AN ACT to refund to Morgan county the sum therein mentioned. In force Feb. 9, 1849. 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 seventy-seven dollars and fifty cents, received through mistake by the auditor of public accounts, on the 25th day of March, A. D. 1847, upon the recognizances of George Crisman and others, be Money to be repaid to the treasurer of Morgan county, pursuant to the provisions funded to Morof the act approved February 28th, 1847, entitled "an act to provide for forfeited recognizances," and the auditor is hereby directed to issue warrants payable to the treasurer of Morgan county for said amount. APPROVED February 9, 1849. gan county. AN ACT to pay Babbitt, Haywood and Fulmer for printing delinquent tax lists for In force Feb. 9, 1849. Warrant to is SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the auditor of public accounts be, and he is hereby, directed to issue his warrant upon the treasurer in favor of Almond W. Babbit, Joseph L. Haywood, and sue to Babbitt, John S. Fulmer, for the sum of two hundred and twenty dollars &c. and twenty cents, in full of the amount due them for printing the delinquent tax list for Hancock county, for the year 1845. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 9, 1849. AN ACT to pay Samuel A. Buckmaster the sum due him as agent of the fund com missioner. In force Feb 12, 1849. sue to S. A. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the auditor draw his war-Warrant to isrant upon the treasury in favor of Samuel A. Buckmaster, for the Buckmaster. sum of two hundred and sixty-one dollars, for his services and expenses while acting as agent to the fund commissioner. APPROVED February 12, 1849. AN ACT requiring the auditor to furnish the several counties with tax sale records. In force February 12, '49. Auditor to fur SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the auditor of public ac counts be, and he is hereby, required to furnish each county in this "nish books. state with a suitable book, containing a correct transcript of all the lands sold for taxes at the seat of government, and lying in said county. Said transcript shall show all the facts in regard to said sales, redemptions, &c., that appear on the records in his office. § 2. The auditor is hereby authorised to employ a suitable person to do the work necessary to be done in making the transcripts aforesaid, who shall receive a salary at the rate of four hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of the state treasury on the warrant of the auditor. The said book of transcripts of said sales and redemptions as aforesaid, is hereby declared a book of record, to be kept in the clerk's office of the proper county, and the original or copies thereof, certified by said clerk, shall be evidence to prove the facts, sales, redemptions, &c., shown by the entries in said book. This act shall be limited in its effects to the period of eight months. § 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its pasAPPROVED February 12, 1849. sage. In force April AN ACT authorising the trustees of the State Bank of Illinois to maintain suits 13, 1849. thorised to maintain suits. at law. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, Trustees au- represented in the general assem ly, That the trustees appointed by the governor of the state of Iliinois, in pursuance of the second section of the act approved first of March, 1847, entitled "an act for finally closing the affairs of the State Bank of Illinois," and the survivor or survivors of them and their successors in said trust, may, in their own names as such trustees, commence, prosecute and maintain all suits, either at law or in equity, which may be necessary to collect all or any debt or debts, claims, dues or demands due to the president, directors and company of said bank, during the existence of its charter, or which may have become due or may hereafter become due to them as such trustees; and also, all actions of every kind which said president, directors and company of the State Bank of Illinois might have instituted or prosecuted if their charter had continued to exist. § 2. All suits and actions, either at law or in equity, which were depending in any of the courts of this state at the time the charter of said bank expired by the act aforesaid, in which said president, directors and company of the State Bank of Illinois were parties, either as plaintiffs or defendants, may be revived by or against said trustees, and in their names may be prosecuted to final trial. APPROVED February 10, 1849. In force Feb. 10, 1849. AN ACT for the relief of the assignees of the Bank of Illinois, and to extend the time for the liquidation of the affairs of said bank. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That the time for the liquidation of the affairs of said bank, pursuant to the provisions of "an act supplemental to ‘an act to reduce the public debt one million of dol- Act of liquidalars and to put the Bank of Illinois into liquidation,'" in force Feb. tion extended. 28, 1945, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first day of January, A. D. 1851. Assignees have § 2. That on all debts, dues and causes of action that have hitherto accrued to the president, directors and company of said bank, the assignees of said bank, or their successors in office, shall have pow-power to sue, er and authority to sue for and recover the same in their own names, &c. in manner and form following, that is to say: Albert G. Caldwell, and Ebenezer Z. Ryan, and their successors in office, shall have such power and authority touching such debts, dues and causes of action as have accrued to, or been contracted with said bank at Shawneetown or Lawrenceville; and Samuel Dunlap and David A. Smith, as successor of John J. Hardin, deceased, and their successors in office, shall have such power and authority touching such debts, dues and causes of action as have accrued to, or been contracted with, said bank at Alton, Jacksonville or Pekin. And that all of said assignees, and their successors in office, shall have power jointly to sue in their own proper names, in ejectment or in chancery, for the recovery of, or establishment of, title to any real estate that may pertain to the execution of their trusts in the premises. Suits, how § 3. That all actions at law or suits in chancery that have hitherto been instituted in any of the courts of this state, by the said pres-maintained. ident, directors and company of said bank, or in their names, or in the names of said assignees as aforesaid, to the use of their assignees as aforesaid, shall be maintainable in the names of said assignees, or their successors in office, with reference to their relation and respective rights as defined in section two of this act; Provided, nevertheless, that persons now indebted to the said Bank of Illinois, or to the assignees thereof, shall be allowed and peru.itted to pay all such indebtedness with the certificates of the said bank. § 4. That this act be considered and treated as a public act, and that it be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 10, 1849. AN ACT to establish the Illinois institution for the education of the blind. In force Janu ary 13, 1849. