earing of the parties, the terms upon which such separation shall be ade and the proportions in which the expense of the alteration or abolion of such crossings or the separation of such grades shall be divided etween the railroad or street railroad companies affected, or between ich companies and the state, county, municipality or other public uthority in interest; Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be conrued to repeal an Act in relation to the crossing of one railroad by nother, approved May 25, 1907, and in force July 1, 1907.

The commission shall also have power by its order to require the econstruction, alteration, relocation or improvement of any crossing including the necessary highway approaches thereto) of any railroad cross any highway or public road, whether such crossing be at grade or y overhead structure or by subway, whenever the commission finds fter a hearing that such reconstruction, alteration, relocation or imrovement is necessary to preserve or promote the safety of the public r of the employees or passengers of such railroad. By its original order r supplemental orders in such case, the commission may direct such econstruction, alteration, relocation or improvement to be made in such nanner and upon such terms and conditions as may be reasonable and ecessary, and may apportion the cost of such reconstruction, alteration, elocation or improvement between the railroad company or companies and other public utilities affected, or between such company or companies and other public utilities and the State, county, municipality, or other public authority in interest. The cost to be so apportioned hall include the cost of changes or alterations in the equipment of other public utilities affected as well as the cost of the relocation, diversion or establishment of any public highway, made necessary by such reconstruction, alteration, relocation or improvement of said crossing.

Whenever the commission, after a hearing, shall find it necessary for the reconstruction, alteration, relocation or improvement of any such crossing or its necessary approaches as aforesaid, or for the abolishment of any such crossing, to relocate, divert or establish any highway or public road, or to acquire additional property for any such purpose, it may direct the railroad company or companies to acquire, and the railroad company or companies shall acquire, the necessary additional property for such purposes by purchase or, when the price to be paid cannot be agreed upon with the owner thereof, in the manner provided by the law of eminent domain; or the commission may certify such finding to the highway commissioners of the town or road district concerned. Every railroad company operating in the State of Illinois shall construct and maintain every highway grade crossing over its tracks within the State so that the roadway at the intersection shall be flush with the rails, and, unless otherwise ordered by the commission, shall construct and maintain the approaches thereto at a grade of not more than five (5) per cent within the right-of-way for a distance of not less than twenty-five (25) feet on each side of such tracks; provided that the grades at the approaches may be maintained in excess of five (5) per cent only when authorized by the commission.

Every railroad operating within the State of Illinois shall remove from its rights of way at all grade crossings within the State, all brush,

shrubbery and trees for a distance of not less than five hundred feet (500) in either direction from each grade crossing.

On or before December 1, 1918, every railroad operating within the State of Illinois shall furnish, erect and thereafter maintain in a conspicuous place at every grade crossing on its lines in this State outside of incorporated cities and villages, on both sides of the tracks except when otherwise ordered and at such points as directed by the Public Utilities Commission, within the right-of-way of such railroad, at grade crossings not designated as extra hazardous by the commission such standard signs as the Public Utilities Commission shall determine.

At all such grade crossings in the State as may be designated by the commission as extra hazardous, but at no others, every railroad operating within the State of Illinois shall, within thirty days after the issuance of an order by the Public Utilities Commission directing it so to do, erect and thereafter maintain such standard stop signs as said commission shall determine are necessary, provided that no such stop shall be ordered or permitted by the commission where there is a clear view from the highway of approaching trains on such railroad trucks [tracks] for at least five hundred feet (500) in each direction from the crossing at all points on the highway within a distance of two hundred (200) feet of such crossing. The commission shall have power to require such signs to be lighted at night or to be accompanied by red warning lights whenever in the opinion of the commission such additional precautions are reasonably necessary for the public safety.

Any person who unlawfully removes, throws down, injures or defaces any sign required in this section, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each offense.

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.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

STOCKS AND BONDS-CAPITALIZATION-INTERCORPORATE RELATIONS -FRANCHISE-VALUATION.

§ 1. Amends section 31, Article III, Act

of 1913.

§ 31. Fees for issuance of stocks and bonds,

(SENATE BILL No. 384.

FILED JUNE 29, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 31 of article 3 of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the regulation of public utilities," approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, rep resented in the General Assembly: That section 31 of Article 3 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the regulation of public utilities." approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

31. FEES FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS. The commission shall charge every public utility receiving permission under this Act for the issue of bonds, notes and other evidences of indebtedness, an amount equal to ten cents for every hundred dollars of such securities author

ized by the commission, and the same shall be paid into the State treasury before any such securities shall be issued. Provided that no public utility shall be required to pay any fee for permission granted to it by any such commission in any of the following cases:

(1) To guarantee bonds or other securities.

