approved and in force May 29, 1879, as amended,

be and the same are

hereby revised and amended, that is to say, that sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 26, of said act, to which this act is an amendment, be and each of them is hereby so amended, as to read in their numerical order as follows:

SEC. 2. Whenever a majority of the owners of lands within a district proposed to be organized, who shall have arrived at lawful age and who represent onethird (4) in area of the lands to be reclaimed or benefited, desire to construct a drain or drains, ditch or ditches, levee or levees, or other work to be known in this act as a “drainage and levee district," or "drainage and levee work,” across the lands of others, for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, or to maintain and keep in repair any such drain or drains, ditch or ditches, levee or levees, heretofore constructed under any law of this State, or to establish in said district a combined system of drainage or protection from overflow, independent of levees, for agricultural, sanitary or mining purposes, and maintain the same by special assessments upon the property benefited thereby, such owners may file, in the county court of any county in which the greater part of the lands to be affected by said drain or drains, ditch or ditches, levee or levees, or other work proposed to be constructed, maintained or repaired shall lie, a petition signed by a majority of the owners of said lands, within said district proposed to be organized as aforesaid, setting forth the proposed name of said drainage district, the necessity of the same, with a description of proposed starting points, route and terminus of the work and a general description of the lands proposed to be affected, with the names of the owners when known, and, if the purpose of said owners is the repair and maintenance of a ditch or ditches, levee or levees, or other work, heretofore constructed under any law of this State, said petition shall give a general description of the same, with such particulars as may be deemed important, and may pray for the organization of a drainage district, by the name and boundaries proposed, and for the appointment of commissioners for the execution of such proposed work according to the provisions of this act:

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SEC. 5. On the hearing of any petition filed under the provisions of this chapter, and if it shall further appear to the court that the proposed drain or drains, ditch or ditches, levee or other works, is or are necessary, or will be useful for the drainage of the lands proposed to be drained thereby, for agricultural, sanitary or mining purposes, the court shall so find, and appoint three (3) competent persons as commissioners, each of whom shall hold his office until his successor is appointed as hereinafter provided, to lay out and construct such proposed work.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT UNIVERSITY.

MINING ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AT UNIVERSITY.

LAWS 1909, P. 43.

JUNE 8, 1909.

AN ACT authorizing and directing the establishment of a department of mining engi neering in the College of Engineering, at the University of Illinois, and providing for the support of the same.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, etc.: That the trustees of the University of Illinois be authorized and directed to establish, in the College of Engineering, at the University, a department of mining engineering.

SEC. 2. That the said department of mining engineering shall offer such courses of instruction relating to the science and practice of mining as will best serve to train young men for efficient work in the various phases of the mining industry.

SEC. 3. That in addition to its work of instruction, the said department of mining engineering shall, so far as practicable, concern itself with the development and dissemination of such scientific facts as are likely to be of service in improving the practice of mining, with reference to efficency in operation, to the security of life in the mines, and to the conservation of the fuel and other mineral resources of the State.

SEC. 4. That there be and hereby is appropriated to the University of Illinois, to meet the cost of establishing and maintaining the said departments of mining engineering, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) per annum.

SEC. 5. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the sum hereby appropriated, payable out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, upon the order of the board of trustees of said University, attested by its secretary and with the corporate seal of said university thereto attached.

Approved June 8, 1909.

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EXPLOSIVES.

LOCATION-NUISANCE,

REVISED STATUTES 1874, 352, P. 385.

AN ACT to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence.

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MARCH 27, 1874.

SEC. 221. NUISANCES-ENUMERATION.-It is a public nuisance:

6. To carry on the business of manufacturing gunpower, nitro-glycerine, or other highly explosive substances, or mixing or grinding the materials therefor, in any building within twenty rods of any valuable building erected at the time such business may be commenced.

7. To establish powder magazines near incorporated towns at a point different from that appointed according to law by the corporate authorities of the town, or within fifty rods of any occupied dwelling house.

LAWS 1887, P. 180.

REGULATIONS.

JUNE 16, 1887.

AN ACT to regulate the manufacture, transportation, use and sale of explosives, and to punish an improper use of the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc.: That any person, firm, company or corporation who shall make, manufacture, compound, buy or sell, or otherwise procure, or dispose of, or bring within the limits of this State, any dynamite, or any nitro-chlorate, or other explosive compound, with the intent to use the same, or that the same may be used for unlawful injury to or the unlawful destruction of life or property in any place whatsoever, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than five years nor more than twenty-five years.

SEC. 2. Any person abetting or in any way assisting in making, manufacturing, compounding, buying, selling, procuring, disposing of, storing, removing or transporting any dynamite, nitro-chlorate, or other explosive compound, as above named, either by furnishing the materials, ingredients, skill, means or labor, or by acting as agent, or in any manner acting as accessory before the fact, knowing or having reason to believe that the same is intended to be used by any person or persons in any way for the unlawful injury to or destruction of life or property, shall be deemed principal, and, upon conviction, shall be subject to the same punishment as provided in section 1 of this act.

