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surer of the u Illinois Industrial University," and for any breach thereof suit may be instituted, in the name of the "Illinois Industrial University; * * and it shall be deemed a criminal offense for any person or persons holding in trust any part of the funds of said University knowingly or negligently to misapply or misappropriate the same, indictable in any court having jurisdiction, in the same manner as other crimes are punishable, by fine or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, according to the nature of the offense. 19. This act shall be a public act and take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, February 28, 1867. (Session. L., 111., 1867, p. 123) AN ACT supplemental to an act entitled " A n act to provide for the organization, endowment, and maintenance of the Illinois Industrial University/' Section I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That if the legal authorities of the county of Champaign shall not, by or before the first day of June, 1867, convey or cause to be conveyed, to the board of trustees of the Illinois Industrial University, by a good and unincumbered title, in fee simple, all the real estate mentioned and contained in the propositions of said county, and which real estate is described and set out in the act to which this act is supplemental, amounting to nine hundred and eighty acres of land, and if said county shall not also pay over and deliver to said trustees, by said day, all the bonds and other property offered by said county, mentioned in said act, then said board of trustees, or a majority of them, shall proceed without delay to permanently locate and establish said industrial University in Mcpean, Logan or Morgan county; such county so selected shall in like manner be required in all things to fulfill and comply with the conditions and provisions of the offer heretofore njade by such county, as an inducement for the location of said University in such county. 2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and bo in force from and after its approval. Approved, March 8, 1867. (Sess. L., Ill, 1867, p. 130.)