In force Feb. 17, AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for copying and distributing the laws and journals, and for other purposes." 1851. Contractors for distribution of bond. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of laws allowed Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That here20 days to give after contractors for distributing the laws, journals and reports, under the provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the act entitled "An act to provide for copying and distributing the laws and journals, and for other purposes," approved Feb. 12, 1849, shall be allowed twenty days from the time of opening bids and the acceptance of their proposals, in which to file bonds for the faithful performance of their contracts, as required by law; and it shall be the duty of the secretary of state, immediately after such contracts are awarded, to cause notice to be given to successful bidders. Reports of su be distributed. § 2. Hereafter it shall be the duty of the secretary of preme court to state, whenever the laws and journals are distributed, to cause the reports of the supreme court belonging to the several officers of the respective counties, which may remain in his office, to be distributed in the same manner as said laws and journals. A sufficient Eight thousand § 3. There shall be printed for the use of the state, and copies of acts to for distribution to the several counties, under the provisions be printed for stribution of section seven, of chapter sixty-two, Revised Statutes, distribution. eight thousand copies of the acts and resolutions of the present session of the general assembly; and hereafter, number hereaf- until otherwise directed, a sufficient number of copies of ed to supply of the acts of each session shall be printed to enable the secficers entitled retary of state to make such distribution thereof as is now or may be required by law. ter to be print to them. Acts of special § 4. The secretary of state shall cause to be printed session of 1849, and bound with the volume of public acts of the present to be printed. session, the public acts of the late special session of the general assembly, causing said acts of the special session to be placed and indexed in the fore part of said volume. Extra copies of acts. § 5. It shall be the duty of said secretary of state to cause to be printed and distributed, as now provided by law, a number of copies of said acts of the present and late special session, equal to one-eighth the whole number required for distribution, to be deposited with the counties respectively, in the proportions to which they are now entitled, for future distribution, as the future wants of the respective counties may demand. Number or acts § 6. Until otherwise provided by law, there shall be hereafter to be printed for the use of the state, and for distribution to the printed. several counties, eight thousand copies of the laws of the general assembly, over and above the eighth part to be deposited with the counties, as provided for in the above sections. how contracted § 7. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to Public printing, give four weeks' notice, biennially, in the month of May, for. by advertising in the papers published in the places named as required in the first section of "An act concerning public printing," approved Feb. 8, 1849, that he will receive sealed proposals for executing the printing of the journals, reports and laws, and all other printing ordered by the general assembly. Said proposals to be delivered to the secretary of state within forty days after the last day of May, biennially. printed. § 8. Hereafter, and until otherwise provided by law, Number of rethere shall be printed for the use of the state, and for dis- ports to be tribution to the several counties, one thousand copies of the reports. This section to apply to the reports of the present session. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED Feb. 17, 1851. AN ACT to amend chapter four, Revised Laws, entitled "Aliens." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all aliens may take, by deed, will or otherwise, lands and tenements and any interest therein, and alienate, sell, assign and transmit the same to their heirs, or any other persons, whether such heirs or other persons be citizens of the United States or not, in the same manner as natural born citizens of the United States or of this state might do; and upon the decease of any person having title to, or interest in any lands or tenements, such lands and tenements shall pass and descend in the same manner as if such alien were a citizen of the United States, and it shall be no objection to any person having an interest in such estate that they are not citizens of the United States, but all such persons shall have the same rights and remedies, and in all things be placed upon the same footing, as natural born citizens and actual residents of the United States. In force Feb. 17, 1851. Aliens to have the same rights as citizens, in relation to the heritance of devise and in real estate. of intestate ding to the § 2. The personal estate of an alien, dying intestate, Personal estate shall be distributed in the same manner as the estates of nat- aliens to be dis ural born citizens, and all persons interested in such es- tributed accortate shall be entitled to proper distributive shares thereof, rules applicaunder the laws of this state, whether they are aliens or not. ble in the case § 3. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 17, 1851. of citizens. In force Feb. 17, AN ACT extending the time granted the city of St. Louis, by joint resolution of 1851. January, 1849, to complete certain works in the state of Illinois, opposite said city, and for the protection thereof. Two years allowed to the ci SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of ty of St. Louis Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the to complete space of two years, from and after the passage of this act, protection of is hereby allowed to the city of St. Louis, to complete and works for the barbor. Said city releas ties. Proviso. carry out, so far as the same may be necessary, the works in the state of Illinois opposite said city, intended for the preservation of the harbor thereof, in the manner set forth in the joint resolutions adopted in January, 1849, and in accordance with which the said city entered into bonds to the state in the sum of twenty thousand dollars, binding herself to complete said works within two years from the passage of said joint resolutions. § 2. The city of St. Louis is hereby released from any ed from penal- penalty which may have accrued from the failure to complete the works referred to in the joint resolutions aforesaid, within the period specified therein: Provided, she shall, within two years from the passage hereof, complete the same, and especially