SEC. 3. Any person soliciting or contributing money or other property for the manufacture, sale, transportation or use of said explosive compounds, knowing or having reason to believe that the same is intended to be used for any unlawful destruction of life or property, shall be deemed guilty of a felony,

and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment not less than three nor more than twenty-five years.

SEC. 4. That no person, firm, company or corporation shall make, manufacture or compound, within the limits of this State, any dynamite, nitro-chlorate, or other explosive compounds, within one mile of any inhabited dwelling; and no person, firm, company or corporation shall make, manufacture or compound any dynamite, nitro-chlorate, or other explosive compound, without a permit for such purpose, signed by the county clerk of the county in which said manufacturing or compounding is desired to be done, and duly attested with the seal of said official; and the said official issuing the said permit shall keep a record of the names and residences of persons to whom such writ is issued. The officer authorized by this act shall not issue such permit unless the purpose for which said explosive or compound is to be manufactured is a lawful one. Any person, firm, company or corporation making any such compound without such permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine or imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court, such fine to be not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and for a second offense shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and be subject to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years, and a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.

SEC. 5. That no person, firm, company or corporation shall store or keep any dynamite, nitro-chlorate, or other explosive compound, within three hundred yards of any inhabited dwelling if the same shall be located within any city, nor within the limits of any city, except in conformity with the existing ordinances governing the storage or keeping of such explosive compound. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of every person in this State who shall sell or otherwise dispose of any such explosive compound, as above described, to keep a record of the name and residence of every person to whom he disposes of any · such explosive compound, and the kind and amount thereof, and the date of such transaction, and such record shall be preserved for not less than three years. All persons, firms, companies or corporations transporting any of the above compounds, shall keep a record of the names and residences of the person, firm, company or corporation forwarding such explosive compound, and of the kind and amount forwarded, together with the name and address of the person, firm, company or corporation to whom the same is forwarded, with the date of its receipt and delivery, and no transportation company shall receive any such explosive compound for transportation, unless the same is marked explosive," "dangerous" in plainly legible letters on the outside of each and every package. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars. All records, as above described, shall, if any provision of this act shall hereafter be violated, be open to the inspection of the prosecuting attorney of any county where any such violation shall occur, for the purpose of detecting or convicting the person or persons guilty of such violation: Provided, however, that the provisions and restrictions of this law, so far as they shall, or may, relate to the manufacture, sale or transfer of any of the explosive articles herein enumerated, shall not apply to any such articles which shall be consigued to any point without the limits of this State, except that all packages shall be marked "explosive," "dangerous."

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SEC. 7. Any person, firm, company or corporation, who by fraud, deception or misrepresentation shall procure the transportation of any such explosive

compound in any public conveyance, shall be deemed guilty of felony, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for the term of not less than one year, nor more than five years, and a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.

FIRST AMENDATORY ACT, 1889.

LAWS 1889, P. 152.

MAY 28, 1889.

AN ACT to amend section 4 of "An act to regulate the manufacture, transportation, use and sale of explosives, and to punish an improper use of the same," approved June 16, 1887, in force July 1, 1887.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc.: That section 4 of "An act to regulate the manufacture, transportation, use and sale of explosives, and to punish an improper use of the same," approved June 16, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4. That no person, firm, company or corporation, shall make, manufac ture or compound within the limits of this State, any dynamite, nitrochlorate, or other explosive compound within one-half (1) of a mile of any inhabited dwelling; and no person, firm, company or corporation shall make, manufacture or compound any dynamite, nitrochlorate or other explosive compound without a permit for such purpose signed by the county clerk of the county in which said manufacturing or compounding is desired to be done, and duly attested with the seal of said official, and the said official issuing the said permit shall keep a record of the names and residences of persons to whom such writ is issued. The officer authorized by this act shall not issue such permit unless the purpose for which said explosive or compound is to be manufactured is a lawful one. Any person, firm, company or corporation making any such compound without such permit, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine and imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court, such fine to be not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and for a second offense, shall be deemed guilty of a felony and be subject to imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one year nor more than five years, and a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than two thousand dollars.

SECOND AMENDATORY ACT, 1903.

LAWS 1903, P. 159.

MAY 15, 1903.

AN ACT to amend section 4 of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois. entitled "An Act to regulate the manufacture, transportation, use and sale of explosives, and to punish an improper use of the same," approved June 16, 1887, and in force July 1, 1887, and amended by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, approved May 28, 1889, and in force July 1, 1889.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted, etc. That section 4 of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, entitled "An act to regulate the manufacture, transportation, use and sale of explosives, and to punish an improper use of the same," approved June 16, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, as amended by an act of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, approved May 28, 1889, and in force July 1, 1889, be amended so that the same shall read as follows:

SEC. 4. That no person, firm, company or corporation shall make, manufacture or compound, within the limits of this State, any dynamite, nitro chlorate or other explosive compound within one-half (1) mile of any inhabited dwelling,