Normal schools Normal school board. Illinois state normal university, Normal. Southern Illinois state normal university, Carbondale. Northern Illinois state normal school, DeKalb. Eastern Illinois state normal school, Charleston. Division of registration Examining committees: Architects. Barbers (12 district committees). Chiropodists. Dentists. Embalmers. Horseshoers. Medical practitioners. Nurses. Optometrists. Pharmacists. Structural engineers. Veterinarians. Immigrants commission. The presidents, deans, teachers, scientific staff of the normal schools and one private secretary for the president of each normal school are exempt from civil service. Upon the action and report in writing by a majority of certain persons designated for this purpose for each profession, trade or occupation, the director of registration and education has the power to exercise various functions in connection with the several laws regulating the trades, professions and occupations enumerated above. He can exercise these functions only upon the action and report in writing by a majority of the persons designated for each profession, trade or occupation, by the director to assist in the administration of the laws. Among these powers thus exercised by the director of registration is the power to conduct examinations to determine the qualifications and fitness of applicants, to prescribe standards of preliminary education necessary for admission to these examinations, to issue licenses and to act upon their revocation or renewal. The director of registration and education is ex-officio chairman of the board of vocational education. The statutes provide for a board of examiners of plumbers in every city, town or village of the state having a population of ten. thousand or more, and the department of registration and education is charged with the enforcement of the act creating such boards and providing for the licensing of plumbers. V. DESCRIPTION OF THE FUNCTIONS OF BOARDS, TION AND NOT UNDER CIVIL There are a number of boards, commissions, departments and offices in this state which are not created by the constitution, and are not under the provisions of the civil administrative code. For the purposes of this bulletin, these governmental agencies may be classified according to the method of appointment, as follows: 1. Appointment by the Governor Adjutant General. Commission for the Uniformity of Legislation in the Penitentiary Commission. 2. Appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate Civil Service Commission. Court of Claims. Historical Library. Lincoln Park and the West Chicago Park Commissioners. 3. Ex-officio Board for Vocational Education. Board of Commissioners of the State Library. Joint Legislative Reference Bureau. Primary Canvassing Board. State Canvassing Board. Tax Levy Board. 4. Partly ex-officio and partly appointed by the Governor Board of Trustees of the Illinois State Teachers' Pension and Retirement Fund. Board of Voting Machine Commissioners. Centennial Building Commission. 5. Partly ex-officio and partly elected by the people Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 6. Partly ex-officio and partly appointed by an ex-officio boardLibrary Extension Commission. 7. Partly ex-officio and partly from officers and members of various societies Farmers' Institute. 8. Partly ex-officio and partly appointed by a constitutional state officer Teachers' Examining Board. 9. Appointed by the University of Illinois Board of Examiners in Accounting. 1. Appointed by the Governor. Adjutant General. The adjutant general is appointed by the commander-in-chief (the Governor) and he is ex-officio chief of staff, inspector general, quartermaster general, commissary general, paymaster general, and chief of ordnance of the state forces. He has the rank of brigadier general. He and his assistants must be men of military training and experience and each must. have had service as an officer of not less than five years, at least three of which shall have been in the line. On the recommendation of the adjutant general, the Governor appoints from officers or ex-officers of the national guard or naval reserve, not below the rank of captain or lieutenant, the following assistants to the adjutant general: One adjutant general, one inspector general, one assistant quartermaster and one ordnance officer, each with rank of colonel, and one assistant quartermaster with rank of captain. The adjutant general, the assistant adjutant general, the assistant quartermaster general and the assistant quartermaster are all required to reside at the state capitol and give their entire time to their military duties. An adjutant general with the rank of colonel is chief assistant to the adjutant general, and performs the duties of the adjutant general, in the event of his disability or absence from the state. The department also has one lieutenant colonel and three majors. The adjutant general receives a salary of $7,000 per annum. The Governor makes all appointments in the commissioned rank of the national guard and the naval militia. Commissions evidencing all appointments must be signed by the Governor and attested and issued by the adjutant general. All positions in the military service are exempt from civil service. Governor for for a Its Commission for the Uniformity of Legislation in the United States. This commission was established by an act passed in 1907. It consists of five men appointed by the to ascertain the best term of four years. Its function is means of effecting uniformity in the laws of the states. duties are to examine the to examine the subjects of marriage and divorce, commercial paper, insolvency, form of notarial certificates, descent and distribution of property, acknowledgement of deeds, execution. and probation of wills, and other subjects on which uniformity is desirable, to represent Illinois in conventions and congresses of like commissions, and to devise and recommend such other courses of action as shall best accomplish the purposes of the act. The commissioners are required to report biennially to the Governor at least thirty days before the convening of the General Assembly, and the Governor must submit such report with his recommendations to the General Assembly. in was established 1907. It consists of three members appointed by the Governor and he has the power to fill vacancies occurring in the commission. The commissioners serve without pay but receive their reasonable and necessary expenses. They elect