That the judges assigned to hold the appellate court in the first district, are hereby authorized to obtain a lease of the rooms now occupied for holding said court, to be used for the purpose of holding court and consultation rooms and for clerks office only, for a term not exceeding three years from the expiration of the present lease thereof, or to rent other suitable rooms in the city of Chicago for the holding of said court, for a term not exceeding three years from the first day of June 1879, at a rental not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum. § 2. [APPROPRIATES $4,500.]. For the purpose of paying the rent of said rooms and of defraying the expenses incurred by said court or necessarily incidental to holding thereof, the sum of forty-five hundred dollars per annum for the two years commencing June 1, 1879, of which amount three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for rent of suitable court and consultation rooms, and one thousand five hundred dollars for contingent expenses, be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury. And upon presentation of accounts for said rent and other expenses certified by the judges of said court or a majority of them to the Auditor of Public Accounts, the said Auditor shall draw his warrant on the State Treasury for the amount of the same, payable to the holders of such certificates, out of the appropriation hereby made. APPROVED May 24, 1879. APPELLATE COURT-SECOND DISTRICT. § 1. Appropriates $1,800. | 82 Emergency. AN ACT to make an appropriation for the payment of the expenses incurred heretofore for the Appellate Court of the Second (2d) District. Approved May 29, 1879. In force June 8, 1879. WHEREAS, By section (18) eighteen of an act entitled "An Act to establish Appellate Courts approved June 2, 1877, it was provided that there should be held an Appellate Court in the Second (2d) Division, held at Ottawa, and, WHEREAS, Said court has been held in accordance with law, and expense incurred in that behalf, and WHEREAS, No appropriation was made by the last General Assembly for the payment of the expenditures so directed to be made by and for said court, therefore: SECTION 1. [APPROPRIATES $1,800.] [APPROPRIATES $1,800.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the purpose of paying the liabilities and expenses incurred appertaining to the holding of said court from the time of its organization to the first (1st) day of February A. D. 1879, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800), or So much thereof as may necessarily be appropriated out of the State Treasury, and that upon presentation of accounts for said liabilities and expenditures, certified by the judges of said court, or a majority of them, to the Auditor of Public Accounts, the said Auditor shall draw his warrants on the State Treasury for the amount of the same, payable to the holders of such certificates out of the said appropriations hereby made. § 2. EMERGENCY.] WHEREAS, It is desirable that said liabilities be paid without further delay; therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall go into effect within ten (10) days after its passage. APPROVED May 29th, 1879. APPELLATE COURT, SECOND DISTRICT. SECTION I. Appropriates $2,000 per annum. AN ACT to provide for expenses and disbursements of the Appellate Court of the Second District, and to make an appropriation therefor. Approved May 29, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. $1. [APPROPRIATES $2,000 PER ANNUM.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the purpose of defraying the expenses incurred by said court or necessarily incidental to the holding thereof, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, or so much thereof as may be required, is hereby appropriated, payable quarterly, out of the State Treasury, until the end of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly, said moneys to be drawn on vouchers certified by the judges of said court or a majority of them, and approved by the Governor, presented to the Auditor of Public Accounts, who shall upon the presentation of such certified and approved vouchers, draw his warrant on the State Treasury for the quarterly payments herein provided for. APPROVED May 29th, 1879. APPELLATE COURT, FOURTH DISTRICT. § 1. Appropriates $1,305.11. I 8 2. How drawn. AN ACT making an appropriation for the payment of the expenses heretofore incurred by the Appellate Court of the Fourth District. Approved May 29, 1879. In force July, 1, 1879. § 1. [APPROPRIATES $1,305.11.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That there be appropriated the sum of thirteen hundred and five and 11-100 dollars ($1,305 11-100), out of moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the expenses heretofore incurred by the appellate court of the fourth district. § 2. [How DRAWN.] The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the moneys herein appropriated, upon the order of the clerk of said court, accompanied by detailed vouchers for said expenses, certified to by the judges of said court. APPROVED May 29th, 1879. APPELLATE AND SUPREME COURT REPAIRS OF COURT HOUSE, ETC. AT OTTAWA. § 1. Appropriates $700 for repairs. § 2. Appropriates $900 for State Reports. § 3. Appropriates $300 for text books. § 4. Appropriates $100 for repairs on books. § 5. How paid out. AN ACT for an appropriation for repairs of the Court House of the Supreme and Appellate Courts at Ottawa Illinois, and for the Libraries of said Courts. Approved May 20, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. $ 1. [APPROPRIATES $700 FOR REPAIRS.. