14. An Act to provide for the election and appointment of the officers and employés of the General Assembly of the State and to fix their compensation, approved May 28, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, as amended by Act approved and in force May 11, 1907; and an Act to regulate the number of extra policemen and janitors to be employed by the Secretary of State during the sessions of the General Assembly, approved June 10, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed.

§ 15. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 25, 1911.

AN ACT to amend sections 25, 28 and 32 of an Act entitled, “An Act in regard to guardians and wards," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by an Act approved May 21, 1877, in force July 1, 1877.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 25, 28 and 32 of an Act entitled, "An Act in regard to guardians and wards," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by an Act approved May 21, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 25. Before any mortgage shall be made, the guardian shall petition the county or probate court of the county where the ward resides, or if the ward does not reside in the State, then of the county where the real estate or some part of it is situated, as the case may be, for an order authorizing such mortgage to be made, in which petition shall be set out the condition of the estate, and the facts and circumstances on which the petition is founded, and a description of the premises sought to be mortgaged. The petition shall be signed by the guardian and verified by his affidavit, and shall be filed at least ten days before a hearing shall be had thereon. Notice of such application shall be given to "All persons concerned" by publication in some newspaper published in the county where the application is made, at least once or by setting up written or printed notices in four of the most public places in the county and the ward served with a copy of such notice in the manner provided

for service of summons in suits in chancery. Such application shall be docketed as other causes, and the petition may be amended, heard or continued for further notice, or for other cause. The practice in such cases shall be the same as in other cases in chancery. It shall be the duty of the guardian after making such mortgage, as soon as may be, to make a report of his action to the court granting the order which, if approved, shall be recorded and vest in the mortgagee a good and valid lien on the minor's interest in the mortgaged premises for the full amount of his mortgage. The word "mortgage" in this Act shall include a trust deed and any instrument in the nature of a mortgage.

§ 28. On the petition of the guardian the county court of the county where the ward resides, or if the ward does not reside in the State, of the county where the real estate, or some part of it is situated, may order the sale of the real estate of the ward, for his support and education, when the court shall deem it necessary, or to invest the proceeds in other real estate or for the purpose of otherwise investing the same: Provided, the said county court shall make no order for a sale under said petition until the said guardian shall have executed and filed a bond, payable to the People of the State of Illinois, with at least two sufficient sureties, to be approved by the court, in double the value of the real estate by said petition sought to be sold, conditioned for the due and faithful accounting for, and disposition of the proceeds of all real estate that may be sold by him, under such order, in the manner provided by law; which bond may be put in suit in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, to the use of any person entitled to recover on a breach thereof, and damages assessed and proceedings had thereon as in other cases of penal bonds. An [And] the court may also investigate and determine all questions of conflicting or controverted titles arising between any of the parties to such proceeding, and may remove clouds from the title to any real estate sought to be sold or mortgaged, and invest purchasers or mortgagees with a good and indefeasible title to the premises sold or mortgaged.

§ 32. No lands or tenements shall be sold by virtue of any order or decree of the county or probate court unless such sale is at public vendue and between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock of the afternoon of the same day, nor unless the time, place and terms of holding such sale were previously published for the space of four weeks by posting up notices thereof in at least four of the most public places in the county where such real estate shall be sold, and also by causing a similar notice thereof to be published four successive weeks prior to the sale, in some newspaper published in such county, or if there be no such newspaper, then in such other newspaper in this State as the court shall direct, nor unless such real estate shall be described with common certainty in such notices. And the court may direct the sale to be made on reasonable credit and require such security of the guardian or purchaser as the interests of the ward may require.

APPROVED June 5, 1911.

AN ACT relating to burial insurance societies.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any person, firm, corporation, society or association of individuals engaged in the business of providing burial benefit or award for the payment, in whole or in part, of funeral, burial or other expenses of deceased persons, or of certificate holders, or subscribers, by the levying of an assessment or assessments, or by the charging of a fee or premium, shall, for the purpose of this Act, be considered to be conducting a burial insurance society; and all subscribers to and certificate holders in such burial insurance society shall, for the purposes of this Act, be considered to be members of such burial insurance societies.

§ 2. Any person, firm, corporation or association of individuals having already formed or hereafter proposing to form any burial insurance society, shall within [thirty] (30) days after going into effect of this Act, or within thirty (30) days after the formation of such society, file in writing with the county clerk of each county of the State of Illinois in which such society operates or proposes to operate a notification in writing of the name, purposes, plan of operation and names of the officers of such society, together with a filing fee of five dollars ($5.00) to cover the cost of filing and recording such written notification.

