2,000 60,000 1 Superintendent of child welfare. For Assistant superintendents of charities at rates not to exceed $300 per month For office expenses For travel For repairs and equipment... For permanent improvements For charities conference For survey of specially handicapped children. (Total for General Office $872,220) §3. The Department of Public Welfare, with the consent in writing of the Department of Finance, may apportion the amounts stated in the several items in this Act, (except in the items "Permanent Improvements" and "Land") among the several State charitable, penal and reformatory institutions according to the varying needs of such institutions, not changing, however, the objects and purposes for which such appropriations are made. § 4. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare for buildings and equipment to relieve the crowded conditions for the care of inmates at such of the State institutions as may be selected by the Department of Public Welfare, such buildings and equipment to be plain but substantial and shall be constructed, so far as possible, by the labor of patients and paid labor or by contract or both, payable from the General Revenue Fund of the State, the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($350,000). § 5. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare the sum of $80,000 for the purchase of such land as may be necessary for institutions now in operation. § 6. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare for the purpose of acquiring the necessary land and commencement of construction of buildings for a new institution for the care of the insane, the sum of $1,000,000. § 7. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare for working capital, payable from the working fund in the State treasury for the industries at the Illinois State Penitentiary, Southern Illinois Penitentiary, Illinois State Reformatory, Illinois Woman's Prison, Illinois State Farm, Lincoln State School and Colony, Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, and the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, the sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000). § 8. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare the sum of $500,000, payable from the special fund in the State treasury known as "The United States Veteran's Bureau Fund," for the subsistence, care, treatment, housing, clothing, entertainment, comfort, rehabilitation and training of persons who served with the military or naval forces of the United States in the recent war with Germany, who are or may be committed to any of the State hospitals for the insane, Lincoln State School and Colony, and Dixon State Hospital. § 9. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare for conveying persons to the penitentiaries, reformatory, St. Charles School for Boys, State Training School for Girls and Chester State Hospital, the sum of eighty-nine thousand dollars ($89,000) as follows: For conveying to penitentiaries: For conveying convicts to the penitentiary and to and from the penitentiary in cases of new trials or when used as witnesses in cases, to be paid in the manner now provided by law: Provided, that when more than one person is convicted at the same term of court and is committed to the penitentiary, the sheriff shall receive fees at the rate of twentyfive cents for each and every mile necessarily traveled in going to the penitentiary from the place of conviction for the first convict so conveyed, fifteen cents per mile for the second convict so conveyed; ten cents per mile for each of the residue $25,000 For conveying to the reformatory: For conveying to the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac, and to and from the reformatory in cases of new trials, or when used as witnesses in cases, such payments in each case to be ascertained and paid in the same manner above required for the conveying of prisoners to the penitentiary.. 25,000 For conveying delinquent boys to the St. Charles School for boys: For conveying delinquent boys to the St. Charles School for Boys and to and from the St. Charles School for Boys in cases of new trials or when used as witnesses 'in cases, such payments in each case to be ascertained and paid in the same manner above required for the conveying of prisoners to the penitentiary 25,000 For conveying female offenders to the State Training School for Girls: cases, such payments in case to be ascertained and paid in the same manner above required for the conveying of prisoners to the penitentiary.... For transfer of insane criminals: For the payment of the expenses of the transfer of any insane person or persons to the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals, either from any of the other State institutions or upon the order or mittimus of any of the several State courts.. 12,000 2,000 § 10. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare the sum of $30,000 for tiling and drainage at such institutions as may. be in need of same, to be directed by the Director of the Department of Public Welfare. § 11. Amounts paid from appropriations herein made for personal service of any officer or employe of the State, either temporary or regular, shall be considered as full payment for all services rendered between the dates specified in the payroll or other voucher and no additional sum shall be paid to such officer or employe from any lump sum appropriations, appropriation for extra help or other purpose or any accumulated balances in specific appropriations, which payments would constitute in fact an additional payment for work already performed and for which remuneration has already been made. § 12. Payments for personal service except for positions specified in all appropriation Acts shall be made in conformity with schedules and amendments thereto submitted by the respective officers and approved by the Department of Finance before becoming effective. Such schedules and amendments thereto may set up groups of employment showing the approximate number to be employed, with fixed or minimum and maximum salary rates. § 13. When an appropriation is made for personal service for specific positions at a fixed rate or at a rate not to exceed a certain amount, the incumbents of such positions at the time the appropriation law goes into effect, shall be paid at such rate in full and a smaller rate may be paid to persons entering upon the duties of such positions after such appropriation law goes into effect. §14. Whenever any appropriation for contingencies to general office is herein made, no contract shall be entered into or obligation incurred for the expenditure of such appropriation until after the purpose and amount of such expenditure have been approved in writing by the Governor. § 15. The appropriations herein made shall be subject to all the provisions, conditions and limitations of "An Act in relation to State inance," approved June 10, 1919, as amended. APPROVED May 7, 1925. AN ACT in relation to the State institutions at or near Joliet, making an appropriation therefor and repealing an Act herein named. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: SECTION 1. The land acquired and buildings and other structures constructed by authority of "An Act creating a commission and providing for the acquisitions of land for the re-location of the Illinois State Penitentiary and the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals, and for the building of a new Illinois State Penitentiary and a new Illinois. Asylum for Insane Criminals at or near the city of Joliet, and making an appropriation therefor," approved June 5, 1907, are hereby declared to be a part of the Illinois State Penitentiary and the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals and as such shall be under the jurisdiction, custody and control of the Department of Public Welfare and subject to all the provisions of law relating to said institutions. § 2. There is appropriated to the Department of Public Welfare the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars or so much thereof as is necessary for the purpose of constructing, completing and equipping buildings for the confinement and employment of convicts and insane criminals including walls, guard rooms, work shops and yards, dining rooms, kitchens, bakeries, laundries, coal houses, store houses, hospitals, chapels, quarters for the warden, deputy wardens and guards, heating and lighting plants and such other buildings, improvements and structures. as are deemed necessary, together with a sewerage and water supply. § 3. "An Act creating a commission and providing for the acquisition of land for the re-location of the Illinois State penitentiary and the Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals, and for the building of a new Illinois State Penitentiary and a new Illinois Asylum for Insane Criminals at or near the city of Joliet, and making an appropriation therefor," approved June 5, 1907, is hereby repealed and the penitentiary commission created by that Act is abolished. § 4. Because of the fact that portions of the new buildings are ready for occupancy and the completion and equipping of the structures can be done to advantage by the Department of Public Welfare, an emergency exists and this Act shall take effect upon its passage. APPROVED May 6, 1925. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS AND BUILDINGS ADDITION TO OLD SALEM STATE § 1. Authorizes Department of Public PARK. Works and Buildings to pur- (HOUSE BILL No. 145. APPROVED MAY 25, 1925.) AN ACT making an appropriation for the purchase of a tract of land for an addition to Old Salem State Park. WHEREAS, The State of Illinois now owns the site of the original village of New Salem, and has converted the same into a State park with plans for completing the restoration of the village in commemoration of the formative period of the life of Abraham Lincoln; and WHEREAS, A certain tract of land containing 19.08 acres adjoins the said State park and contains the site of the original school house and the graveyard of the village and is an essential portion of the village, if the restoration thereof shall be complete, and should be added to the said park; and WHEREAS, The Old Salem-Lincoln League, in order to prevent speculators from purchasing said tract and later charging the State of Illinois a fabulous price therefor, did, on the 27th day of September, 1923, purchase the same at a total cost of $3,816.00, paying $1,000.00 in cash therefor, and giving a vendor's lien on the remainder ($2,816.00) of the purchase price, and now owns the fee simple title to said tract, and has incurred certain other expenses in relation thereto, making the total cost of said tract the sum of $4,181.58; and WHEREAS, The Old Salem-Lincoln League now offers to convey the same to the State of Illinois at the price such tract of land cost them in order that it may be added to the Old Salem Sate Park; now therefore Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: SECTION 1. The Department of Public Works and Buildings shal! purchase title to the tract of land at present owned by the Old SalemLincoln League, the legal description of which tract follows: "Part of the South Half of the Southwest fractional Quarter of Section Twenty-five (25), in Township Eighteen (18) North, Range Seven (7) West of the Third Principal Meridian, bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone at the Southwest corner of said Section 25, thence running North 16 chains, thence South 58 degrees 45 minutes, East 18.75 chains to a stone, thence East 3.89 chains to the center of the public highway, thence South westwardly along the center line of the highway aforesaid to the South line of said Section 25, thence West along said South line 15.80 chains to the place of beginning, containing 19.08 acres, all in the county of Menard and State of Illinois." Title to the tract shall be taken in the name of the State of Illinois and the deed thereto shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. Such tract shall form an addition to the Old Salem State Park. §2. The sum of four thousand one hundred eighty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents is appropriated for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act. §3. This Act is subject to the provisions of "An Act in relation to State finance," approved June 10, 1919, as amended. APPROVED May 25, 1925. |