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incorporated cities, towms or villages, and is so situated 

 that the construction and maintenance of a plant or 

 plants for the purification and treatment of sewage and 

 the maintenance of a connnon outlet for the drainage 

 thereof, Avill conduce to the preservation of the public 

 health, the same may be incorporated as a sanitary dis- 

 trict under this Act. No territory can be included, how- 

 ever, which is not within the limits of a city, incorpor- 

 ated town or village, or wdthin three miles outside thereof. 



Any one hundred legal voters, resident within the lim- 

 its of a proposed sanitary district may petition the county 

 judge of the count}^ in which the proposed district, or the 

 major portion thereof is located, to cause the question to 

 be submitted to the legal voters of such proposed dis- 

 trict whether such proposed territory shall be organized 

 as a sanitary district under the Act. According to pro- 

 visions of the act, upon filing the petition in the office of 

 the county clerk, a board of commissioners is organized, 

 consisting of the county judge and two judges of the Cir- 

 cuit Court. At a meeting of this board, of Avhich tAventy 

 days' notice is given, all persons in the proposed dis- 

 trict have an opportunity to be heard in regard to the 

 location and boundary of the district. The board of com- 

 missioners determines the limits and boundaries which 

 are incorporated in an order spread at length upon the 

 records of the County Court. A majority vote at an 

 election held within sixty days of the time of entering the 

 order, at which each legal voter resident within the pro- 

 posed sanitary district has the right to cast a ballot, 

 and notice of which is given by the county judge at least 

 twenty days prior thereto, is required for organization 

 of a district. 



The corporate authority is a board of trustees consist- 

 ing of three members appointed by the county judge. This 

 board exercises all powers and manages and controls all 

 the affairs and property of the district. It passes all nec- 

 essary ordinances, rules and reg*ulations for the manage- 

 ment and conduct of business of the board of trustees 

 and of the corporation and for carrying into effect the 

 objects for which the sanitary district is formed. It has 



