AN ACT in regard to the State Reform School for juvenile offenders. [Approved May 3, 1873. In force July 1, 1873.] 1. RECOGNIZED AND CONTINUED.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the reform school, now located and established at Pontiac, in the county of Livingston, and state of Illinois, be and the same is hereby recognized and continued as a state reform school for the confinement, discipline, education, employment and reformation of juvenile offenders in the state of Illinois, as herein provided.

2. APPOINTMENT OF TRUSTEES-TERM OF OFFICE-VACANCY.] § 2. The management of said reform school shall be vested in a board of trustees, consisting of five citizens of the state of Illinois, who shall be appointed by the governor, with the advice and consent of the senate, for the term of five years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the gov ernor, for good cause. If a vacancy shall occur in said board, by expiration of the term of any such trustee, or otherwise, when the senate is not in session, the governor shall fill such vacancy for the unexpired term, subject to the approval of the senate at its next regular session: Provided, that of the members of the board first appointed under this act, one shall be appointed for the term of one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years, and one for five years, whose term of service shall be determined by lot; which board shall be appointed within ten days from the time this act shall take effect; and until they are appointed and qualified, the trustees heretofore appointed and acting at the time this act shall take effect, shall continue to act as trustees of said school. [L. 1867, p. 38, § 1, 2.

3. OATH OF OFFICE-QUORUM.] § 3. The members of the board, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall take and subscribe to the oath of office required by the constitution, three of whom shall constitute a quorum to do business. [L. 1867, p. 39, § 6; p. 38, § 2.

4. PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT, TREASURER.] § 4. The board shall, annually, elect, of their own number, a president and vice-president, whose term of office shall be for one year, and until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified. They shall also elect a treasurer, not one of their own number, whose term of office shall be for two years, and until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified, and who shall, at all times, be subject to removal by the board for good cause. [L. 1867, p. 39, § 4.

5. APPOINTMENT OF SUPERINTENDENT, ETC.-SALARIES.] § 5. The board shall appoint a superintendent of said reform school, whose salary shall not exceed $2,000 per annum, and shall also appoint such other officers and such assistants as the wants of the institution may from time to time require, and shall prescribe their duties, and fix their salaries as may be reasonable. [L. 1867, p. 39, § 6.

6. DUTIES AND POWERS OF TRUSTEES.] § 6. The board shall make all needful rules and regulations concerning their meetings and the mode of transacting their business; they shall erect all necessary buildings, and make all necessary repairs and improvements, and shall take charge of said institution to see that its affairs are properly conducted; that strict discipline is maintained, and that employment and education are provided for its inmates. They are authorized to make contracts for the purchase of furniture, apparatus, tools, stock, provisions, and everything necessary to equip the institution for the purposes herein specified, and to maintain and operate the same: Provided, said board shall incur no expense, nor contract any debt, beyond appropriations made for the said reform school. [L. 1867, p. 39, § 6. See "Crim. Code," ch. 38, § 208.

7. MEETINGS OF TRUSTEES.] § 7. There shall be quarterly meetings of the board each year, at such times as the board shall appoint; special meetings may be held when the exigencies of the institution demand the same, upon the call of the president, or otherwise, as the board may prescribe. [L. 1867, p. 40, § 8.

8. ANNUAL REPORT.] § 8. The board shall prepare an annual report of their proceedings, showing the condition and wants of the institution, with a financial statement of all moneys received and disbursed, which shall be forwarded to the governor on or before the first day of December in each year, to be by him transmitted to the general assembly. [L. 1867, p. 40, § 11.

9. TRAVELING EXPENSES.] § 9. Each member of the board shall be allowed his traveling expenses, while on necessary business of the institution. [L. 1867, p. 40, § 7.

10. TREASURER—HIS BOND-DUTIES—ACCOUNTS.] § 10. The treasurer, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the People of the State of Illinois, with sureties, to be approved by the board, in at least double the sum of money for which he may be responsible as treasurer, conditioned for the faithful performance of all his duties as such treasurer. He shall take charge of all the funds of the institution, receiving the same and disbursing them on the written order of the secretary, countersigned by the president, and shall account to the board, in such manner as they may require, for all funds intrusted to him from whatever source. His books shall at all times be opened to the inspection of the board, who shall, at least once in every six months, carefully examine the same, and all the accounts, vouchers and documents connected therewith, and make a record of the result of such examination. [L. 1867, p. 40, § 10.

