AN ACT providing for the creation of additional branch appellate courts. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: The clerk of each appellate court shall report in writing to the Supreme Court, whenever so directed by the judges of the appellate court of which he is clerk, the number of cases docketed and pending and subject to hearing and determination at that term of said appellate court. § 2. Whenever the number of cases reported as pending and subject to hearing and determination in any appellate court shall exceed the number of 250 for that appellate court and for each branch thereof then existing and the judges of such appellate court or a majority of them shall in writing so request the Supreme Court, it shall be the duty of the Supreme Court to forthwith designate and assign three other judges of the circuit courts of the State or of the superior court of Cook county to duty in said appellate court. The three additional judges so designated shall, as soon as practicable, meet, organize and constitute an additional branch of the appellate court to which they shall have been assigned to duty, and the branch so constituted shall proceed to hear and determine, according to law and justice and the rules of said appellate court, all such cases and matters as shall or may be assigned to it by said appellate court, not exceeding in number its fair proportion of causes pending in said appellate court. § 3. All the provisions made for branch appellate courts by an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act to establish appellate courts," approved June 2, 1877, and providing for the creation of branch appellate courts, approved and in force June 2, 1897, shall thereupon apply to any such additional branch appellate court established under this Act. § 4. Whenever the term for which judges are assigned to duty in any branch appellate court shall expire, the Supreme Court shall, before assigning any judges to duty in such branch appellate court, require the clerk to certify to it the number of cases pending and undetermined in such appellate court; and the Supreme Court shall not assign any judges to duty in any branch appellate court if the number of cases so reported pending shall not exceed 250 for said appellate court and for each branch thereof existing before making such assignment. Whenever any branch appellate court appointed under this Act shall have determined all cases and matters assigned to it by the appellate court of the district. in which said branch court shall be constituted, it shall be the duty of the judges of such branch court to return to their usual judicial duties until the next succeeding term of said appellate court and until requested by said appellate court to resume duty in said branch court, and when so requested by said appellate court, it shall be their duty forthwith to resume and perform duty in their branch court. § 5. Whenever any judge residing in a county having a population of less than 150,000 shall be assigned or required by the Supreme Court to serve as a judge in an appellate court sitting in a county having a population of more than 150,000, there shall be paid to such judge, out of the county treasury of the county in which is held the appellate court to which he is assigned, for his reasonable expenses, not to exceed the sum of $15.00 a day for the time he shall actually spend in the county to which he is so assigned in hearing and determining cases in such appellate court, or any branch thereof, to which he has been so assigned. APPROVED June 6, 1911. APPELLATE COURTS TERMS. § 1. Amends section 2, Act of 1877. § 2. As amended, changes terms in third district. (SENATE BILL NO. 22. APPROVED MAY 29, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section two (2) of an Act entitled, "An Act to establish appellate courts," approved June 2, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, as amended by an Act approved April 22, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by an Act approved June 5, 1909, in force July 1, 1909. 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 entitled, "An Act to establish appellate courts," approved June 2, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, as amended by an Act approved April 22, 1899, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by an Act approved June 5, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, be amended so as to read as follows: § 2. The terms of said appellate courts shall be held in the several districts as follows: In the first district, at the city of Chicago, on the first Tuesdays in March and October in each year; in the second district, at Ottawa, in LaSalle county, on the first Tuesdays in April and October in each year; in the third district, at Springfield, on the first Tuesdays in April and October in each year; in the fourth district, at Mt. Vernon, on the fourth Tuesdays in March and October in each year. All cases now or hereafter taken to said appellate courts, and all processes of every nature and kind that would stand for hearing or be returnable to any of said terms as now fixed by law shall stand for hearing and be returnable to the first term of said court in each district, respectively, as fixed by this Act. APPROVED May 29, 1911. CITY COURTS-COMPENSATION OF CLERK. § 1. Amends section 7, Act of 1901. § 7. As amended, allows per diem fee of six dollars for attendance upon court. (SENATE BILL No. 213. APPROVED JUNE 10, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section 7 of an Act entitled, “An Act in relation to courts of record in cities," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois repre sented in the General Assembly: That section 7 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to courts of record in cities," approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, be amended to read as follows: 8 7. There shall be elected in like manner as judges are elected, for each of such courts a clerk who shall hold his office for a term of four years, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. He shall be commissioned, have the same powers, perform the same duties, be subject to the same liabilities, and be entitled to like fees as are now, or may hereafter, from time to time, be provided by law in regard to circuit clerks, in the county in which said city may be situated, and a per diem fee of six dollars for attendance upon said court, which per diem fee shall be paid by the city in which said court is situated. Vacancies in such offices shall be filled, for the unexpired term, at a special election to be called and held by the same authority and in the same manner that other city elections may be held, where such unexpired term exceeds one year; but where the same does not exceed one year, such vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the judge of the court: Provided, that a clerk, pro tempore, may be appointed by the judge thereof, when neces (SENATE BILL No. 282. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section eleven of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to clerks of courts," approved March 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 eleven of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the law in relation to clerks of courts," approved March 25, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be amended so as to read as follows: § 11. VACANCIES-PRO TEM. CLERKS.] When a vacancy occurs in the office of clerk of any court of record created by statute only, and other than the Supreme Court, the circuit court, the superior court of Cook county, the county court, the court or the judge or judges thereof, shall appoint a clerk pro tempore, who shall qualify by giving bond, and taking the oath as required by law of the clerk of such court; and thereupon such appointee shall perform all the duties required of a duly elected clerk of such court, and shall receive like emoluments, and shall hold such office until some person shall be elected at the next general election of officers for such county, or grand division, as the case may be, and shall qualify according to law to fill such vacancy. It shall be the duty of the officer whose duty it shall be to issue the call for such general election, to provide therein for the election of a clerk to fill such vacancy, to be nominated as provided by law. APPROVED June 5, 1911. § 1. COUNTY COURTS-KANKAKEE COUNTY. Amends section 54, Act of 1874. Terms in Kankakee § 2. Return of writs-no suit to abate. § 3. Emergency. AN ACT to amend section 54 of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts, and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 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 54 of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend jurisdiction of county courts, and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named;" approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is amended to read as follows: § 54. Kankakee, in February, April, June, August and November. § 2. All summonses, subpoenas, writs, bonds, recognizances, venires, papers and processes of any kind whatever, made and served for or returnable to the several terms of court, at such times as such terms are required to be held by the law in force immediately prior to the time this Act shall take effect, shall be deemed and taken, and shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been made and served for or returnable to the first term of court to be held in said county as fixed by this Act, and no action, suit, cause or proceeding now pending in any of the county courts shall be abated by force of the provisions of this Act. § 3. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED June 7, 1911. COUNTY COURTS-MADISON COUNTY. § 1. Amends section 68, Act of 1874. § 2. Repeal. § 3. Emergency. § 68. Terms in Madison county. AN ACT to amend section sixty-eight (68) of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 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 sixty-eight (68) of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same hereby is amended so as to read as follows: § 68. Madison, second Mondays in February, May and October. § 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. § 3. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. (SENATE BILL NO. 11. APPROVED MARCH 20, 1911.) AN ACT to amend section 89 of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts, and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 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 89 of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: § 89. Rock Island on the first Monday in February, April, June, August, October and December. 82. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. APPROVED March 20, 1911. |