died in some county other than that in which the inquest was held, and that the death did not result from the wrongful act, neglect or default of any person or company, as provided herein, then the county in which the inquest was held, having paid the expenses of such inquest, may recover the same from the county in which such deceased was a resident or in which he was killed or received the injuries from which he died. 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.

AN ACT concerning the sale and manufacture of articles composed in whole or in part of cotton duck or canvas, used for awnings, paulins, wagon covers, tents, grain and hay covers, stable or tent tops and for similar uses.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That for the purpose of this Act cotton duck or canvas shall be deemed to include all cotton duck or canvas, whether single filling, double filling, army, roll or wide duck.

§ 2. That for the purpose of this Act, the equivalent of thirty-six (36) inches in length by twenty-nine (29) inches in width, or seven and one-fourth (714) square feet of cotton duck or canvas shall constitute a yard, a yard, and an ounce shall be one-sixteenth part of a pound avoirdupois.

§ 3. Any person, firm or corporation who shall manufacture for sale. or who may offer or expose for sale any cotton duck or canvas or any article other than clothing and wearing apparel composed or made in whole or in part of cotton duck or canvas, shall distinctly and durably stamp, brand or mark thereon the true and correct weight of such cotton duck or canvas, by ounces per yard, together with a description by name of any filler or other preparations placed in or on said cotton duck or canvas since its manufacture.

§ 4. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation either individually or in any representative capacity, to carry for sale, sell or endeavor to sell any cotton duck or canvas as herein defined, or any articles other than clothing and wearing apparel composed or made in whole or in part of any cotton duck or canvas without having marked thereon the true and correct weight of said canvas or cotton duck by ounces per yard, together with a description by name of any filler or other preparations placed in or on said cotton duck or canvas since its manufacture, or to misstate, misrepresent or conceal the true weight of said.

canvas or cotton duck by ounces per yard, or to misstate[,] misrepresent or conceal the existence of any filler or other preparation placed in or on said cotton duck or canvas since its manufacture.

§ 5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation either individually or in representative capacity selling, carrying for sale or endeavoring to sell any awnings, paulins, wagon covers, tent, grain and hay covers, stable or tent tops, to misstate or misrepresent or conceal the true and correct size and dimensions thereof.

§.6. It shall be unlawful for any person to deface, mutilate, obscure, conceal, efface, cancel or remove any mark provided for by this Act, or cause or permit the same to be done with intent to mislead, deceive or to violate any of the provisions of this Act.

§ 7. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall for the first offense be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) and for each subsequent offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00).

FILED June 14, 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 fourteenth day of June. A. D. 1917.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation . to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, and subsequently amended, commonly known as the criminal code, by adding thereto additional sections to be known as sections 350-A, 350-B and 350-C.

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 revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, be amended by adding thereto additional sections to be known as sections 350-A, 350-B and 350-C and to read as follows:

CORPORATIONS-INDICTMENT-SERVICE

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§ 350-A. CRIMES OF SUMMONS.] Whenever an indictment or information or complaint shall be filed in any court against a corporation charging it with the commission of a crime, a summons shall be issued by the clerk of the court in which such indictment or information or complaint shall be returned, signed by one of the judges thereof, commanding the sheriff to forthwith notify the accused thereof and commanding it to appear before such court at a time to be specified in said summons not more than ten

days after the service thereof upon it. Such summons and a copy of the indictment or information or complaint shall be at once delivered by such clerk to said sheriff and by him forthwith served and returned in the manner provided for the service of summons upon such corporation in a civil action. Whenever a complaint against a corporation charging it with the commission of a crime shall be made before any justice of the peace or police magistrate, a like summons, signed by the justice of the peace or police magistrate shall be issued which, together with a copy of said complaint, shall be delivered to the sheriff at once and by him forthwith served as herein provided.

§ 350-B. APPEARANCE-TRIAL.] Upon such service being made, such corporation shall appear at the time specified by one of its officers or by counsel; and upon such appearance, and thereafter, the same course shall be pursued as nearly as may be, as upon the appearance of an individual to an indictment or information or complaint, charging him with the same offense. Upon failure of the corporation to make such appearance, said clerk, or justice of the peace or police magistrate shall enter or cause to be entered a plea of not guilty; and upon an appearance made or plea entered, the corporation shall be deemed thenceforth continuously present in court until the case is finally disposed of.

