(HOUSE BILL No. 630. APPROVED JUNE 7, 1911.)

AN ACT providing for the locating, constructing and completing of a State hospital for the insane and providing for the creation thereof. WHEREAS, The total population of all the hospitals for insane in Illinois now aggregates twelve thousand (12,000) persons; and,

WHEREAS, All these institutions are now overcrowded far beyond reasonable proportions, many patients are sleeping upon beds and cots upon the floors and others are occupying dormitories that are too small for the number; and,

WHEREAS, The net gain in insane alone each year is from 400 to 500;

and,

WHEREAS, In recent years the new building at the State institutions for the insane has not increased as fast as the population; and,

WHEREAS, The State has inaugurated the policy of removing all adjudged insane from the county almshouses and caring for them in State hospitals free from expense of every sort to the county; and,

WHEREAS, The authorities over these existing State hospitals for the insane are now at the end of their resources to care for, humanely and adequately, the great army of new insane, who demand treatment and custody; therefore,

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 and established a State hospital for the insane to be known by such name as shall hereafter be given as its designation by the State Board of Administration. The said hospital shall be located upon grounds to be selected by said Board of Administration as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of said board to so locate said hospital in the most favorable situation in the State to properly care for the insane not now adequately provided for and for such number of insane patients as may require in the future.

2. The Board of Administration is hereby authorized and directed to acquire a proper site for the location of said hospital of not less than one thousand (1,000) acres of tillable farm lands convenient or adjacent to said site. If said board shall be unable to acquire said site and lands or any part thereof by agreement with the owner or owners for the purchase of the same for the purposes enumerated in this Act, the said Board of Administration may thereupon proceed to acquire such lands and the title thereto 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 and all Act or Acts amendatory thereto.

Eighth-To appoint a clerk and define his duties.

Ninth To make all necessary rules and regulations for its guidance in conformity with the provisions of this Act.

§ 5. The treasurer of such city, village or town, subject to the control and direction of said board, shall be the custodian of said fund, and it shall be his duty to set apart the amounts certified to him by the comptroller of such city, village or town as hereinbefore provided, from the salaries or wages of employés and to credit such amounts to said fund, to receive and hold all moneys paid into said fund from whatever source, and to pay out moneys from said fund as hereinbefore provided, to receive and credit to said fund all interest from its investments and to keep the books and accounts of said fund in the manner prescribed by said board, which books and accounts shall at all times be subject to the inspection of said board, or any member thereof. § 6. No employé shall become a beneficiary under this Act, nor shall pensions or benefits of any kind be allowed or paid from said fund until five years after the date upon which this Act is in force and effect.

7. Any employé who shall have been in the service of such city, village or town for a period of not less than twenty years, and who shall have attained the age of fifty-five (55) years, shall have the right to retire from the service of such city, village or town at any time after this Act is in force and effect and to become beneficiary hereunder at any time subsequent to five (5) years from and after the date when this Act is in force and effect: Provided, such employé shall in the event that he or she shall retire from the service of such city, village or town within said five (5) years period pay into said fund the sum of two dollars ($2.00) per month until he or she shall become a beneficiary hereunder: And, provided, further, that any such employé who shall retire from the service of such city, village or town before deduction shall have been made from the salary or wages of such employé for a period of twenty (20) years shall agree to pay into said fund within three (3) years from and after the date when such employé shall become a beneficiary of said fund, the sum which, together with all moneys previously deducted from the salary or wages of such employé, is equal to the full amount which would have been deducted and applied to said fund during a period of twenty years, and interest thereon at the rate of five per cent (5%) per annum. Such sum so to be paid shall be deducted by the treasurer of such city, village or town in equal monthly installments from the benefits due and payable. to such employé at the regular times for the payment of said benefits after he or she shall become a beneficiary hereunder.

§ 8. Any employé who has been in the service of such city, village or town for a period of not less than twenty (20) years, and who shall retire from the service of such city, village or town before attaining the age of fifty-five (55) years shall have the right to continue paying into said fund monthly, at the prescribed rate, and may thereby re

main in good standing in said fund and shall have the right to become a beneficiary hereunder upon attaining the age of fifty-five (55) years, not, however, until five (5) years from and after the date when this Act is in force and effect: Provided, such employé shall in the event that he or she retires from the service of such city, village or town before deduction shall have been made from the salary or wages of such employé for a period of twenty (20) years, pay into such fund within thirty (30) days from the date when he or she shall retire from the service of said city, village or town, a sum which, together with all moneys previously deducted from the salary or wages of such enployé is equal to the full amount which would have been deducted and applied to said fund during a period of twenty (20) years.

