Twenty-fifth-The civil service commission shall select one of their own number to act as chairman and one as secretary. The secretary shall keep the minutes of its proceedings, preserve all reports made to it, keep a record of all examinations held under its direction and perform such other duties as the commission shall require.

Twenty-sixth-OFFICERS TO AID-ROOMS.] All officers of said county shall aid said commission in all proper ways in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and at any place where examinations are to be held shall allow the reasonable use of public buildings for holding such examinations. The board of county commissioners shall cause suitable rooms to be provided for said commission at the expense of said county.

Twenty-seventh-SALARIES AND EXPENSES.] Each of said civil service commissioners shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars a year, and said commission may also incur expenses not exceeding five hundred dollars a year for printing, stationary and other incidental matters.

Twenty-eighth-APPROPRIATIONS.] A sufficient sum of money shall be appropriated each year by said board to carry out the provisions of this Act in said county. If the board shall have already made the annual appropriation for county purposes for the current fiscal year, the board is authorized and required to pay the salaries and expenses of the civil service commission for such fiscal year out of the moneys appropriated for contingent purposes by said board.

Twenty-ninth-FRAUDS PROHIBITED.] No person or officer shall wilfully or corruptly by himself or [in] cooperation with any one or more other persons, defeat, deceive or obstruct any person in respect to his or her right of examination, or corruptly or falsely mark, grade, estimate or report upon the examination or proper standing of any person examined hereunder, or aid in so doing, or wilfully or corruptly make any false representation concerning the same or concerning the person examined, or wilfully or corruptly furnish to any person any special or secret information for the purpose of improving or injuring the prospects or chances of any person so examined or to be examined being employed or promoted.

Thirtieth-No OFFICER TO SOLICIT OR RECEIVE POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS.] No officer or employe in the classified civil service of said County or named in the twentieth paragraph of this section, shall solicit, orally or by letter, or receive or pay, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting, receiving or paying any assessments, subscriptions or contributions for any party or political purposes whatever.

Thirty-first-No PERSON TO SOLICIT POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM OFFICERS OR EMPLOYES.] No person shall solicit orally or by letter, or be in any manner concerned in soliciting any assessment, contribution or payment, for any party or for any political purpose whatever, from any officer or employe in the classified civil service of said county or named in the twentieth paragraph of this section.

Thirty-second-ASSESSMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS IN PUBLIC OFFICES FORBIDDEN.] No person shall in any room or building occupied for the discharge of official duties by any officer or employe in the classified civil service of said county, or named in the twentieth para

graph of this section, solicit, orally or by written communication, deliver therein or in any other manner, or receive any contribution of money or other thing of value, for any party or political purpose whatever. No officer, agent, clerk or employe in the classified civil service of said 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 employe 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 employe 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.] Το officer or employe 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 employe, 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 employe 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 employe 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 [officer] of said county shall approve the payment of, or be in any manher concerned in paying any salary or wages to any person for services as an officer or employe 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 guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, on conviction thereof be punished any rule promulgated in accordance with the provisions thereof shall be 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 If any person shall be convicted under the next preceding section, any Forty-second-PENALTIES, DISQUALIFICATION TO HOLD OFFICE.]

the court.

public office or

hold 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.

place of public employment, which such person may

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 offence 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.

AN ACT to amend section 61 of an Act entitled: "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31, 1874, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 61 of an Act entitled: "An Act to revise the law in relation to counties," approved and in force March 31, 1874, as amended, is 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 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 the meetings of said board, and generally perform the duties usually performed by a presiding officer: Provided, that in the absence of the president, or of 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 writ ing 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.