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for the perpetual and permanent improvement, maintenance, ornamentation, care, preservation and repair of any such lot, grave, vault, tomb, or other such structure in such cemetery owned or controlled by such cemetery company or association.

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AN ACT to amend section four (4) of an Act entitled, “An Act to proride for the organization, ownership, management and control of cemetery associations,” approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 4 of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the organization, ownership, management and control of cemetery associations," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 4. That said persons so receiving said certificate of organization of said association shall proceed to elect from their own number a board of trustees for said association, which said board shall consist of not less than six (6) nor more than ten (10) members, as said persons so receiving said certificate may determine; that said trustees when elected shall immediately organize by electing from their own membership a president, vice president and treasurer, and shall also elect a secretary, who may or may not be a member of said board of trustees, in their discretion, which said officers shall hold their respective offices for and during the period of one (1) year, and until their successors are duly elected and qualified. Said trustees when so elected shall divide themselves by lot into two classes, the first of which shall hold their offices for and during the period of three (3) years, and the second of which shall hold their offices for and during the period of [six] (6) years, and that thereafter the term of office of said trustees shall be six (6) years, and that upon the expiration of the term of office of any of said trustees, or in case of the resignation or death or removel from the State of Illinois of any of said trustees, or their removal from office as provided in this Act, the remaining trustees, or a majority of them, shall notify the county judge in which said cemetery is situated, of such vacancy or vacancies in writing and thereupon said county judge shall appoint Some suitable person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies; and that thereafter the county judge of the county in which said cemetery association is located shall always appoint some suitable person or persons as trustees: Provided, however, that in making such appointments the said county judge shall so exercise his power that at least twothirds (2-3) of said trustees shall be selected from suitable persons residing within fifteen (15) miles of said cemetery, or some part thereof,

and the other appointees may be suitable persons interested in said cemetery association through family interments or otherwise who are citizens of the State of Illinois.

APPROVED May 25, 1911.

CHARITIES.

§ 1.

BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION-POWER OF EMINENT DOMAIN.

Board of Administration given power to exercise right of eminent domain. (HOUSE BILL No. 9. APPROVED MAY 27, 1911.)

AN ACT conferring upon the Board of Administration of the State of Illinois the power to condemn and take real estate as therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Board of Administration, created a body corporate under and by the name of "The Board of Administration" by virtue of an Act entitled "An Act to revise the laws relating to charities and making an appropriation to carry out the provisions thereof," approved June 15, 1909, part of act in force July 1, 1909, and part in force January 1, 1910, be and the same is hereby empowered to acquire title to any real estate for which it shall be unable to agree with the owner for the purchase thereof and which may be required for the use of any of the State Charitable Institutions of which said board has control and management, in the manner that may be now or hereafter provided for by an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and any Act or Acts amendatory thereto. APPROVED May 27, 1911.

BOARD OF ADMINISTRATION-SUPERVISING ENGINEER.

§ 1. Appointment by Board of Administration-compensation.

(HOUSE BILL No. 658. APPROVED JUNE 10, 1911.)

AN ACT creating the office of Supervising Engineer for the General Assembly, its members and committees and the Board of Administration of the State of Illinois, and fixing his compensation.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and is hereby created the office of Supervising Engineer whose duties shall be to consult with and advise the General Assembly, its members and committees and the Board of Administration in all matters required in the construction, repair, equipment and economical management of the State institutions, and to prepare such drawings, plans, specification and estimates for the foregoing purposes as may be required. Said Supervising Engineer shall be appointed and subject to removal by the Board of Administra

tion in like manner as the superintendents or managing officers of the State charitable institutions are now appointed or removed and shall not be included in the classified service of the State. The compensation of said Supervising Engineer shall be and is hereby fixed at four thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum to be paid out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to issue warrants for such compensation and the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to pay the same out of any such money not otherwise appropriated. Said engineer shall devote his entire time to the duties of his position and shall hold no other lucrative office nor follow any gainful profession, occupation or employment, and shall reside at the State Capital, and shall be allowed his actual traveling expenses incurred in official business to be paid on bills approved by the Board of Administration out of any funds appropriated for said board.

APPROVED June 10, 1911.

CHILDREN IN FAMILY HOMES-STATE AGENT.

1. Amends section 3, Act of 1905.

§ 3. As amended, changes salary of State Agent.

