Excerpt from The City Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Joliet, Illinois: Together With Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, Relating to the City The charter for 1857, and ordinances were published in book form in the vear 1863, and was again published in the year 1869. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.