TAX TITLES-RECONVEYANCE, SUBSEQUENT TAXES. § 1. Amends section 1, Act of 1909. § 1. As amended, provides subsequent taxes or special assessments shall not be included in certificate of redemption. (SENATE BILL No. 466. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act entitled, 'An Act in regard to tax titles and providing for the reconveyance of tax titles and fixing a penalty for failure or refusal to reconvey,'" approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, by amending section one (1) 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 entitled, 'An Act in regard to tax title and providing for the reconveyance of tax titles and fixing the penalty for failure or refusal to reconvey," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended so that the said section when amended shall read as follows: § 1. That whenever the grantee of a tax deed to real estate, or any one claiming thereunder, shall not be in possession or occupation of said premises so claimed and shall not take or institute proceedings in good faith to take possession within one year after the date of the first tax deed under his alleged tax title, then it shall be lawful for the owner or said real estate or his agent or attorney to pay or tender said tax title holder the amount of moneys paid out and expended by said tax title holder, upon said sale with five per cent (5 per cent) interest per annum thereon together with subsequent taxes and specials paid and the statutory fees and costs incurred, and that upon such payment or tender the said tax title holder shall reconvey the premises aforesaid to the owner thereof, the amount of such tender may be based upon an estimate prepared by the county clerk. Provided, however, that the county clerk shall not be required to include any subsequent taxes or special assessments in his certificate of redemption, nor shall the payment thereof be a charge upon the land sold for taxes, unless the purchaser, assignee, or holder of the tax certificate of sale shall have filed with the county clerk, before redemption, an official, original or duplicate tax collectors receipt for the payment of such subsequent taxes or special assessments, and it shall be the duty of the tax collector to execute and furnish such duplicate tax receipts. In preparing such estimate, the county clerk shall include in addition to the amount of moneys herein provided for, the following fees to the tax title holder: For preparing the affidavit of compliance with law, $1.00. For services of the notices provided by law, which must be served by holders of certificates of sale, to occupants, owners or parties interested in real estate sold for taxes, the sum of not to exceed $3.00 for each lot, block, tract or piece of land, as listed, assessed and sold in one description. For recording the tax deed, the actual cost of same, as ascertained from the recorder of deeds. The county clerk shall be entitled to a fee of $1.00 for preparing the estimate herein provided, and such estimate of the county clerk shall be prima facie evidence in all courts of the amount due said tax or title holder. APPROVED June 24th, 1915. ROADS AND BRIDGES. ALTERING, WIDENING OR LAYING OUT ROADS. § 1. Amends section 75, Act of 1913. § 75. As amended, provides number of signers to petition. (HOUSE BILL No. 147. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1915.) AN ACT to amend section seventy-five (75) of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27th, 1913, in force July 1st, 1913. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section seventy-five (75) of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27th, 1913, in force July 1st, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 75. ALTERING, WIDENING, VACATING AND LAYING OUT ROADS— PETITION.] Existing roads may be altered, vacated or widened and new. roads may be laid out in the manner herein provided for. Any number of land owners, not less than twelve, residing in any town or road district within two miles of the road to be altered, widened, vacated or laid out, or two thirds of such land owners, may file a petition with the commissioners of highways of such town or district, praying for the altering, widening, vacation or laying out of said roads. Said petition shall set forth a description of the road and what part is to be altered, widened or vacated, and if for a new road the names of the owners of lands, if known, and if not known it shall so state, over which the road is to pass, the points at or near which it is to commence, its general course, and the place at or near which it is to terminate. APPROVED June 24th, 1915. BOND ISSUES AUTHORIZED TO PAY INDEBTEDNESS. § 1. Townships or road districts empowered to § 3. Limitation of indebtedness. borrow money to pay debts-bond issue. § 2. Bonds-denomination-interest-maturity registry-tax levy. (HOUSE BILL No. 696. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1915.) AN ACT to authorize townships or road districts to borrow money, and issue bonds therefor, with which to pay all indebtedness heretofore incurred by the highway commissioners of such township or districts in repairing or rebuilding roads or bridges within such townships or districts and to provide for the payment of such bonds by appropriate taxation. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That, in case the highway commissioners of any township or road district in the State of Illinois have heretofore caused all money raised by general and special taxation for road purposes to be expended for such purposes, and in addition thereto have borrowed money and expended the same for building, repairing and maintaining the road and bridges in such township or road district, and such indebtedness has not been paid by such township or district, and no funds are lawfully available to pay the same, then and in that The case such township or road district is hereby authorized and empowered to assume and pay such indebtedness in the following manner: highway commissioners of such township or district shall call a special township or district election to vote on the proposition, which shall be clearly stated in the petition substantially as follows: "to borrow .dollars to pay indebtedness incurred by highway commissioners for road purposes." Upon determining to call such election, the highway commissioners shall order the town or district clerk, by an instrument in writing to be signed by them, to post up, in ten of the most public places in said township or district, notices of such special township or district meeting; which notices shall state the object, time and place of meeting, the sum to be borrowed to pay such indebtedness and the manner in which the voting is to be had, which shall invariably be by ballot, and shall be "for borrowing money to pay indebtedness incurred by highway commissioners for road purposes," or "against borrowing money to pay indebtedness incurred by highway commissioners for road purposes." The special township or district election shall be held at the place of the last township or district meeting or election by giving at least ten days notice, and the returns thereof made in the same manner as other special township or district elections are now, or may hereafter be provided by law; and if it shall appear that a majority of two-thirds of the legal voters voting at said election shall be in favor of such proposition, the said commissioners of highways and town or district clerk, as the case may be, shall issue the bonds of said township or district for the purpose of assuming and paying such indebtedness in the manner provided in section 2 of this Act. § 