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care and maintenance of the same and for the support of the poor, and to cause an amount sufficient for said purposes to be levied upon the taxable property of the county and collected as other taxes.

(8) Upon the vote of a two-thirds majority of all the members of the board to sell and dispose of the whole or any part of the poor farm of the county in such manner and upon such terms as they may deem best for the interest of the county, and to make and execute all necessary conveyances thereof, in the same manner as other conveyances of real estate may be made by a county.

In case of the establishment and maintenance of a joint poor farm, the approval of the county board of each county shall be necessary for action under any provisions of this section.

Such joint poor farm may be dissolved or abandoned by agreement of the counties interested, or upon petition to the County Court, upon such terms as are equitable and just to the counties concerned.

All poor houses, poor farms and institutions provided and maintained by counties for the support and care of paupers shall be known as county homes.

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(SENATE BILL NO. 312. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend sections 3 and 6 of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the incorporation, management, and regulation of pawners' societies and limiting the rate of compensation to be paid for advances, storage and insurance of pawns and pledges, and to allow the loaning of money upon personal property," approved March 29, 1899, in force July 1st, 1899.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 3 and 6 of the Act to provide for the incorporation, management and regulation of pawners' societies and limiting the rate of compensation to be paid for advances, etc., approved March 29, 1899, in force July 1st, 1899, be, and it is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 3. When the corporation has disposable funds it may make advances on all goods, chattels and savings bank deposit books offered, embraced within its rules and regulations, but in no case shall the amount loaned to any one person exceed the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00).

§ 6. If the property pledged is not redeemed within the time. fixed and agreed upon, the same shall, after one year from the expiration of the time of the pledge, be sold at public auction without redemption, under the directions of said corporation, to the highest bidder for cash,

at which sale said corporation may be a bidder and a purchaser, and the net surplus of the proceeds of such sale, after paying the cost of the sale and the amount due said corporation, shall be paid to the pawner or pledger or his legal representative or assigns on demand at any time within two (2) years after such sale. But said pawner or pledger, or his legal representative or assigns, shall have no right to said net surplus or to demand, or recover the same after the expiration of said two years.

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(SENATE BILL NO. 299. FILED JULY 11, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a house of correction employees' pension fund in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants," approved and in force July 1, 1911.

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 provide for the formation and disbursement of a house of correction employees' fund, in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants," approved June 10, 1911, and in force July 1, 1911, be amended as follows:

That the board of inspectors of the various houses of correction, organized under an Act of General Assembly of the State of Illinois entitled, "An Act to establish houses of correction and authorize the confinement of convicted persons therein," approved April 25, 1871, and maintained thereunder in cities having a population exceeding 150,000 inhabitants, shall have power, and it shall be its duty to create a house of correction employees' pension fund which, shall consist of two (2) per cent of the salary or wages of the employees, deducted in equal monthly installments from such salaries or wages at the regular time or times of the payment thereof, but not to exceed two (2) dollars per month

and three (3) per cent of the gross earnings of the house of correction, and three (3) per cent of the fines and costs collected for violation of city ordinances where the persons convicted of such violations have been incarcerated in the house of correction for the non-payment of such fines and costs.

§ 2. The term "employee" under this Act, shall include all persons in the employ of any such house of correction under and by virtue of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, and for those who were appointed prior to the passage of such Act and who were in the service of such house of correction July 1, 1911: Provided, however, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to temporary or probationary employees, nor to those defined as "sixty-day employees," nor to any employee who is fifty or more years of age at the time this Act is in force and effect and who at said time has not been in the service of such house of correction for at least ten (10) years: And, provided, further, that this Act shall apply only to those employees who voluntarily accept and agree to comply with its provisions. Any employee on sick leave or leave of absence from such house of correction who has contributed to said pension fund, will be considered a member of said pension fund, and will be entitled to all benefits and anniuties under this Act, while he or she remains on said sick leave or leave of absence from said house of correction: Provided, the said employee does not take employment other than at such house of correction while on sick leave or leave of absence from such house of correction, and if said employee goes to work at employment other than at such house of correction while on said sick leave or leave of absence, from such house of correction, he or she will not be considered an employee of such house of correction, and will not be entitled to any benefits under this Act: And, provided, further, that any woman employee contributing to said pension fund, who marries and then takes a leave of absence for reasons other than sickness of self, will not be entitled to any benefits or annuities under this Act, while on such leave of absence, unless she is employed at least three (3) months of each year at such house of correction.

Any employee, a part of whose salary may be set apart hereafter to provide for the fund created by this Act, shall be released from the necessity of making further payments to said fund by filing a written. notice of his or her desire to withdraw from complying with the provisions of this Act, with the board of trustees hereinafter mentioned, which resignation shall operate and go into effect immediately upon its receipt by said board of trustees.

