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interest not exceeding seven per cent, per annum ; and it shall be the duty 

 of said commissioners to keep an accurate register of all bonds issued by 

 them, showing the number, date and amount of each bond, and to whom 

 the same was issued, and said register shall at all times be open to the inves- 

 tigation of the public ; and for the payment of the principal and interest of 

 said bonds the said park and improvements shall be irrevocably pledged, 

 and the towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park and Lake shall be irrevocably 

 bound; and said bonds may be sold by said commissioners upon such terms 

 and for such prices as, in the judgment of said commissioners, can be 

 obtained for the same in cash. 



Sec. 9. The said board of park commissioners shall, annually, on or 

 before the first day of December in each year, transmit to the clerk of the 

 county court of Cook county an estimate, in writing, of the amount of 

 money, not exceeding in any one year three hundred thousand dollars, neces- 

 sary for the payment of the interest on the bonds issued by said board, and 

 that, in addition thereto, will be required for the improvement, maintenance, 

 and government of said park during the current year ; and the said clerk shall 

 proceed to determine what per cent, said sum is on the taxable property of 

 said towns, according to the several assessors' returns for the respective 

 year, and shall, in the next general tax warrants for the collection of state 

 and county taxes in said several towns, set down the amount chargeable to 

 the several persons, corporations, lots or parcels of ground, in a separate or 

 appropriate column, and shall receive such compensation as now allowed by 

 law; and the collectors, respectively, shall proceed to collect the same in the 

 manner now provided by law for the collection of state and county taxes ; 

 and all the provisions of law, in respect to the collection of state and 

 county taxes, and proceedings to enforce the same, so far as applicable, shall 

 apply to said assessments and taxes. The said sum of money shall be 

 placed by the treasurer of the said county of Cook to the credit of the said 

 board of park commissioners, and shall be drawn by said board from the 

 county treasury by warrant, signed by the president and secretary of the 

 board, and countersigned by the auditor, to be appointed as aforesaid, and 

 in no other way ; the appointment of such auditor or comptroller having 

 been first duly certified by such president and secretary, and filed in the 

 office of said treasurer of Cook county. 



Sec. 10. It shall be lawful for said commissioners to vacate and close up 

 any and all public roads and highways, excepting railroads, which may 

 pass through, divide, or separate any lands selected or appropriated by them 

 for the purposes of a park; and no such road shall be laid out through said 

 park except such as the said commissioners shall lay out and construct. 



Sec. II. No one of the said commissioners shall be interested, either 

 directly or indirectly, in any contract entered into by them with any other 

 person ; nor shall they be interested, directly or indirectly, in the purchase 

 of any material to be used or applied in and about the uses and purposes 

 contemplated in this act. And it shall be a misdemeanor for any commis- 

 sioner to be directly or indirectly interested, or in any way pecuniarily 

 interested in any contract or work of any kind whatever, connected with 

 said park. 



