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LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF ILLINOIS

ENACTED BY THE

Fiftieth General Assembly

AT THE

REGULAR BIENNIAL SESSION

BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF
SPRINGFIELD, ON THE THIRD DAY OF JANUARY
A. D. 1917 AND ADJOURNED SINE DIE ON THE
TWENTY-NINTH DAY OF JUNE A. D. 1917.

[PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
STALE OF ILLINOIS.]

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

ILLINOIS STATE JOURNAL CO., STATE PRINTERS

1917

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CONTENTS.

ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES:

An Act to amend section 105 of an Act entitled, "An Act in regard to the

administration of estates," approved April 1, 1872; in force July 1, 1872. 1

An Act concerning constructive notice of suits in equity, proceedings to

sell real property of decedents to pay debts, or other suits in the nature

of suits in equity, involving real property.

ADMINISTRATION OF STATE GOVERNMENT:

An Act in relation to the civil administration of the State government, and

to repeal certain acts therein named...

An Act to prevent the introduction into and the dissemination within this

State of insect pests and diseases injurious to the plants and plant

products of this State...

ANIMALS AND BIRDS:

An Act to protect the owner of any licensed stallion or jack kept for

public service and to subject the mare or jennet or progeny of such

animal, or both, to a lien for the service fee of such stallion or jack..

An Act to regulate the public service of stallions and jacks in Illinois.

An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to indemnify the owners of

sheep in cases of damage committed by dogs, approved May 29, 1879,

in force July 1, 1879, as subsequently amended, by amending the title

thereto, by amending sections 1, 2 and 5 thereof, and by adding five new

sections to be known as sections 1a. 2a, 2b, 2c and 10".

An Act to amend section 5 of an Act entitled, "An Act to indemnify the

owners of sheep in cases of damage committed by dogs," approved May

29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879...

APPROPRIATIONS:

An Act making an appropriation for county fairs or other agricultural

societies of the State of Illinois...

An Act making an appropriation in aid of the State Board of Agriculture,

The State Be 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..

An Act making additional appropriations to the Attorney General.

An Act entitled, "An Act for an appropriation to meet expenses in the

office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to be incurred subsequent to

March 1, 1917, and prior to July 1, 1917, and by declaring an emer-

An Act to make an appropriation for conducting business of the State,

through the Barbers' State Board of Examiners until July 1, 1917.

An Act making additional appropriations to the Board of Administration

for the State charitable institutions..

An Act to provide for the building of bridges on State property in Will

County to replace bridges washed out by floods, and to make an appro-

priation therefor..

An Act to provide for the erection of a centennial memorial building on

the Capitol grounds and to make an appropriation therefor...

An Act making appropriations for the State Charitable institutions.

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...

An Act to make appropriations for certain claims against the State of

An Act making an appropriation for county agricultural advisors.

An Act entitled, "An Act to make an appropriation for the payment of

expenses for the conveying of offenders to the Illinois State Reformatory

at Pontiac, Illinois, subsequent to May 1, 1917, and providing for an

An Act making an appropriation to pay the House election committee

expenses of the Fiftieth General Assembly..

APPROPRIATIONS-Continued.

An Act making an appropriation to compensate Charles E. Woodward for

services performed and expenses incurred pursuant to contract with the

secretary of the Legislative Reference Bureau.

An Act to appropriate to the Department of Registration and Education,

for the use of the Western Illinois State Normal School at Macomb, and

the Southern Illinois Normal University at Carbondale, certain unex-

pended balances of appropriations made to said Normal School and

university by the Forty-ninth General Assembly.

An Act to make appropriations for the five State Normal schools of Illinois

An Act entitled, "An Act making an appropriation for the payment of

mileage of Electors of the President and Vice President of the United

An Act to divert. an appropriation made to the Game and Fish Conservation

Commission, by the Forty-ninth General Assembly, from the purpose

named therein, and appropriating the unexpended balance to another

An Act making an appropriation to pay the expenses of the committees

of the Fiftieth General Assembly of the State of Illinois.

An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the officers and mem-

bers of the next General Assembly, and for the salaries of certain officers

of the State government..

An Act to provide. for the incidental expenses of the Fiftieth General As-

sembly of the State of Illinois.

An Act making appropriations for the payment of the officers and em-

ployees of the Fiftieth General Assembly of the State of Illinois...

An Act to make an appropriation for the Illinois Centennial Commission.. 106

An Act making an appropriation to the Illinois Pension Laws Commission 107

An Act entitled, "An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the

salaries of the Judges of the City Courts of the State of Illinois, prior

to July 1, 1917, and by declaring an emergency",

An Act to make an appropriation to carry on the work of the Legislative

Reference Bureau until July 1, 1917.

An Act making an appropriation to pay the State's portion of assessments

for local improvements in and along certain streets in the city of Jack-

An Act making an appropriation to pay the State's portion of special

assessments against the State's property on certain streets for orna-

mental lighting in the city of Springfield...

An Act to reappropriate SO much of

twenty-five thousand dollars

($25.000) heretofore appropriated by the Forty-ninth General Assembly

as shall not have been herefore expended, for the construction and erec-

tion of a monument to the memory of former Governor Richard J.

An Act to appropriate the unexpended balance of the appropriation made

by an Act entitled: "An Act to provide for the erection of statutes or

other monumental commemoration, to General Ulysses S. Grant and

other generals from Illinois, who commanded the army, a corps, or

divisions during the campaign and siege of Vicksburg. Mississippi, and to

make appropriation therefor," approved June 28, 1915, in force July 1.

