Messages to the General Assembly1891 - Illinois Includes annual, biennial and special messages, proclamations, speeches, etc. before the General Assembly. |
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Page 28 - Proper vouchers for all money paid out by the Governor from funds subject to his order, will be found on file in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts. I submit for your consideration, the following ESTIMATES OF APPROPRIATION FOR THE YEARS 1891 AND 1892.
Page 25 - ... the state is not discharging its duty to the taxpayer by making the best possible use of the money it compels him to pay. With an earnest desire to remedy any defects that might exist in the school laws of the State respecting these matters, the General Assembly passed what is known as the compulsory education law, whereby children between the ages of seven and fourteen years are required to attend some public or private school for at least sixteen weeks in each school year. Experience has shown...
Page 31 - ... an interest to the extent of 7 per cent, of the gross earnings of the road, to be paid annually into the state treasury, there has been paid to the state, all told, for the years from 1855 to 1890, inclusive, the sum of $12,365,618.27.
Page 21 - It seems, indeed, to be considered, by the ancient laws of this kingdom, not only as a right, but as a duty; for all the subjects of the realm, who are able to bear arms, are bound to be ready, at all times, to assist the sheriff, and other civil magistrates, in the execution of the laws and the preservation of the public peace.
Page 29 - For ordinary expenses and maintenance of inmates of four State Hospitals for the Insane, Deaf and Dumb, Blind, and Feeble-Minded Asylums, the Soldiers...
Page 20 - ... in the various states, and the country at large. Illinois has not been behind other states in recognizing the value of impartial investigations in this field, and the bureau of Illinois is undoubtedly making contributions of material value to the statistics of the state and the country. The report to be submitted to the present legislature, consists of an extended statistical presentation of the individual earnings of the coal miners of the state as shown by the pay rolls of the principal coal...
Page 22 - ... the people, find themselves unable to execute the laws and preserve the peace, they are authorized to call upon the Executive, and he, in turn, calls to their aid the military, which is required to act in strict subordination to the civil authorities. So far as I am aware, there is no complaint among the people against this mode of preserving the peace. There are but few who are willing to resist the execution of the law when it is made apparent that resistance would be useless. Therefore the...
Page 19 - The effective work j accomplished by the board in protecting the great live stock interest of the state fully justifies the wisdom of the General Assembly in the passage of the laws now upon the statute books and in making the liberal appropriations that have heretofore been placed at the disposal of the board, which appropriations, I am convinced, have been applied in the most economical manner consistent with an efficient discharge of its important duties. It will be seen from the report referred...
Page 17 - ... and Farmers' Institute meetings in the congressional districts of the State, are all held under the auspices of this board. The gathering, compiling and publishing of information concerning the condition and yield of the principal crops raised in the State, during the growing seasons and immediately -after the harvest, is also the work of this board. It may be said that in every instance the appropriation has been small when compared with the importance and magnitude of the work involved and...
Page 12 - ... reform school at Pontiac as a general reformatory, where the new and better ideas of prison management may be applied to old as well as young, reserving the other prisons, temporarily at least, for the confinement of the obdurate and the hopeless. As to the feasibility of this plan, I invite your attention to the suggestions contained in the last report of the trustees of the Reform School. The transition must be gradual; but a beginning could be made in the manner suggested. It is to me a source...