placed, received or kept in any cold storage warehouse unless previously marked, in accordance with forms to be prescribed by the Department of Agriculture, in such a way as to indicate plainly the fact that such article of food is not to be sold or used for human food.

§ 7. No person, firm or corporation shall place, receive or keep in any cold storage warehouse in this State articles of food unless the same shall be plainly marked, stamped or tagged, either upon the container in which they are packed, or upon the article of food itself, with the date when placed therein; and no person, firm or corporation shall remove, or allow to be removed, such article of food from any cold storage warehouse unless the same shall be plainly marked, stamped or tagged. either on the container in which it is enclosed or upon the article of food itself, with the date of such removal, and such marks, stamps and tags shall be prima facie evidence of such receipt and removal and of the dates thereof. All articles of food in any cold storage warehouse at the time this Act goes into effect shall, before being removed therefrom, be plainly marked, stamped or tagged with the date when this Act goes into effect and the date of removal therefrom.

§ 8. No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter keep or permit to remain in any cold storage warehouse any article of food which has been held in cold storage either within or without the State, for a longer aggregate period than twelve months, except with the approval of the Director of the Department of Agriculture as hereinafter provided. The Director of the Department of Agriculture may, from time to time. upon application in writing, extend the period of storage beyond twelve months for any particular article of food, provided the same is found upon examination by the Department of Agriculture to be in wholesome condition for further cold storage. The length of time for which such further storage is allowed shall be specified in the order granting the extension. A report on each case in which such extension of storage may be permitted, including information relating to the reason for the action of the said Director, the kinds and amounts of the articles of food for which the storage period was extended, and length of time for which this extension was granted, shall be filed, open to public inspection, in the office of said Director. The Director of Agriculture shall have power to order any article of food held in cold storage to be removed therefrom before the expiration of the first period of twelve months or before the expiration of any period of extension granted by him for any of the following reasons:

(1) That the storage of the article of food bevond the time fixed by the Director of the Department of Agriculture in his order of remova' will render such article of food unwholesome;

(2) That the person, firm or corporation storing such article of food has entered into a contract, agreement or understanding for the purpose or with the intent of fictitiously increasing the price of such article of food;

(3) That the storage of such article of food is for the purpose of with the intent of fictitiously increasing the price thereof;

(4) That the storage of such article of food tends to create a moropoly.

(5) That the stortge of such article of food tends to restrain or prevent competition in this State in the supply or price of such article. Before such article of food shall be ordered removed from storage, the Director of Agriculture shall give at least five days notice in writing of his intention to make such order, and shall accord the person, firm or corporation receiving such notice a full hearing thereon.

§ 9. It shall be unlawful to sell, or to offer for sale, any article of food which has been held for a period of thirty days or over in cold. storage either within or without the State, without notifying persons purchasing, or intending to purchase, the same, that it has been so held, by the display of a placard plainly and conspicuously marked, "Cold Storage Goods," on the bulk mass or articles of food; and it shall be unlawful to represent or advertise as fresh any article of food which has been held in cold storage for a period of thirty days or over.

§ 10. It shall be unlawful to return to any cold storage warehouse any article of food which has been once released from storage for the purpose of placing it on the market for sale. It shall be unlawful to transfer any article of food from one cold storage warehouse to another if such transfer is made for the purpose of avoiding any provision of this Act, and such transfer shall be unlawful unless all prior stampings, markings and taggings upon such article shall remain thereon.

§ 11. The Department of Agriculture may make all necessary rules and regulations to carry this Act into effect. Such rules shall be filed in the Director's office, and shall not take effect until five (5) days after such filing.

§ 12. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished for the first offense by a fine not exceeding one hundred ($100) and for the second or any subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding five hundred ($500) or by imprisonment of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

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

enact it.

§14. This Act may be cited as the Uniform Cold Storage Act. $15. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act hereby repealed.

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.

RECORDERS.

DUTIES AND FEES OF RECORDER.

§ 1. Amends section 9, Act of 1874.

§ 9. As amended, prescribes duties of recorder- ofice hours-fees.

(SENATE BILL NO. 336. APPROVED JUNE 21, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section nine (9) of an Act entitled "An Act to revise the law in relation to recorders," approved March 9, 1874, and in force July 1, 1874, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act to amend section nine (9) of an Act entitled, 'An Act to revise the law in relation to recorders,' approved March 9, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, and Acts amendatory thereof," approved May 16, 1905, and in force July 1,

1905.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section nine (9) of an Aet entitled "An Act to revise the law in relation to recorders," approved March 9, 1874, and in force July 1, 1874, as amended by an Act entitled "An Act to amend section nine (9) of an Act entitled, 'An Act to revise the law in relation to recorders,' approved March 9, 1874, in force Ju 1, 1874, and Acts amendatory thereof," approved May 16, 1905, and in force July 1, 1905, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 9. Every recorder shall, as soon as practicable after the filing of any instrument in writing in his office, entitled to be recorded, record the same at length, in the order of time of its reception, in well bourd books to be provided for that purpose: Provided, that separate books may be kept for the recording of different classes of instruments.

