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FEDERAL
LAWS
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
ENACTED BY THE
THIRTY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
AT THE SESSION WHICH
Commenced January 3> 1883, and Adjourned June 18,1883
Printed by Authority of the General Assembly
of the State of Illinois.
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1883.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
AGRICULTURE : page.
Act to revise the law in relation to the Department of Agriculture 1
ANIMALS :
Act to amend an act to suppress and prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia
among cattle 4
APPROPRIATIONS :
Agricultural boards 5
Alton city court 7,8
Battle flags 9
Braidwood and Coulterville mine sufferers 9
Canal, Illinois and Michigan 10
Chance. Jacob O 11
Chicago Deaf and Dumb School 12
Dairyman's association 12
Franklin county 13
Horticultural society 13
Industrial university 14
Lucinger, Jacob and Nicholas 15
Law library at the Capitol l(i
Mound City lfi
Monument, Soldiers Black Hawk war 17
Mulligan monument 17
National Guard 18
Normal universities 19, 20
Penitentiaries 21,22,23,25
Rose Clare floo d sufferers 25
Shawneetown flood sufferers 26
State Charitable Institutions :
Blind 27
Deaf and Dumb 28
Eye and Ear Infirmary 29
Feeble-minded Children 29
Hospitals for Insane :
Eastern 30,32
Central 33
Northern 34
Southern 35,3(5
Soldiers' Orphans' Home 36
Reform School 37
Shinnick, Richard 38
Spink. Alfred, estate 39
State House, completion 39
State House, paving and curbing streets 41
State Government :
General Assembly 42,43
Ordinary and contingent expenses 43
State Laboratory of Natural History and Entomologist 51
Wilson, Robert 52
ASSIGNMENTS :
Voluntary, preferred claims 53
BRIDGES :
Pier-booms, Illinois river '. 54
BUTTER AND CHEESE : m m ^
Cooperative factories required to make reports and give bond 54
IV CONTENTS.
CEMETERIES : page.
Cities and villages may establish, jointly 55
CITIES AND VILLAGES :
Minority representation— act 1872 amended 56
Conservators of the peace— policemen serve warrants 58
Delinquent special assessments 58
Police and firemen's relief funds 59
Protection against inundation and overflow GO, 63
Sewerage and water taxes 68
CLERKS OF COURTS :
Appelate and Supreme may make motions in behalf of attorneys 69
CONVEYANCES :
Proof of deeds and other instruments in writing 70
COUNTY TREASURER :
Vacancies— how filled 70
COURTS, COUNTY :
Adjournments of regular terms 71
Terms changed 72, v 73
COURTS. PROBATE :
County Judges may hold in certain cases 74
CORPORATIONS :
Cooperative benevolent insurance associations may pay benefits for permanent
disability 74
CRIBIINAL CODE :
Malicious mischief— section 197 amended 75
Maliciou s mischief— in juring ice ponds 76
Punishment for second and third offenses 76
DRAINAGE :
Districts legalized 77
Drains constructed by land owners , 78
County ditches ■ 80
Levees— assessment notices 84, 86
DRAMSHOPS:
. License for sale of liquors 92
ELECTIONS:
Voting precincts 94
FEES AND SALARIES:
Classification of counties 95
County clerks, 3d clafis 96
State's attorneys 97
FENCES;
Hedges along highways 99
GUARDIANS AND WARDS:
Act of 1872 amended .' 100
INSURANCE:
Fire:
Foreign companies 101
Township 104
Life:
Association on assessment plan 104
JUDGMENTS AND EXECUTIONS:
Shares of stock held as collateral 110
CONTENTS.
Page.
JURORS:
Service of summons Ill
LIBRARIES:
Cities, towns and villages, tax levy 112
MINES AND MINING:
Weighing coal at mines 113
Protection of miners, act 1879 amended 114-110
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS:
Bond funds, surplus in State treasury 121
Railroad aid bonds 122
NAVIGABLE STREAMS:
Saline river, act repealed 123
PENITENTIARIES:
Commissioners of Joliet authorized to sell lot in Nebraska City 123
RAILROADS:
Consolidation 124
Depots opened for passenger trains 125
Elevated railways and conveyers 126
Southeast and St. Louis, tract of land 127
Stock transfer offices 128
REVENUE:
General levy for State purposes :... 129
ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES:
Act to amend section 107, act of 1879 130
Hard roads, construction 132
Act in regard to. in counties under township organization, and to repeal acts
therein named 136
SCHOOLS;
Bourbon district, act creating repealed 164
Loaning funds 164
New districts 165
Teachers' institutes 166
Compulsory education 167
Training schools for boys 168
STATE WEIGH-MASTERS:
Appointment provided for 172
TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES;
Private lines .173
TOWNSHIPS:
Mew towns 174
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY:
Sale of 175
VINEGAR:
Adulteration 176
WASHINGTONIAN HOME:
Act incorporating, amended .' 176
JOINT RESOLUTIONS:
Senate 178-186
House ; 187-192
LAWS OF ILLINOIS.
AGEICULTUEE.
STATE DEPARTMENT.
§ 1. Department of agriculture— organi-
zation and management.
§ 2. Secretary of State board— appoint-
ment— term— salary.
§ 3. Treasurer of board— bond— term of
office.
§ 4. Office of board at Springfield at the
State house.
§ 5. State board a corporate body-
powers.
§ 6. State board have sole control and
management of dep't of agriculture
§ 7. Appropriations— county boards.
Annual reports by State board.
Contents of report.
Appointment of special policemen
during fairs.
Trespass upon fair grounds— penal-
ties.
Sale of spirituous liquors prohibit'd.
§ 13. Penalties for violating provisions
of sec. 12 of this act.
"Fair"— term defined.
Repeals all acts in conflict with this
act.
§ 9.
§ 10.
§ 11.
§ 12.
§ 14
§ 15
An Act to revise the law in relation to the department of agriculture,
agricultural societies and agricultural fairs, and to provide for re-
ports of the same.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the department of agri-
culture, for the promotion of agriculture and horticulture, manufac-
tures and the domestic arts, shall be continued, and shall be
managed by a board to be styled the "State Board of Agriculture,"
to consist of a president, and one vice-president from each con-
gressional district in the State, and of the last ex-president of the
State Board of Agriculture, said president and vice-presidents to be
elected on the fair grounds on Wednesday of the annual State fair
in 1884, and every two years thereafter on Wednesday of the week
of the State fair, by delegates or alternates or their written proxies,
chosen by the several agricultural societies in counties where such
societies exist, in the following manner, to- wit : In counties having
one agricultural society, such society may appoint three delegates ;
in counties having two agricultural societies, each society may ap-
point one delegate, who shall be entitled to one and one-half votes ;
in counties having three agricultural societies, each society may ap-
point one delegate, and if either society shall neglect or refuse to
appoint such delegate, the delegate or delegates appointed shall be
entitled to cast the full vote of the county ; and in counties where
no agricultural society exists, the delegates may be appointed by
AGRICULTURE.
the board of supervisors or county board, as the case may be ; each
county to be entitled to three votes, and no more, and each union,
or district, agricultural society shall be accredited to that county in
which its fair grounds, or the greater part thereof, shall be located.
The members of the State Board of Agriculture shall enter upon
the duties of their office on the second Tuesday of January succeed-
ing their election, and hold their office for two years, and until
their successors are elected and enter upon their duties. The State
Board of Agriculture may fill any vacancy, arising from any cause,
by appointment from the district in which the vacancy occurs.
§ 2. The State board shall appoint some person, not a member
of the board, secretary, and fix his compensation, who shall hold
his office during the term for which the members of the board ap-
pointing him are elected, unless for good cause he shall sooner be
removed by the board, and who shall perform such duties as usually
pertain to the office of secretary, or as shall be required of him by
the board.
§ 3. They shall also appoint some person, not a member of the
board, as treasurer, and fix his compensation and prescribe his
duties, who shall give bond in such sum and with such security as
the board shall direct, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the
duties of his office. He shall hold his office during the term for
which the members of the board appointing him are elected, unless
for good cause he shall be sooner removed by the board. He shall
keep an accurate itemized account of all money received by him
and paid out, and make an annual report thereof to the State board
and make full settlement with the board.
§ 4, The State Board of Agriculture shall keep an office for the
transaction of business, at Springfield, in the rooms assigned to the
department of agriculture in the State house, to be under the con-
trol of said board.
§ 5. The State Board of Agriculture, in that name, may contract
and be contracted with, may purchase, hold or sell property, may
sue and be sued in all courts or places ; may hold State fairs and
fat stock shows at such times and places as the board may deter-
mine, but this State shall never be liable for any debt or contract
of said board.
§ 6. The State Board of Agriculture shall have the sole control
of the affairs of the department of agriculture, of all State fairs and
iV.t stock shows, and may make such by-laws, rules and regulations
in relation to the department of agriculture and the management of
the business of such department and State fairs and fat stock shows,
and offering of premiums, as a majority of said board shall, from
time to time, determine, not inconsistent with the constitution and
laws of this State or of the United States.
§ 7. Whatever money shall be appropriated to the department
of agriculture, shall be paid to the State Board of Agriculture, and
may be expended by them as in the opinion of said board will best
advance the interests of agriculture and horticulture, manufactures
and domestic arts in this State : Provided, when any appropriation
AGRICULTURE.
is made for the benefit of county or other agricultural societies, the
same shall be equally divided between such agricultural societies
as shall have given satisfactory evidence to said State board of hav-
ing held an annual fair and paid as premiums not less than three
hundred dollars ($3l0), and made their annual report on or before
the 15th day of November, to the State Board of Agriculture.
§ 8. The State Board of Agriculture shall, after their annual
meeting in January, in each year, make and deliver to the Governor
a report of their acts and doings, as required by law, and no other
annual reports shall be made by said board.
§ 9. Said State Board of Agriculture may append to, and pub-
lish with their said report, the annual report of the State Ento-
mologist and such other reports, or essays connected with agricul-
ture, horticulture, manufacture or the domestic arts, as, in the
judgment of said board, the interests of the State require. Said
annual report and appended essays not to exceed seven hundred
printed pages.
§ 10. It shall be lawful for the State Board of Agriculture or
other agricultural society, at or before the time for holding its an-
nual fair, to select and appoint as many persons to act in the
capacity of special police as are by said society deemed requisite to
insure peace and good order on or about the grounds, or place of
holding such fair, for and during the holding of the same : Pro-
vided, that such person, before entering upon the duties of special
police, shall receive his authority from, and take the oath of office
by any judge or justice of the peace, or other officer authorized to
administer oaths, residing or holding his office in the town or
municipal corporation most contiguous to the fair ground, or place
of holding such fair, and shall receive from such judge or justice
of the peace a certificate, under seal, of his appointment and au-
thority to act as such special police, which shall be indicated by
some appropriate badge of office, and when so authorized, he shall
be clothed with full ^police powers.
§ 11. Whoever trespasses upon any fair grounds, or commits any
depredations upon the property of any agricultural society, by cut-
ting or destroying any timber or trees, breaking or carrying away
any box, trough, stall, bench, fence, lock, door, gate, lumber or other
appurtenance to any fair ground, whether within or without the en-
closure thereof, shall be fined not less than five nor exceeding two
hundred dollars, and shall be liable, civilly, for all damages sus-
tained by such wrongful act.
§ 12. Whoever shall keep any shop, booth, tent, wagon, vessel,
boat or other place for the sale of spirituous liquors, or expose for
sale, or sell, give away or otherwise dispose of any spirituous liquors,
or engages in gaming at or within two miles of the place where any
agricultural, horticultural or mechanical fair is being held, shall,
for each offense, be fined not less than five nor more than one hun-
dred dollars : Provided, this section shall not affect tavern-keepers,
distillers or others exercising their calling at their usual place of
business.
ANIMALS.
§ 13. Any person violating the provisions of the preceding sec-
tion may be arrested upon view or upon warrant, by any sheriff,
coroner, constable or other officer authorized to make arrest ; and
such officer may also seize the booth, tent, wagon, vessel or
boat and articles to be sold, and convey the same before a justice
of the peace, with the offender, and upon a judgment being rendered
against the offender, the same may be sold upon the execution
issued upon such judgment ; and if sufficient property is not found
to satisfy such fine, the offender may be committed to the county
jail until the fine and costs are paid, or the prisoner discharged
according to law.
§ 14. Wherever the word "fair" occurs in this act, it shall be
held to mean a bona fide exhibition of the four principal classes of
live stock, together with general agricultural and horticultural pro-
ducts and mechanical arts.
§ 15. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions
of this act, are hereby repealed.
Approved June 23, 1883.
ANIMALS.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA.
1. Amend the the title of the act of 1881.
2. Amend the act of 1881 by adding sec-
tions 10, 11 and 12, making it apply
to contagious or infectious glan-
ders among horses. Appropriates
$10,000 for the purposes of this act.
§ 3. Emergency.
An Act to amend the title of an act entitled "An act to suppress and
prevent the spread of pleuropneumonia among cattle," approved May
3", 1881, and to add to said act three additional sections.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Asse?nbly: That the title of an act entitled "An
act to suppress and prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia among
cattle," approved May 31, 1881, be and the same is hereby amended
so as to read as follows : An act to suppress and prevent the spread
of contagious pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, and contagious and
infectious glanders among horses, mules and asses.
§ 2. And be it further enacted, That there is hereby added to said
act three additional sections, to be known as sections 10, 11 and 12,
which shall read as follows :
APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 10. And be it further enacted, That all rales, regulations,
requirements, fees, salaries and penalties that attach to, or are em-
braced in the act aforesaid, shall apply and be enforced in like
manner in the suppression of and prevention of the spread of the
disease known as contagious or infectious glanders among horses,
mules and asses ; and that all officers, agents or employees named
in said act, shall have all the authority to and shall be required to
enforce all laws laid down in said act for the suppression and pre-
vention of pleuro-pneumonia among cattle, for the suppression of
and the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious glan-
ders among horses, mules and asses, and for said purpose may use
and exercise all the powers mentioned in said act.
Section 11. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten thou-
sand dollars ($10,000) is hereby appropriated for said purposes, or
so much as is necessary, $3,000 of which shall be used as a con-
tingent fund, for which said veterinary surgeon shall give bond with
approved security, and a sworn statement to the Governor of the
manner and necessity for such expenditure, out of any moneys in
the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.
[§ 3.] Section 12. Whereas, the disease, known as contagious and
infectious glanders, is now prevailing in many parts of the State, en-
tailing great loss in property of the State and endangering human life,
therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved June 13, 1883.
APPROPRIATIONS.
AGRICULTURE — STATE AND COUNTY BOARDS.
1, Appropriations for state and county
boards— premiums, salaries,
museum, porter, crop reports.
§ 2. How drawn,
§ 3. Payments to county boards.
An Act making an appropriation for the State Board of Agriculture,
and the county and other agricultural societies.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there be, and is hereby
appropriated to the State Board of Agriculture the following sums,
to-wit : For the payment of premiums at the annual State Fair
and Fat Stock Show, the sum of five thousand dollars per annum,
for the years 1883 and 1881; and for the use of each county or
other agricultural society, the sum of one hundred dollars per an-
num, to be paid to the treasurer of the society, for the years 1883
and 1881.
APPKOPRIATIONS.
For the salary of the secretary, the sum of two thousand four
hundred dollars per annum, for the years 1883 and 1884.
For clerk hire, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum,
for the years 1883 and 1:84.
For curator, the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, for the
years 1883 and 1884.
For porter, the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, for the
years 1883 and 1884.
For the museum, the sum of three hundred dollars per annum,
for the years 1883 and 1884.
For the expense of collecting and publishing crop statistics, the
sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum, for the years 18S3 and
1884.
For the purchase of books, maps and charts, and for binding
periodicals and papers, the sum of four hundred dollars per annum,
for the years 1883 and 1884.
For repairs, postage, expressage and other incidental office ex-
penses, the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum, for the years
1883 and U84.
§ 2. That on the order of the president, countersigned by the
secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, and approved by the
Governor, the State Auditor shall draw his warrant upon the Treas-
urer, in favor of the treasurer of the State Board of Agriculture,
for the sums herein appropriated : Provided, that each warrant
shall show the agricultural society for whose benefit the same is
drawn, and that no warrant shall be drawn in favor of any agri-
cultural society unless the order aforesaid be accompanied by a
certificate of the State Board of Agriculture, showing that such
agricultural society held an agricultural fair during the preceding
year, in compliance with the rules and regulations, as provided by
law : Provided, further, that no part of the moneys herein provided
for shall be drawn from the public treasury prior to the first day
of July, A. D. 18S3 : And, provided, that no warrant shall be drawn
in favor of any agricultural society until the president and treasurer
of such society have filed an affidavit with the State Board of Agri-
culture that no wheel of fortune or any other gambling device were
licensed or allowed upon their fair grounds.
§ 3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the State Board of
Agriculture to pay over to the proper officer of each agricultural
society the sum received for its use and benefit, as aforesaid, and
make a biennial report to the Governor of all such appropriations
received and disbursed by him.
Approved June 25, 1883.
APPROPRIATIONS.
ALTON CITY COURT.
§ 1. Appropriates $133.70, balance of salary, 1869, of A. H. Gambrill, Prosecuting Attorney.
An Act to appropriate the balance of salary due the Prosecuting Attor-
ney of the Alton City Court for the six months and twenty 'days
ending September 20, 1869.
Whereas, the prosecuting attorney of the Alton city court was by
law entitled to an annual salary of five hundred dollars ($500), for
the term of office of said prosecuting attorney, and the General As-
sembly at its session A. D. 1869, appropriated only the sum of two
hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per annum, for the payment of
said salary ; and
Whereas, A. H. Gambrill was the prosecuting attorney of said
Alton city court for the six months and twenty days ending Sep-
tember twentieth, A. D. 1869, and received in part payment therefor
only the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and seventy-
three cents ($138.73), being at the rate of two hundred and fifty
($250) dollars per annum, leaving due and unpaid to the said A.
H. Gambrill the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and
seventy cents ($138.70) ; therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the sum of one hundred and
thirty-eight dollars and seventy cents ($138.70) be and the same is
hereby allowed and appropriated to pay the balance of salary due
said A. H. Gambrill, as prosecuting attorney of the Alton city court,
for the quarters ending May 31st and August 31st, 1869, and for the
twenty days ending September 20th, 1869, and that the Auditor of
Public Accounts draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor
of said A. H. Gambrill for said sum of one hundred and thirty-eight
dollars and seventy cents ($138.70), -to be paid out of any moneys in
the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
This bill having remained with the Governor ten days after the adjournment of the
General Assembly, and he having failed to approve it or to file it with his objections in
my office before the expiration of said ten days, it has thereby become a law.
Witness my hand, this 29th day of June, A. D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT, Secretary of State.
APPROPRIATIONS.
ALTON CITY COURT.
§ 1. Appropriates $19G.19, balance salary 1872, of Alex. W. Hope, ^Prosecuting Attorney.
An Act to appropriate the balance of salary due the Prosecuting Attor-
ney of the Alton City Court for nine months and twelve days,
ending July \, 1872.
Whereas, the prosecuting attorney of the Alton [city] court was, by
law, entitled to an annual salary of five hundred dollars ($500), for
the term, of office of said prosecuting attorney, and the General As-
sembly at its sessions in 1869 and 1872, appropriated only the sum
of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per annum for the payment
of said salary ; and
Whereas, Alex. W. Hope was the prosecuting attorney of said
Alton city court for nine months and twelve days ending July
1, 1872, and received in payment therefor only the sum of one hun-
dred and ninety-six dollars and nineteen cents ($196.19), being at
the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per annum, leav-
ing due and unpaid to the said Alex. W. Hope the sum of one
hundred and ninety-six dollars and nineteen cents ($196.19) ; there-
fore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the sum of one hundred and
ninety-six dollars and nineteen cents ($196.19) be and the same is
hereby appropriated and allowed to pay the balance due as salary to
said Alex. W. Hope as prosecuting attorney of the Alton city court,
for the quarters ending November 30, 1871, February 29, 1872, May
3], 1872, and for thirty days ending June 80, 1872, and that the
Auditor of Public Accounts draw his warrant on the State Treasurer
in favor of said Alex W. Hope, for the said sum of one hundred
and ninety-six dollars and nineteen cents ($196.19), to be paid out
of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
This bill having remained with the Governor ten days after the adjournment of the
General Assembly, and he having failed to approve it or file it with his objections in my
office before the expiration of said ten days, it has thereby become a law.
Witness my hand, this 29th day of June, A. D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT, Secretary of State.
APPROPRIATIONS.
BATTLE FLAGS.
§ 1.
Appropriates $10,000 for cases, for
preservation of flags.
§ 2. How drawn.
An Act to appropriate a sum sufficient to purchase cases in ivhich to
place for preservation the flags, and to properly care for said flags,
in the Adjutant-General 's office.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the sum of ten thousand dol-
lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is,
hereby appropriated for the purpose of restoring, repairing, and of
procuring cases in which to place for preservation the flags now in
the office of the Adjutant-General of this State.
§ 2. The money appropriated by the foregoing section shall be
expended by the Governor and Adjutant-General, in the most ju-
dicious manner practicable, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is
hereby authorized to draw his warrants therefor, upon the certificate
of the Adjutant-General, approved by the Governor.
Approved June 25, 1883.
BRAIDWOOD AND COULTERVILLE MINE-SUFFERERS.
§ 1. Appropriates $10,000 for destitute
families at Braidwood, and $2,000
for families at Coulterville.
§ 2. Names committees to distribute
money, and requires report of
acts to Governor.
§ 3. Emergency.
An Act for the relief of the surviving families of coal miners destroyed
by the disaster to Diamond Mine No. 2, near Braidwood, February
16, lfe83, and for the relief of the surviving families of those killed
at Coulterville by an explosion in a coal mine, January 8, 188 1.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the sum of ten thousand dol-
lars (§10,000) is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of the surviving
families of those persons killed by the flooding of Diamond Mine
No. 2, located near Braidwood, Illinois, on February 16, 1883 ; and
the further sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) be and is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the relief of the surviving families of miners killed
by an explosion in a coal mine at Coulterville, Illinois, January 8,
1883.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw
his warrant for the sum of ten thousand dollars in behalf of Eob-
ert Houston, E. W. Felton and William H. Odell, who are hereby
constituted a committee to distribute said money to the surviving
10 APPROPRIATIONS.
families of thoce who lost their lives at Diamond Mine No. 2, near
Braidwood. And said Auditor of Public Accounts is also further
authorized to draw his warrant for the sum of two thousand dol-
lars ($2,000) in behalf of Rev. J. H. Gibson, S. M. East and Na-
thaniel Childs, who are hereby constituted a committee to distribute
said money to the surviving families of those who lost their lives
by an explosion in a coal mine at Coulterville, Illinois. Said sev-
eral committees shall distribute said several sums for the benefit of
said several families. And they shall take into account the con-
dition and necessities of the several families ; and said several com-
mittees shall report in detail a full account of the distribution of
said several sums of money to the Governor of the State of Illinois.
Said several committees, and each member thereof, shall serve, in
the distribution of said several funds, without compensation or re-
ward.
§ 3. Whereas, the surviving families of those killed in said dis-
asters are suffering and in want of immediate pecuniary relief,
therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force and
effect from and after its passage.
Approved March 20, 1883.
ILLINOIS AND MICHIGAN CANAL.
I 1. Appropriates $20,000 per annum for § 3. Quarterly reporis to Auditor, of re-
repairs and expenses. ceiptsand disbursements.
§ 2. How drawn.
An Act making appropriation for the necessary repairs and running
expenses of the Illinois and Michigan canal until the expiration of
the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General As-
sembly.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of making
necessary repairs and providing means to put and keep the Illinois
and Michigan canal in navigable condition until after the adjourn-
ment of the next General Assembly, there is hereby appropriated
from the State treasury, for the first year, the sum of twenty thou-
sand dollars ($20,000), and for the second year, the sum of twenty
thousand dollars ($:i0,000), or so much of each as may be absolutely
necessary for that purpose : Provided, that no portion of the money
hereby appropriated shall be used for the purpose above specified
until all the surplus earnings of the canal have been fully exhausted
in making needed repairs and defraying necessary expenses of op-
erating the said canal.
§ 2. The appropriations made by this act shall only be paid upon
detailed statements made by the canal commissioners, filed with the
Auditor, bearing the order of the canal commissioners and the ap-
proval of the Governor.
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§ 3. Said board of canal commissioners shall keep an accurate
and detailed account of all moneys received by them from every
source, together with their disbursements and expenditures of every
kind and nature, and at the end of each quarter, transmit to the
Auditor of Public Accounts a full and complete statement, showing
in detail the amount of money received during said preceding quar-
ter, from every source, and how and to whom the same has been
disbursed.
Approved June 25, 1883.
JACOB O. CHANOE.
§ 1. Appropriates $75 salary as librarian §2. How drawn,
of Supreme Court, Southern Grand §3. Emergency.
Division.
An Act to allow Jacob 0. Chance the sum of seventy-Jive dollars, due
him as librarian of the Southern Grand Division of the Supreme
Court of the State of Illinois.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That there is hereby allowed to
Jacob 0. Chance, librarian for the Southern Grand Division of the
Supreme Court of said State, the sum of seventy-five dollars. The
said sum being due to the said Chance because of his services
as such librarian from the 31st day of March, A. D. 1881, to the
30th day of June, A. D. 1881.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw
his warrant, payable out of any moneys in the State treasury, not
otherwise appropriated, in favor of the said Jacob 0. Chance, for
the amount herein allowed, whenever he, the said Chance, shall pre-
sent his said claim, and the same is certified to be correct by any two
of the judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois.
§ 3. Whereas, the above sum of money, herein appropriated, has
long since been due and payable, therefore an emergency exists,
and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
This bill having remained with the Governor ten days after the adjournment of the
General Assembly, and he having failed to approve it or to file it with his objections in
my office before the expiration of said ten days, it has thereby become a law.
Witness my hand, this 29th day of June, A. D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT, Secretary of State.
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CHICAGO DEAF AND DUMB SCHOOL.
§ 1. Appropriates $5, 000— donation for § 2. How drawn. •
support.
An Act to appropriate money for the support of a School for Deaf and
Dumb Children in the city of Chicago.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there be, and is hereby
appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise
appropriated, the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) as a dona-
tion for the benefit of, and to be used in the support and mainte-
nance of the school for the education of deaf and dumb children,
located in the city of Chicago, and under the management and con-
trol of the board of education of the city of Chicago : said money
to be used in the education of deaf and dumb children in said
school, and said school shall, so far as its accommodations will per-
mit, receive deaf and dumb children of school age from any portion
of the State.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sum of
money hereby appropriated, in favor of the treasurer of the city of
Chicago, upon the order of the board of education of the city of
Chicago, signed by the president and attested by the secretary of
said board, and filed in the office of the Auditor, and said money
shall only be drawn from the treasury of said city upon the orders
of the said board of education for the expenses incurred in the edu-
cation of deaf and dumb children in said school.
Approved June 25, 1883.
DAIRYMAN S ASSOCIATION.
§ 1. Appropriates $500 per annum to aid § 2. How drawn,
in publishing reports.
An Act to aid the Illinois Dairyman s Association in compiling, pub-
lishing and distributing their reports.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: Tbat the sum of five hundred
dollars ($500) per annum be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to aid the Illinois Dairyman's Association in compiJing, publishing
and distributing their reports.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw
his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sum in this act specified,
to the order of the president of said association ; and the State
Treasurer shall pay the same out of any funds in the State treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
Approved April 24, 1883.
APPROPRIATIONS.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
§ 1. Appropriates $1,780.56 for expenses § 2. How drawn,
in suppressing ku-klux.
An Act to reimburse Franklin county for amounts expended by said
county in suppressing an insurrection against the laivs of the State of
Illinois, by bodies of armed men known as the "Ku-Klux-Klan."
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of seventeen
hundred and eighty dollars and fifty-six cents be and the same is
hereby appropriated to reimburse the county of Franklin for that
amount of money advanced and paid by said county as expenses in
enlisting militia, transporting arms and furnishing horses, together
with supplies and subsistence for the same, also for furnishing medical
assistance for wounded prisoners and guards, and subsistence for
the same, and also attorneys' fees, together with court expenses in
prosecuting said offenders, which said expenses were incurred in
suppressing an insurrection against the laws of the State of Illinois
by an armed organization known as the "Ku-Klux-Klan."
§ 2. That the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized
and required to draw his warrant payable to the treasurer of Frank-
lin county, for the aforesaid sum mentioned in section one (1) of
this act, amounting to seventeen hundred and eighty dollars and
fifty-six cents ($1,780.56.)
Approved June 25, 1833.
HORTICULTURAL society.
§ 1. Appropriates $2,000 per annum.
An Act making appropriation in aid of the Illinois Horticultural Society.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That tnere be appropriated for
the use of the Illinois State Horticultural Society the sum of two
thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum for the years 1883 and 1884,
to be expended by said societv for the purpose and in the manner
specified in "An act to reorganize the Illinois Horticultural Society/'
approved March 24, 1874.
Approved June 25, 1883.
14 APPROPRIATIONS.
INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY.
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois Industrial University.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there be and hereby is
appropriated to the Industrial University of Urbana, for the pay-
ment of taxes accruing in the years 1882 and 1883, on lands owned
by the State and held for the use of said institution, in the county
of Gage, in the State of Nebraska, and in the counties of Pope,
Kandiyohi and Renville, in the State of Minnesota, the sum of two
thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), per annum.
For current repairs and improvements on buildings and grounds
for the said university, during the years 1883 and 1884, the sum of
three thousand dollars ($3,000), per annum.
For current expenses of the chemical, physical and botanical lab-
oratories of the said university, and for the purchase of new and
improved apparatus for the same, for the years 1883 and 1884, the
sum of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), per annum.
For current expenses of educational work and the practical in-
struction of students in the mechanical shops of the said university,
for the years 1883 and 1884, the sum of one thousand five hundred
dollars ($1,500), per annum.
For the university library and museums, for the years 1883 and
1884, to-wit : for the purchase of books and publications and for
binding the same, one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500), per
annum; for collecting, preparing and mounting specimens for the
cabinets of geology, mineralogy and natural history, one thousand
dollars ($1,000), per annum.
For current expenses of instruction in the several departments of
the university, for the years 1883 and 1884, fourteen thousand dol-
lars ($14,000), per annum.
For erecting an addition to the machine shop, to provide for the
instruction of mechanical students in blacksmithing and foundry
work, and for the necessary fittings and tools for the same, as per
plans and estimates, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500).
For the purchase of additional machines and tools for the machine
and carpenters' shops, two thousand dollars ($2,000).
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the sums hereby
appropriated, upon the order of the president of the board of trus-
tees of the said university, attested by its secretary, and with the
corporate seal of the university : Provided, that no part of said sums
shall be due and payable to said institution until satisfactory vouch-
ers in detail, approved by the Governor, shall be filed with the
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Auditor for all previous expenditures incurred by the institution on
account of appropriations heretofore made : And, provided, further,
that vouchers shall be taken in duplicate, and original or duplicate
vouchers shall be forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts for
the expenditure of the sums appropriated in this act.
Approved June 18, 1883.
JACOB AND NICHOLAS LUCINGER.
§ 1. Appropriates $290 for damages to § 2. Ho^v drawn,
lands. [
An Act for the relief of Jacob and Nicholas Lucinger, of Bureau
county, Illinois, and making an appropriation in their favor.
Whereas, the General Assembly, by an act entitled "An act to
provide for the payment of damages to lands and other property,
sustained by the owners thereof, by the construction of the dam on
the Little Wabash river at New Haven, in Gallatin county, Illinois,
and by the construction of the dam on the Illinois river near Henry,
in Marshall county, Illinois," approved May 31, 1879, appropriated
(among other appropriations for the benefit of many such owners)
to the said Jacob and Nicholas Lucinger, the sum of two hundred
and ninety dollars, for damages sustained by them to their lands,
by reason of the construction of the said dam across the Illinois
river near Henry, Illinois ; and,
Whereas, the said two hundred and ninety dollars remains wholly
unpaid, and the same is lapsed into the State treasury without their
fault ; therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the said sum of two hun-
dred and ninety dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to
the use and benefit of the said Jacob and Nicholas Lucinger, in
payment of the damages allowed to them in the above act, and the
same shall be in full of all claim or demand for damages against
the State, sustained by said Jacob and Nicholas Lucinger by reason
of the construction of said dam.
§ 2. Upon a release being filed with the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts, of all such damages which have accrued or may hereafter
accrue, by the said Jacob and Nicholas Lucinger, and the present
owner or owners of all land formerly owned by said Lucinger and
damaged by the construction of the dam on the Illinois river near
Henry, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw his warrant on
the State Treasurer for the said sum of two hundred and ninety
dollars, in favor of the said Jacob and Nicholas Lucinger, payable
out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Approved June 25, 18:3.
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LAW LIBRARY AT THE CAPITOL.
§1. Appropriates $4, 000. I §2. How drawn.
An Act making an appropriation for the purchase of books for the
State law library, at the Capitol.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there is hereby appro-
priated for the purchase of books for the State law library, at the
Capitol, the sum of four thousand dollars ($1,003).
§ 2. The judges of the Appellate Court for the Third District are
hereby authorized and directed, as soon as they think proper after
this act shall be in force, to select and purchase for the use of said
library, such books as in their judgment are most useful and neces-
sary, the total cost of said books not to exceed the sum hereby ap-
propriated, and on the presentation of the account of the purchase
of such books by said judges, or a majority of them, the Auditor
shall draw a warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount or
amounts thereof, payable to the holder of such certificate or certifi-
cates, out of the rtloney hereby appropriated.
Approved June 25, 1883.
mound city.
§ 1. Appropriates $8,000 for levees. j § 3. How drawn.
§2. The appropriation hereby made to be I §4. The money hereby appropriated not
in lieu of any and all claims against to be used for any other pur-
the State. pose.
An Act making an appropriation to the city of Mound City, Pulaski
County, Illinois, jor the purpose of strengthening and improving
the levees along the Ohio river at that place.
Whereas, the recent floods in the Ohio river have demonstrated
the fact that property at many points on said river is constantly in
danger of being swept away; and
Whereas, the corporate authorities of Mound City, in Pulaski
county, are unable to raise by taxation [a sum sufficient] to prevent
the flooding of said town at any unusual rise in the Ohio river, and
thus prevent the destruction of large amounts of property thereby ;
therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That the sum of eight thous-
and dollars ($8,000) be, and the same is hereby appropriated out
of any money now in the State treasury, not otherwise appropria-
ted, for the purpose of strengthening and improving the levees at
said city of Mound City.
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17
§ 2. The above amount shall be in lieu of all claims of Mound
City against the State of Illinois by virtue of any law of said State
appropriating or allowing said city to appropriate to itself moneys
for the purpose of building levees.
§ 3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to
draw his warrant on the State treasury for the sum of money
hereby appropriated, payable to the treasurer of Mound City.
§ 4. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be used for the pur-
poses hereinbefore set forth, and for no other purpose whatever.
This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the
General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law.
Witness my hand this 13th day of April, A.\D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT,
Secretary of State.
MONUMENT TO JAMES A. MULLIGAN AND VOLUNTEERS OF THE BLACK
HAWK WAR.
§ 3.
Appropriates $2,500 to the Mulligan
Monument Board.
The money hereby appropriated shall
not be drawn until a like sum has
been raised by private subscrip-
tion, and deposited with said
board.
How drawn after certain conditions
have been complied with.
§ 4. Advertisement for proposal for con-
tracts by said board.
§ 5. Payment on contract.
§ 6. Appropriates $500 for a monument
to the soldiers who fell at "Still-
man's Run" — Appointment of com-
mission to erect.
An Act to make an appropriation to erect a monument over the grave
of Col. James A. Mulligan, at Calvary Cemetery, Cook County,
Illinois, and certain Illinois Volunteers who fell in the Black
Hawk tear.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly; That the sum of two thousand
five hundred dollars ($2,500) be, and the same is hereby appropria-
ted by the General Assembly, subject to the order of the board of
trustees, to consist of three (3) members, to be known as the "Mul-
ligan Monument Board," who shall be appointed by the Governor,
upon "the passage of this law.
§ 2. This amount shall not be drawn by the said board until
such time as the People of the State of Illinois shall have raised
alike amount, viz: two thousand five hundred ($2,500) dollars, and
shall have deposited it with the said board, subject to their order.
§ 3. When the said "Mulligan Monument Board" shall have re-
ceived from the People of the State of Illinois this sum of money,
they shall issue an order upon the State Auditor, who shall draw
his warrant upon the State Treasurer, for the sum appropriated by
the General Assembly, said money to be paid out of any money in
the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
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§ 4. When this board shall have this sum of five thousand dol-
lars ($5,000) in their possession, it shall be their duty to advertise
for bids for the erection of a monument over the grave of Colonel
James A. Mulligan, at Calvary Cemetery, in Cook county, Illinois,
and they shall let said contract to the lowest responsible bidder,
the contract price not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000).
§ 5. Upon the completion of said monument and its receptance
by the board, they shall pay to the contractor for said work the sum
designated in his contract.
§ 6. And the farther sum of five hundred dollars ($500) be, and
the same is hereby appropriated to erect a monument over the
common grave of those Illinois volunteers who fell at the battle of
"Stillman's Run," so called, which is now Ogle county, in the Black
Hawk War of 18B2, and that the same be expended under the direc-
tion of Albert F. Brown and Joshua White of said county, and
Starkey B. Powell of Scott county, any two of whom may act in
case of the absence, or neglect of the other to act ; said sum to be
paid to said persons last aforesaid, or any two of them, on their
application therefor, who shall within a reasonable time report to
the Governor, with proper vouchers showing the manner of expend-
ing said sum : Provided, that the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25)
of the amount last aforesaid may be expended in acquiring title to
the land in the name of the State of Illinois, upon which said
grave is situated, with the privilege to all persons of ingress and
egress thereto.
Approved June 25, 1883.
NATIONAL GUARD.
5 1. Appropriates $75,000 per annum for I § 3. Repeals sec. 1 of the military code.
expenses. | § 4. Transfer balances from "Military"
§2. How drawn. I to "Revenue" fund.
An Act to provide for payment of the Illinois National Guard for
the year ending July 1, 1884, and, for the year ending July 1,
1885, and to transfer balance of military fund to the general reve-
nue fund.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there be, and is hereby
appropriated, to pay the expenses of the Illinois National Guard,
for the years ending July 1, 1881, and July 1, 1885, the sum of
$75,000 per annum.
§ 2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount
above set forth, upon presentation of the proper vouchers, and the
State Treasurer shall pay the same out of the proper funds in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the order of the persons
entitled thereto.
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§ B. That all that part of section 1, article 10, of an act to
provide for the organization of the State Militia, and entitled "The
Military Code of Illinois," now in force, providing for the levy and
collection of one-tenth of a mill for military purposes, is hereby
repealed.
§ 4. That any unexpended balance that may be in State treasury
to the credit of military fund on the first day of July, 1883, shall
be transferred on the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts to
the general revenue fund ; and that any military tax collected from
the levy of 1882, and paid into State Treasury after July 1, 1883,
shall also be placed to the credit of general revenue fund.
Approved June 25, 1883.
NORMAL UNIVERSITIES.
Normal.
§ 1. Appropriation for support of. I § 2. How drawn.
An Act making an appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the State
Normal University, at Normal, and for additions to the library.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there be, and hereby is
appropriated to the State Normal University, in addition to one-half
of the interest of the college and seminary fund, which is hereby
appropriated, the further sum of seventeen thousand five hundred
dollars per annum, payable quarterly in advance, for the payment
of salaries, for the purchase of fuel, for additions to the library, for
school apparatus, and for incidental expenses : Provided, that the
expenses of the model school connected with and forming a part of
the said State Normal University, shall be paid out of the receipts
for tuition of pupils in said school, and not from the above appro-
priation or any part thereof.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the aforesaid
sums of money upon the order of the Board of Education of the
State of Illinois, signed by the president and attested by the sec-
retary of said board with the corporate seal of said institution :
Provided, that satisfactory vouchers in detail, approved by the Gov-
ernor, shall be filed quarterly with the Auditor of Public Accounts
for the expenditures, ordinary and extraordinary, of the preceding
quarter, and that no part of the money herein appropriated shall
be due and payable until such vouchers shall have been filed.
Approved June 25, 1883.
20 APPKOPRIATIONS.
Southern.
§ 1. Appropriations for support of. | § 2. How drawn.
An Act making an appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the
Southern Illinois Normal University, at Carbondale, in Jackson
county.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there be, and is hereby
appropriated to the Southern Illinois Normal University, at Carbon-
dale, in addition to the one-half of the interest of the College and
Seminary Fund, which is hereby appropriated, the further sum of
twelve thousand and fifty-six dollars and forty-four cents ($12,056.44),
per annum, for the payment of salaries ; the sum of one thousand
dollars ($1,000), per annum, for fuel ; the sum of seven hundred and
fifty dollars (750), per annum, for repairs; the sum of seven hundred
and fifty dollars ($750), per annum, for library ; the sum of four
hundred dollars ($400), per annum, for apparatus; the sum of five
hundred dollars ($500), per annum, for the use of the museum ; the
sum of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350), per annum, for trus-
tees' expenses, and the sum of three hundred dollars ($300), per
annum, for care of grounds ; for the necessary excavation and
erection of a brick coal house, the sum of four hundred dollars
($400) ; and these several sums shall be payable quarterly in advance
from the first day of July, 1883, to the expiration of the first fiscal
quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly : Pro-
vided, that the expenses of the Model and High Schools be paid
from the receipts of the said schools.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
required to draw his warrants upon the Treasurer for said sums,
upon the order of the trustees of the said Southern Illinois Normal
University, signed by their president and attested by the secretary,
with the corporate seal attached : Provided, that satisfactory vouch-
ers in detail, approved by the Governor, shall be filed quarterly
with the Auditor of Public Accounts, for all the expenses, ordinary
and extraordinary, of the preceding quarter, and no part of the
moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable until such
vouchers have been filed.
Appeoved June 25, 1883.
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PENITENTIARIES.
Joliet.
§ 1. Appropriations for repairs and im- § 2. How drawn,
provements.
An Act making appropriations for repairs and improvements in the Illi-
nois State Penitentiary, at Joliet, for constructing an artesian well,
providing new ovens, enlarging gas works, introducing gas into west
cell house, and reconstructing the sewers connected tvith said peniten-
tiary.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That the following sums be, and
the same are hereby appropriated for the Illinois State Penitentiary,
at Joliet, for the purposes hereinafter named, and for no other :
For painting, relaying floors, repairing and repointing walls, re-
pairing roofs, sidewalks, steam and water pipes, boilers and machin-
ery, and making such other repairs as may be required to keep the
machinery and fixtures, buildings, walls, grounds, and appurtenances
of said penitentiary in as good condition as they now are, the sum
of three thousand five hundred dollars per annum, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, from the first day of July, 1883, to the
expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the
next General Assembly.
For introducing gas into the west cell house, the sum of one thou-
sand five hundred dollars.
For enlarging the gas works and providing new gas holder, the
sum of two thousand dollars.
For providing two improved rotary ovens for the convict kitchen,
the sum of two thousand three hundred dollars.
For securing an increase in the supply of water for said peniten-
tiary, either by sinking an artesian well, or making connection with
the Joliet city water works, as may, upon investigation by the com-
missioners, be deemed best for the State, the sum of six thousand
five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For reconstructing the sewers connected with said penitentiary,
and replacing the present stone drains with sewer pipe, the sum of
six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw
his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the moneys herein appro-
priated, upon the order of the board of commissioners of said peni-
tentiary, signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with
the seal of said institution thereto affixed.
Approved June 25, 1883.
22 APPROPEIATIONS.
Joliet.
§ 1. Appropriates $50,000 for ordinary ex- § 2. Vouchers and statements,
penses.
An Act to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Illinois State Pen-
itentiary, at Joliet.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the sum of fifty thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same
its hereby appropriated as a penitentiary fund, to defray such por-
tions of the current expenses of the Illinois State Penitentiary, at
Joliet, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the ad-
journment of the next regular session of the General Assembly, as
the earnings of convict labor in said penitentiary may be insufficient
to defray ; which sum shall be paid out upon the warrant of the
Auditor of Public Accounts, in sums not exceeding ten thousand
dollars at any one time. And the Auditor of Public Accounts is
hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the
money herein appropriated, to the order of the warden of the Illinois
State Penitentiary, in sums not exceeding ten thousand dollars at any
one time, on receiving the statements of the warden and board of com-
missioners of said penitentiary, approved by the Governor as here-
inafter provided, showing that such money is necessary for the
purposes contemplated by this act.
§ 2. Said commissioners shall file with the Auditor of Public
Accounts, monthly statements, accompanied by proper vouchers,
showing all receipts and disbursements of money during the pre-
ceding month on account of current expenses, from what sources
received and for what purposes expended, which statements shall be
sworn to by the warden, certified to be correct by at least two com-
missioners, and approved by the Governor. If a necessity exists for
drawing money under the provisions of this act, said commissioners
shall file with the Auditor an additional statement, sworn to, cer-
tified and approved as herein required for their monthly statements,
which shall show the balance of cash on hand and all sums, in de-
tail, due to and from said penitentiary, and shall also show that
the available resources of said penitentiary, outside of the money
herein appropriated, are insufficient to meet its liabilities; and no
warrant for money herein appropriated shall be drawn by the
Auditor, unless the provisions of this section are complied with.
Appeoved June 25, 1883.
APPROPRIATIONS.
Southern.
§ 1. Appropriates $150, QUO for ordinary §2. Statements filed with the Auditor,
expenses— how drawn.
An Act making an appropriation to meet the ordinary expenses of the
Southern Illinois Penitentiary.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of defraying
the ordinary expenses of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, and the
Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and required to
draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the money herein ap-
propriated, payable to the order of the commissioners of said peni-
tentiary, in sums not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), at
any one time, on receiving the certificate of said board of commis-
sioners, approved by the Governor, that such money is necessary
for the purposes of this act.
§ 2. After said board of commissioners shall have drawn any of
the money herein appropriated, they shall not draw or receive any
more thereof so long as there shall remain in their hands an amount
unexpended, exceeding the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000),
and after having drawn any sum, they shall file proper vouchers,
accompanied by an abstract of the same, properly certified by said
commissioners and approved by the Governor, showing in what
manner the sum previously drawn has been expended.
Approved June 25, 1883.
Southern.
§ 1. Authorizes purchase of land. , § 4. Appropriations for repairs and im-
§ 2. Appropriations for purchase of land. i provements.
§ 3. How drawn-title deeds. ' § 5 - How drawn.
An Act to authorize the Commissioners of the Southern Illinois Peni-
tentiary, at Chester, to purchase land for the use of the peniten-
tiary, and for the erection of certain buildings and improvements,
and to make appropriation therefor.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the Commissioners of the
Southern Illinois Penitentiary at Chester, be, and are hereby au-
thorized to purchase for the use of said penitentiary, the following
tracts of land, to-wit : That portion of the fractional southwest quar-
ter of section fourteen (14), township seven (7) south, range seven
24 APPROPRIATIONS.
(7) west, not contained in survey No. 540, claim No. 292, contain-
ing one hundred and three and seventy-two one hundredths (103 ^fa)
acres, more or less. Also that portion of the fractional southeast
quarter of said section lying between said survey and the ground
belonging to the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, containing thirty-
two and two one-hundredths (32 y|- (T ) acres, more or less. Also,
that part of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of sec-
tion twenty-three (23), containing five and sixty-five one-hundredths
(5 T Vo) acres, more or less ; and that portion of the northeast quar-
ter of the northwest quarter of said section twenty-three (23), con-
taining six and sixty-five one-hundredths (6 /v^) acres, lying north
of the Mississippi river and adjoining said penitentiary grounds on
the west, all in Randolph county, Stale of Illinois, for the sum of
three thousand dollars ($3,000). Also the lot on which is situated
the sandstone quarry, from which the present buildings of said pen-
itentiary are constructed, containing five (5) acres, more or less, for
the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) : Provided, a good and
valid title, to be approved by the Attorney-General, can be made
for said tracts of land to the State by the present owners thereof.
§ 2. The sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) is hereby appro"
priated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated, for the purchase of the, real estate described in this act
and for no other purpose.
§ 3. The commissioners of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary
shall present to the Governor the abstracts of title and all other
papers connected with the purchase of said real estate, and upon
his certifying his approval of the title thereto, said penitentiary
commissioners are authorized to make requisition upon the Auditor,
who shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the
amount necessary to pay for said real estate, not to exceed the
amount appropriated by this act.
§ 4. For the erection of that portion of the wall of said prison,
extending north from the north end of the present cell house, fifteen
hundred dollars ($1,500).
For building a sewer on the north side of the prison yard, four
thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500).
For the erection of an ice house 80x40x20, having a capacity to
store 1,650 tons, building to be of stone and brick and truss roof,
covered with shingles, three thousand dollars ($3,000).
§ 5. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
instructed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for said sums, only
[on] the filing of vouchers therefor, payable to the order of the com-
missioners, upon receiving the certificate of the commissioners of
said penitentiary, approved by the Governor, that said money is
necessary for the purposes contemplated by this act.
Approved June 21, 1883.
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Southern.
§ 1. Appropriates $30,000 for current ex- i §3. Vouchers for money expended.
penses. § 4_ Emergency.
§ 2. How drawn. I
An Act making an appropriation to meet the current expenses of the
Southern Illinois Penitentiary, for the months of April, May and
June, A. D. 1883.
Section 1. Be it enacted hy the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of thirty thous-
and dollars ($30,000) be, and the same is hereby appropriated out
of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to defray
the current expenses of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, for the
months of April, May and June, A. D. 1883.
§ .2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
instructed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for said sum, pay-
able to the order of the commissioners, upon receiving the certifi-
cate of the commissioners of said penitentiary, approved by the
Governor, that said money is necessary for the purposes contemp-
lated in this act.
§ 3. Said commissioners shall file with the Auditor proper
vouchers, accompanied by a certified abstract of the same, showing
to whom, and for what, said money has been expended.
§ 4. Whereas an emergency exists, this act shall take effect
from and after its passage.
Approved June 25, 1883.
ROSE CLARE FLOOD' SUFFERERS.
§ 1. Appropriates $5,000 for destitute in- | § 2. Names commissioners to disburse
habitants— caused by floods. the fund.
§ 3. Emergency.
An Act to appropriate ($5,000) five thousand dollars for the relief
of the destitute inhabitants of the town of Rose Clare, who hare
been and are rendered destitute by the present floods in the Ohio
river.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly.- That the sum of ($5,000) five
thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of
any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the re-
lief of the destitute inhabitants of the town of Rose Clare, in Hardin
county, who have been rendered and who are now destitute in con-
sequence of the present floods in the Ohio river. The Auditor of the
State is hereby required to draw his warrant for said sum of money,
payable to W. S. Morris, of the Senate, and James M. Gregg, of
26 APPROPRIATIONS.
the House of Representatives, to be by them distributed as herein-
before directed : Provided, that no part of the money hereby ap-
propriated shall be used to compensate any person for property
destroyed or damaged by said floods.
§ 2. The money appropriated by this act shall be disbursed by
and through a committee, consisting of W. S. Morris, of the Sen-
ate, and James M. Gregg, of the House of Eepresentatives. Said
committee shall, within one month after disbursing said sum of
money, render to the Governor a detailed account of the disburse-
ments, together with the names of persons to whom relief may
have been afforded under this act.
§ 3. Whereas, an emergency exists by reason of the present
suffering and destitution of persons to be relieved under this act,
therefore this act shall be in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 9, 1883.
SHAWNEETOWN FLOOD SUFFERERS.
§ 1. Appropriates $30,000 for the relief of § 2. Names commissioners to distribute
destitute people in Shawneetown the money appropriated, and re-
and Gallatin county, caused by quires report of acts,
floods. I § 3. Emergency.
An Act to appropriate thirty thousand dollars ($30,000) out of any
moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the re-
lief of the destitute of Shawneetown and Gallatin county, who have
been rendered destitute by the present floods in the Ohio and Wabash
rivers.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the sum of thirty thousand
dollars ($30, COO) be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of
any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for
the relief of the destitute inhabitants of the city of Shawneetown
and Gallatin county who have been and are rendered destitute by
the floods of the Ohio and Wabash rivers, and the Auditor of Pub-
lic Accounts is hereby required to draw his warrant on the State
Treasurer for said sum of money, payable to the commissioners
hereinafter named, to be by them disbursed under this act.
§ 2. The money appropriated by this act shall be disbursed by
and through the following named persons : Alexander K. Lowe,
Thomas S. Ridgway and Charles Carroll, who are hereby appointed
commissioners to execute 'the provisions of this act : Provided, that
no part of the money hereby appropriated shall be used to com-
pensate any person for property destroved or damaged by said
flood. The commissioners hereinbefore named, or a majority of
them, shall make a report of their expenditures of the money herein
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27
appropriated, to the Governor of this State. Said report shall show
in detail the manner of, and to whom, said money shall have been
paid.
