cents on each one hundred dollars valuation as assessed for any one year.

10. No subscription to stock shall be made by any of the counties or towns herein mentioned, under the provisions of this act, unless the same is submitted to a vote of the people of such county or town, as the case may be, and unless the same shall receive a majority of the votes cast upon such question at such election; such question shall be submitted in such manner as the county authorities may determine as to the county, or as the town auditors may determine as to towns.

§ 11. All elections hereafter to be held in any of the counties or towns in relation to subscribing to the capital stock of any railroad company, a majority of the votes cast at such election shall determine the question thus submitted and passed upon-any law heretofore enacted to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 12. This act shall be deemed and taken as a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 25, 1869.

5 1869.

AN ACT to authorize the incorporated towns and townships in the coun- In force March ties of Livingston, LaSalle and Marshall, to subscribe to the capital stock of the Hamilton, Lacon and Eastern Railroad Company.

Subscriptions

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That any incorporated town or township of any county through or near which the Hamilton, Lacon and Eastern Railroad Com- authorized. pany may be located, or about to be located, is hereby authorized and empowered, by a vote of the people of the same, to subscribe to the capital stock of said company any sum not to exceed one hundred thousand dollars each, which vote of the people shall be ascertained by an election held in the manner prescribed by and in conformity with the provisions of an act entitled "An act to authorize the counties of Woodford, LaSalle and Livingston, and the townships, cities, and incorporated towns and corporations in said counties, to subscribe to the capital stock of any railroad company that now is or hereafter may be incorporated in the state of Illinois," approved March 6, 1867.

bonds Issued.

of

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the clerk of each township Clerk to keep which may have or may hereafter subscribe to the capital register stock to said railroad company, to keep in duplicate a complete register of the bonds issued, showing their numbers,

lectors treasurers.

amount, date, and rate of interest, and deliver one copy of the same to the county clerk of his county.

Fees of col- § 3. Collectors shall be allowed not to exceed one per and cent. on all taxes collected to pay the interest and principal of said bonds, and treasurers not to exceed one-half of one per cent. for receiving and paying out the same.

§ 4. This shall be deemed a public act, and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 5, 1869.

In force March AN ACT requiring railroad companies to cut down Canada thistles, and 29, 1869. other noxious weeds along their lines of railroad.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all Railroads to companies, corporations, associations and individuals owncut down Cana- ing, controlling or operating any railroad within this state,

da thistles.

Penalty.

be and they are hereby required to cut down all Canada thistles and other noxious weeds that may, at any time hereafter, be growing in or upon the lands belonging or ap pertaining to such railroad or over which the right of way of such railroad may run, so as to prevent the seed of such Canada thistles or other noxious weeds from ripening or maturing, and so as to prevent the spread of such Canada thistles or other noxious weeds.

8 2. Any such company, corporation, association or individual owning, controlling, or operating any railroad within this state, who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of the first section of this act, shall, for each offense, be fined in the sum of one hundred dollars, such fine to be recovered in the name of the people of the state of Illinois, before any justice of the peace of the county where such offense shall be committed, or before the circuit court, in an action of debt, together with costs of suit; one-half of such fine to be paid to the person who shall prosecute the same, and the other half to the school fund of the county in which such offense shall be committed.

$3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 29, 1869.

RECORDS, PUBLIC.

AN ACT to provide for the greater accuracy and safety of the publ c In force March

records.

26, 1869.

be

copied under

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That, hereafter, the copying of the laws, journals, and joint resolu- Laws to tions of each general assembly shall be done under the secretary's su personal supervision of the secretary of state, and such pervision. copies shall be carefully compared with the original in hist office before being printed, and in no case shall he permit the original to be taken out of his office.

§ 2. The compensation of the secretary of state for Compensation. such service shall not exceed eight cents for every hundred

copied.

words pon presentation of the certificate of the sec- Payment, how

§ 3.

retary of state, approved by the governor, setting forth the amount of copying done by him and the amount of money due for such copying to the auditor of state, the said auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount specified in said certificate, and the treasurer of state shall pay the same out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. The said certificate of the secretary of state, approved by the governor, shall be filed in the office of the auditor of state.

