or to any other person lawfully entitled, all money and other property or assets received by such distributee as heir as aforesaid, and to save harmless the administrator of the estate against all claims or demands of the presumed decedent or of persons claiming through or under him. The bond hereinabove mentioned shall be filed with the clerk and, if approved by the court, shall be recorded and preserved by the clerk as other bonds. APPROVED June 7, 1911. AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE. APPROPRIATIONS TO COUNTY FAIRS AND SOCIETIES-DISTRIBUTION. 1. Amends section 7, Act of 1883. § 7. As amended, changes basis of distribution of appropriations. (SENATE BILL No. 393. APPROVED MAY 29, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section seven (7) of an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to the Department of Agriculture, agricuitural societies and agricultural fairs, and to provide for reports of the same," approved June 23, 1883, in force July 1, 1883, as amended by Act approved April 26, 1907, in force July 1, 1907. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section seven of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to the Department of Agriculture, agricultural societies and agricultural fairs and to provide for reports of the same," approved June 23, 1883, and in force July 1, 1883, as amended by Act approved April 26, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 7. Whatever money shall be appropriated to the Department of Agriculture shall be paid to the State Board of Agriculture and may be expended by them as in the opinion of said board will best advance the interests of agriculture, horticulture, manufactures and domestic arts in this State. All appropriations which shall be made for the benefit of county fairs or other agricultural societies shall be divided between such county fairs or agricultural societies as shall have given satisfactory evidence to said State board of having held an annual fair and made their annual report on or before the fifteenth day of November of each year to the State Board of Agriculture. Said appropriations shall be divided between such county fairs or agricultural societies which shall have complied with the conditions herein prescribed, as follows: To each of said county fairs or agricultural societies upon the following basis: First, sixty per cent of the first one thousand [dollars] ($1,000.00); second, fifty per cent on the second one thousand dollars ($1,000.00); third, forty per cent on the next two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); and fourth, thirty per cent on the succeeding two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) thereafter of the total amount of pre miums paid at its annual fair for the current year, for exhibits of horticulture, agriculture, poultry, live stock and domestic and mechanical arts: Provided, that if the amount appropriated by the General Assembly for the payment of the respective premiums shall be insufficient to pay the several amounts in full, then the sum shall be prorated amongst all the fairs entitled thereto. On or before the fifteenth of November of each year the president and secretary of each county fair or agricultural society claiming the benefit of any such appropriation shall file with the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture a sworn statement of the actual amount of cash premiums paid at the fair of the current season, which must correspond with the published offer of premiums and a further sworn statement that at such fair all gambling and gambling devices of whatsoever kind and the sale of intoxicating liquors have been prohibited and excluded from grounds of such county fair or agricultural society and all adjacent grounds under their authority or control. Such statement shall be accompanied by an itemized list of all premiums paid upon the basis of the premiums herein provided and a copy of the published premium list of such fair and a full statement of receipts and expenditures for the current year duly verified by the secretary of such fair or agricultural society. Such money shall be paid to the treasurer of the county fair or agricultural society upon his receipt countersigned by the secretary: Provided, that the amounts to be paid to any such county fair or agricultural society during any one year shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) each. (HOUSE BILL No. 670. APPROVED JUNE 7, 1911.) AN ACT to prevent the introduction and spread in Illinois of foul brood among bees, providing for the appointment of a State Inspector of Apiaries and prescribing his powers and duties. WHEREAS, The disease known as foul brood exists to a very considerable extent in various portions of this State, which, if left to itself, will soon exterminate the honey-bees; and, WHEREAS, The work done by an individual bee-keeper or by a State inspector is useless so long as the official is not given authority to inspect and, if need be, to destroy the disease when found; and, WHEREAS, There is a great loss to the bee-keepers and fruit growers of the State each year by the devastating ravages of foul brood. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Governor shall appoint a State Inspector of Apiaries, who shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and who may appoint one or more assistants, as needed, to carry on the inspection under his supervision. The inspector of apiaries shall receive for each day actually and necessarily spent in the performance of his duties the sum of four dollars to be paid upon bills of particulars certified to as correct by the said State Inspector of Apiaries, and approved by the Governor. § 2. It shall be the duty of every person maintaining or keeping any colony or colonies of bees to keep the same free from the disease known as foul brood and from every contagious and infectious disease among bees. All bee-hives, bee-fixtures or appurtenances where foul brood or other contagious or infectious diseases among bees exists, are hereby declared to be nuisances to be abated as hereinafter prescribed. If the inspector of apiaries shall have reason to believe that any apiary is infected by foul brood or other contagious disease, he shall have power to inspect, or cause to be inspected, from time to time, such apiary, and for the purpose of such inspection he, or his assistants, are authorized during reasonable business hours to enter into or upon