(HOUSE BILL No. 263. APPROVED JUNE 23, 1919.) AN ACT to amend sections 1 and 2 and the title of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the burial of deceased soldiers, sailors or marines of the late Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Uprising in China, or their mothers, wives or widows", approved May 24, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Sections 1 and 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the burial of deceased soldiers, sailors or marines of the late Civil War, the Spanish American, the Philippine Insurrection, and the Boxer Uprising in China, or their mothers, wives or widows", approved May 24, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as amended, are amended to read as follows: § 1. That it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors in counties under township organization, and of the county commissioners in counties not under township organization, to designate some suitable person or persons who shall serve without compensation, whose duty it shall be to cause to be properly interred the body of any honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine, who served in the army or navy of the United States during the late Civil War, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising in China, or with the Allied Armies and in the armies of the United States in the war with the Central Powers, or their mothers, wives or widows, who may hereafter die in such county, without having sufficient means to defray the funeral expenses. § 2. The expense of such burial shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five dollars; such burial shall not be made in any cemetery or burial ground used exclusively for the burial of the pauper dead, or in that portion of any burial ground so used; and, provided, that in case relatives of the deceased, who are unable to bear the expense of burial, desire to conduct the funeral, they may be allowed to do so, and the expense thereof shall be paid as hereinafter provided. § 2. The title to said Act is amended to read as follows: "An Act to provide for the burial of deceased soldiers, sailors or marines of the late Civil War, the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurrection, the Boxer Uprising in China, and with the Allied Armies and in the armies of the United States in the war with the Central Powers, or their mothers, wives or widows." APPROVED June 23, 1919. COMMISSIONERS. § 1. Amends section 61. Act of 1874 as § 2. Emergency. § 61. Commissioners to take (SENATE BILL No. 163. APPROVED MARCH 29, 1919.) AN ACT to amend section sixty-one (61) of an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved March 31, 1874, as amended by Acts approved respectively May 20, 1879, June 14, 1887, June 26, 1895, May 18, 1905, and June 8, 1909. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section sixty-one (61) of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved March 31, 1874, as amended by Acts approved respectively May 20, 1879, June 14, 1887, June 26, 1895, May 18, 1905, and June 8, 1909, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: § 61. The said commissioners shall severally, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution, and they shall be known as the board of commissioners of Cook County, and as such board shall possess the powers, perform the duties, and be subject to the rules, regulations and restrictions herein after specified, that is to say: First-Said board of commissioners shall hold regular meetings on the first Monday of December, January, February, March, June and September in each year. It shall be the duty of the president of the board of commissioners to call special meetings of the board whenever, in his opinion, the same may be necessary; and he shall preside at all meetings of said board, and generally perform the duties usually performed by a presiding officer: Provided, that in the absence of the president, or his inability to act, a president pro tempore may be elected, who shall, during such absence or inability, possess all the powers and perform all the duties by law vested in and required of the president. Second-The president of the board of commissioners shall have the same privilege of voting as any other commissioner; but he shall not have a casting vote upon any question upon which he has voted as commissioner. Third-All resolutions or motions whereby any money shall be appropriated, or by virtue of which any contract shall be made, or any act done which may, directly or indirectly, or in any manner whatever, create any pecuniary liability on the part of said county, shall be submitted to said board of commissioners in writing, or reduced to writing, before any vote shall be taken thereon; and if adopted by the board, the same shall not take effect until after the same shall have been approved in writing by the president of said board, except as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the clerk of said board to deliver to the president thereof, upon his request, the original (or a copy) of each resolution or motion, so passed or adopted by said board as aforesaid, within one day after its passage or adoption; and in case the president approves thereof, he shall sign the same, and it shall thereupon be in full force and effect. In case the president shall not approve any such resolution or motion, he shall, within five days after the receipt of the same as aforesaid, return it to the clerk of said board, with his objections thereto. in writing. Such veto by the president may extend to any one or more items or appropriations contained in any resolution making an appropriation, or to the entire resolution; and in case the veto only extends to a part of such resolution making an appropriation, the residue thereof not embraced within the veto shall take effect and be in force from the time of the receipt by said clerk of such veto of such part. Upon the return of any such resolution or motion by the president, with his objections thereto as aforesaid, the vote by which the same was passed shall be reconsidered by the board of commissioners as to so much thereof as may have been vetoed; and if, after such reconsideration, four-fifths of all the members elected to the board shall agree to pass the same by yeas and nays, to be entered on the journal, the same shall take effect, notwithstanding the president may have refused to approve thereof. In case the president shall fail or omit to either sign and approve or return, with his objections as aforesaid, any such motion or resolution which shall have been passed or adopted by the board within six days after it shall have been so passed or adopted the same shall take effect without the approval of the president. Fourth-Said board of commissioners shall have the management of the affairs of said Cook County, in the manner provided by law, and may exercise the same powers, perform the same duties, and shall be subject to the same rules, regulations and penalties prescribed by law. for the board of supervisors in other counties, except as herein otherwise provided; and shall also be subject to the rules, regulations and restrictions herein provided. Fifth-The said board of commissioners shall have no power or authority to delegate to any committee or other person or persons the "power to act," when such "power to act" shall involve the letting of any contract or the expenditure of public money exceeding the sum of five hundred dollars ($500); and any action of said board, or of any committee thereof, or of any other person or persons in violation of this section, shall be null and void. No money shall be appropriated or ordered paid by