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ballots prepared for the voters at any election upon the question of such increase of indebtedness or said bond issue shall conform to the requirements of law for submitting amendments to the constitution. If a majority of the electors voting at such election shall vote for incurring such increase of indebtedness or bond issue, the same shall thereby be fully authorized; but such further increase of indebtedness or the issuing of bonds shall in no case exceed, including existing indebtedness, the sum of five per centum on the value of taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last equalized assessment for State and county taxes previous to the borrowing of such money and issuing of such bonds, and before or at the time of issuing such bonds, said board shall provide for the collection of an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty (20) years from the date of issuing such bonds.

All general taxes proposed by said board of trustees to be levied. upon the taxable property within said district shall be levied at the same time and in the same manner as taxes are now levied for city and village purposes under the laws of this State: Provided, the aggregate amount. of taxes levied for any one year, exclusive of the amount levied for the payment of the interest on the bonded indebtedness shall not exceed the rate of six mills per centum upon the aggregate valuation of property within such district subject to taxation therein as the same was equalized for the State and county taxes for the year previous. All moneys when collected under any of the provisions of this Act shall be paid to the treasurer of said board of trustees for said district.

§ 12. The regular election for president and trustees of any district organized under this Act shall be held every two years after such organization on the third Tuesday of July, and the president and board of trustees shall give twenty (20) days notice of such election the purpose for which the same is held, establish the number and boundary lines of the election precincts in said park district and designate the polling places in each precinct, and appoint the judges and clerks of election, furnish the official ballots, and the election shall be conducted and the votes canvassed and the returns made to the board of trustees of any such districts in the manner as required of the president and board of trustees of incorporated villages in this State acting under the general law for the incorporation of cities and villages: Provided, that whenever all or any part of the territory embraced in any district organized under this Act is within the territorial limits of any city or village in which are in force the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the results thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, and Acts amendatory thereto, and in which are also in force the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and all Acts amendatory thereto by adding thereto article XIII," approved March 9, 1910, in force July 1, 1910, the provisions of said Act entitled, "An Act regulating the holding (of) elections and declaring the results thereof in cities, villages

and incorporated towns in this State," and Acts amendatory thereto, shall apply at all elections held in such district throughout so much of said. district as is within the territorial limits of said city or village, and there shall be elected at the first election held in such district after this amendatory Act shall be in force, the president and six trustees of such district, who shall hold their office until the election and qualification of their successors, who shall be elected at an election to be held in such district at the same time and on the same day on which falls the first regular election thereafter for mayor and commissioners for such city or village, and at said last mentioned election there shall be elected in such district the president, whose term of office shall be two years and whose successor shall be elected every two years thereafter, and six trustees, three of whom, to be so designated upon the ballot, shall hold their office for the term of two years and whose successors shall then be elected for a term of four years and every four years thereafter and three of whom, to be so designated upon the ballot, shall hold their office for the term of four years and whose successors shall be elected every four years thereafter: And provided, further, that the election of any person declared elected to the office of president or trustee of any district organized under this Act may be contested by any qualified voter of such district in like manner as the election of mayors of cities may be contested, and that the Circuit and County Courts of the county within which said district or the greater portion thereof lays, shall have concurrent jurisdiction to hear and determine such contests.

Nominations of candidates for the office of president and trustee to be voted upon at all elections provided for by this Act, other than the election called by the County Court, as herein before provided, for the election for the first trustees for any such district, shall be made only by petition in like manner as is provided for nominations for candidates by petition for town offices, in counties under township organization by an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public expense, and for the nomination of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections, and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot," approved June 22, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, and Acts amendatory thereto; such petition shall be addressed to, and filed in the office of the board of trustees of such pleasure driveway and park district, and a copy thereof shall at once be certified by the secretary of such board to the board of election commissioners of any such city or village, in which said district lays wholly or in part, and in which are in force the provisions of said Act entitled, "An Act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the results thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State," and of said Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to provide for the incorporation. of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and all Acts amendatory thereto, by adding thereto Article XIII,” and all objections or other questions arising in relation to such nominations. and petitions therefor shall be passed upon by the Circuit or County Court of the county in which such district, or the greater portion thereof lays, and the decision of such court shall be final.

The question whether the trustees of any pleasure driveway and park district shall be elected by the legal voters of such district, or shall be appointed by the county and circuit judges, as hereinafter provided, may be submitted for adoption or rejection by the legal voters of said district at any election for trustees held in such district upon petition signed by not less than five per centum of the legal voters of such district and filed with the board of trustees, or, if asked for in the petition for organization of such district, at the election held for the purpose of voting upon the question of such organization; and the ballots at such election shall be in the following form:

For the appointment of park trustees.

Against the appointment of park trustees.

