Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 2

THE EVENING TELEGRAPH. DIXON. ILLINOIS TVEsmY, OCTOIVrTt 20, 1018 Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, November 5th, A. D. 1918, in the County oi Lee and State of Illinois, an Election will be held to vote on the following of Hard-Surfaced Roads and the Issuing of Act providing for a State-Wide System Bonds Therefor: STATE-WIDE SYSTEM An Act in relation to the construction by the State of Illinois of a State-wide system of durable hard-surfaced roads upon public highways of the State and the provision of means for the payment of the cost thereof by an issue of bonds of the State of Illinois.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People or the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That a Statewide system of durable hard-surfaced roads be constructed by the State of Illinois as soon as practicable, upon public highways of the state along the hereinafter described routes as near as may be, and that the state of Illinois (acting through its officers) be, and is and empowered to issue and sell, and provide for the retirement of, bonds of the State of Illinois to the amount of Sixty Million Dollars ($60,000,000.00) for the purpose of providing means for the payment of the cost of the construction of said system of roads: Provided, however, that before this law, which hereby authorizes such debt to be contracted and levies the tax for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds to be issued as an evidence of such debt, shall go into full force and effect it shall, at the general election in November, A. D. 1918, be submitted to the people and receive a majority of the votes east for members of the General Assembly at such election. Sec.

2. That the issuance, sale and retirement of said bonds and the construction of said State-wide system of roads and all work incidental thereto shall be under the general supervision and control of the Department of Public Works and Buildings, subject to the approval of the Governor of this State; and said Department of Public Works and Buildings is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to take whatever steps may be necessary to cause said bonds to be issued and sold and to cause said system of roads to be constructed at the earliest possible time, consistent with good business management, af- tefr this Act becomes fully operative. Said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall have power to make and shall make all final decisions, affecting the work provided for in this section, and ail the rules and regulations it may deem necessary for the proper management and conduct of said work and for carrying out all of the provisions of this Act in such manner as shall be to the best interest and advantage of the people of this State. The Director of Public Works and Buildings shall make it the special duty of the Superintendent of Highways, acting under the direction, supervision and control of said director, to see that such provisions are so carried out in good faith. Said Department of Public Works and Buildings is hereby given power and authority to purchase and supply any labor, tools, machinery, supplies and fnaterials needed for said work.

All contracts let for the construction of said work shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, or bidders, and all said State bonds shall be sold to the highest and best bidder, or bidders, by said Department of Public Works and Buildings, on such terms and conditions, and on open competitive bidding after public advertisement in such manner and for such times as may be prescribed by said Department of Public Works and Buildings, subject to the approval of the Department of Finance. Successful bidders for the construction of said work shall enter into contracts furnished and prescribed by said Department of Public Works and Buildings and shall give good and sufficient bonds to insure the proper and prompt completion ei said work in strict accordance with the provisions of dd ce ir; dr. Sec. 3. That for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of tiiis Ad saiu sum of yixty Mil!) Dollars (860.000,000.00) to be derive toe sale of said bonds, be, and is hereby appropriated to said Department of Public Works and Buildings moneys to be payable out of the State Bond Road Fund, hereinafter provided for; that for the purpose of raising said sum so appropriated to carry out the provisions of that bonds of the State of Illinois to an amount not exceeding said sum of Sixty Million Dollars ($60,000,000) shall be issued and sold as herein provided; that said bonds shall bear interest, payable annually, from the date of their issue, at the rate of three and one-half per centum per annum, unless financial condition make a different rate advisable, in which case said Department of Public Works and Buildings may, with the approval, issue part or all of said bonds at any other rate of interest ntit exceeding four per centum per annum; that said bonds shall be serial bonds and be dated, issued and sold trom time to time as said road building work progresses and in such amounts as may be necessary to provide sufficient money to pay for said work and the expenses incidental thereto; and that each one of said bonds shall be made payable within twenty years from the date of its issue.

Each one of said bonds shall be in the denomination of $500.00 or some multiple thereof. Said bonds shall be engraved and printed by said Department of Public Works and Buildings, under the direction of the Governor, and be signed by the Governor and attested by tire Secretary of State under the seal of the State and countersigned by the State Treasurer and by-the Auditor of Public Accounts. Interest coupons with lithographed fac simile signatures of such mav be attached to said bonds. Said bonds may. at the request of owners, be registered with the Auditor of Public Accounts.

