cause or reason of its detention, the length of time detained, the offense alleged to have been committed by such child, if any, and other useful data or information that may be directed to be kept by the county judge of such county. A record shall also be kept by such superintendent of all expenditures made by the county for the care and maintenance of such home. An annual report to the county commissioners, or board of supervisors, as the case may be, shall be made to Dec. Ist in each year by the superintendent, and he shall file a copy thereof with the county clerk of the county, which shall contain an itemized statement of all such expenses necessary to maintain such home, together with the number of inmates therein during each month. The county commissioners or board of supervisors, as the case may be, or the county judge of said county, may at any time demand, in which case it shall be the duty of the superintendent to furnish, such information as said county commissioners, or board of supervisors, as [or] county judge may require concerning the conduct, maintenance or inmates of the home. 5. The board of county commissioners, or the board of supervisors, as the case may be, of any county, shall have the power and authority, in addition to taxes levied and collected for other county purposes, and in addition to the 75 cents per $100.00 valuation limit of taxation, now provided for county purposes, to annually levy and collect a tax not exceeding one mill on the dollar valuation upon all property within the county, for the purpose of purchasing, erecting, leasing or otherwise providing, establishing, supporting and maintaining such Detention Home: Provided, this Act shall be adopted and the levy and collection of such tax authorized by the legal voters of the county in the manner provided by section 6 of this Act. 6. The electors of any county may adopt this Act in the following manner: Whenever the legal voters of such county to the number of 25 per cent of the votes cast at the last general election shall petition the county judge of such county, not less than thirty days before any general election in such county, to submit the proposition whether or not the electors shall adopt this Act, it shall be the duty of the county judge to submit such proposition at the next general election. The proposition so to be voted for shall be on a separate ballot in plain prominent type, and be prepared and provided for that purpose in the same manner as other ballots. For adoption of the Act to authorize county authori- No. If the majority of the votes cast for and against such proposition shall be for such proposition, the Act shall be adopted, and the county judge shall enter of record an order declaring this Act in force in such county, and the tax provided for in the Act shall thereafter be annually levied and collected in such county for the purposes specified in this Act until such time as the legal voters of the county shall abandon this Act in manner provided in section 7 of this Act. § 7. The electors of any county which shall have adopted this Act as provided by section 6 thereof, may abandon and repeal this Act in the following manner: Whenever the legal voters of such county to the number of 25 per cent of the votes cast at the last general election in such county shall petition the county judge, not less than thirty days before any general election, to submit the proposition whether or not the electors of such county shall abandon this Act, it shall be the duty of the county judge to submit such proposition at the next general election. The proposition so to be voted for shall be on a separate ballot in plain, prominent type, and be prepared and provided for that purpose in the same manner as other ballots. To abandon an Act to authorize county authorities to No. If a majority of the votes cast for and against such proposition shal! be for such proposition to abandon this Act, the Act shall be deemed abandoned, and the county judge shall enter of record an order declaring this Act abandoned in such county. § 8. Any court acting under and in pursuance of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the treatment and control of dependent, neglected and delinquent children," approved April 21, 1899, or any amendments thereto, may commit any child coming within the terms of said Act to said home temporarily. (SENATE BILL No. 475. APPROVED MAY 25, 1907.) AN ACT to amend section three (3) of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the visitation of children placed in family homes." (Approved May 13, 1905, in force July 1, 1905.) SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section three (3) of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the visitation of children placed in family homes," approved May 13, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, be amended so as to read as follows: § 3. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Public Charities to appoint a State agent who shall receive a salary of $1,500 per annum, in addition to his actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred in the performance of his official duties; and to appoint such number of visitors not exceeding four and pay such compensation for such visitors, as shall be approved by the Governor, such compensation to be paid in addition to the actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by said visitors in the performance of their official duties. These visitors shall be discreet men and women selected with special view to their wisdom and fitness for visiting children and shall be appointed by civil service procedure and shall be subject to the provisions of the State civil service law. The State Board of Charities is also hereby authorized and empowered to appoint such other employés as are necessary to perform the clerical work and other office work of the State agent and to pay said employés from the incidental expense appropriation made for the department for the visitation of children. AN ACT to promote the care and curative treatment of the insane. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: [That] the State Commissioners of Public Charities are hereby required to divide the State into districts, for the purpose of regulating the admission of patients into State hospitals for the insane. The said commissioners shall have power to change the boundaries of such districts, from time to time, as may be necessary or expedient: Provided, that any regulations which they may make on this subject shall not have the force of law until after they shall have been submitted to the Governor and approved by him. § 2. Whenever such division or regulation shall have been made and approved as aforesaid, the said State commissioners shall forthwith make and sign a report to that effect, designating the boundaries of and the counties included within each district, and the number of patients apportioned to each asylum, and file the same with the Secretary of State, and send a copy thereof to the trustees and superintendent of each asylum, and to each county judge, and to the clerk of each county in the State, to be filed in his office, and thereafter the State shall for all the purposes of this Act be deemed to be divided into such districts. Whenever any change in such classification or regulation shall thereafter be made and approved, a like report shall be made and filed, and a copy thereof sent to the county judges and to the clerks of all counties affected by such change, as well as to the trustees and superintendents of the respective State asylums. § 3. In order to carry out the intention of this Act, the State Commissioners of Public Charities are directed to ascertain from time to time what vacancies, if any, exist in any one or more of the State insane asylums, and said commissioners are hereby authorized and required to forthwith cause the removal to such asylum or asylums, from some one or more of the counties of the district to which said asylum has been assigned, under the provisions of this Act, as many of the insane patients in county asylums and almshouses as can be accommodated. Such removal to be made pursuant to the provisions of section 6 of this Act. 4. To provide for the insane of the district in which each State asylum is situated, should the existing accommodations not be sufficient for this purpose, there shall be erected on the grounds of such asylum a sufficient number of buildings of a moderate size, each being designed to accommodate not less than ten nor more than one hundred and fifty patients. It shall be the duty of the trustees of each State asylum, within ninety days after they shall have received a copy of the report of the commissioners of public charities, as provided in section 2, to cause to be prepared plans, specifications and estimates of the cost and equipment of such buildings, and to submit same to said commissioners of public charities, and said commissioners shall thereupon proceed to examine said plans, specifications and estimates, and shall have power to summon before them the superintendent of the asylum, on whose grounds the said buildings are proposed to be erected, for explanations and suggestions in regard to the same. When the plans of any proposed building or buildings shall have been approved by said commissioners, and appropriations for the purpose shall have been provided by the Legislature, the trustees shall cause to be erected and equipped, at the earliest practicable day, consistent with the best interests of the State, the building or buildings so proposed, and the cost of the same, including the necessary equipment for heating, lighting, ventilation, fixtures and furniture, shall in no case exceed the amount of the estimates therefor approved by said commissioners. The cost of said buildings and equipment shall be paid by the Treasurer of the State on warrants of the Auditor from the sums appropriated by the Legislature for this purpose, upon vouchers of the trustees of the asylum where the buildings are to be erected; and these vouchers shall be made in accordance with the forms prescribed by the Auditor. Upon the completion of said buildings, the trustees erecting the same shall forthwith in writing certify this fact to the State Commissioners of Public Charities. § 5. After receiving such certificate from said trustees, the said State Commissioners of Public Charities shall ascertain whether the buildings are ready for occupancy, and if they find them to be ready they shall forthwith direct the superintendents of the county asylums or almshouses in each county within the district, in which said State asylum so certified is situated, to send such number of insane patients to said State asylum as can be therein accommodated. Each of the State asylums for the insane shall receive patients, whether in an acute or chronic condition of insantiy, from the district in which the asylum is situated, subject to the power of removal from one State asylum to another under the provisions of section eight of this Act. § 6. All county authorities sending a patient to any asylum under the provisions of this Act, shall, before sending him, see that he is in the state of bodily cleanliness and is comfortably clothed, in accordance with regulations to be prescribed by the State Commissioners of Public Charities. The said patients shall be sent by said county authorities in the manner prescribed by said State Commissioners of Public Charities to the State asylum within the district embracing said county at the expense of the State, and any State asylum to which such patient is to be sent may be required by and under the regulations made by said State Commissioners of Public Charities, to send a trained attendant to bring the patient to the asylum. In all cases there shall be provided a female attendant for every female patient, unless she be accompanied by her husband, father, brother or son. After said patient or patients has or have been delivered to the said State asylum, the care and custody of the county authorities over said insane person shall cease. The bills for the reasonable expenses incurred in the transportation of patients to the State asylums, after they have been approved in writing by the State Commissioners of Public Charities, shall be paid by the treasurer of the asylum on warrants properly drawn from the funds provided for the support of the State asylum. § 7. After sufficient accommodations shall have been provided in State institutions for all the pauper and indigent insane of all the counties of the State, the cost of clothing and other incidental expenses of county insane patients in State insane asylums shall not be a charge upon any county after the first of January next ensuing, but the cost of the same shall be paid out of the funds provided by the State for the support of the insane. It shall be the duty of the State Commissioners of Public Charities to determine whether the accommodations are sufficient within the purview of this section, and to hold a meeting for that purpose and if satisfied of the sufficiency of such accommodations, to make a certificate to that effect and file the same with the Secretary of State and send a copy thereof to the trustees and superintendents of |