The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1867-04-08
Amendments to the Township Organization
Laws.

Amendments to the Township Organization
Laws.
The following sections were passed at the
late session of the legislature as amendments
to the township organization laws:
SECTION i. Be ii enacted by the people OF the
state of IHiaois represented ta the general
1ly That section 1.-TWO" of article '.fourth beand
the same is hereby amended by striking out the
words lone overseer of the poor" amend article
eight by adding the following section: Section
II, The supervisors of each town shall be ex-
oficio overseers of the poor in their respective
towns. .-
%. Section one of article ninth shall be amend
ed by adding to said section one the words, "and
the town clerk shah have power to administer the
oath of office to all town officers
g. Paragraph second of section eight OF arti-
Gle seventeenth, twenty cents on the one nun
dred dollars and insert instead thereon the words
s.forty cents on the hundred dollars" also
on,end section twenty-eight Of said article seven
teen by striking out the words "seventy-hve cents
per day" and insert in their place the words
Zone dollar and fifty cents per day." and also
amend section forty OF said seventeenth arti
Gle by striking out the words "seventy-fye cents
wherever they in said section and insert the
words 'one dollar.
| s. 1t shall be lawful for the legal voters al
| any annual town meeting to levy tax for the
| purpose of building repairing bridges OF
same county, or in another county; provid
ed that notice is given by posting notices describ
| ing the location of the bridge or causeway, anC
the probable amount required thereof, in at least
three public places, at least ten days before SAID
| annual meeting in the town in which said tax
is proposed to be levied and also, provided tina
such tax when collected shall be on the joint or
der of the commissioners of highways of the tow
| in which the bridge or causeway to be built o
| repaired is situated, and of the commissioners
highways of the town IN which said tax is collect
ed.
) 3 o. That whenever twenty-five (25) voters
any county shall represent by petition to tn
| board of supervisors that a bridge or bridges
| road or roads, in any town in said county need
i to be constructed or repaired, and has been in
| properly neglected by such town, the board of 81
: | pervisors, if on inquiry are satisfied that sue
town is of sufficient ability to build repair sue
8 bridges bridges, road or roads, shall
: lresoution direct such town to construct or repa
II such bridge bridges, road roads, or such pa
If thereof they may deem just and reasonable an
l. specify such time for compliance with the resol
= tions of the board may be deemed necessar
and cause a copy of said resolution to be serve
j., on the commissioners of highways of said tow
% and said commissioners of highways are authori
{ ed and required to build or repair such bridge
q bridges, road roads, as directed in the resol
e ton of the board of supervisors at the expense
II said town and if said town shall fail refuse
l. build or repair such bridge bridges, road
:. roads, as required by the board of supervisor
~ | said board shall authorize some person to ma
IL the improvement and extend the amount of L
Df cost thereof the tax list of such town. and ha
ut the collected other town taxes, land app
E. ed to pay for such Improvement.