ized and empowered to appoint special representatives to act as automobile and motor bicycle investigators, in such numbers and for such localities as he may deem advisable, said investigators to serve without compensation. 44. Public highways shall include any highway, county road, State road, public street, avenue, alley, parkway, driveway or public place in any county, city, village, incorporated town or towns. Local authorities shall include all officers of counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns, towns or road districts as well as all boards, committees and other public officials of such counties, cities, villages, incorporated towns, or road districts. $45. The Secretary of State, or his authorized agent, may, at his discretion, dispose of, destroy, or cause to be destroyed, applications for licenses, examination papers, correspondence, or any other records which have been on file in the office of said Secretary of State for a period of five years or more. § 46. An Act entitled, "An Act defining motor vehicles and providing for the registration of the same, and of motor bicycles, and uniform rules regulating the use of speed thereof; prohibiting the use of motor vehicles without the consent of the owner, and the offer or acceptance of any bonus or discount, or other consideration, for the purchase of supplies or parts for any such motor vehicle, or for work or repairs done thereon by others, and defining chauffeurs, and providing for the examination and licensing thereof, and to repeal certain Acts. therein named," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as amended, is repealed. 47. This Act shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of January, 1920. APPROVED June 30, 1919. (SENATE BILL NO. 161. FILED JULY 11, 1919.) AN ACT to protect all counties in the State of Illinois in which there are United States naval stations, and military posts of the first class from slot machines and other gambling devices. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, as owner, agent or otherwise, to manufacture, sell, lease, or hold, or offer for sale, or lease to another any clock, joker, punch board, tape or slot machine, or any other device upon which money is staked or hazarded, or into which money is paid or played upon chance, or upon the result of the action of which money or valuable thing is staked, bet, hazarded, won or lost, in any county in the State of Illinois in which there is a United States military post, or United States naval training station of the first class. § 2. Every such machine described in this Act is hereby declared a gambling device, and shall be subject to seizure, confiscation and destruction by any municipal, or other local authority, within whose jurisdiction the same may be found. § 3. Any person, firm or corporation, who, by himself or another, his principal, agent or otherwise, shall violate the provisions of this Act, shall be fined for the first offense not less than $100.00, and shall be imprisoned for thirty days in the county jail, and for the second offense not less than $500.00, and shall be confined in the county jail not less than six months, and for each subsequent offense shall be fined not less than $500.00 and imprisoned in the penitentiary for one year. § 4. It shall be unlawful to bargain for the sale or lease of any gambling machine described in this Act, or to collect money, or to take compensation for such sale, or lease, or to take or accept money from any person, or from any such machine as a share or royalty, or compensation for any such lease, or sale. Proof that such machine or device when seized has not been used, or is out of repair, shall not constitute a defense to a prosecution under this Act. § 5. All places where slot machines and other gambling devices are held or operated shall be taken and declared to be common and public nuisances, and whosoever shall keep any such place by himself or his agents or servant, shall, for each offense, be fined not less than $100.00, and shall be confined in the county jail for thirty days, and for each subsequent offense shall be fined $500.00 and confined in the county jail for six months. EXCEPTION] Vending machines by which full and adequate return is made for the money invested and in which there is no element of chance or hazard shall not fall under the provisions of this Act. 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. (SINATE BILL NO. 493. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.) AN ACT to amend sections 1, 7 and 8 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to oil inspection," approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That sections 1, 7 and 8 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to oil inspection," approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915, be and the same are hereby amended so that said sections shall read respectively as follows: § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the mayor of any city, with the approval of the city council, the president of the board of trustees of any village or incorporated town, with the approval of such board. of trustees, may appoint one or more inspectors for the inspection of coal oil, petroleum, naptha, gasoline, benzine, mineral seal, benzol, signal and other mineral oils in fluids, fix the compensation of such inspectors and prescribe the fees to be paid by those for whom such inspectors render services. The county judge of any county may appoint such inspectors for territory not within city limits, village or incorporated town, fix their compensation and fees. Every such inspector shall hold office for one year, and until his successor is qualified, and with the approval of the power appointing him, may appoint deputies, for whom he shall be responsible, who shall take the same oath and be liable to the same penalties as the inspector. All fees collected by such inspector or deputy shall be paid by him into the county, city, village or town treasury and be the property of such county, city, village or town. The salary of such inspector shall not exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) per year: Provided, that any city having a population of less than one hundred thousand (100,000) or any village or town may by ordinance provide that such inspector or deputy shall receive in lieu of salary the fees collected by him. § 7. Any refiner or producer or any dealer in, or manufacturer, person, firm or corporation using, directly or in the manufacture of their product, coal oil, naptha, gasoline, benzine, mineral