Certificate of purchase.

lected to the municipality or other authorities or persons entitled to receive the same; and upon sale having been made of such delinquent lands or lots, shall immediately make a final settlement, and pay over to the proper officers, authorities or persons, the full amount that shall then be in his hands, less his fees, which shall be the same as provided by law in case of state and county taxes.

$12. No purchaser, or assignee of such purchaser of any land, town or city lot, at any sale of lands or lots for taxes or special assessments due, either to the state or any county or incorporated town or city within the same, or at any sale for taxes or levies authorized by the laws of this state, shall be entitled to a deed for the lands or lots so purchased, until he or she shall have complied with the following conditions, to-wit: Such purchaser or assignee shall serve, or cause to be served, a written or printed, or partly written and printed, notice of such purchase on every person in actual possession or occupancy of such land or lot, at least three months before the expiration of the time of redemption on such sale, in which notice he shall state when he purchased the land or lot, the description of the land or lot he has purchased, and when the time of redemption will expire. In like manner he shall serve on the person or persons in whose name or names such land or lot is taxed a similar written or printed notice, if such person or persons shall reside in the county where such land or lot shall be situated; and in the event that the person or persons in whose name or names the land or lot is taxed do not reside in the county, such purchaser shall publish such notice in some newspaper printed in such county; and if no newspaper is printed in the county, then in the nearest newspaper that is published in this state to the county seat of the county in which such lot or land is situated; which notice shall be inserted three times, the first time not more than five months, and the last time not less than three months before the time of redemption shall expire. Every such purchaser or assignee, by himself or agent, shall, before he shall be entitled to a deed, make an affidavit of his having complied with the conditions of this section, stating particularly the facts relied on as such compliance, which affidavit shall be delivered to the person authorized by law to execute such tax deed, and which shall by him be filed with the officer having custody of the record of the lands and lots sold for taxes and entries of redemption in the county where such lands or lots shall lie, to be by such officer entered on the records of his office, and carefully preserved among the files of his office, and which record or affidavit shall be prima facie evidence that such notice has been given. Any person swearing falsely in such affidavit shall be deemed guilty of perjury and punished accordingly. In case any person shall be compelled, under this section,

to publish a notice in a newspaper, then, before any person who may have a right to redeem such lands or lots from such tax sale shall be permitted to redeem, he or she shall pay the officer or person who, by law, is authorized to receive such redemption money, the amount paid for printer's fee for publishing such notice, for the use of the person compelled to publish such notice as aforesaid: Provided, that the fee for such publication, where the notice does not include more than four tracts or lots, shall not exceed four dollars; and when the notice contains more than four tracts or lots, then there shall be allowed fifty cents for each additional tract or lot contained in such notice.

§ 13. Real property sold under the provisions of this act Redemption. may be redeemed at any time before the expiration of two years from the date of sale, by the payment, in legal money of the United States, to the county clerk of the proper county, the amount for which the same was sold, and twenty-five per cent. thereon, if redeemed at any time before the expiration of six months from the day of sale; if between six and twelve months, fifty per cent.; if between twelve and eighteen months, seventy-five per cent.; and if between eighteen months and two years, one hundred per cent. on the amount for which the same was sold. The person redeeming shall also pay the amount of all taxes and special assessments accruing after such sale, with ten per cent. interest thereon from the day of payment, unless such subsequent tax or special assessments has been paid by the person for whose benefit the redemption is made, and not by the purchaser at the tax sale, or his assignee: Provided, that if the real property of any minor heir, feme covert, or insane person, be sold for non-payment of taxes or special assessments, the same may be redeemed at any time after sale and before the expiration of one year after such disability be removed, upon the terms specified in this section, and the payment of ten per cent. per annum on double the amount for which the same was sold, from and after the expiration of two years from the date of sale-which redemption may be made by their guardians or legal representatives. Tenants in common, or joint tenants, shall be allowed to redeem their individual interest in real property sold under the provisions of this act, in the same manner and under the terms specified in this section for the redemption of other real property.

[$14.] Whereas there is now no general officer in many Emergency. cities, and in counties not under township organization, having authority to receive state and county taxes, to whom a return of unpaid taxes and municipal and special assessments can be made, or who is authorized to sell real estate for the non-payment of such taxes and assessments, whereby an emergency has arisen, requiring this act to take effect immediately therefore, this act shall take effect and be in

force from and after its passage, and until the object intended by this act can be obtained under a general revenue law, which may hereafter be enacted by the general assembly, after which this act shall be of no effect, except so far as proceedings may have been commenced under this act. APPROVED March 22, 1872.