Such bonds shall be deposited, until sold, State Treasurer; and when sold, the proceeds of said bonds shall lie paid into the State Treasury and be kept In a separate fund which shall be known as the State Bond Road Fund. Sec. 4. That all payments for work done or obligations incurred under the provisions of this Act shall be made bv the State Treasurer out of said State Bond Road Fund (and said tunes shall be used only for the purposes mentioned in this Act) upon warrants drawn by the Auditor of Public based upon bills of particular and vouchers certified by the proper official of said Department of Public Works and Buildings having knowledge of the facts upon which such vouchers i and au(lited and approved by the Superintendent of Highways and the Director of Public Works and Buildings and approved by the Governor, acting through the Department or mance. Sec 5.

That said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall on or before the 1st day of February each year, make a full report to the Governor of all business transacted Dy said department in carrying out the provisions of this Act during the year ending on the preceding 31st day of December. I he Governor may cause the books and affairs of said tl10 work for herein, to be audited Tlmt each year, after this Act becomes fully operative and unH all of said bonds shall have been retired, there shall be included in and added to tiie tax levied for State purposes, a direct annual tax for such amoufit as shall be necessary afid sufficient to pay the interest annually, as it shall a ea(Y bond issued under the provisions of this Act, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such bonds par value, as such bonds respectively fall due; and finmnrtSSif amounts of such direct annual tax are herfdiv appropriated for that specific purpose: Provided, however that mnTnfVb1 AV di created bv and the provis- 1911 all Motor Vehicle Law of this state, approved June 10, iJll, and all Acts amendatory thereof, shall first he appropriated and used for the purpose of paying and discharging annually the principal and interest on such bonded indebted- annua shflBnhePfiyaYIe rate of such direct annual tax shall be fixed each year by the officers charged bv law with fixing the rate for State taxes on the valuation of real and personal property In this State subject to taia on cordance with the provisions of the statutes in sS innThT tha- if from otber sources of rev- so nr set tor the same pur- nosed th tax is hereby levied and im- m.lT fixin- Baid rate of said direct annual tax. make proper allowance and reduction for anv such apar, other of MM and Snni-al tHX RllaM and jt 18 herebv. levied and imposed, as Herein provided, and such direct annual tax shall be a vied and collected in the manner pre be paid into the treasury of the State bv the officers leeaUv embed by law in ihe case of general State sh'aB the SKffuiSJTK that no iuch direct annua tax: shall be ho levied for anv year in which a auffiriem of money from other sources of revenue hasten appropriated and set apart to pay the interest shall rue. on said bonds for that year and also to and discharge See Said such'year be constructed in 1 Works an.

R. department of Public ronds upon and along said roadways wblch win in jX- Fr L.fi, Bof Public Works and Bn'ldlnm and low sona in condillon. with tends i of bald BUte maruriii. Faid hard-surfaced parts of said WMtructcd oi suflideitt widths tc meet ments of the reasonably expected traffic therein such, widths, except in extreme cased, to be not less than ten feet nor more than 18 feet. Protded, that where tho the surface permits and is practicable that in making tills, excavations and gradings for and in construction of such hard-surfaced roads, the surface of the earth alongside shall be so left that vehicles may drive over samb and sucli surface shall be of such grade that vehicles can turn on or off such hard-surfaced roads with safety and convenience.

The old bridges which form parts of ihe present roads, shall, wherever such bridges are in proper condition, be used in said proposed system. Said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall immediately after this Act has been approved by the people and before entering into contracts for the construction of said roads, cause to be made reconnaissance surveys and maps, plans and specifications of said roads, together with approximate estimates of the cost of constructing said roads. Sec. 8. That said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall divide said roads into convenient sections for construction purposes, and shall make all reasonable efforts to the Entire State-wide system of roads completed within five years after the first construction contracts therefor are awarded.

The construction work shall, so far as practically possible, be commenced in the different sections of the State at approximately the same time and be carried on continuously all work is completed. Sec. 9. That the general location of the routes upon and along which said proposed roads are to be constructed shall he substantially as described in this section, so as to connect, with each other, the different communities and the principal cities of tho state: Providing, however, that said Department of Public Works Buildings shall have the right to make such minor canges in the location of said routes as may become necessary in order to carry out the provisions of this Act: and, provided, also, that said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall not improve hereunder, any road or part of thereof which lies within any incorporated city, town or village in which the building of State aid roads may lie prohibited by the Act of this State entitled. Act to revise the law in relation to roads and approved Juno 27, 1913, and the amendments thereto: Route No.