seal, benzol, signal or other mineral oil or fluid, in any city, village or town in which such inspector is appointed, who shall neglect to give notice to such inspector of any such oil or fluid in his possession, within two days after the same is made or refined by him or received into his possession, or shall offer any such oil or fluid for sale before the same has been so inspected, or shall sell or attempt to sell to any person, for illuminating purposes, any such oil which is below the approved standardthat is, having igniting point less than one hundred and fifty degrees Fahrenheit, as indicated and determined in the manner herein provided, or shall use any package, cask, barrel or other thing having the inspection brand thereon, the oil or fluid therein not having been inspected, or shall counterfeit anv brand, shall be fined not exceeding $200 and be liable to the party injured for all damages occasioned thereby, and all the casks, barrels or packages so falsely used, and their contents, shall be forfeited, and may be seized and sold. § 8. All coal oil, naptha, gasoline, benzine, mineral seal, benzol, signal or other mineral oil or fluid, shipped by any refiner or producer within the State, must be inspected by the inspector at the receiving point. APPROVED June 28, 1919. GASOLINE RECEPTACLES-COLOR AND LABEL. § 1. Amends sections 1 and 2, Act of 1913. § 1. Receptacles for gasoline (SENATE BILL No. 450. § 2. § 2. Penalty. Amends title. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.) AN ACT to amend sections 1 and 2 and the title of an Act entitled, “An Act prescribing the color and label for gasoline receptacles," approved June 27, 1913, in force July 1, 1913. 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 prescribing the color and label for gasoline receptacles, approved June 17, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, is amended to read as follows: § 1. That all receptacles for gasoline or benzol used in the retail trade, except tank wagons or trucks, shall be red and shall be labeled "gasoline" or "benzol" as the case may be, in letters of a contrasting color and a height of not less than one-half inch, and it shall be unlawful in such retail trade or anything pertaining thereto to put gasoline or benzol into any receptacle of any other color than red and not labeled as above required. It shall also be unlawful to put any other liquids or oils except gasoline or benzol in such receptacles theretofore used for gasoline or benzol, so long as such receptacles are so painted red and labeled "gasoline" or "benzol" as aforesaid. The Department of Trade and Commerce shall have power to enforce the provisions of this Act. § 2. Any person violating the foregoing section of this Act shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten ($10) dollars. § 2. The title of said Act is amended to read as follows: 'An Act prescribing the color and label for gasoline or benzol receptacles. APPROVED June 28, 1919. AN ACT to regulate the storage, transportation, sale and use of gasoline and volatile oils. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to keep, store, transport, sell or use any crude petroleum, benzine, benzol, gasoline, naptha, ether or other like volatile combustiles, or other compounds, in such manner or under such circumstances as will jeopardize life or property. § 2. Except in cities or villages where regulatory ordinances upon the subject are in full force and effect the Department of Trade and Commerce shall have power to make and adopt reasonable rules and regulations governing the keeping, storage, transportation, sale or use of gasoline and volatile oils. § 3. Any person, firm, association or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Act or any of the reasonable rules and regulations of the Department of Trade and Commerce adopted pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10.00 nor more than $50.00 for each offense, recoverable in an action of debt at the suit of Attorney General the Director of the Department of Trade and Commerce, or State's attorney of the county where such violation occurs. Each day of violation of the provisions of this Act or the reasonable rules and regulations of the Department of Trade and Commerce shall constitute a separate offense. $ 1. APPROVED June 28, 1919. PARKS AND BOULEVARDS. BONDS Who may issue-purposes-propo ition to be submitted. (SENATE BILL NO. 480. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.) AX ACT to enable the corporate authorities of public park districts to issue bonds for the purpose of aiding the connection of park or parks under their control with other park or parks and to provide for the payment of such bonds. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the corporate authorities of any public park district, having the control or supervision of any public park or parks in any city of this State wherein other park districts and parks are situated, may, from time to time in their discretion, issue and sell in addition to the bonds now authorized by law to be issued and sold by corporate authorities, interest-bearing bonds for the purpose of obtaining such funds as they may deem necessary in defraying the expense of connecting any park or parks under their control, with any other public park or parks by means of a boulevard and driveway in said city, and altering and improving connection or connections between such parks, or by constructing or aiding in the construction of, or paying the cost of, or contributing toward the payment of the cost of or reimbursing, wholly or in part, any such city hereinafter mentioned, for the cost of any improvement consisting wholly or in part of surface or elevated boulevards or thoroughfares, and in the approaches thereto, or bridges, subways or tunnels, and the approaches thereto, located wholly or in part in the district or territory taxable for the maintenance of the park or parks under the control or supervision of such corporate authorities, over, across, along, upon, in or under streets, alleys or public waters, whenever thereunto authorized by any city having control thereof or engaged in the construction of any such improvement, or if heretofore or hereafter otherwise properly authorized, provided no bonds shall be issued under this Act contrary to the provisions of section 12. Article 9, of the Constitution of this State: And provided further, that the proposition to issue such bonds shall be submitted to a vote of the legal voters of such park district at any general, municipal or special election, and receive a ma |