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upon the trial of such cause, that the executor or administrator has so removed such property, judgment shall be rendered against the offender and his securities for the full value thereof, and such other damages as the parties interested may have sustained by reason thereof.

3. Witness to Appear for Probate-Penalty. It shall be the duty of each and every witness to any will, testament or codicil, made and executed in this state, as aforesaid, to be and appear before the county court on the regular day for the probate of such will, testament or codicil, to testify of and concerning the execution and validity of the same; and the said court shall have power and authority to attach and punish, by fine and imprisonment or either, any witness who shall, without a reasonable excuse, fail to appear when duly summoned for the purpose aforesaid: Provided, the said punishment by imprisonment shall in no case exceed the space of twenty days; nor shall a greater fine be assessed for any such default, than the sum of $50. (Hurd. Ch. 148-3.)

12. Custodian of Will to Deliver-Penalty. Any person or persons who may have in his or her possession any last will or testament of another, for safe keeping or otherwise, shall, immediately upon the death of the testator or testatrix, deliver up said will to the county court of the proper county; and upon a failure or refusal so to do, the county court may issue at tachment and compel the production of the same; and the person or persons thus withholding any such will, testament or codicil, as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay $20 per month, from the time the same shall be thus wrongfully withheld, to be recovered by action of debt for the use of the estate, by any person who will sue for the same, in any court having jurisdiction thereof; and if any person to whom a will, testament or codicil hath been or shall be delivered by the party making it, for safe custody as aforesaid, shall alter or destroy the same without the direction of the said party, or shall willfully secrete it for the space of six months after the death of the testator or testatrix shall be known to him or her, the person so offending shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to such punishment as is or shall be inflicted by law, in cases of larceny. (Hurd Ch. 148.)

ADVERTISING.

An Act restricting the erection of structures for advertising purposes near parks and boulevards, and providing a penalty therefor. (1909.)

300. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, to erect, or cause to be erected, a structure of any kind or character within five hundred (500) feet of any public park or boulevard within the limits of any city in this State having a population of one hundred thousand (100,000) or more, for the purpose of placing advertisements of any kind. or character thereon: and that all bill boards and advertising signs of whatever kind or character that are occupying space contrary to the provisions of this act shall be removed within one year after the passage of this act.

301. Penalty. Any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this act upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) not more than five hundred dollars ($500).

Advertising U. S. Bonds. (1919.)

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to offer in any newspaper, periodical, circular, form or letter to purchase United States bonds of the liberty loans and to offer a price or quotation for any issue of such bonds unless he shall also publish in such advertisement, notice, circular, form or letter the price offered for any and all other issues offered to be purchased.

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to advertise or offer in any periodical, newspaper, circular, form or letter to pay a specific price for United States bonds of the liberty loans unless such person, firm, association or corporation at the time of making such offer, intended to comply strictly with the terms of such offer or advertisement. Whoever shall violate the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment.

Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

AGE.

-Proof of in rape, 276-251 (256).
-Finding in verdict, 280-610; 284-39.
-Proving by church record, 283-398.
-When jury must find, 286-142; 213-72.

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Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, repersented in the General Assembly: This Act shall be known by the short title of "The Plant Inspection Act of 1917."

§2. For the purposes of this Act, the following terms shall be construed, respectively to mean:

Insect pests and diseases :--Insect pests and diseases injurious to plants and plant products of this State, including any of the stages of development of such insect pests and diseases. Plants and plant products:-Trees, shrubs, vines, forage and cereal plants, and all other plants; cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, and all other parts of plants; and fruit, vegetables, roots, bulbs, seeds, wood, lumber, and all other plant products.

Nursery stock:-All field-grown trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings, grafts, scions, buds, fruit-pits, and other seeds of fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs, and other plants and plant products grown or kept for propagation, excepting field, vegetable and flower seeds, bedding plants, and other herbaceous plants, bulbs, and roots.

Nursery-Any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is propagated and grown for sale, or any grounds or premises on or in which nursery stock is being fumigated, treated, packed or stored.

Nurseryman-Any person who owns, leases, manages, or is in charge of a nursery.

Dealer-Any person not a grower of nursery stock in this State, who buys nursery stock for the purpose of reselling and reshipping independent of any control of the nurseryman.

Agent: Any person selling nursery stock under the partial or full control of a nurseryman, or of a dealer or other agent. This term shall also apply to any person engaged with a nurseryman, dealer or agent in handling nursery stock on a cooperative basis.

Places:-Vessels, cars and other vehicles, buildings, docks, nurseries, orchards and other premises, where plants and plant products are grown, kept, or handled.

Persons--Individuals, associations, partnerships and cor

porations.

Words used in the Act shall be construed to import either the plural or the singular, as the case demands.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture to inspect once each year all nurseries and nursery stock in the State of Illinois as to whether they are infested or infected by insect pests and diseases.

§ 4. The Department of Agriculture shall have authority

to inspect any orchard, fruit or garden-plantation, field, park, cemetery, private premises, or public place, and any place which might become infested or infected with insect pests or diseases. It shall also have authority to inspect or to reinspect at any time or place any nursery stock shipped in or into the State, and to treat it as hereinafter provided. For the purposes of inspection, the officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture shall have free access within reasonable hours to any field, orchard, garden, packing ground, building, cellar, freight or express office, warehouse, car, vessel, or other place where it may be necessary or desirable for them to enter in carrying out the provisions of this Act. It shall be unlawful to deny such access to the officers and employees of the Department of Agriculture, or to hinder, thwart, or defeat such inspection by misrepresenting or concealing facts or conditions, or otherwise.

§ 5. Persons desiring to sell or ship nursery stock in this State shall make application in writing before July 1 of each year to the Department of Agriculture for the inspection of their stock, and any nurseryman failing to comply with this section shall be liable to extra charges to cover the expenses of a special trip by the officers or employees of the Department of Agriculture. Every person receiving directly or indirectly any nursery stock from a foreign country shall notify the Department of Agriculture of the arrival of such shipment, of the contents thereof, and of the name of the consigner, and shall hold such shipment unopened until duly inspected or released by such department.

§ 6. It shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture to cause to be inspected at least once each year between July 1 and September 15, all nurseries in the State of Illinois as to whether they are infested by insect pests or infested [infected] by diseases. If upon the inspection of any nursery as above provided it shall appear that said nursery and its premises are apparently free from insect pests and diseases, it shall be the duty of the Department of Agriculture, upon payment of the expenses of inspection, to give or to send to the owner of said nursery or the person in charge of the same, not later than October 1, a certificate executed by the Department of Agriculture setting forth the fact of such inspection, and said certificate shall be valid not to exceed one year from the date thereof. The provisions of this setion shall not apply to florist's gree house plants nor to flowers or cuttings commonly known as greenhouse stock. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or to offer for sale or to remove or ship from a nur

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