Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That the inhabitants, and residents of the Town of Galena Jo Daviess County, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the “President and Trustees of the town of Galena,” and by that name they, and their successors shall be known in law, have perpetual succession, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in courts of law and equity, and in all matters and actions whatsoever; may grant, purchase[,] and receive and hold property real and personal within the limits of Said town, and may sell and dispose of the same; and may do all other acts as natural persons, may have a common seal, and break and alter the same at pleasure.

Sec 2. The boundaries and jurisdiction of said corporation are hereby declared to be coextensive with the town of Galena, as laid out, and to be laid out, by the commissioners appointed by the General Government under the act of Congress, dated1836.

Sec 3. The corporate powers and duties of said town shall be vested in seven trustees, to be chosen and appointed as hereinafter directed; who shall constitute a board for the transaction of business; and all suits and judicial proceedings shall be in the name and style of the President and trustees of the town of Galena.

or any other town officer.

Sec 5. That the members of the board of trustees (and every officer of said corporation) shall, before entering on the duties of their office, take an oath or affirmation before some judge or justice of the peace, to support the constitution of the United States, and of this State, and faithfully to demean themselves in office. They shall elect a president from among their body, and appoint one street commissioner, one treasurer, one assessor, one collector, one town surveyor, one inspector and measurer of wood and coal, one inspector and measurer of lumber, one market inspector, and one inspector of flour, lard[,] and butter; Also one or more town constables, who shall possess the same powers, and perform the same duties, within their corporate limits, as the constables

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in the different counties possess and perform, and who shall be allowed, in addition to the present compensation, or fees, allowed constables, fifty per cent thereon; All officers of the corporation to be appointed annually.

Sec 6. The trustees, thus elected and qualified, shall be ^the^ judges of the qualifications, elections[,] and returns of their own members, a majority of whom shall constitute a board to do business; but a minority may adjourn from day to day, may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as the board may provide.

Sec 7. The trustees may determine the rate of proceeding, and make such other rules and regulations for their own government as to them may seem proper and expedient; and require of all officers of the corporation penal bonds for the faithful discharge of their several duties, may divide the town into wards or districts, and in all cases they shall be required to give at least twenty days notice previous to holding an election for any officer of the corporation.

Sec 8. The board of trustees shall have power, by ordinance, to levy and collect taxes upon ^all^ real and personal property, within the corporation, not exceeding one half of one per centum upon the assessed value thereof, (except the wearing apparel, and the necessary tools and implements of any person used in carrying on his trade) to make regulations to prevent

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the introduction of contagious diseases, to make quarantine laws for that purpose, and enforce the same within six miles of said town and within the jurisdiction of the State, to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, to establish night watches and patrols, to improve and preserve the navigation of Fever River within the corporation, to erect, repair[,] and regulate public wharves, to regulate the rates of wharfage, the stationing, anchorage[,] and mooring of vessels; to provide for licensing, taxing[,] and regulating of merchants, auctions, grociries, retailers, pedlars, taverns, ordinaries, and houses of entertainment, hackney carriages, wagons, carts, drays, theatrical and other shows; to restrain and prohibit tipling houses, gaming houses, baudy houses, and other disorderly houses; to provide for the inspection of lumber, and other building materials to be sold and used therein; to regulate the inspection of wood, coal, flour, lard, and butter; to regulate, and order partition and parapet walls, and partition fences; to regulate the storage of all combustible materials, such as gun powder, tar, pitch, rosin, hemp, and cotton; to sink wells, and erect pumps for public convenience; to impose fines, and forfeitures, and provide for the collection thereof (Provided no fine or forfeiture shall be less than one dollar, nor more than one hundred); to regulate and fix the compensation of all officers

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of the corporation; they shall have power to regulate, pave, grade, and improve the streets, avenues, lanes, and alleys within the corporation, and to extend, open[,] and widen the same, making the person or persons injured thereby adequate compensation, to ascertain which the trustees shall cause to be summoned twelve good and lawful men free holders and residents of said town, not directly interested, who being first duly sworn for that purpose, shall enquire into, and take into consideration, as well the benefits as the injury which may accrue and estimate and assess the damages.

Sec 9. That, upon the application of the owners of two thirds of the front of the lots on any street, or parts of a street, it shall be lawful for the board of trustees to levy and collect a special tax on the ^owners^ of the lots on said street, or parts of a street according to their respective fronts, for the purpose of grading and paving the side walks on said streets, and upon a similar application, to levy and collect a tax in the same manner, for the purpose of erecting lamps and lighting the same.

Sec 10. That when any real estate in said town of Galena shall have been sold by the authority of the corporation thereof, the same shall be subject to redemption in the same manner as is provided by the authority of this state for the redemption of lands sold for taxes.

Sec 11. That all ordinances of said trustees, shall be fairly written out, signed by the Clerk, and published in a newspaper printed in the town, or posted up at three of the most public places insaid town; and no ordinance shall be in force until published as aforesaid.

Sec 12. The trustees aforesaid shall have power to preserve good order, to punish by fine any open indecency, breaches of the peace, horse racing, shooting[.] or riotous meeting, obstructing the streets and public highways.

of the Corporation of the town of Galena, shall continue in office until those provided for by this act shall have been elected, appointed and qualified.