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§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to the board of managers of said institution, or their order, on the terms and in the manner provided by law.

APPROVED June 16, 1893.

STATE REFORMATORY.

§ 2. How drawn.

§ 1. Appropriates to the State Reformatory

for repairs and improvements, the

sum of $22, 100.

AN ACT making appropriation for the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following amounts be and the same are hereby appropriated to the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac for the purposes named:

For a barn for horses, wagons, tools, machinery, farm implements, etc., the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000).

For an ice house and cold storage, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000).

For equipments for gymnasiumns and calisthenics, and for musical instruments, the sum of eight hundred dollars ($800).

For additional cows, the sum of six hundred dollars ($300). For fencing farm into lots, the sum of four hundred dollars ($400).

For repairs and additional plumbing in the old buildings, the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200).

For alteration and extra sewerage work, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500).

For steam heating and power plant, the sum of twelve thousand six hundred dollars ($12,600).

§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to the board of managers of the said reformatory, or their order, on the terms and in the manner provided by law.

APPROVED June 22, 1893.

STATE REFORMATORY.

1. Appropriates to the State Reforma

tory, for new buildings, the sum of
$22,000.

§ 2. How drawn.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following amounts be and the same are hereby appropriated for the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac:

For trade school, machinery, buildings, etc., the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000).

For power house, the sum of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000).

For hospital building and equipments the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000).

§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to the board of managers of said reformatory on their order, on the terms and in the manner provided by law. APPROVED June 22, 1893.

SHIELD'S STATUE.

§ 1. Provides for the appointment of five commissioners to purchase a statue of Gen. James Shields to be placed in the National Statuary Hall, Washington, D. C.

§ 2. Provides that the commissioners appointed shall receive no pay or compensation for services.

§ 3. Appropriates the sum of $9,000 for cost and expenses of delivery of the statue.

WHEREAS, the late James Shields was a Brigadier General in the Mexican war and distinguished himself at the battle of Cerro Gordo and at the seige of Chepultepec, winning the admiration and sympathy of patriotic people by the skill displayed and by the frightful wounds received in the bitter struggle; and WHEREAS, the same James Shields, at Winchester, on March 23, 1862, defeated Stonewall Jackson in one of the hardest fought battles of the civil war, receiving in the desperate struggle serious wounds in the arm, shoulder and side; and

WHEREAS, the same James Shields was congratulated by Generals McClellan and Banks, and Secretary Edwin M. Stanton, "for the energy, activity and bravery" displayed at Winchester, and was further honored by Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania, by an order directing that the flags of the Pennsylvania regiments be inscribed "Winchester, March 22, 1862;" and

WHEREAS, the same James Shields, besides winning fame as a brave and fearless General, added laurels to his crown as a public servant, statesman and jurist, as United States Senator from Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri, as Auditor and Judge of the Supreme Court of Illinois; and

WHEREAS, Congress has invited each State of the Union to furnish two statues in marble or bronze of two of its deceased citizens illustrious for their historic renown or for distinguished civic or military service, and deemed worthy of national commemoration, and to have the same placed in the National Statuary Hall at Washington, D. C.; and

WHEREAS, the State of Illinois has hitherto failed to furnish any statues for such purpose; and

WHEREAS, General Shields, as a hero in two wars, a publicofficial, jurist and statesman, richly deserves to be selected asone of Illinois' illustrious citizens, and to have the above mentioned statue placed in the National Statuary Hall.

Therefore to carry into effect the views hitherto expressed the following bill has been, framed:

AN ACT to select commissioners to expend not to exceed nine thousand dollars in purchasing a heroic bronze statue of the late General James Shields, cast in standard bronze metal, and a bronze or granite pedestal for the same properly inscribed and ornamented, and also to bear the cost of transporting them when completed to the National Statuary Hall at Washington, D. C., and erecting them therein.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That five persons be selected by the Governor of the State, be and they are hereby authorized and empowered as commissioners to purchase a heroic bronze statue of the late General James Shields, cast in standard bronze metal, and a bronze or granite pedestal for the same, properly inscribed and ornamented, and also to defray the cost and expenses of transporting them when completed to the National Statuary Hall at Washington, D. C., and erecting them therein. Said commissioners shall not hereby be empowered to obligate the State of Illinois to pay any amount in excess of the sum stated in section 3 of this act.

§ 2. Said commissioners shall receive no pay or compensation of any kind for their services in the fulfillment of the duties required of them by this act.

§ 3. For the purpose of defraying the cost of said statue, pedestal, and all other costs, expenses and obligations hereinbefore stated and set forth, or incident thereto, the sum of nine thousand dollars ($9,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of the State treasury and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby required to

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draw his warrants upon the Treasurer of the State for such sums as may be expended upon bills of particulars to be approved by the Governor.

APPROVED June 15, 1893.

SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME.

§ 1. Appropriates to the Soldiers' Orphans'

Home for additional water supply

the sum of $3,000.

§ 2. How drawn.

AN ACT making appropriations to the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans'

Home.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home for the purpose of securing an additional water supply, including well, pump, pump house and water pipe,

§ 2. The money herein appropriated shall be paid on the terms and in the manner now provided by law.

APPROVED June 16, 1893.

SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME.

§ 1. Appropriates to the Soldiers' and Sail- § 2. How drawn.

ors' Home for repairs and improve

ments the sum of $12,000.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Soldiers' and Sailors'

Home.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That the following sums be and are hereby appropriated to the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, for the purposes herein stated.

For roads, walks and stone gutters four thousand dollars ($4,000).

For improvement of grounds, two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum.

For painting inside and out, three thousand dollars ($3,000). For special repairs caused by a cyclone on April 11, 1893, three thousand dollars ($3,000).

§ 2. The moneys herein appropriated shall be due and payable to the trustees, or to their order, only on the terms and in the manner now provided by law.

APPROVED June 16, 1893.

STATE DEBT.

§ 1. Appropriates $1,690 for the payment of outstanding State indebtedness refunded stock No. 90.

§ 2. How drawn.

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AN ACT to make an appropriation to pay the amount due on one bond numbered 90, of a class known as 'Refunded Stock (coupon) bonds, payable after 1877."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois représented in the General Assembly: That the sum of one thousand six hundred and ninety ($1,690) dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying State bond number 90 for one thousand ($1,000), dollars of the class of State bonds known as "Refunded Stock (coupon) bonds, payable after 1877," and interest on the same from July 1, 1868, to January 1, 1880.

§ 2. That the Auditor of Public Accounts be and hereby is authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for said sum of one thousand six hundred and ninety ($1,690) dollars, payable to the legal holder of said bond upon presentation of the same for payment and cancellation.

APPROVED June 15, 1893.

OFFICERS OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT

ASSEMBLY.

AND THE 39TH GENERAL

§ 1. Appropriates the sum of $892,000, or as much as may be necessary, to pay the officers of the State Government and the next General Assembly.

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 of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of eight hundred and ninety-two thousand dollars ($392,000), 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

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