ment in an action therefor at the suit of the People of the State of Illinois.

Any person or persons, either individually or as officers of any private, public or municipal corporation creating or maintaining, or responsible for the creation or maintenance of such common nuisance, or failing, or refusing to immediately abate the same upon the written order of the State Board of Health, or the Department of Public Health, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

§ 3. Sections two (2), three (3), five (5), six (6), seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13) and sixteen (16) of Article thirteen (13) of said Act are hereby repealed.

§ 4. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, this law shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED May 5, 1917.

ACT TO REGULATE SOLICITATION OF FUNDS FOR WAR AID AND WAR CHARITY.

§ 1. Purpose for which funds may be solicited. State Council of Defense to issue license.

§ 2. Unlawful to solicit without license. § 3. How license obtained.

(HOUSE BILL No. 1028.

§ 4. Power of State Council of Defense to revoke license.

§ 5. Penalty.

§ 6. Exemptions.

APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT. To regulate the solicitation of funds and other property for purposes of war aid and war charity during the duration of the war in which the United States is now engaged.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the State Council of Defense be and it is hereby given full power and authority to issue licenses from time to time, and to rovoke the same from time to time, authorizing the solicitation during the duration of the war in which the United States is now engaged, by individuals, societies, clubs, associations or corporations, of funds and other property for the following purposes:

(a) Aid and relief in the prosecution of said war or for the use or benefit of any hospital or relief service exclusively connected with the prosecution of said war.

(b) Aid and relief to the soldiers and sailors who are or have been in the service of the United States in said war, for their individual benefit and comfort.

(c) Aid and relief to the families and dependents of soldiers and sailors who are or have been in the service of the United States in said

war.

(d) Aid and relief to the families and dependents of soldiers and sailors killed in the service of the United States during said war.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any individual, society, club, association or corporation to engage in any solicitation for any war aid or war charities of the character enumerated in section 1 aforesaid, without having first obtained a license to make such solicitation, issued by the said State Council of Defense.

§ 3. All applications for licenses to solicit for war aid or war charities as aforesaid, shall be in writing, addressed to said State Council of Defense, and shall state the particular war aid or war charity for which the applicant desires to solicit, together with the amount desired to be raised and the method and channel of disbursing or distributing the same, and whether or not compensation or a commission is to be paid for the subscriptions, funds or other property obtained by such applicant, and the amount of such compensation or commission. If such application shall be on behalf of an individual, it shall state the name, age, sex, residence, business and occupation of the applicant. If such application shall be on behalf of a society, club, association or corporation, then said application shall state the name, office or place of business, whether incorporated or unincorporated, and if incorporated, when and where incorporated, and the objects and purposes of such applicant, and the names and residences of its officers. Every such application if made on behalf of an individual, shall be signed and sworn to by such applicant, and if made on behalf of any society, club, association or corporation, shall be signed in the name of such society, club, association or corporation by the president or secretary thereof, and shall be sworn to by such president or secretary.

§ 4. All individuals, societies, clubs, associations and corporations to whom licenses as aforesaid shall have been issued by said State Council of Defense, shall obey and comply with all the rules, requirements, regulations and directions that may be issued from time to time by said State Council of Defense, and the said State Council of Defense shall have power to revoke any license that may have been issued by it upon failure of the licensee to comply with the rules, requirements, regulations and directions prescribed by said State Council of Defense, or whenever in its judgment the purposes of said license have been accomplished or have ceased to be useful or necessary.

5. Any individual, society, club, association or corporation, or any officer, director or member of any society, club, association or corporation, who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty [of] of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum of not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense.

§ 6. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as prohibiting,

(a) The family or friends or any soldier or sailor who is or has been in the service of the United States during said war, from supplying such soldier or sailor or the family and dependents of such soldier or sailor with any moneys, goods, articles or property of use or of comfort at any time.

(b) Any society, club, association, corporation, congregation or religious association or corporation from soliciting any war aid or war

charity as aforesaid, among its own members, unless such solicitation. shall be prohibited by the regulations of the military or naval authorities of the United States.

(c) The solicitation by any individual, society, club, association or corporation, for any war aid or war charity authorized by or under any law or resolution passed by the Congress of the United States or by or under any act or proclamation of the President of the United States. APPROVED June 25, 1917.

AN ACT to publish, distribute and sell the laws of the Territory of Illinois and all the laws and joint resolutions passed prior to January 1, 1917, at all regular and special sessions of the General Assemblies of the State of Illinois, and provide for their admission in evidence and to repeal an Act therein named.

