said hospital. That the Auditor of Public Accounts of said State be, and he is hereby, directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of the said Sadie Jasper, administratrix of the estate of the said John Jasper, deceased, for the said sum of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500.00), to be paid out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. § 1. Appropriates $1,000. RELIEF-WALTER O. JONES, INJURIES. § 2. How drawn. (HOUSE BILL No. 85. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.) AN ACT appropriating one thousand dollars for the relief of Walter O. Jones of Urbana, Illinois, and providing for the payment of the said amount out of the State treasury. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That there be and hereby is appropriated the sum of one thousand dollars for the relief of Walter O. Jones of Urbana, Illinois, who was seriously and permanently injured while as a student he was working his way through the University of Illinois, by having his hand caught in a set of cog wheels in the electrical building where he was employed in said institution. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for said amount in favor of said Walter O. Jones, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. RELIEF-BERTHROL C. B. JORGENSEN-BALANCE UNEXPENDED. § 1. Appropriates balance unexpended under Act of 1911. (HOUSE BILL. No. 907. APPROVED JUNE 23, 1915.) AN ACT reappropriating the appropriation made in an Act entitled, “An Act for an appropriation for the relief of Berthrol C. B. Jorgensen," approved June 5, 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 there is hereby reappropriated to the Berthrol C. B. Jorgensen so much of the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500.00) heretofore appropriated, pursuant to the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act for an appropriation for the relief of Berthrol C. B. Jorgensen," approved June 5, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as shall not have been expended on or before the thirtieth day of September, A. D. 1915, payable from the State treasury in accordance with the provisions of said Act. APPROVED June 23d, 1915. RELIEF DESTITUTE MINERS AT ROYALTON. § 1. Appropriates $26,000. § 2. Board of Administration to distribute funds -report. § 3. How drawn. § 4. Emergency. (HOUSE BILL No. 854. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.) AN ACT making an appropriation for the relief of the suffering and destitute miners at Royalton, Illinois, and the families and dependents of miners who lost their lives in the mine disaster at Royalton, Illinois. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of twenty-six thousand dollars ($26,000.00) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of money in the State treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the relief of the suffering and destitute miners at Royalton, Illinois, and the families and dependents of miners who lost their lives in the mine. disaster at Royalton, Illinois. § 2. It shall be the duty of the Board of Administration to distribute the money herein appropriated to the persons intended to be benefited by this Act, and to use said money for the benefit of the persons intended to be relieved in such manner as in its judgment will best relieve such suffering and destitute people. Said board shall, when its duties under this Act shall have been fully discharged, make a full and detailed report to the Governor as to the manner in which said moneys have been distributed. § 3. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant for the sum of twenty-six thousand dollars ($26,000), payable to said Board of Administration upon a requisition signed by said board and attested by its seal, and the Treasurer is authorized to pay the same out of any money on hand not otherwise appropriated. § 4. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. Preamble. § 1. Appropriates $2,500. RELIEF-DOROTHEA SCHAEFER-INJURIES. 2. How drawn. (HOUSE BILL No. 344. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.) AN ACT for an appropriation for the relief of Dorothea Schaefer. WHEREAS, Dorothea Schaefer was on the 11th day of July, 1913, while employed in the laundry in the Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane at Elgin, injured while working with a mangle, under such circumstances as would in the opinion of the Court of Claims of this State delivered at the October term 1914, make the State liable under the Workmen's Compensation Act, and WHEREAS, the said Dorothea Schaefer misconceived her remedy and brought action in the Court of Claims, and WHEREAS, it would work a great hardship and entail more delay upon the said Dorothea Schaefer to take her claim to the Industrial Board even if it be not now too late, and the State would in any event have to provide for the payment of any award therein, therefore, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500.00) is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of paying the said Dorothea Schaefer for the loss sustained on account of injuries while in the employ of the State of Illinois, July 11, 1913, at the State Asylum for the Insane at Elgin. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his voucher for the amount above appropriated payable to Dorothea Schaefer, upon the State Treasurer and the State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay the same out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. RELIEF-PETER H. SCHWABA, INTURIES. Preamble. § 1. Appropriates $1,000. § 2. How drawn. (HOUSE BILL No. 461. