to the health of such employé, as far as may be reasonably consistent with the manufacturing process, and the fixtures and tools employed in any such process of manufacture, shall be thoroughly washed and cleaned. at reasonable intervals.

§ 10. All hoppers or chutes or similar devices used in the course of any process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act shall, where practicable, be provided with a hood or covering, and an adequate and sufficient apparatus or other proper device for the purpose of drawing away from the employés noxious, poisonous or injurious dusts, and preventing the employés from coming into unnecessary contact therewith; and all conveyances or receptacles used for the transportation about or the storage in any place where any such process or manufacture referred to in section 2 of this Act is carried on, shall be properly covered or dampened in such way as to protect the health of the employés, and no refuse of a dangerous character incident to the work or process carried on in any such place shall be allowed to unnecessarily accumulate on the floors thereof.

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the State Department of Factory Inspection to enforce the provisions of this Act and to prosecute all violations of the same before any magistrate or any court of competent jurisdiction in this State, and for that purpose such department and its inspectors are empowered to visit and inspect at all reasonable times all places of employment covered by the provisions of this Act. In the enforcement of the provisions hereof the Department of Factory Inspection shall give proper notice in regard to any violation of this Act to any employer of labor violating it, and directing the installment of any approved device, means or method reasonably necessary, in his judgment, to protect the health of the employés therein, and such notice shall be written or printed and shall be signed officially by the Chief State Factory Inspector or the assistant Chief State Factory Inspector, and said notice may be served by delivering the same to the person upon whom service is to be had, or by leaving at his usual place of abode or business an exact copy thereof, or by sending a copy thereof to such person by registered mail, and upon receipt of such notice calling the attention of the employer to such violation, he shall immediately comply with all the provisions of this Act.

12. If any occupational or industrial disease or illness or any disease or illness peculiar to the work or process carried on shall be found in any place of employment in this State by the Inspectors of the State Department of Factory Inspection, or called to their attention by the State Board of Health, which disease or illness shall be caused in whole or in part, in the opinion of the inspector, by a disregard by the employer of the provisions of this Act, or a failure on the part of the employer to adopt reasonable appliances, devices, means or methods which are known to be reasonably adequate and sufficient to prevent the contraction or continuation of any such disease or illness, it shall be the duty of the Department of Factory Inspection to immediately notify

the employer in such place of employment, in the manner provided in section 12 of this Act, to install adequate and approved appliances, devices, means or methods to prevent the contracting and continuance of any such disease or illness and to comply with all the provisions of this Act.

§ 13. For the purpose of disseminating a general knowledge of the provisions of this Act and of the dangers to the health of employés in any work or process covered by the provisions of this Act, the employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in which any such work or process is carried on, appropriate notices of the known dangers to the health of any such employés arising from such work or process, and simple instructions as to any known means of avoiding, so far as possible, the injurious consequences thereof, and the Chief State Factory Inspector shall, upon request, have prepared a notice covering the salient features of this Act, and furnish a reasonable number of copies thereof to employers in this State, covered by the provisions of this Act, which notice shall be posted by every such employer in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in such place of employment. The notices required by this section shall be printed on cardboard of suitable character and the type used shall be such as to make them easily legible, and in addition to English they shall be printed in such other language or languages as may be necessary to make them intelligible to the employés.

§ 14. Any person, firm or corporation who shall, personally or through any agent, violate any of the provisions of this Act, or who omits or fails to comply with any of its requirements, or who obstructs or interferes with any examination or investigation being made by the State Department of Factory Inspection in accordance with the provisions of this Act, or any employé who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) or more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), and upon conviction of the second or subsequent offenses. shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) or more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), and in each case shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid, unless otherwise discharged by due process of law.

$15. For any injury to the health of any employé proximately caused by any willful violation of this Act or willful failure to comply with any of its provisions, a right of action shall accrue to the party whose health has been so injured, for any direct damages sustained thereby; and in case of the loss of life by reason of such willful violation or willful failure as aforesaid, a right of action shall accrue to the widow of such deceased person, his lineal heirs or adopted children, or to any other person or persons who were, before such loss of life, dependent for support upon such deceased person, for a like recovery of damages for the injury sustained by reason of such loss of life, not to exceed the

sum of ten thousand dollars: Provided, that every such action for damages in case of death shall be commenced within one year after the death of such employé.

