MASTERS IN CHANCERY.

§ 1. Amends section 20, Act of 1872.

§ 20. Fees of.

(HOUSE BILL No. 561. FILED JUNE 28, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended by amending section 20 thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section 20 thereof, so that the said section when amended shail read as follows:

§ 20. For administering oaths and signing jurat, when not taking evidence or depositions, ten cents. For taking acknowledgment or proof of any deed, or written instrument, twenty-five cents. For taking depositions and certifying, for every one hundred words, fifteen cents. For taking and reporting testimony under order of court, the same fee as for taking depositions. For computing the amount due on which to render a decree, and making a report thereof to the court, where no oral evidence is taken, two dollars. For examining questions of law and fact in issue by the pleading, and reporting conclusions, whenever specially ordered by the court, a sum not exceeding ten dollars. For making sales and deeds thereon, the same fees and allowances as sheriffs; but in no suit or other proceeding, shall such fee and commission exceed two hundred dollars. For making a deed alone, on other cases, when required by order or decree of court, three dollars. For report of sale in every suit or proceeding when a sale is had, two dollars. For hearing and deciding application for writs of ne exeat or injunction, to be advanced by the complainant and taxed with costs, five dollars. For ordering, or refusing to order, a writ of habeas corpus or certiorari, one dollar. And no other fee or allowance whatever shall be made for services by masters in chancery: Provided, that in any case where a special master in chancery has been appointed, and no sale is had, he shall receive for his services such compensation as shall be fixed by the court and taxed as other costs in the case and for the purpose of fixing compensation, the court may hear testimony as to the services performed by such special master in chancery. But in all other cases a special master in chancery shall receive for his services the same fees as those allowed by law to the master in chancery.

In counties of the third class, masters in chancery may receive for examining questions in issue referred to them, and reporting conclusions thereon, and also in cases where the defendants are in default but under the order of reference the master is required to find and report conclusions, such compensation as the court may deem just; and for services not enumerated above in this section and which have been and may be imposed by statute or special order they may receive such compensation as

the court may allow. The court may also include as a part of such master's fees a reasonable allowance not to exceed fifteen cents per hundred words for stenographer's services in cases where the master shall certify that a stenographer was necessarily employed, and shall attach to his report a certified copy of the testimony taken by such stenographer. FILED June 28, 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 twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

STATE'S ATTORNEYS AND ASSISTANTS.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1912, by adding new section 7.

§ 7. Action to recover fees void after five years.

(SENATE BILL No. 505. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act fixing and providing for the payment of salaries of State's attorneys and their assistants, defining their duties, providing for the appointment of assistants, and to provide for the collection and disposition of the fees provided by law to be paid to the State's attorneys, and to repeal all Acts in conflict therewith," approved June 11, 1912, in force July 1, 1912, and sections three (3) and four (4) thereof as amended by an Act approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section seven (7).

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act fixing and providing for the payment of salaries of State's attorneys and their assistants, defining their duties, providing for the appointment of assistants, and to provide for the collection and disposition of the fees provided by law to be paid to the State's attorneys, and to repeal all Acts in conflict therewith," approved June 11, 1912, in force July 1, 1912, and sections three (3) and four (4) thereof as amended by an Act approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by adding to said Act a new section, said section to be known and called section seven (7), as follows:

§ 7. No action at law or in equity shall be brought or instituted in any court in this State to recover any fees, commissions, collections or upon the account of any State's attorney heretofore elected or appointed under this Act, or elected or appointed under any former Act, unless such suit, action or proceeding shall be commenced by the proper authority, political subdivision or municipal corporation within five (5) years after said cause of action may have accrued, and within five (5) years after the receipt or collection of any such fees, commissions or collections by any of such State's attorneys, and after such period of five years shall have elapsed the bonds of such State's attorney shall become void unless such suit or proceeding or statement of accounts shall have been had or made without the period as aforesaid[:] Provided that any cause, suit or action at law or in equity, that might or could be commenced, except for the provisions of this Act, and is by the terms

of this Act barred, may be commenced at any time prior to January 1,

A. D. 1918.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

(HOUSE BILL No. 50. FILED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to fences," approved March 21, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by subsequent Acts, by amending sections 2, 5, 7 and 11 respectively thereof.

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 fences," approved March 21, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by subsequent Acts, be and the same is hereby amended by amending sections 2, 5, 7 and 11 respectively thereof, so that said sections when amended shall read as follows:

§ 2. Fences four and one-half feet high, and in good repair, consisting of rails, timber boards, stone, hedges, barb wire, woven wire or whatever the fence viewers of the town or precinct where the same shall lie shall consider equivalent thereto suitable and sufficient to prevent cattle, horses, sheep, hogs and other stock from getting on the adjoining lands of another, shall be deemed legal and sufficient fences: Provided, that in counties under township organization, the electors, at any annual town meeting, may determine what shall constitute a legal fence in the town; and in counties not under township organization, the power to regulate the height of fences shall be vested in the county board.

