that purpose: Provided, that all moneys received for such sanitarium. with the exception of moneys the title to which rests in the board of directors in accordance with section 9 infra, shall be deposited in the treasury of said county 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 county upon the properly authenticated vouchers of said board of directors. Said board of directors shall have the power to purchase or lease ground within the limits of such county, and to occupy, lease or erect an appropriate 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 county board: Provided, however, that no such building shall be constructed until detailed plans therefor shall have been submitted to the secretary of the State Board of Health, and shall have been approved by him: And, provided, further, that no building in which tuberculosis patients are to be housed shall be built on the grounds of a county poor farm, but shall have separate and distinct grounds of its own. Said board of directors shall have the power to appoint suitable superintendents or matrons, or both, and all necessary assistants, and to 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 county tuberculosis sanitarium: Provided, that no sanitarium or branch, or dispensary, or auxiliary institution, or activity, under this Act, for tuberculosis patients shall be under the same management as a county poor farm, or infirmary, but shall, on the contrary, be under a management separate and distinct in every particular. One or more of said directors shall visit and examine said sanitarium, and all branches, dispensaries, auxiliary institutions, and activities at least twice in each month, and shall make monthly reports of the condition thereof to the county board. § 7. Every sanitarium established under this Act shall be free for the benefit of such of the inhabitants of such county as 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 of directors. Such sanitarium shall always be subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as said board of directors may adopt in order to render the use of said sanitarium of the greatest benefit to the greatest number, and said board of directors may exclude from the use of said sanitarium any and all persons who shall willfully 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 parent or the parents, guardian or conservator, as the case may be. Said board of directors shall, upon request or by consent of the person afflicted, or of the parent or parents, guardian or conservator 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 county. And said board of directors may extend the privileges and use of such sanitarium and treatment to persons so afflicted, residing, outside of such county, in this State, upon such terms and conditions as said board of directors may from time to time by its rules and regulations prescribe. § 8. Said board of directors, in the name of the county, may receive from any person any contribution or donation of money or property, and shall pay over to the treasurer of such county all moneys thus received, as often as once in each month, and shall take the receipt of such treasurer therefor; and shall also at each regular meeting of the county board, report to such county board the names of all persons from whom any such contribution or donation has been received, since the date of the last report, and the amount and nature of the property so received from each, and the date when the same was received. And said board of directors shall make, on or before the second Monday in June of each year, an annual report to the county board, stating the condition of their trust on the first day of June of that year, the various sums of money received from the tuberculosis sanitarium fund and from other sources, and how such moneys have been expended, and for what purpose, the number of patients, and such other statistics, information and suggestions as they may deem of general interest. § 9. Any person desiring to make any donation, bequest or devise, of any money, personal property, or real estate, for the benefit of such sanitarium, shall have the right to vest the title to the money, personal property or real estate so donated, in the board of directors created under this Act, to be held and controlled by such board of directors, when accepted, according to the terms of the deed, gift, devise, or bequest of such property, and as to such property, the said board of directors shall be held and considered to be special trustees. § 10. When any 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 of directors may prescribe; and such rules and regulations shall extend to all branches, dispensaries, and other auxiliary institutions located within such county, and to all employees in the same, and to all employees sent, as herein provided for, to the homes of the afflicted. § 11. All reputable physicians shall have equal privileges in treating patients in any county tuberculosis sanitarium. § 12. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to amend or repeal paragraph ninth of section 25 of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend sections 24 and 25 of an Act entitled, 'An Act to revise the law in relation to counties,' approved and in force March 31, 1874," approved April 26, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, but said paragraph ninth shall, on the contrary remain in full force and effect. APPROVED June 28th, 1915. COURTS. CITY COURTS-ACT OF 1901 AMENDED. § 1. Amends sections 1, 6, 21 and 23, Act of 1901. § 1. As amended, provides city courts shall 6. As amended, provides for interchange of Cook and other counties. 21. As amended, provides for election of additional judge, term of office, and how number of inhabitants shall be determined. 23. As amended, adds clause fixing salary of judges in cities having more than 50,000 inhabitants. (HOUSE BILL No. 946. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to courts of record in cities," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, by amending sections one (1), six (6), twenty-one (21), and twenty-three (23) thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to courts of record in cities," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, be and the same is hereby amended by amending sections one (1), six (6), twenty-one (21) and twenty-three (23) thereof, so that said sections when amended shall read as inserted at length herein. § 1. That the several courts of record now existing in and for cities, and such as may hereafter be established in and for any city in this State, shall severally be styled "The city court of (name of city)' and shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court within the city in which the same may be in all civil cases both law and chancery and in all criminal cases arising in said city, and in appeals from justices of the peace of said city, and the course of procedure and practice in such courts shall be the same as in the circuit courts, so far as may be. § 6. Such judges may, with like privileges as the judges of circuit and county courts, interchange with each