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as to substitute confinement in the
penitentiary, in place of punish-
ments heretofore inflicted. On
conviction, the measure of punish-
ment heretofore fixed by the court,
is to be prescribed by the jury. A
warden is to be elected biennially
by the legislature, who is to give
bond for the faithful performance
of his duties, and receive an annual
salary of $600. The Governor
and Senate appoint four inspec-
tors every two years, who, together
with the warden, constitute a board
of inspectors, to whom the general
supervision of the penitentiary is
entrusted. Persons under eighteen
years
of age are not to be confined
in the penitentiary.

The Governor is authorised to

subscribe for 150 copies of the Reports of the Supreme Court of Illinois, which are about to be published.

The compensation to the members and officers of the legislature for this session was as follows:

To the speakers of the Senate and House of Representatives, each $500 per day; to the member of the Senate and House of Representatives, each $3 00 per day, for each day of the session, and $300 for every twenty miles travel in going to and returning from the seat of government. To the secretary of the Senate, and principal clerk of the House, $5 00 per day; to the enrolling clerks, $4 00 per day.

MISSOURI.

INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.-The of the Yellow Stone, where is situLegislature of this state, at the ses- ated the highest trading establish. sion of 1830, sanctioned a memo- ment on the Missouri. This point rial, declaring it to be the duty of is about nineteen hundred miles the Federal Government to con- above St. Louis; not more than struct works of internal improve- six hundred miles by water, and a ment, and praying for an appropri- much less distance by land from ation for the removal of the ob- the base of the Rocky mountains. structions in the Mississippi and No steam-boat, we believe, has yet Missouri rivers, and for the contin- passed Council Bluffs, situated one uation of the Cumberland road. third of the way between St. Louis and the mouth of the Yellow Stone. Should the company succeed in reaching this point with their boat, we have good reasons for believing that success will repay them, and we shall have the pleasure of beholding what, it was thought the other day, was reserved for the next generation.'

May, 1831.-OUR RIVERS.-The following paragraph, from the St. Louis Beacon, is highly indicative of that spirit of enterprise and hardihood for which our fellow citizens of the west are justly renowned :

'A new and handsome steamboat, belonging to the American fur company, arrived in this port on Sunday last, and proceeds today, it is understood, for the mouth

St. Louis, the starting place, is about 1,168 miles from the sea.

CENSUS OF 1830.

Returns, showing the aggregate population of each County in each State of the United States.

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