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persons, whereby the safety of any person shall be endangered, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding three years, or fined not exceeding $5,000.

§ 53. Any person who shall wilfully and unnecessarily expose to the inclemency of the weather, or shall in any other manner injure in health or limb, any child, apprentice, or other person under his legal control, shall be fined not exceeding $500, or imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding five years.

§ 87. Whoever sets at liberty or rescues, or attempts to set at liberty or rescue, a person charged with the commission of any capital offense or crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, before the conviction of such person, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding five years, and fined not exceeding $1,000.

§ 94. Every person who shall fraudulently produce an infant, falsely pretending it to have been born of parents whose child would be entitled to a share of any personal estate, or to inherit any real estate, with the intent of intercepting the inheritance of any such real estate, or the distribution of any such personal property from any person lawfully entitled thereto, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding ten years.

§ 119. Every president, cashier, treasurer, secretary or other officer, and every agent, attorney, servant or employee of any bank, railroad, manufacturing or other corporation, and every other person who shall, knowingly and designedly, and with intent to defraud any person, bank, railroad, manufacturing or other corporation, issue, sell, transfer, assign or pledge, or cause or procure to be issued, sold, transferred, assigned or pledged, any false, fraudulent or simulated certificate or other evidence of ownership of any share or shares of the capital stock of any bank, railroad, manufacturing or other corporation, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $2,000, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than ten years.

§ 120. Every president, cashier, treasurer, secretary or other officer, and every agent of any bank, railroad, manufacturing or other corporation, who shall wilfully and designedly sign, with intent to issue, sell, pledge, or cause to be issued, sold or pledged, any false, fraudulent or simulated certificate or other evidence of the ownership or transfer of any share or shares of the capital stock of such corporation, or any instrument purporting to be a certificate or other evidence of such ownership or transfer, the signing, issuing, selling or pledging of which by such president, cashier, treasurer or other officer or agent, shall not be authorized by the charter and by-laws of such corporations, or by some amendment thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $2,000, and by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than ten years.

§ 156. If a father shall rudely and licentiously cohabit with his own daughter, the father shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding twenty years.

§ 157. Persons within the degrees of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void, who shall intermarry with each other, or who shali commit adultery or fornication with each other, or who shall lewdly and lasciviously cohabit with each other, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding ten years.

§ 166. Whoever wilfully and without lawful authority forcibly or secretly confines or imprisons any other person within this State against his will, or forcibly carries or sends such person out of the State, or forcibly seizes or confines, or inveigles, or kidnaps any other person, with the intent to cause such person to be secretly confined or imprisoned in this State against his will, or to cause such person to be sent out of the State against his will, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding $1,000, or both. This section shall not extend to a parent taking his or her minor child, unless such parent is deprived of the right to have the custody of such child by the order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

§ 1662. Whoever wilfully and without authority forcibly takes or carries or entices away any infant under the age of twelve years, without the consent of the parent, guardian or lawful custodian of such child, with intent to conceal or imprison such infant, or whoever wilfully and without authority conceals or imprisons an infant under the age of twelve years, without the consent of the parent or guardian or lawful custodian of such infant, shall, upon conviction, be imprisoned in the penitentiary for his or her natural life, or for any number of years not less than one year.

§ 169. In case of a second conviction of the offense of petty larceny by any person over the age of eighteen years, the punishment shall be by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding three years; and on the trial under an indictment for petty larceny, a duly certified copy of the record of a former conviction and judgment of any court of record in this State, for a like offense against the party indicted, shall be prima facie evidence of such former conviction, and may be used in evidence against such party: Provided, that such former conviction and judgment shall be set forth in apt words in the indictment.

§ 230. Whoever wilfully and maliciously administers or causes to be administered or taken by any person, any noxious or destructive substance or liquid, with intent to cause the death of such person, or mingles any poison with food, drink or medicine, or wilfully poisons any spring. well or reservoir of water, with such intent, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding twenty years.

§ 234. Whoever, being an inhabitant or resident of this State, by previous appointment or engagement made therein, leaves the State and engages in a fight with another person without the limits thereof, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding $5,000.

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§ 246. Robbery is the felonious and violent taking of money, goods or other valuable thing, from the person of another by force or intimidaEvery person guilty of robbery shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than three years nor more than twenty years; or if he is armed with a dangerous weapon, or being so armed, he wounds or strikes him, or if he has any confederate present so armed, to aid or abet him, he shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term of years not less than ten years or for life.

256. If any persons thus unlawfully and riotously assembled,. pull down or begin to pull down or destroy any dwelling house, building, ship or vessel, or perpetrate any premeditated injury, not a felony, on any person, such person or persons so offending shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year nor more than five years, or fined not exceeding $500, and shall also be liable to any person injured in an action of trespass to the full amount of damages by him sustained.