11. SUPERINTENDENT-HIS BOND-DUTIES-ACCOUNTS.] § 11. The superintendent, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the People of the State of Illinois, with sureties, to be approved by the board, in a sum to be fixed by the board, conditioned for the faithful performance of all his duties as such superintendent. He shall be a resident at the institution, and shall be (ex-officio) the secretary of the board, taking charge of all its books and papers. He shall have charge of the land, buildings, furniture, apparatus, tools, stock, provisions and every other species of property belonging to the institution, and shall account to the board in such manner as they may require for all the property intrusted to him; and all moneys received by him, from whatever source, shall be deposited with the treasurer. His books shall at all times be open to the inspection of the board, who shall, at least once in every three months, carefully examine the same, and all the accounts, vouchers and documents connected therewith, and make a record of the result of such examination in a book provided for the purpose. He shall have charge of the inmates of the institution; shall discipline, govern, instruct, employ and use his best efforts to reform the children and youth under his care, and shall, at all times, be subject to removal by

the board for incapacity, cruelty, negligence, immorality or other good cause. [L. 1867, p. 40, § 12.

12. WHO MAY BE SENT TO REFORM SCHOOL.] § 12. Whenever any boy be tween the ages of ten and sixteen years is convicted, before any court of competent jurisdiction, of any crime which, if committed by an adult, would be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or penitentiary, such juvenile offender shall be committed by the order of such court to said state reform school for a term not less than one year nor more than five years: Provided, that when the crime is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, the court may, in the exercise of its discretion, commit such offender to the county jail for the term authorized by law for the punishment of the offense of which the offender is convicted: And, provided, further, that nothing in this act shall be construed to debar any court from punishing for any capital offense in such manner as is or may be provided by law. [L. 1867, p. 42, § 16.

13. TRUSTEES GUARDIANS OF INMATES.] § 13. When any such juvenile of fender is committed to the said reform school, by order of any court of competent jurisdiction, said board shall be constituted the guardian of his person, and shall detain him during the term of his sentence, less such time as may be credited to him pursuant to the provisions of this act. [L. 1867, p. 42, § 17.

14. ESCAPE.] § 14. If any officer or other person procure the escape of any person comimtted to the reform school, or advise or connive at, aid, conceal or assist in such escape, or conceal any such person so committed after such escape, he shall, upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction, be sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary, for any term not less than one year nor more than five years, or, if under sixteen years of age, to the reform school, as in this act provided. [L. 1867, p. 43, § 24.

15. GOOD TIME.] § 15. Every person committed to the reform school shall, by good behavior, earn to himself and be credited with time as follows, to wit: Each month in the first year, five days; each month in the second year, six days; each month in the third year, seven days; each month in the fourth year, eight days; each month in the fifth year, nine days. When such person shall be degraded for misconduct or violation of the rules of the institution, then for every time so degraded such person shall lose five days of the good time that may stand placed to his credit; and the superintendent shall release every such person from the institution as many days before the expiration of the term of his sentence as such person shall have balance of good days to his credit.

16. WHAT FURNISHED ON DISCHARGE.] § 16. Upon the discharge of any person so committed to the reform school from the same, the superintendent shall provide him with suitable clothing, and $5 in money, and procure transportation for him to his home, if resident in this state, or to the county in which he may have been convicted, at his option. [L. 1867, p. 43, § 23.

[§ 17, repeal, omitted; see "Statutes," ch. 131, § 5.|

AN ACT authorizing the trustees of the State Reform School to lease the labor of the inmates. [Approved March 26, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.]

17. TRUSTEES MAY LEASE LABOR OF INMATES.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the trustees of the State Reform school at Pontiac are hereby authorized and empowered to lease the labor of the inmates by contract with parties who shall carry on business and employ said boys within the inclosure of the institution, and at such employments as are suited to their age and capacity. All contracts made for leasing the labor of the inmates of the reform school, shall be approved by the governor before such contracts shall be valid and binding upon the parties. Said boys shall not be compelled to labor more than six hours each day, nor more than three hours without a recess of at least one hour. The officers of the institution shall have personal supervision of said boys while thus employed.

AN ACT to revise the law in relation to replevin. [Approved Feb. 9, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.]

1. WHEN BROUGHT.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That whenever any goods or chattels shall have been wrongfully distrained, or otherwise wrongfully taken, or shall be wrong. fully detained, an action of replevin may be brought for the recovery of such goods or chattels, by the owner or person entitled to their possession, in any court of competent jurisdiction. [R. S. 1845, p. 433, §'1.

2. WHEN IT WILL NOT LIE.] § 2. No action of replevin shall lie at the suit of the defendant in any execution or attachment, to recover goods or chattels seized by virtue thereof, unless such goods and chattels are exempted, by law, from such execution or attachment; nor shall an action of replevin lie for such goods and chattels at the suit of any other person, unless he shall, at the time, have a right to reduce into his possession the goods taken. [R. S. 1845, p. 433, § 2. 3. VENUE.] § 3. The action may be brought in any county in which the goods and chattels or any part of them are, or in which the defendant, or, if seve ral defendants, either of them resides or may be found.

