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Stationery, the sum of..

Per Annum.

Printing, the sum of....
For expense, out of town speakers, the sum of...
For cost of putting on live stock judging con-
tests, feed and expense of caretakers, the sum of
For prizes offered in judging contests, the sum of

Total

Total.

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*(F) To the Illinois State Academy of Science the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1917,

and ending June 30, 1919, to be used as follows:

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$1,000.00 $2,000.00 [Vetoed]

(G) To the Illinois State Horticultural Society the sum of eleven thousand dollars ($11,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and ending June 30, 1919, to be used as follows:

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Expense of executive board, committees and delegates, the sum of....

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Total

$5,500.00 $11,000.00

(H) To the Illinois Firemen's Association the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and ending June 30, 1919, to be used as follows:

Per Annum.

For printing and distributing of its programs, its annual report of proceedings, organization, postage, stationery, expenses of annual meeting, the dissemination of information pertaining to the business of the organization, the sum of

Total.

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Provided, that no part of this appropriation of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) shall be used or paid as salary to any officer of the Illinois Firemen's Association.

(I) To the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and ending June 30, 1919, to be used as follows:

Per Annum.

For two custodians the sum of $1,000.00 each.. $2,000.00
Furniture and repairs, the sum of...

Total ...

Total.

$4,000.00

500.00

1,000.00

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(J) To the Grand Army of the Republic of the Department of Illinois two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and ending June 30, 1919, to be used as follows:

Per Annum. . Total.

For printing and publishing general orders, circular letters, proceedings of the department encampments, and other contingent expenses of a similar nature, and for keeping a permanent record of the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, the sum of...... (K) To the Illinois Farmers' Institute and County Farmers' Institutes sixty thousand, one hundred dollars ($60,100.00) for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and ending June 30, 1919, to be used as follows: .

For salary of one stenographer, the sum of

... $1,000.00

$2000.00

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Per Annum. Total.

For the per diem and necessary expenses of expert judges, instructors and speakers furnished by board of directors for county farmers' institutes, farmers' short course in agriculture, farmers' study clubs, and for the necessary expenses in promoting the development of the Farmers' Institute work throughout the State, the sum of......

... $8,000.00 $16,000.00

For the actual expenses of the members of the board of directors and officers of the Illinois Farmers' Institute in the performance of their duties as such members and officers, for the expenses of the district conferences and the expenses of the State insti

tute meetings, the sum of... . . . . . . . 5,000.00 10,000.00 For the purpose of holding one or more Farmers' Institute meetings in each of the one hundred and two (102) counties of the State, the sum of $75.00 each

Total

7,650.00 15,300.00

$30,050.00 $60,100.00

And the said Farmers' Institute meetings shall be held at such times and at such places in each county as may be agreed upon by the County Farmers' Institute officers and the directors of the congressional district. The authority doing the public printing and binding shall provide all needful books, papers, stationery and printing on requisition by the secretary of the Illinois Farmers' Institute.

§ 2. If the officers of a county farmers' institute fail to arrange for and hold farmers' institute meetings as provided for in this Act, the board of directors of the Illinois Farmers' Institute through its officers and assistants, may plan, promote, furnish instructors for, and hold such meetings in said county as in the judgment of the board of directors may be beneficial to the agricultural interests of said county; the expense of said meetings shall be paid out of any funds available for that purpose. § 3. On the order of the president of the county farmers' institute, approved by the director of the congressional district, the secretary of the Illinois Farmers' Institute shall draw his warrant on the treasurer of the Illinois Farmers' Institute for the said seventy-five dollars ($75.00) and deliver it to the treasurer of the County Farmers' Institute: Provided, that the officers of said County Farmers' Institute shall, when issuing said order, file with the secretary of the Illinois Farmers' Institute a sworn statement which shall show that the said county institutes have held one or more duly advertised public sessions annually in accordance with such rules as are prescribed by the board of directors of

the Illinois Farmers' Institute: Provided, further, that if the necessary expenses of a County Farmers' Institute shall not equal the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) as shown by receipted vouchers submitted with the aforesaid sworn statement, the said warrant shall be drawn only for the sum expended, and final report made to the Governor as provided by law.

