808. "An act in relation to the compensation and duty of the county superintendent of schools in Jo Daviess county," approved March 30, 1869.

809. "An act to provide for the authentication of documents by the secretary of state," approved March 9, 1869.

810. "An act to authorize sheriffs to appoint special deputies," approved March 25, 1869.

811. "An act to increase the compensation of sheriff's in the county of Fulton," approved March 8, 1869.

812. "An act to change the time of holding the annual meeting of the board of supervisors," approved March 29, 1869.

813.

"An act to amend the township organization law in relation to the collection of taxes for road purposes," approved March 11, 1869.

814. "An act to amend an act entitled "Township Organization,' approved February 17th, 1851," approved March 25, 1869.

815. "An act to amend section 2 of an act entitled 'an act to amend an act to reduce the act to provide for township organization and the several acts amendatory thereof into one act,' passed at the session of 1867," approved March 4, 1869.

"An act to facilitate the transportation of grain, produce and merchan. dise," approved March 11, 1869.

817.

"An act to amend an act entitled 'an act in relation to the transportation of grain and other produce,' approved February 14, 1865," approved April 8, 1869.

818. "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to authorize the incorporation of unitary homes,' approved February 25th, 1867," approved March 29, 1869. 819. "An act to protect widows and orphans from the sacrifice of their property by sales upon mortgages and trust deeds," approved March 30, 1869.

1871-2.

820. "An act to secure equality of assessment in special school districts," approved February 3, 1872.

821. "An act to provide for the re-assessment and taxation of property where the records of assessment have been lost or destroyed, and to authorize the reassessment or abatement of taxes in certain cases," approved February 29, 1872. 822. "An act to authorize the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes in municipal corporations, and by boards of trustees or commissioners, when the assessinent roll has been lost or destroyed," approved April 1, 1872.

823. "An act to amend 'a general act of incorporation of agricultural and horticultural societies and associations for improving the breeds of domestic animals,' approved February 15, 1855," approved February 29, 1872.

824. "An act authorizing agricultural societies to sell, exchange, dispose of and convey lands," approved March 8, 1872.

825. "An act to create a department of agriculture in the state of Illinois," approved April 15, 1871.

826. "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to create a department of agriculture in the state of Illinois,' approved April 17, 1871," approved April 2, 1872. 827. "An act to authorize the county boards or other bodies having control and management of the county affairs of the several counties of this state, to take measures to enforce all laws in regard to the prevention of cruelty to animals," approved March 1, 1872.

828. "An act to prohibit domestic animals from running at large in this state," approved January 13, 1872.

829. "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act for the prevention of cruelty to animals,' approved March 31, 1869," approved March 8, 1872.

830. "An act to enable associations of persons to become a body corporate to raise funds to be loaned only among their members," approved April 4, 1872.

831. "An act in regard to attorneys-general and state's attorneys," approved March 22, 1872.

832. "An act for the incorporation of bridge companies," approved April 10,

1872.

833. "An act to provide for the erection and maintenance of bridges by two or more towns," approved March 22, 1872.

834. "An act relative to the powers and duties of the canal commissioners, relative to the Illinois and Michigan canal, the lock and dam at Henry, and the improvement of the Little Wabash river," approved March 7, 1872.

835. "An act to make the certificates of the register or receiver of any land office of the United States prima facie evidence," approved March 22, 1872. 836. "An act giving county boards control of county convicts, and to provide workhouses for and the employment of such convicts," approved April 9, 1872. 837. "An act to provide for the election of a board of commissioners in Cook county, and to prescribe their duties," approved April 22, 1871.

838. "An act to provide for holding regular and special terms of the circuit court in two or more counties in the same circuit at the same time," approved December 9, 1871.

839. "An act to increase the jurisdiction of county courts," approved April 5,

1872.

840. "An act to prevent the sale of drugs or medicines designed to procure criminal abortion," approved March 27, 1872.

841. "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act amendatory of an act approved March 3, 1845, in relation to fire companies,' approved February 24, 1859,” approved March 8, 1872.

842. "An act to prevent the keeping of common gaming houses, and to prevent gaming," approved February 29, 1872.

843. "An act to provide for the appointment of guardians of habitual drunkards, and prescribing the duties of such guardians," approved February 21, 1872 844. "An act to incorporate and to govern mutual fire insurance companies in townships," approved April 3, 1872.

845. "An act to prohibit the use of common jails by the authorities of cities and towns as a calaboose or lock-up," approved April 5, 1872.

846. "An act to extend the powers of judges of circuit courts in vacation," approved March 7, 1872.

847. "An act to increase the jurisdiction of justices of the peace and police magistrates," in force July 1, 1871.

848. "An act concerning the increase of the jurisdiction of justices of the peace and police magistrates," approved March 5, 1872.

849. "An act to provide against the evils resulting from the sale of intoxicating liquors in the state of Illinois," approved January 13, 1872.

850. "An act to provide for the inspection and sale of mineral oils and fluids, the product of petroleum, used for illuminating purposes," approved April 9, 1872.” 851. "An act to prevent the sale or bringing into this state of obscene books, pamphlets, prints or paintings, and to repeal section one hundred and twentyeight (128), division eleven (11), of chapter thirty (30), of the Revised Statutes of 1845," approved March 7, 1872.

