nor more than $25.00, and shall stand committed until such fine and · costs are paid. A failure to produce to the inspector of factories, his assistants or deputies, any age and school certificates, or lists required by this Act, shall constitute a violation of this Act, and the person failing, shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00 for each offense. Every person authorized to sign the certificate prescribed by section 7 of this Act, who certifies to any materially false statement therein, shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this Act, and upon conviction be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager, superintendent or foreman, of any firm or corporation, whether for himself or for such firm or corporation, or by himself, or through sub-agents or foreman, superintendent or manager, who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, or shall refuse admittance to premises, or otherwise obstruct the factory inspector, assistant factory inspector, or deputy factory inspector, in the performance of their duties, as prescribed by this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $5.00 nor more than $100.00 for each offense, and stand committed until such fine and costs are paid.

APPROVED May 15, 1903.

DEAF AND DUMB AND BLIND CHILDREN.

AN ACT to enable school directors and boards of education to establish and maintain classes and schools for deaf and dumb and blind children, and providing for the payment from the State treasury of the excess cost of maintaining and operating such classes and schools over the cost of maintaining and operating elementary schools for normal children.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That boards of education and school directors shall be empowered to establish and maintain classes and schools for deaf and dumb and blind children.

§ 2. Such boards of education may acquire sites for such schools anywhere within the counties in which said cities are situated in the same manner as is provided in the case of the acquirement of public school sites in said cities, and authority is hereby expressly granted for this purpose.

§ 3. The board of education establishing and maintaining such classes, school or schools, may also employ a superintendent and all other necessary officers, agents and teachers for such schools, and shall prescribe the method of discipline and the course of instruction therein, and shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties as are

prescribed by law for the establishment, maintenance and management of other classes and schools, and, in addition thereto, shall have all powers necessary to carry the terms and provisions of this Act into operation and effect.

§ 4. No person shall be employed to teach any class or classes in such school or schools who shall not have first obtained a certificate of qualification for teaching in such school or schools, as provided by law. All classes or schools maintained for the deaf, shall be established for the benefit of deaf children between the ages of 3 and 21 years. But no person shall be authorized or employed to teach the deaf, who shall not have received instruction in the methods of teaching the deaf for a term of not less than one year.

§ 5. The board of education shall keep an accurate, detailed and separate account of all moneys paid out by it for the maintenance of such classes and schools, and for the instruction and care of the pupils attending them, and shall report the same to the Board of Administration for approval, on vouchers prescribed by said board, on or before the third Monday in August in each year, together with the excess of cost for each and every such pupil for each school year ending in June, over the last ascertained average cost to such board of education for the instruction of normal children in the elementary public schools of the city for a like period of time of attendance, as such excess shall be determined and computed by said board of education.

§ 6. The aggregate excess cost of the maintenance of such classes and schools as determined, computed and reported by the board of education as provided in section 6 of this Act shall be, and the same is hereby made a charge against the State of Illinois and such excess cost shall be paid annually to such board of education on the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts out of any money in the treasury appropriated for such purposes, on presentation of proper vouchers approved by the Board of Administration: Provided, however, that such excess cost for each pupil shall not exceed the following amounts: For deaf and dumb pupils.. $110 00 a pupil 160 00 a pupil

For blind pupils.....

§ 7. All classes and schools established according to any of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the supervision of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

§ 8. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer on or before the first Monday in September of each year for the respective sums of excess cost theretofore reported to him, as provided in section 7 of this Act, upon the order of the Board of Administration.

APPROVED June 2, 1911.

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DELINQUENT CHILDREN.

AN ACT to enable school directors and boards of education to establish and maintain classes and schools for delinquent children committed by courts of competent jurisdiction and providing for the payment from the State treasury of the excess cost of maintaining and operating the said classes and schools over the cost of maintaining and operating elementary schools for normal children.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That boards of education and school directors shall be empowered to establish and maintain classes and schools for delinquent children, committed by courts of competent jurisdiction.

§ 2. Such boards of education may acquire site or sites for such schools anywhere within the counties in which said cities are situated. in the same manner as is provided in the case of the acquirement of public school sites in said cities, and authority is hereby expressly granted for this purpose.

