amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section thirty-three (33) thereof, to read as follows:

§ 33. In counties under township organization the county board shall, at its regular (or at a special) meeting in the month of June of each year, except when such judges and clerks are appointed by election commissioners, appointed in each election precinct or district in the county, three capable and discreet electors to be judges of election, and who shall possess the qualifications required by this Act for such judges. No more than two persons of the same political party shall be appointed judges in the same election district or undivided. precinct. The town supervisor shall be appointed as one of such judges of election in the district or precinct in which he resides. The appointment of the remaining judges of election in the various election precincts and districts shall be made in the following manner: The members of the county board of supervisors belonging to the political party having the greatest number of votes upon said county board of supervisors shall select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the majority of the election judges in each election district or precinct in each township in which said political party cast the highest number of votes at the preceding general election for Governor, and shall also select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the minority judge of election in each election district or precinct in each township in which said political party cast the second highest number of votes for Governor at the preceding general election. The members of the county board of supervisors belonging to the political party having the second greatest number of votes upon said county board of supervisors shall select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the majority of the election judges in each election district or precinct in each township in which said political party cast the highest number of votes at the preceding general election for Governor, and shall also select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the minority election. judge in the election district or precinct in each township in which said political party cast the second highest number of votes at the preceding general election for Governor. Provided, that if the county board of supervisors shall be composed of members who belong to any one political party entirely, then, in that case, the chairman of the county central committee of the other political party casting the next highest number of votes in said county at the preceding general election is hereby empowered and authorized to make the selection of the minority judge of election, who shall serve in each of the election districts or precincts in said county, and the members of the county board of supervisors are hereby directed to make the appointment of said minority judges of election for each election district or precinct as selected by the chairman of the above mentioned county central committee. And, provided, further, that where the county board shall be equally divided and two political parties shall be represented by an equal number of members, the selection and appointment of such judges of election shall be made as in the case where there is a majority of members on the county board belonging to one political party. The members representing the

political party casting the highest number of votes in a township at the preceding election for Governor shall select the majority judges of election in said township, and the members representing the political party that cast the second highest number of votes at the preceding election for Governor in said township, shall select the minority judges of election in said township, and the county board shall appoint the selection so made: And, provided, further, that where a supervisor shall be elected in a township, said supervisor representing a political party that neither has the highest nor second highest number of votes for members on the said county board, the said supervisor shall be authorized and empowered to select a majority of the judges of election in the precincts or election districts in said township, such persons to represent the same political faith or belief as said supervisor, and the county board shall appoint the selection so made. The members of the county board representing the political party casting the second highest number of votes in said township at the preceding general election for Governor shall select the minority judges of election in said township and the county board shall appoint the selection so made: Provided further, that in any case where a township has been or shall be redistricted, in whole or in part, subsequent to one general election for Governor, and prior to the next, the judges of election to be appointed for all new or altered precincts or districts shall be selected in that one of the methods above detailed, which shall be applicable according to the facts and circumstances of the particular case, but the majority of such judges for each such precinct or district shall be selected from the political party which cast the highest number of votes for Governor at the last preceding general election in the entire township, and the minority judge from the political party having cast the second greatest number of votes for Governor at such election. Such judges of election shall hold their office for one year from their appointment and until their successors are duly appointed in the manner hereinbefore provided. The said county board of supervisors shall fill all vacancies in said office of judges of elections at any time, in their [the] manner hereinbefore provided. APPROVED June 26, 1917.

EMPLOYMENT.

COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE SICKNESS AND ACCIDENT TO EMPLOYED PERSONS NOT UNDER WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.

AN ACT to establish a commission to investigate sickness and accident, not compensated by workmen's compensation, of employed persons and their families and to make an appropriation therefor.

SECTION 1. CREATION AND DUTY.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That a special

temporary commission is hereby created to be known as the Health Insurance Commission which shall investigate sickness and accident of employees and their families (not compensated by workmen's compensation in the State of Illinois), with reference to the adequacy of the present methods of preventing and meeting the losses caused by such sickness or injury, either by mutual or stock insurance companies or associations, by fraternal or other mutual benefit associations, by employers and employees jointly, by employers or employees alone, or otherwise; and further, such definite proposals for legislative measures to prevent and meet such losses as may have been proposed in this or other states; all with a view to recommending ways and means for the better protection of employees from sickness and accident and their effects and the improvement of the health of employed persons and their families in the State. The commission shall hold public hearings in different parts of the State. The commission shall submit a full final report including such recommendations for legislation by bill or otherwise as in its judgment may seem proper, to the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and nineteen and unless continued by such General Assembly, shall expire at the end of its regular session.

