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BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD, ON THE SIXTH DAY OF JANUARY,
A. D. 1915, AND ADJOURNED SINE DIE ON THE THIRTIETH DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1915.
ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL Co., STATE PRINTERS
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.
1915
CONTENTS.
ADOPTION OF CHILDREN:
PAGE.
An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to the
adoption of children," approved February 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874...
AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE:
An Act providing for the registration of farm names
ANIMALS AND BIRDS:
An Act entitled, "An Act to amend sections two (2) and eight (8) of an
Act entitled, 'An Act to revise the law in relation to the suppression and
prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases among
domestic animals,'" approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909
suppression and prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious dis-
eases among domestic animals," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1,
1909
APPROPRIATIONS:
An Act making an appropriation for county fairs or other agricultural socie-
ties of the State of Illinois
An Act making an appropriation for the Illinois Farmers' Institute and
County Farmers' Institutes
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An Act making an appropriation in aid of the State Board of Agriculture,
the State Bee-Keepers' Association, the Illinois Dairymen's Association, the
Illinois State Poultry Association, the Illinois Live-Stock Breeders' Associa-
tion, the Illinois State Academy of Science, and the Illinois State Horti- cultural Society
An Act to reappropriate, for the use of the Illinois State Horticultural So-
ciety, the sum of $5,000 already appropriated by the 48th Gen. Assembly.. 16
An Act for an appropriation to meet a deficit in the appropriation for inci-
dental expenses of the office of Auditor of Public Accounts
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17
An Act making an appropriation to provide for a deficiency appropriation for
the purchase of hogs necessary for producing serum, including labor, feed
and all other laboratory work and necessary supplies and to include all
bills incurred in connection with Biological Laboratory, until July 1, 1915. 17
An Act making an appropriation to meet the deficiencies in the appropriations
to the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts for the purchase of
printing paper and stationery, for public printing, and for public binding
under contract by the State of Illinois
An Act to provide for the construction of a deep waterway or canal to be
known as the Illinois Waterway, from the water power plant of the Sani-
tary District of Chicago, at or near Lockport, in Will County, Illinois, to a
point in the Illinois River at or near Utica, in LaSalle County, Illinois, to
provide for the issuance of bonds to pay for said deep waterway, to provide
for the development and utilization of the water power that may be gen-
erated from the water flowing through said waterway, to create a commis-
sion to be known as the Illinois Waterway Commission and to make an
appropriation to carry out the provisions of this Act
18
An Act for an appropriation for the repair and re-arrangement of the in-
terior of the Capitol Building.
35
An Act to create a commission to acquire for the use of the State certain
real estate to sell the buildings and materials now on said premises and to
erect a Centennial Memorial Building thereon and to make an appropria-
tion therefor
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 of the Chief Inspector of
Private Employment Agencies, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915...
An Act for an emergency appropriation to meet a deficiency in the office ex-
penses of the clerk of the Supreme Court
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 by 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 per-
fect 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, ap-
proved 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.
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APPROPRIATIONS-Continued.
An Act making an appropriation for completing the installation of two (2)
electric passenger elevators in the Capitol building at Springfield..
An Act making an appropriation of the sum of seventeen hundred (1,700)
dollars to reimburse Cornelius Donovan for money expended and to be ex-
pended in the management and maintenance of the Rock Island-Moline
Free Employment office during the biennium ending with June 30, 1915
An Act to make an appropriation for the benefit, aid and maintenance of the
Illinois Firemen's Association
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61
An Act to provide for the return of a flag of the Eighteenth Confederate Regi-
ment of Tennessee, together with the field and staff of said regiment, and
appropriating two hundred (200) dollars to defray the expense thereof... 62
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
63
An Act making an appropriation to pay the expenses of the committees of
the Forty-ninth General Assembly 64
An Act making an appropriation to pay the election committee expenses of
the Forty-ninth General Assembly
64
An Act making appropriations for the payment of employees of the Forty-
ninth General Assembly
67
68
An Act to provide for the incidental expenses of the Forty-ninth General
Assembly for the State of Illinois
Assembly of the State of Illinois
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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 to meet a deficiency in the office and other
expenses of the Legislative Reference Bureau
70
An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the officers and mem-
bers of the next General Assembly, and for the salaries of certain officers
and employees of the State government
An Act making an appropriation for the building and maintaining of State
aid roads in the several counties of the State
75
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 of the sum of two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars to pay interest upon bonds issued for the construction of the
Illinois Waterway
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78
An Act to provide for a deficiency in office and other expenses of the Indus-
trial Board for the period beginning January 1st and ending June 30, 1915. 78
An Act making an appropriation to meet the deficiencies in the appropria-
tions to the Insurance Superintendent for expenses in the prosecution of
violations of the insurance laws; for all examinations and investigations
such amount for expenses incurred and services of assistants employed
as shall be collected from the companies or associations examined; for
additional office help; for printing reports of examination; and for office
expenses
An Act to establish a mining investigation commission of the State of Illinois 80
An Act to make an appropriation for the expenses of the commission author-
ized by joint resolution to be appointed to investigate pension legislation
heretofore enacted in the State of Illinois
An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act for an appropriation to pay the
expenses of the commission on unemployment" as provided for by joint
resolution of the 49th General Assembly
An Act entitled, "An Act making an appropriation to the Rivers and Lakes
Commission of Illinois for the purpose of completing the widening, raising,
strengthening, improving, repairing, building and constructing of levees in
and around certain cities in the State of Illinois
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83
An Act for the reappropriation of the unexpended balance of an appropriation
for the construction and erection of a monument in memory of John P.