1915

An Act to appropriate twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), for the

erection of statues or other monumental commemoration to General

Ulysses S. Grant and other generals from Illinois who commanded the

army, a corps or divisions during the campaign and siege of Vicksburg,

An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois

National Guard and Illinois Naval Batallion.

An Act to appropriate the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars for

the supply, clothing, equipment, pay, transportation, preparation of

camp sites and cantonments, mobilization, subsistence and incidental

expenses for the National Guard and Naval Militia, Volunteers or other

organizations of Illinois authorized, organized or furnished by the State

on a call, order, request or requisition made or hereafter made or

issued by the President of the United States or organized, authorized or

ordered for duty by the Governor..

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An Act making an appropriation to meet the deficiencies in the appropria-

tion to pay the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois National

Guard and Illinois Naval Reserve.

An Act making an appropriation of additional sums for the completion of

armories now under construction.

An Act making an appropriation of an additional sum for the completion

of the armory now under construction at Monmouth. Illinois. .

An Act making deficiency appropriations for the ordinary and contingent

expenses of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, the Southern Illinois

Penitentiary at Menard, and the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac,

until July 1, 1917, and declaring an emergency.

An Act making appropriations for the Illinois State Penitentiary, the South-

ern Illinois Penitentiary and the Illinois State Reformatory.

An Act to make an appropriation for the painting of a portrait of former

Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara.

APPROPRIATIONS-Continued.

An Act to make an appropriation for the painting of a portrait of former

Governor Edward F. Dunne.

An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the making of a

record of the burial places of soldiers and sailors," approved June 25,

1915, in force July 1, 1915, by amending the title thereto and by adding

a new section to be known as section four (4)..

An Act to provide an appropriation for the purpose of furnishing relief to

the people living in those sections of the State recently visited by a

destructive cyclone...

An Act making an appropriation for the relief of the suffering and destitute

miners at Royalton, Illinois, and the families and dependents of miners

who lost their lives in the mine disaster at Royalton, Illinois...

An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the balance of salary

due to James D. Putnam, a member of the Fiftieth General Assembly

from the Eighteenth Senatorial District, and making the said salary

payable to Eva Putnam, the widow of the said James D. Putnam.

An Act making an appropriation to the executrix of James A. Creighton,

deceased, late circuit judge of the Seventh judicial district of the State

An Act making an appropriation for the payment of expenses, costs and

charges connected with the control and the eradication of the foot and

mouth disease during the years 1914, 1915 and 1916, and the payment

of certain claims for horses that were destroyed on account of the con-

tagion of glanders...

An Act entitled, "An Act making an appropriation for the payment of the

amounts awarded by the Court of Claims to certain persons and com-

panies named therein".

An Act to make an appropriation for necessary repairs at State Arsenal,

Springfield, Illinois, and necessary repairs, installation target machines,

and additions to equipment at State Rifle Range, Camp Logan, near

Zion City, Illinois.

An Act in relation to the construction and maintenance of rural post roads

under and in accordance with an Act of Congress entitled, "An Act to

provide that the United States shall aid the states in the construction

of rural post roads, and for other purposes," approved July 11, 1916,

and known as the Federal Aid Road Act.

An Act entitled, "An Act to make an appropriation to pay the salaries of

certain officers and former officers of the Illinois State Penitentiary for

the month of June 1915.

An Act to make an appropriation to the Secretary of State to provide

funds necessary to carry on the business of the State to July 1, 1917..

An Act making an appropriation to pay the State's portion of assessments

for local improvements in and along certain streets in the city of

Springfield upon which the State's property abuts.

An Act to reappropriate the unexpended balance of appropriations made

by an Act entitled "An Act in relation to procuring of sites and erec-

tion of armory buildings for the use of the Illinois National Guard and

making appropriation therefor and for the purchase of sites and armory

buildings at Kewanee and Morrison, Illinois" approved June 28, 1913,

in force July 1, 1913, and a further Act entitled "An Act making appro-

priation of additional sum for the completion of armories now under

construction" approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, and a fur-

ther Act entitled, "An Act in relation to the procuring of site and erec-

tion of an armory for the use of the Illinois National Guard at Kan-

kakee," approved June 29, 1915 and in force July 1, 1915, and a further

Act entitled, "An Act in relation to the procuring of site and erection

of armory for the use of the Illinois National Guard and making appro-

priation therefor" filed June 19, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, and a

further Act entitled "An Act in relation to procuring of site and erection

of armory building for the use of the Illinois National Guard and

Illinois Naval Reserve and making appropriation therefor" approved

June 28, 1915, in force July 1, 1915...

An Act making an appropriation from the road fund for the building and

maintaining of State aid roads in the several counties of the State.. 151

An Act making an appropriation for the building and maintaining of

State aid roads in the several counties of the State.

An Act making an appropriation to meet a deficiency in the appropriation

for the expenses of the Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners.

An Act making an appropriation to meet a deficiency in the appropriation

for the per diem of members of the Illinois State Board of Dental

An Act to establish a State Council of Defense, and making an appropria-

tion therefor...

An Act making an appropriation to meet a deficiency in the appropriation

to the State Entomologist..

An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the State

government until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the ad-

journment of the next regular session of the General Assembly.

An Act making an additional appropriation to the State Highway Com-

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