tenance or education of a child, from time to time make discovery to the court as to his place of employment and amount earned by him. Upon his failure to obey the orders of court he may be punished as for contempt of court.

§ 24. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give the guardian appointed under this Act the guardianship of the estate of the child or to change the age of minority for any other purpose except the custody of the child.

APPROVED April 21, 1899.

PENSION FUND.

AN ACT to provide for the contribution from public moneys to the public school teachers' pension and retirement fund in cities having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the board of education of any city having a population exceeding 100,000 inhabitants shall annually set aside and contribute to the public school teachers' pension and retirement fund in such city now created or existing, or such as may be hereafter created, pursuant to any law, in addition to any other moneys now provided by law to be set aside and contributed in whole or in part to such pension fund, all moneys retained or deducted from the salary or compensation of any teacher in the employ of such board of education, as a forfeiture or otherwise, on account of absence from duty of such teacher less whatever may have been paid for substitute service on account of such absence; and also a further sufficient sum of public money so that the same when taken together with the moneys added to such pension fund for that year from interest on school funds raised by taxation shall equal in amount the aggregate of the sums set apart for that year and contributed to such pension fund from the salaries of the teachers in the employ of such board of education; and also such other and further moneys derived from miscellaneous sources as such board of education shall determine.

APPROVED June 6, 1911.

PUBLIC DRINKING CUP.

AN ACT to prohibit the use of a common drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes in public and private schools, State educational institutions, halls used for public meetings or entertainments, hotels, lodging houses, theatres, factories or public or municipal buildings, on railroad trains and stations and in other public places in the State of Illinois.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any

person, firm or corporation, directly or indirectly, connected in any public or private school or in any State institution, halls used for public meetings or entertainments, hotels, lodging houses, theatres, factories or public or municipal buildings in the State of Illinois to use or permit for use a common drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation in charge of or in control of any railroad trains or any station to permit the use of a common drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes in or about any trains operated by it or in any building or premises used by it whatever.

§ 3. No person, firm or corporation in charge of or in control of any railroad train or railroad station, or any public or private school, or any State educational institution, or of any hall used for public meetings or entertainments, or hotel, lodging house, theatre, or factory, or of any public or municipal building in the State of Illinois shall furnish any drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes for public use, nor shall such person or corporation or institution use or have for use in or upon its premises any such common drinking cup.

§ 4. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined for each offense the sum of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. APPROVED June 5, 1911.

REVENUE.

AN ACT concerning the levy and extension of taxes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in determining the amount of the maximum tax authorized to be levied by any statute of this State the assessed valuation of the current year of the property in each taxing district, as equalized by the State Board of Equalization, shall be used. And if the amount of any tax certified to the county clerk for extension shall exceed the maximum allowed by law, determined as above provided, such excess shall be disregarded, and the residue only treated as the amount certified for extension.

§ 2. The county clerk in each county shall ascertain the rates per cent required to be extended upon the assessed valuation of the taxable property in the respective towns, townships, districts, incorporated cities and villages in his county, as equalized by the State Board of Equalization for the current year, to produce the several amounts certified for extension by the taxing authorities in said county (as the same shall have been reduced as hereinbefore provided in all cases where the original amounts exceed the amount authorized by law): Provided, however, that if the aggregate of all the taxes (exclusive of State taxes,

village taxes, levee taxes, school building taxes, high school taxes, road and bridge taxes, and also bonded indebtedness taxes in cities whose bonded indebtedness exceeds 6 per cent of the assessed valuation of the property therein upon which under existing laws, taxes are required to be extended, and taxes levied pursuant to the mandate or judgment of any court of record on any bonded indebtedness), certified to be extended against any property in any part of any taxing district or municipality, shall exceed 3 per cent of the assessed valuation thereof upon which the taxes are required to be extended, the rate per cent of the tax levy of such taxing district or municipality shall be reduced as follows: The county clerk shall reduce the rate per cent of the tax levy of such taxing district or municipality in the same proportion in which it would be necessary to reduce the highest aggregate per cent ›f all the tax levies (exclusive of State taxes, village taxes, levee taxes, school building taxes, high school taxes, road and bridge taxes, and also bonded indebtedness taxes in cities whose bonded indebtedness exceeds 6 per cent of the assessed valuation of the property therein upon which, under existing laws, taxes are required to be extended, and taxes levied pursuant to the mandate or judgment of any court of record on any bonded indebtedness), certified for extension upon any of the taxable property in said taxing district or municipality, to bring the same down to 3 per cent of the assessed value of said taxable property upon which said taxes are required by law to be extended: Provided, further, that in reducing tax levies hereunder the rate per cent of the tax levy for county purposes in counties having a population of over 300,000 shall not be reduced below a rate of forty cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, and in counties having a population of less than 300,000 the rate of the tax levy for county purposes shall not be reduced below a rate of forty-five cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, and the rate per cent of the tax levy for city or village purposes (exclusive of library, school and park purposes) in cities and villages having a population of over 150,000 shall not be reduced below a rate of one dollar and ten cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, and the rate per cent. of the school tax for educational purposes shall not be reduced below a rate of one dollar and five cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, and in cities and villages having a population of less than 150,000 shall not be reduced below a rate of one dollar and twenty cents, exclusive of the taxes levied in such cities or villages having a population of less than 150,000 for the payment of the principal of and the interest on bonded indebtedness, on each one hundred dollars assessed value, and the rate per cent of the school tax levy for educational purposes shall not be reduced below a rate of one dollar and fifty cents on each one hundred dollars assessed value, but the other taxes which are subject to reduction under this section shall be subject only to such reduction, respectively, as would be made therein under this section if this proviso were not inserted herein: And, provided, further, in reducing tax levies hereunder all school taxes levied in cities exceeding 150,000 inhabitants, with the exception of the levy for school building purposes, shall be included in the taxes to be reduced.

The rate per cent of the tax levy of every county, city, village, town, township, school district, park district, sanitary district, road district, and other public authorities (except the State), shall be ascertained and determined (and reduced, when necessary, as above provided) in the manner herein before specified, and shall then, commencing with the year 1909 be extended by the county clerk upon the assessed value of the property subject thereto (being one-third of the full value thereof) as equalized according to law. In reducing the rate per cent of any tax levy, as hereinbefore provided, the rates per cent of all tax levies certified to the county clerk for extension as originally ascertained and determined under section 1 of this Act shall be used in ascertaining the aggregate of all taxes certified to be extended, without regard to any reductions made therein under this section: Provided, that no reduction of any tax levy made hereunder shall diminish any amount appropriated by corporate or taxing authorities for the payment of the principal or interest on bonded debt, or levied pursuant to the mandate or judgment of any court of record. And to that end every such taxing body shall certify to the county clerk with its tax levy, the amount thereof required for any such purposes.

In case of a reduction hereunder any taxing body whose levy is affected thereby and whose appropriations are required by law to be itemized, may, after the same have been ascertained, distribute the amount of such reduction among the items of its appropriations, with the exceptions aforesaid, as it may elect. If no such election be made within three months after the extension of such tax, all such items, except as above specified, shall be deemed to be reduced pro rata. (As amended by an Act approved June 14, 1909.)

APPROVED May 9, 1901.