§ 9c. Any child found to be dependent, neglected or delinquent as defined in this Act, and awarded by the court to a guardian, institution or association, shall be held by such guardian, institution or association, as the case may be, by virtue of the order entered of record in such case, and the clerk of the court shall issue and cause to be delivered to such guardian, institution or association a certified copy of such order of the court, which certified copy of such order shall be proof of the authority of such guardian, institution or association in behalf of such child, and no other process need issue to warrant the keeping of such child. The guardianship under this Act shall continue until the court shall by further order otherwise direct 'but not after such child shall have reached the age of twenty-one (21) years. Such child or any person interested in such child may from time to time upon a proper showing apply to the court for the appointment of a new guardian or the restoration of such child to the custody of its parents or for the discharge of the guardian so appointed.

§ 9d. Whenever it shall appear to the court before or after the appointment of a guardian under this Act that the home of the child or of his parents, former guardian or custodian is a suitable place for such child and that such child could be permitted to remain or ordered to be returned to said home consistent with the public good and the good of such child, the court may enter an order to that effect returning such child to his home under probation, parole or otherwise; it being the intention of this Act that no child shall be taken away or kept out of his home or away from his parents and guardian any longer than is reasonably necessary to preserve the welfare of such child and the interest of this State: Provided, however, that no such order shall be entered without first giving ten days notice to the guardian, institution or association to whose care such child has been committed, unless such guardian, institution or association consents to such order.

§ 9e. The court may, from time to time, cite into court the guardian, institution or association to whose care any dependent, neglected or delinquent child has been awarded, and to require him or it to make a full, true and perfect report as to his or its doings in behalf of such child; and it shall be the duty of such guardian, institution or association, within ten days after such citation, to make such report either in writing verified by affidavit, or verbally under oath in open court, or otherwise as the court shall direct; and upon the hearing of such report, with or without further evidence, the court may, if it sees fit, remove such guardian and appoint another in his stead. or take such child away from such institution or association and place it in another, or restore such child to the custody of its parents or former guardian or custodian.

15. Whenever the petition filed, as is provided in section 3 hereof, or a supplemental petition filed at any time after the appointment of the guardian shall pray that the guardian to be appointed shall be authorized to consent to the legal adoption of the child, and the court upon the hearing shall find that it is to the best interest of such child that the guardian be given such authority, the court may, in its order appointing

such guardian, empower him to appear in court where any proceedings for the adoption of such child may be pending, and to consent to such adoption; and such consent shall be sufficient to authorize the court where the adoption proceedings are pending to enter a proper order or decree of adoption without further notice to, or consent by the parents or relatives of such child: Provided, however, that before entering such order the court shall find from the evidence that (1) the parents or surviving parent of a legitimate child or the mother of an illegitimate child, or if the child has no parents living the guardian of the child, if any, or if there is no parent living and the child has no guardian or the guardian is not known to petitioner, then a near relative of the child, if any there be, consents to such order; or, (2) that one parent consents and the other is unfit for any of the reasons hereinafter specified to have the child or that both parents are or that the surviving parent or the mother of an illegitimate child is so unfit for any of such reasonsthe grounds of unfitness being (a) depravity, (b) open and notorious adultery or fornication, (c) habitual drunkenness for the space of one year prior to the filing of the petition, (d) extreme and repeated cruelty to the child, (e) abandonment of the child or (f) desertion of the child for more than six (6) months next preceding the filing of the petition.

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§ 22. If it shall appear, upon the hearing of the cause that the parent, parents, or any person or persons named in such petition who are in law liable for the support of such child, are able to contribute to the support of such child, the court shall enter an order requiring such parent, parents or other persons to pay to the guardian so appointed or to the institution to which such child may be committed, a reasonable sum from time to time for the support, maintenance or education of such child and the court may order such parent, parents or other persons to give reasonable security for the payment of such sum or sums and upon failure to pay, the court may enforce obedience to such order by a proceeding as for contempt of court. The court may, on application and on such notice as the court may direct from time to time, make such alterations in the allowance as shall appear reasonable and proper.

8 23. If the person so ordered to pay for the support, maintenance or education of a dependent, neglected or delinquent child shall be employed for wages, salary or commission, the court may also order that the sum to be paid by him shall be paid to the guardian or institution out of his wages, salary or commission and that he shall execute an assignment thereof pro tanto. The court may also order the parent or the person so ordered to pay the sum of money for the support, maintenance or education of a child, from time to time make discovery to the the court as to his place of employment and amount earned by him. Upon his failure to obey the orders of court he may be punished as for contempt of court.

§ 24. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give the guardian appointed under this Act the guardianship of the estate of the child or to change the age of minority for any other purpose except the custody of the child.

§ 25. The invalidity of any portion of this Act shall not effect the validity of any other portion thereof which can be given effect without such invalid part.

§ 26. Cases under this Act may be reviewed by writ of error. APPROVED June 4, 1907.

PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN CERTAIN CITIES.

1. Amends section 1, act of 1891.

(SENATE BILL No. 437.

