understanding with the bank or depositary for the payment of such check, draft or order.

APPROVED May 26, 1917.

DRUGS-METHYL ALCOHOL.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1874, by adding section 63a.

§ 63a. Selling food or drink containing methyl alcohol-penalty.

(HOUSE BILL No. 574. FILED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 63a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended be and is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 63a.

§ 63a. No person, firm or corporation shall have in possession, sell, or offer for sale, any food or drink which contains methyl alcohol (commonly known as wood alcohol) or any preparation or mixture of any kind whatsoever, containing methyl alcohol, which shall be intended for internal use by man. Methyl alcohol by any name, or any preparation or mixture containing methyl alcohol, shall, when offered for sale, sold, delivered or used, be conspicuously labeled "Wood Alcohol" or: "This preparation contains wood alcohol" and the word "Poison" together with a skull and cross bones. The word "Poison" and the skull and cross bones shall be printed in red ink and shall be at least onequarter (4) of an inch in height.

Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00), nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), for each such offense.

FILED June 11, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this eleventh day of June, A. D. 1917.

1. Act cited.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

EXTRADITION OF PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND.

§ 5. Limitation.

§ 6. Interpretation and construction of Act.

§ 7. Repeal.

(HOUSE BILL No. 204. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to provide for the extradition of persons of unsound mind, and to make uniform the laws of the state which enact the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That this Act may be cited as the uniform Act for the extradition of persons of unsound mind.

§ 2. The terms "flight" and "fled" as used in this Act, shall be construed to mean any voluntary or involuntary departure from the jurisdiction of the court where the proceedings hereinafter mentioned may have been instituted and are still pending, with the effect of avoiding, impeding or delaying the action of the court in which such proceedings may have been instituted or be pending, or any such departure from the state where the person demanded then was, if he then was under detention by law as a person of unsound mind and subject to detention. The word "state" wherever used in this Act shall include states, territories, districts and insular and other possessions of the United States. As applied to a request to return any person within the purview of this Act to or from the District of Columbia, the words "executive authority," "Governor" and "Chief Magistrate" respectively shall include a justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and other authority.

§ 3. A person alleged to be of unsound mind found in this State, who has fled from another state, in which at the time of his flight:

(a) he was under detention by law in a hospital, asylum or other institution for the insane as a person of unsound mind; or

(b) he had been theretofore determined by legal proceedings to be of unsound mind, the finding being unreversed and in full force and effect, and the control of his person having been acquired by a court of competent jurisdiction of the state from which he fled; or

(c) he was subject to detention in such state, being then his legal domicile (personal service of process having been made) based on legal proceedings there pending to have him declared of unsound mind: shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed thereto.

§ 4. Whenever the executive authority of any state demands of the executive authority of this State, any fugitive within the purview of section 3 and produces a copy of the commitment, decree or other judicial process and proceedings, certified as authentic by the Governor or chief magistrate of the state whence the person so charged has fled, with an affidavit made before a proper officer showing the person to be such a fugitive, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of this State to cause him to be apprehended and secured, if found in this State, and to cause immediate notice of the apprehension to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear. If no such agent appears within thirty days from the time of the apprehension, the fugitive may be discharged. All costs and expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, maintaining and transmitting such fugitive to the state making such demand, shall be paid by such state. Any agent so appointed who receives the fugitive into his custody shall be empowered to transmit him to the state from which he has fled. The executive authority of this State is hereby vested with the power, on the application of any person interested, to demand the return to this State of any fugitive within the purview of this Act.

§ 5. Any proceedings under this Act shall be begun within one year after the flight referred to in this Act..

§ 6. This Act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which

enact it.

§ 7. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

FALSE PRETENSES.

§ 1. Amends section 97, Act of 1874.

for

§ 97. Obtaining credit by.
self, firm or corporation
-penalty.

(HOUSE BILL No. 727. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by an Act approved June 8, 1909.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 97 of the Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by an Act approved June 8, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read. as follows:

§ 97. That any person who shall knowingly make "and sign, or whoever shall," either direct [directly] or indirectly, or through any agency whatsoever "cause to be made" any false statement in writing "the contents and falsity of which shall be known to him" with intent that it shall be relied upon, respecting the financial condition, or means or ability to pay, of himself, or any other person, firm or corporation, in whom he is interested, or for whom he is acting, for the purpose of procuring in any form whatsoever, either the delivery of personal property, the payment of cash, the making of loan or credit, the extension of a credit, the discount of an account receivable, or the making acceptance, discount, sale or indorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, for the benefit of either himself or of such person, firm or corporation; or