4. AFFIDAVIT.] § 4. The person bringing such action shall, before the writ issues, file with the clerk of the court in which the action is brought, or with the justice of the peace before whom the suit is commenced, an affidavit, showing that the plaintiff in such action is the owner of the property described in the writ and about to be replevied, or that he is then lawfully entitled to the possession thereof, and that the property is wrongfully detained by the defendant, and that the same has not been taken for any tax, assessment or fine levied by virtue of any law of this state, nor seized under any execution or attachment against the goods and chattels of such plaintiff liable to execution or attachment, nor held by virtue of any writ of replevin against such plaintiff. [R. S. 1845, p. 434, § 3.

5. AFFIDAVIT ON INFORMATION AND BELIEF.] § 5. When the affidavit is made by any person on behalf of the plaintiff, the same may be upon the information and belief of the affiant. [R. S. 1845, p. 434, § 10.

6. WRIT-DIRECTION-RETURNABLE.] § 6. When the writ is issued out of a court of record, it shall be directed to the sheriff or other proper officer of the proper county, to serve; when issued by a justice of the peace, it shall be directed

to any constable of such county. Such writs shall be made returnable as writs of summons.

7. FORM OF WRIT.] § 7. The writ of replevin shall require the sheriff, constable or other officer to whom it is directed to take the property, describing it as in the affidavit, from the possession of the defendant, and deliver the same to the plaintiff, and to summon the defendant to answer the plaintiff in the action, or in case the property or any part thereof is not found and delivered to the sheriff, constable or other officer, to answer the plaintiff for the value of the same.

8. WRITS TO SEVERAL COUNTIES.] S. Counterparts of the writ of replevin may issue, upon the suggestion of the plaintiff, to several counties, to be executed upon the goods or served upon the defendants to be found therein: Provided, that if none of the property sought to be replevied is found in the county where the suit is brought, and neither of the defendants resides or can be found therein, the plaintiff shall not be entitled to judgment except as to such defendants as appear and defend the suit.

9. ALIAS, PLURIES.] § 9. When it appears by the return of the officer that any defendant is not found "alias" and "pluries," writs directing the officer to summon such defendant may issue on the application of the plaintiff until such defendant is served.

10. REPLEVIN BOND.] § 10. Before the execution of any writ of replevin, the plaintiff or some one on his behalf shall give to the sheriff, constable or other officer, bonds, with sufficient security in double the value of the property about to be replevied, conditioned that he will prosecute such suit to effect and without delay, and make return of the property, if return thereof shall be awarded, and save and keep harmless such sheriff, constable or other officer (as the case may be) in replevying such property. [R. S. 1845, p. 434, § 4.

11. RETURN.] § 11. Such officer shall return the bond so taken by him, together with the writ, to the clerk or justice of the peace who issued such writ. [R. S. 1845, p. 434, § 5.

12. FAILURE TO TAKE OR RETURN BOND, ETC.] §12. If the sheriff, cou stable or other officer fails to take and return the bond, as required by this act, or returns an insufficient bond, he shall be liable to the party injured for all damages he may sustain by reason of such neglect, which may be recovered in an action on the case, in any court of competent jurisdiction, or by an action upon his official bond. R. S. 1845, p. 434, § 8.

13. LIMITATION.] § 13. No sheriff, constable or other officer shall be liable, under the preceding section, unless the bond was insufficient when taken, nor unless suit is commenced against him or upon his bond, within three years after the cause of action shall have accrued. [L. 1869, p. 372, § 1.

14. EXECUTION OF WRIT.] § 14. Upon such bond being given, the sheriff, constable or other proper officer shall forthwith execute such writ by seizing and delivering the property therein mentioned to the plaintiff or his agent, and by reading such writ to the defendant if he can be found. [R. S. 1845, p. 434, § 4.

15. SERVICE.] § 15. It shall be the duty of the officer having a writ of replevin, to serve the same by reading to the defendant, whether the property is found or delivered to him or not, unless, when none of the property is found, the officer is otherwise directed by the plaintiff or his agent.

16. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION AND MAIL.] § 16. When it shall appear by affidavit of the plaintiff, his attorney or agent, or by the return of the officer, that any defendant in such suit is not a resident of this state, or has departed from this state, or on due inquiry cannot be found, or is concealed within this state, so that process cannot be served on him, notice may be given as provided by law in cases of attachment, and with like effect. [See "Attachments,” ch. 11, § 22. L. 1849, p. 102, § 1.

17. DECLARATIONS.] § 17. Declarations in replevin may be filed in like manner as other declarations. [See "Practice," ch. 110, § 18.