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the entire board, at the house of correction, once in every three months, when they shall fully examine into its management in every department, hear and determine all complaints or questions not within the province of the superintendent to determine, and make such further rules and regulations for the good gov ernment of said house of correction as to them shall seem proper and necessary. One of said appointed inspectors shall visit the said house of correction once, at least, in each month. All rules, regulations or other orders of said board shall be recorded in a book to be kept for that purpose, which shall be deemed a pub. lic record, and, with the other books and records of said house of correction, shall be at all times subject to the examination of any member or committee of the legislative authority, the comptroller, treasurer, corporation counsel or attorney of any such city.

5. BOOKS-QUARTERLY STATEMENT-ACCOUNTS.] §5. The books of said house of correction shall be so kept as to clearly exhibit the state of the prisoners, the number received and discharged, the number employed as servants or in cultivating and improving the premises, the number employed in each branch of industry carried on, and the receipts from, and expenditures for, and on account of each department of business or for improvement of the premises. A quarterly statement shall be made out, which shall specify, minutely, all receipts and expenditures, from whom received and to whom paid, and for what purpose; proper vouchers for each to be audited and certified by the inspectors, and submitted to the comptroller of said city and by him to the legislative authority thereof for examination and approval. The accounts of said house of correction shall be annually closed and balanced on the first day of January of each year, and a full report of the operations of the preceding year shall be made out and shall be submitted to the legislative authority of said city, and to the governor of the state, to be by him transmitted to the general assembly, and such report shall be published in the corporation newspaper thereof.

6. FURTHER REPORTS-REMOVAL OF OFFICERS, ETC.] § 6. The legislative anthority of said city may require such further reports and exhibits of the condition and management of such institution as to them shall seem necessary and proper, and may, with the approval of the mayor, remove any inspector of said institution. But any subordinate officer or employee may be removed by the superintendent at his discretion, but immediately upon the removal of such officer or employee, he shall report to said board the name of the person removed, and the cause of such removal.

APPOINTMENT TERM OF OFFICE

7. DUTIES OF SUPERINTENDENT DEPUTY. 7. The superintendent of the said house of correction shall have entire control and management of all its concerns, subject to the authority estab lished by law, and the rules and regulations adopted for its government. It shall be his duty to obey and carry out all written orders and instructions of the inspectors not inconsistent with the laws, rules and regulations relating to the gov ernment of said institution. He shall be appointed by the mayor by and with the consent of said board of inspectors, and shall hold his office for four years and until his successor shall have been duly appointed and qualified, but he may be removed by the inspectors at any time, when in their judgment it shall be advisable. He shall be responsible for the manner in which said house of correc tion is managed and conducted. He shall reside at said house of correction, devote all his time and attention to the business thereof, and visit and examine into the condition and management of every department thereof and of each prisoner therein confined, daily. He shall exercise a general supervision and direction in regard to the discipline, police and business of said house of correction. The deputy superintendent of said house of correction shall have and exercise the powers of the superintendent in his absence, so far as relates to the discipline thereof and the safe keeping of prisoners.

8. COUNTY MAY USE HOUSE OF CORRECTION.] § 8. The board of supervisors or commissioners of any county in this state shall have full power and au thority to enter into an agreement with the legislative authority of such city or

with any authorized agent or officer in behalf of said city, to receive and keep in said house of correction any person or persons who may be sentenced or committed thereto by any court or magistrate in any of said counties, for any term not less than thirty days. Whenever such agreement shall have been made, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors or commissioners for any county in behalf of which such agreement shall have been made, to give public notice thereof in some newspaper printed and published within said county, for a period not less than four weeks, and such notice shall state the period of time for which such agreement will remain in force.

9. COMMITMENT.] § 9. In counties having such agreement with any such city, it shall be the duty of every court, police justice, justice of the peace, or other magistrate in such county by whom any person, for any crime or misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, shall be convicted, to commit such person to the said house of correction, in lieu of committing him to the county jail, there to be received and kept in the manner prescribed by law and the discipline of said house of correction. And it shall be the duty of such court, police justice, justice of the peace or other magistrate, by a warrant of commitment, duly issued, to canse such person so sentenced to be forthwith couveyed by some proper officer to said house of correction.

