to indictment, and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than double the value of the property so perverted, and imprisoned in the county jail not less than one nor more than twelve months, at the discretion of the court.

§ 264. County superintendents, trustees of schools, township treasurers and directors, or either of them, or any other officer having charge of school funds or property, shall be pecuniarily responsible for all losses sustained by any county or township fund, by reason of any failure on his or their part to perform the duties required of him or them by the provisions of this Act, or by any rule or regulation authorized to be made by the provisions of this Act, and each and every one of the officers aforesaid shall be liable for any such loss sustained as aforesaid, and the amount of such loss may be recovered in a civil action brought in any court having jurisdiction thereof, at the suit of the State of Illinois, for the use of the county, township or fund injured; the amount of the judgment obtained in such suit shall, when collected, be paid to the proper officer for the benefit of the county, township or fund injured.

MISCELLANEOUS

§ 265. All school officers elected in pursuance of any general law now in force shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected and qualified under the provisions of this Act.

§ 266. Trustees of schools, school directors or other school officers performing like duties, shall receive no pecuniary compensation, but they shall be exempt from road labor and military duty during their term of office.

§ 267. No justice of the peace, constable, clerk of any court, sheriff or coroner shall charge any costs in any suit in which any school officer, school corporation or any agent of any school fund, suing for the recovery of the same, or any interest due thereon, is plaintiff and shall be unsuccessful in such suit; nor in case the costs cannot be recovered from the defendant by reason of the insolvency of such defendant.

§ 268. No person shall vote at any school election held under the provisions of this Act who does not possess the qualifications of a voter at a general election.

§ 269. Any woman who has attained the age of 21 years, and who possesses the qualifications prescribed, shall be eligible to any office under the general or special school laws of this State.

§ 270. Any woman who is a citizen and has attained the age of 21 years, who shall have resided in the State one year, in the county ninety days and in the election district thirty days preceding any election held for the purpose of choosing any school officer under the general or special school laws of this State, shall be entitled to vote at such election, when registered in the manner provided by law. If the election of school officers shall occur at the time other public officers are elected, the ballot offered by any woman shall contain only the names of candidates for school officers. Such ballots shall be deposited in a separate ballot box, but canvassed with other ballots cast for school officers at such election.

§ 271. The Governor shall, annually, in the spring, designate by official proclamation, a day or days to be known as "Arbor and Bird day," to be observed throughout the State as a day for planting trees, shrubs and vines about the homes and along highways, and about public grounds within this State, and as a day on which to hold appropriate exercises in the public schools and elsewhere, tending to show the value of trees and birds and the necessity for their protection.

§ 272. The proceedings of the State Teachers' Association, when approved by the Superintendent of Public Instruction; shall be printed and bound by the Secretary of State, on the same terms as the proceedings of State boards, and the Auditor of Public Accounts shall draw his warrant therefor on the State Treasurer to be paid out of the appropriation for printing, upon a voucher properly certified by the Board of Commissioners of State Contracts.

§ 273. The nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effects on the human system shall be taught in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, as thoroughly as are other branches, in all schools under State control, or supported wholly or in part by public money, and also in all schools connected with reformatory institutions. All pupils in the above mentioned schools, below the second year of the high school and above the third year of school work, computing from the beginning of the lowest primary year, or in corresponding classes of ungraded schools, shall be taught and shall study this subject every year from suitable text books in the hands of all pupils, for not less than four lessons a week for ten or more weeks of each year, and must pass the same tests in this as in other studies. In all schools above mentioned all pupils in the lowest three primary school years, or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools, shall each year be instructed in this subject orally for not less than three lessons a week for ten weeks in each year, by teachers using text books adapted for such oral instruction as a guide and standard. The local school authorities shall provide needed facilities and definite time and place for this branch in the regular courses of study. The text books in the pupils' hands shall be graded to the capacity of the fourth year, intermediate, grammar and high school pupils, or to corresponding classes as found in ungraded schools. For students below high school grade such text books shall give at least one-fifth their space, and for students of high school grade shall give not less than twenty pages, to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics. The pages on this subject, in a separate chapter at the end of the book, shall not be counted in determining the minimum. In all normal schools, teachers' training classes and teachers' institutes, adequate time and attention shall be given to instruction in the best method of teaching this branch, and no teacher shall be licensed who has not passed a satisfactory examination in this subject and the best methods of teaching it. Any school officer or officers who shall neglect or fail to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay for each offense the sum of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars.

§ 274. Every person having control of any child between the ages of seven and sixteen years, shall annually cause such child to attend some public or private school for the entire time during which the school attended is in session, which shall not be less than six months of actual teaching: Provided, however, that this Act shall not apply in case the child has been or is being instructed for a like period in each and every year in the elementary branches of education by a person or persons competent to give such instruction, or in case the child's physical or mental condition renders his or her attendance impracticable or inexpedient, or in case the child is excused for temporary absence for cause by the principal or teacher of the school which said child attends, or in case the child is between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years and is necessarily and lawfully employed during the hours when the public school is in session. For every neglect of the duty prescribed by this section, the person so offending shall forfeit to the use of the public schools of the city, town or district in which such child resides, a sum not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars and costs of suit, and shall stand committed until such fine and costs of suit are paid.