In force July 1, 1879.

For purposes.

general

For interest on state debt.

Governor and

pale.

AN ACT providing for the necessary revenue for state purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That there shall be raised, by levying a tax upon valuation on the taxable property in the state, the following sums for the purposes hereafter set forth:

For general state purposes, to be designated "Revenue fund," one million five hundred thousand dollars upon the levy of eighteen hundred and seventy-two; and fifteen hundred thousand dollars annually thereafter.

For the payment of interest on state debt, and interest on funds which the state is now required to pay by law, two hundred thousand dollars annually.

§ 2. The governor and auditor shall annually compute anditor to com- the separate rates per cent. as will produce the above amounts, and no more, anything in any other act providing for a different manner of ascertaining the amount of revenue to be levied for state purposes to the contrary notwithstanding; and when so ascertained the auditor shall certify to the county clerks such separate rate per cent.; also such definite rates for other purposes as is now or may be hereafter provided by law to be levied and collected as state

taxes.

§3. All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED April 9, 1872.

REVISED STATUTES.

AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act to amend chapter thirty, of Revised In force July 1, Statutes, entitled 'Bigamy,"" approved February 8th, 1853.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the act entitled "An act to amend chapter thirty, of the Revised Statutes, entitled 'Bigamy,' "" approved February eighth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, be and the same is hereby repealed.

APPROVED November 29, 1871.

1872.

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1872.

AN ACT to amend chapter thirty, of the Revised Statutes, entitled "Criminal In force July 1, Jurisprudence," so as to prevent misfeasance in office, or charging or receiving illegal fees, and in giving or offering to give, or receiving or offering

to receive, a bribe.

SEOTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That any Illegal fees. officer who shall knowingly charge, collect or receive any greater fee for official services than is allowed by law, or who shall knowingly charge a fee for legal services where no fee is allowed by law, shall be fined for each item so charged, collected or received, not less than ten dollars nor exceeding one hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace of the proper county, in an action of debt, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, and for the use of the person against whom such fee is charged, or from whom the same is so received or collected.

§ 2. If any officer, authorized by law to charge fees, Penalty. shall charge, claim, demand or take any other or greater fee than such as is by law allowed to him for the services performed, or shall charge, claim, demand or take any fee when the services for which such fee is charged have not been performed by him, or some other person for him, he shall, in addition to the penalty now provided by law, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on the first conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than twentyfive dollars and not more than two hundred dollars; and upon a subsequent conviction of a like offense he shall forfeit his office, and be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not less than thirty days nor more than one year.

Bribes.

Penalty.

§3. If any person shall, directly or indirectly, give offer to give any sum or sums of money, or any other bribe present or reward, or any promise, contract, obligation security for the payment of any money, present, reward: other thing, to any officer of any city or incorporated to or village, with intent to induce or influence such officer appoint any person to office, or to execute any of the po ers vested in him, or to perform any duty required of hi with partiality or favor, or otherwise than is required law, or in consideration that such officer has appointed ar person to any office, or has exercised any power vested him, or has performed any duty required of him, with pr tiality or favor, or otherwise contrary to law, the person & giving or offering to give, and the officer so receiving offering to receive, any money, bribe, present, reward promise, contract, obligation or security, with intent an for the purpose aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of bribery and on conviction thereof shall be punished by confineme in the penitentiary, for a term not less than one year ne more than five years.

APPROVED April 9, 1872.

In force July 1, AN ACT to amend section seven, of chapter fifty-five, of the Revised Statute

1872.

of 1845, entitled "Jails and Jailers."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section seven, of chapter fifty-five, of the Revised Statutes of one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, entitled "Jails an jailers," be and the same is hereby amended so as to res as follows: "Every sheriff, jailer or other person to whose custody or keeping any person is committed, by virtue of any writ or process, or for any criminal offense, except or conviction of a felony, shall permit such person, at his or her will and pleasure, to send for and have any food, cloth ing, bedding or linen he or she may think fit for his or her comfort, without any manner of restraint, hindrance or de tention, and without requiring him or her to pay for the right to have the same. But if any such sheriff, jailer or other person shall permit any such prisoner to send for or have any spirituous liquor, except when prescribed by some respectable physician as a medicine, such sheriff, jailer or other person shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor exceeding five hundred dollars for each offense."

APPROVED April 4, 1872.