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of the State to provide proper police regulations, used, except the beams the cutting of the 



She may enact such laws as will protect the property, s t ODe and preparation of the iron to be done 



5* 9JSd^%A^^S ** State P?* With -nvict-labor. 



cotton or nitroglycerine, because they are dangerous The appropriations made during the session 



to life and property. She could inhibit obscene books, of the Legislature are as iollows : 



'pictures, etc. , because they are detrimental to good New state-house $650,000 



morals or policy. She could exclude goods or arti- Southern Asylum for the Insane, and pay of 



cles supposed to contain the germs of infectious dis- Commissioners 143,250 



eases, because they would be dangerous to health. Illinois State Hospital for the Insane, Jackson- 



But the legislation must specify the causes of the ^^^^SnoiVHospiiai and Asylum for "the 



exclusion, and the prohibition must be directed Ing and O f Commissioners 127,800 



against the particular thing; thus, goods manulac- nii no is Institution for Education of the Blind.. 55,000 



tured in, or shipped from a place where small-pox Illinois Institution for Education of the Deaf 



or yellow fever prevailed, could be rightfully exclud- and Dumb 173,400 



ed, but not all the trade with a State be disallowed Illinois Penitentiary, including special appro- 



because particular portions were infected with disease. priations for same 3 0.080 



All the goods manufactured in Massachusetts could ^^WS^^aSSSSS^ 60000 



not be declared contraband because there was small- g^Thern" IlliS N^mS^niversityV and ex- 6 ' 00 



pox in Lowell. The Legislature had the undoubted pense of Trustees 79,000 



right and power to exclude diseased cattle coming Home for Children of Deceased Soldiers (Bloom- 



from anyorallthe States, but had no power, in my ington) ^^ 



Judgment, to exclude all the cattle coming from Illinois Soldiers' College (Fulton) 40.000 



pur General Assembly intended to guard against the improvement Little Wabash 35,000 



introduction of diseased cattle from Texas or the Canal and Biver Improvement 400,000 



Cherokee nation, but they were unfortunate in the Commissioners of the Board of Public Charities 16,000 



choice of means. To say that all Texas cattle should Constitutional Convention (estimated) 75,000 



be excluded because some Texas cattle could com- Printing and binding Adjutant-General's Pve- 



municate a disease to our cattle is going beyond our Sun S?y %edaV appropriations " '. 26',900 



constitutional bounds, and treading upon inhibited Anl boy, fiattoon: and ! Sparta City Courts 8,000 



ground. Keform School (Poiitiac) 80,000 



I felt very reluctant to hold an act of the General All revenue tax in Alexandria County, given to 



Assembly to be invalid, because I think courts, and county 14,000 



particularly circuit courts, should hesitate before they Revenue tax given for Levee Funds in St. Clair, 

 Laintaintnat a coordinate department of the Govern- fesdmaTed) P ' Counties 



rnent had transcended pr mistaken its powers. increased compensation to Judges'. '. ". '. '. '. '. '. ". '. '. '. '. G7',200 

 The session of the Legislature closed on the $2 797 870 



20tl \ iL A J ri1 ' haVlng laSted ( including the re ~ The amount appropriated for salaries of the 



^ S * ^4.1; xr CJ4. * v i judicial and executive officers, Legislature, 



Ihe question of the ew State-house havmg ' bu inti d bindi ^yeying con : 



come before the Legislature, and grave charges ^cts t * he pe | itentiarv an |' all ord i na ? v and 



of corruption and extravagance, especially in contin t expenses of the State government, 



the use oi unnecessarily expensive stone < for .^ ^^ Qn the 8clloolj g college? an< i 



' -minary funds, is not included in the above 



Wo^z^ 



of $32o,000 per annum for the years 1869 and Th ' e ^ lroad le fe gis f ation was of & ^ agni . 



1870 was appropriated, and Jacob Bunn, J. H tude and . orta ^ ce and several fo new line j of 



Beveridge, and J 0. Robinson reappomted road were c L rtered .' The interest of the gen- 



commissioners. Their report for the year 1869 eral m however, centred in two hills, one 



shows the following facts : of w ^ {c ^ ^ QW & law? caused considerable dis . 



Ton to B S^ nedb ^ f nnerBoftrdMldincluded *882949 cussion during the session. The act provides 



Voucher8 e is 1 sueabyfo'rmer Board and included ' that it shall he lawful for any railroad com- 



in report of present Board 41,453 7t pany, organized and doing business, or which 



V6 ^a l ^rf5.?f!?^^^^ d ^ 15687676 shall hereafter be organized under any law or 



' laws of this State, by resolution of its hoard 



Total amount expended to November 30, 1869. $527,659 95 o f directors of executive committee, to divide 



In prosecuting the work no new contracts its board of directors into three classes, num- 



Trere made, hut the work was carried forward bered consecutively : the term of office of the 



under the existing contracts to a point beyond first class to expire on the day of the annual 



what was at first contemplated; the founda- election of said company then next ensuing; 



tion for the dome and the several vaults were the second class one year thereafter, and the 



carried up with the same material and class third class two years thereafter. At each an- 



of masonry, to receive the basement floor. nual election after such classification, the stock- 



The commissioners further state that full, holders shall elect, for the term of three years, 



complete, and perfect plans and specifications a number of directors equal to the number in 



in detail, of the cut stone of the basement story, the class whose term expires on the day of 



have been furnished, and satisfactory arrange- such election, etc. The other and most im- 



ments have been made to furnish and deliver portant bill was one fixing rates of fare, and 



the stone ; also, all the iron-work that may be was general in its terms, yet was vetoed by 



