2. To administer and invest, to purchase, hold, sell or assign and transfer any part of said pension fund remaining in the hands of said treasurer or any of the securities in which said fund, or any part thereof, may be invested, subject to, the approval of the majority of the contributors to said pension fund. 3. To pay all necessary expenses in connection with the administration of said fund and in carrying out the provisions of this Act for which provisions are not otherwise made. 4. To take by gift, or grant or bequest, or otherwise, any money or property of any kind and hold the same for the benefit of said fund. 5. To make and establish all such rules for the transaction of its business and such other rules, regulations and by-laws as may be necessary for the proper administration of said fund committed to its charge, and the performance of the duties imposed upon it. 6. To see that there is no restitution of deductions from salaries after the contributor shall have become eligible to an annuity under this Act. 7. To determine the amount to be paid as benefits or annuities on account of disability of any contributor, and to increase or reduce the same in its discretion: Provided, that no benefit or annuity shall exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars per year. 8. It shall keep full and complete records of its meetings and of the receipts and disbursements on account of such fund, and also complete list of all contributors to said fund, and of all annuitants receiving benefits therefrom, and such other records as in its judgment shall seem necessary and shall make and publish annually a full and complete statement of its financial transactions. 9. Said board shall hear and determine all applications for benefits given under this Act, on account of disability and shall have power to suspend any annuity, given on account of disability whenever in its judgment the disability of beneficiary has ceased, or for other good cause, subject to the approval of the majority of the contributors to said pension fund. 10. Any contributor to said fund who shall have been in the service of said house of correction for a period of twenty (20) years, and shall have contributed to said fund for the same period, shall have the right to retire and become a beneficiary under this Act after July 1st, 1916, and receive a benefit or annuity, which shall be the sum of six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum, for each and every beneficiary of said pension fund, the said annuity to be paid in equal monthly installments, and in case of insufficient funds in the treasury, the treasurer shall be empowered to pay to the beneficiaries a pro rata amount of the sum in the treasury, said pro rata amount to be divided equally among the beneficiaries entitled to the same. § 8. Upon the death of any contributor or any beneficiary who before becoming a beneficiary contributed to said fund the said board of trustees shall pay an annuity not to exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum, to be paid in equal monthly installments to the widow as long as she remains the same of such deceased contributor or beneficiary: Provided, she has been his wife five (5) years before his death, and if there is no widow eligible, said board of trustees shall pay said annuity to the child or children of such deceased contributor or beneficiary, until such time as the youngest child shall reach the age of sixteen (16) years, if there be no widow eligible and no child or children eligible, the annuity shall be paid to the mother of such deceased contributor or beneficiary as long as she may live. § 9. Any person who has been an employee of said house of correction for a period of twenty (20) years or more and has contributed to said fund for a period of not less than twenty (20) years or shall pay into the fund the equivalent of twenty (20) years contribution thereto, consisting of two (2) per cent of the salary received from such house of correction, may retire from the service of said house of correction upon sixty (60) days' notice, to be given to said board of trustees (unless such notice is waived by said board of trustees) and become an annuitant under this Act after July 1st, 1916. § 10. Any person who has contributed to said fund for a period of three (3) years or more may retire from the service of said house of correction on account of serious disability rendering him or her unable to properly discharge his or her duties, upon ninety (90) days' notice to be given to the board of trustees (unless such notice is waived by said board of trustees) and may become an annuitant under this Act, and thereupon be entitled to receive the annuity allowed by the board of trustees not to exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars, until such time as he or she shall be able to properly discharge his or her duties or until death, when said board of trustees shall pay annuity hereinbefore provided not to exceed six hundred ($600.00) dollars per year to the widow (as long as she remains the same of such deceased contributor: Provided, she has been his wife five years previous to his death), to the child or children, or the mother of the deceased contributor as hereinbefore provided. § 11. No contributor shall receive any benefit from said fund on account of disability unless there be filed with the board of trustees of the fund a certificate of his or her disability which certificate shall be subscribed and sworn to by the house of correction physician (if there be one) and one practicing physician of the city where such house of correction is located. § 12. When any contributor to said fund, who, has been in the service of the house of correction for a period of twenty (20) years, has contributed to said fund for the same period and has retired and become a beneficiary under this Act, shall then marry, such wife of such marriage shall after his death receive no benefit nor annuity from said fund. Any widow or child or children receiving benefits or annuities under an "Act to provide for the setting apart, formation,.and disbursement of a house of correction employees' pension fund in cities having a population exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) inhabitants," approved and in force July 1st, 1911, will receive their benefits or annuities will be increased from four hundred and eighty [dollars] ($480.00) per year to not more than six hundred ($600.00) dollars per year. The term "child" or "children" under this Act shall not include adopted child or children, nor shall it include a step-child or stepchildren of any contributor to aforesaid pension fund. 13. The chairman of the board of inspectors and the superintendent of the house of correction shall certify monthly to the treasurer all amounts deducted in accordance with the provisions of this Act from the salaries paid by the house of correction, which amounts, as well as all other sums contributed to said fund under the provisions of this Act, shall be set apart and held by said treasurer for the purpose hereinbefore specified, subject to the order of said board of trustees and shall be paid out upon warrants signed by the president and secretary of said board of trustees. § 14. All annuities granted under the provisions of this Act shall be exempt from attachment and garnishment process and no annuitant shall have the right to transfer or assign his or her annuity either by way of mortgage or otherwise. § 15. Any person who shall directly or indirectly avoid or seek to avoid any or all the provisions of this Act, or shall directly or indirectly interfere with, or obstruct the enforcement of any of the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than fifty ($50.00) dollars, and not exceeding one thousand ($1,000.