§ 6. Overseers of the poor are hereby prohibited from sending indigent soldiers, sailors and marines (or their families or the families of those deceased) to any almshouse (or orphan asylum) without the full concurrence and consent of the commander and relief committee of the post of the Grand Army of the Republic or of the camp of Spanish War Veterans or Army of the Philippines having jurisdiction as provided in sections 2 and 3 of this Act. Indigent veterans with families, and the families of deceased veterans, shall, whenever practicable, be provided for and relieved at their homes in such city or town in which they shall have a residence, in the manner provided in sections 2 and 3 of this Act. Indigent or disabled veterans of the classes specified in section 2 of this Act, who are not insane, and who have no families or friends with whom they may be domiciled, may be sent to any Soldiers' Home. Any indigent veteran of either of the classes specified in section 2 of this Act, or any member of the family of any living or deceased veteran of said classes, who may be insane, shall, upon the recommendation of the commander and relief committee of such post of the Grand Army of the Republic or such camp of United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines, within the jurisdiction of which the case may occur, be sent to any insane asylum and cared for as provided for indigent insane. § 7. In case there shall be within the limits of any city or town more than one post of the Grand Army of the Republic or more than one camp of United Spanish War Veterans, or Army of the Philippines, it shall be the duty of the commander of each post or camp within such limits, to send to the commander of every other post or camp, as the case may be, within said limits, on the first day of each month, a written list of the names of all persons to whom relief has been granted during the preceding month, under the provisions of this Act. § 8. The commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Illinois, and the commander of the United Spanish War Veterans, Department of Illinois, and the commander of the Army of the Philippines shall annually report to the Governor, on or before the first day of January of each year, such portions of the transactions of the Grand Army of the Republic and of the United Spanish War Veterans or Army of the Philippines respectively, relating hereto [thereto], as he may deem to be of interest to that organization and the people of the State. § 9. An Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the granting of relief to indigent war veterans and their families," which became a law June 26, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, is hereby repealed. APPROVED May 25, 1907. SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME-ADMISSION OF WIFE. § 1. Amend section 3a, act of 1885. (SENATE BILL No. 219. § 3a. Wife admitted when of age of 50 years or older. APPROVED MAY 25, 1907.) AN ACT to amend section za of an act approved May 13, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, entitled "An Act to amend an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a soldiers' and sailors' home in the State of Illinois, and making an appropriation for the purchase of land and the construction of the necessary buildings,' approved June 26, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, by adding thereto four sections, to be known as section 3a, section 3b, section 3c and section 3d respectively. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 3a of an act approved May 13, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, entitled "An Act to amend an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a soldiers' and sailors' home in the State of Illinois, and making an appropriation for the purchase of land and the construction of the necessary buildings,' approved June 26, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto four sections, to be known as section 3a, section 3b, section 3c and section 3d respectively," be, and is hereby amended to 1ead as follows: § 3a. When any person who has been a soldier or a sailor is an inmate, or becomes an inmate, of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quincy, the wife of such soldier or sailor shall be admitted as an inmate of said home, subject to the rules and regulations adopted by the trustees of said home, to govern the admission of applicants: Provided, said wife and said soldier or sailor were married prior to January I, 1890, and when said wife shall be of the age of 50 years or older. APPROVED May 25, 1907. SOLDIERS' ORPHANS' HOME-ADMISSION REGULATED. $ 1. Amends section 5, act of 1875. (SENATE BILL NO. 243. 5. Admission of any dependent orphan child under the age of eight years-annual report, etc. APPROVED MAY 25, 1907.) AN ACT to amend section 5 of an act entitled, "An Act to regulate the State charitable institutions and the State Reform School, and to improve their organization and increase their efficiency," approved April 15, 1875, in force July 1, 1875, as amended by an act approved May 28, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, approved April 3, 1899, in force July I, 1899. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 5 of an act entitled, "An Act to regulate the State charitable institutions and the State Reform School, and to improve their organization and increase their efficiency," approved April 15, 1875, in force July 1, 1875, as amended by an act approved May 28, 1897, in force July 1, 1897 [be amended to read as follows:] 5. The object of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home shall be to provide for the nurture and intellectual, moral, and physical culture of all indigent children whose fathers served in the army or navy of the United States, and have died or been disabled by reason of wounds or disease received therein or have since become disabled or died; that there shall be received into said institution first, children who are under the age of five years, who are in indigent circumstances, and then if the means appropriated by the State will justify