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Empowering common councils to legalize bonds issued or sold by any municipality for the purpose of purchasing or constructing an electric lighting plant, which bonds have been declared illegal subsequent to their issuances.—Chapter 75.

Authorizing cities to accept their own bonds or mortgage certificates from depositors as collateral security and to provide for their cancellation upon default of the depository.—Chapter 130.

Empowering common councils of cities of the first class to extend the time for payment of city taxes for a period of six months.—Chapter 273.

Empowering common councils to change the license fee charged for interurban franchises not oftener than once in five years.—Chapter 274.

Empowering common councils to levy a tax, not to exceed seventeen one-thousandths of a mill upon each dollar of the assessed value of the taxable property of cities for the city civil service fund.—Chapter 95.

Empowering villages and cities, specially incorporated, to condemn land for the construction of sewage disposal plants and mains incident thereto, within or without the limits of the village or city.—Chapter 279.

Creating an art commission for cities of the first class and specifying the membership thereof.—Chapter 318.

Providing a method of determining the necessity of taking lands for public purposes, in cities operating under a special charter.—Chapter 332.

Permitting cities of the second, third and fourth classes to organize under the commission form of government and specifying the manner in which such organization shall be affected.—Chapter 387.