§ 3. Whereas, an emergency exists, by reason of the present
suffering and destitution of persons to be relieved under this act,
therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
Approved March 16, 1883.
STATE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
Blind.
1. Appropriations for ordinary ex-
penses, repairs and improve-
ments.
§ 2. Appropriations for fences, purchase
of lands, mangle.
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois Institution for the Edu-
cation of the Blind.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That, for the ordinary expenses of
the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Blind, the sum of
thirty-two thousand dollars ($32,000) per annum is hereby appro-
priated, to be paid quarterly in advance, from the first clay of July,
1883, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjourn-
ment of the next General Assembly ; and for repairs and improve-
ments, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum, pay-
able to the trustees or their order in the manner now provided by
law.
§ 2. For the construction of a fence on the east, north and west
sides of the grounds thereof, the sum of twelve hundred dollars
($1,200). For the purchase of twenty-two acres of land for pastur-
age, the sum of twenty-five hundred ($2,500). For a steam or gas
heated mangle, the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars ($550).
§ 3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount
above set forth, upon presentation of the proper vouchers, and the
State Treasurer shall pay the same out of the proper funds in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the order of the persons en-
titled thereto.
Approved June 21, 1833.
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Deaf and Dumb.
§ 1. Appropriations for kitchen and re- § 2. How drawn,
frigerator house.
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois Institution for the Ed-
ucation of the Deaf and Dumb.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That there be, and are hereby ap-
propriated to the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf
and Dumb, the sums of six thousand dollars ($6,000), for the erec-
tion of kitchen building and employes' quarters ; five thousand dol-
lars ($0,000), for the erection of a refrigerator house.
§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable
to the trustees of the aforesaid institution, or their order, on the
terms and in the manner now provided by law.
Approved June 21, 188S.
Deaf and Dumb.
§ 1. Appropriations for ordinary expenses, repairs and improvements.
An Act for the support of the Illinois Institution for the Education of
the Deaf and Dumb, and for general repairs thereon, and for the
pupils' library.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That, for the purpose of defraying
the ordinary expenses of the Illinois Institution for the Education
of the Deaf and Dumb, the sum of ninety-seven thousand dollars
($97,000), per annum, is hereby appropriated out of the State treas-
ury, payable quarterly in advance, from the first day of July, 18S3,
until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment
of the next General Assembly. And that there be, and is hereby
appropriated, the further sums of two thousand dollars ($2,000), per
annum, for repairs and improvements ; and five hundred dollars
($500),. per annum, for the pupils' library, from the first day of
July, 1883, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the
adjournment of the next General Assembly.
§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable
to the trustees of the aforesaid institution, or their order, on the
terms and in the manner now provided by law.
Approved June 21, 1883.
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EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
§ 1. Appropriations for ordinary expen- I § 2 - ^P™^* 4 *?? 8 for repairs and im "
bes - I § 3. How drawn.
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear
Infirmary, at Chicago.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there is hereby
appropriated to the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, at
Chicago, for ordinary expenses, the sum of seventeen thousand dol-
lars ($17,000), per annum, from the first day of July, 1883, payable
quarterly in advance, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter
after the adjournment of the next General Assembly.
§ 2. That for the purpose of making needed repairs and im-
provements, the sum of one thousand dollars per annum is hereby
appropriated ; for the purchase of additional furniture, the sum of
one thousand dollars per annum is hereby appropriated ; for remov-
ing old wood stable and building brick stable and shed, the sum of
nineteen hundred and fifty dollars ($1,950) is hereby appropria-
ted.
§ 3. The moneys herein appropriated shall be drawn from the
State treasury in the manner and subject to the limitations and
conditions now provided by law.
Approved June £5, 1833.
FEEBLE-MINDED CHILDREN.
§ 1. Appropriations for ordinary expenses, repairs and improvements.
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-
Minded Children.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That, for the purpose of de-
fraying the ordinary expenses of the Illinois Asylum for Feeble-
Minded Children, the sum of fifty-six thousand dollars ($56,000) per
annum be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of the State
treasury, payable quarterly in advance, from the first day of July,
1883, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the ad-
journment of the next General Assembly; and that there be, and
are hereby appropriated the further sums of two thousand dollars
($2,0C0) for the construction of a laundry building, in addition to
the three thousand dollars which was appropriated by the last
APPROPRIATIONS.
General Assembly; which, being insufficient for the purpose, re-
mains in the State Treasury, and which sum is hereby re-appro-
priated for the same purpose.
Also the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) for finishing, fur-
nishing, steam heating, plumbing and ventilating the basement,
main building and wings.
One thousand' dollars ($1,000) for constructing a reservoir or cis-
tern for soft water.
Two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum for repairs, and five
hundred dollars ($500) per annum for improvement of grounds.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
required to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for said sums,
upon the orders of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Asylum for
Feeble-Minded Children, signed by the president and attested by
the secretary of said board with the seal of the asylum.
Approved June 21, 1883.
HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.
Eastern.
§ 1. Appropriates $400, 000 for additional
buildings.
§ 2. Specifies the character of the build-
ings.
§ 3. Plans and specifications must be sub-
mitted to the Governor and Board
of Public Charities for approval.
§ 4. How the money appropriated by-
section 1 shall be drawn.
§ 5. Appropriates $li5, 000 per annum for
the support of patients in new
building.
An Act making an appropriation to the Illinois Eastern Hospital for
the Insane, at Kankakee, .for the erection, completion and fur-
nishing of additional buildings, to be used as dormitories and
living rooms, and for the sustenance of the patients who may
occupy the same.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of four hundred
thousand dollars ($400,000), or so much thereof as may be
necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Illinois
Eastern Hospital for the Insane at Kankakee, for the erection,
completion and furnishing of additional j buildings, to be used as
dormitories and living rooms.
§ 2. Said building shall be of a plain, substantial character, of
brick or stone, or brick and stone, not more than two stories in
height, corresponding in general plan and design to the detached
wards heretofore erected at said Illinois Eastern Hospital for the
Insane, and shall be sufficient to accommodate not less than one
APPROPRIATIONS. 31
thousand inmates, to be received from all portions of the State in
the proportion as now, or may be hereafter provided by law from
counties.
§ 3. Detailed plans, specifications, and estimates of expense,
showing that said additional buildings, sufficient to accommodate
not less than one thousand inmates, can be erected, completed and
furnished at a total cost of not to exceed said sum of four hundred
thousand dollars ($400 ; 000), shall be prepared and submitted to the
Governor and the State Board of Charities, and approved by them,
before any of said buildings shall be begun or contracted for ; and
no contract for any building shall be made for a greater cost than
four hundred dollars per capita.
§ 4. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to
draw his warrants on the treasury for the money hereby appropria-
ted, upon the orders of the board of trustees of said Illinois Eastern
Hospital for the Insane, signed by the president and attested by
the secretary, with the seal of said institution thereto attached,
subject to the limitations and conditions contained and expressed
in section 18, 19 and 20 of an act entitled "An act to regulate the
State charitable institutions, and the State Eeforrn School, and to
improve their organization and increase their efficiency," approved
April 15, 1874.
§ 5. For the additional expense of maintenance of one thousand
patients, when the buildings herein provided for shall have been
completed, or of maintenance pro rata of a smaller number, in case
any part of the said buildings shall be completed and made ready
for occupancy before the whole shall have been completed, the
sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars per annum is
appropriated, which is at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five
dollars per annum for each patient maintained ; and the said
appropriation shall be due and payable as follows, to-wit : When-
ever any portion of the said additional buildings have been erected,
constructed, furnished and provided with all necessary conveniences
for the reception of patients, the trustees of the hospital shall cer-
tify that fact to the Governor, and shall state the number of
patients who can be accommodated in the additions then com-
pleted ; and the Governor shall, after satisfying himself of the truth
of said certificate, deliver the same to the Auditor of Public'
Accounts, who shall thereupon draw his warrant upon the Treasurer
in. favor of the trustees of the hospital for a pro rata allowance for
each additional patient provided for, at the rate of thirty-five cents
a day from the filing of the certificate until the end of the current
fiscal quarter year, and thirty-one dollars and twenty-five cents per
quarter year thereafter, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter
after the adjournment of the next General Assembly.
Approved June 18, 1883.
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Eastern.
§ 1. Appropriations for ordinary ex- § 2. How drawn,
penses, repairs, and improve- .
ments. <
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois Eastern Hospital for
the Insane, at Kankakee.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Veople of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That the following amounts
be, and are hereby appropriated to the Illinois Eastern Hospital
for the Insane, at Kankakee, for the purposes hereinafter named,
and for no other.
For additional boiler and pump for water-works, six thousand
dollars ($6,000).
For fire hydrants and hose required to protect detached wards
and rear buildings against fire, one thousand dollars ($1,000).
For the construction of filter bed, pure water basin, and settling
basin, twelve thousand dollars ($12,000).
For the construction and completion of refrigerating house, three
thousand dollars ($3,000).
For purchase of not less than one hundred and fifty acres of ad-
ditional land, ten thousand dollars ($10,000) ; the title to be
examined and approved by the Attorney General before warrant
drawn for the amount.
For furniture for fifty (50) patients now present in excess of
number provided for, also, for additional furniture for kitchen and
laundry, for amusement hall and bath-house, three thousand five
hundred dollars ($3,500).
For library, five hundred dollars ($500).
For musical instruments, means of recreation for patients, one
thousand dollars ($1,000).
For improvement of grounds and * farm, one thousand dollars
($1,000), per annum, for two years.
For additional stock and farm implements, two thousand dollars
($2,000), per annum, for two years.
For pipe covering in new buildings, one thousand dollars ($1,000).
For repairs and improvements, four thousand dollars ($4,000), per
annum, for two years.
For ordinary expenses, payable quarterly in advance, for the year
commencing July 1, 1883, the sum of one hundred and four thous-
and dollars ($101,000), and the sum of one hundred and four thous-
and dollars ($104,003) per annum thereafter, until the expiration of
the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General
Assembly.
§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to
the trustees or their order, only on the terms and manner now pro-
vided by law : And, provided further, that the sums hereby appro-
priated for the improvements herein, be the full amounts for the
objects specified, and the trustees shall not make any contract for
any portion of the building, or expend any portion of the ap-
propriation hereby made, unless the said appropriation is suf-
ficient to complete all of the said improvements and finish the same.
Approved June 21, 188S.
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33
Central.
1. Appropriations for ordinary expenses
repairs and improvements.
2. How drawn.
An Act making appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the Illinois
Central Hospital for the Insane, at Jacksonville, and for general re-
pairs and improvements thereon.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the following amounts be,
and are hereby appropriated to the Illinois Central Hospital for the
Insane, at Jacksonville, for the purposes hereinafter named :
For defraying the ordinary expenses of the said hospital, from July
1, 1883, the sum of one hundred and ten thousand dollars ($110,000)
per annum, payable quarterly in advance, until the expiration of the
first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General As-
sembly.
For repairs and improvements, five thousand dollars ($5,000) per
annum.
For additional appropriation for end walls and improvements in
connection with rebuilding the same, five thousand dollars ($5,000.)
For improvement and care of grounds, one thousand dollars
($1,000) per annum.
For renewing heating surfaces in two sections of the main build-
ing, two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum.
For one fire pump, one thousand dollars ($1,000.)
§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable
to the trustees or their order, only on the terms and in the manner
now provided by law.
Approved June 21, 1883.
Central.
§ 1. Appropriates $135,000 for additional §3. How appropriation drawn.
buildings.
§ 2. Superintendent and trustees have
charge of work.
An Act making an appropriation for erecting a detached building to the
Central Hospital for the Insane, at Jacksonville, and for heating, fur-
nishing and completing the same.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of erecting an
additioaal building to the Central Hospital for the Insane, the sum
of one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars ($135,000) is hereby
appropriated, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise
appropriated. The amount herein named shall be for the erection
—3
34 APPROPRIATIONS.
of a good and substantial brick building for the proper accommo-
dation of three hundred patients, with the necessary officers, atten-
dants and employes for their care, piping the same for gas, water
and steam, erecting a suitable boiler house and procuring boilers,
providing kitchen and cooking fixtures, together with all necessary
furniture for completing the building for occupancy by patients.
§ 2. The superintendent of said hospital, under the direction of
the board of trustees, shall procure plans, and shall have general
charge and supervision of the work of constructing and finishing
this addition.
§ 3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer, upon the order of
the board of trustees, signed by the president of said board, and
attested by the secretary, with the corporate seal of the institution
thereto affixed, subject to the limitations contained in sections
eighteen, nineteen and twenty of an act entitled '"'An act to regu-
late the state charitable institutions and the reform school, and to im-
prove their organization and increase their efficiency," approved
April 15, 1875.
Approved June 21, 1883.
Northern.
§ 1. Appropriations for ordinary expen- § 2. How drawn,
ses, repairs and improvements.
An Act making appropriations for the ordinary and other expenses of the
Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane, at Elgin.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly: That the following amounts be, and
are hereby appropriated to the Illinois Northern Hospital for the
Insane, at Elgin, for the purposes hereinafter named, and for no
other, viz :
For ordinary expenses, the sum of one hundred and six thousand
dollars ($106,000) per annum, payable quarterly, in advance, from
the first day of July, A. D. 1883, until after the expiration of the
first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General
Assembly.
For repairs and contingent fund, the sum of six thousand dollars
($6,000) per annum; total, $12,000.
For improvement of grounds, the sum of one thousand dollars
($1,000) per annum ; total, $2,000.
For front fence and gateways, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars
($1,500.)
For increase of patients' library, the sum of five hundred dollars
($500) per annum; total, $1,0C0.)
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For changing high pressure system of heating in south wing and
central building to low pressure, completing air ducts, etc., to con-
form to changes in north wing, the sum of eighteen thousand eight
hundred and eighty-one dollars and seventy-seven cents ($18,881.77.)
For two new boilers and boiler fronts, setting and making con-
nections, etc., the sum of four thousand three hundred and forty
dollars ($4,340.)
For new washing machines, steam mangle and elevator for hoist-
ing wet clothes from wash room to dry room, the sum of two thou-
sand dollars ($2,000.)
For the purchase of electrical apparatus to be used in the treat-
ment of patients, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.)
§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable
to the trustees of said Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane, at
Elgin, or their order, only on the terms and in the manner now
provided by law.
Approved June 21, 1883.
Southern.
1. Appropriations for ordinary ex-
penses, repairs and improve-
ments.
2. How drawn.
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois Southern Hospital for
the Insane, at Anna.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That the following amounts be, and
are hereby appropriated to the Southern Hospital for the Insane at
Anna, for the purposes herein named :
For ordinary expenses from July 1, 1883, the sum of ninety-eight
thousand dollars per annum, thereafter, until the expiration of the
first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General As-
sembly.
For repairs and improvements, three thousand dollars per annum.
For care and improvements of grounds, one thousand dollars per
annum.
For a new main sewer, three thousand dollars.
For settling basin and filter, pure water reservoir and pipes, ten
thousand dollars.
For an additional fire pump, discharge pipes and fire plugs, out-
side of the building, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For five-eighths mile of fence, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For converting barracks into a permanent cottage, four thousand
dollars.
30 APPROPRIATIONS.
For famishing same, two thousand dollars.
For the purchase of one hundred and sixty acres of land, sixty-
four hundred dollars ; the title to be examined and approved in
writing by the Attorney-General before warrant drawn for the
amount.
§ 2. The money herein appropriated shall be due and payable
to the trustees or their order, only on the terms and in the manner
now provided by law.
Approved June 21, 1883.
Southern,
§-1. Appropriation for building. | §2. How drawn.
An Act making special appropriations for an addition to the north wing
of the Hospital for the Insane, at Anna.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the following amount be, and
the same is hereby appropriated to the Illinois Southern Hospital
for the Insane, at Anna : For building an addition to the north
wing, for the accommodation of thirty-two patients of the more ex-
cited and dangerous class, twenty-two thousand dollars ($22,000)
together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for
the rebuilding of the north wing, after the fire of April 19th, 1881,
which is hereby reappropriated.
§ 2. The money hereby appropriated shall be due and payable
to the trustees or their order only on the terms and in the manner
now provided by law.
Approved June 21, 1883.
SOLDIERS ORPHANS HOME.
§ 1. Appropriations for ordinary ex- § 3. How drawn,
penses.
§ 2. Appropriations for repairs and im-
provements.
An Act entitled. "An act to make appropriations for the Illinois Soldiers'
Orphans' Home, and to maintain said institution for the next two
years.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That from and after the first day
of July, A. D. 1883, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter
after the adjournment of the next regular session of the General
APPROPRIATIONS. 37
Assembly, there is hereby appropriated to the Illinois Soldiers'
Orphans' Home the sum of fifty-five thousand dollars ($55,000), per
annum, payable quarterly in advance, for the ordinary and inci-
dental expenses of said institution.
§ 2. There is further appropriated to said Illinois Soldiers' Or-
phans' Home the following amounts, to-wit :
For improvements and repairs, five thousand dollars ($5,000).
For a new hospital building, the additional sum of two thousand
five hundred dollars ($2,500).
For library books, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500).
For furniture, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500).
§ 3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the
amounts herein appropriated upon the order of the board of trus-
tees signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with the
seal of the institution, subject to the provisions of sections eighteen
(18), nineteen (19) and twenty (20) of an act to regulate State in-
stitutions, approved April 15, 1875.
Approved June 25, 1883.
REFORM SCHOOL.
§ 1. Appropriations for ordinary ex- ! § 2. How drawn,
penses, repairs and improvements. I
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois State Reform School, at
Pontiac.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly, That the following amounts be, and
are hereby appropriated to the Illinois State Eeform School, at Pon-
tiac, for the purposes herein named, and for none other:
For ordinary expenses, the sum of forty-two thousand dollars per
annum.
For repairs and improvements of the west wing of said Eeform
School, the sum of nine thousand dollars.
For the erection of a new family building, the sum of thirty
thousand dollars.
For a new boiler, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For a heater and purifier, one thousand dollars.
For three cisterns, five hundred dollars.
For stand-pipe and hose for protection against fires, three hun-
dred and seventy-five dollars.
For fire-pump, pipe and connections, seven hundred dollars.
38 APPROPRIATIONS.
For the purchase of books for library, two hundred dollars per
annum.
For painting wood-work inside of buildings, five hundred dollars.
For extraordinary and incidental expenses, one thousand dollars
per annum.
§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be paid to the insti-
tution in the manner and upon the conditions now provided by law.
Approved June 21, 1883.
RICHARD SHINNICK.
§ 1. Appropriates $5,765 for extra work on Southern Hospital for the Insane.
An Act to pay Richard Shinnick damages suffered by a failure of the
State of Illinois to perform its contract with him for ivork and mate-
rial on the Southern Insane Asylum, and for extra ivork.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly : That there shall be and hereby is
appropriated to Richard Shinnick the sum of five thousand seven
hundred and sixty-five dollars ($5,765.00), on account of extra work
done by said Shinnick on the Southern Insane Asylum, under orders
from the superintendent, on account of failure of the State to per-
form its part of a contract made with said Shinnick for work in
the erection of said asylum, as detailed below :
For dumb waiters $460
Extra cost of hauling stone, 3^ miles .... 2,700
Additional cost of procuring stone 1,000
Moving derricks 75
Paying for use of quarry 550
Milwaukee pressed brick 580
Excavation not measured 400
To be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated, and charged to the account of said asylum.
This bill having remained with the Governor ten days after the adjournment of the
General Assembly, and he having failed to approve it, or to file it with his objections in
my office before the expiration of said ten days, it has thereby become a law.
Witness my hand this 29th day of June, A. D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT, Secretary of State.
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ESTATE ALFRED SPINK.
§ 1. Appropriates $150 for services in examining books and accounts of Joliet Penitentiary.
An Act to allow the estate of Alfred Spink one hundred and fifty dol-
lars for an examination and report on the condition of the books
and accounts of the penitentiary, made by Alfred S}rink in his
lifetime.
Whereas, an appropriation was made by the General Assembly
by an act approved May 27, A. D. 1874, for the payment of one
hundred and fifty dollars to Alfred Spink for an examination and
report on the condition of the books and accounts of the peniten-
tiary made by him, and which said appropriation of one hundred
and fifty dollars has never been withdrawn from, but has lapsed to
the treasury of the State of Illinois, and the said Alfred Spink has
since died ; therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That there is hereby appropri-
ated out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to pay for the
services rendered by Alfred Spink, deceased, in his lifetime, making
an examination and report on the condition of the books and
accounts of the Illinois Penitentiary, and on the presentation o
properly receipted bills by the administrator of his estate, to the
Auditor of Public Accounts, he shall draw his warrant on the State
Treasurer in favor of said estate for said amount.
This bill having remained with the G-overnor ten days after the adjournment of the
General Assembly, and he having failed to approve it, or to tile it with his objections in my
office before the expiration of said ten days, it has thereby become a law.
Witness my hand this 29th day of June, A. D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT, Secretary of State.
COMPLETION OF STATE HOUSE.
§ 1. Appropriates $531,712.
§ 2. Appointment of three commissioners
by the Governor to superintend
the work, prescribes their duties,
and fixes their compensation.
§ 3. Provides for submitting the appro-
priation hei-eby made to a vote
of the people for ratification, and
prescribes the manner of draw-
ing the money from the State
Treasury.
An Act to provide means for the completion and furnishing the State
House and for the improvement of the grounds, and to provide for
the appointment of three commissioners.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of five hundred
and thirty-one thousand, seven hundred and twelve dollars ($531,71"2)
be., and the same is hereby appropriated for the completion and
40 APPKOPKIATIONS.
furnishing of the State House, and for the improvement of the
grounds, payable, as hereinafter provided, out of any moneys in
the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.
§ 2. The Governor shall, by and with the consent of the Senate,
appoint three discreet and skillful persons to act as commissioners
to superintend the completion of the State House, who, before they
enter upon the discharge of their duties, shall enter into a bond to
the People of the State of Illinois, with sureties to be approved by
the Governor, in penal sum of twenty-five thonsand dollars each,
within thirty days after their appointment, conditioned for the
faithful performance of their duties ; and shall severally take an
oath that they will well and truly discharge all of their duties as
such commissioners in superintending the completion of said State
house. The Governor of the State is hereby authorized to fill all
vacancies by appointing commissioners, who shall continue to act
until the next session of the General Assembly, when the Senate
may ratify or reject said appointment. The Governor is also
authorized to remove any commissioner for cause, and fill the
vacancy occasioned thereby. The compensation of each of said
commissioners shall be at the rate of five hundred dollars per an-
num, and shall be paid out of this appropriation.
§ 3, This act shall not take effect until it shall first have been
submitted to a vote of the people of the State of Illinois, at the
general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Mon-
day in November, 1884, and shall have been approved by a majority
of all the votes polled at such election. At the said election, the
ballots, in so far as they relate to this act, shall be in the following
form: ''For the $531,712 appropriation;" and when so voted, it
shall count in favor of this act ; but if canceled with ink or pencil,
it shall be counted against this act. The returns of the whole vote
cast at the said election, and the votes for the adoption or rejection
of this act, shall be made and canvassed by the same officers and
in the same manner as are the votes for presidential electors ; and
if it shall appear that a majority of the votes polled are "for the
$531,712 appropriation," the Governor shall make proclamation
thereof, and this act shall take effect from and after the date of
such proclamation, and the amount hereby appropriated shall be
payable as follows : Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) shall
be payable immediately thereafter out of any money in the State
treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the remaining three hun-
dred and thirty-one thousand seven hundred and twelve dollars
($331,712), or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be pay-
able at such time or times as may hereafter be provided by the
General Assembly ; and the Auditor of Public Accounts will there-
upon draw his warrants on the Treasurer, payable out of such
appropriation, on the accounts of expenditure, as heretofore, when
duly certified to by the State House Commissioners, or a majority
of them, and approved by the Governor; but if a majority of the
votes cast are "against the $531,712 appropriation," then this act
shall be null and void.
Appeoved June 14, 1883.
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PAVING AND CURBING STREETS IN FRONT OF STATE HOUSE.
§ 1.
Secretary of State authorized to
make contracts.
Appropriates $25,000 for the purpose,
and providing that this act shall
not take effect until the city of
Springfield shall have completed
the paving of the remaining por-
tion of the streets named, and
provided for paving Capital ave-
nue from Second to Tenth streets.
An Act to provide for the construction of curb and flag stones on the
east, north and ivest sides of the capitol grounds, and for the
paving of one-half the streets adjacent thereto.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the Secretary of State is
hereby authorized and instructed to procure the construction of
stone curbing and a sidewalk of stone nagging along the east side
of the capitol grounds on Second street from the south line of said
capitol grounds to Monroe street ; and along the north line of said
capitol grounds on Monroe street from Second street to Spring
street ; and along the west side of said capitol grounds on Spring
street from Monroe street to the south line of said capitol grounds ;
and also to procure the construction of a good and substantial pave-
ment of wood, stone or brick, extending from said stone curbing to
the middle of said streets hereinbefore described, and the entire
width of that portion of Monroe street where the State owns the
property on both sides thereof ; the said curbing, flagging and pave-
ment to be of good and substantial material, and the labor to be
performed in a workmanlike manner upon plans and specifications
furnished by the Secretary of State, and under contracts let by him
to the lowest responsible bidder.
§ 2. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), or so
much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the
expenditures authorized in this act, and the Auditor of Public
Accounts is hereby required to draw his warrants upon the Treasurer,
payable out of such appropriation, for the accounts of such expen-
diture, upon the presentation of vouchers approved by the Secretary
of State : Provided, that this act shall be of no force or effect until
the city of Springfield shall have completed the construction, in a
like manner, of the curbing and paving of the like remaining portion
of the said streets hereinbefore described ; and shall also provide
for the curbing and paving of Capitol avenue, in a good and sub-
stantial manner, from Second street to Tenth street, and for the
construction of a good and substantial sidewalk on the north side
of Capitol avenue from Second street to Sixth street.
Approved June }5, 1883.
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STATE GOVERNMENT — GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
§ 1. Appropriates $5,000 for incidental : § 3. Emergency.
expenses. j
§ 2. How drawn. I
An Act to provide for the incidental expenses of the Thirty-third
General Assembly, and for the care and custody of the State House
and grounds, incurred, or to be incurred, and now unprovided for.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of five thousand
dollars ($5,000), or so much thereof as may be required, is hereby-
appropriated to pay for the incidental expenses of the Thirty-third
General Assembly, or either branch thereof, or by the Secretary of
State in the discharge of the duties imposed on him by law, or by
the direction of the General Assembly, or either branch thereof.
All expenditures to be certified by the Secretary of State and
approved by the Governor.-
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer for the
sums herein specified, upon presentation of the proper vouchers,
and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of any funds in the
State treasury not otherwise appropriated.
§ 3. Whereas, the appropriations above recited are necessary for
the expenses incurred, or to be incurred, for the transaction of the
business of the State and the General Assembly, therefore an
emergency exists, and this act shall take effect from and after its
passage.
Approved January 31, 1883.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
§ l Appropriates $10,000 additional for § 2. Emergency,
the payment of employes of the 33d
General Assembly. I
An Act making an additional appropriation for the payment of the
employes of the Thirty-third General Assembly.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly : That there be and is hereby appro-
priated an additional sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), or so
much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the employes of the
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Thirty-third General Assembly, at the rate of compensation allowed
by law ; said employes to be paid upon rolls certified to by the
presiding officers of the respective houses, or as otherwise provided
ty law.
§ 2. Whereas, there does now exist a deficiency in the appropria-
tion heretofore made for the above purpose, therefore an emergency
exists, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after
its passage.
Approved June 18, 1883.
NEXT GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND SALARIES OF OFFICERS.
§ 1, Appropriates $800,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the officers and
members of the next General Assembly, and for the salaries of the
officers of the State government.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State qf Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly : That there be and is hereby ap-
propriated the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars (§800,000), or
such sum as may be necessary to pay the officers and members of,
the next General Assembly, and the salaries of the officers of the
State government, at such rate of compensation as is now, or here-
after may be fixed by law, until the expiration of the first fiscal
quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session of the
General Assembly.
Approved June 25, 1883.
ORDINARY AND CONTINGENT EXPENSES.
1. Appropriates as follows:
Clause 1-6. To the Governor: for con-
tingent fund, clerk hire,
office expenses, porter,
care of mansion and
grounds, and repairs.
7. To the Secretary of State:
for clerk hire, office ex-
penses, porters^and mes-
sengers, indexing, care
of state house and
grounds, restoring and
cleansing paintings in
state house and execu-
tive mansion.
8-9. To the Auditor; for clerk
hire, porters and mes-
sengers, office expenses,
indexing fieldinotesfand
surveys.
Clause 10. To the Treasurer of State:
for clerk hire, office ex-
penses, watchmen, mes-
senger and clerk.
11. To the Superintendent of
Public Instruction: for
clerk hire, janitor and
messenger, office ex-
DC11S6S
12. To the Attorney General:
for clerk hire, porter
and messenger, office
expenses.
13. To the Adjutant General:
for clerks, ordnance ser-
geant and janitor, in-
dexing war records, re-
pairs of arsenal, and
office expenses.
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APPROPRIATIONS,
Clause 14.
16.
17.
21.
25.
26.
To the State Board of Char-
ities: secretary's salary,
clerk hire, and inci-
dental expenses of the
board.
To the Auditor: for State
suits.
For conveying convicts to
the penitentiary.
For the apprehension and
delivery of fugitives
from justice.
For conveying juvenile of-
fenders to the reform
school.
Printing paper and sta-
tionery.
Incidental and contingent
expenses of Supreme
Court.
Bailiff for tb.e Court of
Claims.
Public printing.
Interest on school fund.
Taxes paid in error, and
over-payments on col-
lectors' accounts.
Janitors, watchmen and la-
borers at the state house.
Historical library and mu-
seum: for salary of cu-
rator, assistant curator,
janitor, traveling expen-
ses curator, new cases.
Clause 27. Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioners: for of-
fice expenses, clerk
hire, secretary's salary,
incidental expenses, le-
gal expenses, printing
and publishing sched-
ules.
Employes of next General
Assembly.
Copying and distributing
laws, etc.
Heating and lighting state
house.
State Board of Equaliza-
tion.
Library Southern Peniten-
tiary.
Library Joliet penitentiary.
Supreme Court reports.
Heating department of the
state house: for repairs.
State Board of Health: for
salary of secretary, of-
fice expenses, salary of
assistant secretary and
clerk hire; contingent
fund.
State library: for books,
and salary of assistant
librarian.
School fund.
Bureau of Labor Statistics :
for expenses, salary of
secretary.
Fish Commissioners.
Committee expenses 34th
General Assembly.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
:;!>.
40.
41.
An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the
State government until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter
after the adjournment of the next regular session of the General
Assembly.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented, in the General Assembly: That the following named sums be,
and are hereby appropriated to meet the ordinary and contingent
expenses of the State government until the expiration of the first
fiscal quarter 'after the adjournment of the next regular session
of the General Assembly:
First — A sum not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), per
annum, shall be subject to the order of the Governor for defraying
all such public expenses of the State government as are unforeseen
by the General Assembly, and not otherwise provided for by law;
payment to be made from time to time upon bills of particulars,
certified to by the Governor.
Second — The sum of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500),
per annum, for clerk hire in the Governor's office, payable quar-
terly, upon the Governor's order.
Third — A sum not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars ($750) ,
per annum, for postage, expressage, telegraphing, and other inci-
dental expenses connected with the Governor's office ; to be paid on
bills of particulars, certified to by the Governor.
Fourth — To the Governor, for one porter, the sum of seven hundred
dollars ($700), per annum ; payable quarterly, upon the order of the
Governor.
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Fifth — To the Governor, for repairs and care of executive
mansion and grounds, and for heating and lighting the executive
mansion, three thousand dollars ($3,000), per annum; to be paid on
bills of particulars, certified to by the Governor.
Sixth — To the Governor, for new roof for the executive mansion,
and for repairing chimneys and fence, the sum of one thousand
dollars ($1,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary; to be paid
upon bills of particulars, certified to by the Governor.
Seventh — To the Secretary of State, for clerk hire in his office,
the sum of ten thousand five hundred dollars ($10,c00) per annum;
payable quarterly, upon his order. To the Secretary of State, for
repairs, postage, expressage, telegraphing and other incidental ex-
penses of the office, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars
($3,010), per annum ; payable upon bills of particulars, certified by the
Secretary of State and approved by the Governor. To the Secretary
of State, for two porters or messengers, the sum of seven hundred
dollars ($700) each, per annum, payable monthly upon his order ;
also, for continuing the work of indexing, classifying and arranging
the files and records of the office of the State department, the sum
of three thousand dollars ($3,000), per annum, payable upon his
order and approved by the Governor. To the Secretary of State, for the
payment of all necessary incidental expenses incurred by him in the
care and custody of the State House and grounds and other State
property, and in repairs and improvements of the same, and for
the performance of such other duties as may be imposed upon him
by law, and for which no other appropriation has been made, the
sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,003) per annum, payable upon
bills of particular, certified to by the Secretary of State and approved
by the Governor ; also, to the Secretary of State, the further sum of
five hundred and eighty dollars ($580), or so much thereof as may
be necessary, to be used to pay for cleansing and restoring the pic-
tures and regilding the frames of the five pictures now in the State
House, and portraits of Governors now in the Executive Mansion.
Eighth — To the Auditor of Public Accounts, for necessary clerk
hire, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), per
annum, to be paid quarterly, upon his order. To the Auditor of
Public Accounts, for two porters or messengers, the sum of seven
hundred dollars ($700) each, per annum, payable quarterly, upon his
order. To the Auditor of Public Accounts, for repairs, postage,
express charges, telegraphing and other incidental expenses incurred
in the discharge of his duties, a sum not exceeding one thousand
five hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum: Provided, no part of the
amount hereby appropriated shall be used to pay the expenses of
the insurance department of said office of Auditor of Public Accounts,
and he shall report the annual expenses of said insurance depart-
ment to each General Assembly hereafter.
Ninth — To the Auditor of Public Accounts, for the arrangement
and proper indexing of the field notes and plats of the United States
surveys recently received from the office of the late custodian, the
sum of five hundred dollars ($500), payable upon his order.
46 APPROPRIATIONS.
Tenth — To the State Treasurer, for clerk hire, the sum of four
thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum; payable quarterly, upon his
order. To the State Treasurer for repairs, express charges, postage,
telegraphing and other necessary incidental expenses connected with
his office, a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per
annum ; payable upon bills of particulars, certified to by him and
approved by the Governor. To the State Treasurer, the sum of
three thousand two hundred dollars ($3,200), per annum, for two ■
night and two day watchmen ; payable quarterly, upon his order.
To the State Treasurer, the sum of eight hundred dollars ($800) per
annum, for messenger and clerk; payable quarterly, upon his order _
Eleventh — To the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for clerk
hire, the sum of two thousand four hundred dollars ($2,400), per
annum; and for a janitor, porter and messenger, who shall also
perforin the duties of clerk when not otherwise employed, the sum
of eight hundred dollars ($800), per annum ; payable quarterly, upon
his order. To the Superintendent of Public Instruction, for repairs,
periodicals and educational works, and other necessary expenses of
said office, a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars
($1,5C0), per annum; payable on bills of particulars, certified to by
him and approved by the Governor. Appropriations made by this
clause to be paid out of the State school fund.
Twelfth — To the Attorney- General, for clerk hire, the sum of one
thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800), per annum, payable quar-
terly, upon his order; and for a porter and messenger, who shall
also act as porter and messenger for the Supreme Court reporter,
the sum of six hundred dollars ($600), per annum; payable quarterly
upon his order. To the Attorney-General for telegraphing, postage
and other necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of his
duties, a sum not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000), per an-
num ; payable on bills of particular certified to him and approved
by the Governor.
Thirteenth — To the Adjutant-General, for clerks, ordnance sergeant
and janitor to aid and assist him in the discharge of his duties,
the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), per annum,
payable quarterly, upon his order. To the Adjutant-General, fifteen
hundred dollars ($1,500), for additional clerk hire for indexing the
war records in his office concerning the late war of 1861 : Provided,
that in the employment of clerks and assistants to carry on the
business of the Adjutant-General's office, preference shall be given
to only ex-Union soldiers, their widows, sons and daughters. For
repairs on the arsenal and storehouse belonging to the State, the
sum of four hundred dollars ($100). To the Adjutant-General, for
telegraphing, postage aad other necessary office expenses, a sum not
to exceed seven hundred dollars ($700), per annum : Provided, no
part of the money hereby appropriated shall be drawn from the
treasury except upon vouchers approved by the Governor.
Fourteenth — To the Board of Public Charities, for salary of secre-
tary, a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) per
annum ; and for clerk hire and necessary incidental expenses of the
board, a sum not to exceed four thousand dollars ($4,000) per
APPROPRIATIONS. 47
annum, payable quarterly on bills of particulars, certified by them
and approved by the Governor.
Fifteenth — A sum not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000) per
annum, for costs and expenses of State suits, to be paid upon bills
of particulars, certified to by the Auditor and approved by the Gov-
ernor.
Sixteenth — A sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars
($25,000) per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for
conveying convicts to the penitentiary, to be paid on the warden's
certificate, at the compensation fixed by the general laws ; the Aud-
itor to compute the distance by the nearest railroad route.
Seventeenth — For the payment of the expenses provided for by
law for the apprehension and delivery of fugitives from justice,
twenty thousand dollars ($20, COO), or so much thereof as may be
necessary, payable out of the levy of 1882, and fifteen ihousand
dollars ($15,000) payable out of the levy of 1883, to be paid on the
evidence required by law, certified and approved by the Governor;
and the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) for rewards for
arrests of fugitives from justice, to be paid upon bills of particulars,
having the order of the Governor indorsed thereon.
Eighteenth — The sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum,
or so much thereof as may be needed, for conveying juvenile
offenders to the Reform School, at Pontiac, payable on the super-
intendent's certificate of delivery, at the rate of compensation allowed
by law ; the Auditor to compute the distance by the nearest railroad
route.
Nineteenth — For printing paper and stationery, for the use of the
General Assembly and Executive departments, purchased on con-
tracts as required by law, payable on delivery thereof, on bills of
particulars, certified to by the Board of Commissioners of State
Contracts, and approved by the Governor, the sum of fifteen thou-
sand dollars ($15,000), or so much thereof as may be needed, pay-
able out of the levy of 1882; and fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000),
payable out of the levy of 1883.
Twentieth — There is hereby appropriated to defray the incidental
and contingent expenses of the Supreme Court, to- wit : For sta-
tionery, repairs, furniture, expressage, books, and other expenses
deemed necessary by the court, the following sums : To the Northern
Grand Division, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars
($2,500) per annum ; to the Central Grand Division, the sum of
two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum ; to the Southern Grand
Division, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum;
the same to be payable upon bills of particulars, certified to by at
least two of the justices of said court. There is also appropriated
for the pay of the librarians of the several grand divisions of said
court, who shall also act as librarians for the Appellate Courts when
in session in their respective grand divisions, the following sums :
To the Northern and Southern Grand Divisions, each, the sum of four
hundred dollars ($400) per annum ; to the Central Grand Division,
the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per annum, payable quar-
48 APPROPRIATIONS.
terly, upon the certificate of at least two justices of said court. There
is also appropriated the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) per
annum, each, to the Northern and Southern Grand Divisions of said
court ; and to the Central Grand Division of said court, the sum
of four hundred dollars ($400) per annum, for the pay of janitors,
to perform such duties as shall be determined by said justices, to be
paid quarterly, upon the order of at least two of the justices of said
court. There is also hereby appropriated, to defray the incidental
and contingent expenses of the Appellate Courts of this State, to-wit :
For rents of court rooms, stationery, fuel, lights, postage, express-
age, repairs, furniture, and other expenses deemed necessary by the
respective courts, the following sums : To the First District, the
sum of sixty-two hundred dollars ($6,200), per annum; to the Sec-
ond District, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000), per annum;
to the Third District, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500),
per annum ; to the Fourth District, the sum of one thousand dol-
lars ($1,000), per annum; these sums to be paid upon bills of par-
ticulars certified to by the clerks of the respective courts, and upon
the order of at least two of the judges of the respective courts for
which the expense was incurred. Also the sum of four hundred
dollars ($400), per annum, to each of the Second and Third dis-
tricts, and the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) per annum, to
the Fourth District, for the pay of janitors, to perform such duties
as shall be determined by the judges of the respective courts, to be
paid quarterly, upon the order of at least two of the judges of said
courts for their district; also the sum of six thousand dollars
($6,000), to be expended in purchasing law books for the library of
the Appellate Court of the First District ; and the sum of six hun-
dred dollars ($600), per annum, for the payment of the salary of a
librarian, to be paid quarterly, upon the order of at least two of the
judges of said court.
Twenty-first — The sum of fifty dollars ($50), or so much thereof
as may be necessary, for the payment of bailiff at the next session
of the court of claims, payable upon the order of the judges thereof.
Twenty -second — For public printing, thirty thousand dollars ($30,-
000), or so much thereof as may be required. For public binding,
ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum, or so much thereof as
may be required. The public printing and binding to be paid for
according to the contract, upon the certificate of the Board of Com-
missioners of State Contracts, and approved by the Governor.
Twenty-third — The sum of fifty-seven thousand dollars ($57,000)
per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay the
interest on the school fund, distributed annually in pursuance of
law ; the amount appropriated under this clause, to be paid out of
the State school fund.
Twenty-fourth — Such sums as may be necessary to refund the
taxes on real estate sold or paid in error, and for over-payments of
collector's accounts, under laws governing such cases, to be paid
out of the proper funds.
Twenty -fifth — For laborers, janitors and watchmen of the State
House, who shall perform such duties as shall be assigned to them
by the Secretary of State, the sum of six thousand dollars ($6,000)
per annum, payable monthly upon the order of said Secretary of State.
APPROPRIATIONS. 49
Twenty -sixth — .For the salary of the curator of the Illinois State His-
torical Library and Natural History Museum, the sum of two
thousand dollars (§2,000) per annum, and for the salary of one as-
sistant, the sum of six hundred dollars (§600) per annum, and for
•a janitor, the sum of six hundred dollars (§600) per annum, pay-
able monthly. For the contingent and necessary expenses of the
curator, including traveling on business connected with his office,
the sum of three hundred dollars ($800), per annum ; and for new
cases for the museum, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000),
payable on bills for work done, and approved by the Board of
Trustees of the State Historical Library and Natural History
Museum.
Twenty-seventh — To the .Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners,
for the incidental expenses of their office, including care, stationery,
postage and telegraphing expenses, extra clerk hire, and for the sec-
retary's salary, and for all necessary expenditures, except those
hereinafter provided for, a sum not to exceed four thousand dollars
($4,000) per annum. For expenses incurred in suits or investiga-
tions commenced by authority of the State, under any law now in
force or hereafter to be enacted, empowering or instructing the
Board of Commissioners, including the fees of experts employed, the
sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, or such part
thereof as may be needed for such purposes. For the printing and
publication of schedules of reasonable maximum rates of charges for
the transportation of passengers and freights and cars, made or re-
vised for any or all of the railroads of this State, as provided by
law, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or so
much thereof as may be needed for such purpose.
Twenty-eighth — A sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,-
000), for the pay of the employes of the next General Assembly, as
allowed them by law, to be paid on pay-rolls, certified to by the
presiding officers of the respective houses, or as otherwise provided
jby law.
Twenty-ninth — For copying the laws, journals and joint resolu-
tions of the General Assembly, as provided by law, rive hundred
dollars ($500). For distribution of the laws, journals, and other
State documents, and incidental expenses connected therewith, the
sum of five hundred dollars ($500), and for expressage and postage
on same, five hundred dollars ($;00).
Thirtieth — For heating, fuel and pay of engineers and firemen of
the State House, and other incidental expenses thereof, the sum of
ten thousand dollars ($10,003) per annum, or so much thereof as
may be needed. For lighting the State House, and other incidental
expenses thereof, the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000), per an-
num, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid upon
bills of particulars, certified to by the Secretary of State and ap-
proved by the Governor.
Thirty-first — To the State Board of Equalization, for paying ex-
penses, a sum not to exceed eight thousand dollars ($8,000), per
annum, payable in the manner provided by law.
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50 APPROPRIATIONS.
Thirty -second — The sum of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250),
per annum, for the purchase of books for the library of the South-
ern Illinois Penitentiary, at Chester, to be paid upon bills of par-
ticulars having the order of the Governor endorsed thereon.
Thirty-third — The sum of two hundred and' fifty dollars ($250). per
annum, for the purchase of books for the library of the Illinois
State Penitentiary, at Joliet, to be paid upon bills of particulars
having the order of the Governor endorsed thereon.
Thirty-fourth — Such sum as may be necessary to enable the Sec-
retary of State to purchase such volumes of the reports of the de-
cisions of the Supreme Court as he is, or may be required by law
to purchase, to be paid on bills of particulars, certified to by the
Secretary of State and approved by the Governor.
Thirty-fifth — The sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500), or
so much thereof as may be required, for repairs and necessary im-
provements in the heating department of the State House, to be
paid upon bills of particulars certified to by the Secretary of State
and approved by the Governor.
Thirty-sixth — To the State Board of Health, for salary of secre-
tary, a sum not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,0C0), per an-
num ; for necessary office expense, including expenses incurred in
attending meetings of the Board, and in making sanitary inspections,
two thousand dollars ($2,000), per annum; for salary of assistant
secretary, and additional clerk hire that may be needed, four thous-
and dollars ($4,000), per annum. Also, the sum of five thousand
dollars ($5,000), as a contingent fund, to be used only with the
consent and concurrence of the Governor, in case of the outbreak
or threatened outbreak of any epidemic or malignant disease, such
as yellow fever, cholera, etc., to defray the expenses of the Board
of Health in investigating the causes of such diseases, and in aid-
ing to prevent their spread, to be paid upon the order of the State
Board of Health, signed by the president of the Board, and attested
by the secretary.
Thirty-seventh— Ho the State Library (Secretary of State), for the
purchase of books and expenses of the State Library, two thousand
five hundred dollars ($2,500), per annum, payable on bills certified
by the Board of Commissioners of the State Library. Also, eight
hundred dollars ($800), per annum, for salary of assistant librarian
payable monthly, on the order of the Secretary of State, approved
by the Governor.
Thirty-eighth— -The sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) annually,
out of the State school fund, to pay the amount of the Auditor's
orders for the distribution of said fund to the several counties. The
Auditor shall issue his warrants on the proper evidence that the
amount distributed has been paid to the county school superinten-
dents.
Thirty-ninth — To the Commissioners of Labor Statistics, the sum
of three thousand dollars ($3,0C0), per annum, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, for the current expenses of the Board in pro-
curing statistics ; and the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000), per
annum, for the salary of their secretary.
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Fortieth — The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), per annum,
or as much thereof as may be necessary, to the Fish Commissioners
of this State, to be used by them in pursuance of law; all expend-
itures to be upon bills of particulars, certified to by a majority of
the commissioners, and approved by the Governor.
Forty-first — A sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, ($8,000),
to pay the expenses of committees of the Thirth-fourth General As-
sembly; such expenses to be certified as may be provided by reso-
lution of either house.
[§ 2.1 The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sums
herein specified, upon the presentation of proper vouchers ; and the
State Treasurer shall pay the same out of the proper funds in the
treasury, not otherwise appropriated. Said warrants shall be drawn
in favor of and payable to the order of the persons entitled
thereto.
Approved June 22, 1883.
STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND ENTOMOLOGIST.
1. Appropriations for field work, ex-
pense of laboratory, traveling ex-
penses of State Entomologist, im-
provement of library, assistant's
salary, and publications.
| 2. How drawn.
§ 3. Limitation of act.
An Act making an appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the State
Laboratory of Natural History, at Normal, for the improvement of
the library thereof, and for the expenses of the State E?ito?nologist's
office.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That there be, and hereby is ap-
propriated to the State Laboratory of Natural History, at Normal:
For the field work, office and incidental expenses of the laboratory,
the sum of six hundred dollars per annum ; for the traveling, office
and incidental expenses of the State Entomologist, the sum of five
hundred dollars per annum ; for the improvement of the library, the
sum of eight hundred dollars per annum ; for the pay of assistants,
the sum of sixteen hundred dollars per annum ; for the publication
of bulletins, the sum of three hundred dollars per annum ; for the
expenses of preparing and publishing one volume of a report on the
zoology and botany of the State, the sum of twelve hundred dollars
per annum : Provided, that no part of the above appropriations
shall be used in any way to increase the salary or emoluments of
the director of the laboratory, or of the State Entomologist.
§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and
required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the aforesaid
moneys, upon the order of the State Board of Education, signed by
52 APPKOPKIATIONS.
the president and attested by the secretary of said board : Provided,
that no part of the moneys herein appropriated shall be due and
•payable to the said institution, until satisfactory vouchers, in detail,
approved by the Governor, have been filed with the Auditor for the
expenditure of the last quarterly installment of appropriations herein
or heretofore made.
§ 3. This act shall be and continue in force from the first day
of July, A. D. 1883, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter
after the adjournment of the next General Assembly.
Approved June 25, 1883.
ROBERT WILSON.
§ 1. Appropriates $2,545.19 for services and expenses in surveying damaged lands on
Illinois river.
An Act making an appropriation to pay the claim of Robert Wilson,
for his services and expenses as surveyor, appointed by the Com-
mission of Claims of the State of Illinois, allowed by said cam-
mission.
Whereas, the 'Commission of Claims, at its session in August,
1882, did, in pursuance of act approved May 30, 1881, appoint
Robert Wilson, of Ottawa, Illinois, as surveyor to go upon lands
claimed to have been damaged by overflow of Illinois river, oc-
casioned by the dam at Copperas Creek, and to report notes and
profiles for the information of said commission ; and
Whereas, said Robert Wilson did act under said appointment
and furnish said commission with the desired notes and profiles ;
and
V/hereas, the sum of twenty-five hundred and forty-five dollars
and nineteen cents ($2,545.19) has been awarded to said Robert
Wilson, by the Commission of Claims, for services of self and as-
sistants, and expenses incurred as such surveyor ; therefore,
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That there be, and is hereby ap-
propriated to the said Robert Wilson, the sum of twenty-five hun-
dred and forty-five dollars and nineteen cents ($2,545.19), for ser-
vices and expenses of self and assistants, as surveyor, appointed by
the Commission of Claims ; said amount to be paid to said Robert
Wilson, on warrant of the Auditor, out of any money in the Treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated. Before the Auditor shall deliver to
said Wilson his warrant for the moneys hereby appropriated, the
said Wilson shall file with the Auditor an itemized statement of the
amounts constituting said account, together with receipts from said
Wilson's assistants.
Approved June 25, 18S3.
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ASSIGNMENTS.
VOLUNTARY — PREFERRED CLAIMS.
§ I. Amends Section 6 of the Act of 1877 by making the wages of laborers or servants
preferred claims.
An Act to amend section six (6) of an act entitled "An act concern-
ing voluntary assignments, and conferring jurisdiction therein upon
county courts," approved May 22, 1877, in force July 1, 1877.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That section six (6) of an act en-
titled "An act concerning voluntary assignments, and conferring
jurisdiction therein upon county courts," approved May 22, 1877, in
force July 1, 1877, be, and the same is, hereby so amended as to
read as follows :
"Section 6. That at the first term of the said county court, after
the expiration of the three months, as aforesaid, should no exception
be made to the claim of any creditor, or, if exceptions have been
made, and the same have been adjudicated and settled by the court,
the said court shall order the assignee or assignees to make from
time to time, fair and equal dividends (among the creditors), of the
assets in his or their hands, in proportion to their claims, and as
soon as may be, and within one year thereafter, to render a final
account of said trust to said county court, and said court may allow
such commissions and allowances to said assignee or assignees in
the final settlement, as may be considered by the court to be just
and right : Provided, however, that all claims for the wages of any
laborer or servant, which have been earned within the term of three
months next preceding the making of such assignment, and which
have been filed within said term of three months after such assign-
ment, and to which no exception has been made, or to which ex-
ceptions have been made, and the same have been adjudicated and
settled by the court, shall, after the payment of the costs, commis-
sions and expenses of assignment, be preferred, and first paid to
the exclusion of all other demands and claims : Provided, further,
that such claims for wages of any laborer or servant, shall recite
upon their face that they are for such wages, and when exceptions
are taken to such claims, the said court, in adjudicating and set-
tling the same, shall find that the claim so adjudicated and settled
is for wages of such laborer or servant."
Approved June 18, 1883.
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BRIDGES — BUTTER AND CHEESE.
BRIDGES.
PIER BOOMS.
§ 1. Bridges across the navigable portion of the Illinois river to be protected by pier
booms.
