ment was had, has retained jurisdiction for the reinstatement of said cause for the purpose of hearing the petition and adjudication thereupon in this section contained. Such application shall be made by a written petition subscribed and sworn to by some officer or employee of the Department of Public Welfare cognizant of the facts, and shall set forth a copy of the order of the Department of Public Welfare directing such application to be made, and shall further state the causes for seeking such transfer and praying an order transferring the prisoner or ward therein named to one of the penitentiaries of this State. The court shall thereupon set a date for a hearing of such petition; a copy of such petition, together with notice of the time and place of such hearing, shall be served upon the prisoner or ward sought to be transferred at least ten days before the date of such hearing. The prisoner or ward shall be personally present at such hearing. Such court without a jury shall have power to examine and consider such petition and, if it finds the verified petition sets forth a cause for transfer, shall enter an order for the transfer of such prisoner or ward to the penitentiary of this State designated in such order. The order of the court hearing such petition shall be final: Provided, that if such petition shall be dismissed, a new application may be made for causes arising since the filing of any other application. A prisoner or ward so ordered transferred shall be transferred and be received and held in the penitentiary under the original sentence, the date thereof commencing with his imprisonment in the original institution to which he was committed and for the same period of time and in the same manner as under the original sentence under which the prisoner or ward was convicted and sentenced or committed as though still confined in said original institution or reformatory and may be released on parole by the Department of Public Welfare under rules made by it or absolutely discharged by the Department of Public Welfare upon the approval of the Governor. Such prisoner or ward may be returned at any time to the original institution or reformatory upon the written requisition of the Department of Public Welfare.

§ 12. It shall be a part of every sentence, whether definite or indeterminate or general, of a male person under 26 years of age, except for a capital offense, sentenced to the penitentiary, and of every female person under 18 years of age, except for a capital offense, sentenced to the penitentiary, as fully as though written in each and every of said sentences, that such prisoner shall be liable to and be subject to be transferred, the male person to the reformatory and the female person to such other State institution as is now or hereafter shall be provided by law for the incarceration, punishment, discipline, training or reformation of such persons, in the manner herein provided. Whenever it shall appear to the Department of Public Welfare that any such prisoner was under the ages herein in this section first above mentioned at the time of commitment to the penitentiary or that by reason of the mentality, want of training or other conditions, it shall be for the welfare of such person and in the interest of society and not detrimental to the reformatory or other State institution or inmates thereof, that such prisoner so committed to the penitentiary should be transferred to the reformatory

or to such other State institution in this Act indicated, said Department of Public Welfare shall cause some officer or employee of the Department to make application in writing, verified by some officer or employee cognizant of the facts to the court in this State in which such prisoner was convicted for an order to transfer such prisoner to the reformatory or such other State institution as hereinabove mentioned, for discipline and training, and not as a modification of the original sentence. And for this purpose it shall be deemed and taken that said court in which such conviction was had has retained jurisdiction for the reinstatement of said cause for the purpose of hearing without a jury the petition and adjudication thereupon in this section contained. And a like proceeding shall be had under this section and like orders made as in the case of transfer to the penitentiary, with the exception that the order shall name the institution to which such person is transferred from the penitentiary, with the same powers and jurisdiction in the court and the term of imprisonment in such institution transferred to shall not exceed the term provided for in the original sentence under which prisoner was convicted and sentenced. His or her imprisonment shall be regarded as having commenced at the time of entering the penitentiary. Such order of transfer shall be final. Such prisoner, upon the written requisition. of the Department of Public Welfare may, at any time, be returned to the penitentiary for the further service of such term of imprisonment.

§ 13. It is expressly provided that transfer from an institution to a' reformatory or penitentiary or from the reformatory to the penitentiary or from the penitentiary to the reformatory or other correctional institution shall not deprive prisoners or wards therein from parole when, in the judgment of the Department of Public Welfare, such prisoners or wards should be paroled.

§ 14. It shall be the duty of the State's attorney in the county in which an application for transfer from either of the institutions, reformatory or penitentiary shall be filed, to represent the people and to conduct said hearing for transfer for and in behalf of the Department of Public Welfare, and the fees for such services as are allowed by law shall not be taxed against the person or prisoner sought to be transferred, nor shall the same be paid by the Department of Public Welfare.

