which funds shall be designated as the "Illinois River Improvement Fund."

§ 3. Said commissioners, as soon as there shall be in the hands of the state treasurer the sum of $100,000 of the said Illinois river improvement fund, are hereby authorized to take efficient and proper measures for the commencement of the improvements named in this act, and shall put such parts of them as they may deem proper under contract, as herein provided, and shall have the management, care and superintendence thereof. They may employ a general superintendent, and may also employ such and as many engineers, draughtsmen, and other persons as they may deem necessary to enable them to discharge their duties, and may pay such compensation as they may deem reasonable to each person so employed: Provided, that no contract shall be made until the necessary survey shall have been made, and plans adopted: And, provided, further, that the cost of said improvements, when completed, including plans and surveys and all incidental expenses, shall not exceed the sum of $430,000. The work may be divided, or let in sections, as may be deemed advisable by said canal commissioners.

§ 4. No contract for the doing of said work shall be let until the same shall have been advertised in a daily paper, published in each of the cities of Chicago and Peoria, for at least four weeks prior to the time named for letting such contract; and all bidding shall be by sealed proposals, and those of the lowest responsible bidder shall be accepted. Said commissioners shall require all parties taking contracts to furnish bonds for the completion of the work undertaken by them, and shall name the amount to be inserted in such bonds at the time the contracts are awarded.

§ 5. Said commissioners are hereby strictly forbidden to commence the construction of said lock and dam, by contract or otherwise, as provided in this act, unless they shall first ascertain, from the estimate of a competent engnieer, that the same, including all incidental expenses, can be completed for a less sum of money than $430,000; which estimate shall be approved by the governor and filed with the auditor, before the appropriation herein named can be drawn.

§ 6. Said commissioners shall not obligate the state for the payment of any sum of money in excess of the appropriation made for the purposes herein named. The account of the expenditures of said commissioners shall be certified by said commissioners, or a majority of them, approved by the governor, and audited by the auditor; the auditor shall, thereupon, draw his warrant upon the treasurer therefor, to be paid out of the fund herein before provided.

§ 7. The said commissioners, at the end of each month, shall make up a statement of all work done during such month, and the amount agreed to be paid for the same, together with all expenses pertaining to the prosecution of the work, and with the certificate of the engineer in charge; which statement shall be sworn to by the commissioners, or a majority of them, and presented to the governor for his approval. Such statement, so approved, shall be authority for the auditor to draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the sum so approved by the governor; said money to be paid to the contractors and others in charge of the work, by the treasurer of said board of canal commissioners, for which vouchers shall be taken, and sent to the auditor of state; and the auditor of state and treasurer shall, from time to time, as requested

by the president of said board of canal commissioners, furnish him with a statement of the amount of money in the treasury which may be used in the construction of said improvements.

§ 8. No portion of the moneys provided for in this appropriation shall be used in payment of the salaries of said canal commissioners; neither shall said commissioners be entitled to any additional compensation because of the extra labor required by the construction of the improvements contemplated in this act. APPROVED April 17, 1873.

§ 1. For repairing the lock-gates. In force July 1, 1874.

AN ACT making an appropriation for repairing the lock-gates on the Little Wabash river.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the sum of $1,600 be and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of repairing the lock-gates on the Little Wabash river; said amount to be paid by the auditor of public accounts drawing his warrant on the state treasurer, upon an order, or orders, of the canal commissioners, accompanied by satisfactory vouchers, approved by the governor, for the expenditure of the appropriation herein made.

APPROVED March 23, 1874.

§ 1. To remove dam.

§ 2. Auditor to draw warrant.
In force March 27, 1874.

AN ACT to authorize the removal of the feeder dam across the Calumet river, near Blue Island, in Cook county, in the state of Illinois, and to provide compensation to Christian Pfeiffer and John Roll for any loss they may sustain by its removal.

WHEREAS the general assembly of the state of Illinois did, by joint resolution of the 13th and 14th days of March, 1872, direct that the canal commissioners of the state of Illinois proceed at once to remove the dam across the Calumet river at Blue Island, in Cook county, Illinois; and, whereas, an attempt was made by said commissioners to remove said dam, and they were prevented from effecting its removal by injunction obtained by said Pfeiffer and Roll; and, whereas, the said dam is no longer used by this state, and is no longer of public utility, but its continuance is detrimental to the public and causes the overflow of a large body of land in this state and in the state of Indiana, causing great and irreparable injury to the people of said state; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the governor of the state of Illinois be and he is hereby authorized and directed to require the canal còmmissioners of this state, or some suitable persons to be selected by him, without delay to remove the dam across the Calumet river, at Blue Island, and in case the persons so appointed shall fail to remove said dam within a reasonable time thereafter, then, and in that case, the

secure the removal of said dam, the expense of such removal to be paid out of the funds in the hands of the canal commissioners or their trea

surer.

§ 2. That so soon as Christian Pfeiffer and John Roll shall release to the state of Illinois by quit claim deed all right they now claim to have to the said dam and the water power thereby created, that then and in that case, on the order of the governor, the auditor of public accounts be and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of said Christian Pfeiffer and John Roll for the sum of not exceeding six thousand dollars ($6,000), to be paid out of any money at any time in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. §3. That as an emergency exists, this act shall therefore take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 27,

1874.

DEAF AND DUMB.

§ 1. Chapel, dining-room, school buildings, $79,500. In force July 1, 1873.

