preserves

for the preservation of the public peace, and the observance and enforcement of the ordinances and laws, such as are conferred upon and exercised by the police of organized cities and villages; but such police force, when acting within the limits of any city or village, shall act in aid of the regular police force of such city or village and shall then be subject to the direction of its chief of police, city or village marshals, or

other head thereof.

APPROVED June 22, 1917.

(HOUSE BILL No. 192. APPROVED MARCH 14, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend sections five (5) and nine (9) of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the election and appointment of officers and employees of the General Assembly of the State and fix their compensa tion and to repeal certain Acts therein named,["] approved and in force May 25, 1911.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections five (5) and nine (9) of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the election and appointments of officers and employees of the General Assembly of the State and f their compensation and to repeal certain Acts therein named," approved and in force May 25, 1911, be and the same are hereby amended to read

as follows:

§ 5. The Senate shall appoint a messenger; and the house shall appoint a messenger and the Senate and House of Representatives shall appoint six (6) janitors in the Senate and two (2) cloak room men and eight (8) janitors in the House and four (4) cloak room men, three (3) policemen and ten (10) pages in the Senate and six (6) policemen and eighteen (18) pages in the House of Representatives; and eight (8) stenographers in the Senate and sixteen (16) stenographers in the House of Representatives; and the House shall appoint one press messenger. The Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate shall appoint a mail-carrier at the same per diem as policemen, to have charge of, and be responsible for the transmission of the mail matter for either branch of the General Assembly to and from the postoffice of the city, and the State House, and also a chaplain for each branch of the General As sembly at a per diem of three ($3) dollars: Provided, that to the list of employees designated in this section there shall be allowed no addi tions whatever, except by a two-thirds (2/3) vote on roll call of the total membership in either house.

§ 9. The enrolling and engrossing clerks of the Senate and House, and the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate and door-keeper of the House shall each be paid five ($5) dollars per day each; the postmaster of the Senate and the postmaster of the House, and the assistant enrolling and engrossing clerks of the Senate and of the House shall each be paid four ($1) dollars per day; the assistant postmaster of the Senate, the assistant postmaster of the House, the assistant sergeants of the Senate and the assistant door-keepers of the House and the clerks of the various committees and the stenographers of the Senate and House shall each be paid three ($3) dollars per day. The private secretaries of the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House shall be paid the sum of four ($4) dollars per day; their respective stenographers four ($4) dollars per day; their messengers and janitors, three ($3) dollars per day. Policemen employed by either branch of the General Assembly shall be paid three ($3) dollars per day. The pages employed by either branch of the General Assembly shall be paid the sum of one and onehalf ($1.50) dollars per day; the janitors employed in the Senate and House of Representatives shall be paid three ($3.00) dollars per day; the cloak room men employed in the Senate and House of Representatives shall be paid three ($3.00) dollars per day each. The Senate law secretary shall be paid ten ($10) dollars per day and the legal secretary of the Speaker shall be paid ten ($10) dollars per day; the messenger of the Senate and the messenger of the House shall each be paid six ($6) dollars per day. The press messenger in the House shall be paid four ($4) dollars per day.

§ 2. WHEREAS, an emergency exists; therefore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. APPROVED March 14, 1917.

GUARDIANS AND WARDS.

TRANSFER OF GUARDIANSHIP.

1. Amends Act of 1872, by adding section 39a.

§ 39a. Provides for transfer of guardianship in certain cases.

(HOUSE BILL No. 879. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act in regard to guardians and wards," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 39a. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act in regard to guardians and wards," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 39a, to read as

follows:

$39a. Whenever it shall appear to the court granting letters of guardianship, that the guardian or the ward, or the corpus of the estate, or a major portion thereof is removed from the county into another county in this State, and that it would be for the best interest of the

ward or his estate that the estate be administered in the county to which such guardian, ward or estate is removed, the court shall have power by an order entered therein, to transfer such guardianship to such other county, and to order or authorize the issuance of certified copies of all petitions, applications, reports and orders in the estate: Provided however, that such order shall not be entered until it shall appear to the court having original jurisdiction that a guardian has been duly ap pointed and qualified in such other county. Upon the filing of such order in the court to which the estate is transferred, such court shall enter such estate upon its docket and upon the filing of satisfactory bond issue letters of guardianship and thereafter administer the estate as if letters originally issued from such court. Copies of the files in any such case certified by the clerk of the court in which the same were filed shall have the same force and effect as if originally filed in the court to which an estate is transferred as provided herein.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

HOUSES OF CORRECTION.

COMMITMENT.

§ 1. Amends section 9, Act of 1871.

§ 9. Commitment of convicts modified or vacated.

