2. To enforce and observe the rules, regulations and orders of the State Department of Public Health and all State laws pertaining to the preservation of the health of the people within the public health district;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties of all township boards of health and county boards of health within the public health district; 4. To execute and enforce, within the public health district, all city, village and incorporated town ordinances relating to nuisances, public health and sanitation;

5. To investigate the existence of any contagious or infectious disease within the public health district and to adont measures, with the approval of the State Department of Public Health, to arrest the progress of the same;

6. To make all necessary sanitary and health investigations and inspections within the public health district;

7. To establish a free dental clinic for the benefit of the school children of the district;

8. To give professional advice and information to all city, village, incorporated town and school authorities within the public health district in all matters pertaining to sanitation and public health;

9. To devote his entire time to his official duties.

§ 18. In all public health districts all ordinances of cities, villages and incorporated towns lying within such public health district, relating to nuisances, sanitation, and public health, shall be administered by the public health officer appointed pursuant to this Act, and not otherwise.

19. Each board of health, organized under this Act, shall be empowered to issue warrants in anticipation of taxes to the same extent, in the same manner and with like limitations and restrictions as county, city, village and incorporated town authorities.

$20. Each board of health shall, annually, on or before the first day of August of each year, transmit to the county clerk in which such public health district is located, or if the public health district is located. in more than one county, then to the county clerk of each county in which a part thereof is located, a certificate signed by the chairman and treasurer, setting forth the rate or percentage of such taxes by them levied for the purposes herein provided and it shall be, and is hereby made the duty of the county clerk to whom such certificate shall be transmitted, to set down in the general tax warrant of the year for the collection of the State and county taxes, in a separate column to be styled a "public health tax," a tax in amount equal to the sum resulting from the rate or percentage so certified by such board of health upon the real and personal property within such health district, or such part thereof as may be located in his county, according to the valuation of the same as made for the purpose of State and county taxation; and shall set down in each column the amount of tax chargeable to the several persons, corporations, lots or parcels of land, liable for taxes in such public health district according to such rate or percentage, and the collector shall proceed to collect the same in such manner as is now, or may hereafter be provided by law for the collection of State and county taxes; and the provisions of law in respect to collection of State and

county taxes, and proceedings to enforce the same, which are now enforced, or which may be hereafter enacted, so far as applicable, shall apply to such taxes; and as fast as such tax shall be collected by the collector or other officer receiving the same, it shall be paid over to such board of health, on the joint order of the chairman and treasurer of the board of health and shall be receipted for by such treasurer. The funds shall be used only for the purposes herein prescribed and shall be disbursed by the treasurer on the joint order of the chairman and secretary. A failure by the board of health to file the certificate with the county clerk in the required time shall not vitiate the assessment.

FILED June 26, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of dairy products, their imitation or substitutes, to prohibit and prevent the manufacture and sale of unhealthful, adulterated or misbranded food, liquors or dairy products, to provide for the appointment of a State food commissioner and his assistants, to define their powers and duties, and to repeal all Acts relating to the production, manufacture and sale of dairy and food products and liquors in conflict herewith," approved May 14, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as subsequently amended by amending section twenty-one (21) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of dairy products, their imitation or substitutes, to prohibit and prevent the manufacture and sale of unhealthful, adulterated or misbranded food, liquors, or dairy products, to provide for the appointment of a State food commissioner and his assistants, to define their powers and duties, and to repeal all Acts relating to the production, manufacture and sale of dairy and food products and liquors in conflict herewith," approved May 14, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as subsequently amended, be amended by amending section twenty-one (21) thereof, so that the said section twenty-one (21) when amended shall read as follows:

§ 21. A buyer of milk or cream buying of the producer on a butterfat basis, shall, in the presence of the producer or his agent, after having. been petitioned in writing by one or more of its patrons so to do, take a fair sample of the producer's milk, of not less than two (2) ounces, and immediately deliver the same to the producer or his agent in a sealed receptacle to be furnished by the Department of Agriculture suitable for mailing or expressing. The receptacle shall be plainly marked

with the producer's factory number and the name of the producer, and may be mailed or expressed by the producer or his agent to the Department of Agriculture for test.

The Departmend [Department] of Agriculture shall receive and make prompt analysis of all such samples of milk or cream, wash and sterilize the containers, and return to the plant or person from whom received, the producer to pay the transportation charges.

The Department of Agriculture shall, not later than the fifth day of each month, mail to the buyer a tabulated sheet, showing the result of each individual producer's test, for the preceding month, the average of which shall be the basis of settlement between the buyer and individual producer.

The Department of Agriculture shall, not later than the eighth day of each month, mail to the individual producer at his post office address, the result of each of his tests for the preceding month.

Samples of milk or cream, for the purpose of this Act, shall be taken out less than two (2) or more than four (4) times during each monthly period at the option of the buyer.

It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, agent or any employee of a creamery or cheese factory, to manipulate, underread or overread the Babcock test, or any other contrivance used for determining the quality or value of milk or cream, or to falsify the record thereof, or to pay for such milk or cream on the basis of any measurement except the true measurement as thereby determined.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

REGULATING SALE OF PAINTS, OILS AND OTHER COMPOUNDS.

