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vacancies occasioned bj the expiration of the term of office, shall be filled by 

 the judge of the circuit court of Cook county. 



Sec. 21. The said board shall have full and exclusive power to govern, 

 manage and direct the said park; to lay out and regulate the same; to pass 

 ordinances for the regulation and government thereof; to appoint such 

 engineers, surveyors and other officers, except a police force, as may be 

 necessary ; to prescribe and define their respective duties and authority ; to fix 

 the amount of their compensation, and to require bonds for the faithful per- 

 formance of their duties; and generally, in regard to said park, shall possess 

 all the power and authority now by law conferred on or possessed by the 

 cominon council of said city in respect to public squares and places in said 

 city. They may vacate any public street or alley within the limits of said 

 park, and shall lay out a street not exceeding one hundred feet, and not less 

 than eighty feet in width, north from Fullerton avenue, along the west line 

 of said park to the northern boundary thereof, and may exercise the same 

 power and control over such street as the rest of the park. 



Sec. 22. It shall be a misdemeanor for any commissioner to be directly 

 or indirectly in any way pecuniarily interested in any contract, or work of any 

 kind whatever, connected with said park; and it shall be the duty of any 

 commissioner, or other person who may have any knowledge or information 

 of the violation of this provision, forthwith to report the same to the mayor 

 of the city of Chicago, who shall present the facts of the case to the judge of 

 the circuit court of Cook county. Such judge shall hear in a summary 

 manner such commissioner in relation thereto, and if after such hearing he 

 shall be satisfied of the truth thereof, he shall immediately remove the 

 commissioner thus offending, subject to a fine and imprisonment. Every 

 commissioner shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and 

 subscribe an oath faithfully to perform the duties of his office, which oath 

 shall be filed in the office of the said clerk of the circuit court of the county 

 of Cook, and shall each give a bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand 

 dollars for the faithful performance of his duty, and payable to the city of 

 Chicago. 



Sec. 23. Said Board of Commissioners for the government of said park 

 shall, in the month of April of each year, make to the common council of 

 said city, a full report of their proceedings and a detailed statement of all 

 their receipts and expenses, under oath. It shall be the duty of said com- 

 missioners to let all amounts exceeding in amount twenty-five hundred 

 dollars, by contract, in the manner provided in the charter of the city of 

 Chicago for letting the contracts for public improvements. 



Sec. 24. It shall be lawful for the commissioners of said park to let, 

 from year to year, any building, and the grounds attached thereto, belonging 

 to said city, which may be within the limits of said city, until the same shall 

 be required for the laying out and regulation thereof, when the said buildings 

 shall be removed, except such as may be used for the purposes of such park. 

 The said commissioners may sell any building or other material, being 

 within the limits of said park and belonging to said city, which, in their 

 judgment, shall not be required for the purposes of said park, or for public 