it, indigent children above that age and below the age of fourteen years shall be received, and then if the means provided will justify, all other indigent orphans of such soldiers may be received, but none over the age of sixteen years shall be received, at which age all children shall be discharged therefrom except girls who may be retained until they are eighteen years old, and the trustees may discharge at any time any child for persistent violation of the rules of said home, or when in their judgment it is necessary for the best interest and good government of the same; and the said trustees shall have the authority to procure permanent homes for any orphan child admitted to the home, and also for any child by first obtaining the consent of the parents, if either of them are living and can be found; and said trustees shall make such rules and regulations in regard to the manner of making contracts with any responsible parties who may take any of said children to raise: Provided, that in special cases of peculia inability of any child to support itself, the trustees may retain such child, although over the age of sixteen years, and until the child has reached the age of eighteen years: Provided, when all the above children have been admitted who have made application and there is room to accommodate more children, then any dependent orphan child under the age of eight years, who has been a resident of this State for four years or more, shall be admitted to said institution. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of said institution to place all children admitted to this home in private homes whenever applications are made by worthy and responsible people. He shall make a report annually of each child so placed, of the school work and health and general condition of each child in his report to the board of State Commissioners of Public Charities. The said board of State Commissioners of Public Charities is hereby authorized and directed, for the purpose of regulating the admission of children, not the orphans of soldiers, to fix quotas for the several counties in the same manner that the said board fixes the quotas of the several counties for the admission of insane persons to the State hospitals for the insane. The children who are inmates of county almshouses shall be provided for first, then if said county's quota is not full, other dependent orphan children may be admitted. APPROVED May 25, 1907. AN ACT to amend section 10 of an act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a home for the disabled mothers, wives, widows and daughters of disabled or deceased soldiers in the State of Illinois, and to provide for the purchase and maintenance thereof," approved June 13, 1895, in force July 1, 1895. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 10 of an act entitled "An Act to establish and maintain a home for the disabled mothers, wives, widows and daughters of disabled or deceased soldiers in the State of Illinois, and to provide for the purchase and maintenance thereof," approved June 13, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, be amended so as to read as follows: § 10. Said trustees shall appoint a matron at a salary not to exceed ($1,200) twelve hundred dollars per annum and such other officers as may be necessary to carry on the affairs of the said institution, fixing their salaries, and shall together with the Governor prescribe rules for the admission of inmates into said home. § 8. When change void-vali- (HOUSE BILL NO. 78. APPROVED MAY 13, 1907.) AN ACT to amend section eight (8) of an act entitled, "An Act to enable any city, town or village in this State to change its name," approved March 7, 1872, in force July 1, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section eight (8) of an act entitled, "An Act to enable any city, town or village in this State to change its name," approved March 7, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 8. If the name of any such city, town or village shall be changed contrary to or without complying with the provisions of this Act, such change shall be void and held for naught in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State:- Provided, however, that all proceedings instituted or acts done under such name as changed shall be valid and binding if the same would have been valid and binding if done under the old name. All proceedings heretofore instituted or acts heretofore done by any city, town or village under the new name as changed, if the change shall be declared void, shall be held as good and valid as if done and performed under this Act. § 2. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and its approval by the Governor. Powers for aid, relief and Article 22. General provisions. Article 23. Article 11. Finance. (HOUSE BILL No. 874. Submission of charter to popular vote. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1907.) AN ACT to provide a charter for the city of Chicago, to consolidate in the government of said city the powers now vested in the local authorities having jurisdiction within the territory of said city, and to enlarge the rights and powers of said city. ARTICLE I. CONSOLIDATION. I-SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: All powers not abrogated by this charter which are now vested in the city, board of education, township, park or other local governments and authorities having jurisdiction confined to or within the territory of the city of Chicago, or any part thereof, shall be consolidated in the municipal government of the city of Chicago, and for that purpose all municipal corporations other than the city of Chicago, whose jurisdiction is confined as aforesaid, and their corporate authorities, shall be dissolved and abrogated and shall be merged in and united with the city of Chicago (except that towns or townships shall be deemed to continue in existence only in so far as their continued existence may be necessary to the collection of taxes); and the city of Chicago shall be the successor of said corporations, with all their property and corporate rights and subject to |