of this act, regulating the leasing and sales of lands by school trustees: Provided, that in case the real estate be held for the benefit of any township or townships, it shall not be sold except upon the written request of the school trustees of said township or townships. The said county superintendent is hereby authorized to execute conveyances of such real estate to the purchasers when so sold.

§ 27. The trustees of schools in any township are hereby authorized and empowered, in their corporate capacity, to lay out and dedicate to the public use, for street and highway purposes, so much of the common school lands, which is unimproved or unoccupied with buildings, as may be necessary to open or extend any street or highway which may be ordered opened or extended by the municipal authorities, which are by law empowered to open or extend streets or highways in the territory where said school lands are located: Provided, that said trustees of schools shall be of the opinion that the benefits to accrue from the opening or extending of said street or highway, to the remainder of said common school lands will compensate for the strip so dedicated: And, provided further, that it shall not be lawful for any street or other railroad to lay down railroad tracks on any strip of the common school lands so dedicated, or use the same or any part of the common school lands for railroad or street railroad purposes, except upon the purchase or lease of the same from the proper authorities, or upon the payment to the school fund of said township of the value of such use or land taken, the same as if no street or highway had been laid out thereon, to be determined by proceedings under an act entitled, "An act to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain," approved April 10, 1872, and all amendments thereto. And, provided, further, that this section shall not in any way affect existing leases or contracts for the lease or purchase of common school lands.

SECTION 1. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or incurred in any of the courts of record, or before any justice of the peace of this State, except fines, forfeitures and penalties incurred or imposed in incorporated towns or cities for the violation of the by-laws or ordinances thereof, shall, when collected, be paid to the county superintendent of schools of the county wherein such fines, penalties or forfeitures have been imposed or incurred, and the said county superintendent of schools shall give his receipt therefor to the person from whom such fine, forfeiture or penalty was received.

The said county superintendent shall annually distribute such fines, penalties or forfeitures in the same manner as the common school funds of the State are distributed.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the State's attorneys of the several counties to enforce the collection of all fines, forfeitures and penalties imposed or incurred in the courts of record of their respective counties, and to pay the same over to the county superintendent of the county wherein the same have been imposed or incurred, retaining therefrom the fees and commissions allowed them by law.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the justices of the peace to enforce the collection of all fines imposed by them by any lawful means; and when collected the same shall be paid by the justice collecting the same to the county superintendent of the county in which the same was imposed.

§ 4. Clerks of courts of record, State's attorneys and all justices of the peace shall report, under oath to the county court of their respective counties, by the first of March annually, the amount of such fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or incurred in their respective courts, and the amount of such fines, forfeitures and penalties collected by them, giving each item separately, and if any such officer has collected no such fines, penalties or forfeitures, he shall make affidavit to such fact, and file the same with the county superintendent. The judges of the county court shall inspect the said reports, and may hear evidence thereon, and, if found correct and truthful, shall enter an order approving such report, and that any moneys in the hands of such officers so reporting shall be paid over to the superintendent of schools. If the court shall not approve of such report, he may order a new one to be made, and upon a failure to comply with the order of the court, or to make a satisfactory report, the court may state an account and enter an order to pay over as above provided. The court, for all purposes for carrying out the provisions of this section, shall have power to examine books and papers as provided hereinafter in section 6 of this article, and shall have power to issue subpoenas for both books and persons: Provided, that no report shall be approved until the court shall have given the superintendent five (5) days' notice of the same, and he shall be allowed to inspect said report, and he shall be heard by the court upon the same if he desire; and the officers charged with the collection thereof, the said clerks, State's attorneys and justices of the peace, for a failure to make such a report, shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five (25) dollars for each offense, said fine to be recovered in a civil action, before any court, at the suit of the county superintendent of schools of the proper county.

§ 5. For a failure to pay any fine, forfeiture or penalty, on demand, to the person who is by law authorized to receive the same, the officer or person having collected the same, or having the same in his possession or control, shall forfeit and pay double the amount of such fine, penalty or forfeiture as aforesaid to be recovered be

fore any court having jurisdiction thereof, in a qui tam action, onehalf to be paid to the informer, and one-half to the school fund of the proper county.

§ 6. In case that any clerk of a court of record, State's attorney or justice of the peace shall fail to make the report provided for in section 4 of this article, the county court shall have power, and it is hereby made the duty of the judge of said court, to examine all records pertaining to the office of such delinquent officer and enforce the payment of whatever sum may be found due the school fund from such delinquent officer. For the purpose of making such examination, the said county court shall have the right to call for any paper or papers, docket, fee-book or other record belonging to the office of such delinquent officer, and in case such delinquent officer fails or refuses to furnish such paper, docket, fee-book or other record for the inspection or use of such county court, he shall forfeit and pay to the school fund the sum of one hundred (100) dollars to be recovered in an action of debt or assumpsit, before any court of this State having jurisdiction of the actions of debt and assumpsit, and such penalty, when collected, shall be paid into the school fund of the proper county.

