Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly, Part 37

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General Assembly., 1891

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Page 519 - An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts, established under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixtytwo...
Page 797 - An Act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors and for other purposes...
Page 143 - Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. § 12. Bills may originate in either house, but may be altered, amended or rejected by the other; and on the final passage of all bills, the vote shall be by yeas and nays, upon each bill separately, and shall be entered upon the journal; and no bill shall become a law without the concurrence of a majority of the members elected to each house.
Page 143 - He shall preserve order and decorum ; may speak to points of order in preference to other members, rising from his seat for that purpose; and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the House by any two members — on which appeal no member shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the House.
Page 899 - An act to amend an act to amend section sixty- two (62) of an act entitled 'An act to revise and amend an act and certain sections thereof entitled 'An act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts...
Page 609 - Columbia, but no money shall be paid to any State or Territory until the Legislature thereof shall have accepted, by resolution,- the sum herein appropriated, and the trusts imposed, in full satisfaction of all claims against the United States on account of the levy and collection of said tax, and shall have authorized the Governor to receive said money for the use and purposes aforesaid...
Page 362 - Every person having resided in this state one year, in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty days next preceding any election therein who was an elector in this state on the first day of April, in the year of our Lord...
Page 147 - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Page 539 - No life insurance company doing business in Massachusetts shall make or permit any distinction or discrimination in favor of individuals between insurants of the same class...
Page 148 - Shall the main question be now put?" — -and until it is decided shall preclude all amendments or debate. When, on taking the previous question, the Board shall decide that the main question shall not now be put, the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate.

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