Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1847-06-15
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To Incorporate the Will County Library
and Historical Society.

and Historical Society.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the People of
the State of Illinois, that William Smith,
Joel A. Ma,teson, Charles Clement. VII.
liam E Little, Ur Osgood. Alexander
Mcintosh, Nelson ID. Elwood, S. Wheeler
Stone, Myron X. Brownson, Jesse o.
Norton. and Hugh Henderson,
of Will County and their associates, be
and they are hereby declared and consti-
tuted body corporate and polite, by the
name of 1.-THE Will County Library and
Historical Society,"" and by that name
shall have perpetual succession, and be
capable TO sue and be sued, 10 plead and
be implicated, answer and be answered
unto, defend and be defended, in all courts
or places, whatsoever, to have common
seal, and to alter it at pleasure, to make
constitution and such bye laws not re.
pugnant to the constitution and laws of
this State or of the United States, as shall
from time to time be necessary, to annex
to the breach thereof such penalty by fine
or expulsion as they may deem fit, and to
purchase, lake, receive, hold and enjoy, 10
them and their successors, any goods,
chattels, lands, tenements, to sell lease or
dispose oflhe same at pleasure: Provided,
that the clear annual income of such real
and personal estate, shall not exceed five
thousand dollars, and provided, also, that
the funds of said corporation shall not be
used tor any other purpose than such as
the title ofthe said corporation indicates.
Sec. 2. That said Society shall have
power TO elect and qualify such officers as
they may deem necessary, who shall hold
their offices according to the constitution
and bye laws OF the society.
Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the
Governor of this State, to deliver to the
agent ofthe society, set of the Acts, Re-
ports, AMI Journals, of the present and
future ses ions of the Legislature. and of
those passed from the organization of the
Stale ifany spare copies are found in the
Library ofthe Secretary's Office, and cop
les of all other documents that shall be
printed, by its order, also set of the Re-
ports of the Supreme Court, and Ameri-
can State papers, and other documents
therein, il spare copies are to be found,
and THAT said society by its agents shall
al all reasonable times have access to the
several public offices Of this state and OF
the corporate cities and towns thereof. and
may cause such documents, as may be
found therein, to be searched and copied,
free of charge from Office fees, for the pur-
pose of promoting the objects OF said soci.
ETY..
Sec. 4. That this act shall be public
act, and shall be construed favorably for
every beneficial purpose, and no missioner
of said corporation in any deed, will, de
wise, gift, grant or any other instrument
of conveyance, shall vitiaie or. defeat the
same, provided the intention ofthe parties
can be ascertained from the instrument
itself
Sec. 5. In case the society hereby in
corporated shall bscome dissolved, all the
donations made prior to such dissolution,
TO said society by the State, shall thereupon
revert to, and become the property Of the
County Of WILL
On Saturday last. wheat was selling
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