mentioned all pupils in the lowest three primary school years, or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools, shall each year be instructed in this subject orally for not less than three lessons a week for ten weeks in each year, by teachers using text books adapted for such oral instruction as a guide and standard. The local school authorities shall provide needed facilities and definite time and place for this branch in the regular courses of study. The text books in the pupils' hands shall be graded to the capacity of the fourth year, intermediate, grammar and high school pupils, or to corresponding classes as found in ungraded schools. For students below high school grade such text books shall give at least one-fifth their space, and for students of high school grade shall give not less than twenty pages to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics. The pages on this subject, in a separate chapter at the end of the book, shall not be counted in determining the minimum.

§ 2. In all normal schools, teachers' training classes and teachers' institutes, adequate time and attention shall be given to instruction in the best methods of teaching this branch, and no teacher shall be licensed who has not passed a satisfactory examination in this subject and the best methods of teaching it. Any school officer or officers who shall neglect or fail to comply with the provisions of this act shall forfeit and pay for each offense the sum of not less than five dollars no rmore than twenty five dollars.

APPROVED June 9, 1897.

SCHOOL ATTENDANCE.

AN ACT to promote attendance of children in schools and to prevent

truancy.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Every person having control of any child between the ages of seven (7) and fourteen (14) years shall annually cause such child to attend some public or private school for the entire time during which the school attended is in session, which period shall not be less than 110 days of actual teaching: Provided, that this act shall not apply in any case where the child has been or is being otherwise instructed, for a like period of time in each and every year in the elementary branches of education by a person or persons competent to give such instruction, or whose physical or mental condition renders his or her attendance impracticable or inexpedient, or who is excused for temporary absence for cause by the principal or teacher in charge of the school which said child attends. (As amended by act approved May 13, 1903.)

§ 2. For every neglect of such duty prescribed by section 1 of this act, the person so offending shall forfeit to the use of the public schools of the city, town or district in which such child resides, a sum not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than twenty dollars

($20) and costs of suit, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs of suit are fully paid. (As amended by act approved May 13, 1903.)

§ 3. The board of education in cities, towns, villages and school districts, and the board of school directors in school districts, shall appoint at the time of appointment or election of teachers each year one or more truant officers, whose duty it shall be to report all violations of this act to said board of education or board of directors and to enter complaint against and prosecute all persons who shall appear to be guilty of such violation. It shall also be the duty of said truant officer so appointed to arrest any child of school-going age that habitually haunts public places and has no lawful occupation, and also any truant child who absents himself or herself from school, and to place him or her in charge of the teacher having charge of any school which said child is by law entitled to attend, and which school shall be designated to said officer by the parent, guardian or person having control of said child. In case such parent, guardian or person shall designate a school without making or having made arrangements for the reception of said child in the school so designated, or in case he refuses or fails to designate any school, then such truant officer shall place such child in charge of the teacher of the public school. And it shall be the duty of said teacher to assign said child to the proper class and to instruct him or her in such studies as he or she is fitted to pursue. The truant officer so appointed shall be entitled to such compensation for services rendered under this act as shall be determined by the boards appointing them, and which compensation shall be paid out of the distributable school fund: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the parent, guardian or person having charge of such truant child, which has been placed in any school by the truant officer, to thereafter send said child to any other school which said child is by law entitled to attend.

§ 4. Any person having control of a child who, with intent to evade the provisions of this act, shall make a false statement concerning the age of the child, or the time such child has attended school, shall for such offense forfeit a sum of not less than three dollars ($3) nor more than twenty dollars ($20) for the use of the public schools in such city, town, village or district. (As amended by act approved May 13, 1903.)

§ 5. Any fine and penalty mentioned in this act may be sued for and recovered before any court of record or justice of the peace of the proper county, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, for the use of the public schools of the city, town, village or district in which said child resides.

APPROVED June 11, 1897.

STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

AN ACT to authorize the Secretary of State to print the proceedings of the State Teachers' Association.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Secretary of State is hereby authorized and empowered to have the proceedings of the Illinois State Teachers' Association printed and bound on the same terms as the proceedings of other State boards are printed.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to approve the manuscript of said proceedings before it is placed in the hands of the Secretary of State to be printed.

§ 3 It is hereby made the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, to be paid out of the appropriation for printing, upon a voucher properly certified to by the board of Commissioners of State Contracts.

APPROVED May 11, 1901.

TEACHERS' PENSION FUND.

AN ACT to provide for the formation and disbursement of a public school teachers' and public school employes' pension and retirement fund in cities having a population exceeding one hundred

thousand inhabitants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the board of education in cities having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, shall have power, and it shall be the duty of said board to create a public school teachers' and public school employés' pension and retirement fund, and for that purpose set apart the following moneys, to-wit:

1. An amount not exceeding 1 per cent per annum of the respective salaries paid to teachers and school employés elected by such board of education, which amount shall be deducted in equal installments from said salaries at the regular times for the payment of such salaries.