§ 9. Any employé who has been in the service of said city, village or town for a period of five (5) years, or more, from and after the date when this Act is in force and effect, shall have the right to retire from the service on account of serious disability rendering him or her unable to properly discharge his or her duties and may become a beneficiary under this Act and be entitled to receive the full benefits for a period of not more than two (2) years, which period may be extended upon proof satisfactory to said board of continued disability. Proof of disability shall be furnished by the commissioner of health and by at least one practicing physician of such city, village or town.

§ 10. All pensions granted under the provisions of this Act and every portion thereof shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment process and shall not be seized, taken, subjected to, detained or levied upon by virtue of any execution, or any process or proceedings whatsoever issued out of or by any court in this State for the payment and satisfaction, in whole or in part, of any debt, claim, damage, demand or judgment against any pensioner hereunder, and no pensioner shall have the right to transfer or assign his or her pension, or any part thereof either by way of mortgage or otherwise.

§ 11. All laws and parts of laws which are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, or any provisions hereof, are hereby repealed. APPROVED May 31, 1911.

PENSION FUND—POLICE IN CITIES OVER 50,000-ACT OF 1887 AMENDED.

AN ACT to amend sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorated towns," approved April 29, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, as amended by an Act approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by an Act approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 16, 1903, as amended by an Act approved and in force April 19, 1907.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved April 29, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, as amended by an Act approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by an Act approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 16, 1903, as amended by an Act approved and in force April 19, 1907, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 1. That in each city, village or incorporated town in this State. having a population of 50,000 inhabitants or more, there shall be set apart the following moneys to constitute a police pension fund:

First-Three-fourths of all moneys received for taxes or for licenses upon dogs.

Second-Three per cent of all moneys received from licenses for the keeping of saloons and dramshops, including licenses to wholesale liquor dealers: Provided, however, that on and after January 1, 1912, four per cent of such monevs shall be set apart for the purpose aforesaid.

Third-All moneys paid for special detail of policemen.

Fourth-All moneys received from fines imposed upon policemen of such city, village or town, for violations of the rules and regulations of the police department.

Fifth-The proceeds of all sales of unclaimed, lost or stolen prop

erty.

Sixth-One-fourth of all moneys received from licenses granted to pawn brokers, second-hand dealers and junk stores.

Seventh-All moneys received * * * for fines for carrying concealed weapons.

Eighth-One-half of all costs collected for violations of city ordi

nances.

Ninth-All rewards given or paid to policemen, except such as shall be excepted by the chief officer of police.

Tenth One and one-half per cent per month which shall be paid by or deducted from the salary of each and every policeman of such city, village or town: Provided, no such person shall be compelled to pay more than three dollars a month from his salary.

Eleventh-Three per cent of all revenue collected or received by such city, village or incorporated town from all licenses issued by such city, village or incorporated town, not mentioned in this Act: Provided, however, that the sum so received from such three per cent shall in no case exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars per annum.

* 2. A board composed of five members, * * § to be chosen as hereinafter provided, shall be and constitute a board of trustees to provide for the disbursement of said fund and to designate the beneficiaries thereof as herein directed, which board shall be known as the board of trustees of the police pension fund of such city, village or town. Three members of said board shall be residents of the county in which such city, village or town is located and shall not hold during their term of membership on said board any appointive or elective political offices or positions. They shall be appointed by the mayor or the president of the board of trustees of such city, village or town. One of said members shall serve for a period of one year, beginning on the second Tuesday in May, 1903. One of said members shall serve for a period of two years, beginning on the second Tuesday in May, 1903. The other members shall serve for a period of three years, beginning on the second Tuesday in May, 1903. The successors to any of the foregoing trustees shall serve for a period of three years each, or until such time as their successors are appointed and qualified. The two other persons who, with the members above designated, shall constitute said board, shall be chosen, one from among the policemen, and one from the body of pensioners under this Act, of such city, village or town. The members to be chosen. from among the policemen, shall be elected by ballot at an annul [annual] election, at which election all policemen shall be entitled to vote. The members to be chosen from the body of pensioners under this Act shall be elected by ballot at an annual election, at which election all retired policemen, who are pensioners under this Act, and the widows of all deceased pensioners, who are pensioners under this Act, shall be entitled to vote. In the event that there shall be no widow surviving, then the guardian of any children of such deceased pensioner, where such children are also pensioners, may cast the vote to which such widow would have been entitled had