An Act to compel the construction of bridge pier booms on all bridges
over the navigable portion of the Illinois river.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That [on] all bridges now constructed
or hereafter to be constructed over the navigable portion of the
Illinois river, there shall be built and kept in good repair bridge
pier booms, by the company or corporation owning and managing
the said bridges, and within a reasonable time after the passage of
this act or the construction of any bridge over said river as afore-
said; and said pier boom shall be constructed above the upper side
of each pier contiguous to the channel of the river and shall com-
mence at the point of said pier and be at least three hundred feet
in length each ; the piling used for said work shall be sufficient in
length to be at least, when used, three feet above high-water mark,
and be set sufficiently close together so that the current of water
cannot pass through, under or between them, and be made solid so
that a steamboat or other water-craft cannot bear against them in
passing through without moving the same ; and that said piling
shall be weather-boarded with plank at least one and one-quarter
inch in thickness, from the top to low-water mark, thus forming
a solid wall. That the said work shall be constructed under the
supervision of a competent engineer.
Approved June 16, 1883.
BUTTER AND CHEESE.
CO-OPERATIVE FACTORIES.
§ 1. Factories doing business on the co-
operative or dividend plan shall
give bond to make report of busi-
ness.
§ 2. Suits on bond for damages sustained.
§ 3. Bond filed and recorded by the cir-
cuit clerk.
§ 4. Penalties for violation of this act.
An Act to require operators of butter and cheese factories on the co-opera-
tive plan to give bonds, and to prescribe penalties for the violation
thereof.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any
person or persons, company or corporation, within this State, to
CEMETEEIES. 55
operate, carry on, or conduct the business of manufacturing butter
or cheese, on the co-operative or dividend plan, until such person
or persons, company or corporation, shall have filed with the circuit
clerk, or recorder of deeds of the county in which it is proposed to
carry on such business, a good and sufficient bond, to be approved
by such circuit clerk, or recorder of deeds, in the penal sum of six
thousand dollars ($6,000), with one or more good sureties, condi-
tioned that such person or persons, company or corporation, pro-
posing to carry on such business, will, on or before the first day of
each month, make, acknowledge, subscribe and swear to a report in
writing, showing the amount of products manufactured, the amount
sold, the prices received therefor, and the dividends earned and
declared for the third month preceding the month in which such
report is made ; and will file a copy of such report with the clerk
of the town or precinct in which such factory is located ; and will
also keep publicly posted in a conspicuous place in such factory a
copy of such report for the inspection of the patrons thereof, and
that such dividends shall be promptly paid to the persons entitled
thereto.
§ 2. Such bond shall run to the People of the State of Illinois,
and shall be for the benefit and protection of all patrons of such
factory; and suit may be had thereon by any person or persons
injured by a breach of the conditions thereof, by an action of debt
for the use of the person or persons interested, for all damages
sustained by them.
§ 3. Such bond shall be recorded by the circuit clerk, or recorder,
with whom the same is filed; and all such reports so filed with any
town or precinct clerk, shall be preserved by him and held subject
to the inspection of any person or persons interested.
§ 4. Any person who shall willfully violate any provisions of this
act, shall be liable to a fine of not less than two hundred dollars
($200), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisonment
in the county jail for not less than thirty days, nor more than six
months, or both, in the discretion of the court.
Appkoved June IS, 1883.
CEMETERIES.
CITIES AND VILLAGES MAY ESTABLISH JOINTLY.
§ 1. Amends section 1, act 1877,by striking i § 2. Adds a new section authorizing cities,
out the word '"purchase." villages and townships to establish
jointly.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to enable cities and villages
to establish and regulate cemeteries," approved March 24, 1874,
amended by an act approved May 25, 1877, in force July 1, 1877.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That an act entitled "An act to
56 CITIES AND VILLAGES.
enable cities and villages to establish and regulate cemeteries," ap-
proved March 24, 1874, amended by an act approved May 25, 1877,
be, and the same is so amended, as to read as follows :
" Sec. 1. [Power of city or village to establish.] That any city,
village or township in this State may establish and maintain cem-
eteries, within and without its corporate limits, and acquire lands
therefor, by condemnation or otherwise, and may lay out lots of
convenient size for families ; and may sell lots for family burying
ground, or to individuals for burial purposes.
" Sec. 2. [Power of two or more cities or villages to establish
jointly.] That any two or more cities, villages or townships in
this State may jointly unite in establishing and maintaining ceme-
teries within and without the corporate limits of either, and acquire
lands therefor in common, by purchase, condemnation or otherwise,
and may lay out lots of convenient size for families, and may sell
lots for family burying ground or to individuals for burial pur-
poses."
[§ 2.] Sec. 3. [Emergency.] Whereas the legislative authorities
of certain cities in this State are desirous of uniting together im-
mediately in establishing burial grounds or cemeteries under the
provisions of the second section of this act, whereby an emergency
exists, that this act should take effect without delay, therefore this
act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved June 14, 1883.
CITIES AND VILLAGES.
MINORITY REPRESENTATION.
§ 1. Amends sec. 6, art. 4, act 1872, by add- aldermen under the minority rep-
ing the last proviso. resentation plan.
§2. Amends sec. 7, art. 4. act 1872, by pre- §3. Emergency,
viding for the manner of electing |
An Act to amend sections six (6) and seven (7) of article four (4) of
an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities
and villages,'" approved April 10, 1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That sections six (6) and seven
(7) of article four (4) of an act entitled "An act to provide for the
incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, be
amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 6. Whenever this act shall be submitted to the quali-
fied electors of any city for adoption, there shall be submitted at
the same time for adoption or rejection the question of minority
representation in the city council or legislative authority of such
city. At the said election the ballot shall be in the following form :
'For minority representation in the city council,' or 'against minor-
ity representation in the city council;' and at any subsequent time,
on petition of the legal voters equal in number to one-eighth the
CITIES AND VILLAGES.
number of legal votes cast at the next preceding general city elec-
tion, the city council shall cause the question of minority repre-
sentation to be submitted to the legal voters of said city, and the bal-
lots shall be in form as provided in this section : Provided, that no
such question of representation shall be submitted more than once in
every two years. The judges of such election shall make returns
thereof to the city council, whose duty it shall be to canvass such
returns, and to cause the result of such canvass to be entered on
the records of such city. If a majority of the votes cast at such elec-
tion shall be for equal representation in the city council, then the
members of the city council, or legislative authority of such city,
shall be thereafter elected in the following manner : The council,
or legislative authority of such city, at least one month before the
general election in the year in which this act shall take effect in
such city, shall apportion such city by dividing the population
thereof, as ascertained by the last federal census, by any number
not less than two, nor more than six, and the quotient shall be the
ratio of representation in the city council. Districts shall be formed
of contiguous and compact territory, and contain as near as prac-
ticable an equal number of inhabitants. And 'provided, further, that
where said council or legislative authority of such city have not
fixed a ratio of representation and formed the districts or wards,
at the time above specified, the same may be done by any subse-
quent board of aldermen; but all official acts heretofore done, and
ordinances heretofore passed by any board of aldermen elected at
Jarge by the legal electors of any such city on the minority repre-
sentation plan, shall be held and taken by all courts in this State
to be of as much validity and binding force as if they had been
elected from wards or districts.
"Section 7. Every such district shall be entitled to three alder-
men, who shall hold their office for two years, and until their suc-
cessors shall be elected and qualified. At the first general election
for mayor, after the passage of this act, and every two years there-
after, there shall be elected in each ward as many aldermen as such
ward shall be entitled to : Provided, that aldermen elected under this
act, in wards wherein aldermen were elected for two years at the last
previous annual election, shall not take their seats as such until
the terms of the aldermen last aforesaid shall expire. Vacan-
cies shall be filled at an election to be held by the voters of the
district in which such vacancies shall occur, at the time to be des-
ignated by the city council. In all elections for aldermen aforesaid,
each qualified voter may cast as many votes as there are aldermen
to be elected in his district, or may distribute the same or equal
parts thereof among the candidates, as he shall see fit, and the can-
didate highest in votes shall be declared elected."
§ 2. Whereas, the election for mayor, aldermen and other city
officers, in cities organized under the general law, will take place
before the first day of July ; therefore an emergency exists, which
makes it necessary that this act shall take effect on or before the
third Tuesday of April, A. D. 1883, therefore this act shall .take
effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved April 11, 1883.
58 CITIES AND VILLAGES.
CONSERVATOES OF THE PEACE.
§ 1. Amends section 12. act of 1872, by conferring power upon policemen to serve warrants
the same as constables, for violation of ordinances aud all criminal warrants.
An Act to amend section 12 of article six (6) of an act entitled "An
act for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10,
1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That section 12 of article six
(6) of an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of
cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, be and is hereby
amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 12. The trustees in villages, the mayor, aldermen, and
the marshal and his deputies, policemen and watchmen in cities, if
any such be appointed, shall be conservators of the peace, and all
officers created conservators of the peace by this act, or authorized
by any ordinance, shall have power to arrest or cause to be arrested,
with or without process, all persons who shall break the peace, or
be found violating any ordinance of the city or village, or any
criminal law of the State, commit for examination, and, if neces-
sary, detain such persons in custody over night or Sunday in the
watch house or any other safe place, or until they can be brought
before the proper magistrate, and shall have and exercise such
other powers as conservators of the peace as the city council or
board of trustees may prescribe. All warrants for the violation of
ordinances, and all criminal warrants to whomsoever directed, may
be served and executed within the corporate limits of any such city
or village by any policeman of such city or village ; such policemen
being hereby clothed with all the common law and statutory power
of constables for such purposes."
Approved June 14, 1883.
DELINQUENT SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS.
§ 1. Amends section 40 of the act of 1872, by providing that application for judgment upon
lands for unpaid special assessments shall be made at the time the annual applica-
tion for judgment against lands for general taxes is made. Application for judg-
ment shall be made only on lands returned delinquent April 1 in each year.
An Act to amend section 40 of article 9 of an act entitled "An act to
provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April
10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly; That section 40, of article 9, of
an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities
and villages," approved April 10, 18 T2, in force July 1, 1872, be
and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 40. When said general officer shall receive the report
provided for in the preceding section, he shall proceed to obtain
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judgment against said lots, parcels of land, and property, for said
special assessments remaining due and unpaid, at the same time
and in the same manner as is or may be by law provided for ob-
taining judgment against lands for taxes due and unpaid the county
and State ; and shall in the same manner proceed to sell the same
for the said special assessments remaining due and unpaid. In ob-
taining said judgment and making said sale, the said officer shall
be governed by the general revenue laws of this State, except when
otherwise provided herein. No application for judgment against
lands for unpaid special assessments shall be made at a time dif-
ferent from the annual application for judgment against lands, upon
which general taxes remain due and unpaid. The application for
judgment upon delinquent special assessments in each year, shall
include only such special assessments as shall have been returned
as delinquent to the county collector, on or before the first day of
April, in the year in which such application is made."
Appkoved June 18, 1883.
POLICE AND FIKEMEN S BELIEF FUNDS.
§ 1. Amends section 1, act of 1877, by increasing the percentage of taxes to be paid in the
fund.
An Act to amend section one of an act entitled "An act for the relief
of disabled members of the police and fire departments in cities and
villages," approved May 21, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, as
amended by act approved May 10, 1879, in force July 1, 1879.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People oj the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That section one of an act en-
titled "An act for the relief of disabled members of the police and
fire departments in cities and villages," approved May 21, 1«77, in
force July 1, 1877, as amended by act approved May 10, 1879, in
force July 1, 1879, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to
read as follows :
"Section 1. That one-half of all the rates, taxes and license fees
which are or may be hereafter required by law to be paid by cor-
porations, companies or associations not incorporated under the laws
of this State, engaged in any village or city in this State effecting
fire insurance, and one-fourth of all moneys collected as a tax on
dogs, where such city or village contains a population of 10,000 or
more, has a regularly organized fire department by such city or
village, and all moneys received from fines inflicted upon members
of the police and fire departments for a violation of the rules and
regulations of the service, and all fines recovered for violation of the
tire ordinances, and all moneys accruing from the sale of unclaimed
stolen property, shall be set apart by the treasurer of the city or
village to whom the same shall be paid, as a fund for the relief of
disabled members of the police and fire departments of such city or
village."
Approved June 23, 1883.
CO
CITIES AND VILLAGES.
PROTECTION AGAINST INUNDATION AND OVERFLOW — IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS.
§ 1. Authorizes the formation of im-
provement districts, the estab-
lishing of grades therein, and the
levy of taxes for the improvement
thereof.
§ 2. Requires surveys and plats of con-
templated improvements and esti-
mates of cost and benefits arising
therefrom against each lot or
block.
§ 3. Bonds may be issued in payment of
improvements.
§ 4. Assessments levied to create a fund
for payment of principal and in-
terest of bonds issued.
§ 5. Railroad corporations shall be liable
for improvements when tracks
cross or occupy streets.
§ 6. Property of minors and defective
• persons.
§ 7. Powers hereby conferred may be
put in force by ordinance.
§ 8. Bondholders' remedy upon in-
dorsers.
§ 9. Emergency.
An Act to divide cities and villages subject to overflow and inundation
into improvement districts, and to provide ways and means to raise
the streets, lots and blocks above the line of overflow.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: Any city or village of this
State incorporated under the general law for the incorporation of
cities and villages, or under any special charter, the site of which
is wholly or partially subject to overflow, and which site is or may
be surrounded in whole or in part by levees, dykes or embankments
to prevent overflow, may lay off such city or village, or any part
thereof, into what shall be known or called improvement districts,
and may fix the grade of the streets, avenues, alleys or public
grounds within .such improvement district or districts, at a height
above the natural surface of the earth to correspond with the height
of the levees, dykes or embankments surrounding or partially sur-
rounding such city or village, or above if deemed necessary, in such
manner and to such height as will give a surface drainage from
such improvement district to the river or rivers which cause such
overflow, and may require low lots, blocks, or parts of blocks or
lots, within such improvement district, to be filled in such manner,
as to prevent water from standing thereon, and so as to prevent the
same from becoming a nuisance or injurious to the public health,
in the judgment of the corporate authorities of such city or village.
The work hereby authorized shall be done by special assessment or
special taxation, and all the power in relation to special assess-
ments or special taxation heretofore granted to any city or village
in this State, or to any drainage or improvement district in this
State, is hereby granted to such cities and villages under this act.
§ 2. When any such improvement district shall be created by
ordinance under this act, it shall be the duty of the corporate
authorities to cause an accurate survey of the work contemplated to
be done or made, to be made by a competent civil engineer, and
cause plats, profiles, and estimates of the work to be done, including
the cost of all walls or other structures necessary to be built or
constructed to hold the earth to its proper place, and the cost of
the work opposite to, or adjacent to each lot in such district and
the cost of the fill upon each and every lot within such district
necessary to be filled to be used in estimating the benefits to be
charged against the lot or block, or parts thereof, within such
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improvement district ; and in estimating such benefits it shall be
proper to take into consideration the benefit any such lot, block or
parts thereof will receive by reason of being secured from overflow,
or sipe water.
§ 3. When any such improvement district or districts has or
have been laid out and defined by any such city or village, and the
cost of the improvement estimated and ascertained by a competent
engineer, and the benefits to the lots, blocks or parts thereof have
been assessed, then such city or village may cause a series of bonds
to be issued, sufficient to pay the special assessments, or special
tax, so ascertained for such district, and which bonds when so
issued and endorsed as hereinafter provided for, shall be a lien
upon the lots, blocks or parts thereof which shall be designated in
such bond or bonds, such bond or bonds to bear interest at a rate
not exceeding six per cent., and may run for any term not exceed-
ing twenty years, the style of the bond to be fixed and designated
by ordinance ; but before any bond shall issue, or be put in circula-
tion, the owner or owners of any such lot or lots to be charged
with such special assessment or assessments, or special tax, shall
indorse upon the back of such bond or bonds his or her consent
thereto, in words in substance as follows:
"I hereby indorse the within bond, and consent that the lot or lots, or parts thereof
therein designated, shall become liable for the interest and principal therein named,
and the same shall be a lien upon said property from this date until paid off and
discharged.
This day of 188..
[SEAL.T
Said bond, when prepared and executed by such city or village,
and endorsed by the owner or owners of the property to be charged
with the special assessment or special tax, shall be recorded in the
recorder's office of the county in which such city or village is located,
and when so recorded such record shall be notice of the lien thereby
created, to the same extent that records of mortgages are notices of
ihe mortgage lien, and shall have the same force and effect. No
coupon need be recorded ; the face of the bond and indorsement
shall be sufficient.
§ 4. It shall be the duty of any city or village, issuing bonds
under this act, to provide by ordinance for the collection of the
interest and principal of such bonds from the property so charged
with the special assessment or special tax, and shall be placed upon
the tax books in the same manner that special assessments or special
taxes now are, for collection, and shall be treated in the same man-
ner, and have the same effect as special assessments or special tax
now have under the statute, and such city or village shall not be
liable for the interest or principal of any such bond or bonds, out
of any fund except the special fund of the improvement district to
which the bond or bonds apply, and for the faithful enforcement of
the ordinances providing for the collection of the interest and princi-
pal thereof.
§ 5. If any steam or horse railroad shall be located upon or across
any street in any such improvement district, then, in estimating the
cost of the work, such railroad shall be charged with the fill upon
such street or crossing in the proportion or amount that it would
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require or cost such railroad to make an independent embankment
of the same height to receive its track or tracks upon such street or
crossing : Provided, that any such railroad shall have the same
right to build its embankment, or make its proportion of the improve-
ment, as is allowed to individuals. If any such steam or horse
railroad shall fail or refuse to comply with the ordinances of any
such city or village, in this regard, the track or tracks of any such
delinquent railroad shall be taken and deemed to be a nuisance, and
all rights of any such railroad upon any such street or crossing
shall be forfeited, and the rails and ties removed as the work
progresses.
§ 6. If any property within any improvement district created
under this act, shall belong to minor heirs, idiots, lunatics, or any
person otherwise incapacitated to contract, the guardian, conserva-
tor, or other person in charge of any such estate, may apply to the
circuit court of the county in which such city or village is located,
by petition, for leave to indorse such bond or bonds, and when
indorsed by order of the court, such indorsement shall have full force
and effect in law.
§ 7. All the powers hereby granted to the corporate authorities
of such cities and villages, may be put into full force and effect by
proper ordinances, and the powers hereby granted shall be liberally
construed by all courts in this State, in order that full force and
effect shall be given to this act.
§ 8. The owner or holder of any such bond may, in addition to
the powers hereby given to the cities or villages, under this act, to
collect the interest and principal, have his or her personal remedy
in any court upon the indorser upon his indorsement, for failure to
pay interest or principal, and in case of two successive failures by
any person liable to pay the interest on any such bond, such bond
shall be held to be due, and the holder may enforce his lien for
interest and principal by foreclosure in any court of this State of
competent jurisdiction.
§ 9. Whereas there are cities and villages in this State that are
subject to overflow, and have suffered severely by the recent floods
and inundations, and the best time for successful work in filling is
in the spring months, therefore an emergency exists, and this act
shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage.
Approved May 29, 1883.
CITIES AND VILLAGES.
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PROTECTION OF SITES AGAINST INUNDATION AND OVERFLOW AND TO CONTROL
PRIVATE LEVEES.
§ 1. Authorize the construction of levees,
dykes and embankments.
§ 2. May enter upon and take possession
of lands by condemnation.
§ 3. Authorities may order private levees
to be repaired or improved.
§ 4. In case owners neglent or refuse to
repair private levees, may be im-
proved by municipal authorities.
§ 5. Materials for improvement may be
taken from adjacent lands.
§ 6. Cost of repairs and improvements
may be charged to owners and be-
come a lien.
§ 7. How lien may be enforced by sale of
levee.
§ 8. Municipal authorities may purchase
at sale.
§ 9. Expenses by municipal authorities
heretofore incurred— how recov-
ered.
§ 10. Wharfage charges by owners of pri-
vate levees on navigable streams.
§ 11. Filling in the low places and stag-
nant pools.
§ 12. Owners or their assigns, of levees,
liable for damages arising from
neglect to keep in repair such
levees.
§ 13. The grade of all lots and blocks
liable to overflow may be estab-
lished by municipal authorities,
and such lots and blocks must be
filled up to grade.
§ 14. Emergency.
An Act to authorize cities, towns and villages to protect the site thereof
from overflow and inundation, and to regulate and control private
levees, private ivharves and landing places, or embankments, and to
compel the repairs and improvement of such levees or embankments,
and to cause low lots, blocks or parcels of land within the corpor-
ate limits to be filled so as to prevent standing water thereon, and
to authorize cities, towns and villages to purchase or condemn lands,
sand banks, gravel pits, and rock quarries, for any of the purposes
above named.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That all cities, towns and villages
in this State, whether incorporated under the general incorporation
act for cities, towns and villages, or under any special charter, that
are subject to overflow or inundation, shall have power to protect
the site of such city, town or village from overflow or inundation by
levees, dykes, or embankments of such heighth and dimensions as
the corporate authorities of such city, town or village may deem
proper.
§ 2. Such city, town or village may purchase or enter upon and
condemn lands for the location and construction of any such levee,
or for the repairs of any levee, or dyke now built, or surrounding
any such city, town or village, in the same manner that lands and
right of way is now condemned for railroad purposes.
§ 3. In all instances where any city, town or village in this
State is now, or shall hereafter be surrounded in whole or in part
by any levee, dyke, embankment or other structure, which is used
or permitted to be used as a protection to any such city, town or
village from overflow and inundation, and which is owned or
claimed, in whole or in part, by any individual, private corporation
or trust company, and whose duty it is in law or equity to keep up
and maintain such levee, dyke, embankment or other structure, and
the same shall be found to be insufficient in width or heighth, or
too steep of grade, or which shall become impaired by wash or
abrasion of the rivers, by caving banks, by impairment of the base
or surface of the slope, or any other injury that may happen to
any such levee, dyke, embankment or other structure, that, in the
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judgment of the city council, or board of trustees, or other munici-
pal authorities of any such city, town or village, shall become unsafe
or insecure for the purpose for which it was erected or used, and
the party whose duty it is in law or equity to protect, maintain,
and keep in repair such levees, embankments or dykes, shall not
repair, enlarge, or heighten the same, as the case shall demand, it
shall be the duty of the city council, or board of trustees of any
such city, town or village, to cause notice to be served upon the
owner or person in charge of any such levee, dyke, embankment or
structure, or any agent of any such owner or person in charge
thereof, of the condition, impairment or insufficiency of any such
levee, dyke, embankment or other structure, and that the same
must be repaired or improved as directed in said notice.
§ 4. If the owner, or agent or person in possession of any levee,
dyke, embankment or other structure, shall not, within ten days
from the date of service of any such notice, in good faith commence
the work so to be done, and continue the same with all reasonable
diligence until it is completed, any such city, town or village may
declare such levee a nuisance, and proceed to repair or improve the
same so as to make such levee, dyke or embankment secure and
sufficient for the purposes for which it was intended or used.
§ 5. For the purpose of making any such repairs or improve-
ment, any such city, town or village may enter upon any of the
adjacent lands of the owner of any such levee, dyke or embank-
ment and take therefrom any earth, sand, stone or other material
for the purpose of making such improvement or repairs, without
being liable for trespass or the value thereof.
§ 6. All such work done upon any such levee, dyke or embank-
ment, by any city, town or village, shall be charged up to the party
liable therefor, and shall be a lien upon any such levee, dyke or
embankment, and any connecting levee, dyke or embankment which
forms a part of the system of levee protection intended for such
city, town or village, belonging to the party so liable, notwithstand-
ing the lines of levees may be disconnected by intervening owner-
ships.
§ 7. If the expense incurred by any such city, town or village is
not paid by such owner or person liable, within twenty days of the
presentation of the bill therefor by the city, town or village clerk,
when directed by the city council or board of trustees, then such
city, town or village may enforce the lien hereby created in any
court of competent jurisdiction, in the same manner as mechanics'
liens are now enforced under the statute of this State, provided the
sales under the decree for sale of any such levee, dyke or embank-
ment shall be absolute and without redemption.
§ 8. Any such city, town or village may become purchaser at
any such sale, and when so purchased, the city, town or village
may take immediate possession thereof, and use, own and contract
as to the same in the same manner as if it had been originally
built by the city, but if purchased by any other person or corpora-
tion, then such levee or embankment shall be subject to this statute
in the same manner as it was in the hands of the original owner.
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§ 9. Where any city, town or village has heretofore built or re-
paired any part of any levee, dyke or embankment, when the
original levee or embankment had been destroyed, . or become
insecure by the wash or abrasion of the rivers or the caving
in of the banks, and the part so built or repaired formed a part of
a system of levees surrounding any such city, town or village for
ihe purposes mentioned in this act, and the same is, or was, owned
and controlled by any person, or corporation or trustee, and such
system of levees, dykes or embankments w r as originally intended by
the builder or builders, and was necessary, as a protection to the
site of any such city, town or village, and it was, at the time of
the making of the improvements mentioned in this section, the duty
of any such owner, either in law or equity, to maintain and keep in
repair such system of levees or embankments, and that at the time
of making such improvement or repairs there appeared to be an
emergency for the performance of such work, then any such city,
town or village may have its action to recover back what it has ex-
pended in that regard, and may file its bill or petition as in case
of mechanics' lien, and the amount so expended shall be a lien
upon the whole of such levee system belonging to the party so de-
faulting at the time of the filing of such bill, from the date of the
filing of any such bill or petition, and it shall be no answer or de-
fense that any such city, town or village made such expenditure, or
did such work as was done, without authority of law, or the owners
of the original levee.
§ 10. Whenever the site of any city, town or village in this State
is or has been located upon any of the navigable waters of this
State or any of the navigable waters bordering this State, and the
site thereof has been surrounded by levees or embankments to pre-
vent overflow or inundation, and such levees are owned or controlled
b>y private persons, corporations or trustees, and any part of such
levee or embankment lias been by the owner or owners thereof set
apart for a landing place for vessels and water craft, and the place
so set apart for a landing place has been used by the public free
•of charge, by footmen, or for wagons, drays and other vehicles con-
veying persons or property to and from said landing for a term of
twenty years or more, and the owner thereof claims the right to
collect wharfage, tolls or a reasonable compensation for the landing
of steamboats or other water craft at any such landing place, then
any such city, town or village may, by ordinance, determine the
slope or grade of any such levee so used for public landing pur-
poses, and the pavement thereof, and the rate of toll or compensa-
tion to be charged at such landing. It shall be the duty of the
owner thereof to grade, pave and keep such slope in repair as di-
rected by ordinance, and may enforce the same by proper penalties,
or forfeitures of any right to collect wharfage at any such landing
until the ordinances in that regard have been complied with, and
may enforce the powers herein granted, by proper ordinances.
§ 11. Any city, town or village in this State wherein there are
lots, blocks, or places wherein stagnant water is liable to stand,
from surface water, or sipe water, or overflow, so that the same
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becomes a nuisance, or is dangerous to the public health of any
such city, town or village, the corporate authorities thereof may de-
clare such lots, blocks or places of land to be nuisances, and order
the same filled to grade, or to such height as will prevent such
standing water ; and for the purpose of filling any such lots, blocks
or places, such city, town or village may purchase or condemn
lands, sand banks, or gravel, in the same manner as in other cases
under this act.
§ 12. In all cases where any person or persons, trustees, company
or corporation, has heretofore, or shall hereafter lay out any city,
town or village within this State, the site whereof is liable to over-
flow, and is surrounded in whole, or in part, by a levee or embank-
ment, and the owner or proprietors of the site of such city, town or
village shall, or shall have, in laying out and platting the same,
reserve or reserved, retain or retained, as private property, a strip
or strips of land surrounding the site thereof, for the purpose of
building such levees or embankments thereon, and shall actually
build such levees or embankments ; and such persons or owners so
laying out such city, town or village as aforesaid, shall, after the
building of such levees or embankments to protect the site of any
such city, tow r n or village from overflow, sell, lease or convey by quit
claim or deed in fee, or otherwise, any lots, blocks or lands within
the district or territory surrounded by such levees or embankments,
it shall, from thenceforward, become the duty of any such owner or
person and their agents, representatives or assigns, to keep and
maintain in good repair such levees and embankments, and upon
their failure so to do such persons, owners or assigns shall be liable
to the owner or owners of any lots, blocks or lands lying within
such levees, whether held by the original purchaser or his assigns,
and such persons or owners of such levees or embankments shall be
liable in damages to the owners of any personal property that may
be injured by the giving away or insufficiency of any such levees or
embankments, and may have their action on the case for any damage
they may suffer by reason of the insufficiency, impairment or giving
away of any such levees or embankment ; or any number of such
owners of lots, blocks or land, and owners of personal property
damaged as aforesaid, may join in a petition to any court of record
of competent jurisdiction in this State for redress of grievances under
this section, setting forth the claims of each, and the aggregate of
such claims ; and such claims shall be a lien upon such levees or
embankments, and all the unsold lands or lots of the proprietors of
such city, town or village within such levee inclosure, from the date
of the filing of such petition ; and the proceeding shall be the same
as in mechanics' lien.
§ 13. In any city, village or town in this State wherein there
are lots, blocks or parcels of land within the district or districts
where the grade shall have been established and fixed as provided
for in section 11, below such grade whereon water is liable to drain
or accumulate from such drainage, or from rains or sipe water, and
stand thereon, thereby endangering the public health, it shall be
lawful for the city council in cities, and the board of trustees in
towns and villages, by ordinance, to declare all such lots, blocks or
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parcels of land, a public nuisance, and order notice to be served on
the owner or owners of such lots, blocks or parcels of land so de-
clared to be a public nuisance, to fill the same to the grade estab-
lished for such streets under the provisions of section 11, within
ten days. In case the owner or owners reside without this State,
such notice may be served on their agent or agents, if such reside
in this State, and if neither the agent nor owner resides in this
State, then such notice may be given by publication for twenty
days in a newspaper published in the city, town or village ; and
the specified time for the performance of such work shall begin to
run from the date of the last publication. In case the owner or
owners of any such lot, block or parcel of land shall fail to comply
with the said order, and fill the same within the time allowed for the
doing thereof, it shall be lawful for the city, town or village to do
said filling at the least possible cost, and the expense thereof shall
be a first lien in favor of such city, town or village upon the entire
interest of the owner or owners in said lot, block or parcel of land ;
and for the purpose of enforcing said lien, any city, town or village
may file its petition in the circuit court of the county where such
city, town or village is situated, which court is hereby given ex-
clusive jurisdiction thereof, stating the passage of the ordinance de-
claring such lot a nuisance, the giving of the notice aforesaid, the
failure of the owner or owners to comply therewith, the expense in-
curred by the city, town or village in filling the same, and on proof
thereof, and that the owner has been notified of the pendency of
the proceedings, in the same manner as now provided by law for
notifying defendants of the pendency of chancery causes, the court
shall decree the payment of such sum with interest and costs within
twenty days, and that such city, town or village have a lien on the
lot, etc., therefor, and also that said lot, etc., be sold in the man-
ner and by the officer designated by the court, on failure to pay
said sum found due with interest and costs, without redemption,
and the court shall direct a deed to be made to the purchaser by
the officer so making the sale, which shall vest in the purchaser all
the right, title and interest of the owner or owners of any such lot,
block or parcel of land. Any mortgagee of any such lot, block or
parcel of land shall be taken and considered an owner thereof within
the meaning of this act.
§ 14. Whereas, the unprecedented high waters of the Ohio river
and its tributaries has occasioned great injury to many levees and
embankments, and the work of repairs and improvements should
commence as soon as the high water recedes : therefore, an emer-
gency exists, and this act shall take effect, and be in force, from
and after its passage.
Appeoved May 19, 1883.
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CITIES AND VILLAGES.
SEWEEAGE AND WATER TAXES.
Authorizes a "Sewerage tax fund"—
rate of tax.
Authorizes a ''Water tax fund"— rate
of tax. Authorizes taxes to be
levied for lighting cities; taxes in
the aggregate not to be increased.
§ 3. Repeals act 1871 in relation to levy of
taxes for sewerage and water pur-
poses.
An Act in relation to the levy and collection of taxes for sewerage and
ivater- works in cities of this State, that may have established a
system of sewerage and water-ivorks for such city, and to repeal an
act therein named, and to authorize the cities, villages and incor-
porated towns of this State to levy and collect taxes to pay for
ivater and light.
Section 1. Be it enacted 'by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the legislative authority
of any city which now has, or may hereafter have established a
system of sewerage for such city, shall have power, annually, to
levy and collect a tax upon the taxable real and personal estate of
such city, not to exceed one mill on a dollar, for the extension and
laying of sewers therein, and the maintenance of such sewers, which
tax shall be known as "The Sewerage Fund Tax," and shall be
levied and collected in the same manner that other general taxes of
any such city are levied and collected : Provided, however, that the
board of public works of such city, if any, or the head of the sewer
department of such city, shall first certify to such legislative
authority the amount that will be necessary for such purpose :
Provided, further, that a two- thirds majority of all the members
elect of the legislative authority of such city may levy a tax for such
purposes, not to exceed three mills on each dollar of the taxable
property of such city.
§ 2. The legislative authority of any city which now has, or which
may hereafter have, established or hired water-works for the supply
of water to the inhabitants thereof, shall have power to annually
levy and collect a tax upon the taxable real and personal estate of
any such city, whether organized under a special charter or the
general law T , not to exceed one mill on the dollar, for the extension
of water mains or pipes therein, and the maintenance of such water-
works, or to the creation of a sinking fund to be applied to the
establishment of water-works, which tax shall be known as the
"Water Fund Tax," and shall be levied and collected in the same
manner that other general taxes of any such city are levied and
collected : Provided, that the board of public works of such city, if
any, or the head of the water department of such city, shall first
certify to such legislative authority the amount that will be neces-
sary for such purposes, and shall further certify that the revenue or
income from such water-works will be insufficient therefor : Provided,
further, that two-thirds majority of all the members elect of the
legislative authority of such city may levy a tax for such purposes,
not to exceed three mills on each dollar of the taxable property of
such city : And, provided, further, that the legislative authority of
each of the cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State, with
CLERKS OF COURTS. 69
the concurrence of two-thirds- of the members thereof, shall be
authorized to levy and collect, annually, upon the taxable property
within its limits, in addition to all other taxes now authorized by
law, a tax of not exceeding three mills on the dollar of such taxable
property, to be used exclusively for the purpose of lighting streets,
and .a further tax of not exceeding two mills on the dollar of such
taxable property, to be used exclusively for the purpose of supplying
water to such city, village or incorporated town : Provided, also,
that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to increase the
amount of aggregate taxes that may be levied in any one year by
any city or village as provided in section one (1) of article VIII of
an act entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of cities and
villages," approved April 10, 1872.
§ 3. An act entitled "An act in relation to the levy and collection
of taxes for sewerage and water-works in the cities of this State, that
may have established a system of sewerage and water-works for such
city," approved and in force April 22, 1871, is hereby repealed.
Approved June 21, 18S3.
CLEEKS OF COURTS.
APPELLATE AND SUPREME.
§ 1. Clerks of Supreme and Appellate Courts authorized to enter motions at request of
attorneys.
An Act to authorize the clerks of the Supreme and Appellate Courts to
enter motions in said courts in behalf of attorneys.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly : That the clerks of the Supreme
and Appellate Courts are hereby authorized to enter in any cause
pending in either of said courts, any motion that either or any at-
torney of record in such cause is authorized by law to enter in the
absence of any such attorney, when requested to do so by said at-
torney, or for the admission of any attorney to practice in either of
said courts : Provided, said clerks shall receive no fee for making
said motions.
Approved June 18, 1883.
70 CONVEYANCES — COUNTY TREASURER.
CONVEYANCES.
PROOF OP DEEDS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS IN WRITING.
§ 1. Provides for proving deeds and other instruments in writing attested by subscrib-
ing witnesses, by secondary evidence, in the absence of such subscribing wit-
nesses.
An Act in regard to proof of deeds and other instruments in writing
tvhen attested, by subscribing witnesses.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly: That whenever any deed, mortgage)
conveyance, release, power of attorney, or other writing of, or relat-
ing to the sale, conveyance or other disposition of real estate, or
any interest therein, or any other instrument in writing not required
by law to be attested by a subscribing witness, may be offered in
evidence in any civil cause pending in any court of law or equity
in this State, and the same shall appear to have been so attested,
and it shall become necessary to prove the execution of any such
deed or other writing otherwise than as now provided by law, it
shall not be necessary to prove the execution of the same by a sub-
scribing witness to the exclusion of other evidence, but the execu-
tion of such instrument may be proved by secondary evidence
without producing or accounting for the absence of the subscribing
witness or witnesses.
Approved June 18, 1883.
COUNTY TEEASUREE.
VACANCIES, HOW FILLED.
§ l. Amends section 15 of an act in rela- § 2. Emergency,
tion to county treasurers,— filling
vacancies caused by death or re-
signation.
An Act to amend section fifteen (15) of an act entitled "An act to revise
the law in relation to county treasurer," approved February 25, 1874,
in force July 1, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly : That section fifteen (15) of an act
entitled "An act to revise the law in relation to county treasurer,"
approved February 25, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same
is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
"Sec. 15. If any county treasurer shall neglect or refuse to ren-
der an account, or make settlement at any time when required by
law, or by the county board, or refuse to answer any question pro-
pounded to him by the county board, or is a defaulter, and in
arrears with the county, or is guilty of any other misconduct in his
COURTS. 71
office, the county board may remove him from office, and may ap-
point some suitable person to perform the duties of treasurer until
his successor is elected, or appointed and qualified ; or if, by reason
of the death or resignation of the county treasurer, or other cause,
the said office shall become vacant, then the county hjjarcl may ap-
point some suitable person to perform the duties of treasurer, until
a county treasurer is elected, or appointed and qualified. The per-
son so appointed shall give bond and security, as required by law of
the county treasurer."
§ 2. Whereas, there is no provision in the law concerning the
office of county treasurer, authorizing the filling of a vacancy in said
office on the death or resignation of said officer, until the election
or qualification of his successor, therefore an emergency exists, and
this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas-
sage.
Approved March 9, 1883.
COUETS.
COUNTY.
§ 1. Amends section 109^6 by permitting adjournment of regular terms when the business
of the term has been disposed of, until the first day of the next probate term.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of
county courts, and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time
for holding the same, and to repeal an act therein named, - " approved
March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly : That section one hundred and nine
and a half (1094) of an act entitled "An act to extend the juris-
diction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof., to
fix the time for holding the same and to repeal an act therein
named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and is
hereby amended to read as follows :
"Section 109^. The court shall continue open from day to day
until all the business before it is disposed of ; but whenever the dis-
position of business before it requires its adjournment for a longer
period than one day at a time, it may adjourn its regular term to
any day not beyond the first day of the next probate term of said
court."
Approved June 18, 1883.
72 COUNTY COURTS.
§ 1. Amends certain sections of the act of 1874, changing the terms in certain counties.
An Act to amend sections twenty, twenty-six, forty-four, forty-seven,
fifty-eight, sixty-seven, seventy and eighty -seven, of an act entitled
" An act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to regulate
the "practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal
an act therein named," approved March%6, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly : That sections twenty, twenty-six,
forty-seven, fifty-eight, sixty-seven, seventy and eighty-seven, of an
act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts
and to regulate the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the
same, and to repeal an act therein named," approved March 26,
1874, in force July 1, 1S74, be, and the same is hereby amended so
as to read as follows :
"Sec. 20. Clark, in January, June and October.
"Sec. 26. Cumberland, in November and May.
"Sec. 44. Henderson, in February and October.
"Sec. 47. Jackson, in February, May and November.
"Sec. 58. LaSalle on the first Monday of January, first Monday
of March, second Monday of May, first Monday of September and
first Monday of November.
"Sec. 67. Macoupin, in April and December.
"Sec. 70. Marshall, on the third Mondays in April, August and
November.
"Sec. 87. Randolph, in May and December."
Approved June 23, 1883.
§ 1. Amends act 1874 changing terms in Fulton, Mercer and Warren counties.
An Act to amend sections thirty-seven, seventy-four and one hundred and
one of an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of county
courts, and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for hold-
ing the same, and to repeal an act therein named," approved March
2:, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Assembly: That' sections thirty-seven (37),
seventy-four (74) and one hundred and one (101) of an act entitled
"An act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts, and to provide
for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same and
to repeal an act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, be
amended to read as follows :
"Sec. 37. Fulton, second Mondays in May and October.
"Sec. 74. Mercer, in January, May and October.
"Sec. 101. Warren, in February and October."
Approved May 23, 1883.
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§ 1. Amends the act of 1874, changing terms in Hancock county.
An Act to amend section forty-two (42) of "An act to extend the juris-
diction of county courts, and to provide for the practice thereof, to
fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an act therein
named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That section forty-two (42) of
"An act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts, and to provide
for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and
to repeal an act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, m force
July 1, 1874, be amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 42. Hancock in April, August, and December."
Approved May 23, 1883.
§ 1. Amends section 50, act 1874— Terms in I § 2. Emergency.
Jersey county.
An Act to amend section fifty (50) of an act entitled "An act to extend
the jurisdiction of county courts, and to provide for the practice
thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an act
therein named," approved March 26, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly ; That section fifty (50) of an act
entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts, and to
provide for the, practice thereof ; to fix the time for holding the
same, and to repeal an act therein named," approved March 26,
1S74, be amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 50. Jersey, in May and December."
§ 2. All summonses, subpoenas, writs, bonds, recognizances, ve-
nires, papers and processes of any kind whatever, made and served
for or returnable to the several terms of court, at such times as
said terms are' required to be held by the law in force immediately
prior to the time this act shall take effect, shall be deemed and
taken, and shall have the same force and effect, as if the same had
been made and served for or returnable to the first term of court
to be held in said county as fixed by this act ; and no action, suit,
cause or proceeding now pending in any of the county courts shall
be abated by force of the provisions of this act.
§ 3. Whereas in consequence of the condition of the legal busi-
ness of said county of Jersey, a term of said county court is required
in the month of May, A. D. 1883, and an emergency exists, there-
fore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its
passage.
Approved March 30, 1883.
74 CORPORATIONS.
PROBATE.
§ 1. Authorizes county judges, in the absence, vacancy or disability of probate judges, to
hold probate court.
An Act to authorize county judges to perform the duties of judges of
probate courts in certain cases.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That in case of the absence,
death, resignation, or inability to act, of the judge of the probate
court of any county, any county judge may hold such probate court,
and perform all the duties of the judge thereof, until the return of
such judge, the appointment or election of his successor, or until
the disability to act ceases.
Approved May 23, 1883.
CORPOKATIONS.
NOT FOR PECUNIARY PROFIT.
§ 1. Amends section 31 by permitting co-operative Benevolent Insurance Associations
to pay benefits for permanent disability of members.
An Act to amend section thirty-one (31) of an act entitled "An act con-
cerning corporations," approved April 18, 1872, in force July 1,
1872," as amended by act approved and in force March 28, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That section thirty-one (31) of
an act entitled "An act concerning corporations," approved April
18, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by act approved and in
force March 28, 1874, be amended so as to read as follows, to-wit :
"Sec. 31. Corporations, associations and societies not for pecu-
niary profit, formed under this act, shall be bodies corporate and
politic, by the name stated in such certificate ; and by that name
they and their successors shall and may have succession, and shall
be persons in law capable of suing and being sued ; may have power
to make and enforce contracts in relation to the legitimate business
of their corporation, society or association ; may have and use a
common seal, and may change or alter the same at pleasure, and
they and their successors, by their corporate name, shall, in law,
be capable of taking, purchasing, holding and disposing of real and
personal estate for purposes of their organization ; may make by-
laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State,
or of the United States, in which by-laws shall be described the
duties of all officers of the corporation, society or association, and
the qualification of members thereof. Associations and societies
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which are intended to benefit, the widows, orphans, heirs and de-
visees of deceased members thereof, and members who have re-
ceived a permanent disability, and where no annual dues or prem-
iums are required, and where the members shall receive no money
as profit or otherwise, except for permanent disability, shall not be
deemed insurance companies."
Approved May 22, 1883.
CRIMINAL CODE.
MALICIOUS MISCHIEF.
§ L Amends Sec. 197 of the criminal code by increasing the penalty under this section
from $300 to $500, and make it the same offense to "incite" the drawing off of the
water in any canal, pond or reservoir as the act itself.
An Act to amend section 197 of an act entitled "An act to revise the
law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That section one hundred and
ninety-seven (§ 197) of Division I of an act entitled "An act to revise
the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27,
lb74, be so amended as to read as follows :
"§ 197. Whoever willfully and maliciously injures, removes or
destroys any canal, levee, dam, reservoir, trench or their appurte-
nances, or the gear or machinery of any manufactory or mill ; draws
off, or incites or procures to be drawn off the water from any mill
pond, reservoir, canal or trench, whereby any water power is in-
jured or the use thereof is restricted or impaired, or so as to injure,
damage or destroy any ice upon any waters in this State, or dimin-
ish the value or prevent or hinder the taking and removal thereof
as an article of merchandise ; destroys or injures any engine or its
apparatus for the extinguishment of fires, or any posts, glass caps,
wires or other materials used in the construction or operation of
any telegraph; removes, injures or destroys any public or toll bridge,
or places any obstruction on such bridge or on any public road,
with intent to injure any persons or property passing thereon, shall
be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or confined in the county
jail not exceeding one year, or both."
Approved June 23, 1883.
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CRIMINAL, CODE.
§ 1. Amends the act of 1874, by adding another section providing penalties for damaging
or destroying ice forming or formed, rendering unfit for merchandise.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to revise the law in relation
to criminal jurisprudence,''' approved March 27, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That an act entitled "An act to
revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved
March 27, 1874, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding
the following section :
"§ 273. Whoever willfully and maliciously injures, mars,
floods or otherwise damages or destroys any ice forming, formed or
being upon any waters within this State from which ice is or may be
taken as an article of merchandise, whereby the taking thereof is
hindered or the value thereof diminished for that purpose, or who-
ever willfully and maliciously incites or procures another so to do,
shall be fined not exceeding $500, or confined in the county jail not
exceeding one year, or both, according to the nature and aggrava-
tion of the offense."
Approved June 18, 1883.
CONVICTION UPON SECOND AND THIRD OFFENSES.
§ 1. Penalties for conviction of crime
upon the second and third of-
fenses, for the same offense.
§ 2.
Copy of record of former convic-
tion evidence in such trials.
An Act in relation to the punishment of criminals.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That whenever any person having
been convicted of either of the crimes of burglary, grand larceny,
horse-stealing, robbery, forgery, or counterfeiting, shall thereafter be
convicted of any one of such crimes, committed after such first con-
viction, the punishment shall be imprisonment in the penitentiary
for the full term provided by law for such crime at the time of such
last conviction therefor ; and whenever any such person, having
been so convicted the second time as above provided, shall be again
convicted of any of said crimes, committed after said second con-
viction, the punishment shall be imprisonment in the penitentiary
for a period not less than fifteen years : Provided, that such former
conviction or convictions, and judgment or judgments, shall be set
forth in apt words in the indictment.
§ 2. On any trial for any of said offenses, a duly authenticated
copy of the record of a former conviction and judgment of any
court of record, for either of said crimes against the party indicted,
shall be prima facie evidence of such former conviction, and may be
used in evidence against such party.
Approved June 23, 1883.
DRAINAGE.
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DRAINAGE.
DISTRICTS- LEGALIZED.
§ 1. Legalizes drainage districts organ-
ized under the act of 1879.
§ 2. Legalizes assessments in said dis-
tricts.
§ 4.
Provides for sale of delinquent
lands and authorizes districts to
become purchasers of lands at
such sales.
Emergency.
An Act to legalize drainage districts, organized in pursuance of the act
hereinafter mentioned, and to legalize the assessments of benefits in
such districts and certain sales made in pursuance thereof, and to au-
thorize drainage districts to purchase lands at certain sales for delin-
quent special assessments.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That all drainage districts organ-
ized under the provisions of an act of the General Assembly,
entitled "An act to provide for the construction, reparation and pro-
tection of drains, ditches, and levees across the lands of others, for
agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the
organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May 29,
1879, for the repair and maintenance of any levee or levees con-
structed under any law of the State of Illinois, passed prior to the
first day of January, 1879, be and the same are hereby legalized,
and all such districts shall be held to have been and to be legally
organized under the laws of the State.
§ 2. That all special assessments made in any drainage district
organized as aforesaid, and under the act of the General Assembly
aforesaid, for the repair and maintenance of any levee or levees
constructed as aforesaid, be and the same are hereby in all things
legalized ; and all such assessments, whether made to repair any
such levee or levees, or to keep the same in repair and meet the
annual expenses of keeping said levee or levees in repair, shall be
held and construed to have been legally and regularly made and
assessed.
§ 3. When a return to the county collector has been made, or
shall hereafter be made, of any real estate located in any drainage
district established under the act of the General Assembly named in
the first section of this act, delinquent for any special assessment or
annual installment thereof, or any annual assessment levied by any
drainage district pursuant to law, which assessment or installment
thereof or annual assessment is required by law to be included in
the advertisement and notice of application for judgment for State
and county taxes, and when any such return, advertisement and
notice shall be followed by a sale of such delinquent real estate for
the collection in whole or in part of any such assessment, install-
ment thereof or annual assessment returned as aforesaid, the drain-
age district in which such real estate is situate may become the
purchaser at such sale, and may designate and appoint some officer
or person to attend and bid at such sale in its behalf: Provided,
the county collector shall not be required to make demand for the
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payment of any such special assessment, installment thereof or an-
nual assessment after the same has been returned to him : And, pro-
vided, also, it shall not be necessary for any drainage district which
has become the purchaser at any such sale to protect the same
from subsequent forfeiture and sale as required of purchasers in
section 211 of the revenue laws of the State ; and all such sales of
delinquent lands heretofore made under the act aforesaid, where any
drainage district has become the purchaser, are hereby legalized and
declared valid sales.
§ 4. Whereas, some question exists as to the regularity and legal-
ity of the organization of certain drainage districts, and certain
assessments made under the act of the General Assembly aforesaid,
therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved May 29, 1883.
DRAINS BY LAND OWNERS.
§ 1. Land owners may construct drains
for agricultural purposes.
§ 2. Open or covered drain.
§ 3. Agreement of owners as to con-
struction, repair and vacation.
§ 4. Tile drains upon lands of others.
§ 5. Proceedings when land owners will
not give consent.
§ 6. Damages allowed— judgment— costs.
§ 11.
Construction or abandonment of
drain after judgment.
Bond for costs.
Plat of land filed before commenc-
ing suit.
Obstructing or injuring ditch or
drain.
This act shall not operate to repeal
any law.
An Act to permit owners of land to construct drains for agricultural
purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the owner or owners of
land in this State shall be permitted to construct drains for agri-
cultural purposes, only, into any natural water-course, or any
natural depression whereby the water will be carried into any
natural water-course, or any drain on a public highway, if the road
commissioners consent thereto, for the purpose of securing proper
drainage to such land, without being liable in damages therefor to
any other person or persons or corporation.
§ 2. If the drain constructed is wholly upon the land owned by
the person or persons constructing the same, it may be either an
open or covered drain, as they desire.
§ 3. If the drain to be constructed shall lead across, or upon,
the land of any other person or persons, and the owners of all the
land upon which it is to be constructed can agree, it may be con-
structed in - such manner as they may decide; when constructed,
such drain shall forever thereafter be kept open and in proper
repair, by the owner or owners of the land upon which the same,
or any part thereof, is located, unless the owners of all the land
upon which the drain is located shall agree to vacate or close the
same.
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§ 4. If the drain shall be constructed on, or over the land of
any other person or persons, without the consent of the owner or
owners thereof, it shall consist of tile, or some other material
equally as good, and placed at a sufficient depth to secure from the
action of frost thereon, and the surface of the land left, as near as
possible, in the same condition as before the entry thereon to con-
struct such drain.
§ 5. If the owner or owners of land, over which any other per-
son or persons desire to drain, shall not consent thereto, the person
or persons desiring to drain may cause a summons to issue from
any justice of the peace in the county, in the same form, and
returnable in the same manner, as other summons in civil suits,
and proceedings shall be had thereon as in other civil causes before
justices of the peace : Provided, if the owner or owners of such
land do not reside in said county, or cannot be found therein,
summons may be served by leaving a copy with the person or per-
sons in possession or control of such premises.
§ 6. The justice, or jury if a jury is impanneled, shall hear the
evidence, and if they find such drain, if constructed in the manner
proposed, would not empty into a natural water-course or natural
depression, whereby the water would be carried into any natural
water-course or any drain on a public highway, by consent of the
road commissioners, they shall find for the defendant ; if they find
such drain, if constructed, would empty into a natural water-course
or natural depression, whereby the water would be carried into any
natural water-course or any drain on a public highway, by consent
of the road commissioners, they shall find for the plaintiff or plain-
tiffs, and shall allow the defendant or defendants such actual
damages, only, as will be sustained by entering upon the land and
constructing such drain. The judgment shall be final and conclusive
between the parties.
