and alleys. Second-To open, alter, vacate, widen, extend, establish, Opening streets grade, pave or otherwise improve any street, avenue, lanes, alleys or public roads, within the limits of said town. sidewalks. Third. To make, construct and keep in repair side- Construction of walks or pavements in front of any lot or lots adjacent to any street or streets in town, and to levy and to collect a tax, from time to time, upon the lot or lots in front of which such sidewalks or pavements are or shall be ordered and proposed to be made, constructed or kept in repair: Provided, such tax shall be on such lots proportionate to the length of their respective fronts; and until the said president and trustees shall provide, by ordinance, for levying and collecting of said tax, they shall enter upon the records of said corporation, whenever they desire to collect such tax, a resolution that such tax shall be levied and collected, and the number of the lot or lots upon which the tax is proposed to be levied, and the amount upon each lot; and a certified copy of such resolution shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county court. It shall then be collected in the manner provided in the ninth section of an act entitled "An act to incorporate towns and cities," approved February 10, A. D. 1849, for the collection of other corporate taxes. lect taxes. Fourth-To levy and collect taxes upon all property, real Levy and coland personal, within the limits of said corporation, not exceeding one-half per cent. per annum, upon the assessed value thereof, and may enforce the payment thereof in any inanner, to be prescribed by ordinance, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States and of this state; but until they provide by ordinance for enforcing the payment thereof, they shall be collected in the manner provided by the ninth section of the act aforesaid. Fifth-To restrain, regulate or prohibit the running at stock at large. large of any cattle, horse, sheep, swine, goats and other animals, and to authorize the distraining, impounding and sale of the same; and to prohibit any indecent exhibition of horses or other animals. Sixth-To prevent and regulate the running at large [of] Dogs. dogs, and the destruction of the same when at large contrary to any ordinance. Horse-racing Seventh-To prevent horse-racing, or any immoderate rid- and fast driving. ing or driving within the limits of said town, of horses or other animals; to prohibit the abuse of animals; to compel persons to fasten their horses or other animals attached to vehicles or otherwise, while standing or remaining in any street, alley or public road in said town. Eighth. To establish and maintain a public pound, and Public pounds. to appoint a poundmaster and prescribe his duties. Ninth.-To license, regulate and prohibit all exhibitions Exhibitions. of common shows of every kind, caravans, circuses and exhibitions and amusements. Prevent riotous conduct. Abate nuisances Prevent con Tenth. To prevent, suppress and prohibit any riot, affray, disturbance or disorderly assemblages, assaults, assaults and batteries, or shooting within the limits of said town. Eleventh. To declare what may be a nuisance, and to define the same, and to authorize and direct a summary abatement thereof. Twelfth. To make regulations to prevent the introtagious diseases duction of contagious diseases into town, and execute the same for any distance not exceeding two miles from the limits thereof. Gunpowder,etc. Extinguishment of fires. Provide water. Public grounds. Buildings. Gambling and other devices. Houses of illfame. General health. Prohibit sale of liquor. Indebtedness. To pass all ordinances. Thirteenth. To regulate the storage of gunpowder and other combustible materials. Fourteenth-To provide for the prevention and extinguishment of fires, and to organize and establish fire companies. Fifteenth.-To provide the fown with water for the extinguishment of fires. Sixteenth.-To provide for inclosing, improving and regulating all public grounds and other lands belonging to said town. Seventeenth.-To provide for erecting all needful buildings for the use of said town. Eighteenth. To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of gambling and fraudulent device; to suppress and prohibit billiard tables, ball-alleys and other gambling establish ments. Nineteenth.-To suppress and prohibit disorderly houses or groceries and houses of ill-fame. Twentieth. To make all necessary regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants thereof. Twenty-first.-To suppress and prohibit the retailing or selling, bartering, exchanging and traffic of any wine, rum, gin, brandy, whisky, or other intoxicating liquors, within the limits of said town: Provided, that they may allow bona fide druggists to sell the same in good faith, for purely medicinal, mechanical or sacramental purposes. Twenty-second.-To provide for and to appropriate, for the payment of any debt or the expenses of the town, and to fix the compensation of town officers. Twenty-third.-To make all ordinances which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the provisions specified in this act or which they may deem expedient for the better regulation of the internal police of said town, and to execute the same, and to impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance or any of the provisions of this act, and to provide for the recov ery and appropriation of such fines and forfeitures and the enforcement of such penalties: Provided, that in no case, except in assaults, assaults and batteries, riots or affrays, shall any such fine or penalty exceed the sum of twentyfive dollars for any one offense. of health. § 6. It shall be the duty of the president and trustees Street commisof said town to appoint a street commissioner, board of sioner and board health and all other officers that may be necessary, and to prescribe their duties, and may require bond from the seve ral officers for the faithful discharge of their duties. § 7. The constable elected in pursuance of this act, Jurisdiction of when duly sworn and qualified, shall execute, anywhere in Constable. the county of Pike, any writ, process and precept which may be issued against person or persons for the violation of any ordinance of said corporation, and to arrest, on view, any and all persons who may violate the same, and to take them before any justice of the peace in said town: Provided, that any other constable may execute any process issued by any justice of the peace by virtue of this act. proceedings. 