Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the president of the board of trustees of the town of Kaskaskia for the time being, shall have and exercise the authority of a justice of the peace within the corporate limits of the said town of Kaskaskia, and shall have power to administer oaths, issue writs and process under the seal of said corporation, and he, or any justice of the peace, may try and determine all causes of action arising under this act, or the act to which this is an amendment, or any of the ordinances of the corporation, for fines, penalties, or otherwise. He shall have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace in all civil and criminal cases within the limits of said corporation, and shall receive the same fees and compensation allowed to justices of the peace for similar services. He shall also have power to take acknowledgments of deeds, mortgages, and all other instruments of writing as justices of the peace have, and certify the same under the seal of the corporation of said town.

Sec. 2. That the trustees of the town of Kaskaskia, and their successors in office, shall have power to make regulations to secure the general health of the inhabitants; to prevent and

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remove nuisances; to suppress all riots and disorderly conduct; to impose and collect fines, for all such offences; to establish night watches; to put up lamps in the streets, and provide for lighting the same; to open, widen, and keep in repair the streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, drains and sewers, and to keep the same clean, and free from incumbrances; to erect pumps and sink wells in the streets, and keep the same in repair; to build and repair bridges within the limits of the corporation. To subscribe, take and hold stock in the Kaskaskia bridge company, and when necessary, dispose of the same; to establish, license, and regulate markets; to establish and regulate a fire department, and to provide for the prevention and extinguishment (of) fires; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, and other combustible materials; to prevent the shooting of fire arms; to prohibit and punish the keeping of gaming houses and other disorderly houses.

Sec. 3. The trustees of said town are hereby authorized and empowered to make, have, and use a common seal, the same to alter and amend at pleasure; to establish not exceeding three elementary schools, wherein reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and other branches of education may be taught, and for this purpose the trustees of said town are hereby authorized to purchase lots and erect suitable buildings in such parts of the town as may be deemed by them the most convenient and beneficial to the citizens thereof; and the said trustees are hereby empowered by ordinance to direct whatever may be necessary to be done for successfully carrying into operation the provisions of this section.

Sec. 4. No person shall be eligible as trustee, or qualified to vote for trustees unless he shall be a free white male inhabitant in said town of twenty-one years of age or upwards, and shall have resided sixty days next preceding such election within the corporate limits of said town, and all persons thus qualified shall be eligible as trustees, and to vote for trustees, and to vote at all town meetings.

Sec. 5. All notices posted up on the door of the court house in the town of Kaskaskia relative to this act, or to the act to which this is an amendment shall answer every purpose and be equally valid and binding in law as if the same should be printed in a public newspaper printed in the said town of Kaskaskia, any thing in the act to which this is an amendment to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 6. That the trustees of said town, be, and they are hereby authorized to cause to be made a plat of said town, and have the same recorded in the office of the recorder of Randolph county, with like effect as the plat of other towns in this State are recorded, which plat shall be taken in all courts of this State to be evidence of the location and position of the streets, alleys, blocks, squares, and lots, in said town, unless the contrary shall be shown by competent and conclusive evidence.

Sec. 7. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.2

Approved, February 20, 1841.