equipment Equipment and First Year. Second Year. $ 80,500.00 $ 86,000.00 .$ 2,300.00 $ 2,300.00 .$ 3,800.00 $ 4,000.00 $122,900.00 $128,950.00 $ 500.00 $ 500.00 $ 12,000.00 $ 12,000.00 .$ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00 The Director of Public Welfare, in writing, with the approval, in writing, of the Director of Finance, may apportion the amounts stated in the several items among the several State charitable institutions, according to the varying needs of such institutions, not changing, however, the objects or purposes for which such appropriations are herein made. § 2. There is hereby appropriated, for lands, buildings, and other permanent improvements at the State charitable institutions for the two years beginning July 1, 1917, and until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly, the sum of eight hundred seventy-seven thousand three hundred dollars ($877,300), for the following objects and purposes: THE ELGIN STATE HOSPITAL. For converting old engine room into kitchen. For coal shed and pit.... THE JACKSONVILLE STATE HOSPITAL. .$ 3,500.00 $ 5,500.00 *For addition to tubercular cottage for females...$ 15,000.00 [Vetoed] THE ANNA STATE HOSPITAL. For brick road from Anna State Hospital to limits of the city of Anna.... .$ 47,000.00 [Vetoed] THE CHICAGO STATE HOSPITAL. For sidewalks, pavements, gutters and other improvements about the grounds.. For new floor in laundry. For vacuum heating in hospital and cottage wards. For new sewer outlet..... For barn to replace two destroyed by fire. For connecting domestic heater. THE ALTON STATE HOSPITAL. For Macadam roads.. For cement walks. For grading THE LINCOLN STATE SCHOOL AND COLONY. *For receiving cottage.. For custodial cottage for delinquent women. For building for infants and small children. .$30,000.00 [Vetoed] .$ 15,000.00 $ 5,000.00 .$ 30,000.00 $ 20,000.00 .$ 15,000.00 THE STATE COLONY FOR EPILEPTICS. For light, power, service wiring and outside wiring lighting.$ 26,000.00 For interior power house [wiring] wiring.. For roads and gutters.. For cement walks... For grading For steam, water, electric and sewer connections. THE ILLINOIS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND. For addition to print shop.... $ 1,600.00 .$ 10,000.00 .$ 5,000.00 $ 4,000.00 $ 2,000.00 700.00 THE ST. CHARLES SCHOOL FOR BOYS. For additional toilet room facilities.... $ 5,500.00 § 3. The term "Salaries and Wages" as used in this Act shall mean and include salaries, wages and other compensation for personal service. The term "Departmental Office Expense" as used in this Act shall mean and include postage, telephone, telegraph, rent, office supplies, express, freight, drayage, printing and binding; for departments and institutions. The term "Traveling Expenses" as used in this Act shall mean and include railroad fares, hotel bills, livery hire, street car fares and similar personal expenses incurred wholly in the State service. The term "Operating Supplies and Expenses" as used in this Act, shall mean and include fuel, food, wearing apparel, household supplies, plant and departmental supplies and institutional operating expenses. The term "Industrial Working Capital" as used in this Act shall mean and include all supplies, piece work, labor and expense in connection with the industrial operations (raw materials, industrial supplies, ect., [etc.,]) of the State institutions, the State parks, and canals. The term "School Supplies" as used in this Act shall mean and include supplies for distinctly educational purposes, and not included in other classes. The term "Repairs on present Buildings, Grounds and Equipment" as used in this Act shall mean and include replacements, but not betterments. Such repairs may be made under contract in whole or in part, or may be by the direct use of labor, materials and service. The term "Equipment" as used in this Act shall mean and include equipment of permanent value, including furniture, fixtures, machinery, scientific apparatus, live stock, vehicles, maps, books, educational equipment and recreational equipment. The term "Buildings," as used in this Act shall mean and include expenditures for the construction of new buildings and additions to old ones, new fences, tunnels, sidewalks, drainage ditches, pavements, walls and other permanent improvements, either in whole or in part, and including the designing of such structures and the supervision of construction. Such construction may be under contract, in whole or in part, or may be by the direct use of labor, materials and service. 