pension payable at the rate herein stated would equal the amount of such excess sum or sums.

§ 10. If any fireman shall die from any cause while in the service, excepting while on leave of absence without pay for more than thirty days during any year, or if any fireman shall die from any cause during retirement on account of disability or during retirement after twenty years' service and while in good standing, as provided in this Act, and shall leave a widow, minor natural child or children or dependent natural father or mother surviving, said board of trustees shall direct the payment from such pension fund of the following sums of money monthly:

(a) To such widow while unmarried, fortyfive dollars, provided, that no pension shall be allowed to the widow of any deceased fireman who has married such fireman subsequent to the date of his retirement with a pension under the provisions of this Act, and subsequent to June 30, 1915.

(b) To the guardian of any such child or children, ten dollars while their mother is living and unmarried and fifteen dollars if their mother is not living, until said child or children reach the age of eighteen years, provided, that if any such child or children, after reaching the age of fourteen years, shall not attend school, then such child or children not attending school shall be paid five dollars a month while the mother is living and unmarried and ten dollars a month if the mother is not living.

(c) To such dependent father or mother, if there be no widow or minor natural child or children surviving the deceased fireman, the sum of twenty-five dollars, provided, it shall be proved that the deceased fireman at the time of his death was the sole and only support of such parent or parents.

§ 11. If at any time there shall not be sufficient money in the firemen's pension fund to pay each person entitled to the benefits thereof, the full amount per month as provided in this Act, then and in that event an equal percentage of the monthly payments authorized by this Act shall be paid to each beneficiary thereof until the said fund shall be replenished, warranting the payments in full to each of said beneficiaries.

§ 12. No portion of said pension fund shall either before or after its order of distribution by said board to any retired fireman or to the widow or guardian of any minor child or children, or to the dependent parent, or parents of a deceased fireman, be held, seized, taken, or detained or levied on by virtue of any attachment, execution, injunction writ, interlocutory or other order or decree, or any process or proceeding whatever issued out of by any court of this State for the payment or satisfaction in whole or in part of any debt, damages, claim, demand or judgment against any such fireman or the widow or the guardian of any minor child or children or dependent parent or parents of any deceased fireman; and no pensioner shall have the right to assign his or her pension, or any part thereof; but the said fund shall be sacredly held, kept and secured and distributed for the purpose of pensioning the persons named in this Act and for no other purpose whatever.

13. In cities which have adopted an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, all persons who have been or shall hereafter be appointed to any position which is classified by the civil service commission of such city in the fire service of such city, and in cities which have not adopted said Civil Service Act, all persons appointed to any position in the fire department, shall be included within the meaning of the word or term "fireman" or "firemen" as used in this Act. All other persons who at the time this Act shall become effective shall have contributed to any firemen's pension fund then existing, shall also be included within the meaning of the term "fireman" or "firemen" as used in this Act, and shall be entitled to the benefits of this Act.

Any fireman or firemen who shall have served the required period of probation in the fire department of any such city and shall have remained five years under the protection of said pension fund shall not be removed from same because of involuntary transfer from the fire department to some other department of such city; provided, however, that he shall pay into said pension fund each month an amount equal to that which he would be required to pay in the position he occupied while in the employ of the fire department.

§ 14. The widows, orphans and dependent parents of deceased firemen and all retired firemen who are receiving or entitled to pensions under any other firemen's pension law in force in any such city at the time this Act shall become effective, shall be entitled to the benefits and pensions provided for by this Act, and none other, from the time that this Act shall become effective in such city.

FILED June 14, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has hereby become a law. Witness my hand this fourteenth day of June, A. D. 1917.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

PENSION FUNDS-MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES IN CITIES OVER 100,000 FORMERLY ENGAGED IN MILITARY SERVICE.

§ 1. Amends section 91⁄2, Act of 1911.

§ 9. As amended, provides Civil War Veterans may become participants as well as beneficiaries under the Act.

(HOUSE BILL No. 141. FILED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 911⁄2 of "An Act to provide for the formation and disbursement of a pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, or [for] municipal employees appointed to their positions under and by virtue of an Act entitled, 'An Act to regulate the civil service of cities', ap proved and in force March 20, 1895, and for those who were appointed prior to the passage of said Act and who are now in the service of such city, village or town," (approved May 31, 1911, in force July 1, 1911,) as amended by an Act 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 section 911⁄2 of "An Act to

provide for the formation and disbursement of a pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, or municipal employees appointed to their positions under and by virtue of an Act entitled, 'An Act to regulate the civil service of cities', approved and in force March 20, 1895, and for those who were appointed prior to the passage of said Act and who are now in the service. of such city, village or town," (approved May 31, 1911, in force July 1, 1911,) as amended by an Act approved June 29, 1915, in force July 1, 1915; be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows:

