ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR THE BLIND. AN ACT to incorporate the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, and to make an appropriation therefor. [In force July 1, 1887. L. 1887, p. 25.]

61. Corporation created. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That for the manual training and furnishing of employment to the blind, a corporation is hereby created, to be known and designated as the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, and to have perpetual succession, with power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to receive by any legal mode of transfer or conveyance, and to have, hold and use property of every description, but not to sell or convey any such property except the goods, wares, merchandise and other personal property prepared by said home for sale, and such property shall be held in trust as the property of the State; also to have and to use a common seal, with the power to change the same, also to adopt by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of its members, officers, agents, employes and inmates: Provided, such by-laws shall not be contrary to the letter or spirit of the constitution of the State of Illinois, or of the United States.

62. Objects. § 2. The object of said corporation shall be to promote the welfare of the blind by teaching them trades and affording them a home and such employment as shall best tend to make them self-supporting and consequently independent, using therefor the best known means and appliances.

63. Trustees' appointment. 3. The trustees shall not exceed five in number; said trustees shall be appointed by the governor of the State of Illinois, with the advice and consent of the senate, shall serve without compensation; their term of service shall be two years respectively, and until their successors are appointed and qualified: Provided, that three of said trustees shall be selected from members of the majority political party of this State, and the remainder from the minority political party or parties.

64. Trustees' expenses. 4. Each of said trustees shall be paid his or her traveling expenses while in the service of the home, out of the funds appropriated for its use, upon filing in the office of the auditor of public accounts the voucher of said trustees stating in detail the items of all such expenses, and the auditor shall thereupon issue his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of such trustee for the amount thereof and charge the same to the fund appropriated to said institution. 65. Trustees not to be interested. 5. No trustee shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract to be made by said trustees, nor shall any of them be appointed to, or employed in any office or position under their control or authority, to which a salary is attached. 66. Powers of trustees. 6. The said trustees shall have charge of the general interests of the home, and shall annually by ballot elect a superintendent to serve during the will and pleasure of said trustees, who shall fix his salary which shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars a year, and he, with their consent, shall employ all necessary assistants, instructors and other employes; the said trustees,

or a majority of them, when regularly convened, shall constitute a board, which shall possess and exert all the powers of said trustees, and shall have power by ballot to elect a president, secretary and treasurer, the president and secretary to be selected from their own number, and said board shall prescribe the duties and fix the terms of service of said officers of said board.

67. Duties of superintendent. §7. The superintendent shall exercise official control over all subordinate officers, instructors, assistants and employes, and shall be held responsible for their fidelity.

68. Apprentices. § 8. Apprentices placed by their parents or guardians in the home shall be required to conform to its rules and regulations.

69. Annual report. §9. The board shall, annually, before December fifteenth, report to the governor of the State the number of applications received, persons admitted, instructed and discharged: also the progress made and work accomplished, and all other matters of general interest to the people of the State of Illinois in regard thereto, together with a full, explicit and detailed statement of all money received and disbursed during the year.

70. Meetings of trustees. § 10. The said trustees shall meet monthly during the first year, and at least quarterly thereafter, to examine and audit all the accounts of the home, and make requisitions on the auditor of public accounts for funds required for use during the succeeding month or quarter, from funds which have been appropriated for the establishment and maintenance of the institution.

71. Money-how drawn. II. The auditor of public accounts is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants on the treasurer of the State for all sums which shall or may be appropriated and remain undrawn or unexpended, for the use of said institution, by the general assembly, upon the order of the board of trustees of the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, when signed by the president and attested by the secretary of said board, with the seal of said institution.

72. Appropriation. 12. The sum of one hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the purchase of lands, grounds or real estate in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, and for the purpose of erecting thereon suitable buildings, and fitting and furnishing the same appropriately for the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind, and also for the purpose of conducting therein workshops for the manual training and employment of the blind, defraying the expenses of boarding the inmates while necessary, and the payment of its superintendent, instructors, assistants and employes, which sum of money is to be expended under the safeguards hereinbefore provided: Provided, at least the sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) shall be expended in the purchase of real estate and buildings for the use of said Industrial Home for the Blind, and no more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) shall be expended in constructing and furnishing rooms for officers; Provided, further, no real estate shall be purchased until the title to the same shali have been examined by the attorney general of the State.

ILLINOIS CENTRAL HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE.

73. Power to sell and convey land. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the board of trustees of the Illinois Central Hospital for the Insane, located at Jacksonville, Illinois, shall have power, and the same is hereby given them, to sell and convey to the city of Jacksonville, in the State of Illinois, for use by said city in connection with said city's pumping works and water works, a certain tract of four acres of land, more or less, situated near the present pumping works of said city, located on Superior avenue in said city, and now held and controlled by said board of trustees for the use of said hospital. The said board of trustees shall further have power to expend, in the purchase of other lands for the use of said hospital, all sums of money that may be realized from the sale to said city of the four acres of land above mentioned.

74. Appraisers. 2. The governor shall appoint three discreet and competent persons, residents of the city of Jacksonville, who shall make, under oath, a fair and impartial appraisement of the value of the lands in question, and the board of trustees are hereby authorized to sell and convey said lands to said city, upon the payment by said city to said board of the amount or sum at which the said lands shall be by said persons valued and appraised.