AN ACT to regulate the sale of paints, oils and other articles or compounds used in connection therewith.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every person, firm or corporation who shall expose for sale, or sell, within this State, any white lead or paint, shall accurately label the same as hereinafter required.

§ 2. The term "paint," as used in this Act, shall include white lead in oil or any compound intended for the same use, paste or semi-paste, and liquid or mixed paint of any kind ready for use, or any compound. intended for the same use.

§ 3. Labels required by this Act shall clearly and distinctly state the name and address of the manufacturer of the article, or the dealer therein, or of the party for whom the same is manufactured, and for the purposes of this Act paint shall be deemed to be improperly labeled or misbranded: (1) If it be an imitation of, and offered for sale under the name of another article; or (2) if the contents of the package as originally put up shall have been removed in whole or in part, and other contents shall have been placed in such package; or (3) if any label on the package containing it shall bear any statement, design or device regarding the ingredients or composition of the paint which statement, design or device shall be false or misleading in any respect. The label shall also state, in case of liquid paints, and other compounds, on packages holding one quart or more, the net measure of contents of each can, package or container. In case of white lead and other paints and compounds, the label shall show on packages weighing four pounds or more the net weight of each can, package or container.

§ 4. No person, firm or corporation shall expose for sale, sell or take orders for sale and delivery within this State, any "raw linseed oil," unless the same is wholly obtained from the seeds of the flax plant (linum usitatissimum), and unless the same fulfills all the requirements recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia.

§ 5. The term "United States Pharmacopoeia" as used in this Act, shall refer to the latest revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia, official at the time of the sale in question.

§ 6. No person, firm or corporation shall expose for sale, sell or take orders for sale and delivery within this State any "boiled linseed oil" or so-called "boiled oil" unless the same has been prepared from pure raw linseed oil and lead and manganese driers: And for the purpose of this Act, it shall also be deemed a violation hereof if boiled linseed oil does not conform to the following requirements:

First. Its specific gravity at 25 degrees Centigrade as compared with water at 25 degrees Centigrade must be not less than 0.933 and not greater than 0.945.

Second. Its saponification number must be not less than 186 nor greater than 195.

Third. Its iodine absorption number (Hanus method) shall not be less than 168.

Fourth. Its acid number must not be greater than 8.

Fifth. It must yield on analysis not more than one and one-half (1.5) per cent of unsaponifiable matter.

Sirth. It must yield on analysis not less than two-tenths (0.2) of one per cent, nor more than seven-tenths (0.7) of one per cent of ash. Seventh. It must yield an analysis not less than one-tenth (0.1) of one per cent of lead.

Eighth. It must yield on analysis not less than three-hundredths (0.03) of one per cent of manganese.

Ninth. It must yield on analysis not more than three-tenths (0.3) of one per cent of calcium.

§ 7. No person, firm or corporation shall expose for sale or sell any flaxseed or linseed oil unless it is exposed for sale or sold under its true name, and each original unbroken tank car, tank, barrel, keg or vessel containing such oil has distinctly and durably marked thereon the true name of such oil, and the name and place of business of the manufacturer thereof, in ordinary bold-faced capital letters not less than five lines pica in size, the words "Pure Linseed Oil-Raw," "Pure Linseed Oil-Boiled," as the case may be.

§ 8. No person, firm or corporation shall expose for sale, sell or take orders for sale and delivery within this State, any compound or mixture of linseed oil (raw or boiled) with other products, except as provided in section six (6) of this Act, or any product which is intended to be used as a substitute for linseed oil (raw or boiled), unless it is exposed for sale or sold under the name, "Substitute for linseed oil," and, if the words "linseed" or "flaxseed" are used other than in the name, the true name of each and every ingredient of said product shall also appear, giving preference of order to the ingredients present in the greater proportion, but all letters used in naming the ingredients shall be of the same size and color, using the style of type as hereinafter specified. Each tank car, tank, barrel, keg, can, jug or vessel (both wholesale and retail), also all storage receptacles containing said product, shall be distinctly and durably marked in a conspicuous place, using the English language and kind of type as hereinafter specified, giving the name under which it is sold, the names of ingredients when required, and the name and place of business of the manufacturer thereof, in continuous list, with no intervening matter.

§ 9. Any failure to label said article as above specified or any erasures, defacements or carelessness in printing or stamping labels or any statement regarding the composition of said article or any statements of any kind which are misleading, deceptive or which are not true are hereby declared a violation of this Act.

§ 10. No person, firm or corporation shall expose for sale, sell or take orders for sale and delivery within this State any "oil of turpentine" or so-called "spirits of turpentine" "turpentine" or "turps," unless the same is wholly the volatile oil derived from the oleo-resinous exudation from, or the resinous wood of various species of coniferous trees. And for the purpose of this Act, it shall also be deemed a violation hereof if oil of turpentine does not conform to the standard specifications for turpentine as appearing in the latest biennial issue of the "A. S. T. M. Standards" issued by the American Society for testing materials.

§ 11. No person, firm or corporation shall expose for sale or sell any oil of turpentine unless it is exposed for sale or sold under its true name, and each original unbroken tank car, tank, barrel, keg or vessel containing such oil has distinctly and durably marked thereon the true