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.) AN ACT to make an appropriation to compensate Peter H. Schwaba, law clerk for the Illinois State Board of Health, for injuries sustained. WHEREAS, Peter H. Schwaba of the city of Chicago, county of Cook and State of Illinois, was a law clerk in the office of the attorney for the Illinois State Board of Health on December 24th, A. D. 1913, and was present in the office of the attorney for the State Board of Health when Mr. Charles Alling the attorney for the Illinois State Board of Health was discussing the adjustment of certain suits brought by him in behalf of said Board against Frank Klimek; and WHEREAS, said Frank Klimek without any provocation and without any warning then and there attempted to kill said Schwaba by firing a shot from a revolver, which said shot penetrated the head of said Schwaba; and WHEREAS the shock and injury caused by said shot resulted in the impairment of the health of the said Peter H. Schwaba causing insomnia, loss of weight, instability, general depression, anemia and general debility; and WHEREAS, said injury necessitated the employment of two surgeons and expenses for hospital treatment and subsequent medical treatment and seriously impaired his usefulness; and WHEREAS the Court of Claims of the State of Illinois has heard testimony and arguments in behalf of a claim for $5,000.00, filed by said Schwaba and has rejected said claim, now therefore SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars be and is hereby appropriated for compensation to Peter H. Schwaba, law clerk in the office of the attorney for the Illinois State Board of Health, for injuries he sustained and expenses incurred by him while in the discharge of his duty as said law clerk for the attorney of the Illinois State Board of Health, without fault or negligence on his part, to be paid to him out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer in favor of Peter H. Schwaba for the sum hereby appropriated. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. RELIEF-BERTHA STILLEY, INJURIES. § 1. Appropriates $500-how drawn. (HOUSE BILL No. 647. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.) AN ACT making an appropriation of the sum of five hundred dollars for the payment of damages for injuries suffered by and as compensation for the injury to Bertha Stilley. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) be, and the same is hereby appropriated and directed to be paid from any fund not otherwise appropriated in the State treasury of the State of Illinois, for the payment of damages for injuries suffered by Bertha Stilley, and as compensation for the said injury to the said Bertha Stilley, which said injuries were received at the Illinois asylum for feeble-minded children, at the city of Lincoln, in the State of Illinois, on the 11th day of June, A. D. 1913. That the Auditor of Public Accounts of said State be, and he is hereby directed to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer in favor of the said Bertha Stilley for the said sum of five hundred dollars, to be paid out of any moneys in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. RELIEF SUB-CONTRACTORS, MATERIAL MEN AND LABORERS-CONSTRUCTION OF SHEEP AND SWINE PAVILIONS. Preamble. § 1. Appropriates $25,704.29 to persons named. § 2. How drawn. (SENATE BILL No. 495. APPROVED JUNE 29, 1915.) AN ACT to make an appropriation to pay certain sub-contractors, material men and laborers for material furnished and work done in the construction of the sheep and swine pavilions at the State fair grounds. WHEREAS the 47th General Assembly passed an Act appropriating $125,000, for the construction of sheep and swine pavilions on the State fair grounds, and WHEREAS Contract was let to J. F. Duncan for the construction of said buildings for the sum of $123,680.00, and WHEREAS said J. F. Duncan defaulted in the construction of said work and in the payment of workmen, material men and sub-contractors on said buildings and the persons named herein furnished material and did work in the construction of said buildings to the amounts respectively stated herein above all payments made to them and for which no payment has been made, and WHEREAS said buildings have been completed by the State Board of Agriculture since the default and abandonment of said work by said. J. F. Duncan and the amounts herein stated are due and unpaid to the persons named respectively for work done and material furnished for said buildings, to-wit: Burtle and Miller E. G. George, surviving partner of George Brothers.. J. A. Wise and Son Rachford Brothers M. J. Baum, Monument & Stone Works E. W. Hocker & Son Earl Seymour C. Frazer .. J. Landfeld John McLaughlin A. M. Seymour Federal Terra Cotta Company R. Hass, [Haas] Electric & Manufacturing Co.. T. D. Vredenburg Peter Vredenburg Lumber Co... H. C. Rogers .$ 1,234.36 6,847.00 3,495.20 1,475.00 994.33 583.14 30.00 19.50 36.50 35.68 13.00 30.00 520.22 2,353.83 1,995.30 14,022.83 927.80 455.00 635.00 L. H. Zumbrook & Co. W. E. Emerson and WHEREAS there is now in the treasury of the State Board of Agriculture only the sum of $10,000 of said above named appropriation available for the payment of the said amounts due to said sub-contractors, material mén and laborers, and WHEREAS there will remain due and unpaid to said persons after the pro rata distribution of said $10,000 the amounts set forth in the following bill, now therefore 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 persons hereinafter named the amounts set opposite. their names respectively as full compensation for the amounts due them. for work done and material furnished for the construction of the sheep and swine pavilions on the State fair grounds after distribution of the balance of $10,000, now in the treasury of the State Board of Agriculture, to-wit: Burtle & Miller E. G. George, surviving partner of George Brothers. .$ 888.62 4,929.02 2,517.18 1,061.84 716.01 419.80 374.61 1,694.54 1,436.42 10,094.98 667.88 |