§ 7. If, after judgment, the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such suit
shall deem it best not to construct such drain, they may so state
upon the docket of the justice, at the foot of such judgment, and
pay all costs of such trial ; but shall not again be permitted to
commence a suit for the same purpose. If they desire to construct
such drain, they shall first pay to the justice the judgment and
costs taxed against them, and may thereupon enter upon such
premises and construct such drain, and may thereafter, at all
times, in proper season, enter upon said land for the purpose of
repairing such drain ; this right shall pass to the heirs or assigns
of such land : Provided, that if the person or persons constructing
such drain, or repairing the same, shall unnecessarily cause any
damage to the owner or owners of such land, they shall forfeit and
pay to such owner or owners three times the amount of such
damage, to be recovered in any form of action.
§ 8. Before any person or persons shall be permitted to com-
mence an action as provided for herein, they shall file a bond in a
sum not less than fifty dollars, with security to be approved by the
justice, conditioned that they will pay all costs legally accruing in
said cause, and all damages, if damages are awarded therein, with-
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in sixty days after the rendition of judgment, or pay all costs and
abandon the construction of such drain in the manner provided by
this act, within the same time. If the defendant or defendants
procure the attendance of any witnesses not necessary to a proper
defense, all the costs of such witnesses and of subpoenaing the same
shall be taxed to the defendant or defendants.
§ 9. Prior to issuing the summons in commencing any suit un-
der this act, the plaintiff or plaintiffs shall file with the justice a
rough sketch, or plat, of the land to be drained, and that of all
other persons across, or upon which such drain is to be construct-
ed, showing the starting point of such drain and its proposed
course across, or upon, the land of others, and the point of its dis-
charge ; and such plat shall be kept by the justice with the other
papers in said cause. A failure to comply with the provisions of
this section shall be sufficient cause for the dismissal of the suit
at any time before the trial is entered upon.
§ 10, If any person or persons shall willfully fill up, injure or
destroy any drain constructed as herein required, or willfully pre-
vent or delay the construction of any drain in the manner provided
by this act, or shall neglect or refuse to keep the same open, as
required by this act, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, for the first of-
fense shall be fined in the sum of not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars ; and for the second offense shall
be fined in a sum of not less than fifty dollars nor more than two
hundred dollars ; and for each subsequent offense shall be confined
in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than one
year.
§ 11. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal any
act or part of an act now in force in this State, upon the subject
of drainage or levying.
Approved June 23, 1883.
COUNTY DITCHES.
§ 1. Drains or ditches heretofore con-
structed declared public.
§ 2. County board may designate ditches
to be improved or repaired— ap-
pointment of district commis-
sioners.
§ 3. Commissioners shall form districts.
§ 4. Districts shall be designated by
name and classified.
§ 5. Districts with classification shall be
published— meetings of commis-
sioners to review districts.
§ 6. Objections to districts |may be filed
at such meetings.
s 7. If objections are sustained district
shall be annulled— other com-
missioners may be appointed-
decision filed with clerk.
§ 8. Appeal from decision of commis-
sioners—bond for costs.
§ 9. Appeal addressed to county clerk,
who shall summon three super-
visors to hear the appeal— coun-
ties not under tp. org.— judge,
assessor and clerk shall hear—
notice.
§ 10. Powers of appeal board— decision
filed with county clerk.
§ 11. When district is fully established
map shall be made— copies of
map filed — record of district
made in recorder's office— report
of commissioners to Co. board.
§ 12. Drainage commissioners appointed
to supervise districts.
§ 13. County board may levy special
taxes for benefit of districts.
§14. Extension of taxes.
§ 15. Contracts for connecting ditches
with other districts.
§ 16. Objects of this act— use of public
ditches.
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An Act to maintain and improve county ditches heretofore constructed
to drain certain swamp and overflowed lands.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State oj Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly. That the ditches or drains
heretofore made by any county, or by any county contracting with
an incorporated company, to drain the swamp and overflowed lands
donated to such county by the State, are hereby declared public
ditches or drains, and may be preserved and improved by the several
county boards in the counties where these ditches lie, in the manner
as provided in this act.
§ 2. The county board may designate what ditch or ditches shall
be repaired or improved to secure the purposes for which it was
•constructed ; and when any one or more has been so designated, the
board shall appoint three suitable persons to be styled district com-
missioners, neither of whom shall have any personal interest in the
prop >st d work, and within ten days after being notified of their
app (inttnenr, they shall meet at the office of the county clerk, file
their acceptance and take the oath required of officers by the con-
stimtion.
§ 3. They shall proceed, soon as practicable, to form drainage
districts, to include in each, all such tracts, divisions and subdivi-
sions of land, being near or more remote from the line of the drain,
but which, for a thorough system of drainage, will be benefited in
the way of securing! an outlet by the preservation and improvement
of the di;ch or ditches which drain its surplus waters. Separate
districts shall be formed where the ditches discharge independently ;
also on branches of the same water system, where the maintenance
and improvement of its ditches are clearly independent of others ;
and separate districts may be formed on the upper level of a water
system where its outlet will secure drainage independent of the
ditches on the lower level.
§ 4. When the commissioners have laid out a district, they shall
give it a name, subject to alteration by the county board, and pro-
ceed to classify the lands within the district on a graduated scale
according to the supposed benefits it will receive. The tracts ad-
judged to receive most and about equal benefits, shall each be-
marked one hundred (100) on the scale of benefits ; and such as
will be less benefited, shall be marked some number less than one
hundred, denoting its per cent, of benefits. This classification, when
made and established, shall remain as a basis for taxation, so that
-each tract shall bear its just burdens in raising funds for main-
taining and improving the ditches within such district.
§ 5. When this classification is completed, they shall publish for
three weeks in some one or more newspapers in their county, a
notice showing what tracts of land are included- in the district, how
classified on the scale of benefits, with owner's name if known ; and
they shall also post up at least ten notices containing the same
items, in or contiguous to the district, and these publications and
notices shall state when and where the commissioners will meet to
review their doings, and hear such objections as may be made by
any aggrieved party.
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§ 6. At this meeting, which may be adjourned if necessary, any
person, his agent or attorney, owning lands within the district, may
object and show cause:
1. That the district should not be formed on the ground of im-
practicability of drainage, or that the cost will be greater than the
benefits.
2. To the boundaries of the district as including or excluding
certain tracts of land improperly.
3. To the classification of lands on the scale of benefits, specify-
ing such as are too high or too low.
§ 7. If the commissioners find either count in the first paragraph
established, they shall annul the district and so report to the county
board, and all further proceedings shall end : Provided, the county
board may, in their discretion, appoint other commissioners at some
subsequent time. But if they find for the district, they shall con-
sider the objections under the other heads of boundaries and classi-
fications of lands ; and they shall make such changes as shall seem
to them just. They shall publicly announce their decision, and file
their statement of the same within three days, with the county
clerk.
§ 8. Any one person or persons .owning lands within the district,
as established, may, within five days after the commissioners have
reported to the county clerk, appeal from the decision of the com-
missioners, on any point objected to at the time of review, by giving
a bond, with security, to be approved by the county clerk, con-
ditioned to pay all costs of the proceedings under the appeal, if the
decision of the commissioners be in all things sustained. If more
than one person appeals, they shall all join in the same appeal,
though their objections may be on different matters.
§ 9. The appeal shall be addressed to the county clerk, stating
the cause of the appeal. In counties under the township organiza-
tion, the county clerk shall summon three supervisors, who shall
not be owners of land in the proposed district, nor otherwise inter-
ested, to try the appeal. In counties not under township organiza-
tion, the appeal board shall consist of the county judge, assessor
and county clerk, who shall be duly notified by the county clerk ;
and he shall give at least three dayV notice to one or more of the
appellants when and where the appeal will be heard. If any of the
last named board are excluded by reason of interest, it shall pass
successively to the sheriff and coroner.
§ 10. The board of appeal shall have the same power and juris-
diction as the commissioners on the questions involved in the appeal.
They may annul the district, change the boundaries, or alter the
numbers placed on the scale of benefits, if these or any of them
were the subjects named in the appeal. They shall hear proofs and
allegations, may themselves go upon the ground and investigate, and
when they shall have concluded, they shall file their decision with
the clerk of the county. If it be to annul the district, no further pro-
ceedings shall be had, except it shall be again instituted by the county
board. If the district be not annulled, and the proceedings of the
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commissioners be reversed or approved, wholly or in part, they shall
so report to the county clerk, and their decision on the matters sub-
mitted shall be final and conclusive.
§ 11. After the district shall have been fully established, by
reason of no appeal from the decision of the commissioners, or by
the action of the board of appeal, the commissioner shall cause to
be made a map of the district, showing each tract of land included,
with the figures showing the classification on the scale of benefits,
and the owner's name, if known, marked on each tract. A copy of
this map shall be filed in the office of the county clerk, and in the
office of each town clerk, whose town is wholly or in part included
in the drainage district. They shall also cause to be recorded in
the recorder's office an instrument of writing, setting forth all the
material facts of the case, including a description of the tracts of
land composing the district, the number on the scale of benefits,
and the owners' names so far as known, belonging to each tract.
The commissioners shall also make a full and detailed report of the
case to the county board, who shall spread the same upon their
records.
§ "2. Whenever one or more drainage districts have been estab-
lished, as herein provided, the county board shall appoint some
suitable person drainage commissioner, who shall have such charge,
perform such duties and execute such lawful orders, as the board
may from time to time devolve upon him; and he shall hold his
office two years, unless sooner removed by the board, in which case
the board shall appoint his successor.
§ 13. The county board shall be the corporate authority of the
several drainage districts of their respective counties organized
under this act, and may, in its discretion, levy special assessments
to procure funds for the use of such districts, but no levy for any
one year shall exceed a sum which will produce a tax of more than
one dollar on each acre of the several tracts marked one hundred
on the scale of benefits, and such other proportional amount less
than one dollar an acre on the several tracts as graduated on that
scale.
§ 14. The tax shall be computed for each tract according to its
acreage and .classification on the scale of benefits, and the tax shall
be set down in a separate column on the tax books against each
tract composing a part of the district to be taxed, and the money
shall be collected by the collector of taxes in like manner of other
taxes, and, if not paid, it shall be treated as other delinquent taxes,
and remain a lien upon the land until paid. The money, when
collected, shall be paid into the county treasury and kept as a
separate fund for the use of its proper district, to be drawn upon
by order of the county board.
§ 15. The county board, by itself or through such agencies as it
may institute, may contract with other counties, or with the cor-
porate authorities of other drainage districts, organized under this
act, or under other laws of this State, to connect ditches, or act
otherwise, in concert or jointly, where a combined system of drain-
age shall be found to be necessary or expedient.
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§ 16. The purpose of this act is to secure ample and permanent
main channels of drainage for their respective districts, so that all
owners of land within the district shall have the facilities of thorough
drainage of their lands, and therefore each shall have free connec-
tion with the public ditches for that purpose, and, by consent of
parties, drain over the land of others to reach the outlet ; and where
more perfect drainage is desired than is provided for by this act,
owners of land in any part of a district may organize under other
drainage laws as freely and completely as though not included in a
county district, and such district or sub-district shall have free use
of the public or county ditches for outlets to their drains.
Approved June 23, 1833.
LEVEES.
ASSESSMENT NOTICES.
§ 1. Amends see. 33, act 1879, as amended § 2. Amends sec. 31, act 1879, as amended
1881, by requiring notices for as- 1881, by providing for the collection
sessments and "annual amount of of delinquent "annual amount of
benefits" to be served separately. I benefits."
An Act to amend sections thirty-three (33) aud thirty-four (34) of an
act entitled^ "An act to provide for the construction, reparation and
protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others',
for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for
the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May
29, 1879, as amended by an act entitled "An act to amend sec-
tions three (I), five (5), twelve (12), thirty-three (33), thirty-four
(34), thirty-seven (37) and thirty-eight (38) of an act entitled 'An
act to provide for the construction, reparation And protection of
drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others, for agricidtu-
ral, sanitary and mining p>wp oses > cm< ^ t° provide for the organi-
zation of drainage districts, ' apj^oved and in force May 29, 1879,
and to add to said act an additional section, to be known as sec-
tion forty-three and one-half (43^)," approved and in force May
19, 1881.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly .• That section thirty-three (33) of
an act entitled "An act to provide for the construction, reparation
and protection of drains, ditches and le\ees across the lands of
others, for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to pro-
vide for the organization of drainage districts," approved and in
force May 29, 1879, as amended by an act entitled "An act to
amend sections three (3), five (5). twelve ( 2), thirty-three (3c),
thirty-four (34), thirty-seven (37) and thirty-eight (38) of an act en-
titled 'An act to provide for the construction, reparation and pro-
tection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others, for
agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the
organization of drainage districts,' approved and in force May 29,
1879, and to add to said act an additional section, to be known as
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section forty-three and one-half (43^)," approved and in force May
19, 1881, be, and the same is hereby so amended, as to read as fol-
lows :
"Section 33. The commissioners, upon receiving such certified
copy of such assessment roll, shall immediately cause a notice to
be published for three (3) weeks, in the manner required in section
three (3) of this act, in substance as follows :
Notice of Drainage and Levee Assessment.— Notice is hereby given to all persons
interested, that an assessment (or installment of per cent, of tne assessment, as the
case may be.) is now due for drainage and levee purposes, for the year A. U. 18.., upon lands
lying within the ... drainage and levee district, in the couuty of and State
of Illinois, and that the same must be paid to the undersigned, commissioners of said
drainage and levee district (or to ., collectorof said district, as the case may be,)
on or before the day of 18 ...; and in default of such payment, the sev-
eral tracts of land upon which said assessment (or installment, as the case may be,) re-
mains unpaid, will be sold, according to law, to pay the amount of such assessment or
installment and costs.
Dated this day of 18 Commissioners.
And in case the assessments made are ordered by the county
court or justice of the peace to be paid in installments, said com-
missioners shall give a like notice, as near as may be, of any in-
stallment or installments, immediately after such installment or
installments become due and payable. And in .case of "annual
amount of benefits," the- commissioners shall give notice in a sim-
ilar manner immediately after the first day of September of each
year, stating what part of the "annual amount of benefits" will be
collected for that year, which n,otice may be in substance as follows :
Nottce of Annual Drainage Assessment.— Notice is hereby given to all perse ns in-
terested, that the "aunual amou.t < f benefits." (or per cent, of the "annual amount of
benefits," as the case may be,) is now due for drainage and levee purposes for the year
A. D. 18 upon land lying within the drainage and levee district, in the county
of , and State of Illinois, and that the same must be paid to the undersigned,
commissioners of said, district, (or to collector of said district, as the case may
be,) on or before the day of ,18 ; and in default of such payment, the sev-
eral tracts of land iron which said "annual amount of benefits" (or per c^nt. of the
"annual amount of benefits," as the case may be,) remains unpaid, will be sold according
to law, to pay the amount of the same and costs.
Dated this day of 18 Commissioners."
§ 2. That section thirty-four (34), of the act aforesaid, to which
this act is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby so amended,
as to read as follows :
"Section 34. If the assessment, or any installment or installments
thereof, or annual amount of benefits, due upon said lands, shall
not be paid on or before the day named in the notice given as in
section thirty-three (38) of this act, it shall be the duty of said com-
missioners, if they have not appointed a collector as aforesaid, and
if so, then of said collector, to make out a certified list of such
delinquent lands upon which the assessment, or any installment or
annual amount of benefits remains unpaid, and the same shall be
by him or them, on or before the tenth day of March next after
the same have become payable, returned to the county collector of
the county or counties in which said lands shall lie ; and when the
same shall lie in different counties, a separate return shall be made
for each county of the del.nquent lands therein; and it shall be the
duty of the collector to whom any such returns have been made, to
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transfer such returns to the tax books in his hands, setting down
therein in proper order the several tracts of the real estate, town lots
and blocks so returned, and setting opposite to the respective tracts of
real estate, lots and blocks, in proper columns prepared for that pur-
pose, the amount of assessment, installment or installments or annual
amount of benefits against each tract of real estate, lots and blocks,
and the like proceedings shall, be had, and with the like force and
effect in the collection of such delinquent assessment or assess-
ments, or installment or annual amount of benefits unpaid, with
interest, and the sale of said real estate, lots, blocks and lands for
non-payment thereof, as in ordinary collections of State and county
taxes by county collectors, and of sale of real estate by them for
such non-payment and of redemption from such sales. .Nothing in
this act contained shall be construed to affect or impair any assess-
ment or return of lands delinquent for assessment heretofore made
under any law of this State."
Approved June 23, 1883.
LEVEES.
§ 1. Amends sec. 17 by adding the provi-
so, allowing ''annual amount of
benefits" assessed tor repairs to be
applied to the completion of a
drain or ditch.
§ 2. Amends section 26 by providing that
the "annual amount of benefits"
shall be due instead of assess-
ments— Providing for amount nec-
essary to improve or construct
new ditches, to prevent overflow.
§ 3. Amends sec. 42, act of 1879, by allow-
ing the commissioners traveling
expenses —Reports of Commis-
sioners.
§ 4. Amends sec. 43, concerning errone-
ous assessments.
§ 5. Petitions may be filed before justice
of the peace, who shall have the
same jurisdiction as the county
court.
§ 6. Amends sec. 49, that in cases of dis-
agreement between the corporate
authorities of the county, state, or
free turnpike roads, or railroads,
as to the amount to be contributed
towards the construction or re-
pair, the matter shall be referred
to a jury to assess the damages.
§ 7. Amends said act of 1879 by adding
sections 17% and 44%. Sec. 17)4
provides for compensation of ju-
rors. Sec. 44% provides for con-
structing additional drains in
drainage districts, and for enlarg-
ing, strengthening or extending
those already constructed.
An Act to amend sections seventeen (17), twenty-six (26), forty-two (-12),
forty -three (13), forty -six (16), and, forty -nine (49), of an act en-
titled "An act to provide for the construction, reparation and pro-
tection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others, for
agricultural, sanitary and mineral purposes, and to provide for the
organization of drainage districts,'' approved and in force May 29,
1879, and to add to said act two additional sections, known as sec-
tions seventeen and one-half {11 \) and forty -four and one-half (44^).
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repre-
sented in the General Asseiuhly : That section seventeen (17), of an
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act entitled "An act to provide' for the construction, reparation and
protection of drains, ditches and levees, across the lands of others,
for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for
the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May
29, 1879, be, and the same is hereby amended, so as to read as
follows :
"Section 17. The jurors, empanneled as aforesaid, shall elect one
-of their number foreman when the proceeding is for the construc-
tion of ditches, drains or levees, and shall proceed to examine the
lands to be affected by the proposed work, and ascertain, to the
hest of their ability and judgment, the damages and benefits which
will be sustained by, or will accrue to the lands to be affected by
said proposed work, and shall make out an assessment roll, in which
shall be set down, in proper columns, the names of owners, when
known, a description of the premises affected, in the words or fig-
ures, or both, as shall be most convenient, the number of acres in
each tract, and if damages are allowed, the amount of the same;
and if benefits are assessed, the amount of the same ; and in case
damages are allowed to, and benefits assessed against the same
tract of land, the balance, if any, shall be carried forward to a
separate column for damages or benefits, as the case may be. But
the amount assessed for keeping said levee or ditch in repair, shall
not in the aggregate amount to a sum, in any one year, greater
than would be produced by thirty cents per acre on all the lands
within said district. In case the petition shall set out that a levee
or ditch has been made under any law of this State and prays for
an assessment to repair and keep in repair said levee or ditch, the
jury shall assess the benefits which said lands will sustain by repair-
ing said levee or ditches, and also the annual amoiiDt of benefits
"which said lands will sustain by keeping said levee or ditch in re-
pair thereafter; and in such case no other or different assessment
shall be made by the jury, but in all other respects the jury shall
comply with the provisions of this act, so far as the same may be
applicable thereto : Provided, that in all cases where the amount
of benefits assessed, and the assessment of benefits to repair said
levees or ditches heretofore constructed under any law of this State,
are insufficient to complete the ditches, drains or levees, embraced
in the proceedings, the "annual amount of benefits" assessed by
the jury to keep said levee or ditch in repair after making all neces-
sary repairs for any year, may be applied to complete the ditches,
drains or levees, embraced in the proceedings, and to raising,
strengthening and protecting said ditches, drains or levees when
•completed, and in constructing additional ditches, drains or levees,
when required to protect the lands embraced in the drainage and
levee districts organized under this act from inundation and over-
flow, and in paying interest on any notes or bonds issued under
this act."
§ 2. That section 26, of the act aforesaid, to which this act is
an amendment, be and the same is hereby so amended, as to read
as follows :
"Section 26. At the time of confirming such assessment it shall
ibe competent for the court to order the assessment of benefits to be
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paid in installments of such amounts, and at such times, as will
be convenient for the accomplishment of the proposed work ; other-
wise the whole amount of such assessment shall be payable imme-
diately upon such confirmation, and shall be a lien upon the lands
assessed until paid. Bat in case where a levee or ditch has been
heretofore built under any law of this State, or may hereafter be
built under the provisions of this act, the annual amount of bene-
fits for keeping the same in repair shall be due and payable on the
1st day of September annually, and shall be a lien on the lands
upon which said assessments are made from and after the con-
firmation of the report. The court in which such proceedings are
had shall require from said commissioners a report of the condi-
tion of the levee or ditch, at its July term of each year, together
with their estimate of the amount necessary to keep the levee or
ditch in repair, pay all incidental and necessary expenses for the-
ensuing year, and the amount necessary to complete the ditches,
drains or levees embraced in the proceedings, and to raise,
strengthen or protect said ditches, drains or levees when completed,
and in constructing additional ditches, drains or levees when re-
quired to protect the lands embraced in the drainage and levee dis-
tricts organized under this act, from inundation and overflow ; and
if the court shall find that a less amount will be required for such
ensuing year than the whole amount of the assessment for that
year, then the court shall by an order fix the amount to be paid
for such year, and only that amount shall be collected, and the ex-
cess of such assessment over and above the amount so fixed by said
order for said year shall be remitted by law, and shall not there-
after be collected : Provided, that the amount to be collected under
the order of said court shall not, in the aggregate, amount in any
one year to a sum greater than would be produced by a levy of
thirty cents per acre on all the lands within said district : Pro-
vided, further, that in all cases where the ditches, drains or levees
constructed or repaired under this act are in danger of being im-
paired, injured, broken or destroved by overflow or otherwise, and a
part of the annual amount of benefits for protection and keeping
the same in repair for the year in which said ditches, drains or
levees are so threatened has been remitted by order of court as
herein provided, or when the annual amount of benefits for pro-
tecting and keeping the same in repair for any year is insufficient,
the commissioners of drainage and levee districts, organized under
this act, may borrow money on the annual amount of benefits be-
coming due the 1st day of September, following the time when said
ditches, drains or levees are so threatened, to the extent of two-
thirds of said annual amount of benefits, and may secure the same
by notes or bonds of the drainage and levee districts, bearing in-
terest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, and not running be-
yond one year from the date of issue, which notes or bonds shall
not be held to make the commissioners personally liable for the
money borrowed, but shall constitute a lien upon the annual amount
of benefits falling due thereafter for the repayment of the principal
and interest thereof: Provided, that the report of the commission-
ers as to the condition of the levee or ditch, and their estimate of
the amount necessary to keep the levee or ditch in repair, pay all
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incidental and necessary expenses for the ensuing year, and the
amount necessary to complete the ditches, drains or levees em-
braced in the proceedings, and to raise, strengthen or protect said
ditches, drains or levees when completed, and in constructing ad-
ditional ditches, drains or levees when required to protect the lands
embraced in the drainage districts, when. the proceeding is before a
justice of the peace, shall be made on the first Monday in July, in
each year."
§ 3. That section forty-two (42), of the act aforesaid, to which
this act is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby so amended
as to read as follows :
"Section 42. The commissioners shall receive for their services
the sum of two dollars per day and their necessary traveling ex-
penses, for each day they shall be actually engaged in the bu&iness
of their appointment. The commissioners shall present an itemized
account, under oath, to the county court or justice of the peace
when the proceeding is before a justice of the peace, of the
amounts due them respectively, which amounts shall be audited
at least once a year by said county court or justice of the
peace, and certified to by said court or justice of the peace to
their treasurer, to be paid by him on said certificate. The com-
missioners shall fix the compensation of said treasurer, collector,
and all other servants and agents, and the clerk of the county court
and justice of the peace shall receive for their services, hereunder,
such fees as are by law allowed for similar services in said county
court and before justices of the peace: Provided, tbat when the pro-
ceedings are before the justice of the peace, the commissioners shall
make all reports required of them by law to the justice of the peace
before whom the drainage and levee district was organized, or his-
successor in office, when not otherwise specifically provided for."
§ 4. That section forty-three (4i), of the act aforesaid, to which
this act is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby so amended
as to read as follows :
"Section 43. Whenever a petition shall be presented to said court
by the owner of any tract of land within said district, setting forth
that the same, or any part thereof, has been erroneously assessed
for benefits, for the reason that the same is not subject to over-
flow, or has never been overflowed by the highest waters known,
and praying that the said lands, in whole or in part, may be re-
leased from the assessment made or to be made in future, the court
may, after ten days' notice of the filing of such petition being given
to the commissioners, at any term of said court, proceed to hear
said application, granting such continuances as may be right and
proper; and if the court shall find, upon issue joined, that any part
of the land named in said petition has never been overflowed by
the highest water known from the stream against which the levee
in question has been constructed, may, by order, to be entered of
record, unless it appears to the court that the assessment on the
whole tract is no more than the proportion that the land subject to
overflow in said tract is benefited, and should pay toward constructing
and maintaining the levee, or that the assessment on the tract is no
more than the proportion of sanitary benefits received by the whole
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tract, and no more than the whole tract should pay for sanitary
benefits toward constructing and maintaining the levee, amend the
assessment roll returned by the jury in conformity to the facts
found, and such part shall thereafter be discharged from all other
assessments, and the clerk shall immediately cause a copy of such
order to be delivered to the commissioners that the copy of the
assessment roll in their hands may be made to conform to such
order : Provided, that said petition shall be filed within one year
after the confirmation ot the assessment, and not thereafter."
§ 5. That section forty-six (43), of the act aforesaid, to which this
act is an amendment, be, and the same is hereby so amended as
to read as follows : r
"Section 46. When the cost of any proposed drain, ditch, levee
or other work authorized by this act to be done, will not exceed the
sum of six thousand dollars, the petition may, if the petitioners shall
so elect, be filed with a justice of the peace in the county where the
land to be affected, or the major part thereof, is situated; and all
the proceedings authorized by this act to be had in the county court,
in cases where the petition is filed in such court, may be had be-
fore such justice of the peace, the justice of the peace performing all
the services and duties required of the clerk of the county court by this act
in proceedings commenced in that court ; and the assessment of dama-
ges and benefits shall be conducted before such justice in the same man-
ner, as near as may be, as cases commenced by petition before such
county court. In proceedings before a justice of the peace under this
act, the petition, report of commissioner or commissioners, assessment
roll and all other papers may be filed and a hearing had thereon
at any time, notice having first been given for the length of time
and in the manner required by this act ; and appeals may be taken
from the final judgment of the justice of the peace to the county
court within the same time and in the same manner as appeals
may be taken from the findings of the jury in cases commenced in
the county court, and the assessment of benefits may be collected
and enforced as in such cases before the county court."
§ 6. That section!forty-nine (49), of the act aforesaid, to which
this act is an amendment, be and the same is hereby amended so
as to read as follows :
"Section 49. When a ditch or drain has been located under the
provisions of this act, of sufficient capacity to carry off the water
that flows to it, and also to properly drain the land taxed for the
construction of the same, such lands shall not be again taxed or
assessed for the benefit of improving any lands lying above the
lands taxed for the construction thereof ; and in all cases where
any such ditch empties into any lower ditch above described, for
the benefit of lands lying above the lower ditch, the commissioners,
under the direction of the court, shall levy a sufficient tax on such
land benefited by the new ditch to enlarge such lower ditch, so as
to confine the water to the same level that it originally had before
an additional amount of water emptied into such lower ditch, for
the benefit of lands lying above the lower ditch. Whenever it shall
appear to the jury that a drain, ditch, levee or other work has been
in whole or in part constructed by voluntary effort of the owners
DRAINAGE. 91
thereof, for the purpose of draining or protecting any land to be
affected by the work proposed under this act, and said work shall
be found to be a benefit to such lands, and that any of the lands
to be benefited by the said work have borne any part of the expense
of such work so voluntarily done, the jury may allow the owners of
such land, and deduct from the assessment which they may make
against the same, the amount of the expenses of such work so borne
by such lands, or such part thereof, as will make an equality of
burdens and benefits as between the several owners of lands bene-
fited. When a ditch, drain or levee established or repaired under
this act, drains or levees, either in whole or in part, any public or
corporate road or railroad so as to benefit any of such roads, so
that the road-bed or traveled track of such road will be improved
by the construction of said ditch, drain or levee, the commissioners
shall apportion to the county, State, or free turnpike road, to the
township, if a township road, to the company, if a corporate Toad
or railroad, such portions of the cost and expenses thereof as to
private individuals, and require them to pay such cost and perform
such labor in like manner as individuals ; and in case there is a
disagreement between the commissioners and the corporate authority
of the county, State, or free turnpike road or railroad as to the
amount that they should contribute, then the commissioners shall
refer the matter to the jury empanneled to assess damages and
benefits, when they meet to correct their assessment of damages and
benefits, and the jury shall then proceed to assess the damages and
benefits in like manner as the lands of individuals, and no other or
different notice shall be given than that required in section 19 of
this act : Provided, that when the commissioners and the corporate
authorities of the county, State, or free turnpike, township road,
corporate road, or railroad, or any of them, agree as to the amount
that they or any of them should contribute, that the amount so
agreed on shall be reported to the said jury when they meet to
correct their assessment roll, and the amounts so agreed on shall
be incorporated in said assessment roll when amended by said jury."
§ 7. That said act to which this act is an amendment be and
the same is hereby amended by adding to the said act to which
this act is an amendment, two other sections, to be numbered sec-
tions seventeen and one-half (17^), and forty-four and one-half (44^-),
as follows :
"Section Vlh Jurors summoned or empanneled to assess dam-
ages and benefits under this act, shall receive the same compensa-
tion as petit jurors in courts of record, which shall be taxed as a
part of the costs of the proceedings, and paid out of the assess-
ments when collected by the commissioners, in the same manner as
other costs and expenses "
"Section 44^. Drainage and levee districts heretofore organized
under this act, and drainage and levee districts hereafter organized
under said act, when it shall become necessary to construct addi-
tional drains, ditches or levees in order to protect the lands em-
braced in said drainage and levee districts from inundation and
overflow, or repair, enlarge, raise, strengthen or protect drains,
ditches or levees already constructed or in process of construction,
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DRAM-SHOPS.
may, by their agents and employees, enter upon and take posses-
sion of such lands as may be necessary to construct such additional
drains, ditches or levees, or repair, enlarge, raise, strengthen or
protect drains, ditches or levees already constructed or in process
of construction, paying, if the owner of such lands and the com-
missioners of said drainage and levee districts can agree, the value
of such lands taken and the amount of damages occasioned thereby,
to any such lands or its appurtenances, and if such owners and
commissioners of said drainage and levee districts cannot agree,
then the value of such land and the damages occasioned thereto
may be ascertained, determined and paid in the manner that may
now or hereafter be provided by any law of eminent domain. And
the commissioners of said drainage and levee districts, when neces-
sary to protect the drains, ditches or levees thereof, may put in
such works in and along rivers, creeks or lakes, as will protect the
banks of the same from caving, and they may go beyond the bounds
of the said district for that purpose."
Approved June 1:3, 1883.
DRAM-SHOPS.
LICENSE.
§ 1. Fixes the minimum license fee at
$500 for dram shops, aud $150 for
malt liquors only, in cities, towns
and villages.
§ 2. Authorizes county boards to grant
licenses on like terms, upon peti-
tion of a majority of the legal
voters of any town or election pre-
cinct.
§3. Prescribes penalties for violation of
this act.
An Act to restrict the powers of counties, cities, towns and villages in
licensing dram shops, to provide for granting a license to retail
malt liquors separately, aud for -punishing persons holding such-
separate license for unlawful sale and gifts.
Section 1. Be it enacted bg the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That hereafter it shall not be law-
ful for the corporate authorities of any city, town or village in this
State, to grant a license for the keeping of a dram-shop, except
upon the payment, in advance, into the treasury of the city, town
or village granting the license, such sum as may be determined by
the respective authorities of such city, town or village, not less
than at the rate of five hundred dollars ($500) per annum : Pro-
vided, that in all cases when a license for the sale of malt liquors
only is granted, the city, town or village granting such license, may
grant the same on the payment, in advance, of the sum of not less
than at the rate of one hundred and fifty dollars ($> 150) per annum :
And provided, further, that the city councils in cities, the board of
trustees in towns, and president and board of trustees in villages,
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may grant permits to pharmacists for the sale of liquors for medi-
cinal, mechanical, sacramental and chemical purposes only, under
such restrictions and regulations as may be provided by ordinance.
§ 2. The county boards of each county may grant licenses to
keep so many dram-shops in their county as they may think the
public good requires, upon the application, by petition, of a majority
of the legal voters of the town, if the county is under township
organization, and if not under township organization, then of a ma-
jority of the legal voters of the election precinct or district where
the same is proposed to be located, and upon the payment into the
county treasury of such sum as the board may require, not less
than five hundred dollars (S500) per annum for each license ; and
upon compliance with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to
provide for the licensing of, and against the evils arising from the
sale of intoxicating liquors," approved March 3, 1874, in force July
1, 187^: Provided, that in all cases where a license is granted for
the sale of malt liquors only, such board may grant the same,
upon payment into the county treasury, of a sum not less than one
hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per annum for each license : Pro-
vided, further, such board shall not have power to issue any license
to keep a dram-shop in any incorporated city, town or village, or
within two miles of the same, in which the corporate authorities
have authority to licen-e, regulate, restrain or prohibit the sale of
liquors, or in any place w ? here the sale of liquors is prohibited by
law.
§ 3. Any person having a license to sell malt liquors only, w r ho
shall by himself or another, either is [as] principal, clerk or servant,
directly or indirectly, sell or give any intoxicating liquors, other than
malt liquors, in a less quantity than one gallon, or in any quantity
to be drank upon the premises, or in or upon any adjacent room,
building, yard or place of public resort, shall for each offense be
fined not less than twenty dollars, nor more than one hundred dol-
lars, or confined in the county jail not less than ten nor more than
thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. The penalties
provided for in this section may be enforced by indictment or infor-
mation in any court of competent jurisdiction, or the fine only may
be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace of the
proper county, and in case of conviction, the offender shall stand
committed to the county jail until the fine and costs are fully paid.
A conviction under this section shall forfeit the license held by the
defendant, and the court rendering judgment upon such conviction
shall in such judgment declare a forfeiture of such license.
Approved June 15, It 83.
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ELECTIONS.
NEW PKECINCTS.
§ 1. Amends Sec. 30, Act 1872, by requir- § 2. Amends Sec. 32, same act, by re-
ing precincts to be divided when quiring county boards to appoint
too large, and limiting the number judges at the annual meeting pre-
of voters to 700. ceding each general election.
An Act to amend sections thirty (SO) and thirty-two (£2) of an act entitled
"An act in regard to elections, and to provide for filling vacancies
in elective offices, 1 ' approved April 3, 1872, in force July 1, 1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That sections thirty (-3-) and
thirty-two (32) of an act entitled "An act in regard to elections, and
to provide for filling vacancies in elective offices," approved April 3,
1872, in force July 1, 1872, be amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 30. The county board of such counties may, from time
to time, change the boundaries of election precincts, and may erect
and establish one or more new election precincts, and may designate
and change the places of holding elections, and whenever it shall
appear that for the convenience of the voters, and by reason of such
precinct being too large, and too numerously populated, the county
board shall divide such precincts into election districts, numbering
the same, and establishing one election poll only, in such district :
Provided, however, that such districts be so formed, as nearly as
can be practically ascertained, to poll not more than seven hun-
dred (700) votes. The voters of such precinct shall not be per-
mitted to cast their vote at any other district of the precinct,
excepting in the election district in which they reside. All general
and special elections shall be held at the places so designated and
established.
"Section 32. In counties not under township organization, the county
board shall annually, at its regular session preceding the general
election, appoint three capable and discreet electors to act as judges
of election in each election precinct or district, and may at any
time fill vacancies."
Approved June 18, 1833.
FEES AND SALAEIES. 95
FEES AND SALARIES.
CLASSIFICATION OF COUNTIES.
§ 1. Classifies the counties in the State under the census of 1830.— Counties not exceeding
25,000, first class; over 25,000 and not exceeding 100,000, second class; exceeding
100, 000. third class.
An Act to amend section IS of "An act concerning fees and salaries,
and to classify the several counties of this State with reference
thereto ," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, title
as amended by an act approved March 28, 1874, in force July l y
1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That section 13 of an act en-
titled "An act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the
several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved
March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, title as amended by act ap-
proved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is
hereby amended so as to read as follows :
"Sec 13. That for the purpose of fixing the fees and compen-
sation of county and township officers in this State, the several
counties therein are hereby divided into three classes, according to
population, as ascertained by the Feberal census of the year 1880,
which classes shall be known as the first, second and third, as fol-
lows :
Counties containing a population of not exceeding twenty-five
thousand inhabitants, to-wit : Alexander, Bond, Boone, Brown,
Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland,
DeWitt, Douglas, DuPage, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Ford,
Franklin, Gallatin, Greene, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin, Henderson,
Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Jersey, Johnson, Kankakee, Kendall,
Lake, Lawrence, Marion, Marshall, Mason, Massac, McHenry,
Menard, Mercer, Monroe, Moultrie, Perry, Piatt, Pope, Pulaski,
Putnam, Richland, Saline, Schuyler, Scott, Stark, Union, Wabash,
Warren, Washington, Wayne, White, Williamson and Woodford,
shall belong to, and be known as counties of the first class.
Counties containing a population over twenty-five thousand and
not exceeding one hundred thousand, to-wit : Adams, Bureau,
Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeKalb, Edgar, Fulton, Hancock,
Henry, Iroquois. Jo Daviess, Kane, Knox, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston,
Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Madison, McDonough, McLean, Mont-
gomery, Morgan, Ogle, Peoria, Pike, Randolph, Rock Island, San-
gamon, Shelby, St. Clair, Slephenson, Tazewell, Vermilion, White-
side, Will and Winnebago, shall belong to, and be known as coun-
ties of the second class.
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Counties containing a population exceeding one hundred thousand,
to-wit, the county of Cook, shall belong to, and be known as
counties of the third class.
The fees and compensation of the several officers hereinafter
named shall be as follows, in the respective classes of the counties
to which they belong:"
Approved June 23. 18S3.
COUNTY CLEP.KS — THIRD CLASS.
S 1. Amend section 4. act 1874, by increasing fees, copies of paper from. "8" to 10 cents
per ldO words, filing papers from "8" to 10 cents, extending taxes from "1" to 2
cents, for entering judgment from "1" to 2 cents, for issuing tax sale certificates
from "15" to 20 cents, for cancelling certificates of sale from "15" to 20 cents, for cer-
tificates of redemption from "25" to 50 cents.
An Act to amend section four (4) of an act entitled "An act to pro-
vide for jees of certain officers therein named, in counties of the
third class f approved March 2, 1874, in force March 2, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That section four of an act
entitled "An act to provide for fees of certain officers therein
named, in counties of the third class," approved March 2, lb74, in
force March 2, 1874, be amended so as to read as follows :
" Sec. 4. For each license and taking bond for ferry, toll-bridge,
turn-pike, road, tavern, saloon, grocerv or peddler, one dol-
lar ($1.00).
For issuing each marriage license, sealing, filing and recording the
same, and the certificate thereto (one charge), one dollar and fifty cents
($1.50).
For each copy of rates for ferry, toll-bridge or turnpike road, twenty-
five cents (2c c).
For taking and certifying to tbe acknowledgment of a deed, power
of attorney, or other writing and sealing the same, twenty-five cents
(25c).
For filing certificate in case of estrays, entering the same and
furnishing notices for publication thereof (one charge), seventy-
five cents (75c).
For recording all papers and documents required by law to be
recorded in the office of the county clerk, for every one hundred
words, ten cents (10c).
For swearing any person to an affidavit, not to be used in a case
in the court of which he is a clerk, with certificate and seal, twenty-
five cents (25c).
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For certificate and seal, not in a case in a court whereof lie is
clerk, twenty-five cents (25c).
For making and certifying a copy of any paper or record in his
office, for every one hundred words, ten cents (10c).
For filing patters in his office, for each paper filed, ten cents
(10c).
For making transcript of taxable property for the assessors two
cents (2c) for each tract of land or town lot, and for extending
other than State and county taxes, two cents (2c) for each tax on
each tract or lot, and each person's personal tax, to be paid by
the authority for whose benefit the transcript is made and the
"taxes extended, and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to
certify to the county collector, the amount due from each authority,
and the collector in his settlement with such authority shall reserve
such amount from the amount due and payable by him to such
authority. The following fees shall be allowed for services in mat-
ters of taxes and assessments, and shall be charged as costs
against the delinquent property and collected with the taxes
thereon :
For entering judgment for each tract or lot, two cents (2c).
For services in attending the tax sales, and issuing certificates
of sales and sealing the same, for each tract or lot, twenty cents
(20c).
For canceling certificates of sale for each tract or lot, twenty
cents (£0c).
For certificates of redemption, fifty cents (50c)."
. Approved June 18, 1683.
STATE S ATTORNEYS.
§ 1. Amends section 8, act 1872, by increasing the fees of State's attorneys.
An Act to amend section eight (8), of an act entitled "An act con-
cerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of
this State ivith reference thereto" approved March 29, 1872, in
force July 1, 1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That section eight (8) of an act
entitled "An act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the
several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March
29, 3872, in force July 1, 1872, be and the same is hereby amended
so as to read as follows :
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98 FEES AND SALARIES.
"Sec. 8. The State's attorneys shall also be allowed the following
fees : For each conviction in a felony case, twenty dollars ($20) ;
for each conviction in other cases, including cases where justices of the
peace have original jurisdiction, five dollars ($5) : Provided, no fees shall
be charged on the excess of counts above twenty in any one indictment
or information, nor on more than twenty counts against anyone defend-
ant on pleas of guilty at the same term of court ; for attending prelimi-
nary examinations, for each defendant recognized or held to answer on
a charge of felony, five dollars ($5) ; for each trial in a court of record
of a charge of bastardy, ten dollars ($10) ; for each examination in a
court of record of a party bound over to keep the peace, five dollars
($5) ; for each case of appeal or writ of error taken from his county to
the supreme or appellate court, when prosecuted or defended by him,
thirty dollars ($30), and all the foregoing fees shall be taxed as costs
to be collected from the defendant if possible. If each case of forfeited
recognizance, where the forfeiture is set aside at the instance of the
defense, in addition to the ordinary costs, five dollars ($5) shall be col-
lected from each defendant as a State's attorney's fee, for each day
actually employed in the trial of every case of felony arising in their
respective counties ; when take a by a change of venue to another
county, ten dollars ($10) per diem, and the judge before whom the case
is tried shall make an order specifying the number of days for which
said per diem shall be allowed, and it is hereby made the duty of each
State's attorney to prepare and try every case of felony arising in his
county, when so taken away by chan ge of venue. And it shall be the
duty of the State's attorney of the county in which such case is tried
to assist in the trial of such case, and for such assistance he shall have
the same fee he would be entitled to if the case had arisen in his own
county. Ten per cent, upon all moneys (except revenue) collected by
them, and paid over to the authorities entitled thereto, which per cent.,
together with the fees provided for herein, that are not collected from
the parties tried or examined, shall be paid out of any fines and for-
feited recognizances collected by them. State's a torneys shall have a
lien for their iees, on judgments for fines or forfeitures procured by
them for their fees and earnings, until they are fully paid, and such
payment shall operate as a release of the lien created by this act."
Approved June 15, 1883.
FENCES.
99
FENCES.
HEDGES ALONG HIGHWAYS.
Hedge fences along highways not to
exceed Ave feet in height— wind-
brakes for stock.
Penalties for violation of this act—
fines paid into district road fund.
3. Hedges of non-resident owners of
land to be trimmed by the Com-
missioners of Highways and the
expenses charged and collected as
delinquent taxes.
An Act concerning hedge fences along the public highways in this State.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That the owner or owners of any
hedge fence along the line of any public highway in this State, shall
during the year next after such hedge shall have attained the age
of seven years, cut back or trim such hedge fence, to a height not
to exceed five feet, and shall, at least once in every two years there-
after, cut back or trim such hedge fence, so that the same shall not
exceed the height of five feet, so that such public highways shall
not be obstructed or impaired in usefulness or convenience, nor the
public health be injured or jeopardized by such hedge fence :
Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any
hedge protecting either an orchard or building : Provided further,
that upon application by the owner of any hedge fence along any
highway, to the commissioners of highways of the town where sit-
uated, in counties under township organization, or to the supervisors
of highways in the road district where situated in counties not under
township organization, said commissioners of highways, or super-
visors of highways, as the case may be, shall permit said owner to
grow a hedge fence, not to exceed one-fourth of the total length of
hedge fence along the highway, on each farm of said owner, to any
height desired by said owner as a windbreak for stock.
§ 2. If the owner or owners of any such hedge fence shall fail
or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, on or before the
fifteenth day of May in the year that said hedge should be cut, the
said owner or owners shall be subject to a fine not less than ten
dollars ($10) nor more than fifty dollars ($50) in each and every
year failing to comply with the provisions of this act. Said fine may
be recovered, with cost of suit, against the owner or owners of such
hedge fence, before any justice of the peace, or other court of com-
petent jurisdiction, of the county in which such hedge is situated,
by suit in the name of the commissioners of highways of the town-
ship in the counties under township organization, or supervisors of
highways of the road district in counties not under township organ-
ization, in which such hedge fence may be situated ; said fine to be
applied for the use of the road district in which such hedge fence
may be situated.
§ 3. That w r hen the owner or owners of such hedge fence do not
reside in the county where such hedge fence is situated, and refuse
or neglect to cut, or cause the same to be cut, it shall be the duty
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of such commissioners, or supervisors of highways, to cut or cause
such hedge fence to be cut or trimmed, at any time after the fifteenth
day of May ha each and every year, as is required by this act. The
cost of cutting or trimming, and all costs that may accrue by cut-
ting or trimming such hedge fence, may be returned by the com-
missioners or supervisors of highways as delinquent road tax against
the land on which such hedge fence may be situated, to be collected
the same as other tax.
Approved June 21, 1883.
GUARDIAN AND WARD.
VISITATION OF MINORS IN CERTAIN CASES.
§ 1. Amend section 4, act 187?, by adding the proviso concerning visitation of minors by
certain persons.
An Act to amend section four of an act entitled "An act in regard
to guardians and wards," approved April 10, 1872, in force July
1, 1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That section four of an act entitled
"An act in regard to guardians and wards," approved April 10,
1872, in force July 1, 1872, be amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 4. The guardian of a minor shall have, under the direc-
tion of the court, the custody, nurture and tuition of his ward, and
the care and management of his estate. But the father of the
minor, if living, and in case of his death, the mother, they being
respectively competent to transact their own business, and fit per-
sons, shall be entitled to the custody of the person of the minor
and the care of his education. In case the father and mother shall
live apart, the court may, for good reason, award the custody and
education of the minor to the mother or other proper person :
Provided, that whenever any person or persons shall make any
settlement upon or provision for the support and education of any
minor child, it shall be competent for the court, in case either the
father or mother of such child be dead, to make such order in
relation to the visitation of such minor child by such person or
persons so making such settlement or provision, as shall to the
court seem meet and proper."
Approved June 25, 1883.
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INSURANCE— FIRE.
FOREIGN COMPANIES.
§ 1. Depo-its for protection of policy holders— appointment of attorney upon whom
service of process may be had— withdrawal of company from this State— state-
ments of condition of company to be filed with Auditor— certificates of authority
to do business in this State given by Auditor— penalties for violation of this act.
An Act to govern foreign fire, marine and inland navigation insurance
companies, doing business in the State of Illinois.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: It shall not be lawful for any
insurance company, association, partnership or organization, incor-
porated by, or organized, or doing business under the laws of any
foreign government, directly or indirectly, to take risks or transact any
business of insurance in this State, unless the sum of at least two hun-
dred thousand dollars ($200,000), in stocks of the United States or of
the State of Illinois, reckoned at par, or in bonds and mortgages
on improved unincumbered real estate in the State of Illinois worth
fifty per cent, more than the amount loaned thereon, shall be de-
posited with the insurance department of one of the States of the
United States, for the benefit and security of all policyholders in
the United States, which said deposit shall, for the purposes of this
act, be known as the capital of said company for the United States ;
and any such company desiring to transact any such business as
aforesaid, by any agent or agents, in this State, shall first appoint
an agent in this State, on whom process of law can be served, and
file in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts a written instru-
ment, duly signed and sealed, certifying such appointment, which
shall continue until another attorney be substituted ; and any pro-
cess issued by any court of record in this State, and served upon
such attorney by the proper officer of the county in which such
attorney may reside or may be found, shall be deemed a sufficient
service of process upon such company, but service of process upon
such company may also be made in any other manner now pro-
vided by law. In case any such insurance company or association
shall cease to transact business in this State according to the laws
thereof, the agents last designated or acting as such for such corpora-
tion, shall be deemed to continue agents for such corporation for the
purpose of serving process for commencing actions upon any
policy or liability issued or contracted while such corporation trans-
acted business in this State, and service of such process for the
causes aforesaid, upon any such agent, shall be deemed a valid
personal service upon such corporation. And every such company,
association or partnership shall file a copy of their charter, deed of
settlement or article of association, together with a statement, under
oath, of its president or vice-president, or other chief officer or
resident manager, stating the name of the company, association or
partnership, and place where located, the amount of its capital and
assets in detail deposited and held in the United States, including
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the amount of cash on hand, in bank or in the hands of agents,
the amount of real estate and how much the same is incumbered,
the number of shares of stock of every kind owned by it, the par
and market value of the same, amount loaned on bond and mort-
gage, the amount loaned on other security, stating the kind and
amount loaned on each, and the estimated value of the whole
amount of such securities and assets ; such statement shall not,
however, include any deposits in any of the United States not made
for the benefit and protection of all policyholders throughout the
United States, nor shall any special deposits for the exclusive pro-
tection and benefit of policyholders in any one State, be treated as
assets of said company under this act ; said statement shall also
state the indebtedness of the company, the amount of its losses
adjusted and unpaid, the amount incurred and in process of ad-
justment, the amount resisted by it as illegal and fraudulent,
and all other claims existing against it in the United States.
