frauded, such purchaser may maintain an action on the case against the offender, and if judgment shall be rendered for the plaintiff he shall recover five times the damages with costs of suit. SEC. 14. That the Secretary of State shall be ex-officio Sec. of State State sealer of weights and measures, and the clerks of the State sealer county commissioners' court shall be county sealers of weights and measures for their several counties. SEC. 15. That "an act for regulating weights and mea- Certain act sures," passed twenty-second of March, one thousand eight repealed hundred and nineteen, be and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED, March 4th, 1943. AN ACT to ainend "an act relative to wills and testaments, executors and In force, administrators, and the settlements of estates," approved January 23d, Mar. 6, 1843. 1829. lowed six SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter a widow Widows alshall be allowed twelve months after the authentication or months to file probate of the will of her deceased husband, in which to de- renunciation liver or transmit to the court of probate of the proper county her written renunciation of the provisions made for her by said will, so to entitle herself to dower, as provided by the forticth section of the act to which this is an amendment, and in no case shall such surrender, or the want of such surrender, effect the right of widows to their separate property. SEC. 2. That when any feme covert shall die intestate, Feme covert leaving no child or children, or descendants of a child or chil-dying without dren, then the one-half of the real estate of the decedent shall children &c. descend and go to her husband as his exclusive estate for ever. APPROVED March 6th, 1843. AN ACT authorising counties to give a bounty on wolf scalps. In force, Feb. 15, 1843. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county com- Bounty how missioners' court of any county in this State may hereafter paid allow such bounty on the big wolf and prairie wolf, of six months old and upwards, as said court may deem reasonable; said bounty to be paid out of the treasury of the county wherein said wolf or wolves may be taken and killed, upon the cer tificate of the county commissioners' court, and said certifi- Certificates cate shall be receivable by the collector of thecounty wherein receivable for such allowance of bounty may have been made, for any taxes co. taxes due said county. Amount of fixed SEC. 2. Whenever the county commissioners of any county bounty how shall determine upon allowing a bounty on wolf scalps for any one year, they shall, at their March term of said year, enter an order upon their records setting forth the amount of such allowance. Bounty to be claimed in ninety days, and how SEC. 3. The person claiming a bounty shall produce the scalp or scalps, with the ears thereon, and within ninety days after the same shall have been taken, to the county commissioners' court of the county wherein such wolf or wolves may Person clai- have been taken and killed; whereupon the clerk of said court ming to make shall administer to said person the following oath or affirmation, to wit: "You do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case Form of oath may be,) that the scalp, or scalps, here produced by you, was taken from a wolf, or wolves, killed by yourself within the limits of this county, and within the ninety days last passed, and that you believe the wolf or wolves was or were six months old or upwards." oath SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts allowing the payment of Law repealed a bounty on wolf scalps out of the State treasury, be and the same are hereby repealed. APPROVED, February 15th, 1843. RESOLUTIONS. JOINT RESOLUTION relative to a disconnection of the State from the banks. Preamble Gor. to ap WHEREAS, it is deemed advisable to dissolve the connection now existing between the State and the Bank of the State of Illinois and the Bank of Illinois; and whereas, it is believed that such dissolution will prove equally advanta geous, both to the State and said banks; therefore, Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That his Excellency Governor Ford, assisted by the Auditor point commitof Public Accounts and the Fund Commissioner, be authorised tee to investiand requested forthwith to enter into negotiation with said gate accounts banks, or their authorised agents, for the purpose of ascer taining upon what terms an amicable dissolution between the State and said banks can be effected and for the purpose of obtaining such other information as may be useful in relation to this subject, and that said officers be requested to communicate to each House, at their earliest convenience, the result of their correspondence with said banks respectively. PASSED, Dec. 12, 1842. of bank JOINT RESOLUTION in relation to the fine imposed on General Jack son by Judge Hall, in 1814. WHEREAS, the conduct of General Andrew Jackson, in the defence of New Orleans during the campaign of 1814-15 has on various occasions received the approbation of the American people; and whereas, Congress, on the 15th day of February, 1815, by a vote of thanks, and by directing a gold medal to be struck and presented to him as an evidence of their estimation of his patriotism, bravery, and good conduct, sanctioned and applauded his course in the aforesaid campaign; and whereas, the fine imposed upon him by Judge Hall for an alleged contempt of the authority of the said Judge, is not only an unjust imputation Preamble upon the character of General Jackson, but a reflection upon the justice and gratitude of the nation; therefore, Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate conInstructions curring herein, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives earnestly requested, to use their exertions to procure the passage of a law directing that the fine of one thousand dollars imposed by Dominick A. Hall, then District Judge of the United States for the district of Louisiana for an alleged contempt of his authority, upon General Andrew Jackson, and by the said Andrew Jackson paid into the hands of the marshal of said district, be refunded, together with the costs and interest on the same from the day of the payment thereof. Resolved also, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of this preamble and resolutions to General Andrew Jackson, and one to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and also one to each of the Governors of the several States of this Union, with a request that the subject of the same be laid before their respective Legislatures. PASSED, JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary of State to procure the Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring herein, That the Secretary of State be instructed to procure a manuscript copy of the historical essay read by the Hon. Sidney Breese, in the Senate Chamber; and that the said Secretary be further instructed to have the same neatly bound and deposited in the public library under his care. PASSED, January 16th, 1843. JOINT RESOLUTION relative to the completion of one of the vaults in the State House. Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concur ring herein, íhat the Secretary of State is hereby required to procure shutters of suitable strength to be made for the tire proof vault in the State House, that said vault may be used as a place of deposite of the revenue of the State. Resolved, That said Secretary be further instructed to finish the interior of said vault for the reasons mentioned in the first resolution. PASSED, January 17th, 1843. PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTION making it the duty of the Governor to appoint a committee to investigate the accounts of the State Bank of Illinois. WHEREAS, it appears by the report of the State Bank of Illi nois, that this State is indebted to the bank in the sum of Preamble $292,000; and whereas, it does not appear upon what calculations and principles this balance was found to be due the bank; and whereas, it is believed that in making up the profit and loss account of the bank, losses which have accrued upon contracts made or growing out of contracts made previous to the existence of the partnership between the bank and the State have been charged to the partnership profit and loss account; and whereas, it is understood to have been the practice of the bank to charge interest upon payments made upon Auditor's warrants from the day of such payment, and not allowing interest upon the deposites made by the Treasurer until the end of each quarter; and whereas, it does not appear whether the bank has credited the State the amount of the bonus of one-half of one per cent. per annum upon the bank stock owned by the State, according to the provisions of the act, approved February 27th, 1841, concerning the State Bank of Illinois; and whereas, it is believed that the bank has charged the State the interest upon the State bonds held by the bank and not credited any dividend which would have justly belonged to the State as her portion of such interest; and whereas, it is highly important for the interest of the State that a fair and equitable settlement should be had with the bank at as early a day as possible; therefore, Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That it shall be the duty of the Governor imme- Committee appointed diately to appoint a competent committee to investigate the accounts of the bank and ascertain the true statement of such accounts, and the balance due to or from the bank upon a fair and equitable settlement, taking into view the various subjects embraced in the foregoing preamble; and that such committee shall report to the Legislature the result of their investigation at the earliest possible period, and that said com. mittee have power to send for persons and papers and to swear witnesses. PASSED, PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS in relation to the improvement of the navigation of western rivers. WHEREAS, it is the duty of all governments, and more especially of such as acknowledge the sovereignty of the people, to afford all proper encouragement and protection to every department of human industry; whereas a large proportion of the surplus products of the great west, and of the various Preamble |