Assistants.

Speaker to certify.

Governor's secretary.

Mileage to offi

cers.

Secretary of state

Expenses,

Gray and Hosea.

Assistant book-" keeper.

§ 8. To the assistant engrossing and enrolling clerks of the senate and house of representatives, each the sum of five dollars per day for the time actually employed, to be certified by the principal clerk, and to each person employed by the enrolling and engrossing clerks of the senate and house of representatives, four dollars per day for the number of days actually employed, to be certified by the principal clerks.

§ 9. The speaker of the senate shall certify the amount due each member and officer of the senate, except the amount due himself, which shall be certified by the secretary; and the speaker of the house of representatives shall certify the amount due each member and officer of the house, except the amount due himself, which shall be certified by the clerk; which certificate shall be sufficient authority to the auditor of public accounts to issue his warrants for the amount certified, to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 10. That the sum of four dollars per day be allowed for the time actually employed for the hire of a clerk employed in the executive department, during this special session, to be certified by the governor, and his certificate shall be sufficient evidence to the auditor, who shall issue his warrant on the treasury for the same, and the said treasurer shall pay the same out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated.

§ 11. To each of the officers of the general assembly and private secretary of the governor, the same rate of mileage that is allowed to the members.

§ 12. To the secretary of state, the sum of two hundred dollars, for making index to the laws, journals and reports of the present session, and superintending the publication of the same.

§ 13. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required to issue his warrant on the treasurer in favor of any person who has performed any labor for the use of this session of the general assembly, furnished any stationery, printing paper, candles, or any other necessary thing, which shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

To J. F. Gray and E. Hosea, the sum of forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents, for copying the laws of the last general assembly for publication in the State Register, Sangamon Journal, and the Organ, under the joint resolutions of the two houses: Provided, that the several amounts due as above mentioned shall be certified by the secretary of state and approved by the governor.

§ 14. The auditor is authorized and required to pay the assistant door-keeper of the house of representatives the balance that may be due and remain unpaid on the appro

priation for his services at the last session of the general assembly.

§ 15. For postage, such amount as may be necessary to Postage. cover the transmission by mail of a copy of the acts of the present session of the general assembly to each member and officer thereof, and also to each of the judges of the supreme and circuit courts, state's attorneys, clerks of the county courts and clerks of the circuit and supreme courts, which amount shall be certified by the secretary of state, and paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Such copies shall be transmitted by mail as soon as Laws to be transthe same are published; and it shall be the duty of the retary of state to cause to be printed the number of copies of the laws, journals and reports of the present session, required by existing laws, and to retain them in his office for distribution with the laws and journals of the next session of the general assembly.

sec

mitted by mail.

ister.

§ 16. To the publishers of the Sangamon Journal and Journal and regState Register, the sum of fifty dollars each, for printing in their respective papers, immediately after the adjournment of the legislature, the laws of a general character passed at this session; and also reasonable compensation to such person as may be employed by the secretary of state to make copies of such laws for each of said papers, to be certified by the secretary of state.

and others.

§ 17. To Henry McMullan, for four days' services in Henry McMullan filling up maps, eight dollars; to same, for two days' services in computing swamp land list, four dollars; to B. Ferguson, for five days' service in computing swamp land list, five dollars; to P. Smith, for four days' services in making maps, twelve dollars; to same, for thirteen maps, six dollars and fifty cents; to H. F. Ash, for four days' services in making maps, twelve dollars; to T. Peake, for five days' services in computing swamp land list, ten dollars; to Thomas O'Conner, the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per day for the time actually employed by him for the use of this session, to be certified by the secretary of state.

§ 18. To each of the members of the select committee Committec. appointed to visit the Insane Hospital, the sum of ten dollars to defray expenses.

19. That the sum of fifty dollars be appropriated to clergymen. the clergymen who have officiated at this session of the legislature, to be divided among themselves, as they shall agree, according to the services rendered by each. APPROVED June 22, 1852.

In force June 22, 1852.

AN ACT to change the name of Joseph Lewis Breese.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Change of name. name of Joseph Lewis Breese, a citizen of the county of Clinton, in this state, be and the same is hereby changed to Samuel Livingston Breese, and by that name he shall be hereafter known and called.

This act to take effect from and after its passage.
APPROVED June 22, 1852.

In force June 22, AN ACT to amend chapter ninety-three of the Revised Statutes, entitled

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"Roads."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That if any Penalty, how re- person or persons shall obstruct any public road, in the

covered.

Proceedings, how instituted.

Proviso.