Beginning in a public highway at the southern limits of the city of Chicago and running along such highway in a general southerly direction to Metropolis, affording Chicago, Chicago Heights, Watseka, Danville, Paris, Marshall, Robinson, Lawrenceville, Mt. Carmel, Albion, Gra.vville-, Carmi, Harrisburg, Vienna, Metropolis and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 2. Beginning in a public highway near Beloit, Wisconsin, and running along such highway in a geeral southerly direction to Cairo, affording Rockford, Oregon, Dixon, Mendota, Peru, La Sajle, El Paso, Bloomington.

Clinton, Decatur. Puna, Vandalia, Centralia, Duquoin, Carbondale, Anna, Cairo and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 3. Beginning in a public; highway at Morrison and running along such highway in a general southerly direction to Chester, affording Morrison, Prophetstown, Moline, Rock Island, Aledo, Monmouth, Macomb, Rushville, Beardstown, Virginia, Ashland, Alexander, (running over Route No.

10 between Alexander and Jacksonville), Jacksonville, White llall, Carrollton, Jerseyville, Alton, East St, Louis, Waterloo, Chester and th.e intervening communities reasonable connections with each1- other. Route No. 4 Beginning at the intersection of 48th' and Ogden Avenues in the town Cicero, Cook County, and runing in' a general southwesterly direction to East Louis, affording Chicago, Cicero, Berwyn, Riverside, Lyons, Joliet, Dwight, Pontiac, Bloomington, Lincoln, Williamsvilie, Springfield, ville, Edwardsville, Granite City, East St. Louis and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each Hthbr. Route No, 5 Beginning in a public highway at the northwesterly limits of tlje City of Chicago and running along such highway in a general northwesterly direction to East Dubuque, affording Chicago, Elgin, Marengo, Rockford, Freeport, Galena, East Dubuque and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other.

Route No, 0 Beginning in a public highway at the westerly Limits of the city of Chicago and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to Fulton, affording Chicago, Wheaton, Geneva, Elburn, DeKalb, Rochelle, Dixon, Sterling Morrison, Fulton and the intervening communities reasonable conections with each other. Route No. 7 Beginning in a public highway at Joliet and running along such highway in a westerly direction to East Moline, affording Joliet, Morris, Ottawa. LaSalle, Peru, DePue, Princeton, Geneseo, East Moline and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

8 Beginning in a public highway at the Indiana state line cast of Sheldon and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to the Mississippi River opposite Burlington, Iowa, affording Watseka, Chenoa, El Paso. Eureka, Peoria. Farmington, Elmwood, Yates City, Galesburg, Monmouth, and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 9 Beginning in a public highway at the Indiana state line east of lloopeston and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to Route No.

24, on the east side of tho Illinois River between Pekin and East Peoria, men over ltouie No. 24 to Peoria, and thence in a westerly direction to Hamilton, affording Hoopeston, Paxton, Bloomington, Carlock, Goodfield, Deer Creek, Morton, Peoria, Canton, Prairie City, Bushnell. Macomb. Carthage, Hamilton and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

10 Beginning in a public highway at the Indiana state line oast of Danville and running along sucli highway in a general westerly direction to Jacksonville, affording Danville, Urbana, Champaign, Monticello. Bement, Decatur, Sjringfiold. Jacksonville and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 11 Beginning in a public highway at the Indiana state line east of Marshall and running along such highway in a general southwesterly direction to East St.

Louis, affording Marshall, Vandalia, Greenviile, Baden Baden, Highland, East St. Louis and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 12 I inning in a public highway at the Indiana state line east of Lawrenceville and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to East St. Louis, affording Lawrenceville Olney, Flora, Salem, arlyle, Lebanon, East St.

Louis and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 13 Beginning in a public highway at Siiawneetown and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to Murphysboro, thence in a northwesterly direction to East St Louis, affolHing Siiawneetown, Harrisburg, Marion, Carbondale Murphysboro, Y'inckneyville, Sparta, Belleville, East St Louis and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. i Route No. 11 Beginning in a public highway at Carmi and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to Duquoin ar- lording Carmi, McLeansboro, Benton, Christopher, Duquoin and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other.

Route No. 15 Beginning in a public highway at Albion and running along Mich highway in a general westerly direction to Belleville affording Albion, Fairfield, Mt. Vernon, Ashley, Gkawville, Belleville and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 10 Beginning in a public highway at Paris and running along such highway in a general southwesterly direction to Route Zl Staunton, affording Paris.

