where she may be for the purpose of prostitution or for unlawful sexual intercourse, and any person who shall knowingly or intentionally aid, abet, assist, advise or encourage any such act for the purpose aforesaid shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not less than five years nor more than fifteen years. Previous chaste character.-Chaste character is presumed, and the burden is on the defendant to impeach it, notwithstanding the presumption of his innocence. Bradshaw v. People, 153 Ill., 156. SAME SUBJECT. Section 4581c. Any peron who shall, by any such means as are mentioned in the next preceding section, entice, abduct, induce, decoy, hire, engage, employ or take in any manner any female from her home or from any other place where she may be, for the purpose of prostitution or for unlawful sexual intercourse, and any person who shall knowingly or intentionally aid, abet, assist, advise or encourage the doing of any such act for the purpose aforesaid shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than five years nor less than one year. CHILDREN, EMPLOYMENT OF. Section 4587a. Any person having the care, custody, or control of any child under the age of fourteen years who shall exhibit, use or employ, or in an any manner or under any pretense sell, apprentice, give away, let out or otherwise dispose of such child to any person for any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice, or for any business, exhibition or vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or who shall cause, procure or encourage any such child to engage therein, or any person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit or have in custody any such child for any such purpose shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months or by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by both imprisonment and fine. CHAPTER 187. TRANSPORTATION OF CORPSE DEAD OF CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. Section 4608a. Any person who shall for himself or as the agent or servant of another person or corporation transport or deliver for transportation the body of any person dead of diphtheria, scarlet fever, small pox, Asiatic cholera (cholerine), leprosy, typhus or ship fever, or yellow fever shall be punished as hereinafter provided. For all the pur poses of this section membraneous croup shall be considered an poses of this section membraneous croup shall be considered and treated as diphtheria. Any person who shall transport the body of any person dead of anthrax, puerperal fever, typhoid fever, erysipelas, measles or other contagious, infectious or communicable disease, unless the same be wrapped in a sheet thoroughly saturated with a strong solution of bi-chloride of mercury, in the proportion of one ounce thereof to a gallon of water, and incased in air-tight zinc, tin, copper or lead lined coffin or in an air-tight iron casket, hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong, tight, wooden box; or unless the body be wrapped in a sheet and disinfected by a solution of bi-cholride of mercury, as above, and placed in a strong coffin or casket which is encased in a hermetically sealed zinc, copper or tin case, and all enclosed in a strong outside wooden box of material not less than one inch and a half thick; or transport any such body if it is accompanied by any article which has been exposed to the infection of any such disease, or without a permit from a board of health or other competent health authority and an affidavit of the undertaker in charge of the body stating that the body has been prepared in accordance with this section and that the coffin used conforms to the requirements hereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. TRANSPORTATION OF BODIES DEAD OF NON-CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. Section 4608c. Any person who shall for himself or as the agent or servant of any other person or corporation transport or deliver for transportation the body of any person who died of any disease that is not contagious, infectious or communicable to any point in this state, unless the same is encased in a sound coffin or strong metallic case and inclosed in a strong wooden box securely fastened, or who transports or delivers for transportation out of this state to any point to which the time required for transportation shall exceed eighteen hours, unless the same is enclosed in an air-tight zinc, tin, copper or lead coffin or casket inclosed in a soldered zinc, copper or tin case and in a strong wooden box made of material not less than one inch thick and provided with four iron chest handles, and accompanied by a permit from a board of health or other proper health authority giving permission for its removal, showing the name, age, place and cause of death of the deceased, the point to which the body is to be shipped, the medical attendant and the name of the undertaker in charge thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 4608a. CHAPTER 201. CONVICTS. EMPLOYMENT OF. Section 4918. All convicts sentenced to the punishment of hard labor in said prison shall be constantly employed for the benefit of the state, except that no person confined therein or in any other penal institution within this state shall be compelled to perform any factory work on any legal holiday; but this shall not interfere with the household work of any such institution or the management or discipline thereof in any other particular. Section 4938. The state board of control is authorized and empowered to lease, from time to time, the labor of such portion of the prisoners confined in the state prison, together with such shop-room, machinery and power as may be necessary for their proper employment, to such persons, for such purposes, upon such terms and conditions and for such length of time, not exceeding five years at any one time, as it shall deem most conducive to the interests of the state and the welfare of the prisoners. CONVICTS, RIGHTS RESERVED IN LEASING LABOR OF. Section 4939. In every contract made pursuant to the authority herein conferred there shall be reserved to said board and to the warden and each and every of his subordinates full power and authority to prevent the demanding or imposition of unusual or serve labor or labor whereby the health or safety of the convicts may be impaired or jeopardized; and the said board may, from time to time, prescribe all needful rules for the government and conduct of all contractors, their overseers and agents in their relations to the convicts, and may require a summary dismissal of any individual employed by any contractor in said prison whenever it shall appear that the presence or the conduct of such individual is prejudicial to the discipline of the prison or the welfare of the convicts. CONVICTS, MONEY FOR DESERVING. * Whenever any convict, * * the state board of control may, in its discretion, compensate him therefor by the allowance of a sum of money out of his earnings or otherwise, and said board may adopt rules for the payment to deserving convicts, on their discharge or while in prison, of such sum as it may see fit. |