until the convening of the Fifty-first General Assembly, at which time said commission shall go out of existence. The Governor shall designate the chairman of the commission.

2. It shall be the duty of such commission to make a complete survey of all those industries in Illinois, in which women are engaged as workers, with special reference to the hours of labor for women in such industries, the effect of such hours of labor upon the health of women workers, and to make a report to the Governor not later than December first, [1,] 1918, for transmission to the Fifty-[first] First General Assembly, with the recommendations if any, of the commission.

§ 3. The commission shall have power to employ such clerks and assistants as may be necessary and to fix their compensation and may incur such other expenses as are properly incidental to the work of the commission. It shall have power to administer oaths and to take the testimony of witnesses, necessary for this Act.

§ 4. The expense of said commission, including a reasonable per diem to the members thereof not to exceed ten dollars per day for the time actually spent in such investigation, shall be paid out of funds to be appropriated for that purpose, upon vouchers drawn upon the Auditor of Public Accounts, properly itemized and certified to by the chairman of the commission and approved by the Governor.

§ 5. The sum of ten thousand (10,000) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the expenses of the commission, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized to draw his warrants for the foregoing amount or any part thereof, in payment of any expenses, charges or disbursements, authorized by this Act. properly itemized and certified to by the chairman of the commission and approved by the Governor.

AN ACT to provide for the licensing of plumbers, and to provide for the supervision and inspection of plumbing and providing penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the licensing of plumbers and to supervise and inspect plumbing" approved June 10th, 1897, in force, July 1st, 1897, and all amend ments thereto and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith.

SECTION 1. PERSONS WORKING AS PLUMBER TO RECEIVE CERTIFICATE. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represent d

in the General Assembly, Any person now or hereafter engaging in or working at the business of plumbing in this State, either as a master plumber or employing plumber or as a journeyman plumber shall first receive a certificate thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Act.

$2. Any person desiring to engage in or work at the business of plumbing either as a master plumber or employing plumber or as a journeyman plumber, shall make application to a board of examiners, hereinafter provided for and shall at such time and place as such board. may designate be compelled to pass such examination as to his qualifications as said board with the approval of the Department of Registration and Education may direct; said examination may be made in whole or in part in writing and shall be fair and impartial and of a practical and elementary character but sufficiently strict to test the qualifications of the applicant.

§3. That there shall be in every city, town or village of 10,000 inhabitants or more, a board of examiners of plumbers, consisting of three members, one of which shall be the chairman of the board of health, health officer, or commissioner of health as the case may be, who shall be ex officio chairman of said board of examiners; a second member who shall be a master plumber and third member who shall be a journeyman. plumber. Said second and third member shall be appointed by the mayor and approved by the city council or city commissioners, or board. of trustees of said town or village, within three months after the passage of this Act for the term of one year from the first day of May in the year of appointment and thereafter annually before the first day of May and shall hold office until their successors are appointed and shall be paid from the treasury of said city, town or village, the same as other officers in such sums as the authorities may designate.

§ 4. Said board of examiners shall, as soon as may be after appointment, meet and then designate the dates and places for the examination of all applicants desiring to engage in or to work at the business of plumbing within their respective jurisdiction. Said board shall examine. said applicants as to their practical knowledge of plumbing, house drainage and plumbing ventilation and if satisfied of the competency of such applicant shall thereupon issue a certificate to such applicant authorizing him to engage in or work at the business of plumbing, whether as a master plumber, employing plumber, or as a journeyman plumber.

The fee for a certificate for a master plumber or employing plumber shall be $50.00; for a journeyman plumber the fee shall be $1.00. Said certificate shall be valid and have force throughout the State for a period of one year from date of issuance and may be renewed upon its expiration by payment in advance of an annual renewal fee of $10.00 for the certificate of a master plumber or employing plumber and the payment in advance of an annual renewal fee of $1.00 for the certificate of a journeyman plumber. All certificate and renewal fees received for said certificate to be paid into the treasury of the city, town or village where said certificate is issued: Provided, however, that all such persons residing outside of a city, town or village, having a board of examiners of

plumbers shall pay their fees for renewal to the Department of Registration and Education as provided in section 6 of this Act.

§ 5. Each city, town or village in this State having a system of water supply or sewerage, shall by ordinance or by-law within three months of the passage of this Act and with the advice of the Department of Public Health, prescribe rules and regulations for the materials, constructions, alteration and inspection of all plumbing and sewerage placed in or in connection with any building in such city, town or village; and the board of health or proper authorities shall further provide that no plumbing work shall be done except in case of repairing of leaks without a permit being first issued therefor and upon such terms and conditions as such city, town or village shall prescribe.

§ 6. All persons who are required by this Act to take examinations and to procure a certificate as required by this Act, shall apply to the board of examiners of plumbers in the city, town or village where he resides: Provided, however, an applicant residing outside of a city, town or village having a board of examiners of plumbers, shall apply to the board of examiners of plumbers, nearest his place of residence: Provided. however, that all such persons who reside outside a city, town or village having a board of examiners of plumbers, shall apply to and receive his renewal certificate from the Department of Registration and Education, and he shall pay the renewal fee as provided for herein, to the Department of Registration and Education. All fees received by the Department of Registration and Education for such renewals shall be paid into the State treasury. It shall be the duty of such board of examiners of plumbers in such cities, towns or villages, to furnish the Department of Registration and Education with the name and address of each person who may apply or to whom it has issued a certificate, or a renewal certificate within thirty days from the date of issue of said certificate.

