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county of Cook. Said appraisers shall proceed as soon as may be after their 

 appointment to discharge the duties of their trust, and to make and com- 

 plete their estimates and awards, and reports, as hereinafter provided, and 

 ever}' estimate, award and report so made, shall be signed by at least a ma- 

 jority of said appraisers, and filed in the office of the circuit court of the 

 county of Cook, and notice thereof given to the counsel for the corporation 

 of the said city of Chicago, within ten days after receiving such notice of the 

 filing of any report of such Board of Appraisers, said Corporation Counsel 

 shall give notice by publication for ten days, in at least two daily papers of 

 the said city of Chicago, that he will, at a term of said circuit court desig- 

 nated therein, and at the time and place to be designated, in said notice, 

 present said report for confirmation. And if said Corporation Counsel shall 

 not, within the time prescribed, cause such notice to be given, and the report 

 to be presented for confirmation, then such notice may be given, and said 

 report ma}- be presented for confirmation, as above described, by said apprais- 

 ers, or by any party whose lands are to be taken, and to whom compensation 

 is estimated and awarded by such report. It shall be the duty of said court, 

 at the time mentioned in said notice, to proceed immediately to the hearing 

 of said report, and it shall have priority over all other causes pending in said 

 court. The said court shall pronounce judgment on said report, and shall 

 confirm the same against the several lots or parcels of land described in said 

 report in respect to which no objections shall be filed, and such judgment 

 shall be a lawful and sufficient condemnation of the lands and property 

 appropriated and sought to be condemned and not objected to; and the court 

 shall hear and determine all objections in a summary way, without pleadings, 

 and shall and may, on such hearing, when objections have been interposed, 

 render such judgment as shall seem proper, modifying and changing such 

 assessment as it shall deem proper, and any appeal therefrom shall not inval- 

 idate or aftect said judgment, or delay the same except as to the property 

 described in said appeal. Such judgment, as far as not appealed from, shall 

 be a lawful and sufficient condemnation of the lands and property appropri- 

 ated, and any appeal shall not delay the proceedings under said judgment, 

 except as to the property described in said appeal. 



Sec. S. Payment of the damages awarded in and by the judgments 

 entered as aforesaid shall be made immediately, and the Board of Park Com- 

 missioners, as hereinafter appointed, may either pay such damage to the 

 person appearing to be entitled to the same, or bring into the said circuit 

 court and deposit with the clerk thereof the amount of such damage, speci- 

 fying at the time of each deposit, in a written report, to be made to said 

 court, the several pieces of land condemned, and which are paid for by said 

 deposit, and upon payment being made as aforesaid, the said lands shall vest 

 forever in the said city of Chicago for the purposes and uses in this act 

 mentioned. 



Sec. 9. It shall be the duty of any person or persons owning cemetery 

 lots included within the lands in the first section of this act described and to 

 be condemned by said commissioners, to remove any bodies that may be 

 therein interred, within six months of the confirmation of so much of the 



