(HOUSE BILL No. 338. APPROVED JUNE 6, 1911.) AN ACT to amend sections 85 and 86 of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 85 and 86 of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909, be and the same are hereby i amended so as to read as follows: § 85. Upon the receipt of a petition signed by at least 50 legal voters of any school township, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to give notice of an election to be held at the next regular election of trustees for the purpose of voting "for" or "against" the proposition to establish a township high school. Notice of such election shall be posted in at least ten of the most public places throughout the township for at least ten days before the day of such regular election, and may be in the following form: NOTICE OF ELECTION. Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the 1......, an election will be held at..... day of April, ..for the purpose of voting "for" or "against" the proposition to establish a township high school for the benefit of township number......, range number. The polls will be opened at ...... o'clock... m., and closed at... o'clock ....m. A B The trustees of schools shall conduct the election, canvass and declare the result. The ballots shall be in substantially the following form, to-wit: For the establishment of a township high school. Against the establishment of a township high school. The voter shall make an X or cross mark in the square following and opposite the proposition favored, and the ballot shall be so counted. § 86. If a majority of the votes cast shall be in favor of establishing a township high school it shall be the duty of the treasurer to call a special election on any Saturday within sixty days for the purpose of electing a township high school board of education, to consist of five members, notice of which election shall be given for the same time and in the same manner as provided in the election of trustees of schools. The members elected shall determine by lot, at their first meeting, the length of term each is to serve. Two of the members shall serve for one year, two for two years and one for three years from the second Saturday of April next preceding their election. At the expiration of the term of office of any member or members, a successor or successors shall be elected, each of whom shall serve for three years, which subsequent election shall be held on the second Saturday in April. In case of a vacancy the board shall call an election without delay, to be held on any Saturday. Within ten days after their election the members of the township high school board of education shall meet and organize by electing one of their number president, and by electing a secretary. It shall be the duty of such high school board of education to establish, at some central point most convenient to a majority of the pupils of the township, a high school for the education of the more advanced pupils. APPROVED June 6, 1911. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS-PAYMENT BY COUNTY. Amount to be paid by county for each dependent girl. § 1. Amends section 9, Act of 1879. (SENATE BILL No. 482. § 9. APPROVED MAY 29, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section 9 of An Act to aid industrial schools for girls," approved May 28th, 1879, in force July 1st, 1879, as amended by an Act approved June 25th, 1885, and in force July 1st, 1885. 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 aid industrial school for girls," approved May 28th, 1879, and in force July 1st, 1879, as amended by an Act approved June 25th, 1885, and in force July 1st, 1885, be amended to read as follows: § 9. For the tuition, maintenance and care of dependent girls committed to an industrial school for girls, the county from which they are sent shall pay to the industrial school for girls, to which they may be committed, the sum of fifteen (15) dollars per month for each dependent girl under the age of eighteen (18) years so committed; and upon the proper officer rendering proper accounts therefor, quarterly, the county board shall allow and order the same paid out of the county treasury, provided that no charge shall be made against any county by any industrial school for girls on account of any dependent girl in the care thereof, who has been by said school put out to a trade or employment in the manner hereinafter provided. APPROVED May 29, 1911. AN ACT to take territory from the Kickapoo Union School District as organized under an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and form the Kickapoo Union School District," approved March 31, 1869, in force, April 1, 1869, by reducing the corporate limits of said district by amending section one of said Act. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the corporate limits of the 1 Kickapoo Union School District as organized under an Act entitled "An Act to establish and form the Kickapoo Union School District," { approved March 31, 1869, in force April 1, 1869, and hereby reduce so as to include and embrace within the same only the territory and tracts of land situated in the county of McLean and State of Illinois | and within the boundaries described, by amending section one of said Act to read as follows: That all that district of country lying in townships twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) north, range thre (3) east of the third principal meridian, of the county of McLean and State of Illinois, and embraced within the following boundary, to-wit: Commencing at the southeast corner of section twenty-eight (28) township twenty-three (23) north range three (3) east of the third principa meridian, thence north one-fourth (14) mile, thence west one (1) mile. thence south five-eighths (8) mile, thence west one-fourth (1⁄44) mile, thence south one-half (15) mile, thence east one-fourth (14) mile thence south one-eighth (1) mile, to the township line between townships twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) north range three (3) east of the third