Page images
PDF
EPUB

ingly sells a copy or a substantial copy of any unpublished, undedicated or copyrighted dramatic composition or musical or dramatic musical composition, known as an opera, without the consent of the author or proprietor of such dramatical or dramatic musical composition shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) and not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00), or imprisoned for not less than thirty (30) days or more than three (3) months, or both such fine and imprisonment.

APPROVED June 1, 1907.

EMBALMING FLUIDS.

§ 3.

Penalty.

$ 1. Arsenic or strychnine in fluid indicated by label.

§ 2. Prohibits embalming with prepara tion containing arsenic or strychnine.

(SENATE BILL NO 232. APPROVED MAY 20, 1907.)

AN ACT to regulate the manufacture, sale, use or disposal of embalming fluids, containing arsenic or strychnine and providing for a penalty for the violation thereof.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no person, firm, corporation or co-partnership shall manufacture, give away, sell, expose for sale or deliver any embalming fluid or other fluid of whatsoever name, to be used for or intended for use in the embalming of dead human bodies, which contains arsenic or strychnine, without having the words "Arsenic contained herein" or "Strychnine contained herein" (as the case may be) written or printed upon a label pasted on the bottle, cask, flask or carboy in which said fluid shall be contained.

$ 2. No undertaker or other person shall embalm with, inject into, or place upon, any dead human body, any fluid or preparation of any kind which contains arsenic or strychnine.

83. Any person, firm, corporation or co-partnership who shall violate any provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00).

[blocks in formation]

AN ACT to regulate the sale of Paris green.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every lot or parcel of Paris green sold, or offered or exposed for sale, within the State shall have affixed thereto in a conspicuous place a printed label bearing the words, "High grade, for insecticide purposes," "or the words, "Not for in

secticide purposes," and every package labeled as of high grade for insecticide purposes shall have affixed thereto a plainly printed statement, clearly and truly certifying the name, brand or trade-mark under which the article is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer, importer or dealer, the net weight of the package and the percentage of arsenic in combination with copper which the Paris green in said package contains. If the Paris green is sold in bulk for insecticide purposes, or if it is put up in packages and sold at retail to the purchaser, the agent or dealer shall furnish the purchaser with the label and statement described in this section, and it shall be unlawful to sell, or to offer or expose for sale as of high grade for insecticide purposes any Paris green which does not contain arsenic in combination with copper equivalent to at least fifty (50) per cent of arsenious trioxide, or which contains arsenic in water-soluble forms equivalent to more than three and one-half (3%) per cent, of arsenious trioxide. § 2. Any manufacturer, importer, agent or other person selling, offering, or exposing for sale, any Paris green without the label required by section one of this Act, or selling, offering, or exposing for sale as of high grade for insecticide purposes, any Paris green without the printed statement required by section one of this Act, or with a label stating that the said Paris green contains substantially a larger percentage of arsenic in combination with copper than is actually present therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each offense.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the State's attorney of each county to prosecute the person or persons violating any provisions of this Act. APPROVED April 22, 1907.

[blocks in formation]

AN ACT to prohibit the sale of tickets for more than the price printed thereon, for theatres, circuses and places of amusement, and declaring same a misdemeanor, and fixing the penalties therefor.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of owners, lessees and managers of any theatre, circus, place of public entertainment or amusement to have printed on all tickets issued for admission thereto or for seats of such theatre, circus, place of public entertain- . ment or amusement, in conspicuous type, the price of such ticket, and the following words: This ticket can not be resold for more than the price printed hereon.

That any person or persons, firm or corporation, owning, occupying, managing or controlling any building. room, park or en

closure for the sale of tickets for theatres, circuses or places of public entertainment or amusement a price in excess of that received from any person or persons for the same privilege or in excess of the advertised or printed rate therefor, who shall ask, demand or receive from any person or persons for the sale of such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus or place of public entertainment or amusement, or any person, firm or corporation who by themselves, or by any agent or employé offers for sale upon any public place or thoroughfare, any such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus or place of public entertainment or amusement for admission thereto, or for a seat or other privilege therein at a price in excess of that received from any other person or persons for the same privilege, or in excess of the advertised or printed rate therefor shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation to establish an agency or sub-office for the sale of seat tickets of admission to a theatre, circus or place of public entertainment or amusement, at a price greater than that asked therefor at the box office of such theatre, circus, place of public entertainment or amusement, or in excess of the advertised price or printed rate therefor.

