The prohibition of traffic.

Sale of liquors.

Penalties and forfeitures for vio

3. No person shall keep any shop, booth, tent, wagon or other carriage, for the sale of any article of provisions, trade, traffic or merchandise whatever, or sell or expose to sale, give, barter or otherwise dispose of, in or near any such shop, booth, tent, wagon or other carriage, or in any other way or place, any article of provisions, trade, traffic or merchandise whatever, during the time of holding any such fair or exhibition, at or within one-half mile from the place of holding the same; nor shall any person, within the distance aforesaid, exhibit any shows or plays, or promote, aid or be engaged in any racing of animals, without having first obtained a license therefor from said society.

4. No person shall sell, or expose to sale, or give away, barter or otherwise dispose of, in any way or place, at or within one- half-mile of the place of holding such fair or exhibition, during the time of holding the same, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors whatever; nor shall any person, at the time aforesaid, at the place, or within the distance aforesaid, promote, aid or be engaged in any gaming of any description whatever; nor shall any person obstruct the free passage of any highway or traveled road, within the distance aforesaid.

85. The provisions of the three next preceding sections of this act shall not apply to any person or persons, when doing business at their regular and ordinary places of doing business, within the corporate limits of the town of Warren. § 6. Any person guilty of violating any of the provilation of rules. sions of the third and fourth sections of this act may be immediately arrested and taken before some justice of the peace of the county, and shall forfeit and pay to said society the sum of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, for each and every offense, to be recovered in an action of debt, to be commenced by arrest, as aforesaid, or by summons in the usual form, in the name of the said society, before said justice, together with cost of suit; and it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace to issue execution for such debt and cost forthwith or commit the offender to the jail of the county until said debt and cost are paid, as said society, by their prosecutor or counsel may elect. $7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, or which conflict with the provisions thereof, are hereby repealed.

APPROVED February 16, 1861.

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the McLean Coun- In force Septem ty Agricultural Society," approved February 12, 1853. ber 1, 1861.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Annual meetings. third section of the act to which this is an amendment be so amended, that a meeting of the members of said corporation, for the purposes therein mentioned, shall be annually held on the fair ground of said society, at one o'clock, P. M., on the second day of the annual fair thereof.

This act to to take effect and be in force from and after the first day of September next.

APPROVED February 13, 1861.

AN ACT to incorporate the Morgan County Agricultural and Mechanical As- In force February

sociation.

13, 1861.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Moore C. Goltra, Stephen Dunlap, James T. Holmes, Austin Rockwell, William H. Broadwell, George Graff, Jeptha Dunlap, William Richardson, Stephen Green, Peter Roberts, Joseph H. Bancroft, and their associates and successors in office, and such other persons as now are or shall hereafter become stockholders, by virtue of the provisions of this act, are hereby constituted and declared a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Morgan County Agri- Corporate name. cultural and Mechanical Association;" and by that name shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all the courts of law and equity in this

state.

§ 2. That said association shall have power to make and establish a common seal, which they may alter and change at pleasure.

tions.

§ 3. That said association shall have power to make and Rules and regula establish such by-laws, rules and regulations, for the government of said association and for the transaction of their business, as shall be deemed necessary and proper by said association: Provided, however, such by-laws and regulations shall not be contrary to the constitution and laws of the state of Illinois or of the United States.

4. That the capital stock of said association shall con- Capital stock. sist of ten thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty dollars each.

5. That said association may, from time to time, increase the amount of their capital stock, by a vote of the members of said association representing two-thirds of the capital stock thereof.

Real estate.

Injury to property.

Transfer of stock.

6. That said association shall have power to loan and borrow money, on the security or credit of assets belonging

to the said association.

§ 7. That the said association may purchase and hold and dispose of real estate, for the purposes of the said association: Provided, however, they shall not at any one time. hold more than fifty acres.

88. That if any person or persons shall wantonly, willfully or maliciously turn in any kind of stock into the inclosure of said association, or negligently open any gate or gates of said inclosure, or tear down or destroy anything belonging to said association, or do any act by which said association may be damaged, he or they and any person assisting shall forfeit and pay to said association treble the amount of damages that shall be proved before any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed, which may be sued for in the name of said association.

§ 9. That the stock of said association shall be deemed and considered personal estate, and shall be transferable, by indorsement; but no transfer shall be valid or effected until such transfer be entered with and registered by the secretary.

10. That the objects of this association shall be to advance the interests and encourage agricultural and mechanical arts and sciences.

