to institute suit in any court of competent jurisdiction against said trustees, or such of them as are responsible for any misappropriation or wrongful use of said funds, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, for the use of said association, to recover from such trustees, so responsible for such misappropriation or wrongful use of said money of said association, the amount of money so misappropriated or wrongfully used, and it is hereby made the duty of such State's Attorney, when so directed by said County Court, to institute and prosecute such suit to final judgment.

§ 11. For misconduct in office any of said trustees of said cemetery association may be removed from office by order of the county judge of the county in which said association is situated and any trustee of such an association who shall convert any funds of such association to his own use, or to a use other than that intended, shall be guilty of embezzlement and punished accordingly.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

CHARITIES.

AID TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.

1. Amends section 11, Act of 1913.

§ 11. As amended, provides mothers who are entitled to a homestead under the Exemption Laws of this State or to a dower right in real estate of the value of not more than $1,000 shall not be denied relief under this Act.

(HOUSE BILL No. 537. APPROVED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the partial support of mothers whose husbands are dead or have become permanently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity when such mothers have children under fourteen years of age, and are residents of the county in which application for relief is made; and also, to provide for the probationary visitation, care and supervision of the family for whose benefit such support is provided," approved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, (title as amended by Act approved June 28, 1915), as subsequently amended, by amending section 11 thereof.

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 provide for the partial support of mothers whose husbands are dead or have become permanently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity when such mothers have children under fourteen years of age, and are residents of the county in which application for relief is made; and also, to provide for the probationary visitation, care and supervision of the family for whose benefit such support is provided.” approved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913 (title as amended by Act approved June 28, 1915), as subsequently amended, be and the same is

hereby amended by amending section 11 thereof to read as inserted at length herein.

§ 11. Such relief shall be granted by the court only upon the following conditions:

(1) The child or children for whose benefit the relief is granted must be living with the mother of such child or children; (2) the court must find that it is for the welfare of such child or children to remain at home with the mother; (3) the relief shall be granted only when in the absence of such relief the mother would be required to work regularly away from her home and children, or when in the absence of such relief it would be necessary to commit such child or children to a dependent institution and when by means of such relief she will be able to remain at home with her children, except that she may be absent for work a definite number of days each week to be specified in the court's order, when such work can be done by her without the sacrifice of health or the neglect of home and children; (4) such mother must, in the judgment of the court, be a proper person, physically, mentally and morally fit, to have the care and custody of her children; (5) the relief granted shall, in the judgment of the court, be necessary to save the child or children from neglect; (6) a mother shall not receive such relief who is the owner of real property or personal property other than the household goods, but no mother who shall be the holder of, or entitled to, a homestead under the exemption laws of this State, or who is the holder of, or entitled to a dower right in real estate, provided the fair cash market value of said real estate is not more than one thousand ($1,000) dollars, shall be denied relief under the provisions of this Act; (7) a mother shall not receive such relief who has not resided in the county where the application is made at least three years next before making such application; (8) a mother shall not receive such relief if her child or children has or have relatives of sufficient ability, and who shall be obligated by the finding and judgment of the court by competent jurisdiction, to support them.

APPROVED June 11, 1917.

AID TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN-PROBATIONARY, VISITATION, ETC. 1. Amends section 2, Act of 1913. § 2. Application for relief.

(HOUSE BILL No. 794. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the partial support of mothers whose husbands are dead or have become peramnently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity, when such mothers have children under fourteen years of age and are residents of the county in which application for relief is made, and also to provide for the probationary visitation, care and superrision of the family for whose benefit such support is provided," approved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as subsequently amended, by amending section 2 thereof.

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

provide for the partial support of mothers whose husbands are dead or have become permanently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity, when such mothers have children under fourteen years of age and are residents of the county in which application for relief is made, and also to provide for the probationary visitation, care and supervision of the family for whose benefit such support is provided," approved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section two(2) thereof to read as follows:

§ 2. A woman whose husband is dead and was a resident of the State of Illinois at the time of his death, or whose husband has become permanently incapacitated for work by reason of physical or mental infirmity, and become so incapacitated while a resident of this State may file an application for relief under this Act, provided such woman has a previous residence for three years in the county where such application is made and is the mother of a child or children.

APPROVED June 26, 1917.

ALTON STATE HOSPITAL-PLANS.

§ 1. Amends sections 3, Act of 1911.

