affidavit. The body so appointing may, at any time, for good cause, remove such commissioner from office and appoint his successor to serve the remaining portion of his time.

§ 2. The commissioner of Canada thistles shall diligently inquire concerning the introduction and existence of Canada thistles in his township, road district, city, village or town, and if any are found growing therein, he shall take charge of all such growing in the highways and on unenclosed lands and take care that they do not go to seed or otherwise spread, and he shall carefully seek and learn, so far as practicable, the best methods of their destruction, and he shall persistently apply in proper time such remedy or treatment as shall be best calculated to prevent their spread and to eradicate the same.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of all owners of enclosed lands on which Canada thistles are found growing, to destroy the same in such manner as shall prevent the same from bearing seed or from otherwise perpetuating themselves. The commissioner shall advise the owner, agent or occupant of such land on their treatment. In case any such owner, agent or occupant shall refuse or neglect to destroy such thistles, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to enter upon such lands and to destroy such thistles or cause the same to be destroyed. Express power to so enter upon such lands and destroy such thistles is hereby conferred upon such commissioner. Any expense incurred in such destruction, shall be paid by the owner or owners of such lands, and the commissioner shall have a lien against such lands for such expense, which lien shall be enforced in the manner now provided by law for the enforcement of mechanics' liens. Any owner who shall refuse or neglect to destroy such thistles, as provided for in this section, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).

§ 6. The commissioner shall, annually, before the first day of November, make a written report to the supervisor of the town, or to the county commissioners, as the case may be, which report shall be filed with the town clerk, or, in counties not under township organization, with the county clerk. The report made to the supervisor shall be publicly read at the annual town meeting. Said report shall state:

First: Whether there are or not any Canada thistles growing in the town or precinct.

Second: If any are growing, where and how many, and when and how introduced.

Third: A detailed statement of his treatment of each infected tract, with cost and result.

Fourth: He shall report such other matters as may be required of him by the board of town auditors, or by the county commissioners.

Fifth He shall state his views on their further treatment, and make such suggestions and recommendations as he may deem proper and useful.

And he shall also forward a copy of said report to the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, who shall collate and report the same to the Governor on or before the first day of December of each year.

The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall have general supervision of all measures adopted for the extermination of such thistles. He shall cooperate with all local Canada thistle commissioners, shall furnish blank forms for reports to all such commissioners and shall do all things authorized by law necessary and expedient to promote the extermination of such Canada thistles.

FILED June 26, 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-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.

CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION-ILLINOIS CENTENNIAL COMMISSION.

§ 1. Amends section 2, Act of 1916.

(HOUSE BILL No. 679.

§ 2. Duties of commission. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: “An Act to create the Illinois Centennial Commission, and to define its powers and duties," approved January twenty-first, 1916.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to create the Illinois Centennial Commission, and to define its powers and duties," approved January twenty-first, 1916, be amended by amending section 2 thereof so that said section when amended shall read as follows:

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the Illinois Centennial Commission: 1. To arrange for and conduct a celebration in honor of the centennial of the admission of the State of Illinois to the Federal Union.

2. To compile and publish a commemorative history of the State of Illinois, to-wit: After the first edition of said commemorative history has been published and distributed as provided by an Act entitled, "An Act making an appropriation for the Illinois Centennial Commission," approved January twenty-first, 1916, it shall be lawful for the said Illinois Centennial Commission to provide for the publication of a special edition of said commemorative history, and in so doing said Illinois Centennial Commission may use or loan such plates, type, cuts, illustrations, printed and printing material, editorial and historical data it may now or hereafter own, purchase or which it may now or hereafter have in its possession or control, and the said Illinois Centennial Commission may for the purpose of dissemination and general distribution of the said commemorative history among the citizens of the United States authorize a reputable publisher or publishers of its election to publish and distribute said special edition, provided, however, that the said Illinois Centennial Commission shall incur no indebtedness on the part of the State of Illinois.

After the publication of the first edition of said commemorative history has been completed, the said Illinois Centennial Commission, in authorizing the publication of a special edition for general circula

tion among the citizens of the United States, shall not be subject to the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation. to State contracts," approved June twenty-second, 1915.

3. To make a complete report to the Fifty-first General Assembly. APPROVED June 25, 1917.

(HOUSE BILL No. 599. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the organization, ownership, management and control of cemetery associations," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as subsequently amended, by amending sections 5, 10 and 11 thereof.