WHEREAS, it is a matter of common knowledge that innumerable rights have been acquired and established under private and public laws, and privileges are asserted under joint resolutions, passed at regular and special sessions of the General Assemblies of this State, many of which laws and resolutions are to be found only in the office of the Secretary of State, or in such of the published editions of the session. laws as are still extant; that practically every edition of such session is out of print; that the courts are called upon constantly to construe such laws and joint resolutions, and to apply them in determining litigation which is affected by them; and that all such laws and joint resolutions should be more readily accessible to the officers and citizens of the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: The Secretary of State of Illinois is hereby directed to cause to be printed and published in such form and . in such number of volumes as may be hereinafter prescribed, Pope's Territorial Laws and all the public and private laws and joint resolutions passed prior to January 1, 1917, at all regular or special sessions of the General Assemblies of the State of Illinois.

The Secretary of State shall carefully compare with the original laws, and edit, or cause to be compared and edited, indexed and prepared for printing by a competent and experienced legal editor or editors, all of the Acts, laws and printed joint resolutions printed and published herein provided for; provided there shall be eliminated from thses volumes all auditors' and treasurers' reports, and appropriation Acts.

§ 2. Twelve hundred and fifty copies of each volume of said reprint shall be printed, and the Secretary of State shall immediately, after their publication, deposit ten of said sets in his office and distribute the others as follows:

To the clerk of the Senate for the use of the Senate, one set.

To the clerk of the House of Representatives for the use of the House, one set.

One set to the County Court of each county, and one set to the Circuit Court of each county in the State of Illinois, to be and remain the property of such court.

Twenty-five sets to the board of commissioners of Cook County for distribution to the different courts of record of Cook County, to be and remain the property of such courts.

One set to libraries of the Appellate Courts of each district, to be and remain the property of such courts.

Ten sets to the Supreme Court Library to be and remain the property of the Supreme Court.

One set to the law library of the University of Illinois, one set to the..........library of the University of Illinois; one set to the State Library; one set to the State Historical Library and one set to the Legislative Reference Bureau.

The remaining sets the Secretary of State may sell to such persons, firms or corporations as may desire to purchase, a set or sets of laws herein mentioned, at a price per set estimated at ten per cent (10%) above the actual cost of reproduction per set. Provided that the Secretary of State shall not sell more than two sets to any one person, firm, association or corporation. The money or moneys received for the sale of said reprint of session laws shall be converted into the State treasury within thirty (30) days after the receipt thereof. The Secretary of State shall make a report to the Governor on the first Monday in January and the first Monday in July of each year of the number of copies sold, and the number of copies on hand in his possession, until such time as the number of copies available for sale have been disposed of.

§ 3. The session laws herein mentioned shall be printed in not to exceed forty-one (41) volumes one of which shall contain a complete index of all of such session laws, joint resolutions and territorial laws. The number of pages contained in each volume shall be approximately nine hundred sixty (960), provided, that the laws of no one session shall be divided between two volumes, excepting the cases where the laws of any one session will require more than nine hundred sixty (960) pages. The size of the printed page shall be 6x9 inches, as nearly as may be. The type page shall be 412x71⁄2 inches (27x45 picas) including running head and folio. Said laws and joint resolutions shall be set in a clear, legible face of 8 point, modern type, set solid. The original page number now appearing in the printed sessions laws shall be shown in block Gothic figures-8 point-enclosed in brackets. The paper shall be 25x38, 40lb basis number 1 machine finished book, free from unbleached sulphite and ground wood, with a tensile strength of not less than 14 points on a mullen or other standard paper tester.

In the press work the forms must be carefully made ready, and a clean, sharp impression furnished. A high grade permanent black book ink must be used, and a uniform, distinct color maintained throughout the volumes.

The binding shall be library buckram, with the number 30 cloth board of a high grade, title in red leather stamped in real gold to be glued on the back. The title to be approximately two inches in height. The sections must be carefully machine sewed, extra-supered, and glued over with cotton head bands and plain end sheets.

The Superintendent of Printing shall prepare accurate specifications which will insure the production of serviceable and substantial volumes, which specifications and directions shall be faithfully and carefully observed in the manufacture.

§ 4. The Department of Public Works and Buildings shall advertise for bids, and award contracts in like manner as provided for in an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to State contracts."

§ 5. The Acts, and laws so printed and published hereunder shall be admissable in evidence in all courts and proceedings in this State, and shall be considered as duly authenticated copies of the originals.

§ 6. The following Act is hereby repealed: "An Act entitled, ‘An Act to authorize and provide for the reprint of session laws by the Secretary of State,' approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903." APPROVED June 25, 1917.

(SENATE BILL No. 444. FILED JUNE 29, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to telegraph companies," approved March 24, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by amending section 7 of said Act and by adding a new section to be known and designated as section 7a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to telegraph companies," approved March 24, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section 7 thereof and by adding a new section to be known and designated as section 7a to read as follows:

§ 7. It shall be the duty of all persons employed in transmitting messages by telegraph to transmit them in the order in which they are received; and any person who shall fail so to transmit a message, or who shall suppress a message, or who shall make known the contents of a message to any person other than the one to whom it is addressed, or his agent, or who shall wrongfully take from any dispatch to any news