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That there shall be appropriated for the purpose of putting a new tin roof upon the Court House of the Supreme and Appellate Court at Ottawa Illinois, with eaves troughs, and for painting the same, and putting down a new floor on the portico, the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700.00). §2. [PURCHASE OF STATE REPORTS.] That there be appropriated for the purpose of supplying the library of said courts, with State reports, the sum of nine hundred dollars ($900.00). §3. [PURCHASE OF TEXT BOOKS.] That there be appropriated for the purpose of supplying said library with text books, the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00). § 4. REPAIRING BOOKS.] That there be appropriated for the purpose of repairing the covers of books in said library, the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00). § 5. [How PAID OUT.] That the said sums shall be expended under the directions of the judges of the Appellate Court of said district, and shall be paid in warrants, to be issued by the Auditor of State, upon the State Treasury upon the order of said judges, in such sums, as they may from time to time require. And said judges shall file with the Auditor of State, vouchers for such expenditures. APPROVED May 20th, 1879. DAMAGES BY THE DAMS ON ILLINOIS AND LITTLE WABASH RIVERS-EXPENSES OF COMMITTEE-FEES. § 1. Appropriates certain sums. 8 2. How drawn-Emergency. AN ACT to make farther appropriations for payment of the per diem and traveling expenses of the committee to investigate damages caused by the construction of the dams at Henry, on the Illinois River and at New Haven, on the Little Wabash River, appointed by joint resolution of the 30th General Assembly of this State. Approved and in force May 6, 1879. WHEREAS, The Legislature of this State, by joint resolution of the Thirtieth General Assembly, did appoint a commission consisting of three members of the House of Representatives and two of the Senate, whose duty it was made by said resolution to investigate and report to the present General Assembly all claims for damages caused by the construction of the dam at Henry, on the Illinois River, and at New Haven, on the Little Wabash River; and WHEREAS, By authority of said resolution, William R. Archer and Chester P. Davis, of the Senate, and Frank N. Tice, Samuel S. Jack and William R. Wilkinson, of the House, were, by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House, respectively, appointed said commission; and WHEREAS, Said commission, under and by authority of said resolution, have performed the duties enjoined upon them and made their report within the time limited thereby; and WHEREAS, There is now due to said commission, for their per diem and traveling expenses in performing the duties required of them, as follows, to-wit: as clerks of said commission, as certified by the chairman thereof, and by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, respectively; therefore Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, SECTION 1. [APPROPRIATION.] That there be, and is hereby, appropriated to William R. Archer, the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars and ninety cents ($350 90); to Chester P. Davis, the sum of three hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy cents ($344 70); to Frank N. Tice, the sum of three hundred and forty dollars and seventy cents ($340 70); to Samuel S. Jack, the sum of three hundred and forty dollars and sixty-five cents ($340 65); to William R. Wilkinson, the sum of three hundred and sixty dollars and eighty-five cents ($360 85); to Albert Emerson, the sum of thirty-two dollars and ten cents ($32 10); to John C. Younken, the sum of twenty-four dollars and sixty-four cents ($24 64) and to Elhanon Fisher, the sum of three hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifteen cents ($327 15), for their services and expenses in executing said commission; and that the same be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. [HOW DRAWN-EMERGENCY.] The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized, and required, to draw his warrants on the Treasury for the said sums, respectively, in favor of the persons aforesaid. WHEREAS, Said amounts, respectively, have long since been due, and are now unpaid, therefore an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED May 6th, 1879. DAMAGES BY CONSTRUCTION OF DAMS ON ILLINOIS AND LITTLE WABASA § 1. RIVERS. Appropriations to persons therein 812. Appropriations to persons therein AN ACT to provide for the payment of damages to lands and other property sustained by the owners thereof, by the construction of the dam on the little Wabash river at New Haven in Gallatin county Illinois, and by the construction of the dam on the Illinois river near Henry in Marshall county, Illinois. Approved May 31, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. SECTION 1. [APPROPRIATIONS TO PERSONS THEREIN NAMED.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That a sum of money not exceeding thirteen thousand and eighty-seven dollars ($13,087.00) be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pay the damages sustained by the owners of lands and other property on the Little Wabash river occasioned by the construction of the dam on said river, by authority of the State of Illinois, near New Haven in Gallatin county; according to the recommendation contained in the report of the joint select committee of the two house of the thirtieth General Assembly and that said sum of money be paid as follows, to wit: "Mary E. McHenry Virginia P. Shelby and Julia D. Shelby, heirs at law of Matilda Shelby deceased.... $8,300 00 30 00 315 00 275 00 120 00 112 00 150 00 $240 00 $240 00 $765 00 |