(e) It shall be the duty of the county auditor to report quarterly to the county board all fees and emoluments due the county from the various county officers as earned, collected or received under performance to their duties. [§ 4.] (f) All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. APPROVED June 10, 1911. COUNTY BOARDS-EMPLOYMENT OF STENOGRAPHERS. § 1. Authorizes county boards to employ and pay stenographers. § 2. Acts legalized. (HOUSE BILL No. 556. APPROVED MAY 25, 1911.) AN ACT authorizing and empowering county boards to employ and pay a stenographer, and to legalize and make valid the acts of county boards heretofore done in employing and paying stenographers. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the county boards of the several counties of this State shall have power to employ and pay a stenographer. § 2. That all Acts heretofore done by county boards in employing and paying stenographers are hereby legalized and made valid, anything in any law of this State to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED May 25, 1911. COUNTY BOARDS-FUNDS FOR COUNTY FAIR EXHIBITS. Authorizes appropriation of funds for certain exhibits. at county fair-limitation. (HOUSE BILL No. 285. APPROVED MAY 25, 1911.) AN ACT to empower the board of supervisors in counties under township organization or the board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, to appropriate funds for educational or agricultural exhibits at county fairs. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the board of supervisors in counties under township organization or the board of county commissioners in counties not under township organization, shall have power to appropriate funds. to be used for educational or agricultural exhibits at the county fair held annually in their county: Provided, however, that the amount so appropriated shall not exceed, in any one year, the sum of three hundred dollars. APPROVED May 25, 1911. § 1. COUNTY BOARDS-FUNDS FOR FARMERS' INSTITUTES. (HOUSE BILL No. 149. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.) AN ACT to enable county boards of supervisors in counties under township organization and county commissioners in counties not under township organization, to appropriate county funds for use of county farmers' institutes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be lawful for county boards of supervisors in counties under township organization, and for county commissioners in counties not under township organization, to appropriate funds from the county treasury for use of county farmers' institutes in their efforts to promote the adoption of the latest approved methods of crop production, the improvement of live stock, the conservation of soil fertility, and the improvement of agricultural conditions generally Provided, that in no case shall it be lawful for a county board to appropriate more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) in any one year for the above purposes. APPROVED June 5, 1911. AN ACT entitled, "An Act to authorize boards of county commissioners or boards of supervisors, as the case may be, to lease space in court houses (not needed for county purposes) to the State or any court thereof, to cities, villages, towns, sanitary districts or other municipal corporations." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever it shall appear to any board of county commissioners or board of supervisors that there is space in the court house of the county governed by such board of county commissioners, or board of supervisors, not needed for county purposes, it shall be lawful for such board of county commissioners or board of supervisors, as the case may be, to lease any such space to the State or any court thereof, to any city, village, town, sanitary district or other municipal corporation for such period of time and upon such terms as may seem just and equitable to such board of county commissioners or board of supervisors, as the case may be. § 2. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED May 27, 1911. POWERS OF COUNTIES AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS. ༔ 1. Amends section 24, Act of 1874. § 24. As amended, adds sixth paragraph relating to real estate, buildings, etc., for agricultural experiments. (SENATE BILL No. 57. APPROVED JUNE 6, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section 24 of an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31, 1874, as amended by an Act approved April 26, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, and by adding thereto a paragraph to be known as sixth. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 24 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31, 1874; as amended by an Act approved April 26, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended, "by adding thereto a paragraph to be known as sixth," so as to read as follows: 24. Each county shall have power First-To purchase and hold the real and personal estate necessary for the uses of the county, and to purchase and hold, for the benefit of the county, real estate sold by virtue of judicial proceedings in which the county is plaintiff. Second-To sell and convey or lease any real or personal estate owned by the county. Third To make all contracts and do all other acts in relation to the property and concerns of the county necessary to the exercise of its corporate powers. Fourth-To take all necessary measures and institute proceedings to enforce all laws for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Fifth-To purchase and hold real estate upon which may be erected and maintained by the county a sanitarium for the care and treatment of residents of the county who may be afflicted with tuberculosis; and to purchase, hold and use all necessary personal property for the proper care and maintenance of such real estate and sanitarium. Sixth-To purchase and hold or lease real estate upon which may be erected and maintained buildings to be utilized for purposes of agricultural experiments and to purchase, hold and use personal property for the care and maintenance of such real estate in connection with such experimental purposes. APPROVED June 6, 1911. POWERS OF COUNTIES-HOSPITALS. § 1. Amends section 24, Act of 1874. (HOUSE BILL No. 434. § 24. As amended, adds sixth paragraph relating to hospitals. APPROVED JUNE 6, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section 24 of an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31, 1874, as amended by Act approved April 26, 1909, in force July 1, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 24 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31, 1874, as amended by Act approved April 26, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, be and the same hereby is amended to read as follows: § 24. Each county shall have power First-To purchase and hold the real and personal estate necessary for the uses of the county, and to purchase and hold, for the benefit of the county, real estate sold by virtue of judicial proceedings in which the county is plaintiff. Second-To sell and convey or lease any real or personal estate owned by the county. Third-To make all contracts and do all other acts in relation to the property and concerns of the county necessary to the exercise of its corporate powers. Fourth-To take all necessary measures and institute proceedings to enforce all laws for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Fifth-To purchase and hold real estate upon which may be erected and maintained by the county a sanitarium for the care and treatment of the residents of the county who may be afflicted with tuberculosis; and to purchase, hold and use all necessary personal property for the proper care and maintenance of such real estate and sanitarium. Sixth-To cause to be erected, or otherwise provided, suitable buildings for, and maintain a county hospital and necessary branch hospitals for the care of such sick as may by law be proper charges upon the county, and to provide for the management of the same. APPROVED June 6, 1911. AN ACT to aid in a more speedy disposition of the business of the appellate courts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assemblu: That the judges of the Supreme Court be and they are hereby authorized and empowered, whenever, in their opinion, the speedy disposition of the business of any appellate court of this State will be promoted thereby, to employ such number of competent persons as they may deem necessary, not exceeding three in any one district, to aid the judges of such appellate court in the disposition of the business of such court. Such employment may be made by a certificate in writing to that effect to be signed by a majority of the judges of the Supreme Court and filed in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts. § 2. The employment provided for in the preceding section of any one or more of the persons so employed may be terminated at any time by an order signed by a majority of the judges of the Supreme Court and filed in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, and such employment shall not continue in any event beyond the first day of July, A. D. 1913. § 3. The persons so employed shall be residents of the respective districts in and for which they are employed and shall receive for their services a compensation equal to the salary and compensation of the judges of the circuit courts in their respective districts which salary and compensation shall be payable in the same manner as the salary and compensation of said judges of the circuit court, that is to say, such compensation to the persons employed in the second, third and fourth appellate court districts shall be five thousand dollars ($5,000) per annum and shall be payable in quarterly installments out of the State treasury and such compensation of the persons employed in the first district shall be ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum and shall be payable in quarterly installments, one-half out of the State treasury and one-half out of the county treasury of Cook county. § 4. The persons so employed shall perform such work as they may be directed to perform by the judges of the appellate court of the district in which they are employed. APPROVED May 29, 1911. |