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Laws Concerning the University of Illinois

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enable the public spirit of each community or section to fully compete for such location; therefore SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the ^General Assembly, That any county, city, township, or incorporated town of said state, may, by taxation, as well as by voluntary subscription of its citizens, raise a fund to secure the location of said University at any point whatever; and any other corporation in this state may make bids and subscriptions for the purpose of securing said location at any point whatever. 2. That any county, through its county courts or board of supervisors, and any township or town, through its supervisor, assessor, and collector, and any city or incorporated town, through its council or board of aldermen, or other constituted authorities, as the case may be, may subscribe such sum or sums as they may deem necessary, to secure such location, and to raise the amount or amounts so subscribed by taxation, or by issuing bonds, payable at any seasonable or convenient time, and bearing any rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent per annum: Provided however, that no tax shall be levied for such purpose until the proposition so to raise a fund, together with the amount to be raised shall, after at least ten days' notice, be submitted to a vote of the people so to be taxed, and be approved by a majority of the persons voting at such election: Provided, that the county clerk of such county shall order an election in accordance with the provisions of this act: And provided, also, that it shall not be obligatory on any county, city, or town authorities, or county clerk, as aforesaid, to submit any such proposition to a vote of the people, unless at least one hundred of the legal voters of said county, city, or town shall petition for the same; in which event said election or elections shall be ordered: And provided further, that any election heretofore held in any county, city, or town, for the purpose aforesaid, is hereby legalized and made valid. 3. The county, city, or town authorities, as aforesaid, are hereby invested with full power to make any and all needful orders and regulations to carry into effect the foregoing provisions, and in case of an election being applied for, as aforesaid,