maintaining and operating the said classes and schools over the cost o maintaining and operating elementary schools for normal children," th following sums: To the Board of Education of District No. 131, situ ated in Rochelle, in the County of Ogle and State of Illinois, $770 pe annum: To the Board of Education of the City of Chicago: For th excess cost of educating delinquent children, $90,250 for the first year and $96.050 for the second year of the biennium: To the Board of Edu cation of the City of Chicago: For the excess cost of educating dea children, $30,800 for the first year, and $33,000 for the second year of the biennium: To the Board of Education of the City of Chicago: For the excess cost of educating blind children, $7,200 for the first year, and $8,000 for the second year of the biennium: To the Board of Education of District No. 131, situated in Aurora, in Kane County, Illinois: For the excess cost of educating the deaf in the school years 1914-1915 and 1915-1916, the sum of $1,858.26, and for the cost of educating the deaf for the biennium beginning July 1, 1917, the sum of $950.00 per annum. (Total for educating deaf, dumb blind and delinquent children, $270,598.26.) CLAIMS. One hundred tenth-To the receivers of the Central Union Telephone Company, incorporated, of Springfield, Illinois, for exchange services rendered as per contract, to the clerk and committees of the House of Representatives of the Forty-ninth General Assembly the sum of $111.85. One hundred eleventh-To Samuels and Samuels, Chicago, Illinois: For refund on account of corporation fees erroneously paid into the State treasury by the Secretary of State about March 29, 1916, in the matter of the incorporation of the Alhambra Building Company, final papers of incorporation surrendered without any action thereunder, the sum of $270. One hundred twelfth-To Fisher and Norty, Rockford, Illinois: For refund on account of corporation fees erroneously paid into the State treasury by the Secretary of State about May 15, 1914, in the matter of the incorporation of the Rockford Commission Company, final papers of incorporation not issued, the sum of $60. One hundred thirteenth-To Hill and Hill, Chicago, Illinois: For refund on account of corporation fees paid a second time into the State treasury by the Secretary of State about December 12, 1916, in the matter of the incorporation of the Gosso Company, the sum of $70. 1 One hundred fourteenth-To O. H. Hyatt: For refund on account of corporation fees erroneously paid into the State treasury by the Secretary of State about July 17, 1912, in the matter of the incorporation of the Ideal Culbert Form Company, which was not in fact organized, the sum of $50. One hundred fifteen-To A. T. Willett & Company, for services rendered Battery B, Field Artillery, Illinois National Guard, between May 31, 1910 and July 20, 1914, inclusive, the sum of $499.00. § 2. The term "Salaries and Wages" as used in this Act shall mean and include salaries, wages and other compensation for personal service. The term “Office Expenses" as used in this Act shall mean and include postage, telephone, telegraph, rent, office supplies, express, freight, drayage, for departments and institutions. The term "Traveling Expense" 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 "Repairs" 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. § 3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the State Treasurer for all sums herein appropriated upon the presentation of itemized bills, except as otherwise provided in this Act, accompanied by vouchers certified to as correct, certified and approved as follows: (1) For sums herein appropriated to departments created by "The Civil Administrative Code," certified by the department required by existing law to perform the work and incur the expenditure and ap-proved by the Department of Finance; (2) For sums herein appropriated to the elective officers in the executive department, certified by the elective officer making the expenditure; (3) For sums herein appropriated to the Supreme Court, certified by the chief justice of the Supreme Court; (4) For sums herein appropriated to the several Appellate Courts, certified by the chief justice of the Appellate Court, the district from which the expenditure is made; (5) For sums herein appropriated to the Adjutant General, certified to by the Adjutant General and approved by the Department of Finance; (6) For sums herein appropriated to the Legislative Reference. Bureau, certified to by the secretary thereof, and approved by the Department of Finance; (7) For sums herein appropriated to the State Historical Library, certified to by the librarian; (8) For sums herein appropriated to boards, commissions, certified to by the chairman and attested by the secretary, if there be one, of the board or commission incurring the expenditure and approved by the Department of Finance; (9) For sums herein appropriated to clerks of courts, certified to by the clerk incurring the expenditure. § 4. All appropriations made herein for salaries and wages shall be made on monthly payrolls certified and approved by the respective authorities named in the preceding section; provided, that in all payrolls the title and salary of each position shall be as specified in this Act. § 42. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the State Treasurer for all sums herein appropriated for traveling expenses, upon the presentation of itemized bills. In the case of expenditures for railroad fares the itemized bills shall show from what point to what point traveled and the amount paid for the same, including the amount paid for sleeping car and extra fares for each day of travel. All charges for hotels, meals and incidental expenses shall be shown by date. Bills for traveling expenses shall be itemized and submitted on blanks in the following form: All bills for traveling expense shall be certified to by the party making the charge, as follows: "I certify that the above account is correct and just; that the detailed items charged within are taken and verified from a memorandum kept by me; that the amounts charged for subsistence were actually paid, and the expenses were occasioned by official business or unavoid able delays, requiring my stay at hotels for the time specified; that I performed the journey with all practicable dispatch, by the shortest route usually traveled, in the customary reasonable manner, and that I have not been furnished with transportation, or money in lieu thereof, for any part of the journey herein charged for. § 5. The Director of Public Works and Buildings and the Secretary of State are hereby authorized and directed to make contracts and incur liabilities in the maintenance of central telephone exchange service. for the use of the offices, departments, boards and commissions located in Springfield. The officers, heads of departments and chairmen of boards and commissions shall draw requisitions for telephone exchange services in the city of Springfield on the Secretary of State and the Director of Public Works and Buildings, and disbursements for such telephone exchange service shall be charged to the departmental office expenses appropriations made in this Act to the respective offices, departments, boards and commissions. