la force Jan. 22, AN ACT making partial appropriations for defraying the expenses of this general assembly.

1857.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That [the Auditor to draw auditor] of public accounts be and he is hereby authorized

warrants.

and required to draw warrants on the treasury for the sum of fifty dollars to each member of the senate and house of representatives, and warrants for a like sum to the speaker of each house, the secretary and assistant secretaries of the senate, the clerk and assistant clerks of the house of representatives, the enrolling and engrossing clerks, and the assistant enrolling and engrossing clerks of each house, and the door-keepers and assistant door-keepers of each house. To be paid by § 2. That any money now in the treasury or which may be received into the treasury, and not otherwise appropriated by law, shail be applied to the payment of

treasurer.

the aforesaid warrants.

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

APPROVED Jan. 22, 1857.

1857.

In force Feb. 14, AN ACT to appoint commissioners to build a court and library room for the use of the supreme court in the third grand, division of this state, and to make an appropriation therefor.

SECTION. 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That WilCommissioners. liam Reddick, Joseph O. Glover, George E. Walker, William H. L. Wallace and Henry F. Eames be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to procure a suitable lot in the city of Ottawa, in the county of La Salle, upon which they shall superintend the construction of a building for the use of the supreme court in the third grand division of this state, of such size and structure as the judge of the supreme court, residing in said grand division, shall direct: Provided, that the same shall not exceed in cash the sum of sixteen thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which shall be subject to the order of said board of commissioners; upon the presentation of which order the auditor of public accounts is directed to issue a warrant upon the treasury, from time to time, in such sums as may be necessary to be used in the construction of said buildings in favor of said board; said sum to be applied and invested in the onstruction of said building.

and

ken.

§ 2. Before said commissioners shall enter upon the Bond discharge of the duties created by this act, they shall take an oath faithfully to perform said duties, and shall give bond, payable to the governor of the state of Illinois, in the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, with security to be approved by the judge of the supreme court residing in said division, which bond shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state, and shall be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required by this act.

§ 3. A majority of said board of commissioners shall be competent to perform any of the duties required by this

act.

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

APPROVED Feb. 14, 1857.

required

oath tu

AN ACT to protect the public state buildings in the city of Springfield, and In force Jan. 21, the peace of the general assembly while in session.

1857.

to be

punished conviction.

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 hereafter be guilty of any ofenders noisy or disorderly conduct in the state house or any of the public grounds around the same, at any time, or who shall by any noisy, disorderly or unseemly conduct, either in or about the state house, while either of the two houses of the general assembly are in session, disturb the deliberations of either house; or who at any time shall defile, deface or in any way mutilate any of the public grounds, inclosures. or any part of the state house; or who shall make filthy or unseemly any vault or privy about the state house or other part of the same, shall, on conviction thereof, before any police magistrate or justice of the peace of the city of Springfield, be fined in any sum not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of such magistrate or justice, with costs, and in default of payment shall stand committed to the jail of Sangamon county until the same be paid, or they be otherwise discharged in due course of law.

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§ 2. The sheriff of Sangamon county or his deputies, Omers to mana any constable of said county or other police officer, or the sergeant-at-arms of the senate, or the door-keeper of the house of representatives, or either of their assistants are hereby authorized and empowered, on view, without warrant, to arrest any person or persons guilty of any offence created and defined in the preceding section, and take them

Farther powers.

Officers may be appointed.

before the proper magistrate for trial; and any officer making such arrest and the magistrate trying the same, shall be allowed the same fees as now are by law allowed justices and police officers in similar cases.

§3. The speakers of either house of the general assembly, or any officer named in the preceding section, are hereby authorized and required, upon view of any offence named in this act, against the quiet and peace of the general assembly or either house thereof while in session, to require such offender to leave the state house and the grounds around the same; and in case of refusal to immediately obey the same, they are further empowered and required to arrest such offender, and take him or them before any officer having jurisdiction of the offences created by this act, and upon conviction shall be fined as provided in the first section of this act.

§ 4. The speaker of either branch of the general assembly shall have power to designate and appoint one or more of the police constables of the city of Springfield to execute the provisions of this act; and the person or persons so appointed shall have full power to perform all the duties required of any executive officer herein authorized to make arrests; and such officers shall be paid not less than three dollars per day, while engaged in the performance of the duties during the session of the general assembly.

