§ 4. Applications for licenses shall be sworn to, shall disclose the names and residences of the owners or persons in whose interest the business is conducted, to be kept on file by the Secretary of State, and a record shall be kept by him of all licenses issued upon such application. All files and records of the Secretary of State and the respective clerks or license collectors or municipal corporations shall be in convenient form and open for public inspection. Before selling under a State license, an itinerant vendor shall exhibit to the clerk, license collector, mayor or other authorized officer of the municipal corporation, where he proposes to make sales, upon payment to such clerk, license collector, mayor or other authorized officer of further local license fees, as provided by ordinance, or in the absence of such ordinance, such amount to the clerk, license collector, mayor or other authorized officer determines, and the proof of payment of all such other license fees, legally chargeable upon local sales, the local officer shall record such State license, endorse upon it the words "local license fees paid," and affix his official signature with the date of such endorsement. He shall then issue a local license authorizing the sales within the limit of such city, town or village. Failure to obtain a local license and have proper endorsement made on the State license, shall be subject to a like penalty as if State license had not been issued.

§ 5. The informing, or prosecuting officer in a municipal corporation shall enforce the provision of this Act and prosecute violations. thereof. Such officers may demand the production of the proper State and local licenses from an itinerant vendor advertising or actually engaged in business and the failure to produce such license shall be prima facie evidence against such vendor that he has none.

§ 6. Prosecutions under this Act may be heard and determined by any court having criminal jurisdiction over other offenses punished. by law, to the same extent as hereinabove provided. All State licenses shall expire by limitation one year from the date thereof, and may be surrendered at any time prior thereto for cancellation. Upon the expiration and return, or surrender of the State license, the Secretary of State shall cancel it, endorse the date of delivery and cancellation thereon, and place it on file. He shall hold the special deposit of such licensee. mentioned in this chapter for the further period of sixty days and after satisfying all claims made under it under the section next following, shall return such deposits, or portion thereof, as remains in his hands, to the licensee depositing same.

7. Each deposit so made with the Secretary of State shall be subject to attachment and execution on behalf of creditors, whose claims arise in connection with business done in this State, and to the payment of fines and penalties incurred by the licensee, through violation of this Act. Claims under civil process shall be enforced against the Secretary of State as garnishee or trustee by action in the usual form, and claims for satisfaction of fines and penalties shall be enforced by the prosecuting attorney serving notice of pendancy of action and judgment when ob

tained upon the Secretary of State. Claims upon each deposit shall be satisfied after judgment, in the order in which notice of the claim is received by the Secretary of State, until such claim is satisfied, or the deposit exhausted; but notice if filed after the expiration of such sixty days' limit shall not be valid. A deposit shall not be paid by the Secre tary of State to licensees as long as there are outstanding claims or notices of claims against it, unless there is an unreasonable delay in enforc ing them.

§ 8. Every itinerant vendor who sells or exposes for sale, at public or private sale, any goods, wares or merchandise without State license therefor, properly endorsed, or files any application, originally or supplementary which contains any false statements, or fails to comply with any of the requirements of the preceding sections, and every person, whether principal or agent, who by circular, handbill, newspaper, or in any other manner, advertises any such sales before proper licenses are issued to the vendor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars nor less than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than

six months or both.

APPROVED June 7, 1911.

JUNK DEALER, PAWNBROKER, ETC.-PURCHASE, ETC., FROM MINOR § 1. Unlawful to purchase, etc., any- § 2. Penalty. thing of value from minor.

(SENATE BILL No. 284. APPROVED MAY 29, 1911.)

AN ACT to prohibit any junk dealer, or any second-hand dealer, or any pawn broker from purchasing or receiving on deposit, or pledge, goods or anything of value from a minor, and providing a punishment for a violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any junk dealer, pawn broker, or any second-hand dealer, either directly or indirectly, to purchase or receive by way of barter or exchange, or otherwise, anything of value, or to receive on deposit or pledge anything of value, as security for a loan of money, from any person, either male or female, under the age of their legal majorities respectively.

§ 2. Any person violating the provisions of section 1 of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each offense.

APPROVED May 29, 1911.

