such courts from being held for the transaction of county business on the first Mondays of December, March, June and September, in every year, as heretofore.

§ 2. That all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are here. by repealed.

§ 3. Whereas, by reason of doubt whether there is any law now in force fixing the terms of the county court of Cook county, an emergency exists requiring this act to take effect immediately: therefore, this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

AN ACT to provide for transferring from county courts of special jurisdiction all causes pending in which the amount claimed to be due, or upon which judgment shall have been rendered in a sum exceeding five hundred dollars, to the circuit court of their respective counties, and also to transfer to said circuit courts all causes pending, together with the judgments, records, files and decrees of all county courts, upon whom chancery jurisdiction has heretofore been conferred by special act.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in all cases where special jurisdiction has been conferred upon county courts in this state prior to the adoption of the constitution of 1870, and where jurisdiction is reduced, under the act entitled "An act to increase the jurisdiction of county courts," in force July 1, 1872, to the sum of five hundred dollars ($500), all causes pending wherein the amount claimed to be due is over five hundred dollars ($500), and all judgments that may have been rendered in said courts for a sum greater than five hundred dollars ($500), together with the files, records and papers pertaining thereto, are hereby transferred to the circuit court of their respective counties.

§ 2. And in all cases where chancery jurisdiction has been conferred upon county courts by special enactment, and such chancery jurisdiction has been repealed, or has ceased to exist, by virtue of said act in force July 1, 1872, all causes pending, together with the records, files and papers pertaining to such chancery jurisdiction, without regard to the amounts in controversy, are hereby transferred to the circuit court of the respective county.

§ 3. All causes transferred from said county courts to the circuit courts, as provided in the foregoing sections of this act, may be tried and disposed of in said circuit courts in the same manner that they might have been in said county courts had their jurisdiction not been reduced.

§ 4. All the records, files and papers pertaining to the cases hereinbefore transferred, shall be transferred to the said circuit courts, and

shall have the same force and effect that they had by law at the time said act of 1872 took effect. And after such records, books and papers have been transferred to said circuit courts, fee bills and executions may issue from such circuit court on judgments rendered in said county courts, which said fee bills and executions shall have the same force and effect as if issued by said county courts before its jurisdiction was reduced.

§ 5. All liens which may have been created, and all rights which may have accrued under and by virtue of any chancery proceedings in said courts, are hereby transferred to said circuit courts, to be there preserved and enforced in the same manner as if original jurisdiction thereof had been taken by said circuit courts.

§ 6. Copies of the records of said county courts, writs, judgments, executions, decrees and orders thereof, and any return upon any such writ by an officer of said courts, or other proceedings, having been had in said county courts, when properly certified by the clerk of said circuit court, may be read and used in evidence in any court of record in this state.

§ 7. All appeals, writs of error, and all proceedings of any kind whatsoever, heretofore taken from or out of said county courts to the supreme court of this state, shall, if remanded or returned for any cause, be remanded or returned to said circuit courts (of the respective counies where said county court is situated), and have the same force and effect in law as if originally begun in said circuit court.

88. Writs of error and appeals may be taken from the judgments and decrees of said county courts to the supreme court as is now provided by law; and the clerks of the circuit courts to which such causes have been transferred, shall make up the records and certify them in the same manner as if they were commenced in the circuit court.

§ 9. Whereas, under the decision of the supreme court, the act in force July 1, 1872, established a uniform jurisdiction in all the county courts of this state; and whereas, under special enactments many county courts were exercising jurisdiction in excess of that established under the act of 1872, and many suits were com menced and judgments rendered for a greater sum than five hundred dollars ($500): therefore, an emergency exists, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED April 25, 1873.

COTRT-SUPERIOR.

§ 1. Appointment of Alexander F. Stevenson, clerk.

§ 2. Bond, and delivery of books, etc.

§ 3. Delivery of books, etc., to his successor, In force July 1, 1873.

AN ACT concerning the Clerks of the Superior Court of Cook county. WHEREAS, under the constitution of this state, the clerks of the su perior court of Chicago, now superior court of Cook county, shall continue in office during the terms for which they were respectively elected and whereas, the term of Augustus Jacobson, the present clerk of said court, expires on the nineteenth day of November, A. D. 1873; there

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That Alexander F. Stevenson, the remaining deputy clerk, shall be the clerk of said superior court of Cook county, on and after the said nineteenth day of November, A. D. 1873, for and during the remaining portion of his unexpired term, and till his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified; said Stevenson to have the same power and perform the same duties as are now possessed or required by said Augustus Jacobson, the present clerk of said superior court.

§ 2. It shall be the duty of the said Alexander F. Stevenson to give a bond payable to the People of the State of Illinois, in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), with security, to be approved by the superior court of Cook county, conditioned for the faithful performance, by said Stevenson, of the duties of said office; and as soon as the term of said Augustus Jacobson shall expire, and bond shall have been given by said Stevenson, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said Augustus Jacobson to deliver to said Alexander F. Stevenson all the books, papers and proceedings of said superior court of Cook county, and also all fund sthat may have been deposited with said Jacobson as clerk of said court.