3. The board of education establishing and maintaining such classes, school or schools, may also employ a superintendent and all other necessary officers, agents and teachers for such schools, and shall prescribe the method of discipline and the course of instruction therein, and shall exercise the same powers and perform the same duties as are prescribed by law for the establishment, maintenance and management of other classes and schools, and, in addition thereto, shall have all powers to carry the terms and provisions of this. Act into operation and effect.

4. No person shall be employed to teach any class or classes in such school or schools who shall not have first obtained a certificate of qualification for teaching in such school or schools as provided by law.

5. The board of education shall keep an accurate, detailed and separate account of all moneys paid out by it for the maintenance of such classes and schools, and for the instruction and care of the pupils attending them, and shall report the same to the Board of Administration for approval, on voucher forms prescribed by said board, on or before the third Monday in August of each year, together with the excess of cost for each and every such pupil for each school year ending in June, over the last ascertained average cost to such board of education for the instruction of normal children in the elementary public schools in the city for a like period of time of attendance as such excess shall be determined and computed by said board of education.

§ 6. The aggregate excess cost of the maintenance of such classes and schools as determined, computed and reported by the board of education as provided in section 5 of this Act shall be and the same is hereby made a charge against the State of Illinois and such excess cost shall be paid annually to such board of education on the warrant of the Auditor of Public Accounts out of any money in the treasury appro

priated for such purposes, on presentation of proper vouchers approved by the Board of Administration: Provided, however, that such excess cost for each pupil shall not exceed the following amount:

For delinquent children .....

.$190.00 a pupil § 7. All classes and schools established according to any of the provisions of this Act shall be subject to the supervision of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

§ 8. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the State Treasurer on or before the first Monday in September of each year for the respective sums of excess cost therefore reported to him, as provided in section 5 of this Act, upon the order of the Board of Administration. APPROVED June 2, 1911.

ELECTIONS IN CERTAIN DISTRICTS.

AN ACT to regulate the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof for town, school township and school district purposes, where. such town, school township or school district lies wholly within or partly within and partly without any city, village or incorporated town which has adopted or may adopt an Act entitled "An Act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, in force July 1, 1885.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all elections hereafter held for town, school township or school district purposes in any town, school township or school district lying wholly within or partly within and partly without any city, village or incorporated town which has or may adopt an Act entitled "An Act regulating the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, the legal authorities of such town, school township or school district, shall locate the polling place or places, appoint the judges and clerks, and otherwise conduct the election in that portion or part of the town, school township or school district that lies without such city, village or incorporated town, in the manner provided by law, except as hereinafter provided, but no one residing without such city, village or incorporated town shall vote at any polling place within, nor shall any one residing within vote at any polling place without, and the votes cast at the polling place or places without such city, village or incorporated town, shall be canvassed, certified and returned as is now provided by law in such cases, and in addition thereto a complete abstract of the votes cast shall be made, certified and returned to the election commissioners of such city, village or incorporated town.

§ 2. In all that part or portion of such town, school township or school district that lies within such city, village or incorporated town, or where the same lies wholly within any such city, village or incorporated town, the election shall be conducted by the election commissioners of such city, village or incorporated town in strict conformity with the said Act approved June 19, 1885, mentioned in section 1 of this Act, and when partly within and partly without any such city, village or incorporated town the election commissioners shall certify the returns received by them from the polling place or places without such city, village or incorporated town, to the proper officer or officers; and all the returns so certified and returned by the election commissioners shall be canvassed, together with the returns certified from polling places within, by the same canvassing board, the results thereof declared, and certificates of election shall be issued thereon, the same as if all such votes had been cast in, certified and returned from such city, village or incorporated town: Provided, it shall not be necessary under this Act for the election commissioners to make or cause to be made a revision of the registry for special elections, or elections to fill a vacancy in a single office.

3. An officer who shall willfully refuse to perform any duty required by this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and on conviction shall be removed from office, by the order of the court wherein such fine is assessed, and any person or combination of persons who shall under any pretense whatever attempt to establish a rival polling place, or otherwise attempt to obstruct or interfere with any election held or to be held under this Act, shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one nor more than three years. APPROVED March 23, 1887.

ELECTIONS-JUDGES AND CLERKS.

AN ACT to provide for the compensation of judges and clerks of election at elections at which trustees of schools and school directors are elected under the provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19,

1885.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That at all elections held under the provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, and those amenda