said county commissioners beyond the sum of five hundred dollars ($500), unless such appropriation shall have been authorized by a vote of at least two-thirds of the members elected to the said county board. And no officer of Cook County, or other person, shall incur any indebtedness on behalf of the county, unless first authorized by said board of commissioners. Sixth-Said board of commissioners, except as hereinafter provided, shall, within the first quarter of each fiscal year adopt a resolution, to be termed the annual appropriations bill, in and by which resolution said board shall appropriate such sums of money as may be necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of said Cook County, to be by said county paid or incurred during and until the time of the adoption of the next annual appropriation bill under this section: Provided, that said board shall not expend any money or incur any indebtedness or liability on behalf of said county in excess of the percentage and several amounts now limited by law, and based on the limit prescribed in the constitution, when applied to the last previous assessment. Said appropriation bill shall specify the several objects and purposes for which such appropriations are made, and the amount appropriated for each object or purpose. If the Legislature shall by law provide, or shall at any time appear to have by law provided, for the publication of the assessment of real or personal property, or both, to be paid for out of the county treasury, then said board of commissioners shall in each year, while such publication is required, make due provision for the cost thereof by sufficient appropriation in such resolution, which said appropriation shall take precedence over all the other appropriations contained in such resolution, excepting the provision for principal and interest of county indebtedness, the ordinary, current salaries of county officials and employees, the maintenance of county property and institutions (including courts and juries) dieting occupants of the jails, prisons, hospitals and industrial schools, and the cost of elections required by law. Such appropriations shall take precedence of any appropriation for contingent fund or building fund; and if the tax actually collected in any such year shall be less than the total amount of the appropriations contained in said resolution, the items of appropriation following in such resolution after such appropriation for publishing assessments, in the order herein directed, shall be first abated, before the appropriation for such publication of tax assessments shall be reduced. The vote of said board of commissioners upon said appropriation bill shall be taken by yeas and nays, and the same shall be entered upon the journal. Such appropriation bill shall not take effect until after it shall have been once published in a newspaper published in Chicago, and said board shall provide for and cause. said appropriation bill to be published as aforesaid. After the adoption. of such appropriation bill or resolution, the said board of commissioners shall not make any further or other appropriations prior to the adoption or passage of the next succeeding annual appropriation bill, and the said board of commissioners shall have no power, either directly or indirectly, to make any contract or to do any act which shall add to the county expenditure or liabilities in any year, anything or sum over and above the amount provided for in the annual appropriation bill for that fiscal year. No contract shall hereafter be made, or expense or liability incurred by the said board of commissioners, or any member or committee thereof, or by any person or persons, for or in its behalf, notwithstanding the expenditure may have been ordered by the said board. of commissioners, unless an appropriation therefor shall have been previously made by said board in manner aforesaid: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall prevent the board of commissioners, by a concurring vote of four-fifths of all the commissioners (said votes to be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the journal), from making any expenditure or incurring any liability rendered necessary, by any unforseen casualty by fire, flood or otherwise, happening after the annual appropriation bill shall have been passed or adopted. Nor shall anything herein contained be construed to deprive the board. of power to provide for and cause to be paid from the county funds any charge upon said county imposed by law, without the action of the board of commissioners, including fixed salaries of officers required by law to be paid from the county treasury, and to pay jurors' fees and other charges fixed by law; and, provided further, that said board of commissioners may at any time within the first half of the fiscal year commencing on the first Monday of December, A. D. 1918, and ending on the Saturday immediately preceeding the first Monday of December, A. D. 1919, pass additional or supplemental appropriation bills or resolutions making additional appropriations which may relate back to the commencement of said fiscal year and be additional or supplemental to any item or items in the annual appropriation bill for said fiscal year. Any such additional or supplemental appropriation bills or resolutions shall not take effect until they shall have been once published in a newspaper published in Chicago, and said board of commissioners shall provide for and cause said additional or supplemental appropriation bills or resolutions to be published as aforesaid. Any appropriations contained in said additional or supplemental appropriation bills or resolutions may be included in the general tax levy for the calendar year A. D. 1919, or a subsequent separate tax levy or levies, may be made therefor. Seventh-The board of commissioners shall establish and provide for the appointment of a committee on finance and a committee on public service. There shall be a superintendent of public service, to be appointed by the president, by and with the consent of the board of commissioners, who shall hold his office for one year and until his successor is appointed. He may be suspended or removed by the president. He shall give a sufficient bond for the performance of his duties and be subject to the oversight and supervision of the committee on the public service. It shall be the duty of the superintendent, under authority of the board of commissioners, to purchase, receive and distribute all supplies necessary for the use and service of Cook County and its various institutions, of whatever nature, including all supplies necessary for dieting the prisoners confined in the jail of said county, and, to keep, on and after the first Monday in December, 1910, accurate accounts of and vouchers for the same, which shall be open to the inspection of the president and the committee on public service and to the public. He shall also perform all other duties, relative to the public service which may be assigned to him by the board of commissioners, who shal! make and maintain regulations for the conduct and government of the department of public service not inconsistent with this Act. Eighth-All contracts for supplies, material and work for the county of Cook shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, after due advertisement; but if, in case of any emergency, it is necessary to purchase supplies not exceeding in amount $500, such purchase may be made by the superintendent in the open market, on authority given to him by the board of commissioners or. the committee on public service. All contracts for supplies, material or work for Cook County shall be approved |