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AN ACT to require operators of butter and cheese factories on 

 the co-operative plan to give bonds, and to prescribe penal- 

 ties for the violation thereof. (Approved June 18, 1883). 



Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person or per- 

 sons, company or corporation, within this state to operate, carry 

 on, or conduct the business of manufacturing butter or cheese on 

 the co-operative 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 is proposed to 

 carry on such business, a good and sufficient bond, to be ap- 

 proved by such circuit clerk or recorder of deeds, in the penal 

 sum of six hundred 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 product manu- 

 factured, the amount sold, the prices received therefor, and the 

 dividends earned and declared for the third month preceding 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 fac- 

 tory is located, and will also keep publicly posted, in a conspic- 

 uous place in such factory, a copy of such report for the inspec- 

 tion of the patrons thereof, and that such dividends shall be 

 promptly paid to the persons entitled thereto. 



Section 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 any action of debt for the use of the person or persons inter- 

 ested for all damages sustained by them. 



Section 3. Such bond shall be recorded by the circuit clerk 

 or recorder with whom the same is filed, and all such reports so 

 filed with any town or precinct clerk shall be preserved by him 



