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give away or display in any way, manner, shape, means or method except as hereinafter provided any communication, poster, folder, manuscript, book, pamphlet, writing, print, letter, notice or advertisement of any kind, nature or description intended or calculated to discriminate or actually discriminating against any religious sect, creed, class, denomination or nationality or against any of the members thereof in the matter of furnishing or neglecting or refusing to furnish to them or any one of them lodgings, housing, schooling, tuition or any accommodations, rights, privileges, advantage or convenience offered to or enjoyed by the general public or to the effect that any of the accommodations, rights, privileges, advantages or conveniences of any such place of public accommodation resort or amusement shall or will be refused, withheld from or denied to any person or persons or class of persons on account of class, creed, religion, sect, denomination, nationality or that the patronage custom, presence, frequenting, dwelling, staying or lodging at such place or any person, persons or class of persons belonging to or purporting to be of any particular religion, sect, creed, class, denomination or nationality is unwelcome, objectionable, or not acceptable, desired or solicited.

§ 2. The production of any such communication, paper, poster, folder, pamphlet, manuscript, book, printing, writing, letter, notice or advertisement purporting to relate to any such place and to be made by any person being the owner, lessee, proprietor, superintendent, manager or any employe thereof shall be presumptive evidence in any civil or criminal action or prosecution that the same was authorized by such

person.

§ 3. A place of public accommodation, resort or amusement within the meaning of this Act shall be deemed to include any inn, tavern. hotel, whether conducted for the entertainment, housing, lodging of transient guests, or for the benefit, use or accommodation of those seeking health, recreation or rest, any restaurant, eating-house, public conveyance on land or water, bath-house, barber-shop, theatre and music hall.

4. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prohibit the mailing of a private communication in writing sent in response to a specific written or verbal inquiry.

5. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions in this Act or shall aid in or incite cause or bring about in whole or in part the violation of any such provision or provisions shall for each and every violation thereof be liable civilly to a penalty of not less than ($100) one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollar to be recovered by any person aggrieved thereby, and shall also for every such violation or offense be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than one hundred ($100) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars or shall be imprisoned not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

§ 6. The invalidity of any portion of this Act shall not affect the validity of any other portion thereof, which can be given effect without such invalid part.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

FALSE PRETENSE.

1. Adds section 116a, Act of 1874.

§ 116a.

Misrepresentation by educational institutions-penalty.

(HOUSE BILL No. 313. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended, by adding thereto one new section to be known as section 116a.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 116a, to read as follows:

116a. Any person, firm, association or corporation owning, operating, directing or controlling, in whole or in part, any school, college, university, department of a university, or other educational or training institution, which shall falsely state, allege, advertise or represent that that school, college, university, department of a university, or institution, is approved, accredited or recognized as reputable and in good standing by any department, office, board, commission or agency of the State of Illinois, which is charged by law with approving, accrediting or recognizing as reputable and in good standing any such school, college, university, department of a university, or other educational or training institution shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00).

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

INTOXICATING LIQUOR.

1. Amends section 1, Act of 1887.

(HOUSE BILL No. 239.

§ 1. Penalty for selling. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section one (1) of "An Act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors outside of the incorporated limits of cities, towns and villages," approved May 4, 1887, in force July 1, 1887.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section one (1) of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors outside the incorporated limits of cities, towns and villages," approved May 4, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, be and the same is hereby amended to read. as follows:

§1. Whoever shall, outside of the incorporate limits of any city, town or village, by himself or another, either as principal, clerk or servant, sell, or in any manner dispose of any distilled, spiritous, vinous,

fermented, malt or intoxicating liquor, in any quantity whatsoever, without a license from the county board, to keep a dramshop, shall, for each offense, be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) and imprisoned in the county jail for not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than ninety (90) days, in the discretion of the court; provided, however, that such board shall not have power to issue such license to keep a dram shop in any place within two miles of the limits of any incorporate city, town or village.

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to the sentence and commitment of persons convicted of crime or offenses and providing for a system of parole and to repeal certain Acts and parts of Acts therein named," approved June 25, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, by amending section one (1), section three (3), section seven (7), and adding thereto a new section to be known as section seven.A (74).

