2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of veterinary examiners and the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners relating to the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Illinois;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of examiners of horseshoers;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Examiners of Architects;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Examiners of Structural Engineers;

6. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health relating to the practice of medicine, or any of the branches thereof, or midwifery;

7. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health relating to the regulation of the embalming and disposal of dead bodies, and for a system of examination, registration and licensing of embalmers;

8. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Pharmacy;

9. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners:

10. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Illinois State Board of Nurse Examiners;

11. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Optometry;

12. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Barber Examiners, its officers and employees;

13. To investigate and study the natural resources of the State and to prepare plans for the conservation and development of the natural resources and for that purpose the officers and employees thereof may enter and cross all lands in this State, doing no damage to private property;

14. To cooperate with and advise departments having administrative powers and duties relating to the natural resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar departments in other states and with the United States Government;

15. To conduct a natural history survey of the State, giving preference to subjects of educational and economical importance;

16. To publish, from time to time, reports covering the entire field of zoology and botany of the State;

17. To maintain a State museum, and to collect and preserve objects of scientific and artistic value, representing past and present fauna and flora, the life and works of man, geological history, natural resources, and the manufacturing and fine arts;

18. To supply natural history specimens to the State educational institutions and to the public schools;

19. To investigate the entomology of the State;

20. To investigate all insects dangerous or injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants and crops, live stock, to nursery trees and plants,

to the products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and villages, to the products of the mills and the contents of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health;

21. To conduct experiments with methods for the prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects injurious to persons or property;

22. To instruct the people, by lecture, demonstration or bulletin, in the best methods of preserving and protecting their property and health against injuries by insects;

23. To publish, from time to time, articles on the injurious and beneficial insects of the State;

24. To study the geological formation of the State with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays, building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in the construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian water and other products;

25. To publish, from time to time, topographical, geological and other maps to illustrate the resources of the State;

26. To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving a general and detailed description of the geological and mineral resources of the State; 27. To cooperate with the United States geological survey in the preparation and completion of a contour topographical survey and map; 28. To collect facts and data concerning the water resources of the State;

29. To determine standards of purity of drinking water for the various sections of the State;

30. To publish, from time to time, the results of its investigations of the waters of the State to the end that the available water resources of the State may be better known and that the welfare of the people in the various communities may be conserved;

31. To make analyses of samples of water from municipal or private

sources;

32. To distribute, in its discretion, to the various educational institutions of the State specimens, samples and materials collected by it after the same have served the purposes of the department.

§ 59. The normal school board, of which the Director of Registration and Education shall be chairman and ex-officio member and of which the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall ex-officio be a member and shall be secretary, shall have power and it shall be its duty, independently of the supervision, direction or control of the Director or any other officer of the Department of Registration and Education:

1. To make rules, regulations and by-laws, not inconsistent with law, for the good government and management of the State normal schools and the various interests therein;

2. To visit each State normal school at least once during each scholastic year for the purpose of making an inspection of its condition and work and gathering such information as will enable them to perfrom their duties intelligently and effectively;

3. To employ, and, for good cause, remove a president of each State normal school and all necessary professors, teachers, instructors,

and other educational assistants, and all other necessary employees, and fix their respective salaries;

4. To prescribe the course of study to be followed, and textbooks and apparatus to be used in each State normal school;

5. To issue, upon the recommendation of the faculties of the respective normal schools, diplomas to such persons as shall have satisfactorily completed the required studies of the respective State normal schools, and confer such professional degrees as are usually conferred by other institutions of like character for similar or equivalent courses of study;

6. To examine into the conditions, management and administration of the State normal schools;

7. To succeed to and to administer all trusts and trust property now or hereafter belonging or pertaining to any of the State normal universities or schools.

§ 60. The Department of Registration and Education shall, wherever the several laws regulating professions, trades and occupations which are devolved upon the department for administration so require, exercise, in its name, but subject to the provisions of this act, the following powers: 1. Conduct examinations to ascertain the qualifications and fitness of applicants to exercise the profession, trade or occupation for which an examination is held; and pass upon the qualifications of applicants for reciprocal licenses, certificates and authorities;

2. Prescribe rules and regulations for a fair and wholly impartial method of examination of candidates to exercise the respective professions, trades or occupations;

3. Prescribe rules and regulations defining, for the respective professions, trades and occupations, what shall constitute a school, college or university, or department of a university, or other institutions, reputable and in good standing and to determine the reputability and good standing of a school, college or university, or department of a university, or other institution, reputable and in good standing by reference to a compliance with such rules and regulations;