SECTION 1. Whenever the county superintendent of schools of any county shall notify the board of trustees of any township, in writing, that the notes, bonds, mortgages, or other evidences of indebtedness which have been taken officially by the township treasurer, are not in proper form, or that the securities which the said township treasurer has taken are insufficient, it shall be the duty of the said board of trustees at once to take such action as may be necessary to save and protect the property or fund of the districts and the township; and for a failure or refusal to take such action within

twenty days after such notice, the members of the board, each in his individual capacity, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty. five (25) nor more than one hundred (100) dollars to be recovered before any justice of the peace, on information, in the name of the people of the State of Illinois (provided such insufficiency is proven), and, when collected, the said fine shall be paid to the county superintendent of the proper county, for the use of schools. And the payment of this fine shall not relieve the board of trustees from any civil liability they may have incurred from such neglect of duty.

§ 2. If the judges of any school election called for any legal purpose shall fail or neglect to deliver a copy of the poll-book of any such election, with a certificate thereon showing the result of such election, to the officer provided by law to whom such return shall be made, within ten days after such election shall have been held, the said judges of election shall be severally liable to a penalty of not less than twenty-five (25) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars to be recovered in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, by an action of debt before any justice of the peace of the county; which penalty, when collected, shall be paid into the school fund of the township in which such election was held.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the board of directors of every school district in this State, to deliver to the township treasurer all teachers' schedules made and certified as required by law, and covering all time taught during the school year ending June 30th, on or before the seventh day of July, annually; and the directors shall be personally liable to the district for any and all loss sustained by it through their failure to examine and deliver to the said township treasurer all such schedules within the said time.

§4. For any failure or refusal to perform all the duties required of the township treasurer by law, he shall be liable to the board of trustees, upon his official bond, for all damages sustained by reason. of such failure or refusal, to be recovered by action of debt by said board, in their corporate name, for the use of the proper township, before any court having jurisdiction of the amount of damages claimed; but if the said treasurer, in any such failure or refusal, acted under and in conformity to a requisition or order of said board, or a majority of them, entered upon their journal and subscribed by their president and clerk, then, and in that case, the members of said board aforesaid, or those of them voting for such requisition or order aforesaid, and not the said township treasurer, shall be liable, jointly and severally, to the inhabitants of the township for all such damages, to be recovered by an action of assumpsit in a suit brought in the official name of the county superintendent of schools, for the use of the proper township: Provided, said treasurer shall be liable for any loss not collected by reason of the insolvency of said trustees.

§ 5. When a township treasurer shall resign or be removed, and at the expiration of his term of office, he shall pay over to his successor in office, when appointed, all money on hand, and deliver over all books, notes, bonds, mortgages and all other securities for money, and all papers and documents of every description in which the cor

poration has any interest whatever; and in case of the death of the township treasurer, his securities and legal representatives shall be bound to comply with the requisitions of this section so far as the said securities and legal representatives may have the power so to do. And for any failure to comply with the requisitions of this section, the persons neglecting or refusing shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court before which judgment may be obtained, to be recovered in an action of debt before any justice of the peace, for the benefit of the school fund of such township: Provided, that the obtaining or payment of such judgment shall in no wise discharge or diminish the obligation of the persons signing the official bond of such township treasurer.

§ 6. If any county superintendent, trustee of school, township treasurer, director or any other person entrusted with the care, control, management or disposition of any school, college, seminary or township fund for the use of any county, township, district or school, shall convert such funds, or any part thereof, to his own use, he shall be liable to indictment; and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than double the amount of money converted to his own use, and imprisoned in the county jail not less than one nor more than twelve months, at the discretion of the court.

§ 7. Trustees of schools shall be liable, jointly and severally, for the sufficiency of securities taken from township treasurers; and in case of judgment against any treasurer and his securities for or on account of any default of such treasurer on which the money shall not be made for want of sufficient property whereon to levy execution, action on the case may be maintained against said trustees, jointly and severally, and the amount not collected on said judgment shall be recovered with costs of suit from such trustees: Provided, that if said trustees can show, satisfactorily, that the security taken from the treasurer, as aforesaid, was, at the time of said taking, good and sufficient, they shall not be liable as aforesaid.

§ 8. The real estate of county superintendents, of township treasurers, and all other school officers, and of the securities of each of them shall be bound for the satisfaction and payment of all claims and demands against said superintendents and treasurers, and other school officers as such from the date of issuing process against them, in actions or suits brought to recover such claims or demands until satisfaction thereof be obtained; and no sale or alienation of real estate, by any superintendent, treasurer or other officer or security aforesaid, shall defeat the lien created by this section; but all and singular such real estate held, owned or claimed, as aforesaid, shall be liable to be sold in satisfaction of any judgment which may be obtained in such actions or suits.

§ 9. Trustees of schools or either of them, failing or refusing to make returns of children in their township according to the provisions of this act, or if either of them shall knowingly make a false return, the party so offending shall be liable to a penalty of not less than ten (10) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars, to be