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Sec. 12. The said commissioners, or either of them, may be removed 

 from office by the judge of the circuit court of Cook county, upon the 

 petition presented to him in term time or in vacation, by one hundred free- 

 holders of said towns of South Chicago, Hyde Park, and Lake, if it shall 

 appear, after hearing and proof before said judge, that the said commis- 

 sioners, or either of them, have been guilty of misdemeanor or malfeasance 

 in office under this act; and if the said judge shall remove any two or more 

 of said commissioners from office for any cause, before the expiration of 

 their term of office, they are hereby empowered to appoint others in their 

 stead, who shall fill such offices for and during the unexpired term of such 

 commissioners so removed. 



Sec. 13. The said board shall have the full and exclusive power to govern, 

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

 ordinances for the regulation and government thereof; to appoint such 

 engineers, surveyors, clerks, and other officers, including a police force, as 

 may be necessary; to define and prescribe their respective duties and 

 authority ; fix the amount of their compensation ; and generally, in regard 

 to said park, they shall possess all the power and authority now by law 

 conferred upon or possessed by the common council of the city of Chicago, 

 in respect to the public squares and places in said city; and it shall be 

 lawful for them to commence the improvement of said park as soon as they 

 have obtained one hundred acres of the premises herein described. 



Sec. 14. The office of any commissioner under this act, who shall not 

 attend meetings of the board for three successive months, after having been 

 duly notified of said meetings, without leave of absence from said board, 

 may, by said board, be declared vacant. 



Sec. 15. The real estate and personal property of saifl corporation shall 

 be exempted from taxation and assessment. 



Sec. 16. All moneys belonging or to belong to any park fund now in 

 existence or hereafter to be created, and all bonds, and the proceeds from 

 sales thereof, now authorized or hereafter to be authorized to be issued by 

 the city of Chicago for park purposes, in or to which the South Division of 

 the city of Chicago may now or shall hereafter be entitled to a distributive 

 share, shall be devoted and applied to the purchase or maintenance and 

 improvement of the park contemplated and created by this act, under the 

 direction and control of the commissioners provided for in this act. 



Sec. 17. The bonds to be issued under this act may be received in 

 payment of any assessment, whether such bond or assessment shall have 

 become due or not, upon such terms as shall be fair, just and equitable; 

 and upon the payment of any assessment, the land upon which the same is 

 assessed shall be free from any lien or liability to pay the same: and such 

 payment shall be reported to the county clerk of Cook county, and entered 

 upon the record of the assessment. 



Sec. 18. There shall be an election held in the towns of South Chicago, 

 Hyde Park and Lake, on the fourth Tuesday of March next after the passage 

 of this act, at which election the legal voters voting at such election shall 

 vote for or against this act. The tickets shall be printed or written, "For 