any farm or premises, or other building or place used for the purpose of propagating or nurturing bees. If said inspector of apiaries, or his assistants, shall find by inspection that any person, firm or corporation is maintaining a nuisance as described in this section, he shall notify in writing the owner or occupant of the premises containing the nuisance so disclosed of the fact that such nuisance exists. He shall include in such notice a statement of the conditions constituting such nuisance, and order that the same be abated within a specified time and a direction, written or printed, pointing out the methods which shall be taken to abate the same. Such notice and order may be served personally or by depositing the same in the postoffice properly stamped, addressed to the owner or occupant of the land or premises upon which such nuisance exists, and the direction for treatment may consist of a printed circular, bulletin or report of the inspector cf apiaries, or an extract from same. If the person so notified shall refuse or fail to abate said nuisance in the manner and in the time prescribed in said notice, the inspector of apiaries may cause such nuisance to be abated, and he shall certify to the owner or person in charge of the premises the cost of the abatement and if not paid to him within sixty days thereafter the same may be recovered, together with the costs of action, before any court in the State having competent jurisdiction. In case notice and order served as aforesaid shall direct that any bees, hives, bee-fixtures or appurtenances shall be destroyed and the owner of such bees, hives, bee fixtures or appurtenances shall consider himself aggrieved by said order, he shall have the privilege of appealing within three days of the receipt of the notice to the county court of the county in which such property is situated. The appeal shall be made in like manner as appeals are taken to the county court from judgments of justices of the peace. Written notice of said appeal served by mail upon the inspector of apiaries shall operate to stay all proceedings until the decision of the county court, which may, after investigating the matter, reverse, modify or affirm the order of the inspector of apiaries. Such decision shall then become the order of the inspector of apiaries, who shall serve the same as hereinbefore set forth and shall fix a time within which such decision must be carried out. § 3. The inspector of apiaries shall, on or before the second Monday in December of each calendar year, make a report to the Governor and also to the Illinois State Bee Keepers' Association, stating the number of apiaries visited, the number of those diseased and treated, the number of colonies of bees destroyed and the expense incurred in the performance of his duties. § 4. Any owner of a diseased apiary or appliances taken there from, who shall sell, barter or give away any such apiary, appliance, queens or bees from such apiary, expose other bees to the danger of contracting such disease, or refuse to allow the inspector of apiaries to inspect such apiary, or appliances, shall be fined not less than $50.00 nor more than $100.00. APPROVED June 7, 1911. ANIMALS. § 1. DAIRY ANIMALS-TUBERCULIN TEST. What unlawful and void relative to tuberculin test for dairy animals. (HOUSE BILL No. 55. FILED JUNE 12, 1911.) AN ACT to prohibit the establishing and enforcing of the tuberculin test for dairy animals by any city, village, incorporated town, county or other corporate authority in the State of Illinois. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any city, village, incorporated town, county or other corporate authority in the State of Illinois by ordinance, rule or regulation other than may be established by the law of this State, to demand, fix, establish or require the tuberculin test to be applied to dairy animals as a means or measure of regulating and purifying milk, skimmed milk, cream and dairy products of said animals in any manner whatever, and every such ordinance, rule, by-law or regulation heretofore or hereafter passed, demanded, fixed, established or required by any such city, village, incorporated town, county or other corporate authority other than the State of Illinois, is hereby declared to be void and of no effect. FILED June 12, 1911. The Governor having failed to return this bill to the General Assembly during its session, and having failed to file it in my office, with his objections, within ten days after the adjournment of the General Assembly it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this 12th day of June, A. D. 1911. JAMES A. ROSE. AN ACT to amend section seven (7) of an Act entitled, “An Act to regulate the public service of stallions in Illinois," approved June 10, 1909, in force January 1, 1910. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section seven (7) of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the public service of stallions in Illinois," approved June 10, 1909, in force January 1, 1910, be and is hereby amended to read as follows: § 7. The license certificate issued for a stallion whose sire and dam are of pure breeding and the pedigree of which is registered in a stud book recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., in an Act entitled, "An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States and for other purposes," approved August 5, 1909, or the pedigree of which is registered in the stud book of one of the following names [named] associa tions, societies, clubs or corporations: American Trotting Register Association, American Association of Importers and Breeders of Belgian Draft Horses, Cleveland Bay Society of America, American Clydesdale Association, French Coach Horse Society of America, National French Draft Horse Association of America, German, Hanoverian & Oldenburg Coach Horse Association of America, American Hackney Horse Society, American Morgan Register Association, Percheron Society of America, The American Breeders' and Importers' Percheron Registry Company, American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association, American Shetland Pony Club, Welch Pony and Cob Society of America, American Shire Horse Association, American Suffolk Horse Association, The Jockey Club, Arabian Horse Club of America, shall be in the following form: ILLINOIS STALLION REGISTRATION BOARD. Certificate of the Pure-Bred Stallion No...... The pedigree of the stallion (name).. Owned by Bred by ... |