The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-05-05
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.


week, however, quorum was present in the
house on Monday, so that that body got in,
for the first week in the session, five working
DAYS. The members Of course get PAID Tor
seven days each week.
Up to Thursday evening the following were
houses, were sent to the governor for his sig
nature since our last
Crooler's funding bill authorizing cities,
) counties, towns, etc. owng.overdue bonds, to
take them Up and issue new ones. The bill
is mainly intended to meet the case OF Ma
coupin county.
The bill TO enable Chicago TO collect I'M
paid back taxes for the years 1873, 1874 and
1919.
Bill authorizing municipal corporations to
purchase and holI bridges sold for taxes.
Bill authorizing Judges of circuit courts to
appoint short hand reporters aud fix their
compensation.
i Both houses, however have done consider.
able work during the week in passing or al.
vancing their own bills. The following sen
ate bills, besides Others OF less importance,
passed the senate during the week
Bill rcdislncting the judicial circuits ofthe
state
! Bill to prevent the forfeiture Of lite insur.
ance policies for one year after the failure to
pay premiums.
Bill making supervisors exoficio town
ship oversecrs OF the poor except in towns
having over 400l inhabitants, where the ccun.
ty board may appoint some other citizen of
the town as such.
Bil requiring county recorders 10 keep en-.
try books, grantors index, grantees index,
abstract book and index to maps, plats and
subdivisions.
Bill requiring q registry Of voters at all city
elections.
Bill requiring hedge fences to be trimmed
to height of feet
Bill - enable territory embraced in city or
village limits to dsconnect Itself with such
city or village.
! Bill regulating sale Of burning fluid.
Bill providing for taking possession of per.
sonal property under chattel mortgage by
mortgage.
Bill to establish a state historical library
and natural history museum.
i Bill to construct a canal from Spring Lake
\ to COpperas Creek dam.
Bill requiring railroad companies TO pro.
vide scales for grain shippers.
Most of the appropriation bills for the va
rlous state institutions were passed by the
senate on Wednesday and sent to TIE house.
The following house bills, among others,
passed the house during the week
BIZ for the creation of an Eastern Insane
| Hospital. II appropriates $250,00), and ap.
points board Of commissioners to locate it
somewhere cas-. of the Sd principal meridian
and between the 39th and 4O;A parallels of
latitude
Bill to complete the Copperas Creek dam.
. appropriates the surplus canal revenue and
$4,000 to that object.
Bill requiring all cities, villages, etc, in
ccrporatcd by special acts, TO levy and assess
their taxes under the general incorporation
act.
BIZ that none except regular attorneys shall
be elected states attorneys.
Bill to erect an additional building for the
insane at Jacksonville.
Bill to establish state board OF health.
The principal business of the board will be
to collect health statistics.
Bill to pay witnesses before probate courts
81 per day and cents per mile.
Bill appropratlng $4,000 for the compile
ton of the Lincoln monument IN Onkwood
Cemetery at Springfield,
Bill to amend sec. 2l3 of the law in rela-
ton to criminal Jurisprudence. 1t Furnishes
by heavy fine, any officer who takes high
er or other fees than the law allows.
Bill to amend the general corporation act
so as TO change tue present mode of levying
and collecting taxes in cities and villages.
The house, on Tuesday, laid the bill to
amend the liquor law, SD as To inflict fine
and inn risonment instead OF fine or impris-
onment, on the table.
The governor on Thursday announced to
the senate that he had nominated and ap-
pointed as members of the board of state
commissioners of public charities William
a. Grimshaw, of Pike county, successor TO
Cate z. u, Lawson; J. c, Corbus of La Sale
county, TO be his own successor; aud John
| NJ. Gould, OF Rock Island, to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Geo. II. Hollis
4 ter.
The joint committee appointed to inyesti'
| gate the state house Job and ascertain why
the cost had so greatly exceeded the consiitu-
tional limitation, msde'a repor, on Wednes-