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§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the State treasury for the sum of seventeen hundred (1700) dollars herein appropriated upon the presentation of proper vouchers certified to by the superintendent of the Rock Island-Moline Free Employment office and approved by the Governor, which warrant shall be payable out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

§ 3. WHEREAS, said sum of money is immediately required, therefore an emergency exists and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED May 13th, 1915.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 165. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.)

AN ACT to make an appropriation for the benefit, aid and maintenance of the Illinois Firemen's Association.

WHEREAS, The Illinois Firemen's Association is an organization representing the firemen, especially the volunteer firemen, of the State, and is organized under the laws of this State; and

WHEREAS, The aims of the Illinois Firemen's Association are the education of firemen in the fire service, and the betterment of the service in the several towns and cities of the State, for which purpose annual meetings are held for the discussion of topics on the subject, and the hearing of suggestions that are of great value to the membership (made up of the fire departments of the State of Illinois). Therefore, to help sustain this organization in the holding of its annual meetings and the printing of its reports, and to otherwise promote the usefulness of this meritorious organization, the fire fighters, who voluntarily give their service in the protection of lives and homes:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and is hereby appropriated to the Illinois Firemen's Association the following sums, to wit: For the printing and distributing of its programs, its annual report of proceedings, organization, postage, stationery, expenses of the annual meeting, the dissemination of information pertaining to the business of the organization, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) per annum.

§ 2. No part of said one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) shall be paid as salary to any officer of the Illinois Firemen's Association.

§ 3. The secretary and treasurer of the association shall make an annual statement to the Governor on or before January 1, of each and every year, of the disposition of the said appropriation.

§ 4. The State Auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the sum herein specified, and to deliver the same to the president and treasurer of the Illinois Firemen's Association upon their presenting proper vouchers for the same, signed by the president and secretary

of said association, and the State Treasurer shall pay out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED June 28th, 1915.

Preamble.

FLAG-RETURN TO 18TH TENNESSEE REGIMENT, CONFEDERATE.

1. Governor empowered to return flag on behalf of State-representatives named.

§ 2. Appropriates $200 for expenses-how drawn § 3. Emergency.

(SENATE BILL NO. 420. APPROVED MAY 28, 1915.)

AN ACT to provide for the return of a flag of the Eighteenth Confederate Regiment of Tennessee, together with the fleld and staff of said regiment, and appropriating two hundred ($200) dollars to defray the expense thereof.

WHEREAS, a petition signed by citizens and representatives of the city of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and vicinity, was on the 31st day of March, 1915, presented to the State Senate of Illinois as follows:

We, the undersigned petitioners, would respectfully state to your Honorable Body, that we are representative citizens of the city of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and vicinity and in part, surviving members of the Eighteenth Tennessee Regiment Confederates, which regiment was organized and enlisted for the confederate army at said city of Murfreesboro in the year 1861.

That at the time of the organization of said regiment, a flag was presented to it by the ladies and citizens of Murfreesboro, the presentation address being delivered by a young lady of Murfreesboro, who afterwards became one of the most distinguished women of the South.

That thereafter, at the battle of Fort Donaldson, said flag was captured by Illinois troops and the same is now in the possession of the State of Illinois in the Hall of Relics at Springfield.

Your petitioners are informed that at one time the Legislature of Illinois, by resolution or otherwise, ordered the release and return of said flag, to its original holders, but that the purpose of said resolution was not carried out.

Your petitioners, their neighbors and comrades, earnestly desire the return of said flag, and represent that the same would be of great historical value to them and their descendants, and also to the State of Tennessee.

Therefore, realizing that the prejudices and animosities resulting in the late Civil War have become things of the past, and trusting in the magnanimity and liberality of your Honorable Body, also that of the people of the great State of Illinois, we ask that said flag be released and returned to be placed with our State Historical Society, or in the archives of the State of Tennessee.

We would further represent that we think Mr. L. M. Armstrong, of Peoria, Ill., formerly a citizen of Tennessee, who was closely related to donors of said flag and to prominent members of said regiment, would be a suitable person to receive and convey said flag, and we would most respectively [respectfully] ask that in the event of your Honorable Body ordering the release and return of said flag, Mr. Armstrong be deputized to receive the same and to bear it to us, or to the State of

Tennessee as may be deemed best and in accord with your wishes, and WHEREAS, by vote of this Senate it is requested that a bill or resolution be prepared providing for return of said flag. Therefore

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Governor of the State of Illinois be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, on behalf of the State of Illinois, to return to the surviving members of the 18th Tennessee Regiment, Confederates, a flag, together with the field and staff of said regiment, now in the possession of the State of Illinois, in the Hall of Relics at Springfield, Illinois, which flag was captured by the Illinois troops at the battle of Fort Donaldson; that the said flag, field and staff, shall, in turn, be delivered by said regiment to the State of Tennessee.

