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WAREHOUSES.

COMMITTEE OF APPEALS.

§ 1. Amends sec. 4, act of 1871, as amended, by providing that said committee of appeals shall take an oath and give bond as grain inspectors; salaries shall be fixed by the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners.

AN ACT to amend section four (4) of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate public warehouses, and the warehousing and inspection of grain, and to give effect to article thirteen (13) of the Constitution of the State, approved April 25, 1871, and in force July 1, 1871, and to establish a committee of appeals and prescribe their duties," approved April 15, 1873, and in force July 1, 1873; approved May 31, 1879, in force July 1, 1879.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section four (4) of an act entitled "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to regulate public warehouses, and the warehousing and inspection of grain, and to give effect to article thirteen (13) of the Constitution of the State,' approved April 25, 1871, and in force July 1, 1871, and to establish a committee of appeals and prescribe their duties," approved April 15, 1873, and in force July 1, 1873; approved May 31, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, be amended so as to read as follows:

"Section 4. The said committee of appeals shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, take an oath, as in case of other inspectors of grain, and shall execute a bond in the penal sum of five thousand dollars, with like conditions as is provided in the case of other inspectors of grain, which said bonds shall be subject to the approval of the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners: It is further provided, that the salaries of said committee of appeals shali be fixed by the Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners, and be paid from the inspection fund, or by the party taking the appeal, under such rules as the commission shall prescribe; and all necessary expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act, except as herein otherwise provided, shall be paid out of the funds collected for the inspection service, upon the order of the commissioners: Provided, that no person shall be appointed to serve on the committee of appeals who is a purchaser of, or a receiver of grain, or other articles to be passed upon by said committee."

APPROVED June 26, 1885.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

SENATE.

ADJOURNMENT-SINE DIE.

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That when the two houses of the Thirty-fourth General Assembly adjourn on Friday, the 26th day of June, 1885, they stand adjourned without day.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT-REPRINTING.

WHEREAS, the edition of the report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois, published in 1867, containing a roster of the officers and men of the volunteer soldiers who served in the Illinois Regiments during the war of the Rebellion, has been exhausted for a number of years, and the volumes are now out of print and inaccessible by purchase or otherwise; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Illinois, Grand Army of the Republic, an organization numbering over twenty thousand members, composed wholly of honorably discharged soldiers of the late war, at the annual encampment of the order, held at Peoria, in February last, adopted a resolution praying the General Assembly to have this report reprinted for the benefit of the old soldiers and their friends, at the expense of the State, and to make an appropriation for the proper preparation of said report for the press and the publication thereof; and

WHEREAS, it has been ascertained by inquiry of the custodian of the proper funds, that no increase in the regular appropriations heretofore made for binding and for paper and stationery will be necessary if the order for reprint be given; therefore

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That the Adjutant General of the State be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to properly prepare and furnish to the public printer, with as little delay as possible, the copy for printing, using slips from the present printed volumes, and making such corrections as may be necessary, incorporating therein such information as he may have received or be able to obtain

from the War Department at Washington and from other sources of in formation, in order that the report so published shall present as true and correct history of each soldier's record as may be possible to procure; he shall also include the names of any individual soldier or bodies of troops called into the service of the State or National Government and not heretofore published, including sailors and marines; he shall also correct and complete the regimental histories contained in the present report from such data as he may be able to procure from official or other reliable sources. If in his judgment matter now in the report can be omitted without detriment in any way, or doing any injustice to any one, and the omission of which will in no way diminish the value of the report, such matter may be omitted.

Resolved, That upon notice from the Adjutant General that he is ready to furnish the copy as aforesaid, the Board of State Contracts shall order printed by the contractor for the State printing, and bound by the contractor for the State binding, five thousand copies of said report, in set of volumes, in the same style of printing and binding as the edition of 1867. The printing shall be done at the contract price for the class to which such printing belongs. The binding shall be done by the public binder in the manner before prescribed, but the price per volume shall not exceed 25 cents.

