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AN ACT to regulate the means of egress from public buildings. [Approved March 28, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.]

1. Doors to open outward. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all public buildings now in process of construction or hereafter to be built or constructed, which may or shall be used for churches, school houses, operas theatres, lecture rooms, hotels, public meetings, town halls, or which may or shall be used for any purpose whereby a collection of people may be assembled together for religious worship, amusement or instruction, shall be so built and constructed that all doors leading from the main hall or place where said collection of people may be assembled, or from the principal room which may be used for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be so swung upon their hinges and constructed that said doors shall open outward; and that all means of egress for the public from the main hall or principal room, and from the building, shall be by means of doors which shall open outwards from the main hall or building.

2. Penalty. 2. That any person or persons who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act shall be fined in any sum not less than $100 nor more than $1,000.

3. When public buildings may be closed. § 3. That in all cities and towns having a population of two thousand inhabitants, and upwards, the mayor, or other corporate authorities of said town or city, shall be empowered and he is hereby authorized to close and prohibit all public buildings, hereafter erected, from being used in violation of

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AN ACT to revise the law in relation to quo warranto. [Approved March 23, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.)

1. When and at whose instance writ may issue-petition-information-parties. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in case any person shall usurp, intrude into, or unlawfully hold or execute any office or franchise, or any office in any corporation created by authority of this State (or any person shall hold or claim to hold or exercise any privilege, exemption or license, which has been improperly or without warrant of law issued or granted by any officer, board, commissioner, court, or other person or persons authorized or empowered by law to grant or issue such privilege, exemption or license), or any public officer shall have done or suffered any act which, by the provisions of law, works a forfeiture of his office, or any association or number of persons shall act within this State as a corporation without being legally incorporated, or any corporation does or omits any act which amounts to a surrender or forfeiture of its rights and privileges as a corporation, or exercises powers not conferred by law, or if any railroad company doing business in this State shall charge an extortionate rate for the transportation of any freight or passenger, or shall make any unjust discrimination in the rate of freight or passenger tariff over or upon its railroad, the attorney-general or State's attorney of the proper county, either of his own accord or at the instance of any individual relator, may present a petition to any court of record of competent jurisdiction, or any judge thereof in vacation, for leave to file an information in the nature of a quo warranto in the name of the people of the State of Illinois; and if such court or judge shall be satisfied that there is probable ground for the proceeding, the court or judge may grant the petition and order the information to be filed and process to issue. When it appears to the court or judge that the several rights of divers parties to the same office or franchise, privilege, exemption or license, may properly be determined on one (1) information, the court or judge may give leave to join all of such persons in the same information, in order to try their respective rights to such office, franchise, privilege, exemption or license.

[As amended by act approved May 27, 1881. In force July 1, 1881. L. 1981, 125 Hinze v. People, 92 I. 497. 413: Minck v. People, 6 Bradw. 127; R. S. 1845, P. 479, 81; Chicago v. People, 80 Ill. 400; People v. Waite, 70 Ill. 25, Lavalle v. People, 63 Ill. 252: Renwick v. Hall, 84 Ill. 162; People v. Callaghan, 83 Ill. 123; People v. Ridgley, 21 Ill. 65; People v. M. & A. R. R. Co., 13 Ill. 66; Hay v. People, 59 Ill. 94; Dickson v People, 17 Ill. 191; Ensminger v. People, 47 ill. 384: People v. Mobley, 1 Scam, 215; Clark v. People, 15 I 213: Williams v. President, etc., 1 Gilm, 667; Baker v. Administrator, etc., 32 Ill. 82; Thompson v. Candor, 60 Ill. 245; Kittering v. Jacksonville, 50 Ill. 41; Lawson v. Kolbenson, 61 Ill. 46; People v. Beach, 77 Ill. 52; Renwick v. Hall, 84 Ill. 162; l'eople v. North Chicago Ry. Co., 88 Ill. 545; Donnelly v. People, 11 Ill. 552; Wight v. People, 15 Ill. 417; Field v. People, 2 Scam. 79; People v. Matteson, 17 Ill. 167; People v. Shaw, 13 Ill. 581; People v. Marshall, 1 Gilm. 672; Mitchell v. Deeds, 49 Ill. 417; Mendota v

Thompson, 20 Ill. 197; Hamilton v. Carthage, 24 Ill. 23; People v. Whitcomb, 55 Ill 172; People v. Moore, 73 Ill. 132; C. C. R. W. Co. v. People, 73 Ill. 542.

2. Summons-when returnable. § 2. On the filing of such information, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons in like form as other summons, commanding the defendant to appear at the return term thereof, to answer the relator in an information in the nature of a quo warranto. If the information is filed in vacation, the summons shall be made returnable on the first day of the next succeeding term; if in term time, it may be made returnable on any day of the same term, not less than five days after the date of the writ, as shall be directed by the court. 3. Service of summons-by copy of information. § 3. The summons may be served in the same manner as other summons in suits at law, but if any defendant resides or is out of the State, he may be served with a copy of the information in the same manner and with like effect, and the service may be proved in the same way as provided in the case of bills in chancery.

[See "Chancery," ch. 22, § 14; L. 1853, p. 181, §§ 2, 3; Hambleton v. People, 44 Ill. 458.

