DISTRIBUTION OF LAWS, JOURNALS, REPORTS, ETC.

56. Maximum. § 56. The maximum price for distributing the laws, journals and all documents and other printed matter required to be distributed by this or any other act, or by resolution of the general assembly, shall be $1500 per annum.

57. Distribution-how done. 57. The distribution shall be done at the State house, under the direction of the secretary of State; and it shall be the duty of the contractor to furnish all necessary wrappings, boxes and other conveniences for packing and shipping the same, and promptly and without delay to pack and deliver, at his own cost for transportation, in number and kind, all matter required to be distributed, at the earliest moment practicable after they are ready to be dis[*1004] tributed. They shall be transmitted by the most ready, convenient and quick conveyance which may offer itself, and a receipt shall be taken for each package transmitted, (except such as are conveyed by United States mail,) which shall be filed with the secretary of State.

58. Laws distributed-to whom. § 58. The laws shall be distributed as follows, viz: five copies to the library of congress, two copies 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, five copies to each supreme court library in this State, one copy to each supreme judge, 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, one copy to each library, each educational, each historical and each literary institution in this State, one copy to each State officer, one copy to each member and each elective officer of the general assembly, one copy to each State charitable institution, ten copies for the State library, and three hundred copies shall be deposited with the secretary of State for the use of future general assemblies. [See § 29, 13th.

59. Journals, reports and messages-distributed to whom. 59. The journals, reports and messages shall be distributed as follows: Five copies 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, one copy to each supreme judge, one copy to each supreme court library, one copy to each senator and each representative and each elective officer of the general assembly, one copy to each county officer, and one copy to each State officer who is required by law to reside at the seat of government, one copy to each library, each educational, each historical and each literary institution in this State, and one copy to each State charitable institution, ten copies for the State library, and the remaining copies shall be deposited with the secretary of State for the use of future gen. eral assemblies. [See $ 29, 14th.

60. Reports of supreme court distributed-to whom. 60. The reports of the decisions of the supreme court shall be distributed as follows, viz : Five copies to the library of congress, one copy to the president of the United States, one copy to each State and territorial library, one copy to each judge of the supreme court, one copy

to each judge of the superior court of Cook county, one copy to each clerk of a circuit court, one copy to each law institute in this State, one copy to each State officer required by law to reside at the seat of government, five copies shall be deposited in the State library, and five copies in each supreme court library.

61. Sent to county clerk-his duties. §61. All books and documents required by this act to be distributed to officers or persons resident in this State, or to libraries and other institutions located therein, shall be transmitted by the contractor to the county clerks of the respective counties where such officers or persons reside, or such institutions are located. The county clerk of each county shall receive and receipt to the secretary of State for all books and documents so transmitted to him, paying the charges for the transmission of the same by drawing a warrant upon the county treasurer, who shall immediately pay the warrant out of any money in the treasury.

62. Delivery by county clerk. § 62. The county clerk in each county, immediately after the receipt of any package of books transmitted as directed in this act, shall distribute the same to all parties entitled to receive them, taking their receipt therefor in a book to be kept for that purpose.

SUPREME COURT REPORTS.

AN ACT to regulate the reporting of the decisions of the supreme court of this State, to fix the compensation of the reporter, to fix the price of said reports, to provide for the purchase of certain copies thereof by the State and for their distribution. [Approved May 17, 1877. In force July 1, 1877. L. 1877, P. 74.1]

*63. Publication and distribution of reports-pricesalary of reporter. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the reports of the decisions of the supreme court shall be distributed as follows, viz:

Five copies to the library of congress, one copy to the president of the United States, one copy to each State and territorial library, one copy to each judge of the supreme court of this State, one copy to each judge of the circuit courts in this State, one copy to each judge of the superior court of Cook county, one copy to the judge of each city court in this State, one copy to each clerk of the courts of record in this State, one copy to each law institute in this State, one copy to each State officer required to reside at the seat of government; five copies shall be deposited in each library of the supreme court of this State, and twenty copies shall be deposited in the State library, for the use of the State. For the purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions, the secretary of State is hereby authorized and required to purchase a sufficient number of copies of the official edition of said Illinois Reports, published since volume numbered sixty-two (62), and each and every volume from time to time, as the same shall hereafter be published, for the purpose provided as aforesaid, said books to be paid for, when certified by the secretary of State, upon the warrant of the auditor, by the State treasurer, out of moneys appropriated for that purpose. The price per volume of said reports subsequent to volume sixtytwo (62), heretofore published, and which may be published prior to the time this act shall take effect, shall not exceed three dollars and fifty cents

($3.50) per volume, and all volumes of said reports which may be pub lished after this act takes effect shall be furnished at a price not exceeding two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.25) per volume, are to be delivered at the office of the secretary of State. The reporter of said decisions shall perform such duties, and in such manner as the supreme court has or may, from time to time, by rule prescribe. He shall receive, as his compensation, a salary of six thousand dollars ($6,000) per annum, payable out of the State treasury in quarter-yearly installments, upon the warrant of the auditor. It is hereby made the duty of the reporter, within four months after a sufficient number of opinions to constitute a volume shall be ready for delivery to him, to have the same printed and published in the style and manner, and of the size and quality required by the rules of the supreme court, and for such period as he may be in default, in that regard, he shall receive no salary unless the supreme court shall certify that such default could not have been avoided by the exercise of due diligence by said reporter. He shall keep constantly on hand, at the State capital, a sufficient number of all volumes of such reports as may be published after this act shall take effect, to supply all demands therefor and shall sell the same at a price not exceeding two dollars and twenty-five cents ($2.25) per volume, and a neglect or refusal on his part to comply with this requirement shall be sufficient ground of removal from office, and shall work a forfeiture of his salary and clerk hire and all emoluments. In no event shall the State be liable for any portion of the cost of printing and publishing said reports, but the entire expense thereof shall be paid by the reporter.

