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In force March AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of the county court of Marion county.

12, 1869.

Repeal.

Suits transfer

court.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of the county court of Marion county," approved March 9th, 1867, be and the same is hereby repealed.

§ 2. All suits and proceedings now pending and undered to circuit termined in said court, and which became cognizable in said court by virtue of the extension of the jurisdiction. under said act, shall be transferred by the clerk of said county court to the office of the clerk of the circuit court of said county, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court of said county to docket such cases, and the circuit court shall proceed the same as in other cases.

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§ 3. The secretary of state shall immediately transmit, to the clerk of the circuit court and to the clerk of the county court of said Marion county, a certified copy of this

act.

4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 12. 1869.

COUNTY JUDGES.

In force March 30, 1869.

AN ACT to provide for filling vacancies in the office of county judges.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in case of any vacancy in the office of county judge in this state within one year of the time fixed by law for the election of county judges, it shall be the duty of the governor to appoint a judge to fill such vacancy, who shall hold his office until the time fixed by law for the election of such judges; but if any vacancy shall occur more than one year previous to the time fixed by law for the election of such judges, it shall be the duty of the governor to issue a writ of election to the county in which such vacancy may occur, fixing the time for the holding of an election to fill such vacancy, and requiring the sheriff of such county to give twenty days' notice of the time of holding such election, which election shall be conducted in the saine manner as if

the election of such judge had taken place at the regular time fixed by law.

$2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 30, 1869.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the compensa- In force March tion of county judges," approved February 26, 1867.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of section two of the above entitled act, approved February 26, 1867, as exempts Tazewell county from the effects and operation of said act, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that the provisions of said act, to which this is an amendment, are hereby extended to Tazewell county.

§ 2.

passage.

This act shall be in force from and after its

APPROVED March 25, 1869.

25, 1869.

80, 1869.

AN ACT to provide for an interchange of holding court by the judge of the In force March county court of Cook county, and the judges of the various courts of record in Cook county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That any of the judges of the various courts of record in said Cook county may, in case of the absence or sickness of the judge of said county court of Cook county, hold the said county court of Cook county at the request of the judge thereof.

2. This act shall be deemed a public act, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 30, 1869.

In force March AN ACT to provide for additional compensation to the county judge of Jo 30, 1869. Daviess county, in this state.

exceed $1200.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the Salary not to board of supervisors of JoDaviess county, in this state, are hereby authorized to vote such additional compensation to the county judge of said county, in addition to the compensation now allowed by law, as shall, by said board, be deemed proper: Provided, that the entire amount paid. both of per diem and allowance, shall not exceed the sum of twelve hundred dollars.

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2. Whatever provision shall be made under section one of this act shall be made at the annual meeting of said board in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and quadrennially thereafter; and no change in the amount of allowance shall be made during the term of any person holding said office which shall affect the person then holding said office.

APPROVED March 30, 1869.

force March AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of the county judge of Lee county, Illinois,

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4, 1869.

Jurisdiction of

extended.

where acting as a justice of the peace.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That, hereCounty judge after, the county judge of Lee county, where acting as justice of the peace, shall have jurisdiction in all actions in which justices of the peace in the state of Illinois have jurisdiction, and in which the amount claimed does not exceed six hundred dollars ($600).

Change venue.

of § 2. Change of venue shall be allowed in all cases pending before said judge, when acting as aforesaid, as now allowed by law, where the amount claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars, and in no other cases.

3. This act shall be a public act, and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 4, 1869.

13, 1869.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to extend the jurisdiction of In force March the county judge of Will county, Illinois, while acting as a justice of the peace."

Jurisdiction of county judge

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That changes of venue shall be allowed in the same manner now allowed by law in cases where the amount in controversy does not extended. exceed one hundred dollars, in all cases pending before the county judge of Will county, when acting as a justice of the peace, to the next nearest justice of the peace; and whenever such change of venue is taken the said justice of the peace shall have equal jurisdiction with said county judge.

$2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 13, 1869.

COUNTY RECORDS.

AN ACT to legalize certain records of the county court, and board of su- In force March

pervisors of Iroquois county.

9, 1869.

WHEREAS, in October, A. D. 1866, the records of the Preamble. county court, and the board of supervisors of Iroquois county, were partially destroyed by fire; and whereas, by orders of the county court and the board of supervisors of said county, the county clerk of said county has copied all of said partially destroyed records, so far as the same were legible; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all

copies so made, by the county clerk of said county, of the Copies of derecords partially destroyed as in the preamble to this act stroyed records. recited, be and the same are hereby declared to be prima facie evidence of the matters and things therein stated.

2. This act shall not be construed to supersede or repeal an act now in force to provide for restoring said records, only so far as the same may be inconsistent with this

act.

APPROVED March 9, 1869.

In force March AN ACT relating to the records of the county court of Marshall county. 25, 1869.

Preamble.

ized.

strued,

WHEREAS, the records of the county court of Marshall county relating to probate business were informally kept, during the time Washington E. Cook was clerk of said court and during the time Jason R. Chapman was clerk of said court, and the proceedings, orders, judgments and decrees of said court were, during said time, imperfectly recorded; therefore,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That said Records legal records are hereby legalized; and all entries on the books and records of said court, of the allowance of claims against estates, which have been kept by headed lists and columns, in figures and abbreviations, used in such record, Liberally con- shall be taken and construed liberally and according to the evident intendment of said county court; and whenever it appears from said imperfect records that any claim. or claims were allowed against any estate by said county court, the same shall have the same force and effect of an order and judgment, as fully as if written out in a formal order of judgment, separately, whenever it shall appear by the records of said court that the same was so intended by said county court.

§ 2. This shall be deemed a public act, and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED March 25, 1869.

COUNTY SEATS.

In force March AN ACT to provide for the removal of the county seat of Knox county.

10, 1869.

to vote on re

seat.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an Knox county election shall be held in the county of Knox, in the state of moval of county Illinois, at the usual places of holding elections, on the first Tuesday in April next, at the usual places of holding elections in said county, at which election the legal voters of said county shall be entitled to vote for or against the removal of the county seat of said county from Knoxville to the city of Galesburg.

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