§ 92. Any employee under civil service who shall have been in the service of such city, village or town for a period of not less than ten (10) years and who was engaged in the military or naval service of the United States during the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864 or 1865, and who was honorably discharged therefrom, and who is sixty-five (65) years or more of age, shall have the right to retire from the service of such city, village or town, and become a participant and beneficiary hereunder, at any time after July 1, 1916; Provided, that no pension or benefit shall be paid to any such employee unless such employee shall on or before the date of his retirement from the service (or in the event that he does not retire before January 1, 1918) on or before that date pay to the treasurer of such city, village or town for the benefit of the pension fund hereby created a sum equal to the full amount which would have been deducted from his salary or wages during the period of his employment since July 1, 1911, and applied to said pension fund if such employee had been a participant in said pension fund during said period of employment. In determining the amount so to be paid credit shall be given for any moneys deducted from the salary or wages of any such employee and applied to said pension fund during the period of employment herein stated. Provided, further, that any such employee referred to in this section who shall retire from the service of such city, village or town before deduction shall have been made from the salary or wages of such employee for a period of twenty (20) years shall agree to pay into said fund, without interest thereon, the sum which, together with all moneys previously deducted from the salary or wages of such employee, is equal to the full amount which would have been deducted and applied to said fund during a period of twenty years. Such sum so to be paid shall be deducted by the treasurer of such city, village or town in equal monthly installments of ten dollars each, from the benefits due and payable to such employee at the regular times for the payments of said benefits. after he shall become a beneficiary hereunder.

It is the purpose and intent of this section that its provisions shall. apply only to persons who were engaged in the military or naval service. as aforesaid, and that it shall in no way repeal or affect any of the other provisions of this Act.

FILED June 11, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this eleventh day of June, A. D. 1917.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

(HOUSE BILL No. 423. FILED JUNE 8, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend sections 1, 2, 7, 8, and 9 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the formation and disbursement of a pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants for municipal employees appointed to their posi tions under and by virtue of an Act entitled, 'An Act to regulate the civil service of cities', approved and in force March 20, 1895, and for those who were appointed prior to the passage of said Act and who are now in the service of such city, village or town," approved May 31, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as subsequently amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 1, 2, 7, 8, and 9 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the formation and disbursement of a pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants for municipal employees appointed to their positions under and by virtue of an Act entitled, 'An Act to regulate the civil service of cities', approved and in force March 20, 1895, and for those who were appointed prior to the passage of said Act and who are now in the service of such city, village or town." approved May 31, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as subsequently amended, be and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 1. That hereafter in cities, villages and incorporated towns having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants, there shall be created, estab

lished and maintained a pension fund for municipal employees who are employed in such cities, villages and towns, under and by virtue of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, and for those who were appointed prior to the passage of said Act and who are now in the service of such city, village or town: Provided, however, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to probationary employees, nor to employees who are less than twenty-one years of age, nor to those defined as sixty-day employees by said Act, nor to any employee who is sixty 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 city, village or town for at least ten years, nor to any employee of such city, village or town now or hereafter participating in any other municipal pension fund. Nor to laborers, unless any such laborer shall within six months after this Act shall be in force and effect, or in the event that any such laborer is not now in the employ of such city, village or town, within six months after such laborer shall enter the service of such city,village or town, give written notice of his election. to the board of trustees of said fund of his desire to participate in the benefits hereunder.

Said fund shall consist of amounts of two dollars and fifty cents a month retained or deducted by the comptroller of such city, village, or town from the salaries or wages of each employee and such other sums as are hereinafter referred to: Provided, however, that if the name of any such employee shall not appear upon the pay-roll of the department in which he or she is employed by reason of leave of absence, sickness, lack of work, or any other good and sufficient cause, making a deduction impossible, such employee may retain his or her rights under this Act by paying two dollars and fifty cents each month to the treasurer of such city, village or town for the benefit of said fund, during his or her temporary absence from the service. In computing the duration of service of each employee, the time during which he or she may have been absent from duty during his or her entire term of service, for any cause other than suspension or discharge, shall be included.

There shall be set apart during the year 1917, by such cities, villages and towns from the revenue collected or received by such cities, villages and towns, from the revenue collected or received by such cities, villages and towns from licenses issued by such cities, villages and towns authorizing persons and corporations to engage in any business, profession or occupation within the corporate limits of such cities, villages and towns, excepting public utilities, a sum equal to the amount deducted from the salaries or wages of the aforesaid employees and the amounts paid to the treasurer of such city, village or town by the aforesaid employees for the benefit of the fund hereby created, as prescribed in this section, during the preceding fiscal year; and thereafter, beginning with the year 1918, such cities, villages and towns shall set apart annually from the revenues collected or received from the said sources a sum equal to twice the amount deducted from the salaries or wages of the aforesaid employees and twice the amount paid to the treasurer of such city, village or town by the aforesaid employees for the benefit