vided, stating the amount of such payments, and for what granted, as ordered by such board, which list shall be signed and certified by the treasurer and president of such board, and attested by such treasurer under oath: Provided, that no resolution shall be passed or order made for the payment of money unless by affirmative vote of a majority of the members of said board.

§ 10. In addition to the other powers herein granted, the following further powers and authority are hereby conferred upon said board:

First The said board shall have exclusive control and management of the fund mentioned herein, and of all moneys donated, paid or assessed for the relief or pensioning of disabled, superannuated and retired policemen, their widows and minor children; the same to be placed by the treasurer of such board to the credit of such fund subject to the order of such board.

Second-All rewards, moneys, gifts, fees or emoluments that may be paid or given for, or on account of extraordinary service by said police department or by any policemen, except when allowed to be retained by said policeman or given to endow a medal or other competitive reward, shall be paid into said pension fund. The said board may take by gift, grant, devise, or bequest, any moneys, real estate, personal property, right of property, or other valuable thing.

Third-Said board * * * shall have the power to draw such pension fund from the treasurer or other officials of such city, village or town, and may invest such fund, or any part thereof, in the name of the board of trustees of the police pension fund, in interest bearing bonds of the United States, of the State of Illinois, or of any county of this State, or of any township or any municipal corporation of the State of Illinois, and all such securities shall be deposited with the treasurer of said board and shall be subject to the order of said board; said treasurer of said board shall furnish a good and sufficient bond to said board in an amount to be fixed by said board, all costs, incidental to same, to be paid out of said pension fund.

Fourth-To compel witnesses to attend and testify before it, upon all matters connected with the operation of this Act, in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for the taking of testimony before masters in chancery, and its president, or any member of said board, may administer oaths to such witnesses.

Fifth-To appoint a clerk and define his duties.

Sixth-To provide for the payment from said funds of all its necessary expenses, including clerk hire, printing and witness fees: Provided, that no compensation or emolument shall be paid to any member of said board for any duty required or performed under this Act: And, provided further, that the interest on said fund or any portion thereof shall be credited thereto and no portion thereof shall be retained by the treasurer of said board.

Seventh To make all necessary rules and regulations for its guidance, in conformity with the provisions of this Act.

§ 2. All Acts or parts of Acts or amendments thereof heretofore enacted, and in any manner conflicting with the provisions of this Act, are hereby expressly repealed.

APPROVED June 10, 1911.

PENSION FUND POLICE IN CITIES OVER 50,000-PENSIONER AND

SERVICE.

§ 1. Amends section 3, Act of 1887.

§ 3.

Who shall be pentionerservice for twenty years.

(SENATE BILL NO. 353. APPROVED JUNE 10, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section three of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved April 29th, 1887, in force July 1st, 1887, as amended by an Act approved April 24th, 1899, in force July 1st, 1899, as amended by an Act approved May 11th, 1901, in force July 1st, 1901, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 16th, 1903.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section three of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved April 29th, 1887, in force July 1st, 1887, as amended by an Act approved April 24th, 1889, [1899], in force July 1st, 1899, as amended by an Act approved May 11th, 1901, in force July 1st, 1901, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 16th, 1903, be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 3. Whenever any person at the time of the taking effect of said Act, to which this is an amendment, or thereafter shall be duly appointed and sworn, and have served for the period of twenty years or more upon the regularly constituted police force of such city, village or town of this State, subject to the provisions of this Act, or where the combined years of service of any person upon the police force and the fire department, as aforesaid, of such city, village or town of this State, or where the combined years of service of any person as patrol driver or vehicle inspector and patrolman of such city, village or town of this State, shall aggregate twenty years or more, said board shall order and direct that such person after his service on such police force shall have ceased, and all officers entitled to and having a pension under said. Act, to which this is an amendment, after the taking effect of this Act shall be paid from such fund a yearly pension equal to one-half the amount of salary attached to the rank which he may have held on said police force for one year immediately prior to the time of such retirement: Provided, however, the maximum of said pension shall not exceed the sum of $900 and the minimum not less than $600. And after the decease of such member, his widow or minor child or children under sixteen years of age, if any survive him, shall be entitled to the pension provided for in this Act, of such a deceased husband or father;

but nothing in this or any other section of this Act shall warrant the payment of any annuity to any widow of a deceased member of said police department, after she shall have re-married: And, provided, further, that all police officers retired after twenty years' service in the police department of such city, village or town, and who are above the age of fifty years, now on the police pension rolls, shall receive the same pension now allowed them: Provided, that in no case shall said pension exceed the sum of $900. APPROVED June 10, 1911.

PENSION FUND-POLICE IN CITIES OVER 50,000-POLICE MATRON.

§ 1. Adds section 3a to Act of 1887.

