LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF ILLINOIS

ENACTED BY THE

Forty-Eighth General Assembly

AT THE

REGULAR BIENNIAL SESSION

BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF
SPRINGFIELD, ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF JANUARY
A. D. 1913, AND ADJOURNED SINE DIE ON THE
THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE A. D. 1913.

PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL

ILLINOIS STATE Journal Co., STATE PRINTERS
1913

CONTENTS.

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ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES:

An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning compensation of

trustees," approved June 17, 1891, in force July 1, 1891..

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An Act to amend sections twenty and twenty a (20a) of "An Act in regard

to the administration of estates," approved April 1, 1872, in force

July 1, 1872, as amended..

AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE:

An Act to amend section seven of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the

law in relation to the Department of Agriculture, agricultural societies

and agricultural fairs, and to provide for reports of the same," approved

June 23, 1883, in force July 1, 1883, as amended by Act approved May

29, 1911, in force July 1, 1911...

An Act conferring upon the State Board of Agriculture the power to con-

demn and take real estate through the exercise of the right of eminent

domain

APPROPRIATIONS:

An Act making an appropriation for county fairs or other agricultural

societies of the State of Illinois....

An Act making an appropriation for the State Board of Agriculture to

be used in the payment of outstanding notes given to secure funds to

complete new sheep and swine pavilions, repairs to buildings damaged

by storms, and deficiency in maintenance, repairs and care of the Illinois

State Fair grounds and buildings thereon..

An Act in relation to an inventory of the property of the State of Illinois,

and for an appropriation to pay the necessary expenses in the enforce-

ment of the Act.

An Act making an appropriation for Illinois State Bee-Keepers' Association.

An Act to make an appropriation for the ordinary and contingent expenses

of the State. Board of Health for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913..

An Act making an appropriation for the improvement and enlargement of

the Illinois and Michigan Canal and for the necessary and extraordinary

expenses thereof

An Act making an appropriation for rebuilding, repairing, equipping and

furnishing, the bakery building at the Kankakee State Hospital, destroyed

by fire on April 4, 1913...

An Act making appropriations for the ordinary and other expenses of the

State charitable institutions herein named.

An Act making appropriations for the State charitable institutions herein

named

An Act to provide for a deficiency in the office and other expenses of the

Chief Inspector of Private Employment Agencies for the fiscal year

ending June 30, 1913

An Act making an appropriation for the Illinois Dairymen's Association.

An Act making appropriations for the five State normal schools of Illinois

An Act appropriating to the Trustees of the University of Illinois the

money granted in an Act of Congress, approved August 30, 1890, entitled,

"An Act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public lands to the

more perfect endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of

agriculture and mechanic arts." established under the provisions of an

Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862. and the money granted by an

Act of Congress, approved March 4, 1907, entitled. "An Act making

appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year

ending June 30, 1908".

An Act making appropriations for the University of Illinois.

An Act to make an appropriation for the representation of the State of

Illinois at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held at

San Francisco, California, in the year 1915..

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An Act to make an appropriation for the benefit, aid and maintenance of

the Illinois Firemen's Association

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APPROPRIATIONS-Continued.

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An Act making an appropriation for the purpose of rebuilding and pre-

serving the walls of ancient Ft. Chartres, of preserving and strengthening

its old powder magazine, and for the purpose of making and creating a

State park upon the site of this ancient fort.

An Act making an appropriation to meet the deficiency in the appropriation

for the payment of expenses for the apprehension and delivery of

fugitives from justice

An Act making an appropriation to pay the expenses of the committees of

the 48th General Assembly.

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An Act making an appropriation to pay the expenses of the committees of

the Forty-eighth General Assembly.

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An Act to make an appropriation to pay the Elections Committee expenses

of the Forty-eighth General Assembly.

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An Act making appropriations for the payment of employees of the Forty-

eighth General Assembly

An Act making an appropriation for the payment of employees of the

Forty-eighth General Assembly

An Act to provide for the incidental expenses of the Forty-eighth General

Assembly of the State of Illinois..

An Act to provide for the incidental expenses of the Forty-eighth General

Assembly of the State of Illinois, to be incurred by the Secretary of

State, and for the care and custody of the State House and grounds, to

be incurred and now unprovided for..

An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the officers and mem-

bers of the next General Assembly, and for the salaries of the officers of

the State government

An Act to make an appropriation for the expenses of veteran soldiers

residing in the State of Illinois, who were participants in the battle of

Gettysburg, July 1, 2, 3, 1863, to enable them to attend the celebration

of the fiftieth anniversary of that battle, to be held on the battlefield

at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1, 2, 3 and 4. A. D. 1913..

An Act making an appropriation for paying the State's part in building a

hard road from the southeast corner of the State fair grounds to the

State Biological Laboratory

An Act making an appropriation from the road fund for the building and

maintaining of State aid roads in the several counties of the State..

An Act making an appropriation from the road fund for the building and

maintaining of State aid roads in the several counties of the State.

An Act making an appropriation for the building and maintaining of

State aid roads in the several counties of the State..

An Act to establish the Mining Investigating Commission of the State of

Illinois, and prescribing its powers and duties and making an appropria-

tion therefor

An Act making an appropriation for the necessary expenses to carry out

the provisions of House Joint Resolution Number 23.