§ 16. The invalidity of any portion of this Act shall not affect the validity of any other portion thereof which can be given effect without such invalid part.

AN ACT to amend sections 1 and 10 of “An Act relating to private employment agencies and to repeal parts of a certain Act relating

thereto."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 1 and 10 of an Act entitled, "An Act relating to private employment agencies and to repeal parts of a certain Act relating thereto," approved June 15th, in force July 1, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no person shall open, keep or carry on any employment agency in the State of Illinois unless every such person shall procure a license therefor from the State Board of Commissioners of Labor. Any person who shall open or conduct any such agency without first procuring such license shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) and not exceeding two hundred dollars ($200.00), or on failure to pay such fine, by imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or both, at the discretion of the court. Such license shall be issued by the State Board of Commissioners of Labor, the fee for which in cities having a population of fifty thousand or over shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) annually, and a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) annually in all cities containing less than fifty thousand population. All moneys received by the said Board of Commissioners of Labor from whatever source, shall be paid into the State treasury on or before the 30th day of September and the 31st day of March of each year following the adoption of this Act.

Every license shall contain the name of the person licensed, a designation of the city, street and number of the house in which the person licensed is authorized to carry on the said employment agency, and the number and date of such license. Such license shall not be valid to protect any place other than that designated in the license unless con

sent is first obtained from the State Board of Commissioners of Labor, or the chief inspector of employment agencies and until the written consent of the surety or sureties on the bond required to be filed by section 2 of this Act to such transfer, be filed with the original bond. No such agency shall be located on premises where intoxicating liquors are sold, excepting cafès and restaurants in office buildings. The application for such license shall be filed with the State Board of Commissioners of Labor not less than one week prior to the granting of said license and the State Board of Labor Commissioners shall act upon such application within thirty (30) days from the time of application. Such application shall be accompanied by the affidavits of two persons who have known the applicant or the chief officer thereof, if a corporation, for two years, stating that the said applicant is a person of good moral character. The license shall run for one year from the date thereof and no longer, unless sooner revoked by the State Board of Commissioners of Labor. Such application shall be posted in the office of the State Board of Commissioners of Labor or in the office of the chief inspector of private employment agencies, from the date of filing thereof, and until such application is acted upon; and before any license shall be granted, notice of such application shall be published on three (3) distinct days by the State Board of Labor Commissioners in some daily newspaper of general circulation throughout the county within which the applicant desires to locate such agency.

§ 10. SALARIES.] Such chief inspector of private employment agencies shall receive a salary of three thousand six hundred dollars ($3,600) per annum, to be paid monthly upon vouchers therefor filed with the Auditor of Public Accounts and approved by the Governor. Such inspector shall furnish a bond payable to the State of Illinois in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), said bond to be approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State. The necessary traveling and hotel expenses of the chief inspector and his deputies, the Commissioners of Labor and their secretary and such other necessary office expenses, shall be allowed upon itemized accounts rendered therefor and approved by the Governor. The chief inspector shall also be allowed the necessary printing, stationery and postage, also be furnished a suitable room or rooms and necessary office furniture and assistants, such as a clerk, one woman investigator of domestic agencies and stenographer as the office requires, accounts therefor to be rendered and approved in the manner required by this Act. The other inspectors provided for in this Act shall receive a salary of $1,500 per annum, payable monthly upon the certificate of the chief inspector of private employment agencies that such services have been actually rendered under his direction.

APPROVED June 7, 1911.

FEES AND SALARIES.

COMPENSATION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

§ 1. Amends section 37, Act of 1872.

§ 37. As amended, changes per diem of county commissioners.

(SENATE BILL No. 324. APPROVED JUNE 2, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section 37 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872; title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 37 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872; title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 37. County commissioners and members of county boards in counties not under township organization, while transacting county affairs, shall severally be allowed five dollars per day for the time necessarily and actually employed in the discharge of their duties, and five cents a mile for all necessary travel, and no other allowance, directly or indirectly, for any purpose whatever. All to be paid out of the county treasury.

AN ACT to amend section 36 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 36 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 36. The following named town officers shall be entitled to compensation at the following rates, for each day necessarily devoted by them to the services of the town, in the duties of their respective offices.

The town clerk, supervisor and overseer of the poor, shall receive for their services three dollars per day, when attending to town business out