§ 2. There is hereby appropriated for improvements to buildings and grounds in the State penal and reformatory institutions for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly, the sum of thirty-five thousand ($35,000.00) dollars, for the following objects and purposes: ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARY, AT JOLIET. For contribution to septic tank... For sinking Artesian well and testing and drilling for coal...... ... $4,000.00 [Vetoed] .$5,000.00 § 3. The term "Salaries and Wages," as used in this Act, shall mean and include salaries, wages and other compensation for personal service. The term "Departmental Office Expense," as used in this Act, shall mean and include postage, telephone, telegraph, rent, office supplies, express, freight, drayage, printing and binding; for departments and institutions. The term "Traveling Expenses," as used in this Act, shall mean and include railroad fares, hotel bills, livery hire, street car fares and similar personal expenses incurred wholly in the State service. The term "Operating Supplies and Expenses," as used in this Act, shall mean and include fuel, food, wearing apparel, household supplies, plant and departmental supplies and institutional operating expenses. The term "Industrial Working Capital," as used in this Act, shall mean and include all supplies in connection with the industrial operations (raw materials, industrial supplies, etc.) of the State institutions, the State parks and canals. The term "Repairs on Present Buildings, Grounds and Equipment," as used in this Act, shall mean and include replacements, but not betterments. Such repairs may be under contract in whole or in part, or may be by the direct use of labor, materials and service. The term "School Supplies," as used in this Act, shall mean and include supplies used for distinctly educational purposes, and not included in other classes. The term "Equipment," as used in this Act, shall mean and include equipment of permanent value, including furniture, fixtures, machinery, scientific apparatus, live stock, vehicles, maps, books, educational equipment and recreational equipment. § 4. The Director of Public Welfare shall draw requisitions upon. the Director of Public Works and Buildings for supplies, material and services for the construction and repairs of buildings, and for the purchase of lands under the appropriations made herein and the Director of Public Works and Buildings is authorized to incur obligations and make contracts under the appropriations herein, as specified in sections 49 and 51 of the Civil Administrative Code. § 5. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the Treasurer under the appropriations made herein upon the presentation of vouchers certified to as correct by the Director of the Department of Public Works and Buildings and the Director of Public Welfare and approved by the Director of Finance. APPROVED (except as to those items disapproved in my veto message) June 29, 1917. * Indicates vetoed. June 28, 1917. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Illinois: I herewith return House Bill No. 907, entitled, "An Act making appropriations for the Illinois State Penitentiary, the Southern Illinois Penitentiary and the Illinois State Reformatory." I veto and withhold my approval from the following items therein contained: In Section 2, the following items: "Illinois State Penitentiary, at Joliet AN ACT to make an appropriation for the painting of a portrait of former Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars for the purposes of a painting of the portrait of former Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara. such portrait to be painted by such artist as he may designate, and placed in a frame and hung in an appropriate position in the office of the President of the Senate. 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, for the sum herein appropriated, payable out of the money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, upon the order of the President of the Senate on proper vouchers certified to by him. APPROVED April 26, 1917. PORTRAIT OF EDWARD F. DUNNE. § 1. Appropriates $1,000.00. § 2. How drawn. (HOUSE BILL No. 52. APPROVED FEBRUARY 28, 1917.) AN ACT to make an appropriation for the painting of a portrait of former Governor Edward F. Dunne. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of the painting of a portrait of former Governor Edward F. Dunne, such portrait to be painted by such artist as he may designate, and placed in a frame and hung in an appropriate position in the office of the Governor. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the sum herein appropriated upon the order of the Governor on proper vouchers duly certified to by him. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the making of a record of the burial places of soldiers and sailors," approved June 25, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, by amending the title thereto and by adding a new section to be known as section four (4). SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the making of a record of the burial places of soldiers and sailors" approved June 25, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, be and the same is hereby amended by amending the title thereto and by adding a new section to be known as section four (4), the title when amended and a new section when added to read as inserted at length herein. § 2. The title as amended shall read as follows: "An Act to provide for the making of a record of the burial places of soldiers and sailors and for locating the burial places of soldiers and sailors and reporting the same to the Federal government, and transporting to such burial places, and setting up, headstones provided by the Federal government." § 4. For the purpose of locating the burial places of soldiers and sailors and reporting to the United States government under the provisions of the Federal law respecting the erection of headstones at the graves of soldiers and sailors of the army of the United States, the Adjutant General shall secure the services of some qualified person for a period of two (2) years, whose duty it shall be to inspect the records made under sections one (1), two (2) and three (3) of this Act, to visit the cemeteries of the State and by any other reliable means to locate the burial place of each person who served in the military or naval service of the United States and report the same, together with the number of the regiment and designation of the company in which each such soldier served, and of the command, if in the marine service, the rank and period of service, with the name and location of the cemetery and the location of the grave in such cemetery, to the proper Federal authorities. It shall also be the duty of said employee to superintend the transportation of monuments or headstones, furnished by the Federal government, from the point of delivery on the railroad carrying the same to the graves of such soldiers or sailors and the setting up thereof at such graves. Such employee shall receive for his services one thousand eight hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum and shall be reimbursed his necessary traveling expenses not to exceed one thousand eight hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum, and shall be provided with a motor vehicle. To carry out the provisions of this Act, there is hereby appro priated for compensation of such employee.. For the traveling expenses of such employee.. (Or so much thereof as may be necessary.) For a motor vehicle... For transportation and setting up headstones. Total .$ 3,600 .$ 3,600 $ 400 $ 2,400 .$10,000 The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed upon presentation of proper vouchers certified to by the Adjutant General and approved by the Governor, to draw his warrants for the sums above specified, or so much thereof as shall be necessary, upon the State Treasurer, and the State Treasurer is directed to pay the same out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. FILED June 21, 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-first day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. RELIEF-CYCLONE VICTIMS. § 1. Appropriates $275,000.00. § 3. Emergency. § 2. How drawn. (HOUSE BILL No. 1016. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.) AN ACT to provide an appropriation for the purpose of furnishing relief to the people living in those sections of the State recently visited by a destructive cyclone. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of two hundred and |