AN ACT to amend section 9 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to the sentence and commitment of persons convicted of crime, and providing for a system of parole; and to provide compensation for the officers of said system of parole," approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 9 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to the sentence and commitment of persons convicted of crime, and providing for a system of parole, and to provide compensation for the officers of said system of parole," approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 9. Each of the boards of penitentiary commissioners shall have power and authority to appoint such number of parole agents as may be necessary: Provided, that the number of such parole agents appointed by the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners for the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet shall not exceed tive, and that the number of such parole agents appointed by the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners for the Southern Illinois Penitentiary shall not exceed two. Each of the boards of penitentiary commissioners also shall have power and authority to prescribe the duties of said officers respectively appointed by them; that each of said parole agents shall at all times be subject to the orders of the board which appointed him as provided in this section, and shall receive a salary not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars per year, payable monthly, upon the certificate of said board and upon warrants drawn by the Auditor of Public Accounts, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED June 5, 1911.

(SENATE BILL No. 8. APPROVED APRIL 13, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section 3 of an Act entitled, “An Act to require drainage distric's lying above a lower drainage district, or emptying into a lower drainage district, whether such districts be organized under the same or different drainage laws of this State, to pay to the lower drainage district, for benefits received, if any, by the lands of the upper district, by the enlarging or improving of the ditches or drains of the lower district, or the construction of an outlet or outlets for the ditches or drains of the lower district, within or outside the boundaries of said lower district; and to provide for the collection and payment of such benefits," 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 3 of an Act entitled, "An Act to require drainage districts lying above a lower drainage district, or emptying into a lower drainage district, whether such districts be organized under the same or different drainage laws of this State to pay to the lower drainage district, for benefits received, if any, by the lands of the upper district, by the enlarging or improving of the ditches or drains of the lower district, or the construction of an outlet or outlets for the ditches or drains of the lower district, within or outside the boundaries of said lower district; and to provide for the collection and payment of such benefits," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows:

§ 3. Upon the filing of such petition summons shall issue out of said court against such upper district or districts, or district or districts emptying into such lower district, which summons may be directed to any county in this State for service and return, and which summons shall be served upon the commissioners of such upper district or districts, or district or districts emptying into such lower district, as in common law cases. Said cause shall be heard and tried at any probate or common law term of said court, and the practice shall be as in cases at common law.

§ 2. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED April 13, 1911.

PUMPING PLANTS-AMOUNT OF BENEFITS.

§ 1. Amends section 1, Act of 1905.

(HOUSE BILL No. 576.

§ 1. Annual amount of benefits determined by county court-rights reserved -application of Act.

APPROVED JUNE 7, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the erection, maintenance and operation of pumping plants in certain drainage and levee districts and to legalize and validate former proceedings, bond issues, indebtedness and expenditures in regard to, on account of, or with a view to the erection, maintenance and operation of such pumping plants," approved and in force May 13, 1905, as amended by an Act approved May 20, 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 1 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the erection, maintenance and operation of pumping plants in certain drainage and levee districts and to legalize and validate former proceedings, bond issues, indebtedness and expenditures in regard to, on account of, or with a view to the erection, maintenance, and operation of such pumping plants," approved and in force May 13, 1905, as amended by an Act approved May 20, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 1. That whenever the drainage commissioners of any drainage and levee district heretofore or hereafter organized under an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches, and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May 29, 1879; as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1885, in force July 1, 1885; as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 20, 1907; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 29, 1909; shall deem it necessary for the disposition of the surface water, seepage or rainfall in such districts, that one or more pumping plants be erected, maintained and operated, they may, with the approval of the county court of the county. in which the district is located or organized, out of the funds raised, or to be raised, by special assessments on the lands of such district, and as a part of the drainage and levee work of the district erect, maintain and operate one or more such pumping plants in such district, and for the purpose of maintaining, operating and keeping in repair such plant or plants along with the levees, ditches and other works of such district, the annual amount of benefits levied and assessed against the lands of such district shall be in such amount as the county court in which said district is organized and which has jurisdiction over the said district shall find will accrue to the lands of the said district by the main