(HOUSE BILL NO. 42. APPROVED MARCH 4, 1910.)
AN ACT to create an Employers' Liability Commission and making an appropriation therefor.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That a commission of twelve (12) members is hereby created to be known as the Employers' Liability Commission, to be constituted and appointed as hereinafter provided.
§ 2. The Governor shall appoint, within twenty days after this Act takes effect, as members of said commission, who shall be citizens of Illinois, six employers of labor and six persons who are either employés or are known to represent the interests of workmen. The commission shall elect the chairman of said commission and shall have the power to fill any vacancy that may occur in its membership: Provided, however, the vacancy shall be filled by a person of the same qualifications as the person whose vacancy he fills. The majority of the members of the said commission shall constitute a quorum.
§ 3. Said commission shall investigate the problems of industrial accidents, and especially the present condition of the law of liability for injuries or death suffered in the course of industrial employment, as well in this State as in other states or countries, and shall inquire into the most equitable and effectual method of providing for compensation for losses suffered as aforesaid. It shall, as far as practical, coöperate with other commissions appointed in other states for like purpose. It shall on or before the fifteenth day of September, 1910, report its conclusions, together with the draft of such bill or bills as may be deemed appropriate, to the Governor, who shall at once publish such reports and drafts of bill or bills and shall also transmit such report to the Forty-seventh General Assembly for action thereon: Provided, that such commission shall report to the Governor only such recommendations as shall have been agreed