Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the general Assembly, That the citizens of the town of Bloomington in the county of M^cLean and State aforesaid are hereby made and constituted a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the President and trustees of the Town of Bloomington, and by that name shall have and use a common seal, which they may change or alter at pleasure; and in whom the Government of said corporation shall be vested, and by whom its affairs shall be managed.

sec. 2. All that district of country embraced within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the north east corner of the west half of North west quarter of section three in Township twenty three North of Range two east of the third principal meridian, thence south one and a half miles, thence west one and a half mile, thence North one and a half mile and thence east one and a half mile to the place of beginning, is hereby declared to be within the boundaries of the Town of Bloomington.

Sec. 3. That the present President and trustees of said Town shall continue in office until the second Monday in April next, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified, and forever thereafter an election shall be held on the second Monday in April annually for five trustees who shall hold their Offices for one year and until others are duly elected and qualified. No person shall be a trustee of said town who is not a citizen of the state of Illinois, and of said Town, and who has

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not arrived at the age of twenty one years, and who has not resided in said Town at least six months next preceeding his election, and who shall not be at the time a bona fide freeholder in

time of said election shall be entitled to vote for trustees. And the said trustees shall at their first meeting proceed to elect one of their body President, and they shall have power to fill all vacancies in said board occasioned by death, resignation or otherwise.

Sec. 4. The board of trustees shall have power to appoint a clerk, assessor, treasurer, supervisor of streets, and all such other Officers as may be necessary: They shall be judges of the qualifications, elections and returns of their own members. A majority of their board shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and compel the attendance of absent members under such penalties as the board may provide; they may determine the rules of procedings, punish their members for disorderly conduct, and make such other rules and regulations for their own Government as to them may seem fit and expedient.

sec. 5. The board of trustees shall have exclusive power to levy and collect a tax on all valu real and personal estate within the limits of said town corporation, provided that the per cent on the assessed value thereof shall not exceed the per cent authorised by the revenue laws of

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this state. They shall have power to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants, to prevent and remove nuisances, to provided for licensing and taxing taverns, stores, groceries, auctioneers, theatrical and other shows and amusements, within said corporation: to prohibit and restrain gaming, gaming houses, bawdy houses, and other disorderly houses: to open and keep in repair street, lanes, alleys, drains and sewers, and to keep the same clean: to require bond and security of Town Officers for the faithful performance and of their duties; and from time to time pass such ordinances and bye-Laws to carry into effect the provisions of this act; and the powers hereby granted as the good of the inhabitants may require; and to impose and appropriate fines and forfeitures for the breach of any ordinance, and provide for the collection thereof; and in all cases arising under this act, or growing out of the by-Laws and ordinances made in pursuance of this act, any justice of the peace within said corporation shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the same, and an appeal may be taken and writs of certiorari prosecuted from any such descision in the same manner as now is, or may be hereafter provided by law for appealing from judgments of Justices of the peace.

Sec. 6. It shall be lawful for the board of trustees to levy and collect a special tax on

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the owners of lots on any street or parts of a street for the purpose of grading and paying paving the side walks on said street, provided that two thirds of the property holders on such street shall first petition for the same.

Sec. 7. The board of Trustees shall have power to regulate, grade, pave, and improve the streets, avenues, lanes and alleys within the limits of said corporation, and to extend, open and widen the same, making the person or persons injured thereby adequate compensation, to ascertain which the said board shall cause to be summoned six good and lawful men, free holders and citizens 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 which would be sustained ^by reason^ of the opening, extending or widening of any street, avenue, lane or alley and shall report their proceedings, and under their hands and seals to the board of trustees, and the board of trustees shall thereupon pay out of the treasury of the corporation to the person to be injured, the amount of damages assessed in his favor.

Sec. 8. The board of trustees shall have power from time to time to pass such by laws and ordinances as to them may seem expedient, not inconsistent with the Constitution or laws of this state; and all ordinances of said trustees shall be fairly

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written out and recorded by the Clerk and published in such manner as the board may direct.

Sec. 9. The board of trustees are also vested with power to declare what shall be considered a nuisance within said Town; to prevent the running and indecent exhibition of horses; to provide for the trial and punishment of persons who may be engaged in assaults, assaults and batteries, affrays, riots or other disorderly conduct in said Town and to provide that such punishment may be inflicted for any offence against the laws of this state: Provided that no person shall be deprived of the right of trial by jury in any case where such person would be entitled to a trial by a jury for a like offence against the laws of this state.

