entitled, "An Act to create sanitary districts and to remove obstructions in the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers," approved May 29, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 10, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1897, in force July 1, 1897; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 11, 1905, in force July 1, 1905; as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1905, in force July 1, 1905; as amended by an Act approved February 27, 1907, in force February 27, 1907; as amended by an Act approved May 25, 1907, in force July 1, 1907; as amended by an Act approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909; be amended so as to read as follows: § 4. The trustees elected in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Act shall constitute a board of trustees for the district by which they are elected, which board of trustees is hereby declared to be the corporate authorities of such sanitary district, and shall exercise all the powers and manage and control all the affairs and property of such district. Said board of trustees shall have the right to elect a clerk, treasurer, chief engineer and attorney for such municipality, who shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the board, who shall give bond as may be required by said board. Said board may prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of all the officers and employés of said sanitary district: Provided, however, that the salary of the president of said board of trustees who shall be elected at any election held subsequent to the year 1910 shall in no case exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) per annum and the salary of each of the other trustees elected subsequent to the year 1910, shall not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per annum. Any incumbent of the office of trustee (excepting said president) whose term is now running and does not expire until after the passage of this Act may appoint a private secretary, and such appointment shall remain in force until revoked by the trustee making the same, and such secretary shall receive a salary at the rate of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per annum, payable monthly. No trustee (excepting the president) shall be entitled to appoint such private secretary during such time as he shall receive the maximum salary herein authorized. Any incumbent of the office of president heretofore or hereafter elected may appoint a private secretary, which secretary shall receive a salary not to exceed three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500.00) per annum, payable monthly. Any such appointment made by the president shall remain in force until revoked by such president or until the expiration of his term of office. Said board of trustees shall have full power to pass all necessary ordinances, orders, rules, resolutions and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of said board of trustees and of said corporation and for carrying into effect the object for which such sanitary district is formed. All ordinances, orders, rules, resolutions and regulations passed by said board of trustees shall, before they take effect, be approved by the president of said board of trustees, and if he shall approve thereof, he shall sign the same, and such as he shall not approve he shall return to the board of trustees with his objections thereto in writing at the next regular meeting of said board of trustees occurring after the passage thereof. Such veto may extent [extend] to any one or more items or appropriations contained in any ordinance making an appropriation, or to the entire ordinance; and in case the veto extends to a part of such ordinance, the residue thereof shall take effect and be in force, but in case the president of such board of trustees shall fail to return any ordinance, order, rule, resolution or regulation with his objections thereto by the time aforesaid, he shall be deemed to have approved the same, and the same shall take effect accordingly. Upon the return of any ordinance, order, rule, resolution or regulation by the president, the vote by which the same was passed shall be reconsidered by the board of trustees, and if upon such reconsideration two-thirds of all the members elect shall agree by yeas and nays to pass the same it shall go into effect notwithstanding the president may refuse to approve thereof. APPROVED May 27, 1911. DRAM SHOPS. INTOXICATING LIQUOR NEAR SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' HOME. § 3. Penalty. § 1. Within what distance unlawful. § 2. Shift or device. (HOUSE BILL NO. 316. APPROVED JUNE 10, 1911.) AN ACT prohibiting the sale, distribution or gift of malt, spirituous, vinous or intoxicating liquors near any soldiers' and sailors' home owned or maintained by the State of Illinois, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That on and after the first day of July, A. D. 1911, it shall be unlawful to sell, distribute or give away any malt, spirituous, vinous or intoxicating liquors within two-thirds of a mile of the boundary line or lines of land owned or maintained by the State of Illinois as a soldiers' and sailors' home in this State. § 2. Any shift or device to evade the provisions of this Act shall be held to be a violation of this Act. § 3. Any person, by himself, agent or employé, violating the provisions of the foregoing sections of this Act shall, upon conviction for the first offense, be fined in any sum not less than $25.00 nor exceeding $100.00, and for each subsequent offense be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than ninety days. APPROVED June 10, 1911. ELECTIONS. ACT OF 1891-CERTIFICATES OF NOMINATION AND BALLOTS. AN ACT to amend sections 13 and 14 of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public expense, and for the nomination of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections, and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot,” approved June 22, 1891, in force July 1, 1891. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 13 and 14 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the printing and distribution of ballots at public expense, and for the nomination of candidates for public offices, to regulate the manner of holding elections, and to enforce the secrecy of the ballot," approved June 22, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows: § 13. Not less than fifteen days before an election to fill any public office the Secretary of State shall certify to the county clerk of each county within which any of the electors may by law vote for candidates for such office, the name and description of each person nominated for such office, as specified in the certificates of nomination filed with the Secretary of State. In making his certificate to the several county clerks, where the name of more than one candidate has been nominated by the same political party for any given office, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to certify the names of such candidates in the manner following, to-wit: The name of the candidate of such party for such office receiving the highest number of votes in the primary election as a candidate for such office, as shown by the official returns on file in his office shall be certified first under the name of such office, and the names of the remaining candidates of such party for such office shall follow in the order of the number of votes received by them respectively at the primary election, determined by official returns on file as aforesaid. The names of candidates of any group of petitioners shall be certified to the several county clerks in the order in which such names appear on the petitions on file in his office. § 14. The names of all candidates to be voted for in each election district or precinct shall be printed on one ballot; all nominations of any political party or group of petitioners being placed under the party appellation or title of such party or group as designated by them in their certificates of nomination or petitions, or if none be designated, then under some suitable title, and the ballot shall contain no other names, except that in case of electors for president and vice-president of the United States, the names of the candidates for president and vicepresident may be added to the party or political designation. If a constitutional amendment or other public measure is submitted to a vote, such question shall be printed upon the ballot after the list of candidates, and words calculated to aid the voter in his choice of candidates or to answer any question submitted to vote may be added, such as, "Vote for one," "Vote for three," "Yes," "No," or the like. On the back or outside of the ballot, so as to appear when folded, shall be printed the words, "Official ballot," followed by the designation of the polling place for which the ballot is prepared, the date of the election and a facsimile of the signature of the clerk or other officer who has caused the ballots to be printed. The ballots shall be of plain white paper, through which the printing or writing can not be read. The party appellation or title shall be printed in capital letters, not less than one-fourth of an inch in height and a circle one-half inch in diameter shall be printed at the beginning of the line in which such appellation or title is printed. The names of candidates shall be printed in capital letters not less than one-eighth nor more than one-fourth of an inch in height, and at the beginning of each line in which a name of a candidate is printed a square shall be printed, the sides of which shall not be less than one-fourth of an inch in length. The list of candidates of the several parties and groups of petitioners shall be placed in separate columns on the ballot in such order as the authorities charged with the printing. of the ballots shall decide: Provided, that the names of the candidates of the several political parties, and groups of petitioners, certified by the Secretary of State to the several county clerks, shall be printed by the county clerk of the proper county on the official ballot in the order certified by the Secretary of State. Any county clerk refusing, neglecting or failing to print on the official ballot the names of candidates of the several political parties in the order certified by the Secretary of State shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days, and not more than thirty days. |