4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage; and all acts and parts of acts, inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed.

APPROVED March 26, 1869.

made.

REFORM SCHOOL.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the reformation of juvenile In force June offenders and vagrants," approved March 5, 1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section five of said act be so amended that the board of trustees shall, within four months from the time of their ap

19, 1869.

Site, how determined.

pointment, proceed to examine and determine the site for the location of said reform school.

§ 2. Be it further enacted, that in case the guardians of the reform school, of Chicago, shall not consent to receive any girl, as provided for in the eighteenth section of said act, or if the trustees of said state reform school deem it best, in their judgment, they shall be and are hereby authorized to provide a department, especially for girls, in the said state reform school.

APPROVED March 11, 1869.

In force April AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act for the reformation of juvenile 19, 1869.

Repeal

Counties, etc., may subscribe.

Subscriptions, how made.

offenders and vagrants," approved March 5, 1867, and also to amend an act amendatory thereto, passed at the regular session of the twentysixth General Assembly.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the proviso in the latter clause of section fifteen (15) of the act referred to in the title of the act, reading as follows, to-wit: "If there be donation to the reform school, they shall reduce the amount to the extent of said donations of land or money," be and the same is hereby repealed.

82. Any township, county, town or city may make any subscription in aid of said school in money, bonds or lands, as it may deem proper, for the purpose of securing the location within its limits of the said reform school provided for in said act.

3. The subscription herein provided for, if made by a county, shall be made by resolution, to be adopted by a majority vote of the board of supervisors of such county at a regular or special meeting thereof. If made by a township, it shall be by resolution of the supervisors, town clerk and assessor, acting as a board for said township. If by a town, by a resolution or ordinance of the board of trustees thereof. If by a city, by a resolution or ordinance thereof, passed in the usual manner of resolutions or ordinances by such town or city: Provided, that no such subscription shall be made by any township, town, or city, until the proposition to make such subscription shall have been submitted to a vote, and adopted by the legal voters of such township, town, or city, by a majority of all the votes cast at an election to be held for that purpose. On the petition of not less than ten legal voters of any township, town, or city, it shall be the duty of the aforesaid authorities of said township, town, or city, to call an election for the purpose of taking such vote, and to fix the time and place of holding

such election, and appoint the judges thereof, and cause notice of such election to be given ten days previous to the day on which such election shall be held, by publication in some newspaper of general circulation, published in the county in which said township, town, or city is situated, or by posting notices in at least five public places in said township, town, or city. The votes cast for such proposition shall be "for subscription," and those against shall be against subscription.' The laws in force in said township, town, or city, in regard to general elections therein, together with the penalties therein provided for illegal and fraudulent voting, shall apply to the election to be held under this act, and the election may be contested as in other cases in said township, town, or city.

interest,

how

4. The township, county, town, or city making any Principal and subscription by virtue of this act, is hereby authorized to paid. provide for the payment of the principal and interest of any such subscription by tax upon the taxable property of such county, township, town, or city, to be ordered by the aforesaid authorities thereof, and collected in the same manner that other taxes are collected in such county, township, town, or city.

§ 5. No bonds issued by virtue hereof, shall bear a Interest limited greater rate of interest than ten per centum per annum, or be sold at less than par.

6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and

after its passage.

APPROVED April 19, 1869.

RELIEF, COUNTIES.

AN ACT for the relief of Alexander county.

In force April 16, 1869.

WHEREAS, the population of Alexander county is only Preamble. 12,206, as appears by the census of 1865, and a taxable property of only two million four hundred and fifty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and whereas, the criminal and pauper expenses of said county, for the last five years, have amounted in the aggregate to ninety-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty cents, an amount greatly in excess of that borne by any other portion of the state, and so large as to nearly wholly exhaust all the revenues of said county, so that the county has no means to build roads or bridges, or make the necessary improvements,