other, and with the judges of circuit, superior, county and probate courts of Cook and other counties, and may hold court for each other, and for judges of circuit, superior, county and probate courts of Cook and other counties, and perform each others' duties, and the duties of judges of circuit, superior, county and probate courts of Cook and other counties, when they find it necessary or convenient. § 21. A city court consisting of one or more judges not exceeding five, and not exceeding one judge for every fifty thousand inhabitants, or fraction of fifty thousand and not less than three thousand, may be organized and established under this Act, in any city which contains at least three thousand inhabitants, whenever the common or city council shall adopt an ordinance or resolution to submit the question whether such court shall be established consisting of one or more judges, not exceeding five, as may be specified in such ordinance or resolution, to the qualified voters of such city and two-thirds of the votes cast at such. election shall be in favor of the establishment of such court. Where such court is established with more than one judge, each judge may hold a separate branch thereof at the same time, and when holding such separate branch, each judge may exercise all the powers vested in such court. Such election shall be held and conducted, the returns thereof made and canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner as other city elections. To discontinue and disestablish any such court, precisely the same mode of procedure shall be requisite and necessary, and be resorted to, as for the organization of such court. Save that the discontinuance and disestablishment shall not take effect until at the expiration of the term of office of the then judge of said court. In the event of the discontinuance and disestablishment of any such court, the clerk thereof shall transfer and deliver to the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which such city court is situated, all records, judgments and processes in possession of himself or any other officer of said court, and the circuit court shall thereupon acquire and be vested with jurisdiction in the matters to which said records, judgments or process relate and may be dealt with as original records of such circuit court: Provided, it shall be lawful for the city council in any city where a city court has been established under this Act, and there is no judge or clerk of such court, residing within such city, and such court has ceased to do business for two years or more, to pass an ordinance or resolution abolishing such court, and authorize the city clerk of such city to transfer and deliver the records, judgments and processes of such court to the circuit court of the county in which such court is situated in like manner and with like effect, as if such had been transferred by the clerk of such city court: And, provided, further, that an additional judge for a city court may be elected whenever there shall not be a judge for each fifty thousand of the city's inhabitants, at an election to be called by the city council for that purpose and held the same as other city elections, but at the time fixed for the election of the clerk and first judge, and when the office of an additional judge has already been created the next election for such judge shall be held for the unexpired term of the clerk and first judge and he shall thereafter hold office for four years. The number of inhabitants shall be determined by reference to the Federal Census, or a census taken by the city authorities. § 23. The judges of said court shall be allowed and receive as an annual salary in lieu of all other fees, perquisites or benefits whatsoever in cities, having a population not exceeding five thousand (5,000) inhabitants, the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to be paid out of the city treasury; and in cities having more than five thousand (5,000) and less than eight thousand (8,000) inhabitants the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00); and in cities having more than eight thousand (8,000) and less than twenty-five thousand (25,000) inhabitants, the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00); and in cities having more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) inhabitants the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000); in cities having more than fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) to be paid out of the State treasury: Provided, that wherever an additional judge is elected in any city where a city court has been established, said additional judge shall be allowed and receive as an annual salary the sum of four thousand dollars ($4,000) to be paid out of the State treasury. (HOUSE BILL No. 176. APPROVED APRIL 28, 1915.) AN ACT to provide for an increase in the number of judges of the circuit court of Cook county. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That, inasmuch as it appears by the federal census of the year 1910 that the number of inhabitants of the county of Cook is over two million four hundred thousand (2,400,000) and therefore the General Assembly is authorized under section 23 of article 6 of the Constitution of this State to provide for fifteen additional judges of the circuit or superior courts of Cook county, therefore the number of judges of the circuit court of the county of Cook be, and the same is, hereby increased from fourteen, its present number, to twenty. § 2. On the first Monday of June in the year 1915, and every six years thereafter the six additional judges of said circuit court herein provided for shall be elected to hold their offices for a term of six years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. § 3. The nominations for said additional offices shall be made in the same manner as is now or shall be hereafter provided by law for the nomination of candidates for the existing offices of judges of the circuit court of Cook county. § 4. WHEREAS, the docket of said circuit court being much overcrowded, an emergency exists, therefore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED April 28th, 1915. CIRCUIT COURTS-TERMS IN SIXTH CIRCUIT. § 1. Amends section 7 of Act of 1879. 7. Fixes time of holding in counties of § 2. Emergency. (HOUSE BILL No. 42. APPROVED APRIL 30, 1915.) AN ACT to amend section 7 of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act concerning circuit courts and to fix the time for holding the same in the several counties in the judicial circuits of the State of Illinois, exclusive of the county of Cook," approved May 24, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, as amended by an Act approved June 11, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, as amended by Act approved May 11, 1903, in force July 1, 1903. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 7 of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act concerning circuit courts and to fix the time for holding the same in the several counties in the judicial circuits of the State of Illinois, exclusive of the county of Cook," approved May |