And no agent shall be allowed to transact business for any
such company, association or partnership whose capital, deposited
as aforesaid, is impaired to the extent of twenty per cent,
thereof, while such deficiency shall continue, and every such
company, association or partnership may, if it desires, also file
a statement, under the oath of its president or vice-president,
or other chief officer, of the amount of its capital and assets in
detail held or deposited in any country other than the United States,
showing the amount of cash on hand, in bank or in the hands of
agents, the amount of real estate and how much the same is
encumbered by mortgage, the number of shares of stock of every
kind owned by the company, the par and market value of the same,
amount loaned on bond or mortgage, the amount loaned on other
securities, stating the kind and amount loaned on each, and the
estimated value of the whole amount of such securities and other
assets, together with its indebtedness, the amount of losses adjusted
and unpaid, the amount incurred and in process of adjustment, the
amount resisted by it as illegal and fraudulent, and all other claims
existing against it in the United States or elsewhere. And when any
such company or association shall file with the Auditor of Public
Accounts a certificate of the superintendent of the insurance depart-
ment of any other State, stating that a deposit of two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000), or more, or its equivalent, for the pro-
tection of the policyholders in the United States, has been made by
said company or association in that State in accordance with the
existing laws of said State, said company or association shall not
be required to make any deposit in this State, so long as said
deposit shall remain intact with the insurance department or
treasurer of said State, a certificate of which, from the superintendent
of the insurance department of that State, shall be annually filed
with the Auditor of Public Accounts of this State, and so long as
such company, association or partnership shall continue solvent
and continue possessed of such capital in the United States and
comply with the laws of this State, it may make insurance on
dwelling houses, stores, and all kinds of buildings, and upon house-
hold furniture and other property, against loss or damage by fire
and the risks of inland navigation and transportation, and transact
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a general insurance business. It shall not be lawful for any agent
or agents to act for any company, or association or partnership
referred to in this section, directly or indirectly, in taking risks or
transacting the business of fire and inland insurance in this State,
without procuring from the Auditor of Public Accounts a certificate
of authority, stating that such company has complied with all the
requisitions of this act ; and the name of the attorney appointed to
act for the company, association or partnership. The statement
and evidences of capital required by this section shall be renewed
from year to year, in such manner and form as may be required
by said Auditor, with an additional statement of the amount of
premiums received and losses incurred in this State during the pre-
ceding year, so long as such agency continues ; and the said
Auditor, on being satisfied that such capital, securities and invest-
ments remain secure, as hereinbefore provided, shall furnish a
renewal of the certificates as aforesaid. Any violation of any of the
provisions of this act, shall subject the person violating the same
to a penalty of five hundred dollars for each violation, and the
additional sum of one hundred dollars for each month during which
any such agent shall neglect to file such affidavits and statements
as are herein required. Every agent of any insurance company,
association or partnership, herein referred to, shall, in all advertise-
ments of such agency, publish its location, giving the name of the
city, town or village where its principal or home office is located,
and the government under the laws of which it is organized or does
business. The term "agent" or "agents" used in this section, shall
include any acknowledged agent, surveyor, broker, or any other per-
son or persons who shall in any manner aid in transacting the
business of any insurance company not incorporated by the laws of
one of the United States. The provisions of this section shall apply
to all foreign companies, partnerships, associations, and individuals,
whether incorporated or not. The statement and evidences of invest-
ment required by this act shall be renewed annually, in the month
of January of each year, the statement of capital and business in
the United States to be verified by the resident manager, and to be
made out for the year ending December 31st, immediately preceding ;
and in case a statement of the business affairs and property of the
home office is filed, such statement shall also be for the year ending
December -3J st, next preceding ; and the Auditor of State, on being
satisfied that the capital, securities and investments remain secure,
shall furnish a renewal of such certificate. Unless a home office
statement of the capital and affairs of any company or association
is filed with the Auditor of Public Accounts as herein provided,
neither it nor any agent shall be permitted to advertise any capital
or assets not held or deposited in the United States ; nor shall such
company or association, or its agent or agents, be permitted to
advertise as capital deposited in the United States a greater sum
than the actual value thereof.
All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Approved June 18, 1883.
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TOWNSHIP.
§ 1. Amends section 7, act 1874, by permitting non-residents to insure and become mem-
bers of such companies, even though they may not be residents of the county in
which the company is situated.
An Act to amend section seven of an act entitled "An act to revise
the law in relation to township insurance companies," approved
March 24, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That section seven of an act
entitled "An act to revise the law in relation to township insurance
companies," approved March 24, 1874, and in force July 1, 1874,
be amended to read as follows :
"Section 7. Any person owning property in the district for which
any such company is formed, may become a member of such com-
pany by insuring therein, and shall be entitled to all the rights
and privileges appertaining thereto ; but a person not residing within
the district for which the company is formed shall not become a
director of such company."
Approved June 18, 1883.
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assessment plan for benefit of representatives of deceased-
members.
§ 1.
§3.
§ 7.
Authorizes associations or societies
to incorporate.
Application|submitted to Auditor for
approval.
Upon filing application paoers in the
office of Secretary of State he
shall issue certificate of incor-
poration, which shall be filed in
the recorder's office in the coun-
ty in which the principal office is
located.
Powers.
Management.
Assessment notices — benefit fund
shall not be used for other pur-
poses.
Procuring certificates of member-
ship by fraud or misrepresenta-
tion—penalties.
Surplus fund.
Annual reports to Auditor— exemp-
tions.
Auditor may examine books and
papers to verify report.
§ 11. Associations may request examina-
ination of affairs by Auditor.
§ 12. Failure to make annual reports, or
making fraudulent statements,
shall be cause for action in the
courts for removal of officers or
dissolution of the corporation.
§ 13. Penalties for refusal or neglect to
comply with the provisions of
this act, or for inducing any per-
son to become a member of any
such corporation not complying.
§14. First statement or report of condi-
tion to the Auditor to be made
Sept. 1, 1883.
§ 16. Corporations of similar character
and similar purpose organized
in other States— license -service.
§ 16. Annual fees— in default of payment
license shall be revoked -penal-
ties for failure to comply with
the law— Auditor authorized to
inquire into solvency.
§ 17. Repeals all laws in conflict.
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An Act to provide for the organization and management of corpora-
tions, associations or societies for the purpose of furnishing life
indemnity or pecuniary benefits to widows, orphans, heirs, relatives
and devisees of deceased members, or accident or permanent disability
indemnity to members thereof.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General* Assembly : That corporations, associations or
societies for the purpose of furnishing life indemnity or pecuniary
benefits to the widows, orphans, heirs or relatives by consanguinity
or affinity, devisees or legatees of deceased members, or accident or
permanent disability indemnity to members thereof, and where
members shall receive no money as profit, and where the funds for
the payment of such benefits shall be secured, in whole or in part,
by assessment upon the surviving members, may be organized, sub-
ject to the conditions hereinafter provided.
§ 2. Any five or more persons, citizens of the United States, a
majority of whom shall be bona fide citizens and voters of this State,
may associate themselves together as a body corporate, for which
purpose they shall make, sign and acknowledge, before any officer
authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds in this State, a cer-
tificate of association, in which shall be stated the name or title by
which such corporation, association or society shall be known in law;
the location of its principal business office (which office must be located
in this State) ; the name and residence of the incorporators ; the
object of the corporation, with its plan of doing business, clearly and
fully defined ; the number of its directors, trustees or managers, and
the names of those selected to serve until its first annual meeting ;
the limits as to age of applicants for membership, and whether
medical examinations are required ; and that bona fide applications
have been secured for at least $200,000, by not less than two hun-
dred persons, which certificate of association shall be submitted to
the Auditor of Public Accounts, who shall carefully examine the
same ; and, if he shall find that the objects and purposes are fully
and definitely set forth, and are clearly within the provisions of this
act, and that the name or title is not the same or does not so closely
resemble a title in use as to have a tendency to mislead the public,
shall approve the same. If for either of the aforesaid, or other good
and sufficient reasons, the said Auditor shall be unwilling to ap-
prove the certificate of association, he shall immediately inform the
incorporators of the fact, stating his objections fully in writing. If
the certificate is sufficient and satisfactory, the said Auditor shall
indicate his approval thereof under his hand and official seal, and
shall forthwith file the same, together with the certificate of asso-
ciation, and other papers accompanying it, in the office of the Sec-
retary of State.
§ 3. Upon the filing of the papers as aforesaid, the Secretary of
State shall issue a certificate of organization of the corporation, as-
sociation or society, making as a part thereof a copy of all papers
filed in his office in and about the organization thereof, and duly
authenticated under his hand and seal of State ; and the same shall
be recorded in a book kept for that purpose in the office of the re-
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corder of deeds of the county in which the principal place of busi-
ness of such corporation, association or society is located.
§ 4. A corporation, association or society organized under the
provisions of this act shall be a body corporate and politic, by the
name stated in the certificate of organization, and by that name
they and their successors may have succession, and shall be persons
in law capable of suing and being sued ; and may have power to
make and enforce contracts in relation to the legitimate business of
their corporation, association or society ; may have and use a com-
mon seal and may change or alter the same at pleasure, and they
and their successors in their corporate name shall in law be capable
of taking, purchasing, holding and disposing of real and personal
estate for the purposes of their association or society ; may make
by-laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State
or of the United States, which by-laws shall define the manner and
form of electing directors, trustees or managers and officers of the
corporation, association or society, and the qualifications and duties of
the same, with terms of office, [not exceeding three years ; and, also,
the qualifications and privileges of the members thereof.
§ 5. The affairs of all corporations, associations or societies or-
ganized or doing business under the provisions of this act, shall be
managed by not less than five directors, trustees or managers, a
majority of whom shall be residents of the State of Illinois, who
shall be elected from and by the members, at such time and place, and
for such period not exceeding three years, as may be provided for in the
by-laws, and may be eligible for re-election : Provided, that as near as
practicable an equal number shall be elected each year. Whenever
directors, trustees or managers shall be elected, a certificate under
the seal of the corporation, giving the name and residence of those
elected and the term of their office, shall be recorded in the office
of the recorder of deeds where the certificate of organization is re-
corded. Vacancies in the board of directors, trustees or managers
shall be filled in the manner provided in the by-laws, and upon fill-
ing any vacancy a like certificate shall be recorded.
§ 6^ Assessment notices sent to members by any association or
corporation doing business under the provisions of this act, shall
state the object or objects for which the money to be collected is
intended ; and no part of the funds collected for the payment of
death benefits shall be applied for any other purpose.
§ 7. Any agent, physician or other person, who shall knowingly
secure, or cause to be secured, a certificate of membership on any
person, without his knowledge ; or consent, or by means of misrepre-
sentations, false, fraudulent or untrue statements, be instrumental in
securing a certificate of membership on any aged or infirm person,
or in restoring to membership any person not in an insurable con-
dition, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than $100, nor more
than $1,C00, or [be] imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty
days nor more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the
court ; and said certificate or renewal, so secured, shall be absolutely
void .
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§ 8. All corporations, associations or societies transacting busi-
ness under the provisions of this act, may provide by by-laws for
the accumulation of a surplus, general or guarantee fund, which
may be invested only in the corporate name of the association or
society, in United States, State, county, city or other first-class
convertible bonds or stocks, upon which interest has not been in
default. Such funds, when so set apart and so invested, shall, with
the increase thereof, belong to such corporation, association or so-
ciety, and not to the directors, trustees, managers or officers thereof;
and shall be used only for mortuary benefits, without assessment,
or applied in payment of future assessments, or otherwise used for
the promotion of the object or objects for which said funds are
specially provided and set apart, and such use shall not be deemed
or construed to mean a profit received by members within the mean-
ing of the statutes of this State.
§ 9. All corporations, associations or societies organized under
the provisions of this act, or that have heretofore been organized
within this State, under any charter, compact or agreement or
statute of this State, for the purpose of furnishing life, accident or
permanent disability indemnity or mortuary benefit on the assess-
ment plan, in accordance with the provisions of the first section of
this act, shah not be deemed insurance companies, nor subject to
the laws of this State relating thereto, but shall comply with, and
conform to all the requirements and provisions of this act ; and shall,
by their president and secretary, or like officers, make to the Audi-
tor of Public Accounts, annually, on or before the first day of March
in each and every year, a statement, under oath, for the year end-
ing on the thirty-first day of December next preceding, upon blanks
furnished by the said Auditor, vvhich blanks shall be such as will
show its financial condition, assets, liabilities, total amount of in-
demnity in force, number of members, number whose memberships
have terminated during the year, and cause thereof, total receipts
and sources thereof, total expenditures and objects thereof, and the
average amount paid on each certificate, and shall pay to the said
Auditor, upon filing said certificate, a fee of $5, and the said Audi-
tor shall publish said statement in his annual report : Provided,
that nothing herein contained shall be held to apply to any organ-
ization of a purely social, religious or benevolent character, where
no commissions are paid and no salaried officers or agents em-
ployed ; nor to any local association or society organized under, or
subject to the control of a grand or supreme body, nor to any secret
organization having subordinate lodges or councils which has been
organized under the laws of this or any other State, and which is
now permitted to do business in this State.
§ 10. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall have authority, in
person or by an expert for that purpose appointed, to verify the
statements aforesaid, by examination of the books and papers of
the corporation, and make such other examination as he may deem
necessary. The expense of such examination shall be paid by the
corporation, association or society having its books examined, and
shall not exceed the necessary traveling and hotel expenses of said
Auditor or expert.
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§ 11. The Auditor of Public Accounts shall, at the request of
any corporation, association or society doing business under the
provisions of this act in this State on the assessment plan, make
an examination of such corporation, and shall furnish a certificate
of the results of such examination, showing all its assets, and how
invested, and such other particulars as may be deemed necessary
to show the character and condition of said corporation, and the
necessary expense of the said examination shall be paid by the cor-
poration requesting the same.
§ 12. Whenever any corporation, association or society organized
or having transacted business under the provisions of this act, shall
neglect or refuse to make its annual statements as required by this
act, or whenever the said Auditor shall find, upon examination as
provided in section 10 of this act, that any willfully, false or untrue
statements in any material respect have been made, or that the
business of the corporation, association or society has been con-
ducted fraudulently, or in willful violation of any of the provisions
of this act, or that the corporation has transacted business different
from that authorized by its certificate of incorporation, he shall
communicate the fact to the Attorney General, whose duty it shall
be to apply to the Circuit Court where its principal office is located,
for an order requiring the officers, or directors, trustees or mana-
gers of such corporation, to show cause why they should not be re-
moved from office, or its business closed; and the court shall there-
upon hear the allegations and proofs of the respective parties, and
if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said court that any one
or more of them have been guilty of fraud or any material irregu-
larity or violation of law to the injury of the said corporation, asso-
ciation or society, or of non-compliance with any of the provisions
of this act, the court shall decree a removal from office of the guilty
party or parties, which decree shall forever debar him or them from
holding a similar office, and shall substitute a suitable person or
persons to serve until the regular annual meeting, or until a suc-
cessor or successors are regularly chosen or elected ; or if it shall
appear to the said court that the interests of its members or the
general public so require, the court may decree a dissolution of such
corporation, association or society, and a distribution of its effects.
§ 13. Any officer, director, trustee or manager, or any other per-
son having charge of the books and papers of any corporation con-
ducting business under the provisions of this act, who shall will-
fully neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act,
shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100
for each offense. Any person who shall act as agent, or be instru-
mental in securing or inducing any person to become a member of
any assessment plan corporation, association or society that has
not complied with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than
$10 nor more than $50 for each offense, and shall be imprisoned
in the county jail located in the county where the conviction is
secured, until such fine is paid, not exceeding thirty days for each
conviction.
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§ 14. The first statement to the Auditor of Public Accounts, as
required under the provisions of section 9 of this act, shall be made
on or before the first day of September, A. D. 1883, and shall em-
brace all the facts required by the provisions of this act, from the date
of organization up to the thirty-first day of December, A. D. 1882.
Any corporation, association or society failing or refusing to make
the statement, required by this section, within the time specified,
shall be proceeded against in the same manner and shall be sub-
ject to the same penalty as provided in section 12 of this act.
§ 15. Any corporation, association or society organized under the
laws of any other State or government, except secret societies having
subordinate lodges or councils, and which are now permitted to do
business in this State for the purpose of furnishing life, accident
or permanent disability indemnity upon the assessment plan, where
benefits are paid to such as have an insurable interest only, or that
is carrying on the business of life or accident insurance on the
assessment plan, as provided in section 1, complying with the pro-
visions of this act, shall be licensed by the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts, upon the payment to him of a fee of $25, to do business
in this State : Provided, such corporation, association or society shall
first deposit with the said Auditor a certified copy of its charter, or
articles of incorporation, a copy of its statement of business for the
preceding year, sworn to by its president and secretary, or like
officers, showing a detailed account of expenses and income, the
amount of life indemnity in force, its assets and liabilities in
detail, number of members, and a certificate sworn to by the presi-
dent and secretary, or like officers, setting forth that an ordinary
assessment upon its members is sufficient to pay its maximum cer-
tificate of membership to the full limit named therein ; a certificate
from the State official charged with the enforcement of the insur-
ance laws, or, if there be no such official, a certificate from the
Attorney General of its home State, certifying that corporations,
associations or societies furnishing life indemnity on the assessment
plan, and whose ordinary assessments are sufficient to pay its max-
imum certificate in full, and are chartered under the laws of this
State, are legally entitled to do business in its home State, a copy
of its policy, or certificate of membership, application, and by-laws,
which must show that death losses are in the main provided for by
assessments upon the surviving members ; and it shall legally
designate a person or agent residing in this State, to receive service
of process for said corporation, or in default of such designation,
service of process may be made upon the Auditor of Public Ac-
counts of Illinois, who shall be deemed its agent for that purpose,
and he shall immediately notify any corporation thus served.
§ 16. Such corporations, associations or societies shall pay to
the said Auditor, upon filing each annual statement, a fee of $10,
and in the event of its failure to make such statement on or be-
fore the first day of March of each year, the Auditor shall revoke
its license, and thereafter, or until such statement is made, it shall
be deemed to be doing business unlawfully in this State. When the
Auditor of Public Accounts shall have reason to doubt the solvency
of any foreign corporation, association or society, acting under the
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provisions of this act, and when he is not fully satisfied with the
certificate of the Insurance Commissioner, or other like officer, he
may proceed to make an examination, as provided in this act, for
the examination of corporations organized in this State ; and should
he find that it has made fraudulent or untrue statements, or that it
is conducting its business in an irregular and illegal manner, or if
he shall be of the opinion that any such corporation is, in this State,
conducting its business fraudulently, or is not in good faith carry-
ing out its contracts with its members in this State, he shall report
the same to the Attorney-General, who shall thereupon commence
proceedings by writ of quo warranto against such corporation or as-
sociation, requiring it to show cause why its license to do business
in this State should not be revoked. And any such foreign corpor-
ation or association now doing business in this State, that shall re-
fuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this act, within the
space of ninety days after passage thereof, shall be deemed to be
doing business unlawfully; and if any officer, agent or employe of
any such corporation or association shall do business in this State,
or assist in, or knowingly permit the same, unless such corporation
or association has complied with the provisions of the laws of this
State applicable to the same, he shall be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than
$50 nor more than $1,000, or [be | imprisoned in the county jail not
less than thirty days nor more than one year, or both, in the dis-
cretion of the court.
§ 17. All laws or part of laws in conflict with this act are here-
by repealed.
Appeoved June 18, 1883.
JUDGMENT AND EXECUTION.
SHARES OF STOCK.
§ 1. Amends section 52, act 1572, by making shares of stock held as collateral liable to-
execution in excess of the amount for which they may be pledged.
An Act to amend section fifty-two (52) of an net entitled "An act in
regard to judgments and decrees, and the manner of enforcing the
same by execution, and to p>rovide for the redemption of real estate
sold under execution or decree," approved March 22, 1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That section fifty-two of an act
entitled "An act in regard to judgments and decrees, and the man-
ner of enforcing the same by execution, and to provide for the re-
JURORS. Ill
demption of real estate sold under execution or decree," approved
March 22, 1872, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as
follows :
"Sec. 52. The share or interest of a stockholder in any corporation
may be taken on execution, and sold as hereinafter provided ; but
in all cases, where such share or interest has been sold or pledged
in good faith for a valuable consideration, and the certificate thereof
has been delivered upon such sale or pledge, such share or interest
shall not be liable to be taken on execution against the vendor or
pledgor, except for the excess of the value thereof over and above
the sum for which the same may have been pledged and the cer-
tificate thereof delivered."
Approved June 22, 1883.
JURORS.
SERVICE OF SUMMONS.
§ 1. In serving jurors by copy of summons, it is only necessary to insert in the summons-
the name of the juror served. Amends section 11, act 1874.
An Act to amend section eleven (11) of an act entitled "An act con-
cerning jurors, and the repeal of certain acts therein named," ap-
proved and in force February 11, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That section eleven (11) of an
act entitled "An act concerning jurors, and the repeal of certain
acts therein named," approved and in force February 11, 1874, he
and it is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
"Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the sheriff to execute the sum-
mons by reading the same or delivering a copy thereof to, or at the
usual place of abode of, each of the persons directed to be sum-
moned to constitute the jury as aforesaicl, and to make return thereof
on or before the return clay, to the clerk of the court in which said
jurors are to serve, with an endorsement thereon, certifying on whom
it has been executed, and the time when ; and in default of so doing,
such sheriff or other officer shall be considered as guilty of a con-
tempt, and may be fined, for the use of the proper county, in any
sum not less than $10 nor more than $2„0; and it shall be the
duty of the court, upon the return of such summons, to inquire
into the cause of any failure to serve any such juror, and unless
he shall find that the sheriff has used proper diligence to serve
such juror, he shall inflict the fine aforesaid. In a copy of said
summons it shall not be necessary to enter the names and res-
112 LIBKAE1BS.
idences of all the jurors, but shall be sufficient to recite the name
and residence of the person to be served by such copy, and adding
thereto : 'among others, as set forth in the original summons.' ' :
Approved June 23, 1883.
LIBRABIES.
1. Amends section 1 of act 1872, by in-
creasing annual tax in cities of
over 100, 000 inhabitants to one-half
mill on the dollar.
§ 2. Emergency.
An Act to amend section one (1) of "An act to authorize cities, in-
corporated towns and toivnships to establish and maintain free pub-
lic libraries and reading rooms,'" approved and in force March 7,
1872.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That section one (1) of "An act to
authorize cities, incorporated towns and townships to establish and
maintain free public libraries and reading rooms," approved and in
force March 7, 1872, be amended so that the same shall read as
follows :
"Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That the city council of each in-
corporated city shall have the power to establish and maintain a
public library and reading room for the use and benefit of the in-
habitants of such city, and may levy a tax of not to exceed one
mill on the dollar annually, and in cities of over one hundred
thousand inhabitants not to exceed one-half of a mill on a dollar
annually, on all the taxable property in the city ; such tax to be
levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of said
city, and to be known as the 'Library fund ;' and the said annual
library taxes in cities of over one hundred thousand inhabitants,
shall not be included in the aggregate amount of taxes as limited
by section one (1) of article eight (8) of 'An act for the incorpora-
tion of cities and villages,' approved April 10, 1882."
§ 2. Whereas it is desirable to enable the city council of Chi-
cago to make an adequate appropriation in the current tax levy for
the support of the public library of Chicago, an emergency there-
fore exists, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
Approved March 20, 1883.
MINES AND MINING.
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MINES AND MINING.
WEIGHING COAL AT MINES.
§ 1. Mine owners and operators requir-
ed to provide track scales, when
practicable, and platform scales
in other cases.
§ 2. All coal produced shall be we'ghed
in such scales, and the weislit
shall determine the basis for
wages of miners.
An Act to provide for the weighing of coal at the mines.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That the owner, agent or operator
of each and every coal mine or colliery in this State shall furnish,
or cause to be furnished, and placed upon the switch or railroad
track adjacent to said coal mine or colliery, a "track scale" of
standard manufacture, and shall weigh all coal hoisted from said
mine or colliery before or at the time of being loaded on cars, wa-
gons, or other vehicle of transportation : Provided, that in cases
where track scales cannot be used, or the product of such mine or
colliery will not justify the expense of a track scale, the owner,
agenl; or operator of same shall be permitted to furnish (in lieu of
a track scale) a platform scale of sufficient capacity to weigh each
box as it is hoisted from such mine or colliery.
§ 2. All coal produced in this State shall be weighed on the
scales as above provided ; and the weight so determined shall be
considered the basis upon which the wages of persons mining said
coal shall be computed.
§ 3. It shall be lawful for the miners employed in any coal mine
or colliery in this State, to furnish a check weigher at their own
expense, whose duty it shall be to balance said scales and see that
the coal is properly weighed, and keep a correct account of same, and
for this purpose he shall have access at all times to the "beam box"
of said scale while such weighing is being performed. That the agent
employed by persons mining coal, to act as check weighman, shall
be an employe in the mines where the coal to be weighed was pro-
duced, [and] a citizen of the State and county wherein the mine is
situated. He shall, on application to the owner, agent or operator
of the mine producing the coal to be weighed, be furnished with a
written permit, that Jjshall entitle him to enter and remain in the
room or place where the accounting by him of the weights of coal
is to be done, and the said permit shall not be transferable : Pro-
vided, that the provisions of this act shall apply only to coal miners
doing business on and shipping coal by railroad or by water.
§ 4. Any person, owner or agent, operating a coal mine or col-
liery in this State, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of
this act, or any person who shall obstruct or hinder the carrying
out of its requirements, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and punished accordingly.
Approved June 14, 1883.
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MINES AND MINING.
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF MINERS.
§ 1. Amends section 1, act 1879, by adding
the proviso concerning emitting of
smoke from furnace into slopn or
shaft, and adds sections 18 and 19.
§ .18. Fire-proof buildings and hoisting
apparatus at mouth of shaft— pen-
alties for violation.
§ 19. Miners shall use copper needles and
copper-tipped tamping bars for
preparing blasts — penalties for
violation.
An Act to amend section four (4) of "An act providing for the health
and safety of persons employed in coal mines," and to further
amend said act by adding thereto sections to he numbered eighteen
(18) and nineteen (19), approved May 28, 1879, in force July 1,
1879.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That section four (4) of an act
entitled "An act providing for the health and safety of persons em-
ployed in coal mines," be and is hereby amended to read as follows,
and that said act be and is hereby amended by adding thereto the
following sections, numbered eighteen (18) and nineteen (19) :
"Sec. 4. The owner, agent or operator of every coal mine, whether
operated by shaft, slope or drift, shall provide and maintain for
every such mine a sufficient amount of ventilation, to be determined
by the inspector, at the rate of one hundred cubic feet of air per
man per minute, measured at the foot of the down cast, which
shall be forced and circulated to the face of every working place
throughout the mine, so that said mine shall be free from standing
gas of whatsoever kind ; and in all mines where fire-damp is gene-
rated, every working place where such fire-damp is known to exist
shall be examined every morning with a safety lamp, by a compe-
tent person, before any other persons are allowed to enter. The
ventilation required by this section may be produced by any suitable
appliances, but in case a furnace shall be used for ventilating
purposes, it shall be built in such a manner as to prevent the com-
munication of fire to any part of the works, by lining the up-cast
with incombustible material for a sufficient distance up from said
furnace : Provided, it shall not be lawful to use a furnace for ven-
tilating purposes, or for any other purpose, that shall emit smoke
into any compartment constructed in or adjoining any coal hoist-
ing shaft or slope, where the hoisting shaft or slope is the only
means provided for the ingress or egress of persons employed in
said coal mines. That it shall be unlawful where there is but one
means of ingress and egress provided at a coal shaft or slope, to
construct and use a ventilating furnace that shall emit smoke into
a shaft as an up-cast, where the shaft or slope used as a means
of ingress and egress by persons employed in said coal mines is the
only means provided for furnishing air to persons employed therein."
Sec. 18. (Buildings to be sided and covered with fire-proof materials.)
That all mines hoisting coal by steam power from shaft or slope, having
no other means of ingress or egress than that afforded to persons
employed therein than by said shaft or slope, shall, within ninety
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days after July the first, A. D. 1883, have all engine and boiler-
houses roofed and sided with fire-proof materials, and they shall
be situated not less than fifty feet from the mouth of the said
shaft or slope ; that the hoisting derricks erected over said hoisting
shaft or near said slope, if inclosed, and all the coal chutes, build-
ings and constructions within a radius of fifty feet of the mouth of
the said hoisting shaft or slope, shall be covered and sided with fire-
proof materials, and the person in charge, the owners or operators
thereof, shall provide a steam pump and have the same conveni-
ently situated, and a sufficient supply of water and hose, always
ready for use in any part of the buildings, chutes or constructions
within a radius of fifty feet of said coal-hoisting shaft or slope ; and
if the person in charge of any such coal shaft or slope shall refuse
or neglect to comply with the provisions of this act, then the in-
spector of coal mines for the county in which the said shafts or
slope are situated shall proceed, through the State's attorney of his
county, or any attorney, in case of his refusal to act, acting in
the name and on behalf of the State, against the owner, agent or
operator of said shaft or slope, by information without bond, after
giving at least two days' notice to such owner, agent or operator ; i
and the said owner, agent or operator shall have the right to ap-
pear before the judge or master to whom the application is made,
who shall hear the same on affidavits, and such other testimony as
may be offered, in support as well as in opposition thereto; and if
it be found that the owner, agent or operator of said shaft or slope
has refused or neglected to comply with the provisions of this act,
the court, or judge in vacation, by order, shall prohibit the further
working of any such coal shaft or slope until the owner, agent or
operator shall have complied with the terms of this act.
Sec. 19. That all miners and employes engaged in mining coal shall
use copper needles, in preparing [blasts in coal, and not less than
five (5) inches of copper on the end of all iron bars used for tamp-
ing blasts of powder in coal, and the use of iron needles, and iron
tamping bars, not tipped with five inches of copper, is hereby declared
to be unlawful. Any failure on the part of a coal miner, or an em-
ploye in any coal mine, to conform to the terms and requirements
of this act shall subject such miner or employe to a flue of not less
than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars with costs of
prosecution, for each offense, to be recovered by civil suit, before
any justice of the peace, said fines, when collected, to be paid into
the treasury of the county where the offense was committed, to
the credit of the fund provided for the payment of the county in-
spector of mines.
Appeoved June 21, 1883.
11G
MINES AND MINING.
HEALTH AND SAFETY OF MINERS.
§ 1. Amends See. 1 act 1879 by requiring
all mine owners or operators to
make maps of mine— inspectors
required to furnish copy of maps
or plans of mines, to be filed with
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Amends Sec. 3 by making it apply
to all mines, and|further prescrib-
ing the manner of constructing
roadways and escapement
shafts.
Amends Sec. 6 by changing the
minimum age of children em-
ployed in mines to 14 years.
Amends Sec. 9 by making it apply
to district instead of county in-
spectors.
Amends Sec. 11 by substituting a
new section dividing the State
into inspection districts, provid-
ing for the appointment of a
board of examiners and the ap-
pointment of inspectors, fixing
their salaries and for the ap-
pointment of assistant inspec-
tors.
Amends Sec. 12 by providing that
reports of inspectors shall be
made to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics— empowering said Bu-
reau '.o investigate charges of
incompetency and misdemean-
ors on the part of inspectors, and
upon conviction to vacate the
office — provides for the compen-
sation of examining boards.
An Act to amend sections one (1), three (3), six (6), nine (c), eleven
(11), and twelve (12), of an act entitled "An act providing for the
health and safety of persons employed in coal mines, " approved
May 28f/i, 1879, in force July 1st, 1879, and making the necessary
appropriations for ^carrying out the provisions of the same.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That sections one (1), three
(3), six (6), nine (9), eleven (11), and twelve (12) of an act entitled
"An act providing for the health and safety of persons employed in
coal mines," approved May 26th, 1879, in force July 1st, 187;?, tie
amended so as to read as follows :
"Section 1. That the owner, or agent, or operator of each and
every coal mine in this State, shall make, or cause to be made, at
the discretion of the inspector, or person acting in that capacity, an
accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, and of
each and every vein thereof, showing the general inclination of the
strata, together with any material deflections in said workings,
and the boundary lines of said coal mines, and deposit a true copy
of said map or plan with the inspector of coal mines, to be tiled in
his office, and another true copy of said map or plan with the re-
corder of the county in which said coal mine is situated, to be filed
in his office, both of which said copies shall be deposited as afore-
said within three (3) months from the day when this act shall go
into effect : and the original, or a copy of such map or plan, shall
also be kept for inspection at the office of such coal mine ; and
during the month of January, of each and every year after this act
shall go into effect, the said owner, agent or operator shall furnish
the inspector and recorder, as aforesaid, with a statement and further
map or plan of the progress of the workings of such coal mine, con-
tinued from the last report to the end of the December month just
preceding; and the inspector shall correct his map or plan of said
workings in accordance with the statement and map or plan thus
furnished ; and when any coal mine is worked out or abandoned, that
fact shall be reported to the inspector, and the map or plan of such
coal mine in the office of said inspector shall be carefully corrected
and verified. The several coal mine inspectors in this State shall
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furnish copies of all maps or plans of mines to be filed with the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"Sec. 3. In all coal mines that are or have been in operation prior
to the first day of July, in the year of our Lord 1879, and which are
worked by or through a shaft, slope or drift, if there is not already
an escapement shaft to each and every said coal mine, or communi-
cation between each and every coal mine, and some other contig-
uous mine, then there shall be an escapement shaft or other com-
munication, such as shall be approved by the mine inspector,
making at least two distinct means of ingress and egress for all
persons employed or permitted to work in such coal mine. Such
escapement shaft or other communication with a contiguous mine as
aforesaid, shall be constructed in connection with every vein or
stratum of coal worked in such coal mine, which shall be at least
three and' one-half feet high and at least five feet wide, and in no
instance shall the heighth of said roadway be less than the thick-
ness of the vein or stratum of coal through which it is driven ; and
the time to be allowed for such construction shall be one year when
such mine is under one hundred (100) feet in depth; two years when
such mine is over one hundred (100) feet in depth and under three
hundred (3C0) feet, and three years when it is over three hundred
(300) feet and under four hundred (400) feet, and four years when
it is over four hundred (400) feet in depth, and five years for all
mines over five hundred (500) feet, from the first day of July, A. D.
1879; and in all cases where the working force of one mine has been
driven up to or into the workings of another mine, the respective
owners of such mine, while operating the same, shall keep open a
roadway at least five feet high and five feet wide, thereby forming
a communication as contemplated in this act ; and for a failure to
do so shall be subject to the penalty provided for in section 10 of
this act, for each and every day such roadway is unnecessarily closed ;
each and every such escapement shaft shall be separated from the
main shaft by such extent of natural strata as shall secure safety to
the men employed in such mines, such distance to be left to the
discretion of the mine inspector or person acting in that capacity,
and in all coal mines that shall go into operation for the first time
after the first day of January, A. D. 1880. And in all cases where
such mine or mines shall hereafter be put in operation in this State,
the owner thereof or the lessee or occupant of the same shall con-
struct such an escapement shaft as is now required by law in this
State, at the rate of two hundred feet per annum, until such escape-
ment shaft shall have been fully completed: And provided, further,
that nothing in this section shall be construed to extend the time
heretofore allowed by law for constructing escapement shafts in
mines going into operation for the first time before said first day of
January, A. D. 18S0.
"Sec. 6. The owner, agent or operator of every coal mine operated
by shaft shall provide suitable means of signaling between the bot-
tom and top thereof, and shall also provide safe means of hoisting
and lowering persons in a cage covered with boiler iron, so as to
keep safe, as far as possible, persons descending into and ascending-
out of such shaft ; and such cage shall be furnished with guides to
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conduct it on slides through such shaft, with a sufficient brake on
every drum to prevent accident in case of the giving out or breaking
of the machinery; and such cage shall be furnished with spring
catches intended and provided, as far as possible, to prevent the
consequences of cable- breaking or the loosening or disconnecting of
the machinery; and no props or rails shall be lowered in a cage
while men are descending into or ascending out of said mine : Pro-
vided, that the provisions of this section in relating to covering cages
with boiler iron, shall not apply to coal mines less than one hun-
dred (110) feet in depth, where the coal is raised by horse-power.
No person under the age of fourteen years, or females of any age,
shall be permitted to enter any mine to work therein. Any party
or person neglecting or refusing to perform the duties required to
be performed by sections three (3), four (-1), five (-:), six (6), seven
(7) and eight (8), shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
punished by fine in the discretion of the court trying the same,
subject, however, to the limitations as provided by section ten of
this act.
"Sec. 9. Whenever loss of life, or serious personal injury, shall occur
by reason of any explosion, or of any accident whatsoever, in or
about any coal mine, it shall be the duty of the person having
charge of such coal mine, to report the facts thereof, without delay,
to the mine inspector of the district in which said coal mine is situ-
ated ; and if any person is killed thereby, to notify the coroner of
the county also, or, in his absence or inability to act, any justice of
the peace of said county ; and the said inspector shall, if he deem
it necessary from the facts reported, immediately go to the scene of
said accident, and make such suggestions and render such assistance
as he may deem necessary for the safety of the men. And the
inspector shall investigate and ascertain the cause of such explosion
or accident, and make a report thereof, which he shall preserve with
the other records of his office ; and to enable him to make such in-
vestigations he shall have the power to compel the attendance of
witnesses, and administer oaths or affirmations to them, and the
cost of such investigations shall he paid by the county in which
such accident has occurred, in the same manner as costs of coroners'
inquests are now paid. And the failure of the person in charge of
the coal mine in which ^any such accident may have occurred, to
give notice to the inspector or coroner, as provided for in this sec-
tion, shall subject such person to a fine of not less than twenty-
five dollars ($_f ), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), to be
recovered in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, before
any justice of the peace of such county, and such fine, when col-
lected, shall be paid into the county treasury for the use of the county
in which any such accident may have occurred.
"Sec. 11. This State shall be divided into five inspection districts,
as follows, viz : The first district shall be composed of the counties
of Boone, McHenry, Lake, DeKalb, Kane, DuPage, Cook, LaSalle,
Kendall, Grundy, Will, Livingston, Kankakee and Iroquois. Second
district, the counties of JoDaviess, Stephenson, Winnebago, Carroll,
Ogle, Whiteside, Lee, Eock Island, Henry, Bureau, Mercer, Stark,
Putnam, Marshall, Henderson, Warren, Knox^Hancock, McDonough,
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Schuyler, Adams and Brown. The third district, the counties of
Fulton, Peoria, Woodford, Tazewell, McLean, Ford, Mason, Cass,
Menard, Logan, DeWitt, Piatt, Champaign and Vermilion. The
fourth district, the counties of Pike, Scott, Morgan, Sangamon,
Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Madison, Bond, Macoupin, Montgom-
ery, Christian, Fayette, Macon, Moultrie, Shelby, Effingham, Doug-
las, Coles, Cumberland, Jasper, Edgar, Clark, Crawford, Clay,
Bichland and Lawrence. The fifth district, the counties of St.
Clair, Clinton, Washington, Marion, Jefferson, Wayne, Edwards,
Wabash, Hamilton, White, Monroe, Bandolph, Perry, Jackson,
Franklin, Williamson, Saline, Gallatin, Union, Johnson, Pope,
Hardin, Alexander, Pulaski and Massac. The Governor shall,
upon the recommendation of a board of examiners selected for
that purpose, composed of two practical coal miners, two coal oper-
ators, and one mining engineer, to be appointed by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of this State, all of whom shall be sworn to a
faithful discharge of their duties, appoint five properly qualified
persons to fill the offices of inspectors of coal mines of this State,
(being one inspector for each district provided for in this act,)
whose commissions shall be for the term of one year, but they
shall at all times be subject to removal from office for neglect
of duty, or malfeasance in the discharge of duty, as hereinafter
provided for ; and the inspectors so appointed shall have attained
the age of thirty years, be citizens of this State, and have a knowl-
edge of mining engineering sufficient to conduct the development of
coal mines, and a practical knowledge of the methods of conducting
mining for coal in the presence of explosive gases, and of the pro-
per ventilation of coal mines. They shall have had a practical
mining experience of ten years, and shall not be interested as
owner, operator, stockholder, superintendent or mining engineer of
any coal mine during their term of office, and shall be of good
moral character and temperate habits, and shall not be guilty of
any act tending to the injury of miners or operators of mines
during their term of office. They shall be provided by the State
with the most approved modern instruments for carrying out the
intentions of this act. The inspectors, before assaming the duties
of their several offices, shall take an oath of office as provided
for by the constitution, and shall be required to enter into a bond
to the State in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), with sureties
to be approved by the Governor, conditioned upon the faithful per-
formance of their duties in every particular, as required by this
act ; said bond, with the approval of the Governor endorsed thereon,
together with the oath of office, shall be deposited with the Sec-
retary of State. The salaries of the inspectors provided for by
this act shall be eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum,
each, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to
draw his warrant on the treasury in their favor, quarterly, for
the amount specified in this section for the salary of each inspector :
Provided, that the county board of any county may appoint an
assistant inspector for such county, who shall act under the direc-
tion of the district inspector in the performance of his duties, and
shall receive not less than three dollars ($3) nor more than five
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dollars ($5) per day, for the time actually employed, to be paid
out of the county treasury; and he may be removed by such
county board at any time.
"Sec. 12. The inspectors provided for by this act shall devote their
whole time and attention to the duties of their office, and make
personal examination of every mine within their respective districts,
and shall see that every necessary precaution is taken to insure
the health and safety of the workmen employed in such mines, and
that the provisions and requirements of the mining laws of this
State are faithfully observed and obeyed, and the penalties of
same enforced. They shall also make annual reports to the Bureau
of Labor Statistics of their acts during the year in the discharge of
their duties, with the recommendations as to legislation necessary
on the subject of mining, and shall collect and tabulate upon
blanks furnished by said Bureau all desired statistics of the mines
and miners within their districts, to accompany said annual report ;
they shall also furnish such information as they may have ob-
tained on this subject, when called for, to the State Geologist. Upon
a petition signed by not less than three reputable coal operators,
or ten coal miners, setting forth that any inspector of coal mines
neglects his duties, or that he is incompetent, or that he is guilty
of malfeasance in office, or guilty of any act tending to the injury of
miners or operators of mines, it may be lawful for the Bureau of
Labor Statistics of this State to issue a citation to the said in-
spector to^ appear at no less than fifteen days' notice, on a day fixed,
before them, when the said Bureau shall proceed to inquiie into and
investigate the allegations of the petitioners ; and if the said Bureau
find that the said inspector is neglectful of his duty, or that he is
by reason of causes that existed before his appoint ment, or that
have arisen since his appointment, incompetent to perform the
duties of said office, or that he is guilty of malfeasance in office,
or guilty of any act tending to the injury of miners or operators
of mines, the said Bureau shall declare the office of inspector of the
said district vacant, and a properly qualified person shall be ap-
pointed to fill the office in compliance with the provisions of this
act ; and the cost of said investigation by the said Bureau shall be
borne by the removed inspector; but if the allegations of the
petitioners are not sustained by the final decision of said Bureau,
the costs shall be paid by the petitioners. The board of examin-
ers provided for in section eleven of this act, shall be appointed at
the annual meeting of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and shall
hold their offices one year. They shall meet annually at the
State capital on the first Monday in September, in each year, and
special meetings may be called at anytime by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics when the office of coal mine inspector becomes from any
cause vacant. They shall receive as compensation the sum of three
dollars ($3) per day, each, for time actually employed in the duties
of their office, and actual traveling expenses, to be verified by affi-
davit : Provided, that in no case shall the per diem received by any
member of said board exceed the sum of thirty dollars ($30) per
annum. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to
draw his warrant in favor of each member of the board of exam-
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iners at the close of their annual session, for the full amount
due them for attending annual and special sessions, and expenses,
upon vouchers sworn to by them and approved by the Secretary
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Governor."
Approved June 18, 1883.
MUNICIPAL COKPOKATIONS.
BOND FUND.
§ 1. Surplus in State Treasury to credit § 3. Emergency.
of fifnds authorized to be drawn.
§ 2-. Prescribes the manner in which
balance shall be refunded.
An Act making provision for the refunding of surplus funds that are
now or hereafter may be in State treasury, to the credit of the
bond funds of counties, townships, cities, toivns, school districts and
other municipal corporations, having bonds registered in the office
of the Auditor of Public Accounts, when such bonds have been
paid and cancelled.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That whenever all the bonds
of any county, township, city, town, school district or other muni-
cipal corporation, that may have been registered, in pursuance of
law, in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, have been paid,
and cancelled upon the records of said Auditor, and there remains
in State treasury after said payment, any balance to the credit of
the bond fund of such county, township, city, town, school district
or other municipal corporation, it shall be the duty of the Auditor
of Public Accounts, on receipt of certified copy of resolution as pro-
vided for in section two (2) of this act, to draw his warrant upon
the State Treasurer for the amount of said balance, who is hereby
authorized to pay same out of the proper fund.
§ 2. Before any warrant can be drawn for balance in State
treasury to the credit of the bond fund of any county, township,
city, town, school district or other municipal corporation, it will be
necessary for the corporate authorities of such county, township,
city, town, school district or other municipal corporation, to pass a
resolution requesting the Auditor of Public Accounts to issue his
warrant upon State Treasurer for the amount of said balance, pay-
able to the order of the proper custodian of funds of said county,
township, city, town, school district or other municipal corporation,
who shall be named in said resolution, and to have a certified copy
of same furnished said Auditor.
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§ 3. Whereas, large sums of money are now idle in the State
treasury which ought to be paid back to the municipalities to whose
credit the same stand, and there is at present no provision of law
for such payment, therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall
take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved June 14, 1883.
RAILROAD AID BONDS.
§ 1. Amends the act of 1877 by extending the time until 1883, and by adding the last pro-
viso concerning the revival of aid voted.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to limit and determine the
time for which counties, cities, townships, towns and precincts in
this State shall he liable and holden to issue aid for the building
of any railroad in pursuance of any vote taken in conformity to the
laws of this State," approved May 29, 1877, in force July I, 1877.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That an act entitled ''An act to
amend an act entitled 'An act to limit and determine the time for
which counties, cities, townships, towns and precincts in this State
shall be liable and holden to issue aid for the building of any rail-
road in pursuance of any vote taken in conformity to the laws of
this State,' approved May 29, 1877, in force July 1, 1877," be
amended, so as to read as follows :
"That the liability of all counties, cities, townships, towns or pre-
cincts which have voted aid or donations to or subscriptions to the
capital stock of any railroad company in conformity to the laws of
this State, for the building, or in aid of the building of any rail-
road to, into, through or near such county, city, township, town or
precinct, to issue such voted aid, shall cease and determine upon
and after the first day of September, A. D. 1883 ; and no bonds
shall be issued or stock subscribed to any such railroad company
after that date upon account of, or upon the authority of such vote :
Provided, this act shall not apply in any case where the express
conditions of the vote for such aid shall extend the time for the
building of such railroad beyond the said date : And, it is further
provided, that this act shall not apply in any case where any rail-
road shall have been built, or shall, before said date, be built in
accordance with the conditions of the vote for aid to such railroad :
And, it is further provided, that this act shall not apply to any case
where such aid shall have been deposited, or shall, before said date,
be deposited with any trustee or trustees, upon written or printed
conditions, to be delivered to said railroad company at some future
time : Provided, further, that this act shall not be construed so as
to require any county, city, township, town or precinct to issue, pay,
or deliver any such aid or bonds where the same may. have been
voted and subscribed upon any condition or conditions which shall
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not be complied with within the time expressed in the notice of
election, proceedings or vote authorizing such aid to be paid or
given : Provided, further, this act shall not be construed to revive
the right of any railroad company to have any subscription for stock
made, or bonds issued, where such subscription has not been actu-
ally and formally made and entered on the subscription books of
the company by the proper municipal officer before the passage of
this act, but shall revive only such aid as may have been voted by
w r ay of donation."
§ 2. Each and every act contrary to the provisions of section 1
of this act, is hereby repealed.
Approved June 22, 1883.
NAVIGABLE STREAMS.
SALINE RIVER.
§ 1. Act 1849, declaring navigable, repealed.
An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act declaring the Saline river
navigable in Saline county," approved January 25, 1849, and in
force from and after its passage.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois;
represented in the General Assembly: That an act entitled "An act
declaring the Saline river navigable in Saline county," approved
January 25, 1849, and in force from and after its passage, be and
the same is hereby repealed.
Approved June 18, 18S3.
PENITENTIARIES.
JOLIET.
§ 1. Commissioners authorized to sell lot in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
An Act to authorize the commissioners of Joliet Penitentiary to sell and
convey certain real estate.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the commissioners of the
Joliet Penitentiary are authorized and empowered to sell and con-
vey lot number four (4), in block number one hundred and four
(101), in the original survey and recorded plat of Nebraska City,
Otoe county, State of Nebraska.
Approved June 21, 1833.
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RAILROADS.
EAILEOADS.
CONSOLIDATION.
Railroads owned partly in this State
and partly in adjoining States by
the same corporation may consol-
idate upon sixty days' notice being
given stockholders — companies
owning parallel or competing lines
prohibited.
§ 2. Certificate of consolidation to be
filed in the office of the Secretary
of State, and in the Recorder's
offices in counties.
§ 3. General offices of consolidated com-
panies to be kept in this State-
rights reserved.
An Act to provide for the consolidation of certain railroad corporations.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: Whenever any railroad which
is situated partly in this State, and partly in one or more other
States, and heretofore owned by a corporation formed by consolida-
tion of railroad corporations of this and other States, has been sold
pursuant to the decree of any court or courts of competent juris-
diction, and the same has been purchased as an entirety, and is
now, or hereafter may be, held in the name or as the property of
two or more corporations incorporated respectively under the laws
of two or more of the States in which said railroad is situated, it
shall be lawful for the corporation so created in this State to con-
solidate its property, franchises and capital stock with the property,
franchises and capital stock of the corporation or corporations of
such other State or States in which the remainder of such railroad
is situated, and upon such terms as may be agreed upon between
the directors, and approved by the stockholders owning not less
than two-thirds in amount of the capital stock of cuch corporations.
Such approval may be given by the stockholders of such corporation
of this State at any time, in writing or by vote, at any aunual or
special meeting, upon sixty days' notice given by publication in any
newspaper published in the county where the general office of such
company is situated, and such meeting is to be held: Provided,
that no consolidation shall take place with any railroad owning a
parallel or competing line; and a majority of the directors of such
consolidated company shall be citizens and residents of this State;
and where the line of the road of the original company has been
located in this State, and aid in the construction thereof voted by
any municipality by way of subscription or donation, and received
by the company, and the road as so located not yet completed, then
ttie consolidated company shall have no power or right to change
such line as so located so as to make the same substantially dif-
ferent from the line so located at the time the aid was voted.
§ 2. Such consolidation shall take effect upon the filing and
recording of such articles of consolidation in the office of the Secre-
tary of State of the State of Illinois, and a certified copy thereof
in the office of the recorder of the various counties in which said
railroad is situated. A certified copy of such articles of consolida-
tion, under seal of the Secretary of State, shall be deemed and
taken to be prima facie evidence of the existence of such consoli-
dated corporation.
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§ 3. Such consolidated corporation shall, at all times, keep a
general office within this State, at which shall be kept a complete
list of all stockholders of such corporation, their places of residence,
the amount of stock owned by each, and where the stock of such
corporation may be registered and transferred : Provided, that
nothing contained in this bill shall be construed to impair or affect
the rights of any party holding unsettled claims against any of the
corporations to be consolidated.
Approved June 14, 1883.
PASSENGER DEPOTS OPENED.
§ 1. Amends section 22, act 1874, relating to fencing and operating railroads, by requiring
railroad companies to keep depots open, lighted and warmed one-half hour before
and after departure of passenger trains.
Amends section 23 by prescribing penalties for violation of this provision of law.
An Act to amend sections twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) of an
act entitled "An act in relation to fencing and operating railroads,"
approved March 31, 1874, in force Jidy 1, 1874.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That sections twenty-two (22)
and twenty-three (23) of an act entitled "An act in relation to
fencing and operating railroads," approved March 31, 1874, in force
July 1, 1874, be amended so as to read as follows :
"Sec. 22. Every railroad corporation in the State shall furnish,
start and run cars for the transportation of such passengers and
property as shall, within a reasonable time previous thereto, be
ready or be offered for transportation at the several stations on its
railroads and at the junctions of other railroads, and at such stop-
ping places as may be established for receiving and discharging
way passengers and freights ; and shall take, receive, transport and
discharge such passengers and property, at, from and to such sta-
tions, junctions and places, on and from all trains advertised to
stop at the same for passengers and freight, respectively, upon the
due payment, or tender of payment of tolls, freight or fare legally
authorized therefor, if payment shall be demanded, and such rail-
road companies shall at all junctions with other railroads, and at
all depots where said railroad companies stop their trains regularly
to receive and discharge passengers in cities and villages, for at
least one-half hour before the arrival of, and one-half hour after
the arrival of any passenger train, cause their respective depots to
be open for the reception of passengers ; said depots to be kept well
lighted and warmed for the space of time aforesaid.
"Sec. 23. In case of the refusal of such corporation or railroad
company, or its agents, to take, receive and transport any person
or property, or to deliver the same within a reasonable time, at
their regular or appointed time and place, or to keep their said
depots open, lighted and warmed according to the provisions of the
126 RAILROADS.
preceding section of this act, such corporation or railroad company
shall pay to the party aggrieved, treble the amount of damages
sustained thereby, with costs of suit ; and in addition thereto, said
corporation or railroad company shall forfeit a sum of not less than
twenty-five dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars for each
offense, to be recovered in an action of debt, in the name of the
People of the State of Illinois — the trehle damages for the use of
the party aggrieved, and the forfeiture for the use of the school
fund of the county in which the offense is committed."
Approved June 25, 1883.
ELEVATED RAILWAYS OR CONVEYORS.
1. Prohibits the use of any street or alley
for the purpose of constructing an
elevated railroad, except upon peti-
tion of property owners, owning
more than one-half of the frontage
proposed to be used.
§ 2. When more than one mile in extent
is proposed to be used the petition
must represent more than one half
the frontage land-owners or for frac-
tional parts of a mile.
§ 3. Repeals conflicting laws.
An Act in regard to the use of streets and alleys in incorporated cities
and villages by elevated railroads and elevated ways and con-
veyors.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That no person or persons, cor-
poration or corporations, shall construct or maintain any elevated
railroad or any elevated way or conveyor to be operated by steam
power, or animal power or any other motive power, along any
street or alley in any incorporated city or village, except by the
permission of the city council or board of trustees of such city or
village, granted upon a petition of the owners of the lands repre-
senting more than one half of the frontage of the street or alley, or
of so much thereof as is sought to be used for such elevated rail-
road or elevated way or conveyor ; and the city council, or board
of trustees, shall have no power to grant permission to use any
street or alley, or part thereof, for any of the purposes aforesaid,
except upon such petition of land-owners as is herein provided
for.
