er or not compensation or a commission is to be paid for the subscriptions, funds or other property obtained by such applicant, and the amount of such compensation or commission. If such application shall be on behalf of an individual, it shall state the name, age, sex, residence, business and occupation of the applicant. If such application shall be on behalf of a society, club, association or corporation, then said application shall state the name, office or place of business, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and if incorporated, when and where incorporated, and the objects and purposes of such applicant, and the names and residences of its officers. Every such application if made on behalf of an individual, shall be igned and sworn to by such applicant, and if made on behalf of any society, club, association or corporation, shall be signed in the name of such society, club, association or corporation by the president or secretary thereof, and shall be sworn to by such president or secretary.

§ 4. All individuals, societies, clubs, associates and corporations to whom licenses as aforesaid shall have been issued by said State Council of Defense, shall obey and comply with all the rules, requirements, regulations and directions that may be issued from time to time by said State Council of Defense, and the said State Council of Defense shall have power to revoke any license that may have been issued by it upon failure of the licensee to comply with the rules, requirements, regulations and directions prescribed by said State Council of Defense, or whenever in its judgment the purposes of said license have been accomplished or have ceased to be useful or neces

sary.

§ 5. Any individual, society, club, association or corporation or any officer, director or member of any society, club, association or corporation, who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty [of] of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense. § 6. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting,

(a) The family or friends or any soldier or sailor who is or has been in the service of the United States during said war, from supplying such soldier or sailor or the family and dependents of such soldier or sailor with any moneys, goods, articles or property of use or of comfort at any time.

(b) Any society, club, association, corporation, congregation or religious association or corporation from soliciting any war aid or war charity as aforesaid, among its own members,

unless such solicitation shall be prohibited by the regulations of the military or naval authorities of the United States.

(c) The solicitation by any individual, society, club, association or corporation, for any war aid or war charity authorized by or under any law or resolution passed by the Congress of the United States or by or under any act or proclamation of the President of the United States.

CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATIONS.

(Hurd Ch. 32.)

1. That it shall be lawful for any Chautauqua Association incorporated under any law of the State of Illinois, to select and appoint, at or before the time of holding its annual assembly, as many persons to act in the capacity of special policemen as may by said association, be deemed requisite to insure peace and good order and prevent trespasses on, in and about the grounds, building and place of holding such assembly, for and during the holding of the same: Provided, that every such person, before entering upon the duties of special policeman, shall take the oath of office before any judge or justice of the peace residing in the county in which such assembly is to be or is being held, and shall receive from such judge or justice of the peace a certificate, under his hand and seal, of such appointment and authority to act as such special policeman, and which appointment and authority shall be indicated by some appropriate badge of office, and when so authorized he shall be clothed with full police power.

2. That whoever, during the holding of any annual assembly of any Chautauqua Association, shall with intent to defraud. any such assembly, enter or shall attempt to enter, or shall remain on the grounds or enclosure of any building within or upon which such assembly is being held, without having permission from the proper authorities thereof, or without having purchased and surrendered a ticket of admission which shall entitle him so to enter and remain, or without having complied with the published rules of such association in regard to entrance thereto, or remaining thereon, shall upon conviction be fined not less than two nor more than twenty dollars for each offense.

3. Any special policeman appointed and authorized pursuant to this act, and any sheriff, coroner, constable or other officer authorized to make arrests, shall have the power, upon view without warrant or with warrant, to arrest any person or persons for the violation of any provision of this act.

An Act to define and punish crimes against children. (1907.) (Hurd 42a.)

It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years, to exhibit, use or employ, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give away, let out, or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person in or for the vocation or occupation, service, or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acrobat in any place whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever, or for, or in any business, exhibition or vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure or encourage any such child to engage therein. Nothing in this section contained shall apply to, or effect the employment or use of any such child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or at any respectable entertainment, or the teaching or learning the science or practice of music.

2. It shall also be unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody any child under the age and for the purposes prohibited in the first section of this act.

3. When upon examination before any court or magistrate it shall appear that any child within the age previously mentioned in this act was engaged or used for or in any business, or exhibition, or vocation, or purpose prohibited in this act; and when upon the conviction of any person of a criminal assault upon a child in his or her custody, the court or magistrate before whom such conviction is had, shall deem it desirable for the welfare of such child, that the person so convicted should be deprived of its custody; thereafter such child shall be deemed to be in the custody of court, and such court or magistrate may in its discretion, make such order as to the custody thereof as now is, or hereafter may be, provided by

law in cases of vagrant, truant, disorderly, pauper, or destitute children.

-Juvenile Court-notice to parent before commitment, 223

346.

-Release from House of Correction by habeas corpus, 233

346.

-Act of 1903 held invalid, 224-125.

4. It shall be unlawful for any person having the care or custody of any child, willfully to cause or permit the life of such child to be endangered, or the health of such child to be injured, or willfully cause or permit such child to be placed in such a situation that its life or health may be endangered.

-Cruelty to by parent, 52-395.

Sec. 5. (1919). Any person convicted under the provisions of the preceding sections, shall for the first offense be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court; and upon a conviction for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not more than two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

"An Act to define and punish crimes against children." (1907.) (Hurd Ch. 38-42ha.)

1. That any person of the age of seventeen years and upwards who shall take, or attempt to take, any immoral, improper or indecent liberties with any child of either sex, under the age of fifteen years, with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires, either of such person or of such child or of both such person and such child, or who shall commit, or attempt to commit, any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of such child, with the intent of arousing, appealing to or gratifying the lust or passions or sexual desires, either of such person or of such child, or of both such person and such child, or any such person who shall take any such child or shall entice, allure or persuade any such child, to any place whatever for the purpose either of taking any such immoral, improper or indecent liberties with such child, with said intent, or of committing any such lewd, or lascivious act upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of such child with said intent, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than twenty years: Provided that this act shall not apply to offenses constituting the crime.

of sodomy or other infamous crimes against nature, incest, rape or seduction.

-Taking indecent liberties with child-how proved, 238313; 272-76.

-Act of 1903 as to crimes against children held unconstitutional, 224-125.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prevent and punish wrongs to children," approved May 17, 1877, in force July 1, 1877. (1895.) (Hurd Ch. 38-492.)

1. That sections 42a, 42b, 42c, 42d, 42e and 53 be amended so as to read as follows:

42a. It shall be unlawful for any person having the care, custody or control of any child under the age of fourteen years to exhibit, use or employ, or in any manner, or under any pretense, sell, apprentice, give away, let out or otherwise dispose of any such child to any person in or for the vocation or occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider or acrobat in any place whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice whatsoever, or for, or in any business, exhibition or vocation injurious to the health, or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure or encourage any such child to engage therein. Nothing in this section contained shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any such child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or in the teaching or learning the science or practice of music.

-Act of 1903 held invalid, 224-125.

-Indictment for, 268-635.

-Punishment held not excessive, 268-635.

42b. It shall also be unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or have in custody any child under the age and for the purposes prohibited in section 42a hereof.

42c. When it shall appear that any person has made such unlawful use of, or has committed a criminal assault upon any child, such child shall be deemed to be in the custody of the court, who may make such order as is now provided by law in the case of vagrant, truant, disorderly, pauper or destitute children.

-Juvenile court act-notice to parent before commitment required, 223-346.