3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State agent for the visitation of children, his assistants, other officers and employees;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the commissioners, warden, deputy wardens, chaplains, physicians, stewards, matrons, turnkeys, watchmen, and all other officers and employees of the Illinois State penitentiary at Joliet;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the commissioners, warden, deputy warden, chaplain, physician, steward, matron, turnkeys, watchmen, and all other officers and employees of the Southern Illinois penitentiary;

6. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of managers of the Illinois State reformatory, its superintendent, chaplain, physician and all other officers and employees;

7. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of prison industries of Illinois, its officers and employees;

8. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of prison industries of Illinois, the president of the State Board of Public Charities, and the Auditor of Public Accounts of Illinois, constituting a board known as the board of classification, its officers and employees;

9. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of pardons, its secretary and other officers and employees.

§ 54. The board of public welfare commissioners shall, in addition to the power vested by this Act in advisory and non-executive boards, have power, and it shall be its duty:

1. To investigate into the condition and management of the whole system of charitable, penal and reformatory institutions of the State, including State hospitals, penitentiaries, reformatories, jails and almshouses;

2. To investigate, when directed by the Governor, into any or all phases of the equipment, management or policy of any State charitable, penal or reformatory institution, and report its findings and recommendations to the Governor;

3. To inquire into the equipment, management and policies of all institutions and organizations coming under the supervision and inspection of the Department of Public Welfare;

4. To collect and publish annually statistics relating to insanity and crime.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

§ 55. The Department of Public Health shall have power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health, its secretary and executive officer, other officers and employees, except the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health under the Act to regulate the practice of medicine and the Act to regulate the practice of embalming;

2. To have the general supervision of the interests of the health and lives of the people of the State;

3. To act in advisory capacity relative to public water supplies, water purification works, sewerage system, and sewage treatment works, and to exercise supervision over nuisances growing out of the operation of such water and sewage works, and to make, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations relating to such nuisances;

4. To make such sanitary investigations as it may, from time to time, deem necesary for the preservation and improvement of public health;

5. To make examinations into nuisances and questions affecting the security of life and health in any locality in the State;

6. To maintain chemical, bacteriological and biological laboratories, to make examinations of milk, water, sewage, wastes, and other substances, and to make such diagnosis of diseases as may be deemed necessary for the protection of the people of the State;

7. To purchase and distribute free of charge to citizens of the State diphtheria antitoxin, typhoid vaccine, smallpox vaccine and other sera, vaccines and prophylactics such as are of recognized efficiency in the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases;

8. To obtain, collect and preserve such information relative to mortality, morbidity, disease and health as may be useful in the discharge of its duties or may contribute to the promotion of health or to the security of life in this State;

9. To make investigations and inquiries with respect to the causes of disease, especially epidemics, and to investigate the causes of mortality and the effect of localities, and other conditions upon the public health, and to make such other sanitary investigations as it may deem necesary for the preservation and improvement of the public health;

10. To keep informed of the work of local health officers and agencies throughout the State;

11. To promote the information of the general public in all matters pertaining to public health;

12. To supervise, aid, direct and assist local health authorities or agencies in the administration of the health laws;

13. To enlist the cooperation of organizations of physicians and other agencies for the promotion of the public health in the improvement of health and sanitary conditions throughout the State;

14. To make sanitary, sewage, health and other inspections and examinations for the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions and the normal schools;

15. To inspect, from time to time, all hospitals, sanitaria, and other institutions conducted by county, city, village or township authorities, and to report as to the sanitary conditions and needs of such hospitals, sanitaria and institutions to the official authority having jurisdiction over them;

16. To print, publish and distribute documents, reports, bulletins, certificates and other matter relating to the prevention of diseases and the health and sanitary condition of the State.

THE DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND COMMERCE.

§ 56. The Department of Trade and Commerce shall have power: 1. To exercise through the Public Utilities Commission created by this Act all the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Public Utilities Commission, its officers and employees;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the insurance superintendent, his officers and employees;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the chief inspector of grain, deputy grain inspectors, deputy chief grain inspector, and the warehouse registrar, the assistant warehouse registrars, State weighmasters, assistate State weighmasters, and other officers and employees of the grain inspection service;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the inspectors of automatic couplers, power brakes and grab irons or hand holds on railroad locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles, their officers and employees;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State fire marshal, deputy State fire marshal, inspectors and other officers and employees of the State fire marshal;

6. To execute and administer all laws and regulations, now or hereafter enacted, relating to weights and measures;

7. To execute and administer all laws and regulations, now or hereafter enacted, relating to standards of quantity and quality of and for commodities;

8. To execute and administer all laws and regulations, now or hereafter enacted, relating to the safety and purity of illuminating oils and gasoline.

