Sec.[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, That no person or persons shall hereafter be permited to plant and cultivate, caster Beans, without securing the same with as good and sufficient a fence or fences, as is generally put up and used for the protection of grain crops in the neighborhood

Sec 2. That all persons violating this act shall be fined, in the sum of twenty five dollars, to be sued for, and recovered, by any person, before any Justice of the peace within the proper county in an action of debt, the one half whereof shall go to the person so suing the other half into the Treasury of the county where such penalty is recovered; nothing herein contained shall in any wise prejudice the owner or owners of animals which may be injured by the negligence, of any of the persons aforesaid from recovering adequate damages for such injury. This act to take effect from and after its passage.