$265. Misprisons of treason shall consist in the knowledge and concealment of treason, without otherwise assenting to or participating in the crime. Any person found guilty thereof shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not more than

two years.

DIVISION II.

4. Every person not standing in the relation of husband or wife, parent or child, brother or sister to the offender, who knows the fact that a crime has been committed, and conceals it from the magistrate, or who harbors, conceals, maintains or assists any principal felon, or any accessory before the fact, knowing him to be such, shall be deemed an accessory after the fact, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of not less than one year and not exceeding two years, and fined not exceeding $500.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

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AN ACT to revise the law in relation to deadly weapons. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: It shall be unlawful for any person to carry or possess or sell, loan or give, to any person, any blackjack, slung-shot, sand-club, sand-bag, metal knuckles, bludgeon, or to carry or possess, with intent to use the same unlawfully against another, a dagger, dirk, billy, dangerous knife, razor, stiletto or any other dangerous or deadly weapon or instrument of like character.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, not being the father, guardian or employer of the minor herein named, by himself or agent, to sell, give, loan, hire or barter, or offer to sell, give, loan, hire or barter to any minor, any pistol, revolver, derringer, bowie knife, dirk or other deadly weapon of like character capable of being secreted upon the person.

§ 3. All persons dealing in deadly weapons, hereinbefore mentioned, at retail within this State, shall keep a register of all such weapons sold or given away by them. Such register shall contain the date of the sale or gift, the name and the age of the person to whom the weapon is sold or given, the price of the said weapon, and the purpose for which it is purchased or obtained. The said register shall be in the following form:

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Said register shall be kept open for the inspection of the public, and all persons who may wish to examine the same, may do so at all reasonable times during business hours.

§ 4. It shall be unlawful for any person to carry concealed upon his person, any pistol, revolver, or other firearm, without a written license therefor, issued as hereinafter prescribed in this section.

It shall be the duty of chief police officers in cities, and of justices of the peace and police magistrates elsewhere in the State, upon written application therefor, and upon satisfactory proof of good moral character and that proper cause exists for the issuance thereof, to issue a license to any citizen of the State of Illinois to carry concealed a pistol or revolver.

The application for a license shall be sworn to by the applicant and shall state the particular cause, reason or condition for such application and shall be accompanied by the affidavits of two reputable householders, residents of the county in which the application is made, which shall certify from personal knowledge to the good moral character of applicant and that they have investigated the particular cause, reason or condition assigned in the application and believe the same to be true and correct. The license so issued shall state the particular cause, reason or condition for its issuance and shall contain the names of the persons whose affidavits accompany the application.

Any license issued in pursuance of the provisions of this section may be limited as to the period for which issued and may be vacated and cancelled at any time for good cause by the chief police officer or the justice of the peace or police magistrate issuing the same. Conviction of a licensee for a felony shall operate as a revocation of any such license.

§ 5. Section four (4) of this Act shall not apply to sheriffs, coroners, constables, policemen, or other peace officers, or any warden, superintendent or head keeper of any prison, penitentiary, county jail or other institution for the detention of persons convicted of or accused of crime, while engaged in the discharge of their official duties, or to

any person summoned by any of such officers to assist in making arrest, or preserving the peace, while such person so summoned is engaged in assisting such officer, or to the regular and ordinary transportation and sale of firearms as merchandise.

§ 6. Whoever shall violate the provisions of section 1 or section 4 of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than one (1) year, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Whoever shall violate the provisions of section 2 or section 3 of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Any person who shall wilfully and falsely swear or affirm as to any material fact in any affidavit provided for in section 4 of this Act, shall be guilty of perjury and shall be punished according to the laws

of this State.

§ 7. Whoever, after having been convicted of murder, manslaughter, robbery, burglary, rape, mayhem, assault with a deadly weapon, or assault with intent to commit a felony, shall violate the provisions of section 4 of this Act, shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than ten years.

8. An Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the traffic in deadly weapons, and to prevent the sale of them to minors", approved April 16, 1881, in force July 1, 1881, is repealed.

FILED July 11, 1919.

The Governor having failed to return this bill to the General Assembly during its session, and having failed to file it in my office, with his objections, within ten days after the adjournment of the General Assembly, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this 11th day of July. A. D. 1919.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

DISCRIMINATION-AGAINST ANY RELIGIOUS SECT, CREED, ETC.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 265. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to prohibit the publication and distribution of discriminating matter against any religious sect, creed, class, denomination, or nationality, and to punish the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no person being the lessee, proprietor, manager, superintendent, agent, or employe of any place of public accommodation resort or amusement shall directly or indirectly by himself or anybody else publish, issue, circulate, send, distribute,

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