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town of West Chicago to the imposition of an annual tax of one-half of 

 one mill for boulevard and park purposes, as hereinafter provided. It shall 

 be the duty of the clerk of the county court of Cook county to set down in the 

 general tax warrants ofeachyear, forthe collection of state and county taxes, in 

 a separate column, a tax of one-half of one mill, to be styled " Boulevard and 

 Park Tax," which is hereby levied upon all the taxable property in said town 

 of West Chicago, and shall set down in said column the amount of said tax 

 chargeable to the several persons, corporations, lots, or parcels of land liable 

 for taxes in said town; and the collector 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 sums of.money shall be placed by 

 the treasurer of said county of Cook to the credit of said board, and shall 

 be drawn by said board from the county treasury by a warrant, signed by, the 

 president and secretary of said board, and countersigned by the auditor to 

 be appointed as aforesaid, and in no other way. The appointment of such 

 auditor shall be first certified by such president and secretary, and filed in 

 the office of said treasurer of Cook county. 



Sec. 17. It shall be lawful for said commissioners to vacate and close up 

 any and all public roads or highways, excepting railroads, for commercial 

 purposes, 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 

 ever be laid out through said park, except such as the said commissioners 

 shall lay out and construct: Provided, however., that neither Lake street, 

 Madison nor Twelfth streets, nor either of the diagonal avenues or roads 

 leading into said city, nor any boulevard nor horse railway track of any 

 person or corporation now authorized to make the same, shall be closed 

 under the provisions of this section, but the same may be worked and con- 

 trolled when, and so far as, within the lines of either of said parks, by the 

 said board, but without interrupting travel over the same. 



Sec. 18. The said commissioners, or either of them, may be removed 

 from office by the circuit court of said county, after trial and conviction, 

 upon the petition, with sworn charges, presented by not less than ten repu- 

 table freeholders of said town of West Chicago, and if it shall appear at 

 said trial that the said commissioner or commissioners have been guilty of 

 misdemeanor or malfeasance in office under this act; and if the said court 

 shall remove any of said commissioners from office for any such cause, 

 before the expiration of his or their term of office, the clerk of said court 

 shall certify to the governor of the state of Illinois, under the seal of the 

 court, a copy of the final judgment of removal. The president and secretary 

 of the board shall certify to the governor all other vacancies arising or 

 occurring in the same after the organization thereof 



Sec. 19. 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 reasons satisfactory to the board, 

 or without leave of absence from said board, may, by said board, be 

 declared, and thereupon shall become, vacant. 



