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§ 2. The said pension of any such judge, after such retirement or end of service and reaching the age of sixty-five (65) years, shall be paid in the same manner as the salary of such judge was paid during his period of service from State, county or city respectively or out of moneys not otherwise appropriated.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

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AN ACT to amend section 14 of an Act providing for a system of probation, for the appointment and compensation of probation officers, and authorizing the suspension of final judgment and the imposition of sentence upon persons guilty of certain defined crimes and offenses, and legalizing their ultimate discharge without punishment, approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as subsequently amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 14 of an Act entitled, "An Act providing for a system of probation for the appointment and compensation of probation officers and authorizing the suspension of final judgment and the imposition of sentence upon persons found guilty of certain defined crimes and offenses, and legalizing their ultimate discharge without punishment," approved June 10, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as subsequently amended, so as to read as follows:

§ 14. The amount of compensation to be paid any probation officer or chief probation officer appointed by any Circuit Court shall be determined by the board of commissioners or supervisors of the several counties in which said officers respectively are appointed, and shall be paid by the county treasurer on the warrant of the county comptroller or other person authorized to issue warrants on the county treasurer; the amount of compensation to be paid to any probation officer appointed by any Municipal or City Court shall be determined by the city council of the city in which such Municipal or City Court is situated, and shall be paid out of the city treasurer [treasury] on warrants drawn for that purpose; the compensation to be paid to any chief probation officer appointed jointly by the judges of the Circuit Court of any county, and the judges of any Municipal or City Court, as provided in section 9 of this Act, shall be equally apportioned between the county and the cities, the judges of whose courts made such appointment as aforesaid, and the amount thereof shall be fixed by said judges and approved by the board of county commissioners or supervisors of such county and by the city councils of the cities for which said chief probation officer is appointed as aforesaid; provided, however. that the compensation paid any chief probation officer in counties of the third class shall not exceed five thousand ($5,000.00) dollars a year, the compensation of each of not more than three assistant probation officers in counties of said class shall not exceed twenty-four hun

dred dollars ($2,400) a year, and the compensation of any other probation officer in counties of said class shall in the case of probation officers of the Circuit Court be fixed by said court with the approval of the county board, and in case of probation officers appointed by a Municipal or City Court, by said Municipal or City Court with the approval of the city council, but shall not exceed two thousand dollars. ($2,000.00) per annum. And provided, that the compensation of any chief probation officer in counties of the second class shall not exceed twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) a year, and the compensation of any other probation officer in counties of said class shall not exceed eight hundred ($800) dollars a year: And, provided, that in counties of the first class the compensation of any probation officer shall be limited to a per diem of not to exceed three dollars ($3.00) per day for such time only as said officer shall be actually engaged in the discharge of his official duties. Probation officers shall, in counties of said first class, be entitled to their necessary traveling and other expenses incurred in the discharge of their official duties, but in counties of the second and third classes no probation officer shall be entitled to be reimbursed for any traveling expenses unless such officer shall be called upon to go outside of his county, in which case such officer shall be reimbursed for his necessary traveling expenses, and the court having jurisdiction may, by special order duly entered, direct that a probation officer shall be reimbursed for other expenses, incurred in any case pending before said court. All such expenses after being certified by the presiding judge of the Circuit Court or the committee of judges provided for in section 9 of this Act and approved by the board of county commissioners or board of supervisors of such county, shall be paid by the county treasurer on warrant by the proper county officer. No probation officer receiving compensation from any public funds under the provisions of this Act shall receive any compensation, gift or gratuity whatsoever from any person, firm or corporation for doing or refraining from doing any official act in any way connected with any proceeding then pending or about to be instituted in any court with which said probation officer has to do. Any probation officer receiving compensation from any public funds under the provisions of this Act, who shall receive any compensation, gift or gratuity whatever from any person, firm or corporation for doing or refraining from [doing] any official act in any way connected with any proceeding then pending or about to be instituted in any court with which said probation officer has to do, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished accordingly and shall be immediately removed by the court or judges having the power of removal.

APPROVED April 18, 1919.

SHORTHAND REPORTERS.

§ 1. Amends section 2, Act of 1887.

(SENATE BILL No. 182.

§ 2. Appointment-d uties compensation.