§ 2. When the street or alley, or part thereof, sought to be used
for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be more than one mile in
extent, no petition of land-owners shall be -valid for the purposes
of this act, unless the same shall be signed by the owners of the
land representing more than one-half of the frontage of each mile
and fractional part of a mile, of such street or alley, or of the part
thereof sought to be used for any of the purposes aforesaid.
§ 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby
repealed.
Approved June 18, 1883.
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SOUTH EAST AND ST. LOUIS.
Governor authorized to convey tract | § 2. Emergency,
of land.
An Act to authorize the Governor of the State of Illinois to convey to
the South East and St. Louis Railway Company a fraction of
land conveyed to the State of Illinois by John Crenshaiv, for
railroad purposes, in the year 18S8.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That the Governor is hereby
authorized and required to convey to the South East and St. Louis
Eailway Company a certain fraction of land conveyed to the State of
Illinois by John Crenshaw for railroad purposes, in Gallatin county,
Illinois, described as follows : All those parts of the north fractional
part of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section
number twenty (20), and the fractional part of the south
half of the east half of the southeast quarter of section seven-
teen, in township nine (9), range eight (8) east, as established
by the Surveyor General of the United States, as contained in the
following described boundaries, to-wit : Commencing at a stake
corner, at low water mark, on the north side of Saline Creek
thirty (30) feet easterly, or clown the creek, from center of William
Hick's bridge; thence down Saline Creek along the low water mark
one hundred and thirty-five (135) feet to a corner stone ; thence
north twenty (20) degrees west to a stake corner, seventy-five (75)
feet beyond and past the corner of the Alton and Shawneetown
Eailroad line, at right angles with said line ; thence south seventy
(70) degrees ; west, parallel with the railroad track, one hundred
and thirty-five (135) feet to the east side ol the public highway
leading from said bridge to Equality; thence down along the border
of said tract or highway to low water mark, the place of beginning.
Forty-five (45) feet of the northeast side of said lots are to be ap-
propriated as a public highway forever, containing one acre more
or less of ground. And that said South East and St. Louis Eail-
way Company shall use said lands for the purposes of a passenger
and freight depot, and stock yards, and none other : Provided, this
section shall not be construed to deprive said company of such
right of eminent domain, as now exists by law.
§ 2. Whereas, it is desirable that the South East and St. Louis
Eailway Company should have possession to build a depot and stock
yards on said fraction of land, therefore an emergency exists, and
this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pas-
sage.
Appkoved June 21, 1S83.
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RAILROADS.
STOCK TRANSFER OFFICES.
§ 1. Transfer offices and books for trans-
fer and list of stockholders shall
be kspt in this State.
§ 2. Penalties for failure to comply with
this law.
§ 3. Actions for recovery of fines.
§ 4. Railroad and Warehouse Commis-
sioners charged with the execu-
tion of this act, and to prosecute
for violation.
§ 5. Fines paid into county treasury for
county purposes.
An Act to require railroad corporations to have and maintain a public
office or place in the State of Illinois where transfers of stock may
be made, and to enforce the provisions of section nine (9), article
eleven (11), of the Constitution of Illinois.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented, in the General Assembly : Each and every railroad cor-
poration, organized or doing business in this State, under the laws
or authority thereof, shall have and maintain a public office, or place
in this State for the transaction of its business, where transfers of
shares of its stock shall be made by such railroad corporation, upon
the request of the owner of shares thereof, presenting the certificate
thereof. Every such railroad corporation shall keep a book in which
the transfers of shares of its stock shall be registered, and another
book containing the names of its stockholders, which book shall be
open to the examination of the stockholders.
§ 2. Any railroad corporation, organized or doing business in this
State under the laws or authority thereof, failing to comply with the
provisions of section one (1), of this act, within ninety (;0) days
after the taking effect of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined in any sum not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000), nor
more than two thousand dollars (§2,000). In case any such railroad
corporation shall fail to comply with the provisions of said section
one (1), within six months after the taking effect of this act, it shall,
upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not ]ess than two
thousand dollars ($2,000), nor more than four thousand dollars
($4,000) ; and for every year after the taking effect of this act, any
such railroad corporation shall fail to comply with the provisions of
said section one (1), it shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than
four thousand dollars ($4,000) : Provided, that in all cases under
this act either party shall have the right of trial by jury.
§ 3. The fines hereinbefore provided for, may be recovered in an
action of debt in the name of the People of the State of Illinois.
§ 4. It shall be the duty of the Railroad and Warehouse Com-
missioners to personally investigate and ascertain whether the pro-
visions of this act are violated by any railroad corporation in this
State ; and whenever the facts in any manner ascertained by said
commissioners shall, in their judgment, warrant such prosecution,
it shall be the duty of said commissioners to immediately cause
suits to be commenced and prosecuted against any railroad corpor-
ation which may violate the provisions of this act. Said suits and
prosecutions may be instituted in any county in this State, through
or into which the line of the railroad corporation sued for violating
this act may extend. And such Railroad and Warehouse Commis-
REVENUE. 129
sioners are hereby authorized to employ counsel to assist the Attor-
ney-General in conducting such suit on behalf of the State. No
such suits commenced by said commissioners shall be dismissed,
except said Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners and the Attor-
ney-General shall consent thereto.
§ 5. All fines recovered under the provisions of this act shall be
paid into the county treasury of the county in which the suit is
tried, by the person collecting the same, in the manner now pro-
vided by law, to be used for county purposes.
Approved June 18, 1883.
REVENUE.
GENERAL levy for state purposes.
I 1. Levy for revenue fund. § 3. Computation and certificate of rate
I 2. Levy for school fund. per cent.
An Act to provide the necessary revenue jor State purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly : That there shall be raised by levy-
ing a tax by valuation upon the assessed taxable property in this
State, for the years A. D. 188 J and 1884, for general State pur-
poses, to be designated "revenue fund," the following sums, to-wit:
The sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1;500,G30)
for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to be levied on the
assessed taxable property in this State, for the year eighteen hun-
dred and eighty-three.
And one million five hunded thousand dollars ($1,500,000) for the
year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, to be levied on the assessed
taxable property in this State, for the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-four.
§ 2. That there shall also be raised by levying a tax by valua-
tion upon the assessed taxable property in this State, for the year
eighteen hundred and eighty-three, to be designated as "State school
fund," the sum of nine hundred thousand dollars ($900,000).
And there shall be raised by levying a tax on the assessed taxable
property of this State, for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-
four, to be designated as "State school fund," the sum of one mil-
lion dollars ($l,l00/_00).
There shall be also placed to the credit of said "State school fund,"
to be used for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the sum
of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) of the balance now re-
maining in "the State treasury, to the credit of said fund ; said sum
to be apportioned among the several counties, as provided for by law.
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130 ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
§ 3. The Governor and Auditor shall annually compute the sepa-
rate rates per cent, required to produce the above amount, anything
in any other act providing a different manner of ascertaining the
amount of revenue required to be levied for State purposes, to the
contrary notwithstanding. And when so ascertained, the Auditor
shall certify to the several county clerks the proper rate per cent,
therefor, and also such different rates for other purposes as are now
or may hereafter be provided by law to be levied and collected as
State taxes. And all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this
act are hereby repealed.
Approved June 25, 1883.
ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
COUNTIES UNDER TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.
§ 1. Amends section 107, act 1879, in re- § 2. Emergency,
gard to contracts between adjoin-
ing towns,
An Act to amend section 107 of an act entitled "An act in regard to
roads and bridges in counties under township o?'ganization, ,, ap-
proved May 28, 1879, in force July 1, 1879.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly; That section 107 of an act en-
titled "An act in regard to roads and bridges in counties under
township organization," approved May 28, 1879, in force July 1, 18/9,
is hereby amended so as to read as follows :
"§ 107. For the purpose of building or keeping in repair such
bridge or bridges, it shall be lawful for the commissioners of high-
ways of such adjoining towns, whether they be in the same or dif-
ferent counties, to enter into joint contracts, and such contracts
may be enforced in law or equity against such commissioners
jointly, the same as if entered into by individuals; and such com-
missioners may be proceeded against jointly by any parties inter-
ested in such bridge or bridges, for any neglect of duty in reference
to such bridge or bridges, or for any damages growing out of such
neglect. Whenever the commissioners of highways of either of such
adjoining towns shall refuse to enter into such joint contract to
build and maintain such bridge or bridges, the commissioners of
the other town shall petition the supervisor of such town to call a
special town meeting to vote upon the proposition as to whether
such town shall proceed to build and maintain such bridge or bridges
at its own expense. Such petition shall be signed by the commission-
ers in their official capacity, and by at least twenty-five freeholders of
such town, and shall be filed in the office of the town clerk of such
town. If such proposed bridge shall require a larger sum of money
to complete it than is equal to 20 cents on each of one hundred
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dollars of a single year's assessment, the proposition to borrow
money to build such bridge may also be included in the proposition
to build such bridge. Upon the riling of said petition, the super-
visor shall order the town clerk, by an instrument in writing to be
signed by him, to post up in four of the most public phices in said
town, notices of such special town meeting, which notices shall state
the object, time and place of meeting, which time shall be not less
than fifteen days from the time of posting said notices. The voting
shall be by ballot, and if simply the question as to the building of
the bridge is submitted, if the voter desires to vote for building the
bridge, his ballot shall state, "To build a bridge," and if he desires
to vote against the proposition, his ballot shall state, "Against the
proposition to build bridge." If the proposition to borrow money to
build such bridge shall be included in the notice, the maximum
amount to be borrowed shall be stated in the same, and the voter
desiring to vote affirmatively shall state on his ballot, "To build
bridge, and to borrow money to construct the same;" and if he
desires to vote negatively, his ballot shall state, "Against the prop-
osition to build bridge, and to borrow money to construct the same."
Such special town meeting shall be held, and the returns thereof
made, in the same manner which now is, or hereafter may be pro-
vided by law, for the holding of other special town meetings. If
the proposition to build such bridge shall receive a majority of all
the votes cast at such election, the commissioners shall then have
the power to contract for the building of such bridge and approaches
thereto, the same as if the bridge was entirely located in such town,
and shall have the power to acquire by purchase, lease or gift, any
bridge already built, suited to their purpose, or any land upon
which to build the approaches', or may use for the purpose of such
approaches, any public highway that may lead to the bank of the
stream where said bridge is to be built, on either side of said stream,
whether such highway may be within the limits of said town or
county or not. If a proposition to build such bridge and borrow
money to build the same shall receive a majority of the votes cast
at such special town meeting, the supervisor and town clerk, under
the direction of the commissioners of highways, shall issue from
time to time, as the work progresses, a sufficient amount in the
aggregate of the bonds of said town for the purpose of building-
such bridge and the approaches thereto, or to purchase any bridge
already built, as the case may be ; said bonds to be of such denom-
inations, bear such rate of interest, not exceeding eight per cent.,
upon such time, and be disposed of, as the necessities and conven-
iences of said commissioners may require. Such bonds shall not
be sold for less than their par value, and such town shall provide'
for the payment of such bonds and interest by appropriate taxa-
tion."
§ 2. As there are now towns in this State in great need of the
authority to build such bridges, and the people of which desire to
vote upon the same at the coming April town meeting, therefore
an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect from and after
its passage.
Approved March 29, 1883.
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EOADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
HARD ROADS.
§ 2.
§ 3.
§ 4.
5.
§ I. Provides for special election to vote
on levying taxes for constructing
hard roads.
Form of ballot.
How taxes shall be levied.
Extension of tax by clerks.
Treasurer's bond.
§ 6. Tax paid to Treasurer — commis-
sions of Treasurer.
§ 7. Highway commissioners may em-
ploy surveyor.
§ 8. Advertising for proposals.
§ 9. Specifications.
§ 10. Letting contracts by commission-
ers.
§ 11. Proposals may be rejected— con-
tractor's bonds.
§ 12. Estimates on completed work.
§ 13. Records and report of commission-
ers.
§ 14. District roads.
§ 15. Materials, how procured— condemn
land— damages.
§ 16. "Compensation of commissioners
and surveyors.
§ 17-18. Proceedings in counties not un-
der township organization.
§ 19. All roads constructed under this act
declared public.
§ 20. Surplus funds.
An Act to authorize the construction and maintenance of gravel, rock,
macadam or other hard roads.
Section I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That on the petition of fifty land
owners, who are legal voters, of any township to the town clerk
thereof, in counties under township organization, or road districts
in counties not under township organization, to the county clerk, he
shall, when giving notice of the time and place for holding the next
annual town meeting or road district meeting, also give notice that
a vote will be taken at said election for or against levying a tax
not to exceed one dollar on each one hundred dollars assessed valu-
ation of all the taxable property, including railroads, in the town-
ship or road districts, for the purpose of constructing and maintain-
ing gravel, rock, macadam or other hard roads ; said petition shall
state the location and route of the proposed road or roads, not ex-
ceeding two; and shall also state the rate per cent., not exceeding
one dollar on each one hundred dollars, and the number of years,
not exceeding five, for which said tax shall be levied.
§ 2. The ballots at said election shall contain the following form :
"For special tax for gravel, rock, macadam or other hard roads,"
"Against special tax for gravel, rock, macadam or other hard
roads."
§ 3. If a majority of all the ballots cast at said election shall be
in favor of said special tax, then it shall be the duty of the com-
missioners of highways of the township or road district to levy a
tax in accordance with said vote, and certify the same to the town
clerk in counties under township _ organization, or to the district
clerk in counties not under township organization, as the case may
be, who shall certify the amount voted to the county clerk, who
shall cause the same to be extended on the tax books for the cur-
rent year : Provided, that the length of time for which the special
tax levy shall continue shall not exceed five years, and also the
road or roads to be improved must be designated in the petition.
The commissioners may also receive donations in money, labor,
materials or other valuable things, to aid in the construction of
said road.
§ 4. The county clerk, when making out the tax books for the
State and county tax for the collector, shall extend the special tax
ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES. l£3
in separate columns against the tax payer's name or taxable prop-
erty, as other taxes are extended, which shall be collected the same
as State and county taxes, and known as the permanent road fund.
§ 5. The treasurer of said commissioners of highways, before
receiving any of said fund, shall execute a good and sufficient bond,
with two or more sureties, to be filed with the town clerk, or board
of highway commissioners in counties not under township organiza-
tion, for the benefit of the township, or board of highway commis-
sioners in counties not under township organization, in double the
amount that will probably come into his hands.
§ 6. The tax, when collected, shall be paid to said treasurer as
fast as collected, except such rate per cent, as shall be allowed for
collecting the same, and said tax shall be known and kept as the
permanent road fund. The treasurer shall be allowed one per cent.
on all of said funds that comes into his hands.
§ 7. The commissioners of highways shall have power to employ
a competent surveyer or civil engineer and their necessary assist-
ants, for "the purpose of surveying the route of the road to be im-
proved, and make plans, specifications and estimates of said work.
The commissioners shall cause the same to be divided into con-
venient sections, and each section numbered.
§ S. When the plans and specifications are completed, the com-
missioners shall advertise for sealed bids for said work, by publish-
ing a notice thereof, for at least three weeks, in some newspaper
published in said township. If there is no newspaper published
therein, then in the newspaper published nearest said township, and
also by posting notices in at least ten of the most public places in
said town.
§ 9. The plans and specifications shall provide for the grading
of a road-bed of not less than twenty feet in width on the surface,
and so constructed as to drain freely to the sides, and with all
necessary side and lateral ditches and tile drains, bridges and cul-
verts, and a track laid with gravel, rock, macadam, or other hard
and durable substance, not less than seven nor more than sixteen
feet in width, and if constructed of gravel or broken stone, not less
than ten inches thick in the center and eight inches thick on the
edges : Provided, however, this section shall be considered as direc-
tory only, and shall not prohibit the making of roads of different
width or thickness, in the discretion of the commissioners.
§ 10. The commissioners shall meet at the time and place ap-
pointed, for the purpose of opening the bids, and shall proceed to
let the contracts publicly to th.3 lowest responsible bidder or bidders
by sections, with proper specifications of the various kinds of labor
or material on each section ; and bidders shall be required to sepa-
rately state their bids for each class of work in such manner as the
commissioners may provide, and each contractor shall be required
to give bond, with good and sufficient sureties, for the performance
of his contract, payable to the commissioners for the use and bene-
fit of the township, with the necessary specifications and stipulations
on the part of the contractor entered therein. But no commissioner
shall be interested, either directly or indirectly, in any contract
relating in any manner to said road.
184 ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
§ 11. If the commissioners shall be of the opinion that the bids
are too high, they may reject the same. No contract shall be deemed
as let unless the contractor shall, within ten days after letting, enter
into contract and file a bond, with two good and sufficient sureties,
with the commissioners, in the penal sum of double the amount of
the contract, payable to the commissioners upon the failure to com-
ply with the conditions of his or their contract.
§ 12. The commissioners shall cause their surveyor or engineer
to make estimates of the work done, and certify to the same, not
oftener than once in thirty days, as may have been provided in the
contracts, and shall then issue an order on their treasurer in favor
of the contractor, reserving not less than twenty per cent, of said
estimates, to guarantee the completion of the contract. Upon the
completion of the contract the commissioners and engineer shall'
make a thorough and complete examination and estimate of said
work, and, if found in accordance with the specifications of the
contract, the commissioners shall issue their order on the treasurer
for the full amount due the contractor.
§ 18. The commissioners shall keep a full and accurate record
of all their proceedings under this act, and shall, upon the com-
pletion of the road, file with the town clerk all records, papers,
plans, plats, estimates, specifications and contracts, and shall make
a full report to, and settlement with the board of town auditors at
all regular meetings of the same. If the commissioners fail to
make such settlement, the supervisor shall cause an action to be
instituted against them, in the corporate name of the township, to
enforce such settlement.
§ 14. The commissioners may, in their discretion, cause the road
to be constructed wholly of earth, and by a thorough system of tile
and other drainage, when gravel, stone and other suitable hard
materials cannot be obtained at a cost within the means in the
hands of the commissioners.
§ 15. The commissioners, for the purpose of constructing, main-
taining or repairing gravel, rock, macadam or other hard roads, as
provided in this act, and for procuring materials therefor, may enter
upon lands of others, doing no more damage than the necessity of
the case may require, and take therefrom such material as is neces-
sary for the construction and repairing of said roads : Provided,
that the commissioners of highways, their employees or teams, shall
not enter upon such lands for the purpose in this section stated,
without having paid or tendered the amount of damage allowed or
agreed upon: Provided,' that the commissioners and the party or
parties owning or controlling the lands to be entered upon, or from
which material is to be taken, cannot agree as to the amount of
damage or value of material, that the amount of damage shall be
determined as provided for in the law for exercising the right of
eminent domain.
§ 16. The commissioners shall receive the same compensation
for their service under this act as for service under the common
road law. Provided, they shall not receive pay for both kinds of
service on the same day. The surveyor or engineer shall receive a
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compensation not to exceed that allowed by law to county survey-
ors. The assistants or employees shall receive such reasonable
compensation as may be agreed upon. The commissioners shall be
paid by the supervisor out of the town fund. The surveyors and
other employees shall be paid by the commisioner out of the per-
manent road fund.
§ 17. The several county boards of counties not under township
organization are hereby vested with the same powers for construct-
ing, repairing and maintaining gravel, rock, macadam or other hard
roads, in their respective counties, as the commissioners of high-
ways in their respective townships, by the provisions of this act :
Provided, however, that the question of raising a special permanent
road tax for the purpose set forth in this act shall first be sub-
mitted to the legal voters of the county, at any regular election for
county officers, on the petition of one hundred land owners, who
are legal voters residing in said county, to the county clerk, pre-
vious to the time of posting the notices for said county election,
said petition and notices to designate the road or roads to be im-
proved, and number of years, not to exceed five, for which the tax
shall be continued,
§ 18. The ballots shall be in the form prescribed in section 2 of
this act. If a majority of all the ballots cast at said election shall
be in favor of the special permanent road tax, it shall then be the
duty of the county board to direct the county clerk to extend such
tax against all the taxable property, including railroads, in said
county, and proceed in the construction of the road or roads voted
for, in the same manner as provided for the guidance of commis-
sioners of highways in their respective townships.
§ 19. All roads constructed under the provisions of this act,
either by townships under township organization, or by counties in
counties not under township organization, shall be free for public
travel, and kept in repair by the proper authorities.
§ 20. Ail surplus funds remaining in the hands of the treasurer,
after the completion of such roads, shall be turned over to the
common road fund of said township or road district, as the case
may be, except so much thereof as the commissioners may order
retained for the purpose of repairing said permanent roads.
Approved June 18. 1883.
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§ 7.
§ 8.
§ 9.
§ 10.
§ ii.
§ 12.
§ 13.
§ 14.
§ 15.
§ 16.
§ 17.
§ 18.
§ 10.
§ 20.
§ 21.
§ 22.
§ 23.
§ 24.
§ 25.
§ 26.
§ 27.
§ 28.
§ 29.
§ 30.
§ 31.
§ 32.
§ 33.
§ 34.
§ 35.
§ 36.
Public highways. § 37.
Commissioners of highways have
charge— permanent roads. §38.
General superintendent— contracts.
etc.
Commissioners prohibited from be- § 39.
ing interested in contracts or
purchases. § 40.
Duties of commissioners. § 41.
Drainage— joining with the adjoin- § 42.
ing landowners.
Willow hedge destroyed — tree § 43.
planting.
Ditches and drains— entering upon § 44.
adjoining land.
Grading— sidewalks— corner stones
— culverts. § 45.
Organization of board of commis- § 46.
sioners— officers — meetings.
Poll-tax— collection in money. § 47.
Collection on execution.
Semi-annual meetings of commis- § 48.
sioners to fix tax rate— limit of
rate. § 49.
Additional tax rate in case of emer-
gency. § 50.
Assessments to pay damages.
Levy certified to county clerk-
taxes in cities, towns and vil- § 51.
lages.
Payment of damages. § 52.
Report of commissioners to town
auditors. § 53.
Bridges— county aid.
Special elections to vote on borrow- § 54.
ing money— bonds.
Bridges over streams which idivide § 55.
towns and counties.
Joint contracts between towns and § 56.
counties.
Refusal of either adjoining town to § 57.
enter into contract— special elec-
tion.
Repairs on bridges built by joint § 58.
contract.
Contracts for repairs or construe- § 59.
tion— notice of lettings.
Contracts for on town lines— adver- § 60.
tise for bids.
Rejection of bids— contract and § 61.
bond of successful bidders.
Contracts payable upon completion
of work. § 62.
Penalties for driving faster than a § G3.
walk.
Laying out roads— width— opening
—vacated. § 64.
Altering, widening, vacating and
laying out roads— petition. § 65.
Petition shall set forth description § 66.
of road, etc. § 67.
Hearing upon petition— notice of
meeting. § 68.
Adjourned meeting— announcement § 69.
of decision filed with town clerk.
Petition for vacation— hearing— de-
cision filed with town clerk. § 70.
Survy and plat of new roads or
alterations. § 71.
Re-survey of roads made upon pe-
tition.
Locating new road on line of old
one, shall not vacate old unless
so declared.
Commissioners shall ascertain
damages before locating.
Damages by agreement— release.
Damages assessed by jury— service. ■
Service upon minors and defective
persons.
Service ui on non-resident or un-
known owners by notices.
Venire for jury— one-half residents
of town assessed— change of
venue.
Conduct of trial before justice.
Title of suit— evidence— visit pro-
posed location— benefits.
Final meeting of commissioners be-
fore locating -notice.
Revocation of damages assessed —
new trials.
Order locating survey, etc., filed
with and recorded by town clerk.
Location of roads where claims for
damages have been released or
agreed upon.
Inducements by donations for loca-
ting roads authorized.
Records of town clerk evidence of
fact.
Removal of fences — notice — remov-
al by commissioners— expenses.
Private roads — width —location-
damages— appeals.
Private roads opened within two
years.
Private roads over inclosed lands —
time for harvesting crops.
Location of public roads on town-
ship or county lines and into other
townships.
Roads between towns — expenses of
opening and repairs.
Appeals to supervisors— Petition
filed with justice.
Justice summon supervisors to hear
appeals— proceedings.
Decision on appeals shall be final —
report— compensation of super-
visors.
Appeal bonds-costs.
Disagreements b tween commis-
sioners of different towns— ap-
peals.
County and town line roads defined
—repair.
Roads on State lines— location.
Compensation of commissioners.
Refusal or neglect of duty by com-
missioners—penalties.
"Carriages" — terra defined.
This act not to interfere with ordi-
nances regulating licenses in
cities and towns.
Destroy ing or defacing guide boards
or mile stones— penalties.
Obstructing highways— penalties.
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§ 72. Depositing garbage in roads— pen-
alties.
§ 73. Destroying or injuring sidewalks,
bridges, culverts, etc.— pens lties.
§ 74. Suits for recovery of fines and pen-
alties, and on contracts.
§ 75. Fines paid into treasury of town
commissioners.
§ 76. Cattle crossings under roads.
§ 77. "Right of the road"— penalties for
neglect.
§ 78. "Drunken drivers"— penalties.
§ 79. Repeal of act 1879— saving clause.
§ 80. Petition to adopt the labor system-
elections— effect if adopted.
§ 81. Lists filed by overseer— delivered
by town clerk to commissioners
—assessments.
§ 82. Labor to be performed— who are
liable.
§ 83 Taxation— rate— cities and villages.
§ 84. Assessment rolls prepared by com-
missioner and filed with town
clerk.
§ 85. Town clerk shall deliver copies to
overseers.
§ 86. Overseers shall add omitted names
to lists.
§ 87. Labor on private roads.
§ 88. Town clerk shall post notices of
assessments— payment in labor.
§ 89. Refusal or neglect of duty by com-
missioners—penalties.
I 90. Appointment of overseers.
§ 91. Duties of overseers.
§ 92. Refusal of overseer to serve— va-
cancy— appointments.
§ 93. Appointments filed with town clerk.
§ 94. Penalty for refusing to act as over-
seer.
§ 95. Notice to persons to work upon the
highways.
§ 96. Commutation of labor in money.
§ 97. Persons commuting shall pay with-
in three days after notice to work.
§ 98. Overseer may require teams.
§ 99. Labor may be performed by a sub-
stitute.
§ 100. Penalties for idling or interfering
with others.
§ 101. Penalties for refusal or neglect to
work or commute.
§ 102. Complaint to be made of persons
in default.
§ 103. Justice shall summons to appear
in five days.
§ 104. Trial — judgment — costs — execu-
tion.
§105. Collection of judgment.
§ 106. Fines collected set off against tax.
§ 107. Acceptance of excuse by overseer
no exemption.
§ 108. Notice to persons liable to appear
and work out tax.
§ 109. Reeeipr for taxes paid and credited
on books.
§ 110. Overseer deliver to supervisors as-
sessment lists.
§ 111. Penalties for refusal or neglect to
deliver lists.
§ 112. Three-fourthsofroadlaborworked
out or expended before Septem-
ber.
§ 113. Report of overseer to commission-
ers before annualtown meeting.
§ 114. Overseer shall render account of
moneys and pay over to succes-
sor.
§ 115. Penalties for failure to render ac-
count and pay over balances.
§ 116. Supervisors shall receive list from
overseers and lay before board
of supervisors.
§ 117. Delinquent taxes to be levied on
lands and collected.
§ 118. Compensation of overseers.
§ 119. Commissioners shall certify to
county board annual taxes nec-
essnry for repairs, etc.
§ 120. Town clerk shall furnish to county
clerk plats of road districts.
§ 121. Taxes extended shall designate
district.
§ 122. County and township collectors
shall furnish treasurer of com-
missioners abstract of road tax
due each district.
§ 123. Treasurer shall pay to overseer
taxes according to the abstracts
furnished, upon order properly
approved.
§ 124. Repealof act of 1879— saving clause.
An Act in regard to roads and bridges in counties under township
organization, and to repeal an act and parts of acts therein named.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That all roads in this State which
have been laid out in pursuance of any law of this State, or of the
territory of Illinois, or which have been established by dedication
or used by the public as a highway for twenty years, and which
have not been vacated in pursuance of law, are hereby declared to
be public highways.
§ 2. The commissioners of highways shall have charge of the
roads and bridges of their respective towns, and it shall be their
duty to keep the same in repair, and to improve them so far as
practicable. Whenever the available means at their disposal will
permit, they shall construct permanent roads, beginning where most
needed. The work on roads shall be done timely, and in accord-
ance with the best known methods of road making, by proper
grading and thorough drainage by tile or otherwise, as may be
expedient, or by the application of gravel, rock or other material.
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§ 3. In order to insure efficiency, tbey may employ a general
superintendent outside their own body to work and to execute their
orders ; or they may divide the work, let contracts, appoint over-
seers, employ laborers or such other agencies as they may deem
expedient and most to the interest of the town.
§ 4. In letting contracts, employing labor, or- in purchasing tools,
machinery or materials, the commissioners shall not have, directly
or indirectly, any personal pecuniary interest in connection there-
with. The commissioners shall not have power to let any contract,
purchase tools, machinery or materials, except as ordered by the
board at an authorized meeting.
§ 5. Their duties shall include :
1. To lay out, alter, widen or vacate roads as hereinafter pro-
vided, and to exercise such care and superintendence over roads
and bridges as the public good may require.
2. To cause such roads used as highways as have been laid out
or dedicated to public use, but not sufficiently described, and such
as have been used for twenty years, but not recorded, to be ascer-
tained, described and entered of record in the town clerk's office.
3. To purchase, for use upon highways, such necessary tools,
implements and machinery as they may think proper.
4. To take possession of and keep under shelter, when not in
use, all scrapers, plows and . other tools belonging to their towns
wherever the same may be found, and not allow the same to go to
waste, and not lend the same except to persons employed by them
to work the roads by contract or otherwise.
5. To cause to be erected and kept in repair, at the forks or
crossing place of the most important public roads, a post and guide
board, with plain inscription thereon, in letters and figures, giving
directions and distances to the most noted places to which such
road may lead ; to prevent thistles, burdock, cockle-burs, mustard,
yellow dock, Indian mallow and gympson weed from seeding, and
to extirpate the same so far as practicable ; and to prevent all
rank growth of vegetation in the public highway by causing the
same to be cut and destroyed prior to the seeding of the same, and
at the farthest prior to September 1st in each and every year; and
the said commissioners may, at their discretion, adopt any suitable
and convenient mode of supplying water in troughs conveniently
situated on the public highway for public use.
6. It is hereby made unlawful, and the commissioners are re-
quired to prevent any one, at any time, from plowing in the public
highways for any purpose, unless by the consent of at least two of
the commissioners.
§ 6. Whenever the commissioners are about to lay a tile drain
along a public road, they shall have power to contract with the own-
ers or occupants of adjoining lands to lay larger tile than would be
necessary to drain the road, and to permit connection therewith by
such contracting parties to drain their lands.
§ 7. Where willow hedges, or a line of willow or cottonwood trees
have been planted along the margin of the road, so as to render
tiling impracticable, the commissioners may contract with the owner
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for their destruction, and they shall be destroyed before tiling. The
planting of these trees hereafter on the margin of roads, is hereby
declared a public nuisance, unless the same are planted by the con-
sent of the commissioners.
§ 8. The commissioners of highways of the several towns are
hereby authorized to enter upon any land adjacent to any highway
iu their town for the purpose of opening any ditch, drain necessary
sluice or water-course, whenever it shall be necessary to open a
water-course from any highway to the natural water-courses, and to
dig, open and clean ditches upon said land for the purpose of car-
rying off the water from said highways, or to drain any slough or
pond on said highway : Provided, that unless the owner of such
land, or his agent, shall first consent to the cutting of such ditches,
the commissioners shall apply to any justice of the peace in the
county in which such road is situated, for a summons directed to
any constable of said county, commanding him to summon the said
owner to appear before the said justice, at a time and place speci-
fied in such summons, not less than five nor more than fifteen days
from the date thereof, for the purpose of having the damage as-
sessed which such owner may sustain by reason of the digging or
opening of such ditches or drains. The said summons shall be
under the hand of the said justice, and be served in the same man-
ner as a summons is now served in civil actions before justices of
the peace. On the return of such summons, venire shall be issued
for a jury of twelve persons, who shall be summoned, and whose
competency shall be determined as in other cases in the trial of
civil actions before justices of the peace ; which jury shall assess
such damages and render a verdict therefor, which shall be final and
conclusive of the amount of damages sustained by such person, and
the amounts so awarded shall be paid, before the commissioners of
highways shall be warranted and empowered to enter such lands,
and dig, open and clean such drains, ditches and water-courses, as
aforesaid, for the purposes contemplated in this act ; and the com-
missioners of highways are further authorized to use and employ the
road and bridge money of their town for such, purposes : Provided,
that in case the owner of said lands is a non-resident, service may
be had by leaving a copy with the occupant or agent, or by notice,
in the same manner as prescribed in section 43 of this act.
§ 9. In grading roads, wherever practicable, it shall be done so
as to leave not less than one-tenth of the width of the road on each
side for a sidewalk ; and the space between these points shall be
made a regular oval grade, so that the entire space can be used for
traveling purposes, and it shall be unlawful to ride or drive on such
walk; and any person so offending shall be subject to a fine of one
dollar for each offense. Grading shall be done before the first of
September in each year. Corner stones marking sectional or other
corners, shall not be disturbed, except to so grade the road that
these, if in the line of travel, shall not rise above tlae surface, and cor-
ner stakes shall be replaced by good and substantial stones. In
grading public roads, if a ditch is made at the junction of roads, or
at the entrance of gates, or other openings of adjoining premises,
the road authorities shall construct good and sufficient culverts, or
other convenient crossings.
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§ 10. TI13 commissioners of each town shall meet, on the second
Tuesday after the annual town meeting in each year, at the town
clerk's office, and shall organize as a board by electing one of their
number president and one of their number treasurer, and the town
clerk shall be ex-officio clerk of said board, and shall keep a record
of all the official acts and proceedings of the board in a well-bound
book, to be provided for that purpose, which record shall be signed
by the president and clerk. Said board shall hold regular meetings
at such times as they shall designate, and special meetings as oc-
casion may require, at the call of the president, or any two of the
commissioners, and no official business shall be transacted by the
board, except at a regular or special meeting. If the president or
town clerk be absent from a meeting, or refuse to perform his of-
ficial duties, a president or clerk pro tempore shall be appointed
from their own number. The treasurer so chosen shall receive and
have charge of all moneys raised in the town for the support and
maintenance of roads and bridges, excepting such portions of the
moneys as are hereinafter directed to be paid to the authorities of
incorporated villages, towns and cities. He shall hold such moneys
at all times subject to the order of the commissioners of highways,
and shall pay them over upon their order, or a majority of said
commissioners, and not otherwise. Before the person so chosen as
treasurer shall be entitled to act as such, and within ten days after
his appointment, he shall execute a good and sufficient bond, in
double the amount liable to come into his hands, with two or more
landholders as sureties, in such amount and in such manner as the
supervisor and town clerk shall determine, conditioned for the faith-
ful discharge of his duties as such treasurer, and that he will hon-
estly and faithfully account for and pay over, upon the order of the
commissioners, all moneys that shall come into his hands by virtue
of his said office ; which bond shall be payable to the supervisor of
the town, and his successor in office, ancl be approved by the su-
pervisor and town clerk, and filed in the town clerk's office. Such
treasurer shall receive such compensation for such services as treas-
urer, as may be fixed by the commissioners, not to exceed two per
cent, of the amount of money that comes into his hands, excepting
such amount as he receives from his predecessor, or such amount
as may be borrowed for the use of the town ; and he shall keep an
account, in a book provided by the commissioners, of all moneys
received and all moneys paid out, showing in detail to whom and
on what account the same is so paid. The town clerk shall, im-
mediately, upon the filing of said bond, notify the county treasurer
thereof, by a certificate under his hand and seal.
§ 11. At this meeting they shall make out a list of able-bodied
men in their town, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years,
and deliver the same to their treasurer on or before the first day
of May in each year, and assess at such meeting against each per-
son upon such list, a sum of not less than one, nor more than two
dollars as a poll-tax, for highway purposes, to be paid to such
treasurer by the first Monday in June of each year : Provided, that
paupers, idiots, lunatics, and such others as are exempt by law,
shall not be compelled to pay a poll-tax for highway purposes : Pro-
vided, also, that this list shall not include persons within the limits
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of cities or incorporated villages. They shall, within ten days after
such list is delivered to their treasurer, cause written or printed notices
to be given to each person so assessed, notifying him of the time
when and place where such tax must be paid ; and if this poll-tax
shall not be paid by the first Monday of June in such year, it shall
be the duty of the commissioners, in the name of the town, to bring
suit therefor against such person, before some justice of the peace
having jurisdiction thereof. Summons shall be issued and returned
in the same manner as provided by law in other cases. If judg-
ment is rendered against defendant, the court shall find, in such
judgment, that the same is for poll-tax unpaid, and shall endorse
the same on the execution, if one is issued. No property belonging
to the defendant shall be exempt from levy to satisfy such execu-
tion.
§ 12. The constable to whom such execution shall be delivered
shall forthwith collect the moneys therein mentioned. He shall pay
the money so collected, when collected, to the ju-.tice of the peace
who issued the execution, who is hereby required to pay the same
to the treasurer of the road and bridge fund.
§ 23. The commissioners shall also meet semi-annually, on the
same day and at the same place of meeting of the board of town audi-
tors. At the meeting immediately preceding the annual meeting of
the county board, the commissioners shall determine what per cent,
of tax shall be levied on the property of the town for road and
bridge purposes, and for the payment of any outstanding orders
drawn by them on their treasurer, which levy shall not exceed sixty
cents on each one hundred dollars.
§ 14. If, in the opinion of the commissioners, a greater levy is
needed in view of some contingency, they may certify the same to
the board of town auditors and the assessor, a majority of whom
shall be a quorum, and with the consent of a majority of this entire
board given in writing, an additional levy may be made of any sum
not exceeding forty cents on the one hundred dollars of the taxable
property of the town.
§ 15. When damages have been agreed upon, allowed or awarded
for laying out, widening, altering or vacating roads, or for ditching
to drain roads, the amounts of such damages, not to exceed, for
any one year, twenty cents on each one hundred dollars of the tax-
able property of the town, shall be included in the first succeeding
tax levy, provided for in section thirteen of this act, and be in ad-
dition to the levy for road and bridge purposes ; and when collected,
shall constitute and be held by the treasurer of the commissioners
as a separate fund, to be paid out to the, parties entitled to receive
the same.
§ 16. The commissioners, at said semi-annual meeting, shall
make a certificate of the rate per centum finally agreed upon, by
virtue of sections thirteen and fourteen of this act, also, the amount
to liquidate road and ditch damages, and shall cause such certifi-
cate to be delivered to the town clerk, to be kept by him on file for
the inspection of the inhabitants of said town ; and the town clerk
shall at once certify these two items of levy to the county clerk, to
be by him extended as one tax upon the collector's book of said
142 ROADS, HIGHWAYS AND BRIDGES.
town, to be collected as other taxes, and when collected, shall be
paid to the treasurer of the commissioners by the collector as fast
as the same is collected, except such rate per cent, as shall be
allowed for collecting the same : Provided, that one-half the tax
provided to be levied in section thirteen of this act, and collected
for road and bridge purposes on the property lying within an in-
corporated village, town or city in which the streets and alleys are
under the care of the corporation, shall be paid over to the treas-
urer of such village, town or city, to be appropriated to the im-
provement of roads, streets and bridges, either within or without
said village, town or city, and within the township, under the
direction of the corporate authorities of such village, town or city :
Provided, further, that when any of said tax is expended beyond
the limits of said village, town or city, it shall be with the consent
of the road commissioners of the town.
§ 17. t Whenever damages have been allowed for roads or ditches,
the commissioners may draw orders on their treasurer, payable
only out of the tax to be levied for such roads or ditches, when the
money shall be collected or received, to be given to persons damaged.
§ 18. At the semi-annual meeting immediately preceding the
annual town meeting, the commissioners shall meet and report to
the board of town auditors, in writing :
1. The amount of poll-tax assessed, how much paid, and how
much delinquent.
2. The amount of road and bridge money received by the town,
and a full and detailed statement as to how and where expended,
and the balance, if any, unexpended.
3. The amount raised for damages in laying out, altering, widen-
ing, or vacating roads, and right of way for ditches.
4. The amount of liabilities incurred and not paid ; and if such
liabilities are undetermined, they shall be estimated.
5. Any additional matter concerning the roads ■ and bridges of
the town they may think expedient and proper to make.
§ 19. When it is necessary to construct or repair any bridge
over a stream, or any approach or approaches thereto, by means
of an embankment or trestle-work, on a public road in any town,
or on, or near to, or across a town line, in which work the town
is wholly or in part responsible, and the cost of which will be more
than twenty cents on the one hundred dollars on the latest assess-
ment roll, and the levy of the road and bridge tax for that year
in said town was for the full amount of sixty cents on each one
hundred dollars allowed by law for the commissioners to raise, the
major part of which is needed for the ordinary repair of roads and
bridges, the commissioners may petition the county board for aid ;
and if the foregoing facts shall appear, the county board shall ap-
propriate from the county treasury a sum sufficient to meet one-
half the expenses of the said bridge or other work, on condition
that the town asking aid shall furnish the other half of the required
amount. The expenditure of these joint funds shall be made by
the commissioners and two persons appointed by the board of
supervisors, and any surplus funds appropriated by the county
board, after the completion of the work, shall be paid into or lapse-
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into the county treasury : Provided, however, that before any bridge
or approaches as contemplated as above shall be constructed or
repaired under the provisions of this section, the commissioners
shall make a careful estimate of the probable cost of the same and
attach thereto their affidavits that the same is necessary, and will
not be made more expensive than is needed for the purpose desired ;
and such estimate and affidavit shall be filed with the petition :
Provided, that in case of some emergency arising from the sudden
destruction or serious damage to a bridge or its approaches, when
delay in repairing or rebuilding would be detrimental to the public
interest, such petition to the county board may be presented during
the progress of the work or after its completion, and if the facts
appear as contemplated by this section, then the county board
shall appropriate one half of such cost, with like conditions that
the town pay the other half.
§ 20. When the commissioners desire to expend on any bridge
or other distinct and expensive work on the road, a greater sum of
money than Is available to them by other means, the said com-
missioners may petition the supervisor of the town to call a
special town meeting to vote on the proposition, which shall be
clearly stated in the petition substantially as follows; "To borrow
$.... to construct or repair, [describe the bridge or other workj."
which said petition shall be signed by said commissioners in their
official capacity and by at least twenty-five freeholders of such town ;
and thereupon such petition shall be filed in the office of the town clerk
of such town. Upon the filing of said petition, the supervisor shall or-
der the town clerk, by an instrument in writing to be signed by him,
to post up in ten of the most public places in said town, notices of
such special town meeting; which notice shall state the object, time
and place of meeting, the maximum sum to be borrowed, and the
manner in which the voting is to be had, which shall invariably be
by ballot, and shall be "For borrowing money to [here define the
purpose J,' r or "Against borrowing money [here define the purpose]."
The special town meeting shall be held at the place of the last
annual town meeting, by giving at least ten days' notice, and
returns thereof made in the same manner as other special town
meetings are now, or may hereafter be provided by law; and if it
shall appear that a majority of the legal voters voting at said elec-
tion shall be in favor of said proposition, the supervisor and town
clerk, acting under the direction of the commissioners of said town,
shall issue from time to time, as the work progresses, a sufficient
amount in the aggregate of the bonds of said town for the pur-
pose of building such bridge, or other distinct and expensive work ;
said bonds to be of such denominations, bear such rate of interest,
not exceeding six per cent., upon such time, and be disposed of as
the necessities and conveniences of said town officers require :
Provided, that said bonds shall not be sold or disposed of for less
than their par value, and such town shall provide for the payment
of such bonds and the interest thereon by appropriate taxation.
§ 21. Bridges over streams which divide towns or counties, and
bridges over streams on roads on county or town lines, shall be
built and repaired at the expense of such towns or counties : Pro-
vided, that for the building and maintaining of bridges over
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streams near county or town lines, in which both are interested,
the expense of building and maintaining any such bridges shall be
borne by both counties or towns in such portion as shall be just
and equitable between said towns or counties, taking into consider-
ation the taxable property in each, the location of the bridge, and
the advantage of each, to be determined by the commissioners in
making contracts for the same as provided for in section 22 of this act.
§ 22. For the purpose of building or keeping in repair such bridge
or bridges, it shall be lawful for the commissioners of such adjoin-
ing towns, whether they be in the same or different counties, or
county boards of such adjoining counties, to enter into joint contracts,
and such contracts may be enforced in law or equity against such
commissioners jointly, the same as if entered into by individuals,
and such commissioners or county boards may be proceeded against
jointly, by any parties interested in such bridge or bridges, for any
neglect of duty in reference to such bridge or bridges, or for any
damage growing out of such neglect.
§ 23. Whenever the commissioners of either of such adjoining
towns shall refuse to enter into such joint contracts to build and
maintain such bridge or bridges, the commissioners of the other
town may call a special town meeting to vote upon the proposition
as to whether such town shall proceed to build and maintain such
bridge or bridges at its own expense. If such proposed bridge shall
require a greater sum of money to complete it than is available to the
commissioners by other means, they may also submit the proposi-
tion to such special town meeting to borrow money to build such
bridge. The voting shall be by ballot, and if simply the question
as to the building of the bridge is submitted, if the voter desires to
vote for building the bridge, his ballot shall state "to build bridge,"
and if he desires to vote against the proposition, his ballot shall
state "against the proposition to build bridge." If the proposition
to borrow money to build such bridge shall be included in the notice,
the maximum amount to be borrowed shall be stated in the same,
and the voter desiring to vote affirmatively shall state on his ballot
"to build bridge and to borrow money to construct the same," and
if he desires to vote negatively, his ballot shall state "against the
proposition to build bridge and to borrow money to construct the
same." Such special town meeting shall be called and held in the
same manner which is provided for special town meetings in section
20 of this act. If the proposition to build such bridge shall receive
a majority of all the votes cast at such election, the commissioners
shall then have the power to contract for the building of such bridge
and approaches thereto, the same as if the bridge was entirely located
in such town, and shall have the power to acquire, by purchase,
lease or gift, any private bridge already built, suited to their pur-
pose, or any land upon which to build the approaches, or may use
for the purpose of such approaches any public highway that may
lead to the bank of the stream where said bridge is to be built, on
either side of said stream, whether such highway be within the
limits of said town or county or not. If the proposition to build
such bridge and borrow money to build the same shall receive a
majority of the votes cast at such special town meeting, the super-
visor and town clerk, under the direction of the commissioners,
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shall issue from time to time, as the work progresses, a sufficient
amount hi the aggregate of the bonds of said town, for the purpose
of building such bridge and the approaches thereto, or to purchase
any private bridge already built, as the case may be, said bonds to
be of such denominations, bear such rate of interest, not exceeding-
eight per cent., upon such time, and be disposed of as the neces-
sities and conveniences of said commissioners may require. Such
bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, and such
town shall provide for the payment of such bonds and interest by
appropriate taxation.
§ 21. If the commissioners of either of such towns, or county
boards of such counties, after reasonable notice in writing from the
commissioners of any other such towns or county boards of such
counties, shall neglect or refuse to build or repair any such bridge
when any contract or agreement has been made in regard to the
same, it shall be lawful for the commissioners or county board, so
giving notice" to build or repair the same, to recover, by suit, one-
half (or such amount as shall have been agreed upon) of the expense
of so building or repairing such bridge, with costs of suit and inter-
est from the time of the completion thereof, from the commissioners
or county board so neglecting or refusing.
§ 25. The commissioners are hereby authorized to contract for
the construction and repairing of roads and bridges, but when such
contracts are for a sum exceeding $75.00, they shall give at least
ten days notice of time and place of letting such contract, by post-
ing notices in at least ten public places in and contiguous to the
town, describing the work and time of completion : Provided, in
case where bridges have been suddenly destroyed on any important
highway, then such commissioners may privately contract for replacing
such bridge to an amount not exceeding $150.
§ £6. Contracts for constructing and repairing roads and bridges
on town lines, or across streams on town lines, shall be let by the
commissioners of the two towns, who shall meet and act as one
body when taking action upon the letting of such contracts for the
construction or repair of' such roads and bridges, or acceptance of
the work. When such contracts are for the expenditure of a sum
exceeding $1C0 they shall advertise for bids in the same manner as
provided in the preceding section, except that the notices shall be
posted in and contiguous to the two towns.
§ 27. At such public letting, as provided for in the two preceding
sections, the commissioners shall have the right to reject any and
all bids if they deem it to the best interests of the town, and no
contract shall be considered as let unless the contractor shall, within
ten days after the letting, enter into contract and file a bond, with
two good and sufficient sureties, v/ith the commissioners, in the
penal sum of double the amount of the contract, payable to the
commissioners of the town, upon failure to comply with the condi-
tions of his or their contract.
§ 28. All contracts for the construction or repair of roads, or
building or repairing bridges, shall be made payable as soon as the
work on said contract is completed and accepted by the commissioners.
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§ 29. The commissioners of highways may, when they deem
it advisable, put up and maintain in conspicuous places, at each
end of any bridge, a notice with the following words in large charac-
ters : "Five dollars fine for riding or driving on this bridge faster
than a walk." If any person shall ride or drive faster than a walk
over any bridge upon which such notice has been placed, he shall
forfeit to the town in which such bridge is located, five dollars for
each offense.
Laying Out Roads.
§ 80. All public roads established under the provisions of this
act shall be of the width of sixty feet : Provided, short roads, not
exceeding two miles in length, may be of a width not less than
forty feet, nor more than sixty feet; and roads called public and
private may be of the width as in this act provided. All public
roads, laid out as herein provided, shall be opened within two years
from the time of laying out the same. If not opened within the
time aforesaid, the same shall be deemed to be vacated.
§ 31. The commissioners may alter, widen or vacate any road,
or lay out any new road in their respective towns, when petitioned
by any number of land owners, not less than twelve, or two-thirds
of the land owners residing in such town within two miles of the
road so to be altered, widened, vacated or laid out : Provided, said
commissioners may also narrow or reduce the width of the streets
in town plats not incorporated, so as to leave the same not less
than sixty feet in width, on petition and under like proceedings as
herein provided in case of laying out, altering, widening or vacating
roads.
§ 32. Said petition shall set forth, in writing, a description of
the road and what part thereof is to be~ altered, widened or vacated ;
and if for a new road, the names of the owners of lands, if known,
and if not known it shall be so stated, over which the road is to
pass, the points at or near which it is to commence, its general
course, and the place at or near which it is to terminate.
§ 33. Whenever the commissioners shall receive any such petition,
they shall fix upon a time when and place where they will meet to
examine the route of said road, and to hear reasons for or against
the altering, widening, vacating or laying out the same ; and they
shall give at least ten days' notice of the. time and place of such
meeting by posting up notices in five of the most public places in
the township, in the vicinity of the road to be widened, altered, va-
cated or laid out.
§ 34. The commissioners may, by public announcement, and^ by
the posting of a notice at the time and place named for the first
meeting, adjourn the meeting from time to time, but not for a longer
period than ten days in all ; and shall, at the first or such adjourned
meeting, within said ten days, decide and publicly announce whether
they will grant or refuse the prayer of the petition, and shall en-
dorse upon or annex to the petition a brief memorandum of such
decision, to be signed by the commissioners. Such decision shall be
subject to revocation, in case the prayer of the petition is granted,
in the manner hereinafter provided. In case the commissioners^ re-
fuse to grant the prayer of the petition, they shall, within five days
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thereafter, file the same so endorsed, or with such decision annexed
thereto, in the office of the town clerk.
§ 35. If the petition is simply for the vacation of the road, and
the commissioners, or a majority of them, shall, at such meeting,
decide that the prayer of the petitioners should be granted, they
shall order such road to be vacated ; a copy of which order, to-
gether with the petition, shall be by them filed with the town clerk ;
such order to be so filed within five days after the date of such
decision.
§ 36. If such petition is for the establishment of a new road, or
the alteration or widening of an existing road, and the commission-
ers, or a majority of them, shall be of the opinion that the prayer
of the petitioners should be granted, they shall cause a survey and
plat of such road to be made by a competent surveyor, who shall
report such survey and plat to said commissioners, giving the courses
and distances, and specifying the land over which said road is to
pass ; in which they may make such changes between the termini of
the road described in the petition as the convenience and interest
of the public, in their judgment, may require.
§ 3/\ Upon the petition of twelve land owners residing in the
tow r n where the road is situated, it shall be the duty of the com-
missioners, within a reasonable time, to employ a competent surveyor
and have any road designated in such petition in their several
towms re-surveyed and plats thereof made, which plats and surveys
shall be by them filed for record in the office of the town clerk :
Provided, that this section shall not apply where the same has been
already done, unless the exact location of such road is uncertain.
