AN ACT to change the time of holding the county court of Cook county. In force Feb. 28, 1867. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That, here- Terms changed after, the terms of said county court of Cook county shall be held on the first Monday of each month, instead of the third Monday. § 2. All proceedings, matters or things required to be done on the third Monday of any month in said court shall be done and performed on the first Monday of the same month. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its APPROVED February 28, 1867. passage. AN ACT to enable county courts to settle up estates of deceased persons In force March and minors. 5, 1867. sue to sheriffs. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in Process may isall cases where jurisdiction of the subject matter has been heretofore or may be hereafter conferred upon county courts in this State, as limited by law, it shall be lawful to issue mesne and final process to the sheriff of all counties in this state, as is now done in the circuit courts of this state, to obtain jurisdiction over the person of defendants, and to enforce orders or collect judgments, in such county courts: Provided, that this act shall not be construed as extending to any case where an executor, administrator or guardian is not a party plaintiff or defendant. § 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. APPROVED March 5, 1867. AN ACT to fix the compensation of judges and associate judges of the In force March county courts of certain counties therein named. 5, 1867. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, [That] the Additional comjudges and associated judges of the county courts of the fol- pensation. lowing named counties shall receive a compensation for each day they or either of them shall necessarily be engaged in holding terms of county court, the sum of five dollars per day, to-wit: Calhoun, Jersey, Greene, Scott, Morgan, Macoupin, Christian, Montgomery, Shelby, Bond and Wabash. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 5, 1867. In force March AN ACT to change the time of holding the semi-annual terms of the county courts of Vermilion county. 7, 1867. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereTerm changed. after, the terms of said court, as provided for in section number three of an act entitled "An act to amend an act establishing county courts," approved February 12, 1849, and to extend the jurisdiction of the county court of Vermilion county, approved February 24, 1859, be held on the first Mondays in June and December, of each year. Processes. § 2. All processes heretofore issued or which may hereafter be issued by or from said court and made returnable on the fourth Monday of July next, and all causes in said court which have been continued to the next July term of said court, shall be deemed returnable on and continued to the first Monday in June, 1867. 3. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 7, 1867. In force March AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of the county court of DeKalb county," approved February 12, 1863. 7, 1867. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Powers of cir- judge of said county court may interchange with the judge cuit judges. of any circuit or other court in this state, with the same rights, duties and powers as are or may be conferred upon judges of the circuit courts in this state in like cases. APPROVED March 7, 1867. AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of the county court of Marion county. In force March 9, 1867. creased. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Jurisdiction in county court of Marion county, when sitting for probate business, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts of this state in all suits or actions in assumpsit or debt, in suits on applications for the assignment of widow's dower in the lands of the deceased husband, in suits of petition for partition of lands, and applications of guardians for the sale of lands of minors for the support and education of said minors. § 2. The process of said court shall be issued by the Process. clerk of said court, under the seal thereof, and directed to the sheriff of the proper county, and executed as now provided by law for the execution of process issued out of the circuit courts of this state; and the practice and proceedings in said county court shall be the same as in the circuit courts of this state, in similar cases; and all orders, judg ments and decrees of said court shall be of the same force and have the same effect on real and personal property, which orders, judgments and decrees made or rendered by the circuit courts of this state, now or hereafter may have by law. § 3. Appeals and writs of error may be prosecuted Appeals to. from all final orders, judgments and decrees of said court, to the supreme court of this state, in the same manner that appeals and writs of error are taken from the circuit courts of this state. justices. S 4. All appeals from the final decisions and judgments Appeals from made or rendered by the justices of the peace of said county of Marion, in civil suits, may be taken to said county court. 5. The clerk, sheriff, and other officers of said court, shall receive the several fees and compensations that now are or hereafter may be allowed by law for similar services in the circuit courts of this state; and each juror sworn in said court, on making affidavit of service during the term, shall be entitled to fifty cents in each case, and mileage at the rate of five cents per mile, going and returning to his residence from the county seat, which shall be taxed and collected as other costs. § 6. Said county court shall have power to prescribe all Powers. rules and regulations for the selection, summoning and empanneling jurors for the trial of all cases provided for in this act. nue. 7. Any person or party to any suit or proceeding in Change of vesaid court may apply in said county court for a change of venue to the circuit court of said Marion county, on filing in said county court a petition, under oath, setting forth that he, she or they verily believe that the county judge of Docket fees. Secretary of state. said county of Marion is so prejudiced against him, her or them, that he, she or they can not have a fair and impartial trial in said county court. The said county judge shall thereupon grant a change of venue to the circuit court of said Marion county; and said cause shall thereupon be set down for trial in said circuit court the same as if originally instituted therein; and the clerk of said county court, within twenty days after the adjournment of any term of said county court, at which such change of venue shall be granted, shall make a perfect transcript of all the proceedings had in said case in said county court, which shall be certified as true and correct by the clerk of said county court, under the seal thereof; which, together with all the papers appertaining to said suit, shall, within the said twenty days, be returned by said clerk of said county court to the circuit clerk's office of said county; and said suit shall be by said circuit clerk docketed as original suits are docketed in said circuit court, and shall be tried in said circuit court as suits instituted therein are tried. § 8. The clerk of said county court shall tax and collect a docket fee of one dollar in each suit or proceeding heard and determined in said court, under the authority as provided for by this act, which docket fee, when collected, shall be paid over to the county judge of said county, in addition to the compensation now allowed him by law. All of which costs and fees, made or accruing in any proceeding or suit had in said court, under or by virtue of this act, may be collected of the party or parties making the said costs, by execution or fee bill, issued by the clerk of said county court. The said docket fee shall be collected by the clerk of said court on the commencement of each suit. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. § 9. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of state transmit to the clerk of the county court of said county of Marion, immediately, a certified copy of this act, with the seal of state attached. APPROVED, March 9, 1867. COURT-SUPREME. AN ACT fixing the time of holding the supreme court in the first grand In force Feb. 16, division. 1867. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter Term changed. the supreme court shall be held in the first grand division on the second Tuesday of June in each and every year, instead of being held in November, as now required, and shall continue in session until all the causes on the docket are disposed of. § 2. All process which have been, or shall be made Process. returnable to the November term of said court, shall be taken and held to be returnable to the term fixed by this act. $ 3. This act to take effect and be in force from after its passage. APPROVED February 16, 1867. AN ACT fixing the terms of the supreme court in the first and third grand In force Feb. 22, divisions. 1867. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That after Term fixed. the next April term of the supreme court, to be held in the third grand division, at Ottawa, as now provided by law, the subsequent terms of said court shall be begun and held at Ottawa, on the second Tuesday in September of each and every year, and continued as now provided by law. § 2. The said court for the first grand division shall Mt. Vernon. hereafter be begun and held at Mt. Vernon, on the first Tuesday in June, of each and every year, and continue as now provided by law. § 3. All process which may have been, or shall be issued Process. from the supreme court in the first grand division, and made returnable to the November term, shall be taken and held to be returnable to the June term, as established by this act. $ 4. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED February 22, 1867. |