authority of the Acts or sections specifically repealed in this section, or under any other section, at the election of such person, may, with the consent of the Department of Public Welfare, receive the benefits of this Act. APPROVED June 25, 1917. UNLAWFUL DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS. § 1. Amends Act of 1874, by adding section 56a. § 56a. Unlawful discharge of firearms-penalty. (HOUSE BILL No. 312. APPROVED JUNE 25, 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 and designated as section fifty-six-a (56a). 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 the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be knowu and designated as section fifty-six-a (56a). Such section shall read as follows: § 56a. Any person not lawfully authorized to bear arms in the discharge of his duty, who shall discharge any firearm in or upon any public highway shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each and every such offense. APPROVED June 25, 1917. UNLAWFUL EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS. § 1. Amends an Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurispruprudence, approved March 27, 1874 by adding sections 224a and 224b. § 224a. Exhibitions and publi cations, portraying, of race or religion prohibitive penalty. § 224b. Representations of hangings and lynchings prohibited penalty. (HOUSE BILL No. 926. FILED JUNE 29, 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 two new sections to be known as sections 224a and 224b. 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 the same is hereby amended by adding thereto two new sections to be knowл as sections 224a and 224b. § 224a. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell, or offer for sale, advertise or publish, present or exhibit in any public place in this State any lithograph, moving picture, play, drama or sketch, which publication or exhibition portrays depravity, criminality, unchastity, or lack or virtue of a class of citizens, of any race, color, creed or religion which said publication or exhibition exposes the citizens of any race, color, creed or religion to contempt, derision, or obloquy or which is productive of breach of the peace or riots. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction. thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00). § 224b. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell, or offer for sale, or advertise or present or exhibit in any public place in the State any publication or representation by lithograph, moving picture, play, drama or sketch representing or purporting to represent any hanging, lynching or burning of any human being. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00). FILED June 29, 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-ninth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR. PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES AND LABORERS IN THEIR CLAIMS FOR WAGES. § 1. Wages of employees if paid in § 2. Penalty. check, order or scrip shall be re- (SENATE BILL No. 163. § 3. Act to prevent extortion, etc., approved June 21, 1895, repealed. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.) AN ACT in relation to the payment of wages otherwise than in lawful money, and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to prevent extortion and compel the payment of debts contracted for labor in bankable currency," approved June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no person, firm or corporation engaged in any business or enterprise within this State shall issue, in payment of or as evidence of indebtedness, for wages due an employe for labor, any time check, store order, scrip, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness, unless the same is payable or redeemable upon demand, without discount and for face value, in lawful money of the United States at the office or place of business of such person, firm or corporation. § 2. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars, or confined in the county jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or both, in the discretion of the court. 3. That an Act to prevent extortion and compel the payment of debts contracted for labor in bankable currency, approved June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, be, and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED June 26, 1917. DRAINAGE. AGRICULTURAL AND SANITARY PURPOSES-USE OF DRAINS BY LAND OWNERS. § 1. Amends Act of 1885, by adding sec- § 2. Emergency. tion 58a. § 58a. Act not to be construed (SENATE BILL No. 6. APPROVED MAY 18, 1917.) AN ACT to amend "An Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May 29, 1879, as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 20, 1907; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 29, 1909; as amended by an Act approved and in force June 27, 1913, by adding a section to be known as section 58a. 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 construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage. districts," approved and in force May 29, 1879; as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1885, in force July 1, 1885; as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 20, 1907; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 29, 1909; as amended by an Act approved and in force June 27, 1913, by adding a section to be known as section 58a to read as follows: § 58a. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to forbid land owners within the district to more completely drain their lands by using the common drains as outlets to lateral drains; and the owners of land outside the drainage districts or another drainage district may connect with the ditches of the district already made, by the payment of such amount as they would have been assessed if originally included in the district, or if such connection shall, by increase of water, require an enlargement of the district ditches, then the outside owners of land so connecting or other drainage district, as may be, shall pay the cost of such enlargement. If individual land owners outside the district shall so connect, they shall be deemed to have voluntarily applied to be included in the district, and their lands benefited by such drainage, shall be treated, classified and taxed like other lands within the district. Drainage commissioners may at any time enlarge the boundaries of their districts by attaching new areas of land which are involved in the same system of drainage and require for outlets the drains of the district made or proposed to be made, as the case may be, on petition of as great a proportion of the land owners of the area to be added as is required for an original district. All changes thus made in the district shall be duly noted and shown upon the map, and recorded in the drainage record. The commissioners shall proceed to classify the lands thus added to the district, and such lands shall be classified, and assessed or taxed with their fair proportion of the costs of the work done, or to be done, in like manner, and upon the same basis as it would have been made had the new area been included in the district at its organization. § 2. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall be in force from and after its passage. (HOUSE BILL No. 77. APPROVED JUNE 11, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May 29, 1879; as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1885, in force July 1, 1885; as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 29, 1909; as amended by an Act approved and in force June 27, 1913; as amended by an Act approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915 by adding thereto a section to be numbered section 65a. 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 amend an Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May 29, 1879; as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1885, in force July 1, 1885; as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 29, 1909; as amended by an Act approved and in force June 27, 1913; as amended by an Act approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, be and the same is hereby amended by inserting in and adding to said Act a section to be numbered as section 65a, and which said section 65a shall read as follows: § 65a. When any river or other stream or watercourse in this State constitutes the common outlet for two or more drainage districts heretofore or hereafter organized under any of the laws of this State, and also constitutes the outlet for the drainage of lands not organized into a drainage district, and when it will be a benefit to the lands included. in said drainage districts and to said lands not so included but having said river or watercourse as the outlet for drainage, for agricultural or sanitary purposes, that said river, watercourse or other stream or any portion thereof constituting such common outlet be deepened, widened or otherwise improved or that the channel thereof be changed or straightened, an outlet drainage district may be organized in the manner provided in this Act for the organization of drainage districts, and all lands benefited by so deepening, widening or otherwise improving or by changing or straightening the channel of such river or watercourse may be included within the boundaries of such outlet drainage district, and it shall not constitute any objection to the inclusion of any lands in such outlet drainage district that said lands had been theretofore included in a drainage district organized under the general provisions of this Act, or under any other law of this State. That commissioners of such outlet drainage district may be appointed at the time and in the manner and with the qualifications provided in this Act for the appointment of commissioners of drainage districts, and except as herein limited with like powers and duties: And, provided, further, that special assessments may be levied on the lands or other property included in said outlet district, and which will be benefited by the improvements or other work proposed in said outlet district in the same manner as assessments for benefits are provided in levee and drainage districts organized under this Act, to pay the costs of constructing such improvements or other work, together with the cost of all proceedings therefor. But neither said outlet drainage district nor its commissioners or officers shall have any right to make any assessments against any of the lands included in said outlet drainage district for any purpose except to deepen, or widen or otherwise improve the channel of said river or watercourse so constituting an outlet for the drainage of the lands included in said outlet drainage district or to change or straighten the channel thereof, nor to |