4. The contingent fund provided for in section 16 of "An Act to revise the laws relating to charities, approved June 11, 1912, shall be payable from the appropriation for operating supplies and expenses, as given in section 1 of this Act, and as defined in section 3 of this Act. § 5. There is hereby appropriated for the Chicago State Hospital for paving Irving Park Boulevard, the sum of twelve thousand ($12,000.00) dollars, being the sum appropriated in and by "An Act making appropriations for the State charitable institutions," approved June 29, 1915. § 6. There is hereby appropriated for the Alton State Hospital for subway and railroad crossing assessments, the sum of twenty-two thousand dollars, ($22,000.00), being the sum appropriated in and by "An Act making appropriations for the State charitable institutions," approved June 29, 1915. 7. There is hereby appropriated for the Peoria State Hospital for the purchase of Sholl Brothers of the switch track connecting said hospital with the tracks of the Peoria and Pekin Union Railway Company the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars ($35,000.00), same to be paid upon delivery deed, with a condition that Sholl Brothers may use said track for carrying coal from mines adjoining for a period not exceeding ten (10) years. § 8. The Director of Public Welfare shall draw requisitions upon the Director of Public Works and Buildings for supplies, materials and services for the construction and repairs of buildings, and for the purchase of land, under the appropriations made herein, and the Director of Public Works and Buildings is authorized to incur obligations and make contracts under the appropriations herein, as specified in sections 49 and 51 of the Civil Administrative Code. 9. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the State Treasurer under the appropriations made herein, upon the presentation of vouchers certified to as correct by the Director of the Department of Public Works and Buildings, and the Director of the Department of Public Welfare, and approved by the Director of Finance. APPROVED (except as to those items disapproved in my veto message) June 29, 1917. Indicates vetoed. To the Honorable, the House of Representatives: STATE OF ILLINOIS, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. SPRINGFIELD, June 28, 1917. I return to you herewith House Bill No. 909, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the State Charitable Institutions.' I hereby disapprove and veto the following items therein contained: ILLINOIS CHARITABLE EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY. Section 1. p. 8, 2d line from the bottom of the page, for the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, "Equipment, $24,100" for the first year. JACKSONVILLE STATE HOSPITAL. Section 2, p. 10, lines 11, 10, and 9, from the bottom of the page, as follows: The Jacksonville State Hospital for addition to tubercular cottage for females, $15,000." ANNA STATE HOSPITAL. Section 2, p. 10, lines 8, 7, and 6, from the bottom of the page, as follows: "The Anna State Hospital for brick road, from Anna State Hospital to limits of the city of Anna, $47,000." LINCOLN STATE SCHOOL AND COLONY. Section 2, p. 11, the following items appropriated for the Lincoln State School and Colony, 7th line from the bottom of page 11, "For receiving cottage, $30,000." Respectfully submitted, FRANK O. LOWDEN, Governor. AN ACT making an appropriation to the Board of Administration to restore the domestic building and the laundry equipment at the Peoria State Hospital, destroyed by fire. WHEREAS, On February 24, 1917, the domestic building and the laundry equipmnt at the Peoria State Hospital were destroyed by fire, and WHEREAS, It is imperative that the building and equipment be restored as soon as possible, and WHEREAS, There are no funds available for these purposes in the appropriations made to the Board of Administration, Now, therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of forty thousand dollars, ($40,000.00), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the Board of Administration for restoring the domestic building and the laundry equipment at the Peoria State Hospital, destroyed by fire. § 2. All moneys above appropriated shall be due and payable to the Board of Administration, or to its order, only on the terms and in the manner provided for in "An Act to revise the laws relating to charities," approved June 11, 1912. 3. Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 28, 1917. |