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That Samuel D. Lockwood, Trustees. Dennis Rockwell, James Dunlap, William W. Happy, and Samuel Hunt are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the "Illinois Institution for the education of the Blind," and by that name they and their successors shall have perpetual succession and existence, with power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to make and use a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, to take or receive, by grant deed, devise, bequest or otherwise, property, real, personal, and mixed, and have, hold, use, enjoy and convey the same; to adopt by-laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the land, and to do all other acts necessary to the proper exercise of the powers, herein conferred. School to be continued. Location. Duties of trustees. Persons to be admitted. Limitation. Liabilities of trustees. poration. § 2. The object and duty of the corporation shall be to continue and maintain the school for the education of the blind established in Jacksonville; and to qualify, as far as practicable, that unfortunate class of persons for the enjoyment of the blessings of free government, obtaining the means of subsistence, and the discharge of those duties, social and political, devolving upon American citizens. § 3. The school shall be continued in or near Jacksonville, and the corporation shall, as early as practicable, purchase a suitable lot of ground, containing not less than ten nor more than forty acres, and proceed to erect thereon suitable buildings, and make such improvements as are necessary for the school. § 4. The persons named in the first section of this act, and their successors, shall be the trustees of the school, to whom power is given to employ the principal and all teachers, prescribe their duties, fix their compensation, and the price of instruction; prescribe the course of study, fix the price of board, and all other expenses in the school; employ a steward, and all other persons necessary to the maintenance and to carry on the operations of the school. § 5. All blind persons residing in Illinois, of suitable age and capacity to receive instruction, shall be received and taught in the said school, and no one of such persons shall be excluded from the privilege and benefits thereof by reasons of the reception of persons from other states or territories. § 6. The said corporation shall not take or hold property of any kind or description, or by any tenure, except such as may be for the use of the school and other purposes contemplated in this act. § 7. The trustees for the time being shall be severally liable for the faithful application of all property, funds and effects which may be received for the use of the institution; and property, funds and effects received by gift, grant, donation, devise, or bequest shall be applied as directed by the person from whom received. Officers of cor- § 8. The officers of the corporation shall be a president, seeretary and treasurer, who shall be appointed by the board of trustees; the president to be selected from their own number; the trustees to serve without compensation. tees. § 9. The trustees mentioned in the first section of this act shall Term of trus-serve as follows, to wit: three shall serve for the term of four years, and two for the term of two years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. The trustees shall meet within thirty days after the passage of this act, and organise, and determine by lot the three that shall serve four years, and the two that shall serve two How appointed. years. The governor shall appoint their successors, whose appointinents shall commence on the fourth of March, and continue for four years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. Officers of school. scholars. § 10. The officers of the school shall be a principal, who shall have the general charge of the school, and such teachers as may from time to time be appointed. The academic and literary degrees usually conferred by institutions for the education of the blind, shall be conferred by this institution, and diplomas granted accordingly. § 11. Blind persons who may be placed in this school by or unPrivileges of der the authority of the state, or any county, city, town or other public corporation, shall be kept, taught, and permitted to enjoy all the benefits and privileges of the school, be furnished with books, boarding, lodging, washing, fuel, lights, and allowed the use of the library, at not exceeding one hundred dollars for the academic year of forty-two weeks. The provisions of this section to apply only to scholars sent from other states. § 12. To aid in the establishment of the school, there shall be paid to the said trustees, for the use of the institution, the proceeds of a tax of one-tenth of a mill upon every dollar's worth of taxable property in this state; which tax shall be assessed and collected annually with the taxes assessed and collected for the ordinary purposes of government. Tax levied. disbursed. § 13. The treasurer of state shall receive the tax collected for the How kept and institution, and keep the same as a separate fund, to be known as the fund for the blind, and pay out the same, from time to time, in such amounts as may be necessary, in the judgment of the board of trustees, in conducting the business of the institution. The treasurer shall pay out the money on the warrants of the auditor, issued on the order of the governor, who is authorised to make the order on the application of the board of trustees. § 14. For the purpose of enabling the trustees to commence the building of said institution, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three thousand dollars; which shall be paid to the trustees on the warrant of the auditor of public accounts, who is authorised to issue the warrant on the order of the governor, who shall give the order upon the application of the trustees. Appropriation. § 15. The trustees, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall give bonds, payable to the people of the state of Illinois, Bonds required. conditioned for the faithful discharge of their duties, to be approved by the governor. § 16. The blind of this state, who are of suitable age and capacity, Tuition of state shall be received and taught in the school, and enjoy all the bene- pupils free. fits and privileges of the same, free of charge. This act to take ef fect from and after its passage. APPROVED January 13, 1849. AN ACT regulating the pay of brigade majors. In force Feb. 12, 1849. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the general assembly, That all laws authorising or re-Law repealed. quiring the auditor of public accounts to issue his warrant on the treasurer, in favor of brigade majors, for services rendered under the militia laws of this state, be, and the same are hereby, repealed; Provided, that he shall pay for the services heretofore rendered under said laws and remaining unpaid, when the brigade major claiming the same shall present to the said auditor an affidavit in writing, setting forth the number of battalions that he has actually inspected, and that he performed the duties required of him by law, together with the certificate of the major general as now required by law. § 2. This act to take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED February 12, 1849. |