1853.

436

Special tax.

Justice of peace.

Proviso*

Oath.

0

Open streets.

Warehouses.

mayor and countersigned by the clerk, with or withoutcoupons, as the said council may see fit, and pledging therevenues and property of said cityf or the payment thereof—the interest to be paid in such manner, at such place orplacesand at such times, either annually, semi-annually or oth-erwise, as said council may direct; and in addition to thetaxes authorized by the act to which this is an amendment,said city council may levy and collect a sufficient sum, asa special tax each year, to defray the interest and expensesof any such loan or loans ; said sum, thus borrowed, to beexpended in grading or otherwise improving the streets ofsaid city or the roads leading thereto, within two miles ofsaid city; to the purchase of grounds for and the erection Iof a hospital, watch house, or house of correction, as maybe provided by ordinance of said city council.

§ 2. The said city council may designate any justice oftlie peace in said city, or any one of the aldermen of saidcity, to act as a justice of the peace, and to exercise thepowers and authority conferred upon the mayor of saidcity as a justice of the peace, in sections seven, eight andnine of the fourth article of said act to which this is anamendment ; and upon such designation, the person thusdesignated shall have and exercise all the powers conferredupon the mayor in said section : Provided, that in case Iany alderman, who is not a justice of the peace, shall be so Idesignated, he shall be commissioned by the governor asajustice of the peace of said city, and take the like oath andgive bond as required of other justices of the peace : Mprovided , further, that this section shall not be construedto deprive the mayor of any authority conferred upon himby said sections, but he shall retain a concurrent jurisdic-tion with said justice thus designated, as to all mattersarising under said sections.

§ 3. The said city council are hereby authorized andempowered to lay out and open a street from the centre ofsection ten, in township thirty-three, of range one, of thethird principal meridian, through said section ten, or suchpart thereof as they may see fit, to such point as they majdetermine upon the plank road now laid out and construc-ted through section eight, in said township, and to appropri-ate the land to be taken for such street for that purpose,the damages to be assessed to the owners of such land, anathe proceeding in relation thereto to be ascertained andhad in conformity to the seventh article of the act to char-ter said city.

§ 4. The city council of La Salle may authorize anpermit persons building warehouses upon blocks one hun-|dred and thirty-four and one hundred and thirty-five,extend the second story of their warehouses over the e»Jfeet fronting on the canal basin: Provided, that they plan

Proviso.