Salle, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, Winnebago and a portion of the insane of Cook county. The Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane, at Kankakee, shall be set apart for the insane of the counties of Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Livingston, Vermilion, Will, Champaign and a portion of the insane of Cook county. The Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, at Jacksonville, shall be set apart for the insane of the counties of Adams, Brown, Bureau, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, DeWitt, Fulton, Greene, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jersey, Knox, Logan, Macon, Macoupin, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, McLean, Menard, Mercer, Montgomery, Morgan, Peoria, Piatt, Pike, Putnam, Rock Island, Sangamon, Schuyler, Scott, Stark, Tazewell, Warren and Woodford. The Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane, at Anna, shall be set apart for the insane of the counties of Alexander, Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglass, Edgar, Edwards, Effingham, Fayette, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Massac, Monroe, Moultrie, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Richland, Saline, Shelby, St. Clair, Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, White and Williamson. *53. Number of patients to each county. $ 2. Each of the counties of this State shall hereafter be entitled to have and keep in the hospital, at all times, a number of patients proportioned to its population, in the ratio of one (1) patient to every two thousand (2,000) of the population of said county, as shown by the census of 1880, as per the following schedule: Of the three hundred and four (304) beds assigned to the county of Cook, seventy-five (75) shall be in the hospital at Kankakee, and two hundred and twenty-nine (229) at Elgin, and the county court of said county shall have the right to send any individual patient to one or the other of the said hospitals, at the discretion of the court, in accordance with the circumstances in each case, but not exceeding the quota herein named. *54. Settlement-every six months. § 3. The county board, or board of supervisors, as the case may be, of all counties from which there are, or hereafter may be, patients committed as paupers to either of the State hospitals for the insane, is hereby directed and required to make settlement in full, as often as once in every six (6) months, for all just charges for clothing and other proper incidental expenses, and to pay the amount due said hospitals in money, or negotiable paper worth its face, without discount. *55. County fails to settle. 4. In case any county shall fail and refuse to pay any just and reasonable account presented by any of the State hospitals for the insane, and the same shall remain unpaid for one (1) year after it is due, then the trustees of the said hospital shall apply to the circuit court, in and for the said delinquent county, for a writ of mandamus upon the county treasurer of said county, requiring him to pay the said overdue account, and upon proof made of the justice of the claim, the circuit court shall issue such writ. *56. Beds not assigned-admission. § 5. All beds not assigned to the several counties, as per schedule in section two (2) of this act, shall be reserved for the reception and care of recent cases of insanity, or other cases having special claim to relief, without respect to the counties from which such cases are sent; and in case the hospital at Kankakee shall be completed or partially completed before the next session of the General Assembly, the trustees may admit patients at discretion, from outside the district in which said hospital is situated, but they shall give the preference to applications for the admission of such patients as are capable of labor on and about the grounds of the hospital, in order that the State may receive the benefit of such labor. *57. Patients to be transferred. $6. Any patients who may be in any State hospital for the insane from outside the limits of the district for which said hospital is designed, as expressed in the first section of this act, shall, as soon after this act takes effect as may be convenient, be transferred to the hospital in and for the district to which they belong; and the expenses of such transfer shall be defrayed from the State treasury, in the same manner as the cost of conveying convicts to the penitentiary is defrayed: Provided, that the bills rendered for this service shall show all the items of expense actually incurred, and be accompanied by sub-vouchers for each item, and no amount shall be allowed or paid by the auditor of public accounts in excess of such actual expense. *58. Repeal. § 7. An act entitled "An act to secure equality among the counties in the matter of the admission of patients into the State hospitals for the insane," approved April ten, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and an act entitled "An act to secure equality among the counties in the matter of the admission of patients into the State hospitals for the insane, and to provide for settlement with such hospitals by the counties," approved May twenty-five, eighteen hundred and seventyseven, are hereby repealed. AN ACT to provide for the visitation and examination of the State Institutions. [Approved May 31, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. L. 1879, p. 63. *59. Committee of visitation-powers. