INSANE, AND DEAF AND DUMB. 93 or created under this act, for any violation of the provisions of this act, or any act amendatory of the same; but such amendment or repeal shall not, nor shall the dissolution of any company formed Repeal not to imunder this act, take away or impair any remedy given against any pair rights a such corporation, its stockholders or officers, for any liability which shall have been previously incurred. APPROVED February 10, 1849. quired. AN ACT in relation to the State Hospital for the Insane, and the Deaf and insane hospital. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the special tax required Tax extended for to be assessed and collected by the act to establish the Illinois Hospital for the Insane, for three years, shall be assessed and collected for one year in addition to the said three years, and the proceeds of the tax for four years shall be applied to the erection of buildings and improvement of grounds. Hereafter the report Report of trustees of the trustees of said hospital shall he made on or before the second Monday of each session of the general assembly, and the money appropriated shall be paid to the said trustees, notwithstanding their failure to report on the first day of the present session of the general assembly. asylum, termi tees. point. § 2. The term of office of the president and directors of the Deaf Deaf and dumb and Dumb Asylum shall be and it is hereby limited to two years. a office of diThe directors now in office shall continue in office until the gov- rectors and trusernor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint others. And it shall be the duty of the governer, by and Governor to apwith the advice and consent of the senate, immediately after the passage of this act, to appoint twelve directors for said institution, and after which appointment the number of directors shall be twelve, exclusive of the principal, who shall continue to be a member of the board ex officio. And the governor shall biennially here- Every two years. after, by and with the advice and consent of the senate as aforesaid, appoint twelve directors for said institution, and the board of directors shall have the power from time to time, to fill vacancies that may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, in their own body, between the biennial appointments made by the governor. The board organized under the provisions of this act shall have all the powers, act under the same responsibilities, and perform the duties of the present board. The name of the institution shall be changed to the "Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf Name of the inand Dumb." stitution. citizens to be § 3. All the deaf and dumb residing in this state, of suitable Deaf and dumb age and capacity to receive instruction, shall be admitted into and enjoy the benefits of said institution without charge. § 4. The board shall hereafter meet annually, (in addition to other necessary meetings) at the institution, not exceeding five days before the termination of the academic year. received. Meeting of board priated. § 5. That to defray the ordinary expenses of the institution for Amount the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, the sum of five thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents appro is hereby appropriated to the institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and in addition to the appropriations already provided for, the sum of five thousand three hundred and sixtyseven dollars and fifty cents is hereby appropriated for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, payable on the first of January of that year, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise apDirectors to pay propriated. The directors are required to pay all the debts of the institution during the next two years, out of any money payable during that period, and they are expressly prohibited from borrowing money under any pretext whatever. all debts. To purchase land. § 6. The following amounts are hereby appropriated, and shall be paid to the said president and directors, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purposes specified, viz: for the purchase of twenty acres of land adjoining the land now owned by the institution, sixteen hundred dollars; For the building of work-shops, and purchase of lumber to be To build work used therein, fifteen hundred dollars; shops and out buildings. $10,000 appro large buildings. For building a smoke-house, wood-house, and two porches, six hundred dollars; for supplying such indigent deaf and dumb pupils as may be destitute in that respect, with clothing, three hundred dollars. § 7. That to enable the said president and directors to erect an priated to en- additional building, so as to accommodate the increased number of pupils expected to be received, the sum of five thousand dollars is appropriated, payable on the first of October, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, and five thousand dollars payable on the first of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, out of any mopey in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. This act shall be in force from and after the APPROVED February 3, 1849, passage thereof. Secretary AN ACT in relation to a certain book, entitled "A compilation of all the general laws concerning real estate and the title thereto in the state of Illinois, including all such laws as relate to descents, limitations, judgments, and executions, partitions, dower, conveyance and revenue, from the organization of the government of the territory northwest of the Ohio to the present time; by N. H. Purple, late one of the justices of the supreme court of the state of Illinois; December, 1848." