"S 152. After January 1, 1921, no natural person or natural persons, firm or partnership shall transact the business of banking or the business of receiving money upon deposit, or shall use the word "Bank" or "Banker" in connection with said business or shall transact the business of transmitting money to foreign countries or buying and selling foreign money or receiving money on deposit to be transmitted to foreign countries provided that express, steamship and telegraph companies may continue their business of transmitting money and receiving money to be transmitted, and provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit banks incorporated under the laws of this State or of the United States from appointing natural persons as agents to receive deposits of savings in and through the public schools. Any person or persons violating this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and the Attorney General or State's Attorney of the county in which any such violation occurs may restrain such violation by a bill in equity to be filed in the Circuit Court of such county." § 4. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State for this State to submit these amendments to the Bank Act to a vote of the people for their ratification, according to Article XI, section 5 of the Constitution of this State, at the next general election, and the question shall be "for the amendments to the General Banking Law," or "Against the amendments to the General Banking Law." And if approved by a majority of the votes cast at such election for or against such amendments, the Governor shall thereupon issue his proclamation that these amendments are then in force. APPROVED June 22, 1917. BONDS. PENALTIES FOR FALSE STATEMENTS RELATIVE TO SURETIES ON BAIL BONDS. § 1. Person making false statement on oath relative to property of pro- (SENATE BILL No. 464. § 2. Act to prevent the making of false schedules approved June 21, 1895, hereby repealed. APPROVED JUNE 21, 1917.) AN ACT to make it a criminal offense to make or suborn the making of false schedules under oath or affirmation or to testify falsely as to the qualifications of sureties on bail bonds and recognizances, to provide a punishment therefor and to repeal a certain Act therein named. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any person who in any affidavit, document, schedule or other application to become surety or bail for another on any bail bond or recognizance in any civil or criminal proceeding then pending or about to be started against such other person, having taken a lawful oath or made affirmation, shall swear or affirm wilfully, corruptly and falsely as to the ownership or liens or incumbrances upon or the value of any real or personal property alleged to be owned by the person proposed as surety or bail, the financial worth or standing of such person proposed as surety or bail, or as to the number or total penalties of all other bonds or recognizances signed by and standing against said proposed surety or bail, or any person who, having taken a lawful oath or made affirmation, shall testify wilfully, corruptly and falsely as to any of said matters for the purpose of inducing the approval of any such bail bond or recognizance; or for the purpose of justifying on any such bail bond or recognizance, or who shall suborn any other person to so swear, affirm or testify as aforesaid, shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of perjury or subornation of perjury (as the case may be) and punished accordingly. § 2. That "An Act to prevent the making of false schedules for the purpose of justifying as bondsmen in civil and criminal cases," approved June 21, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, be and the same is hereby repealed. APPROVED June 21, 1917. (HOUSE BILL No. 371. FILED JUNE 26, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning Canada thistles," approved and in force March 15, 1872, by amending sections 1, 2, 3 and 6 of said Act. 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 Canada thistles," approved and in force March 15, 1872, as subsequently amended, be and the same is hereby amended by amending. sections 1, 2, 3 and 6 of said Act so that said sections, when amended, shall read as follows: § 1. That there may be appointed by the board of town auditors, in counties under township organization, and by the county commissioners in counties not under township organization, for each township or road district, and by the city council of any city or by the president and trustees of any town or village, as the case may be, some competent person to be styled "Commissioner of Canada Thistles," who shall take the oath required of township, road district, city or village officers, as the case may be, and shall hold his office for the term of two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified, and he shall receive for his compensation, the sum of three dollars a day for each full day necessarily spent in the performance of his duty, to be verified by affidavit. The body so appointing may, at any time, for good cause, remove such commissioner from office and appoint his successor to serve the remaining portion of his time. § 2. The commissioner of Canada thistles shall diligently inquire concerning the introduction and existence of Canada thistles in his township, road district, city, village or town, and if any are found growing therein, he shall take charge of all such growing in the highways and on unenclosed lands and take care that they do not go to seed or otherwise spread, and he shall carefully seek and learn, so far as practicable, the best methods of their destruction, and he shall persistently apply in proper time such remedy or treatment as shall be best calculated to prevent their spread and to eradicate the same. § 3. It shall be the duty of all owners of enclosed lands on which Canada thistles are found growing, to destroy the same in such manner as shall prevent the same from bearing seed or from otherwise perpetuating themselves. The commissioner shall advise the owner, agent or occupant of such land on their treatment. In case any such owner, agent or occupant shall refuse or neglect to destroy such thistles, it shall be the duty of the commissioner to enter upon such lands and to destroy such thistles or cause the same to be destroyed. Express power to so enter upon such lands and destroy such thistles is hereby conferred upon such commissioner. Any expense incurred in such destruction, shall