Sixtieth-To the State Board of Health, for salary of secretary, the sum of $3,000 per annum; for salary of assistant secretary, $1,800 per annum; for necessary office expenses, including expenses incurred in attending meetings of the board, for making sanitary investigations, and for the purposes of investigating the cause and preventing the spread of such contagious and infectious diseases as consumption, typhoid fever, diphtheria, scarlet fever, influenza and malarial fevers, the sum of $5,000 per annum; for expenses of laboratory for the investigation of disease, $2,000 per annum; for chief clerk, $1,800 per annum; for one clerk, $1,200 per annum; for two clerks, $1,000 each per annum, $2,000 per annum; for stenographer and typewriter, $1,000 per annum; for registrar of vital statistics, $1,200 per annum; for janitor and messenger, the sum of $800 per annum. Also the sum of $10,000 per annum to be used only with the consent and concurrence of the Governor, on the recommendation and advice of the board, in case of an outbreak or threatened outbreak of any epidemic or malignant disease, such as smallpox, yellow fever, Asiatic cholera and typhus fever, to defray the expenses of preventing the introduction of such diseases, or their spread from place to place within the State; to suppress outbreaks which may occur, and to investigate methods of their prevention; also for special investigation, when required by the sanitary necessities of the State. Also the sum of $30,000 for the necessary expenses including the salary of stenographer at $1,200 per annum, incurred in the supervision and inspection of lodging houses, boarding houses, taverns, inns, rooming houses and hotels, in cities of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants. Also the sum of $15,000 per annum for the free distribution of antidiphtheric serum throughout the State, except in cities of one hundred thousand or more inhabitants, as a preventive against the spread of diphtheria. Sixty-first-To the State Food Commission for rent of offices and laboratory, for postage and all other expenses of said office and for traveling and other expenses of inspectors the sum of $35,000 per annum. Sixty-second-To the State Highway Commission, for experimental work, preparation of road and bridge plans and estimates, collection of highway statistics, and all other expenses that may be necessary for the work of said commission, the sum of $50,000 per annum. Sixty-third To the State Civil Service Commission, for salary of assistant secretary, who shall be a stenographer, $1,200 per annum; for one stenographer, $900 per annum; one stenographer, $840 per annum; one janitor, $120 per annum; one messenger, $600 per annum; for expenses of commissioners, chief examiner and examiners, postage, printing, advertising, telegraphing, telephoning and other necessary incidental expenses and office expenses, the sum of $6,500 per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sixty-fourth-To the Board of Prison Industries, for the payment of salaries, postage, telegraphing, telephoning, traveling expenses and such other expenses as may be necessary to carry on the business of the board, the [sum] of $20,000 per annum, $1,000 0 Sixty-fifth-To the State Geological Commission, for the support of and extension of the geological survey of the State, the sum of $25,000 per annum. To the State Geological Commission for making survey of overflowed lands in Illinois, $15,000. To the State University of Illinois for the investigation of clay working material in coöperation with the State geological survey and for instructions in ceramics the sum of $7,500 per annum. Sixty-sixth-To the University of Illinois, for the payment of interest on the endowment funds of said university as provided by section 2 of the Act relating to said university, approved June 11, 1897, for the years 1907 and 1908, the sum [of] $64,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary under the terms of said Act. Sixty-seventh-To the Internal Improvement Commission for reviewing and revising figures and other data and making further survey for deep waterway of Illinois and Mississippi rivers from Joliet to Ohio river, the sum of $20,000. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the State Treasurer for all sums herein appropriated for the pay of clerks, secretaries, porters, messengers, janitors, watchmen, policemen, laborers, engineers, firemen, stenographers, curators, librarians and other employés, when not otherwise provided by law, to be paid on monthly payrolls duly certified to, respectively, by the heads of departments, or by boards of commissioners and trustees requiring the services of such employés; and for all other appropriations specified herein, warrants on the State Treasurer shall, when not otherwise provided by law, be drawn only on itemized bills, accompanied by receipted vouchers, showing the expenditure of moneys named in the itemized bills, except for expenditures for railroad or street car fare. In cases of expenditures for railroad fares, the itemized bills must show from what point to what point traveled, and the amount paid for the same; said itemized bills to be certified to by the heads of departments. § 3. Wherever in this Act appropriations are made to officers, boards of commissioners, trustees and heads of departments, which are respectively appointed by the Governor, all sums disbursed from such appropriations for such officers, boards of commissioners, trustees and heads of departments, respectively, so appointed by the Governor, shall be paid upon compliance with the following provisions, viz: (a) Pay rolls for said last mentioned officers, boards of commissioners, trustees and heads of departments, shall be certified to by such officers, boards of commissioners and