and Buildings as aforesaid, have the authority to specify any one of the herein designated types of roads. In case the board of supervisors or county commissioners do not desire to exercise the privilege and power herein conferred upon them as to designating the type of road to be builded and shall so notify the Department of Public Works and Buildings, then it shall be the duty of the Department of Public Works and Buildings to specify the type of road to be builded: Provided, nothing herein contained shall prohibit the State and county jointly, at any future time, rebuilding and changing, under the provisions of this Act, an earth, gravel or macadam type of road, patented or otherwise, to any other more permanent type herein specified: Provided further, that when a gravel or macadam road is constructed, the county shall pay one-half of the cost of such maintenance: And, provided, further, that when an earth road is constructed the county shall pay the entire cost of maintenance: And, whenever any county, after having been given reasonable notice by the Department, shall fail properly to maintain any earth road improved as a State aid road or provide the funds for paying one-half the cost of maintaining a gravel or macadam road, the Department of Public Works and Buildings is hereby authorized to withhold from such county all State aid allotments during the time said county is delinquent: And, provided, that a road or part thereof lying within the corporate limits of any city or village having a population of twenty thousand (20,000) inhabitants or less, as shown by the last Federal census, situate within any county of the third class, may be improved or constructed with State aid, to connect or complete, by the most direct route, a State aid road already improved or constructed or being improved or constructed to the corporate limits of such city or village.

§ 9a. A road or part thereof lying within the corporate limits of any city, village or town having a population of seven thousand five hundred inhabitants or less, as shown by the last preceding Federal census, or that portion of any street or road along which the residences average more than two hundred feet apart, shall be improved or constructed by the State to connect or complete by the most direct route any hard-surfaced road forming a part of the State highways system as defined in "An Act in relation to State highways," approved June 24, 1921, already improved or constructed, or being improved or constructed to the corporate limits of such city, village or town. The cost of such road for the same width and of the same materials as outside of the corporate limits, shall be paid entirely by the State. By agreement between the Department of Public Works and Buildings and the common council or board of trustees, a road or street of greater width and different matreials may be constructed through such city, village or town by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, such city, village or town to pay the excess cost, if any, for the greater width or different material, but the State shall thereafter maintain such road within the corporate limits. Provided, that in case any such city,

village or town has constructed or has started to construct such a road since January 1, 1922, the State shall upon the completion thereof thereafter maintain such road and shall refund to such city, village or town the cost of constructing same for the same width as the road outside the corporate limits. The money so refunded shall be paid into the general corporate fund in case the cost of constructing the road was paid out of such fund or if the cost of constructing the road was paid by special taxation or special assessment the money shall be distributed to each person who owns such assessed or taxed property at the time such distribution is made in proportion to the amounts assessed or taxed against such property.

FILED June 25, 1923.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-fifth day of June, A. D., 1923. LOUIS L. EMMERSON,

AN ACT to add section 15e to Article IV of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, as amended.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. Section 15e is added to Article IV of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, as amended, the added section to read as follows:

§ 15e. After any county shall, prior to the approval and taking effect of this Act, have determined to advance the money for the entire cost of constructing such State-aid roads, or shall have submitted to the voters, prior to the approval and taking effect of this Act the question whether such county shall issue the bonds of such county for the purpose of constructing or improving such State-aid roads, and the majority of the voters voting at the election shall have voted in favor of the issuance of such county bonds. the county superintendent of highways shall cause proper surveys to be made and prepare suitable maps, plans, specifications and estimates of the cost of the proposed improvement, and the county board of such county shall thereafter make the contracts for the construction or improvement of such State-aid roads, all of which shall be approved by the Department of Public Works and Buildings.

§ 2. Because of the fact that many contracts for road work are being held up because of doubt as to the proper procedure under the law, and because it is necessary that these contracts be let as soon as possible in order to accomplish any construction this

summer, therefore an emergency exists, and this Act shall take effect upon its passage.

APPROVED June 19, 1923.

STATE AID ROADS-MILEAGE.

§ 1. Amend section 11, Act of 1913. $ 11. Total mileage.

(HOUSE BILL No. 447.

APPROVED JUNE 21, 1923.)

AN ACT to amend section 11 of Article IV of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, as amended.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. Section 11 of Article IV of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

ARTICLE IV.

§ 11. Such highways shall not include any portion of a public highway within the corporate limits of any city or village, except as in section 9 of this Act provided; nor shall the total mileage of such highway in any county exceed, in counties of the first class, more than twenty per centum of the total public road mileage of that county, nor exceed twenty-five per centum of the public road mileage in counties of the second class, and shall not exceed thirty per centum of the public road mileage in counties of the third class. By public roads it is understood to mean all public roads within the State except those within the limits of such incorporated cities and villages as are by section 9 of this Act excluded; the public road mileage of the counties to be that as determined and published by the State highway commis

sion.

