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and a human being is killed, or person injured, or 

 property destroyed by any of the persons engaged in 

 such conspiracy, or by any one who may participate 

 with them, . . . then all the persons who may have 

 conspired together as aforesaid, together with all per- 

 sons who may actively participate in carrying into 

 effect their common design, shall be deemed guilty of 

 the crime committed by any one or more of such per- 

 sons, . . . and shall be punished accordingly ; not- 

 withstanding the time and place for the bringing 

 about such revolution . . . had not been definitely 

 agreed upon by such conspirators, but was left to the 

 exigencies of the time or the judgment of co-conspira- 

 tors, or some one or more of them. 



Another law makes " boycotting " a con- 

 spiracy, punishable by imprisonment not over 

 live years, or a fine of not over $2,500, or 

 both. Foreigners are forbidden to hold real 

 property in the State by descent, devise, or 

 purchase, except that one who hereafter ac- 

 quires land by descent or devise may hold it 

 from three to five years after such requisition. 

 Foreigners already owning land in the State 

 are permitted to retain it. Property held con- 

 trary to this act will escheat to the State. A 

 question that . provoked long discussion was 

 whether the State Fair should be permanently 

 located, and, if so, at what place. The House 

 decided that Springfield should be a permanent 

 location, but the Senate refused to concur, and 

 no legislation was had upon the matter. The 

 commission appointed by the last Legislature 

 to revise the revenue laws and suggest a reme- 

 dy for the present inefficient method of assess- 

 ment and collection of taxes, submitted an 

 elaborate report at this session, but no action 

 was taken upon it. The necessity for a change 

 is proved by the fact that, under the present 

 method, the valuation of property in the State 

 is reported to be less than in 1886, and that in 

 the past fifteen years it has decreased over 

 $645,000,000. Other acts of the session were 

 as follow : 



To prevent alien landlords from including the pay- 

 ment of taxes in the rent of farm-lands as a part of 

 the rental thereof. 



Amending an act relating to the suppression and 

 prevention of contagious diseases among domestic ani- 

 mals, and giving the Live-Stock Commissioners power 

 to suppress such diseases. 



To punish fulse pretenses in obtaining certificates 

 of registration of cattle and other animals/and to pun- 

 ish giving false pedigrees. 



Appropriating $20,000 per annum for the next two 

 years for the repairs and running expenses of the Illi- 

 nois and Michigan Canal. 



To create a board of trustees to take and hold the 

 title to the homestead of Abraham Lincoln, in the 

 city of Springfield, in trust for the State of Illinois, 

 and to provide for the care and custody thereof; ap- 

 propriating $3,800 for the next two years for repairs 

 and for paying a custodian to keep and exhibit said 

 homestead and the relics and curiosities there collected. 



Appropriating $10,000 for repairs of the Lincoln 

 Monument near Springfield. 



Appropriating $50,000 to erect a monument to Gen. 

 John A. IjOgan, and providing for its location upon 

 some public park or boulevard. 



Appropriating $20,500 for repairs upon the State- 

 House. 



To prohibit book-making and pool-selling, except 

 at the grounds of incorporated fair or racing associa- 

 tions during the meetings of such associations. 



To suppress " bucket-shops," or dealing upon mar- 

 gins. 



To provide for the proper care and management of 

 county cemetery grounds by the appointment of trus- 

 tees of such by the county commissioners. 



Making a residence of two years in the State neces- 

 sary before admission to the State Soldiers' and Sail- 

 ors' Home. 



To punish the abandonment of children under one 

 year of age. 



To provide that the police of any town or city may 

 go into any adjoining town or city to preserve the 

 peace or to protect citizens and property, and making 

 such adjoining towns or cities one police district for 

 such purposes. 



To create the office of president of the board of trus- 

 tees of villages and towns, and to provide for his elec- 

 tion annually. 



To give power to the city council of cities, and the 

 president and board of trustees in villages and towns, 

 to license, tax, regulate, or prohibit itinerant mer- 

 chants. 



To create, in cities or villages of 50,000 inhabitants 

 or over, having a paid fire department, a firemen's 

 pension fund, which shall be one per cent, of all reve- 

 nues of such city collected from licenses, to create a 

 board of trustees of such fund, to provide for its dis- 

 tribution for pensions to disabled Bremen and to the 

 widows and minor children of deceased firemen, and 

 to authorize the retirement from service upon pen- 

 sions of members of fire departments in such cities or 

 villages. 



To provide a similar pension fund for the police in 

 cities and villages of 50,000 inhabitants or over. 



To provide for the incorporation of co-operative 

 associations for pecuniary profit, and defining their 

 powers and duties. 



To enable corporations created for that purpose to 

 transact a surety business in this State, and to become 

 surety on bonds required by law. 



To provide for and regulate the administration of 

 trusts oy organized trust companies. 



To prevent the prostitution of females fixing the 

 age of consent in females at fourteen years. 



Defining the offenses and penalties for interfering 

 with or bribing voters. 



To regulate the manufacture, transportation, use, 

 and sale of dynamite and other explosives, and to 

 punish an improper use of the same. 



Making barbed wire a legal fence. 



To regulate the taking of fish in the waters of the 

 State, and to encourage their propagation and cultiva- 

 tion. 



Providing that no person shall be imprisoned for 

 debt for a longer period than six months. 



Prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors outside 

 of incorporated towns, cities, or villages, in less quan- 

 tities than five gallons. 



To organize farmers' county mutual live-stock in- 

 surance companies. 



To authorize judges of courts of record to appoint, 

 at the request of the electors of the county shown at 

 an election for that purpose, a board of jury commis- 

 sionerSj which shall have charge of the selection of 

 jurors tor that county. 



Increasing the amount of tax that may be levied in 

 cities of fewer than 100,000 inhabitants to two mills 

 on the dollar. 



Ceding the locks and dams in the Illinois river to 

 the United States, on condition that a complete wa- 

 ter-way for steam navigation from the Mississippi 

 river to Lake Michigan, by way of the Illinois river, 

 the DCS Plaines river, and the Illinois and Michigan 

 Canal, be made by the United States Government. 



Prohibiting marriages between cousins of the first 

 degree. 



Regulating the practice of medicine and surgery in 

 the State, requiring a certificate from the State Board 

 of Health, and prescribing the powers and duties of 

 the board. 