(2) To issue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued for the purpose of converting, exchanging, taking over, refunding, discharging or retiring any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness. except:

(a) When issued for an aggregate period of longer than two years for the purpose of converting, exchanging, taking over, refunding, discharging or retiring any note, or renewals thereof, issued without the consent of such State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois or such Public Utilities Commission.

(b) When issued for the purpose of converting, exchanging, taking over, refunding, discharging or retiring bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued prior to January 1, 1914, and upon which no fee has been previously paid.

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.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

RAILROADS AND WAREHOUSES.

SAFETY APPLIANCES.

§ 1. Amends section 6, Act of 1905.

§ 6. Exemptions-penalty.

(SENATE BILL NO. 353. FILED JUNE 29. 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 6 of "An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in moving traffic by railroad between points in the State of Illinois to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved May 12, 1905, in force July 1, 1905.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 6 of an Act entitled "An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in moving traffic by railroad between points in the State of Illinois to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved May 12, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, be and hereby is amended so as to read as follows:

§ 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive, or tender running any train, or hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its lines any car, or similar vehicle, in violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the State's attorney in the Circuit Court of the county having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have occurred; and it

duly

shall be the duty of such State's attorney to bring such suits upon verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred; and it shall be the duty of the State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois to lodge with the proper State's attorneys information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge; Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall apply to trains composed of four wheel cars or to trains composed of eight wheel standard logging cars, where the height of such car from the tops of the rails to the center of the couplings does not exceed twenty-five inches, or to locomotives use in hauling such trains when such cars or locomotives are exclusively use! for the transportation of logs, or to street cars, or to trains, locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles used in interstate commerce; Ad provided that nothing in this Act contained, except as to the requirements of section 2 of this Act shall apply to locomotives operated on any narrow gauge surface railway which does not interchange cars with any connecting railway, or to four wheel cars having a capacity of Let to exceed eight tons, or trains composed of such cars, operated on such narrow gauge railway.

And provided further that nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner affect the power, authority and jurisdiction of the State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois to make and enforce any orders. rules or regulations it may now or at any time be authorized by law t make or enforce with regard to the health and safety of the employees, passengers and customers of such railway or the public.

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. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

AN ACT to regulate cold storage of certain articles of food. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: For the purpose of this Act,

cold storage" shall mean the storage or keeping of articles of food at or elow a temperature above zero of 45 degrees Fahrenheit in a cold torage warehouse; "cold storage warehouse" shall mean any place rtificially cooled to or below a temperature above zero of 45 degrees Fahrenheit, in which articles of food are placed and held for thirty lays or more; "article of food" shall mean fresh meat and fresh meat roducts and all fish, game, poultry, eggs and butter.

§ 2. No person, firm or corporation shall maintain or operate a old storage warehouse without a license so to do issued by the Departnent of Agriculture. And person, firm or corporation desiring such license shall make written application to the Department of Agriculure for that purpose, stating the location of the warehouse. The Department of Agriculture thereupon shall cause an examination to be nade of said warehouse and, if it be found by him to be in a proper anitary condition and otherwise properly equipped for its intended use, e shall issue a license authorizing the applicant to operate the same s a cold storage warehouse during one year. The license shall be issued pon payment of the applicant of a license fee of $25.00 per annum to he Department of Agriculture.

§3. In case any cold storage warehouse, or any part thereof, shall t any time be deemed by the Department of Agriculture, to be in an insanitary condition, or not properly equipped for its intended use, he hall notify the licensee of such condition and upon the failure of the icensee to put such cold storage warehouse in a sanitary condition or to roperly equip the same for its intended use, within a time to be desigated by the Department of Agriculture, he shall revoke such license.

4. Every such licensee shall keep accurate records of the articles f food received in and of the articles of food withdrawn from his cold torage warehouse, and the Department of Agriculture shall have free ccess to such records at any time. Every such licensee shall submit a nonthly report to the Department of Agriculture, setting forth in emized particulars the quantities and kinds of articles of food in his old storage warehouse. Such monthly reports shall be filed on or before. he fifth day of each month, and the reports so rendered shall show the onditions existing on the last day of the preceding month reported and summary of such reports shall be prepared by the Department of griculture and shall be open to public inspection on or before the tenth ay of each month.

5. The Department of Agriculture shall inspect and supervise all old storage warehouses and make such inspection of articles of food herein as he may deem necessary to secure the proper enforcement of is Act, and he shall have access to all cold storage warehouses at all easonable times. The Department of Agriculture may appoint such ersons as he deems qualified to make any inspection under this Act.

6. No article of food intended for human consumption shall be laced, knowingly, received or kept in any cold storage warehouse, if iseased, tainted, otherwise unfit for human consumption, or in such ondition that it will not keep wholesome for human consumption. No ticle of food, for use other than for human consumption, shall be