of by the Department of Agriculture for the purpose of having such rule, regulation or notice modified, suspended, or withdrawn. Such review shall be allowed and considered and the costs thereof fixed, assessed, collected or paid in such manner and in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Department of Agriculture. § 23. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act with reference to the sale, shipment, delivery, receipt, labeling, transportation, or treatment of nursery stock, plants, plant products, or other property; or who shall fail to report the receipt of uncertified nursery stock as required in section 13 of this Act; or who shall forge, counterfeit, deface, alter, destroy, or wrongfully use any certificate provided for in this Act; or who shall use, plant, or remove, without permission of the Department of Agriculture, infested or infected property concerning whose condition he has received official notice; or who shall maintain a nuisance as described in this Act, after notice by the Department of Agriculture; or who shall fail or neglect to take such reasonable measures for the arrest and prevention of injury by insect pests and diseases as are required of him by the Department of Agriculture under section 21 of this Act; or whoshall offer any hindrance or resistance to the carrying out of this Act; shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than a hundred dollars for each and every offense, together with all costs of procedure. It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture to furnish to the State's Attorney of the county in which an offense is committed, or to the Attorney General of the State, all information in its possession concerning violations of this Act, and the officer so notified shall prosecute such violations of this Act, and the amounts so received shall be paid into the treasury of the State. § 24. In construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission or failure of any official, agent or other person acting for or employed by any association, partnership or corporation, within the scope of his employment or office, shall, in every case, also be deemed the act, omission or failure of such association, partnership or corporation, as well as that of the person. ALIBI. ---Instruction as to-bad, 246-9. -Instructions on, in murder case, 242-101. --Instructions on, must be in proper form, 241-394. -When sufficiently shown, 197-357; 81-565; 266-70; 279-70 (87). -Hotel register to show, 210-253. -Must be proved by defense, 210-253. -Accused must prove, 150-181. -Sufficiency of proof of, 147-444; 110-42; 113-596; 107-162; 124-563. -What fails to show, 134-401; 113-596; 39-457; 253-266. ALIENS. Alien willfully violating law should be refused naturalization, 284-174. 1. All aliens may, subject to the further provisions of this act, acquire and hold title in fee simple, or otherwise, to lands, tenements and hereditaments, situate in this State, by deed, devise or descent, and may alienate, sell, assign, incumber, devise and convey lands, tenements and hereditaments whether the same have been heretofore or be hereafter acquired, and the title to any lands of which an alien may die seized or possessed, intestate, shall descend to the heirs at law, and no person shall be deprived of his right to take title to real estate as heir at law by descent from any deceased person, because he may be an alien or be compelled to trace his relationship to such deceased person through one or more aliens. 2. If any alien shall at the time of acquiring title to lands situate in this State be of the age of 21 years or upwards, he may hold title to the same for six years from and after the time of acquiring such title; but if any alien shall at the time of acquiring title to lands situate in this State be under the age of 21 years he may hold title to the same for six years from and after the time when he becomes 21 years of age, and if at the end of the time above limited, such lands shall not have been conveyed to bona fide purchasers for value, or such alien shall not have become a citizen of the United States, it shall then be the duty of the State's Attorney of the county in which said lands are situate to proceed by information, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, in the circuit court of such county, to compel a sale of said lands, and such court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine such information and to order the sale of such lands by a master in chancery, special commissioner, or other officer, for that purpose appointed by said court, at such time and place and upon such terms as the court may direct, but such sale shall be made subject to all incumbrances by way of judgment or mortgage, or otherwise, existing against such lands at the time of the commencement of such proceedings. Notice to all parties interested shall be given as now authorized in cases in chancery. It shall be a good defense to any such proceeding that prior to the time that the same was commenced, such alien had become a citizen of the United States, or that the title to such lands had been conveyed in good faith by such alien, mediately or immediately, to a citizen of the United States, or if such alien has deceased prior to the time of the commencement of such proceeding, that his heirs or devisees, or any person claiming by, through, or under them, are or had become citizens of the United States. Said court shall tax as costs such fees for the State's Attorney as shall be reasonable, not exceeding 20 per centum of the amount which shall be bid for such lands at any such sale thereof, and shall allow to such master in chancery, special commissioner, or other officer making such sale the same fees as are allowed by law to masters in chancery for the sale of lands under decree of foreclosure of mortgages, and all fees and costs shall be paid out of the proceeds of sale of such real estate. If any State's Attorney shall neglect or refuse to proceed by information as hereinbefore provided, within thirty days after it shall be brought to his notice that an alien is holding title to lands in this State contrary to the provisions of this act, then any citizen may proceed by information, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois in the same manner as such State's Attorney might have proceeded under the provisions of this section, and he and his attorney may be allowed such reasonable fees for their services, to be taxed as costs, as the court may direct, not exceeding in the aggregate 20 per centum of the amount which shall be bid for such lands at any such sale thereof. 