Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-06-22

clan in order that they may be treated
Immediately. The bill Is entitled IAN
act &c prevent blindness"
House bill No. IA appropriates 500 &c
purchase o memorial stone TO be used In
the construction OF q monument tc
Francis Scott Key which is to BE- erected
BY the Key Monument association of
Frederick, MI.
House bill No. 63j appropriates 81. 2O to
build . monument to Ex-Governor Thorn
as Ford as Peoria
House bill No. 16l appropriates 500
to erect building for physical training
and for the literary societies OF the state
normal university ut Normal.
Hous, bill No So provide, that each
judge OF the supreme court be authorized
to employ n stenoyrapher to act as pri.
vate secretary ut 81 900 per annum.
House bill M. 81 provides that in or
der for city council to grant q franchise
to any gas or electric light company &c
lay pipes or string wires along any street
the company must obtain consent OF
majority Of the property holders, as rep
resented by the frontage in each mile.
House bill No. ass makes the following
appropriations for the state laboratory OF
natural history and for the expenses OF
the state entomologist: For field and OF.
flee expenses, 81, 5U per annum; additions
to library, &l,0J0 per annum; salaries,
$3.50 per annum; publication of balle.
tins, 500 pcr annum; publication OF 70
port Of cntomologist, S2ot. per annum; for
experiments with contagious diseases Of
insects, Sl.50J per annum; to pay ONT
half the cost of maintaining the biologi.
cal station on the Illinois river, 81, SOD per
annun.
House bill No 502 increases tine number
OF state mine inspectors from five to sew.
On, and provides that coal operators and
mine owners shall pay the expense Of i'll
pectIon.
House bill No. 325 provides that all
drainage districts may issue bonds and
makes provision for their regist ration
with the state auditor III the same man
ner that other bonds arc registered.
House bill No. 79S approp-iates s55, 0G
for the Industrial Home ior the Blind at
Chicago to complete the building and
pay running expenses
House bill No. GA appropriates Si6l, 600
to erect additional buildings and make
improvements at the Illinois state re-
formatory at Pontiac.
House bill No. 673 appropriates S255, DOC
to build female prison, hospital and
other Improvements at the Joliet pcni-
the money shall be expended in purchas.
ng machinery for new industries.
House bill No. 705, to allow highway
commissioners to condemn land for the
purpose of obtaining gravel, stone OF
other material to build or repair roads.
House bill No. 2A7 making the levy of q
poll tax in q township optional with tho
township, the question to DO decided by u
vote of the people.
House bill No. z, that in will contests
filed at n late date the certificate of the
oath OF the witnesses at the time Of pro-
bate, shall be admitted as evidence.
House bill NJ 60 provides that debts
contracted for labor shall DO paid in
bankablc currency.
House bill No. il. provides that the
work Of q team shall be included in judg.
mcnts for labor.
House bill No. 673 appropriates the fol.
lowing for the Chester penitcntiary: Or.
binary expenses, SlOO, 100; contingent ex.
penseS, Sit. COD; repairs. 81. 600; stone wall,
s., 1000; new machinery, s., $40; dust ex.
tracter, $1,000.
House bill No. 40 prohibits one person
from obstructing this passage of anothe +
on public highway or in any way inter.
fering with travel.
House bill No. 2I6 provides that the
bodies OF hogs dying OF cholera or other
| contagious disease must be destroyed by
burning or be buried. This bill was
| passed to prevent the spread Of diseases oil
this character.
House bill No 2i1 divides townships
| into three districts and provides that only
one road commissioner shall be elected
from each district. This bill was passed
to prevent ono section of township from
| getting an undue share of the offices.
House bill No. 7o3 prohibits the use o
clock, tape, slot or other machines as
| gambling devices. The penalties arc sim
liar to those enforced against gambling
| House bill No Sl3 makes the tax levy
for the ensuing two years. For schoo
purposes the levy is $1,000. 0oo; for genera
purposes 81, 10000.
| House bill No. 40 provides that rail
roads organized in adjoining states MAJ
acquire, lease or consolidate with con
Meeting lines in Illinois.
| House bill No. 239 provides that when
| proper homes are found for children wh(
are in poorhouses, the county judge ma,
| make an order transferring them from
| the poorhouSc.
House bill 2S3 repeats tho act known q:
can act in relation to the issuing of fet
bills"
House bill No. 795 appropriates sl6,0pl
for the Industrial Home for tho Blind al
Chicago
House bill No. sc reduces the rate of in
terest on real estate sold under execution
to six per cent, and provides for its 70
demption in two years.
House bill No. 2Ss provides that tn
county board shall lay out new township
within, or change the boundaries Of
township, on petition Of o majority Of thu
voters OF the.township.
House bill M. AS provides that the frs
term of the Vermillion county circuit
court shall commence in January insteat
OF February.
House bill No. ia provides that frac
tional township may consolidate with al
adj JininS township for school purpose
by mutual agreement.
House bill No. 503 rovises and coiifie
the laws in relation to justices and con
stables into convenient form.
House bill No. lis declares that al
notes secured by chattel mortgage shall
when assigned by the payee, be subject L
ell the equities existing between tn
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