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TERMS-WOODFORD COUNTY.

§ 1. Changes time of holding in Woodford county.

AN ACT to amend section one hundred and nine (109) of an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section one hundred and nine (109) of an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an act therein named,' approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be so amended as to read as follows:

"Section 109. Woodford, October, February and June." APPROVED May 4, 1887.

CRIMINAL CODE.

ARREST ON INDICTMENT-BAIL,

§ 1. Amends sections 1,3 and 4, Division 12, so as to authorize the officers making an arrest upon a capias, may admit the person arrested, if bailable, to bail in vacation.

An Act to amend sections one (1), three (3) and (4), of division XII of an act entitled "An act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the Stute of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections one (1), three (3) and (4), of division xii, of an act entitled "An act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be, and the same are, hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Section 1. When an indictment is found as a true bill, if the offense is bailable, the court shall make an order fixing the amount of bail to be required of the accused."

"Section 3. When the offense is bailable the clerk shall endorse on the process the amount of bail required by the order of the court, and if the court orders the process returnable forthwith, the capias shall require the accused to be arrested and brought immediately into court.

"Section 4. The sheriff, or in case of his absence or inability, the coroner or some one of the constables of the county to which the capias is directed, shall arrest the person named in the warrant, and, if the offense is bailable and the writ is not returnable forthwith, let him to bail if sufficient bail is offered, or if the offense is not bailable or sufficient bail not offered, take his body to the jail of the county where the capias is returnable, and deliver him, together with the capias, to the keeper of the jail, there to remain until discharged in due course of law. If the process is returnable. forthwith, the accused shall be immediately brought into court, when he shall either be committed, bailed or tried, as the court may direct; but if the court shall not be in session when the officer makes the arrest, so that the accused may be let to bail in open court, such officer may let him to bail conditional for his appearance on the day to which the court stands adjourned, if sufficient bail is offered. The sheriff or other officer, taking such bail, shall be authorized and required to administer oaths for the pur-. pose of ascertaining the sufficiency of the bail offered."

APPROVED June 14, 1887.

CONSPIRACY.

§ 1. Amends section 46, act of 1874, by making what is commonly known as the "boycott" conspiracy under the law.

AN ACT to amend section 46 of division 1, of "An act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 46 of division 1, of "An act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence, approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Section 46. [TO DO ILLEGAL ACT.] If any two or more persons conspire or agree together, or the officers or executive committee of any society or organization or corporation shall issue or utter any circular or edict as the action of or instruction to its members, or any other persons, societies, organizations or corporations for the purpose of establishing a so-called boycott or black list, or shall post or distribute any written or printed notice in any place, with the fraudulent or malicious intent wrongfully and wickedly to injure the person, character, business or employment or property of another, or to obtain money or other property by false pretenses, or to do any illegal act injurious to the public trade, health, morals, police, or administration of public justice, or to prevent competition in the letting of any contract by the State or the authorities of any counties, city, town or village, or to induce any person not to enter into such

competition, or to commit any felony, they shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy; and every such offender, whether as individuals or as the officers of any society or organization, and every person convicted of conspiracy at common law, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding $2,000, or both."

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AN ACT entitled "An act to further define conspiracy and to punish the same, and crimes committed in pursuance thereof, and relating to the rule of evidence therein."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That if two or more persons shall conspire to do an unlawful act, dangerous in its character to human life or to person or property, or if its accomplishment will necessarily or probably require the use of force and violence, which may result in the taking of human life or injury to person or property, every party to such conspiracy shall be held criminally liable for whatever offense any one or more of his co-conspirators shall commit in furtherance of the common design.