852. "An act to legalize the action of counties which have voted for the sup port of paupers by townships," approved April 17, 1871.

853. "An act to provide for and regulate the execution of the public printing," approved April 9, 1872.

854. "An act to prevent injury to persons or property at railroad junctions or crossings," approved April 9, 1872.

855. "An act to establish a reasonable maximum rate of charges for the transportation of passengers on railroads in this state," approved April 15, 1871.

856. "An act authorizing the formation of union depots and stations for railroads in this state," approved April 3, 1872.

857. "An act to authorize towns to sell and convey real estate," approved April 2, 1872.

858. "An act to provide for the sale of real property escheated to and vested in the state," approved April 4, 1872.

859. "An act to provide for the election of a recorder of deeds in counties having sixty thousand and more inhabitants," approved April 16, 1872.

860. "An act to provide for the copying of old or damaged public record books," approved March 26, 1872.

861. "An act to amend chapter thirty of the Revised Statutes, entitled 'Criminal Jurisprudence,' so as to prevent misfeasance in office, or charging or receiv ing illegal fees, and in giving or offering to give, or receiving or offering to receive a bribe," approved April 9, 1872.

862. "An act to amend section 7 of chapter fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of 1845, entitled 'Jails and Jailers,' approved April 4, 1872.

863. "An act to amend section 4 of chapter eighty of the Revised Statutes of A.D. 1845, entitled 'Paupers," approved March 1, 1872.

864. "An act providing for the payment of the school tax fund orders and the school fund interest orders," approved June 29, 1871.

865. "An act providing for the payment of the school tax fund orders and the school fund interest orders," approved January 5, 1872.

866. "An act requiring the secretary of state to make a biennial report of the business of his office, and providing for the sale of certain property,” approved April 4, 1872.

867. "An act to secure uniform and reliable statistics concerning the dependent and criminal classes, and their treatment in state and county institutions," approved March 15, 1872.

868. "An act authorizing cities having a population not exceeding fifteen thousand inhabitants, to levy and collect taxes for corporate purposes," approved March 7, 1872.

869. "An act to amend the law concerning township organization," ap. proved April 12, 1871.

870. "An act to amend the law concerning township organization," approved January 31, 1872.

1873.

871. "An act to amend section 2 of an act entitled 'an act to prohibit domestic animals from running at large in this state,' approved January 13, 1872," approved May 2, 1873.

872. An act to enable towns to prohibit domestic animals from running at large in counties where they are not prohibited by law," approved April 11, 1873.

873. "An act to amend an act entitled "an act to prohibit domestic animals from running at large in this state,' approved January 13, 1872," approved May 1, 1873.

$74. "An act to provide for copying the laws and journals of the general assembly," approved April 29, 1873.

875. "An act to provide for transferring territory from one county to an other," approved May 1, 1873.

876. "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to amend chapter thirty of the Revised Statutes, entitled 'Criminal Jurisprudence,' approved February 13, 1863," approved March 19, 1873.

877. "An act authorizing circuit judges to hold branch or branches of courts in other than their judicial districts," approved May 3, 1873.

878. "An act to fix the terms of county courts," approved May 2, 1873. 879. "An act to amend an act entitled 'an act to provide for the adoption of minors,' approved February 22, 1867," approved April 25, 1873.

880. "An act for the suppression of the trade in and circulation of obscene literature, illustrations, advertisements and articles of indecent or immoral use, and obscene advertisements of patent medicines and articles for producing abortion," approved May 3, 1873.

6. RIGHTS SAVED.] § 2. The repeal of the acts and parts of acts mentioned in the preceding section shall not affect suits pending or rights existing at the time this act takes effect, and as to all corporations, municipal or private, heretofore formed under any act of incorporation mentioned in the preceding section, such act of incorporation, and all amendments thereof, shall continue in force to the same extent and with like effect as if the same had not been repealed by this act, nor shall such repeal, as above mentioned, be taken, construed or held to avoid or impair any grant made or right acquired, or cause of action now existing under any such acts or the amendments thereto, but as to all grants made or rights acquired or causes of action now existing, said laws shall be continued in full force and effect. And all deeds or other instruments of writing affecting real estate, which have been proved or acknowledged according to any law in force at the time such proof or acknowledgment was made, may be recorded, and the same or a certified copy of the record thereof be read in evidence, notwithstanding the repeal of such laws by this or any other act of this or the twenty-seventh general assembly. And when any limitation law has been revised by this or the twentyseventh general assembly, and the former limitation law repealed, such repeal shall not be construed so as to stop the running of any statute, but the time shall be construed as if such repeal had not been made.

PUBLICATION OF REVISED STATUTES.

AN ACT to provide for the publication of the Revised Statutes of the state. [Approved March 30, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.]

7. CONTENTS AND TITLE OF VOLUME.] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That immediately after the close of this session of the general assembly, all the general statutes of the state which will be in force on the first day of July next, shall be compiled and published in a volume, to be entitled "The Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois, A. D. 1874."

