Rev. Ord. 1866; amend,

5. REGULATIONS FOR NIGHT SCAVENGERS.] March 29, 1867. Such night scavengers, so licensed, shall each provide himself with a team and wagon, with a covered water tight box, of the capacity of twenty-seven cubic feet, which said box, when filled, shall be deemed a load; upon each side of said wagon box shall be painted, in letters and figures, the name and the number of the license. It shall be the duty of the owner, driver or manager and each of them, of any night scavenger wagon, always to keep upon each side of such night scavenger wagon, in the night time, a lighted lamp with plain glass front and sides, with the number of the license of such wagon painted with black paint on the sides and front of each of said lamps, in distinct and legible figures at least two inches in size and so placed that said lamps may be distinctly seen. and said numbers easily read. It shall be the right and duty of such night scavengers, so licensed, when requested by any owner, agent or occupant of any privy within the city, to clean and remove the contents of the vaults thereof, and to deposit and bury the same at least three feet below the surface of the earth, at such place or places as shall be designated by the written permit of the health officer of said city: Provided, no such privy vault shall be opened, nor the contents thereof disturbed, or removed, between the hours of six o'clock a. m. and ten o'clock p. m. of any day, nor shall such contents be deposited or buried within the city, except upon the special permission of the board of health of said city, and in such manner and places as shall be by them directed: And provided, further, that if any night scavenger shall not bury said contents, as above provided, and cover the same so as to prevent any smell arising therefrom, his license shall immediately be forfeited and annulled. Any owner, driver or manager of any such night scavenger wagon who shall violate any provision of this section, shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every offense.

6. OWNERS, ETC., CLEANING PRIVIES.] Owners, occupants or agents of privy vaults within the city desiring to clean and remove the contents thereof themselves, without the aid of night scavengers as aforesaid, shall not be allowed to do so except upon the written permission of the health officer of said city and then only in such manner as he in said permit shall direct: Provided, such health officer shall in no case permit any privy vault to be opened or the contents removed, within the hours mentioned in the preceding section; nor shall he allow any deposit of such contents to be buried less than three feet deep, nor within the city, unless the board of health shall first, by resolution authorize him so to do: Provided, no delay or refusal of such health officer to grant such permit, or of such board of health to pass such resolution shall be excuse or justification to any party for not cleaning any privy vault when directed so to do by the proper officer.

7. CHARGES AUTHORIZED.] Such night scavengers, so as aforesaid licensed, shall be allowed to charge and receive for each load so by them. taken, removed and buried, a sum not exceeding five dollars: Provided, such scavenger, having undertaken such work, shall speedily and without delay complete the same, in all cases leaving the privy in as good condition upon the vault as when the work was undertaken.

8. PENALTIES.] Any person without license as aforesaid, who shall engage in business as night scavenger, or who shall undertake to remove any contents of any privy vault within the city without license or permit, as aforesaid, shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense; and any night scavenger so as aforesaid licensed, or owner, agent or occupant so as aforesaid acting under permit as aforesaid, who shall violate any provision or section, or clause of any provision or section of this chapter shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, according to the nature of such violation, and shall, at the discretion of the mayor of the city of Chicago, forfeit his license.

9. OFFENSIVE PRIVY VAULT-DUTY OF HEALTH OFFICER-PENALTY.] Whenever in the opinion of the health officer any privy vault shall be offensive and need cleaning, it shall be his duty to notify the owner, agent or occupant to cleanse the same within a period named in said notice; also, together with said notice to serve a printed copy of this chapter. Unless the person so notified shall comply within the time mentioned, it shall be the duty of said officer to cause said vault to be cleaned by one or more of the city scavengers aforesaid, and such person so failing to comply with said notice shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not less than twenty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars: Provided, that nothing in this section contained shall discharge the owner, agent or occupant of the premises from any liability otherwise provided, to pay all the expenses of such cleaning. In case no owner or agent can be found in the city, such officers shall cause such offensive vault to be cleaned, and in either case the expenses shall be collected as in other cases of the removal or abatement of nuisances.

1. SCHOOL TERMS.] Rev. Ord. 1866; amend. act Leg. May 9, 1867. The terms of the district schools shall commence on the first Monday of September, the second day of January, and the Monday after the first Friday of May, and close on the twenty-fourth day of December, two weeks before the first Friday of May, and on the first Friday of July: Provided, that when the second day of January occurs later than Wednesday, then the schools

shall not commence till the following Monday, and when the fourth day of July occurs later than Wednesday, the schools shall close on the third day of July. The schools shall be continued five days in each week, at and during such hours, both forenoon and afternoon, as the board of education shall direct.

2. HIGH SCHOOL.] The board of education shall have the same control of the high school established for the improvement of the system of public schools now existing in this city that it has of the other public schools, and it shall be the duty of the board to employ a principal and such other teachers as they may deem necessary and expedient, and prescribe rules for the discipline and instruction of the school, what studies shall be pursued and what books and apparatus shall be used.

3. HIGH SCHOOL TO BE FREE.] Free instruction shall be given to all pupils who may attend said high school, subject to the rules and regulations prescribed by the board of education.