Charleston, Mattoon, Shelbyvilie. Pana. Hillsboro, Litchfield, Mount Olive Staunton and the intervening communities reasonable connections with Route No. 18 Beginning in a public high why at the western limits of the city of Chicago and running along such highway in a southwesterly direction to Princeton, affording Chicago, Aurora, Oswego. York ville, Plano, Sandwich, EarlVille, Mendota, Princeton, and the Intervening communities reasonable connections with each other.

Route No. 19 Beginning in a public highway at the westerly limits of the city of Chicago and running along such highway in a general northwesterly direction to affording Chicago, Barrington, Woodstock, Harvard and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 20 Beginning in a public highway at the west limits of the city of Waukegan at the of Belvidere street and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to Woodstock, affording Waukegan, Grays Like, McHenry and Woodstock and intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

21 Beginning in a public highway at the northerly limits of the city of Chicago and running along such highway in a general northwesterly direction to the Wisconsin state line, affording Chicago, Libertyville, Antioch and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route 22 Beginning in a public-highway'at the Indiana state line east of Chicago Heights and running along such highway to Lake Forest, affording Chicago Heights. Joliet, Aurora, Geneva! Elgin, Dundee, Carpenterville, Barrington, Lake Forest and the intervening-communities reasonable connections with each other. No. 23 Beginning in a public highway at the Wisconsin state line north of Harvard and running along such hEh'm in a general southerly and southwesterly direction to ft: tor.

affording Harvard, Marengo, Sycamore, DeKalb, OtL.wa, Streator and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 24 Beginning in a public highw-ny at Peoria and running along such highway in a general southerly and southeasterly direction to Pana. affording Peoria, Pekin, Green Mason City, Greenview, Athens, Springfield, Pana, and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

25 Beginning in a public highway at Kankakee and running along such highway in a general southerly direction to Fairfield, affording Kankakee, Gilman, Paxton, Champaign, Tuscola, Mattoon, Effingham, Louisville, Flora. Fairfield, and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 20 Beginning in a public highway at Freeport and running along such highway in a general southerly direction to Dixon, affording Freeport, Polo, Dixon and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

27 Beginning in a public highway at Polo and running along such highway in a general westerly direction to Savanna, af- tording Polo, Mt. Carroll, Savanna and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 28 Beginning in a public highway at Galesburg and running alpng sucli highway in a general northeasterly direction to Sheffield, affording Galesburg, Kewanee, Sheffield and Hie Intervening communities reasonable connections with eaoflloth- er, Route No. 29 Beginning in public highway at.

Peoria and running in a northerly direction to DePue, affording Peoria, Chilllcothe. Henry, DePue and ihe intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 30 Beginning in a public highway at Peoria and running in a northwesterly direction to Gatva, affording Peoria, Princeville, yoming, Galva and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

31 Beginning in a public highway at Canton and running in a southwesterly direction to Quincy, affording Canton, Lewistown, Rushville, Mt. Sterling, Quincy and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 32 Beginning in a public highway at Windsor and running in a northerly direction to Cerro Gordo, affofdtng Windsor. Sullivan, Lovington, Ulrich Station, Lake City, Cerro Gordo and tiie intei veiling communities reasonable connections with each other.

Route No. 33 Beginning in a public highway at Effingham and running to Robinson, affording Effingham, Newron, Robinson and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other No. 34 Beginning in a public at Harrisburg and running through Herod and along tho nmst practical route to the road leading from Eliziibetiithwii to Golconda with branches into Elizabethtown and Golcondo, giving Elizabethtown and Golconda connection with each other and each of said towns connecting with Hairishurg. Route No. 35 of af intervening communities reasonable connections with each other.

Route No. 30 B( ginning in a public highway at Carthago and running in a southerly and easterly direction td Jacksonville, affording Larthage, Bowen, Ursa, Quincy, l'a son. Barry, Pittsfield, mchester, Jacksonville and the intervening communities teasonable connections with each other. Route No. 37 Loginning in a public highway at Mt.

Vernon and extending in a southerly direction to Marion, affording Mt. Vernon Benton, the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 38 Beginning in a public highway at Jerseyville and running along such highway in a westerly direction to a public highway on the east side of the Illinois River opposite the city of ami then beginning at Hardin and running in a northerly direction to Kampsville, affording Jerseyville, Hardin, Kamps- and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

39 Beginning in a public highway at Champaign and running in a northwesterly direction to Bloomington, affording Champaign Mahomet, Mansfield, Farmer City, Leroy, Bloomington and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 40 Beginning in a public highway on the north line of the city of Sterling and running in a northwesterly direction to Mil- ledgevllle, thence to Chadwick, thence north to connect with beginning at a highway on the north line of the city of Mt. Carroll and running north to Stockton. Route No.