$5. The value of such fence, and the proportion thereof to be paid by such person, and the proportion of the division fence to be made and maintained by him, in case of his inclosing his land, may be determined by two fence viewers of the town, in counties under township organization, and in other counties by any two fence viewers of the precinct; or, at the option of the aggrieved party, such value or proportion may be ascertained in an action brought by him before a justice of the peace or in any other court of competent jurisdiction.

§ 7. If disputes arise between the owners of adjoining lands concerning the proportion of fence to be made or maintained by either of them, such dispute may be settled by any two of the fence viewers of the town or precinct, as the case may be, and in such cases it shall be the duty of the two fence viewers to distinctly mark and define the proportion of the fence to be made or maintained by each.

§ 11. If any person who is liable to contribute to the erection or reparation of a division fence shall neglect or refuse to make or repair

his proportion of such fence, the party injured, after giving sixty days' notice, in writing, that a fence should be erected, or ten days' notice, in writing, that the reparation of a fence is necessary, may make or repair the same at the expense of the party so neglecting or refusing, to be recovered from him, with costs of suit, before a justice of the peace or any other court of competent jurisdiction; and the party so neglecting or refusing, after notice in writing, shall be liable to the party injured for all damages which shall thereby accrue.

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.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

FLAGS.

ILLINOIS CENTENNIAL COMMISSION OFFICIAL STATE BANNER OR FLAG. § 1. Official State banner or flag authorized.

(HOUSE BILL No. 680.

§ 2. Design.

§ 3. Official Centennial flag. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT authorizing the Illinois Centennial Commission to have an official State banner or flag.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Illinois Centennial Commission be and is hereby authorized and permitted to have and to use a State banner or flag commemorating the centennial anniversary of the admission of the State of Illinois into the Federal Union, subject to the restrictions provided by the laws of the United States and of the State of Illinois as to the United States flag or ensign, the design for which banner or flag had been approved by said commission and is as herein described.

§ 2. Said banner or pennant shall consist of three horizontal stripes in proper proportion as to length and width, the upper and the lower stripes being white in color and the middle stripe national blue in color. said stripes being of such dimensions that they will appear of equal width. At the staff end of the flag or emblem there shall be ten stars, blue in color in the upper white stripe, and ten stars, blue in color in the lower white stripe, each group of said ten stars being arranged in four rows as follows: Four blue stars in the first row near the staff end of the flag or emblem, three blue stars in the second row, two blue stars in the third row, and one blue star in the fourth or last row, in such a manner that four of said blue stars in each white stripe shall face the staff end and four of said blue stars shall also face the middle or blue stripe. In the center blue stripe, near the staff end of said blue stripe, and in a proper relative position between the two star fields on the two white stripes, there shall be one single white star of a larger size than the stars on the white stripes representing Illinois, the twenty-first State admitted to the Union.

§ 3. The Illinois centennial banner or flag as described in this Act hall be the official centennial flag or pennant used in the celebration f the one hundredth anniversary of the admission of Illinois into the 'ederal Union.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

RETURN OF SECOND TENNESSEE CAVALRY FLAG, C. S. A.

1. Custodian of Memorial Hall directed to return flag-committee to receive flag. (HOUSE BILL No. 842. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to authorize the return of the regimental flag of the Second Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A.

WHEREAS: The battle or regimental flag of the Second Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A., was captured by an Illinois regiment in August of the year 1864; and

WHEREAS: Said battle or regimental flag is now in Memorial Hall in the city of Sprinfield, Illinois; and

WHEREAS: It is customary to return flags and other trophies of the Civil War to their original donors or owners; therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the custodian of Memorial Hall in the said city of Springfield, is hereby authorized and directed to give, deliver and return the battle or regimental flag of the Second Tennessee Cavalry, C. S. A. to the chairman of a committee to be appointed. by the proper officer or officers of the Tennessee division of the United Confederate Veterans, Nashville, Tennessee, for the purpose of receiving such battle or regimental flag from the custodian of said Memorial Hall. APPROVED June 26, 1917.

FORESTRY.

FOREST PRESERVE DISTRICTS-ACT OF 1913 AMENDED.

1. Amends Act of 1913, by adding section 8a.

8a. Appointment of
force powers.

police

(SENATE BILL No. 572. APPROVED JUNE 22, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled[,]: "An Act to provide for the creation and management of forest preserve districts and repealing certain Acts therein named," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, by adding thereto a new section, to be known as section 8a.

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 provide for the creation and management of forest preserve districts and repealing certain Acts therein named," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section Sa, to read as follows:

§ 8a. The board of commissioners shall have the right and power to appoint and maintain a sufficient police force, the members of which may have and exercise police powers over the territory within such forest