10. CONVEYING CONVICT TO HOUSE OF CORRECTION-FEES.] § 10. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, constable or other officer in and for any county having such agreement with any such city to whom any warrant of commitment for that purpose may be directed by any court, justice or magistrate aforesaid, m such county, to convey such person so sentenced to the said house of correction, and there deliver such person to the keeper or other proper officer of said house of correction, whose duty it shall be to receive such person so sentenced, and to safely keep and employ such person for the term mentioned in the warrant of commitment, according to the laws of said house of correction; and the officers thus conveying and so delivering the person or persons so sentenced shall be allowed such fees, as compensation therefor, as shall be prescribed or allowed by the board of supervisors or commissioners of the said county.

11. APPLICATION OF OTHER LAWS, ETC.] § 11. All provisions of law and ordinances authorizing the commitment and confinement of persons in jails, bridewells and other city prisons, are hereby made applicable to all persons who may or shall be, under the provisions of this act, sentenced to such house of correction.

12. HOUSE OF SHELTER.] $ 12. It shall be lawful for the inspectors of any such house of correction to establish in connection with the same a department thereof, to be called a house of shelter, for the more complete reformation and education of females. The inspectors shall adopt rules and regulations by which any female convict may be imprisoned in one or more separate apartments of the said house of correction, or of the department thereof called the house of shelter. The superintendent of said house of correction shall appoint, by and with the advice of the board of inspectors, a matron and other teachers and employees for the said house of shelter, whose compensation shall be fixed and provided for as in this act provided for the officers and other employees of the said house of correction.

13. EXPENSES.] § 13. The expenses of maintaining any such house of correction over and above all receipts for the labor of persons confined therein, and such sums of money as may be received from time to time by virtue of an agree ment with a county, as in this act contemplated, shall be audited and paid from time to time by the legislative authority of such city, and shall be raised, levied and collected as the ordinary expenses of the said city.

14. UNITED STATES CONVICTS.] § 14. It shall be lawful for the inspectors of any such house of correction to enter into an agreement with any officer of the United States authorized therefor, to receive and keep in such house of correction any person sentenced thereto, or ordered to be imprisoned therein, by any court of the United States or other federal officer, until discharged by law.

15. BRIDEWELL CHANGED TO HOUSE OF CORRECTION.] § 15. That in any such city having, prior to the passage of this act, established a bridewell for the confinement of convicted persons, such institution shall, immediately upon the appointment of the inspectors in this act contemplated, be known and denomi nated as the house of correction of the city in which it is located.

16. SALARY OF SUPERINTENDENT — RECORD OF CONDUCT-GOOD TIME.] 16. The superintendent of any such house of correction shall receive a salary per annum, to be fixed by the legislative authority of such city, to be paid quar terly. It shall be his duty to keep a record of each and all infractions of the rales and discipline of said house of correction, with the names of each, the con vict offending, and the date and character of each offense, and every convict sentenced or committed for six months or more, whose name does not appear upon such record, shall be entitled to a deduction of three days per month from his or her sentence, for each month he or she shall continue to obey all the rules of said house of correction.

17. OATH-BOND.] § 17. The inspectors of any such house of correction and the superintendent thereof, shall, before they enter on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the usual oath of office. Said inspectors and superintendent shall severally give bond to such city with sureties, and in a penal sum such as may be required by the legislative anthority thereof, for the faithful performance of their duties.

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AN ACT to revise the law in relation to husband and wife. [Approved March 30, 1874. In force July 1, 1874)

1. MARRIED WOMAN MAY SUE AND BE SUED.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That a married woman may, in all cases, sue and be sued without joining her husband with her, to the same extent as if she were unmarried, and an attachment or judgment in such action may be enforced by or against her as if she were a single woman.

2. WHEN HUSBAND AND WIFE SUED TOGETHER.] § 2. If husband and wife are sued together, the wife may defend for her own right, and if either neglect to defend, the other may defend for such one also.

3. WHEN HUSBAND DESERTS FAMILY.] §3. When the husband has deserted his family, the wife may prosecute or defend, in his name, any action which he might have prosecuted or defended, and, under like circumstances, the same right shall apply to the husband upon the desertion of the wife.

4. HUSBAND NOT LIABLE FOR WIFE'S TORTS, EXCEPT, ETC.] § 4. For all civil injuries committed by a married woman, damages may be recovered from her alone, and her husband shall not be responsible therefor, except in cases where he would be jointly responsible with her, if the marriage did not exist.

