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be issued as provided in this Act, provided, however, 

 that such board may provide for the payment of any 

 such bonds within fifty years from their respective 

 dates of issue. All bonds and certificates of indebted- 

 ness authorized to be issued under this Act shall con- 

 tain a recital that they are issued pursuant to this Act, 

 which recital shall be conclusive evidence of their 

 validity and the regularity of their issue. The board 

 of supervisors of the county of Westchester may and 

 they hereby are authorized and empowered to renew, 

 extend, or issue new certificates of indebtedness to 

 redeem any certificates of indebtedness issued under 

 and pursuant to the terms of this Act. 



20. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors 

 of said county to cause to be raised annually in each 

 fiscal year from the time this Act takes effect by tax 

 upon the taxable property in said county in the same 

 manner as other taxes are levied and collected, a suffi- 



cient sum to pay the interest upon said certificates of 

 indebtedness and bonds when and as the same shall 

 become due and payable and also to raise by tax upon 

 the taxable property of said county the moneys neces- 

 sary to pay the principal of said bonds as the same shall 

 become due. It shall also be the duty of said board of 

 supervisors in like manner to cause to be raised annually 

 in each fiscal year a sum sufficient to pay all charges 

 and expenses legally chargeable against the county of 

 Westchester, for the care, maintenance and operation 

 of said parks in the manner and for the purposes for 

 which the same are created as specified in this Act. 



21. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are 

 hereby repealed. If any portion of this Act shall be 

 declared unconstitutional, the remainder shall stand, 

 and the portion declared unconstitutional shall be 

 excluded. 



22. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



SCHOOL BOARD LEGISLATION IN REGARD TO RECREATION 



In a few communities the Board of Education is exceedingly active in 

 promoting recreation facilities and in cooperating with the park board. 

 Wisconsin has a law for cities of the first, second and third classes which 

 authorizes the school trustees to cooperate with the board in charge of 

 public property such as the library and park boards and by agreement 

 with such boards to provide equipment and supervision for educational and 

 recreational activities in or on such other public properties. 



The Bureau of Recreation of the Chicago Board of Education operates 

 its playgrounds and community centers under the following law (see Chapter 

 24, paragraph 639) : 



Section I. Be it enacted by the people of the State 

 of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That 

 the board of education in any city having a population 

 exceeding one hundred thousand inhabitants shall take 

 control and management of all public playgrounds now 

 owned or hereafter acquired by any such city, which 

 are adjacent to or connected with any public school in 

 such city and shall equip, maintain and operate the 

 same for the moral, intellectual and physical welfare 

 of the children and persons using them; the title to all 



lands occupied as such playgrounds shall vest in and 

 be held by such city in trust for the use of schools: pro- 

 vided, however, that nothing herein contained shall 

 prevent any such city from owning and operating parks, 

 bathing beaches, municipal piers and athletic fields as 

 is now or may hereafter be provided by law. The city 

 can upon demand and under the direction of the city 

 levy an annual tax not exceeding three tenths of a mill 

 on each dollar of the excess value of all taxable property. 



STATE ENABLING ACTS 



Much of the legislation relating to parks and recreation is in the form 

 of state enabling acts whereby the several states authorize the various 

 political divisions within their borders (cities of different classes, counties, 

 townships, school districts) to provide, within the limits of the act, or acts, 

 parks and other recreation facilities and to operate the same. In fact, 

 throughout the whole of the United States, except in home rule cities, all 