1. Tax levy not to exceed three mills on dollar annually.

APPROVED MAY 25, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section one of an Act entitled, "An Act to enable cities to establish and maintain public hospitals." Approved June 17, 1891. In force July 1, 1891.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That section one of "An Act to enable cities to establish and maintain public hospitals," approved June 17, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: That the city council of each incorporated city of this State having a population of less than one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants shall have the power to establish and maintain a non-sectarian public hospital for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of such city, and any person falling sick, or being injured or maimed within its limits, and may levy a tax not to exceed three mills on the dollar annually, on all taxable property of the city, such tax to be levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of the said city, and to be known as the "Hospital Fund."

APPROVED May 25, 1907.

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SOLDIERS AND SAILORS—BURIAL OF DECEASED INDIGENT, ETC.
Appointment of person-interment,

§ 3.

County to pay expenses.

AN ACT to provide for the burial of deceased indigent or friendless soldiers, sailors or marines of the late civil war, the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising in China, or their mothers, wives or widows.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors in counties under township organization, and of the county commissioners in counties not under township organization, to designate some suitable person or persons who shall serve without compensation, whose duty it shall be to cause to be properly interred the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine, who served in the army or navy of the United States during the late civil

war, the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection, or the Boxer uprising in China, or their mothers, wives or widows who may hereafter die in such county, without having sufficient means to defray the funeral expenses.

§ 2. The expense of such burial shall not exceed the sum of thirtyfive dollars, such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead, or in that portion of any burial ground so used: And provided, that in case relatives of the deceased, who are unable to bear the expense of burial, desire to conduct the funeral, they may be allowed to do so, and the expense thereof shall be paid as hereinafter provided.

§ 3. The expenses of such burial and headstones shall be paid by the county in which such soldier, sailor or marine, or their mothers, wives or widows, resided at the time of his or her death; and the board of supervisors in such counties under township organization, or county commissioners in such counties not under township organization, is authorized and directed to audit the account, and pay the said expenses in a similar manner as other accounts against such county are audited and paid: Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall apply to the burial of soldiers and sailors who are inmates of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at the time of their death.

§ 4. An act entitled, "An Act to provide for the burial of deceased indigent or friendless union soldiers, sailors or marines of the late war," approved June 16, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, is hereby repealed. APPROVED May 24, 1907.

AN ACT to regulate the granting of relief to indigent war veterans and their families, 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: That the term "overseer of the poor," as used in this Act, shall be construed to mean all persons whose duty it is, under existing statutes, to care for, relieve or maintain, wholly or in part, any poor or indigent person who may be entitled to such relief under the statutes of the State of Illinois.

§ 2. For the relief of indigent and suffering soldiers, sailors and marines, who served in the war of the rebellion, the Spanish war, the Philippine insurrection, the Boxer uprising in China, and their families, and the families of deceased veterans who need assistance, in any city

or town in this State, the overseer of the poor shall provide such sum or sums of money as may be necessary, to be drawn upon by the commander and quartermaster of any post of the Grand Army of the Republic or of any camp of United Spanish War Veterans in said city or town, upon the recommendation of the relief committee of said post or camp, in the same manner as is now provided by law for the relief of the poor: Provided, that said soldier, sailor and marine, or the families of those deceased, are and have been residents of this State for one year or more, and the orders of said commander or quartermaster shall be proper vouchers for the expenditure of said sum or sums of money. 83 In case there is no post of the Grand Army of the Republic or no camp of United Spanish War Veterans or Army of the Philippines in any town in which it is necessary that such relief as provided in section 2 should be granted, the overseer of the poor shall accept and pay the orders drawn, as hereinbefore provided by the commander and quartermaster of any post of the Grand Army of the Republic or of any camp of United Spanish War Veterans, or any Army of the Philippines, located in the nearest city or town, upon the recommendation of a relief committee, who shall be residents of the said town in which the relief may be furnished.

84. Upon the taking effect of this Act, the commander of any post of the Grand Army of the Republic, or the commander of any camp of United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines, which shall undertake the relief of indigent veterans and their families, as hereinbefore provided, before the acts of said commander and quartermaster shall be operative in any city or town, shall file with the city clerk of such city or town clerk of such town, or overseer of the poor of such town or county, a notice that said post or camp intends to undertake such relief as is provided by this Act, and such notice shall contain the names of the relief committee of said post or camp in such city or town, and of the commander and other officers of said post or camp. And the commander of said post or camp shall annually thereafter, during the month of October, file a similar notice with the city or town clerk, or the overseer of the poor, also a detailed statement of the amount of relief furnished during the preceding year, with the names of all persons to whom such relief shall have been furnished, together with a brief statement in such case from the relief committee upon whose recommendation the orders were drawn. And failure or neglect so to do at the time required by this Act shall be punishable by a fine of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) to be recovered in the name of the county in any court of competent jurisdiction.

5. The auditing board of any city or town, or the overseer of the poor of any city, town or county, may require of said commander or quartermaster of any post of the Grand Army of the Republic or of any camp of United Spanish War Veterans or Army of the Philippines, undertaking such relief in any city or town, a bond with sufficient and satisfactory sureties for the faithful and honest discharge of their duties. under this Act.