two and five-tenths (432.5) feet from the most easterly corner of said lot seventy-eight (78); running thence northeasterly to the southwesterly corner of the corner of the lands described in "An Act for the sale to American Smelting & Refining Company of the interest of the State of Illinois in certain lands," approved June 15, 1909; running thence northeasterly along the southeasterly boundary of the lands last referred to to an intersection with the United States harbor line; running thence south twenty-three (23) degrees five (5) minutes and thirty (30) seconds east along said United States harbor line to an intersection with the boundary line between the states of Indiana and Illinois extended; running thence south along the boundary line between the states of Indiana and Illinois extended to the north line of 95th street in the city of Chicago extended; running thence west along the north line of said 95th street extended to the shore of Lake Michigan; running thence northerly along the shore of Lake Michigan to the place of beginning, containing fifty-eight and 'one-tenth (58.1) acres, subject, however, to all rights and interests of the Government of the United States and upon the following conditions:

First: That the said Iroquois Iron Company shall pay into the treasury of the State of Illinois, within sixty (60) days from the passage of this Act, the sum of eleven thousand six hundred and twenty dollars ($11,620).

Second: That not less than five (5) acres of land aforesaid shall be conveyed at any one time, and that any such part of such lands shall not be so conveyed until the same, not less than five (5) acres in area, shall have been filled in and reclaimed and raised above the surface of Lake Michigan.

Third: That any part of such land which shall not have been filled in and reclaimed and raised above the surface of Lake Michigan within fifteen (15) years from the date that this Act shall go into effect, shall revert to the State, and the said Iroquois Iron Company shall have no further right by virtue hereof to fill in and reclaim such part.

Fourth: That said Iroquois Iron Company shall have free and unobstructed access from such of said lands as may be filled in and reclaimed as aforesaid to Lake Michigan, but shall not have any other riparian rights appurtenant thereto.

§ 2. Upon payment being made as above provided, and upon the filing in the office of the Secretary of State, from time to time, of good and sufficient evidence that any part of such lands, not less than five (5) acres in area, has been filled in and reclaimed as aforesaid, then a patent shall be issued under the great seal of State, by the Governor and Secretary of State conveying such part of said lands, but not less than five (5) acres, at any one time, to the said Iroquois Iron Company in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

FILED June 28, 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-eighth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

STATE MILITIA.

MILITARY AND NAVAL CODE-ACT OF 1909 AMENDED.

(SENATE BILL No. 592. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 4 of Article 16 of "An Act to establish a milítary and naval code for the State of Illinois, and to repeal all Acts in conflict therewith" approved June 10, 1909, in force July 1, 1909.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section four (4) of an Act entitled "An Act to establish a Military and Naval Code for the State of Illinois, and to repeal all Acts in conflict therewith" approved June 10, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, being the same and is hereby amended to

read as follows:

§ 4. Enlisted men of the National Guard and Naval Reserve shall receive per day, for services actually performed when on active service for suppression of riot and for the enforcement of the laws, according to their respective grades as follows:

a. Sergeants major, quartermaster, commissary and ordnance sergeants, of or attached to the division, brigades, regiments or separate battalions; first class signal and hospital corps sergeants, chief trumpeters and principal musicians, first sergeants and company quartermaster sergeants, drum majors and color sergeants in the National Guard, and chief petty officers and petty officers, first class in the seaman branch of the Naval Reserve, $2.75.

b. Battalion sergeants major and trumpeter sergeants, chief mechanics of batteries, sergeants of the hospital and signal corps, and of the line in the National Guard, petty officers, first class except in the seaman branch, and petty officers, second class, in the Naval Reserve, $2.60.

c. Corporals cooks, musicians and mechanics in the National Guard and petty officers, third class, and buglers, in the Naval Reserve $2.25.

d. Privates and seamen, all grades, $2.00, Provided that from and after the passage of this Act and until the determination of the National emergency as set forth in the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the military establishment of the United States," approved by President May 18, 1917, the pay of enlisted men of the National Guard and Naval Militia while in active service of the State shall be at the rate of $1.00 per day.

§ 2. WHEREAS an emergency exists, this law shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

MILITARY AND NAVAL CODE AMENDED.

§ 1. Amends section 2 of Article XVI,

Act of 1909.

§ 2. Adjutant General-salary.

(SENATE BILL No. 610. APPROVED JUNE 22, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act to establish a military and naval code for the State of Illinois and to repeal all Acts in conflict herewith," approved June 10, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, as subsequently amended, by amending section 2 of Article XVI 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 to establish a military and naval code for the State of Illinois and to repeal all Acts in conflict herewith," approved June 10, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section 2 of Article XVI thereto to read as follows:

§ 2. (Article XVI). The Adjutant General shall receive $7,000 per year. The Adjutant General who is the chief assistant to the Adjutant General, and the assistant Quartermaster General, shall each receive $5,000 per year; the captain and assistant quartermaster in charge of the State arsenal shall receive $1,500 per year.

APPROVED June 22, 1917.

