Illinois," approved May 11, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, as subsequently amended, be and the same are hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 11. The following officers, positions and places of employment shall be exempt from the classified civil service of the State:

(1) All officers elected by the people.

(2) All judges and officers appointed by judges of any court, clerks of court, all officers and employees of the General Assembly or either House thereof, and notaries public.

(3) All offices, positions and places of employment in the military service of the State.

(4) All notaries public.

(5) All officers appointed by the Governor by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(6) One private secretary and one stenographer for each elective officer in the executive department, and one private secretary for each director of a department created by the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois, for the president of each State normal school and for the president and each dean of the University of Illinois.

(7) All regular and special Assistants Attorneys General, all law clerks, special investigators and all special attorneys employed by the Attorney General, including the inheritance tax attorney of Cook County and assistant inheritance tax attorneys of Cook County.

(8) All presidents, deans, principals, professors, instructors, scientific staff and other teachers of the University of Illinois and of the State normal schools.

(9) All employees at the executive mansion.

(10) The superintendent and assistant superintendent of capital building and grounds.

(11) All bank examiners, examiners of building and loan associations, insurance actuaries and examiners of insurance companies.

(12) All superintendents, wardens and chaplains in the State charitable, penal and correctional institutions.

(13) All clerks, watchmen and policemen employed in the offices of the elective officers in the executive department.

In the University of Illinois and in the State normal schools, students may be employed under the rules of the Civil Service Commission. without examination or certification.

§ 12. No employee in the classified civil service of the State shall be removed, discharged or reduced in rank or pay by the appointing officer, except for just cause. The term "just cause" as used in this section-shall mean any cause which is detrimental to the public service other than political, racial or religious.

In every case of removal, discharge or reduction, a statement of the cause therefor shall be set forth in writing, which statement shall be in duplicate, and shall be signed by the appointing officer. One copy of said statement shall be delivered personally to the employee and the other copy of said statement shall be filed in the office of the Civil Service Commission, with a notation thereon showing proof of service of a copy of said statement upon the employee. Upon the filing of a copy of said

statement with the notation aforesaid, in the office of the Civil Service Commission, the removal, discharge or reduction shall immediately become effective.

Whenever an employee who has been removed, discharged or reduced shall file with the Civil Service Commission, within five days after his removal, discharge or reduction, a statement in writing, alleging that his removal, discharge or reduction was made for political, racial or religious causes, and that he believes that upon a hearing he will be able to establish such a fact, it shall be the duty of the Commission to order a hearing. The time and place of such hearing shall be fixed by the Commission and due notice thereof given to the appointing officer and the employee.

Upon such hearing the Commission shall determine and decide. whether or not the removal, discharge or reduction was made for political, racial or religious causes, and the Commission shall have no jurisdiction or authority to review, consider or determine any other question.

Upon such hearing, each member of the Civil Service Commission shall have power to administer oaths and to secure, by the subpoena of the Commission, the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books and papers.

If, upon such hearing, the Commission shall find that the removal, discharge or reduction was made for political, racial or religious causes, it shall enter an order reinstating the employee in his former position and directing the payment of all back salary due. If the Commission shall find that the removal, discharge or reduction was not made for political, racial or religious causes, it shall enter an order to that effect, and the removal, discharge or reduction shall stand and be final. APPROVED June 14th, 1917.

CONVEYANCES.

LAND TITLES.

1. Amends section 55, Act of 1897.

§ 55. Where transfers registered sale and redemption for taxes.

(HOUSE BILL No. 328. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning land titles," approved and in force May 1, 1897, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section (55) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act concerning land titles," approved and in force May 1, 1897, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section (55) thereof so that the said section when, and as amended, shall read as hereinafter provided:

§ 55. No transfer of title to land, or any estate or interest therein, or mortgage, shall be registered until it shall be made to appear to the registrar that the land has not been sold for any tax or assessment upon which a deed has been given, and the title is outstanding or upon which a may thereafter be given, and that the dower, right of dower and

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estate of homestead, if any, have been released or extinguished, or that the transfer or mortgage is intended to be subject thereto, in which case it shall be so stated in the certificate of title.