Sec. 10. The board of trustees shall have power to provide for the punishment of offenders by imprisonment in the county jail in all cases where such offenders shall refuse or fail to pay fines which may be assessed, or forfeitures or penalties which may be recoverable.

Sec. 11. The board of Trustees shall have power to adopt such modes and means, for the assessment and collection of taxes, as they may from time to time fix upon and determine, and to prescribe the manner of selling property when the taxes ^levied^ upon it are not paid: Provided, however, that no sale of any Town lots, or other real estate shall be made, until public notice shall

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have been given for at least four weeks successively previous to the day of sale by advertisement in a news paper published in ^said^ Town or by posting up written notices thereof in at least three of the most public places in said Town, one of which shall be on the court house door.

Sec. 12^th When any Town lot, or lots, or real estate shall be sold for taxes by virtue of this act the same may be redeemed at any time within two years from the date of such sale, by the owner of such property, his or her heirs or assigns, against agents, administrators, or executors paying to the treasurer of said Town, for the use of the purchaser of said property, the full amount of the purchase money, and costs, with such interest as said corporation may, by ordinance require.

Sec. 13. The members of the board of trustees, and every other officer of said corporation, shall before entering on the duties of his 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 of this faithfully to demean himself in office.

Sec. 14. The board of trustees shall have power to appoint a p Town constable or constables, and authorise him to execute all writs, process, and precepts, which may be issued against persons for the violation of the laws or ordinances of the corporation, and to arrest on view, all persons who may violate such laws or ordinances, to collect

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all fines, forfeitures and penalties which may be assessed or recovered for the use of the corporation, and to require bond and security of said constable in such sum as they may think proper; said Constable or constables shall hold their office during the pleasure of the board of trustees, and shall have and possess the same powers and perform the same duties in other respects as the constables in the different districts in the county possess.

Sec. 15. The board of trustees for the purpose of keeping the streets and alleys in said town in good order and repairs, are hereby authorised to require every male resident of said Town over the age of twenty one years, to labour on said streets, alleys and roads three days in each year, and any person who shall be notified by the supervisor of streets, to perform such labour, so assessed as herein provided and shall fail or neglect to perform the same shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar for each days labor neglected to be performed, and the supervisor of streets in the proper district is hereby authorised to prosecute such delinquent persons in the name of the President and trustees of the Town of Bloomington before any justice of the peace in said town, and said supervisor shall be a competent witness against said delinquent, and in case of

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default as aforesaid ^the^ justice of the peace shall enter up judgment against said delinquent for the amount so forfeited with costs of suit, and issue execution forthwith.

Sec. 16 It shall be the duty of any justices of the peace residing in said Town, on complaint being made to him on oath of the violation of any law or ordinance of the corporation, or upon view ^(^or upon request of any town constable^)^, to issue his warrant directed to the Town constable, or any other authorised officer, to apprehend the offender or offenders, and bring him or them forthwith before him, and after hearing the evidence, if it shall appear that the accused has been guilty of the violation of any such law or ordinance of the corporation to impose such fine or imprisonment as shall be provided in such law or ordinance.

Sec. 17. The said president and trustees are hereby made capable in law, to take and hold to themselves and successors, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, and the rents, issues and profits thereof, which may be necessary for the erection of any market house, and other public buildings, and the same to sell, grant and dispose of if necessary; and to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto in any court or place whatever, and all suits and Judicial proceedings under this act shall be

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carried on in the name and style of the President and trustees of the Town of Bloomington.

Sec. 18. The Justices of the Peace and constables who are required to render services under this act, shall be entitled to the same fees, and collected them in the same manner as now is, or may be hereafter provided by law, for other justices of the Peace and Constables.

Sec. 19. Lands embraced within the limits of the corporation of said Town of Bloomington shall not be taxed by the President and trustees of said Town, at any higher or greater rate than said lands would be taxed by the laws of the state, unless the same are laid out into Town lots, or occupied as town lots.

Se.[Section] 20. This act shall not become forfeited by the failure of the inhabitants to hold an election for President and trustees or other officers as herein before provided, but when such failure shall have occured, it shall be lawful the duty of the President and trustees to order an other day of election to take place within thirty days after such failure by posting notices thereof at least ten days previous to holding the same in three of the most public places in said Town and if they shall fail to give such notices it shall be lawful for any three freeholders to give such notices, and the officers elected at such election, when duly

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qualified, shall have the same powers as if elected at the regular election, and they shall hold their offices until the next regular election and until their successors are duly qualified.