410 ILCS 610/1

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, company or corporation, within this State, to operate, carry on, or conduct the business of manufacturing butter or cheese, on the co-operative or dividend plan, until such person or persons, company or corporation, shall have filed with the circuit clerk, or recorder of the county in which it is proposed to carry on such business, a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by such circuit clerk, or recorder, in the penal sum of$6,000, with one or more good sureties, conditioned that such person or persons, company or corporation, proposing to carry on such business, will, on or before the first day of each month, make, acknowledge, subscribe and swear to a report in writing, showing the amount of products manufactured, the amount sold, the prices received therefor, and the dividends earned and declared for the third month preceding the month in which such report is made; and will file a copy of such report with the clerk of the town or precinct in which such factory is located; and will also keep publicly posted in a conspicuous place in such factory a copy of such report for the inspection of the patrons thereof, and that such dividends shall be promptly paid to the persons entitled thereto. (Source: P.A. 83-358.)