Any employee who has contributed to the said fund for three (3) years or more, and who shall be dismissed or resigned from the service of the said house of correction, may, upon application made within three (3) months, after such dismissal or resignation, receive one-half (1⁄2) of the total amount paid into said fund by such person so dismissed or resigned.

Any person in the employ of the house of correction July 1, 1911. shall be eligible to become a contributor to said pension fund, and

shall be given credit for the time of his or her past service, upon the payment of two (2) per cent of the salary he or she has received while in such employment.

§ 3. The city treasurer, subject to the control and direction of the board of trustees hereinafter mentioned, shall be the custodian of said pension fund and shall secure and safely keep same and shall keep books and accounts concerning said funds in such manner as may be prescribed by said board of trustees, which said books and accounts shall always be subject to the inspection of said board of trustees, or any member thereof.

The city treasurer shall within ten (10) days after nis election or appointment, execute a bond to the city, with good and sufficient securities, in such penal sum as the said board of trustees shall direct. and shall be conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of said office, and that he will safely keep and well and truly account for all moneys belonging to said pension fund, and all interest thereon, which may come into his hands, as such treasurer, and on the expiration of his term of office, or upon his retirement therefrom for any cause, he will surrender and deliver over to his successor all unexpended moneys, with such interest as he may have received thereon, and all property which may come into his hands as treasurer of said pension fund.

Such bond shall be filed in the office of the city clerk of said city for the use of said board of trustees, or any person or persons injured by such breach.

§ 4. The board of inspectors of any such house of correction shall, in the month of September immediately following the date of this Act going into effect, arrange for the election of a board of trustees of said pension fund composed of five members to be chosen as hereinafter provided, which election shall be held not later than two (2) months after this Act goes into effect. The same board of trustees shall have power, and it shall be its duty to administer said fund and to carry out the provisions of this Act for the purpose of enabling such board of trustees to perform the duties imposed and exercise the powers created by this Act, the board of trustees shall be and is hereby created a body politic and corporate, and said board of trustees may invest the accumulation of said funds in the government, State, county or municipal bonds, and the city treasurer shall be the custodian of said securities.

5. The said board of trustees shall consist of the chairman of the board of inspectors and the superintendent of the house of correction, two employees contributing to the fund and one member from the beneficiaries. The chairman of said board of inspectors and the superintendent of the house of correction shall be ex-officio members of such board of trustees, and the three (3) other members of such board of trustees shall be elected by ballot, the two members of the contributors to be elected by the employees contributing to said fund at the time and for the terms respectively as follows: At the first election the contributors to the said fund shall elect one of their number to serve for the term of two (2) years and one of their number for the term of one (1) year, and annually thereafter said contributors shall elect one

of their number to hold office for the term of two (2) years. At each election the beneficiaries shall elect one of their number to serve as a member of such board of trustees for a term of one year. And in case the beneficiary or beneficiaries be a child or children the guardian of such child or children may cast the votes to which such child or children may be entitled.

§ 6. Whenever any elective member of said board of trustees shall cease to be in the employ of or to be a member of said board of inspectors of said house of correction, or a beneficiary of the house of correction employees' fund, his or her membership in said board of trustees shall cease. All vacancies in said board of trustees shall be filled by a ballot as aforesaid.

Said board of trustees shall have power and it shall be its duty

1. To make all payments from said pension fund pursuant to the provisions of this Act.

2. To administer and invest, to purchase, hold, sell or assign and transfer any part of said pension fund remaining in the hands of said treasurer or any of the securities in which said fund, or any part thereof,. may be invested, subject to the approval of the majority of the contributors to said pension fund.

3. To pay all necessary expenses in connection with the administration of said fund and in carrying out the provisions of this Act for which provisions are not otherwise made.

4. To take by gift, or grant or bequest, or otherwise, any money or property of any kind and hold the same for the benefit of said fund.

5. To make and establish all such rules for the transaction of its business and such other rules, regulations and by-laws as may be necessary for the proper administration of said fund committed to its charge, and the performance of the duties imposed upon it.

6. To see that there is no restitution of deductions from salaries after the contributor shall have become eligible to an annuity under this Act.

7. To determine the amount to be paid as benefits or annuities on account of disability of any contributor, and to increase or reduce the same in its discretion: Provided, that no benefit or annuity shall exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars per year.

8. It shall keep full and complete records of its meetings and of the receipts and disbursements on account of such fund, and also complete list of all contributors to said fund, and of all annuitants receiving benefits therefrom, and such other records as in its judgment shall seem necessary and shall make and publish annually a full and complete statement of its financial transactions.

9. Said board shall hear and determine all applications for benefits given under this Act, on account of disability and shall have power to suspend any annuity, given on account of disability whenever in its judgment the disability of beneficiary has ceased, or for other good cause, subject to the approval of the majority of the contributors to said pension fund.

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