§ 3. It shall be the duty of the said commission to select and obtain by donation, purchase, or otherwise, for the State, a suitable site for the re-location of the Illinois State Penitentiary and the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals, at or near the city of Joliet, Illinois: Provided, that the site upon which such Illinois State Penitentiary and Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals are located shall contain not less than two thousand acres in one body. The conveyances of such site, after the title thereto has been passed upon and approved by the Attorney General, shall be taken in the name of the People of the State of Illinois and the deeds therefor and other evidences of title, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

§ 4. In case said commission cannot acquire title to the land so selected, or any part thereof, either by purchase or donation, said commission is hereby invested with power to obtain the title to any site so selected, or any part thereof, by condemnation under the eminent domain laws of this State.

§ 5. After said commission shall have selected a suitable site for the relocation of the Illinois State Penitentiary and the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals and acquired for the State title thereto, it shall be the duty of said commissioners to cause to be prepared the necessary plans and specifications by a competent architect, or board of architects, of established reputation for ability and integrity, (the said commission being hereby authorized to employ and pay such architect, or board of architects, out of the appropriation hereinafter made) for the construction of the necessary building, or buildings, for the confinement and employment of convicts and for the confinement of insane criminals, including buildings, walls, guard rooms, work shops and yards, dining rooms, kitchens, bakeries, laundries, coal houses, store houses, hospitals, chapels and rooms or buildings for the keeper, or keepers, heating and lighting plants, and such other buildings, improvements and structures as such commission may deem advisable, together with a system of sewerage and water supply, to cost, including the amount paid for the site so selected, in the aggregate not to exceed two million dollars.

Upon the approval by said commission of such plans and specifications, it shall be the duty of said commission to proceed with the construction of such building or buildings, improvements and structures in accordance therewith.

§ 6. The construction and erection of such building, or buildings, improvements and structures shall be under the supervision and direction of the commissioners hereinbefore named. Said commissioners in constructing and erecting said building, or buildings, improvements and structures, shall have full power to make all necessary contracts and to employ such superintendents, agents, overseers and workmen as they may deem necessary, and shall procure all necessary implements, tools and machinery to be used in the construction and erection of said building, or buildings, improvements and structures and the stone and necessary materials therefor.

7. In the construction of said building, or buildings, improvements and structures, said commission shall use as far as practicable the labor of the convicts confined in the Illinois State Penitentiary, and

for this purpose said commissioners are hereby authorized to cause convicts confined in the Illinois State Penitentiary to be taken beyond the walls of said penitentiary for the purpose of laboring on or about the building, or buildings, and other works in the construction of said penitentiary and in getting out and preparing materials therefor until the same shall be completed. Whenever said convicts are employed on said buildings, improvements, structures and other works, the warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary shall provide for the care and safe custody of the convicts so employed.

§ 8. In lieu of constructing said building, or buildings, improvements and structures, in the manner provided by sections six and seven of this Act, said commissioners, if they deem it advisable and for the best interests of the State, may let by contract the construction of said building, or buildings, improvements and structures, or any part of them, to the lowest and best responsible bidder. Before any contract is let under the provisions of this section, said commissioners shall advertise for bids for thirty days in at least one newspaper in each of the following named cities, to-wit: Chicago, Springfield, Bloomington, Peoria, Decatur, East St. Louis, and Joliet. At the expiration of thirty days, at an appointed time and place, said commissioners shall open in the presence of all the bidders present, all the bids that have been received by them, and shall enter into contract with the lowest and best responsible bidder, or bidders for the construction of such building, or buildings, improvements or structures, as are mentioned in such advertisement, requiring or taking from said contractor, or contractors, a good and sufficient bond for the faithful performance of said contract according to the specifications: Provided, the commissioners shall reserve the right to reject any and all such bids, and may readvertise as many times as in their judgment they may deem best.

It shall be a condition precedent in letting such contract, or contracts, that said contractor, or contractors, shall employ the labor of the convicts confined in the Illinois State Penitentiary upon terms to be agreed upon between said commissioners and said contractors. It shall be the duty of said commissioners upon each periodical settlement with said contractors to retain in the funds herein appropriated the amount of the contract price of the labor performed by said convicts prior to such settlement.

§ 9. In order to carry out the provisions of this Act and to secure a site and begin the construction of such building, or buildings, improvements and structures, there is hereby appropriated the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, to be subject to the order of said commission on the terms and conditions set forth in section 10 of this Act.

§ 10. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby directed and empowered to pay out upon vouchers signed by a majority of the commission herein named, all or any part of the sum so appropriated in section 9 of this Act.

APPROVED June 5, 1907.