the dykes W and V, and the dyke and road leading from the foot of Bloody Island to the Illinois shore, in the manner contemplated in said joint resolutions, and the bonds given in conformity therewith. But nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to release the said city of St. Louis from the penalty of said bond, in case of further failure on her part to comply, in good faith, with the conditions thereof, within the time fixed by this act. thorized below Other works au- § 3. It shall be lawful for the said city of St. Louis, and Bloody Island power is hereby expressly granted to her proper agents and officers, to erect and construct such other dykes or works of stone, earth, piles or other materials in the Mississippi river, below the foot of Bloody Island, and within the jurisdiction of the state of Illinois, as may be necessary for the safety and protection of the works already constructed, and to continue and carry out the plans adopted to straighten the channel and benefit the harbors of the city of St. Louis and the town of Illinois: Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to relieve the said city of St. Louis, or the citizens thereof, from the payment of damages to any party whose property may be injured, or the use and enjoyment thereof interrupted or obstructed, by the construction of such dykes or other improvements within the jurisdiction of the state of Illinois. Other dykes au- § 4. A like permission, with a similar reservation as to thorized at the private rights, is hereby granted to said city of St. Louis, head of Bloody to make other dykes similar in character to the dykes W Proviso. Island. and V, at the head of Bloody Island, should the same be necessary; and, also, to revet or otherwise protect the western shore of Bloody Island, and the shore from the head thereof, and to the upper end of the town of Venice: Pro- Proviso. vided, in all such works, due regard shall be had to the interests of citizens of the state of Illinois, and the rights of the several ferry companies and the St. Clair County Turnpike company and Illinois Coal company: And pro- Further proviso. vided, further, that the revetment of the shore, and additional dykes in this section mentioned, shall, when completed, take the place of the longitudinal dyke from Venice to the head of Bloody Island: Provided, in the revetment of Proviso. the shore at the Madison Ferry landing, the slope shall be so made as to accommodate the landing of the boats at all stages of water. tures. § 5. If any person or persons shall wilfully or malicious- Penalty for itly injure, tear down, destroy or remove any of said dykes, juring strucor other works constructed by the city of St. Louis, under the joint resolutions of the last legislature, or hereafter to be constructed under this act, within the state of Illinois, he or she and his or her employer, aiders and abettors shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to an indictment in the county in which such offence shall be committed, and, upon convicton thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned six months in the county jail, or both, in the discretion of the court in which such conviction is had. APPROVED February 17, 1851. AN ACT to establish a state road from Rushville, in Schuyler county, to Greenbush, In force Feb. 17, in Warren county. 1851. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Ed- Commissioners. ward Doyle, of Schuyler county, and Abraham David, of McDonough county, and Franklin Snapp, of Warren county, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Rushville, in Schuyler county, to Greenbush, in Warren county. lay out road. § 2. It shall be the duty of said commissioners, or any To take oath, two of them, to proceed to Rushville, in Schuyler county, upon the first day of May next, or as soon thereafter as they may find convenient, and after having been sworn by some acting justice of the peace or clerk of said county, to view, mark and locate a road as above designated. county clerks. § 3. When the said commissioners shall have laid out Plat of road to said road, they shall make out and deliver to clerks of the be delivered to counties through which said road passes, a copy or plat of said road, which plat by said clerks shall be entered of record in their several offices, and the said entries shall be commissioners evidence in all courts of this state of the existence of said road. Compensation of § 4. The compensation to each person employed in loand surveyor. cating and establishing said road, shall be one dollar per day for each day necessarily employed, exclusive of expenses for provisions, forage for horses, &c., except the surveyor, who shall have two dollars per day for each day so employed. Expenses. § 5. The expenses incurred in establishing said road shall be allowed and paid by each county through which said road is located, in proportion to the distance or length of road in said counties; the same to be made out by said commissioners, or any two of them. APPROVED Feb. 17, 1851. In force Feb. 17, 1851. La Salle. Livingston. Burean. Putnam. Marshall. When grand ju summoned. Proviso. AN ACT fixing the time of holding the circuit court in the ninth judicial district. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That from and after the first of June next, in the ninth judicial district the circuit court shall be held in the respective counties at the following times, viz: in the county of La Salle, on the third Tuesday of February and on the first Tuesday of November; in the county of Livingston, on the first Tuesday in March and October; in the county of Kendall, on the second Tuesday of March and on the fourth Tuesday of November; in the county of Bureau, on the third Tuesday in March and second Tuesday in October; and in Putnam county, on the fourth Tuesday in March and second Tuesday in October; in the county of Marshall, on Monday after the fourth Tuesday of March, and on the Monday after the second Tuesday in October in each year. § 2. In the ninth judicial district there shall be no regury not to be lar grand jury selected or summoned for the October, November or December terms of the several circuit courts: Provided, that where it may be necessary, on account of the person accused being in jail, or otherwise, at any such terms, the circuit court may order the sheriff to summon a special grand jury, to examine such matters as may be given them in charge, and the same proceeding may thereupon be had touching such matters as though said grand jury had been selected and summoned as a regular grand jury. Courts in Kane, § 3. That so much of an act entitled "An act to estabBoone, and lish the thirteenth circuit," as fixes the time of holding the Mellenry to be circuit court in the counties of Kane, De Kalb, Boone and fore until after McHenry, shall be of no effect until the first day of June De Kalb, held as hereto |