cease. In the event of death, resignation or inability to act of any member of said board elected under the provisions of this Section, the successor of such member shall be elected at a special election, which shall be called by said board and shall be conducted in the same manner as are annual elections hereunder.

The comptroller and treasurer of such county shall on or before the first day of October after this Act shall be in force and effect, provide for the election of the three elective members of said board. All subsequent elections shall be held under rules and regulations prescribed by said board of trustees, provided, however, that the second election shall occur one year from the day selected by said comptroller and treasurer for the holding of the first election.

§ 3. The board herein provided for shall hold quarterly meetings on the first Wednesday of July, October, January and April of each. year, and special meetings upon the call of the president of said board. On the first Tuesday in October in each year, it shall select one of its members who shall act as president of such board for a period of one year, or until such time as his successor is elected and qualified and shall, on the same day, select one of its members as secretary of said board for a period of one year, or until such time as his successor is elected and qualified. Said board shall issue certificates signed by its president and secretary to the employe entitled thereto, of the amount of money ordered paid to such employe from said fund by said board, which certificate shall state the purpose for which such payment is made; Said board shall also keep a record of the proceedings of all of its meetings, which record shall be a public record, and shall submit semiannually to the board of the county commissioners of such county, a list of persons entitled to payment from the fund herein provided, stating the amount of such payments and for what granted as ordered by such board, which list shall be signed and certified by the treasurer of such county and president of such board; and attested by such treasurer under oath: Provided, that no resolution shall be passed or order made for the payment of money from said fund unless by affirmative. vote of a majority of the members of said board.

§ 4. Said board shall have the power, and it shall be its duty: To authorize all payments from said pension fund pursuant to the provisions of this Act, which shall include all pensions to beneficiaries of said fund, at a rate of fifty dollars per month, and all necessary expenses incurred in the administration of said fund: Provided, that no compensation or emolument shall be paid or allowed to any member of said board for any duty required or performed under this Act and provided further that the chief legal adviser of the president and board of county commissioners of said county shall be the legal adviser of said board of trustees.

To hear and determine all applications for pensions under this Act and to suspend the payment of pensions when disability ceases.

To audit the accounts pertaining to said fund at least four times in each year.

To accept, by gift, grant, bequest or otherwise, any money or property of any kind and use the same for the benefit of said fund.

To invest such fund, or any part thereof, in the name of said board, in interest bearing bonds of the United States, of the State of Illinois,

or of any county of this State, or of any township or any municipal corporation of the State of Illinois, or any other State, and all such securities shall be deposited with the treasurer of said board and shall be subject to the order of said board; said treasurer shall furnish a good and sufficient bond to said board in an amount to be fixed by said board, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of said office, and that said treasurer will truly account for all moneys, including the interest thereon, and property of said fund which may come into his hands, and that upon the expiration of his term of office or upon his retirement therefrom he will deliver over to his successor all the moneys, including interest thereon, and the property which may be in his custody and belonging to said fund; all costs and incidentals to the same, to be paid out of said pension fund.

To authorize the payment to any employe who may be separated from the service of such county by the abolishment of his or her position before such employe shall have qualified for a pension, an amount equal to the amount deducted from the salary or wages of such employe, together with interest upon such deduction at the rate of three per cent per annum: Provided that such employe shall release said board from any future liability after receipt of said sum. To compel witnesses to attend and testify before it upon all matters connected with the operation of this Act, in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for the taking of testimony before masters in chancery, and its president or any member of said board may administer oaths to such witnesses.

To appoint a clerk and define his duties.

To make all necessary rules and regulations for its guidance in conformity with the provisions of this Act.

§ 5. The treasurer of such county subject to the control and direction of said board, shall be the custodian of said fund, and it shall be the duty of such county treasurer to set apart the amounts certified to him by the comptroller of such county, as hereinbefore provided, from the salaries or wages of employes and to credit such amounts to said fund, and it shall be his duty to receive and hold all moneys paid into said fund from whatever source, and to pay out moneys from said fund as hereinbefore provided, to receive and credit to said fund all interest from its investments and to keep books. and accounts of said fund in the manner prescribed by said board, which books and accounts shall at all times be subject to the inspection of said board or any member thereof.

