The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1877-04-14
ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE.

During the two working days of last week
the senate passed the following bills;
A bill to amend An act to extend the jur.
isdictlon of county courts" 1t simply adds
to the number of terms of the county court
in a few counties named.
A bill to amend the law Of criminal juris-
prudence. II makes larceny of $l5 or less
punishable by Imprisonment in the county
Jail only.
House bill in regard to conspiracies to com
nit an offense against the state.
House bill making wild animals that have
been tanned property, entitled to the same le-
gal protection as other personal property.
Bill defining burglary
ments.
And the following bill, which lawyers may
possibly understand;
BE 10 enacted, etc., That when the reyersion
IeXpectant on lease made either before or
after the passing of this act of any tenements
or hereditamentS or any tenure shall be sur
rendered or merged, the estate which shall
for the time being confer as against the ten
ant under the same lease, the next vested
right 10 the same tenements or Entertainments
shall, TO the extent and for the purpose OF
preserving such incidents to and obligations
on the same reversion as but for the surren-
der or merger thereof would have subs.sted,
be deemed the reversIon expectaHt OF the
same lease.
On recommendation OF the committee, SEN
ate bill /, giving to married women living
separate and apart from their husbands a
remedy in equity in their own names for
separate maintenance and support was
tabled
The house, during the same time, passed
the following bills:
Bill authorizing counties to pay bounties
on wolf scalps.
Bill requiring county boards TO send pau
pers' children residing at county poor houses
to school.
Bill in relation TO building associations.
Wentworth's bill to amend Sec. lSl of the
assessment law.
Bill requiring persons married IN this state
either to take out a license in the county
where married, or to be called in church two
weeks before marriage
Wallis bill in relation TO state contracts.
\ bill to facilitate the suing Of corpora
tons.
The bill in relation to refunding overdue
bonds of counties, cities, towns, etc,
Bill making any person. cognizant Of the
commission of crime and refusing to reveal
1t, except the wife, parent, brother or sister OF
the criminal, an accessory 10 the crime.
Bill to regulate the egress from public
buildings
Bill concerning voluntary assignments and
comforting jurisdiction therein upon county
courts
Bill depriving paupers or others supported
a, public expense of the right 10 vote.
DR. Rogers bill TO make silver, the coinage
of the L. :, legal tender without limit, was
defeated.
The members of both houses went on free
ride 10 Jacksonville on Saturday, and from
there home, not enough 10 DO any business in
either house getting back TO Springfield be-
fore Tuesday. ON re-assembing on that day,
the senate occupied the forenoon in discuss
ing and finally defeating the Kehce bill in
relation TO the Cook county commissioners,
and the afternoon in debating the revenue
bill. without coming TO a vote.
The house on Tuesday passed the following
bills:
Bill 20 amend secs. and % of the law OF
April 10, 1872, in relation to guardians and
wards.
Bill IN relation 10 pretended corporations.
Bill TO reduce the salary Of the warehouse
commissioners from $500 each to $500
II seemed to be generally conceded, during