This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... SEVENTH DIVISION: IMPROVEMENTS. CHAPTER I. APPROPRIATION BY CITIES AND VILLAGES OF, PRIVATE PROPERTY TO PUBLIC USE. Sec. 2137. Each city and village may appropriate, enter upon and hold real estate within its corporate limits for the following purposes, but no more shall be taken or appropriated than is reasonably necessary for the purpose to which it is to be applied. 1. For opening, widening, straightening and extending streets, aileys and avenues; also for obtaining gravel or other material for the improvement of the same, and for this purpose the right to appropriate will not be limited to lands lying within the limits of the corporation. 2. For market space, and market houses. 3. For buildings and structures required for the use of the fire department. 4. For public halls and necessary offices. 5. For prisons. 6. For infirmaries. 7. For workhouses. 8. For houses of refuge and correction. 9. For public hospitals, and public morgues. 10. For public parks, after a notice of not less than thirty days, given in two newspapers of opposite politics, if there be such published in said village or city, or in writing; and after the proposition to purchase and appropriate has been voted upon and approved by a majority of those voting upon the proposition; and for this purpose the right to appropriate shall not be limited to lands lying within the corporation; and after such affirmative vote the council shall have the right and power to issue the bonds of said village or city, in payment of the amount so fixed by the court by proceedings in condemnation as to the value of said property. 11. For gas works. 12. For water works; and for this purpose the right to appropriate shall not be limited to lands lying within the corporation. 13. For...