2. All moneys received from donations, legacies, gifts, bequests, or otherwise, on account of said fund.

3. All moneys which may be derived from any and all sources: Provided, however, that no tax shall ever be levied for said fund.

4. Any public school teacher or public school employé, a part of whose salary is now or may hereafter be set apart to provide for the fund herein created by this act, may be released from the necessities of making further payments to said fund by filing a written notice of his or her desire to withdraw from complying with the provisions of this act, with said board of trustees, which said resignation shall operate and go into effect immediately upon its receipt by said board of trustees. (As amended by act approved May 11, 1901.)

§ 2. The board of education, together with the superintendent of schools, and two representatives to be selected annually by the teachers and employés of the public schools under control of said board, shall form a board of trustees, a majority of whom shall determine the amount to be deducted from the salaries paid to teachers and employés as aforesaid, and shall have charge of, and administer said fund, and shall have power to invest the same as shall be deemed most beneficial to said fund, in the same manner and subject to the same terms and conditions as township treasurers are permitted to invest school funds in article four (4) of an act entitled, "An act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," in force May 21, 1889, and shall have power to make payments from said fund of annuities granted in pursuance of this act, and shall from time to time. make and establish such rules and regulations for the administration of said fund as they shall deem best.

§ 3. Said board of education shall have power, by a majority vote of all its members, to retire any female teacher or other female school employé who shall have taught in public schools or rendered service therein for a period aggregating twenty years; and any male teacher or male school employé who shall have taught or rendered service for a period aggregating twenty-five years, and such teacher or school employé also shall have the right after said term of service to retire and become a beneficiary under this act: Provided, however, that threefifths of said term of service shall have been rendered by said beneficiary within the limits of the municipality where said board of education has jurisdiction.

§ 4. Each teacher and school employé so retired or retiring shall thereafter be entitled to receive as an annuity one-half of the annual salary paid to said teacher or employé at the date of such retirement, said annuity to be paid monthly during the school year: Provided, however, that such annuity shall not exceed the sum of six hundred dollars ($600), which shall be paid by said board of education out of the fund created in accordance with this act in the manner provided by law for the payment of salaries.

§ 5. Said board of trustees is hereby given the power to use both the principal and the income of said fund for the payment of annuities hereinbefore mentioned, and shall have power to reduce, from time to time, the amount of all annuities: Provided, that such reduction shall be at the same rate in all cases.

§ 6. The president and secretary of such board of education shall certify monthly to the city treasurer all amounts deducted from the salaries of teachers, special teachers, principals and employés of the board of education in accordance with the provisions of this act, which amounts, as well as other moneys contributed to said fund, shall be set apart and held by said treasurer as a special fund for the purpose herein before specified, subject to the order of said board of education, superintendent of schools, and two representatives, as aforesaid, and shall be paid upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of said board of education.

§ 7. The city treasurer shall be custodian of said pension fund, and shall secure and safely keep the same subject to the control and direction of said board of trustees, and shall keep his books and accounts concerning said fund in such a manner as may be prescribed by the said board. And said books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection of the said board or any member thereof. The treasurer shall, within ten days after his election or appointment, execute a bond to the city, with good and sufficient securities, in such penal sum as the board shall direct, to be approved by the said board, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, and that he will safely keep and well and truly account for all moneys and profits which may come into his hands as such treasurer, and that on the expiration of his term of office he will surrender and deliver over to his successor all unexpended moneys and all property which may come into his hands as treasurer of such fund. Such bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk of such city, and in case of a breach of the same or the conditions thereof, suit may be brought on the same in the name of said city for the use of said board of trustees or of any person or persons injured by such breach.

§ 8. No teacher or other school employé who has been or who shall have been elected by said board of education shall be removed or discharged except for cause upon written charges, which shall be investigated and determined by the said board of education whose action shall be final. If at any time a teacher or school employé who is willing to continue is not re-employed or is discharged before the time when he or she would under the provisions of this act be entitled to a pension, then such teacher or school employé shall be paid back at once all the money, with interest, he or she may have contributed under the law.

APPROVED May 21, 1895.

1. The board of education has sole power to investigate and determine charges against teachers and school employés involving their removal, but the civil service act of 1895 applies, in all other respects, to offices and places of employment under such board. Brenan v. The People, 176-620.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

AN ACT to entitle women to vote at any election held for the purpose of choosing any officer under the general or special school laws of

this State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Any woman of the age of 21 years and upwards, belonging to either of the classes mentioned in article 7 of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, who shall have resided in this State one year, in the county 90 days. and in the election district 30 days preceding any election held for the purpose of choosing any officer of schools under the general or special school laws of this State, shall be entited to vote in such election in the school district of which she shall at the time have been for 30 days a