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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES:

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An act to amend and revise section 23 of an act entitled, "An act in regard to the ad-

ministration of estates." approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872.......

An act to amend section 70 of an act entitled, "An act in regard to the administration

of estates." approved April 1, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, as amended by an act

approved June 5, 1889, in force July 1, 1889...

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AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE:

An act to amend section 6 of "An act creating the Illinois Farmers' Institute," ap-

proved June 24, 1895 ...

An act to amend sections one (1), three (3) and five (5) of an act entitled, "An act to

prevent fraud in the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers," approved

June 29, 1885, in force July 1, 1885....

ANIMALS:

An act to amend section three (3) of an act entitled, "An act to protect stock breeders

within the State of Illinois," approved June 10, 1887. in force July 1, 1887. as

amended by act approved June 1, 1889, in force July 1, 1889....

An act to amend sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 of an act entitled, "An act to regulate

the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Illinois," approved

April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899...

APPRENTICES:

An act to amend section 10 of an act entitled. "An act to revise the law in relation to

apprentices." approved Feb. 25, 1874, in force July 1, 1874...

APPROPRIATIONS:

An act to provide for improvements in Memorial hall and Adjutant General's office..

An act to extend the equipment and increase the instruction in the College of Agri-

culture, and to provide for the extension of the Agricultural Experiment Station,

and to make appropriations therefor......

An act to extend the equipment and increase the instruction in the College of Agri-

culture, and to provide for the extension of the Agricultural Experiment Station,

and to make appropriations therefor.....

An act making an appropriation in aid of the Illinois State Horticultural Society....

An act making an appropriation for the State Board of Agriculture and county and

other agricultural fairs...

An act making an appropriation for the State Board of Agriculture to be used in the

construction of permanent buildings and making improvements, and for beautify-

ing the State fair grounds at Springfield, 111...

An act for the relief of Mrs. John P. Altgeld, widow of the late ex-Governor, and to

make an appropriation therefor......

An act making an appropriation for the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' association....

An act making an appropriation for the Illinois State Bee Keepers' association

An act to provide for a deficiency in the expenses of public binding for the fiscal

year ending June 30, 1903....

An act making an appropriation to meet a deficiency in the expenses of the State

Board of Arbitration.....

An act creating a commission consisting of three persons to be appointed by the

Governor of the State, whose duty it shall be to employ a competent engineer or

engineers to ascertain the cost of straightening and dredging Cache river and

make appropriation therefor....

An act making an appropriation for the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind,

Chicago.....

An act making an appropriation for the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind,

Chicago.....

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APPROPRIATIONS-Continued.

An act making appropriations for the State charitable institutions herein named....

An act making an appropriation for the ordinary and other expenses of the State

charitable institutions herein named......

An act making appropriation for St. Charles Home for Boys....

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An act to make appropriations for the payment of amounts awarded by the Commis-

sion of Claims to certain persons named therein.....

An act making an appropriation for the Illinois Dairymen's association.

An act entitled, "An act to provide for the reappropriation of the unexpended bal-

ance of funds appropriated in an act entitled. 'An act to provide for the participa-

tion of the State of Illinois in the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held in the

city of St. Louis during the year 1903, in commemoration of the purchase of the

Louisiana territory by the United States from the government of France in the

year 1803, and for an appropriation to pay the costs and expenses of the same," ap-

proved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901......

An act making an appropriation for the Illiniois Farmers' Institute and county

farmers' institutes.....

An act to make an appropriation for the benefit, aid and maintenance of the Illinois

Firemen's association....

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An act appropriating money to purchase and perpetuate the historic Fort Massac as

a State park......

An act making appropriations for the payment of the employés of the 43d General

Assembly.....

An act to provide for the incidental expenses of the 43d General Assembly of the

State of Illinois, and for the care and custody of the State House and grounds, to

be incurred and now unprovided for.......

An act making an appropriation for the payment of the officers and members of the

next General Assembly, and for salaries of the officers of the State government....

An act making an appropriation for the maintenance and protection of the Illinois

and Michigan canal, and for the necessary and extraordinary expenses thereof.....

An act making an appropriation to provide for a deficiency in the ordinary and con-

tingent expenses of the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners.....

An act making an appropriation of five thousand (5,000) dollars for the erection of a

suitable memorial to the memory of Mary A. Bickerdyke.....

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An act to provide for the dedication of the monuments erected by the State of Illi-

nois on the Battlefield of Shiloh.....

An act to provide for the erection of monuments and markers to commemorate the

services and mark the position of Illinois Volunteers in the campaign and siege of

Vicksburg, Mississippi, and making appropriation therefor...

An act making an appropriation for the purchase of a site and building for an

armory for the organizations of the Illinois National Guard located at Blooming-

ton, Illinois..........

