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§ 2. That all members of the fire department of the ci- Perpetual exty of Chicago, who have served for ten years, or who may ten years' serhereafter serve for ten years in said department, shall for- vice. ever after be exempt from serving as jurors. APPROVED Feb. 14, 1851.

AN ACT changing the time of holding the circuit courts in the second judicial circuit. In force Feb. 14,

1851.

courts.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Time of holding Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the circuit courts in the second judicial circuit shall be held at the times hereinafter mentioned: In the county of St. Clair, on the second Mondays of March and August; in the county of Madison, on the third Mondays after the second Mondays of March and August; in the county of Monroe, on the sixth Mondays after the second Mondays of March and August; in the county of Randolph, on the Mondays following; in the county of Perry, on the Mondays following; in the county of Washington, on the Mondays following; in the county of Clinton, on the Mondays following; in the county of Bond, on the Mondays following; in the county of Fayette, on the Fridays following; in the county of Montgomery, on the Wednesdays following, to continue until the business is disposed of.

turnable.

§ 2. All writs, subpoenas, and any other process which Writs heretofore may have been or may be issued and made returnable to issued, how rethe terms of courts in the said circuit, as heretofore required to be holden, shall be deemed and taken to be returnable to said terms of courts as required to be holden under this act, and all notices which may have been given, either of publication, or otherwise, with reference to the terms as heretofore required to be holden, shall, by force of this act, refer to the terms of courts so required to be held under this act; and proceedings pending in any of said courts shall be taken up and disposed of according to law, as if no alteration had been made in the times of holding said courts.

§ 3. This act shall, upon its passage, be published in the Duty of secretapaper of the public printer, and the secretary of state shall ry of state. immediately thereafter transmit a copy thereof to each of the clerks of said courts.

§ 4. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the pro- Acts repealed. visions of this act are hereby repealed. This act to take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED Feb. 14, 1851.

In force Feb. 13, AN ACT amendatory to "An act relating to the improvement of a Bavigation of the 1851. Saline river," approved March 4, 1837.

Preamble.

Contracts legalized.

Sales authori

zed.

Conveyances.

Acts repealed.

Whereas by an act of the General Assembly of the state of Illinois, entitled "An act relating to the Gallatin Saline, and the lands belonging to the same," approved sixteenth January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, and an act amendatory thereof, entitled "an act relating to the improvement of the navigation of the Saline river," approved March fourth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, John Crenshaw and others were appointed commissioners to expend an appropriation made by the first of said acts, and in execution of their trust purchased lands in the name of the commissioners of navigation; and whereas John Crenshaw is the only surviving and acting commissioner under said acts

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all contracts made by the said John Crenshaw, as such surviving and acting commissioner, be and the same are hereby legalized and confirmed.

§ 2. Be it further enacted, That the said John Crenshaw, as such commissioner, is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to make sale of the lands so purchased by the said commissioners, for cash, and the purchase money under such sale or sales paid into the office of the state treasurer, and there held as a deposit for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Saline river, under such appropriation thereof as may hereafter be made; and the certificate of the state treasurer shall be evidence of such pay

ment.

§3. Be it further enacted, That the said John Crenshaw, as such commissioner, is hereby authorized and empowered to make, execute, and acknowledge all deeds of conveyance, or other instruments of writing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this law.

§ 4. All acts and parts of acts not consistent with the terms of this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. This act to be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED Feb. 13, 1851.

In force Fel. 14, AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of the revenue of Champaign county

1851.

Presinble.

for 1850.

Whereas the assessor of Champaign county failed to complete the assessment of the taxable property in said county for the year A. D. 1850, within the time required by law; therefore,

Time extended

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the collector of the county of Champaign for the year 1850, be and he is hereby allowed until the first Monday of October, 1851, to collect and make a final settlement for the taxes of said year 1850: Provided, that the said collector shall Proviso. file with the clerk of the county court an instrument in writing, under the hands and seals of the persons who are sureties on the bond of the collector aforesaid, showing their agreement and consent to the extension of time allowed by this act.

§ 2. The assessment mentioned in the first section of Assessments icthis act is hereby declared to be as good and valid as if the galized. same had been completed within the time required by law, and the collector is hereby authorized to give notice and collect in the several precincts as now required by law, at any time prior to the first day of May next. APPROVED Feb. 14, 1851.

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AN ACT to authorize the location of a state road therein named.

In force Feb. 14,

1851.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Commissioners. Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Edmond Richards, of Macoupin county, S. G. M. Allis, of Morgan county, and Martin Millan, of Sangamon county, are hereby appointed commissioners to view, locate and mark a state road commencing on the range line between ranges seven and eight, where the county road leaves said line, being the north-west corner of the south-west quarter of section six, township twelve north, range seven, west of the third principal meridian, in Macoupin county, and running north on said line to the corner of Morgan and Sangamon counties, thence due north on said line two miles from said corner, thence in a northern direction, on the most feasible and equitable route, to intersect the Vandalia road, at or near Wemple's lane.

turns.

