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15. So much of this act as provides for changing the name of said town of Dement shall be inoperative and void until the same shall be adopted by the legal voters of said town in manner following: It shall be the duty of the corporate authorities of said town to submit the question of changing the name of said town at the next regular election in 'said town, or at any special election to be called by them for that purpose, at any time within six months after the Legal voters passage of this act. At such election the legal voters of on said town shall vote "For Dement," or "For Creston;" and if at such election a majority of the votes cast upon that question shall be "For Dement," so much of this act as provides for changing the name of said town shall be void, but if at such election a majority of the votes cast upon that question shall be "For Creston," then all the provisions of this act relating to said change of the name of said town be in force and effect.

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§ 16. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, to be received and used in all courts without proving or pleading the same, and shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED April 1, 1869.

In force March AN ACT to change the name of Glascoe, in Peoria county, to Glasford. 30, 1869.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town of Glascoe, in Peoria county, be and the same is hereby changed to that of Glasford.

2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 30, 1869.

In force April AN ACT to amend an act to change the name of the town of Grand Cote. 15, 1869.

SEOTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town of Grand Cote, in Randolph county, is hereby changed to that of Coulterville, and shall hereafter be known by that name.

§ 2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall

be in force from its passage.

APPROVED April 15, 1869.

AN ACT to change the name of the town of Howard, in the county of In force June

Winnebago.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That the name of the town of Howard, in the county of Winnebago, be and is hereby changed to Durand, and by that name shall be henceforth known and called.

APPROVED.

19, 1869.

AN ACT to change the name of the town of Lysander, in the county of In force March

Winnebago.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the town of Lysander, in the county of Winneba go, is hereby changed from Lysander to Pecatonica.

2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 29, 1869.

29, 1869.

AN ACT to change the name of the town or village of Mount Pleasant, in In] force March DeWitt county, and state of Illinois.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the name of the village or town of Mount Pleasant, in the county of DeWitt and state of Illinois, be and the same is hereby so altered and changed that the said town or village shall be hereafter designated and known by the name of Farmer City.

§ 2. That this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 27, 1869.

27, 1869.

In force April AN ACT to change the name of the town of Rand to Desplaines, and incor 15, 1869. porate the same,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Name changed. name of the town of Rand, in the county of Cook and state of Illinois, be and the same is hereby changed to Desplaines; and that all lots of land and real estate which may be hereafter conveyed and transferred, which lie within the boundaries of the town of Rand, as described by maps of said town of Rand, which are recorded in the recorder's office in the county of Cook and state of Illinois, in book of maps 143, pages 9 and 10, and book of maps 161, page 18, may be described in deeds, contracts, mortgages and instruments of writing, conveying and relating to such lands, as located in the town of Desplaines; and such descriptions shall be valid. But nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with or affect the title to any real estate or other property. And all transfers and conveyances of real estate, before made, which describe the same as in the village or town of Rand, shall be and stand valid.

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§ 2. That all those tracts of land embraced within the boundaries of section sixteen, section seventeen, section twenty and section twenty-one, in township forty-one north, of range twelve east of the third principal meridian, according to the original survey of the said sections, be and the same is hereby declared to be within the limits and boundaries of the town of Desplaines.

3. That the resident inhabitants of the town of Desplaines, residing within the boundaries described in section 2 of this act, are hereby made and constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and title of "The Town of Desplaines ;" and by that name shall have perpetual succession; may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, complain and defend, in courts of law and equity, and in all actions and matters whatsoever; may receive, purchase, hold, grant, convey and lease real estate and personal property, as the purposes and interest of said town of Desplaines may require; may have and use a seal, and alter the same at pleasure; and may do all other acts, as natural persons, in exercising the powers hereby granted. Powers vest- § 4. The corporate powers and government of said incorporation shall be vested in five trustees, who shall form a board for the transaction of business, and who shall serve without compensation. The board of trustees shall be elected annually and serve for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified; they shall be citizens of the United States, twenty-one years of age; shall possess a freehold estate within the limits of the incorporation, and