Every recorder shall keep his office at the courthouse of the county for which he is recorder, and shall keep his office open and attend to the duties thereof from eight o'clock in the forenoon to five o'clock in the afternoon of each working day, excepting such days and half days as under any law are or may be legal holidays or half holidays, in any part of his said county, as regards the presenting for payment, accept ance, maturity, protesting, or giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks, promissory notes, or other negotiable or commer cial paper or instruments.

The recorder of deeds elected as provided for in this Act, shall receive such fees as are or may be provided for him by law, in case of provision therefor; otherwise he shall receive the same fees as are or may be provided by law to be paid to the circuit clerk and er officie recorder for like services.

APPROVED June 21, 1917.

REVENUE.

BOARD OF REVIEW-CLERK IN CERTAIN COUNTIES.

§ 1. Amends section 30, Act of 1898.

§ 30. Appointment of-vacancyhow filled-compensation -clerk.

(HOUSE BILL No. 916. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 30 of an Act entitled, "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named, approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898, as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1907, in force July 1, 1907.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 30 of an Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named, approved February 25, 1898, in force July 1, 1898, as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 30. APPOINTMENT OF-VACANCY-HOW FILLED COMPENSATION -CLERK.] In counties under township organization of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand (125,000) inhabitants there shall be a board of review to review the assessments made by the county supervisor of assessments. The chairman of the board of supervisors shall be ex officio chairman of the board of review, and there shall be two (2) additional members of said board of review, who shall be appointed in the manner following: On or before June 1st, 1918, the county judge shall appoint one (1) citizen of the county to serve as a member of the board of review of the county for one (1) year from the date of his appointment, and one (1) citizen of the county to serve as a member of the board of review for two (2) years from the date of his appointment. Each year thereafter, beginning with June 1st, 1919, as the term of one of the members of said board of review expires, the county judge shall appoint one (1) citizen of the county to serve as a member of the board of review for two (2) years from the date of his appointment. Should a member of the board of review die, resign, or be removed, the county judge shall appoint a citizen of the county to fill the unexpired term of such member. The board of review shall at all times, consist of two (2) members affiliated with the political party polling the highest vote, and one (1) member of the party polling the second highest vote at the general election in the county prior to the time any appointment is made by virtue of this section. The members of the board of review shall receive as compensation the sum per day for each day of service as shall be fixed by the county board, their time of service to be made out in due form with day and date, and sworn to by the members thereof. Provided further, that in counties of less than one hundred twenty-five thousand (125,000) inhabitants, the members of the board of review by a majority vote each year, may select some suitable person to act as clerk of said board of review, and such clerk shall receive as compensation, the sum per day for each day of service

as shall be fixed by the county board: The time of service of such clerk to be made out in due form, with day and date, and sworn to by such clerk.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

COLLECTION OF TAXES.

§ 1. Amends sections 155 and 243, Act of 1872.

§ 243. Payment to local atthorities.

§ 155. How collection made.

(HOUSE BILL No. 753. FILED JUNE 28, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act for the assessment of prop erty and for the levy and collection of taxes," approved March 30, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, by amending sections 155 and 243 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 for the assessment of property and for the levy and collection of taxes," approved March 30, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended, by amending sections 155 and 243 thereof to read as follows:

§ 155. Every town collector, and every county collector, in cases where there is no town collector, upon receiving the tax book or tax books, shall proceed to collect the taxes therein mentioned: Provided, that it shall be the duty of such collector to give notice in a newspaper published in the county, if any such newspaper there be, stating when and where he will be prepared to receive such taxes, at one or more places in each township, which said notice shall be published at the first publication of such newspaper after the delivery to such collector of the tax book or tax books and immediately upon the receipt of such tax book or tax books the said collector shall cause to be posted in one or more of the most public places in each township, in counties under township organization and in each precinct in counties not under township organization. a like notice, and the publication of such notice in said newspaper and the posting thereof as provided herein shall be deemed a sufficient demand for said taxes.

§ 243. The county collector shall on the first day of April and the first day of each and every month thereafter, pay over to the other proper authorities or persons the amounts in his hands and payable to them as taxes, not theretofore paid over: Provided, that in counties under township organization, where no town collectors are elected, no fees or commissions shall be deducted by the county collector from taxes collected by him and heretofore authorized to be collected by town collectors, and all such taxes collected shall be paid over in full to the proper authorities or persons authorized by law to receive the same.

Any county collector who shall fail to pay over the amount of taxes due and payable, at the time or times required by this section, shall be subject as a penalty for such failure to pay a sum of money equal to the interest on such amount at the rate of one-tenth of one (1) per cent