Every such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than six months nor more than one year;

Or shall be fined not less than five hundred (500) nor more than two thousand (2,000) dollars, or both.

§ 41. If at any registration of voters or revision thereof, hereafter held in such city, any judge or clerk of election, or person in charge of such registration or revision, shall knowingly or willfully admit any person to registration or make any entry upon any register or poll book;

He shall, upon conviction thereof, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days; or by a fine of not less than one hundred (100) nor more than one thousand (1,000) dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 42. If any judge of election, in any election precinct, shall, without urgent necessity, absent himself from the place of registration in said precinct, upon any day of registration or revision whereby less than a majority of all the judges in such election precinct shall be present during such hours of registration;

He shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than sixty days, nor more than six months; or shall be fined not less than five hundred (500) nor more than one thousand (1,000) dollars, or both.

§ 43. Whoever, during the hours of registration, revision of registration or of making returns thereof, shall bring, take, order or send into, or shall attempt to bring, take or send into any place of registration, or revision of registration, or of election, any distilled or spirituous liquors whatever; or shall at any such time and place, drink or partake of such liquor, shall be deemed and held to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished according to law.

§ 44. In case of misdemeanors committed, where a matter of fine. shall be imposed instead of imprisonment, such party shall be discharged from imprisonment only on condition of payment of the fine;

And, unless paid, his imprisonment shall continue until such fine shall be canceled by an allowance of three (3) dollars per day for each day of imprisonment.

§ 45. It shall be the duty of such election commissioners to aid in the prosecution of all crimes and offenses against this Act;

And they shall keep a docket in which shall be entered all complaints against all persons claimed to be guilty of the violations of this law;

And when, in the judgment of such election commissioners, such offense has probably been committed, it shall be their duty to cause a prosecution to be instituted in accordance with the provisions of this Act, and cause the parties to be punished accordingly.

Said election commissioners, when in session, shall have authority and it shall be their duty to keep the peace, and to cause any person to be arrested for any breach of the peace or for any breach of election law;

and it shall be the duty of all officers of the law present to obey the order of such election commissioners or either of them, and an officer making an arrest by direction of any election commissioner shall be protected in making such arrest the same as if a warrant had been issued to him to make such arrest.

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.

TOWN CLERKS.

§ 2. Repeal.

§ 1. Provides for election in 1920-filling of vacancies.

(HOUSE BILL No. 182. APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.)

AN ACT in relation to the office of a President and a Clerk in incorporated towns having a population of 25,000 and over by the last school

census.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That at the regular election to be held in the year 1920 for the municipal offices in every incorporated town having a population of 25,000 and over by the last school census, and not before, and every four years thereafter at such municipal election, there shall be elected a president and a clerk of said incorporated town. to hold office for the term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of president or clerk, elected hereunder, during the first year hereof, such vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the term at the next annual election in such municipality and during the period from any time a vacancy occurs until any clerk is elected and qualified, such vacancy may be filled by appointment by the president and board of trustees of such incorporated town.

§ 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

TOWNSHIPS AND PRECINCTS REDISTRICTED-JUDGES-HOW SELECTED. § 1. Amends section 33, Act of 1872.

(HOUSE BILL No. 955.

§ 33. Provides for selection of judges where township or precinct has been redistricted since last general election for Gor

ernor.

APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act in regard to elections and to provide for filling vacancies in elective offices," approved April 3, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently amended, by amending section thirty-three (33) 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 in regard to elections and to provide for filling vacancies in elective offices," approved April 3, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as subsequently

amended, be, and the same is hereby amended by amending section thirty-three (33) thereof, to read as follows:

§ 33. In counties under township organization the county board shall, at its regular (or at a special) meeting in the month of June of each year, except when such judges and clerks are appointed by election commissioners, appointed in each election precinct or district in the county, three capable and discreet electors to be judges of election, and who shall possess the qualifications required by this Act for such judges. No more than two persons of the same political party shall be appointed judges in the same election district or undivided precinct. The town supervisor shall be appointed as one of such judges of election in the district or precinct in which he resides. The appointment of the remaining judges of election in the various election precincts and districts shall be made in the following manner: The members of the county board of supervisors belonging to the political party having the greatest number of votes upon said county board of supervisors shall select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the majority of the election judges in each election district or precinct in each township in which said political party cast the highest number of votes at the preceding general election for Governor, and shall also select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the minority judge of election in each election district or precinct in each township in which said political party cast the second highest number of votes for Governor at the preceding general election. The members of the county board of supervisors belonging to the political party having the second greatest number of votes upon said county board of supervisors shall select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the majority of the election judges in each election district or precinct in each township in which said political party cast the highest number of votes at the preceding general election for Governor, and shall also select (and the county board shall appoint the selection so made) the minority election judge in the election district or precinct in each township in which said. political party cast the second highest number of votes at the preceding general election for Governor. Provided, that if the county board of supervisors shall be composed of members who belong to any one political party entirely, then, in that case, the chairman of the county central committee of the other political party casting the next highest number of votes in said county at the preceding general election is hereby empowered and authorized to make the selection of the minority judge of election, who shall serve in each of the election districts or precincts in said county, and the members of the county board of supervisors are hereby directed to make the appointment of said minority judges of election for each election district or precinct as selected by the chairman. of the above mentioned county central committee. And, provided, further, that where the county board shall be equally divided and two political parties shall be represented by an equal number of members, the selection and appointment of such judges of election shall be made as in the case where there is a majority of members on the county board belonging to one political party. The members representing the