Repeal.

manner provided in section sixteen of the act to which this is an amendment, the penalty provided for in said section may be recovered either by an indictment or in an action of debt, before any justice of the peace of the county in which the offence was committed; which action may be brought in the name of and upon the complaint or information of any person who may complain, one half to the informer, the other half to the use of the county.

§ 2. All suits, actions and proceedings necessary to be had upon any right or cause of action, for failures to perform road labor, or pay road taxes, or to enforce any contract or promise, in reference to the opening or repairing public roads, shall be had in the corporate name of the county wherein the right of action accrued: Provided, that no suit shall be dismissed on account of informality in the name of the plaintiff; but the court may, on application, permit the record to be so amended as to place the name of the proper plaintiff on the record.

§ 3. So much of the act to which this is an amendment as conflicts herewith is hereby repealed.

This act to be in force from and after its passage.
APPROVED June 22, 1852.

AN ACT to regulate the times of holding courts in the fifth and twelfth ju- In force June 22, dicial circuits.

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courts in 5th cir

cuit.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the circuit courts of the several counties composing the fifth Time of holding judicial circuit, shall be holden at the times following: the spring terms of said courts shall be holden in the county of Pike on the third Monday in March; in the county of Brown on the second Monday in April; in the county of McDonough on the third Monday in April; in the county of Schuyler on the fourth Monday in April; in the county of Mason on the first Monday in May; and in the county of Cass on the second Monday in May. The fall terms of said courts shall be holden in the county of Pike on the second Monday in September; in the county of Brown on the first Monday in October; in the county of McDonough on the second Monday in October; in the county of Schuyler on the third Monday in October; in the county of Mason on the fourth Monday in October; and in the county of Cass on the first Monday in November.

§ 2. That hereafter the circuit courts shall be holden in the twelfth judicial circuit, at the county seats of the the respective counties, at the times following, to wit: in the county of White on the first Monday in April and third Monday in August; in the county of Wabash on the Mondays following; in the county of Edwards on the Mondays following; in the county of Wayne on the Mondays following; in the county of Marion on the Mondays following; in the county of Jefferson on the Mondays following, and continue there two weeks; in the county of Hamilton on the Mondays following, and continue one week; in the county of Saline on the Mondays following, for one week; and in the county of Gallatin on the first Mondays of July and second Monday in December, and continue until the business be disposed of.

In 12th circuit.

§ 3. All writs, subpoenas and other process, which may writs, &c. have been or may be issued out of and made returnable to the terms of the circuit courts, as heretofore required by law to be holden in the counties composing the fifth and twelfth judicial circuits, shall be deemed and taken to be returnable to said terms as required to be holden under this act; and all notices which may have been given, either by publication or otherwise, with reference to the terms as heretofore required to be holden, shall by force of this act refer to the terms of courts as herein required to be holden, and all proceedings pending in said courts shall be taken up and disposed of as if no alteration had been made in the terms of holding said courts.

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

APPROVED June 22, 1852.

In force June 22, AN ACT to dispose of the swamp and overflowed lands, and to pay the ex

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Grant of lands.

Conveyances.

penses of selecting and surveying the same

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the swamp and overflowed lands granted to the state of Illinois, by the act of congress entitled "an act to enable the state of Arkansas, and other states, to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits," approved September twenty-eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same are hereby granted to the counties, respectively, in which the same may lie or be situated, for the purpose of constructing the necessary levees and drains to reclaim the same, and the balance of said lands, if any there be, after the same are reclaimed as aforesaid, shall be distributed in each county, equally, among the townships thereof, for the purposes of education, or the same may be applied to the construction of roads and bridges, or to such other purposes as may be deemed expedient by the courts or county judge hereinafter mentioned desiring so to apply it.

§ 2. Whenever it shall appear that any of the lands granted to the state by the aforesaid act of congress shall have been sold by the United States since the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for the said counties to convey such lands to the purchasers thereof. The said deed of conveyance shall be made by the judges of the county court, as such, and countersigned by the clerk of said court, with the official seal thereof affixed; and on delivering said deed to the purchaser, the county judge shall take from him an assignment of all his rights in the premises, and as such assignees they shall be authorized to receive from the United States the purchase money of said land; and whenever any lands embraced by the said act have been located by bounty land warrants since the passage thereof, it shall be lawful for such county in which the same are situated to convey the same in manner aforesaid, to the person or persons who located said warrant, and to take an assignment of the same to them as county judges, who shall thereupon be considered as assignees of the state, and as such may locate said warrant on any of the public lands belonging to the United States within the limits of such county, or elsewhere. Whenever lands embraced by the said act have been located since the passage thereof,