Who, knowing that a statement in writing has been made, respecting the financial conditions, or means, or ability to pay, of himself, or a person, firm or corporation in which he is interested, or for whom he is acting, procures upon the faith thereof, for the benefit either of himself, or of such person, firm or corporation, either or any of the things of benefit mentioned in this section at a time when he knows the contents of said statement and knows that it is false, or

Who, knowing that a statement in writing has been made, respecting the financial condition, or means or ability to pay of himself or such person, firm or corporation, in which he is interested, or for whom he is acting represents on a later day, in writing, that such statement theretofore made, if then again made on said day, would then be true, when in fact he knows that said statement, if then made, would be false, and procures upon the faith thereof, for the benefit either of himself, or of

such person, firm or corporation, either or any of the things of benefit mentioned in this section, shall be guilty of misdemeanor and punishable by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars, or both fine and imprisonment.

APPROVED June 27, 1917.

FALSE PRETENSE.

§ 1. Amends section 98, Act of 1874.

§ 98. Confidence game-penalty.

(SENATE BILL No. 574. APPROVED JUNE 21, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by amending section 98 thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence" approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, be amended by amending section 98 thereof to read as follows:

§ 98. Every person who shall obtain or attempt to obtain from any other person or persons any money, property or credit by means or by use of any false or bogus check or by any other means, instrument or device commonly called the confidence game shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than ten years.

APPROVED June 21, 1917.

LARCENY AND EMBEZZLEMENT OF FUNDS AND PROPERTY.

§ 1. Funds and property by agent, etc.-penalty.

(HOUSE BILL No. 703. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.)

AN ACT concerning larceny and embezzlement of funds and property. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: If any officer, clerk, agent, servant, solicitor or broker of any incorporated company, or if any clerk, agent. servant, solicitor, broker, apprentice or officer of any person, co-partnership, society or association, receiving any money, substitute for money or thing of value whatsoever in his fiduciary capacity, shall embezzle or fraudulently convert or appropriate the same or any part thereof to his own use, or with intent to embezzle, shall take, secrete or otherwise dispose of, or fraudulently withhold, appropriate, lend, invest or otherwise use or apply any money, substitute for money or thing of value received by him in such fiduciary capacity, or the portion thereof belonging to his principal, employer or fiduciary, without the consent of the company, person, co-partnership, society or association for or on account of which the same was received by him, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny and shall be punished as provided by the criminal statutes of this State for the punishment of larceny, irrespective of whether any such officer, agent, clerk, servant, solicitor, broker or apprentice has or claims to have any commission or interest in such money, substitute for money or thing of value so received by him.

APPROVED June 27, 1917.

MOTOR VEHICLES-MEDDLING OR TAMPERING WITH PROHIBITED. 1. Motor vehicles defined-penalty.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 218. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1917.)

AN ACT to make unlawful the damaging or unauthorized tampering or meddling with a motor vehicle or with the motor or other parts thereof, and providing a penalty therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any person, intentionally and without authority from the owner, to start or cause to be started the motor of any motor vehicle, or to maliciously shift or change the starting device or gears of a standing motor vehicle, to a position other than that in which it was left by the owner or driver of said motor vehicle; and it shall be unlawful to intentionally cut, mark, scratch or damage the chassis, running gear, body, sides, top, covering or upholstering of any motor vehicle, the property of another, or to intentionally cut, mash, mark, destroy or damage such motor vehicle, or any of the accessories, equipment, appurtenances or attachments thereof, or any spare or extra parts thereon being or thereto attached, without the permission of the owner thereof, or to intentionally release the brake upon any standing motor vehicle, with intent to injure said machine or cause the same to be removed without the consent of the owner. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction thereof, be confined in the county jail, or sentenced to labor in the workhouse of the county, city or town where the conviction is had, or on the streets or alleys of the city or on the public roads in the county, or to such labor under the direction of the sheriff, as the county board may provide for, not exceeding one (1) year, or fined not exceeding two hundred ($200.00) dollars, or both.

The words "motor vehicle" shall include automobiles, locomobiles and all other vehicles propelled otherwise than by muscular power, except motor bicycles, traction engines and road rollers, the cars of electric and steam railways and other motor vehicles running only upon rails or tracks.

AN ACT to amend section two and the title of an Act entitled: "An Act in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit the same, to provide for the punishment thereof, for the competency of certain evidence at the trial therefor, and providing what shall be a defense," approved June 1, 1908, in force July 1, 1908.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section two and the title of an Act entitled: "An Act in relation to pandering, to define and prohibit