Section 25. Validity of Act.-The invalidity of any portion of this act shall not effect the validity of any other portion thereof which can be given effect without such invalid part. Section 26. Cases under this act may be reviewed by writ of error. Law in force as amended July 1, 1907. CHAPTER IX. BILL Thirty-seventh Assembly, House No. 433, February, 1891. 1. Introduced by Mr. Joseph A. O'Donnell, February 24, 1891. 2. Read by title February 24, 1891. Ordered printed and referred to the Committee on Judiciary. A BILL For an act to authorize corporations not for pecuniary profit to manage, care and provide for children who may be abandoned, neglected, destitute or subjected to perverted training. Section 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly. That whenever it shall appear to any county court of this state that any child who may be brought before it, has no parent, guardian or other person to bestow upon it ordinary and proper parental care, or that it is abandoned or entirely neglected or cruely treated by the person or persons sustaining the parental relation to it; or that it has no proper parental care or guardianship; or that it is being trained or allowed to be trained in vice and crime by the person or persons having charge of it; or that being in charge of no one, it is destitute and incapable of providing for itself, such court may, in any case, by order, commit the custody and care of any such child to any corporation, not for pecuniary profit, organized under the laws of this state, the objects of whose organization may embrace the purpose of caring for any such child, and which corporation may, in the judgment of such court, be competent and disposed to properly care and provide for such child. |