be paid by the owner or owners of such lands, and the commissioner shall have a lien against such lands for such expense, which lien shall be enforced in the manner now provided by law for the enforcement of mechanics' liens. Any owner who shall refuse or neglect to destroy such thistles, as provided for in this section, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00). § 6. The commissioner shall, annually, before the first day of November, make a written report to the supervisor of the town, or to the county commissioners, as the case may be, which report shall be filed with the town clerk, or, in counties not under township organization, with the county clerk. The report made to the supervisor shall be publicly read at the annual town meeting. Said report shall state: First: Whether there are or not any Canada thistles growing in the town or precinct. Second: If any are growing, where and how many, and when and how introduced. Third: A detailed statement of his treatment of each infected tract, with cost and result. Fourth: He shall report such other matters as may be required of him by the board of town auditors, or by the county commissioners. Fifth: He shall state his views on their further treatment, and make such suggestions and recommendations as he may deem proper and useful. And he shall also forward a copy of said report to the secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, who shall collate and report the same to the Governor on or before the first day of December of each year. The secretary of the State Board of Agriculture shall have general supervision of all measures adopted for the extermination of such thistles. He shall cooperate with all local Canada thistle commissioners, shall furnish blank forms for reports to all such commissioners and shall do all things authorized by law necessary and expedient to promote the extermination of such Canada thistles. FILED June 26, 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-sixth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act to create the Illinois Centennial Commission, and to define its powers and duties," approved January twenty-first, 1916. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to create the Illinois Centennial Commission, and to define its powers and duties," approved January twenty-first, 1916, be amended by amending section 2 thereof so that said section when amended shall read as follows: § 2. It shall be the duty of the Illinois Centennial Commission: 1. To arrange for and conduct a celebration in honor of the centennial of the admission of the State of Illinois to the Federal Union. 2. To compile and publish a commemorative history of the State of Illinois, to-wit: After the first edition of said commemorative history has been published and distributed as provided by an Act entitled, "An Act making an appropriation for the Illinois Centennial Commission," approved January twenty-first, 1916, it shall be lawful for the said Illinois Centennial Commission to provide for the publication of a special edition of said commemorative history, and in so doing said Illinois Centennial Commission may use or loan such plates, type, cuts, illustrations, printed and printing material, editorial and historical data it may now or hereafter own, purchase or which it may now or hereafter have in its possession or control, and the said Illinois Centennial Commission may for the purpose of dissemination and general distribution of the said commemorative history among the citizens of the United States authorize a reputable publisher or publishers of its election to publish and distribute said special edition, provided, however, that the said Illinois Centennial Commission shall incur no indebtedness on the part of the State of Illinois. After the publication of the first edition of said commemorative history has been completed, the said Illinois Centennial Commission, in authorizing the publication of a special edition for general circula tion among the citizens of the United States, shall not be subject to the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to State contracts," approved June twenty-second, 1915. 3. To make a complete report to the Fifty-first General Assembly. APPROVED June 25, 1917. (HOUSE BILL No. 599. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization, ownership, management and control of cemetery associations," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as subsequently amended, by amending sections 5, 10 and 11 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 provide for the organization, ownership, management and control of cemetery associations," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as subsequently amended, be and is hereby amended by amending sections 5, 10 and 11 thereof to read as follows: 5. Any such cemetery association, when so organized, shall have the right and the same is expressly given to such association to acquire the necessary amount of land for the use of said cemetery association which said land may be acquired by purchase or by gift and said association is hereby authorized to receive by gift, devise, or bequest any property, either real, personal or mixed, which may be donated to such association and to hold and keep inviolate any such property for the uses of said cemetery association; and any such cemetery association may receive and administer endowments for the care of such cemetery or any part thereof. § 10. The said board of trustees shall, once in every year, and oftener if required by the court, make full and complete report of the money and other property received by said association and of all endowments being administered by such association and of the expenses of said association and of the loans of money existing at the time of the making of such report, to the county judge of the county in which said association is located, and if said report is found by said county judge. to be true and correct, he shall approve the same and direct the clerk of the County Court to record the same in the records of said court. But if the said county judge shall disapprove of said report he shall order said board of trustees to make true and correct report, and upon a failure of said board of trustees to make true and correct report or to properly account for any and all money which may have come into their hands for the use of said association, then said county judge, by his written order, shall direct the State's Attorney in and for said county |