8. The president and trustees shall require their Record clerk, and it shall be his duty, to keep a full and faithful record of all their proceedings, by-laws and ordinances, in a book to be provided for that purpose, and such book, purporting to be the record of the town of Kinderhook, shall be received in all courts, without further proof, as evidence of all such matter therein contained; and all ordinances, before taking effect, shall be published at least ten days in a newspaper published in said town or by posting up copies of the same in three of the most public places in said town. feitures, how 9. Any fine, penalty or forfeiture incurred under this Fines and foract, or any by-laws or ordinances made in pursuance of this recovered. act, or of any act that may be passed amendatory of this act, may be recovered, together with costs, before any justice of the peace, in the incorporate name; and the several fines, forfeitures or penalties for breach of the same ordinances or by-laws, not exceeding one hundred dollars, may be recovered in one suit; and the process shall be a summons, unless oath or affirmation be made for a warrant by some credible person; but in all cases of assault, assault and battery, affray or riot, a warrant shall be issued for the arrest of the offender or offenders, in the same manner as for like offenses against the laws of the state. It shall be lawful to declare, generally, for debt, for such fines, penalties or forfeitures, stating the clause of this act or the ordinance or by-law under which the same is claimed, and to give the special matter in evidence, under the declaration; and the justice shall proceed to hear and determine the case as in other cases. Upon the rendition of judgment for any such fines, penalties or forfeitures, the justice shall issue his execution for the same and costs of suit, which may be levied upon any personal property of the defendant or defendants, not exempt from execution. If the constable shall return upon such execution no property fund," then the justice of the peace shall issue a ca Fees of the justice and constable. Not to give se pias against the body of the defendant or defendants, and the constable shall arrest such person or persons and commit him, her or them to the jail of the county, to remain forty-eight hours, and if the judgment and costs exceed five dollars, then to remain in close custody in said jail twentyfour hours for every two dollars over and above the said fine, and so in proportion to the amount of the judgment and cost: Provided, however, if the said president and trustees, or their attorney, shall require a transcript of the judgment and costs to be certified to the clerk of the circuit court of the proper county, to have the same levied upon real estate and signify the same in writing, to him, he shall not issue a capias aforesaid, but shall, without delay, certify a transcript thereof, according to law, to such clerk, which shall be filed and recorded as in other cases, and such judgment shall have the same force and effect as judgment rendered in the circuit court: Provided, an appeal may be granted within five days after the rendition of judgment with the same force and effect, rights and privileges to all parties as in other cases. 10. The justice of the peace and constable who may render service under this act shall be entitled to the same fees and collect them in the same manner as is or may hereafter be provided by law in other cases. § 11. The president and trustees shall not be required, curity for cost. in suits instituted under this act or ordinances passed by virtue thereof, to file, before the commencement of any such suit, security for costs. Fines aud pen treasurer. $ 12. All fines, forfeitures and penalties received or alties paid to collected for the breach of any ordinance of this act shall be paid into the treasury of said corporation by the officer or person receiving or collecting the same. Exempt from road labor.] Proof of act. Ex officio pow § 13. The inhabitants of said town are hereby exempted from working on any roads beyond the limits of the corpo ration and from paying any tax upon property within its limits to procure laborers to work upon any such roads. 14. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and may be read in all courts of law or equity within this state, without proof. § 15. The constable elected or appointed in pursuance ers of constable. of this act shall be, ex officio, collector of any and all taxes levied in pursuance of any order issued by the president and trustees. 16. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 29, 1869. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Lanark. In force Match 26, 1869. 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 Lanark, in the county of Carroll, and state of Illinois, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Name and style. President and Trustees of the Town of Lanark ;" and, by that name and style, shall have perpetual succession, and may have the use of a common seal, which they may change or alter at pleasure, and in whom the government of the corporation shall be vested, and by whom its affairs shall be managed. ers. 2. The inhabitants of said town, by the name and Corporate powstyle aforesaid, may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and in all actions whatever; and purchase, receive and hold property, real and personal, within or beyond the limits of said town, for burial grounds and for other public purposes, for the use of the inhabitants of said town, and may sell, lease and dispose of propery, real and personal for the benefit of said town, and inprove and protect such property, and do all things in relation thereto as natural persons. 3. That the boundaries of said corporation shall Boundaries. include the lands described by and within the following boundaries, being in the county of Carroll, and state of Illinois, to wit: The several additions, as herein described, made to the original plat of said town by John Nyeum and Richard Irvin and surveyed by Elijah Funk, county surveyor, as follows: Frank Smith's addition, Richard Irvin's addition, and David B. Long's addition to the town of Lanark, including the street separating Richard Irvin's addition, above named, from David B. Long's addition, above named; also, the following described tract of land, be and is hereby declared to be henceforth included within said incorporation, to wit: Beginning at the south-east corner of David B. Long's addition to the town of Lanark; thence due south seventeen and one third (17) rods; thence due west ninety (90) rods, to a point on the public road running south from Broad street, in said town; thence due north seventeen and one third (17) rods to the southwest corner of Richard Irvin's addition to the said town; thence due east ninety (90) rods, to the place of beginning; and further, that the following tract of land be and is hereby declared to be a part of and included within the corporation of said town, to wit: Beginning at the northeast corner of David B. Long's addition to the town of Lanark; thence due north to the tract of the Western Union Railroad Company; thence west to the north-west corner of block number one, of Richard Irvin's addition to |