(HOUSE BILL No. 27. APPROVED MAY 27, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section 3 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the visitation of children in family homes," approved May 13, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, as amended by an Act approved May 25, 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 3 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the visitation of children placed in family homes," approved May 13, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, as amended by an Act approved May 25, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be and -the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Public Charities to appoint a State Agent who shall receive a salary of $2,000.00 per annum, in addition to his actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties; and to appoint such number of visitors, not exceeding four, and pay such compensation for such visitors as shall be approved by the Governor, such compensation to be paid in addition to the actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by said visitors in performance of their official duties. These visitors shall be discreet men and women selected with special view to their wisdom and fitness for visiting children and shall be appointed by civil service procedure and shall be subject to the provisions of the State civil service law. The State Board of Charities is also hereby authorized and empowered to appoint such other employés as are necessary

to perform the clerical work and other office work of the State Agent and to pay said employés from the incidental expense appropriation made for the department for the visitation of children.

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act relating to children who are now or may hereafter become dependent, neglected or delinquent, to define these terms, and to provide for the treatment, control, maintenance, adoption and guardianship of the person of such children,” approved June 4, 1907.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 7 of the Act entitled "An Act relating to children who are now or may hereafter become dependent, neglected or delinquent, to define these terms and to provide for the treatment, control, maintenance, adoption and guardianship of the person of such children," approved June 4, 1907, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 7. If the court shall find any male child under the age of seventeen years or any female child under the age of eighteen years to be dependent or neglected within the meaning of this Act, the court may allow such child to remain at its own home subject to the friendly visitation of a probation officer, and if the parent, parents, guardian or custodian consent thereto, or if the court shall further find that the parent, parents, guardian or custodian of such child are unfit or improper guardians or are unable or unwilling to care for, protect, train, educate or discipline such child, and that it is for the interest of such child and the people of this State that such child be taken from the custody of its parents, custodian or guardian, the court may make an order appointing as guardian of the person of such child, some reputable citizen of good moral character and order such guardian to place such child in some suitable family home or other suitable place, which such guardian may provide for such child or the court may enter an order committing such child to some suitable State institution, organized for the care of dependent or neglected children, or to some training school or industrial school or to some association embracing in its objects the purpose of caring for or obtaining homes for neglected or dependent children, which association shall have been accredited as hereinafter provided.

If the parent or parents of such dependent or neglected child are poor and unable to properly care for the said child, but are otherwise proper guardians and it is for the welfare of such child to remain at home, the court may enter an order finding such facts and fixing the

amount of money necessary to enable the parent or parents to properly care for such child, and thereupon it shall be the duty of the county board, through its county agent or otherwise, to pay to such parent or parents, at such times as said order may designate the amount so specified for the care of such dependent or neglected child until the further order of the court.

APPROVED June 5, 1911.

SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME—ADMISSION AND TRANSFER OF WIFE.

§ 1. Amends sections 3a and 3d, Act of

1885.

§ 3a. Rules for admission of

wife.

§ 3d. Death of husband-wife may remain or be transferred.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 283. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend sections 3a and 3d of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in the State of Illinois and making an appropriation for the purchase of land and the construction of the necessary buildings," approved June 26, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as added by an Act approved May 13, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, and as amended as to said Section 3a by an Act approved May 25, 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 sections 3a and 3d of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in the State of Illinois and making an appropriation for the purchase of land and the construction of the necessary buildings,” approved June 26, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as added by an Act approved May 13, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, and as amended as to said section 3a by an Act approved May 25, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 3a. When any person who has been a soldier or a sailor is an inmate or becomes an inmate of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quincy, the wife of such soldier or sailor shall be admitted as an inmate of said home subject to the rules and regulations of said home governing the admission of applicants: Provided, said wife and soldier or sailor were married prior to January 1, 1890, or said wife before her present marriage and prior to January 1, 1890, had been previously married to a soldier or sailor of the War of the Rebellion, the Mexican war or the Spanish-American war: And, provided, further, said wife shall be of the age of fifty years or over.

§ 3d. Upon the death of any soldier or sailor who is or may be an inmate of said home, the widow of such soldier or sailor shall be transferred to and be received into the Soldiers' Widows' Home at Wilmington, if she so desires, or, if she so desires, she may thereafter, during her natural life remain in said Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, subject to the rules and regulations of said home.

APPROVED June 5, 1911.

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