2. The bonds to be issued in pursuance to section 1 of this Act shall be of such denomination, bearing such rate of interest not exceeding six per cent, upon such time, not exceeding twenty years from the date of issuing said bonds, and shall be disposed of as the necessity and convenience of said township or district officers require, but no bonds shall be sold or disposed of for less than their par value. A register of any bonds so issued shall be kept in the office of the county clerk of the county in which said township or district is located, showing the date, amount, rate of interest, maturity and the purpose for which said bonds were issued, which information shall be furnished to the county clerk, in writing, by the town or district clerk, and it shall be the duty of such county clerk to extend annually, against the property in said township or road district, a tax sufficient to pay the interest of said bonds in each year prior to the maturity thereof, and thereafter he shall extend the tax in each year sufficient to pay such bonds as they mature, together with interest thereon, and with the interest upon the unmatured bonds outstanding. § 3. The amount of indebtedness incurred by such township or road district in issuing the bonds above provided for in sections 1 and 2 of this Act, including all existing indebtedness, if any, shall not, in the aggregate, exceed five per cent on the value of the taxable property in such township or district, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness. APPROVED June 25th, 1915. BONDS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS AND BRIDGES LEGALIZED. § 1. Bonds voted for road and bridge purposes by any municipality made legal and valid-all pending suits abated. (HOUSE BILL No. 972. APPROVED JUNE 21, 1915.) AN ACT to legalize bonds of counties, or other municipalities, voted for the purpose of aiding in the construction of roads and bridges. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases where the people of any county, or other municipality, in this State have voted in favor of issuing the bonds of such county, or other municipality, for the purpose of aiding in the construction of roads and bridges in such county, or other municipality, all such elections and proceedings shall be, and the same are hereby, made legal and valid, and any bonds which have been or may hereafter be issued in pursuance of such elections and proceedings shall be, and the same are hereby, made the legal, valid and binding obligations of such county, or other municipality, notwithstanding any objection which, except for the passage of this Act, could have been made to the legality of such bonds, or such bond elections, or such bond proceedings, or to the taxes levied or to be levied and collected for the payment of the principal of, and the interest on, such bonds, and any and all suits now pending in any of the courts of this State, attacking the legality of any such bonds, or such bond elections, or such bond proceedings, are hereby abated. APPROVED June 21st, 1915. BOND ISSUES TO BUILD BRIDGES. § 1. Amends section 61, subdivision 3 of Article 6, Act of 1913. § 61. As amended, provides highway commissioners may issue bonds by vote of special town or district election, to build bridge and approaches. (HOUSE BILL No. 887. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.) AN ACT to amend section 61, sub-division 3 of article 6 of the law in relation to roads and bridges, as approved June 27th, 1913. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 61, sub-division 3 of article 6 of an Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges, approved June 27, 1913, be amended to read as follows: SECTION 61, Sub-division 3, Article 6. When the highway commissioners desire to expend on any bridge or approaches thereto in any district a greater sum of money than is available to them by other means, the said commissioners may call a special town or district election to vote on the proposition. Upon determining to call such election the highway commissioners shall order the town or district clerk, by an instrument in writing to be signed by them, to post up in ten of the most public places in said town or district notices of such special town or district meeting, which notice shall state the object, time and place of meeting, the maximum sum to be borrowed and the manner in which the vote is to be had, which shall invariably be by ballot, and shall be: "For borrowing money to (here define the purpose)," or "against borrowing money to (here define the purpose)." Such special town or district election shall be held at the place of the last annual town or district meeting or election by said clerk giving at least ten days' notice and upon returns thereof being made in the same manner as other special town or district elections are now or may hereafter be provided by law; and if it shall appear that the majority of the legal voters voting at said election shall be in favor of said proposition, and [the] said commissioners of highways, or town and district clerk, as the case may be, shall issue from time to time as the work progresses a sufficient amount in the aggregate of the bonds of said town or district for the purpose of building said bridge, and approaches, thereto, said bonds to be of such denominations, bear such rate of interest (not exceeding six per cent) upon such time, and be disposed of as the necessities and conveniences of said town or district officers require: Provided, that said bonds shall not be sold or disposed of for less than their par value and such town or district shall provide for the payment of such bonds by appropriate taxation. APPROVED June 24th, 1915. BRIDGES BUILT OR REPAIRED AT JOINT EXPENSE. § 1. Amends sections 34 and 35, Act of 1913. § 34. As amended, provides bridge may be § 35. As amended, provides that when the levy for corporate purposes for two years past was for full amount allowed by law the city council may petition county board for aid, and work be done at joint expense. (HOUSE BILL No. 523. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.) . AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, by amending sections thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35). 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 revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by amending sections thirty-four (34) and thirty-five (35), which said sections when amended shall read as inserted at length herein. § 34. In case the county board shall deem it expedient to build a bridge in any town, road district, or city or village of less than fifteen (15,000) thousand population therein, the said county board may order the same built at the entire expense of such county. Such bridge shall in such case be constructed according to plans and specifications prepared by the county superintendent of highways, subject to the approval of the State Highway Engineer. § 35. When it is necessary to construct or repair any bridges over a stream, or any approach or approaches thereto, by means of an embankment or trestle work on a public road, in any town, district or city or village of less than fifteen (15,000) thousand population or on or near to or across a town, district or such city or village line, in which work the town, district, or such city or village is wholly or in part responsible, and the cost of which will be more than twelve cents on the one hundred dollars on the latest assessment roll, and the levy of the road and bridge tax for two (2) years last past in said town or district was in each year for the full amount allowed by law to be raised therein for |