number of acres of land in the district against which said assessments were made.

§ 54. Any person who shall wrongfully and purposely cut, injure, destroy, or in any manner impair the usefulness of any work constructed under the provisions of this Act may be fined in any sum, not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction, and all fines when collected shall be paid to the commissioners of said district to be used for the work so injured.

§ 55. The said Little Wabash River Drainage District shall not remove, destroy, appropriate or use any drain, ditch or other work of any drainage district organized under any law of this State without paying to such drainage district just compensation therefor. In case the commissioners of said Little Wabash River Drainage District and the corporate authorities of any such drainage district shall be unable to agree upon the compensation to be paid to such drainage district, the same may be ascertained and enforced by any proper proceeding in any court of competent jurisdiction. Upon payment of such compensation being made, said Little Wabash River Drainage District shall have the right to appropriate and use such ditches, drains or other work, or any part thereof, as it may desire, and being within its boundaries, for or in connection with any improvements authorized by this Act, and for or in connection with the purposes for which said Little Wabash River Drainage District is organized: Provided, no such drain, ditch or work, shall be destroyed or removed or so used as to impair its usefulness for the purposes for which the same was constructed, without the consent of the corporate authorities of such drainage district.

§ 56. The said Little Wabash River Drainage District shall have the power to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, any and all real and personal property, right of ways and privileges, either within or without its corporate limits, required for its corporate purposes, and when such property is no longer required for such purposes, to sell, convey or otherwise dispose of the same, such condemnation to be had under the eminent domain laws of this State.

§ 57. No bonds issued or sold by said district under the provisions of this Act shall be issued or sold for less than their par value and accrued interest at the time of delivery. All bonds issued or sold shall be registered by the secretary of the commissioners in a well-bound book before delivery. Such registration shall show the date and amount of each bond, the maturity thereof, the rate of interest it draws, when the interest is payable and to whom delivered. When bonds are paid they shall be cancelled by the treasurer of the district and the date of cancellation shall be entered on said register by said secretary.

§ 58. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, this Act shall be in force from and after its passage.

FILED June 26, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

REORGANIZATION OF DISTRICT CONTAINING CITY, TOWN OR VILLAGE. § 1. Petition for reorganization of farm § 3. Division of indebtedness expense lands into separate district-officers of drainage district defendants-notice of hearing.

§ 2. Hearing order authorizing reorganization-adjacent land may remain in original district.

(HOUSE BILL No. 729.

of administration.

§ 4. Injury or interference with drainage of lands of either districtsettlement of disputes.

FILED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to enable the owners of farm lands which form any part of a drainage district, in which there is located in whole or in part a city, town or village, to reorganize as a separate drainage district with certain rights and duties in relation thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever the owners of three-fourths of the farm lands in any drainage district in which there is located, in whole or in part, any city, town, or village, shall petition the County Court of the county in which said drainage district is located. for the reorganization of such farm lands into a separate drainage district for the reason that a majority of the land owners who are entitled to vote for offices of said drainage [district] reside in such city, town or village, and shall make the officers of such drainage district defendants to said petition, the judge of the County Court of such county shall in a summary manner hear such petition. The County Court shall give the officers of such drainage district at least ten days' notice of such hearing by serving upon them a copy of such petition in the same manner that other legal process by summons is served upon defendants in said court.

§ 2. If upon said hearing it shall appear that the allegations in said petition are true, the County Court shall enter an order authorizing such owners of farm lands to reorganize and become a separate drainage district with the power to select their own officers and have the same rights, powers and duties as if originally organized without having included therein, in whole or in part, any city, town, or village. Provided, that the owner of any portion of such farm lands which may lie adjacent to such city, town or village may by filing with the said court in such proceeding a written request to that effect remain in the original drainage district and not become or be a part of said reorganized district.

§3. The county judge in such summary proceeding shall ascertain the amount of valid indebtedness outstanding against said drainage district and shall find and determine the amount of the same that shall be borne by such reorganized district and embrace the same in the order in relation to such proceeding. It shall be the duty of the reorganized drainage district to contribute its just proportion of such indebtedness in manner and form as shall be ordered by said County Court. No expense of administration in said district shall be required to be paid by said reorganized district.

S4. Neither the said drainage district or the reorganized district shall do any act that will injure or interfere with the drainage of the lands in either of such districts. If any dispute shall arise in relation to the affairs of said drainage districts, such dispute shall be submitted in a summary manner by petition of either party to the County Court in

which such districts are located and the decision and order of the said County Court in relation thereto shall be final.

FILED June 26, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

SANITARY DISTRICTS-LEGALIZING APPROPRIATIONS, TAX LEVIES

AND BONDS.

