each State and county asylum, and to each county judge, and to the clerk of each county in the State, to be filed in his office. Until such certificate is made and filed the said cost of clothing and other incidental expenses of county insane patients shall continue to be a charge upon the county as under existing laws.

§ 8. In case the buildings of any State asylum shall at any time become overcrowded in carrying out the provisions of this Act, or the number of said buildings be reduced by fire or other casualty, the State Commissioners of Public Charities hereby are empowered in their discretion to cause the transfer of patients therefrom to another State asylum, where they can be conveniently received, or to make, in special emergencies temporary provision for their care, and all expenditures under this section shall be chargeable to the State and paid out of any appropriation made to carry out the provisions of this Act.

§ 9. Whenever in any district, established under the provisions of this Act, the buildings now existing and erected as herein provided for the use of the insane shall be filled with patients to their full capacity, the trustees thereof shall not receive further patients until vacancies occur, or new or additional accommodations are provided, and then only to the extent of the accommodations supplied. In any such case the condition of the asylum, so far as pertains to the purposes of this section, shall be certified by the trustees thereof to the State Commissioners of Public Charities, whereupon said commissioners shall, in compliance with rules to be made by said commissioners and communicated from time to time to the county judges, county clerks, and the trustees of the respective State asylums, make an order for the transfer of any pauper or indigent patient from the district in which there are no suitable accommodations to one, if any, in which suitable accommodations for his care exist. Preference is to be given to an asylum in an adjoining rather than to one in a remote district. Such order shall be executed in a mode prescribed by the State Commissioners of Public Charities. The expenses of the transfer of said pauper patients to said asylums beyond the limits of the district where the patient is regularly to be cared for, shall be chargeable to the State, and the bills for the same, when approved by the State Commissioners of Public Charities, shall be paid by the Treasurer of the State on the warrants of the Auditor out of any moneys appropriated to carry out the provisions of this Act. In case any insane person, his relatives, guardians or friends may desire that he may become an inmate of any State asylum situated beyond the limits of the district where he resides, and there be sufficient accommodation there to receive him, he may be received there in the discretion of the State Commissioners of Public Charities and the superintendent of such asylum. Any expense of removal, in such case, must be borne by the said insane persons' guardians, relatives or friends, as the case may be.

10. The State Commissioners of Public Charities, whenever they shall deem it necessary and expedient, by reason of overcrowding, or in order to prevent the same, shall, in their annual report to the Governor recommend the erection of such additional buildings on the

grounds of any or all State asylums then existing as shall in the judgment of said commissioners, provide sufficient accommodations for the immediate prospective wants of the insane of this State; or, if said commissioners deem it more expedient, they shall recommend the establishment of another State asylum or asylums in such part of the State as in their judgment will best meet the requirements of the insane.

§ II. It is the intent and meaning of this Act that, when and after the State shall have been divided into districts, as herein provided, and sufficient accommodations in State institutions shall have been provided for all the insane of all the counties of the State, and certified, as set forth in the seventh section of this Act, no insane person shall be permitted to remain under county care, but that all the insane who are now, or who may hereafter become a public charge, shall be transferred to the respective State asylums without unnecessary delay, there to be regarded and known as the wards of the State, and to be wholly supported by the State.

§ 12. The State Commissioners of Public Charities shall hereafter furnish the Governor, on or before the first day of December in each year, an estimate of the probable number of patients who will become inmates of the respective State asylums during the year beginning January first ensuing, and the cost of the additional buildings and equipment, if any, which will be required to carry out the provisions of this Act. After the certificate as to sufficiency of accommodation shall have been filed as provided by section seven of this Act, the trustees of each of the State asylums shall, on or before the first day of December in each year, furnish to the Governor an estimate of the cost of maintaining the probable number of patients who will be inmates of the respective asylums during the year beginning January first next ensuing. On the basis of these estimates the Governor shall, in his next annual message to the legislature, state his estimate of the amount to be provided for by the State for the support of such insane persons, and for the erection and equipment of such buildings as may be recommended.

13. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall not apply to or include counties of over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, until all the counties of this State having a population of less than 150,000 shall have been provided for and except as provided in the succeeding section of this Act, nor shall it be construed to affect those provisions of existing statutes by which such counties aforesaid are now permitted to send their acute and chronic insane to State asylums.