§ 38. The establishment of a new road on the route of a road
already established according to law, shall not vacate the road pre-
viously established, unless such vacation is prayed for in the petition,
and so declared in the order establishing a new road.
§ 39. They shall also, before they order any road to be estab-
lished, altered, widened or vacated, ascertain, as hereinafter provided,
the aggregate amount of damages which the owner or owners of
land over which the road is to pass shall be entitled to, by reason
of the location, alteration or vacation of such road : Provided, hoiv-
ever, that in case an appeal is taken from the assessment of dam-
ages before the justice of the peace, the commissioners may, in their
discretion, make an order laying out, widening, altering or vacating
such road, either before or after such appeal is determined, in the
manner hereinafter provided.
§ 40. The damages sustained by the owner or owners of the
land, by reason of the establishment, alteration, widening or vaca-
tion of any road, may be agreed upon by the owners of such lands,
if competent to contract, and the commissioners, or they may be
released by such owners, in which case the agreement or release
shall be in writing, and shall be filed and recorded with the copy
of the order establishing, altering, widening or vacating such road,
in the town clerk's office, and shall be a perpetual bar against
such owners, their grantees and assigns, for all further claims for
such damages.
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§ 41. In case such damages are not released or agreed upon
as in the preceding section specified, the commissioners shall,
within ten days from the date of the meeting at which it was
decided to grant the prayer of the petition, make a certificate that
they are about to establish, widen, vacate or alter a public road,
describing such road, vacation, widening or alteration, and the
land over or on which such road is to be established, altered,
widened or vacated, and naming the owners of such lands, if
known, and if not known, stating the fact and asking for a jury to
assess the damages of such owners, and shall present such certifi-
cate to some justice of the peace of the county, who, on receipt of
the same, shall, within five days, issue a summons against the
land owners concerned ; which summons shall be in the following
form as nearly as the case will admit, viz :
STATE OF ILLINOIS, >
County.) '
The People of the State of Illinois, to any constable of said county, greeting :
You are hereby commanded to summon and to appear before me
at , on the day of at o'clock, and prove to a jury then and
there lobe empanelled, such damages as Ihe or they I may sustain on account of the
establishing, altering, widening or vacating the road described in a certificate of the
commissioners of the town of .,in said county, which certificate is now on tile in
my office.
Given under my hand and seal this day of 18..
Justice of the Peace.
in which summons the justice shall specify a certain place, day
and hour for the trial, not less than six nor more than fifteen
days from the date of such summons, at which time and place
such land owners are to appear. Such summons shall be served
at least three days before the time of trial mentioned therein, by
reading the same to the land owners therein named.
§ 42. If any such owner is an infant, such summons shall be
served by delivering a copy to the infant and its guardian, if any,
if no guardian, the person with whom he or she resides. If any
owner is a lunatic or habitual drunkard, having a conservator, by
delivering a copy to his conservator.
§ 43. In case it shall appear, either from the certificate of com-
missioners, the affidavit of any person, or the return of any officer
to whom the notice may be delivered for service, that there are
non-resident or unknown owner or owners, who cannot be found and
served within the county, such justice shall also cause notice to be
delivered to the occupant of such lands and the contents and
nature thereof to be made known to such occupant and also to he
posted in three of the most public places in the vicinity of such
proposed road or alteration, at least ten days before the time fixed
in the summons for hearing proof of damages, stating the time and
place, as stated in said summons, and describing the road to be
established or altered and the lands for which damages are to be
assessed; and in case service is made upon any owner by posting
notices as above provided, the justice shall continue said hearing
for a period not exceeding twelve days.
§ 44. Such justice shall, also, forthwith issue a venire, directed
to any constable of the county, to summon six persons having the
qualifications of jurors to appenr at such time and place as may
be designated, for the proving of such damages, whose competency
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shall be determined the same as in other civil cases before justices
df the peace. Either party to the case shall have the same right
of challenge as in other civil cases; and any deficiency in the num-
ber of jurors, from whatever cause, shall be supplied by summoning
other persons residing in said county: Provided, that not more
than one-half of such jury shall be residents of the town liable to
pay the damages assessed in the case : Provided, farther, that
changes of venue may be granted, if applied for before the com-
mencement of the trial, in the same manner as in other civil
causes before justices of the peace.
§ 45. The jury shall appear before, and be sworn by such jus-
tice faithfully and impartially to assess the damage of each of the
owners specified in such certificate, or those of them whose claims
are then to be adjusted, according to law. to the best of their
judgment and understanding; and. all parties in interest shall be
entitled to subpoenas and other writs and papers, and the trial
shall be conducted as in other civil cases.
§ 46. The case shall be entitled "Commissioners of highways of
the town of vs " [whoever may be summoned as
land owners] and the jury shall hear such lawful evidence touch-
ing the question of such damages as may be presented to them,
the claimants having the right to open and close the case ; and
shall, also, on a request of a majority of the commissioners or
owners of lands whose damages are to be determined, in a body
visit and examine the proposed location, alteration, widening or
vacation of such road, and the lands to be taken and affected
thereby, and make a written verdict specifying the amount of dam-
ages, if any, which every such owner shall recover, and return the
same to such justice, to be by him entered upon his docket in the
nature of a judgment: Provided, that in estimating the damages,
except damages to property actually taken for a road, the jury
may consider the benefits conferred; but no benefits enjoyed in
common by the owners of surrounding property shall be considered
in estimating damages.
§ 47. Within ten days after the total amount of damages shall
have been ascertained, either by release or agreement of the par-
ties, or by assessment before a justice of the peace and a jury, in
the manner hereinbefore provided, the commissioners shall hold a
meeting to finally determine upon the laying out, altering, widen-
ing or vacation of such road, of which meeting said commissioners
shall give public notice, by causing not less than three notices
thereof to be posted in public places within the town, at least five
days prior thereto.
§ 48. In cases where the damages are not wholly released or
agreed upon, and the commissioners in case no appeal has been
taken, and the supervisors hearing the appeal in case an appeal is
taken, shall be of the opinion that the damages assessed by the jury
are manifestly too high, and that the payment of the same would
be an unreasonable burden upon the tax-payers of the town, the
commissioners, or the supervisors who heard the appeal, as the case
may be, may revoke all proceedings had upon the petition by a
written order to that effect ; and such revocation shall have the
effect to annul all such proceedings and assessments, releases and
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agreements, in respect to damages growing out of the proceedings
upon the petition : Provided, upon the final determination of the
commissioners of highways, or the supervisors upon appeal being
determined, and a copy of all such proceedings being filed in the
town clerk's office, no other proceedings shall be had by the com-
missioners of highways, nor any petition entertained in regard to
the same road or petition for two years from the date of filing such
copies of proceedings. And after two trials as aforesaid, if the de-
cision be the same, no other petition shall be entertained for the
same until the expiration of three years from the filing of the last
proceedings.
§ 49. In case the commissioners shall not revoke such prior pro-
ceedings, they shall make an order, to be signed by them, declaring
such road so altered, widened or laid out, a public highway, and
which order shall contain or have annexed thereto a definite descrip-
tion of the line of such road, together with a plat thereof. The
commissioners shall, within five days from the date of such order,
cause the same, together with the report of the surveyor, the peti-
tion and the releases, agreements or assessments in respect to dam-
ages, to be deposited and filed in the office of the town clerk, who
shall note upon such order the date of such filing. It shall be the
duty of such clerk, after the time for appeal to supervisors has ex-
pired, and in the case of such appeal, after the same shall have
been determined, in case the prayer of the petition is granted, to
record such order, together with the plat of the surveyor, in a proper
book to be kept for that purpose.
§ 50. In cases where the damages claimed by the land owners
for the right of way are released, or are agreed upon between the
land owners and commissioners, the commissioners may, at their
first meeting, or at any adjourned meeting, examine the route of
the road, and cause a survey thereof to be made, and make their
order establishing, altering, widening or vacating the road, according
to the prayer of the petition, and return the same within the time
and in the manner specified in this act.
§ 51. Any person or persons interested in the establishment,
alteration, widening or vacation of any road in this State, are hereby
authorized to offer inducements to the commissioners for the estab-
lishment, alteration, widening or vacation of any such road, by en-
tering into contract with said commissioners, conditioned upon such
establishment, alteration, widening or vacating, to pay money or
other valuable thing to the town, for the benefit of the road and
bridge funds of the same ; or to perform any labor, or to construct
any road, bridge or culvert on any road which said person or per-
sons desire to have established, widened or altered. And such con-
tracts in writing, made with said commissioners, shall be deemed
good and valid in law, and may be enforced by said commissioners
or their successors in office, before any court having jurisdiction.
§ 52. The records of the town clerk, or a certified copy of such
record and papers relating to the establishment, location, alteration,
widening or vacation of any road, shall be prima facie evidence in
all cases that all the necessary antecedent provisions had been
complied with, and that the action of the commissioners or other
persons and officers, in regard thereto, was regular in all resj^ects.
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§ 53. Whenever a public road is ordered to be established or
altered, according to the provisions of this act, which road shall
pass through or on enclosed land, the commissioners of highways
shall give the owner or occupant of such land sixty days' notice in
writing to remove the fences. If such owner or occupant does not
remove the fence or fences within sixty days after such notice, the
commissioners shall have the same removed and direct the road to
be opened and worked ; the owner of such premises shall pay all
necessary costs of removal, and the same may be recovered by the
commissioners before any justice of the peace of the county.
§ 54. Roads for private and public use, of the width of three
rods or less, may be laid out from one dwelling or plantation of an
individual to any public road, or from one public road to another,
or from a lot of land to a public road, on petition to the commis-
sioners by any person directly interested. The commissioners, on
receiving such petition, shall have power to lay out the road as
asked for therein, to which end they shall proceed and examine
into the merits of the case, and shall be governed in their proceed-
ings by the rules and regulations prescribed in this act in relation
to public roads. The jury shall consider the damages that may
result to parties from said proposed road, and shall assess the
damages to each individual owner of lands affected thereby. The
amount of such damages shall be paid by the persons benefited
thereby, to the extent and in proportion that they are benefited, to
to be determined and declared by the jury. The remainder of the
amount of damages over and above that to be paid by the parties
as aforesaid, shall be paid by the town as in other cases. The
amount of damages to be paid by individuals shall be paid to the
parties entitled thereto, before the road shall be opened for use.
An appeal may be taken on the question of the propriety and ne-
cessity of such road as in other cases.
§ 55. If such road or cartway shall not be opened by the pe-
titioners within two years from the time of making the order for
the location of the same, such order shall be regarded as rescinded.
§ 56. When such road or cartway is proposed to pass over in-
closed lands, the owners of such lands f hall have a reasonable
time, not exceeding eight months, to be designated by the commis-
sioners, to harvest crops and remove fences which may be on such
lands before such road or cartway shall be opened.
§ 57. Public roads may be established, altered, widened or va-
cated on township or county lines, or from one township into an-
other, in the same manner as other public roads, except that in
such case a copy of the petition shall be posted up in, and pre-
sented to the commissioners of each town interested, said petition
to be as in other cases, and signed by not less than twelve land-
owners residing in either county within three miles of the road so
to be altered, widened, located or laid out ; whereupon it shall be
the duty of the commissioners of the several towns to meet and
act as one body, in the same time and manner as in other cases,
in considering the petition, viewing the premises, adjusting dam-
ages, and making all orders in reference to such proposed road, al-
teration, widening or vacation, and a majority of all such commis-
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sioners must concur in all such orders ; and a copy of all final orders
and plats and papers shall be filed and recorded in each of the
counties and towns interested.
§ 58. The commissioners shall also, in case a new road is estab-
lished, allot to ea*ch of such towns the part of such road which each
of. such towns shall open and keep in repair, and the part so al-
lotted shall be considered as wholly belonging to such town. They
shall also divide the expenses and damages which may accrue from
such location, widening or alteration, and if they cannot agree, they
shall refer the matter to three disinterested land owners, as arbitra-
tors, whose decision shall be final.
§ 59. Any person or persons interested in the decision of the
commissioners in determining to, or in refusing to lay out, alter,
widen or vacate any road, or revoking any previous order or de-
cision relative to any road, or in the verdict of any jury in assess-
ing damages in opening, altering or vacating any road, may appeal
from such decision to three supervisors of the county, outside of the
town or towns in which such road or proposed road is located,
within ten days after such decision has been filed in the office of
the town clerk, by filing a written petition with some justice of the
peace of the county, asking for an appeal, and stating on what
ground such appeal is taken.
§ 60. It shall be the duty of the justice of the peace to cause
to be summoned three supervisors of the county, to hear such ap-
peal ; and he shall fix in such summons upon a time and place,
near the road in question, when such appeal will be heard by them;
and, at least three days before such trial, shall give a written notice
to the said commissioners, and to at least three of the petitioners,
of the time and place of said trial ; and upon such appeal the said
supervisors shall have the same power and authority that is by this
act conferred on the commissioners, not only in regard to the lay-
ing out, altering, widening or vacating any road, but shall have the
same power to cause a jury to be called to assess damages, when-
ever the state of the proceedings require it, and the supervisors
cannot agree with the owners of the land in regard to the same.
§ 61. The decision of a majority of the supervisors in any appeal
case shall be taken as the decision of said supervisors ; and they
shall make a report of their proceedings and decision in the case,
and in like manner that is by this act required of the commission-
ers, and shall be entitled to two dollars and fifty cents per day.
Their decision shall be final in regard to laying out, altering, widen-
ing or vacating such road, or in refusing to do the same.
§ 62. Any parties taking an appeal from the award of the de-
cision of the commissioners, or the verdict of the jury, shall file a
sufficient bond with the justice of the peace or town clerk before
taking such appeal, conditioned for the payment of the cost of such
appeal, in case the decision of the commissioners or the verdict of
the jury is in all things sustained, or the appeal dismissed; if the
award of the highway commissioners, or verdict of the jury, shall
not be sustained, the town shall pay the cost of such appeal.
§ 63. When the commissioners of one town disagree with the
commissioners of an adjoining town in regard to the laying out of
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a new road, or the alteration, widening or vacation of an old road
on any county or town line, appeals may be taken from such de-
cision, in the same manner as where the road is wholly in one
town. When such decision is in regard to a road on a county line,
two supervisors shall be selected from one county and one super-
visor shall be selected from the other, by the justice of the peace,
who shall issue his summons accordingly.
§ 61. All roads heretofore laid out upon town or county lines,
shall be divided, allotted and kept in repair in the manner as here-
inbefore directed. Any public road that is. or shall hereafter be
laid out on a county or town line, shall be held to be a road on a
county or town line, although owing to the topography of the ground
along said county or town line, or at the crossing of any stream of
water, the proper, authorities, in establishing or locating such road,
may have located a portion of the same to one side of such county
or town line'.
§ 65. Roads may be laid out and opened upon the line between
this and any adjoining State, as provided in the preceding sections,
whenever the laws of such adjoining State shall be applicable.
§ 66. The commissioners shall each receive for their services the
sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day for each day necessarily
employed in the performance of their duties, upon a sworn state-
ment to be filed by each commissioner in the town clerk's office,
showing the number of days he was employed, and the kind of em-
ployment, and giving the dates thereof.
§ 67. If the commissioners shall willfully refuse or neglect to
perform any of the duties enjoined on them by this act, they shall
severally forfeit not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dol-
lars, and may be proceeded against in the name of the town, sever-
ally or jointly, for the recovery of such forfeiture before any justice
of the peace in the proper county having jurisdiction.
Laws of the Road.
§ 68. The term "carriage," 'as used in this act, shall be con-
strued to include stage coaches, wagons, carts, sleighs, sleds and
every other carriage or vehicle used for the transportation of pas-
sengers and goods, or either of them.
§ 69. Nothing contained in this act shall interfere with or affect
any law concerning hackney coaches or carriages in any of the
cities of this State, nor interfere with nor affect the laws or ordi-
nances of any such city for the licensing or regulating such coaches
or carriages. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction in all
cases arising under this act, where the penalty does not exceed their
jurisdiction.
§ 70. For destroying or defacing any guide-board, post, or mile-
stone, or any notice or direction put up on any bridge or otherwise,
by or with the authority of the commissioners, the offender shall
forfeit a sum not less than three dollars nor more than fifty dollars.
§ 71. If any person shall injure or obstruct a public road by
felling a tree or trees in, upon or across the same, or by placing
or leaving any other obstruction thereon, or encroaching upon the
same with any fence, or by plowing or digging any ditch or other
opening thereon, or by turning a current of water so as to saturate
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or wash the same, or shall leave the cuttings of any hedge thereon
for more than ten days, they shall forfeit for every such offense a
sum not less than three dollars nor more than ten dollars, and in
case of placing any obstr action on the highway, an additional sum
of not exceeding three dollars per day for every day he shall suffer
such obstruction to remain after he has been ordered to remove the
same by any of the commissioners ; complaint to be made by any
person feeling himself aggrieved : Provided, this section shall not
apply to any person who shall lawfully fell any tree for use, and
will immediately remove the same out of the road, nor to any per-
son through whose land a public road may pass, who shall desire
to drain his land, and shall give due notice to the commissioners
of such intention : And, provided, further, that the commissioners,
after having given reasonable notice to the owners, or person so
obstructing or plowing or digging ditches upon such road, of the
obstruction, may remove any such fence or other obstruction, fill
up any such ditch or excavation, except ditches necessary to the
drainage of an adjoining farm emptying into a ditch upon the
highway, and recover the necessary cost of such removal from such
owner or other person obstructing such road aforesaid, to be col-
lected by said commissioners before any justice of the peace having
jurisdiction.
§ 72. It is hereby declared unlawful for any land owner, renter
or other person, to deposit in a public road, weeds, trash, garbage
or any offensive matter, and any person so offending shall be liable
to a penalty of not less than three dollars nor more than ten dol-
lars ; but this shall not apply where proper deposits may be made
in good faith and in a proper manner to repair the roads.
§ 73. If any person shall purposely destroy or injure any side-
walk, public bridge, culvert or causeway, or remove any of the
timber or plank thereof, or obstruct the same, he shall forfeit a
sum not less than three nor more than one hundred dollars, and
shall be liable for all damages occasioned thereby, and all neces-
sary costs for rebuilding or repairing the same.
§ 74. All suits for the recovery of any fine or penalty under this
act, shall be brought in the name of the town in which the offense
is committed, before any justice of the peace or police magistrate
within the town, who shall have jurisdiction in such cases to the
extent of their jurisdiction in other cases ; and it shall be the duty
of the commissioners to seasonably prosecute for all fines and pen-
alties under this act ; but in case of a failure of said officers to so
prosecute, complaint may be made by any person : Provided, said
person shall, before bringing suit in the name of the town, give a
bond for costs, as is provided for in the case of non-residents. But
whenever any person shall enter complaint to any commissioner, it
shall be the duty of such commissioner to at once proceed to inves-
tigate as to the reasons of such complaint, and if such complaint
is found to be just, he shall at once proceed to prosecution : Pro-
vided, further, that the commissioners may sue and be sued on all
contracts entered into by them for the construction and repairing
of roads and bridges, and the judgment in any such case against
the commissioners shall be a town charge.
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§ 75. All fines recovered under the provisions of this act, unless
otherwise provided, shall be paid over to the treasurer of the com-
missioners of the town where the offense is committed, to be
expended upon the roads and bridges in the town.
§ 76. Any person owning, using or occupying lands on both
sides of any public highway, shall be entitled to the privilege of
making a crossing under said highway for the purpose of letting
his cattle and other domestic animals cross said road : Provided,
said person shall erect, at his own expense, a good and substantial
bridge, with good railings on each side thereof, and build an em-
bankment, of easy grade, on either side of said bridge ; said bridge
to be not less than sixteen feet wide, and to be approved by the
commissioners of the town in which said bridge is built, and the
same to be kept constantly in good repair by the owner or occupant
of said land, the construction subject always to the consent and
approval of the commissioners of said town: And, provided, further,
that in case such crossing is made on any water-way or natural
channel for water, and where a culvert or bridge is maintained as
required for road purposes, said owners or occupants shall not be
required to pay for or construct any more of said crossing than the
additional cost of such crossing over and above the necessary cost
of a suitable culvert or bridge for road purposes at such place.
§ 77. Whenever any persons, traveling with any carriages, shall
meet on any turnpike, road or public highway, in this State, the
persons so meeting shall seasonably turn their carriages to the right of
the beaten track, so as to permit each carriage to pass without interfer-
ing or interrupting, under the penalty of five dollars for every neglect or
offense, to be recovered by the party aggrieved : Provided, this sec-
tion shall not be construed to apply to a case where it is impracti-
cable from the nature of the ground for the driver of the carriage
or wagon to turn to the right of the beaten track.
§ 78. No person owning any carriage, running or traveling upon
any road in this State for the conveyance of passengers, shall
knowingly employ, or continue in employment, any person to drive
such carriage who is addicted to drunkenness or the excessive use of
spirituous liquors ; and if any such owner shall violate the provisions of
this section, he shall forfeit at the rate of five dollars per day for
all the time he shall keep such driver in his employment. Any
person driving his own team, or the team of another, on the pub-
lic highway, when intoxicated, shall be subject to a fine of not less
than three dollars, nor more than twenty-five dollars, for each'
offense.
§ 79. That an act entitled "An act in regard to roads and bridges
in counties under township organization," approved May 28, 1879,
in force July 1, 1879, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent
herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, that the
repeal of said act shall not affect any suit or proceedings pending,
or impair any right existing at the time this act shall take effect :
And, provided, also, that the overseers of highways in office, when
this act takes effect, shall continue in office till the expiration of
their terms, and the road tax and road labor then due shall not be
released from its obligations, and the delinquent list shall be duly
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returned, and collected as now provided, the avails of which shall
be paid to the treasurer of the commissioners.
Labor System.
§ 80. On petition of not less than twenty-five legal voters of any
town in this State, in counties where township organization has
been or may be hereafter adopted, asking to have the proposition to
pay in labor the district labor and property road tax submitted to
the legal voters of said town and filed with the town clerk not less
than fifteen days before the last Tuesday in August, when it is de-
sired to vote thereon at a special town meeting to be held on the
last Tuesday in August, or not less than fifteen days before the an-
nual town meeting, when it is desired to vote thereon at said
annual town meeting, the town clerk shall thereupon call a special
town meeting on said last Tuesday in August, or state in the notice
of the annual town meeting, as the case may be, that the legal voters
of such town may vote by ballot for or against the payment in labor
of the district labor and property road tax ; and if a majority of all
the ballots cast are for the payment in labor of the district labor
and property road tax, then all the following sections of this act shall
be in force in such town, otherwise they shall not be in force in
any town in this State : Provided, the vote which may be taken
under this section shall not effect the last section of this act, but
the same shall be and remain in force.
§ 81. The town clerk shall deliver the lists filed by the overseers
to the commissioners of highways of the town, who shall proceed to
ascertain, estimate and assess the highway labor and road tax to be
performed, and paid in their town the next ensuing year.
§ 82. Every able-bodied male inhabitant being above the age of
twenty-one years and under the age of fifty, (excepting paupers,
idiots, lunatics and such others as are exempt by law,) shall be re-
quired to labor on the highways in their respective road districts
not less than one nor more than three days in each and every year.
§ 83. The commissioners of highways of each town shall annually
ascertain, as near as practicable, how much money must be raised
by tax on real and personal property, and railroad property known
as "railroad track" and "rolling stock," for the making and repair-
ing of roads only, to any amount they may deem necessary, not ex-
ceeding forty cents on each one hundred dollars' worth, as equalized
and. assessed by the State Board of Equalization, for the purposes of
taxation for the previous year, and shall levy and assess the same as
a road tax against said property : Provided, that the tax on the
property levied for road purposes only, lying within an incorporated
village, town or city in which the streets and alleys are under the
care of the corporation, shall be paid over to the treasurer of such
village, town or city, to be appropriated to the improvement of roads,
streets and bridges, either within or without said village, town or
city, and within the township, under the direction of the corporate
authorities of such village, town or city: Provided, further, that
when any of said tax is expended beyond the .limits of said village,
town or city, it shall be with the consent of the road commissioners
of the town : And, provided, further, that the authorities of such
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incorporated town, city or village may, at any time, direct the col-
lector not to collect the tax so levied within the limits of buch
incorporated town, city or village.
§ 84. The commissioners of highways shall affix to the name of
each person named in the lists furnished by the overseers, the num-
ber of days assessed to each person for highway labor, and they
shall make a list for each district, containing a description of each
tract of land in the district, and the name of the owner, if known,
and the name of the owner of any railroad property known as "rail-
road track" and "rolling stock," and also a list of the names, in
alphabetical order, of the personal property tax-payers, and shaJl
set opposite each tract of land the valuation thereof, as taken from
the assessment roll of the previous year as equalized by the State
Board of Equalization, and opposite each tax-payer's name the
amount of iris personal assessment on personal property as taken
from said roll, and opposite the name of each owner of railroad
property known as "railroad track" and "rolling stock," the valua-
tion thereof, as assessed by the State Board of Equalization for the
purposes of taxation for the previous year, and distributed by the
county clerk, and opposite each valuation and assessment they shall
extend the road tax assessed thereon in a separate column. The
lists so prepared shall be subscribed by the commissioners, and
deposited with the town clerk, to he filed in his office.
§ 85. The commissioners shall direct the clerk of the town to
make a copy of each list, and shall subscribe such copies, after
which they shall cause the several copies to be delivered to the
respective overseers of highways of the several districts in which the
highw T ay labor is assessed. One copy for each overseer shall contain
the name and number of days assessed to each person, the other,
the real and personal property road tax.
§ 86. It shall be the duty of the overseers to add the names of
persons left out of any such list, and of new r inhabitants, and to
rate the persons so added in the same proportion to work on the
highways as others rated by the commissioners on such list, subject
to an appeal to the commissioners.
§ 87. It shall be the duty of the commissioners of highways of
each town to credit such persons as live on private roads and work
the same, so much on account of their assessment as such com-
missioner shall deem necessary to work such private road, or to
annex such private road to some of the highway districts.
§ 88. The town clerk shall, within ten days after the commis-
sioners of highways have filed in his office the amount of road tax
assessed on the real and personal estate of the towns, post a notice
on the outer door of the house where the town meeting was last
held, and two other public places in said town, stating the amount
of road tax assessed on each one hundred dollars' worth of real and
personal estate of the town, and that persons interested can pay
the same in labor on the highways under the direction of the over-
seer of highways in the district where the land or personal prop-
erty is situated. ,
§ 89. If the commissioners of highways shall refuse or neglect
to perform any of the duties enjoined on them by this act, they
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shall severally forfeit not less than ten dollars, nor more than fifty
dollars, and may be proceeded against, severally or jointly, for the
recovery of such forfeiture before any justice of the peace in the
proper county having jurisdiction.
§ 90. The commissioners of highways in each town shall appoint
as many overseers of highways as there are road districts in the
town ; and each overseer of highways so chosen shall be a resident
of the road district for which he is appointed, and shall hold his
office for one year.
§ 91. It shall be the duty of overseers of highways in each town :
First — To repair and keep in order the highways within their
several districts for which they shall have been appointed.
Second — To warn all persons from whom road labor is due, to
work on the highways at such times and places within their several
districts as they may think proper. The overseers of highways may
contract with persons owing poll tax for road purposes, to perform
a certain amount of labor on any road or bridge in their town or
road district for the amount of such tax; and if the work is done
within the time that the money should have been paid, the over-
seer shall give such person a receipt for such labor done or per-
formed.
Third — To collect all fines and commutation money, and to exe-
cute all lawful orders of the commissioners of highways.
Fourth — To deliver to the clerk of the town, within ten days after
their appointment, a list subscribed by such overseers, of the names
of all the inhabitants in his road district w r ho are liable to work on
highways.
§ 92. If any person chosen or appointed to the office of overseer
of highways shall refuse to serve, or if his office shall become va-
cant, the commissioners of highways of the town shall, by warrant
under their hands, appoint some other person in his stead ; and the
overseer so appointed shall have the same powers, be subject to the
same orders and liable to the same penalties as overseers originally
appointed.
§ 93. The commissioners making appointment shall cause such
warrant to be forthwith filed in the office of the town clerk, who
shall give. notice to the person appointed as in other cases.
§ 94. Every overseer of highways who shall refuse or neglect to
perform any of the duties hereinbefore enumerated, or wdiich may
be lawfully enjoined on him by the commissioners of highways of
his town, shall, for every such refusal or neglect, forfeit tlie sum of
ten dollars, to be sued for by the commissioners of highways of the
town, and when recovered, to be applied by them in making and
improving the roads and bridges therein.
§ 95. It shall be the duty of overseers of highways to give at
least three days' notice, either verbally or by leaving a written no-
tice at their place of residence, to all persons assessed to work on
the highways, and residing within limits of their respective districts,
of the time and place when and where they are to appear for that
purpose, and with what implements ; but no person being a resident
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of the town shall be required to work on any highways other than
in the district in which he resides, except he resides in a district
on a town line, which district belongs to an opposite town, and un-
less he shall elect to work in same district where he has land ; and
in said case he may, with the approbation of the commissioners of
highways, apply the work assessed, in respect to such land in the
district in whicii the same is situated : Provided, if the overseers of
highways fail to perform their duty, the commissioners of highways
shall have power to perform such duties, or cause the same to be
performed, under such rules as they may prescribe.
§ 96. Every person able to work on the highways, shall work the
whole number of days for which he shall have been assessed ; but
every such person other than an overseer of highways, may elect
to commute for the same or for any part thereof, at the rate of one
dollar per day; in which case such commutation money shall be
paid to the overseer of highways of the district in which the person
commuting shall reside, to be applied and expended by such over-
seer in the improvement of the roads and bridges in the same
district.
§ 97. Any person intending to commute for his assessment or
any part thereof, shall, within three days after he shall be notified
to appear and work on the highways, pay the commutation money
for the work required of him by such notice ; and the commutation
shall not be considered as complete until such money be paid.
§ 98. Every overseer of highways shall have power to require a
team or a cart, wagon or plow, with a pair of horses or oxen, and
a man to manage them, for any person having the same within his
district, who shall have been assessed two days or more, and who
shall not have commuted for his assessment ; and the person fur-
nishing the same upon such requisition, shall be entitled to a credit
of two clays for each clay's service therewith.
§ 99. Every person assessed to work on the highways, and named
to work, may appear in person, or by an able-bodied man as a sub-
stitute, and the person or substiute shall actually work eight hours
in each day, under a penalty of twenty-five cents for every hour
such person or substitute shall be in default, to be imposed as a
fine on the person assessed.
§ 103. If any person, after appearing, remain idle, or not work
faithfully, or hinder others from working, such offender shall, for
every offense, forfeit to the town the sum of two dollars.
§ 101. Every person so assessed and duly notified, who shall
noc commute, and who shall refuse or neglect to appear as above
provided, shall forfeit to the town, for every day's refusal or neg-
lect, the sum of two dollars ($2.00). If he was required to furnish
a team, carriage, man or implement, and shall refuse or neglect to
comply, he shall be fined as follows :
First — For wholly failing to comply with such requisition, four
dollars ($4.00) for each day.
Second — For omitting to furnish a pair of horses or oxen, one
dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) for each day.
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Third— For omitting to furnish a man to manage the team, two
dollars ($2.00) for each day.
Fourth — For omitting to furnish a wagon, cart or plow, seventy-
five cents (75c) for each day.
§ 102. It shall be the duty of every overseer of highways, within
six clays after any person assessed and notified shall be guilty of
any refusal or neglect, for which a penalty or fine is prescribed' in
this act, unless a satisfactory excuse shall be rendered to him for
such refusal or neglect, to make complaint on oath, to any justice
of the peace of the county : Provided, if the overseers of highways
fail to perform their duty, as prescribed in this section, the com-
missioners of highways shall have power to perform such duties.
§ 103. The justice to whom such complaint shall be made, shall
forthwith issue a summons, directed to any constable of the county,
requiring him to summon such delinquent to appear within five
days before such justice, according to law, for such refusal or neg-
lect.
§ 104. On the day of trial, the justice shall proceed to hear and
determine the case according to law for the offense complained of,
and shall forthwith issue an execution under his hand and seal,
directed to any constable of the county where such delinquent shall
reside, commanding him to levy such fine, with the costs of the
proceeding, of the goods and chattels of such delinquent. No per-
sonal property shall be exempt from levy of attachment or execu-
tion when the judgment is for commutation of road or street labor:
Provided, the court rendering the judgment shall find that the same
is for road or street labor, which finding shall be expressed on the
record of said judgment and indorsed upon the execution when is-
sued.
§ 105. The constable to whom such execution shall be delivered,
shall forthwith collect the moneys therein mentioned. He shall pay
the fine, when collected, to the justice of the peace who issued the
execution, who is hereby required to pay the same to the oversee v
who entered the complaint, to be by him expended in improving
the roads and bridges in the district of which he is overseer.
§ 108. Every fine collected for refusal or neglect to appear and
work on the highways, shall be set off against his assessments or
personal labor tax, upon which it was founded, estimating every two
dollars collected as a satisfaction for one day's work.
§ 107. The acceptance by an overseer of any excuse for refusal
or neglect, shall not, in any case, exempt the person excused from
commuting for or working the whole number of days for which he
shall have been assessed during the year.
§ 108. Every overseer of highways shall give at least three days'
notice to each person residing in his district against whom a land,
railroad property or personal property road tax is assessed, either
personal or in writing, left at his usual place of abode, of the time
when and the place where he may appear and pay his road taxes
in labor, and with what implements ; and he may require of all
persons appearing to pay their taxes in labor to furnish a spade,
shovel, axe or hoe, and if any such person be tbe owner of a team,
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plow, wagon, cart or other implement useful for working the high-
ways, he may require such person to furnish any of them if his
road taxes are not less than three dollars.- And every such person
may appear at the time and place and with such implements and
teams as the overseer in his notice shall have required, and work
in person or by an able-bodied substitute ; and every such person
who shall so appear and work agreeable to the directions of such
overseer of the highways in his district, shall be credited on his
road tax one dollar and twenty-five cents for every day he shall
actually work eight hours, and at that rate for less time, and
twenty-five cents a day for every wagon or plow, and one dollar a
day for each yoke of oxen, and one dollar and twenty-five cents a
day for each span of horses or mules he shall furnish agreeably to
the requirements of said overseer : Provided, that any person may
elect to pay such tax to the overseer in money : Provided, further,
if the overseers of highways fail to perform their duty, the commis-
sioners of highways shall have power to perform such duties, or
cause the same to be performed under such rules as they may pre-
scribe.
§ 109. It shall be the duty of the overseer of highways, when
such land or railroad property tax has been paid either in money
or labor, to write the word '"paid" distinctly against each name or
tract on his list on which the same has been paid, and give a re-
ceipt for the same, whether paid in labor or money, when demanded.
§ 110. Every overseer of highways shall deliver to the supervisor
of his town, and in Cook county to the county board, at least five
days previous to the annual meeting of the board of supervisors,
the lists furnished by the commissioners of highways, containing
the land and personal property road tax, with an affidavit thereto,
sworn to before the supervisor of the town, or some justice of the
peace of the county, that on all tracts of land or railroad property
on such list opposite which the word "paid" is written, such tax is
paid, and that on all tracts of land or railroad property on such
list opposite which the word "paid" is not written, such tax is due
and remains unpaid, according to the best of his knowledge and
belief.
§ 111. If any overseer shall refuse or neglect to deliver such list
to the supervisors as provided in the last preceding section, or shall
neglect or refuse to make the affidavit as therein directed, he shall,
for every such offense, forfeit the sum of five dollars, and also the
amount of taxes remaining unpaid, to be recovered by the commis-
sioners of highways of the town, to be applied by them in improv-
ing the roads and bridges of such town.
§ 112. It shall be the duty of every overseer of highways to have
at least three-fourths of the road labor assessed in his district,
worked out or actually expended on the highways, previous to the
first day of September in every year.
§ 113. Every overseer of highways shall, on the second Tuesday
next preceding the time of holding the annual town meeting in his
town, within the year for which he is elected or appointed, render,
under oath, to one of the commissioners of highways of the tow r n,-
an account in writing, containing :
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First — The names of all persons assessed to work on the highways
in the district to which he is overseer.
Second — The names of all those who have actually worked on the
highways, with the number of days they have actually worked.
Third — The names of all those who have been fined, and the sums
in which they have been fined.
Fourth — The names of all those who have commuted, and the
manner in which the moneys arising from fines and commutations
have been expended by him.
Fifth — The amount of uncollected road tax which he has returned
to the supervisors of the town, as required in section one hundred
and ten of this act.
§ 114. Every such overseer shall also, then and there, render an
account, in writing, of all moneys in his hands by virtue of his
office, and shall also pay over the same to his successor in office.
§ 115. If any overseer shall refuse or neglect to render such
account, or if, having rendered the same, he shall refuse or neglect
to pay any balance which may then be due from him, he shall,
for every such offense, forfeit the sum of five dollars, to be recov-
ered with the balance of the moneys remaining in his hands, by
the commissioners of highways of the town, and to be applied in
making and improving the roads and bridges. It shall be the duty
of the commissioners to prosecute for such penalty in every in-
stance of such refusal or neglect.
§ 116. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of the several
towns to receive the list of the overseers of highways when deliv-
ered, pursuant to section one hundred and ten of this act, and to
lay the same before the board of supervisors of the county.
§ 117. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors, and in
Cook county, the county board, to cause the amount of arrearages
of the road tax returned by the overseer of highways, to the super-
visors, as provided in section one hundred and ten of this act, to be
levied on the lands returned, and to be collected in the same man-
ner that other taxes of the county are levied and collected, and to
order the same, when collected, to be paid over to the commissioners
of highways of the town, except such portion of such tax as is
hereinbefore directed to be paid to the authorities of incorporated
villages, towns and cities, to be by them applied to the construction
of roads and bridges.
§ 118. Each and every overseer of highways shall be entitled to
one dollar and twenty-five cents ($1.25) per day for every day he
is necessarily employed in the execution of the duties of overseer,
exceeding the amount of his highway labor and road tax, the num-
ber of days to be accounted to and audited by the commissioners
of highways : Provided, that the number of days to be audited
shall be left discretionary with the commissioners of highways.
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§ 119. The highway commissioners of each town shall, annually,
ascertain as near as practicable, how much money must be raised
by tax on real, personal and railroad property, for the making and
repairing of bridges, the payment of damages by reason of the
opening, altering and laying out of new roads and ditches, the pur-
chase of the necessary tools, implements and machinery for working
roads, the purchase of the necessary material for building or repair-
ing or draining roads and bridges, the pay of the overseer of high-
ways during the ensuing year, and for the payment of all outstanding
orders drawn by the commissioners on their treasurer, commencing
on Tuesday next preceding the annual meeting of the county board
in September, which tax shall be extended on the tax books, accord-
ing to the assessment of the current year ; and shall levy a tax on
all the real, personal and railroad property in said town, not
exceeding forty cents on the one hundred dollars ; and they shall
give to the supervisor of the township, and in Cook county to the
county board, a statement of the amount necessary to be raised,
and the rate per cent, of taxation, signed by said commissioners,
or a majority of them, on or before the Tuesday next preceding the
annual September meeting of the board of supervisors, or the county
board of Cook county, who shall cause the same to be submitted to
said board for their action at such September meeting of said board :
Provided, that if the commissioners of highways, or any three legal
voters, shall give notice by posting notices in at least three of the
most public places of the town, at least ten days before the annual
town meeting, that a larger amount of money will be required for
the purpose of constructing or repairing roads or bridges in their
town than can be realized from the real, personal and railroad
property tax authorized by law to be assessed by the commissioners,
the legal voters present at such meeting may authorize an additional
amount to be raised by tax, not exceeding forty cents on each one
hundred dollars' valuation, and said board shall cause the same to
be extended on the tax books.
§ 120. The town clerk of each town shall, on or before the first
day of September next, and annually, thereafter, (if the boundary
line be changed,) furnish to the county clerk a certified plat of the
several road districts of his town. '
§ 121. In all counties acting under township organization, the
county clerk, in extending district road tax upon the tax books,
shall designate to what district said tax belongs.
§ 122. It shall be the duty of county and township collectors to
make out an abstract of the amount of district road tax due to each
district of the respective townships, and deliver the same to the
treasurer of the commissioners of highways.
§ 123. The treasurer of the commissioners of highways shall pay
over the district road tax according to the abstracts as furnished
above, upon the written orders of the various overseers of roads for
work done in their respective districts, when said orders are approved
in writing by a majority of said commissioners.
§ 124. That an act entitled "An act in regard to roads and bridges
in counties under township organization," approved May 28, 1879,
in force July 1, 1879, and all other acts or parts of acts inconsistent
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herewith, be and the same are hereby repealed : Provided, that the
repeal of said act shall not affect any suit or proceedings pending,
or impair any right existing at the time this act shall take effect :
And, provided, also, that the overseers of highways in office when
this act takes effect, shall continue in office until the expiration of
their terms, and the road tax and road labor then due shall not be
released from its obligations, and the delinquent list shall be duly
returned and collected as now provided, the avails of which shall be
paid to the treasurer of the commissioners.
Approved June 23, 1633.
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BOURBON DISTRICT.
§ 1. Repeals the act of 1869 creating the Bourbon School District.
An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act to create a school district for
the township of Bourbon, Douglas county, Illinois, to be known as 'The
Bourbon School District,'' " in Jorce March 26, 1869.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That an act entitled "An act to
create a school district for the township of Bourbon, Douglas county,
Illinois, known as the 'Bourbon School District,' " be and the same
js hereby repealed.
Approved May 22, 1883.
LOANING funds.
§ 1. Requires that the loaning of all § 2. Emergency,
funds be regulated by the school
laws.
An Act to regulate the loaning oj school funds.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases where school
funds are held by any person or persons in an official capacity,
by virtue of any special charter denning the manner of loaning
the same, such moneys may be loaned upon the same terms and
conditions as are now provided, or may hereafter be provided, by
the school laws of this State.
§ 2. Whereas, a large portion of the funds of certain school
districts are now lying idle in the treasuries of said districts, because
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of the inability to loan said funds under certain special school laws,
therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect and be>
in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 20, 1833.
DISTRICTS.
§ 1. Providing for forming districts containing less than 400 inhabitants.
An Act to provide a way by ivhich the people of any territory lying
within three or more school districts and in three or more townships,
containing not less than four hundred inhabitants, may be organized
into a school district.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That when the people in any ter-
ritory lying in three or more school districts and in three or more
townships, which territory has not less than four hundred inhabi-
tants, shall petition the trustees of the township or townships in
which the districts affected lie, to organize said territory into a school
district, the trustees shall grant the petition, and shall organize
said territory into a school district, provided the petition shall be
signed by not less than two-thirds of the legal voters living in said
territory: Provided, also, that the petition or petitions for such
new district shall be presented to the trustees, and notice of them
given to the directors of the districts affected, in the manner fixed
by section thirty-three of the general school law, for presenting and
giving notice of petitions for changes of district boundaries ; and
that a division of property, and adjustment of existing debts, be-
tween the new district and the district or districts, a part of whose
territory is taken, shall be made in the way provided in said sec-
tion thirty- three for the division of property and adjustment of
debts when a new district is formed : Provided, farther, that in the
formation of a new district under this act, territory shall not be
taken from any existing district so as to leave it with less than
twenty families residing within that part of the district not taken,
nor with taxable property of an assessed value of less than fifty thou-
sand dollars ($50,000), as ascertained by the last assessment for
State and county taxes, previous to the presentation of the petitions
for the new district. When a district is organized under this act,
it shall be the duty of the trustees to order an election of a school
board in the newly constituted district, in the manner provided in
the general school law for calling elections in new districts ; and it
shall be the duty of the clerk or clerks of the trustees to file a
map or maps, and records, as provided in section thirty-three of
the school law in case of changes of district lines.
Approved June 18, 1833.
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TEACHERS INSTITUTES.
§ 1. Amend section 51 of the School law, authorizing county superintendents to charge
one dollar tee for each teacher's certificate issued.— The money received to
provide a fund for holding teachers' institutes.— The county superintendent is
required to hold such institutes annually.
An Act to amend section fifty-one (51) of an act entitled "An act to
establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved April 1,
1872, in force July 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved
June 3, 1879, in force July 1, 1879.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That section fifty-one (51) of
an act entitled "An act to establish and maintain a system of free
schools," approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and amended
by an act approved June 8, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, be amended
to read as follows :
"Sec. 51. It shall be the duty of the county superintendents to hold
meetings at least quarterly, and oftener if necessary, for the exam-
ination of teachers, on such days and at such places in the respec-
tive counties as will, in their opinion, accommodate the greatest
number of persons desiring such examination. Notice of such meet-
ings shall be published a sufficient length of time, in at least one
newspaper of general circulation, the expense of such publication
to be paid out of the school fund. The county superintendent shall,
in all cases, require the payment of a fee of one dollar from every
applicant for examination for a teacher's certificate, and for each re-
newal of such a certificate, he shall require the payment of a fee of one
dollar. All moneys so received, and the registration fees hereinafter
provided for, he shall transmit monthly to the county treasurer, to be
by him held and designated as the institute fund, and with the same,
the county superintendent shall give the treasurer a list of the names
of the persons paying such fees. Said fund shall be paid out by the
county treasurer, only upon the order of the county superintendent,
and only to defray the expenses of the teachers' institutes, which the
county superintendent is by this section authorized to hold. The
county superintendent shall take vouchers for all payments made out
of the institute fund, and he shall render an account of such dis-
bursements with vouchers for the same to the county board at their
regular meeting in September, annually. The county superintendent
shall hold, annually, a teachers' institute, continuing in session not
less than five days, for the instruction of teachers and those who may
desire to teach, and with the concurrence of the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction, procure such assistance as may be necessary
to conduct the same at such time as the schools in the county
are generally closed : Provided, that two or more adjoining counties
may hold an institute together. At every such institute instruction
shall be free to such as hold certificates good in the county (or
counties, where two or more join to hold an institute) in which the
institute is held ; but the county superintendent shall require all
others attending, to pay to him a registration fee of one dollar, ex-
cept those who have paid an examination fee as required by this
act, and failed to receive a certificate."
Approved June 23, 18S3.
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COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
§ 1. Children between the ages of 8 and
14 years required to be sent to
school not less than 12 weeks in
each year unless excused.
§ 2. Exemptions under this act.
§ 3. Penalties for violation of this act.
§ 4. School directors and boards of edu-
cation charged with the execution
of this act— penalties for neglect.
An Act to secure to all children the \benefit of an elementary education.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That every person having the
control and charge of any child or children, between the ages of
eight and fourteen years, shall send such child or children to a
public or private school for a period of not less than twelve weeks
in each school year, unless such child or children are excused from
attending school by the board of education, or school directors of the
city, town or school district in which such child or children reside.
Such excuse may be given by said board of education or school
directors for any good cause shown why said child or children shall
not be required to attend school in conformity with this act.
§ 2. It shall be a good defense to any suit brought under this
act, if the person under whose control such child or children are,
can show that the mental or bodily condition of such child or child-
ren is such as to prevent its attendance at school or application
to study for the period required by this act, or, that such child or
children has been taught in a private school, or at home for the time
specified in this act, in such branches as are ordinarily taught in
primary or other schools, or has acquired the branches of learning
ordinarily taught in public schools, or that no public school has
been taught within two miles, by the nearest traveled road, of the
residence of such child or children, within the school district in
which said child or children reside, for twelve weeks during the
year.
§ 3. If any person having the control and charge of any child or
children shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of this
act, said person shall pay a fine of not less than five nor more than
twenty dollars. Suit for the recovery of the fine and costs shall be
brought by any director, or member of any board of education, of
the district in which such person resided at the time of the com-
mittal of the offense, before any justice of the peace of said town-
ship Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on all justices of the peace
in this State for the enforcing of this act. Such fine shall be paid,
when collected, to the school treasurer of said township, to be ac-
counted for by him as other school money raised for school purposes.
§ 4. It is hereby made the duty of school directors and mem-
bers of the boards of education to prosecute offenses occurring under
this act. The neglect so to prosecute by any school director, or
member of any board of education, within twenty days after writ-
ten notice has been served on such director, or member of such
board of education, by any tax payer residing in such district, that
any person has violated this act, shall subject him or them to a
fine of ten dollars, to be sued for by any tax payer residing in the
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school district where the violation of this act occurred, before any
justice of the peace in the township where the said school district
may be located ; and when such tine is collected it shall be reported
by said treasurer, and accounted for as other money raised for school
purposes, and become a part of the school fund of said township.
Approved June 23, 1883.
B05S TRAINING SCHOOLS.
§ 1. Incorporation authorized.
§ 2. Object— how maintained.
§ 3. Petition to inquire into dependency
— description of dependents.
§ 4. Hearing by court and jury upon peti-
tion—commitment.
§ 5. Appointment of guardians.
§ 6. Warrants for commitment.
§ 7. Superintendent of schools shall
receipt for boys committed.
§ 8. Fees for conveying dependent boys
to school.
§ 9.
§ 10.
§ 11.
§ 12.
§ 13.
Expenses of support paid by coun-
ties.
Officers and managers of school
shall receive boys committed and
have control and custody.
Boys may be placed in homes or
apprenticed to trades.
"Discharge of inmates.
Visitation and supervision of Board
of Public Charities— State appro-
priations prohibited.
An Act to provide for and aid training schools for boys.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly: That any seven or more per-
sons, residents of this State, who may organize, or have organized,
under the general laws of the State relating to corporations, for the
purpose of establishing, maintaining and carrying on a training
school for boys, shall have, under the corporate name assumed, all
the powers, rights and privileges of corporations of this State, not
for pecuniary profit : Provided, however, that any persons organized,
or who may hereafter organize as above set forth, desiring to avail
themselves of the provisions of this act, shall first obtain the con-
sent of the Governor thereto, in writing, which consent must be
tiled in the office of the Secretary of State.
§ 2. The object of training schools for boys shall be to provide
a home and proper training school for such boys as may be com-
mitted to their charge ; and they shall be maintained by voluntary
contributions, excepting as hereinafter provided.
§ 3. Any responsible person a resident of any county in this
State, may petition the county court, or any court of record of said
county, to inquire into the alleged dependency of any boy then
within the county, and every boy who shall come within the follow-
ing descriptions shall be considered a dependent boy, viz : Every
boy who frequents any street, alley or other place for the purpose
of begging or receiving alms ; or who shall have no permanent place
of abode, proper parental care or guardianship, or sufficient means
of subsistence ; or who from other cause shall be a wanderer
through streets and alleys, or other public places ; or who shall live
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with, or frequent the company of, or consort with reputed thieves
or other vicious persons. The petition shall also state the name of
the father and mother of the boy, if living and if known, or if
either be dead, the name of the survivor, if known ; and if neither
the father nor mother of the boy be living, or to be found in the
county, or their names to be ascertained, then the name of the
guardian, if there be one. If there be a parent living, whose name
can be ascertained, or a guardian, the petition shall set forth not
only the dependency of the boy, but shall also show that the
parents or parent or guardian are or is not fit persons or person to
have the custody of such boy. Such petition shall be verified by
oath upon the belief of the petitioner, and upon being filed the
judge of the court shall have the boy named in the petition brought
before him for the purpose of determining the application in said
petition contained, and for the hearing of such petitions the county
court shall be considered always open.
§ 4. Upon the filing of such petition, the clerk of the court shnll
issue a writ to the sheriff of the county, directing him to bring
such boy before the court, to order a jury to be summoned to
ascertain whether such boy is a dependent as alleged in said peti-
tion, and also to find if the other allegations are true, and if found
to be such, they shall also find his age in their verdict ; and when
such boy shall be without counsel, it shall be the duty of the court
to assign counsel for him ; and if the jury shall find that the boy
named in the petition is a dependent boy, and that the other
material facts set forth in the petition are true, and if in the
opinion of the judge he is a fit person to be sent to a training-
school for boys, the judge shall enter an order that such boy be
committed to a training school for boys in the county, if there be
such in the county; but if there be no such school in the county,
then to any training school for boys elsewhere in the State, to be
in such school kept and maintained, until he shall arrive at
the age of 21 years, unless sooner discharged therefrom in the
manner hereinafter provided. Before the hearing aforesaid, notice
shall be given to the parents or parent or guardian of the boy, if
to be found in the county, and also to the chairman of the county
board of the county, of the proceedings about to be instituted, and
they may appear and resist the same.
§ 5. If the court finds as in the preceding section, it shall fur-
ther order of record that such boy has no guardian, or that his
guardian or parents or parent is or are not fit person or persons to
have the custody of such boy, as the case may be, and the court
shall thereupon appoint a guardian of the custody and tuition of
such boy, and no bond shall be required of such guardian, and
such guardian shall permit such boy to be placed under the care
and in the custody of such training school for boys as herein pro-
vided.