§ 1. Appropriations, tax levies and bonds made or issued by board of trustees without giving notice by publication or posting notice made legal and valid-proviso.

§ 2. Emergency.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 509. APPROVED MAY 3, 1917.)

AN ACT concerning sanitary districts organized and existing under and by virtue of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Desplaines and Illinois Rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, to make legal and valid all ordinances, orders or resolutions heretofore passed or adopted by the board of trustees of any such sanitary district, making appropriations providing for the issuance of bonds and making a certain tax levy, and to make legal and valid all appropriations so made, or attempted to be made, and certain taxes so levied or attempted to be levied and all bonds so issued or attempted to be issued by the board of trustees of any such sanitary district.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That when the board of trustees of any sanitary district organized and existing under and by virtue of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Desplaines and Illinois Rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, has heretofore passed or adopted any order, resolution or ordinance, or any orders, resolutions or ordinances making any appropriations, tax levies, or providing for the issuance of bonds, at any time or times, (one or more times,) and regardless of whether any such order, resolution or ordinance was published within one month after the same was passed by the board of trustees of any such sanitary district at least once in a newspaper of general circulation published in said district, or if no such newspaper of general circulation was published therein, regardless of whether copies of the same were posted in three public places in such district, all such orders, resolutions or ordinances making appropriations, tax levies or providing for the issuance of bonds, and all appropriations so made, or attempted to be made, and all taxes for any purposes not prohibted by or in violation of the Constitution of this State so levied or attempted to be levied, and extensions thereof and therefor, and all bonds so issued or attempted to be issued by the board of trustees of any such sanitary district shall be and are hereby declared to be legal and valid, anything in any law of this State to the contrary notwithstanding; provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall apply to or effect the tax levy ordinance passed or adopted by

the board of trustees of any such sanitary district providing for the levy and extension of taxes for the year 1915.

§ 2. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefore this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 3, 1917.

SANITARY DISTRICTS-LEVY AND COLLECTION OF TAXES FOR CORPORATE PURPOSES.

§ 1. Amends section 17, and repeals section 22, Act of 1907.

§ 17. As amended, adds provision that taxes levied for corporate purposes shall not be included in the taxes required to be reduced under the Revenue Law of 1901.

(HOUSE BILL No. 511. APPROVED JUNE 14, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 17 of "An Act to create sanitary districts in certain localities and to drain and protect the same from overflow for sanitary purposes," approved May 17, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, and to further amend said Act by repealing section 22 thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 22 of an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts in certain localities and to drain and protect the same from overflow for sanitary purposes," approved May 17, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be repealed and that section 17 of said Act be amended to read as follows:

§ 17. The board of trustees shall have power to levy and collect taxes for corporate purposes. Such taxes shall be levied by ordinance. specifyng the purposes for which the same are required, and a certified copy of such ordinance shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which said district was organized, on or before the second Tuesday in August, as provided in section 122 of the General Revenue Law. After the assessment for the current year has been equalized by the State Board of Equalization, said board of trustees shall, as soon as may be, ascertain and certify to such county clerk the total value of all taxable property lying within the corporate limits of such district in each of said counties in which said district is situated, as the same is assessed and equalized for State and county purposes for the current year; and it shall be the duty of said clerk to ascertain the rate per cent which, upon the total valuation of all such property, ascertained as aforesaid, would produce a net amount not less than the amount so directed to be levied; and said clerk shall, without delay, certify under his hand and seal of office to the county clerk of such other county, in which a portion of said district is situate such rate per cent; and it shall be the duty of each of said county clerks to extend such tax in a separate column upon the books of the collector or collectors of the State and county taxes for said counties, against all property in their respective counties, within the limits of said district. 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 officers collecting the same, to the treasurer of the sanitary district, in the manner and at the time provided by the General Revenue Law. The aggregate

amount of taxes levied for any one year, exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of bonded indebtedness and interest thereon, shall not exceed the rate of 2 per centum upon the aggregate valuation of all property within such district, subject to taxation therein, as the same was equalized for State and county taxes for the current year: Provided, that an amount not exceeding an additional 3 per centum of such valuation may be levied and collected hereunder, if the question of making such additional levy shall have been previously submitted to the legal voters of said district upon not less than three weeks' notice, published as provided in section 2 hereof and a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor thereof: Provided, further, that in all cases where any such board of trustees has heretofore certified to the county clerk the said total value of all taxable property in any such district, in the manner and at the time provided in this section, such act of said board of trustees shall be deemed and held legal and valid: Provided, further, that said. taxes herein provided to be levied 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 Acts amendatory thereof. APPROVED June 14, 1917.

AN ACT to create sanitary districts and to provide for sewage disposal. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever any area of con