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§ 9. The Department of Public Works and Buildings is vested. with the right to acquire any land, rights or other property necessary for the construction, repair or maintenance of State highways, or necessary for re-locating, widening or straightening any State highway, or necessary for any other purpose or use contemplated by this Act by the exercise of the right of eminent domain under the eminent domain laws of this State.

§ 10. The Department of Public Works and Buildings, may close temporarily to traffic any portion of a State highway for the purpose of constructing, repairing or making improvements thereon. When a portion of a State highway is so closed, the Department of Public Works and Buildings shall arrange with local authorities or otherwise to maintain efficient detours around the portion of the State highway which is closed. Such detour shall be plainly and conspicuously marked with signs by which traffic may be guided around that part of the highway so closed.

§ 11. Any part or portion of the State highway system, not taken over by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, shall remain under the jurisdiction and control of the proper local authorities.

§ 12. All State aid roads, until such time as the said roads are taken over, excepting therefrom such portion of the State aid system in each county for the repair, maintenance and marking of which the State is responsible, shall be under the direct control and supervision of the county board of its county in which said roads are located, and the county board shall improve, maintain, repair by patrol system or otherwise said roads from county funds as provided herein.

§ 13. That, whenever the county board in its discretion shall deem it necessary to widen, relocate or alter any of said State aid roads, or to build, widen, relocate or alter any ditch, drain or watercourse in order to drain or protect said State aid roads, and to procure land therefor, or shall deem it necessary to acquire quarries, gravel pits, sand pits or other deposits of road material in order to carry this Act into effect, it shall have the right to lease or purchase the same, and if compensation therefor cannot be agreed upon with the owner thereof, the county shall have the power of condemnation, in its name, in the same manner as near as may be as provided in "An Act to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain," provided that the county shall not be required, in any case, to furnish bond.

§ 14. For the purpose of improving, maintaining and repairing the State aid roads required to be improved, maintained and repaired by the county and for the payment of lands, quarries, pits or other deposits of road material required by the county for such purpose, the county board shall have power to levy an annual tax to be known as "county highway tax". Said tax shall be in addition to the maximum of all other county taxes which the county. is now or may hereafter be authorized by statute to levy upon the aggregate valuation of all taxable property within the county, and

the county clerk in reducing tax levied as and when required so to do by virtue of the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes," approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as subsequently amended, shall not consider said "county highway tax" as a part of the tax levy of the county required to be included in the aggregate of all taxes to be reduced, and no reduction of any tax levy made under the provisions of said last mentioned Act and amendments thereto shall diminish any amount appropriated or levied for said "county highway tax". Said "county highway tax" together with all other county taxes. shall not exceed the present constitutional limitation unless otherwise authorized by a vote of the people of the county. All moneys derived from the "county highway tax" shall be placed in a separate fund to be known as the "county highway fund" and shall be used for no other purpose.

§ 15. Except under such conditions, restrictions and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, no railroad or street or interurban railway or tramrailway shall be constructed upon and no gas pipe, water pipe, electric conduits, or other piping be laid upon or in, and no telegraph, telephone, electric light or power poles, or other poles or wires be erected upon or in any State highway.

§ 16. The Department of Public Works and Buildings after taking over roads shall erect and maintain standard guide and warning signs and distance boards of uniform design, throughout the State highway system.

§ 17. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to modify, amend or repeal existing laws relative to the construction or improvement of State aid roads, State bond issue roads, Federal aid roads, or roads constructed under section 15d of the Road and Bridge Act.

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, as subsequently amended, by adding thereto a section to be known as 24A.

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 create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines

and Illinois Rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a section to be known as section 24A, to read as follows:

§ 24A. The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this Act shall have power to provide for, construct, install or pay the costs of any compensating or controlling works in the Great Lakes or in any channels, outlets or rivers leading therefrom or connected therewith outside of the territorial boundaries of such sanitary district where proper or necessary for the purpose of complying with this Act, or with any restriction or regulation on the power of such sanitary district under this Act by Federal authorities or by Acts of Congress in the interest of navigation; and to enter into any proper or necessary contracts connected therewith.