5. NOT LIABLE FOR EACH OTHER'S DEBTS.] § 5. Neither husband or wife shall be liable for the debts or liabilities of the other incurred before marriage, and (except as herein otherwise provided) they shall not be liable for the separato debts of each other, nor shall the wages, earnings or property of either, nor the rent or income of such property, be liable for the separate debts of the other.

6. WIFE MAY CONTRACT-PARTNERSHIP.] § 6. Contracts may be made and liabilities incurred by a wife, and the same enforced against her, to the same extent and in the same manner as if she were unmarried; but, except with the consent of her husband, she may not enter into or carry on any partnership business, unless her husband has abandoned or deserted her, or is idiotic or insane, or is confined in the penitentiary.

7. HER OWN EARNINGS.] $7. A married woman may receive, use and possess her own earnings, and sue for the same in her own name, free from the interference of her husband or his creditors.

8. NEITHER TO RECOVER FROM THE OTHER FOR SERVICES.] § S. Neither husband or wife shall be entitled to recover any compensation for any labor per

formed or services rendered for the other, whether in the management of property or otherwise.

9. WIFE MAY OWN, CONVEY, ETC., REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY, ETC.] § 9. A married woman may own, in her own right, real and personal property obtained by descent, gift or purchase, and manage, sell and convey the same to the same extent and in the same manner that the husband can property belonging to him: Provided, that where husband and wife shall be living together, no transfer or conveyance of goods and chattels between such husband and wife shall be valid as against the rights and interests of any third person, unless such transfer or conveyance be in writing, and be acknowledged and recorded in the same manner as chattel mortgages are required to be acknowledged and recorded by the laws of this state, in cases where the possession of the property is to remain with the mortgag

10. WHEN EITHER UNLAWFULLY OBTAINS, ETC., PROPERTY OF THE OTHER.] § 10. Should either the husband or wife unlawfully obtain or retain possession or control of property belonging to the other, either before or after marriage, the owner of the property may maintain an action therefor, or for any right growing out of the same, in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were unmarried.

11. WHEN EITHER ABANDONS THE OTHER PROCEEDINGS TO SELL, ETC.] § 11. In case the husband or wife abandons the other and leaves the state, and is absent therefrom for one year, without providing for the maintenance and support of his or her family, or is imprisoned in the penitentiary, any court of record in the county where the husband or wife so abandoned or not confined resides, may, on application by petition, setting forth fully the facts, if the court is satisfied of the necessity by the evidence, authorize him or her to manage, control, sell and incumber the property of the other, as shall be necessary, in the judgment of the court, for the support and maintenance of the family, and for the purpose of paying debts of the other, or debts contracted for the support of the family. Notice of such proceedings shall be given as in ordinary actions, and anything done under or by virtue of the order or decree of the court, shall be valid to the same extent as if the same were done by the party owning the property.

12 SUCH CONTRACTS, SALES, ETC., GOOD.] § 12. All contracts, sales or in. cumbrances made by either the husband or wife, by virtue of the power contemplated in the preceding section, shall be binding on both, and during such ab. sence or confinement, the person acting under such power may sue and be sued thereon; and for all acts done the property of both shall be liable, and execution may be levied or attachment issued accordingly. No suit or proceeding shall abate, or be in anywise affected, by the return or release of the person absent or confined, but he or she shall be permitted to prosecute or defend jointly with the other.

13. WHEN ORDER MAY BE SET ASIDE.] § 13. The husband or wife affected by the proceedings contemplated in the two preceding sections may have the order or decree of the court set aside or annulled, by filing a petition therefor and serving a notice on the person in whose favor the same was granted, as in ordinary actions. But the setting aside of such decree or order shall in nowise affect any act done thereunder.

14. ATTORNEY IN FACT.] § 14. A husband or wife may constitute the other his or her attorney in fact, to control and dispose of his or her property for their mutual benefit or otherwise, and may revoke the same to the same extent and in the same manner as other persons.

15. EXPENSES OF FAMILY.] § 15. The expenses of the family and of the education of the children shall be chargeable upon the property of both husband and wife, or of either of them, in favor of creditors therefor, and in relation there. to they may be sued jointly or separately.

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