Governor to ap § 4. The governor, by and with the advice and consent point trustees. of the senate, is hereby directed to appoint a board of five trustees of said infirmary. Said trustees and their succes tees. To make by laws, rules and regulations. performed with out tion. Auditor sors may elect, annually, from their number, a president, a vice-president, and a secretary; may appoint a treasurer and a board of skillful attending and consulting surgeons. Duties of trus- It shall further be the duty of this board of trustees to receive, in the name of the state, all donations, gifts, bequests, and moneys which may be obtained for said infirmary, and apply the same to the charitable purposes for which they may be received. An exact account of the donations, gifts, bequests and moneys thus obtained, shall be rendered annually to the governor. Said board of trustees may make such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of themselves, their officers and said infirmary as shall seem to them expedient, not inconsistent with this act. Duties to be 5. The board of trustees and the board of attending remunera- and consulting surgeons, appointed in accordance with this act, shall all perform their duties without remuneration. to § 6. When the certified copy of the minute making draw warrants. such transfer, provided for in section two of this act, shall have been filed, the auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the state treasurer, as follows: one, for five thousand dollars, on or before the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-one; and another, for the like amount of five thousand dollars, on or before the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy-two -each to the order of the treasurer of the trustees of the infirmary, and to deliver such warrants to said treasurer for Money to be the support of said infirmary. The money so appropriated needy patients, shall be expended for the support of needy patients from the state of Illinois suffering from diseases of the eye or ear, who shall present to the superintendent of the infirmary written certificates of their place of residence, and their absolute inability to pay for their board or treatment, signed by the supervisor of the town where they reside, or by their family physician. expended for Annual reports of expenditures. Endowment fund. Property to re vert to trustees, 7. An exact account of the manner in which this money drawn from the state treasury shall be expended, shall be printed in the annual reports of the infirmary. A statement of all the receipts and expenditures of the infirmary shall be made annually to the governor. § 8. The endowment fund, amounting to six thousand dollars, now held and owned by said infirmary, may be used, it said board of trustees shall determine, in the purchase of a lot or lots for the use of said infirmary. § 9. When the general assembly shall cease to make an when appropria- appropriation of an annual amount equal to that specified in section six of this act for the support and use of said infirmary, the property conveyed to the state shall revert to tions ceasе. the trustees mentioned in section two of this act, or their successors. APPROVED April 17, 1871. AN ACT to provide means to pay the expense of renting and furnishing suit- In force March able accommodations for the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. 19, 1872. WHEREAS the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, Preamble. created a state institution in accordance with an act passed by the general assembly of eighteen hundred and seventyone, was totally destroyed, with all its furniture and appliances, in the recent conflagration at Chicago; and whereas, in consequence of a sudden and pressing necessity, the patients of the infirmary were removed to new accommodations; and whereas the present condition of the city of Chicago renders it impossible to raise money as heretofore by subscription for an infirmary building and furniture; therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Appropriation. treasurer of the state pay to the treasurer of the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary the sum of four thousand dollars, to be expended by the trustees of the infirmary, as follows: Two thousand five hundred dollars for the rent of a suitable infirmary building, and one thousand five hundred dollars for furnishing the same. 2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby required to draw his warrant as soon as practicable on the state treasurer for said four thousand dollars, upon the order of the president of said board of trustees of said infirmary, attested by the secretary of said board of trustees. § 3. In consequence of the total destruction of the infir- Emergency. mary and its furniture, an emergency exists why this act shall take effect before the first day of July next; therefore this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 19, 1872. In force March AN ACT appropriating money for the ordinary expenses of the Illinois Insti29, 1871. tution for the Education of the Blind, from the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three. penses. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the Appropriation purpose of defraying the ordinary expenses of the State for ordinary ex- Institution for the Education of the Blind, from the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be and there is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury the sum of twenty thousand dollars per annum, from the first day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three; said money to be paid in equal quarterly payments. Auditor accounts auditor. to with § 2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized draw warrant. and required to draw his warrant on the treasurer for the sums aforesaid, upon the orders of the trustees of the said institution, signed by the president and attested by the secretary, with the seal of the institution attached thereto : ProTrustees to file vided, that before the auditor shall draw any such warrant, the said trustees shall file with the said auditor an account with bills of particulars, and the proper vouchers of the money expended for the use of said institution during the preceding quarter, verified by the affidavit of the proper person, together with estimates of the amount necessary for the ensuing quarter. Such account and estimates shall be approved by the governor, and no more money shall be drawn at any time than shall appear from said estimates necessary to support said institution until the expiration of the ensuing quarter. Emergency. 