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding six (6) months, or both such fine or imprisonment in the discretion of the court. This law shall take preference over all other laws and all laws and parts of laws which are inconsistent with this Act or any provisions hereof are hereby repealed. APPROVED June 29th, 1915. HUSBAND AND WIFE. ABANDONMENT OF WIFE OR CHILDREN. § 1. Abandonment of wife or child-punishment. § 2. Proceedings. § 3. Temporary order for support. § 4. When fine imposed-to whom paid-order of court to pay sum periodically-release of defendant on probation. § 5. Violation of order-forfeiture of recogni zance. 6. Evidence. 87. Existing statutes not to apply-husband or § 8. Actions may be prosecuted during existence 9. Actions may be prosecuted until child or 10. How offenses construed. (HOUSE BILL No. 35. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.) AN ACT making it a misdemeanor for any person to neglect or refuse, without reasonable cause, to provide for the support or maintenance of his wife, said wife being in destitute or in necessitous circumstances, or, without lawful excuse, to desert or neglect or refuse to provide for the support or maintenance of his or her child or children under the age of eighteen years in destitute or necessitous circumstances, to provide punishment for violation thereof and to provide for suspension of sentence and release upon probation in such cases. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every person who shall, with out any reasonable cause, neglect or refuse to provide for the support or maintenance of his wife, said wife being in destitute or in necessitous circumstances, or any person who shall, without lawful excuse, desert or neglect or refuse to provide for the support or maintenance of his or her child or children under the age of eighteen years, in destitute or necessitous circumstances, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed six hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail, house of correction or workhouse, not to exceed one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. § 2. Proceedings under this act may be by indictment or information. § 3. At any time before the trial, upon motion of the complainant and upon notice to the defendant, the court at any time or a judge thereof in vacation, may enter such temporary order as may seem just, providing for the support or maintenance of the wife or child or children of the defendant, or both, pendente lite, and may for violation of such order punish the offender as for a contempt of court. § 4. Whenever a fine shall be imposed, it may be directed by the court to be paid, in whole or in part, to the wife or to the guardian or custodian of the minor child or children: Provided, that before the trial with the consent of the defendant, or at the trial, on entry of a plea of guilty, or after conviction, instead of imposing the penalty provided in this act, or in addition thereto the court in its discretion, having regard to the circumstances, and to the financial ability or earning capacity of the defendant, shall have the power to make an order, which shall be subject to change by the court from time to time as circumstances may require, directing the defendant to pay a certain sum periodically for a term not exceeding one year, to the wife or to the guardian or custodian of the said minor child or children, or to an organization or individual approved by the court as trustee; and shall also have the power to relieve the defendant from custody on probation for the period fixed in the order of judgment upon his or her entering into a recognizance, with or without surety, in such sum as the court or a judge thereof in vacation, may order and approve. The condition of the recognizance shall be such that if the defendant shall make his or her personal appearance in court whenever ordered to do so by said court, at such period as may be fixed, within one year, and shall further comply with the terms of such order of support, or of any subsequent modification thereof, then such recognizance shall be void; otherwise in full force and effect. § 5. If the court be satisfied by testimony in open court, that at any time during said period of one year the defendant has violated the terms of such order, it may forthwith proceed with the trial of the defendant. under the original charge, or sentence him or her under the original conviction, or enforce the suspended sentence, as the case may be. In case of forfeiture of recognizance, and enforcement thereof by execution, the sum so recovered may, in the discretion of the court, be paid, in whole or in part, to the wife, or to the guardian or custodian or trustee of the said minor child or children. § 6. No other or greater evidence shall be required to prove the marriage of such husband and wife, or that the defendant is the father or mother of such child or children, than is or shall be required to prove such fact in a civil action. 7. In no prosecution under this act shall any existing statute or rule of law prohibiting the disclosure of confidential communications between husband and wife apply. And both husband and wife shall be competent witnesses to testify to any and all relevant matters, including the fact of such marriage and of the parentage of such child or children: Provided, that neither shall be compelled to give evidence incriminating himself or herself. § 8. Actions against persons under this act who shall without any reasonable cause, neglect or refuse to provide for the support or maintenance of his wife may be prosecuted at any time during the existence of the marriage relations. 9. Actions against persons under this act who shall without lawful excuse, neglect or refuse to provide for the support or maintenance of his or her child or children, may be prosecuted at any time until said child or children reaches the age of eighteen years. § 10. It is hereby expressly declared that the offenses as hereinbefore set forth in this Act, are and shall be so taken and construed to be continuing offenses. § 11. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. (HOUSE BILL No. 801. APPROVED JUNE 29, 1915.) AN ACT concerning and to regulate policies issued by companies, corporations, associations, societies or other insurers, doing accident and casualty insurance business, and to repeal Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That on and after the first day of January, in the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, no policy of insurance f in d sti ent pol effe exec than endo the f cripti of w unless as the of such a loss less the cumsta nence t § visions, and be In each there sha ciation" insurer. (1) in either which do of occupa loss from |