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coroner: And, provided, further, that whenever the testimony of the several witnesses at such inquest shall have been taken in shorthand minutes and transcribed as above provided for, the several witnesses shall not be required to sign such transcript or other statement of his testimony.

APPROVED May 17, 1907.

PERMISSION TO EMBALM DEAD BODY.

$ 1. Adds section 25 to Act of 1874.

§ 25. Embalming without consent of coroner- penalty.

(SENATE BILL No. 61. APPROVED MAY 17, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to coroners," approved February 6, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 25.

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 revise the law in relation to coroners," approved February 6, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be amended by adding thereto the following section:

§ 25. No undertaker or other person shall embalm the dead body of any person with, or inject therein, or place thereon any fluid or preparation of any kind before obtaining permission from the coroner where such body is the subject of a coroner's inquest. Any person who shall violate the provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00).

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AN ACT concerning the property of posts of the Grand Army of the Republic and camps of the United Spanish War Veterans, and to provide for the care and preservation thereof and to repeal a certain Act therein named.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Whenever any post of the Grand Army of the Republic, camp of the United Spanish War Veterans or Army of the Philippines in this State shall organize itself into a corpor

ation or association under those provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning corporations," approved April 18, 1872, and all amendments thereto relating to the formation of societies, corporations and associations, not for pecuniary profit, the title, to all property of such post or camp, real and personal, whether the same have been theretofore held in its own name, or in the name or names of any of its officers, or members or otherwise, in trust for said post or camp, shall immediately vest in, and belong to, such society, corporation or association by the name adopted by it upon such organization.

§ 2. Whenever two or more Grand Army posts, or camps of United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines shall become consolidated, in pursuance of any general law of the Grand Army of the Republic, or the United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines, the title to the property of any incorporated posts or camps so consolidated shall remain therein until the consolidated post or camp shall become incorporated or organized under said Act, whereupon the title to all property of the consolidated posts or camps shall immediately vest in such consolidated post or camp by such name as may be adopted by it.

83. Whenever any Grand Army post or any camp of United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall own any lot in any cemetery, for the interment of the remains of its deceased members, or their families, and shall desire to provide for the proper care of said lot, after said post or camp shall, in the ordinary course of nature, have ceased to exist, it shall be lawful for such post or camp to convey such lot, in trust for that purpose, to the city, town or village in which such post or camp is located, and for such city, town or village to accept such conveyance upon such trust, to take effect upon the final dissolution of said post or camp, by the death of its members, or otherwise. And thereupon from and after such dissolution, said city, town or village shall have full power in its own name, and it shall be its duty to enforce the observance of any contract which may have been made by said post or camp with any person or corporation, for the care of said lot, and of any monument or monuments thereon, and whenever necessary to do so, to appropriate and pay out of the general funds of said city, town or village, such sum or sums as may from time to time be required for the reasonable care and maintenance of such lot and the monuments thereon.

84. Whenever any Grand Army post or any camp of United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines, whether incorporated or unincorporated, shall cease to exist, being seized or the owner in law, or in equity, of any cemetery lot wherein are interred the remains of deceased members of the Grand Army of the Republic, or the United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines, or of their families, and without having made other disposition of said lot, the title to such lot shall immediately vest in the city or village where such post or camp was located, or, if located outside of any incorporated town, city or village, in the county board of the county, which shall thereupon or thereafter have the same powers and duties in reference thereto, as

though the same had been conveyed to it by such post or camp, as provided in section 3 of this Act. All other property of such post or camp, not theretofore disposed of by it, shall be delivered and belong to the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association of Illinois.

§ 5. Nothing herein contained shall conflict with or in any wise impair any law, rule or regulation of the National or Illinois State encampments of the Grand Army of the Republic, or of any National or Illinois State convention of the United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines respecting the subject of this Act.

§ 6. An Act entitled, "An Act concerning the property of posts of the Grand Army of the Republic, and to provide for the preservation thereof," approved May 18, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, is hereby repealed.

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(HOUSE BILL NO. 47. APPROVED MAY 25, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section 7a of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the punishment of persons, copartnerships or corporations forming pools, trusts and combines, and mode of procedure and rules of evidence in such cases," approved June 11, 1891, and in force July 1, 1891, as amended by Act approved June 20, 1893, and in force July 1, 1893.

WHEREAS, Numerous corporations in this State, many of them of small capital, have become liable to prosecution under the said antitrust Act for inadvertent failure to file affidavits thereby required, and that said Act imposes severe penalties for such failure, and,

WHEREAS, The purpose of such Act is to repress trusts and not to oppress small corporations, therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, reprepresented in the General Assembly: That section 7a of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the punishment of persons, copartnerships, or corporations forming pools, trusts and combines, and mode of procedure and rules of evidence in such cases," approved June 11, 1891, and in force July 1, 1891, as amended by Act approved June 20, 1893, and in force July 1, 1893, be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 7a. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, on or about the first day of September of each year, to address to the president, secretary or treasurer of each incorporated company doing business in this State, whose postoffice address is known or may be ascertained, a letter or inquiry as to whether the said corporation has all or any part of the business or interest in or with any trust, combination or association of persons or stockholders, as named in the preceding provisions

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of this Act, and to require an answer, under oath, of the president, secretary or treasurer, or any director of said company, a form of affidavit shall be enclosed in said letter of inquiry, as follows:

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And on refusal to make oath to said inquiry or on failure to do so within thirty days from the mailing thereof, the Secretary of State shall certify that fact to the Attorney General, whose duty it shall be to direct the State's attorney of the county wherein such corporation

or corporations are located, and it is hereby made the duty of the State's attorney, under the direction of the Attorney General, at the earliest practical moment, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, and at the relation of the Attorney General to proceed against such corporation for the recovery of a penalty of fifty dollars for each day after such refusal to make oath, or failure to make said oath within the thirty days from the mailing of said notice, or the Attorney General may, by any proper proceedings in a court of law or chancery, proceed upon such failure or refusal, to forfeit such charter of such incorporated company or association incorporated under the general laws, or by any special law of this State, and to revoke the rights of any foreign corporation located herein to do business in this State: Provided, however, that before any such suit or prosecution as contemplated by this Act shall be instituted against any person, persons, co-partnerships or corporations failing to file such affidavit within said thirty days from the mailing of such notice from the Secretary of State, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the State's attorney of the county where such person, co-partnership or corporation is located, to give such person, copartnership or corporation ten days' notice in writing of the intention to institute such suit or proceeding: And, provided, further, that if such person, co-partnership or corporation shall then within such period of ten days make and file such affidavit in the office of the Secretary of State, no penalty shall attach and no suit or proceeding shall be instituted against such person, co-partnership or corporation. APPROVED May 25, 1907.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 517. APPROVED MAY 24, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31st, 1874, and all Acts amendatory thereto.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That, "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31st, 1874, and all Acts amendatory thereto, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following to be known as section 62a:

62a. That in the county of Cook there is hereby created the office of Auditor who shall be appointed by the president of the county board by and with the advice and consent of said board, and whose compensation and official bond shall be fixed by said board; and there shall be formulated, installed and regulated by and under the direction and

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