§ 2. Said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall When to meet meet at the place of beginning, within one month after the and make repassage of this act, and after having been qualified before some justice of the peace of either of the counties of Sangamon, Morgan or Macoupin, proceed to view, locate and mark said road according to the first section of this act, and within one month after the location of said road make return thereof to the county courts of the counties of Morgan, Sangamon and Macoupin; and when said returns are received the said courts shall cause said road to be opened and worked as other state roads are required to be worked.

Road to be open

ed and worked

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state road.

Compensation.

3.

Said commissioners shall be allowed one dollar each per day for the time necessarily engaged in locating said road, and making returns thereof, to be paid out of the county treasuries of the several counties through which said road passes, in equal amount from each.

This act to be in force from and after its passage.
APPROVED Feb. 14, 1851.

In force April 18, 1851.

Special tax.

Act repealed in part.

Duty of trustees

Who to be received.

County courts.

AN ACT to amend the act establishing the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the special tax authorized to be levied and collected for the purpose of creating the "fund for the insane" shall be increased to one third of a mill for the present and succeeding years, until otherwise provided by law, and so much of said fund as may be necessary shall, after the completion of the buildings provided for in the act to which this is an amendment, be used in defraying the expenses of the institution: Provided, that not more than one hundred and fifty dollars per annum shall be paid for each state patient.

§ 2. So much of the act to which this is an amendment as requires counties to pay costs and charges attending the treatment of insane paupers, is hereby repealed; and the costs and charges of keeping insane persons residing in this state shall be paid out of the "fund for the insane."

§ 3. The trustees of said institution shall proceed to finish and furnish rooms in the building for the reception and care of patients, with all reasonable diligence; and for this purpose they may use "the fund for the insane," provided that such use of the fund shall not interfere with the finishing the building under existing contracts.

§ 4. The trustees are authorized to receive and detain in the institution all residents of this state who may be decided to be insane or distracted, by any court or judge vested with jurisdiction or power to adjudicate upon questions of sanity or insanity; and the order of such court or judge, or a certified copy thereof, under the seal of court, shall be evidence of [in] all courts and places wherein the right to keep or detain any person or persons shall be called in ques

tion.

Jurisdiction of § 5. The county courts of the several counties in this state are hereby vested with jurisdiction to hear and determine all questions which may arise in their respective counties, touching the sanity or insanity of persons residing therein, and the possession of a right to property shall not

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affect the question of jurisdiction; also of all questions
which may arise under the provisions of chapter fifty of the
Revised Statutes, entitled "Idiots and Lunatics."
the said courts and county judges shall and may proceed in
the adjudication of all questions arising under the provi-
sions of said chapter, in the same manner and with the like
effect as circuit courts or judges thereof.

§ 6. Proceedings had before judges in vacation, under Acts in vacation the provisions of this act, shall be recorded at the next regular or special term of the court.

sheriff.

§ 7. Whenever any person shall be found to be insane Certificate or distracted, before any court or judge, the sheriff of the county shall be furnished with a certificate by the clerk of the court, if the proceeding was had in court, or by the judge, if such proceeding was had in vacation, stating that in a proceeding had before such court or judge, such person, naming him or her, had been found to be insane or distracted, as the fact may have been, and that such insane or distracted person was thereupon ordered to be conveyed to "The Illinois State Hospital for the Insane ;" which certificate shall constitute the authority of the sheriff, or any other person to whom the same may be delivered, to convey such insane or distracted person to the said hospital; and also the authority of the trustees to keep and detain him or her therein.

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§ 8. Persons who have heretofore been found or decid- Persons herctoed to be distracted or insane, may be conveyed to and de- insane. tained in said hospital, and a certified copy of the order of court, or judge appointing the conservator, shall authorize the reception and detention of all such persons.

lish notice.

§ 9. The trustees of the hospital shall publish a notice Trustees to pubin two newspapers published at the seat of government, three months in advance of the time when the building will be prepared for the reception of patients, and a copy of such notice shall be forwarded by mail to the judge and clerk of every county court in the state, on the first publication thereof, stating the time when patients will be received, and requesting that information will be forwarded to said board, of the names, ages and sex of all insane and distracted persons in the state, with a statement in reference to each-first, of the duration of the disease, dating from the first symptons; second, the supposed exciting cause of the disease; third, whether or not the disease is hereditary; fourth, whether the patient has made any attempt to commit any violence upon him or herself, or others upon the publication of which notice and request, all persons having charge of insane or distracted persons, judges and clerks of county and circuit courts, shall, without delay, be furnished the information desired, in respect to all insane and distracted persons known to them; and one

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