§ 14. Whenever the counties of over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants, or any one of them, desire to be included in the provisions of this Act, application may be made in writing to the Governor, by the respective county authorities in either of said counties, to transfer any or all of such buildings, land, appurtenances and equipment as are used by them as county insane asylums to the State for the same purpose. The Governor shall thereupon transmit said application to the State Commissioners of Public Charities, whereupon said commissioners shall examine into the condition of such buildings, land, appurtenances and equipment, with a view to ascertain whether such prop

erty is suitable for the purposes of a State asylum for the insane; and shall report its findings and conclusion to the Governor. Whereupon, if the Governor shall approve the same, said county insane ayslum shall be converted into a State asylum for the insane, the insane persons in said county asylums, and those received thereafter, shall be provided for in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

§ 15. The word "insane" as used in this Act, shall be construed to mean any person who, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of managing and caring for his own estate, or is dangerous to himself or others, if permitted to go at large, or is in such condition of mind or body as to be a fit subject for care and treatment in a hospital or asylum for the insane: Provided, that no person, idiot from birth, or whose mental development was arrested by disease or physical injury occurring prior to the age of puberty, and no person who is afflicted with simple epilepsy shall be regarded as insane, unless the manifestations of abnormal excitability, violence or homicidal or suicidal impulses are such as to render his confinement in a hospital or asylum for the insane a proper precaution to prevent him from injuring himself or others.

§ 16. No insane person now or hereafter, under the care of any State asylum in this State, shall be returned or committed to the care of any county insane asylum or almshouse, or to any county, town or city authorities; and the said county, town and city authorities are hereby forbidden to receive any such patient who may be returned or committed to them in violation of this section. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to the counties, or to the county. authorities of the counties named in section thirteen of this Act, except as to such county or counties, or the authorities thereof, as shall have transferred to the State their county insane asylums as provided in section thirteen of this Act.

§ 17. The State Commissioners of Public Charities shall secure from relatives or friends, who are liable or may be willing to assume the costs of support of inmates of State hospitals supported by the State, reimbursement, in whole or in part, of the money expended for such support; said commissioners may appoint agents, whose duty it shall be to secure from relatives and friends who are liable therefor, or who may be willing to assume the costs of the support of any such inmates, reimbursement, in whole or in part, of the money so expended. The compensation of each agent shall not exceed five dollars a day and the necessary traveling and other incidental expenses actually incurred by him to be approved by the Auditor of Public Accounts.

The said commissioners may fix a rate to be paid for the support of the inmates of State hospitals by the relatives liable for such support, or by those not liable for such support but willing to assume the costs thereof, but such rate shall be sufficient to cover the proper proportion of the cost of maintenance and necessary repairs and improvements. APPROVED June 4, 1907.

AN ACT to amend section six (6) of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children," approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, and as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1905, in force July 1, 1905.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section six (6) of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children," approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, and as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1905, and in force July 1, 1905, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 6. PROBATION OFFICERS.] The court shall have authority to appoint or designate one or more discreet persons of good character to serve as probation officers during the pleasure of the court; said probation officers to receive no compensation from the public treasury. In case a probation officer shall be appointed by any court, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court, if practicable, to notify the said probation officer in advance when any child is to be brought before the court; it shall be the duty of the said probation officer to make such investigation as may be required by the court; to be present in court in order to represent the interest of the child when the case is heard; to furnish to the court such information and assistance as the judge nay require; and to take such charge of any child before and after trial as may be directed by the court: Provided, however, that in counties having over five hundred thousand population, the judges of the circuit court, by rule to be entered of record, shall determine a number of probation officers, including one head probation officer, to be employed during each year, who shall be paid a suitable compensation for their services. The head probation officer shall have charge and control of all other probation officers, subject to the direction of the court. The judges of said court shall notify the president of the board of county commissioners or supervisors of said county, as the case may be, of the number of said probation officers so determined, who are to be paid as herein provided; and said probation officers, including the head probation officer, as aforesaid, shall be appointed in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as other officers or employés in the said county under the board of commissioners or supervisors of the county, as the case may be, and shall be paid a suitable compensation by the county for their services, the amount thereof to be determined by such board of commissioners or supervisors, as the case may be: Provided, further, that in counties having a population of less than five hundred thousand (500,000), the county judge of any such county shall have the authority to designate some suitable person to act as

probation officer, during the pleasure of the court; and such probation officer shall be paid a suitable compensation for his services, such compensation to be fixed by the board of county commissioners, or board of supervisors of such county, as the case may be, such compensation to be paid out of the county treasury by such county, monthly, upon certification by the county judge of such county. Such board of county commissioners or board of supervisors of any such counties may, if they deem it necessary or advisable, upon recommendation of the county judge, provide for the employment of additional probation officers, and shall have like authority to fix their compensation; and if such additional probation officers are authorized, as aforesaid, the same shall be appointed by the county judge of such county, and be paid out of the county treasury, monthly, upon proper certification of such county judge. Such probation officers shall have the same powers and perform the same duties as other probation officers under the provisions of this Act. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be held to limit or abridge the power of the judge or judges so designated under section 3 of this Act to hear cases coming under this Act, to appoint persons or probation officers whom said judge or judges may see fit, and who shall serve without pay for such services as probation officers. APPROVED April 19, 1907.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, "An Act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children," approved April 1, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by an act approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and as further amended by an act approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, by amending the title and sections 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 15, and 22 thereof, and by adding thereto nine (9) new sections to be known as sections 9a, 9b, 9c, 9d, 9e, 23, 24, 25 and 26.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, reprepresented in the General Assembly: That an act entitled, "An Act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and de