A majority of all the legal votes cast at such election shall determine the manner thereafter of selecting such park trustees.

The votes cast at such election in districts not organized shall be canvassed by the board of trustees of said park districts and the results thereof spread upon the records of said district; and the votes cast at the elections for the organization of such park districts shall be canvassed by the county judge and be spread upon the records of said court.

Within ten (10) days after any such election in which a majority of the legal votes cast thereat shall be in favor of the appointment of trustees for said district, as herein provided, the county judge of the county in which all or a greater portion of said district is located, and two of the judges of the Circuit Court of the judicial district in which said park district is located, which of said circuit judges shall act to be determined by lot among themselves, shall appoint by ballot for such park district seven trustees of such district who shall qualify and hold their respective offices until the first Monday in July following such organization and until their successors are appointed and qualified as herein provided, and no longer; and in all park districts now organized under this Act in which the question of the manner of choosing park trustees has been submitted to the legal voters of said district, and a majority of the legal votes cast at said election shall be in favor of the appointment of said trustees as herein provided, the officers of said park district then in office shall hold their respective offices until the first Monday in July following, and until their successors are appointed and qualified as herein provided, and no longer.

On the first Monday of July following the election in any park district organized, or to be organized, under this Act in which the legal voters have determined as herein provided that the park trustees shall be appointed as provided by this Act, the county and circuit judges, as above designated, shall appoint, by ballot, seven trustees who shall con

stitute the board of trustees for all pleasure driveways and park districts organized under this Act, and thereafter said judges shall appoint trustees biennially for such districts, on the first Monday in July, to fill the vacancy on said board of trustees caused by the expiration of the term of office of trustees or to fill any vacancy on said board occurring from any cause whatsoever, and said trustees shall be legal voters and reside within the said park district: Provided, that no more than four of said trustees, at any one time shall belong to the same political party. Each of said trustees shall receive a certificate of appointment and qualify within ten days from the receipt of notice of election.

In each pleasure driveway and park district organized, or hereafter organized under this Act, immediately upon the appointment of park trustees as herein provided, said trustees shall meet in some convenient place in said park district and organize and elect by ballot from among their members a president and vice president, who shall qualify and hold their respective offices for a term of two years, and until their successors are elected and qualified. At the first meeting of the trustees appointed as provided herein, they shall divide themselves by lot into two classes, the first class, consisting of four members, shall hold their office for a period of four years, and the second class, consisting of three members, shall hold their office for a period of two years and at the expiration of the term of office of the second class their successors shall be appointed for a period of four years, and thereafter each class of trustees shall be appointed for a period of four years and shall hold their office until their successors are appointed and qualified. The president shall preside at all meetings and in his absence or disability the vice president shall preside.

The president and trustees shall elect a secretary and treasurer, whose term of office shall not be longer than two years, and they shall give such bond and perform such duties as shall be required of them by said board of trustees.

All trustees appointed for any park district, as herein provided, shall have and exercise all the powers conferred by this Act upon trustees elected under the provisions of this Act.

All Acts and parts of Acts relating to holding elections in the State of Illinois which in any way conflict with the provisions for elections in pleasure driveway and park districts organized under this Act and amendments thereto, be and they are hereby repealed in so far as they relate to elections and the manner of holding the same in such pleasure driveway and park districts.

APPROVED June 14, 1917.

OATHS OF COMMISSIONERS.

§ 1. Amends section 7, Act of 1895.

§ 7. Oath of commissioners-filing.

(SENATE BILL No. 328. APPROVED MAY 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895 as subsequently amended by amending section 7 thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895 as subsequently amended be and the same is hereby amended by amending section 7 thereof to read as follows:

§ 7. Each of said commissioners before entering upon the duties of his office shall take and subscribe an oath to well and faithfully discharge his duties as such commissioner, which oath shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the county in which the commissioner resides. APPROVED May 26, 1917.

ORGANIZATION OF PARK DISTRICTS AND TRANSFER OF SUBMERGED LANDS-LEASE OF LANDS FOR PLAY GROUNDS.

§ 1. Amends section 15, Act of 1895.

§ 15. As amended, provides park district may acquire land from any municipal corporation by lease or permit for play grounds.

(SENATE BILL NO. 442. APPROVED JUNE 14, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 15 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as amended by an Act approved April 22, 1899, in force July 1, 1899.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section 15 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of park districts and the transfer of submerged lands to those bordering on navigable bodies of water," approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as amended by an Act approved April 22, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 15. Said park district shall have the power to acquire by gift, grant or purchase, or by condemnation under the Act of eminent domain, any and all real estate, lands, riparian estates or rights, and all other property required or needed for any such park or boulevard, or for extending, adorning or maintaining same, and located within its territory.

And said park district shall have power to acquire by lease or permit from any other municipal corporation, the right to occupy and use real

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