in force and effect in such city and after he shall have completed ten (10) or more years of service and shall have attained an age of sixtyfive (65) or more years, and for whom the amount of annuity provided in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Act shall be less than six hundred dollars ($600.00) a year shall have a right to receive an annuity of six hundred dollars ($600.00) a year from and after the date of his resignation or discharge from the service.

§ 58. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other section or sections of this Act to the effect that any annuity for the widow of a municipal employee shall be a life annuity, any annuity which shall have been granted to a widow of a municipal employee under and by virtue of the provisions of this Act shall terminate when such widow shall marry and if any such widow who shall marry shall not have received, in form of annuity, an amount equal to that accumulated from the sums deducted from the salary of the municipal employee concerned and applied for the purpose of providing annuity for such widow, a sum equal to the difference between the amount accumulated from the sums deducted from the salary of the municipal employec concerned and applied for the purpose of providing annuity for such widow and the amount received by such widow in form of annuity shall be refunded to such widow.

$59. For the purpose of computing the interest upon any sum which shall have been deducted from the salary of any municipal employee, or otherwise paid by such municipal employee, into any municipal pension fund in operation in such city at the time this Act shall come in force and effect therein, the retirement board shall assume that the date upon which any such sum was deducted from salary or otherwise paid was the last day of the calendar month in which any such sum was deducted or otherwise paid and applied to such municipal pension fund.

§ 60. All annuities and disability benefits granted under the provisions of this Act and every portion of such annuities and benefits, shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment process and shall not be seized, taken, subjected to, detained, or levied upon by virtue of any execution, or any process or proceeding whatsoever issued out of or by any court in this State, for the payment and satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt, damage, claim, demand or judgment against any annuitant or other beneficiary hereunder, and no such annuitant or other beneficiary shall have any right to transfer or assign his or her annuity or disability benefit or any part thereof either by way of mortgage or otherwise.

§ 61. In the case of any municipal employee who shall have filed an application for appointment to the service of such city, the age stated in such application shall be conclusive evidence of the age of such municipal employee for the purposes of this Act.

§ 62. Suitable rooms for office and meetings of the retirement board shall be assigned by the mayor of such city.

§ 63. It shall be the duty of all officers, officials, and employees of such city to perform any and all acts, required to carry out the intent and purposes of this Act, which it shall be necessary that any

such officer, official, or employee shall perform so that the provisions of this Act may be complied with and the intent and purposes thereof fulfilled.

§ 64. If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence or clause of this Act is for any reason held invalid or to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the remaining portion of this Act, or any section or part thereof.

AN ACT to legalize the organization of villages under "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Whenever the inhabitants of an incorporated town have attempted to have such town organized as a village under the provisions of "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and have followed the procedure outlined in Article XI of that Act for the organization of villages but the corporate authorities have failed to file certified copies of the record in the matter of such organization with the recorder of deeds of the county, as required by section 13 of Article 1 of that Act in any such case if a certified copy of the record in the matter of such organization shall be filed and recorded as required by section 13 of Article 1 of that Act, as amended, within six months after this Act takes effect, then the organization of such village shall be deemed valid and effective and all the Acts of any such village, if otherwise legal, are made legal and binding; and the Secretary of State is directed to charter such village by his certificate duly authenticated under his hand and the great seal of the State.

§ 2. Because of an emergency this Act shall take effect upon its passage.

AN ACT in relation to plan commissions in cities, villages and incorporated towns.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Any city, village or incorporated town shall have the power to provide for the creation of a plan com

mission. Such commission shall consist of a chairman and such number of other members appointed in such manner and serving for such terms as such city, village or incorporated town may by ordinance prescribe, except that the mayor of any such city or the president of the board of trustees of any such village or incorporated town, and the president of the board of local improvements shall be members exofficio of any such commission. If in any city, village or incorporated town which shall provide for the creation of a plan commission, there shall be in existence at the time a commission authorized to act as a zoning commission, such commission in the discretion of the council or board of trustees, may but need not, be designated as the plan commission hereunder. Any plan commission now existing and officially recognized by the council or board of trustees in any city, village or incorporated town, may exercise all the powers conferred upon plan commissions by this Act as fully as if it had been created hereunder, but if any changes in the membership of such plan commission are necessary to bring it into conformity with this section, such changes shall be made. § 2. Every plan commission authorized by this Act shall have power as follows:

1. To prepare and recommend to the council or board of trustees (as the case may be) a comprehensive plan of public improvements looking to the present and future development of the municipality, such plan after its adoption by the council or board of trustees to be known as the official plan of such city, village or incorporated town. Such commission may thereafter from time to time recommended any changes in such official plan. Such plan may include reasonable requirements in reference to streets, alleys and public grounds in unsubdivided lands within the corporate limits and in contiguous territory outside of and distant not more than one and one-half miles from such limits, and not included in any city, village or incorporated town, such requirements to be effective whenever such lands shall be subdivided after the adoption of such plan. 2. To prepare and recommend to the council or board of trustees from time to time, plants for specific improvements in pursuance of such official plan.

3. To give aid to the officials of the city, village or incorporated town charged with the direction of projects for improvements embraced within the official plan, to further the making of such improvements, and generally to promote the realization of the official plan.

4. To exercise such other powers germane to the powers granted by this Act as may be conferred by the city council or board of trustees.

§3. No map or plat of any subdivision presented for record, affecting land within the corporate limits of any city, village or incorporated town which has adopted heretofore or shall adopt hereafter an official plan in the manner prescribed in this Act, or in contiguous territory outside of and distant not more than one and one-half miles from such limits and not included in any city,

village or incorporated town, shall be entitled to record or shall be valid unless the subdivision thereon shown, shall provide for streets, alleys and public grounds in conformity with any requirements applicable thereto of such official plan.

APPROVED June 24, 1921.

AN ACT entitled "An Act to provide for the creation, setting apart, maintenance, and administration of a policemen's annuity and benefit fund in cities having a population exceeding two hundred thousand inhabitants."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in each city in this State, having a population of more than two hundred thousand (200,000) inhabitants a policemen's annuity and benefit fund shall be created, set apart, maintained and administered, in the manner prescribed in this Act, for the benefit of policemen employed by such city, and of the widows and children of such policemen, and of all contributers to, participants in, and beneficiaries of any police pension fund in operation, by authority of law, in such city at the time this Act shall come in force and effect in such city.

§2. A board composed of five (5) members shall be and constitute a board of trustees authorized to carry out the provisions of this Act and charged with the duty of administrating the annuity and benefit fund herein provided for. Said board of trustees shall be known as the retirement board of the policemen's annuity and benefit fund of such city, which board is hereinafter referred to as the "Retirement Board."

The said retirement board shall consist of the following: Three (3) members who shall be persons appointed by the mayor of such city; one (1) member who shall be a policeman employed by such city. and one member who shall be an annuitant of the annuity and benefit fund herein provided for, or a pensioner of any police pension fund in operation, by authority of law, in such city at the time this Act shall come in force and effect in such city.

Within thirty (30) days from and after the date upon which this Act shall come in force and effect in such city, the mayor of such city shall appoint three (3) persons to serve as members of said retirement board. One such person shall be appointed for a term which