§ 3a. Police matron made beneficiary under Act.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 532. APPROVED JUNE 10, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved April 29, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, as amended by an Act approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by Act approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by Act approved and in force May 16, 1903, as amended by an Act approved and in force April 19, 1907. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the setting apart, formation and disbursement of a police pension fund in cities, villages and incorporated towns," approved April 29, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, as amended by an Act approved April 24, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by an Act approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by an Act approved and in force May 16, 1903, as amended by an Act approved and in force April 19, 1907, be amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 3a, to read as follows:

§ 3a. Whenever any person shall have been or shall hereafter be appointed and sworn as police matron in the police department of such city, village or town of this State, subject to the provisions of said Act, such police matron shall be a beneficiary under said Act and be paid a pension out of the police pension fund: Provided, however, that any such police matron, upon paying into the fund the amount of one per cent of the salary received during her period of service prior to the going into effect of this Act shall become entitled to all the benefits hereof from the date of the beginning of such period of service: Provided, further, that such payment shall be made within a period of one year from and after the time this Act goes into effect; and in event of any such police matron becomes entitled to the benefits of this Act, before such sum is so paid, the treasurer of such fund shall deduct the amount due and unpaid from the pension so due, and the police matron or her children, as the case may be, shall thereupon be entitled

to the full benefits of this Act: And, provided, further, that one and one-half per cent per month shall be paid by or deducted from the alary of such police matron of such city village or town: Provided, no such matron shall be compelled to pay more than three dollars per month from her salary.

Whenever any person shall have been or shall hereafter be appointed and sworn as police matron and shall have served for a period of twenty years or more in the police department of such city, village or town of this State, subject to the provisions of this Act, or where the combined years of service of such person in the police department of such city, village or town, shall aggregate twenty years or more, said board shall order and direct that such person, after her service in such police department shall have ceased, shall be paid a yearly pension equal to one-half the amount of the salary attached to the rank which she may have held in said police department for one year immediately prior to the time of such retirement: Provided, however, the maximum of said pension shall not exceed the sum of nine hundred dollars per annum: And, provided, further, after the death of such matron pensioned, after twenty years of service, her child or children, if any, shall be paid the amount of such pension such matron received before her death, until such child or children arrives at the age of sixteen years. Whenever any police matron of any such city, village or town, shall become physically disabled while in and in consequence of the performance of police duty, said board shall, upon her written request, or without such request if it deem it for the good of the department, retire such person from active service and order and direct that she be paid from said fund a yearly pension not exceeding one-half the amount the salary attached to the rank which she may have held in said police department at the time of her retirement: Provided, that the maximum sum of such pension shall not exceed the sum of nine hundred dollars per year: Provided, further, that whenever such disability shall cease, such pension shall cease and such person shall thereupon be reinstated in the department in the rank held by her at the time of he[r] retirement.

No person shall be retired as provided in the next preceding section, or receive any benefit from said fund, unless there shall be filed with said board, certificates of her disability, which certificates shall be subscribed and sworn to by the city, village or town physician (if there is one) and one practicing physician of such city, village or town, and such board may require other evidence of disability before ordering such retirement and payment as aforesaid.

Whenever any police matron of such city, village or town shall lose her life while in the performance of police duty, or receive injuries from which she shall thereafter die, leaving a child or children under the age of sixteen years then upon satisfactory proof of such facts made to it, such board shall order and direct that a yearly pension of one-half of the salary received by such police matron, not to exceed nine hun

dred dollars per year shall be paid to such child or children until they shall be sixteen years of age: Provided, if such police matron shall marry then such matron so marrying shall thereafter receive no further pension from such fund: And, provided, further, that whenever any police matron of such city, village or town has been retired after twenty years' service, or physically disabled, shall then marry, such child or children of such marriage shall after her death receive no pension from said fund.

Whenever any police matron shall die after ten years' service and while still in the service of such city, village or town, as a police matron, leaving a child or children under the age of sixteen years, then, upon satisfactory proof of such facts made to it, said board shall order and direct that a pension of one-half the salary not exceeding the sum of nine hundred dollars, shall be paid to such child or children until they shall be sixteen years of age.

Whenever any police matron shall, after ten years' service and while still in the service of such city, village or town, be legally adjudged to be insane and at such time shall have a child or children under the age of sixteen years, said board shall order and direct that a pension of one-half the salary, not exceeding the sum of nine hundred dollars, shall be paid to such child or children until they shall be sixteen years. of age: Provided, however, that if at any time it be declared in the manner provided by law that such person is restored to reason, then such pension shall cease, and such person shall, in the discretion of such board, be reinstated in the department in the rank held by her at the time she was legally adjudged to be insane: Provided, further, that such pension shall cease if such person shall leave or be taken outside of the State of Illinois.

Any person retired for disability under this Act, may be summoned to appear before the board herein provided for, at any time thereafter, and shall submit herself thereto for examination as to her fitness for duty and shall abide the decision and order of such board with reference thereto. And all police matrons who may be retired under the provisions of this Act except those who retire after twenty years' service shall report to the chief of police of the city, village or town where so retired, on the second Tuesday of each and every month, unless excused in writing by the chief of police, and in cases of emergency may be assigned to, and shall perform such duty as such chief of police may direct and such person shall have no claim against the city, village or town for payment for such duty so performed: Provided, further, that the said police matrons shall be subject to all the provisions of said Act and to the rules and regulations of said board the same as the other beneficiaries under said Act.

APPROVED June 10, 1911.