all their lawful debts, obligations and liabilities, whether such rights or liabilities be accrued or contingent. No town or park district shall hereafter be formed under general laws now in force, so as to be located entirely or partly within the limits of the city of Chicago. Upon the annexation hereafter to the city of Chicago of any territory containing within its boundaries the whole of any township, school or park district, or other municipal corporation, or any part of any such corporation, the remaining portion of which is already situated within the territory of the city, the local government and authorities of such township, school or park district, or other municipal corporation thus becoming included entirely within the city, shall, if the majority of the voters of such corporation voting upon the question consent to such annexation, be consolidated in the municipal government of the city of Chicago, and such corporation and its corporate authorities shall thereupon be dissolved and abrogated, subject in every respect to the provisions of this article. The election commissioners shall, if necessary, furnish separate ballot boxes in which the votes of the voters residing within the territory of any such corporation may be received in order that they may be separately counted and returned.

Nothing in this section contained shall be construed to apply to drainage, improvement, or forest preserve districts.

1-2. The city of Chicago, as it shall be organized under this charter, shall be deemed to be the same corporation and shall continue to be vested with the same rights and property of every description, and to be subject to the same obligations and liabilities, accrued or contingent, as the city of Chicago as at present organized, and no legal proceeding to which the city is a party shall be affected by the change of organization, and all legal proceedings instituted by or in the name of or against any of the corporations or corporate authorities hereby abrogated shall be continued without abatement by or against the city of Chicago, either in the name of the city of Chicago or in the name by which they were instituted.

When a different remedy is given by this act which may properly be made applicable to any right existing at the time this charter takes effect, the same shall be deemed cumulative to the remedies before provided and may be used accordingly.

1-3. All legal acts lawfully done by or in favor of any of the corporations or corporate authorities hereby consolidated shall be and remain as valid as though this Act had not been passed. This provision shall especially apply to contracts, grants, licenses, warrants, orders, notices, appointments and official bonds, but shall not affect any existing or contingent right to modify, revoke or rescind such acts.

1-4. All fines, penalties and forfeitures incurred or imposed before this charter takes effect for violation of the ordinances, by-laws or rules of any of the local authorities hereby consolidated, shall be enforced or collected by or under the authority of the city.

I-5. All causes of action accrued before this charter takes effect in favor of or against any of the corporations or corporate authorities hereby abrogated may be prosecuted by or against the city of Chicago.

1-6. All taxes and special assessments lawfully levied before this charter takes effect, by any of the local authorities hereby consolidated, shall be collected as if they had been lawfully levied by or under the authority of the city of Chicago.

I-7. All powers of taxation or assessment that may have become part of any contract of indebtedness incurred or entered into by any of the corporations hereby consolidated with the city of Chicago shall be preserved only in so far as their exercise may become necessary to save and protect the rights of creditors, and in the event of their so becoming necessary, shall be exercised by the corporate authorities of the city of Chicago to the same extent as the corporate authorities contracting such indebtedness would have been found to exercise the same.

1-8. All ordinances, resolutions, by-laws, orders or rules in force in the city of Chicago or in any portion thereof at the time this charter takes effect and not inconsistent with the provisions of this charter, whether enacted by authority of the city or by any other authority, shall continue in full force and effect until repealed or amended, notwithstanding any change of organization affected by this charter.

1-9. Any property or funds held by any of the corporate authorities hereby dissolved upon any trust or subject to any charge, shall be held by said city upon the same trust and subject to the same charge. The proceeds of taxes or assessments levied and of all bonds or warrants issued and of all license fees, rates or charges imposed before this charter takes effect shall be applied to the purposes for which they were levied, issued or imposed.

The present boards of park commissioners and park boards shall continue to perform their official functions until the board of park commissioners herein provided for shall have been organized; and shall thereupon be abrogated.

All offices of the township governments hereby consolidated shall be abrogated by the adoption of this charter, except so far as their legal continuance may be necessary to the collection of taxes.

I-II. All officers ceasing to hold office shall deliver and turn over to the officers upon whom their powers and duties devolve all papers, records and property of every kind in their possession and custody by virtue of their office, and shall account to them or to any authority designated by the city council for all funds, credits or property of any kind with which they are properly chargeable.

I-12. Except as herein expressly otherwise provided the tenure of office of no officer and the terms of employment of no employé of the present city government or of any of the local governments or corporate authorities hereby consolidated with the city of Chicago shall be affected by such consolidation or by the abrogation of the authority under which he holds office or by the taking effect of this charter, and all the present employés and police officers of the park boards shall be subject to the provisions of the civil service law without original exam

ination.

1-13.

So far as the provisions of this charter are the same in terms or in substance and effect as the provisions of the laws which this charter supersedes they shall be construed as continuations of such provisions and not as new enactments.

ARTICLE II—ELECTIONS.

CHAPTER I.IN GENERAL.

2-1-1. The qualifications of voters at municipal elections shall be determined by the general laws of the State.

2-1-2. Regular elections for municipal offices (not including those for the municipal court) shall be held on the first Tuesday of April.

2-1-3. If there is a failure to elect any municipal officer required to be elected, or if the person elected fails to qualify, the office shall be filled as if the same were vacant.

2-1-4. Special elections for municipal offices or for the submission of propositions to the voters of the city shall be called only by order of the city council.

CHAPTER 2.-SUBMISSION OF PROPOSITIONS TO POPULAR Vote.

