1. CORPORATE POWERS.] Act February 13, 1863. SECTION 1. The inhabitants of all that district of country in the county of Cook and state of Illinois, contained within the limits and boundaries hereinafter prescribed, shall be a body politic under the name and style of the City of Chicago; and by that name sue and be sued, complain and defend, in any court; make and use a common seal, and alter it at pleasure; and take and hold, purchase, lease and convey such real and personal or mixed estate as the purposes of the corporation may require, within or without the limits aforesaid. 2. CORPORATE LIMITS.] Ibid. SEC. 2. The corporate limits and jurisdiction of the city of Chicago shall embrace and include, within the same, all of township thirty-nine north, range fourteen east of the third principal meridian, and all of sections thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, and fractional section thirty-four, in township forty, north, range fourteen east of the third principal meridian, together with so much of the waters and bed of Lake Michigan as lies within one mile of the shore thereof and east of the territory aforesaid.

3. DIVISIONS-NORTH, SOUTH, WEST-LIMITS OF.] Ibid. SEC. 3. All that portion of the aforesaid territory lying north of the center of the main Chicago river and east of the center of the north branch of said river, shall constitute the North Division of said city; all that portion of the aforesaid territory lying south of the center of the main Chicago river and south and east of the center of the south branch of said river and of the Illinois and Michigan canal, shall constitute the South Division of said city; and all that portion of the aforesaid territory lying west of the center of the north and south branches of said river and of the Illinois and Michigan canal, shall constitute the West Division of said city.

4. BOUNDARIES EXTENDED.] Act February 27, 1869. SEC. 1. That the territorial limits of the city of Chicago, shall be and are hereby extended as follows: That part of section thirty (30), township forty (40) north of range fourteen (14) east of the third (3d) principal meridian, which lies west of the north branch of the Chicago river; section twenty-five (25), township forty (40) north of range thirteen (13) east of the third (3d) principal meridian, except that part of said section lying east of the center of the north branch of the Chicago river; sections twenty-six (26), thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36) in township forty (40) north of range thirteen (13) east of the third (3d) principal meridian; sections one (1), two (2), eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25) and twenty-six (26) in township thirty-nine (39) north of range thirteen (13) east of the third (3d) principal meridian; and that part of section thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36) in township thirty-nine (39) north of range thirteen (13) east of the third (3d) principal meridian, lying northwest of the center of the Illinois and Michigan canal, shall be and are hereby added to said city, and shall constitute a part of the west division of said city and of the town of West Chicago; and the said added or new territory shall cease to be a part of the several towns to which it now belongs or appertains; and the outside boundary of the west division of the city of Chicago as hereby established, shall be the outside boundary of the several wards of said city which now extend to the present city limits.

5. TERRITORY EXCEPTED.] Act March 10, 1869. SEC. 1. That the act entitled "An act to amend the charter of the city of Chicago, to create a board of park commissioners, and authorize a tax in the town of West Chicago, and for other purposes," approved February 27th, A. D. 1869, including the affirmance of the propositions specified in the first clause of the twentieth section of said act, but excluding the remainder of said section, relating to the holding of an election now past, shall be and is hereby re-enacted and confirmed, and shall be in full force and effect to all intents and purposes, except as hereinafter specified: Provided, that the four added sections of land from the town of Jefferson, in said act specified, viz.: section twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26), thirty-five (35) and thirty-six (36) in township forty (40) north of range thirteen (13) east, shall not become a part of the city of Chicago, or of the town of West Chicago; nor shall the jurisdiction of said city be extended over the same, but the same shall remain a part of the town of Jefferson, the same as if this act had not been passed.

6. WARD BOUNDARIES.] Act March 10, 1869. SEC. 4. The city of Chicago shall be divided into twenty wards, as follows:

First ward. All that part of the south division of said city which lies south of the center of the main Chicago river and north of the center of Monroe street shall be denominated the first ward.

Second ward. All that part of the south division of said city which lies south of the center of Monroe street and north of the center of Harrison street shall be denominated the second ward.

