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vacancy or vacancies shall occur. Said board of commissioners shall be 

 a body politic and corporate, and shall have and enjoy all the powers 

 necessary for the purposes of this act. 



Sec. 3. The president, auditor, treasurer, and secretary, shall be elected 

 annually by said board, at the annual meeting thereof, and shall receive 

 such salary for their services as the said board shall from time to time 

 determine, not exceeding, for each of said officers, the sum of three thousand 

 dollars per annum. 



Sec. 4. The said commissioners, by this act, are authorized and 

 empow^ered to, and they shall within ninety days after their organization 

 as aforesaid, or as soon thereafter as practicable, select the following 

 described lands, situated in the towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park and 

 Lake, in Cook county, Illinois, to wit : Commencing at the south-west 

 corner of Fifty-first street and Cottage Grove avenue, running thence south 

 along the west side of Cottage Grove avenue to the south line of Fifty-ninth 

 street; thence east along the south line of Fifty-ninth street to the east 

 line of Hyde Park avenue ; thence north on Hyde Park avenue to Fifty- 

 sixth street ; thence east along the south line of Fifty-sixth street to Lake 

 Michigan ; thence southerly along the shore of the lake to a point due east 

 of the center of section twenty-four (24), in township thirty-eight (38) 

 north, range fourteen (14) ; thence west through the centre of said section 

 twenty-four (24) to Hyde Park avenue ; thence north on the east line of 

 Hyde Park avenue to the north line of Sixtieth street, so called ; thence 

 west on the north line of Sixtieth street, so-called, to Kankakee avenue; 

 thence north on the east line of Kankakee avenue to Fifty-first street; 

 thence east to a point to the place of beginning; also, a piece of land com- 

 mencing at the south-east corner of Kankakee avenue and Fifty-fifth street, 

 running thence west a strip two hundred feet wide, adjoining the north line 

 of Fifty-fifth street, along said Fifty-fifth street to the line between ranges 

 thirteen (13) and (14) east; thence north, east of and adjoining said line, a 

 strip two hundred feet wide, to the Illinois and Michigan canal; also, a 

 parcel of land beginning at the south-west corner of Douglas place and 

 Kankakee avenue, running thence south, a strip of land one hundred and 

 thirty-two feet wide, along the west side of said Kankakee avenue, to a point 

 one hundred and fifty feet south of the south line of Fifty-first street; also, a 

 strip of land commencing at the intersection of Cottage Grove avenue and 

 Fifty-first street, running thence east one hundred feet in width on each 

 side of the center line of Fifty-first street, to a point one hundred feet east 

 of the center line of Drexel avenue; also, a strip of land extending north 

 from the intersection of Fifty-first street with Drexel avenue, one hundred 

 feet in width, on each side of the center line of said avenue, to the north 

 line of Forty-third street; thence northerly, a strip of land two hundred feet 

 in width, till it meets or intersects with Elm street in Cleaverville ; thence 

 northerly along said Elm street, two hundred feet in width, west from the 

 east line of said street, to its intersection with Oakland avenue; which said 

 land and premises, when acquired by said commissioners as provided by this 

 act, shall be held, managed and controlled by them and their successors, as 



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