tions for their own guidance and for the government of the sanitarium and the branches, dispensaries and auxiliary institutions and activities connected therewith as may be expedient, not inconsistent with this Act and the ordinances of such city or village. They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditure of all moneys collected to the credit of the tuberculosis sanitarium fund and of the construction of any sanitarium building or other buildings necessary for its branches, dispensaries and other auxiliary institutions and activities in connection with said institution, and of the supervision, care and custody of the grounds, rooms or buildings constructed, leased or set apart for that purpose: Provided, that all moneys received for such sanitarium shall be deposited in the treasury of said village or city to the credit of the tuberculosis sanitarium fund, and shall not be used for any other purpose and shall be drawn upon by the proper officers of said city or village upon the properly authenticated vouchers of the sanitarium board. Said board shall have the power to purchase or lease ground within or without the limits of such city or village, and to occupy, lease or erect an apropriate building or buildings for the use of said sanitarium, branches, dispensaries and other auxiliary institutions and activities connected therewith, by and with the approval of the city council or board of trustees as the case may be; and shall have the power to appoint suitable superintendents or matrons or both and all necessary assistants and fix their compensation, and shall also have the power to remove such appointees, and shall in general carry out the spirit and intent of this Act in establishing and maintaining a public sanitarium, and one or all of said directors shall visit and examine said sanitarium at least twice in each month and make monthly reports of its condition to the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be.

§ 7. Every sanitarium established under this Act shall be free for the benefit of the inhabitants of such city or village who may be afflicted with tuberculosis, and they shall be entitled to occupancy, nursing, care, medicines and attendance according to the rules and regulations prescribed by said board. Such sanitarium shall always be subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as said board may adopt in order to render the use of said sanitarium of the greatest benefit to the greatest number, and said board may exclude from the use of said sanitarium any and all inhabitants and persons who shall wilfully violate such rules or regulations: Provided, however, that no person so afflicted shall be compelled to enter such sanitarium or any of its branches, dispensaries or other auxiliary institutions without his consent in writing first having been obtained, or in case of a minor or one under a disability the consent in writing of the parents, guardian or conservator, as the case may be.

Said board shall, upon request or by consent of the party afflicted or the legal guardian, conservator or parents thereof, have the power to extend the benefits and privileges of such institution, under proper rules and regulations, into the homes of persons afflicted with tuberculosis and to furnish nurses, instruction, medicines, attendance and all other aid

necessary to effect a cure, and to do all things in and about the treatment and care of persons so afflicted which will have a tendency to effect a cure of the person or persons afflicted therewith and to stamp out tuberculosis in such city or village.

And said board may extend the privileges and use of such sanitarium and treatment to persons residing outside of such city or village in this State so afflicted, upon such terms and conditions as said board may from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe.

§ 9. When such sanitarium is established, the physicians, nurses, attendants, the persons sick therein and all persons approaching or coming within the limits of the same or grounds thereof, and all furniture and other articles used or brought there, shall be subject to such rules and regulations as said board may prescribe; and such rules and regulations shall extend to all branches, dispensaries and other auxiliary institutions located within or without such city or village and to all employees in same and to all employees sent to the homes of the afflicted as herein provided for.

APPROVED June 27, 1913.

VEHICLES IN MUNICIPALITIES UNDER SPECIAL LAWS.

§ 1. Power to license and control-width of tire- § 2. Power to adopt rules and regulations with separate fund-exception of certain motor fines and penalties-proviso. vehicles-tax limit-proviso.

(HOUSE BILL No. 77. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1913.)

AN ACT to enable cities, towns and villages organized under any special law to regulate, license and control wagons and other vehicles. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any city, village, or incorporated town of this State, incorporated under any special law of this State, is hereby authorized and empowered, by ordinance, to direct, license and control all wagons and other vehicles conveying loads within the city or village, or any particular class of such wagons and other vehicles, and prescribe the width and tire of the same, the license fee when collected to be kept as a separate fund and used only for paying the cost and expense of street or alley improvement or repair: Provided, that no owner of a motor vehicle, except motor trucks and motor driven commercial vehicles, or motor bicycle, who shall have obtained a certificate from the Secretary of State and paid the registration fees as hereinbefore provided, shall be required to pay any tax for vehicles carrying loads or any other tax upon the use of any such motor vehicle or motor bicycle in excess of the sum of $10.00 per annum for motor vehicles of thirty-five horse power or less used for the transportation of persons, or more than twenty dollars ($20.00) per annum for motor vehicles of more than thirty-five (35) horse power used for the transportation of persons: And, provided, further, that no person shall be required to pay any such vehicle license tax by any municipality in this

State, except the municipality in which he resides; and no firm or corporation shall be required to pay any such vehicle license tax in any municipality in this State except the one in which said firm or corporation maintains and conducts its principal place of business in this State. § 2. Any such city or village shall have power, by ordinance, to provide such rules, and make such regulations as are proper or necessary to carry into effect the powers granted by this Act, with such fines or penalties as the city council or board of trustees shall deem proper: Provided, no fine or penalty shall exceed $200.00 and no imprisonment shall exceed six months for one offense. APPROVED June 28, 1913.

