Lambert v. Giffin

Acting under authority conferred by an act of the legislature of this State entitled “An act creating a commission and providing for the acquisition of land for the re-location of the Illinois State penitentiary and the Illinois asylum for insane criminals, and for the building of a new Illinois State penitentiary and a new Illinois asylum for insane criminals at or near the city of Joliet, and making an appropriation therefor,” approved June 5, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, (Laws of 1907, p. 45,) appellants, as the penitentiary commission created by said act, for the use of the People of the…