and unobstructed navigation of any of the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois, and if they find that such complaint is well founded they shall take such appropriate action as may be required to prevent such wrongful interference with such navigation.

§ 10. It shall also be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to investigate any and all complaints within the State of Illinois that any person, company, association or corporation is attempting to assert any unlawful rights or exclusive privileges or franchises with reference to docks, landings, wharves, or the free and unobstructed access to, or egress from any navigable body of water in the State of Illinois, and if they find upon investigation that any such complaint is well founded, they shall proceed upon behalf of the State of Illinois to take such action as may be necessary to correct the wrongful act or evil so complained of.

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the Rivers and Lakes Commission of Illinois to obtain all possible data, surveys, charts, high and low water marks, and river gauges, and information with reference to the navigability of any of the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois, and to keep the same at all times available for public inspection, and to aid in extending the navigation of any of the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois. Any such information shall be furnished at its actual cost at any time to any person so desiring the same. Certified copies of such data shall be received in court as evidence of the facts thereby shown.

§ 12. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to procure and collect all obtainable data with reference to deep waterways within the State of Illinois, and from time to time disseminate information with reference thereto, and to take such action as will permit and encourage every available use of the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois, for navigation and carrying trade, both of commerce and passenger.

§ 13. It shall be the duty of said commission to make a careful investigation of each and every body of water, both river and lake, in the State of Illinois, and to ascertain to what extent, if at all, the same have been encroached upon by private interests or individuals, and wherever they believe that the same have been so encroached upon, to commence appropriate action either to recover full compensation for such wrongful encroachment, or to recover the use of the same, or of any lands improperly or unlawfully made in connection with any public river or lake for the use of the People of the State of Illinois. The right and authority hereby given and created shall not be held to be exclusive, or to take from the Attorney General or any other law officer of the State of Illinois, the right to commence suit or action.

§ 14. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to see that all of the streams and lakes of the State of Illinois wherein the State of Illinois or any of its citizens has any right, or interest, are not polluted or defiled by the deposit or addition of any injurious sub

stances, and that the same are not affected injuriously by the discharging therein of any foul or injurious substances, so that fish or other aquatic life is destroyed.

Nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the sanitary district or any other lawfully organized drainage district, from discharging its drainage into any of the rivers of the State of Illinois, under authority conferred upon it or them so to do by the Legislature of this State.

§ 15. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to obtain and preserve in its office, all obtainable data with reference to the rivers and lakes of Illinois, and to make such office a repository thereof, and all of such records and data shall be public and be available for the use of any person who may be interested therein; and certified copies thereof shall be received in court as evidence of the facts therein set forth.

§ 16. It shall be the duty of the Rivers and Lakes Commission to plan and devise methods, ways and means for the preservation and beautifying of the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois, and for making the same more available for the use of the public, and they shall from time to time report their findings and conclusions to the Governor and the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, and shall from time to time submit to the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, drafts of such measures as they may deem necessary to be adopted by the Legislature of this State for the accomplishment of such purpose, or for the protection of such bodies of water.

$ 17. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to furnish at its actual cost to any person or persons who may be desirous of reclaiming, draining or cultivating any wash or overflowed lands in connection with any of the public waters of the State of Illinois, any and all data which they may have in their possession, showing surveys, elevations, contours, cost of construction of levees, plans therefor, and information with reference thereto, and shall so fully as may be, advise with, aid and assist in any and all enterprises looking towards the reclamation or drainage of lands wherever in their judgment the same may be attempted without detriment to the interests of the State of Illinois, or the public, in any of said bodies of water.

$ 18. It shall be the duty of any and all persons desiring to make any improvements, or erect any work or structure in any of the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois, to submit the same to the Rivers and Lakes Commission for their approval before being authorized to construct such improvement, work or structure, and it shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to protest to the War Department of the United States government against granting any permits for the construction of any improvement or work in connection with the navigation of any navigable body of water in the State of Illinois, where they believe that the granting of such permission would prove injurious to the rights and interests of the people of the State of Illinois.

§ 19. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to from time to time prepare and devise schemes, plans, ways and means for the reservation by the State of desirable tracts of land in connection with the public waters of the State of Illinois, to the end that public reservations or preserves may be made along said public bodies. of water for the use of all of the people of the State of Illinois, for pleasure, recreation and sport, and to recommend to the Legislature, from time to time, such measures as in their judgment will make effective the plan for the creation of such public reservations, and as such reservations of [or] preserves made may be made from time to time, the same shall be under the jurisdiction of the Rivers and Lakes Commission.

§ 20. It shall be the duty of said commission to obtain data and information as to the availability of the various streams of Illinois for water power, and to preserve all data obtainable in connection therewith, and to report to the Governor and the General Assembly of the State such facts as to the amount of water power which can be so developed, from time to time, as in their judgment should be communicated, looking to the preservation of the rights of the State of Illinois in the water power and navigation of this State.