Altgeld in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois 84
An Act for the appropriation of five thousand (5,000) dollars to the com-
missioners appointed under an Act entitled, "An Act for the appointment
of commissioners and making an appropriation for the construction and
erection of a monument in memory of a former Governor, Thomas Carlin,
at Carrollton, Illinois," approved June 26, 1913, to complete such monu-
ment
An Act to provide for the erection of statues, or other monumental com-
memoration, to General Ulysses S. Grant and other generals from Illinois
who commanded the army, a corps, or divisions during the campaign and
siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and to make appropriation therefor
An Act making a reappropriation of an unexpended part of an appropria-
tion made by the Forty-eighth General Assembly for the erection of a mon-
ument on the battlefield of Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia
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APPROPRIATIONS—Continued.
An Act for the appointment of commissioners for the construction and erec-
tion of a monument to the memory of former Governor Richard J. Oglesby
in Lincoln Park, Chicago, or other public park that the commissioners may
choose, and to appropriate twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars therefor. 88
An Act making an appropriation of an additional sum for the completion of
an armory for the use of the Second Regiment Infantry, Illinois National
Guard, at Chicago now under construction
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An Act making appropriation of additional sums for the completion of
armories now under construction 90
An Act in relation to procuring of site and for the erection of an armory for
the use of the organization of the Illinois National Guard at Kankakee
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, and a further 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
making appropriation therefor, and for the purchase of sites and armory
buildings at Kewanee and Morrison, Illinois," approved June 28, 1913,
and in force July 1, 1913, and a further Act entitled, "An Act making
an appropriation of additional sums for the completion of armories now
under construction," approved June 25, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, and
a further Act entitled, "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 2nd Regiment, Illinois National Guard,"
approved June 21, 1913, in force July 1, 1913..
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An Act in relation to procuring of site and erection of armory for the use
of the Illinois National Guard and making an appropriation therefor... 93
An Act in relation to procuring of site and erection of armory building for
the use of the Illinois National Guard and Illinois Naval Reserve and
making appropriation therefor....
An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois
National Guard and Illinois Naval Reserve.
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95
An Act for an appropriation to the Illinois Commission for the observance
of the half-century anniversary of negro freedom, as provided for by an
Act approved June 27, 1913.. 96
An Act making appropriations for the Illinois State Penitentiary, the
Southern Illinois Penitentiary and the Illinois State Reformatory.
An Act making an appropriation to meet a deficiency in the appropriation
for the ordinary expenses of the Southern Illinois Penitentiary for the
two years ending July 1, 1915, and declaring an emergency.
An Act to make an appropriation to provide for emergency expenditures
at the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet; to cover deficit in ordinary
expenses caused by increase in population, and to rehabilitate industrial
plant and procure materials to take the place of those destroyed by fire;
and declaring an emergency..
An Act to provide for the installation and extension of equipment in the
light, heat and power plant and in the Capitol building at Springfield,
Illinois, and making an appropriation therefor..
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An Act making an appropriation to meet a deficiency in appropriations for
the Illinois State Public Utilities Commission and to provide the neces-
sary funds to carry on the business of said commission, including the
amount necessary to carry on the business of the State Grain Inspection
Department, until the first day of July, 1915, and declaring an
emergency
An Act for an appropriation to pay and reimburse Henry C. Allen for the
use and value of a motor boat used and destroyed by fire in the service
of the State Fish and Game Commission..
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..107
An Act to make an appropriation to compensate Charles Alling, formerly
attorney for the Illinois State Board of Health, for the loss of his
right eye
An Act for an appropriation for the relief of Mons Anderson; Catherine
Morrisey Mollie Ramenofsky; Pearl D. Bowman; Margaret Woodbury;
Lillie Sumberg; Nels Munson; Catherine Payne; Norma Payne; Vivian
Kelley; Joseph Herrick; Ida Ackerman; Isabelle Bennett; Ethel Steele;
Nettie Steele and George Hanson.
.107
An Act entitled, An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the
amounts awarded by the court of claims to certain persons and com-
panies named therein
109
An Act making an appropriation for the relief of Van Roy Barnes.
An Act making an appropriation for the relief of Hannah A. Bruce, mother
of Ethel Bruce..
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An Act making an appropriation for the relief of Kathryn Culver, assignee
of the Culver Construction Company.
An Act for an appropriation for the payment of damages for the deaths, respectively, of Rose H. Farmer, Verne Kelley and Inez Goodwin.....
An Act to provide for the payment of fifty per cent of losses sustained on
account of the slaughter of live stock to suppress the foot-and-mouth
disease and to make an appropriation therefor..
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