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on or after the first Monday in June, A. D. 1919, shall receive and be paid out of the State treasury of this State an annual salary of six thousand five hundred dollars ($6,500): Provided, that such provision shall not apply to any judge elected or appointed to serve an unexpired term which began prior to said first Monday of June, A. D. 1919; and, provided, further, that the provisions of this Act shall not prevent the payment of such additional compensation to the judges of the Circuit and Superior Courts of Cook County out of the treasury of said county as is or may be provided by law.

APPROVED June 16, 1919.

CORONERS.

§ 26.

§ 1. Amends section 26, Act of 1872.

Coroner-inquests-when acting as sheriff.

(SENATE BILL NO. 151. APPROVED JUNE 24, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended, by amending section 26 thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended, is hereby amended by amending section 26 thereof to read as follows:

§ 26. For holding an inquest over a dead body, when required by law, in counties of first and second class, fifteen dollars; in counties of third class, five dollars. For summoning the jury, one dollar, in all counties.

For burial expenses, in counties of first class, fifteen dollars; in counties of second class, twelve dollars; in counties of third class, ten dollars.

All of which fees shall be certified by the court, and paid out of the treasury when the same cannot be collected out of the estate of the deceased.

And whenever the coroner shall be required by law to perform any of the duties appertaining to the office of the sheriff, he shall be entitled to the like fees and compensation as shall be at the time being allowed by law to the sheriff for the performance of similar services. APPROVED June 24, 1919.

COUNTY OFFICERS.

$ 1. Amends section 14, Act of 1872. $ 14. Fees of county officers. (HOUSE BILL No. 159. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 14 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended,

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the represented in the General Assembly:

People of the State of Illinois,
Section 14 of an Act entitled

"An Act concerning fees and salaries, and classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto" approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as amended, is amended to read as follows:

§ 14. The fees of the clerk of the Circuit Court in counties of the first and second class shall be paid in advance, except as herein provided, and shall be as follows:

For each judgment by confession in vacation or in term time, $5.00. In each case of appeal from or petition for a writ of certiorari to a justice of the peace or any court of record and in each case of a change of venue from a court of record, $5.00.

In each case of transcript of a judgment from a justice of the peace or a court of record for the purpose of creating a lien, including one execution, $5.00.

In each case for the exercise of eminent domain, $20.00; and also $10.00 for each and every lot or tract of land or right or interest therein subject to be condemned, the damages in respect to which shall require separate assessments by the jury.

In each other civil action at common law, $10.00.

In each cause in chancery for divorce or separate maintenance, including injunctions, $8.00.

In each suit for partition, $15.00.

In each other chancery case, $10.00.

In each criminal case, but not in advance, $5.00.

In each petition for a writ of habeas corpus, $5.00.

If any cause shall be remanded to the Circuit Court from the Supreme Court or Appellate Court, the clerk shall be entitled to the same fee before the filing of the remanding order and the reinstating of the cause as if it were the commencement of a new suit.

For issuing each execution after the first, $1.00.

For issuing a procedendo, 25c.

For each record of proceedings and judgment or decree, whether on appeal, error or change of venue, certified copies of orders and decrees, and all other instruments, 20c for each one hundred words.

For comparing a bill of exceptions or a certificate of evidence, 3c for each one hundred words.

For recording decrees, reports of a master, receivers, trustees, commissioners or a commissioner, or other like officers, 15c for each 100 words: Provided, however, there shall be no charge for recording the first 1,500 words of any decree.

In all cases except criminal cases wherein the same are dismissed or settled without trial at the term to which process is made returnable, one-half the fees provided in foregoing shall be refunded.

For taking deposition and certifying and sealing the same, 15c for each one hundred words.

For taking the acknowledgement of a deed or other instrument in writing with seal, 25c.

Any person desiring to bring a suit or to file papers upon an appeal or certiorari or change of venue, as a poor person, shall first file a motion for leave to do so, supported by an affidavit 'describing in detail all property, real and personal, which he owns. Such motion

shall be heard by the court in term time or by a judge thereof in vacation, or by a master in chancery if no judge be present in the county, and the proposed plaintiff may be orally examined under oath, and if such court, judge or master finds that said proposed plaintiff is a poor person and unable to prosecute such suit and pay the costs and expenses thereof, an order shall be entered permitting him to begin and prosecute such suit without paying in advance the fee herein specified therefor. Such order shall be subject to review in term time on motion. If the defendant shall settle or compromise such suit, or pay or deliver to plaintiff or his counsel any money or valuable thing because of such suit, without causing such fee to be paid to the clerk of the court, the court may enter an order that the defendant pay such fee, and the same shall be collected from the defendant upon a fee bill to be issued by the clerk to the sheriff therefor.

The fees of the clerk of the Circuit Court when he is also erofficio recorder of deeds of his county, shall be paid in advance and shall be as follows:

For recording each deed or other instrument in writing, 15c for each hundred words.

Each certificate by such recorder of the recording of the deed or other writing and of the date of recording the same signed by such clerk and ex-officio recorder shall be sufficient evidence of the recording thereof, and for such certificate including the indexing of the record, the fee shall be 25c.

For a certified copy of a record, the same fee as for recording.

