NATIONAL GUARD.

§ 1. Appropriates $2, 190, 75, received by the Adjutant General for the sale of unserviceable arms, to the military fund.

AN ACT to appropriate the proceeds of the sale of unserviceable cannon, small arms, accoutrements and other property belonging to the State of Illinois, sold under joint resolution of the 33d General Assembly. WHEREAS, the Thirty-third General Assembly by joint resolution authorized the Adjutant General to dispose of, by sale, all unserviceable cannon, small arms, accoutrements and other property stored in the State arsenal and belonging to the State of Illinois, and directed that all moneys accruing from such sale be covered into the State treasury and credited to the military fund; and

WHEREAS, the said military fund was abolished by law prior to such sale, the money accruing therefrom consequently lapsing; and

WE HEREAS, it was the evident intention of the 33d General Assembly that the proceeds of such sale be placed to the credit and for the advantage of the military department of the State; therefore,

[SECTION 1] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of two thousand one hundred and ninety ($2,190) dollars and seventy-five (75) cents, the amount of the proceeds of said sale, be and the same is hereby appropriated to be placed to the credit of that part of the military fund known as the "one-quarter fund" to pay the expenses of the Illinois National Guard for the year ending June 30, 1884, and June 30, 1885.

APPROVED June 23, 1885.

NEW ORLEANS EXHIBIT.

§ 3. Emergency.

$1. Appropriates $5,000 to properly display the Illinois Exhibit at the World's Exposition, New Orleans.

§ 2. Appoints commissioners to expend the the sum appropriated and requires an itemized report of their transactions.

AN ACT to make an appropriation for the purpose of completing and properly displaying the Illinois exhibit at the World's Exposition at New Orleans.

WHEREAS, by reason of the lack of sufficient means to place it in proper condition for exhibition, the Illinois exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition is incomplete and unsatisfactory in many respects, and places our State at a humiliating disadvantage in comparison with others less favored; and

WHEREAS, it seems that it is not too late to amplify and complete the exhibit and properly arrange those already on hand at comparatively small cost, and thereby place our State and thus make the exhibit something like a fair expression of the resources, wealth, commercial importance, position, and prestige of Illinois, among her sister States; therefore,

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 the sum of five thousand dollars to procure such materials as can be easily and promptly obtained to complete the Illinois exhibit at the New Orleans Exposition, and to make such suitable decorations and other arrangements as are necessary to properly exhibit what has a'ready been procured and delivered.

§ 2. The Auditor is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State for the said sum of five thousand dollars ($5 000), payable to C. A. Kellar, of Mt. Vernon, and T. J. Glenn, of Chicago, who, in conjunction with the United States Commissioner for Illinois, are hereby appointed special commissioners for the State, and authorized to expend the same or such part thereof as may be necessary for the purpose above named, and whose duty it is hereby made to render to the Governor of this State, within thirty days after the close of said Exposition, a full and true account, in itemized detail, of the money so expended, and to return any unexpended balance to the State Treasurer.

§ 3. Whereas a necessity exists for said appropriation, therefore an emergency exists for said act, and said act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 24, 1885.

NEW ORLEANS EXHIBIT.

§ 1. Appropriates $5,000 for continuing and § 2. Appoints commissioners to expend the completing.

appropriation.

AN ACT to make an appropriation for the purpose of completing, continuing and properly displaying the Illinois exhibit at the World's Exposition at New Orleans.

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 the sum of five thousand dollars to continue and complete the Illinois exhibit at the World's Exposition at New Orleans, and to make such suitable decorations, improvements and other arrangements as may be necessary to properly exhibit what has already been procured and delivered.