$57. The Public Utilities Commission created by this Act shall exercise and discharge the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Public Utilities Commission under an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the regulation of public utilities," approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914, or any future amendments thereto or modifications thereof.

Said Act and all amendments thereto and modifications thereof, if any, shall be administered by the public utilities commission created by this Act, and in its name, without any direction, supervision or control. by the Director of Trade and Commerce.

THE DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION.

§ 58. The Department of Registration and Education shall have

power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of education of the State of Illinois, the board of trustees of the Southern Normal University at Carbondale, the board of trustees of the Northern Illinois State Normal School at DeKalb, the board of trustees of the Eastern Illinois State Normal School at Charleston, and the board of trustees of the Western Illinois State Normal School at Macomb;

2. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of veterinary examiners and the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners relating to the practice of veterinary medicine and surgery in the State of Illinois;

3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the board of examiners of horseshoers;

4. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Examiners of Architects;

5. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Examiners of Structural Engineers;

6. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health relating to the practice of medicine, or any of the branches thereof, or midwifery;

7. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Health relating to the regulation of the embalming and disposal of dead bodies, and for a system of examination, registration and licensing of embalmers;

8. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Pharmacy;

9. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Illinois State Board of Dental Examiners:

10. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the Illinois State Board of Nurse Examiners;

11. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Optometry;

12. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State Board of Barber Examiners, its officers and employees;

13. To investigate and study the natural resources of the State and to prepare plans for the conservation and development of the natural resources and for that purpose the officers and employees thereof may enter and cross all lands in this State, doing no damage to private property:

14. To cooperate with and advise departments having administrative powers and duties relating to the natural resources of the State, and to cooperate with similar departments in other states and with the United States Government;

15. To conduct a natural history survey of the State, giving preference to subjects of educational and economical importance;

16. To publish, from time to time, reports covering the entire field of zoology and botany of the State;

17. To maintain a State museum, and to collect and preserve objects of scientific and artistic value, representing past and present fauna and flora, the life and works of man, geological history, natural resources, and the manufacturing and fine arts;

18. To supply natural history specimens to the State educational institutions and to the public schools;

19. To investigate the entomology of the State;

20. To investigate all insects dangerous or injurious to agricultural or horticultural plants and crops, live stock, to nursery trees and plants,

to the products of the truck farm and vegetable garden, to shade trees and other ornamental vegetation of cities and villages, to the products of the mills and the contents of warehouses, and all insects injurious or dangerous to the public health;

21. To conduct experiments with methods for the prevention, arrest, abatement and control of insects injurious to persons or property;

22. To instruct the people, by lecture, demonstration or bulletin, in the best methods of preserving and protecting their property and health against injuries by insects;

23. To publish, from time to time, articles on the injurious and beneficial insects of the State;

24. To study the geological formation of the State with reference to its resources of coal, ores, clays, building stones, cement, materials suitable for use in the construction of roads, gas, mineral and artesian water and other products;

25. To publish, from time to time, topographical, geological and other maps to illustrate the resources of the State;

26. To publish, from time to time, bulletins giving a general and detailed description of the geological and mineral resources of the State; 27. To cooperate with the United States geological survey in the preparation and completion of a contour topographical survey and map; 28. To collect facts and data concerning the water resources of the State;

29. To determine standards of purity of drinking water for the various sections of the State;

30. To publish, from time to time, the results of its investigations of the waters of the State to the end that the available water resources of the State may be better known and that the welfare of the people in the various communities may be conserved;

31. To make analyses of samples of water from municipal or private

sources;

32. To distribute, in its discretion, to the various educational institutions of the State specimens, samples and materials collected by it after the same have served the purposes of the department.

59. The normal school board, of which the Director of Registration and Education shall be chairman and ex-officio member and of which the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall ex-officio be a member and shall be secretary, shall have power and it shall be its duty, independently of the supervision, direction or control of the Director or any other officer of the Department of Registration and Education:

1. To make rules, regulations and by-laws, not inconsistent with law, for the good government and management of the State normal schools and the various interests therein;

2. To visit each State normal school at least once during each scholastic year for the purpose of making an inspection of its condition. and work and gathering such information as will enable them to perfrom their duties intelligently and effectively;

3. To employ, and, for good cause, remove a president of each State normal school and all necessary professors, teachers, instructors,