8. ANNOTATIONS-ADDITIONAL LAWS.] § 2. The revised acts of 1871-2 and 1873-4 shall be annotated so as to show, by proper reference, the original acts and sections embraced therein. The volume shall also contain the Declaration of Independence, the act of Virginia of December 20, 1783, the deed of cession of Virginia of March 1, 1784, the ordinance of July 13, 1787, the constitution of the United States, and the constitutions of the state of Illinois of 1818, 1848 and 1870, the acts of congress upon the authentication of statutes, records, etc., and the transfer of cases from state to federal courts, the naturalization of aliens, ceding lands to enable the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal, the Central railroad lands, the swamp land act of September 28, 1850, and the act relating to fugitives from justice.

9. H. B. HURD, EDITOR-COMPENSATION.] § 3. H. B. Hurd, acting commissioner of revision, shall compile, annotate and edit the volume, superintend its publication, and prepare a full and complete index to the same. In such compilation he shall observe, as nearly as may be, the alphabetical order of arrangement of the Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois of 1845, for which said acting commissioner shall receive the sum of $1,250, which shall be in full for his services, and for such assistants as he may require in the completion of the work, which sum is hereby appropriated, and the auditor directed to issue his warrant on the state treasurer for the same, upon the certificate of the secre tary of state that the number of said volumes required to be published by this act have been delivered to him.

10. NUMBER PUBLISHED_TIME.] § 4. An edition of fifteen thousand copies of said Revised Statutes shall be published and distributed and sold as hereinafter provided. Said edition shall be published on or before July 15, A. D. 1874.

11. PRINTING-COST OF VOLUME.] § 5. The printing shall be done by the contractor for the state printing. The text shall be in new long primer or small pica type, and the head-notes in nonpariel or brevier type. The paper used shall be super-calendared book paper, of the weight of fifty pounds to the ream. The size of the pages in said volume shall be, as near as may be, the same as those of Gross' Statutes, volume one, third edition, and shall contain, on an average, at least as much printed matter per page as said Gross' Statutes: Provided, that the contractor for public printing shall receive no more or greater sum for furnishing the paper, doing the printing and furnishing to the binder the entire edition of said volume than nine cents and one-sixth of a cent for each one hundred pages contained in said edition. And said volumes, when published, bound and delivered, shall not, in any event, cost to exceed one dollar and ninety cents per volume.

12. BINDING.] § 6. The said volume shall be bound in law sheep, and number twenty-five tar boards, with spring backs, and the words "Revised Statutes of Illinois, 1874," shall be appropriately stamped upon the back in gilt letters, and shall in other respects be equal, as to the quality of the work, to Gross' Statutes, volume one, third edition.

13. ADVERTISING FOR BIDS.] § 7. Within ten days after the adjournment of this session of the general assembly, the state treasurer, secretary of state and auditor of public accounts shall advertise in one daily newspaper published in Springfield, one in the city of Chicago, and one in the city of St. Louis, for bids for binding such statutes in the manner required by this act, and let the contract therefor to the lowest responsible bidder, which contract shall be subject to the approval of the governor: Provided, they shall not contract to pay more than seventy cents per volume for folding, stitching, binding and delivering the same to the secretary of state.

14. DISTRIBUTION.] § 8. As soon as a sufficient number of said volumes are delivered to the secretary of state, he shall cause to be distributed, "in the manner provided by law," not exceeding six thousand copies thereof, as follows: One copy to each state officer, one copy to each judge of the supreme court, five copies to each supreme court library, one copy to each judge of a court of record, one copy to each state's attorney, one copy to each clerk of a court of record, one copy to each justice of the peace, one copy to each police magistrate, all of which shall be for the use of said officers and their successors in office, one copy to each of the charitable, educational and penal institutions of the state, one hundred copies to the state library, one copy to each college library in this state, one copy to the library of congress, one copy to each state and territorial library in the United States, one copy to each judge of the United States circuit or district court in this state.

15. SALE.] § 9. The remainder of said edition shall be distributed among the counties of the state in proportion to the population, as follows: Immediately upon the delivery of the volumes, in sufficient numbers, to the secretary of state, five thousand copies thereof shall be so divided, and the balance as they may be required, for sale. They shall be transmitted to the county clerks of the several counties of the state, and by such county clerks sold at $2 per copy. Each county clerk, upon the receipt of the volumes sent to him, shall execute receipts therefor, in duplicate, one of which he shall immediately transmit to the secretary of state, and the other to the auditor of public accounts. Said county clerks shall keep an account of all sales which they shall make, and on the first Tuesday in January and July of each year, each of them shall pay to the county collector of his county the proceeds of such sales, taking the collector's receipt therefor in triplicate, one of which receipts, together with a statement, under oath, as to the number of said volumes sold, shall be sent by mail to the secretary of state, and one of which shall be transmitted in the same manner to the auditor of public accounts, and the other shall be filed and preserved in the county clerk's office. Upon the reception of all such receipts by the auditor, he shall charge to the county collector the amount thereof, who shall, upon his