§ 11. That said association may exist, as a body corporate, for fifty years from and after the passage of this act. § 12. This act is hereby declared a public act and shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 13, 1861.

AN ACT to vacate an alley therein mentioned.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the alley running north and south, through the center of block number fifteen, in the town of Davis, and county of Stephenson, be and the same is hereby vacated.

APPROVED February 20, 1861.

In force February 22, 1861.

AN ACT for the relief of the Alton Bank and Jersey County Bank. WHEREAS the Alton Bank, located at Alton, in Madison county, and the Jersey County Bank, located at Jersey

ville, Jersey county, have, in pursuance of the act in force January 10th, 1855, entitled "An act to amend an act to establish a general system of banking and the act supplementary thereto," approved February 10th, 1853, filed with the auditor certificates of their desire and intention to withdraw their bills from circulation, and are now desirous of withdrawing and canceling said certificates and of resuming their business, as if no such certificate had been filed; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the said

Alton Bank and Jersey County Bank be and they are here- Withdrawal by authorized to withdraw and cancel said certificates, and certificate. to resume and transact their business and conduct their affairs, in every respect, as if said certificates, so filed by them, respectively, as aforesaid, had never been made and filed with said auditor: Provided, that prior to the withdrawal and cancellation of said certificates and the resumption of business by the said banks, the said banks shall furnish to the auditor satisfactory evidence that not less than fifty thousand dollars of actual cash capital has been duly subscribed and paid in by the stockholders of said banks, respectively, and shall also deposit with the auditor the amount of stock now required by the general banking laws of this state for the organization of a new bank under said law.

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

APPROVED February 22, 1861.

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AN ACT to incorporate the German Savings Bank of Peoria, Illinois.

In force February 20, 1861.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Robert Strehlow, Gotfried Goldbeck, William Schempferman, Theobald Pfeiffer, Louis Green, Adolph Matthies, and their associates and successors, and all such persons as shall become stockholders in the company hereby created, shall be a body politic, by the name and style of "The German Corporate name. Savings Bank," to be located in the city of Peoria, state of Illinois, and shall have succession; a common seal, the power in law and in equity of suing and being sued, the power to plead and be impleaded, the power of contracting and being contracted with, the power to appoint all necessary servants and assistants; and may have, enjoy and exercise all the power necessary to carry out and execute the purposes and intent of a savings bank, and to enact and execute such by-laws and regulations as they may think and deem proper for the control and well ordering of said bank.

§ 2. The capital of said company shall be not less than fifty thousand dollars, with power to increase the same to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars-to be subscribed and paid for in the manner hereinafter provided; and shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each share; which shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable on the books of said company, in such manner as its by-laws may prescribe.

§ 3. The said corporation shall perform the duties and functions of a savings bank; shall have power to borrow money and receive money on deposit and give certificates for the safe keeping and return of the same, pay interest thereon and to loan the said money, at any rate of interest not exceeding that now allowed to individuals, to be charged by agreement of parties; to discount, in accordance with bank usage, and to take such security therefor, either real or personal, as the directors or managers of said corporation may deem sufficient; and may buy and sell exchange, bills, notes, bonds or other securities; may have and hold coin and bullion; may make such special regulations, in reference to trust funds and deposits, left for accumulation and safe keeping, as shall best aid said depositors or parties interested, by accumulating and increasing the same.

§ 4. It shall be lawful for the company hereby incorporated to purchase and hold such real estate as may be convenient for the transaction of its business; and to take and to hold any real estate, in trust or otherwise, as security for or in payment of loans and debts, due or to become due, to the said company; and to receive and take in satisfaction of any such loan or debts any real estate and to hold and convey the same. Any real estate acquired in fee by this corporation and not held in trust or as security, other than what shall be necessary for the convenient use of the said corporation for the transaction of its business, shall not be held by the said corporation longer than five years, and shall, within that time, be sold and conveyed, either at public or private sale, so as to divest the said corporation of their title to and fee in the same.

§ 5. The affairs of the company shall be managed by a board of directors, of at least seven in number, who shall be stockholders in this company. The election of such directors shall be had by the stockholders when fifty thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to the capital of said corporation and twenty-five per cent paid thereon; and three of the corporators named therein shall be commissioners to open books for subscriptions, which shall be done within ninety days after the passage of this act. The money, when received by the commissioners, shall be paid over to the directors, when elected. The directors shall elect a president from their own body, annually, and make and execute