Ishall be printed, and the Secretary of State shall immediately, after § 2. Twelve hundred and fifty copies of each volume of said reprint their publication, deposit ten of said sets in his office and distribute the others as follows: To the clerk of the Senate for the use of the Senate, House, one set. one set. To the clerk of the House of Representatives for the use of the One set to the County Court of each county, and one set to the Circuit Court of each county in the State of Illinois, to be and remain the property of such court. Twenty-five sets to the board of commissioners of Cook County for distribution to the different courts of record of Cook County, to be and remain the property of such courts. One set to libraries of the Appellate Courts of each district, to be and remain the property of such courts. Ten sets to the Supreme Court Library to be and remain the property of the Supreme Court. the...... One set to the law library of the University of Illinois, one set to Library; one set to the State Historical Library and one set to the ..library of the University of Illinois; one set to the State Legislative Reference Bureau. The remaining sets the Secretary of State may sell to such persons, firms or corporations as may desire to purchase, a set or sets of laws herein mentioned, at a price per set estimated at ten per cent (10%) above the actual cost of reproduction per set. Provided that the Secre tary of State shall not sell more than two sets to any one person, firm. association or corporation. The money or moneys received for the sale of said reprint of session laws shall be converted into the State treasury of within thirty (30) days after the receipt thereof. The Secretary State shall make a report to the Governor on the first Monday in January and the first Monday in July of each year of the number of copies sold, and the number of copies on hand in his possession, until such time as the number of copies available for sale have been disposed of. § 3. The session laws herein mentioned shall be printed in not to exceed forty-one (41) volumes one of which shall contain a complete index of all of such session laws, joint resolutions and territorial laws The number of pages contained in each volume shall be approximately nine hundred sixty (960), provided, that the laws of no one session shall be divided between two volumes, excepting the cases where the laws of any one session will require more than nine hundred sixty (960) pages. The size of the printed page shall be 6x9 inches, as nearly as may be. The type page shall be 41x712 inches (27x45 picas) including running head and folio. Said laws and joint resolutions shall be set in a clear, legible face of 8 point, modern type, set solid. The original page number now appearing in the printed sessions laws shall be shown in block Gothic figures-8 point-enclosed in brackets. The paper shall be 2538, 405 basis number 1 machine finished book, free from unbleached sulphite and ground wood, with a tensile strength of not less than 14 points on a mullen or other standard paper tester. In the press work the forms must be carefully made ready, and a clean, sharp impression furnished. A high grade permanent black book ink must be used, and a uniform, distinct color maintained throughout the volumes. The binding shall be library buckram, with the number 30 cloth board of a high grade, title in red leather stamped in real gold to be glued on the back. The title to be approximately two inches in height. The sections must be carefully machine sewed, extra-supered, and glued over with cotton head bands and plain end sheets. The Superintendent of Printing shall prepare accurate specifications which will insure the production of serviceable and substantial volumes, which specifications and directions shall be faithfully and carefully observed in the manufacture. § 4. The Department of Public Works and Buildings shall advertise for bids, and award contracts in like manner as provided for in an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to State contracts." § 5. The Acts, and laws so printed and published hereunder shall be admissable in evidence in all courts and proceedings in this State, and shall be considered as duly authenticated copies of the originals. § 6. The following Act is hereby repealed: "An Act entitled, 'An Act to authorize and provide for the reprint of session laws by the Secretary of State,' approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903." APPROVED June 25, 1917. (SENATE BILL No. 444. FILED JUNE 29, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to telegraph companies," approved March 24, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, by amending section 7 of said Act and by adding a new section to be known and designated as section 7a. 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 telegraph companies," approved March 24, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section 7 thereof and by adding a new section to be known and designated as section 7a to read as follows: § 7. It shall be the duty of all persons employed in transmitting messages by telegraph to transmit them in the order in which they are received; and any person who shall fail so to transmit a message, or who shall suppress a message, or who shall make known the contents of a message to any person other than the one to whom it is addressed, or his agent, or who shall wrongfully take from any dispatch to any news paper any information and send it to any newspaper other than the one to which it is addressed, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000); § 7a. Any telegraph company or any officer, agent or employee of a telegraph company which shall disclose or knowingly permit to be dis closed, or shall impart or knowingly permit to be imparted, the contents of any message entrusted to such company for transmission, to any person, firm or corporation other than the person, firm or corporation to which the said message is addressed, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof may be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000). 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. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATIONS. BOARD OF TOWN AUDITORS. § 1. Amends section 3 of Article XIII, Act of 1874. § 3. Meeting of town auditors. (HOUSE BILL No. 797. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to amend section 3 of Article XIII of an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to township organization, approved and in force March 4, 1874, as amended by subsequent amendatory Acts thereto. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, an Act to revise the law in relation to township organization, approved and in force March 4, 1874, as amended by subsequent amendatory Acts thereto, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: § 3. Said board of auditors shall meet at the town clerk's office for the purpose of examining and auditing the town accounts, semiannually, on the. Tuesday next preceding the annual meeting of the county board and on the Tuesday next preceding the annual town meeting, and may in their discretion meet on the fourth Tuesday next following said annual town meeting. APPROVED June 25, 1917. OFFICERS-ELECTION. § 1. Election of officers. § 1. Amends section 1, Article VII, Act of 1874. (HOUSE BILL No. 754. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to township organization," approved and in force March 4, 1874, s subsequently amended, by amending section one (1) of article seren (VII.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled "An Act to revise the law in relation to township organization," approved and in force March 4, 1874, as subsequently amended, be and the same is heerby amended by amending section one (1) of Article seven (VII) thereof to read as follows: § 1. (Article VII). At the annual town meeting in each town, there shall be elected by ballot one supervisor (who shall be ex officio overseer of the poor), one town clerk, one assessor, and one collector, who shall severally hold their offices for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified, and such justices of the peace, constables and highway commissioners as are provided by law: Provided, that in any town or city not included within the limits of any town (except in Cook County) having four thousand (4,000) inhabitants, there shall be elected one additional supervisor to be styled assistant supervisor; in towns having six thousand five hundred (6,500) inhabitants, there shall be elected two assistant supervisors; and so for every additional twenty-five hundred (2,500) inhabitants, there shall be elected one additional supervisor, the population of towns to be ascertained by the last Federal or State census preceding the election: And, provided, further, that in counties under township organization, now having a population of less than 100,000 there shall hereafter. be no town collector elected, but the county collector shall be ex officio town collector, and all the duties of the town collector shall devolve upon and be performed by the county collector. Nothing herein shall affect the terms, duties or compensation of town collectors electors elected before the taking effect 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. TOWNSHIP ROAD BONDS-VALIDATION. 1. Road bonds-validation where legality of election proceedings questioned. (HOUSE BILL No. 148. § 2. Petition for submission of question -clerk to give notice-what to contain-meeting-resolution. § 3. Commissioners may issue refunding bonds. APPROVED JUNE 11, 1917.) AN ACT to provide for the validation of road bonds issued by any township in this State and to authorize the refunding of the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases where an election has been held in any township in this State for the purpose of voting on a proposition to borrow money to construct and maintain gravel, rock, macadam or other hard roads in such township, and a majority of voters voting at such election have voted in favor thereof, and where, pursuant to such election, bonds of the township have been issued in good faith and within the debt limitation prescribed by law, and the purchase price thereof has been received by the township; and where, subsequent to the issuance of such bonds, a question shall have arisen as to the legality of the election proceedings under which such bonds were voted, such bonds may be ratified and validated in the manner hereinafter provided. § 2. Upon a petition signed by ten or more of the legal voters of the town addressed to the town clerk requesting the submission to the voters of such township, at the annual town meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose, of the proposition to ratify and validate any such bonds theretofore issued by such township and specifying the date and amount of the bonds to be ratified; it shall be the duty of the town clerk to give notice of the submission of such proposition to the voters of the township at the next annual town meeting, or to call a special meeting for that purpose, as may be designated in the petition. Such notice shall state the time and place of the meeting and the proposition to be voted upon and shall be posted in at least five public places in the township not less than ten days previous to the meeting. At such meeting a resolution to ratify any such bonds previously issued by the township may be submitted describing in general terms the bonds proposed to be ratified and if a majority of the voters present and voting on the question shall vote in favor of such resolution, said bonds shall be deemed to be fully ratified, validated and confirmed and shall thereupon be and become legal and valid obligations of the township as of the date of their original issuance. § 3. That the commissioners of highways of the township are hereby authorized in their discretion to issue new bonds for the purpose of refunding and extending the time of payment of any indebtedness evidenced by bonds or coupons thereto attached, which may have been ratified pursuant to the provisions of this Act. Such refunding bonds shall not run more than fifteen years from date, shall bear interest not exceeding 5% per annum and shall be signed by the commissioners of highways and the town clerk. APPROVED June 11, 1917. TOWNSHIPS WHOLLY WITHIN CITIES. § 1. Amends sections 1 and 2, Act of 1901. § 1. Powers of board or audi- § 2. County clerk ex officio town clerk -assessortreasure ex officio-collector. (HOUSE BILL No. 761. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning townships lying wholly within cities of more than 50,000 population," approved and in force May 11, 1901, as subsequently amended, by amending sections (1) and (2) thereof, so that the said sections when amended, shall read as follows: 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 townships lying wholly within cities of more than 50,000 population," approved and in force May 11, 1901, as subsequently amended. be and the same is hereby amended by amending sections one (1) and two (2) thereof, so that the said sections when amended shall read as follows: |