Mr. L. M. Armstrong, of Peoria, Illinois, is hereby authorized to present said flag to said regiment, and Mr. David S. Brown, of Peoria, Illinois, a member of the Grand Army of the Republic of the Department of Illinois, is hereby authorized to accompany said L. M. Armstrong as a representative of the State of Illinois and assist in the presentation thereof.

§ 2. That the sum of two hundred ($200.00) dollars is hereby appropriated to defray the expense incident to the return of said flag, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon vouchers approved by the Governor for the sum herein appropriated, and the State Treasurer is authorized and directed to pay the same out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated.

3. WHEREAS, It is desired that the presentation of said flag be made on June 3d, 1915, therefore, an emergency exists and this Act shall be in force from and after the date of its passage.

APPROVED May 28th, 1915.

§ 1. Appropriates $20,000.

2 How drawn.

FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE-DEFICIENCY.

§ 3. Emergency.

(HOUSE BILL No. 340. APPROVED MAY 7, 1915.)

AN ACT making an appropriation to meet the deficiency in the appropriation for the payment of expenses for the apprehension and delivery of fugitives from justice.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of the expense provided by law for the apprehension and delivery of fugitives from justice already incurred and to incur up to the first day of July, 1915.

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer for the sum herein specified upon presentation of vouchers certified in the manner now provided by law.

§ 3. WHEREAS, the appropriation above recited is necessary to meet. the expenses already incurred and to incur up to the first day of July,

1915; therefore an emergency exists and this Act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED May 7th, 1915.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 49TH-COMMITTEE EXPENSES.

§ 1. Appropriates $50,000.00

§ 2 How drawn.

§ 3. Emergency.

(SENATE BILL No. 438. APPROVED JUNE 16, 1915.)

AN ACT making an appropriation to pay the expenses of the committees of the Forty-ninth General Assembly.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and is hereby appropriated the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the expenses of the committees of the Forty-ninth General Assembly.

§ 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the sum herein specified, upon presentation of proper vouchers certified by the chairman of the committee incurring the expenses and the presiding officer of that branch of the General Assembly appointing the committee.

§ 3. The appropriation above recited is necessary for the payment of the expenses of the committees of the Forty-ninth General Assembly now being incurred in the transaction of business assigned to said committees. Therefore, an emergency exists, and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED June 16th, 1915.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 49TH-COMMITTEE EXPENSES, ELECTION CONTESTS.

§ 1. Appropriates $21,819.70 as follows: House § 2. How drawn. committee expenses, $8,125.34; Senate,

$13, 694.36.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 989. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.)

AN ACT making an appropriation to pay the election committee expenses of the Forty-ninth General Assembly.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of twenty-one thousand eight hundred and nineteen dollars and seventy cents ($21,819.70), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of the election committees of the Forty-ninth General Assembly and that said sum so appropriated shall be used for the following purposes and payable to the persons therein designated:

FOR HOUSE ELECTIONS COMMITTEE.

Thirty-fourth Senatorial District.

Robert Howard vs. E. W. Greene.

E. W. Greene, for expenses

E. W. Greene, for attorney fees

$ 179.60

350.00

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C. A. Purdunn, for expenses

John P. Maloney, disbursements for railroad fare and other expenses for trips to Mattoon, Charleston, Marshall and Tus

cola, Ill. ...

25.00

50.45

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Jesse Hawkins, custodian (hithertofore [heretofore] certified and paid)

24.00

Charles A. Hawkins, county clerk, Douglas county, witness fees and expenses, including expense of bringing ballots and election returns to Springfield

32.40

E. D. Morton, county clerk, Clark county; witness fees and expenses, including expense of bringing ballots and election returns to Springfield

55.44

John F. Willingham, county clerk, Coles county; witness fees and expenses, including expense of bringing ballots and election returns to Springfield .

91.40

Chas. C. Lee, witness fees and mileage

19.00

John P. Harrah, judge, county court, Coles county; witness. fees and mileage

10.00

Jennie S. Boulware, deputy county clerk, Coles county, witness fees and mileage

19.00

Bessie McCarthy, court reporter, Charleston, witness fees and mileage

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Jas. C. Harvey, member of committee, expenses

47.80

Wm. J. Graham, member of committee, expense

38.15

Frederick R. DeYoung, chairman of committee, expenses in

cluding telegrams, etc.

38.15

P. A. Coal, clerk, heretofore certified and paid ...

60.00

George Donovan, clerk, heretofore certified and paid

60.00

George Hippard, clerk, heretofore certified and paid.
Ira Nelson, clerk, heretofore certified and paid
Walter Morgan, clerk, heretofore certified and paid

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Contest of George Ostrom vs. John P. Walsh, Edward

Santry and Robert Jackson.

John P. Walsh, expenses of contest

Walter A. Lantz, attorney for John P. Walsh

$ 465.00

500.00

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