3. No sale made pursuant to any decree entered in any such proceeding brought under the provisions of this act shall be valid until confirmed by the court ordering the same. The money and securities for the unpaid balance, if any, of the purchase price bid for such lands at any such sale, shall, after deducting all fees and costs, be paid and delivered to the clerk of said court, who shall, within ten days after the receipt thereof, transmit the same to the State Treasurer, who shall hold the same as the property of the State of Illinois. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to collect the money due or to be due upon such securities and give due acquittances therefor: Provided, That all securities for unpaid balances of the purchase money for such lands shall be made payable to the People of the State of Illinois. 4. Possession of such lands so sold shall be delivered by such alien to the purchaser at such sale, within ten days from and after the time when such purchaser shall exhibit to the person in possession thereof, if any, a deed executed by the officer making such sale, together with a written demand for such possession, signed by such purchaser or by his agent or attorney. 5. The title to all lands, situate within this State, which are or may have been subject to forfeiture, or escheat, either to the State of Illinois or to the county in which such lands are situate by reason of the provisions of an act entitled "An act in regard to aliens, and to restrict their right to acquire and hold real and personal estate and to provide for the disposition of the lands now owned by non-resident aliens," approved June 16, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, is hereby ratified and confirmed in and released unto those persons who, but for their alienage or the alienage of the person or person by, through or under whom they claim title, would have the title thereto : Provided, That any alien in or to whom the title to any such lands shall have been ratified, confirmed or released by virtue of the provisions of this section, shall hold the same subject to all the provisions of this act, and such title shall be deemed to have accrued to and vested in such alien at the date when this act becomes in force: And provided further, That this section shall not apply to any lands as to which proceedings have heretofore been commenced by or in behalf of the State of Illinois or any county of said State to enforce a forfeiture or escheat thereof. 6. No action shall be commenced to recover any lands, tenements or hereditaments situate within this State, by any person who, but for the provisions of an act entitled, "An act in regard to aliens and to restrict their right to acquire and hold real and personal estate and to provide for the disposition of the lands now owned by non-resident aliens," approved June 16, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, would have no title to such lands, tenements, and hereditaments, of, or from any citizen of the United States of America in whom, but for the provisions of said act, the title to such lands, tenements or hereditaments would be vested, unless such action shall be commenced within two years from and after the time when this act shall become in force, or within two years from and after the time when such right of action first accrues. ALLOYS OF GOLD AND SILVER. 1. Selling Gold Imitations. 2. Selling Silver Imitations. 3. Selling Coin Silver. An Act relating to the manufacture and sale of articles constructed in whole or in part of gold or silver or any alloy or imitation thereof, and prescribing penalties. (1899.) 1. That whoever makes for sale, or sells, or offers to sell or dispose of, or has in his or her possession with intent to sell or dispose of, any article or articles constructed in whole or in part of gold or any alloy or imitation thereof, having thereon or on any box, package, cover, wrapper or other thing enclosing or encasing such article or articles for sale any stamp, brand, engraving, printed label, trademark, imprint or other mark, indicating or designed, or intended to indicate, that the gold, alloy or imitation thereof, in such article or articles, is different from or better than the actual kind and quality of such gold, alloy or imitation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. 2. Whoever makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose of or has in his or her possession, with intent to sell or dispose of, any article or articles constructed in whole or in part of silver or any alloy or imitation thereof, having thereon-or on any box, package, cover, wrapper or other thing enclosing or incasing such article or articles for sale-any stamp, brand, engraving, printed label, trade-mark imprint or other mark, containing the words "sterling" or "sterling silver," referring, or designed or intended to refer, to the silver, alloy or imitation thereof in such article or articles, when such silver, alloy or imitation thereof shall contain less than nine hundred and twenty-five one thousandths thereof of pure silver shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars or more than one hundred dollars. Whoever makes for sale, sells or offers to sell or dispose. of or has in his or her possession, with intent to sell or dispose of, any article or articles constructed in whole or in part of |