ADVERTISING-RATES TO BE PAID.

AN ACT fixing the rates of advertising by the State, and providing for the payment of the same. [Approved May 21, 1877. In force July 1, 1877. L. 1877, p. 206.] *64. Fixes the rate. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the rates for all proclamations, advertisements, notices, proposals and other publications, made by any State officer, or other person or persons on behalf of the State, authorized to publish the same, as may be from time to time required to be made by law, shall be as follows: For each line of nonpareil type of the length of the width of a newspaper column, the sum of ten (10) cents for the first, and seven and one-half (74) cents for each subsequent insertion; but when the lines shall be longer than as above stated, the same shall be paid for in proportion to such excess in length. The governor shall have power to direct in what newspapers such publications shall be made, and they shall be paid for in the following manner, to-wit: The parties who may have published such proclamations, advertisements, notices, proposals, or other publications, in the nature of an advertisement or publication required to be made by law, shall file with the auditor of public accounts, a voucher duly approved by the State officers or other persons authorized by law to order such publication to be made, and duly approved by the governor; whereupon the said auditor shall draw his warrant for the amount of such voucher or vouchers, on the State treasurer, who shall pay the same out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated by law.

AN ACT to establish a State Historical Library and Natural History Museum, to provide for its care and maintenance and to appropriate money therefor. [Approved May 25, 1877. In force July 1, 1877. L. 1877, p. 14.]

WHEREAS, It is important and desirable that all books, manuscripts and other matters illustrative of the early history of this State shall be preserved in some permanent form; and

WHEREAS, The collection of geological specimens accumulated in the progress of the geological survey of this State are lying in a disorganized mass in the basement of the capitol; and

WHEREAS, The large and valuable collection of specimens of zoology and botany in the Museum of Natural History at Normal are now in a building not fire-proof, and therefore in danger of destruction by fire; therefore :

*1. Established. SEC. I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That there is hereby established at the capitol of the State a State historical library and cabinet of natural history, to be known as "The Illinois State Historical Library and Natural Museum."

*2. Rooms. 2. The room in the west wing of the State house, known as the miscellaneous library rooms, are hereby set apart for the said library and museum established by this act.

*3. Management-trustees. § 3. The Illinois State Historical Library and Natural History Museum shall be under the management of three trustees, consisting of the governor, secretary of State and superintendent of public instruction, who shall have power to make all such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law, as may be necessary for its management.

*4. Curator.

4. It shall be the duty of said trustees to appoint a curator, who shall be a person of competent scientific attainments, and who shall possess a practical knowledge of the science of geology.

*5. Librarian. $5. The curator shall act as librarian and shall have the custody, superintendence and charge of all articles directed to be deposited in said library and museum, and shall also perform the acts which are or may be required by law of the State geologist.

*6. Duty of curator. § 6. It shall be the duty of the said curator, as soon as the State house commissioners furnish the book cases and

furniture designed for the galleries of said rooms, to select from the State library all books and documents relating to the history of the State and place them in the new rooms as a nucleus for a State historical library.

*7. Specimens to be removed. §7. It shall be the duty of the curator, as soon after this act takes effect as is practicable, to have the collection of geological specimens accumulated in the progress of the geological survey of this State, and the other specimens hereinafter named, removed to said rooms and classified, labeled and arranged in such manner as to be effectually preserved and at the same time open to the inspection of the public.

*8. Duplicate specimens. 8. One each of all the duplicate zoological and botanical specimens now on hand in the Illinois Museum of Natural History at Normal, which are not needed to illustrate the natural history work of the State Normal University, are hereby directed to be deposited as soon as practicable in the museum established by this act by the curator of said Illinois Museum of Natural History.

*9. Museum at Normal. 9. It is hereby directed that the Illinois Museum of Natural History at Normal be converted into a State Laboratory of Natural History, at which, under the direction of the curator thereof, the collection, preservation and determination of all zoological and botanical material for said State Museum shall be done. It is made a part of the duty of said curator to provide, as soon as possible, a series of specimens illustrating the, zoology and botany of the State, to deposit them from time to time in the museum, established by this act, and to furnish, as far as practicable, all zoological and botanical material needed by the State educational institutions for the proper performance of their work.

*10. Appropriation. § 10. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the following named sums are hereby appropriated out of the State treasury for the purposes herein specified.

For the salary of the curator provided for in this act, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) per annum for two years, payable quarterly.

For the purpose of moving the geological specimens from the basement, and of moving the natural history specimens at Normal to the rooms designated, and for arranging, classifying, labeling and putting all the said specimens in such condition that they will be effectually preserved and at the same time open to the convenient inspection of the public, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500).

For the purpose of increasing the collections in natural history, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) per annum, to be expended under the direction of the curator of the State laboratory at Normal.

*11. When and how drawn. § 11. The auditor of public ac counts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the moneys herein appropriated, upon order of the board of trustees: Provided, that no portion of said moneys, other than the annual salaries, shall be due and payable until satisfactory vouchers in detail shall have been filed with the auditor for the expenditures incurred.