voting," approved and in force February 15, 1865, as amended.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. Section 12 of "An Act for the registry of electors and to prevent fraudulent voting, approved and in force February 15, 1865, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

§ 12. The members of the board of registration shall receive $4.00 per day for each day actually employed in the making and completion of the registry, not exceeding two days, to be paid to them at the time and in the manner in which they are paid their other fees: Provided, that in voting precincts where said members are required by section 4 of this Act, to remain in session until nine o'clock p. m. for the second registration, the per diem for that day shall be $5.00: Provided further that all judges and clerks of election in counties having a population of five hundred thousand inhabitants or over, shall be allowed the sum of $9.00 per day for their services for each registration and revision day. APPROVED February 17, 1928. (Smith-Hurd, p. 1215.)