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 provide for the organization, ownership, management and control of cemetery associations," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as subsequently amended, be and is hereby amended by amending sections 5, 10 and 11 thereof to read as follows:

5. Any such cemetery association, when so organized, shall have the right and the same is expressly given to such association to acquire the necessary amount of land for the use of said cemetery association which said land may be acquired by purchase or by gift and said association is hereby authorized to receive by gift, devise, or bequest any property, either real, personal or mixed, which may be donated to such association and to hold and keep inviolate any such property for the uses of said cemetery association; and any such cemetery association may receive and administer endowments for the care of such cemetery or any part thereof.

10. The said board of trustees shall, once in every year, and oftener if required by the court, make full and complete report of the money and other property received by said association and of all endowments being administered by such association and of the expenses of said association and of the loans of money existing at the time of the making of such report, to the county judge of the county in which said. association is located, and if said report is found by said county judge to be true and correct, he shall approve the same and direct the clerk of the County Court to record the same in the records of said court. But if the said county judge shall disapprove of said report he shall order said board of trustees to make true and correct report, and upon a failure of said board of trustees to make true and correct report or to properly account for any and all money which may have come into their hands for the use of said association, then said county judge, by his written order, shall direct the State's Attorney in and for said county.

to institute suit in any court of competent jurisdiction against said trustees, or such of them as are responsible for any misappropriation or wrongful use of said funds, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, for the use of said association, to recover from such trustees, so responsible for such misappropriation or wrongful use of said money of said association, the amount of money so misappropriated or wrongfully used, and it is hereby made the duty of such State's Attorney, when so directed by said County Court, to institute and prosecute such suit to final judgment.

§ 11. For misconduct in office any of said trustees of said cemetery association may be removed from office by order of the county judge of the county in which said association is situated and any trustee of such an association who shall convert any funds of such association to his own use, or to a use other than that intended, shall be guilty of embezzlement and punished accordingly.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

CHARITIES.

AID TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.

§ 1. Amends section 11, Act of 1913.

§ 11. As amended, provides mothers who are entitled to a homestead under the Exemption Laws of this State or to a dower right in real estate of the value of not more than $1,000 shall not be denied relief under this Act.

(HOUSE BILL No. 537. APPROVED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the partial support of mothers whose husbands are dead or have become permanently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity when such mothers have children under fourteen years of age, and are residents of the county in which application for relief is made; and also, to provide for the probationary visitation, care and supervision of the family for whose benefit such support is provided," ap-. proved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, (title as amended by Act approved June 28, 1915), as subsequently amended, by amending section 11 thereof.

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 provide for the partial support of mothers whose husbands are dead or have become permanently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity when such mothers have children under fourteen years of age, and are residents of the county in which application for relief is made; and also, to provide for the probationary visitation, care and supervision of the family for whose benefit such support is provided." approved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913 (title as amended by Act approved June 28, 1915), as subsequently amended, be and the same is

hereby amended by amending section 11 thereof to read as inserted at length herein.

§ 11. Such relief shall be granted by the court only upon the following conditions:

(1) The child or children for whose benefit the relief is granted must be living with the mother of such child or children; (2) the court must find that it is for the welfare of such child or children to remain at home with the mother; (3) the relief shall be granted only when in the absence of such relief the mother would be required to work regularly away from her home and children, or when in the absence of such relief it would be necessary to commit such child or children to a dependent institution and when by means of such relief she will be able to remain at home with her children, except that she may be absent for work a definite number of days each week to be specified in the court's order, when such work can be done by her without the sacrifice of health or the neglect of home and children; (4) such mother must, in the judgment of the court, be a proper person, physically, mentally and morally fit, to have the care and custody of her children; (5) the relief granted shall, in the judgment of the court, be necessary to save the child or children from neglect; (6) a mother shall not receive such relief who is the owner of real property or personal property other than the household goods, but no mother who shall be the holder of, or entitled to, a homestead under the exemption laws of this State, or who is the holder of, or entitled to a dower right in real estate, provided the fair cash market value of said real estate is not more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars. shall be denied relief under the provisions of this Act; (7) a mother shall not receive such relief who has not resided in the county where the application is made at least three years next before making such application; (8) a mother shall not receive such relief if her child or children has or have relatives of sufficient ability, and who shall be obligated by the finding and judgment of the court by competent jurisdiction, to support them.

APPROVED June 11, 1917.

AID TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN-PROBATIONARY, VISITATION, ETC. § 1. Amends section 2, Act of 1913. § 2. Application for relief.

(HOUSE BILL No. 794. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the partial support of mothers whose husbands are dead or have become peramnently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity, when such mothers have children under fourteen years of age and are residents of the county in which application for relief is made, and also to provide for the probationary visitation, care and supervision of the family for whose benefit such support is provided." approved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as subsequently amended, by amending section 2 thereof.

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