CIVIL SERVICE.

PARK SYSTEMS-SUPERINTENDENT OF EMPLOYMENT.

1. Amends section 2, Act of 1911.

§ 2. As amended, provides superintendent of employment shall devote his exclusive time and attention to duties of office, etc.

(SENATE BILL NO. 359. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1913.)

AN ACT to amend section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act relating to the civil service in park systems," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act relating to the civil service in park systems," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 2. In any park district to which this Act is or shall become applicable, there is hereby created and established a civil service board, hereinafter called the board, to consist of three persons to be selected in the manner following:

The governing authority or body of such park district, hereafter called the park commissioners, shall within thirty days after this Act becomes applicable, and thereafter whenever a vacancy occurs, appoint a superintendent of employment, for a term of six years from the date of his appointment and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, which said superintendent of employment shall be under the direction and supervision of the said park commissioners, and two park commissioners or members of such governing authority, each for a term of two years from the date of his appointment and until his successor is duly appointed and qualified, who shall constitute and be known as the civil service board of such park district. The superintendent of employment. shall be paid a salary of not less than three thousand dollars a year, and shall devote his entire and exclusive time and attention to the duties

pertaining to the said office of superintendent and not engaged in any other employment. The park commissioners may fix the salary of each of the other members of the civil service board at such sum, not to exceed five hundred dollars a year, as they may deem proper. Two members of the board shall constitute a quorum.

No member of the civil service board shall be removed except for palpable incompetence, or malfeasance in office upon written charges filed by or at the direction of the park commissioners and heard before the board of hearings herein provided for. The persons who are the county judge in and for the county in which said park district is situated and the two judges of the circuit court of such county who have longest held judicial office, shall constitute the board of hearings: Provided, that whenever more than two circuit judges shall be eligible as having held judicial office for the same length of time, the choice of circuit judges shall be made from them by lot. In case there is but one circuit court in the circuit including or embracing said county, then said circuit judge and said county judge shall select the third member of said board of hearings from among the circuit judges in contiguous circuits: Provided, however, that in the event of charges being filed against the superintendent of employment, such charges shall be heard, tried and determined by the park commissioners.

The board of hearings shall hear and determine the charges and its findings shall be final and if such charges shall be sustained, the member of the civil service board so charged shall be forthwith removed from office by said board of hearings and the park commissioners shall thereupon proceed within thirty days to fill the vacancy created by such removal. In any proceeding provided for in this section, the board of hearings, and each member thereof, shall have power to administer oaths and to compel by subpoena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers.

APPROVED June 27, 1913.

STATE COMMISSION-SALARIES AND EXPENSES.

§ 1. Amends section 18, Act of 1905.

§ 18. As amended, provides for salaries of president and chief examiner.

(SENATE BILL NO. 361. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1913.)

AN ACT to amend section 18 of "An Act to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois," approved May 11, 1905, in force July 1, 1905; as amended by an Act approved April 19, 1907, in force July 1, 1907; as amended by an Act approved May 25, 1907, in force July 1, 1907; as amended by an Act approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 18 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of the State of Illinois," approved May 11, 1905, in force July 1, 1905; as amended by an Act approved

April 19, 1907, in force July 1, 1907; as amended by an Act approved May 25, 1907, in force July 1, 1907; as amended by an Act approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, namely:

§ 18. SALARIES AND EXPENSES.] Each of said commissioners shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars a year and the commissioners selected as president shall while serving as such president receive a salary of one thousand dollars a year in addition to his salary as commissioner and the chief examiner shall receive a salary of not less than $2,500.00 nor more than $4,000.00, and said commissioners shall be paid their necessary traveling expenses. Any person not at the time in the official service of the State, serving as a member of the board of examiners, or of a trial board, shall receive compensation for every day. actually and necessarily spent in the discharge of his duty as an examiner or a member of the trial board, at the rate of not exceeding five dollars per day and necessary traveling expenses. Said commission may also incur necessary expenses for clerk hire, stationery, printing and other incidental expenses, and the said salaries and expenses shall be allowed and paid in the same manner as the salary and expenses of the Governor's office.

AN ACT to amend sections 12, 18, 19, 20 and 40 of an Act entitled, “An Act concerning land titles," approved and in force May 1, 1897, as amended by Act approved May 24, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, and to further amend said Act, as amended, by adding thereto one additional section to be known as section 108a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 12, 18, 19, 20 and 40 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning land titles," approved and in force May 1, 1897; as amended by Act approved May 24, 1907, in force