§ 2. MEMBERS. The commission shall consist of two representatives of labor, namely one representative of the male laborers, the other of the female laborers of the State, an employer of labor, a physician, a farmer, a social economist, a social worker, and two other persons, to be appointed by the Governor. The members of such commission shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

§ 3. POWERS. The commission shall have power to elect its chairman and other officers, to employ a secretary, experts in the matters to be investigated, and all necessary clerical and other assistants, to purchase books and all necessary supplies, and to rent office room, and halls for hearings.

§ 4. Co-OPERATION OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS. The Department of Public Health and the Department of Labor and Mining are hereby directed to co-operate with the commission, to give it access to their records, and to render it any such proper aid and assistance as in their judgment may not interfere with the proper conduct of their respective departments.

§ 5. APPROPRIATION. The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appropriated for the actual and necessary expenses of the commission in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the foregoing amount, or any part thereof, in payment of any expenses, charges, or disbursements authorized by this Act on order of the commission, signed by its chairman, attested by its secretary, and approved by the Governor.

APPROVED June 23, 1917.

COMPENSATION FOR ACCIDENTAL INJURIES OR DEATH-ACT OF 1913

AN ACT to amend section 2, section 3, section 5, section 7, section 8, section 13, section 14, section 16, section 19 and section 31 of an Act entitled, "An Act to promote the general welfare of the people of this State by providing compensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment within this State; providing for the enforcement and administering thereof and a penalty for its violation and repealing an Act entitled, 'An Act to promote the general welfare of the people of this State, by providing compensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment," approved June 10, 1911, in force May 1, 1912," approved June 28, 1913, and in force July 1, 1913; as amended by an Act approved June 28, 1915, and in force July 1, 1915, and to further amend said Act by adding thereto an additional section to be known as section 32 and declaring an emergency.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 2, section 3, section 5, section 7, section 8, section 13, section 14, section 16, section 19 and section 31 of an Act entitled, "An Act to promote the general welfare of the people of this State by providing compensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment within this State; providing for the enforcement and administering thereof and a penalty for its violation and repealing an Act entitled, An Act to promote the

general welfare of the people of this State, by providing compensation for accidental injuries or death suffered in the course of employment,' approved June 10, 1911, in force May 1, 1912," approved June 28, 1913, and in force July 1, 1913; as amended by an Act approved June 28, 1915, and in force July 1, 1915, be amended and that said Act as amended be further amended by adding thereto one additional section to be known as section 312 which said section [sections] as hereby amended and said additional section shall read as follows:

§ 2. Every employer enumerated in section 3, paragraph (b) shall be conclusively presumed to have filed notice of his election as provided in section 1, paragraph (a) and to have elected to provide and pay compensation according to the provisions of this Act, unless and until notice in writing of his election to the contrary is filed with the industrial board. Such notice of non-election may be withdrawn as provided in this Act.

§ 3. (a) In any action to recover damages against an employer, engaging in any of the enterprises or businesses enumerated in paragraph (b) of this section, who shall elect not to provide and pay compensation to any employee, according to the provisions of this Act, it shall not be a defense; that:

First-The employee assumed the risks of the employment;

Second-The injury or death was caused in whole or in part by the negligence of a fellow servant; or

Third-The injury or death was proximately caused by the contributory negligence of the employee.

(b) The provisions of paragraph (a) of this section shall apply to any employer engaging in any of the following enterprises or businesses, namely:

1. The erection, maintaining, removing, remodeling, altering, or demolishing of any structure, except as provided in sub-section 8 of this section;

2. Construction, excavating or electrical work, except as provided in sub-section 8 of this section.

3. Carriage by land or water and loading or unloading in connection therewith;

4. The operation of any warehouse or general or terminal store houses;

5. Mining, surface mining or quarrying;

6. Any enterprise in which explosive materials are manufactured, handled or used in dangerous quantities;

7. In any enterprise wherein molten metal, or explosive or injurious gases or vapors, or inflammable vapors or fluids, or corrosive acids, are manufactured, used, generated, stored or conveyed in dangerous quantities;

8. In any enterprise in which statutory or municipal ordinance regulations are now or shall hereafter be imposed for the regulating, guarding, use or the placing of machinery or appliances, or the protection and safeguarding of the employees or the public therein; each of which occupations, enterprises or businesses are hereby declared to be extra-hazardous; Provided, nothing contained herein shall be construed