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That at each session of the general assembly three committees shall be appointed, one of which shall visit the State charitable institutions, one shall visit the penal and reformatory institutions, and one shall visit the educational institutions of this State. Each committee shall consist of seven members of the general assembly, two from the senate and five from the house of representatives, to be appointed in the same manner as the members of the other standing committees are appointed. It shall be the duty of said committee, respectively, to visit the said several State institutions, to make a careful and thorough examination of their condition, to investigate any charges made to them regarding their management, for which purpose they shall have power to take testimony under oath, and to send for persons and papers, and to make report of such visitation and examination to the general assembly. *60. Report—expenses. § 2. The members of such committees shall also report their actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their said duties, and the same shall be allowed and paid, but no committees or members of committees of the general assembly shall receive any pay for services rendered, for expenses incurred in visiting said State institutions, otherwise than as provided by this act. NOTE -The bill revising the law in relation to the State institutions failed to pass. The act "to regulate the State charitable institutions and the State Reform School," etc., approved April 15, 1875, is but a partial revision of the law regulating the institutions mentioned in it, and does not embrace all the State institutions which ought to be embraced within its title. The existing laws relating to these institutions are voluminous and somewhat confused, it is thought best to omit them from this volume, and simply refer to where they may be found. In some cases the same act refers to several institutions: [*208] Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary (at Chicago). Illinois Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb (at Jacksonville). Illinois Industrial University (at Urbana). L. 1867, p. 122, 123, 130; L. 1873, p. 16; L. 1877, p. 30, 216. Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane (at Jacksonville). L. 1847, P. 52; L. 1849, p. 93; L. 1851, p 96; L. 1853, P. 241; L. 1857, P. 84; L. 1865, p. 85. Illinois Northern Hospital for the Insane (at Elgin). L. 1869, p. 24. Illinois Southern Hospital for the Insane (at Anna). Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane. Normal University (at Normal). Southern Illinois Normal University (at Carbondale) Illinois Soldiers' Orphans' Home (at Normal). CHAP. 23. CHARITIES. ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND. AN ACT to incorporate the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, and to make an appropriation therefor. [In force July 1, 1887. L. 1887, p. 25.] 61. Corporation created. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the manual training and furnishing of employment to the blind, a corporation is hereby created, to be known and designated as the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, and to have perpetual succession, with power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to receive by any legal mode of transfer or conveyance, and to have, hold and use property of every description, but not to sell or convey any such property except the goods, wares, merchandise and other personal property prepared by said home for sale, and such property shall be held in trust as the property of the State; also to have and to use a common seal, with the power to change the same, also to adopt by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of its members, officers, agents, employes and inmates: Provided, such by-laws shall not be contrary to the letter or spirit of the constitution of the State of Illinois, or of the United States. 62. Objects. § 2. The object of said corporation shall be to promote the welfare of the blind by teaching them trades and affording them a home and such employment as shall best tend to make them self-supporting and consequently independent, using therefor the best known means and appliances. 63. Trustees' appointment. § 3. The trustees shall not exceed five in number; said trustees shall be appointed by the governor of the State of Illinois, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall serve without compensation; their term of service shall be two years respectively, and until their successors are appointed and qualified: Provided, that three of said trustees shall be selected from members of the majority political party of this State, and the remainder from the minority political party or parties. 64. Trustees' expenses. § 4. Each of said trustees shall be paid his or her traveling expenses while in the service of the home, out of the funds appropriated for its use, upon filing in the office of the auditor of public accounts the voucher of said trustees stating in detail the items of all such expenses, and the auditor shall thereupon issue his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of such trustee for the amount thereof and charge the same to the fund appropriated to said institution. 65. Trustees not to be interested. § 5. No trustee shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract to be made by said trustees, nor shall any of them be appointed to, or employed in any office or position under their control or authority, to which a salary is attached. 66. Powers of trustees. § 6. The said trustees shall have charge of the general interests of the home, and shall annually by ballot elect a superintendent to serve during the will and pleasure of said trustees, who shall fix his salary which shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars a year, and he, with their consent, shall employ all necessary assistants, instructors and other employes; the said trustees, |