The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-03-04
LINEGAR's SECOND BILL.

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Section /. BE- it enacted by the People o
the State of Illinois, represented In the
General Assembly, Any city or village O,
TINS state Incorporated under the general
law for the incorporation of cities and vii.
lagos, or under any special charter, the
site OF which is wholly or partially subject
to overflow, and which site is or may BE-
surrounded in whole or 10 part by levees,
dykes or embankments to prevent overflow
may lay off such city or village, or any part
thereof, into what shall be known or called
improvement districts, and may fix the
grade of the streets, avenues, slleys'or pub.
lie grounds within such improvement dis
trlcts, at height above the natural surface
OF the earth to correspond with the height
OF the levees, dykes or entertainments sur
rounding or partially surrounding such
city or village, or above if deemed neces.
sary, IN such manner and to such height as
will give surface drainage from such i'm.
provement district to the river or rivers
which cause such overflow; and may re-
quire low lots, blocks, or parts OF blocks or
lots within such improvement district, to
be filled in such manner as to prevent water
from standing thereon in such manner as
will prevent the same from becoming
nuisance or injurious to the public health,
in the judgement of the corporate authors
ties OF such city or village. The work
hereby authorized shall be done by special
assessment or special taxation, and all the
power III relation to special assessments or
special taxation heretofore granted to any
city orvilage in this State, or to any drain.
age of improvement district in this State, is
hereby granted to such cities and villages
under this act.
! 2. When any such improvement, dis
trlct shall be created by ordinance under
this net it shall be the duty of the corpol-
ate authorities to cause an accurate survey
OF the work contemplated To be done or
made, to be- made by competent civil en-
gineer, aud cause plats, prodles and esti-
mates Of the work TO be done, uclu ling
the cost of all wall Is or other structures
necessary Ia be built or constructed to hold
the earth TO its proper place, aud the cost
OF tue work opposite to or adjacent to each
lot in such district, and the cost Of the hi
upon each and every lot within such dis
trlct necessary to be filled to be used 10 es-
the benefits TO be charged against
the lot or block, or parts thereof, within
such improvement district; and IN esimai-
ing such benefits il shall be proper 10 take
into consideration the benefit any such lot,
block, or parts thereof will receive by rea-
son OF being secured from overflow or spe
water
3. When any such improvement dis.
.rct or districts has or have been laid ont
AMI defined by any such city or village,
md the cost Of the improvement estimated
md ascertained by a competent engineer.
and the benefits to the lots, blocks, or parts
hereof have been assessed, then such city
" village may cause series of bonds to be
ssued sufficient to pay the special assess
nents so ascsrtained for such district and
which bonds, when so issued and Endorsed
IS hereinafter provided for shall be lien
Ipon the LOT or lots, blocks or parts thereof
which shall be designated in such bond or
ponds such bond or bonds TO bear interest
1t rate not exceeding six per cent, and
nay run for any term not exceeding twenty
years, the style o. the bond to be fixed aud
designated by ordinance; but before any
bond shall be issued or be put in circula-
lion, the owner or owners Of any such lot
or lots 70 be charged with special assess
nent or assessments, shall indorse upon the
back of such bond or bonds his or her con-
sent thereto, in words 10 substance ss fol-
lows:
II hereby udorse the within bond, and
consent that the lot or lots, or parts there
Of designated, shall become liable for the
interest aud principal therein named, and
the same shall be lien upon said proper
ty from this date until paid off and dis
charged.
This. day of. 49,.
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Said bond, when prepared and executed
by such city or village and Endorsed by the
owner or owners OF the property to be
charged with the special assessment or spe.
clal tax, shall be recorded in the recorders
office Of the county ia which such city or
village is located, and when so recorded
such record shall be notice of the lien there.
by created to the same extent that records
OF mortgages lien, and shall have the same
force and effect, No coupon need be re-
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