§ 16. The keeper of the jail shall furnish each prisoner daily with as much clean water as may be necessary for drink and personal cleanliness, and serve him three times a day with wholesome food, well cooked. and in sufficient quantity. On and after the first Monday in December, 1918, the keeper of the jail in counties of the first and second class shall procure at the expense of the county, all necessary foods and provisions for the support of the prisoners confined in the jail, and when authorized by the county board so to do may employ at the expense of the county a suitable person or persons to prepare the food for the prisoners and to serve the same.

The said jailer shall from time to time consult with the county board as to the quantity, kinds and quality of foods and provisions necessary and proper to be procured. All bills for such food and provisions, and for the preparation and service of the same, shall be audited and allowed by the county board and paid from the county treasury. The keeper of the jail shall file with the clerk of the county board on or before the fifth day of each month an itemized report of the foods and provisions procured during the month for which the report is made, and of all expenses for employees authorized to be employed, which report shall have attached thereto a list of all bills, vouchers, or other evidences of purchases or employment, together with a statement that the food and provisions reported as purchased, were purchased and used solely for the prisoners and that all accounts for employment are for employees authorized by the county board. Said report shall be signed and sworn to by the keeper of the jail.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

JOINT TENANTS.

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.

§ 1. Joint tenants-rights-obligations.

(HOUSE BILL No. 702. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 1 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to joint rights and obligations," approved February 25, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 1 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to joint rights and obligations," approved February 25, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That if partition be not made between joint tenants, the parts of those who die first shall not accrue to the survivors, but descend or pass by device, and shall be subject to debts, dower, charges, etc., or transmissible to executors or administrators, and be considered, to every intent and purpose, in the same view as if such deceased joint tenants had been tenants in common, provided that when a deposit in any bank or trust company transacting business in this State

has been made or shall hereafter be made in the names of two or more persons, payable to them, jointly or severally evidenced by a writing signed by them when the account is opened, such deposit or any part thereof or any interest or dividend thereon may be paid to any one of said persons, whether the other or others be living or not; When an agreement permitting such payment is signed by all said persons at the time the account is opened or thereafter and the receipt or acquittance of the person so paid shall be valid and sufficient discharge from all parties to the bank for any payments so made.

AN ACT to amend sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 27a, 28, 29 and 30 of an Act entitled, “An Act in regard to judgments and decrees and the manner of enforcing the same by execution and to provide for the redemption of real estate sold under execution or decree," approved March 22, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts, and to make the amendments and repeal effected hereby inapplicable to sales of real estate made pursuant to decrees foreclosing mortgages or trust deeds executed prior to July 1, 1917, or foreclosing mechanic's liens or vendor's liens arising out of contracts existing prior to July 1, 1917, or made pursuant to a judgment or decree for breach of a contract existing prior to July 1, 1917, or any judgment or decree entered prior to July 1, 1917."

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 27a, 28, 29 and 30 of an Act entitled, "An Act in regard to judgments and decrees and the manner of enforcing the

same by execution and to provide for the redemption of real estate sold under execution or decree," approved March 22, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended by subsequent Acts, be and the same hereby are amended so as to read as follows:

§ 16. When any real estate shall be levied upon by virtue of any execution as aforesaid or shall be directed to be sold in satisfaction of any judgment or decree of foreclosure of mortgage, enforcement of mechanic's lien or vendor's lien or for the payment of money, it shall be the duty of the sheriff, master in chancery, or other officer making such levy or directed to make such sale, at once to make and deliver to said judgment or decree creditor a certificate containing the names of the parties as set forth in said judgment or decree, the date of said judgment or decree and the amount due thereon, including interest, together with a description of the real estate levied on or directed to be sold and costs accrued and the cost of recording a copy of said certificate, and thereupon at the cost of said judgment or decree creditor shall file in the office of the recorder of the county in which the real estate is situated a duplicate of such certificate.

§ 17. To recover the debt found due in a decree execution may issue as in judgments at law against the lands and tenements, goods and chattels of the person held personally liable to pay the debt so found due.

On cause shown the court may, at any time before sale, appoint a receiver of real estate, or any part thereof, described in the bill or decree of foreclosure, enforcement of mechanic's lien, vendor's lien and of the rents, issues and profits arising therefrom.

§ 18. Any defendant, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns or any person interested in the real estate through or under such defendant may, within twelve months from the date of such certificate, or within fifteen months therefrom if there shall be no redemption by a decree or judgment creditor as hereinafter provided, pay to the sheriff, master in chancery, or other officer issuing said certificate, or his successor in office, for the benefit of the decree or judgment creditor, his executors, administrators or assigns holding such certificate, the amount due as set forth in said certificate, together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of said certificate, and all other sums due under said certificate according to the provisions of this Act. Said certificate shall thereupon be null and void.

19. It shall be the duty of the sheriff, master in chancery, or other officer or person who executed said certificate, upon payment to him of said sum as aforesaid to make out an instrument in writing under his hand and seal evidencing such satisfaction, which shall be recorded. in the recorder's office of the proper county, which recording shall be paid for by the party so satisfying said judgment or decree.