4. Defendant served must plead, etc.-default. § 4. Every defendant who shall be summoned or served with a copy [*788] of the information as required in this act, shall be held to demur or plead to the information on the return day of the summons, or when served with a copy of the information at the expiration of the time required to be given, or within such further time as may be granted by the court, or in default thereof, judgment may be taken nil dicit.

[R. S. 1845, P. 429, § 1; People v. Percells, 3 Gilm. 59; Clark v. People, 15 Ill. 217; People v. Mobley, 1 Scam. 219; C. C. R. W. Co. v. People, 73 III. 542.

5. Time to plead, etc. § 5. The court in which any information, as aforesaid, is filed, may allow the relator or any defendant such convenient time to plead, reply or demur, as it shall deem just and reasonable. 6. Judgment. § 6. In case any person or corporation against whom any such information is filed is adjudged guilty, as charged in the information, the court may give judgment of ouster against such person or corporation from the office or franchise, and fine such person or corporation for usurping, intruding into, or unlawfully holding and execut ing such office or franchise, and also give judgment in favor of the relator for the costs of the prosecution: Provided, that instead of judgment of ouster from a franchise for an abuse thereof, unless the court is of the opinion that the public good demands such judgment, the court may fine the person or corporation found guilty in any sum not exceeding $25,000 for each offense. Whenever judgment is given for any defendant in such information, the person or corporation to whom judgment is given shall recover costs against the relator.

[R. S. 1845, P. 430, § 2; People v. Percells, 3 Gilm. 59.

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7. Appeal-error. §.7. Appeals and writs of error maytaken and prosecuted in the same manner and upon the same terms, and

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[R. S. 1845, P. 43o, § 4 ; U. S. v. Addison, 6 Wall. (U. S.) 291.

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AN ACT to amend an act, approved April 27, 1877, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act relating to county and city debts, and to provide for the payment thereof, by taxation, in such counties and cities, approved February 13, 1865, and to amend the title thereof [Approved June 4, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. L. 1879, P. 229.]

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an act, approved April 27, 1877, entitled, 'An act to amend an act entitled, 'an act relating to county and city debts, and to provide for the payment thereof by taxation, in such counties and cities, approved February 13, 1865; and to amend the title thereof," be, and the same is hereby amended, so that section two, shall read as follows:

§ 2. The first and subsequent sections of the said act shall be as follows:

*1. New bonds may be issued for indebtedness in place of old ones. SEC. I. That in all cases where any county, city, town, township, school district, or other municipal corporation, has issued bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, for money, or has contracted debts, which are the binding, subsisting legal obligations of such county, city, town, township, school district, or other municipal corporation, and the same, or any portion thereof, remain outstanding and unpaid, it shall be lawful for the proper corporate authorities of any such county, city, town, township, school district, or other municipal corporation, upon

the surrender of any such bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, or any number or portion thereof, to issue, in lieu or place thereof, to the owners or holders of the same, new bonds prepared as hereinafter directed, and for such amounts, upon such time not exceeding twenty years, payable at such place, and bearing such rate of interest, not exceeding seven per centum per annum, as may be agreed upon with the owners or holders of such outstanding bonds or other evidences of indebtedness: Provided, that bonds issued under this act, to mature within five years from their date, may bear interest not to exceed eight And it shall also be lawful for the proper corper cent. per annum. porate authorities of any such county, city, town, township, school dis. trict, or other municipal corporation, to cause to be thus issued, such new bonds, and sell the same to raise money to purchase or retire any or all of such outstanding bonds or other evidence of indebtedness; the proceeds of the sales of such new bonds to be expended, under the direction of the corporate authorities aforesaid, in the purchase or retiring of the outstanding bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of such county, city, town, township, school district, or municipal corporation, and for no other purpose whatever. All bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, issued under the provisions of this act, shall show upon their face that they are issued under this act, and the purpose for which they are issued, and shall be of uniform design and style, throughout the State, to be prescribed by the State auditor, whose imperative duty it shall be to devise and prepare such uniform style and draft adapted to the classes of bonds herein provided for, namely: The first class to consist of bonds, of which only the interest is payable annually; the second class to consist of those of which the interest and five per centum of the principal are to be paid annually, and the third class to consist of a graduated series, the first grade, made payable, principal and interest, at the end of one year from the date of issue; the second at the end of two years, and thus to the end of the series, the class to be issued being at the option of the legal voters expressed as herein provided. In any case, the new bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, authorized to be issued by this act, shall not be for a greater sum in the aggregate, than the principal and accrued or earned interest unpaid of such outstanding bonds or other evidences of indebtedness. And when such new bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, shall have been issued, in order to be placed on the market and sold to obtain proceeds with which to retire outstanding bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, it shall be the duty of the State auditor, on the request of the corporate authorities issuing them, and at the expense of the corporation in whose behalf the issue is thus made to negotiate the same, at not less than par value, and on the best terms which can be obtained: Provided, always, that any such county, city, town, township, school district or other municipal corporation issuing bonds under the provisions of this act, may, through its corporate authorities duly authorized, negotiate, sell or dispose of said bonds, or any part thereof, at not less than their par value without the intervention of the auditor of State; And, provided, further; that no new bonds, or other evidences of indebtedness, shall be issued under this act, unless the same shall be first authorized, as hereinafter

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