(725 ILCS 170/16) (from Ch. 60, par. 16)

Sec. 16. For the purpose of providing a fund for the payment of said rewards and disbursements, the said county boards are hereby authorized to levy a tax, annually, of such amounts as to them may seem necessary, for the purpose herein contemplated; said taxes to be levied and collected in the same manner as other taxes for county purposes are by law authorized to be levied and collected.

(Source: R.S. 1874, p. 543.)