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Sec. 20. There shall be an election held in the town of West Chicago 

 on the fourth Tuesday of March next, after the passage of this act at which 

 election the legal voters voting at said election shall vote for or against the 

 creation of the said Board of Park Commissioners, the laying out and 

 making of said boulevards and parks, with their appurtenances, the addition 

 of said sections of land above described by numbers, to said city and town 

 of West Chicago and the extension of the limits thereof, and the imposition 

 of the tax hereby declared to be levied, at which all legal voters residing in 

 the said added territory shall have the right to vote. The tickets shall be 

 printed or written "For the Boulevards and Parks," and "Against the 

 Boulevards and Parks," and if the majority of the votes cast on the question 

 shall be " For the Boulevards and Parks," then the propositions in the first 

 part of this section specified shall be held to be consented to and voted by 

 the said town, and all the provisions of this act relating thereto shall take 

 effect and be in force, with the other provisions of this act, but not other- 

 wise : Provided, hoivever, That there shall be open in the said territory 

 added from the town of Jefferson, at the house of Henry Jewell, known as 

 " Powell's Tavern," a poll for the casting of the votes of said last mentioned 

 territory separately, at which election M. N. Kimbell, John F. Powell and 

 John Hise shall be judges of election, and the legal voters resident therein 

 on the tenth (10) day of February, A. D. 1869, may vote for "City Exten- 

 sion." and "Against City Extension," and '• For the Boulevards and Parks," 

 and " Against the Boulevards and Parks," and if a majority of the votes so 

 cast shall be " Against City Extension," and " Against the Boulevards and 

 Parks," then the territory herein taken from said town of Jefferson, shall not 

 become a part of the city of Chicago, or of the town of W^est Chicago, nor 

 shall the jurisdiction of said city be extended over the same, but the same 

 shall remain a part of the town of Jefferson, the same as if this act had not 

 been passed, and said vote shall not be counted with or affect the vote cast ^ ^ 

 in the remaining territory embraced in this act. The clerk of the county 

 court of Cook county shall, exept as herein otherwise provided, designate 

 the places of holding such election, and give notice thereof in three or more 1^0 U 



of the daily newspapers published in the county of Cook, at least ten days 

 preceding such election, and shall supply the judges thereof with the j V^ ^^\ 

 necessary books, papers and boxes, as in other cases of elections ; and there 

 shall be one polling or voting place in each voting district in said town, ^ . JL 

 as the same were fixed at the last general election in the county of Cook. 

 The persons who acted as judges or inspectors of election in the several 

 districts of said town, at the last general election in Cook county, 

 shall be the judges or inspectors of this election. In case the judges or 

 inspectors of election shall not attend at the time for opening the 

 polls, such judges or inspectors shall be chosen by the legal voters 

 present. In case it shall be necessary to do so, the said clerk of the county 

 court shall prescribe districts and appoint places of voting in the added 

 territory aforesaid, at which the legal voters present shall choose the judges 

 or inspectors of election. The clerks shall be appointed as provided in 

 elections for county officers. The polls shall be opened and closed and 



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