§ 6. A warrant shall thereupon be issued in duplicate by the
clerk to some suitable person, a resident of the State, to be desig-
nated by the judge, authorizing him or her to take in charge and
care the dependent boy named in said order, and convey him to
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the training school for boys to which he is to be committed, and
said warrant shall be substantially as follows :
STATE OF ILLINOIS, ! CQ
County. f ss '
The People of the State of Illinois to :
You are hereby authorized to take forthwith into your charge and care
aged years, who has been declared a dependent boy, and convey him to the
(as the case may be) training school for boys, and of this warrant you are commanded to
make due return to this court after its execution.
Witness my hand and the seal of the court of county, this day of
A.
(Seal of Court.) Clerk of court of county.
This warrant, with the receipt thereon, shall be returned to the
clerk to be hied by him with the other papers relating to the case,
and this warrant shall be a sufficient and competent authority for
the proper officers and agents of the training school for boys to
which it is directed, to receive, keep and detain the person therein
named, and a duplicate copy thereof shall be delivered to the super-
intendent or other proper officer of such school, to be kept by him
at the school, which duplicate shall have thereon a full copy of all
indorsements made upon the one returned to court, and to be re-
corded by him in a book kept for that purpose, and said book shall
always be open to the inspection of any person.
§ 7. Upon receiving the dependent boy the superintendent of the
school shall indorse upon the warrant referred to in the preceding
section a receipt as follows :
(As the case may be) Training School for Boys.
Received this day of A. D. 18... the boy named in this warrant.
(Seal of School.) , Superintendent.
§ 8. The fees for conveying a dependent boy to a training school
for boys shall be the same as for conveying a juvenile offender to
the reform school for juvenile offenders at Pontiac, in this State,
and they shall be paid by the counties from which such dependent
boys are sent, unless they are paid by the parent or guardian.
§ 9. For the clothing, tuition, maintenance and care of depen-
dent boys, the county from which they are sent shall pay to the
training school for boys to which they may be committed as fol-
lows : For each dependent boy under the age of ten years, eight
dollars ($8) per month; for each dependent boy over ten and un-
der fourteen years of age, seven dollars ($7) per month; for each
crippled and disabled boy of any age, nine dollars ($9) per month.
And upon the proper officer rendering proper accounts therefor,
quarterly, the county board shall allow and order the same paid
out of the county treasury : Provided, that no charge shall be made
against any county by any training school for boys on account of
any dependent boy in the care thereof who shall have been by said
school put out to a trade or employment or for adoption after he
shall have been and as long as he shall remain so put out : Pro-
vided, that no charge shall be made against any county for the
support and maintenance of such boy or boys, unless the county
from which said boy or boys shall come, shall first have contracted
with said "training school for boys" for the support and mainten-
ance of said boy or boys.
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§ 10. The officers and managers of any training school for boys
in this State shall receive into such school all boys not idiotic and
not afflicted with a contagious disease committed thereto under the
provisions of this act, shall have the exclusive custody, care and
guardianship of such boys, shall provide for their support and com-
fort, instruct them in such branches of useful knowledge as may be
suited to their years and capacities, and shall cause them to be
taught or trained, in some trade or industrial pursuit ; and for the
purpose of tbeir education and training, and that they may assist
in their own support, they shall be required to perform such tasks
suitable to their years and sex as may be prescribed by such officers
and managers, and as may be reasonable and proper.
§ 11. Any boy committed under the provisions of this act to a
training school .for boys, may, by the officers and managers of said
school, be placed in the home of any good citizen, upon such terms
and for such purpose and time as may be agreed upon, or he may
be given to any suitable person of good character who will adopt
him, or he may be bound to any reputable citizen as an apprentice
to learn any trade, or as servant to follow any employment which,
in the judgment of said officers and managers, will be for his advan-
tage ; and all and singular of the provisions of the act entitled "An act
to revise the law in relation to apprentices," approved February 25,
1874, in force July 1, 1874, in so far as they are applicable, shall apply
to and be binding upon such officers and managers, and upon such
boy and upon the person to whom such boy may be bound : Pro-
vided, that any disposition made of any boy under this act shall not
bind him beyond his majority: And, provided, further, that such
officers and managers shall have a supervising care over such boy
after he shall be so put out, to see that he is properly treated and
cared for ; and, in case such boy is cruelly treated, or is neglected,
or the terms upon which he shall have been put out to any person
be not observed, then it shall be the duty of such officers and man-
agers to take and receive such boy again into the custody, care and
protection of said training school. And said officers and managers
shall have power to reclaim any boy put out to any person under
the terms of this act without the consent of the person to whom
the boy may be so put out, whenever, in the judgment of the said
officers and managers, the boy shall be cruelly treated, neglected in
training, proper instruction or otherwise, or not properly cared for.
§ 12. Any boy committed to a training school for boys, under
the provisions of this act, may be discharged thereform at any time
in accordance with the rules thereof when, in the judgment of the
officers and managers, the good of the boy or the good of the school
would be promoted by such discharge, and the Governor may at any-
time order the discharge of any boy committed to a training school
under the provisions of this act.
§ 13. All training schools for boys in this State, organized under
this act, shall be subject to the same visitation, inspection and su-
pervision of the Board of State Commissioners of Public Charities
as the charitable institutions of the State. But no such training school
shall receive an appropriation from the State for any purpose, and
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STATE WEIGH-MASTERS.
any school receiving an appropriation from the State shall not have
the benefit of the provisions of this act.
Approved June IS, 1883.
STATE WEIGH-MASTERS.
§ 1.
Provides for the appointment of State
weigh-masters and assistants by the
Railroad and Warehouse Commis-
sioners.
Duties of weigh-master and assist-
ants.
Fees for weighing.
Weigh-masters shall not be members
of boards of trade — Shall give bond
—Compensation.
§ 5. Rules and regulations for weighing
grain, etc.
§ 6. Penalties for warehousemen or rail-
road corporation for refusing access
to scales.
An Act to provide for the appointment of State Weigh-masters.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly, That there shall be appointed
by the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners in all cities where
there is State inspection of grain, a State weigh-master and such
assistants as shall be necessary.
§ 2. Said State weigh-master and assistants shall, at the places
aforesaid, supervise and have exclusive control of the weighing of
grain and other property which may be subject to inspection, and
the inspection of scales and the action and certificate of such
weigh-master and assistants in the discharge of their aforesaid
duties shall be conclusive upon all parties in interest.
§ 8. The Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners shall
fix the fees to be paid for the weighing of grain or other property,
which fees shall be paid equally by all parties interested in the
purchase and sale of the property weighed, or scales inspected and
tested.
§ 4. Said State weigh-master and assistants shall not be a mem-
ber of any board of trade or association of like character ; they
shall give bonds in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), con-
ditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties, and shall receive
such compensation as the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Com-
missioners shall determine.
§ 5. The Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners shall adopt
such rules and regulations for the weighing of grain and other
property as they shall deem proper.
§ 6. In case any person, warehouseman or railroad corporation,
or any of their agents or employees, shall refuse or prevent the
aforesaid State weigh-master or either of his assistants from having
access to their scales, in the regular performance of their duties in
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173
supervising the weighing of any grain or other property in accord-
ance with the tenor and meaning of this act, they shall forfeit ihe
sum of one hundred dollars ($100) for each offense, to be recovered
in an action of debt before any justice of the peace, in the name
of the People of the State of Illinois; such penalty or forfeiture to
be paid to the county in which the suit is brought, and shall also
be required to pay all costs of prosecution.
Approved June 23, 1883.
TELEGEAPHS AND TELEPHONE.
PRIVATE LINES.
§ 1. Private line of telegraph and tele- § 3. Penalties for damage or destruc-
phone may be constructed. ticn.
§ 2. Highways, streets or alleys outside
of incorporated towns may be
occupied for the purpose of con-
structing private lines.
An Act to permit the use of public highways, streets and alleys and
private roads leading to such highways, streets and alleys outside
of incorporated cities, villages and towns, for the purpose of con-
structing, operating and maintaining private lines of telegraph or
telephone, and to prescribe penalties for the injury or obstruction
of such lines.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That it shall be lawful for any
person or persons living on the line of any public highway, street
or alley outside of any incorporated city, village or town in this
State, or on any private road leading to such highway, street or
alley, to construct, operate and maintain a line or lines of tele-
graph or telephone, extending from house to house, as the parties
interested in the construction of such lines may desire.
§ 2. For the purpose of constructing and maintaining such lines
of telegraph or telephone, the parties in interest may set the neces-
sary poles or posts on which to place the wires and insulators of
such lines, in any of the public streets, highways or alleys, or in
any private road leading to such highways, streets or alleys outside
of the incorporated cities, villages or towns in this State along which
such lines may pass : Provided, such poles or posts shall be placed
along the boundaries of such highway's, streets, or alleys, at such
distances therefrom as the authorities having control thereof may
direct : And provided, further, that the wires necessary for such lines
shall not be less than fifteen feet above the ground along such
boundaries, and not less than twenty feet at any public or private
crossing, and shall be so placed as not in any manner to interfere
with such crossing.
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§ 3. Any person who shall unlawfully and intentionally injure,
molest or destroy any of said lines or the material or property
belonging thereto, or shall in any manner interfere with the proper
working of such lines, shall on conviction thereof, be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars; said fine to be recoverable in any court having
jurisdiction of the same : Provided, that prosecution under the fore-
going provision of this section shall not in any manner prevent a
recovery by the person or persons entitled thereto, of the amount of
damages done to such lines.
Approved June 18, 1883.
TOWNSHIP.
ORGANIZATION OF NEW TOWNS.
§ 1. Amends section 5 of the act of 1877, by permitting the consolidation of the offices of
treasurer and town clerK.
An Act to amend section Jive (5) of an act entitled (: An act to authorize
county boards in counties under township organization, to organize
certain territory situated therein as a town," approved May 23,
1877, in force July 1, 1877.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That section five (5) of an act
entitled "An act to authorize county boards in counties under town-
ship organization to organize certain territory situated therein as a
town," approved May 23, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, be amended
so that the same shall read as follows :
"Section 5. The city council in such city and town, may by
ordinance, provide that the officers of city and town clerk shall be
united in the same person ; that the officers of treasurer and town
collector shall be united in the same person ; that the election of
highway commissioners shall be discontinued, and that the offices
of supervisor and poormaster shall be separated, and the poormaster
appointed by the city council."
Approved June 18, 1883.
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UNCLAIMED PKOPERTY.
SALE OF.
§ 1. Amends section 1, act of 1874, by authorizing innkeepers and warehousemen to sell
unclaimed property the same as common carriers.
An*Act to amend section one of an act entitled "An act to provide for
the sale of unclaimed property by common carriers, warehousemen
and innkeepers," approved March 28, 1874, as heretofore amended
by an act entitled "An act to amend section three (3) of an act
entitled "An act to provide for the sale of unclaimed property by
common carriers, warehousemen and innkeepers," approved March
28, 1874, and to amend the title thereof, approved May 13, 1879.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly : That section one of an
act entitled "An act to provide for the sale of unclaimed property
by common carriers, warehousemen and innkeepers," approved March
28, 1874, as heretofore amended by an act entitled "An act to amend
section three (3) of an act entitled 'An act to provide for the sale
of unclaimed property by common carriers, warehousemen and inn-
keepers,' approved March 28, 1874, and to amend the title thereof,
approved May 13, 1879," be and the same is hereby amended, so
as to read as follows :
"Q.
; Sec. 1. That whenever any trunk, carpet-bag, valise, bundle, pack-
age, or article of property, transported, or coming into the possession
ot any railroad or express company, or any other common carrier,
or innkeeper or warehouseman, or private warehouse-keeper, in the
course of its or his business as common carrier, innkeeper, ware-
houseman, or private warehouse-keeper, shall remain unclaimed, and
the legal charges thereon unpaid during the space of six months
after its arrival at the point to which it shall have been directed,
and the owner or person to whom the same is consigned cannot be
found upon diligent inquiry, or, being found and notified of the ar-
rival of such article, shall refuse or neglect to receive the same and
pay the legal charges thereon for the space of three months, it
shall be lawful for such common carrier, innkeeper, warehouseman
or private warehouse-keeper to sell such article at public auction,
after giving the owner or consignee fifteen days' notice of the time
and place of sale, through the postoffice, and by advertising in a
newspaper published in the county where such sale is made, and
out of the proceeds of such sale to pay all legal charges on such
articles, and the overplus, if any, shall be paid to the owner or the
consignee upon demand."
Approved June 18, 1883.
176 VIlSlEGAK — WASHINGTONIAN HOME.
VINEGAR.
ADULTEKATION.
§ I. Prescribes penalties for the man- § 2. Provides penalties for manufacture
ufacture and sale of impure cider ! and sale of vinegar containing
vinegar. ! acids injurious to health.
An Act to prevent the adulteration of vinegar, and to prevent fr % iud
and imposition in the manufacture and sale of vinegar, and to pro-
tect the purchasers thereof.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That every person who shall man-
ufacture for sale, or shall offer or expose for sale, as cider vinegar,
any vinegar not the legitimate product of pure apple juice, known
as apple cider, and not made exclusively of said apple cider, shall,
for each such offense, be punished by a fine of not less than
twenty-five [dollars] ($25) nor more than fifty dollars ($50).
§ 2. Every person who shall manufacture for sale, or who shall
offer or expose for sale, any vinegar found upon test to contain any
preparation of lead, copper, sulphuric acid or other ingredients in-
jurious to health, shall, for each such offense, be punished by a fine
of not less than one hundred dollars ($100).
•Appiioted June 14, 1883.
WASHINGTONIAN HOME.
§ 1. Amends section 7, act of 1867 incorporating, by limiting the amount paid by the city
of Chicago under this act to $20,000.
An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the 'Wasli-
ingtonian Home of Chicago,'' " approved February 16, 1867.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep-
resented in the General Assembly: That section seven (7) of an act
entitled "An act to incorporate the ' Washingtonian Home of Chi-
cago,' " approved February 16. 1867, be and the same is hereby
amended to read as follows :
"Section 7. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the county of
Cook and the treasurer of the city of Chicago, or of the officers of
either, into whose hands the same may come, or be paid, to pay
over to said corporation, in quarterly installments, for the support
and maintenance of said institution, ten per cent, of all moneys
received for all licenses granted by authority of said county or city,
for the right or privilege to vend or sell spirituous liquors, vinous
or fermented liquors, within the said county of Cook and city of
WASHINGTONIAN HOME. 177
Chicago : Provided, that in no case shall the sum so paid out of
the treasury of the city of Chicago for or during any year exceed
ihe sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), and the treasurer of
the city of Chicago shall not, during or for any year, pay out of
the moneys so received by him for licenses as aforesaid, to said
corporation, a sum exceeding twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).
This bill having remained with the Governor ten days after the adjournment of the
Oeneral Assembly, and he having failed to approve it, or to file it with his objections in
any office before the expiration of said ten days, it has thereby become a law.
Witness my hand this 29th day of June, A."D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT,
Secretary of State.
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JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
SENATE.
JOINT RULES.
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein r
That a committee be constituted, consisting of three Senators to be
appointed by the President of the Senate, and three members of
the House of Kepresentatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of
the House, which committee shall prepare and report to the two
houses, joint rules for this General Assembly.
SYNOPSIS OF BILLS.
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, That
there be printed once each week, for the use of the General Assem-
bly, 250 copies of the Senate synopsis of bills and House bills in
Senate, and 350 copies of House synopsis of bills and Senate bills
in House ; that the said synopsis v show the number of the bill, by
whom introduced, abstract of title and condition of the bill.
T. W. ECKERT, COMMITTEE CLERK.
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein,
That T. W. Eckert, who has acted as clerk of the joint committee
appointed to investigate complaints against the St. Louis Bridge
Company, is entitled to two hundred dollars for said services, and
for expenses incurred while making investigations under the direc-
JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 179
tion of the committee, said services to be certified to by the chair-
man of the joint committee and approved by the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House of representatives.
PENSIONS FOR SOLDIERS WHO LOST A LEG OR ARM.
Whereas, a bill is now pending before the Senate of the United
States, having for its .object an increase of the pensions of all loyal
soldiers, who lost a leg or an arm in the military service of the
United States, to the sum of $40 per month ; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein.
That our Senators and Eepresentatives in Congress be requested to
use their influence to secure the passage of said bill ; and that the
Secretary of the State of Illinois be requested to have printed and
mailed to each member in Congress, and each Senator from Illinois,
a copy of this resolution.
shawneetown flood sufferers.
Whereas, the people of Shawneetown are suffering from destitu-
tion caused by the floods of the Ohio and Wabash rivers to an ex-
tent hitherto unparalleled in the history of that city; and
W'hereas, there is great suffering throughout the flooded districts
of the State on the Ohio river; therefore,
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein,
That a committee of three from the Senate and five from 'the House
of Eepresentatives be appointed by the presiding officers of the two
houses to report the condition of the inhabitants thereof to this
General Assembly without unnecessary delay, and said committee
may, in their discretion, visit the inundated districts if they deem
it necessary.
PRINTING AND BINDING EXTRA COPIES OF BILLS AND DOCUMENTS.
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein,
That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to have printed, in
180 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
addition to the number printed for the use of either House, 300 copies
of each bill, resolution, report or other document printed by order
of either house, and that he shall have the same numerically
arranged and bound at the end of each session, and deliver one copy
to each member of the General Assembly, one copy to the Secretary
of the Senate, and one to each of his assistants, one copy to the
Clerk of the House, and one to each of his assistants, three copies
to the State Library, and keep the remainder for judicious distri-
bution.
NATIONAL YELLOWSTONE PARK.
Whereas, the people of the State of Illinois, having a common
interest in our National Park, and the maintaining of the same free
to all the people of the earth, visiting this region of matchless won-
ders and grandeurs, and learning that a company of capitalists are
trying to secure a lease of said park with exclusive rights therein;
and
Whereas, the attention of Congress being called to said trans-
action by the report of Lieutenant-General Sheridan, made to the
War Department, November 1st, 1882, and Senator Vest having
reported a bill from committee to the Senate of the United States,
making rules and regulations for the better government of said park;
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring
herein, That this General Assembly, acting on behalf of the people
of this State, respectfully request that our Senators and Eepresent-
atives in Congress use all honorable means to secure the passage
of a law that will give to the people visiting said park the right of
viewing the wonders therein contained, free from the extortion of
monopolists, or hindrance from any source whatever, so far as may
be consistent with the necessary protection of the scenery and
objects of curiosity, and the protection of the game and fish
therein contained.
Resolved, That we hereby tender to Lieutenant-General Sheridan
and Senator Vest, the thanks of the people of this State for their
timely and earnest efforts in the preventing of said park from pass-
ing into the exclusive possession of said company, to be used by
them as a cattle ranch, and for the extorting of money from tour-
ists visiting said park.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby re-
quested to forward copies of these resolutions to our Senators and
^Representatives in Congress, and a copy of each to Lieutenant-Gen-
eral Sheridan and Senator Vest.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 181
CLAIM OF ALEXANDER BRUCE.
Whereas, it is alleged by Alexander Bruce that, according to
contract with the United States Government and the State of Illi-
nois, he has completed the foundation to the lock at Copperas Creek
dam, on the Illinois river, and has failed to receive payment in full
thereof from the State of Illinois ; therefore,
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring
herein, That the Canal Commissioners are hereby instructed to
fully investigate the claim of the said Bruce in connection with the
construction of said dam, and in said investigation shall employ, if
practicable, D. C. Jenne to make such estimates as may be neces-
sary; and the then Canal Commissioners shall be heard in such
investigation. When the investigation shall be completed, the said
commissioners shall make full report of the same with their con-
clusion to the Governor.
CHICAGO 'LAKE FRONT — EMPLOYMENT OF COUNSEL.
Whereas, a suit is now pending in the Circuit Court of Cook
county, entitled "The People of the State of Illinois v. The Illinois
Central Railroad, the United States of America, The City of Chi-
cago, "which suit involves and is to determine the ownership of the
property in Chicago commonly known as "Lake Front;" and
Whereas, a part of this property is the frontage of one mile in
extent of what was originally canal land, and eminent counsel have
advised that the Illinois and Michigan Canal has now a legal and
equitable interest to a large amount in the matters involved in said
suit ; therefore,
Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring herein, That the
Canal Commissioners are hereby instructed to employ competent
counsel to appear in said suit in behalf of the interests of the Illi-
nois and Michigan Canal, and to protect the same so far as they
may be involved in this suit.
MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE AT EAST ST. LOUIS.
Whereas, a charter was granted by the General Assembly of the
State of Illinois for the construction of a bridge across the Missis-
sippi river at East St. Louis, and that, under said charter, a bridge
was constructed and is now used and operated by said bridge com-
182 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
pany for the transportation of passengers and freight cars of the va-
rious railroad companies across said bridge for hire ; and,
Whereas, complaints have been made by shippers of stock, grain
and merchandise, and by corporations operating railroads, whose cars
are transported over said bridge by the said bridge company, that
extortionate charges and unjust discriminations are made by said
company for said services : therefore,
Resolved by the Senate of the State of Illinois, the House of Repre-
sentatives concurring herein, That a committee, consisting of five
Senators, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and sev-
en Bepresentatives, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House of
Eepresentatives, to inquire into said complaints, and report to this
body all such facts as may be ascertained by them relating to said
complaints ; and in order to fully carry out the spirit and intent of
this resolution, that said committee may employ a clerk, and take
testimony at such times and places as they may deem best, to ac-
complish said object ; and that said committee have power to send
for and compel the attendance of witnesses, with all necessary rec-
ords and papers.
CONVEYANCE OF LAND TO JULIA A. BAKEWELL.
Whereas, in the year 1858, E. W. Bakewell and wife, of Normal,
Illinois, did, upon certain conditions to be fulfilled by the Board of
Education of the State of Illinois, make and execute a deed to said
Board of Education for the forty acres of land off of the south side
of so much of the north half of the northwest quarter of section
twenty-eight, town twenty-four north, range two east of the third
principal meridian, as lies west of the State road, which is an ex-
tension of Main street in Bloomington north, said forty acres to in-
clude said State road ; and,
Whereas, said conveyance was a conditional donation, dependent
for its validity upon the performance of certain conditions, which
conditions have never been fulfilled or complied with ; and,
Whereas, the said Board of Education has since been changed
from a private corporation to a board of State officers and posses-
sion and title to said land have been vested in the present State
Board of Education, acting in behalf of the State, by reason of
which change no proceedings in law or equity can be brought against
them ; and,
Whereas, the statute of limitations bars the claim of said Bake-
well before the Commission of Claims, leaving his only remedy or
chance for justice in the hands of the General Assembly : there-
fore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring
herein, That the State Board of Education, or its president, be and is
hereby directed to execute a conveyance in fee simple of the above
described forty acres of land to Julia A. Bakewell.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 183
SHEER BOOMS AT BRIDGES IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER. -
Whereas, the piers of many of the railway bridges crossing the
Mississippi river are a very serious hindrance to navigation ; that
steamers frequently collide with them, and sometimes great loss of
life is thereby occasioned, and that there is annually a great loss
of property, and that they are constantly a great source of danger
and dread to those who have business, or who travel upon the river ;
and,
Whereas, in accordance with the act of Congress approved March
3, 1875, a board of United States engineers was convened in St.
Xiouis, and after an exhaustive examination of the subject they sub-
mitted a report to the Honorable the Secretary of War, February
19, 1877, in which they recognized the great necessity for sheer
•booms and recommended plans for the same at the various bridges ;
and,
Whereas, in 1882, Major A. McKinzie, United States engineer in
■charge of the river improvements between St. Anthony's Falls and
the mouth of the Illinois river, constantly witnessing the great danger
to live and property at the bridge piers, and the consequent neces-
sity for protection thereat, submitted a report to the Chief of En-
gineers, United States army, in which much important information
was given upon the subject, and the sheer booms urgently recom-
mended ; therefore, your memorialists would respectfully but ur-
gently suggest that the interests Of commerce, the security of prop-
erty and the safety of life imperatively demand that, at the earliest
possible moment, sheer booms be placed at the various bridges, in
substantial accordance with the plans and recommendations above
alluded to : therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate of the State of Illinois, the House of Repre-
sentatives concurring therein, That our Senators in Congress be in-
structed and our Representatives requested to use their best efforts
"to secure the placing of sheer booms at the various bridges crossing
"the Mississippi river.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, duly signed by the
President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and attested by
"the Secretary of this body, be forwarded to each of the Illinois
-Senators and Representatives in Congress.
CARBONDALE BONDS.
Whereas, the Twenty-seventh General Assembly of this State
did pass a resolution in the words and figures, to-wit :
"Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring herein, That the
'Governor be, and he is hereby, instructed to sell to the city of
•Carbondale all the bonds of said city now in his possession, issued
18 i JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
by the said city for the use and benefit of the Illinois Normal
University at Carbondale, in accordance with the provisions of 'An
act to appoint commissioners to construct the Southern Illinois-
Insane Asylum and the Southern Illinois Normal University, and
to make appropriations therefor,' approved April 13, 1871, for no
less than thirty thousand dollars, in full of said bonds and the-
interest that may have accrued thereon ; which amount, when so
paid, shall be transferred to the commissioners of the said South-
ern Illinois Normal University, located at Carbondale, to be used
by them in »the construction and completion of the same : Provided,
that said sum of thirty thousand dollars be paid on or before the
1st day of July, 1872;" and
Whereas, in pursuance of said resolution, the said city of Car-
bondale did issue bonds amounting in the aggregate to forty
thousand dollars, which said bonds were sold in the city of New
York for twenty-eight thousand dollars, and the proceeds thereof
applied by said city in the purchase of ninety-two thousand dollars
of its bonds as contemplated by said resolution herein recited, thus
leaving in the hands of the State eight thousand dollars of the one
hundred thousand dollars series of said bonds, which said eight
thousand dollars of bonds are now held by the State to secure the
payment of the two thousand dollars still due the State under and
by virtue of said resolution; and
Whereas, the city of Carbondale, with a population of less than
twenty-five hundred people, has now an outstanding municipal debt
of seventy thousand dollars, of the character of seven per cent.,
interest-bearing bonds, which said bonds were issued in aid of the
Southern Illinois Normal University, and the proceeds arising
therefrom applied by the State in the construction of said University ;
therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, the House concurring herein, That the
Governor be, and he is hereby directed to surrender to the city of
Carbondale, for cancellation, the eight thousand dollars in bonds
now in the possession of the State, and issued by said city in aid
of the Southern Illinois Normal University."
water power at joliet.
Whereas, from the relative location of the Illinois and Michigan
canal and the Des Plaines river, in the city of Joliet, Will county,
the State of Illinois became, and is the proprietor and possessor of
the west bank of said river, opposite lots one (1), two (2) and three
(3), block fifty-seven (57), School Section addition to Joliet, situated
on the east bank thereof ; and
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Whereas, the owners of said lots, being riparian owners on the
east bank only, as determined by the Supreme Court in the case
of "Canal Trustees v. Havens," 11th 111., p. 554, have converted
their said property into a mill site, and constructed and maintained,
and do now maintain a mill dam across the entire bed of said river,,
extending west from or near the northwest corner of said lot one
(1), above mentioned, thereby creating a water power of great value ;
and
Whereas, the State of Illinois, in respect to its rights as ripar-
ian owner upon the west bank of said river, is legally entitled to
use and appropriate one-half the water power thus created, and is
enabled at the present time to utilize the same as an important
and permanent source of revenue, by means of structures of simple
form, small extent and inconsiderable expense, and, with proper
joint arrangements with the owner or owners of the other half,
usual in such cases ; therefore, be it
He solved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring
herein, (1.) That the Canal Commissioners be and they are hereby
directed and empowered to assume possession and control of said
water power, so belonging to the State of Illinois, and forthwith to
take such measures as they shall deem proper and expedient to
secure for the use of the practical enjoyment and benefit thereof;
and to this end to cause to be erected all needful structures upon
said west bank for developing and transferring said power ; and
thereupon to lease the same as they are now authorized by law to
lease the water-power of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
(2.) That the cost of such structures and all the expenses of
said work, or incident thereto, shall be defrayed from the canal
revenues, and shall in no event become a charge against the
State.
(3.) That said commissioners shall be and hereby are empowered
in their discretion to make with the riparian proprietor or proprie-
tors on the east or opposite bank, just and proper arrangements
for the joint regulation of said water-power, and for the equitable
division thereof, and for the future maintenance and repair or re-
construction of said dam : Provided, however, that in prosecuting
the objects contemplated by this joint resolution, and in entering
into needful stipulations with the riparian owner or owners on the
east bank of the Des Plaines river, the said Canal Commissioners
shall in nowise surrender, compromise or impair any legal rights
of the State in and to the use of the water upon the Channahon
level of the canal, for hydraulic purposes, below said dam, com-
monly called "Adam's dam," if any such legal right shall here-
after be established by judicial proceedings thereto had.
186 JOINT KESOLTJTIONS.
VETO POWER OF THE GOVERNOR — TO AMEND SECTION SIXTEEN, ARTICLE
FIVE OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein,
That there shall be submitted to the electors of this State at the
next election for members of the General Assembly, a proposition
to amend section sixteen (16) of article five (5) of the Constitution
of this State, so that the same may read as follows :
Sec. 16. Every bill passed by the General Assembly shall, before
it becomes a law, be presented to the Governor.
If he approve, he shall sign it, and thereupon it shall become a
law; but if he do not approve, he shall return it, with his objec-
tions, to the house in which it shall have originated, which house
shall enter the objections at large upon its journal and proceed to
reconsider the bill. If then two-thirds of the members elected agree
to pass the same, it shall be sent, together with the objections, to
the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered ; and if
approved by two-thirds of the members elected to that house, it
shall become a law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor;
but in all such cases the vote of each house shall be determined
by yeas and nays, to be entered upon the journal.
Bills making appropriations of money out of the treasury shall
specify the objects and purposes for which the same are made, and
appropriate to them respectively their several amounts in distinct
items and sections, and if the Governor shall not approve any one
or more of the items or sections contained in any bill, but shall
approve the residue thereof, it shall become a law as to the residue
in like manner as if he had signed it.
The Governor shall then return the bill, with his objections to
the items or sections of the same not approved by him, to the
house in which the bill shall have originated, which house shall
enter the objections at large upon its journal, and proceed to recon-
sider so much of said bill as is not approved by the Governor.
The same proceedings shall be had in both houses in reconsider-
ing the same as is hereinbefore provided in case of an entire bill
returned by the Governor with his objections ; and if any item or
section of said bill not approved by the Governor shall be passed
by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses of
the General Assembly, it shall become part of saidv law, notwith-
standing the objections of the Governor.
Any bill which shall not be returned by the Governor within ten
days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him,
shall become a law in like manner as if he had signed it ; unless
the General Assembly shall, by their adjournment, prevent its re-
turn, in which case it shall be filed with his objections in the office
of the Secretary of State, within ten days after such adjournment,
or become a law.
JOINT KESOLUTIONS. 187
HOUSE.
CANVASS ELECTION EETURNS,
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That the two houses meet in joint assembly in the Hall of Bepre-
sentatives, on Friday, the 5th clay of January, A. D. 1883, at the
hour of 12 o'clock M,, for the purpose of canvassing the returns of
election held on the 7th day of November, A. D. 1882, for State
officers, as by law required.
THANKS TENDERED THE BOARD OF TRADE OF INDIANAPOLIS FOR RELIEF
TO SHAWNEETOWN FLOOD SUFFERERS.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That
the thanks of the General Assembly of this State are due and are
hereby tendered the Board of Trade of Indianapolis, for the liberal
charity bestowed upon the unfortunate people of Shawneetown, Illi-
nois, and vicinity, who have suffered so much on account of the
recent floods.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and is hereby requested
to transmit a copy of this resolution to the president of said board.
PRINTING DAILY JOURNAL.
Whereas, this House has ordered its journals printed ; and,
Whereas, the law provides that the printing of either house,
other than bills or reports of committees, must be by joint resolu-
tion ; therefore,
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That two hundred copies of the journal of each day be printed and
laid upon the desks of the members before the hour of meeting of
the next day; and after the same shall have been corrected and
approved, that five hundred copies of the same be printed for the
use of the House.
188 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
COMMITTEE EXPENSES.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That all claims of members of the various standing and special
committees of the House and Senate for reimbursement for expenses
incurred while in discharge of such committee service, and all claims
for services and expenses of extra clerks, experts, witnesses, etc.,
incurred under direction of said committees, shall be submitteed to
the "Committee on Contingent Expenses" of the House and the
"Committee on Expenses of the General Assemblv" of the Senate,
to be approved by the said committees ; and such allowances shall
be paid only upon recommendation of said committees, and the
recommendation of the Senate or the House, as the case may be ;
all bills to be certified to by the Speaker of the House and. the
President of the Senate respectively.
ADJOURNMENT ON ACCOUNT OF APRIL ELECTIONS.
Whereas, there are to be held throughout the State of Illinois on
April 3, 1;83, the annual town meetings, and many cities hold cor-
porate elections on the same day ; and,
Whereas, many members of this General Assembly desire to par-
ticipate in said elections ; therefore, be it
Resolved hy the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That when the two houses adjourn on Friday, the 30th day of March,
1883, they stand adjourned until Wednesday, the 4th day of April,
1883, at 5 o'clock P. M.
PURCHASE OF LINCOLN S HOME.
Whereas, Mr. 0. H. Oldroyd, a citizen and resident of Spring-
field, and the author of the "Lincoln Memorial Album," and the
collector during the last twenty years of nearly two thousand books,
medals, pictures, badges, sermons, eulogies and mementoes of Abra-
ham Lincoln, is desirous of putting [them] into some permanent
place for preservation, where the people can see and know what the
nations have done for the honor of Illinois' great statesman, and
being desirous, upon suitable conditions, to contribute the same to
the State of Illinois ; be it therefore
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That His Excellency, John M. Hamilton, be requested to correspond
with Hon. Kobert T. Lincoln, and ascertain for what price the State
of Illinois can purchase the old homestead of Abraham Lincoln for
that purpose, and report the same to this House.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 189
JOINT COMMITTEE ON REVENUE.
Whereas, there is great complaint throughout this State of the
injustice and inequality of our revenue law, and especially as to the
inequality of assessments of both real and personal property; and,
Whereas, there is almost universal demand throughout the State
for State reform ; therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That a joint committee of the House and Senate be appointed, to
consist of the revenue committee of the House and the revenue
committee of the Senate, which joint committee shall take into con-
sideration the subject of revenue reform for the State; and that
they report to this General Assembly by bill or otherwise.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA AMONG CATTLE.
Whereas, large and increasing annual losses are sustained by
the cattle feeders of this State on account of the expensive restric-
tions placed upon exported cattle by Great Britain, owing to the
existence in some of the Eastern States of pleuro-pneumonia, or lang
plague ; and,
Whereas, the cattle interests of this and other Western States
are seriously threatened by the introduction of this contagious
disease ; therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Kepresenta-
tives be requested, to use all honorable means to secure the passage
of a suitable law, that will speedily stamp out and permanently ex-
clude from the_ United States the contagious disease known as
pleuro-pneumonia, or lung plague of cattle.
ELECTION OF UNITED STATES SENATOR.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That on Tuesday, the 16th day of January, instant, at 11 o'clock
A.' M., each house shall by itself, and in the manner prescribed by
sections 14 and 15 of Eevised Statutes of the United States of 3873
and 1874, name a person for Senator in Congress from the State of
Illinois for the term of six years from the 4th day of March, A. D.
1883 ; _ and on Wednesday, the 17th day of January, at 12 o'clock
meridian, the members of the two houses shall convene in joint
130 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
assembly in the hall of the House of Representatives, and in the
manner prescribed by said law, declare the person who has received
the majority of votes in each house, if any person has received
such majority, duly elected Senator to represent the State of Illinois
in the Congress of the United States for the term aforesaid ; 'and if
no one person has received such majority, then proceed as pre-
scribed in said law, in joint assembly, to choose a person for the
purpose aforesaid.
DEATH OF LEON GAMBETTA.
Whereas, the sad intelligence comes from our sister Republic,
France, that her distinguished son and author, orator and states-
man,
Leon Gambetta,
has departed this life ; therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That this General Assembly deeply sympathises with the people of
France in this, their great loss.
Resolved, As a further token of its respect for the memory of so
great a citizen, this joint resolution be ordered spread on the jour-
nals of each House, and a copy thereof forwarded to the President
of the Republic of France.
SALE OF STATE ARMS AND ACCOUTREMENTS.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That the Adjutant-General be and is hereby authorized to dispose
of by sale, in such manner as may be deemed best for the interest
of the State, after advertising the sale in three newspapers in this
State, all unserviceable cannon, small arms, accoutrements and
other property now stored in the State Arsenal and belonging to the
State of Illinois. He is also hereby required to make a report, in
detail, of the sale or sales of such property to the Auditor of Public
Accounts, which report shall be filed in said office, and all moneys
accruing from the sale of such State property shall be covered into
the State treasury and credited to the military fund.
JOINT RESOLUTIONS. 191
HENNEPIN CANAL BILL.
Whereas, a bill is now pending in Congress providing for con-
structing a canal from the Illinois river, at or near Hennepin, to the
Mississippi river at, or above, Eock Island; and,
Whereas, the people of the State of Illinois have voted to cede
the Illinois and Michigan canal to the United States therefore,
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring,
That our Senators in Congress be, and are hereby instructed, and
our Eepresentatives requested, to vote for and use their influence to
procure the passage of said bill, known as the "Hennepin Canal
Bill," and to secure the acceptance by the United States of the said
Illinois and Michigan canal.
jResolved, That the Governor be, and is hereby requested to for-
ward a copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Eep-
resentatives in Congress.
DOCUMENTS FURNISHED CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein,
That the Secretary of State is hereby instructed to hereafter send
to the Chicago Historical Society two copies each of all publi-
cations made by the State ; and that, as soon as said historical
society has sufficient fire-proof vaults, to which the president and
secretary of said society shall certify, the Secretary of State shall
furnish said society with one copy of every public document, "State
or National:" Provided, the State has duplicate copies of the same
and the historical society does not have a copy ; and, furthermore,
when the State has four or more copies of the same documents, the
Secretary of State shall furnish the society with duplicate copies of
the same if wanted, and the books there deposited in the library of
the society shall be for the use of any citizen of the State ; and
furthermore, that the Secretary of State shall take a receipt in be-
half of the State for all books thus deposited with the said historical
society, and to said receipt shall be appended a condition, signed
by the president and secretary of said society, that in case the State
Library is ever burned, the said historical society shall return to
the State Library one copy of each duplicate copy received from
the State, under the provisions of this joint resolution.
192 JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
ADJOURNMENT SINE DIE.
Resolved by the House of Representatives, [the Senate concurring herein,']
That when the two houses of the Thirty-third General Assembly ad-
journ on Monday, the 18th day of June, they stand adjourned with-
out day.
Executive Depaetment,
Office of Secretary of State.
United States of America, I
State of Illinois. I
I. Henry D. Dement, Secretary of State of the State of Illinois, do hereby certify that
the foregoing published Acts and Resolutions of the Thirty-third General Assembly of the
State of Illinois, are true and correct copies of said Acts andResolutions.filed in the office
of the Secretary of State, with the exception of words or letters printed in brackets,
thus [I.
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the great seal of State
at the city of Springfield, this sixteenth day of July A. D. 1883.
HENRY D. DEMENT,
IL. S.] Secretary of State.
INDEX TO LAWS.
Page.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL :
Appropriations 46
AGRICULTURE :
Act to revise the law in relation to
department of 1
Appropriations state and county
boards 5
ANIMALS :
Glanders in horses.: 4
APPROPRIATIONS:
Adjutant- General 46
Agricultural boards 5
Alton city court 7,8
Attorney- General • 46
Auditor of State 45,47
Battle flags, preservation 9
Board of health 50
Braidwood mine sufferers 9
Bureau of Labor Statistics 50
Canal, Illinois and Michigan 10
Chance, Jacob 11
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS:
Blind 27
Deaf and Dumb 28
Eye and Ear Infirmary 29
Feeble-Minded Children 29
Hospitals for Insane:
Central 33
Eastern 30,33
Northern 34
Southern 35, 36
Soldiers' Orphans' Home 36
Conveying convicts to penitentiary. 47
Conveying juvenile offenders to Re-
form School 47
Copying and distributing contracts... 48
Coulterville mine sufferers 9
Courts :
Appellate 47,48
Claims for bailiff... 47
Supreme 47
Dairyman's Association 12
Deaf and Dumb school at Chicago 12
Entomologist. State 51
Fish commissioners 51
Franklin county 13
Fugitives from justice, return of 47
General Assembly :
Employes 42, 49
Expenses of committees next 51
Incidental expenses 42
Salaries of next and state officers. 42
Governor's office 44, 45
Historical Library and Museum 49
Horticultural Society 13
Industrial University 15
Library of Natural History at Normal. 51
Page.
APPROPRIATIONS— Conttnwed.
Law library at the capitol ; 16
Lucinger, Jacob and Nicholas.. 15
Monument to soldiers of Black Hawk
war 17
Mound City 16
Mulligan monument 17
National Guard 18
Normal Universities :
Normal 19
Southern 20
Paper and stationery 47
Paving and curbing streets at state
house 41
Penitentiaries :
Joliet 21,22,50
Southern 23,35,50
Printing and binding 48
Public Charities, board of ; 46
Railroad and Warehouse Commis-
sioner's office 49
Reform School 37
Rose Clare flood sufferers 25
School fund 48,50
Secretary of State :
Clerk hire and office expenses 45
Janitors and watchmen 48
Heating and lighting state house. 49
Repairs of heating department 50
Supreme Court Reports 50
Shawneetown flood sufferers 26
Shinnick. Richard 38
Spink.^Alfred, estate of 39
State Board of Equalization 49
State Government :
General Assembly 42,43,49,51
Ordinary and contingent expenses 43
State House :
Completion 39
Heating and lighting 49
Repairs of heating department... 50
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
office 46
Taxes paid in error, for refunding 48
Treasurer's office 46
Wilson Robert 52
ASSIGNMENTS :
Voluntary, preferred claims, act
1877 amended 53
ATTORNEY-GENERAL :
Appropriations 47
AUDITOR OF STATE:
Appropriations 45, 47
II
INDEX.
BLACK HAWK WAR: Page.
Appropriation for monument to
soldiers of 17
BONDS-AID:
Railroad, issue of, limit of time 122
BONDS-INDEMNITY:
Butter and cheese factories 54
BONDS-MUNICIPAL:
Surplus funds in State Treasury... 121
BRIDGES:
Pier booms in Illinois river 54
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS:
A ppropriations 50
Mine inspectors 116
BUTTER AND CHEESE:
Factories, cooperative, give bonds 54
CANALS-ILL. AND MICH.:
Appropri ations 10
CEMETERIES:
Cities and villages act 1877 amend-
ed 55
CHANCE, JACOB 0.:
Appropriation 11
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS-STATE:
Appropriations :
Blind 27
Deaf and Dumb 28
Eye and Ear Infirmary 20
Feeble-Minded Children 20
Hospitals for the Insane:
Central 33
Eastern 30,32
Northern 34
Southern 35,30
Soldiers' Orphans' Home 36
CITIES AND VILLAGES:
Alderman, election on minority
plan 50
Braidwood, appropriation for mine
sufferers 9
Cemeteries, act of 1877 amended ... 55
Coulterville, ^appropriation for
mine sufferers
Delinquent taxes on special as-
sessments 58
Elevated railways, right of way ... 120
Inundation and overflow, protec-
tion against 60, 03
Moun I City, appropriation 10
Police and Firemen's relief fund,
act 1877 amended 59
Policemen may serve warrants 58
Rose Clare, appropriation 25
Sewerage and water taxes 08
Shawneetown, appropriation 20
CLAIMS COMMISSION:
Appropriation for bailiff 48
CLERKS OF COURTS:
. Appellate, motions for attorneys.. 09
Supreme, motions for attorneys. . . 09
CONVEYANCES:
Froof of deeds 70
CONVICTS:
Appropriation for conveying to
penitentiaries 47
COPYING AND DISTRIBUTING:
Appropriation for contracts 49
CORPORATIONS: Page.
Act 1872, Sec. 3, amended. Cooper-
ative Ins. ('os 74
insurance, iife associations on as-
sessment plan 104
Railroads, consolidation 124
Railroads, depots, act 1874 amend-
ed 125
Stock shares, sale of, held as col-
lateral 110
Training schools for boys 108
Washingtonian Home, act Incp.
amended 170
COUNTIES:
Franklin, appropriation 13
COUNTY CLERKS:
Fees and salaries in 3d class 96
COURTS-APPELLATE:
Appropriations 47, 48
Clerks may enter motions 69
COURTS-CITY:
Alton, appropriation 7,8
COURTS-COUNTY:
Adjournment of regular terms 71
Clark, term changed 72
Cumberland, terms changed 72
Fulton, terms changed 72
Hancock, terms changed 73
Henderson, terms changed 72
Jackson, terms changed 72
Jersey, terms changed 73
LaSalle, terms changed 72
Macoupin, terms changed 72
Marshall, terms changed 72
Mercer, terms changed 72
Randolph, terms changed 72
Warren, terms changed 72
COURTS-PROBATE:
County judges hold in case of va-
cancy 74
COURTS-SUPREME:
Appropriation s 47
Clerks may enter motions GO
CRIMINAL CODE :
Adulteration of vinegar 170
Ice ponds, injuring or destroying. 70
Malicious mischief sec. 197
amended 75
Punishment of criminal on second
and third offenses 70
DAIRYMAN'S ASSOCIATION:
Appropriation 12
DRAINAGE :
Act of 1879 amended 84, 80
County ditches, repairs and im-
provements 81
Districts organized under laws of
1879 legalized 77
Land owners, construction of
drains ■. 78
DRAM SHOPS :
License fee 92
ELECTIONS :
County treasurers, filling vacan-
cies 70
Precincts, act 1872, sec. 30 amended 94
ENTOMOLOGIST-STATE :
Appropriations 51
EVIDENCE AND DEPOSITIONS :
Proof of deeds and other instru-
ments in writing 70
INDEX.
Ill
PAGE.
FEES AND SALARIES :
Classification of counties 95
State's Attorneys, act 1872 amended 97
FENCES :
Hedges, height of 99
FISH COMMISSION :
Appropriation 51
FLAGS AND TROPHIES :
Appropriation for preservation 9
FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE :
Appropriation for apprehension.. 47
GAMBRILL, A. H. :
Appropriation 7
GENERAL ASSEMBLY :
Appropriations :
Committee Ex. 34th 51
Employes 42
Employes of next 49
Incidental expenses 42
Next 43
GLANDERS ;
Contagious and infectious dis-
eases among horses 4
GOVERNOR :
Appropriations 44, 45
Conveyance of land to Southeast
& St. L. Ry 127
GUARDIANS AND WARDS ;
Act 1872, sec. 4 amended 100
HEDGES :
Fences, height regulated 99
HISTORICAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM :
Appropriation 49
HOPE. ALEX. W. :
Appropriation 8
HORTICULTURE :
Appropriation, State society 13
ICE PONDS :
Injury or destruction, penalties... 76
INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY :
Appropriation 15
INNKEEPERS :
Sale of unclaimed property 175
INSOLVENT DEBTORS :
Preferred claims, act of 1877
amended 53
INSURANCE :
FlEE :
Foreign companies, business reg-
ulated 101
Township, act 1874, sec. 7, amended 104
Life :
Associations, on the assessment
plan 104
Co-operative associations 74
INTOXICATING LIQUORS ;
Dram shop license 92
JUDGES :
County, may hold probate court. . . 74
JUDGMENTS AND EXECUTIONS :
Shares of stock held as collaterals 110
PAGE.
JURORS :
Service of summons, act 1874, sec.
11. amended m
JUVENILE OFFENDERS :
Appropriation for conveying to
Reform School 47
LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY,
AT NORMAL :
Appropriation 51
LAW LIBRARY :
Appropriation 16
LEVERS :
Cities and villages, control of 68
LIBRARIES-PUBLIC ;
Cities, act 1872, sec. 1, amended 112
LIBRARY-STATE :
Appropriations :
Books 50
Salary of Assistant Librarian 50
LICENSES :
Dram shops 92
LUCINGER, JACOB AND NICHOLAS :
Appropriation 15
MILITIA :
Appropriation, National Guard ... 18
Military Code, sec. 1, art. 10,
amended 18
PIER BOOMS:
Illinois river bridges 54
POLICEMEN:
Warrants, served by 58
POLICE AND FIREMEN:
Relief funds in cities, act 1877
amended 59
PRACTICE:
Motions by Clerks of Appelate and
Supreme Courts 09
PRINTING AND BINDING:
Appropriation 48
RAILROADS:
Aid bonds, limitof liability to issue 122
Consolidation 124
Depots opened for passenger
trains 125
Elevated, right of way in cities and
towns 126
South East and St. Louis convey-
ance of land 127
Stock transfer offices 128
RAILROAD AND WAREHOUSE COM-
MISSIONERS:
Appointment of State Weigh-mas-
ter 172
Appropriations 49
Railroad Stock transfer offices 128
REFORM SCHOOL:
Appropriation 37
REVENUE:
Cities and villages, delinquent tax
on special assessment 58
General levy for State purposes. . . 129
Taxes paid in error, appropriation
to refund 48
IV
INDEX.
Page.
RIVERS:
Illinois, bridge pier booms 54
Saline, act 1849 declaring navigable
repealed 123
ROADS, HIGHWAYS and BRIDGES:
Counties under township organiz-
ation, act 1879, sec. 107, amended. 130
Counties under township organiz-
ation, act 1879 revised, act 1879
repealed 136
Hard road act for construction of
gravel, rock, or Macadam 132
SALARIES:
Appropriation for officers of State
government 43
SCHOOLS;
Bourbon district, act 1869, creating,
repealed 164
Compulsory education 167
Districts, forming new 165
Loaning funds regulated 164
Teachers institutes, act 1872, sec.
51. amended 166
Training schools for boys 168
SCHOOL FUND:
Appropriation for distribution 50
for State interest. . . 48
SECRETARY OF STATE-
Appropriations :
Clerk hire, office, State House, etc. 45
Heating and lighting State House. 49
Janitors and watchmen 48
Repairs heating department, State
House 50
Supreme Court reports 50
SEWERAGE:
Cities, tax levy.
SHINNICK, RICHARD:
Appropriation
SPINK, ALFRED:
Estate of, appropriation.
STATE BOARDS—
68
38
39
Appropriations :
Equalization 49
Health 50
Public Charities 46
Page.
STATE GOVERNMENT-
Appropriations:
Ordinary and contingent expen-
ses 43
Salaries of officers 43
STATE House-
Appropriations :
For completion 39
Heating and lighting 49
Heating department, repairs 50
Paving and curbing streets 41
STREET RAILWAYS:
Elevated ways and conveyors,
right of way 126
SUP'T. PUB. INSTRUCTION:
Appropriation: clerk hire and of-
fice expenses 46
TAXES:
General levy for State purposes... 129
TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES:
Private lines, right of way 173
TOWNSHIPS:
New towns, organiz ation .... 1 74
TREASURERS-COUNTY:
Vacancies, how filled 70
TREASURER OF STATE:
Appropriation: clerk hire, office,
watchmen 46
Surplus bond funds, refunding 121
UNCLAIMED PROPERTY:
Sale of, act of 1874, sec. 1, amended. 175
VINEGAR:
Adulteration, penalties 176
WAREHOUSEMEN:
Sale of unclaimed property 175
WASHINGTONIAN HOME:
Act incorporating, amended 176
WATER WORKS:
Cities, tax levy 68
WEIGH-MA STERS-STATE :
Appointment and duties 172
WILSON, ROBERT:
Appropriation 52
INDEX TO JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
SENATE.
Page.
Bakewell, Julia A., conveyance of land. 182
Bills, printing and binding 179
Bills, synopsis of 178
Bridges, sheer booms in Miss, river 183
Bruce, Alex., claims 181
Carbondale bonds. 183
Eckert, T. W., committee clerk 178
Lake Front suits, employment of coun-
sel 181
Page.
Mississippi river bridge at East St.
Louis, investigation 181
Pensions for soldiers 179
Rules. joint 178
Shawneetown flood sufferers 179
Veto power of Governor, to amend con-
stitution 18(i
Water-power at Joliet 184
Yellowstone Park 180
HOUSE.
Adjournment for April elections 188
Adjournment sine die 192
Arms and accoutrements, sale of 190
Chicago Historical Society, documents. 191
Committee expenses, auditing •. ... 188
Election returns, canvass 187
Gambetta, death of 190
Hennepin canal bill 191
Indianapolis Board of Trade, thanks
tendered 187
Journal of House, printing daily 187
Lincoln's home, purchase of 188
Pieuro pneumonia among cattle 189
Revenue, joint committee 189
Senator, U. S., election 189