§3. Such person, firm, corporation or association of individuals aforesaid, at the time of filing the notification herein before provided, shall deposit with the county treasurer of each county of the State of Illinois, in which such society operates or proposes to operate, a sum of money, or securities double in amount or value the amount of the largest single burial benefit or award proposed to be paid by such person, firm, corporation, association of individuals, or by any burial insurance society formed or proposed to be formed by such person, firm, corporation or association of individuals; which said deposit shall be held in trust by the said county treasurer for the security of the beneficiaries of the members of such burial insurance societies: Provided, however, that upon the dissolution of any such burial insurance society and satisfactory proof of the liquidation of monetary obligations accruing from such society to its members and to the beneficiaries of its members, said. deposit shall be returned to the person, firm, corporation or association of individuals making the same and holding the receipt therefor.

§ 4. No person, firm, corporation, society or association operating under or by virtue of this Act, shall pay any burial benefit or award, not contracted to be paid in specific manner, in any manner or thing, other than in currency of the United States; nor shall any member of any burial insurance society, or representative or beneficiary of such member, be obligated (except by contract in writing signed by the member or person sought to be bound) to purchase funeral supplies or burial services from any specified or designated person, firm, corporation, undertaker, undertaking concern, tradesman, or business man, so as to deprive the representative, beneficiary or family of any such member from procuring or purchasing said supplies and services in the open market.

§ 5. No person, firm, corporation, society or association of individuals shall conduct a burial insurance society in any manner other than in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Act. And it is hereby made the duty of the State's attorney of each county of the State of Illinois to enforce the provisions of this Act upon complaint or request in writing.

§ 6. This Act shall not apply to fraternal or fraternal beneficiary societies, nor to assessment, life and accident associations existing or operating under or by virtue of any statute of this State, nor to any society which pays sick or disability benefits and which limits its membership to a particular class of persons or to the employés of a designated person, firm or corporation; nor to burial insurance societies now existing which pay, and continue to pay, the full amount of the burial benefit or award in money exclusively and without conditions or limitations as to the method or manner of expending such money; nor to any burial insurance society composed exclusively of the employés of any department of municipal, county, State or National government.

APPROVED June 10, 1911.

FIRE, LIGHTNING, HAIL, WINDSTORM AND SPRINKLER LEAKAGE INSURANCE.

AN ACT to regulate and control insurance against loss or damage by fire, lightning, hail, windstorm and sprinkler leakage, by partnerships, associations, individuals, or aggregations of individuals, not now authorized to do business in this State, and prescribing the penalty for violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no association, partnership, in

dividual or aggregation of individuals, not now authorized by the laws of this State, shall after the enactment hereof make contracts of insurance against loss or damage by fire, lightning, hail, windstorm or sprinkler leakage, or any variety thereof, within this State, except in accordance with this Act.

§ 2. No association, partnership, individual or aggregation of individuals, shall after January 1, 1912, make contracts of insurance against loss or damage by fire, lightning, hail, windstorm or sprinkler leakage, or any variety thereof, upon or relating to property owned by such association, partnership, individual or aggregation of individuals, or any member thereof, unless there shall be filed with the Insurance Superintendent of this State a declaration, in writing, by the attorney, agent or other representative, verified by his oath, setting forth:

(a) The name or title by which such association, partnership, individual or aggregation of individuals intending to make such contracts of insurance against loss or damage by fire, lightning, hail, windstorm or sprinkler leakage, or any variety thereof, is to be known.

(b) A verified copy of the form of policy, contract or agreement, under or by which such insurance is to be effected.

(c) A verified copy of the form of power of attorney or other authority of any attorney, agent or other representative, fully setting forth the character of such representation and the authority of such representative.

(d) The location of the office or offices through which such policies, contracts or agreements are to be issued.

(e) That service of process may be had upon the Insurance Superintendent of this State in all suits arising out of such policy, contracts or agreements.

§ 3. There shall be filed with the Insurance Superintendent of this State by the attorney, agent or other representative of every association, partnership, individual or aggregation of individuals, to whom the requirements of section 2 shall apply, whenever and as often as the same shall be requested, a statement, under the oath of such attorney, agent or other representative, showing the maximum amount of insurance made upon any single risk by such association, partnership, individual or aggregation of individuals, and such attorney, agent or other representative shall, whenever and as often as the same shall be requested, file with the Insurance Superintendent a statement, verified by his oath, to the effect that he has examined the commercial rating of the individuals and members of such underwriting association as shown by a commercial agency having at least 100,000 subscribers, and that from such examination it appears that no individual or single member of any such underwriting association has assumed on any single risk an amount greater than ten per cent of the net worth of such individual or member when such risk was assumed.

§ 4. Every association, partnership, individual or aggregation of individuals making contracts for any of the kinds of insurance herein specified upon or relating to property not owned by such association,