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The acts passed by the General Assembly in 1899, made so many changes in the laws of the State as to make previous revisions nearly useless, and another revision indispensable that should contain all the laws of a general nature in force at the time of going to press. The favor with which the revisions of 1874, 1877, 1879, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897, and 1898, were received by the profession and the people of the entire State, induced the publishers to again secure the services of the HON. HARVEY B. HURD, the official reviser of the edition of 1874, and the editor of the revisions of 1877, 1879, 1881, 1882, 1883, 1885, 1887, 1889, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1897 and 1898, who had devoted the best years of his life to the preparation and revision of the Illinois Statutes-who was not only familiar with every section of the written law, but knew its private history, and how and why it became a part of the revision--to prepare the revision of 1899. We deem it but just to say, that the portrait of the veteran reviser, Mr. Hurd, was inserted as a frontispiece to this edition of the statutes without his knowledge or consent. It was made by James B. Bradwell, his friend of nearly fifty years. The publishers, with a view to convenience in handling, have aimed to present this revision in as compact form as possible-in one volume, with all the dead or repealed laws eliminated. Notwithstanding the fact that this volume contains 1966 pagesbeing 788 pages more than the revision of 1877-we are pleased to be able to furnish it at the low price of $4.00 net at the office of the publishers, containing, as it does, all the laws of a general nature in force on the first day of December, 1899. (iii) JAMES B. BRADWELL. PREFACE TO EDITION OF 1877. The design of this work is to bring together into one volume, and into proper connection, the Revised Statutes of 1874 and the General Acts of 1875 and 1877, now in force. The style and arrangement of the Revised Statutes of 1874 have been scrupulously adhered to in this work; that what has been gained in becoming familiar with that may not be lost in the use of this. Where a section of an existing act has been amended, the original section is omitted and the new, or amended one, is inserted in its place, with a statement at the end showing when it was approved, and when it took effect. New and independent acts have generally been inserted at the end of the appropriate chapters, or as new chapters; a new chapter taking the number of the preceding one, and being distinguished from it by a letter. In some instances, where the connection seemed to demand it, these new acts have been inserted in the body of the appropriate chapters, and their titles given in a note at the foot of the page. Repealed acts and sections are left out, and a note inserted referring to the repealing act. In a few instances, as in the case of "Roads and Bridges in counties under Township Organization," the Legislature has adopted new acts evidently intended as revisions of the whole law on the subject without in terms repealing existing acts. In such cases only the last act is inserted, the former being considered as repealed by implication. Where whole acts have been pronounced by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional they have been omitted, and a note is inserted in their place referring to the case in which they have been so held, but where only particular provisions of an act have been so held, they are retained, and the references added to the sections in which the unconstitutional provisions occur. The references, at the end of the sections, to the Revised Statutes of 1845, and to the different session laws preceding the revision of 1874, are for the purpose of enabling the reader to compare the revised law with that which it supersedes. In some cases the provisions referred to are the same as the revised, and in others they are altogether different. The references to laws of 1875 and 1877, are to indicate provisions identical with those contained in this volume. The editor has added such references to decisions of the Supreme Court rendered since the revision of 1874, construing its provisions, as readily occurred to him in the course of the preparation of this compilation. These references are mostly confined to the Reports from Vol. 69 to 80, and are not claimed to be exhaustive of these, and necessarily omit volumes 73 and 74, not published at the time this work was compiled. When, therefore, cases are cited upon any point, it must not be inferred that there are not others that might have been cited to the same point, and when none at all are cited it must not be inferred that it is because none could be found. HARVEY B. HURD, EVANSTON, Sept. 12, 1877. Editor. |