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 revise the law in relation to the sentence and commitment of persons convicted of crime or offenses and providing for a system of parole and to repeal certain Acts and parts of Acts therein named," approved June 25, 1917, in force July 1, 1917, be and is hereby amended by amending section one (1), section three (3), section seven (7), and by adding a new section to be known as section seven A (7A) to read as follows:

§ 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases were [where] any person, male or female, over ten years of age, shall be charged with either of the offenses of misprision of treason, murder, rape, or kidnaping, and the case shall be tried by a jury and the jury shall find the defendant guilty, the jury shall also by its verdict fix the punishment, and if the punishment imposed is imprisonment, the jury shall fix the term of such imprisonment; if the case is tried by the court, without a jury on a plea of guilty, and the court shall impose imprisonment as the punishment, the court shall fix a definite term of imprisonment, and the court in each case, shall fix the place of confinement. In every such

case of imprisonment, the court shall sentence the defendant to the penitentiary, except as is provided in clauses one to four, inclusive, in section three of this Act, and in such cases the court may, in its discretion, commit as in those clauses provided. Every person so sentenced shall be held in the respective institution, reformatory or penitentiary for and during the definite term in said sentence named, subject to transfer, subject to parole and subject to be earlier discharged, as in this Act provided, by the Department of Public Welfare, and it shall be deemed and taken as a part of every such sentence that all of the provisions for transfer, parole and discharge in this Act contained shall be a part of said sentence as fully as though written in it.

Every person sentenced and committed under this section "one" shall, in the discretion of the Department of Public Welfare, be eligible to parole under rules and regulations adopted therefor by the Department of Public Welfare, such paroles to be as follows: Persons sentenced for life may be eligible to parole at the end of twenty years; persons not sentenced for life but sentenced for a definite term of years shall not be eligible to parole until he or she shall have served the minimum. sentence provided by law for the crime of which he or she was convicted, good time being allowed as provided by law; nor until he or she shall have served at least one-third of the time fixed in said definite sentence. It is expressly provided that the definite sentence provided for in this section "one" shall be applicable only to the crimes enumerated in this section "one" and definite sentences shall not be applicable to any other crime or offense enumerated in this Act; and further, that indeterminate or general sentences shall apply to all other crimes and offenses enumerated in this Act, but not to the crimes or offenses enumerated in this section "one."

§ 3. That except for the crimes enumerated in section one of this Act, every person, male or female, over ten years of age, who shall be adjudged guilty of a felony, or other crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, or by imprisonment either in the penitentiary or jail, and as to whom the court shall not have assessed the jail sentence, shall in all such cases, except as herein otherwise provided, in clauses one to four, inclusive, be sentenced to the penitentiary and the jury in its verdict in such case and the court imposing such sentence, shall not fix the limit or duration of same, but the term of such imprisonment shall not be less than the minimum term nor shall it exceed the maximum term provided by law for the crime or offense of which the person is convicted, making allowance for good time as is provided by law: Provided,

Clause 1. That every male person between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six years, except in capital cases, may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced to the reformatory instead of the penitentiary.

Clause 2. That every male person between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-six years who has previously been sentenced to the penitentiary or reformatory in this or any other state, district or country, may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced to the penitentiary instead of the reformatory.

Clause 3. That every male person between the ages of ten and sixteen years adjudged guilty of any offense enumerated in this section, except capital offense, may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced and committed to such other institution (other than the reformatory) as is provided by law for the incarceration, punishment, discipline, training or reformation of such class of persons, instead of the penitentiary. Clause 4. That every female person between the ages of ten and eighteen years, adjudged guilty of any offense enumerated in this section, except a capital offense, may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced and committed to such other institution as is now provided by law, or may be provided by law, for the incarceration, punishment, discipline, training or reformation of such class of persons, instead of the penitentiary.

Clause 5. That every person of the age of twenty-one years or more who shall be found guilty of robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon, or if he has any confederate present so armed to aid or abet him shall be sentenced to the penitentiary and not to the reformatory or other State institution; and every person of the age of twenty-one years or more who shall be found guilty of burglary of a dwelling house in the night time and who at the time of committing such burglary shall be found with any deadly weapon, deadly drug, or anaesthetic upon his person or in his possession shall be sentenced to the penitentiary and not to the reformatory or other State institution.

§ 7. The said Department of Public Welfare shall have power, and it shall be its duty, to establish rules and regulations under which prisoners in the penitentiary, in the reformatory and in such other State institutions as are now or may hereafter be provided for the incarceration, punishment, discipline, training or reformation of the prisoners or wards committed thereto, may be allowed to go upon parole outside of the penitentiary, reformatory or such other institutional buildings and enclosure: Provided, that no prisoner or ward shall be released from either the penitentiary or the reformatory or such other institution herein in this Act mentioned until the Department of Public Welfare shall have made arrangements or shall have satisfactory evidence that arrangements have been made for his or her honorable and useful employment while upon parole in some suitable occupation and also for a proper and suitable home free from criminal influences and without expense to the State: And, provided, further, that all prisoners and wards so temporarily released upon parole shall, at all times, until the receipt of their final discharge, be considered in the legal custody of the officers of the Department of Public Welfare, and shall, during the said time, be considered as remaining under conviction for the crime or offense of which they were convicted and sentenced or committed and subject to be taken at any time within the enclosure of such penitentiary, reformatory and institutions herein mentioned. Full power to enforce such rules and regulations and to retake and reimprison any inmate so upon parole is hereby conferred upon the officers and employees of the Department of Public Welfare. The order or writ certified to by the warden, superintendent or managing head of such

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