Third ward. All that part of the south division of said city which lies

south of the center of Harrison street and north of the center of Sixteenth street shall be denominated the third ward.

Fourth ward. All that part of the south division of said city which lies south of the center of Sixteenth street and east of the center of Clark street, and a line corresponding with the center of the last named street projected southerly to the center of Twenty-sixth street and north of the center of said Twenty-sixth street, and a line corresponding with the center of the last named street projected easterly to Lake Michigan, shall be denominated the fourth ward.

Fifth ward. All that part of the south division of said city which lies south of the center of Twenty-sixth street and a line corresponding with the center of said street projected easterly to Lake Michigan, and east of the center of Clark street and a line corresponding with the center of the last named street projected southerly to the city limits, shall be denominated the fifth ward.

Sixth ward. All that part of the south division of said city which lies south of the center of Sixteenth street and west of the center of Clark street, and a line corresponding with the center of the last named street projected southerly to the city limits, shall be denominated the sixth ward.

Seventh ward. All that part of the west division of said city which lies south of the center of Sixteenth street shall be denominated the seventh ward.

Eighth ward. All that part of the west division of said city which lies north of the center of Sixteenth street and south of the center of Twelfth street shall be denominated the eighth ward.

Ninth ward. All that portion of the west division of said city which lies north of the center of Twelfth street, east of the center of Center avenue and south of the center of Van Buren street shall be denominated the ninth ward.*

Tenth ward. All that part of the west division of said city which lies north of the center of Van Buren street, east of the center of Aberdeen and Curtis streets and south of the center of Randolph street shall be denominated the tenth ward.

Eleventh ward. All that part of the west division of said city which lies north of the center of Randolph street, east of the center of Curtis street and south of the center of Fourth street shall be denominated the eleventh ward. Twelfth ward. All that part of the west division of said city which lies. north of the center of Twelfth street, east of the center of Reuben street, south of the center of Fourth street and west of the following boundary, viz. : commencing at the center of Fourth street and running thence south on the center of Curtis and Aberdeen streets to the center of Van Buren street, thence west on the center of Van Buren street to the center of Center avenue, thence south on the center of Center avenue to the center of Twelfth street shall be denominated the twelfth ward.†

Thirteenth ward. All that part of the west division of said city which

* See section 7, this chapter. + See section 7, this chapter.

lies north of the center of Twelfth street, west of the center of Reuben street and south of the center of Lake street shall be denominated the thirteenth ward.

Fourteenth ward. All that part of the west division of said city which lies north of the center of Lake street, south of the center of Chicago avenue and west of the center of Reuben street shall be denominated the fourteenth ward.

Fifteenth ward. All that part of the west division of said city which lies north of the center of Fourth street and Chicago avenue, not included in any of the foregoing wards, shall be denominated the fifteenth ward.

Sixteenth ward. All that part of the north division of said city which lies north of the center of North avenue shall be denominated the sixteenth ward.

Seventeenth ward. All that part of the north division of said city which lies south of the center of North avenue and north of the center of Division street shall be denominated the seventeenth ward.

Eighteenth ward. All that part of the north division of said city which lies south of the center of Division street and west of the center of Franklin street shall be denominated the eighteenth ward.

Nineteenth ward. All that part of the north division of said city which lies south of the center of Division street, east of the center of Franklin street and north of the center of Chicago avenue shall be denominated the nineteenth ward.

Twentieth ward. All that part of the north division of said city which lies south of the center of Chicago avenue and east of the center of Franklin street shall be denominated the twentieth ward.

7. CHANGE OF WARD BOUNDARIES.] Act March 11, 1869. SEC. 2. That the act passed by the present general assembly, prescribing and defining the boundaries of the wards in said city and for other purposes, be, and the same is hereby, so amended that the north and south boundaries of the ninth ward, created under said act, be, and the same are hereby, extended westwardly to the center of Loomis street, and the center of the last named street shall be the western boundary thereof, and also the eastern boundary of the twelfth ward, as established by said act, south of the center of Van Buren street.

How territory may be annexed, see "Act to provide for annexing and excluding territory," etc., in force July 1, 1873, post, Appendix.