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Laws of 1883, page 54 (Revised Statutes, chapter 5, sections 29-32). 



AN ACT to require operators of butter and cheese factories on the co- 

 operative plan to give bonds, and to prescribe penalties for the viola- 

 tion thereof. (Approved June 18, 1883.) 



Section 1. That is shall be unlawful for any person or persons, com- 

 pany or corporation, within this State to operate, carry one, or conduct 

 the business of manufacturing butter or cheese on the cooperative or 

 dividend plan until such person or persons, company or corporation, shall 

 have filed with the circuit clerk or recorder of deeds of the county in 

 which it ?'s proposed to carry on such business a good and sufficient bond, 

 to be approved by such circuit clerk or recorder of deeds, in the penal sum 

 of six thousand dollars, with one or more good sureties, conditioned that 

 such person or persons, company or corporation, proposing to carry on 

 such business will, on or before the first day of each month, make, 

 acknowledge, subscribe, and swear to a report in writing, showing the 

 amount of products manufactured, the amount sold, the prices received 

 therefor, and the dividends earned and declared for the third month pre- 

 ceding the month in which such report is made, and will file a copy of such 

 report with the clerk of the town or precinct in which such factory is 

 located, and will also keep publicly posted, in a conspicuous place in such 

 factory, a copy of such report for the inspection of the patrons thereof, and 

 that such dividends shall be promptly paid to the persons entitled thereto. 



Sec. 2. Such bond shall run to the people of the State of Illinois, and 

 shall be for the benefit and protection of all patrons of such factory; and 

 suit may be had thereon by any person or persons injured by a breach of 

 the conditions thereof by an action of debt for the use of the person or 

 persons interested for all damages sustained by them. 



Sec. 3. Such bond shall be recorded by the circuit clerk or recorded 

 with whom the same is filed, and all such reports so filed with any town 

 or precinct clerk shall be preserved by him: and held subject to the inspec- 

 tion of any person or persons interested. 



Sec. 4. Any person who shall willfully violate any provision of this 

 act shall be liable to a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more 

 than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less 



