persons paying money into the hands of township school treasurers, for school purposes, on or before the 30th day of September of each year, to notify in writing the presidents of boards of school trustees, and the clerks of the boards of school directors, of the amount paid into the township treasurer's hands, and the date of payment.

§ 7. This act shall not be so construed as to repeal or change, in any respect, any special acts in relation to schools in cities having less than 100,000 inhabitants, or incorporated towns, townships or districts (except that in every such city, town, township or district the limit of taxation for educational and building purposes shall be the same as that fixed in section one, article eight, of this act); and except that it shall be the duty of the several boards of education or other officers of any city or incorporated town, township or district, having in charge schools under the provision of any of said special acts, or of any ordinance of any city or incorporated town, 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 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to make out and render a statement of all such statistics and other information in regard to schools and the enumeration of persons, as is required to be communicated by township boards of trustees or directors, under the provisions of this act, or so much thereof as may be applicable to said city or incorporated town, to the county superintendent of the county where such city or incorporated town is situated, or of the county in which the larger part of such city or incorporated town 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 township, city or incorporated town, unless a report of the number of persons and other statistics relative to schools, and a statement of such other information as is required by the board of trustees or of directors, as aforesaid, and of other school officers and teachers, under the provisions of this act, shall have been filed at the time or times aforesaid, specified in this section, with the superintendent of the proper county, as aforesaid. [As amended by act approved and in force March 31, 1891.

§ 8. It shall be the duty of the president, principal, or other proper officer of every organized university, college, seminary, academy, or other literary institution, heretofore incorporated, or hereafter to be incorporated in this State, to make out, or cause to be made out and forwarded to the office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before the first day of August in each year, a report setting forth the amount and estimated value of real estate owned by the corporation, the amount of other funds and endowments, and the yearly income from all sources, the number of instructors, the number of students in the different classes, the studies pursued and the

books used, the course of instruction, the terms of tuition, and such other matters as may be specially requested by said Superintendent, or as may be deemed proper by the president or principal of such institution to enable the Superintendent of Public Instruction to lay before the Legislature a fair and full exhibit of the affairs and conditions of said institutions, and of the educational resources of the State.

$ 9. If judgment shall be obtained against any township board of trustees or school directors, the party entitled to the benefit of such judgment may have execution therefor, as follows, to-wit: It shall be lawful for the court in which such judgment shall be obtained, or to which such judgment may be removed by transcript or appeal from a justice of the peace, or other court, to issue thence a writ commanding the directors, trustees and treasurer of such township, to cause the amount thereof, with interest and costs, to be paid to the party entitled to the benefit of such judgment; out of any moneys unappropriated of said township or district, or if there be no such moneys, out of the first moneys applicable to the payment of the kind of services or indebtedness for which such judgment shall be obtained, which shall be received for the use of such township or district and to enforce obedience to such writ by attachment, or by mandamus, requiring such board to levy a tax for the payment of such judgment; and all legal processes, as well as writs to enforce payment, shall be served either on the president or clerk of the board.

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

§ 11. 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.

§ 12. "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," approved April 1, 1872; "An Act to protect colored children in their rights to attend public schools," approved March 24, 1874; "An Act to amend section fifty (50) of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872," approved March 30, 1874; "An Act to amend sections 24 and 33 of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872," approved May 23, 1877; "An Act to amend section 47 of an act to establish and maintain a system of free schools, approved April 1, 1872," approved May 11, 1877; "An act regulating the renting and sale of school lands," approved May 25, 1877; "An act to amend section 33 of an act entitled 'An act to amend sections 24 and 33 of an act entitled "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free

schools. approved April 1, 1872, approved May 23, 1877, in force July 1, 1877," approved May 31, 1879; "An Act to amend an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a sys tem of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, and section fortyseven (47) of said act as amended by an act approved May 11, 1877," approved June 3, 1879; "An Act to amend sections eleven (11), twenty-seven (27), thirty-three (33), thirty-four (34), forty-eight (48), fifty-three (53), fifty-four (54) and fiftyseven (57) of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved June 3, 1879, and in force July 1, 1879," approved May 31, 1881; "An Act to amend section fifty one (51) of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved June 3, 1879, in force July 1, 1879," approved June 23, 1883; "An Act regulating the loaning of school funds," approved and in force March 20, 1883; "An Act to amend sections thirteen (13), twenty (20) and seventy-one (71) of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved June 3, 1879," approved June 26, 1885; "An Act to amend sections fifty-seven (57) and fifty-eight (58) of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved April 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved June 3, 1879, and in force July 1, 1879, and further amended by an act approved May 31, 1881, and in force July 1, 1881," арproved June 30, 1885; "An Act to amend section one (1) of an act entitled 'An Act regulating the renting and sale of school lands,' approved May 25, 1877, in force July 1, 1877," approved June 29, 1885; "An Act to amend section thirty-three (33) of an Act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by an act approved May 23, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, as amended by act approved June 3, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, as amended by act approved May 31, 1881, in force July 1, 1881," approved June 4, 1877; "An Act to provide for the election of presidents of boards of education in school districts," approved June 17, 1887; "An Act to empower trustees of schools to lay out and dedicate common school lands for street and highway purposes," approved June 3, 1887; "An Act to regulate the attendance of teachers upon teachers' institutes," approved June 14, 1887; "An Act to empower township trustees to sell and convey right of way and depot grounds for the use of railroads crossing school lands," approved April 13, 1875; "An Act to regulate the payment of moneys into the hands of township school treasurers," approved May 30, 1881; and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, and all general school laws in this State, are hereby repealed.

13.1 Whereas, an emergency exists, requiring this act to take immediate effect, therefore be it enacted that this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 21, 1889.

ADDITIONAL FACTS PERTAINING TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TO SCHOOL OFFICERS.

MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPOINTED.

An Act to provide for the appointment of School Directors and members of the Board of Education, in certain cases, approved May 29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases whereby [where, by] the provisions of any general or special law of this State heretofore passed, the members of the common council of any city having 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.

§ 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 directors 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 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 the act, to which this is an amendment, whose terms of service shall 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 term 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 con firmation 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 and school directors appointed under the provisions of this act. [As amended by act approved and in force May 28, 1889.

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§ 4. In all school districts to which this act shall apply, the boards of education or school directors shall annually, before the first day of August, certify to the city council, under the hands and seals of the president and secretary of the board, the amount of money required to be raised by taxation for school purposes in said district for the ensuing year, and the said city council shall thereupon cause the said amount to be levied and collected in the same manner now provided by law for the levy and collection of taxes for school purposes in such district, but the amount to be so levied and collected shall not exceed the amount now allowed to be collected for school purposes by the general school laws of this State; and when such taxes have been collected and paid over to the treasurer of such city or school district, as may be provided by the terms of the act under which such district has been organized, such funds. shall be paid out only on the order of the board of education or the school directors, signed by the president and secretary of such board.

AN ACT relating to the study of Physiology and Hygiene in the Public Schools.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the proper legal school authorities shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to have all pupils of suitable age in schools of Illinois, supported by public money or under State control, instructed in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic beverages, stimulants and narcotics on the human system.

§ 2. No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of Illinois, after July, 1890, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic beverages, stimulants and narcotics on the human system.

APPROVED June 1, 1889.