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An Act making an appropriation for the necessary expenses of the com-

mission appointed to investigate and inquire into the condition of walls

in Will county, pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 48.

An Act making an appropriation for the necessary expenses of the com-

mission appointed to investigate the white slave traffic.

An Act to provide for a deficiency in office and other expenses of the Com-

missioners of Labor Statistics for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913..

An Act making an appropriation to the Rivers and Lakes Commission of

Illinois for the purpose of widening, raising, strengthening, improving,

repairing, building and constructing levees in or around certain cities in

the State of Illinois...

An Act making an appropriation to the Rivers and Lakes Commission of

Illinois, for the purpose of widening, raising, strengthening, improving,

repairing. building, and constructing levees in or around the village of

Naples, Scott county, in the State of Illinois..

An Act making an appropriation for the Illinois Live Stock Breeders'

Association

An Act making an appropriation to provide for a deficiency in the appro-

priation for the purchase of hogs necessary for producing serum, in-

cluding labor. feed and all other laboratory work and necessary supplies

An Act making an appropriation for street pavements surrounding the

appellate court, Fourth District of Mt. Vernon.

An Act to provide for the payment of the cost of the paving of the north

approach to the Illinois river, with vitrified brick, 48 feet in width, from

the bridge to the headrace, said approach being abutted on each side,

by property owned and controlled by the State of Illinois, and located

in the city of Ottawa, Illinois..

An Act to provide for the payment of the cost of part of a local improve-

ment consisting of a sewer in the city of Ottawa, Illinois; said im-

provement being made by special assessment.

An Act to provide for the payment of the cost of part of a local improve-

ment of streets in the city of Ottawa, Illinois, by paving; said improve-

ment being abutted on real property owned and controlled by the State

of Illinois

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An Act for the appointment of commissioners and making an appropriation

for the construction and erection of a monument in memory of John

P. Altgeld, in Chicago, Cook county, Illinois.

An Act appropriating six hundred dollars for printing the report of the

Illinois-Andersonville Monument Commission

An Act for the appointment of commissioners and making an appro-

priation for the construction and erection of a monument in memory

of a former Governor, Thomas Carlin, at Carrollton, Illinois.

An Act to make provision for the erection of a statue of Stephen A.

Douglas on the Capitol grounds, and to make an appropriation therefor

An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a monument in

Fort Edwards

An Act making an appropriation for the erection of a monument on the

battlefield of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia.

An Act to make provision for the erection of a statue of Abraham Lincoln

on the Capitol grounds, and to make an appropriation therefor...

An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the expenses of the

Perry's Victory Centennial Celebration Commission of Illinois, and the

participation of the State of Illinois in the erection of a contemplated

'memorial at Put-In-Bay, Ohio, in commemoration of the victory of

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry on Lake Erie, and in the centennial

celebration thereof, in the State of Illinois.

An Act making an appropriation for the making and placing of a bronze

tablet to the memory of the Illinois soldiers of the war of 1812 in

Memorial hall at Springfield, Illinois..

An Act making an appropriation of the proceeds of the sale of the

building and lands now owned by the State of Illinois and used for an

armory by the Second Regiment, Illinois National Guard.

An Act appropriating to the Armory Commission the moneys paid into

the State treasury by the city of Chicago on account of the purchase

of a tract of land heretofore conveyed to the Armory Commission for

an armory site for the use of the Eighth Infantry, Illinois National

Guard

An Act making an appropriation of additional sums for the completion

of armories now under construction..

An Act in relation to procuring of sites and for the erection of armory

buildings for the use of the Illinois National Guard, and making an

appropriation therefor and for the purchase of sites and armory build-

ings at Kewanee, and Morrison, Illinois.

An Act to reappropriate the unexpended balance of appropriations made

by an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to procuring of sites and for

the erection of armory buildings for the use of the Illinois National

Guard and Illinois Naval Reserve, and making an appropriation there-

for," approved June 9, 1911, in force July 1, 1911..

An Act to provide for the emergency expenses of the Illinois National

Guard and the Illinois Naval Reserve incurred in the protection of life

and property in the flooded territories of the State...

An Act to provide appropriation for the purpose of defraying the indebted-

ness incurred on the part of the State in furnishing relief to the people

living in those sections of the State recently visited by devastating floods

An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois

National Guard and Illinois Naval Reserve..

An Act to provide for the care, repair, preservation and maintenance of

uniforms, arms and equipment of the Illinois National Guard and the

Illinois Naval Reserve

An Act providing for an exhibition and celebration to commemorate the

fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation of the negro, creating a com-

mission to conduct same and making an appropriation therefor.

An Act making an appropriation for the perpetuation and care of burial

place of deceased veterans of Civil and other wars....

An Act making an appropriation for the building of a new Illinois State

penitentiary and a new Illinois asylum for the insane criminals and mat-

ters incidental and pertaining thereto, at or near the city of Joliet..

An Act making appropriations for the Southern Illinois Penitentiary at

Chester

An Act to make appropriation for ordinary and other expenses of the

Illinois State Penitentiary

An Act to make appropriations for ordinary and other expenses of the

Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac..

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An Act to make an appropriation for the painting of a portrait of former

Governor Charles S. Deneen..

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An Act to make an appropriation for the painting of a portrait of former

Lieutenant Governor John G. Oglesby..

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An Act making an appropriation for the Illinois State Poultry Associa-

tion

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