this section shall only apply to lands not laid out into city or town lots or blocks. 208. Map and ordinance recorded. § 9. When any territory is annexed to any city, village or town, as provided in this act, it shall be the duty of the mayor of the city, or the president of the board of trustees of the village or town (as the case may be), to cause an accurate map of such added territory, together with the ordinance for the annexation, certified by such mayor, and if a decree or order of the court has been made therefor, a copy of the same, to be filed for record and recorded in the recorder's office for the county in which such added territory is situated. If territory is disconnected or excluded from any city, village or town, a copy of the ordinance or decree therefor shall be so filed for record and recorded. 209. School districts. 10. All school districts, and other corporations incorporated for school purposes, under special acts of the legislature, desiring to annex or disannex territory, may proceed under the provisions of this act. [See "Schools," ch. 122, § 33. 210. Judicial notice. § 11. All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of cities, towns and villages, and of the changes of their territory, made under the provisions of this act. DISCONNECTING TERRITORY FROM CITIES AND VIL LAGES. AN ACT in relation to the disconnection of territory from cities and villages. [Approved and in force May 29, 1879. L. 1879, P. 77.] *211. Disconnecting territory. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That whenever the owners representing a majority of the area of land of any territory within any city or village, and being upon the border and within the boundary thereof, and not laid out into city or village lots or blocks, shall petition the city council of such city, or the trustees of such village, praying the disconnection of such territory therefrom; such petition shall be filed with the city clerk of such city, or the president of the trustees of such village, accompanied with a certificate of the county clerk, showing that all city taxes or assessments due up to the time of presenting such petition are fully paid, at least ten days before the meeting of such city council, or trustees, at which it is proposed to present such petition, and the city clerk of such city, or president of the trustees of such village, shall present such petition to the city council or trustees, as the case may be, and upon such presentation the city council of such city or trustees of such village may, by ordinance, to be passed by a majority of the members elected to such city council or board of village trustees, disconnect the territory described in such petition from such city or village; Provided, however, that the territory so disconnected shall not thereby be exempted from taxation, for the purpose of paying any indebtedness contracted by the corporate authorities of such city or village, while such territory was within the limits thereof, and remaining unpaid, but the same shall be assessed and taxed for the purpose of paying such indebtedness, the same as if such territory had not been disconnected, until such indebtedness is fully paid. *212. Ordinance to be recorded. § 2. A copy of the ordinance disconnecting territory from any city or village, certified by the clerk of such city, or president of the trustees of such village, shall be filed for record and recorded in the recorder's office of the county in which such disconnected territory is situated, and another copy of such ordinance, so certified, shall be filed with the clerk of the county court of the county in which such disconnected territory is situated. *213. Judicial notice of such changes. 3. All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of cities and villages, and of the changes made in their territory, under this act. *214. Repeal. § 4. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. *215. Emergency. § 5. Omitted. CHANGING NAME. AN ACT to enable any city, town or village in this State to change its name. [Approved March 7, 1872. in force July 1, 1872.] 216. Petition. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That whenever a petition, signed by the qualified electors of any city, incorporated town or incorporated village of this State, equal in number to one-half of those who voted for the officers therein at the last election, shall be presented to the corporate authorities of such city, town or village, praying that the name of such city, town or village may be changed, it shall be lawful for such corporate authorities to make such change in the manner hereinafter prescribed. 217. Proceedings. § 2. Previous to the presentation of the petition in the preceding section mentioned, the name proposed [*247] to be given to such city, town or village shall be filed in the office of the secretary of State, to be there retained for the period of at least sixty days, and upon application, the secretary of State shall, at any time after the filing of such name, grant a certificate, stating that such name has not been given to any other city, incorporated town, or incorporated village, or municipality in this State, if such be the fact; but if such name has been adopted by any other city, town, village or municipality, as appears from information in his office, the secretary of State shall so notify the party or parties making such application, in which case another name shall be filed in his office, which name shall likewise remain for the like period of sixty days; and no petition shall be acted upon by said corporate authorities unless accompanied by the certificate of the secretary of State, setting forth that such name has not been adopted elsewhere in this State. 218. Duties of secretary of State. §3. The secretary of State shall, as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, communicate with the clerks of the several counties of this State, and ascertain the names of all the cities, towns, villages or other municipal corporations therein, and arrange such names in alphabetical order for convenient reference. Such lists of names shall be kept filed in his office, and shall be changed whenever a change of name shall be effected under the provisions of this act. 219. Time of hearing to be fixed-notice. § 4. At any meeting of the corporate authorities of any city, incorporated town or incorporated village, after the presentation of the petition herein provided, such corporate authorities shall fix the time when such petition shall be considered, and order notice of the presentation thereof to be given, by publishing such notice for three successive weeks in some newspaper having a general circulation in such city, town or village. Such notice shall state that a change of the name of such city, town or village has been prayed for, and the time when action on said petition will be had, at which time remonstrances, if any, will be heard. 220. Hearing petition and remonstrances. §5. At the time fixed in the notice provided for in the preceding section, or if, from any cause, action thereon is not taken, such petition praying for a change of name shall be, with all remonstrances, heard at any subsequent meeting of the corporate authorities of any such city, town or village; and if said corporate authorities are satisfied that such change of name is necessary and proper, they shall thereupon make an order changing the name of such city, town or village, and adopting the name prayed for in such petition. 