84. That the owner, lessee or occupant of any building, room enclosure or other place, who permits any person, persons, firm or corporation to sell or exhibit for sale, in said building, room or enclosure, or other place, any ticket or tickets for a theatre, circus or place of public entertainment or amusement, for more than the advertised price or the price printed thereon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 5. Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Act shall upon conviction be fined in a sum not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00, or confined in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

[blocks in formation]

AN ACT to prohibit the sale of tickets for more than the price printed thereon, for theatres, circuses and places of amusement, and declaring same a misdemeanor, and fixing the penalties therefor, and to repeal a certain Act herein named.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of owners, lessees and managers of any theatre, circus, place of public entertainment or amusement to have printed on all tickets issued for admission

thereto or for seats of such theatre, circus, place of public entertainment or amusement, in conspicuous type, the price of such ticket, and the following words: This ticket can not be resold for more than the price printed hereon.

That any person or persons, firm or corporation, owning, occupying, managing or controlling any building, room, park or enclosure for the sale of tickets for theatres, circuses or places of public entertainment or amusement, who shall ask, demand or receive from any person or persons for the sale of such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus or place of public entertainment or amusement, a price in excess of that received from any person or persons for the same privilege, or in excess of the advertised or printed rate therefor, or any person, firm or corporation who by themselves, or by any agent or employé offers for sale upon any public place or thoroughfare, any such ticket or tickets to a theatre, circus, or place of public entertainment or amusement, for admission thereto, or for a seat or other privilege therein, at a price in excess of that received from any other person or persons for the same privilege, or in excess of the advertised or printed rate therefor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, firm or corporation to establish an agency or sub-office for the sale of seat tickets of admission to a theatre, circus or place of public entertainment or amusement, at a price greater than that asked therefor at the box office of such theatre, circus, place of public entertainment or amusement, or in excess of the advertised price or printed rate therefor.

4. That the owner, lessee or occupant of any building, room, enclosure or other place open to the public, who permits any person, persons, firm or corporation to sell or exhibit for sale in said building, room or enclosure, or other place open to the public, any ticket for theatre, circuses or place of public entertainment or amusement, for more than the price printed thereon, shall be equally liable as principal.

§ 5. Any person, persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than $50.00 nor more than $200.00, or confined in the county jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both, in the discretion of the court.

§ 6. That an Act entitled "An Act to prohibit the sale of tickets for more than the price printed thereon, for theatres, circuses, and places of amusement, and declaring same a misdemeanor, and fixing the penalties therefor," approved April 22, 1907, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 4, 1907.

VAGABONDS.

§ 1. Amends section 271, Act of 1874.

271. Provides for arrest and punishment of vagabonds.

(SENATE BILL No. 293. APPROVED MAY 24, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section 271 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1876, [1874], as amended by an Act approved April 27, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 271 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, as amended by an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved April 27. 1877, in force July 1, 1877, be amended to read as follows:

8271. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, bailiff of the municipal court of Chicago, constable, city marshal and police officers of any county, town, village, city or other municipality in this State, to arrest, upon warrant, and bring before the nearest justice of the peace or police magistrate, or, if within the city of Chicago, before the municipal court of Chicago, any such vagabond, wherever he may be found, for the purpose of examination; and if he pleads guilty, or if he be found guilty, either by the verdict of a jury or by the finding of the said justice of the peace, police magistrate, or municipal court, where a jury trial is waived, the said justice of the police, police magistrate or municipal court may sentence the said vagabond to imprisonment at hard. labor upon the streets or highways, or in the jail, calaboose or other buildings used for penal purpose [purposes] of the county, town, village, city or other municipality in which such vagabond was convicted; or to the house of correction of any city having a contract with such county for the care of prisoners, for a term of not less than ten (10) days and not exceeding six months, in the discretion of the said justice of the peace, police magistrate or municipal court; or the said justice of the peace, police magistrate or municipal court may sentence the said vagabond to pay a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) and costs of suit; and in default of the immediate payment of said fine and costs so imposed, said vagabond shall thereupon be sentenced by said justice of the peace, police magistrate or municipal court to imprisonment at hard labor in said jail, calaboose, or other building used for penal purposes, or in said house of correction, or on the streets or public highways until said fine and costs are worked out at the rate of $1.50 per day for each day's work, or until said fine and costs shall have been otherwise paid. or until said vagabond is discharged according to law.

APPROVED May 24, 1907.

« PreviousContinue »