"For entering each tract in entry book of conveyances, in counties of the first class, 10c, and counties of the second class, 5c, and for entering each tract of land or town lot made in any one deed above five, in the entry book, 5c in counties of the first and second class."

For recording every city, town, or assessor's plat, for each lot or tract of land included in said plat, 10c, when the number of lots does not exceed twenty, and for each additional lot 5c, and for the certificates attached thereto the same fee as for recording other instruments.

For each attestation of a release or an assignment of an instrument on the margin of the record thereof and for indexing the same in the book kept for that purpose, 25c.

APPROVED June 24, 1919.

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AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act to provide for the fees of certain officers therein named in counties of the third class, to-wit: Sheriff, recorder and county clerk" approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, by amending section three (3) thereof.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 3 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the fees of certain officers therein named

in counties of the third class to-wit: Sheriff, recorder and county clerk" approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, is hereby amended. to read as follows:

§ 3. For each license and taking bond for ferry, toll bridge, turnpike road, tavern, saloon, grocery or peddler, two dollars.

For issuing each marriage license, sealing, filing, and recording the same, and the certificate thereto (one charge) one dollar, and fifty

cents.

For each copy of rates for ferry, toll-bridge or turn pike road, twenty-five cents.

For taking and certifying to the acknowledgment of a deed, power of attorney, or other writing and sealing the same, twenty-five cents. For filing certificates in case of estrays, entering the same and furnishing notices for publication thereof (one charge), seventy-five cents.

For recording all papers and documents required by law to be recorded in the office of the county clerk, for every one hundred words, ten cents.

For swearing any person to an affidavit, not to be used in a case in the court of which he is a clerk, with certificate and seal, twenty-five cents.

For certificate and seal, not in a case in a court whereof he is clerk, twenty-five cents.

For making and certifying a copy of any record or paper in his office, for every one hundred words, ten cents.

For filing papers in his office, for each paper filed, ten cents.

For making transcript of taxable property for the assessors, three cents; for each tract of land or town lot, and for extending other than State and county taxes, three cents for each tax on each tract or lot, and each person's personal tax, to be paid by the authority for whose benefit the transcript is made, and the taxes extended. And it shall be the duty of the county clerk to certify to the county collector the amount due from each authority, and the collector, in his settlement with such authority, shall reserve such amount from the amount due and payable by him to such authority.

For adding and bringing forward with current tax warrants, amounts due for forfeited or withdrawn special assessments, for each lot or tract of land described and transcribed, three cents; for computing and extending each assessment or installment thereof, and interest, three cents on each description and for computing and extending each penalty, three cents, on each description. Said fees to be paid by the city, village, or taxing body for whose benefit the transcript is made, and the assessment and penalties are extended, and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to certify to the county collector the amount due from each city, village or taxing body and the collector in his settlement with such taxing body shall reserve such amount from the amount due and payable by him to such city, village or other taxing body.

For cancelling certificates of sale, for each tract or lot, twenty-five cents.

For certificates of deposit for redemption, seventy-five cents; and for furnishing estimate of cost of redemption (when deposit for redemption is not made at the time of furnishing estimate) twenty-five cents.

For noting on collectors' warrants tax sales subject to redemption, for each tract or lot of land, ten cents. Said fee of ten cents, to be paid by either the person making redemption from tax sale, the person surrendering the certificate of sale for cancellation or the person taking out tax deed.

For nothing [noting] on collectors' warrant special assessment withdrawn from collection, for each tract or lot of land, ten cents. Said fee of ten cents to be charged against the lot assessed in the withdrawn special assessment, when brought forward with current tax warrant, and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to certify to the county collector the amount due from each city, village or taxing body for such fees, each year, and the county collector in his settlement which such taxing body shall reserve such amount from the amount due and payable by him to such taxing body.

For taking and approving official bond of a constable, justice of peace, police magistrate or town assessor, filing and recording same, and issuing certificate of election or qualification to such official or to the Secretary of State, one dollar, to be paid by the officer-elect.

For certified copies of plats, ten cents for each lot shown in copy. For tax search and issuing statement regarding same on new plats to be recorded, fifty cents.

The following fees shall be allowed for services in matters of taxes and assessments, and shall be charged as costs against the delinquent property, and collected with the taxes thereon:

For entering judgment, for each tract or lot, three cents.

For services in attending the tax sales, and issuing certificates of sales, and sealing the same, for each tract or lot, twenty-five cents.

For making list of delinquent lands and town lots sold, to be filed with the State Auditor, for each tract or lot sold, five cents.

The following fees shall be audited and allowed by the board of county commissioners and paid from the county treasurer.

For computing and extending State or county taxes on each description of real estate and each person's, firm's or corporation's personal property tax, for each extension of each tax, three cents, which shall include the transcribing of the collectors' books.

For making duplicate or triplicate sets of books containing transcripts of taxable property for board of assessors and board of review, three cents, for each description written in each book.

For filing, indexing and recording or binding each birth, death, or still-birth certificate or report, ten cents, which fee shall be in full for all services in connection therewith, including the keeping of accounts, with district registrars.

For posting new subdivisions or plats, in official atlases ten cents for each lot.

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