2—2—I. Whenever this charter or any other statute provides that any proposition shall or may be submitted to the voters of the city, or of any district of the city, for approval or consent, and that it shall not take effect in the city or such district until such approval or consent, or shall contain any provision of a like effect, the proposition shall be submitted, and if approved, shall take effect, as herein provided.

2-2-2. If the proposition is in the form of a statute, the Secretary of State shall transmit a copy of such statute to the officer whose duty it is to give notice of the election at which the proposition is to be voted on.

2-2-3. Unless otherwise provided by the authority requiring or authorizing the submission, the proposition shall be submitted at any special or regular election occurring not sooner than thirty days from and after the provision is enacted.

2—2—4. The provisions applicable to the election of municipal officers shall as far as practicable govern elections upon any proposition submitted to popular vote except as herein otherwise provided.

2-2-5. The notice of the election at which the proposition is to be voted upon shall briefly indicate its substance. The title, if any, of the measure shall be sufficient for that purpose. The election commissioners shall keep copies of the statute or ordinance containing the proposition to be voted upon at their office for free distribution or for sale at cost price as they may determine, and one or more copies thereof shall be kept on election day at each polling place for public inspection. 2-2-6. The proposition or propositions to be voted on at any election shall be printed on a ballot, which shall be separate from the ballot for candidates for office. The proposition, if a statute, shall be

stated by its title (with such caption as the election commissioners may determine), and if an ordinance, in such summary form as may be designated by the city council; or in case the city council shall fail to make such designation, then in such summary form as the election commissioners may determine.

Below the statement of each proposition there shall be printed on two lines:

FOR THE PROPOSED

AGAINST THE PROPOSED...

(statute, ordinance, proposition etc., as the case may be) and (statute, ordinance, proposition, etc., as the case may be)

leaving at the end of each line a square space marked off for the insertion of the voter's mark, substantially as follows:

Caption (e. g.) City Hall Bond Issue.

Title....

FOR proposed measure

AGAINST proposed measure

2-2-7. Whenever a proposition is submitted to the voters of the city or of a district thereof, the result shall be determined by the number of votes cast upon that proposition, unless it is expressly otherwise provided by the law requiring or authorizing such submission.

2-2-8. If the vote upon the proposition is in favor of its adoption, the statute or ordinance shall take effect in the city or district for which it has been adopted, from the time the result of the election is ascertained and declared, unless a later date is fixed in such statute or ordinance, or by the constitution.

If a proposition embodied in a statute or ordinance fails to be adopted it shall not be re-submitted under the authority of the same statute or ordinance until after a lapse of two years, and only upon a petition of fifteen (15) per cent of the legal voters of the city, voting at the last preceding election for mayor, which shall be filed with the city clerk. at least thirty days before the election at which the re-submission is desired.

2-2-9. Wherever this charter shall require a petition of voters for the purpose of having some measure submitted to popular vote for the purpose of having the name of any candidate for any office placed upon the official ballot to be voted upon at any election, or for any other purpose, the signatures to such petition need not all be appended to one paper, but on each paper there shall be printed or written a correct copy of such petition. Each signer shall add to his signature, which

shall be in his own handwriting, his place of residence, giving the street and number of the house. A signer unable to write may make his mark, which shall be attested by an adult resident citizen, who shall place by the mark, in addition to his own name and place of residence, the name and residence of the signer. Each signature to the petition shall be verified by a statement (which may relate to a number of specified signatures) made by some adult resident citizen under oath before some competent official to the effect that he believes the signer to be [a] qualified voter and either that he knows the signature to be genuine, or that the same was made in his presence and he verily believes the same to be genuine. If the signature is by a mark, the verification shall be by the attesting witness. Such statement or statements shall be attached to and filed with the petition.

CHAPTER 3.-PRIMARY ELECTIONS.

2-3-1. The primary elections for delegates to constitute the various conventions of the different political parties or organizations of the city, or any part thereof, held for the nomination of candidates for public office in the city, or any part thereof, whose names are to be printed on the official election ballots printed and distributed at public expense in the city, or any part thereof, shall hereafter be held under and pursuant to this act. A convention to nominate candidates for public office to be voted for by the electors of an entire city shall be known as a "city convention." A convention to nominate candidates for public office to be voted for by the electors of an entire ward shall be known as a "ward convention.'

Each nomination convention to nominate city officers shall be held within the boundaries of the city. All ward conventions shall be held within the boundaries of the respective wards. All conventions shall be held at the place designated in the call. A majority of the delegates entitled to a seat in the convention shall be necessary to constitute a quorum. Each political party shall designate for each convention in the call or application filed by such party for a primary election to be held in accordance herewith the name of a resident voter of the city or ward as the case may be, to call the respective conventions to order and who shall preside only until the temporary chairman has been duly elected as provided herein. The person so designated may be chosen as one of the officers of the convention, provided that said person shall have all the qualifications and shall be chosen as required herein. All convention officers shall be delegates and shall be chosen upon a rollcall, such roll-call to be by wards for city conventions and by primary districts for ward conventions and announced by the chairman of such ward or district delegation. In case, however, the vote of any ward or district is challenged or disputed when announced, then the roll of delegates of such ward or district shall be called and the persons receiving the votes of a majority of the delegates shall be declared elected the officers of the convention. No adjournment or recess of the convention shall be taken before completing the nominations it was called to make, except upon a yea and nay vote taken upon a roll-call as aforesaid.