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Welfare shall remain in force for one year from the date thereof, and shall set forth the full name of the person, firm, association or corporation to which it is issued, and the location of the home or place of business conducted by the holder of the license. Every holder of a license shall display it in a conspicuous place in his or its home or place of

business.

§ 5. Every holder of a license under this Act shall report to the Department of Public Welfare quarterly, on forms prescribed by the Department of Public Welfare giving the name, age, sex, and color of each child received, the date received, from whom received, the names and addresses of the parents, parent or legal guardian, the date of birth of the child, the date when child left such boarding home, and the names and addresses of the persons with whom such child may be placed, and such other facts relating to the standards herein prescribed and which the Department of Public Welfare may require.

§ 6. Every holder of a license to conduct a "boarding home for children" under this Act shall maintain standards as follows:

1. The food provided the children must be clean, wholesome and suitable in amount and character to the needs of the children;

2. Children shall receive kind and humane treatment;

3. Provision must be made to adequately safeguard the health of the children;

4. Provision must be made for the children's education equivalent to that required by the public school laws of the State;

5. No practice or influence detrimental to the moral welfare of the children shall be permitted to exist on the premises;

6. The buildings and the equipment in which children are cared for must be sanitary and in no way endanger the lives or welfare of the inmates;

7. In the release of children from the "boarding home" due regard must be given the future health, comfort, education and welfare of the children so released.

8. The care, treatment and discipline of the children shall be as far as practicable equivalent to that given children of worthy parents in the average normal family.

$7. The Department of Public Welfare annually, or as often as may be advisable, shall visit and inspect each and every home licensed as herein provided. It shall make such inquiry and investigation as may be necessary to determine whether or not the holder of the license has enforced and is enforcing the standards provided for in section 6 of this Act. It shall be the duty of the holder of each license to give the Department of Public Welfare all reasonable information and to afford it every reasonable facility for examining the records, inspecting the premises, and seeing the children.

8. The Department of Public Welfare may promulgate reasonable rules and regulations relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this Act.

$9. The Department of Public Welfare, after due investigation of the facts, and after ten days' notice and hearing, may revoke any license if there has been a violation of any of the provisions of this Act.

The Department of Public Welfare shall note the order of revoca tion upon the record of the holder of the license, and shall notify such licensee of the revocation thereof.

§ 10. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punish ed by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, ($300), or by im prisonment for not more than six (6) months, or both.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF WRONGS,

§ 1. Amends section 5, Act of 1877.

§ 5. Penalties.

(HOUSE BILL No. 624. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, “An Act to prevent and punish wrongs to children," approved May 17, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, by amending section five (5) 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 to prevent and punish wrongs to children," approved May 17, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, be and is hereby amended by amending section five (5) thereof to read as follows:

§ 5. Any person convicted under the provisions of the preceding sections, shall for the first offense be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court; and upon conviction for a second or any subsequent offense shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not more than two years, or both, in the discretion of the court.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

CITIES AND VILLAGES.

§ 1.

ANNEXATION OF UNINCORPORATED TERRITORY.
Act effective--emergency.

Annexation passage of ordi- $ 2.

nance.

(HOUSE BILL No. 120. APPROVED JUNE 28. 1919.)

AN ACT to provide for the annexation of unincorporated territory which is entirely surrounded by two or more cities, villages or incorporated

towns.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever, any contiguous unincorporated territory is wholly bounded by two or more cities, villages or incorporated towns on petition in writing signed by a majority of the property owners of such territory, such territory may be annexed by any one of such cities, villages or incorporated towns by the passage of an ordinance to that effect. Such ordinance shall describe the territory annexed and a copy thereof together with an accurate map or plat of such annexed territory shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of

deeds of the county wherein the annexed territory is situated: Protided, however, that such unincorporated territory, so annexed, shall not exceed one-third the area of the city, village or incorporated town so annexing such territory.

§ 2. Because of an emergency this Act shall take effect upon its

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AN ACT to amend section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for annexing and excluding territory to and from cities, towns and villages and to unite cities, towns and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for annexing and excluding territory to and from cities, towns and villages and to unite cities, towns and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

§ 2. Any incorporated city, village or town may be annexed to another incorporated city, village or town, by ordinance passed by a two-thirds vote of all the aldermen, trustees or commissioners elect of cach corporation desiring annexation: Provided, such annexation shall not affect or impair any rights or liabilities either in favor of or against such corporations; and suits founded upon such rights and liabilities may be commenced, and pending suits may be prosecuted and carried to final judgments and execution, the same as if such annexation had not taken place. In making such annexation, the corporations so uniting may, by ordinance, fix the terms of the annexation, which shall have the force and effect of a binding contract: Provided, however, that no such ordinance shall be of any binding force or effect until submitted to a vote of the legal voters of such city, town or village, at a general election thereof, or at a special election to be called for that purpose within sixty days after the passage of the ordinance, and adopted by a majority of all the voters voting thereon at such election, notice of which shall be given at the same time and in the same manner as required for the election of the officers of such city, town or village: And, provided, also, that the vote shall be by ballot, which shall be "for union ordinance", or "against union ordinance," and shall be received, canvassed and returned the same as ballots for municipal officers of such city, town or village.