APPROVED MAY 21, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to authorize the judges of the Circuit Courts to appoint shorthand reporters for the taking and preservation of evidence, and to provide for their compensation," approved May 31, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 2 of an Act entitled, "An Act to authorize the judges of the Circuit Courts to appoint shorthand reporters for the taking and preservation of evidence, and to provide for their compensation," approved May 31, 1887, in force July 1, 1887, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

§ 2. The said reporter shall cause full phonographic notes of the evidence in all trials in the court for which he is so appointed to be taken down, and one transcript of the same, if desired by either party of the suit or by their attorney or by the judge of the court, to be forthwith correctly made and furnished to the party desiring it. The compensation of the reporter for taking such phonographic notes, shall be ten dollars ($10.00) per day for each day court is in session. The presiding judge of the court shall furnish to said reporter at the close of each term of court a certificate showing the amount per diem due him, and upon presentation to the county treasurer of such county he shall pay the same out of any funds of such county in his hands. Said reporters shall be allowed to charge not to exceed fifteen cents per one hundred words for making transcripts of said shorthand notes, to be paid in the first instance by the party on whose behalf such transcript is ordered, and allowed and taxed as costs in the suit, and the transcript when so paid for by the party ordering it and the charges for the same is taxed as costs, the same shall be filed and remain with the papers in the case: Provided, however, that when the judge trying the cause shall, of his own motion, order a transcript of said shorthand notes as hereinbefore provided, he may direct the payment of the charges therefor and the taxation of the same as costs in such manner as to him may seem just: Provided, always, that the charges for making but one transcript may be taxed as costs, the party first ordering the transcript shall have the preference, unless it shall be otherwise ordered by the court.

APPROVED May 21, 1919.

SHORTHAND REPORTERS.

1. Judge of Probate Court to appoint.

2. Duties of reporter-compensation.

(HOUSE BILL No. 126.

3. To take oath.

APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to authorize the judge of the Probate Court in any county of more than 70,000 inhabitants to appoint a shorthand reporter for the taking and preservation of evidence and fixing the compensation to be paid therefor.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That in any county having a population of more than seventy thousand according to the last Federal or State census, the judge of the Probate Court thereof shall be and he is hereby authorized to appoint a shorthand reporter for the said Probate Court, whose duties shall be as hereinafter specified. The reporter so appointed shall hold his position during the pleasure of the judge so appointing him, not, however, to extend beyond the time the judge making such appointment shall be elected for: Provided, however, that in case of the absence or disability of such reporter so appointed, the said judge may appoint any other reporter to act in his place during such absence or disability.

§ 2. The said reporter shall take full stenographic notes of the evidence in making proofs of heirships and in the probating of wills and in all other cases coming before the said Probate Court for hearing or trial when directed by the judge of said court so to do. He shall furnish a transcript of the evidence of each proof of heirship and probating of a will for the files of the court, for which he shall receive as compensation from the party presenting the same such amount as shall be fixed by the judge of said court, not, however, to exceed the sum of fifteen cents for each hundred words in contested hearings, and in non-contested hearings such amount as shall be fixed by the judge of said court, not, however, to exceed five dollars for the probating of a will and two dollars for proof of heirship. In all other cases where the judge of said. Probate Court shall direct the said reporter to take stenographic notes such reporter shall be allowed to charge not to exceed fifteen cents for each hundred words for making a transcript of same, to be paid by the party on whose behalf such transcript is made. Said reporter shall have no other claim for compensation from the county or from the judge or clerk of the said Probate Court except as herein provided for the charges for such transcripts as are herein authorized to be taxed as

costs.

§ 3. Said reporter shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe to the official oath to faithfully discharge the duties of his office to the best of his knowledge and ability.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to the Supreme Court", approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by subsequent Acts, by amending section 11 thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 11 of "An Act to revise the law in relation to the Supreme Court", approved March 23, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, and Acts amendatory thereof, be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 11. A marshal for the Supreme Court is hereby created, such marshal to be selected by the Supreme Court, and the duties of such marshal shall be to attend upon its sittings and to perform such other duties, under the order and direction of the said court, as are usually performed by sheriffs of courts. The salary of such marshal is hereby fixed in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per year, payable monthly, such salary to be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, upon bills of particulars, signed by any one of the justices of the Supreme Court.

APPROVED May 14, 1919.

SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

§ 1. Repeals section 2, Act of 1911.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 156. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act to regulate the reporting of the decisions of the Supreme Court of this State, to fix the compensation of the reporter, to fix the price of said reports, to provide for the purchase of certain copies thereof by the State and for their distribution, and repealing a certain Act therein named, approved June 5, 1911, by repealing section two (2) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section two (2) of the Act of June 5, 1911, to regulate the reporting of the decisions of the Supreme Court of this State, to fix the price of said reports, to provide for the purchase of certain copies thereof by the State and for their distribution, and to repeal a certain Act therein named, reading as follows:

"Section 2. The reporter shall print thirty-five hundred (3,500) copies of each volume of reports published by him and shall sell and dispose of the same on his own account. When the said thirty-five hundred (3,500) copies of any volume published by him shall be disposed of, the reporter shall certify that fact under oath to the Secretary of State, and shall thereupon assign the copyright and deliver the plates of said volume to the Secretary of State for the use of the State of Illinois, without charge to the State and shall thereupon cease to have any

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