In force March AN ACT to amend chapter twenty-four (24) of the Revised Statutes, enti9, 1869. tled "Conveyances."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section thirty-seven (37) of chapter twenty-four (24) of the Revised Statutes, entitled "Conveyances," be so amended that a deed of release of any mortgage or deed of trust hereafter to be made or executed, as contemplated by said section and chapter in the first section of this act mentioned, shall be valid and effectual in law, whether such deed of release be attested by a witness or not, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.

§ 2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and be in force and take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 9, 1869.

In force March AN ACT to amend chapter thirty of the Revised Statutes of 1845, entitled "Criminal Jurisprudence in relation to the Crime of Arson."

4, 1869.

Arson.

Indictment.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That any person or persons who shall willfully and maliciously burn, or attempt to burn, set fire to, or attempt to set fire to, any building with the intent to defraud or injure any person or persons, or with intent to injure or defraud any insurance company, or insurance companies, shall be found guilty of arson, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by confinement in the penitentiary for a period of not less than one year nor more than ten years.

2. In every indictment for arson it shall be sufficient to allege the building, if occupied at the time of the burning, or an attempt to burn the same as aforesaid, to be the property of the owner, lessee or occupant thereof; or, if unoccupied, to allege simply that such building, at such time, was unoccupied, giving a description thereof in general.

terms.

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

APPROVED March 4, 1869.

AN ACT to amend chapter thirty of the Revised Statutes.

In force July 1, 1869.

Corporate

name not to be

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall not be lawful for any person, or association of persons, to put forth any sign or advertisement, and assume therein assumed withor thereon, for the purpose of soliciting business, any corporate name, unless by the authority of some public act or charter.

out authority.

Name desig

2. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, nated by charor association, company or corporation, doing business ter. within this state, under or by authority of any public act or charter, to put forth any sign or advertisement containing any other name than that by which the said person or persons, association, company or corporation are designated and are authorized to assume by the public act or charter under which the same is organized and doing business; nor to add anything to such authorized name, or lengthen the same.

violation.

$3. Every person or persons, and any officer or agent Penalty of a corporation or association, who shall offend against any of the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, and, in the discretion of the court wherein such conviction shall be had, a like sum for each day that the offense shall be con tinued to be collected in the name of the people of the state of Illinois, in any court of record having cognizance of like offenses; and it shall be the duty of the state's attorney to prosecute any person or persons, the agents or officers of any corporation or association offending against this act, upon notice of such offense having been committed; and the amount of said fine, less the costs of prosecution, shall be applied to the benefit of the common school fund of the county in which said offense may have been committed.

4. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after July first, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.

APPROVED March 10, 1869.

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In force June AN ACT to amend section 184, chapter 30, of the Revised Statutes, enti19, 1869. tled "Criminal Jurisprudence.".

[SECTION 1.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section one hundred and eighty-four, of chapter thirty, of the Revised Statutes, entitled "Criminal Jurisprudence," be so amended as that the attorney, prosecuting on behalf of the people, shall be admitted to a peremptory challenge of the same number of jurors that the accused is entitled to. APPROVED April 1, 1869.

In force March AN ACT to amend chapter XXXVI of the Revised Statutes of 1845, en26, 1869.

titled 66

Ejectment."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Action began mode of commencing any action of ejectment to be hereby declaration after commenced shall be by filing with the clerk of the

and summons.

Summons, contents, etc.

Action, when tried.

proper court a declaration, in the form required by the thirty-sixth chapter of the revised code of 1845, entitled "Ejectment." Upon the filing of such declaration a summons shall be issued under the seal of the court, tested in the name of the clerk of said court, dated on the day it shall be issued, and signed with his name, and shall be directed to the sheriff, or, if he be interested in the suit, to the coroner of the county, and shall be returnable on the first day of the next term of the court. If the plaintiff shall not be a resident of this state, a bond for costs, as in other cases of non-resident plaintiff's, shall be filed with the declaration, or his suit shall be dismissed at the cost of his attorney.

§ 2. The summons, in addition to the usual form, shall contain a description of the premises sued for, and of the estate or interest therein claimed by the plaintiff, and shall be served by the delivery of a copy thereof to the defendant, or by leaving such copy at his usual place of abode, with some person who is a member of his family, and of the age of ten years and upwards, at any time before the return day thereof; and the time of the service of the summons shall be deemed and taken to be the time of the commencement of the suit.

3. In every such action, when said summons shall have been served, at least ten days prior to the term of court at which said summons is made returnable, said action shall stand for trial at said term as in other actions.

In case said summons shall not be served ten days prior to the return term thereof, said suit shall stand continued to the next succeeding term of the court, as in case of other actions.

§ 4. That so much of chapter thirty-six of the revised Repeal. code of 1845, entitled "Ejectment," as is repugnant to the provisions of this act, be and the same is hereby repealed.

5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 26, 1869.

AN ACT to amend chapter forty-four of the Revised Statutes, entitled "Frauds In force March and Perjuries."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That no action shall be brought whereby to charge any person upon any contract for the sale of lands, tenements or hereditaments, or any interest in or concerning them, for a longer term than one year, unless the said contract, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto, by him lawfully authorized in writing. 82. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 27, 1869.

27, 1869.

AN ACT to amend chapter 47 of the Revised Statutes of 1845.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of the tenth section of the act, to which this is an amendment, as provides that the circuit court shall direct the time and place of sale therein ordered to be made, be repealed, and the court may, in its discretion, direct the guardian to sell without fixing the time thereof in such order or decree.

2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 4, 1869.

In force March 4, 1869.

In force April AN ACT to amend chapter forty-seven of the Revised Statutes of 1845, 8, 1869. entitled "Guardian and Ward "

Powers guardian.

Suits.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That guarof dians shall have the custody and control of the persons of their wards in all cases where the parents of such ward are dead: Provided, that they shall have no power to bind out their wards without the authority of the court appointing such guardian.

$ 2. Guardians may institute actions in their own names in all cases where their wards are entitled to sue.

3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED April 8, 1869.

In force April AN ACT to amend chapter fifty of the Revised Statutes entitled "Idiots 19, 1869. and Lunatics," and to extend the provisions thereof to habitual drunkards.

Court to ap

tor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That whenever any idiot, lunatic, insane or distracted person, or any point conserva- person whose mind shall be impaired by the habitual use of intoxicating liquors, has any estate, real or personal, and is unfit, from any or other [either] of the foregoing causes, to properly manage or control the same, the judge of the cir cuit or county court in which such person so unfit to manage or control his property shall live, on the application of any creditor or relation, or, if there be neither creditor nor relation, then any person living in such county, [may] order a jury to be summoned to ascertain whether such person be lunatic, insane or distracted, or an habitual drunkard and unfit to manage or control his property; and if the jury aforesaid shall return in their verdict that such person is lunatic, insane, distracted, or that the mind of such person is so impaired by the use of intoxicating liquors or from any, either or all of said causes, as to be unfit to manage or control his said property, it shall be the duty of the judge aforesaid to appoint some fit person to be the conservator of such person so declared unfit to manage or control his property as aforesaid.

To give bond.

§ 2. The conservator of such estate so appointed shall enter into bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the judge of the court in which such proceedings shall be