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed. to draw warrants on the State Treasurer under appropriations for departmental office expenses made in this Act, for bills for telephone exchange service in the city of Springfield only upon the presentation of itemized bills certified to as correct by the Secretary of State and by the Director of Public Works and Buildings and approved by the officers, heads of departments or chairmen of boards and commissions respectively, to whose appropriations such bills are charged. Nothing in this section. shall be so construed as to prohibit the elective officers in the Executive Department of the State government from making contracts for and supplying to their respective offices telephone service and paying for such service out of the proper appropriations made herein to their respective offices. And, when such contracts for telephone services are made by said officers, or any or either of them, vouchers, accompanied by itemized bills, for the payment of such service shall be certified by the officer requiring such service, and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall thereupon issue his warrant on the State Treasurer for the sums so certified. 6. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed, in the case of all bills and vouchers where the procedure for payment is not otherwise specified in this Act, to draw warrants on the State Treasurer for all sums herein appropriated upon the presentation of itemized and receipted bills, accompanied by vouchers certified to as correct by the officers or heads of departments and chairmen of boards. and commissions respectively. Vouchers for disbursements for departments created by the Civil Administrative Code, for offices whose heads are appointed by the Governor, and for boards and commissions whose members are appointed by the Governor, shall be approved, also, by the Director of Finance. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized, and it is made his duty, to refuse to draw any warrant or warrants when any of the provisions of this Act are not strictly complied with. § 7. It is expressly understood that any item or items, in any and all paragraphs of this bill, may be vetoed without in any manner affecting any of the other items, in any of the paragraphs of this bill. APPROVED (except as to the items disapproved in my veto message) June 29, 1917. * Indicates vetoed. STATE OF ILLINOIS, To the Honorable, the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of Illinois: I return herewith House Bill No. 1030, entitled, "An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the State Government until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session of the General Assembly." I veto and withhold my approval from the following items therein contained: Page 2, Section 1, Paragraph Second: I veto this entire paragraph appropriating $267.76. Page 8, Section 1, Paragraph Seventh: Lines 17 and 18 from the top of the page, the following items are disapproved: "For roof repairs, $50,000." Page 9, Section 1, Paragraph Seventh: Lines 17, 18 and 19 from the top of the page, the item: "For 2 toilet rooms fifth and sixth floors, south wing, $2,600 for the biennium." Pages 9 and 10, Section 1, Paragraph Seventh: In lines 21, 22, 23 and 24 from the top of the page and in line 1 at the top of page 10, the item: "Painting of wall, finishing floor and picture moulding, awnings and curtains, fifth and sixth floors, south wing, $1,500 for the biennium." Page 11, Section 1, Paragraph Eight and one-half. I veto this entire paragraph appropriating $60,000. Page 15, Section 1, Paragraph Thirteenth: In lines 11, 12 and 13 from the top of the page, I veto the following item: "For extra clerk hire and examiners, $5,000 per annum." Page 16, Section 1, Paragraph Thirteenth : In lines 11 and 12 from the top of the page, the following item is disapproved: "For repairs, $1,000.00 for the biennium." Page 19, Section 1, Paragraph Twentieth: I veto this entire paragraph appropriating $500.00. Pages 28 and 29, Section 1, Paragraph Thirty-fifth: The following item in lines 21, 22 and 23, Page 28 and lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7, an Page 29, is vetoed: "For expenses in the collection of evidence and the employment of necessary assistants in the prosecution of litigation relative to submerged and made lands in connection with the navigable waters of the State of Illinois, and incidental legal expenses in connection with the construction of the deep waterway, $25,000 per annum." Page 37, Section 1, Paragraph Forty-eighth : I veto the following items: In lines 1 and 2 at the top of the page, "For Department Clerk, $1,500 per annum." In lines 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14, from the top of the page: "For two boat engineers for eight months each year, at $1,000 each per annum-$2,000 per annum : "For four laborers for fish propagation for six months each year, $450 each per annum-$1.800 per annum: "For superintendent of Fish Hatchery, $1,200 per annum : "For fish culturist, $1,500 per annum.' In lines 17 and 18 from the top of Page 37, the item: "For fish hatchery at Chicago, $25,000." Page 39, Section 1, Paragraph Forty-ninth: In lines three and four from the top of the page, I veto the item: "For clerk, $1,800 per annum." Page 40, Section 1, Paragraph Fiftieth: In lines 5, 6, and 7, from the top of Page 40. I veto the item: "For veterinary services and assistant inspector of stallions, $3,000 per annum." Page 41, Section 1, Paragraph Fifty-second: In lines 11, 12, 13, and 14 from the top of the page, I veto the items: "For inspector at part time, $675 per annum: In lines 7 and 8 from the top of the page, I disapprove the item "For operating supplies and expenses, $2,350 per annum." |