ordinance of said town, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members of said council.

$4. No ordinance or regulation imposing any penalty, Punishment of fine or imprisonment, for a violation of its provisions, shall violations. be effectual, unless after its passage true copies of the same, duly certified to by the town clerk, under the corporate seal, be posted in four of the most public places of said A certificate of such requirements having been car ried out, signed by the said town clerk, under the corporate seal, shall be sufficient proof of the same in any court or courts of this state.

town.

$ 5. The town of Grafton shall not be required to give Not to give scany security in any appeal or other suit to which it shall curity for cost. be a party.

§ 6. The town council shall have power to designate Jury trial. one or more justices of the peace of said town, who shall have authority to hear and determine all violations for any breach of the ordinances of said town, before whom in all cases for a violation of the town ordinances any person so charged shall be entitled to a jury of six lawful men, being residents of said town. Should the justice of the peace, designated as aforesaid, refuse or be unable to act, then actions may be instituted before any other justice of the peace of said county. There shall be no change of venue allowed to any defendant charged with any violation of the ordinances of said town. Appeals may be taken by any such defendant from such justice of the peace, by such party entering into bonds, as in other cases of appeals from justices of the peace.

$ 7. Execution shall issue immediately on the rendi tion of judgment, and if not paid or satisfied immediately, it shall be the duty of the constable to return the same at once to the justice of the peace issuing the same; thereupon the said justice shall issue a mittimus, to commit the defendant to the town calaboose or the jail of Jersey county, there to be and remain twenty-four hours for each one dollar of any such fine and costs. All dues or fines collected for or on behalf of said town shall forthwith be paid to the town clerk by the person collecting it.

Execution may tion of judgment

issue on rendi

Fines and forfeitures,

§ 8. All actions brought to recover any penalty or forfeiture incurred under this act or the ordinances, by-laws or recovered. public regulations, made in pursuance of it, shall be brought in the name of the town of Grafton. It shall be lawful to declare, generally, in debt, stating the clause of this act or ordinance under which the penalty or forfeiture is claimed. $ § 9. In all prosecutions for any violation of any ordinance, by-law, police or other regulations of this act, the first process shall be summons, unless oath or affirmation be made for a warrant.

how

§ 10. The members of the town council and the con- Power to arrest stable shall have power to arrest or to cause the arrest, with

with or without process.

Proof of ordinances.

Present officers to continue.

Fines, forfeitures, etc.

Proof of act.

or without process, of all persons who shall break the peace or threaten to break the same, and commit them to the town calaboose or county jail, until examination can be had before the proper officer.

$ 11. All ordinances may be proved by the corporate seal, and, when published or printed in book or pamphlet form, purporting to be published by authority of the town, shall be received as evidence in all courts and places, without further proof.

$12. All present officers of said town, now in office, shall so remain until superseded in conformity hereof. This act shall not invalidate any legal act done by the present town council of said town or by its officers, nor divest their successors, under this act, of any right of property or otherwise or liability, which may have occurred to or been created by said corporation prior to the officers created by this act taking possession of their property and effects.

$13. All fines, judgments, forfeitures or suits at law undetermined, in behalf of or in favor of the president and board of trustees of Grafton, shall be collected and prosecuted by the town of Grafton, and become their sole property. All property, real, personal or mixed, now owned by the president and board of trustees of the town of Grafton, shall vest in the town of Grafton.

14. 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 and places.

$ 15. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 31, 1869.

In force March 8, 1869.

AN ACT to incorporate the town of Georgetown.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the inhabitants of the town of Georgetown, in the county of Vermilion, and state of Illinois, be and they are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style Name and style. of the "The Town of Georgetown;" and, by that name, shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, and may have and use a common seal, and alter and change the same at pleasure.

Boundaries.

$ 2. Said town of Georgetown shall comprehend and embrace all of that territory contained in the east half of section thirty-one and the west half, and the west half of the cast half of section thirty-two, and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter and the south half of the southwest quarter of section twenty-nine, and the south half of

the southeast quarter of section thirty, town 18 n., range 11 w., county of Vermilion, Illinois.

§ 3. There shall be a town council, which shall consist Council. of a president and board of five trustees, to be elected as hereinafter directed. The other officers of the corporation shall be a clerk, a treasurer, a constable, one police magistrate, an assessor, and such other officers as the council shall from time to time appoint.

trustees.

4. The president, trustees, and other officers specified President and in this act, shall be elected annually, on the first Monday of April of each year, by the qualified voters of said corporation, and shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and all the provisions of an act entitled "An act for the better government of towns and cities, and to amend the charters thereof," approved February 27, 1854, and the several acts amendatory thereto, are hereby declared applicable to the said town of Georgetown. The first election, to elect the officers of said corporation, shall be held on the first Monday of April after the passage of said act, at the office of any justice of the peace in this the limits of the corporation. Said election shall be conducted as all general elections of the state.

5. All the officers, except such as are mentioned in section 3 of this act, shall be appointed by the president and trustees, at their first meeting after the annual election, and shall hold their offices one year and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

Appointment

of officers.

