The Revised Statutes of the State of Illinois

or a majority of them, when regularly convened, shall constitute a board, which shall possess and exert all the powers of said trustees, and shall have power by ballot to elect a president, secretary and treasurer, the president and secretary to be selected from their own number, and said board shall prescribe the duties and fix the terms of service of said officers of said board.

67. Duties of superintendent. §7. The superintendent shall exercise official control over all subordinate officers, instructors, assistants and employes, and shall be held responsible for their fidelity.

68. Apprentices. § 8. Apprentices placed by their parents or guardians in the home shall be required to conform to its rules and regulations.

69. Annual report. §9. The board shall, annually, before December fifteenth, report to the governor of the State the number of applications received, persons admitted, instructed and discharged; also the progress made and work accomplished, and all other matters of general interest to the people of the State of Illinois in regard thereto, together with a full, explicit and detailed statement of all money received and disbursed during the year.

70. Meetings of trustees. 10. The said trustees shall meet monthly during the first year, and at least quarterly thereafter, to examine and audit all the accounts of the home, and make requisitions on the auditor of public accounts for funds required for use during the succeeding month or quarter, from funds which have been appropriated for the establishment and maintenance of the institution.

71. Money-how drawn. II. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants on the treasurer of the State for all sums which shall or may be appropriated and remain undrawn or unexpended, for the use of said institution, by the general assembly, upon the order of the board of trustees of the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, when signed by the president and attested by the secretary of said board, with the seal of said institution.

72. Appropriation. § 12. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purchase of lands, grounds or real estate in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and for the purpose of erecting thereon suitable buildings, and fitting and furnishing the same appropriately for the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, and also for the purpose of conducting therein workshops for the manual training and employment of the blind, defraying the expenses of boarding the inmates while necessary, and the payment of its superintendent, instructors, assistants and employes, which sum of money is to be expended under the safeguards hereinbefore provided: Provided, at least the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) shall be expended in the purchase of real estate and buildings for the use of said Industrial Home for the Blind, and no more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) shall be expended in constructing and furnishing rooms for officers; Provided, further, no real estate shall be purchased until the title to the same shall have been examined by the attorney general of the State.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

73. Power to sell and convey land. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the board of trustees of the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, located at Jacksonville, Illinois, shall have power, and the same is hereby given them, to sell and convey to the city of Jacksonville, in the State of Illinois, for use by said city in connection with said city's pumping works and water works, a certain tract of four acres of land, more or less, situated near the present pumping works of said city, located on Superior avenue in said city, and now held and controlled by said board of trustees for the use of said hospital. The said board of trustees shall further have power to expend, in the purchase of other lands for the use of said hospital, all sums of money that may be realized from the sale to said city of the four acres of land above mentioned.

74. Appraisers. § 2. The governor shall appoint three discreet and competent persons, residents of the city of Jacksonville, who shall make, under oath, a fair and impartial appraisement of the value of the lands in question, and the board of trustees are hereby authorized to sell and convey said lands to said city, upon the payment by said city to said board of the amount or sum at which the said lands shall be by said persons valued and appraised.