APPROVED June 1, 1921.

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AN ACT to amend section 123 of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 123 of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909, be amended to read as follows:

§ 123. In all school districts having a population of not fewer than one thousand and not more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, and not governed by special Acts, and in such other districts as may hereafter be ascertained by any special or general census to have such population, there shall be elected a board of education to consist of a president, six members and three additional members for every additional ten thousand inhabitants: Provided, however, that in no case. shall such board consist of more than fifteen members: And provided, further, that in any such district, at the instance either of the board of education of such district, or by petition therefor addressed to such board and signed by at least five per cent of the number of voters of such district, ascertained by the vote cast at the last preceding school election of such district, there may be submitted to the voters of such district by the board of education at any school election or at any special election called for such purpose, the proposition to limit the number of members of the board of education for such district to a maximum of nine, and if at such election a majority of the votes cast upon the proposition shall be in favor thereof, then and thereafter, unless such limitation shall be in like manner revoked, such board of education shall consist of not more than nine

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members. Provided, however, that if in any such district in which such proposition is so submitted and voted upon, there shall be in office at the time of said election more than nine members of the board of education, all of such members notwithstanding such vote be allowed to complete their respective unexpired terms of office. When such board of education is the successor of the school directors, all rights of property, and all rights regarding causes of action existing or vested in such directors, shall vest in it as fully and completely as they were vested in the school directors.

APPROVED June 24, 1921.

CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS.

§ 1. Boards of education in cities of § 2. Emergency.
100,000 may request and city
councils shall issue.

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AN ACT to authorize boards of education in cities having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants to issue certificates of indebtedness redeemable by warrants issued in anticipation of taxes during the first half of the year 1921.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That during the first half of the year 1921 boards of education in cities having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants shall have and they are hereby given power and authority to request the city council to issue certificates of indebtedness which shall be redeemable by warrants issued in anticipation of taxes levied for the year 1921 to the extent of onehalf of the appropriation for educational purposes for the year 1920, and it shall be the duty of the city council thereupon to direct the issuance of such certificates of indebtedness redeemable as aforesaid.

§ 2. Wherefore an emergency exists, therefore this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage. APPROVED May 24, 1921.

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AN ACT to legalize the organization of certain community consolidated school districts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases where a majority of the inhabitants, regardless of sex, of any contiguous territory bounded by school district lines, voting on the proposition, having voted at any election called for the purpose by a county superintendent of schools in favor of the organization of such territory into a community consolidated school district, and when at a sub

sequent election similarly called and held a board of education has been chosen for such district each such election is hereby made legal and valid and such territory is hereby declared legally and validly organized and established as a community consolidated school district and a valid and existing school district and body politic and corporate of the State for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a community consolidated school. The board of education acting for each such district is hereby declared to be the duly constituted corporate authority thereof, and each such board shall hereafter consist of a president and 6 members, which shall be the maximum number of members, and shall be elected and organized in the same manner and have the powers and discharge the duties of boards of education of school districts as provided by sections. 121a, 125, 126, 126a and 127 of 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools' approved and in force June 12, 1909, as said sections now exist or may from time to time be amended.

The description of the districts included in any petition which has been filed with the county superintendent of schools for the consolidation of two or more districts, wherein said districts have been designated by number, shall be held to be a sufficient description of such districts.

§ 2. All acts and proceedings heretofore done, had or performed by each such district and the persons from time to time elected and acting as the board of education thereof such as are authorized to be done, had or performed by school districts or boards of education thereof by the general school laws of the State are hereby declared to be legal and valid in all respects.

§ 3. All pending actions attacking the organization of community consolidated school districts coming under the provision of this Act shall abate.

§ 4. Whereas, an emergency exists, this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

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AN ACT entitled, "An Act to legalize the organization of certain high school districts."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases where a majority of the inhabitants of any contiguous territory, voting on the proposition, have voted at an election called for the purpose by the

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