(HOUSE BILL No. 558. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1921.) AN ACT to amend section 70 of "An Act in regard to the administration of estates," approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 70 of "An Act in regard to the administration of estates," approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended, is amended to read as follows: $70. Demands Classified-Limitations. All demands against the estate of any testator or intestate shall be divided into classes in manner following, to-wit: First. Funeral expenses and necessary cost of administration. Second. The widow's award, if there be a widow; or children, if there are children and no widow. Third. Expenses attending last illness, including physicians bill, and demands due common laborers or household servants of deceased for labor. Fourth. Debts due the common school fund or township. Fifth. Where the deceased has received money in trust for any purpose, his executor or administrator shall pay out of his estate the amount thus received and not accounted for. Sixth. All other debts and demands of whatever kind without regard to quality or dignity, which shall be exhibited to the court within one year from granting of letters as aforesaid, and all demands not exhibited within one year as aforesaid shall be forever barred unless the creditors shall find other estate of the deceased not inventoried or accounted for by the executor or administrator, in which case their claims shall be paid pro rata out of such subsequently discovered estate, saving however, to infants, persons of unsound mind, persons without the United States, in the employment of the United States, or of this State, the term of one year after their respective disabilities are removed to exhibit their claims. APPROVED June 28, 1921. SANDS LIBRARY LAWS OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATION OF ESTATES. CLASSIFICATION OF DEMANDS. § 1. Amends section 70, Act of 1872. § 70. Demands classified-limit- (HOUSE BILL No. 558. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1921.) AN ACT to amend section 70 of "An Act in regard to the administration of estates," approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 70 of "An Act in regard to the administration of estates," approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended, is amended to read as follows: $70. Demands Classified-Limitations. All demands against the estate of any testator or intestate shall be divided into classes in manner following, to-wit: First. Funeral expenses and necessary cost of administration. Second. The widow's award, if there be a widow; or children, if there are children and no widow. Third. Expenses attending last illness, including physicians bill, and demands due common laborers or household servants of deceased for labor. Fourth. Debts due the common school fund or township. Fifth. Where the deceased has received money in trust for any purpose, his executor or administrator shall pay out of his estate the amount thus received and not accounted for. Sixth. All other debts and demands of whatever kind without regard to quality or dignity, which shall be exhibited to the court within one year from granting of letters as aforesaid, and all demands not exhibited within one year as aforesaid shall be forever barred unless the creditors shall find other estate of the deceased not inventoried or accounted for by the executor or administrator, in which case their claims shall be paid pro rata out of such subsequently discovered estate, saving however, to infants, persons of unsound mind, persons without the United States, in the employment of the United States, or of this State, the term of one year after their respective disabilities are removed to exhibit their claims. APPROVED June 28, 1921. AGRICULTURE. POULTRY HUSBANDRY. § 1. Duty of Department of Agriculture through the board of poultry husbandry. (HOUSE BILL No. 518. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1921.) AN ACT in relation to poultry husbandry. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture through the board of poultry husbandry. 1. To print publish and distribute pamphlets, documents, reports and bulletins on poultry husbandry dealing with the housing, yarding, feeding, breeding, brooding of poultry and methods of selecting stock, of incubation, of exhibiting and judging and of treating the diseases of poultry; 2. To conduct poultry educational exhibits at county fairs and the State fair and at county and State farmers' institute meetings; 3. To provide lecturers and instructors for farmers institutes, who shall give instruction in poultry husbandry; 4. To conduct egg laying contests and award prizes to the winning contestants; 5. To assist, in every way that may be practicable, persons interested in poultry farming. (SENATE BILL No. 72. APPROVED JUNE 27, 1921.) AN ACT to regulate the grading, packing, branding and sale of apples in closed packages. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Apples grown in Illinois when packed in closed packages shall be graded as follows: 1. "Illinois Fancy" grade shall consist of hand picked, properly packed apples, of one variety, which are uniform in size, of good color for the variety, and which are free from insect injury, diseases, and other defects except such bruises and defects as are necessarily caused in the operation of packing. However, a variation from this standard. as to freedom from diseases, insect injuries and other defects is allowed not to exceed five (5) per centum of any one such defect or a total of ten (10) per centum of all such defects. Apples in a closed package are uniform in size if they do not vary more than one-half inch in diameter. 2. "Illinois Number One" grade shall consist of hand picked, properly packed apples, of one variety, of fair color for the variety, which are free from insect injury, diseases, and other defects except such bruises and defects as are necessarily caused in the operation of packing. A variation, however, from this standard as to freedom from insect injury, diseases, and other defects, is allowed not to exceed ten (10) per centum of any one such defect or a total of twenty (20) per centum of all such defects. 3. "Illinois Commercial" grade shall consist of hand picked, properly packed apples, of one variety, which are free from insect injury, diseases, and other defects, except such insect injuries, diseases and other defects as do not materially deform, disfigure or discolor the fruit, and such bruises and defects as are necessarily caused in the operation of packing. However, a variation from the said standard as to freedom from insect injury, diseases, and other defects, is allowed not to exceed twenty (20) per centum of material defects. 4. “Private Brand" grades shall consist of all apples not conforming to the foregoing classification. § 2. Every closed package containing apples grown in the State of Illinois, sold, offered or exposed for sale, shall bear upon the outside, in plain letters and figures, the name and address of the packer or of the person by whose authority the apples were packed, the true name of the variety, the grade of the apples therein contained, and the minimum size or the numerical count of the apples in the package. If the true name of the variety is not known to the packer, or to the person by whose authority the apples are packed or branded, then such variety shall be designated as "unknown". The letters and figures used in marking or branding. closed packages of apples under this Act shall be of a size not less. than one-half inch high. § 3. "Closed package" means any package which is constructed in such manner as to require the removal of the cover or head for an inspection of the contents. The minimum size of the fruit in all grades is determined by taking the transverse diameter of the smallest fruit in the package. Minimum sizes may be designated by figures or words and the word "minimum" may be abbreviated to "min". Variations from the standard are determined by counting or weighing the specimens judged to be below the grade standard in any respect. 4. The marks and brands prescribed in this Act may be accompanied by additional marks or brands which are not inconsistent with, or more conspicuous than and which do not in any way obscure, the marks and brands prescribed. § 5. It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture to enforce this Act, and its inspectors, agents and employes are |