the order of said committee, in relation to the business or management of said Soldiers' Orphans' Home, its discipline, government or financial condition, or in relation to the acts or conduct of any of its officers, agents or employès, he or she shall be deemed guilty of contempt, and shall be fined as provided in section six of this act.

Appropriation

§8. A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars is here- for expenses. by appropriated for the payment of expenses of the said investigation, and the auditor shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer for the payment of such expenses, upon the certificate of the chairman of this committee. The members of said committee shall be paid the sum of five dollars per day for the time actually and necessarily employed, and also necessary traveling expenses, to be certified by the chairman of said committee.

§ 9. It shall be the duty of said committee to audit the claims against said Soldiers' Orphans' Home, which have been incurred up to the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and to make a complete list of such claims giving the dates of the same, the names of the original and present claimants, the services or other considerations upon which said claims are based, and the amount of each of said claims, with the opinion of the committee as to the validity of each, and the amount that should equitably be paid by the state upon each; and such list of claims, as aforesaid, shall be included in the report prescribed in section twelve of this act.

Committee to audit claims.

Quorum, temporary chair

$10. Three of said committee shall constitute a quorum, man. and no vote shall be declared affirmatively without the concurrence of a quorum; and in the absence of the chairman of said committee, the committee may choose a temporary chairman, who, for the time being, shall have all powers and perform all the duties of the chairman.

Report of the

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the committee, upon the committee. completion of the investigation, to lay before the governor a full and complete report, with any recommendations as to the management, discipline and financial condition of said Soldiers' Orphans' Home, or as to any officers, employès or any other persons who now are or heretofore have been connected with said institution.

APPROVED June 16, 1871.

AN ACT making appropriations for the payment of the indebtedness of the

Soldiers' Orphans' Home.

In force July 1, 1872.

for indebtea

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Appropriation Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the ness. sum of fifty thousand and one dollars ($50,001), or so much

thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby ap propriated for the liquidation of the indebtedness of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, located at Normal, according to the schedule approved by Hon. James Shaw, chairman of the committee of investigation appointed under the act approved June sixteen, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, with interest thereon as provided in said schedule, but at six per cent per annum, and up to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, at said rate; and the auditor of public accounts is hereby directed to draw his warrant for the said sums for such indebtedness, in favor of the parties to whom the same may be due, or their assignees, upon proper vouchers certified by the trustees of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, or a majority of them, and approved by the gov ernor: Provided, that no indebtedness shall be paid from Claims deferred. said fund, except that accruing before March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: And, provided, further, that the amounts originally due John M. Snyder and John S. Clark, as contained on said schedule, shall not be paid until all claims of the institution against each of them has been settled to the satisfaction of the trustees.

Current pense fund.

Repeal.

ex

§ 2. The further sum of eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated to reimburse the current expense fund of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, for an equal amount already paid on the deficiency of the home out of that fund, and the auditor of public accounts is hereby directed to draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the said sum of eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, in favor of the treasurer of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and the same shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, subject to the provi sions contained in section five of "An act to make appropriations for the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and to maintain the said institution for the next two years," approved April third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

3. The first section of "An act to make an appropriation for the payment of a portion of the indebtedness of the trustees of the Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home, and to provide for an investigation into the management and indebtedness of the same," approved June sixteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, appropriating the sum of eleven thousand nine hundred and two dollars and eighty-four cents, for the payment of the expenditures of the home for the months of December, January and February last, is hereby repealed.

APPROVED March 12, 1872.

AN ACT to make further appropriations for the construction of the new State In force July 1,

House.

1871.

labor and mate

Shall not obli

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in the erection and completion of the new state house, the state Commissioners house commissioners be and they are hereby authorized at to contract for any subsequent letting of the work, after having advertised rials. in the manner now provided by law, to make and enter into contracts for the whole or any portion of the materials and labor that may be required in each class of work to be placed under contract (except that which can be done at the penitentiary as now provided by law), and specified in their advertisement; but the said commissioners, at such letting, shall not obligate the state for the payment of any gate the state. sum of money in excess of appropriations already made, until such payment has been provided for by an appropriation made for that purpose. And all contracts entered into under this act shall provide that no payments will be made thereon, by or on behalf of the state, after the appropriations made for the new state house are exhausted, until a further appropriation shall be made therefor, and that the work may be suspended during that time at the option of the contractor: Provided, that the commissioners may contract for labor and material requiring an expenditure of not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, without advertising as aforesaid.