§ 15. That an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to the sentence and commitment of persons convicted of crime, and providing for a system of parole, and to provide compensation for the officers of said system of parole." approved April 21, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, and all amendments thereto; and sections ten (10) as amended, eleven (11) as amended, twelve (12) as amended, fourteen (14), fourteen-a (14a), fourteen-b (14b), fifteen (15) as amended, sixteen (16) as amended, seventeen (17) as amended, eighteen (18) and nineteen (19) as amended, of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish the Illinois State Reformatory, and making an appropriation therefor," approved June 18, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, and all parts of laws not in harmony with the provisions of this Act, are hereby repealed: Provided, that such repeal shall not affect any conviction heretofore had under said laws: And, provided, that any person convicted or committed under

authority of the Acts or sections specifically repealed in this section, or under any other section, at the election of such person, may, with the consent of the Department of Public Welfare, receive the benefits of this Act.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

UNLAWFUL DISCHARGE OF FIREARMS.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1874, by adding section 56a.

§ 56a. Unlawful discharge of

firearms-penalty.

(HOUSE BILL No. 312. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by adding thereto a new section to be known and designated as section fifty-six-a (56a).

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 revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence" approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to be known and designated as section fifty-six-a (56a). Such section shall read as follows:

§ 56a. Any person not lawfully authorized to bear arms in the discharge of his duty, who shall discharge any firearm in or upon any public highway shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each and every such offense.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

UNLAWFUL EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS.

§ 1. Amends an Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurispruprudence, approved March 27, 1874 by adding sections 224a and 224b.

§ 224a. Exhibitions and publi

cations, portraying,
criminality and de-
pravity or ridiculing
citizens on account

of race or religion-
prohibitive-penalty.

§ 224b. Representations of hangings and lynchings prohibited penalty.

(HOUSE BILL No. 926. FILED JUNE 29, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by adding thereto two new sections to be known as sections 224a and 224b.

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 revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence," approved March 27, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto two new sections to be known as sections 224a and 224b.

§ 224a. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell, or offer for sale, advertise or publish, present or exhibit in any public place in this State any lithograph, moving picture, play, drama or sketch, which publication or exhibition portrays depravity, criminality, unchastity, or lack or virtue of a class of citizens, of any race, color, creed or religion which said publication or exhibition exposes the citizens of any race, color, creed or religion to contempt, derision, or obloquy or which is productive of breach of the peace or riots. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).

§ 224b. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to manufacture, sell, or offer for sale, or advertise or present or exhibit in any public place in the State any publication or representation by lithograph, moving picture, play, drama or sketch representing or purporting to represent any hanging, lynching or burning of any human being. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction. thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).

FILED June 29, 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 twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. 1917.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.

PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES AND LABORERS IN THEIR CLAIMS FOR

WAGES.

1. Wages of employees if paid in § 2. Penalty.

check, order or scrip shall be re-
deemable at face value in lawful
demand on demand.

(SENATE BILL NO. 163.

§ 3. Act to prevent extortion, etc., approved June 21, 1895, repealed. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT in relation to the payment of wages otherwise than in lawful money, and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to prevent extortion and compel the payment of debts contracted for labor in bankable currency," approved June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no person, firm or corporation engaged in any business or enterprise within this State shall issue, in payment of or as evidence of indebtedness, for wages due an employe for labor, any time check, store order, scrip, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness, unless the same is payable or redeemable upon demand, without discount and for face value, in lawful money of the United States at the office or place of business of such person, firm or corpo

ration.

§ 2. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be

punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred ($100) dollars, or confined in the county jail for a period not to exceed thirty (30) days, or both, in

the discretion of the court.

§ 3. That an Act to prevent extortion and compel the payment of debts contracted for labor in bankable currency, approved June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 26, 1917.

DRAINAGE.

AGRICULTURAL AND SANITARY PURPOSES-USE OF DRAINS BY

LAND OWNERS.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1885, by adding sec- § 2. Emergency.

tion 58a.

§ 58a. Act not to be construed
to forbid other land
owners from using
drains-to pay cost of
enlargement -com-
missioners may en-
large boundaries of
district.

(SENATE BILL No. 6. APPROVED MAY 18, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend "An Act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May 29, 1879, as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 20, 1907; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 29, 1909; as amended by an Act approved and in force June 27, 1913, by adding a section to

be known as section 58a.

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 construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts," approved and in force May 29, 1879; as amended by an Act approved June 30, 1885, in force July 1, 1885; as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; as amended by an Act approved June 24, 1895, in force July 1, 1895; as amended by an Act approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901; as amended by an Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 20, 1907; as amended by an Act approved and in force May 29, 1909; as amended by an Act approved and in force June 27, 1913, by adding a section to be known as section 58a to read as follows:

§ 58a. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to forbid land owners within the district to more completely drain their lands by using the