county or named in the twentieth paragraph of this section, who may have charge or control of any building, office or room, occupied for any purpose of said government, shall permit any person to enter the same, for the purpose of therein soliciting or delivering written solicitations for, or receiving or giving notice of any political assessments.

Thirty-third-PAYMENTS OF POLITICAL ASSESSMENT TO PUBLIC OFFICERS PROHIBITED.] No officer or employee in the classified civil service of said county or named in the twentieth paragraph of this section shall, directly or indirectly, give or hand over to any officer or employee or to any senator or representative or alderman, councilman or commissioner, any money or other valuable thing on account of or to be applied to the promotion of any party or political object whatever.

Thirty-fourth-ABUSE OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE PROHIBITED.] No officer or employee in said classified service or named in the twentieth paragraph of this section shall discharge or degrade or promote, or in any manner change the official rank or compensation of any other officer or employee, or promise or threaten to do so, for giving or withholding or neglecting to make any contribution of money or other valuable thing for any party or political purpose, or for refusal or neglect to render any party or political service.

Thirty-fifth-PAYMENT FOR PLACE PROHIBITED.] No applicant for appointment in said classified civil service, or to a position named in the twentieth paragraph in this section, either directly or indirectly, shall pay, or promise to pay any money or other valuable thing to any person whatever for or on account of his appointment, or proposed appointment, and no officer or employee in said civil service or named in said paragraph shall pay or promise to pay, either directly or indirectly, any person any money or other valuable thing whatever for or on account of his promotion.

Thirty-sixth-RECOMMENDATION IN CONSIDERATION OF POLITICAL SERVICE PROHIBITED.] No applicant for appointment or promotion in classified civil service shall ask for or receive a recommendation for assistance from any officer or employee in said service, or of any person upon the consideration of any political service to be rendered to or for such person or for the promotion of such person to any office or employment [appointment.]

Thirty-seventh-AUDITING OFFICER.] No accounting or auditing officer shall allow the claim of any public officer for services of any deputy or other person employed in the public service in violation of the provisions of this Act.

Thirty-eighth-APPOINTMENTS AND REMOVALS TO BE CERTIFIED TO THE COMPTROLLER.] The commission shall certify to the county clerk or other auditing officers, all appointments to offices and places in the classified civil service, and all vacancies occurring therein, whether by dismissal, resignation or death, and all findings made or approved by the commission under the provisions of the twenty-first paragraph of this section, that a person shall be discharged from the classified service.

Thirty-ninth-COMPTROLLER TO PAY SALARIES, ONLY AFTER CERTIFICATION. No county clerk, comptroller or other auditing office [offi

cer] of said county shall approve the payment of, or be in any manner concerned in paying any salary or wages to any person for services as an officer or employee of said county unless such person is occupying an office or place of employment according to the provisions of law and is entitled to payment therefor.

Fortieth-COMPELLING TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES-PRODUCTION OF BOOKS AND PAPERS.] Any person who shall be served with a subpoena to appear and testify, or to produce books and papers, issued by the commission or by any commissions [Commissioners] or by any board or person acting under the orders of the commission in the course of an investigation conducted either under the provisions of the twenty-first or twenty-third paragraph of this section, and who shall refuse or neglect to appear or testify, or to produce books and papers relevant to said investigation as commanded in such subpoena, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished as provided in the forty-first paragraph of this section. The fees of witnesses for attendance and travel shall be the same as the fees of witnesses before the Circuit Courts, and shall be paid from the appropriation for the expenses of the commission. And any Circuit Court or any judge thereof, either in term time or vacation, upon application of any such commission [commissioner] or officer or board may, in his discretion, compel the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers, and giving of testimony before the commission, or before any such commissioner, investigating board or officer by attachment for contempt or otherwise in the same manner as the production of evidence may be compelled before said court. Every person who, having taken an oath or made affirmation before a commissioner or officer appointed by the commission authorized to administer oaths, shall swear or affirm wilfully, corruptly and falsely, shall be guilty of perjury and upon conviction shall be punished accordingly.

Forty-first-PENALTIES.] Any person who shall wilfully, or through culpable negligence violate any of the provisions of this Act or any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

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Forty-second-PENALTIES, DISQUALIFICATION TO HOLD OFFICE.] If any person shall be convicted under the next preceding section, any public office or place of public employment, which such person may shall, by force of such conviction, be rendered vacant, and such person shall be incapable of holding any office or place of public employment for the period of five years from the date of such conviction.

Forty-third-WHAT OFFICERS TO PROSECUTE.] Prosecutions for violations of this Act may be instituted by the Attorney General, the State's attorney for the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed, or by the commission acting through special counsel. Such suits shall be conducted and controlled by the prosecuting officers

who instituted them, unless they request the aid of other prosecuting officers.

§ 2. Whereas, an emergency exists, this Act shall take effect. and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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, as subsequently amended.

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, as subsequently amended, 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 hereinafter 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 by [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 a 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 ap

proved 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 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 apropriation 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