4. Adopt rules providing for and establishing a uniform and reasonable standard of maintenance, instruction and training to be observed by all schools for nurses which are to be deemed reputable and in good standing and to determine the reputability and good standing of such schools for nurses by reference to compliance with such rules and regulations;

5. Establish a standard of preliminary education deemed requisite to admission to a school, college, or university, and to require satisfactory proof of the enforcement of such standard by schools, colleges and universities;

6. Conduct hearings on proceedings to revoke or refuse renewal of licenses, certificates or authorities of persons exercising the respective professions, trades or occupations, and to revoke or refuse to renew such licenses, certificates or authorities;

7. Formulate rules and regulations when required in any act to be administered.

None of the above enumerated functions and duties shall be exercised by the Department of Registration and Education, except upon the action and report in writing of persons designated from time to time by the Director of Registration and Education to take such action and to make such report, for the respective professions, trades and occupations as follows:

For the veterinary practitioners, three competent veterinary surgeons, not more than two of whom shall be graduates of the same veterinary college, and neither of whom shall be connected with any veterinary college in any capacity;

For the horseshoers, five persons, consisting of three practical master horseshoers, who have been for at least three years prior to their designation engaged in the occupation of horseshoeing in this State, and two journeymen horseshoers, who have been for at least three years prior to their designation engaged in the occupation of horeshoeing as journeyman horseshoers in this State:

For the architects, five persons, one of whom shall be a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois, and the other four of whom shall be architects residing in this State, who have been engaged in the practice of architecture at least ten years;

For the structural engineers, five persons, one of whom shall be a professor in the civil engineering department of the University of Illinois, and the others of whom shall be structural engineers of recognized standing, who have had not less than ten years' practical experience, then practicing as structural engineers in this State;

For the medical practitioners, embalmers and midwives, five persons, all of whom shall be reputable physicians licensed to practice medicine and surgery in this State, no one of whom shall be an officer, trustee, instructor or stockholder or otherwise interested directly or indirectly, in any medical college or medical institution. For the purpose of preparing questions and rating papers on practice peculiar to any school, graduates of which may be candidates for registration or license, the director may designate additional examiners whenever occasion may require;

For the pharmacists, five persons, each of whom shall be a competent registered pharmacist, in the State, and shall have had ten years' practical experience in the dispensing of physicians' prescriptions since such registration;

For the dentists, five persons, each of whom has been a licensed practitioner of dentistry or dental surgery in this State for a period of five years or more, and no one of whom is in any way connected with or interested in any dental college or dental department of any institution of learning;

For the registered nurses, five persons, each of whom is a registered nurse in this State and has been graduated for at least a period of five years from a school for nurses in good standing, and, during the course of training, has served for two years in a general hospital, and three of whom shall have had at least two years' experience in educational work among nurses;

For the optometrists, five persons from among such practicing optometrists of the State as have had not less than five years' practical experience in optometry, no one of whom is a member of any optical school or college or instructor in optometry or person connected in any way therewith, or is a manufacturer, jobber or jobbing representative; For the barbers, three practical barbers, each of whom has been for at least five years preceding his designation engaged in the occupation of barbering in this State.

The action or report in writing of a majority of the persons designated for any given trade, occupation or profession, shall be sufficient authority upon which the Director of Registration and Education may

act.

In making the designation of persons to act for the several professions, trades and occupations the director shall give due consideration to recommendations by members of the respective professions, trades and occupations and by organizations therein.

Whenever the director is satisfied that substantial justice has not been done either in an examination or in the revocation of or refusal to renew a license, certificate or authority, he may order re-examinations or rehearings by the same or other examiners.

§ 61. All certificates, licenses and authorities shall be issued by the Department of Registration and Education, in the name of such department, with the seal thereof attached.

§ 62. Unless otherwise provided by law, the functions and duties formerly exercised by the State entomologist, the State laboratory of natural history, the State water survey and the State geological survey and vested by this Act in the department of registration and education, shall continue to be exercised at the University of Illinois in buildings and places provided by the trustees thereof.

§ 63. The board of natural resources and conservation, acting through five or more sub-committees, each of which shall be composed of the Director of Registration and Education, the President of the University of Illinois, or his representative, and the expert adviser specially qualified in each of the fields of investigation, shall:

1. Consider and decide all matters pertaining to natural history, geology, water and water resources, forestry, and allied research, investigational and scientific work;

2. Select and appoint, without reference to the State civil service law, members of the scientific staff, prosecuting such research, investigational and scientific work;

3. Co-operate with the University of Illinois in the use of scientific staff and equipment;

4. Co-operate with the various departments in research, investigational and scientific work useful in the prosecution of the work of any department.

The board of State museum advisors shall advise the Director of Education and Registration in all matters pertaining to maintenance, extension and usefulness of the State museum.