221. Order filed with secretary of State-notice. § 6. If said change of name is made, said corporate authorities shall cause a copy of the order making such change to be filed in the office of the secretary of State, who shall thereupon make known the fact of such change, by publication in some newspaper of the county in which said city, town or village is situated, and also in some newspaper in the city of Chicago; and all the courts of this State shall take judicial notice of the change thus made. 222. Rights saved. § 7. Nothing in this act contained shall affect the rights or privileges of such city, town or village, or those of any person, as the same existed before such change of name. And all proceedings pending in any court or place in favor of or against said city, town or village, may be continued to final consummation under the name in which the same was commenced. 223. When change void. § 8. If the name of any such city, town or village shall be changed contrary to or without complying with the provisions of this act, such change shall be void; and all proceedings instituted, or acts done in such name as changed, shall be void and held for naught in the courts of this State. 224. Name of unincorporated town, etc. $9. When the plat of any unincorporated town or village shall be placed upon record in any county of this State, the circuit court of said county shall [*248] have power, at any regular term of said court, to change the name of such unincorporated town or village, upon the petition of a majority of the legal voters residing within the limits of such town or village; Provided, notice of the proposed change of name shall be filed in the office of the secretary of State, as provided in section two of this act. TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. AN ACT to define the jurisdiction of the cities and incorporated towns bordering on the Ohio river. [Approved March 26, 1872. In force July 1, 1872. L. 1871-2, P. 578.] 225. Over Ohio river. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That each of the several cities and incorporated towns of this State, lying on the Ohio river, and bounded thereby, are hereby invested with jurisdiction over their river fronts, and shall have jurisdiction over the waters of said river, in all cases occurring on said river, and opposite to each of said cities or incorporated towns, co-extensive with the jurisdiction of the several counties in this State in which said cities or incorporated towns may lie; Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to extend the jurisdiction of said cities or incorporated towns over any islands in said river included within the corporate limits of any county of the State of Kentucky. [See § 44, 71. AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of towns and cities on any river within or on the borders of this State, for the purpose of police regulations. [Approved and in force Feb. 15. 1865. L. 1865, p. 111.] 226. To enforce ordinances on boats, etc. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That cities and towns on any river within or on the borders of this State shall have the right to extend and enforce their ordinances so as to include any boat or other floating structure, which shall be kept within two miles of the city or town limits, as a place for drinking spirituous liquors, or for gaming, or for the purpose of prostitution: Provided, no authority shall be given by this law, beyond what the law now authorizes, to interfere with any steamer or other boat, the usual business of which is the carrying of freight or passengers. [See $$ 44, 71. HOUSES OF ILL-FAME. AN ACT to prevent the licensing of houses of ill-fame, and the official inspection or medical examination of the inmates thereof, in the incorporated cities, towns and villages of this State. [Approved and in force March 27, 1874 ] 227. Licensing and medical inspection forbidden. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Asssembly, That it shall be unlawful for the corporate authorities of any city, town or village in this State to grant a license to any person, male or female, to keep what is known as a house of ill-fame or house of prostitution. And it shall be unlawful for any board of health (or any member or employee of the same) now existing, or which may hereafter exist under the laws of this State, to interfere in the management of any house of ill-fame or house of prostitution, or to provide in any manner for the medical inspection or examination of any inmate of the same. [See $62, item 45. 228. Emergency. § 2. Whereas, the legislative authorities of certain cities in this State are about to license houses of ill-fame, therefore an emergency exists why this act should take effect immediately; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas sage. [*249] LEASING LANDINGS AND LEVEES. AN ACT to authorize incorporated cities, towns or villages in this State, situated upon the banks of navigable rivers, to lease parts of their public landings or levees. [Approved March 31, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 229. When landings and levees may be leased. SEC. I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That whenever, in the opinion of the legislative authority of any incorporated city, or of the president and board of trustees of any incorporated town or village of this State, situate upon the banks of any navigable river, the lands acquired and owned by any such city, town or village, for the purpose of a public landing or public levee, are not immediately required for such purpose, then any such city, town or village may lease such parts of such landing or levee as may be thought best by the legislative authority of such city, or president and board of trustees of such town or village, for the purpose of erecting manufactories, warehouses or grain elevators thereon; Provided, no such lease shall extend beyond the period of twenty-five years from its execution. [See § 62, items 32, 33 230. What lands-when lease may take effect-definition-restriction. § 2. That the right of any such city, town or village to lease any part of the land in the foregoing section, shall embrace all such lands as may have been conveyed to the same; Provided, however, no such lease shall take effect or be in force until approved by an order, resolution or ordinance of the legislative authority of such city, or president and board of trustees of such town or village. The words "legislative authority," when used in this act, shall be held to include the common council. The provisions of this act shall not apply to cities having over one hundred thousand inhabitants. POLICE MAGISTRATES. AN ACT to authorize the election of police magistrates in towns, cities and villages where the same are not now provided for by law. [Approved and in force April 13, 1875. Laws 1875, p. 91.] *231. Election-term of office—jurisdiction and fees. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all towns, cities and villages in the State which have been incorporated under charters granted by special acts, or under a general act, when the law'under which they are incorporated does not authorize the election of a police magistrate, be and they are hereby authorized to elect one police magistrate at the first annual election of town, city or village officers that shall occur after the passage of this act, and quadrennially thereafter. Such police magistrate shall hold their offices for the same term, be commissioned and qualified, and have the same jurisdiction and fees, as police magistrates of villages have under the general law for the incorporation of cities and villages. [See § 192. *232. Emergency. § 2. As the first annual election of town, city, and village officers in many of the towns, cities and villages in this State |