STATE MILITARY AND NAVAL CODE-RESERVE MILITIA.
§ 5. Discharges.

§ 1. Governor to issue proclamation for
volunteers to form reserve
militia.

§ 2. Governor to fix terms of enlistment to appoint recruiting officers, and to disband troops in his discretion.

§ 3. Enlistment and oath.

§ 4. Commissions.

(SENATE BILL No. 589.

§ 6. To be organized and equipped without expense to the State-to be paid when in actual service.

§ 7. Character of equipment and training to be prescribed by Adjutant General.

§ 8. Emergency.

APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT to provide for the organization of reserve militia from the unorganized militia of the State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That whenever the Governor as Commander-in-Chief of the military and naval forces of the State, shall deem it necessary or advisable for the purpose of executing the laws of the State, or of preventing the actual or threatened violation thereof, or any other emergency or suppressing actual or threatened insurrection or riots, or when the nation is at war and a requisition or order has been made, or is likely to be made, by the President of the United States calling the National Guard, or parts thereof, into the national service, he may issue a proclamation or call for volunteer companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, or other units of land forces to be known as the Reserve Militia which shall be formed from and out of the unorganized militia of the State.

§ 2. The Governor shall determine and shall fix in any such procla mation or call the number of such volunteers, their term of enlistment, and the kind and number of such units to be called for and organized,

and he shall appoint and authorize officers to recruit and enroll such volunteers under such rules and regulations as shall be fixed and promulgated by the Adjutant General with the approval of the Governor: Provided, that no such term of enlistment shall be for a longer term than two years; And provided further, that any and all such units may be disbanded or mustered out, and any or all of such volunteers may be discharged, when in the judgment of the Governor the emergency or the conditions making such organizations necessary or advisable shall have passed or changed.

§3. Every person so enrolling or enlisting in the reserve militia shall sign an enlistment paper in the form prescribed by the Adjutant General and shall take the following oath or affirmation, which may be administered by any such duly appointed recruiting or enrolling officer or any commissioned officer in the reserve militia:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will true allegiance bear to the State of Illinois, and that I will uphold its Constitution and laws and will serve it faithfully; that I will obey orders of the Commanderin-Chief and of such officers as may be placed over me, and the laws, rules and regulations of the reserve militia, so help me God."

§ 4. The Governor, as Commander-in-Chief, shall make all appointments to commissioned rank in the Reserve Militia. Commissions evidencing all appointments shall be signed by the Governor and shall be attested and issued by the Adjutant General. All non-commissioned and petty officers shall be appointed in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the Adjutant General.

Commissions to officers shall read to a certain grade in a given regiment, battalion, company or other unit of the reserve militia, and assignment of such officers to duty in any unit shall be by the Commander-in-Chief. The validity of all commissions shall be subject to formal acceptance and the execution of oath prescribed by law or by the rules and regulations promulgated by the Adjutant General.

§ 5. Each and every enrolled man who shall leave or sever his connection with the reserve militia shall be entitled to and shall receive a discharge in accordance with the rules and regulations to be promulgated by the Adjutant General with the approval of the Governor, and such rules and regulations shall provide the conditions and circumstances under which he may leave, retire from, or be discharged from the reserve militia.

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6. The organization, equipment and maintenance of the reserve. militia shall be without expense to the State:

Provided, that if the Governor, as Commander-in-Chief, shall call the reserve militia, or any part thereof, into the actual service of the State, or to assemble in State or district encampments for the purpose of drill, discipline and increase of efficiency, the State shall pay the cost of travel and maintenance and shall pay the officers at the rate which is now or hereafter may be allowed to the officers in the National Guard, while in similar service of the State, and the enlisted men while in the actual service of the State shall receive pay at the rate of one dollar per day.

§ 7. The uniforms, arms and other equipment of the reserve militia. the minimum number of meetings for instruction, drill and training of the various units thereof, the character of such instruction and training. and all other matters and things necessary or desirable for the complete organization, equipment, discipline and efficiency of the reserve militia, not otherwise provided for and covered in this Act, shall be prescribed and carried into effect by and through rules and regulations promulgated by the Adjutant General and approved by the Governor.

§ 8. WHEREAS, an emergency exists, this law shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

(1), sec

AN ACT to amend sections one (1) and two (2) of Article one tions one (1), two (2), three (3) and four (4) of Article two (2), and sections one (1) and four (4) of Article thirteen (13) of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish a military and naval code of the State of Illinois, and to repeal all Acts in conflict therewith," approved June 10, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, to add one section to Article sir (6) of said Act, to be known as section twenty-one (21), and to repeal certain sections of certain articles of said Act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of te State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections one (1) and two (2) of Article one (1) and sections one (1), two (2), three (3) and four (4) of Article two (2) and sections one (1) and four (4) of Article thirteen (13) of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish a military and naval code of the State of Illinois and to repeal all Acts in conflict therewith," approved June 10, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, be amended and that a new section be added to Article six (6) of said Act, to be