§ 275. The board of education or the board of school directors, as the case may be, shall appoint at the time of election of teachers one or more truant officers whose duty it shall be to report all violations of the preceding section to the board of education or board of directors and to enter complaint against and prosecute all persons who shall appear to be guilty of such violation. It shall also be the duty of the truant officer to arrest any child of school going age that habitually haunts public places and has no lawful occupation, and also any truant child who absents himself or herself from school, and to place him or her in charge of the teacher having charge of any school which said child is by law entitled to attend, and which school shall be designated to said officer by the parent, guardian or person having control of said child. In case such parent, guardian or person shall designate a school without making or having made arrangements for the reception of said child in the school so designated, or in case he refuses or fails to designate any school, then such truant officer shall place such child in charge of the teacher of the public school. And it shall be the duty of said teacher to assign said child to the proper class and to instruct him or her in such studies as he or she is fitted to pursue. The truant officer so appointed shall be entitled to such compensation for services rendered under this Act as shall be determined by the board appointing him, which compensation shall be paid from the distributive fund of the district: Provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent the parent, guardian or person having charge of such truant child, which has been placed in any school by the truant officer, to send said child to any other school which said child is by law entitled to attend. Any person having control of a child, who, with intent to evade the provisions of this section, shall make a false statement concerning the age or the employment of such child or the time such child has attended school, shall for such offense forfeit a sum of not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars for the use of the public schools of the district.

§ 276. This Act shall not be construed so as to repeal or change, in any respect, any special Act in relation to schools in cities having a population of fewer than 100,000 inhabitants, or cities, townships or districts, except that in every such city, township or district the limit of taxation for educational and building purposes shall be the same as

that fixed in section 189 of this Act; and except that it shall be the duty of the several boards of education or other officers of any city, township or district, having in charge schools under the provisions of any special Act or Acts, on or before the 15th day of July preceding each session of the General Assembly of this State, or annually, if required so to do by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to report statistics and other information relating to schools, and the enumeration of persons as required of trustees of schools or directors, under the provisions of this Act, or so much thereof as may be applicable to such city, township or district, to the county superintendent of the county in which such city, township or district is situated; nor shall it be lawful for the county superintendent, or any other officer or person, to pay over any portion of the common school fund to any local treasurer, school agent, clerk, board of education or other officer or person of any city, township or district, unless report of the number of persons, and other statistics relating to schools, and such other information as may be required by the trustees of schools or school directors, and other school officers and teachers, under the provisions of this Act, shall have been filed with the superintendent of the proper county.

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§ 277. An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools, approved May 21, 1889, as amended, is hereby repealed.

§ 278. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, this Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED June 12, 1909.

SUPPLEMENTAL ACTS

BOARD OF EDUCATION APPOINTED

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of school directors and members of the board of education in certain cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases, where, by the provisions of any general or special law, the members of any common council of any city have been made ex officio school directors, or members of the board of education in and for the school district of which the said city shall constitute the whole or a part, the said school directors or members of the board of education shall hereafter be appointed as hereinafter provided.

1. The application of this Act relates only to the school districts that include the cities of Alton, Carlinville, Galena, LaHarpe, Lake Forest, Litchfield, Macomb, Rockford and Waukegan.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the mayor of said city, at the first regular meeting of the city council after each annual municipal election, and after his installation into office, to nominate and place before the council, for confirmation as school director or members of the board of education, as the case may be, one person from each ward of said city to serve for two years, and one person from the city at large to serve for one year, and if the persons so appointed shall be so confirmed by a majority vote of the city council, to be entered of record, the persons so appointed, together with such persons theretofore appointed under the provisions of this Act, to which this is an amendment, whose terms of service will not expire within one year, shall constitute the board of education or school directors for such district: Provided, that the person appointed from the city at large for one year shall be president of said board of education or school directors, but shall have no vote in such board excepting in case of a tie: And, provided, further, that the term of office of all persons heretofore appointed under the provisions of the Act to which this is an amendment, whose terms of office expires within one year, shall terminate at the first regular meeting of the city council after the annual meeting, and upon the appointment and confirmation of their successors. (As amended by Act approved and in force May 28, 1889.)

§ 3. The said persons shall, as soon as practicable after their appointment, organize by electing one of their number secretary, who shall hold his office for one year. All rights, powers and duties heretofore exercised by and devolved upon the members of the city council, as ex officio members of the board of education, or school directors, shall devolve upon and be exercised by the members of the board of education