§ 6. No employee shall become a beneficiary under this Act nor shall pensions or benefits of any kind be allowed or paid from said fund until five years after the date upon which this Act is in force and effect.

§ 7. Any employe who shall have been in the service of such county for a period of not less than twenty (20) years, and who shall have attained the age of fifty-five (55) years, shall have the right to retire. from the service of such county at any time after this Act is in force and effect and to become beneficiary hereunder at any time subsequent to five (5) years from and after the date when this Act is in force and effect: Provided, such employe shall in the event of his or her retirement from the service of such county within said five (5) years, pay into said fund, the sum of two dollars per month until he or she shall become

a beneficiary hereunder: And provided further, that any such employe who shall retire from the service of such county before deduction shall have been made from the salary or wage of such employe for a period of twenty (20) years shall agree to pay into said fund within three (3) years from and after the date when such employe shall become a beneficiary of said fund, the sum which together with all moneys previously deducted from the salary or wages of such employee is equal to the full amount which would have been deducted and applied to said fund during a period of twenty (20) years and interest thereon at the rate of five (5) per cent per annum. Such sum so to be paid shall be deducted by the treasurer of such county in equal monthly installments from the benefits due and payable to such employee at the regular times for the payment of said benefits after he or she shall become a beneficiary hereunder.

§ 8. Any employe who shall have been in the service of such county for a period of not less than twenty (20) years, and who shall retire from the service of such county before attaining the age of fifty-five (55) years shall have the right to continue paying into said fund monthly at the prescribed rate, and may thereby remain in good standing and shall have the right to become a beneficiary hereunder upon attaining the age of fifty-five (55) years, not however, until five (5) years after this Act shall take effect: Provided, such employe shall in the event of retirement from the service of such county before deduction shall have been made from the salary or wage of such employe for a period of twenty (20) years, pay into such fund within thirty (30) days from the date of such retirement from the service of said county, a sum equal to the full amount which would have been deducted and applied to said fund during a period of twenty (20) years, less the amount of any money previously deducted from the salary or wages of such employe prior to retirement.

9. Any employe who has been in the service of said county for a period of five (5) years or more, from and after the date when this Act is in force and effect, shall have the right to retire from the service on account of serious disability rendering him or her unable to properly discharge his or her duties and may become a beneficiary under this Act and be entitled to receive the full benefits for a period of not more than two (2) years which period may be extended upon proof satisfactory to said board of continued disability. Proof of disability shall be furnished by the county physician of said county and by at least one practicing physician residing in such county.

§ 10. All pensions granted under the provisions of this Act and every portion thereof shall be exempt from attachment or garnishment and shall not be seized, taken, subjected to, detained, or levied upon by virtue of any execution, or any process or proceedings whatsoever issued out of or by any Court in this State for the payment and satisfaction in whole or in part, in any debt, claim, damage, demand or judgment against any beneficiary hereunder, and no beneficiary hereunder shall have the right to transfer, assign or set over his or her pension, or any part thereof either by way of mortgage or otherwise.

§ 11. All laws and parts of laws inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, or any provisions hereof, are hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 29th, 1915.

TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUMS AND AUXILIARY INSTITUTIONS-ESTABLISHMENT.

§ 1. County board may establish and maintain tuberculosis sanitariums and auxiliary institutions-three-mill tax.

§ 2. Petition for annual tax-submission to vote. § 3. Board of directors-how appointed.

§ 4. Term of office-how determined-removal. § 5. Vacancies, how filled-compensation.

§ 6. Organization of directors-by-laws, rules and regulations-control of funds-powers of directors-visits-reports.

§ 7. Sanitarium to be free-regulations-consent in writing by person entering-extension of benefits into homes-persons outside of county.

§ 8. Board may receive contributions-report to county board at each meeting-annual report.

9. Board special trustees of donations, bequests, etc.

10. Physicians, nurses, etc., subject to rules of the board.

§ 11. Equal privileges for all reputable physicians. § 12. Act not to be construed to amend or repeal part of former Act.

(SENATE BILL NO. 305. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1915.)