41 Beginning in a public highway at Galesburg, and connecting with Tteuto No 8 therein, and running thence in a southern direction, to Abington, thence in a southern direction to Avon thence in a southern direction, connecting with Route No. 9 at aitordink Galesburg, Abington, Avon, the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No. 42 Beginning in a public highway at the northerp limits of the city of Chicago and running along the Sheridan Road in a gen- eial northerly direction to the Wisconsin state lino, affording nicago, Waukegan, Zion City and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. Route No.

43 Beginning in a public highway at Havana and running in an easterly direction to Route No. 24 at Mason Citv. affording oifaby and the intervenins communities reas- onaoie connections. Route No. 43a i 3 highway at Petersburg and running easterly to and connecting with Route No.

24. T) Route No. 44 I.egmmng in a public highway at Joliet and running to Kan- Illinois, via Manhattan anad Wilton Center so as to af- eaeh 011inff communiUtta reasonable connections with Ti Route No. 45 it a highway in Route No. 17, at a point at Garfield and running duq south to Dana.

Route No. 46 InnTwra public hif? at the eastern limits of Arlington Heights, thence running in a southeasterly direction to noute No. 35 Beginning in a public highway at Route No. 2 north Cairo and extending in an easterly direction to Mound City, a lording Mounds, Mound City and the intervening communitii Oaklawn, affording Arlington Heights, Mount Prospect, Des Plaines Franklin Park, River Grove, Maywood, Broadview, La Grange Park, latGrange, Lyons, Summit, Oaklawn and the intervening communities reasonable connections with each other. If any available money from any source remains In the state bond road fund after the above are completed and paid for, said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall use such money construct other similar roads so as to extend said system in such a way as to be of the greatest benefit, in the judgment of said Department of Public Works and Buildings, to the people of the state.

Sec. 10. That wherever one of the above described roads runs through or into a county over a paved road that has been constructed by such county and the state, jointly, or by such county alone and accepted by the State, then, in such case, said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall, if such paved road is of proper durable hard-surfaced type to make it practicable to do so, utilize such paved road in said State-wide system of roads. If said Department of Public Works and Buildings does utilize and make such a paved road of a county a part of said State-wide system of roads, then, and in that case, the actual cost of said paved road shall he determined, in fhe manner hereinafter provided fot, and an amount of money equivalent to the share of such cost that was paid by such county, shall bo set apart and allotted by said department to such county to he used, at the option of such county, either in the payment of any county bonds issued by such county and used to improve its Ftate Aid Roads, or in the improvement any one or more of its improved or unimproved State A1 Roads, by constructing thereon a durable hard-surfaced under the directon and to the satisfaction of said Department of Public W'orks and determining Such cost of such a paved road of a county, so utilized in said State-wide system of roads, Chief Highway Engineer shall make a careful examination of the State Aid Road records which show the actual cost of all such state aid roads, and present to said Department of Public Works and Buildings, in writing, a statement, approved by the Superintendent of Highways, showing the actual cost of such paved road of such county; and the amount of such cost paid by such county, as shown by said statement, shall ho the amount of money so to bo allotted to said county by said Department of Public Works and Buildings to be used by said county in the manner hereinabove provided for. Sec.

11. That whenever the making of any part of said proposed improvement, or the locating of a route or any part thereof, or the obtaining of road building materials for the work provided for herein, will require that private property he taken or damaged, said Department of Public Works and Buildings, in its name, shall have the right to purchase tho necessary land from the owner thereof, or if compensation therefor cannot be agreed upon, to have such just compensation ascertained and to acquire and pay for said property in the same manner, as near as may be, as provided for in the Act of this State entitled, Act to provide for the exercise of the rigiit of eminent approved April 10, 1872, and the amendments thereto: Provided, however, that said Department of Public Works and Buildings shall not be required, in any case, to furnish bond. Sec, 12, That the public highways upon which said roads are being constructed shall, during the construction period and continuously thereafter, be under the jurisdiction and control of said Department of Public Works and Buildings, but the duty of maintaining such highways shall rest on the local authorities until said construction work lias been completed. No public utility company or person shall he granted any right, privilege or franchise in, on or along any such highway with- cut the consent of said Department of Public Works and Buildings. After a road in said State-wide system has been completed and taken over by said Department of Public Works and Buildfngs said road shall thereafter be maintained by tiie State, under and in accordance with the provisions of Section 32 of Article IV of the Art of this State entitled.

