HOUSE BILLS PASSED
No. 19. An Act to secure the service of process in actions against corporations, created by the General Assembly of this State, which have no officers or persons doing business in the county where they have been located and have exercised corporate powers.
No. 22. An Act providing for the reappraisement of the unsold school lands in this State.
No. 23. An Act to repeal an act entitled "an act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, except in the cases therein named, and to repeal all former acts inconsistent therewith, and for the suppression of intemperance. Approved February 16, 1855.
No. 32. An Act to repeal an act Authorizing the State of Illinois to maintain the feeder dam, and securing the use of the waters of the Calumet river; and providing the manner of the assessment of damages sustained by the citizens of Indiana, by the erection thereof; and regulating the draining of swamp lands adjacent to the Calumet riser in the State of Indiana.
No. 36. An act to amend the first section of an act entitled "an act providing for extending the terms of Circuit Courts by adjournment when the business shall be unfinished,'' approved February 12, 1855; to authorize the Court or Judge to call and hold special terms, and to fix the compensation of the Judges for such adjourned and special terms, and of Prosecuting Attorneys while in attendance upon the same.
This bill never passed, though approved by the Governor. Owing to a disagreement between the Houses, the bill never was finally enacted, but through the hurry of business was enrolled by the Clerks of the House, and the enrolling being finished at a late hour of night was not discovered until after its approval.
No. 38 An Act legalizing the acknowledgment of all deeds, mortgages, and other instruments required to be recorded, taken and certified by the Clerk of the Circuit and Common Pleas Courts of this State, after the reception of the Revised Statutes of 1852, in their respective counties.
No. 39. An Act to regulate the collection, of judgments and the sale of property on execution against any Sheriff, constable, or other public officer administrator, guardian, executor, or any other person or corporation, receiving or holding money in a fiduciary capacity, or the surities of either of them.
No. 43. An Act to authorize churches to form a union, assume a new name, appoint trustees, and enable them to recieve conveyance of lands and donations of personal property.
No. 62. An Act for the punishment of officers of elections for refusing or neglecting to receive votes of legal voters.
No. 73. An Act to raise a revenue for State purposes for the years 1859 and 1860.
No. 79. An Act to provide for the relocation of county seats and for county buildings, when two-thirds of the voters of any county have petitioned for re-location, designating the site and a house to be used as a court-house, and where a deed has been executed and to provide for the limitation of actions growing out of such re-location, and for the donation of the former county property.
No. 101. An Act to secure to the Sinking Fund a debt which the State owes to the said fund, to provide for the payment of interest on said debt.
No. 104. An Act to make specific appropriations for the year 1858.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
House Joint Resolution No. 4. A Joint resolution directing the Treasurer of State to appropriate all the public money in his hands as therein provided, and directing the Governor, Treasurer and Auditor to borrow money of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, or elsewhere, giving the preference to said fund.
I also certify that 111 bills were introduced in the Senate, all of which were read a second time; many of which were referred and reported upon, but not passed for want of time.
JAMES H. VAWTER Principal Secretary of Senate.