§ 2. That for the purpose of carrying on the work on Appropriation. the new state house, the sum of six hundred thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations made for the new state house, which sum is hereby reappropriated for that purpose: Provided, that no part of this ap- Bond for addipropriation shall be paid out of the state treasury until tional grounds. there shall have been filed with the secretary of state a good and sufficient bond of individuals, in favor of the People of the State of Illinois, in the penal sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), to be approved by the governor of the state of Illinois, conditioned that the obligors will procure or cause to be obtained for the state of Illinois such additional grounds as the state may indicate and require, whenever so demanded, not exceeding four acres to the south of and adjoining the new capitol grounds, free of cost to the state; or in case said grounds cannot be furnished by said individuals, or they should refuse to do so, then the state may proceed to condemn such grounds as it may require for the purpose of enlarging said capitol grounds; the amount assessed for the same under such condemnation, shall be paid by the obligors of said bond.

by the state.

Condemnation The demand by the state for such additional grounds, and the condemnation, if necessary, shall be made within two years after the new state house is ready for the use of the two houses of the general assembly, and which land so to be condemned or procured is to be not less than the quantity of land described in a certain bond filed with the secretary of state at the last session of the twenty-seventh general assembly, and which bond is dated on the fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.

Compensation

ers.

83. The state house commissioners shall each receive of commission- for their services one thousand dollars per annum, and no more: Provided, that one of their number may serve as secretary, and shall receive for such service fifteen hundred dollars in addition to his one thousand dollars as commissioner.

APPROVED June 14, 1871.

1872.

In force July 1, AN ACT providing for the publication and distribution of the fifth volume of the report of the State Geologist, and to fix the amount of his salary until the publication of the sixth and final volume of said report.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Appropriation publication of three thousand copies of the fifth volume of

for report.

aper.

the report of the state geologist. is hereby authorized, and the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars is hereby appropriated to defray the cost of engraving the necessary plates, maps and diagrams required for said volume. Said engraving to be done under the direction of the state geologist, who first obtain bids for doing the work from several different engravers, and submit such bids to the governor, who shall first approve the bid most favorable to the state, and order the geologist to make a contract on the terms of said bid.

§ 2. The secretary of state is hereby required to procure the paper necessary for the said fifth volume, of a quality not interior to that used in the volumes of this report already published, and have said volume printed under the state contract for public printing, and bound by the public binder in same style and quality as former volumes, at a rate to be fixed, before delivered to him, by the secretary, auditor and treasurer, with the aid of experts, as now provided by law; and the amount necessary to defray the expense of the same is hereby appropriated.

Distribution. § 3. The secretary of state is hereby authorized to distribute the said fifth volume, when published, as follows: one copy to each college, educational, historical and literary institution in the state, as now provided by law; two hundred copies to the state geologist, to be used in exchanges, a list

of which shall be submitted to the governor for his approval, and on all such copies for exchange shall be written or printed "With the compliments of the People of the State of Illinois," and the person's name to whom sent, and the balance of said volumes to the members of the twentyseventh general assembly, to be by them distributed in their respective counties and districts, as far as practicable, to persons who have sets of the former volumes.

§ 4. There shall be paid to the state geologist the sum of two thousand dollars, as in full for his services and all expenses in superintending the publication of the said fifth volume, and finishing the sixth volume for publication-to be paid quarterly out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED April 3, 1872.

Pay of state geologist.

AN ACT to provide and furnish suitable rooms for the supreme court in the In force Jan. 8, central grand division of this state, and to make an appropriation therefor.

1872.

cure rooms.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Judges to projudges of the supreme court are authorized to procure, by lease or otherwise, suitable rooms in the city of Springfield, in which the supreme court may hold its sessions for the central grand division, until otherwise provided by law, and to furnish such rooms with appropriate furniture, and to make all necessary contracts or leases therefor.

2. The sum of not exceeding five thousand dollars is Appropriation. hereby appropriated to enable the judges of the supreme court to procure and furnish such rooms with appropriate forniture, and pay the rent therefor, and such other necessary expenses as may attend the removal of the court thereto; and the auditor of public accounts, upon presentation to him of the bilis or vouchers containing the items of such expenditure, with the certificate of the judges of the supreme court attached, showing the correctness thereof, shall draw his warrant upon the treasurer, payable out of any money not otherwise appropriated, for such portion or portions of said sum above appropriated as may have been actually expended for the purposes aforesaid.

§ 3. Inasmuch as the state has no suitable rooms for the Emergency. sessions of the supreme court in said division now unoccupied, an emergency exists requiring this act to take immediate effect: therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED January 8, 1872.