Act to revise the law in relation to roads and approved June 27, 1913, and the amendments thereto. Sec. 13. That this Act. authorizing the State to contract the debt for the purpose set forth herein and, as an evidence of such debt issue bonds of tho State of Illinois to the amount of sixty million dollars ($60,000,000.00) and levying a dir.ect annual tax sufficient to pay the interest annually on such bonds, as such interest shall accrue, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such bonds at par value, as such bonds respectively fall due, but providing that such payments may be made from other sources of revenue, shall he.submitt- ed to the people of this state at the general election to he held on Tuesday next after the first Monday of November, A.

I). 1918; that said Act shall he so submitted on a separate balfiii which shall be in substantially tho following form: ROAD IMPROVEMENT BALLOT. Shall an Act of the General Assembly of IlB I linois, entitled, Act In relation to the conj struction by the Siate of Illinois of a State-wide system of durable hard-surfaced roads upon public highways of the State and the provisions of means ior the payment of the cost thereof by an issue of bonds of the State of wliich, in substance, provides for construction by the State, acting through its Department of Public Works and Buildings, subject to the approval, of a State-wide system of i hard roads on routes described; for control and I maintenance and for conditional compensation for roads already payed; gives such department full power to execute Act; authorizes State to contract a debt for such purpose and to issue $60.000,000.00 of serial bonds, bearing interest I annually at not to exceed appropriates said sura to said department; levies a tax sufficient i to pay said interest annually, as it shall accrue, and to pay off said bonds within 20 years from issuance, but provides that such payments may he made from other sources revenue and ro- quires moneys in the Motor Vehicle Law I to he first used for such payments and NO such direct tax tb he omitted in any year in which sufficient money from other sources of revenue has been appropriated to meet such payments for such year; provides for publication and for submission to the people; makes the provisions for payment of such interest and bonds irrepealahle: and pledges faith of State to the making of sucli payments; g0 into full force and effect? YES That this question shall be so submitted at said general election and said election on said question shall be held and returns thereof he made, where not otherwise provided herein, at the same time and in the same manner and by the same officials, as in the case of the election of State officers and in accordance, as near as may he, with the provisions of the general election laws of this State; that the.Secretary of State is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to certify to the county clerk of each county the form of said ballot and also to take every step required by this Act and by the general election laws of this State to he taken in such cases; that the re. sportive persons whose duty it is, under the general election laws of this State, to cause notices of election to be given and ballots to he printed, aiid tho elections to he held and the re suits thereof to be ascertained and declared, are herebv thorized, empowered and directed to take every step reouired by the statutes of this State to be taken in such cases so as to cause this question to he properly submitted to the people or i 11 cj v-ii Sec. 14 That the Secretary of State be, and he is herebv authorized, empowered and directed to cause publication of this act to ho made, oftce each week, for three months at lm-r before the vote of the people shall be taken upon such Ap) and that such publication shall be made in at least two newspapers, one of which shall be published in the dtsrSffV Springfield and one in the city of Chicago.

Sec. 15. That the provisions of this Act for tho navment the principal of said bonds at maturity and of the interest thereon annually as it shall accrue, by a direct annual tax which lias been levied herein for said purpose, or ffom othVr sources of revenue appropriated for that purpose, shall bo ir repealable uni 11 such debt and interest be paid in full and for tiie making of such payment the faith of the State of is hereby pledged. Sec. 16.

That the publication of this law In the above men Honed newspapers and in the Session Laws of Illinois is herebv declared to be due notice to tho people of this State of provisions of this law and of its submission to them and tw if this law receives at said general election the required ml jority of votes, then the will of the people so expressed or at tempted to be so expressed shall not be defeated nor set aside on account of the failure, negligence or carelessness of anv Per. or person, in the performance of his duty, but the law Shall immediately go into full force and effect. Approved June 22. 1917. IT Route No.

17 Beginning in a public highway at the Indiana state line east or Grant Park and running along such highway in general reasonable connections with each Which Election will be opened at seven in the morning, and shall be closed at five in evening of that day. Dated at Dixon, Illinois, this second day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. FRED G. DIMICK, County Clerk,.