bered two (2,) all of section numbered three (3,) and the east half of section number four (4) in township numbered three, (3) north, range numbered ten (10) east, in the county of Richland, shall form and constitute a district for school purposes, and to be designated as school district numbered twelve (12); and that such parts of the original district as are not included within the limits of the district, as herein provided for, shall be annexed to and form parts of the school districts to which they are respectively contiguous.

2. Any law conflicting with the provisions of this act Acts repealed. be and the same is hereby repealed, and this act to take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 23, 1859.

AN ACT entitled an act to authorize the Board of Supervisors of Whiteside In force Feb'y county to apportion the swamp and overflowed land school fund of said county among the several townships of said county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the board

24, 1859.

apportion

of supervisors of the county of Whiteside, and their suc- Supervisors to sessors in office, be and they are hereby authorized and em- fund. powered to set apart and apportion to each of the townships in said county the school fund of said county which accrued on the sale of certain swamp and overflowed lands therein, made under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to dispose of the swamp and overflowed lands and to pay the expenses of selecting and surveying the same," approved June 22, 1852, to be divided and apportioned in such manner and upon such ratio as the said board of supervisors, or their successors in office, shall deem expedient and for the best interests of said county.

§2. And that all acts or parts of acts inconsistent here- Acts repealed. with be and the same are hereby repealed.

§ 3.

passage.

That this act shall be in force from and after its

APPROVED February 24, 1859.

AN ACT declaring the Snycarty, in Pike and Adams counties, navigable.

In force Feb'y

24, 1859.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Sny- Snycarty decarty, in the counties of Pike and Adams, from the dam in clared navigaRockport, thence up said Snycarty to its source, be and the

ble.

Shall not be obstructed.

same is hereby declared a navigable stream and public highway.

2. Said stream, as far up as stated, shall never be obstructed, in any manner, so as to impair the free and uninterrupted navigation of the same; and any person so obstructing or impairing the navigation thereof shall be liable to the penalties and fines now or hereafter to be imposed by law for such offences; and that all previous acts referring to the navigation of said Snycarty are hereby repealed.

§3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 24, 1859.

In force Febru- AN ACT to indemnify the state of Illinois against loss by reason of unlawful ary 19, 1859.

Bonds to

main auditor.

Proviso.

funding of Canal Indebtedness.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the bonds re of the state of Illinois, numbered from 900 to 992, inclusive, with and one-half of 993 of Illinois and Michigan canal bonds,

and now deposited with the auditor as security for the redemption of the bills or notes and payment of other liabilities of the State Bank of Illinois, at Shawneetown, shall remain with said auditor; and when the security hereinafter mentioned shall have been given, said bonds shall be held as security for the purposes for which they were deposited with him, and be disposed of by him in the same manner as is now by law provided for the disposition of bonds in similar cases: Provided, there shall be, within sixty days from the passage of this act, or within such further time as the governor, auditor and treasurer of the state may deem it proper to designate, furnished by Joel A. Matteson to said governor, auditor and treasurer, for the use of the people of the state of Illinois, security, satisfactory to them, to indemnify and save harmless the state of Illinois from all liability on account of said bonds; and also on bonds of said state numbered 886 to 898, inclusive, and three hundred dollars in bond number 899, the same being bonds designated as Illinois and Michigan canal bonds, and now outstanding, and for all moneys that may be paid by the state thereon; and from all liability upon any certificates, interest bonds or other evidences of indebtedness that may have been issued on account of any of the bonds aforesaid, or the canal checks or scrip for which said bonds were issued; and on any coupons now or heretofore attached to said bonds or any of them; and from all costs, expenses and damages that may accrue against said state, by reason of the said bonds, certificates, interest bonds, coupons or other

evidences of indebtedness; and also for the repayment to the state of Illinois, within five years from the passage of this act, of any money that may heretofore have been paid by the state on account of any of said bonds, certificates, interest bonds, coupons or other evidences of indebtedness; or for interest on the canal checks or scrip upon which said bonds were issued; or in the purchase by the state of any of said bonds, certificates, interest bonds, coupons or other evidences of indebtedness, arising out of the funding of said canal checks or scrip upon which said bonds were issued, together with six per cent. per annum interest on each and every sum of money paid by the state upon such bonds, certificates, interest bonds, coupons or other evidences of indebtedness; or for said interest; or in the purchase of any of said bonds, certificates, interest bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, to be computed from the time when any such sum or sums of money shall have been paid. It shall be lawful for the governor, auditor and treasurer, if at any time they shall believe the security to be given has depreciated, and that the same has become inadequate, to require of the said Joel A. Matteson to give additional Additional sesecurity; and in case said Matteson shall not give such curity. additional security, within sixty days after a notice in writing shall have been given him by the governor, auditor and treasurer so to do, then the sum of money secured to be paid to the state as aforesaid, shall immediately become and be deemed due and payable, from the time of such default; and the state shall pay no interest upon any of the aforesaid Interest. bonds until otherwise provided by law, but the amount of interest which is retained shall not be required to be paid by said Matteson; and the state shall pay neither interest nor principal hereafter shall be paid upon any of the last mentioned bonds not on deposit with the auditor, unless otherwise provided by law.

ditional security.

require no ad

2. Until the expiration of the time herein limited for Bank commisthe furnishing of said security, it shall not be lawful for the sioners shall bank commissioners to require the said State Bank or the stockholders thereof to furnish any other or additional security for the protection of the circulation or payment of the liabilities of said bank, on account of any deficiency that may arise from the alleged invalidity of said bonds now on deposit with the auditor; and when such security as in the first section hereof provided shall have been given, no such requisition shall be made or enforced by reason of the alleged invalidity of said bonds.

