LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF ILLINOIS

ENACTED BY THE

Forty-Fifth General Assembly

AT THE

ADJOURNED SESSION

BEGUN AND HELD AT THE CAPITOL, IN THE CITY OF SPRINGFIELD,
ON THE EIGHTH DAY OF OCTOBER, A. D. 1907, AND
ADJOURNED SINE DIE ON THE TWENTY-THIRD
DAY OF MAY, A. D. 1908.

INCLUDING

ACTS OF FORMER SESSION THEREOF IN WHICH ITEMS OF APPROPRIATION WERE

VETOED.

PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

TRADE COUNCIL

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.

PHILLIPS BROS., STATE PRINTERS

1908.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

APPROPRIATIONS:

An Act making appropriation for the State Board of Agriculture, to be used

in the construction of permanent buildings and improvements, and for beauti-

fying the State Fair grounds at Springfield, Illinois..

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An Act making an appropriation to the Attorney General to be used in the

preparation, trial and prosecution of a suit or suits, or legal action or

actions, to prevent obstructions being placed in the Desplaines and Illinois

rivers, and to remove obstructions therefrom......

An Act making appropriations for the State charitable institutions herein

named

An Act making additional appropriation for the ordinary expenses of the

Training School for Girls, Geneva, Illinois..

An Act enlarging the objects of certain appropriations to the Secretary of

State and Supreme Court as specified in the Act making such appropriations.

An Act making appropriations for the erection of buildings for the University

of Illinois

An Act making an appropriation to pay for the equipment, maintenance and

operation of the office of the Free Employment Agency at East St. Louis...

An Act making an appropriation to the commissioners of Garrison Hill ceme-

tery in Randolph county, Illinois. .

An Act making appropriations for the payment of employés of the Forty-fifth

General Assembly..

An Act making an appropriation for the incidental expenses of the Forty-

fifth General Assembly and the committees thereof..

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An Act to provide for the incidental and committee expenses of the Forty-

fifth General Assembly...

An Act making an appropriation to the Internal Improvement Commission of

Illinois, to be used in defraying the necessary expenses of said commission

in reporting upon a navigable waterway between East St. Louis and Cairo..

An Act to provide for the ordinary and contingent expenses of the Illinois

National Guard and Illinois Naval Reserve..

An Act to make appropriations for ordinary and other expenses of the Illinois

State Reformatory at Pontiac.........

An Act to provide 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...

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 Gen-

eral Assembly

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.

CANALS AND RIVERS:

An Act recognizing the Desplaines and Illinois rivers as navigable streams,

and to prevent obstructions being placed therein, and remove obstructions

therein now existing..

An Act to amend sections one and two of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide

for he appointment of an internal improvement commission and to make

an appropriation therefor," approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905...

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