trustees, respectively, or by the head of a department appointed by the Governor, as the case may be, and approved by the Governor. (b) Bills for traveling expenses for such last mentioned officers, boards of commissioners, trustees and heads of departments, respectively, so appointed by the Governor, shall be itemized and made. out on blanks as follows: Such bills for travelling expenses shall be certified to by the person making the charge, as follows: I certify that the above account is correct and just; that the detailed items charged within are taken and verified from a memorandum kept by me; that the amounts charged for subsistence were actually paid, and the expenses were occasioned by official business or unavoidable delays, requiring my stay at hotels for the time specified; that I performed the journey with all practicable dispatch, by the shortest route usually traveled, in the customary reasonable manner, and that I have not been furnished with transportation, or money in lieu thereof, for any part of the journey herein charged for. All such bills for traveling expenses shall show items by dates, and charges for transportation shall show from what point to what point traveled and the amount for the same, and charges made therein for hotels, meals and incidental expenses shall be shown by dates; such bills to be certified to by such board of commissioners, trustees and heads of departments and approved by the Governor. (c) All other bills for such last mentioned officers, boards of commissioners, trustees, and heads of departments, respectively, so appointed by the Governor, shall be paid only on itemized accounts accompanied by receipted vouchers, and approved by the Governor. 4. The Auditor is hereby authorized, and it is made his duty to refuse any warrant or warrants when any of the provisions of this Act are not strictly complied with. APPROVED June 4, 1907. 2d. To Trustees Lincoln Home- (SENATE BILL No. 614. APPROVED JUNE 2, 1908.) AN ACT making appropriations to meet the deficiencies for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the State government until the expiration of the fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next regular session of the General Assembly. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the following named sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, respectively, for the purposes hereinafter named, be, and are hereby appropriated to meet the ordinary and contingent expenses of the State government, until the expiration of the first fiscal quarter after the adjournment of the next General Assembly. First-To the Secretary of State, to meet the deficiency in the appropriations for the incidental expenses of his office, the sum of $4,000; for a deficiency in the appropriations for postage, expressage, telegraphing and other incidental expenses of his office, the sum of $3,500. Second-To the trustees of Lincoln Homstead, for deficiency in heating and lighting, the sum of $200. Third-To the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts, for deficiency in the appropriation for the purchase of printing paper and stationery, now under contract, the sum of $20,000; to meet the deficiency in the appropriation for public printing of the State, now under contract, the sum of $15,000. § 2. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants upon the State Treasurer for the sums herein appropriated, said warrants to be drawn only on itemized bills signed by the officers or boards to whom said appropriation is made, and the State Treasurer is hereby directed to pay said warrants drawn as aforesaid out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED June 2, 1908. ropriates $5,000 for bonds. (SENATE BILL NO. 573. APPROVED MARCH 7, 1908.) AN ACT to provide for the deposit of State moneys by the State Treasurer and for the payment of interest on same, and to make an appropriation for the cost of the State Treasurer's official bond and bond or bonds of the employés of his office. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the State Treasurer shall deposit all moneys received by him on account of the State within five days after receiving same in such banks in the cities of the State as in the opinion of the Treasurer are secure and which shall pay the highest rate of interest to the State for such deposits. The money so deposited shall be placed to the account of the State Treasurer. § 2. The State Treasurer shall be and is hereby allowed the sum of five thousand dollars, ($5,000.00) or so much as may be necessary in payment of premiums on the bonds of any surety company which he may be required to give as such State Treasurer in order to qualify for such office, and for any bond or bonds required for the employés of said State Treasurer's office, and the same shall be and is hereby appropriated out of any sum or sums not otherwise appropriated. § 3. Nothing in this Act contained shall be held to prevent the State Treasurer from withdrawing any or all of said moneys so deposited, for the purpose of paying the appropriations and obligations of the State, and nothing herein contained shall in any way affect the duty of the State Treasurer to keep a correct and accurate account of all moneys received for the use of the State, and to pay out same only on authority of law; but the State Treasurer shall be, as heretofore, personally responsible for the faithful performance of his duties under the law and for a proper accounting of all moneys paid to him as State Treasurer. AN ACT recognizing the Des Plaines and Illinois Rivers as navigable streams, and to prevent obstructions being placed therein, and remove obstructions therein now existing. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers throughout their courses from and below the water power |