AN ACT for the erection of a chapel, dining room and school buildings for the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the purpose of the erection of a chapel, dining room and school buildings for the deaf and dumb, which the inadequate accommodation of the institution, and the law governing the admission of pupils, and a true regard for the interests of the deaf and dumb imperatively demand, the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary for the erection of said buildings, is hereby appropriated out of the treasury, payable to the contractor or person or persons to whom the same is due. And that there be and is hereby appropriated the sums of seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000) for warming and lighting the said buildings and the erection of a boiler house; two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for the erection and fitting up of a laundry, payable out of the levy of 1873.

§ 2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the said sums, upon the order of the board of directors of the Illinois Institution for the education of the Deaf and Dumb, signed by the president and attested by the secretary of said board with the seal of the institution; but no warrant shall issue unless the orders of said board of directors shall be accompanied with satisfactory vouchers approved by the governor; and the sum hereinabove appropriated shall be in full for the completion of said buildings and improvements.

APPROVED May 3, 1873.

§ 1. Support of the Institution, $72,000 per annum; and $9,750. In force July 1, 1873.

AN ACT for the support of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the purpose of defraying the ordinary expenses of the Illinois Institution for the education of the Deaf and Dumb, from the first day of July, 1873, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session of the general assembly, the sum of seventy thousand dollars ($70,000) per annum be and is hereby appropriated, payable quarterly out of the treasury; and that there be and is hereby appropriated the further sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, for repairs; three thousand seven hundred dollars ($3,700) for the renewal and furnishing of bedding; three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars ($3,850) for the renewal of the roof of the main building and north wing; eight hundred dollars ($800) for the renewal and repairs of floors; one thousand four hundred dollars ($1,400) for repainting the wood work of the main building and north wing of said institution : Provided, that after payment of one quarter has been made, no warrants shall be issued in favor of said institution until satisfactory vouchers shall have been filed with the auditor of public accounts by the superintendent of said institution, approved by the trustees and by the governor, showing in detail the amount and nature of each and every expenditure made out of the preceding quarterly installment of said appropriation, verified by the affidavit of the principal.

§ 2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the said sums, upon orders of the board of directors of the Illinois Institution for the education of the Deaf and Dumb, signed by the president and attested by the secretary of said board with the seal of the institution. APPROVED April 29, 1873.

EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.

1. Payments to be made out of the levy of 1872 § 7. Trustees may accept bids for particular porand 1873.

tions of the work.

§ 2. Plans and specifications to be submitted to § 8. Trustees authorized to receive gifts and dothe Governor.

§ 3.

Advertise for proposals.

§ 4.

Time and place of opening proposals.

nations of labor, material or service.

§ 9. Unexpended balance to be used for other purposes.

§ 5. Bond to be approved by Governor; how pay- § 10. Money to be paid to the party direct.

ments are to be made.

§ 6. Contract to be signed by president, counter

signed by secretary, and deposited in the

office of the Secretary of State.

In force July 1, 1873.

AN ACT making an appropriation in aid of the erection and for the completion of a building for the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary.

WHEREAS, in the disastrous Chicago fire which occurred on the ninth day of October, 1871, the building occupied by the Illinois Charitable

said institution has since that date occupied leased premises; and whereas, the Chicago relief and aid society has made a donation to the said infirmary of the sum of $20,000, for the purchase of a site and the erection of a building thereon; and whereas, the said infirmary has now in possession land and cash accruing from this and other private gifts, valued at $33,000, to be used for the purpose aforesaid, of which the state of Illinois will receive the entire benefit, as soon as the said building can be erected: therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the purpose of erecting a building for the use of the said Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, in the city of Chicago, and for plumbing, heating and ventilation of the same, and to fit the same for occupancy by one hundred patients, the sum of $28,000 (of which $10,000 shall be payable out of the levy of 1872, and 18,000 shall be payable out of the levy of 1873,) is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, as hereinafter provided.

§ 2. The trustees of the said institution are hereby authorized and required to cause to be prepared suitable plans and specifications, in accordance with the first section of this act, by a competent architect, (for which the usual percentage shall be allowed, payable in monthly installments, as the work upon the said building progresses,) which shall be submitted to the governor for his approval, before acceptance; and the said plans and specifications shall in no case be accepted, unless accompanied by a written and signed certificate of the architect, stating that in his professional judgment the said building can be completed for a sum not exceeding $45,000.

§ 3. Whenever the plans and specifications provided for in this act shall have been approved by the governor and adopted by the trustees, the trustees shall cause to be inserted, in at least five of the daily newspapers published in the city of Chicago, an advertisement for sealed bids for the construction of the building herein authorized; and they shall furnish a printed copy of this act and of the specifications to all parties interested who may apply therefor: And all parties interested, who may desire it, shall have free and full access to the plans, with the privilege of taking notes and making memoranda, and the trustees shall furnish answers to all inquiries addressed to them, on the subject of the proposed building, to the best of their ability and belief.

§ 4. Not less than thirty days after the publication of the said proposals for bids, on a day and at an hour to be specified in the said advertisement, in the city of Chicago, at the infirmary, in the presence of the trustees and of the bidders, or of so many of them as may be present, the bids received shall be opened for the first time, and the contract for building shall be let to the lowest and best bidder: Provided, that with the consent and approval of the governor, any and all bids may be rejected, for sufficient cause: And, provided, further, that no bid shall be accepted which is not accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, in the penal sum of $1,000, signed by at least three sureties of known ability and integrity, as a guaranty for the ability and good faith of the bidder.

§ 5. The contract to be made with the successful bidder shall be accompanied by a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by the governor before acceptance; and the said contract shall provide for the appointment of a superintendent of construction, who shall carefully and