§ 4. No officer or officers of a county farmers' institute shall be entitled as such officer or officers to receive any moneyed compensation for any service rendered the same.

§ 5. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer for the moneys herein appropriated, in favor of the respective boards, societies, associations and organizations hereinbefore mentioned (except the Illinois Farmers' Institute and County Farmers' Institutes) and the Illinois. State Horticultural Society upon proper vouchers presented to him, signed by the president of such board [,] society, association or organization, and attested by the secretary of the same, and approved by the Governor; and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay said warrants, drawn as aforesaid, out of any funds in the State treasury appropriated for said purposes, respectively, or out of any funds not otherwise appropriated as the case may be. With reference to the sums hereinbefore appropriated to the Illinois Farmers' Institutes and the County Farmers' Institutes, and in accordance with the provisions of section 4. of an Act entitled, "An Act creating the Illinois Farmers' Institute," approved July 1, 1895, and subsequent amendments thereto, the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer for the sums herein appropriated to the Illinois Farmers' Institute and the County Farmers' Institute, in favor of the treasurer of the Illinois Farmers' Institute, and deliver the same to him upon requisition for same, signed by the president and the secretary of said Illinois Farmers' Institute; and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of any moneys in the State treasury appropriated for the purposes of said Act as amended.

With reference to the sums hereinbefore appropriated to the Illinois State Horticultural Society, and in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of an Act entitled, "An Act to reorganize the Illinois State Horticultural Society," approved March 24, 1874, the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for sums herein appropriated to the Illinois State Horticultural Society and deliver the same to him upon requisition for same signed by the president and secretary of said Illinois State Horticultural Society and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED (except for those items disapproved in my veto message June 28, 1917).

* Indicates vetoed.

June 28, 1917.

Honorable, the House of Representatives, General Assembly of Illinois.

GENTLEMEN: I return herewith House Bill 853, entitled, "An Act making an appropriation in aid of the State Board of Agriculture; the State Bee-Keepers' Association; the Illinois Dairymen's Association; the Illinois State Poultry Association; the Illinois Live Stock Breeders' Association; the Illinois State Academy of

Science; the Illinois State Horticultural Society; the Illinois Firemen's Association; the Grand Army Hall and Memorial Association; the Grand Army of the Republic of the Department of Illinois, and the Illinois Farmers' Institute and County Farmers' Institutes."

The following items contained therein are disapproved:

Page 3, section 1, the second item from the top of the page, as follows: Per Annum. Total. "For the expense of collecting, compiling and publishing live stock and agricultural statistics, the sum of..

$1,800 $3,600."

For the reason that this work is to be done by the new Department of Agriculture.

Pages 3 and 4, section 1. I veto the last line at the bottom of page 3, and the first, second, third and fourth lines at the top of page 4, as follows: "For additions to Grand Stand, the sum of..

"For a Lincoln Log Cabin to house exnibits of relics, the sum of.

. $10,000.
.$ 5,000."

Pages 7 and 8, section 1. I veto the following item at the bottom of page 7 and the top of page 8:

"(F) To the Illinois State Academy of Science, the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars, for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and ending June 30, 1919, to be used as follows:

"For printing reports and other publications, the sum of. "For postage, express, and stationery, the sum of..

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Page 11, section 1 in Clause (K) for the Farmers' Institute. I veto the following item: Fifth line from the bottom of page 11:

"For printing, the sum of..

Per Annum. Total.
$450 $900."

For the reason that the printing is taken care of in a general appropriation to the Director of Agriculture.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 95. APPROVED FEBRUARY 28, 1917.)

AN ACT making additional appropriations to the Attorney General: WHEREAS, the appropriations heretofore made to the Attorney General to pay assistants or other attorneys to be employed with reference to matters arising in the departments, commissions and boards hereinafter named, and other State agencies, are exhausted, and

WHEREAS, there are numerous cases now pending in the courts which require prompt prosecution or defense and urgent necessity for the investigation and commencement of additional cases and prosecutions arising out of the administration of said departments, commissions, boards and other State agencies, and no funds available for such purposes.

Now, therefore:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following named sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, respectively, for the purposes hereinafter named, be, and the same are hereby appropriated to the Attorney General, additional to the appropriations heretofore made to the Attorney General.

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