§ 7. It shall be the duty of the Department of Registration and Education to see that the provisions of this Act are enforced. The Department of Registration and Education shall have the power by and with the advice and acquiescence of the Attorney General of this State to institute mandamus proceedings in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, against the officers or corporate government of any city, town or village in this State which does not comply with the provisions of this Act to compel the observance of these provisions. The State Department of Registration and Education may also institute and prosecute suits for the recovery of any penalty provided for in this Act. The Attorney General shall assist in instituting and prosecuting all such proceedings upon application of the State Department of Registration and Education.

§ 8. Any person violating any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for each and every violation therefor and whenever such person has a plumber certificate the same may be revoked by the Department of Registration and Education: Provided, that no certificate shall be revoked before the holder thereof has been given reasonable notice of the charge against him and an oppor

tunity for a full hearing before the Department of Registration and Education. For the purpose of conducting such hearings the Director of Registration and Education shall appoint three competent, reputable and licensed plumbers. The action or report in writing of a majority of the persons designated, shall be sufficient authority upon which the Director of Registration and Education may act.

§ 9. An Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the licensing of plumbers and to supervise and inspect plumbing," approved June 10, 1897, in force July 1, 1897, and all amendments thereto and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed: Provided, however, that any certificate heretofore lawfully issued entitling the holder to engage in or work at the business or trade of plumbing in this State shall during the unexpired period for which such certificate was issued, serve the same purpose as the certificate provided for by this Act. And, provided, further, that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to plumbers regularly employed by any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce, and engaged exclusively in work on the premises of such carrier.

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. Witness my hand this twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. 1917.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, the title of which Act was amended as above on March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, and subsequent Acts amendatory thereto, by amending section 40 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 fees and salaries and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, the title of which Act was amended as above on March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, and subsequent Acts amendatory, thereto, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section 40 of the said Act to read as follows:

§ 40. Justices of the peace and police magistrates in counties of the First, Second and Third Classes, shall be entitled to the following fees;

For taking and certifying acknowledgment of a deed, mortgage, power of attorney or other writing, twenty-five cents. For acknowledg

ment of chattel mortgage, thirty-five cents, and fifteen cents for each folio over one hundred words for docketing the same. For administering oath to affidavit, when drawn by justice, thirty-five cents. For adminis tering oath to affidavit, when not drawn by justice, ten cents. For taking each bond fifty-cents. For taking bail, fifty cents. For each certificate required to be made, when not part of any other act, thirty-five cents. For taking each complaint in writing, under oath, thirty-five cents. For docketing each suit, twenty-five cents. For taking deposition, for each one hundred words, fifteen cents. For issuing dedimus to take deposi tions of witnesses, fifty cents. For entering verdict of jury, fifteen cents. For entering judgments, twenty-five cents. For issuing each execution, twenty-five cents. For entering continuance, or any other order in the case, fifteen cents. For entering each appeal, twenty-five cents. For entering satisfaction of judgment, ten cents. For entering the award of referees, fifty cents. For administering oaths and trail [trial], making all entries in cases of estrays, and making and transmitting a certificate thereof to the county clerk, one dollar. For each marriage ceremony performed and certificate thereof, two dollars. For each mittimus, thirtyfive cents. For giving each notice, twenty-five cents. For administering oaths, five cents. For each summons or warrant, twenty-five cents. For each subpoena, twenty-five cents. For each venire in all cases, fifty cents. For each scire facias, thirty-five cents. For issuing each attachment or writ of possession, fifty cents. For taking recognizances, and returning the same, fifty cents. For transcript in change of venue, fifty cents. For transcript of judgment and proceedings in cases of appeal, fifty cents. For transcript of judgment to obtain lien on real estate, one dollar. For the trail [trial] of all contested cases, in counties of the first, second and third class, a per diem of two dollars, except in cases of judg ment by confession or default. In all counties of the first, second and third class the fees of the justices of the peace, police magistrates, constables, jurors and witnesses in criminal cases, shall be the same as those allowed for similar services in civil cases, and in all criminal cases where the fees cannot be collected of the party convicted, or where the prosecution fails, the county board, shall after the State's attorney has certified that the same are just and equitable, direct that the cost of the prosecution, or so much thereof as shall seem just and equitable, shall be paid out of the county treasury; Provided, that the costs in criminal and quasi criminal prosecutions for the violation of an ordinance of an incorporated city, town, or other municipal body where the provisions of the charters of such towns, cities or municipal bodies do not prohibit the payment of such costs, may be paid by such city, town or other municipal body in the discretion of the city council or board of trustees or commissioners of such incorported cities, towns or other municipal bodies; Provided, that in counties of the third class the justice or police magistrate shall be entitled to collect two dollars in advance, which shall be applied toward the payment of costs taxed in the case.

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.