principal meridian, thence west one-half (%) mile, thence south 11⁄2 mile, thence west one-fourth (14) mile, south one-half (16) mile, east one-fourth (14) mile, south one-half (%) mile, east one-half (12) mile, south one and one-half (1) miles, east one and three-fourths (134) miles, north one and one-fourth (14) miles. east one-fourth (14) mile, north three-fourths (34) mile, west onefourth (14) mile, north, one-half (1) mile, west one-half (%) mile. north one-half (15) mile, to the town line before mentioned, thence north one (1) mile, thence west one-fourth (14) mile, to the place of beginning, is hereby made and constituted a permanent school district by the name of "Kickapoo Union School District," and that no territory shall ever be taken therefrom except by Act of the Legislature. § 2. That the territory lying outside the limits of the boundaries as fixed in this Act and which formerly was embraced within the limits of the Kickapoo Union School District shall be taken care of and disposed of under the general laws of the State. APPROVED June 5, 1911. SCHOOL DISTRICTS-FORMATION. § 1. Amends section 45, Act of 1909. $ 45. Amendment relates to territory taken from district under special charter. (HOUSE BILL No. 624. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section 45 of an Act entitled, “An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 45 of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909, be amended so as to read as follows: $45. The trustees of schools in newly organized townships shall divide the township into school districts to suit the wishes or convenience of a majority of the inhabitants of the township, and shall prepare or cause to be prepared a map of the township, on which the district or districts shall be designated by their respective numbers. The said trustees of schools shall also cause any territory taken from a school district acting under a special charter to be formed and established into a school district to be governed under the general school laws of the State and shall cause such district to be established within thirty days from the time such territory is taken from such district acting under a special charter; and said trustees shall call an election for the purpose of electing directors for such district within ten days after the organization of such district. In case such territory has not sufficient inhabitants and children to establish and maintain a school, the trustees shall have power to annex such territory to an adjoining district or districts. APPROVED June 5, 1911. TEACHERS' PENSION FUND IN CITIES OVER 100,000-BENEFICIARIES. § 1. Adds sections 156a and 156b to Act of 1909. § 156a. Option to renew rights withdrawn-proviso. § 156b. Who may become contributors and beneficiaries. (SENATE BILL No. 366. APPROVED JUNE 6, 1911.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909, by adding thereto two sections to be known respectively as sections 156a and 156b. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved and in force June 12, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto two additional sections to be known as sections 156a and 156b, to read as follows: § 156a. All persons who have heretofore been contributors to a public school teachers' pension and retirement fund of cities having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, under any law now in force but who have withdrawn from such participation, may, if they shall exercise the option on or before the first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve, renew their right to participation in a fund to be created in said city under the provisions of this Act, by paying into said fund the full amount of any moneys they may have withdrawn from such previous fund and the full amount they would have contributed had they not withdrawn therefrom together with interest thereon at the rate of 4 per cent per annum from the time such moneys were withdrawn and from the time such payments would have become due to the date of their acceptance of the provisions of this section; and thereafter such persons shall contribute to said fund upon the same terms as teachers who shall hereafter be employed and become contributors to and beneficiaries of said fund: Provided, however, that such persons who shall be re-employed by said board of education as such teachers on or after July 1, 1911, may, if they shall exercise such option within one year after such re-employment, renew their right to participation in such fund upon the same terms and conditions aforesaid. § 156b. All teachers who are now in the service of the board of education of any such city, other than those described in the previous section, may, if they shall exercise the option on or before the first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twelve. become contributors to and beneficiaries of the public school teachers' pension and retirement fund created under the provisions of this Act, upon the same terms as teachers who shall hereafter be employed and become contributors to and beneficiaries of said fund under section 156a of this Act. § 1. APPROVED June 6, 1911. TEACHERS' PENSION FUND IN CITIES OVER 100,000-CONTRIBUTIONS. Power of board of education to set aside money-additions to pension fund. (SENATE BILL No. 367. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.) AN ACT to provide for the contribution from public moneys to the public school teachers' pension and retirement fund in cities having a popu lation exceeding 100,000 inhabitants. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the board of education of any city having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants shall have power to annually set aside and contribute to the public school teachers' pension and retirement fund in such city now created or existing, or such as may be hereafter created pursuant to any law, a sum of public money, so that the same when taken together with the moneys added to such pension fund for that year from interest on school funds raised by |