one of their number president and another secretary. Penitentiary Commission. This commission The function of this commission is to select, plan and supervise the construction of a re-located Illinois state penitentiary and Illinois asylum for insane criminals at or near the city of Joliet, Illinois. They are given the right to acquire title to the land by condemnation under the eminent domain laws of the state. They are authorized to employ architects, superintendents, agents, overseers and workmen and make all necessary contracts. If they deem it advisable they may let by contract the construction of the buildings to the lowest and best responsible bidder. In the construction of the penitentiary the commission is required to use as far as possible the labor of convicts confined in the Illinois state penitentiary. Whenever such convicts are employed, the warden. of the Illinois state penitentiary is directed to provide for their care and custody. The conveyances of the site of these buildings must be passed upon and approved by the attorney general, and the deeds must be filed in the office of the secretary of state. The auditor is directed to pay out money appropriated upon vouchers signed by a majority of the commission. 2. Appointed by the Governor with the Advice and Consent of the Senate. Civil Service Commission. The state civil service commission was established by an act passed in 1905. The commission is composed of three members appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the senate for a six year term. Not more than two members may be of the same political party. The Governor may remove any commissioner for want of moral character, incompetency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. He must at the same time report in writing any such removal to the senate with his reasons therefor and if the senate is not in session this report is filed with the secretary of state, who transmits it to the senate within ten days after the commencement of the next session. Each commissioner receives $3,000 per annum and necessary traveling expenses. Commissioners may hold no other lucrative office or employment under the state, the United States, or any political sub-division thereof. The commissioners select one of their members as president, who receives $1,000 additional salary per annum. They meet in Springfield at least once in each month except August. The function of this commission is to regulate the selection of persons for appointive positions in the state service. The following offices, positions, and places of employment are exempt from the classified service of the state: Elective officers; judicial officers; employes of the General Assembly; all positions in the military service; notaries public; officers appointed by the Governor with the advice. and consent of the senate; one private secretary and one stenographer for each elective officer in the executive department; one private secretary for the director of each department under the Civil Administrative Code, for the president of each normal school and for the president. and each dean of the University of Illinois; regular and special assistants, law clerks, special investigators and special attorneys in the attorney generals office; all presidents, deans, teachers and scientific staff of the University of Illinois and of the state normal schools; employes at the executive mansion; superintendent and assistant superintendent of capitol building and grounds; bank examiners, examiners of building and loan associations, insurance actuaries, and examiners of insurance companies; superintendents, wardens and chaplains, in the state charitable, penal and correctional institutions; clerks, watchmen and policemen in the offices of the elective officers; students employed at the University of Illinois and the normal schools under civil service rules without examination or certification; technical assistants, clerks and stenographers of the vocational education board. The law requires the appointing officers to make requisition upon the civil service commission for each position in the classified service to be filled, and the civil service commission certifies to him the name and address of the person standing highest upon the list of eligibles, as determined by competitive examinations. The commission is directed to classify all offices and places of employment with the above exceptions. The offices and places so classified constitute the classified service and no appointment may be made except under the provisions of the law. The commission is given the power to investigate the conditions of the classified service in regard to efficiency, and is authorized to make recommendations to the officer in charge for improving the service, and in case its suggestions are not carried out, to report the fact to the Governor. It is also authorized to standardize the employment in all grades of the public service. The civil service commission is directed to make a report to the Governor on or before the fifteenth day of January of each year showing its own action, rules in force, the practical effects thereof, and suggestions for the effectual accomplishment of the purposes of the act. The Governor may require a report from the commission at any time. The commission has power to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses, the production of books and papers, at hearings and investigations. It employs a chief examiner who is ex-officio secretary of the commission and works under its direction. He superintends all examinations. His salary is $3,500 per annum. Boards of examiners or trial boards (not in the official service of the state) receive not to exceed $5.00 per diem and necessary traveling expenses. The Governor may not approve a voucher for services of any person employed in violation of the provisions of this act. The commission certifies to the state auditor all appointments and removals in the classified service and he may only approve salaries of lawful employes upon certification of the civil service commission. The validity of the civil service act was attacked in the case of People v. McCullough, 254 Ill., 9, (1912). The question involved was whether the act applied to certain employes in the offices of the elective officials. This was a suit of mandamus to force the auditor to issue to the relators, who were employes in the office of the secretary of state, warrants on the state treasurer for the amounts due them, with |