APPROVED June 21, 1919.

APPROPRIATIONS.

§ 1. Amends section 3 of Article seven, Act of 1872.

§ 3. Corporation

expend

tures-provisions.

(HOUSE BILL No. 42. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorp ration of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force Jul 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, by amending section three (3) c Article seven (VII) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That an Act, entitled, "An Ad to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved Apri 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be, and th same is hereby amended by amending section three (3) of Article sever (VII) thereof to read as follows:

§ 3. (Art. VII). Neither the city council nor the board of trus tees nor any department or officer of the corporation shall add to the corporation expenditures in any one year anything over and above the amount provided for in the annual appropriation bill of that year except as is herein otherwise specially provided, and no expenditure for an improvement to be paid for out of the general fund of the corporation shall exceed in any one year the amount provided for such improvement in the annual appropriation bill; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the city council or board of trustees from, by a two-thirds vote, making additional appropriations for the purpose of making any improvement or restorations, the necessity for which is caused by any casualty or accident happening after such annual appropriation is made, nor from making expenditures nor incurring liabilities necessary to meet any emergency created by epidemic, happening after and unforeseen at the time of making the annual appropriation, nor from making appropriations necessary to care for such expenditures and liabilities. The city council or board of trustees, for the purpose of providing for such additional appropriations may, by a like vote, authorize the mayor or president of the board of trustees and finance committee (in cities under the commission form of municipal government, the mayor and commissioner of accounts and finances), to borrow the amount of money necessary therefor for a space of time not extending beyond the close of the next fiscal year, which sum and the interest, shall be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the next general tax levy and embraced therein. Emergency as used herein means a condition requiring immediate action to suppress, or prevent the spread of disease or to prevent or remove imminent danger to persons or property. Should any judgment be obtained against the corporation, the mayor or president of the board of trustees and finance committee (or commissioner of accounts and finances) under the sanction of the city council or board of trustees may borrow a sufficient amount to pay the same for a space of time not extending beyond the close of the next fiscal year, which sum and interest shall in like manner

be added to the amount authorized to be raised in the general tax levy of the next year and embraced therein.

APPROVED June 24, 1919.

APPROPRIATION-SUPPLEMENTAL.

§ 2. Emergency.

1. Amends section 2 of Article VII, Act of 1872.

§ 2. May pass supplemental

appropriation bills.

(SENATE BILL No. 236. APPROVED MARCH 27, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 2 of Article VII of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That section 2 of Article VII of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the incorporation of cities and villages," approved April 10, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby further amended to read as follows:

§ 2. The city council of cities, and board of trustees in villages, shall, within the first quarter of each fiscal year, pass an ordinance, to be termed the annual appropriation bill, in which such corporate authorities may appropriate such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of such corporation; and in such ordinance shall specify the objects and purposes. for which such appropriations are made, and the amount appropriated for each object or purpose. Such ordinance, in cities and villages having a population of one hundred thousand or more, may be amended at the next regular meeting of the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, occuring not less than five days after the passage thereof, in like manner as other ordinances. No further appropriations shall be made at any other time within such fiscal year, unless the proposition to make each such appropriation has been first sanctioned by a majority of the legal voters of such city or village, either by a petition signed by them, or at a general or special election duly called therefor: Provided, however, that in cities and villages having a population of one hundred thousand or more, the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, may, at any time within the first half of the fiscal year, by a two-thirds vote of all the members of such body, pass additional or supplemental appropriation ordinances making appropriations from any receipts derived from any other Source than the annual taxes levied in accordance with the provisions. of section 1 of Article VIII of this Act: And, provided further, that in the year 1919, in cities and villages having a population of one hundred thousand or more, the city council or board of trustees, as the case may be, may, at any time within the first half of the fiscal year, pass its annual appropriation bill, or it may, at any time within the first half of the fiscal year after the passage of the annual appropriation bill, pass additional or supplemented [supplemental] appropriation ordinances adding appropriations to the annual appro

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