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

APPROVED Jan. 26, 1857.

In force Feb. 16, AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of the county court of Tazewell

1857.

Jurisdiction extended.

county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county court of Tazewell county be and the same is hereby invested with concurrent jurisdiction with circuit courts of this state of all matters, suits and proceedings in civil cases at common law, or arising under the statutes of this state, except in cases of libel, slander and the action of ejectment.

Practice defined. § 2. The process, practice and proceedings in said court shall be the same as that of the circuit courts of this state in sin.ilar cases. The sheriff, clerk of said court, witnesses and jurors, while in attendance on said court, shall receive the same fees as those by law allowed in the circuit courts of this state. The judgments

and orders of said county courts shall have the same lien, force and effect in all respects as those of the circuit courts, and shall be collected and enforced in all respects as those of the circuit courts in similar cases.

taken to BUpreme court.

§ 3. All appeals and writs of error from the final judg- All appeals to be ments of said county courts shall be prosecuted and taken directly to the supreme court of this state in the same manner and with like limitations as the same now are from the circuit courts.

appeais

§ 4. Said court shall have jurisdiction of appeals from Jurisdiction judgments of justices of the peace in said county, but when justice more than fifteen days shall intervene between the time of peace. taking the appeal and the first succeeding term of either the circuit or county courts of said county, then the appellant shall prosecute his appeal to the first term of court, whether of the circuit or county court, thereafter to be holden.

preside.

§ 5. The county judge of said Tazewell county shall County Judge to preside at the terms of said court herein established, and shall receive the same sum now by law allowed judges for holding the county court, and a docket fee of two dollars Fees. and a half for each case entered upon the docket of said court, to be taxed and collected as costs in the case; and he shall have power to establish all needful rules for the summoning jurors in said court, and to issue venires therefor, under the seal of said court as other process.

allowed.

§ 6. Changes of venue shall be allowed in all cases Charge o v ne pending in said court, as follows: to the circuit court of said Tazewell county, where the party.applying for such change shall swear that the judge of said county court is so prejudiced against him that he believes he cannot have a fair trial before him, and in the manner now provided by law, to some other county or circuit, when the application shall be founded on any other cause by law allowed for changes of venue in such cases.

§ 7. There shall be two terms of said county court Terms of€ art. holden at the usual place of holding the circuit courts of said Tazewell county in each year; one on the third Monday of July, and the other on the third Monday of January, and shall continue until the business therein pending shall be disposed of.

§ 8. This act shall be taken as a public act, and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED Feb. 16, 1857.

la force Feb. 12, 1857.

atates,

AN ACT to amend the interest laws of this state.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That where Laws of Illinois any contract or loan shall be made in this state or between valid in other citizens of this state and any other state or country, bearing interest at any rate which was or shall be lawful according to any law of the state of Illinois, it shall and may be lawful to make the amount of principal and interest of such contract or loan payable in any other state or territory of the United States, or in the city of London, in England; and in all such cases such contract or loan shall be deemed and considered as governed by the laws of the state of Illinois, and shall not be affected by the laws of the state or country where the same shall be made payable. And no contracts or loans which has been heretofore made or entered into, bearing an interest at a rate which was legal according to the laws of this state, at the time when the same was made or entered into, shall be invalidated or in anywise impaired or affected by reason of the same having been made payable in any other state or country. APPROVED Feb. 12, 1857.

In force February AN ACT to amend section 11, of the Revised Statutes, entitled "Judgments

12, 1857.

Notice of sale to be published.

and Executions."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in addition to the notices now required by said section, of the sale of real estate, it shall be the duty of officers who may make sales of land under said section, to cause a similar notice to that therein required to be published for three successive weeks, once in each week, in a newspaper, if there be one printed in the proper county, of such sale: Provided, that no more than usual rates shall in any case Further proviso. be charged: And provided further, that no omission to give such notice, without good cause, shall affect the regularity or validity of such sale, unless it shall be made to appear that the purchaser had notice of such irregularity at or before said sale.

Proviso.

When notice suf-
Bcient.

§ 2. Where there is no newspaper printed in such county, or where no newspaper will publish the notice at the price fixed by this act, then the notice of such sale heretofore required shall be sufficient.

APPROVED Feb. 12, 1857.