article or substance on which so placed, or who shall publicly mutilate, deface, defile or defy, trample upon or cast contempt, either by words or act, upon any such flag, standard, color or ensign, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars and costs, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both in the discretion of the court.

§ 2. The words flag, standard, color or ensign, as used in this Act, shall include any flag, standard, color or ensign or any picture or representation of either thereof, made of any substance or represented on any substance and of any size, evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, color or ensign of the United States of America, or a picture or a representation of either thereof, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars, and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, of the flags, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.

83. The possession after this Act takes effect, by any person other than a public officer, as such, of any such flag, standard, color or ensign, on which shall be anything made unlawful at any time by this Act, or of any article or substance or thing on which shall be anything made unlawful at any time by this Act, shall be presumptive evidence that the same is in violation of this Act and was made, done or created after this Act takes effect and that such flag, standard, color, ensign or article, substance or thing, did not exist when this Act takes effect.

§ 4. All prosecutions under the provisions of this Act shall be brought by any person in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, against any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Act, before any court of competent jurisdiction; and it is hereby made the duty of the State's attorneys to see that the provisions of this Act are enforced in their respective counties, and they shall prosecute all offenders on receiving information of the violation of any of the provisions of this Act; and it is made the duty of the sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, bailiffs, constables and police officers to inform against and prosecute all persons whom there is probable cause to believe are guilty of violating the provisions of this Act. One-half of the amount recovered in any penal action under the provisions of this Act shall be paid to the person making and filing the complaint in such action, and the remaining one-half to the school fund of the county in which the said conviction is obtained.

§ 5. All prosecutions under this Act shall be commenced within six months from the time such offense was committed, and not afterwards.

APPROVED May 25, 1907

AN ACT to amend section twenty-six (26) of “An Act to provide for the election and appointment of the officers and employés of the General Assembly of the State and to fix their compensation," approved May 28, 1877, in force July 1, 1877.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section twenty-six (26) of "An Act to provide for the election and appointment of the officers and employés of the General Assembly of the State and to fix their compensation," approved May 28, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 26. No officer or person elected or appointed by either branch of the General Assembly shall receive pay for services in excess of the number of days that the Legislature is in session: Provided, however, that the secretary of the Senate and his first assistant, and the clerk of the House, and his first assistant, the engrossing and enrolling clerk and his first and second assistant, may by resolution of that branch of the General Assembly of which he is an officer, be allowed pay for not exceeding ten days after the adjournment of the session, to finish up the work appertaining to their offices.

WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 11, 1907.

AN ACT to amend section II of "An Act to organize and regulate county fire insurance companies," approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section II of an Act entitled

"An Act to organize and regulate county fire insurance companies," approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, be amended to read as follows:

§ II. Each member of such company who may sustain loss or damage by fire or lightning shall immediately notify the president of such company, or in his absence, the secretary thereof, stating the amount of damage or loss claimed, and if not more than five hundred dollars ($500), then the president and secretary shall proceed to ascertain the amount of such damage or loss, and proceed to adjust the same. If the claim for damage or loss shall be an amount greater than five hundred dollars ($500), then the president of such company, or in case of his absence then the secretary thereof, shall forthwith appoint a committee of not less than three (3) disinterested members of the company to ascertain the amount of such damage or loss, and the committee thus appointed shall report the amount of such damage or loss to the directors of such company, who shall be convened by the president, or in his absence, by the secretary, and the directors shall approve or reject the report of such committee. If, in either case, there is a failure of the parties to agree upon the amount of such damage or loss, or the directors reject the report of the committee, the claimant shall appeal to the judge of the county in which the office of the company is located, whose duty it shall be to appoint three (3) persons as a committee of reference, who shall have full authority to examine witnesses, and to determine all matters in dispute, and shall make an award in writing to the president of such company, and such award shall be final. The pay of said committee shall be two dollars ($2) per day for each day's service so rendered, and four (4) cents for each mile necessarily traversed in the discharge of their duties, which shall be paid by the claimant, unless the award of said committee shall exceed the sum offered by the company in liquidation of such loss or damage, in which case said expenses shall be paid by the company. All adjusting committees shall have the power to administer oaths, examine witnesses and take acknowledgments.

APPROVED May 17, 1907.