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4. WHO ELIGIBLE TO HIGH SCHOOL.] Pupils shall not be admitted to the general department of said high school until they are thirteen years age, nor to the normal department until sixteen years of age, and shall have sustained an examination upon those studies pursued in the district schools, to the approval of the superintendent of public schools and a committee to be appointed by the board of education.

5. NORMAL DEPARTMENT-GRADUATES.] There shall be a department in the high school expressly for the qualification of female teachers, which shall be styled the "normal department." Graduates of this department shall have preference, other things being equal, in the appointment of teachers for the district schools.

6. GRADUATION, WHEN.] The term of attendance upon the high school necessary for graduation shall be, in the normal department two years; general and classical department, four years.

7. APPROPRIATION OF DONATIONS.] The donation of one thousand dollars and the bequest of ten thousand dollars made by Flavel Moseley, accepted and denominated "the Moseley public school fund," and the donation of one thousand dollars made by John H. Foster, accepted and denominated "the Foster medal fund," and the donation of one thousand dollars made by William Jones, accepted and denominated "the Jones fund for the benefit of the Jones school," and the donation of one thousand dollars made by Walter L. Newberry, accepted and denominated "the Newberry fund for the benefit of the Newberry school," together with any donations that have been or may be made thereto, shall constitute a part of the school fund of the city, and shall be loaned upon the same terms and at the same rate of interest as other school funds are loaned: Provided, that a separate account shall be kept with said funds, and they shall be disbursed according to the provisions established by said donors respectively, under the direction of the board of education, upon whose order only the school agent shall be authorized to pay out said funds.

8. APPROPRIATION OF UNEXPENDED BALANCES.] In case any part of the interest arising from the loan of said funds be unexpended at the close of any municipal year, the same may be added to the principal or expended in the purchase of books for the libraries of the public schools and philosoph

ical and mathematical apparatus for the use of such schools, unless contrary to the provisions established by the donors, in the discretion of said board of education, and no other appropriation of such funds shall ever be made, except by order of the common council and board of education, and with the written consent of the donor or donors, or their legal representatives, which consent shall be placed upon file in the clerk's office.

9. SCHOOL TAX FUND-HOW DISBURSED.] The comptroller shall pay no money out of the school tax fund, for improvements or repairs to any school premises, unless such improvements or repairs were previously ordered by him, upon the certificate of the board of education that such improvements or repairs were necessary, nor unless the board of education shall subsequently approve the bills, nor shall he pay out of that fund any money for supplies of any kind, unless he shall have purchased them subsequent to a certificate of the board that such supplies were necessary, nor unless the board shall approve of the bills after his purchase.

10. CLEANSING OF SCHOOLS-LABOR, ETC.] Such labor as may be required in cleansing school houses, or for other purposes for the public schools, as can be supplied from the house of correction, shall be so supplied and paid for out of the school tax fund to the credit of the house of correction, at a reasonable price to be fixed by the board of inspectors of the house of correction, or in default of their so doing, by the comptroller.

1. APPRAISEMENT OF.] Ord. March 14, 1870. Whenever the common council of the city of Chicago shall appoint appraisers of school or city lands, the persons so appointed shall hold a public meeting in the office of the board of education; notice thereof shall be given in the local columns of three of the daily newspapers of the city, including the newspapers for the corporation, at least once a week before the time of said meeting. Said notice shall contain a full and accurate description of the property to be appraised. Said description shall give the streets upon which said property is located. Said appraisers shall, after hearing any and all parties interested therein, proceed to appraise the lands described in the notice aforesaid, at their true cash value. 2. QUORUM OF APPRAISERS.] No business shall be transacted at any meeting unless all the appraisers appointed by the council are present.

3. APPRAISERS' REPORT.] Such appraisers shall make a detailed report of their action to the city clerk, who shall lay the same before the common council at its next regular meeting; said council shall cause the same to be published.

4. APPRAISERS' REPORT.] In all appraisements of school or city property hereafter made, it shall be provided that the appraisers, therein provided for, shall make a detailed report of their action to the city clerk, who shall lay the same before the common council at its next regular meeting; said common council shall cause the same to be published, and only acted upon at a subsequent meeting, and no appraisal shall be regarded as final and complete until approved by a majority of said council.

5. WHO DISQUALIFIED AS APPRAISERS.] No person, directly or indirectly, interested in any lease of school or city property, shall serve as an appraiser.

CHAPTER 46.

SEAL.

SECTION 1. The seal of Chicago described.

1. SEAL DESCRIBED.] Rev. Ord. 1866. The seal heretofore provided and used by and for the city of Chicago (the impression on which is a representation of a shield, with a sheaf of wheat in the centre, a ship in full sail on the right, a sleeping infant on the top, an Indian with bow and arrow on the left, and with the motto, "Urbs in Horto," at the bottom of the shield; with the inscription, "City of Chicago: Incorporated 4th March, 1837," around the outer edge of said seal; which seal, represented as aforesaid, is hereunto annexed), shall be, and is hereby established, and declared to have been, and now to be, the seal of the city of Chicago.