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That upon the delivery to him state of two hundred and fifty copies of the work in the title of this act mentioned, the secretary of state shall give to N. H. Purple, the To give certifi- compiler of the same, or to his order, a certificate that the said number of copies of said work has been so delivered. to rec. books. cate. Auditor to pay. § 2. That on the presentation of the said certificate to the auditor of public accounts, he shall draw his warrant on the treasurer for such sum as the said two hundred and fifty volumes shall amount to, at the price for which the said books shall be sold to individuals: Provided, the same shall not exceed three dollars per volume. tributed. § 3. The secretary of state shall distribute the said books in the Books, how dismanner following, to wit: one copy to each of the judges of the supreme and circuit courts of this state, one copy to each of the state's attorneys, one copy to each clerk of each court of record in this state, one copy to each county judge, and one copy to each executive officer of this state, who is required to keep his office at the seat of government; and shall also deliver five copies to each clerk of each division of the supreme court of this state, for the use of the said court; and the residue of the said five [three] hundred copies he shall retain in his office for the use of the state. received. § 4. The secretary may give his certificate, and thereupon the May pay for auditor may draw his warrant upon the treasuarer for any number books as fast as of copies less than five [three] hundred, as fast as the same may be delivered at and for the price above mentioned. legal evidence. § 5. The several acts and parts of acts compiled and copied in Contents of books said book shall be deemed and taken in all courts of justice in this declared to be state prima facie evidence of what the law was at the several times when by the dates therein contained they purport to have been passed, and for the period of time which by the dates therein contained they purport to have continued unrepealed; unless it shall be made to appear that some error has been committed in the date or compilation of the said acts, or some one of them; and in case an error or errors as aforesaid shall be made to appear in some one or more of the said act or acts as aforesaid, the same shall in no way affect as evidence the residue of the said work. APPROVED February 10, 1849. AN ACT to provide for copying and distributing the laws and journals, and for other purposes. state to advertise for copy laws, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary secretary of state, within five days after the passage of this act, to proposals. cause an advertisement to be published in each of the newspapers printed in the city of Springfield, inviting proposals for copying the laws and joint resolutions of the present general assembly; said To proposals to be delivered to the secretary of state within ten days Journals, &c. after the date of the first advertisement, which shall designate the time and place of opening proposals; and the said proposals shall embrace the copying of the laws of the present general assembly, and be accompanied by a specimen of the handwriting (of at least ten lines in quantity) of the person proposing to do said copying, and shall also contain the names of two persons offered as security for the faithful performance of said contract. The person entering into contract for said copying shall be required to return said laws within thirty days after the adjournment of the legislature, together with the copies of the same, properly arranged, to the secretary of state, whose duty it shall be to file the originals in his office, and furnish said copies to the printer. § 2. At the time designated in said advertisement, the secretary To open propeof state shall open the proposals received by him, in the presence sals. of such persons as may desire to witness the same, and shall give Advertisement ture. the contract to the lowest competent responsible bidder, who shall be required, within two days after the opening of said proposals, to file a good and sufficient bond, with security, to be approved by the governor, in the sum of one thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of said contract. § 3. Within thirty days previous to the meeting of any future for copying acts, general assembly the secretary of state shall cause an advertise&c., of legisla- ment to be published in at least six of the newspapers printed in this state, inviting proposals for copying the laws, joint resolutions and journals of the general assembly. The advertisement shall be published at least three weeks, and designate the time and place when proposals will be examined; said proposals to be delivered to the secretary of state within twenty days from the date of the first advertisement. Proposals shall be examined and the contract given in the manner and form prescribed in the second section of this act, and shall state specifically the price at which it is proposed to do said copying of the laws, journals and joint resolutions; which price shall not exceed the sum of twenty cents for each and every one hundred words. Furnish books for islature. § 4. The secretary of state shall be required to furnish a well journals of leg-bound book, in which the journals shall be copied; and shall also furnish the stationery necessarily used in copying the laws. In case the person contracting for said copying shall fail to comply with his contract, by neglect to enter into bond within the time prescribed, the secretary