Resolved, That said report, when published, shall be distributed in the manner prescribed by law, as follows: Two copies to the Headquarters of the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of the United States, for the use of the Commander-in-Chief and Adjutant General respectively; two copies to each Department Headquarters, for the use of the Department Commander and Assistant Adjutant General respectively; one copy to each Post in the Department of Illinois Grand Army of the Republic, upon application of the Commander or Adjutant of the Post; one copy to each State officer required by law to reside at the capital; five copies to each member of the 34th General Assembly and one copy to each elective officer thereof; one copy to each library in the State; one copy to the office of each County Clerk in this State; one copy to the Adjutant General of the Army of the United States; one copy to the library of Congress; one copy to each of the offices of the Adjutants General of each State and Territory; ten copies to the State Library of this State; the remaining copies to be deposited in the office of the Adjutant General of Illinois for preservation and such judicious distribution as the demands of the future may develop.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

WHEREAS, it is important to secure the early publication of the information called for in an act entitled "An act to secure the collection and publication of agricultural and other statistics," approved and in force May 25, 1877; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall cause an

abstract of the information called for in the above specified act, and such other statistical data as may be of special interest to the farmers of the State, to be presented to the Governor for publication, on the first day of January of each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable.

Resolved, That the Commissioners of State Contracts have a sufficient number of the reports provided for in the foregoing resolution printed, in lieu of any other publication of the same matter, and bound in third class binding; that each member of the General Assembly be supp'ied with ten copies (10 copies) thereof, and that one copy be sent to each of the following officers in the State: county judge, clerk, supervisor, town clerk, assessor, each agricultural and horticultural society and crop correspondent, and each college, seminary, or public library in the State, and that one (1) thousand copies be furnished the State Board of Agriculture for distribution.

Resolved, That it shall be the duty of each assessor or deputy assessor to forward direct to the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, on or before the first day of July of each year, a duplicate of the abstract of their respective towns returned to the county clerk and provided for in an act entitled "An act to secure the collection and publication of agricultural and other statistics," approved and in force May 25, 1877.

AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION.

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That there be submitted to the people of the State of Illinois for their ratification, or rejection, at the next general election for members of the General Assembly, the following additional amendment to the Constitution:

Resolved, That hereafter it shall be unlawful for the commissioners of any penitentiary, or other reformatory institution in the State of Illinois, to let by contract to any person, or persons, or corporations, the labor of any convict confined within said institution.

BAKEWELL CLAIM.

WHEREAS, the Thirty-third General Assembly of this State did adopt, June 18, 1883, a preamble and a resolution in the words and figures, to-wit:

"WHEREAS, in the year 1858, E. W. Bakewell and wife, of Normal, Illinois, did, upon certain conditions to be fulfilled by the Board of Education of the State of Illinois, make and execute a deed to said Board of Education for the forty acres of land off of the south side of so much of the north half of the northwest quarter of section twentyeight, town twenty-four north, range two east, of the third principal

meridian, as lies west of the State road, which is an extension of Main street in Bloomington, north; said forty acres to include said State road; and,

WHEREAS, said conveyance was a conditional donation, dependent for its validity upon the performance of certain conditions, which conditions have never been fulfilled or complied with; and

WHEREAS, the said Board of Education has since been changed from a private corporation to a board of State officers, and possession and title to said land have been vested in the present State Board of Education, acting in behalf of the State, by reason of which change no proceedings in law or equity can be brought against them; and

WHEREAS, the statute of limitations bars the claim of said Bakewell before the Commission of Claims, leaving his only remedy or chance for justice in the hands of the General Assembly; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That the State Board of Education, or its president, be and is hereby directed to execute a conveyance in fee simple of the above described forty acres of land to Julia A. Bakewell;" and,

WHEREAS, said State Board of Education and its president, at a regular meeting of the Board held at Normal, June 18, 1884, refused to execute said conveyance of said land as directed by the aforesaid resolution; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That the title to said forty acres of land above described, be and the same is hereby declared vested in Julia A. Bakewell, and said vesture of title to relate back to the date of the passage of the aforesaid resolution.

HENNEPIN CANAL.

WHEREAS, the construction of the Hennepin Canal is now pending in Congress; therefore,

Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring herein, That the General Assembly of the State of Illinois hereby again expresses its approval of this measure, and requests our Senators and Representatives to use their earnest efforts to secure its success.

Resolved, That the Secretary of State is requested to forward a copy of the foregoing to each Senator and Representative in Congress from Illinois.

LAKE SUPERIOR SHIP CANAL.

WHEREAS, the Senate of the United States did pass a resolution of the date of April 22d, A. D. 1884, instructing the Honorable Secretary of War to cause an inquiry to be made as to the cost of construction of the

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