(HOUSE BILL No. 531. APPROVED JUNE 4, 1907.)

AN ACT making an appropriation for the Illinois State Poultry Association.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: The sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per annum for the years 1907 and 1908 be, and is hereby, appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated for the use and benefit of the Illinois State Poultry Association, said amount to be used for the purpose of paying premiums, providing uniform coops and defraying the expenses incurred in holding annual meetings, and for such other purposes as in the judg ment of said association shall best subserve the poultry interests of the State of Illinois.

§ 2. No officer or officers of the Illinois State Poultry Association shall be entitled to or receive any moneyed compensation whatever for any service for the same.

3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the same and deliver it to the treasurer of the Illinois State Poultry Association, upon his presenting proper itemized vouchers therefor, certified to by the president and secretary of said association under seal of such corporation.

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the Illinois State Poultry Association to pay out of said appropriation, on itemized and receipted vouchers, such sums as may be authorized by vote of said organization on the order of the president, countersigned by the secretary, and make annual report to the Governor of all expenditures, as provided by law.

(SENATE BILL NO. 145. APPROVED MARCH 11, 1907.)

AN ACT making an appropriation for a deficiency in the appropriations for the purchase of printing paper and stationery and for making payments for printing and binding for the State under State con

tracts.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of $3,000 be and is hereby appropriated to the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts

to meet the deficiency for the purchase of printing paper and stationery now under contract.

That the sum of $5,000.00 be and is hereby appropriated to the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts to meet the deficiency for the public printing of the State, now under contract.

83. That the sum of $5,000.00 be and is hereby appropriated to the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts to meet the deficiency in the appropriation for the public binding of the State, now under con

tract.

§ 4. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer for the sums herein specified, upon presentation of vouchers certified to by the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts and approved by the Governor, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 5. WHEREAS, The appropriations above recited are necessary for the transaction of the business of the State; therefore, an emergency exists, and this Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 11, 1907.

RELIEF ESTATE OF JUSTICE WILKIN.

1. Appropriates $1,805.55 for salary- how drawn.

(SENATE BILL No. 540. APPROVED MAY 17, 1907.)

AN ACT to appropriate two months' and five days' salary to the estate of the late Justice Wilkin.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of $1,805.55 be and is hereby appropriated for the payment of two months' and five days' salary, from April 4, 1907, to the 8th day of June, 1907, of the late Justice Jacob W. Wilkin, one of the justices of the Supreme Court, to his estate, this being from the time of his death until the election of his successor; and that the Auditor shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of the administrator or administratrix of Jacob W. Wilkin for the amount hereby appropriated.

APPROVED May 17, 1907.

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RELIEF-MARY E. MCDONOUGH AND MRS. DANIEL BUETTNER.

1. Appropriates $675.20-how drawn. | § 2.

(HOUSE BILL No. 883.

Emergency.

APPROVED JUNE 4, 1907.)

AN ACT making an appropriation of the amount of the uncollected salaries of Daniel V. McDonough and Daniel Buettner, deceased members of the Forty-fifth General Assembly, in favor of the mother and widow of each respectively.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of six hundred and seventy-five dollars and twenty cents ($675.20) is hereby appropriated and directed to be paid from any funds not otherwise appropriated in the treasury of Illinois, which said sum shall be paid by the Treasurer upon the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts of Illinois in manner as follows: Three hundred thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents ($337.60) to Mary E. McDonough, mother of Daniel V. McDonough, three hundred thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents ($337.60) to the widow of Daniel Buettner, the said Daniel V. McDonough and the said Daniel Buettner each being deceased members of the Forty-fifth General Assembly of Illinois.

§ 2. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, this Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED June 4, 1907.

STATE ENTOMOLOGIST-OFFICE EQUIPMENT.

1. Duties-investigations-experiments -lectures-demonstrations-bul

letins-report.

2. Appropriates $25,000 per annum.

(SENATE BILL NO. 230.

§ 3. Advisory committee.

§ 4. How drawn.

APPROVED MAY 25, 1907.)

AN ACT to provide for the office of the State Entomologist, to define its duties, and to extend its equipment.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of the State Entomologist to investigate, by himself or by his assistants, all insects dangerous or injurious in this State to agricultural and horticultural plants and crops, to live stock, to nursery trees and plants, to the products of the truck farm and the vegetable garden, to the shade trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and towns, to the products of mills and the contents of warehouses, and to all other valuable property, and to investigate all insects in this State injurious or dangerous to the public health; and he shall conduct experiments with methods for the prevention, arrest, abatement and control of injuries to person and property by such insects, giving no preference in his investigations to one part of the State over another. He shall,