§ 3. As amended, provides plans shall be prepared for buildings necessary to accommodate five thousand inmates.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 121. APPROVED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act providing for the locating, constructing and completing of a State hospital for the insane, and providing for the creation thereof," approved June 7, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, by amending section three (3) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled: "An Act providing for the locating, constructing and completing of a State hospital for the insane, and providing for the creation thereof," approved June 7, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, be, and the same is hereby amended, by amending section three (3) thereof, so that the said section, when amended, shall read as follows:

§ 3. After the acquisition of the site and lands provided for in section two (2) of this Act, the Board of Administration shall cause to be prepared by the State Architect and his consulting engineer, a plan for the erection of all buildings necessary for the care and comfort of not to exceed five thousand (5,000) inmates, together with suitable quarters for a superintendent, officers and employees; that all of the buildings provided for in this Act, shall be of the most approved type of fireproof construction, plain, durable and free from unnecessary ornamentation; that the plan shall provide all necessary heating, lighting, power. ventilating, water supply and drainage appliances, and all other necessary things to insure an institution adequate for the purposes intended and sanitary in all respects.

APPROVED June 11, 1917.

SOLDIERS AND SAILORS-BURIAL OF DECEASED, INDIGENT, ETC. 1. Amends sections 2, Act of 1907. § 2. Expense-burial-funeral.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 721. FILED JUNE 27, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the burial of deceased, indigent or friendless soldiers, sailors or marines of the late Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising in China, or their mothers, wives or widows," approved May 24, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as subsequently amended, by amending the title thereof.

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 provide for the burial of deceased, indigent or friendless soldiers, sailors or marines of the late Civil War, the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising in China, or their mothers, wives or widows," approved May 24, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending the title thereof to read as follows:

An Act to provide for the burial of deceased soldiers, sailors or marines of the late Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine insurrection and the Boxer uprising in China, or their mothers, wives or widows.

§2. The expense of such burial shall not exceed the sum of seventyfive dollars; such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead, or in that portion of any burial ground so used; and, provided, that in case relatives of the deceased, who are unable to bear the expense of burial, desire to conduct the funeral, they may be allowed to do so, and the expense thereof shall be paid as hereinafter provided.

FILED June 27, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days. Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

STATE FARM FOR BOYS ABOVE AGE OF 16 YEARS.

APPROVED JUNE 14, 1917.)

AN ACT to create a State farm.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an institution for the correction of male offenders, above the age of sixteen (16) years, whose offense is punishable by confinement in the county jail or workhouse, or house of correction, to be known as the Illinois State Farm, is hereby

authorized to be established at such place as shall be selected by the Department of Public Welfare.

§ 2. Such farm shall receive and provide proper work and care for all such male offenders above the age of sixteen (16) years, other than those sentenced or committed for the violation of municipal ordinances, whose sentence shall consist of confinement in any county jail or workhouse or house of correction for sixty (60) days or more, as may be committed to such farm. In all cases in which a court is now or hereafter may be authorized by law to sentence such male offenders, or commit such offenders to work out fine and costs, to a county jail or workhouse, such court is hereby authorized in its discretion to commit. or sentence to the Illinois State Farm. The transportation charges for conveying any such offenders to said farm shall be paid by the city or county from which such offenders are committed.

§ 3. The management and control of such farm shall be vested in said Department, which is hereby charged with the duty to carry out the purposes of this Act with all possible expedition.

§ 4. Said Department shall establish all rules and regulations necessary for the management of such farm.

offer

§ 5. Said Department shall select and purchase or lease a site for such farm, which site shall consist of not less than five hundred (500) acres of land in a body. In such selection the objects and purposes of such farm shall be kept in view, uninfluenced by any offer of land or other donations or inducements. Such site shall as near as may be, the following natural advantages: It shall be of varied topography with natural resources and advantages for varied forms of husbandry, fruit-growing and stock-raising, for brick-making and for the preparation of road and paving material, and shall have good railroad connections, drainage, sewerage and water.

§ 6. Said Department shall cause plans for specifications for the necessary buildings and improvements on such farm to be prepared. Such buildings and improvements shall be plain but substantial in their character, shall be designed for the purposes for which they are intended, and shall be constructed and maintained, so far as possible, by the labor of the persons committed to such farm.

§ 7. In the construction of such buildings and the making of such improvements, said Department shall be authorized to utilize the labor of such inmates of the Illinois State Penitentiary at Joliet, the Southern Illinois Penitentiary, and the Illinois State Reformatory, as may be deemed expedient by said Department.

§ 8. It shall be the purpose of such farm to employ all prisoners committed thereto, in work on or about the buildings and farm in growing products and supplies for its own use and for the use of the other institutions of the State, in preparation of road material and in making brick, tile, paving material and such other products as may be found practicable for the use of the State or any municipal subdivision thereof, and for the proper and healthful employment of such prisoners. APPROVED June 14, 1917.