§ 2. That the Auditor of Public Accounts is authorized and required, upon properly certified vouchers, to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State for the said sum of five thousand dollars, payable to T. J. Glenn, of Chicago, James C. Robinson, of Springfield, who, in conjunction with the United States Commissioner for Illinois, are authorized to expend the same, or such part of it as may be necessary, for the purpose of making such decorations, improvements and arrangements, and whose duty it is hereby made to render to the Governor of this State, within thirty days after the close of said exposition, a full and true account, in itemized detail, of the money so expended, and to return any unexpended balance to the State TreasProvided, that none of the said sum of five thousand dollars is

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to be expended until it is assured to the satisfaction of the Governor of the State that said exposition will be continued for another season: And, provided, further, that all material collected by the State shall be returned to the museum of the State at Springfield.

APPROVED June 27, 1885.

PAVING STREETS AND FOR SIDEWALKS AND CURBING,

$1. Requires the Secretary of State to have sidewalks, curbing and coping on the four sides of the executive mansion grounds, constructed, and to procure the paving of the streets abutting thereon to the center of said streets; also abutting State property on First street.

§ 2. Appropriates $23,600 for the purposes specified in section 1, of this act.

AN ACT to provide for the construction of curb and flag stones on the four sides of the executive mansion grounds, and for the paving of one-half the streets on the four sides thereof, and also for the curbing and paving of one half of First street in front of certain property owned and occupied by the State of Illinois.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the Stute 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 flagging with stone coping on the four sides of the executive mansion grounds in the city of Springfield, and a stone curbing on First street along the west side of the property owned and occupied by the State, and also to procure the construction of a good and substantial pavement of wood, stone or brick, to the centre of the several streets on the four sides of said executive mansion grounds, and to the center of First street in front of the property owned and occupied by the State: Provided, that the center of the street on the east side of said executive mansion grounds shall be held to extend to within one foot of the west rail of the horse railway track situated on said street; the said curbing, flagging, coping and paving to be of good and substantial material, and the labor to be performed in a good and workmanlike manner upon plans and specifications to be furnished by the Secretary of State, and under contracts let by him upon public notice to the lowest responsible bidder.

§ 2. The sum of twenty-three thousand six hundred dollars, 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 on the Treasurer, payable out of such appropriation for the payment of such expenditures, 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 said streets herein before described.

APPROVED June 23, 1885.

PENAL AND REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS.

JOLIET PENITENTIARY.

§ 1. Appropriates $5,000 for completing the artesian well.

AN ACT making an appropriation for completing the new artesian well at the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet.

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, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated to the Il inois State Penitentiary at Joliet, for the purpose of completing the artesian well lately sunk inside the walls of said penitentiary, and for tubing the same with iron pipe in such manner as to secure separation of the different qualities of water which flow from the different depths of said well.

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the money herein appropriated, upon the order of the board of commissioners of said penitentiary, signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with the seal of said institution thereto affixed.

APPROVED June 27, 1885.

JOLIET PENITENTIARY.

§ 1. Appropriates as foliows:
$1,300 for ceilings in shops.

$5,000 per annum for repairs.
$15,000 for disposing of the sewage.

AN ACT making appropriations for repairs and improvements in the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented 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 putting ceilings in shops numbered one, two, three, eleven, twelve and thirteen, in block D, in said penitentiary, the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For painting, relaying floors, repairing and repointing walls, repairing roofs, sidewalks, steam and water pipes, engines, boilers and machinery, 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 five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, from the first day of July, 1885, to the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly.

For disposing of the sewerage [sewage] of the Illinois State Penitentiary in such sanitary manner as the penitentiary commissioners may determine to be best, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000), 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 appropriated, upon the order of the board of commissioners of said penitentiary signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with the seal of said institution thereto attached.

APPROVED June 27, 1885.

JOLIET PENITENTIARY.

$1. Appropriates $50,000 for ordinary ex- $ 2. Vouchers and statements filed; how penses. drawn.

AN ACT to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is, hereby appropriated as a penitentiary fund, to defray such portions of the current expenses of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment 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 commissioners of said penitentiary, approved by the Governor, as hereinafter 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 preceding 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 commissioners, 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, certified and approved as herein required for their monthly statements, which shall show the balance of cash on hand, and all sums, in detail, due to and from said penitentiary and shall also show that the availab'e 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.

APPROVED June 26, 1885.