AN ACT to authorize county authorities to establish and maintain a county tuberculosis sanitarium, and branches, dispensaries and other auxiliary institutions connected with the same, and to levy and collect a tax to pay the cost of their establishment and maintenance.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the county board of each county of this State shall have the power, in the manner hereinafter provided, to establish and maintain a county tuberculosis sanitarium, and branches, dispensaries, and other auxiliary institutions connected with the same, within the limits of such county, for the use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof, for the treatment and care of persons afflicted with tuberculosis, and shall have the power to levy a tax not to exceed three mills on the dollar annually on all taxable property of such county, such tax to be levied and collected in like manner with the general taxes of such county, and to form, when collected, a fund to be known as the "Tuberculosis Sanitarium Fund," which said tax shall be in addition to all other taxes which such county is now, or hereafter may be, authorized to levy on the aggregate valuation of all property within such county, and the county clerk, in reducing tax levies under the provisions. of section 2 of an Act, entitled, "An Act to amend section 2 of an Act entitled, 'An Act concerning the levy and extension of taxes,' approved May 9, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by an Act approved March 29, 1905 in force July 1, 1905," approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, shall not consider the tax for said tuberculosis sanitarium fund, authorized by this Act, as a part of the general tax levy for county purposes, and shall not include the same in the limitation, of three (3) per cent of the assessed valuation upon which taxes are required to be extended.

§ 2. When one hundred legal voters of any county shall present a petition, to the county board of such county, asking that an annual tax may be levied for the establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanitarium in such county, such county board shall instruct the

county clerk to, and the county clerk shall, in the next legal notice of a regular general election in such county, give notice that at such election every elector may vote "For the levy of a tax for a county tuberculosis sanitarium," or "Against the levy of a tax for a county tuberculosis sanitarium," and provision shall be made for voting on such proposition, in accordance with such notice, and if a majority of all the votes cast upon the proposition shall be for the levy of a tax for a county tuberculosis sanitarium, the county board of such county shall hereafter annually levy a tax of not to exceed three mills on the dollar, which tax shall be collected in like manner with other general taxes in such county and shall be known as the "Tuberculosis Sanitarium Fund,” and thereafter the county board of such county shall, in the annual appropriation bill, appropriate from such fund such sum or sums of money as may be deemed necessary to defray all necessary expenses and liabilities of such county tuberculosis sanitarium.

§ 3. When in any county such a proposition for the levy of a tax for a county tuberculosis sanitarium has been adopted as aforesaid, the chairman or president, as the case may be, of the county board of such county, shall, with the approval of the county board, proceed to appoint a board of three directors, one at least of whom shall be a licensed physician, and all of whom shall be chosen with reference to their special fitness for such office.

§ 4. One of said directors shall hold office for one year, another for two years, and another for three years, from the first day of July following their appointment, but each until his successor is appointed, and at their first regular meeting they shall cast lots for the respective terms; and annualy thereafter the chairman or president, as the case may be, of the county board, shall, before the first day of July of each year, appoint as before one director, to take the place of the retiring director, who shall hold office for three years and until his successor is appointed. The chairman or president, as the case may be, of the county board may, by and with the consent of the county board, remove any director for misconduct or neglect of duty.

§ 5. Vacancies in the board of directors, occasioned by removal, resignation, or otherwise, shall be reported to the county board, and be filled in like manner as original appointments; and no director shall receive compensation as such, or be interested, either directly or indirectly, in the purchase or sale of any supplies for said sanitarium.

§ 6. Said directors shall, immediately after appointment, meet and organize, by the election of one of their number as president and one as secretary, and by the election of such other officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt such by-laws, rules, and regulations, for their own guidance and for the government of the sanitarium and the branches, dispensaries, and auxiliary institutions and activities connected therewith, as may be expedient, not inconsistent with this Act. They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditure of all moneys collected to the credit of the tuberculosis sanitarium fund, and of the construction of any sanitarium building, or other buildings necessary for its branches, dispensaries, or other auxiliary institutions or activities in connection with said institution, and of the supervision, care, and custody of the grounds, rooms, or buildings constructed, leased, or set apart for