An act to provide for improvements for the Illinois National Guard and Naval Militia

at Camp Lincoln......

An act appropriating eight hundred and eighty dollars ($880) to reimburse the First

Infantry Illinois National Guard, for property turned over by said regiment to the

State of Illinois at the time when said regiment was mustered into the service of

the United States during the Spanish-American war....

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An act to provide for certain repairs and improvements at the Logan rifle range......

An act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois National

Guard and the Naval Militia of Illinois.......

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An act to provide for the purchase of uniforms, blankets and tents for the Illinois

National Guard and the Naval Militia of Illinois..............

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An act making an appropriation to provide for a deficiency to pay for conveying

female offenders to the State Home for Juvenile Female Offenders....

An act making an appropriation for the Southern Illinois Pententiary, and to enable

the commissioners thereof to keep the convicts in said penitentiary employed......

An act to make appropriations for ordinary and other expenses of the Illinois State

Penitentiary at Joliet........

An act making appropriations for the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac for the

two years beginning July [1,] 1903, and ending July 1, 1905..

An act making an appropriation to repair the north cell house of the Illinois State

Reformatory, partly destroyed and damaged by fire on the 8th day of May, 1902, and

also to repair the main building of said reformatory, damaged by fire on the 30th

day of October, 1902.....

An act making an appropriation for the Illinois State Poultry Association ...........

An act making appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the Eastern Illinois State

Normal School.......

An act making appropriation for the Eastern Illinois State Normal School............

APPROPRIATIONS-Concluded.

An act to appropriate money for the ordinary expenses of the Northern Illinois State

Normal School, DeKalb....

An act making appropriation to the Northern Illinois State Normal School, DeKalb..

An act to make an appropriation to construct and furnish a building for a library and

museum at the Southern Illinois Normal University at Carbondale, Illinois........

An act to make an appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the Southern Illinois

Normal University at Carbondale, Illinois......

An act to make an appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the Illinois State

Normal University, at Normal, Illinois..

An act making an appropriation for the Western Illinois State Normal School........

An act making an appropriation to defray the ordinary expenses of the Western

Illinois State Normal School.......

An act appropriating to the University of Illinois the money granted in an act of

Congress, approved August 30, 1890, entitled, "An act to apply a portion of the pro-

ceeds of the public lands to the more perfect endowment and support of the col-

leges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the

provisions of an act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862"..

An act making appropriations for the University of Illinois...

An act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the State government,

until the expiration of the fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular

session of the General Assembly

An act for the relief of the destitute people in Northern Sweden and Finland.........

An act to select commissioners to expend not to exceed nine thousand (9,000) dollars

in purchasing a life-sized marble or bronze statue of the late Frances E. Willard,

and to provide a pedestal or base therefor, the statue and pedestal to be appropri-

ately inscribed and ornamented, and also to defray the expense of transporting the

same to Washington, D. C., when completed, and erecting it in the National Statu-

ary Hall, at Washington, D. C....

ARBITRATIONS AND AWARDS:

An act to amend section 1 of an act entitled, "An act to create a State Board of Arbi-

tration for the investigation or settlement of differences between employers and

their employés, and to define the powers and duties of said board," approved and

in force August 2, 1895..

ATTORNEY GENERAL AND STATES' ATTORNEYS:

An act to amend an act entitled, "An act in regard to attorneys general and States'

attorneys." approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, by adding thereto a new

section, to be known as section 6a

BONDS:

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An act making provision for the refunding of surplus funds in the State treasury to

the credit of the bond funds of counties, townships, cities, towns, school districts,

and other municipal corporations, having bonds registered in the office of the Aud-

itor of Public Accounts, when such bonds have become barred by the statute of

limitations.....

CANADA THISTLES:

An act to amend "An act concerning Canada thistles," approved and in force March

15, 1872; as amended by an act of Jnne 27, 1885; also, by adding the following sec-

tions: "10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15" declaring certain weeds nuisances, and providing

for their destruction by county boards in counties where boards of town auditors

of two or more townships have been consolidated or abolished...

CEMETERIES:

An act to provide for the organization, ownership, management and control of ceme-

tery associations...

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CHARITIES:

An act to amend section one (1) of an act entitled, "An act to regulate the State char-

itable institutions and the State Reform School, and to improve their organization,

and to increase their efficiency." approved April 15, 1875, in force July 1, 1875.........

An act to amend an act entitled, "An act to establish and maintain a soldiers' and

sailors' home in the State of Illinois, and making an appropriation for the purchase

of land and the construction of the necessary buildings," approved June 26, 1885, in

force July 1, 1885, by adding thereto four sections, to be known as section 3a, sec-

tion 3b, section 3c, and section 3d, respectively....

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