§ 3. The said Stevenson shall, at the expiration of his term of office, deliver to his successor in office all the books, papers and moneys appertaining thereto.

APPROVED March 20, 1873.

COURTS OF RECORD.

§ 1. Defendant to be sued in the county where he resides. In force July 1, 1874. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section two (2) of an act approved February 22, 1872, entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record," be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

"§ 2. It shall not be lawful for any plaintiff to sue any defendant out of the county where the latter resides or may be found, except in local actions, and except that in every species of personal actions in law, when there is more than one defendant, the plaintiff commencing his action where either of them resides may have his writ or writs issued, directed to any county or counties where the other defendant, or either of them, may be found: Provided, that if a verdict shall not be found, or judgment rendered against the defendant or defendants, resident in the county where the action is commenced, judgment shall not be rendered against those defendants who do not reside in the county, unless they appear and defend the action. Actions against a railroad company may be brought in the county where its principal office is located, or in the county where the cause of action accrued, or in any county into or through which its road may run."

APPROVED February 12, 1874.

§ 1. Suits upon default-jury. In force July 1, 1874.

AN ACT to amend section 40 of an act entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record," approved February 22, 1872.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section 40 of an act entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record,” be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"In all suits in the courts of record in this state upon default, when the damages are to be assessed, it shall be lawful for the court to hear the evidence and assess the damages without a jury for that purpose. In all cases where interlocutory judgment shall be given in any action brought upon a penal bond, or upon any instrument of writing, for the payment of money only, and the damages rest in computation, the court may refer it to the clerk, to assess and report the damages, and may enter judgment therefor: Provided, that either party may have the damages assessed by a jury."

APPROVED March 27, 1874.

§ 1. Instructions to jury. In force July 1, 1874.

AN ACT to amend section 51 of an act entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section 51 of an act entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record," approved February 22, 1872, be so amended as to read as follows:

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"§ 51. The court, in charging the jury, shall only instruct as to the law of the case."

APPROVED January 27, 1874.

§ 1. Amend section 86 of an act approved February 22, 1872-non-resident defendant.

In force July 1, 1873.

AN ACT to amend section eighty-six (86) of an act entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record," approved February 22, 1872.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That section eighty-six (86) of an act entitled "An act in regard to practice in courts of record," approved February 22, 1872, be amended so that said section 86 read as follows: "§ 86. When any plaintiff in error shall file in the office of the clerk of the supreme court an affidavit, showing that any defendant resides, or hath gone out of this state, or on due inquiry cannot be found, or is concealed within this state, so that process cannot be served upon him, and stating the place of residence of such defendant, if known, and also the place of residence of the attorney who appeared in the cause

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their places of residence cannot be ascertained, the clerk of the supreme court shall cause publication to be made in some newspaper published in the county in which the cause was originally instituted, (but if no newspaper shall be published in such county, then such notice shall be published in a newspaper published nearest to said county,) containing notice of the pendency of such suit, the names of the parties thereto, the title of the court, and the time and place of the return of summons in the case; and he shall also, within ten days of the first publication of such notice, send a copy thereof by mail, addressed to such defendant and attorney, whose places of residence are stated in such affidavit. The certificate of the clerk that he has sent such notice in pursuance of this section, shall be evidence. Such notice shall be published for four successive weeks, the first insertion of which said notice shall be at least forty days before the first day of the term of court to which said writ is made returnable; and unless said time has intervened, no proceedings therein shall be had at said term, but the said 'cause shall stand continued to the next term of said court: Provided, that in case both parties appear and consent to a hearing, the said cause may then be heard."

APPROVED April 24, 1873.

CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE.

§ 1. Intimidation- combination — entering coal banks after being prohibited-entering coal banks to commit injury or intimi date workmen.

In force July 1, 1873.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to amend chapter 30 of the Revised Statutes, entitled 'Criminal Jurisprudence,'" approved February 13, 1863.

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 amend chapter 30 of the Revised Statutes, entitled 'Criminal Jurisprudence,' approved February 13, 1863, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

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"1. If any person shall, by threat, intimidation or unlawful interference, seek to prevent any other person from working, or from obtaining work, at any lawful business on any terms that he or she may see fit, such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100. "§ 2. If any two or more persons shall combine, for the purpose of depriving the owner or possessor of property of its lawful use and management, or of preventing by threats, suggestions of danger or any unlawful means, any person or persons from being employed by, or obtaining employment from any such owner or possessor of property, on such terms as the parties concerned may agree upon, such persons so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $500, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months.

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"§ 3. If any person shall enter the coal banks of another without the expressed or implied consent of the owner or manager thereof, after