§ 21. It shall be the duty of said commission to make particular research into the natural resources of the State of Illinois in connection with any of the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois, and to obtain, classify and preserve all data which may be procurable in connection therewith, and from time to time disseminate for the information of the People of the State of Illinois, by way of bulletins or publications, such information as they may be able to thus obtain.

§ 22. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to obtain from time to time all possible data with reference to the navigability of the public waters of the State of Illinois, and with reference to the cultivation and propagation of fish and to that end they shall coöperate with the Fish Commission of the State of Illinois, to devise ways and plans and means for the purpose of making the public bodies of water of the State of Illinois more effective for the production of a cheap food supply in the way of various fish which may be cultivated or propagated in these bodies of water.

§ 23. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to make a careful investigation of the streams of the State of Illinois with reference to the carrying capacity of the streams in times of flood, and under normal conditions. It shall also be its duty to vigilantly observe that the carrying capacity of the streams is not limited and impaired · by encroachments thereon to the point where the same cannot safely dispose of the flood waters which may naturally, lawfully and properly be discharged therein, and if encroachment is made thereon to the degree that such encroachments constitute a menace to the property or safety of the people of this State by reason of checking the flood waters of said streams, to take such action as may be required by injunction, or otherwise, to prevent the erection of such encroachments or structures.

§ 24. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission to carefully examine the shore lines of Lake Michigan and the Chicago river, not less than four times in each year, for the purpose of seeing that encroachments are not made upon these bodies of water, and for the purpose of seeing and determining whether or not land is being made that does not encroach upon said lake or said river. And it shall be the duty of said commission at all times to see that the waters of Lake Michigan and the Chicago river are in no way invaded or trespassed upon by the erection of any structure or structures which may not be expressly authorized by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois.

§ 25. The Attorney General of the State of Illinois, or any State's attorney of any county of the State of Illinois, or any attorney who may be authorized so to do by the said Rivers and Lakes Commission, shall have the power to represent the said Rivers and Lakes Commission, and in the name and by the authority of the State of Illinois, to invoke for the purposes specified in this Act, all of the power of the State of Illinois to prevent the wrongs and injuries herein referred to, and for that purpose, such Attorney General, State's attorney or authorized attorney shall be deemed to be the proper representative of the State of. Illinois, with full power and authority upon its behalf to prosecute all necessary suits or actions.

§ 26. Said Rivers and Lakes Commission shall, for the purpose of protecting the rights and interests of the State of Illinois, or the citizens of the State of Illinois, have full and complete jurisdiction of every public body of water in the State of Illinois, subject only to the paramount authority of the government of the United States with reference to the navigation of such stream or streams, and the laws of Illinois, but nothing in this Act contained shall be construed or held to be any impairment whatsoever of the rights of the citizens of the State of Illinois to fully and in a proper manner, enjoy the use of any and all of the public waters of the State of Illinois, and the creation of said commission shall be deemed to be for the purpose of protecting the rights of the people of the State in the full and free enjoyment of all of such bodies of water, and for the purpose of preventing unlawful and improper encroachment upon the same, or impairment of the rights of the people with reference thereto, and every proper use which the people may make of the public rivers and streams and lakes of the State of Illinois shall be aided, assisted, encouraged and protected by the Rivers and Lakes Commission herein provided for.

And should said commission, or any member thereof, attempt to interfere with any valid right upon the part of the people of this State, any appropriate action shall lie against said Rivers and Lakes Commission or any member thereof, to inquire into the legality and validity of such Act.

§ 27. At all times this Act shall be construed in a liberal manner for the purpose of preserving to the State of Illinois and the People of the State, fully and unimpaired, the rights which the State of Illinois and the People of the State of Illinois may have in any of the public waters of the State of Illinois, and to give them in connection therewith, the fullest possible enjoyment thereof, and to prevent to the fullest extent, the slightest improper encroachment or invasion upon the rights of the State of Illinois, or any of its citizens with reference thereto.

§ 28. Any and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

(SENATE BILL No. 437. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to the conveyance, use and preservation of burial lots in cemeteries," approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, by adding thereto a new seetion to be known as section 2.

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 relation to the conveyance, use and preservation of burial lots in cemeteries," approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section, to be known as section 2:

§ 2. That every such company or association incorporated for cemetery purposes under any general or special law of the State of Illinois may receive, by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, moneys or real or personal property, or the income or avails of such moneys or property, in trust, in perpetuity, for the perpetual and permanent improvement, maintenance, ornamentation, repair, care and preservation of any burial lot or grave, vault, tomb, or other such structures, in any cemetery owned or controlled by such cemetery company or association, upon such terms and in such manner as may be provided by the terms of such gift, devise, bequest, or other conveyance of such moneys or property in trust and assented to by such company or association, and subject to the rules and regulations of such company or association, and every such company or association owning or controlling any such cemetery may make contracts with the owner or owners or legal representatives of any lot, grave, vault, tomb, or other such structure in such cemetery,