3. That inasmuch as there will be funds needed to meet the ordinary expenses of the said institution, before the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one: therefore an emergency exists requiring that this act should go into effect immediately. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 29, 1871. In force March AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the Illinois Institution for 29, 1871. Feeble Minded Children, from March 1st, 1871, to July 1st, 1873. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the sum Appropriation, of twenty-three thousand dollars ($23,000) per annum is penses. hereby appropriated from the first of March, eighteen hun ordinary ex dred and seventy-one (1871), to the first of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873), for ordinary expenses for the Illinois Institution for the Education of Feeble Insurance. Minded Children, also, the sum of five hundred ($500) dollars per annum for insurance and furniture from March first, eighteen hundred and seventy-one (1871), to July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-three (1873), is hereby ap propriated for the same institution, and said sums shall be paid quarterly out of the state treasury. The said quarterly installments shall be paid in advance: Provided that after payment for one quarter has been made, no further war- filed with audirants shall be issued in favor of said institution until satisfactory vouchers shall have been filed with the auditor of public accounts, by the superintendent of said institution, approved by the trustees, showing in detail the amount and nature of each and every expenditure made out of the preceding quarterly installment of said appropriation, verified by the affidavit of said superintendent. 2. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants on the treasurer of state for the said sums, upon orders of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, signed by the president, and attested by the secretary of said board, with the seal of the institution, until said institution is incorporated, and a separate board of trustees are appointed for it. Vouchers to be tor. Auditor to draw warrants. 3. That inasmuch as there are no funds with which Emergency. to maintain and support the institution, therefore an emergency exists, requiring that this act go into effect immedi ately. $4 This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 29, 1871. 1872. AN ACT to authorize and empower the copying of the original field notes of In force July 1, the United States surveys, of the state of Illinois, transferred from the surveyor general's office to the state, under an act of congress of the United States, and to make an appropriation for the payment of the expenses thereof. WHEREAS the original field notes of the United States Preamble. surveys, described in the title of this bill, made in the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and six and thereafter, are now, many of them, nearly illegible by reason of the lapse of time and the imperfection of the materials used in recording; and whereas the boundaries of counties and the location of all the lands of the state of Illinois, are dependent on said field notes for the evidence of their location; therefore, make copies. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the cus Custodian to todian of the field notes, maps and plats of the United States surveys of the state of Illinois, be and hereby is authorized, empowered and directed, with reasonable dispatch, to make or cause to be made full and correct copies of the aforesaid field notes of the United States surveys now in his said office; said custodian shall use the best of India ink in copying. To be compared Evidence, Appropriation. § 2. The field notes shall, when copied, be carefully examined, compared and certified as a true and correct copy by said custodian, and said copies and abstracts therefrom shall be competent evidence in all courts of said state. And said copies shall remain in the office of said custodian. 3. That the fees for the services aforesaid, when performed by said custodian, shall be for each township or fractional township, the sum of ten dollars. 4. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, to carry out the provisions of this act. APPROVED January 10, 1872. In force July 1, AN ACT making appropriations for the Illinois Industrial University. 1871. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Appropriations sums hereinafter mentioned be and the same are hereby appropriated to the board of trustees of the Illinois Industrial University: For erectfon of For the erection of a main building at a cost not exceed main building. ing one hundred and fifty thousand dollars when completed, to contain a hall for public exercises, the library, geological, zoological and botanical rooms, and rooms for lectures and class exercises, and offices, the sum of seventy-five thou sand dollars. For mechanical department. Chemical and For the erection of a building for the mechanical department, at a cost not exceeding the amount hereby appropriated when completed, to contain the rooms necessary for instruction in mechanical science and military tactics, for collections of models, workshops, and other necessary rooms, and for furniture and apparatus for the same, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars. For chemical and mining apparatus and furniture, and mining appara- books for chemical department, the sum of five thousand five hundred dollars, for two years. tus. |