STATE COMMISSION-SALARIES. § 1. Amends section 5, Act of 1913. § 5. Salaries and expenses of commissioners and officers. (SENATE BILL NO. 251. FILED JUNE 25, 1915.) AN ACT to amend section 5 of an Act to provide for the regulation of public utilities, approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 5 of an Act to provide for the regulation of public utilities, approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914, be and it is hereby amended to read as follows: § 5. SALARIES AND EXPENSES.] The annual salary of each commissioner shall be ten thousand dollars. The annual salary of the secretary to the commission shall be five thousand dollars. The annual salary of the counsel to the commission shall be eight thousand dollars. All officers, acountants, engineers, clerks, inspectors, experts and employees of the commission shall receive the compensation fixed by the commission, subject to the approval of the Governor. The commissioners and their officers, accountants, engineers, clerks, inspectors, experts and other employees shall have reimbursed to them all actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and disbursements necessarily incurred or made by them in the discharge of their official duties. The commission may also incur necessary expenses for office furniture, stationery, printing and other incidental expenses. Said salaries and expenses shall be paid out of moneys appropriated for the commission, only upon the order of the chairman of the commission, approved by the Governor. FILED June 25th, 1915. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this 25th day of June, A. D., 1915. LEWIS G. STEVENSON, Secretary of State. TRANSPORATION-EXCHANGE FOR ADVERTISING. § 1. Amends section 39, Act of 1913. 39. As amended, adds provision for exchange of transportation privileges for advertising space with owners of newspapers and magazines. (SENATE BILL No. 109. APPROVED JUNE 29, 1915.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the regula tion of public utilities," approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914, by amending section thirty-nine (39) thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the regulation of public utilities," approved June 30, 1913, in force January 1, 1914, be and the same is hereby amended by amending section thirty-nine (39) thereof, so that the said section 39 when amended shall read as follows: § 39. No public utility, or any officer or agent thereof, or any person acting for or employed by it, shall directly or indirectly, by any device or means whatsoever, suffer or permit any corporation or person. to obtain any service, commodity, or product at less than the rate or other charge then established and in force as shown by the schedules filed and in effect at the time. No person or corporation shall, directly or indirectly, by any device or means, whatsoever, whether with or without the consent or connivance of a public utility or any of its officers, or employees, seek to obtain or obtain any service, commodity, or product at less than the rate or other charge then established and in force therefor: Provided, however, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prevent any railroad or transportation company from selling or granting transportation or transportation privileges to the owner or owners of any newspaper or magazine of general circulation in payment of or in exchange for advertising space in such newspaper or magazine, at the full value thereof. And, provided, further, that nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to prevent the issuance of free or reduced transportation by any street railroad corporation to mail carriers, policemen and members of fire departments. APPROVED June 29th, 1915. RAILROADS. FIRST AID TO INJURED. § 1. Package containing articles for first aid to injured on trains. § 2. What to contain. § 3. Chief surgeon to instruct trainmen. (HOUSE BILL No. 969. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1915.) AN ACT making it the duty of railroads operating in whole or in part within the State of Illinois to provide first medical aid to injured passengers, employees or other persons, and providing a penalty for violation thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all railroads or the receiver or receivers of any railroad operating trains, in whole or in part, within the State of Illinois, shall provide a package containing the articles hereinafter stated, on each train or engine, for first aid to persons who may be injured in the course of the operation of such train or trains. § 2. Every such package shall include the following and such other articles and equipment as may in the judgment and discretion of the management of the railroad or the medical department thereof be useful for the intended purpose: A standard package to contain two (2) pieces of sterile gauze, one (1) ribbon bandage, one (1) triangular cambric picture bandage in aseptic container, six (6) of these packages to make up one (1) first aid kit. 3. The chief surgeon, one of his assistants or other capable physician shall at reasonable intervals offer first aid instruction to the engine and trainmen in his jurisdiction. § 4. Any railroad or the receiver or receivers of any railroad who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this Act, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than five ($5.00) dollars no more than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars and each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense, and prosecution for said violations shall be instituted by the State Public Utilities Commission upon complaint of any citizen of the State: Provided that the railroad company or receiver or receivers shall be allowed not to exceed three (3) days without penalty to replace any package or packages after the use of same has been reported by the employee in charge of said train or engine. (SENATE BILL No. 164. APPROVED JUNE 29, 1915.) AN ACT to amend sections 9, 10, 11 and 12 of an Act entitled, “An Act to establish the Illinois State Reformatory and making an appropria- tion therefor," approved June 18, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, and to add two new sections thereto to be known as sections 14a and 14b. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 9, 10, 11 and 12 of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish the Illinois State Reformatory and making an appropriation therefor," approved June 18, 1891, in force July 1, 1891, be amended and that there be added thereto two new sections to be known as section 14a, and section 14b, which sections as amended and which new sections shall read as follows: § 9. The inmates of the reformatory shall be divided into two divisions or departments, the first to include males between the ages of sixteen and twenty-one, and the second to include males between the ages of twenty-one and twenty-six, who may be sentenced to said reformatory as hereinafter provided. § 10. In all criminal cases tried by jury, in which the jury shall find the defendant guilty, the jury shall also find, by their verdict, whether or not the defendant is between the ages of sixteen and twentysix years, and if the jury shall find the defendant to be between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six years, they shall find as nearly as may be the age of the defendant. And in case the finding of the jury shall be that the defendant is between the ages of sixteen and twenty-six years, and the offense of which the defendant is found guilty is not a capital offense, the jury trying such cause shall not fix the punishment of the defendant. § 11. Whenever any male between the ages of sixteen and twentyone is found guilty before any court of competent jurisdiction of any crime, which if committed by an adult would be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail or penitentiary, such juvenile offender shall be committed, by order of such court, to the reformatory: Provided that when the crime is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail, the court may in its discretion commit such juvenile offender to the county jail for the term authorized by law for the punishment of the offense of which the offender is convicted. § 12. Any court in this State exercising criminal jurisdiction may sentence to the reformatory any male person between the ages of twentyone and twenty-six years, upon the conviction in such court of such male person of a crime punishable under existing laws in the penitentiary. And the said board of managers shall receive and take into said. reformatory all male prisoners of the class aforesaid, who may be legally sentenced on conviction as aforesaid; and all existing laws requiring the courts of this State to sentence to the penitentiary male prisoners convicted of any criminal offense between the ages of twenty-one and twentysix years shall be applicable to the said reformatory so far as to enable the courts to sentence the class of prisoners so last defined to said reformatory, and not to a penitentiary: Provided, if it shall be shown in said. cause that the defendant has been previously sentenced to a penitentiary or reformatory in this or any other State or country, such defendant may, in the discretion of the court, be sentenced to the penitentiary: And provided further, that no person above the age of twenty-one years, who has been convicted and adjudged guilty of a capital offense shall be sentenced to the State Reformatory. § 14a. It shall be a part of every sentence to the reformatory that the person so sentenced to the reformatory shall be liable to be transferred to a penitentiary in the manner herein provided. If it shall appear to the board of managers of the reformatory that any prisoner confined therein was at the time of his conviction more than twenty-six years of age, or while in the reformatory is incorrigible or persistently violates the rules of the institution that his presence in the institution is seriously detrimental to the best interests of the institution and the inmates thereof, such board of managers may, by an order entered on its records, direct the general superintendent to make application to some. court of record in this State exercising criminal jurisdiction for an order to transfer such prisoner to a penitentiary. Such application shall be made by written petition, subscribed and sworn to by the general superintendent, or by some officer or employee of the reformatory cognizant of the facts, and shall set forth a copy of the order of the board of managers directing such application to be made and shall further state the causes for seeking such transfer and praying for an order transferring the prisoner therein named to one of the penitentiaries of this State. The court shall thereupon set a date for a hearing of such petition. A copy of such petition, together with notice of the time, and place of such hearing, shall be served upon the prisoner sought to be transferred at least ten days before the date of such hearing. The prisoner shall be personally present at such hearing and may be represented by counsel. Any court of record in this State exercising criminal jurisdiction shall have the power to hear such petition and, after hearing, may, if it finds the petition to be sustained by the evidence, and that a cause for transfer exists, enter an order for the transfer of such prisoner to the penitentiary of this State designated in such order. The order of the court hearing such petition shall be final: Provided, that if such petition should be dismissed a new application may be made for causes arising since the filing of any other application. A prisoner so transferred shall be held in the penitentiary under an indeterminate sentence commencing with his imprisonment in the reformatory, and a maximum fixed by law for the crime of which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced, and may be released on parole or absolutely discharged as are other prisoners confined in the penitentiary under indeterminate sentence. Such prisoner may be returned at any time to the reformatory upon the written requisition of the general superintendent of the reformatory. § 14b. It shall be a part of the sentence to the penitentiary of every male prisoner under twenty-six years of age convicted of any crime, except a capital offense, that he shall be subject to transfer to the reformatory in the manner herein provided. The general superintendent of the reformatory and the warden of the penitentiary in which any male prisoner is confined subject to transfer to the reformatory, may jointly make application by petition to any court of record of this State exercising criminal jurisdiction, for an order transferring from the penitentiary to the reformatory any prisoner subject to transfer. The court shall thereupon set a date for a hearing of such petition. A copy of such petition, together with notice of the time and place of such hearing shall be served upon the prisoner sought to be transferred at least ten days before the date of such hearing. The prisoner shall be personally present at such hearing and may be represented by counsel. Any court of record in this State exercising criminal jurisdiction shall have the power to hear such petition, and, after hearing, may enter an order for the transfer of such prisoner to the reformatory. A prisoner so transferred shall be held in the reformatory during the term of his sentence to the penitentiary; and all laws applicable to prisoners in the penitentiary, so far as they relate to a diminution of their sentence for good conduct and the release and discharge therefrom on, parole, shall be applicable to such prisoners when transferred under this Act. APPROVED June 29th, 1915. REVENUE. ASSESSMENT LIST-PUBLICATION. § 1. Amends section 29, Act of 1898. 29. Publication of assessment-board of review. (HOUSE BILL No. 530. APPROVED JUNE 23, 1915.) AN ACT to amend section twenty-nine of an Act entitled "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named" approved February 25, 1898, and in force July 1, 1898, with Acts amendatory thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section twenty-nine of an Act entitled "An Act for the assessment of property and providing the means therefor, and to repeal a certain Act therein named", approved February 25, 1898, and in force July 1, 1898, with Acts amendatory thereof, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: to-wit: 29. As soon as the county assessor or supervisor of assessments shall have completed the assessment in the year A. D. 1907, he shall |