6. The board of trustees, or a majority of them, shall Election returns judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of their own members, and shall determine all contested elections. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members, under such penalties as they may prescribe by ordinance.

87. All the vacancies which may occur in any of the offices may be filled in such a manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.

When vacancies occur, how

ed.

§ 8. The officers of said corporation shall, before enter- Oath of office. ing upon the discharge of their duties, take an oath well. and truly to discharge the duties of their respective offices. The treasurer and constable, and such other officers as the council shall by ordinance direct, shall execute a bond, with securities to the president and trustees, in such sum or sums as the council may direct, for the faithful discharge of their duties.

9. Any person shall be allowed to vote at any corpo ration election for any person to hold office under the provisions of this act, who shall have resided at least one month next preceding the election within said corporation, or shall be the owner of property in real estate and a tax-payer in said corporation at the time of such election, and who is a citiVol III-97

Qualification of electors.

lect tax.

ings.

zen and legal voter at any election in this state, and the vote of all persons who are neither residents upon said corporation nor tax-payers, as before specified, shall be rejected.

Levy and col- § 10. The council shall have power and authority, by ordinance, to levy and collect taxes upon all property, real and personal, within the limits of the corporation, not exceeding a fourth of one per cent., per annum, upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment of the same in any manner to be prescribed by ordinance, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States or of this Appropriations. state; to appropriate money and provide for paying the debts of said corporation; to make regulations to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases into said town; to make all needful rules to prevent hogs and cattle from runNeedful build- ning at large in said town; to provide for the erection of all needful buildings for the use of said town; to provide for inclosing, improving and regulating all public grounds belonging to said town, and to restrain, prohibit and suppress all tippling houses, dram shops, gaming houses and Tippling houses all other disorderly houses; and the inhabitants of said town shall have power to restrain, prohibit and suppress all tippling houses, dram shops, and all other shops where spirituous liquors are kept and sold, by such means and in such manner as they may deem advisable, excepting such persons as are authorized to sell spirituous liquors under the Prevention and eleventh (11) section of this act. Said council shall have power to provide for the extinguishment and prevention of fires, and for organizing and establishing fire companies; to regulate the election and appointment of corporation officers, and provide for removing from effice any person holding office under the corporation, and for filling vacanPenalty for vicies; to impose fines, penalties and forfeitures, for the breach of any ordinance, and to provide for the recovery and appropriation of such fines and forfeitures and enforcement of such penalties; the council shall have power to make all ordinances which shal! be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers specified in this act

extinguishment of fires

olations.

Sale of liquors.

§ 11. The council shall have power to license the sale of liquors by such person or persons as they may deem proper, for the following purposes, to-wit: For burning fluid, mechanical, medicinal and sacramental purposes, and no other; and the person or persons so licensed shall, before being authorized to sell, under the provisions of this act, take an oath that he or they will not sell or otherwise dispose of any spirituous liquors, knowingly, for any other than the above named purposes; and the person or persons so licensed and sworn shall make a written quarterly report to said council, once in ninety days, certified to under oath, which report shall contain a full and accurate account of all the spirituous liquors sold by him during the last preceding

ninety days, the names of the persons, in full, who have purchased the same, the amount sold to each person, respectively, the price for which each parcel has been sold, and the cost price of the same.

§ 12. The style of the ordinances of this corporation Style of ordishall be, "Be it ordained by the President and Trustees of nances. the Town of Georgetown."

president. con

§ 13. All deeds of conveyance shall be signed by the Signature of president and countersigned by the clerk and attested by veyances, etc. the seal of the corporation.

§ 14. All prosecutions for violations of any of the ordinances of said corporation shall be prosecuted before any justice of the peace in said corporation; and it is made the duty of the corporation constable to execute all process issued by any such justice for the violation of any such ordinance, and said constable may execute the same anywhere within the county of Vermilion, and shall be entitled to the same fees for traveling as are now allowed by law in other cases; and it is made the special duty of the constable to report to some justice of the peace within the corporation all violations of any of the ordinances of the corporation which may come within his knowledge.

Jurisdiction of

constables.

ordinances.

§ 15. All ordinances passed by the council shall, within Publication of one month after they have been passed, be published in some newspaper in the county of Vermilion, or posted up in at least three public places in said town at least three weeks, and shall not be in force until they shall have been so published.

16. The assessor shall assess the property, both real Assessor. and personal, in said corporation, between the first of May Duties of and July, of each year, and shall make return to the board of trustees on or before the first Monday in July, or at such other time as the board may direct, at which time the council shall proceed to assess and levy the taxes for said corporation for the current year, and cause a list thereof to be delivered to the constable for collection, who is hereby made collector for said town.

17. Appeals shall be allowed from any and all cases arising under the provisions of this act, or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof, to the circuit court of Vermilion county.

Appeal taken

to circuit court.

§ 18. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and Evidence of act. shall be construed beneficially for all the purposes herein contained, and may be read in evidence in all courts of

law and equity within this state.

§ 19. This act shall be in force from and after its pas

sage.

APPROVED March 8, 1869.