§ 2. If any person shall, by speaking to any public or private assemblage of people, or in any public place, or shall by writing, printing or publishing, or by causing to be written, printed, published or circulated, any written or printed matter, advise, encourage, aid, abet, or incite a local revolution, or the overthrowing or destruction of the existing order of society by force or violence, or the resistance to and destruction of the lawful power and authority of the legal authorities of this State or of any of the towns, cities or counties of this State, or resistance to the same, by force and violence, or by any of the means aforesaid shall advise, abet, encourage or incite the disturbance of the public peace, and by such disturbance attempt at revolution or destruction of public order or resistance to such authorities shall thereafter ensue, and human life is taken or any person is injured, or property is destroyed by any person or by any of the means employed to carry into effect the purpose so advised, encouraged, aided, abetted or incited as aforesaid; every person so aiding, advising, encouraging, abetting or inciting the same shall be deemed as having conspired with the person or persons who actually commit the crime, and shall be

deemed a principal in the perpetration of the same and be punished accordingly, and it shall not be necessary for the prosecution to show that the speaking was heard or the written or printed matter aforesaid was read or communicated to the person or persons actually committing the crime, if such speaking, writing, printing or publishing is shown to have been done in a public manner within this State.

§ 3. If two or more persons conspire to overthrow the existing order of society by force or violence, or to bring about a local revolution by force, or to destroy or resist and overcome the legal authorities of the State or of any county, city or town thereof, and a human being is killed, or person injured, or property destroyed, by any of the persons engaged in such conspiracy, or by any one who may participate with them in the unlawful design and purpose, in furtherance of the object of such conspiracy, then all persons who may have conspired together as aforesaid, together with all persons who may actively participate in carrying into effect their common design, shall be deemed guilty of the crime committed by any one or more of such persons so conspiring or acting with such conspirators in the common design, and shall be punished accordingly; notwithstanding the time and place for the bringing about such revolution or overthrowing of public order, or the destruction or overcoming of such authorities had not been definitely agreed upon by such conspirators, but was left to the exigencies of the time, or the judgment of co-conspirators or some one or more of them.

§ 4. Hereafter it shall not be necessary in order to establish a conspiracy, as aforesaid, to prove that the parties charged ever came together and entered into any agreement, combination or arrangement to accomplish a criminal or unlawful purpose, but it shall be sufficient if it appears that the parties charged were actually pursuing, in concert, the unlawful purpose, whether acting separately or together, at the same or different times, by the same or different means, providing that the acts of each were knowingly tending to the same unlawful result.

§ 5. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed as repealing by implication or otherwise any law now in force in this State. APPROVED June 16, 1887.

PROSTITUTION OF FEMALES.

§ 1. Inducing females to enter houses of
prostitution.

§ 2. Unlawfully detaining for prostitution.
§ 3. Keepers of houses of prostitution pro-
hibited from permitting females
under 18 from remaining.

§ 4.

5.

Enticing or inducing to come to this
State for purposes of prostitution.
This act shall not interfere with any
other act.

AN ACT to prevent the prostitution of females.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Whoever within this State shall, by, or under any false pretense, entice, induce or procure any unmarried female of a chaste life, and conversation, residing or being in this State, to enter a house of prostitution or any dance house, garden or premises where prostitution, fornication or concubinage is practiced or allowed in this State, or shall entice, induce or procure such unmarried female to leave this State and go to any other State or Territory of the United States, or any foreign State or Territory, for the purpose of prostitution or fornication, or to enter any house, garden or premises where prostitution or fornication is practiced or allowed, and whoever aids, assists or abets any person or persons in committing aforesaid offenses or either of them, on conviction, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years.

§ 2. Whoever shall unlawfully detain or confine any female, by force, false pretense or intimidation, in any room, house, building or premises in this State, against the will of such female, for purposes of prostitution or with intent to cause such female to become a prostitute, and be guilty of fornication or concubinage therein, or shall by force, false pretense, confinement or intimidation attempt to prevent any female so as aforesaid detained, from leaving such room, house, building or premises, and whoever aids, assists or abets by force, false pretense, confinement or intimidation, in keeping, confining or unlawfully detaining any female in any room, house, building or premises in this State, against the will of such female, for the purposes of prostitution, fornication or concubinage, shall on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than ten years.

§ 3. Whoever, being the keeper of a house of prostitution, or assignation house, building or premises in this State where prostitution, fornication or concubinage is allowed or practiced, shall suffer or permit any unmarried female under the age of eighteen years, of chaste life and conversation, to live, board, stop or room in such house, building or premises, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.

§ 4. Whoever shall entice, induce or procure to come into this State, any unmarried female under the age of eighteen years, for the purpose of prostitution, fornication or concubinage, or to enter any house of prostitution in this State, shall, on conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than fiveyears.

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