Provided then [that] when the land has been sold for taxes and a deed has been given and the court has accreed the amount to be paid prior to final registration and such amount has been paid into the hands of the clerk of the court, it shall be the duty of such clerk to issue a certificate showing that the order of the court has been complied with in regard to the payment for such taxes and deed. And said certificate when recorded with the recorder of deeds shall act as a satisfaction in full and an extinguishment of any and all liens created by said tax sale and the giving of said deed.

(HOUSE BILL No. 184. APPROVED JUNE 11, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act requiring corporations to make annual report to the Secretary of State, and providing for the cancellation of the articles of incorporation for failure to do so, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and amendments thereto, in force July 1, 1903, by amending section seven (7) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act requiring corporations to make annual report to the Secretary of State, and providing for the cancellation of the articles of incorporation for failure to do so, and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, and amendments thereto, in force July 1, 1903, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section seven (7) thereof so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows:

§ 7. It is further provided that any corporation which is pursuing an active business under its charter, failing to make said report at the time provided by law, may at any time within one year from such default be reinstated upon the records in the office of the Secretary of State, upon the payment of a fee in the sum of $20 for such reinstatement, and filing in said office an affidavit stating all the facts required in section two of this Act, and in addition thereto the fact that it was at the time of such default, and still is, engaged in active business under its charter: Provided, further, that on or before the first day of July of each year, the Secretary of State shall certify the names of all corporations that have failed to file in the office of the Secretary of State an application for reinstatement within one year from date of default, together with the

facts in relation thereto, to the Attorney General, whose duty it shall be to direct the State's attorney of the county wherein such corporation or corporations are located, and it is hereby made the duty of the State's attorney, under the direction of the Attorney General, at the earliest practicable moment, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, and at the relation of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings for the dissolution of such corporation or corporations for abandonment and non-user of its charter, and be it further provided, that said certificate from the Secretary of State to the Attorney General shall be taken and received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated. Provided, that before instituting suit the State's attorney shall mail to the corporation or corporations at last known address of the corporation, as given in said certificate, a notice of the fact that a suit will be instituted to dissolve said corporation unless an application for reinstatement, accompanied by the fee heretofore mentioned in this section, is filed in the office of the Secretary of State within thirty days. from the date of said notice. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State upon the filing of said application for reinstatement, accompanied by said fee, by any corporation certified by him to the Attorney General, to notify the State's attorney of the proper county of the fact of the filing of said application for reinstatement. At the expiration of the said thirty days, the State's attorney shall proceed to dissolve any such corporation that has not filed an application for reinstatement, as provided by the provisions of this section. But if it shall appear, upon the hearing, that said corporation is pursuing an active business under its charter, then, upon payment to the Secretary of State of the sum of $50 and all costs that have accumulated in the prosecution of the suit, the charter shall be restored. Otherwise, a decree of dissolution shall be entered against said corporation by an appropriate judgment of the court for abandonment and non-user of its charter.

APPROVED June 11, 1917.

(HOUSE BILL No. 864. FILED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to prevent fraud in the sale and disposition of stocks, bonds, or other securities sold or offered for sale within the State of Illinois, by any dealer, firm, company, association or corporation, foreign or domestic, by requiring an inspection of such stocks, bonds, or other securities and an inspection of the business of such persons, firms, companies, associations or corporations, including dealers and agents, and such regulation and supervision of the business of said persons, firms, companies, associations, or corporations, including dealers and agents, as may be necessary to prevent fraud in the sale within the State, of any stocks, bonds, or other securities, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no dealer in stocks, bonds, debentures, or other securities of any kind or character, not exempt in this Act, shall sell or negotiate for sale, invite offers for, or inquiries about such securities, by personal solicitation, letters, circulars or otherwise, for the purpose of making a disposal of any such property for value without first being licensed so to do. That every corporation. co-partnership, or company, and every association formed for any lawful