3. Other securities, of the description now prescribed Exchange of by the laws of this state, shall, from time to time, be deposited securities. with the auditor, in lieu of any of the bonds in the first section hereof mentioned, and shall be by him substituted in the place thereof; and whenever any such new bonds shall be deposited with the auditor, so many of the bonds men

canceled.

ties.

tioned in said first section as shall equal in amount the bond Bonds to be or bonds so substituted, shall, by the auditor, be delivered to the governor, and by him be canceled; and whenever any of the circulation of said bank shall be returned for the purpose of taking up the said bonds or either of them, the bonds so taken up shall be canceled by the governor. Time for depo- § 4. The securities to be deposited by the said State siting securi- Bank of Illinois, at Shawneetown, in conformity with the preceding section, in lieu of the bonds mentioned in the first section of this act, shall be deposited within five years after the passage of this act; on failure of which, the bank commissioners or other proper authority shall make a requisition on the said bank, or the stockholders thereof, to supply the place of the said bonds, or of so many of them as are still uncanceled, with such other securities as the law may require in cases of requisitions under the general banking Bonds to be law. And the said bonds, or such of them as remain uncanceled, shall thereupon be canceled, as provided for in the preceding section.

canceled.

Liability of the

state.

85. Until the security aforesaid is given, nothing in this act shall be construed to impose any liability on the state on account of said bonds, and nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to or affect any other bonds than those especially named herein.

6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 19, 1859.

In force April AN ACT in relation to the payment of the principal and interest of [the] state 26, 1859.

Tressurer

give notice.

Governor

give notice.

debt.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the treasto urer of the state shall give one month's notice, by publication in three of the public newspapers published in the city of New York, when and where, in the city of New York, he will pay the interest upon the public debt, and at the expiration of thirty days after the time for such payment he shall return the balance of the money remaining in his hands for the payment of interest to the state treasury, and the interest upon such bonds as shall not have been presented within said thirty days shall be paid at the office of the treasurer, at the seat of government of this state. to § 2. The governor shall give one month's notice of the time and place when and where he will pay the principal of such state bonds as he is authorized by law to pay, by publication of such notice in three public newspapers published in the city of New York, in which notice the bonds which are to be then paid shall be designated.

§ 3. Whenever any state indebtedness becomes due and Bonds due to the governor cannot, with the funds appropriated by law be paid. for that purpose, purchase said indebteness, without paying a premium for the same, he shall appropriate such funds to the payment of such bonds of the state as may be then due, after giving the notice required by the second section of this act; but the money for that purpose shall be drawn from the treasury in accordance with the law now in force authorizing the purchase of state indebtedness.

$4. The interest upon such bonds as shall be designated Interest. by the governor, in a notice to be given under and in pursuance of the second section of this act, shall cease from the time of payment specified in such notice.

5. All laws now in force authorizing an agency of the Transfer agenstate for the transfer of bonds in the city of New York are cy. hereby repealed, and no such transfer agency shall hereafter be kept in said city; and the books of said transfer agency shall be deposited in the office of the auditor of public accounts.

§ 6. An act entitled "An act to fund the arrears of Acts repealed. interest accrued and unpaid on the public debt of the state of Illinois," approved February 18th, 1857, shall be and remain in force until the first day of January, 1860. At and after that date its provisions shall cease and be of no effect. Any and all coupons, scrips, certificates or other evidences of arrears of interest, authorized to be funded by the act aforesaid, but have not been so funded by the said first day of January, 1860, may be paid for at par by the governor from such funds as are now authorized by law to be applied to the payment of state indebtedness; but no interest shall be allowed or paid thereon. The governor shall cause this section to be published at an early date, for at least one month, in three newspapers published in the city of New York.

7. An act entitled "An act to authorize the refunding Act repealed. of the state debt," approved February 28, 1847, an act entitled "An act to fund state scrip," approved February 22d, 1847, and the second section of "An act concerning the public debt," approved February 12, 1849, be and the same is hereby repealed. The governor shall appoint a Commissioner. commissioner, who shall keep his office in the city of New York, who shall be a commissioner of deeds, and shall perform all the duties now performed by commissioners of deeds for this state, and shall receive the same fees for such services as are allowed to other commissioners of deeds; and such commissioner shall also be authorized to take acknowledgments of the assignment of bonds of this state, in the manner hereinafter provided, and shall be entitled to the same fees for taking such acknowledgments, as for the acknowledgments of deeds. Any person, being the owner Transfer by asof any bond of this state, which, upon its face is made signment. transferable in the city of New York, may transfer the same,