APPROVED June 21, 1923.

STATE AID ROADS-REDUCTION OF TAXES FOR DISTRICT.

§ 1. Adds section 112a to Act of 1913.

§ 112a. When township or dis

trict road becomes a

State aid road.

(SENATE BILL No. 451. APPROVED JUNE 29, 1923)

AN ACT to add section 112a to Subdivision VIII of Article VI of “An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, as amended.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. Section 112a is added to Subdivision VIII of Article VI of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, as amended, this section to read as follows:

§ 112a. If, after an election has been had and an annual special tax or an issuance of bonds has been approved as authorized by sec

tions 108 and 112, any road or portion of a road of the township or district which was described in the petition or selected for improvement, has been or is designated by the county board and approved by the State as a State-aid road so that the duty of improving, repairing and maintaining such road or portion no longer rests upon the township or district, then the annual special tax for the balance of the period named in the petition or the amount of the bonds to be issued shall be reduced in proportion to the mileage of the road or portion so taken as a State-aid road. If the special tax has been levied and collected or bonds issued and sold in pursuance of such an election and the proceeds or portion thereof have not been expended for such purpose, at the time such road or portion thereof is taken as a State-aid road, then an amount of such proceeds or portion thereof in proportion to the mileage of such road or portion thereof shall be paid over to the road and bridge fund of the townships or district and shall be used for the same purpose and in the same manner, as other moneys in such road and bridge fund.

AN ACT concerning State highway maintenance police.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

SECTION 1. The Department of Public Works and Buildings, by the director thereof, is authorized to appoint not to exceed one hundred persons as State highway maintenance police, as they are from time to time required.

§2. The appointment of such maintenance police shall be made by the Director of Public Works and Buildings, without reference to civil service, who shall issue a commission to each such appointee over his hand and the seal of said department, which commission shall also be signed by the superintendent of highways. Such maintenance police shall be citizens of the United States and residents of the State of Illinois, and before entering upon the duties of their office, they shall execute a good and sufficient bond, payable to the People of the State of Illinois, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as such maintenance police, the same to be approved by the Director of Public Works and Buildings. No person, however, shall be appointed to serve as a State highway maintenance policeman, unless he has the physical and mental qualifications required of privates in the United States Army, the possession of such qualifications to be determined by the Director of

the Department of Public Works and Buildings, by a suitable examination. In making such appointments, preference shall be given to persons who have served in the United States Army or Navy, if such applicants possess the required qualifications.

§ 3. Before entering upon the duties of his office, each State highway maintenance policeman shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation in the form prescribed by section 25, Article 5 of the Constitution. The superintendent of highways is authorized to administer said oath; which shall thereupon remain and be filed in his office.

§ 4. Said State highway maintenance policemen, if and when appointed, have power and it is their special duty to enforce the provisions of the "Motor Vehicle Law"; and of Article VIII of "An Act to revise the law in relation to roads and bridges," approved June 27, 1913, as amended; to patrol the public highways and rural districts to make arrests for violations of the provisions of said Acts; they are conservators of the peace and as such have all powers possessed by policemen in cities, and sheriffs, except that the maintenance policemen hereby authorized may exercise such powers anywhere in this State. The State highway maintenance policemen shall cooperate with the police of cities, villages and incorporated towns, and with the police officers of any county, in enforcing the laws of the State and in making arrests and recovering property, and it shall be their duty to collect delinquent automobile license fees. They may be equipped with standardized and tested devices for weighing motor vehicles and may stop and weigh, acting reasonably, or cause to be weighed, any motor vehicle which appears to weigh in excess of the weight permitted by law. It shall also be the duty of said State highway maintenance police to determine, whenever possible, the person or persons or the causes responsible for the breaking or destruction of any improved hard-surfaced roadway; to arrest all persons criminally responsible for such breaking or destruction, and bring them before the proper officers for trial. The Department of Public Works and Buildings shall divide the State into districts, assign each district to one or more maintenance policemen, and cause the latter each week to inspect all State highways within the district assigned to him or them and report the condition of such highways to the superintendent of highways.

5. The Department of Public Works and Buildings may pur chase and furnish to such maintenance policemen appropriate uniforms, and such motorcycles and other equipment as may be necessary, and a metal star or badge bearing the words, "Illinois State Highway Maintenance Police".

§ 6. The salaries of such maintenance policemen are authorized to be paid from the funds appropriated to said department for maintenance of highways. The salary to be paid to any such policeman shall be determined by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, but no such policeman shall be paid to exceed one hundred fifty dollars a month.

§ 7. Said Department of Public Works and Buildings may, in addition to the number of appointments authorized in section 1 hereof,