§ 350-C. FINE-HOW COLLECTED.] If a corporation shall be found guilty and a fine imposed, it shall be entered and docketed by the clerk or justice of the peace or police magistrate as the case may be, as a judgment against the corporation, and it shall be of the same force and effect and be enforced against such corporation in the same manner as if the judgment were recovered in a civil action.

APPROVED May 26, 1917.

DRAWING CHECKS WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD.

§ 1. Drawing checks on bank or depositary when drawer has not sufficient funds for payment.

AN ACT to punish the making, drawing, uttering or delivering of checks, drafts or orders for the payment of money with intent to defraud.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any person who with intent to defraud shall make or draw or utter or deliver any check, draft or order for the payment of money upon any bank or other depositary, and thereby obtains from any person any money, personal property or other valuable thing knowing at the time of such making, drawing, uttering or delivery that the maker or drawer has not sufficient funds in or credit with such bank or other depositary for the payment of such check, draft or order in full upon its presentation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. The making, drawing, uttering or delivering of such check, draft or order as aforesaid shall be prima facie evidence of intent to defraud. The word 'credit' as used herein shall be construed to mean an arrangement or

understanding with the bank or depositary for the payment of such check, draft or order.

APPROVED May 26, 1917.

DRUGS-METHYL ALCOHOL.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1874, by adding section 63a.

§ 63a. Selling food or drink containing methyl alcohol-penalty.

(HOUSE BILL No. 574. FILED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 63a.

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 revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended be and is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 63a.

§ 63a. No person, firm or corporation shall have in possession, sell, or offer for sale, any food or drink which contains methyl alcohol (commonly known as wood alcohol) or any preparation or mixture of any kind whatsoever, containing methyl alcohol, which shall be intended for internal use by man. Methyl alcohol by any name, or any preparation or mixture containing methyl alcohol, shall, when offered for sale, sold, delivered or used, be conspicuously labeled "Wood Alcohol" or: "This preparation contains wood alcohol" and the word "Poison" together with a skull and cross bones. The word "Poison" and the skull and cross bones shall be printed in red ink and shall be at least onequarter (4) of an inch in height.

Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), for each such offense.

FILED June 11, 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 eleventh day of June, A. D. 1917.

1. Act cited.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

EXTRADITION OF PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND.

§ 5. Limitation.

§ 6. Interpretation and construction of Act.

§ 7. Repeal.

(HOUSE BILL No. 204. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to provide for the extradition of persons of unsound mind, and to make uniform the laws of the state which enact the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That this Act may be cited as the uniform Act for the extradition of persons of unsound mind.

§ 2. The terms "flight" and "fled" as used in this Act, shall be construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings hereinafter mentioned may have been instituted and are still pending, with the effect of avoiding, impeding or delaying the action of the court in which such proceedings may have been instituted or be pending, or any such departure from the state where the person demanded then was, if he then was under detention by law as a person of unsound mind and subject to detention. The word "state" wherever used in this Act shall include states, territories, districts and insular and other possessions of the United States. As applied to a request to return any person within the purview of this Act to or from the District of Columbia, the words "executive authority," "Governor" and "Chief Magistrate" respectively shall include a justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and other authority.

§ 3. A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in this State, who has fled from another state, in which at the time of his flight:

(a) he was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum or other institution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; or

(b) he had been theretofore determined by legal proceedings to be of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect, and the control of his person having been acquired by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state from which he fled; or

(c) he was subject to detention in such state, being then his legal domicile (personal service of process having been made) based on legal proceedings there pending to have him declared of unsound mind: shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed thereto.

§ 4. Whenever the executive authority of any state demands of the executive authority of this State, any fugitive within the purview of section 3 and produces a copy of the commitment, decree or other judicial process and proceedings, certified as authentic by the Governor or chief magistrate of the state whence the person so charged has fled, with an affidavit made before a proper officer showing the person to be such a fugitive, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of this State to cause him to be apprehended and secured, if found in this State, and to cause immediate notice of the apprehension to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear. If no such agent appears within thirty days from the time of the apprehension, the fugitive may be discharged. All costs and expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, maintaining and transmitting such fugitive to the state making such demand, shall be paid by such state. Any agent so appointed who receives the fugitive into his custody shall be empowered to transmit him. to the state from which he has fled. The executive authority of this State is hereby vested with the power, on the application of any person interested, to demand the return to this State of any fugitive within the purview of this Act.