Report to the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Chicago

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Barnard & Miller, printers, 1912 - 383 páginas

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Página 363 - ... any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever other than that flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state...
Página 26 - An Act to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and the amendments thereto.
Página 26 - ... lands up to the line so established, free from any adverse claim in any way arising out of any question as to where the shore line was at any time in the past, or as to the title to any existing accretions...
Página 293 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary mode of trade and travel on water.
Página 62 - ... may enter upon and take possession of and use all and singular any lands, streams, and materials of every kind for the location of depots and stopping stages, for the purpose of constructing bridges, dams, embankments, excavations, station grounds, spoil-banks, turnouts, engine houses, shops, and other buildings necessary for the construction, completing, altering, maintaining, preserving, and complete operation of said road.
Página 24 - SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to...
Página 28 - AN ACT to enable Park Commissioners having control of a park or parks bordering upon public waters in this State, to enlarge and connect the same from time to time by extensions over lands and the bed of such waters, and defining the use which may be made of such extensions, and granting submerged lands for the purpose of such enlargements.
Página 27 - ... park commissioners that the amount mentioned in such certificate is necessary to pay the interest on said bonds and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty (20) years from the date of issuing said bonds...
Página 27 - ... sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof...
Página 310 - A local improvement is a public improvement 'which, by reason of its being confined to a locality, enhances the value of adjacent property, as distinguished from benefits diffused by it throughout the municipality.

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