(SENATE BILL No. 386. APPROVED JUNE 22, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to establish houses of correction and authorize the confinement of convicted approved April 25, 1871, in force July 1, 1871, as amended, by amending section 9 thereof.

persons

therein." subsequently

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 establish houses of correction and authorize the confinement of convicted persons therein," approved April 25, 1871, in force July 1, 1871, as subsequently amended, be and is hereby amended, by amending section thereof, to read as follows:

any such city, it shall be the duty of every court, police justice, justice § 9. In counties, towns and villages having such agreement with of the peace, or other magistrate in such county, town or village, by whom any person, for any crime or misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, shall be convicted, to commit such person to the said house of correction in lieu of committing him to the county jail, villag or town calaboose, there to be received and kept in the manner prescribed by law and the discipline in the said house of correction; and it shall be the duty of such court, police justice, justice of the peace or other magistrate, by warrant of commitment duly issued, to cause such persons so sentenced to be forthwith conveyed by some proper officer to said house of correction. Every sentence to such house of correction shall be com mutable within the first thirty (30) days thereof and the order of commitment may be modified or vacated by the court or judge entering the same at any time with [within] thirty days after the entry thereof. APPROVED June 22, 1917.

EMPLOYEES PENSION FUND.

§ 1. Amends section 1, of Act of 1911, provides for funds and regulates the time of payment of assessments.

(SENATE BILL NO. 472. FILED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section one of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a House of Correction Employees' Pension Fund in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants," approved June 10, 1911, and in force July

1, 1911.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 1 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a House of Correction Employees' Pension Fund in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants," approved June 10, 1911, and in force July 1, 1911, and as subsequently amended, be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows:

That the board of inspectors of the various houses of correction organized under an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled, "An Act to establish houses of correction and authorize the confinement of convicted persons therein," approved April 25th, 1871, and maintained thereunder in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants, shall have power, and it shall be its duty to create a House of Correction Employee's Pension Fund, which shall consist of two (2) per cent of the salary or wages of the employees, deducted in equal monthly installments from such salaries or wages at the regular time or times of the payment thereof, and three (3) per cent of the gross earnings of the house of correction and three (3) per cent of the fines and costs collected for violation of city ordinances where the persons convicted of such violations have been incarcerated in the house of correction for the non-payment of such fines and costs, both of which last payments shall be for a period of three years, beginning with the year 1917.

FILED June 26, 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-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

FARM COLONIES.

§ 1. Amends title of Act of 1872.

§ 1. Cities may establish-farm colonies.

§ 2. Amends section 1 of said Act.

(HOUSE BILL No. 899. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to establish houses of correction, and authorize the confinement of convicted persons therein," approved April 25, 1871, in force July 1, 1871, as amended.

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 establish houses of correction, and authorize the confinement of convicted persons therein," approved April 25, 1871, in force July 1, 1871, as amended, be and the same is hereby further amended by amending the title of said Act so that it shall read as follows:

"An Act to authorize cities to establish houses of correction and farm colonies within the corporate limits and outside of the corporate limits within the same county and authorize the confinement of convicted persons therein."

§ 2. That the said Act as amended be and the same is hereby further amended by amending section 1 of said Act, so that it shall read as follows:

§ 1. That it shall be lawful for the municipal authorities of any city within this State to establish a house of correction, which shall be used for the confinement and punishment of criminals, or persons sentenced or committed thereto under the provisions of this Act, or any law of this State, or ordinance of any city or village authorizing the confinement of convicted persons in any such house of correction.

It shall also be lawful for the municipal authorities of any city within this State to purchase or otherwise acquire, own or control so much land within the incorporated limits of such city or outside and within the same county as such city may require, for the purpose of establishing thereon such house of correction and other buildings or appurte nances thereto, and for the purpose of establishing in connection therewith a farm colony. Any farm colony so established in connection with a house of correction shall also be used for the confinement and punishment of criminals or persons sentenced or committed thereto under the provisions of this Act, or any law of this State, or ordinance of any city or village, authorizing the confinement of convicted persons in any such house of correction or farm colony.

And when such land is purchased or acquired and house of correction or farm colony established by any such city outside of the corporate limits thereof, such city and the municipal authorities thereof shall have full and complete police powers, for the purpose of control and management of same and of the persons confined therein, over such lands and territory surrounding the same and highways leading thereto from such city as is now conferred by law upon incorporated cities, towns and villages within this State over territory lying within the corporate limits thereof.

APPROVED June 26, 1917.

INJUNCTIONS.

ENJOINING DISBURSEMENT PUBLIC MONEYS.

§ 1. Suit to enjoin disbursement of public funds to be maintained by Attorney General or by citizen and taxpayer.

§ 2. Same as section 1.

§ 4. Taxpayer to file petition for leave to file a bill in equity.

§ 5. Summons to be issued upon filing information or bill in equity.

§ 6. Appeals.

§ 7. Act applicable to pending suits. APPROVED JUNE 21, 1917.)

AN ACT in relation to suits to restrain and enjoin the disbursement of public moneys by officers of the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: A suit in equity to restrain and