FIRE INSURANCE-COUNTY COMPANIES, POLICIES.

§ 1. Amends section 8, Act of 1887.

(HOUSE BILL No. 482.

§ 8. Property insured-policies -duration - amountpayment.

APPROVED MAY 24, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section 8 of an Act entitled "An Act to organize and regulate county fire insurance companies," approved June 6, 1887, in force July 1, 1887.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 8 of an Act entitled "An Act to organize and regulate county fire insurance companies," be amended to read as follows:

§ 8. Such companies may issue policies only on detached dwellings, barns (except livery, boarding and hotel barns), and other farm buildings, school houses and churches, and such property as may be properly contained therein, also other property on the premises and owned by the insured, also live stock (hay and grain in the stack) on the premises of the insured and anywhere in the territory of the company for any time not exceeding five years and not to extend beyond the limited duration of the charter, and for an amount not to exceed six thousand dollars on any one risk; said policies may cover loss of or damage to live stock, harness and vehicles, temporarily taken from the territory of the company, provided said live stock, harness and vehicles be not removed to exceed twenty-five miles from the territory of the company. All persons so insured shall give their obligations to the company binding themselves, their heirs and assigns, to pay their pro rata share to the company of the necessary expenses, and of all losses by fire or lightning which may be sustained by any member thereof during the time for which their respective policies are written, and they shall also, at the time of effecting the insurance, pay such percentage in cash and such other charge as may be required by the rules and by-laws of the company.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 167. APPROVED MAY 23, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization and management of fraternal beneficiary societies for the purpose of furnishing life indemnity or pecuniary benefits to beneficiaries of deceased members or accident or permanent indemnity disability to members thereof; and to control such societies of this State and of other States doing business in this State, and providing and fixing the punishment for violation of the provisions thereof, and to repeal all laws now existing which conflict herewith" (approved and in force June 22, 1893), by adding a section to be known as section 4-a.

SECTION I. 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 organization and management of fraternal beneficiary societies for the purpose of furnishing life indemnity or pecuniary benefits to beneficiaries of deceased members or accident or permanent indemnity disability to members thereof; and to control such societies of this State and of other states doing business in this State, and providing and fixing the punishment for violation of the provisions thereof, and to repeal all laws now existing which conflict herewith" (approved and in force June 22, 1893), be and the same is hereby amended by adding a section to be known as section 4-a, as follows:

§ 4-a. The Insurance Superintendent may make or cause to be made an examination of the condition and affairs of any society, corporation, order or association, incorporated under the laws of this State, or having its principal office in this State, at least as often as once in two years, and all of the expenses of such examination except the salaries or compensation of the examiners shall be paid by the society, corporation, order or association examined, upon proper vouchers showing the amount and nature of such expenses furnished to such society, corporation, order or association by the Insurance Superintendent or by such examiners, and that from and after January 1, 1908, every such society, corporation, order or association organized under the laws of this State, shall annually publish its annual statement within thirty (30) days after the same has been filed in the office of the Insurance Superintendent, such publication to be made in the official publication or newspaper, of any such society, order, corporation or association, and if such society, order, corporation or association has no official publication, then in a secular newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which such society, order, corporation or association has its principal office. Every such society, corporation, order or association not organized under the laws of this State but doing business herein under the provisions of this Act shall furnish to the Insurance Superintendent a certified copy of such an examination made by the proper authority of its own state at least once in every two years, if requested, or oftener, if requested. In case of its failure to furnish said certified copy of examination on request, then the Insurance Superintendent may make, or cause to be made, an examination of any such society, corporation, order or association so failing as often as he may deem it necessary, the whole cost of such examination to be paid by the society, corporation, order or association so examined.

APPROVED May 23, 1907.

FRATERNAL INSURANCE-MANAGEMENT OF SOCIETIES.

§ 1. Members only elected delegates, etc.
§ 2. By-laws amended by January 1, 1

1910.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 532.

§ 3.

Failure to comply-license revoked.

APPROVED MAY 23. 1907.)

AN ACT defining who may become delegates or who shall have any voice in the management of or legislate for any fraternal insurance society doing business in the State of Illinois.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any person, other than a beneficiary member to be elected delegate, or shall have any voice in the management of the endowment or mortuary features or business of any fraternal insurance society doing business in the State of Illinois.