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water and dig wells, erect hydrants and pumps in the streets for the convenience of the public; to open, widen, alter, reduce, extend, establish, grade, plank, pave, and in any other way or manner improve and keep in repair streets, avenues, lanes and alleys, sidewalks, crosswalks, Streets, alleys, drains and sewers; to establish, erect and keep in repair bridges; to provide for the erection of all needful buildings for the use of the town; to provide for inclosing, improving and regulating all public grounds or places within or belonging to the corporation; to provide, establish, prohibit, abolish and regulate any public or private cemetery or burying ground within the boundaries of the said town, and to permit or prohibit the burial of the dead therein; to cause trees, shrubbery and plants for ornament and shade Shade and orto be planted and protected in the public grounds and namental trees. streets; to establish the widths, directions and names of all new streets and shapes of corners which may be laid out or made in any land which may be cut up or divided into blocks or lots within the limits of the said town; to offer and pay premiums and rewards for fine gardens, trees, plants, vegetables, fruits and flowers which may be produced within said town limits; to restrain and prohibit shooting, horse racing, indecent exposure of horses or persons, the use of obscene, indecent or profane language, bell-ringing, drumming, shouting or making other loud or or uncivil noises, obstructing streets or public grounds; to cause saloons, business places and places of amusement to be closed and abstain from transactions on Sunday, and to prohibit playing and sporting on that day; to regulate and determine the times and places for bathing and swimming in the river or other waters within the said town; to restrain and prohibit houses of ill-fame, gaming and gaming disorderly hous houses, and other disorderly houses, and to suppress the same; to prohibit prize fighting, contracting to fight, boxing or other disorderly conduct, cock fighting, dog fighting, cruelty in the treatment of animals within the limits of said. town; to provide for taxing, licensing and regulating circuses, caravans, theatrical or other shows and amusements for the admission to which money or anything is charged; shows. to prohibit, regulate and license merchants, auctions, peddlers, billiard tables, ball alleys, shooting rooms, lotteries, gift enterprises or sale of goods connected with any gift; and should the laws of this state at any time permit the selling of liquor or ardent spirits of any kind by a less quantity than one quart, then the exclusive power to regulate and license such selling within the corporate limits; to restrain and prohibit the running at large of any horses, cattle, sheep, swine, goats or dogs; to cause the destruction Cattle, hogs, of dogs within said corporation; to erect market houses; to establish markets and market places, and provide for the

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use, government and regulation thereof; to establish the Slaughter location and cause the removal of slaughter houses, soap and candle factories, tanning establishments, or other unwholesome or offensive house, thing or place, and to cleanse and abate the same as often or whenever the board of trustees may consider best for the health, comfort and good of the inhabitants of said town; and said trustees or any of them shall have full power to enter upon any premises where a nuisance is supposed to be situated, and to cause the removal of any nuisance, and the expense of such removal to be assessed upon and collected from the premises on which the same may be situated; to fix the rates to be Charges for charged for the carriage of persons and property within the sons and prop- limits of said incorporation by carriages, wagons, sleighs or drags; to provide for the preservation from and extinguishFire regulations inent of fires; to establish and regulate a fire department; to regulate the storage of gunpowder and all other combustible materials; to regulate the speed at which railroad locomotives and cars shall be driven or horses rode or Appointment driven through said incorporation; to appoint, regulate and discharge the police of the town; to regulate the election of officers of the incorporation; to provide for their compensation, except the board of trustees; to provide for the inspection and weighing of hay and coal, the measurement of charcoal, fire-wood or other fuel to be sold or used within the incorporation; to make all such ordinances, from time to time, and alter, amend and repeal the same, as shall be necessary to carry into effect and execution the powers specified in this act, so that the same be not inconsistent. herewith, nor with the laws or constitution of the United States or of this state; to impose fines, forfeitures and penalties for the breach of any ordinance of the incorporation, and to provide for the recovery and appropriation of any such fine or forfeiture and the enforcement of any such and penalty; to provide for the infliction of fines or penalties upon any officer of the incorporation neglecting or refusing to perform any duty or act required of such officer in this act to be done; to cause, from time to time, a census of the inhabitants of said town to be taken, and, in their discretion, to divide said town into wards, and designate the number of trustees that each ward shall be entitled to; to Justice of the provide for the election of one or two justices of the peace from the legal voters of the incorporation, biennially, at the election of the board of trustees, by the legal voters of the town, who shall hold their office for the term of two years and until their successors are elected and qualified-returns of which election shall be made by the clerk of the townand such justices shall be commissioned by the governor, give bonds, to be filed in the town clerk's office and running to the board of trustees of the town, and in all other

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