20. If such decree or judgment shall not be satisfied, as aforesaid, any decree or judgment creditor, his executors, administrators or assigns may, after the expiration of twelve months and within fifteen months after the date of said certificate, redeem the said real estate in the following manner: Such creditor, his executors, administrators or assigns may sue out an execution upon his judgment or decree, and place

the same in the hands of the sheriff or other proper officer to execute the same, who shall endorse upon the back thereof a levy of the real estate desired to be redeemed, and the person desiring to make such redemption shall pay to such officer the amount due, as set forth in said certificate with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date thereof and all other sums due under said certificate according to the provisions of this Act, as shown in said certificate, together with costs, as therein set forth, for the use of such creditor, his executors, administrators, or assigns; whereupon such officer shall, at the cost of the redeeming creditor, make and deliver to the person so redeeming a certificate of such redemption, setting forth the amount of redemption money paid and when paid, the amount of the judgment or decree upon which execution issued and when issued, the amount of costs paid by said redeeming creditor, and at the cost of the person so redeeming thereupon file in the office of the recorder of the county in which the real estate is situated a duplicate of said certificate.

§ 21. Successive redemption may be made as follows: The creditor so redeeming shall pay to said officer the amount of the redemption. money last paid, together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of such redemption, and the costs thereon, and the amount of the judgment or decree under which said previous judgment or decree creditor so redeemed with interest thereon from the date of such judgment or decree as shown by said redemption certificate filed for record as aforesaid, and all other sums due under said last certificate of redemption according to the provisions of this Act for the use of the creditor named in such redemption certificate, his executors, administrators or assigns; whereupon such offer shall, at the cost of said redeeming creditor, deliver to the person so redeeming a certificate of such last redemption, setting forth the amount of redemption money paid and when paid, and the amount of the judgment or decree under which such redemption was made, and the date of rendition of the same, the amount of costs paid by said redeeming party, and the cost of recording a duplicate of said last certificate of redemption, and thereupon file in the office of the recorder in the county in which the real estate is situated a duplicate of such last certificate of redemption.

22. When there are several decree or judgment creditors, the creditor having the senior judgment or decree shall have the preference to redeem during the first two days next after the expiration of the twelve months, and the other creditors shall respectively have preference to redeem during a like time, in the order of seniority of their several judgments or decrees; but where two or more judgments or decrees bear equal date, the creditor first paying the redemption money shall have pref

erence.

§ 23. The holder of any certificate heretofore described in this Act shall have the right to pay all taxes and assessments which are or may become a lien on the real estate therein described, and the amount paid for such taxes and assessments together with interest thereon at the rate of six per centum per annum shall be added to the amount due under such certificate and shall likewise be due thereunder, upon a receipt or

receipts for such taxes or assessments being filed with the officer who executed such certificate, or his successor in office.

§ 24. Any joint owner, his executors, administrators or assigns, or a decree or judgment creditor of such joint owner may redeem the interest of such joint owner in the real estate to be sold, on execution or decree, in the manner and upon the conditions hereinbefore provided, upon the payment of his proportion of the amount which would be necessary to redeem the whole.

§ 25. For the purpose of redemption of real estate of a deceased debtor, any person whose claim shall have been probated and allowed. against the estate of such deceased debtor, shall be considered a judgment creditor, and for the purpose of enabling such creditor to redeem it shall be lawful for the clerk of the court wherein letters testamentary or of administration were granted, to issue a special execution to the sheriff of the proper county and like proceedings for redemption shall be had as upon other executions.

§ 26. Every certificate which shall be issued by any officer under the provisions of this Act, shall be assignable by endorsement thereon, under the hand of the person to whom it shall be issued, or his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, and every person to whom the same shall be so assigned shall be entitled to the same benefits therefrom in every respect, that the person therein named would have been if the same had not been assigned.

§ 27. At any time before the expiration of fifteen months from the date of the certificate provided for in section 16 of this Act, any defendant, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns may pay to the officer issuing the last certificate of redemption or to his successor in office, for the benefit of the person to whom it was issued, his executors, administrators or assigns, the amount due under such certificate of redemption with interest at six per centum per annum from the date thereof and all other sums due thereunder by the terms of this Act, and thereupon such redemption certificate and all preceding certificates shall be null and void and the judgment or decree on which the original certificate was based shall thereupon be satisfied and such officer or his successor in office shall make out under his hand and seal and deliver to the person making the payment an instrument in writing evidencing such payment and such person shall cause the same to be recorded in the recorder's office of the proper county.

27a. No commission on the amount of the redemption money paid, in any case shall be allowed to the officer receiving the same.

§ 28. If said judgment or decree shall not be satisfied, as aforesaid, by any defendant, his heirs, executors, administrators, assigns or any person interested in the real estate through or under the defendant, the real estate in said certificate described shall immediately after the expiration of fifteen months from the date of the first certificate provided for in this Act, be sold by the sheriff, master in chancery, or other officer who issued said first certificate, or by his successor in office or by some person especially appointed to make such sale, to satisfy the amount due under