political party casting the highest number of votes in a township at the preceding election for Governor shall select the majority judges of elec tion in said township, and the members representing the political party that cast the second highest number of votes at the preceding election for Governor in said township, shall select the minority judges of election in said township, and the county board shall appoint the selection 80 made: And, provided, further, that where a supervisor shall be elected in a township, said supervisor representing a political party that neither has the highest nor second highest number of votes for members on the said county board, the said supervisor shall be authorized and empow ered to select a majority of the judges of election in the precincts or election districts in said township, such persons to represent the same political faith or belief as said supervisor, and the county board shall appoint the selection so made. The members of the county board representing the political party casting the second highest number of votes in said township at the preceding general election for Governor shall select the minority judges of election in said township and the county board shall appoint the selection so made: Provided further, that in any case where a township has been or shall be redistricted, in whole or in part. subsequent to one general election for Governor, and prior to the next. the judges of election to be appointed for all new or altered precincts or districts shall be selected in that one of the methods above detailed. which shall be applicable according to the facts and circumstances of the particular case, but the majority of such judges for each such precinct or district shall be selected from the political party which cast the highest number of votes for Governor at the last preceding general elec tion in the entire township, and the minority judge from the political party having cast the second greatest number of votes for Governor at such election. Such judges of election shall hold their office for one year from their appointment and until their successors are duly ap pointed in the manner hereinbefore provided. The said county board of supervisors shall fill all vacancies in said office of judges of elections at any time, in their [the] manner hereinbefore provided. APPROVED June 26, 1917.

EMPLOYMENT.

COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE SICKNESS AND ACCIDENT TO EMPLOYED

PERSONS NOT UNDER WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION.

AN ACT to establish a commission to investigate sickness and accident, not compensated by workmen's compensation, of employed persons and their families and to make an appropriation therefor.

SECTION 1. CREATION AND DUTY.] Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly: That a special

temporary commission is hereby created to be known as the Health Insurance Commission which shall investigate sickness and accident of employees and their families (not compensated by workmen's compensation in the State of Illinois), with reference to the adequacy of the pre-sent methods of preventing and meeting the losses caused by such sickness or injury, either by mutual or stock insurance companies or associations, by fraternal or other mutual benefit associations, by employers and employees jointly, by employers or employees alone, or otherwise; and further, such definite proposals for legislative measures to prevent and meet such losses as may have been proposed in this or other states; all with a view to recommending ways and means for the better protection of employees from sickness and accident and their effects and the improvement of the health of employed persons and their families in the State. The commission shall hold public hearings in different parts of the State. The commission shall submit a full final report including such recommendations for legislation by bill or otherwise as in its judgment may seem proper, to the General Assembly of nineteen hundred and nineteen and unless continued by such General Assembly, shall expire at the end of its regular session.

§ 2. MEMBERS. The commission shall consist of two representatives of labor, namely one representative of the male laborers, the other of the female laborers of the State, an employer of labor, a physician, a farmer, a social economist, a social worker, and two other persons, to be appointed by the Governor. The members of such commission shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be entitled to their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

§ 3. POWERS. The commission shall have power to elect its chairman and other officers, to employ a secretary, experts in the matters to be investigated, and all necessary clerical and other assistants, to purchase books and all necessary supplies, and to rent office room, and halls for hearings.

§ 4. CO-OPERATION OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS. The Department of Public Health and the Department of Labor and Mining are hereby directed to co-operate with the commission, to give it access to their records, and to render it any such proper aid and assistance as in their judgment may not interfere with the proper conduct of their respective departments.

§ 5. APPROPRIATION. The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby appropriated for the actual and necessary expenses of the commission in carrying out the provisions of this Act, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrant for the foregoing amount, or any part thereof, in payment of any expenses, charges, or disbursements authorized by this Act on order of the commission, signed by its chairman, attested by its secretary, and approved by the Governor.

APPROVED June 23, 1917.