of state shall cause the same to be done by some competent person, who shall receive for his services a compensation not exceeding the sum of twenty cents for each and every one hundred words. Advertisement laws, &c. § 5. Within twenty days after the adjournment of the present for distributing or any future session of the general assembly, the secretary of state shall cause an advertisement to be published in six of the newspapers printed in this state, inviting proposals for distributing the laws, journals and reports, and any other matter that the legislature shall designate, to the several counties in this state. Said distribution to be in districts of not less than ten counties each, to be designated in said advertisement, and in such manner, and within such time as shall be therein specified. Said advertisement to be published at least three weeks, and to name the time and place where said proposals will be opened and decided upon. To open sals, &c. fuel. propo § 6. At the time and place specified in said advertisement the secretary of state shall open the proposals filed in his office for the distribution aforesaid, in the presence of all persons who may desire to witness the same, and shall give said contracts to the lowest competent responsible bidder; who shall, within three days thereafter, file a good and sufficient bond, with satisfactory security, to be approved by the governor, for the faithful performance of said contract. In case of failure to enter into a bond as aforesaid, or to perform said contract, the secretary of state shall cause the laws, journals and reports to be distributed by some competent person. The compensation for distributing the laws, journals and reports shall in no case exceed the sum heretofore allowed by the state for similar services. To advertise for § 7. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, on or before the first day of July in each year, to cause an advertisement to be published in the newspapers published in Springfield, for propo sals for furnishing the necessary fuel for the use of the state during the next ensuing winter; the quantity and quality of the same to be designated in said advertisement; and at the time and place specified, said proposals shall be opened in public, and the contract be given to the lowest responsible bidder or bidders, who shall, within two days, enter into bond, with satisfactory security, for the prompt and faithful delivery of said fuel, according to the terms of the contract. In case of failure to comply with said contract, the secretary of state shall cause said fuel to be supplied without delay: Provided, that in no case shall there be allowed a higher price for said fuel, per cord, than has heretofore been paid by the state. for stationery § 8. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, within six To advertise for months previous to the meeting of any future general assembly, to cause an advertisement to be published in three of the newspapers printed in this state, and in one of the newspapers printed in St. Louis, New York and Boston, for proposals to furnish all stationery necessary for the use of the general assembly, and the several departments of state; the articles of the stationery to be designated in said advertisements; and the proposals to be accompanied by specimens of the articles proposed to be furnished, with the price charged for each article. All of said articles shall be delivered at the office of the secretary of state, in Springfield, at a time to be specified in said advertisement; the advertisement to be published not less than three weeks, and to designate the time and place of opening and examining said proposals. On the day named in the said advertisement, the secretary of state shall open the proposals in public, and contract with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders for the prompt delivery of all the articles of stationery necessary for the use of the state. A good and sufficient bond, for the faithful performance of the contract, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state within three days after the proposals shall have been decided upon. In case of failure to deliver said articles of stationery according to the terms of the contract, and of the quality of the specimens accompanying the proposals, the secre tary of state shall cause the same to be furnished and paid for as formerly: Provided, that the prices allowed for any of the articles enumerated in said advertisement shall in no case exceed the prices which have been heretofore paid by the state for similar articles furnished for the use of the general assembly. § 9. The binding of the laws, journals and reports of the gen- Do. for binding eral assembly shall be given out by contract, to the lowest responsi- laws, &c., &c. ble bidder, at the time and in the manner and form prescribed in the eighty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes. Said binding shall be done at prices not exceeding those now allowed by law. state § 10. In case of failure to file proposals under the provisions of In case of failure, this act, or in case any person or persons entering into contract secretary to employ or shall fail to comply faithfully and promptly with the terms of said furnish same. contract and proposals, it shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause the articles to be supplied, or the services performed without unnecessary delay, as nearly as possible within the time and in the manner prescribed by law, and at prices not exceeding those specified in this act. And when said articles are delivered, or the services completed, to the satisfaction of the secretary of state, he |