Actual Government in IllinoisCentury Company, 1917 - 236 páginas |
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Página 151 - SECTION 1. The executive department shall consist of a governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, auditor of public accounts...
Página 16 - Chicago does not ask us to die for her welfare; she asks us to live for her, and so to live and so to act that her government may be pure, her officers honest, and every corner of her territory shall be a place fit to grow the best men and women who shall rule over her.
Página 188 - The intent and purpose of this act are to provide humane and scientific treatment and care and the highest attainable degree of individual development for the dependent wards of the state ; "To provide for the delinquent such wise conditions of modern education and training as will restore the largest possible portion of them to useful citizenship; "To promote the study of the causes of dependency and delinquency, and of mental...
Página 165 - The general assembly shall provide a thorough and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of this state may receive a good common school education.
Página 202 - Every person having resided in this State one year, in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty days next preceding any election therein, who was an elector in this State on the first day of April, in the year of our Lord...
Página 159 - ... the judicial powers, except as in this article is otherwise provided, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, county courts, justices of the peace, police magistrates and such courts as may be created by law in and for cities and incorporated towns...
Página 160 - First, and which are of a general nature and not local to that kingdom, shall be the rule of decision, and shall be considered as of full force until repealed by legislative authority.
Página 188 - To promote the study of the causes of dependency and delinquency, and of mental, moral and physical defects, with a view to cure and ultimate prevention...
Página 201 - ... of the State Board of Equalization, clerk of the Appellate Court, county collector, county surveyor, members of board of assessors, members of board of review, sanitary district trustees, and for all officers of cities, villages and towns (except police magistrates), and upon all questions or propositions submitted to a vote of the electors of such municipalities or other...
Página 175 - The progress made in civil-service reform furnishes a cause for the utmost congratulation. It has survived the doubts of its friends as well as the rancor of its enemies, and has gained a permanent place among the agencies destined to cleanse our politics and to improve, economize, and elevate the public service.