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 redemp tion 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 judg ments 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

said certificate or under the last recorded certificate of redemption as in this Act provided.

§ 29. Upon making any sale of real estate the purchaser shall be entitled to a deed therefor at any time within five years from the date of such sale. The deed shall be executed by the sheriff, master in chancery or other officer who made such sale, or by his successor in office, or by some person especially appointed by the court for the purpose.

§ 30. When such deed is not taken within the time limited by this Act the sale shall be null and void; but if such deed is wrongfully with held by the officer whose duty it is to execute the same, or if the execu tion of such deed is restrained by injunction or order of a court or judge. the time during which the deed is so withheld or the execution thereof restrained shall not be taken as any part of the five years within which said purchaser shall take a deed.

§ 2. This Act and the amendments effected hereby, shall not apply to sales of real estate made pursuant to decrees foreclosing mortgages of 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; but such sales shall be governed by the existing provisions of the 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, and Acts amendatory thereof. APPROVED June 11, 1917.

JUSTICES AND CONSTABLES.

JURISDICTION.

§ 1. Amends section 1, Article II.

§ 1. Jurisdiction-cases enumer

ated.

(HOUSE BILL No. 636. APPROVED JUNE 26, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to revise the law in relation to justices of the peace and constables," approved June 26, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as subsequently amended by amending section 1, article II of said Act.

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 revise the law in relation to justices of the peace and constables," approved June 26, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, as subsequently amended be and the same is hereby amended by amending section 1 of article II

of the said Act to read as follows:

§ 1. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction in their respective counties in the following cases, when the amount claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars.

First-In actions arising on contracts, whether under seal or not, express or implied, for the recovery of money only. When the action is

upon a bond, the amount to be recovered thereon, and not the penalty of the bond shall determine the jurisdiction; and when the payments are to be made by installments, an action may be brought for any installment as it shall become due.

Second-In actions for damages for injury to real property, or for taking, detaining or injuring personal property.

Third-In actions for rent and distress for rent.

Fourth-In actions against railroad companies and any person controlling, operating or using any railroad, for killing or injuring horses, cattle, sheep, hogs or other stock; for loss of or injury to baggage or freight; and for injury or damage to real or personal property, caused by setting fire to the same by their engines, or otherwise.

Fifth-In actions of replevin, when the value of the property claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars.

Sixth-In actions for damages for fraud in the sale, purchase or exchange of personal property, and in all cases where the action of debt or assumpsit will lie, if the damages claimed do not exceed three hundred dollars. This section shall apply to claims originally exceeding three hundred dollars, if the same shall at the time of rendition of the judgment, be reduced by credits or deductions to an amount not exceeding three hundred dollars.

Seventh-In all actions arising under the laws for the incorporation of cities, towns and villages, or any ordinance passed in pursuance thereof, where the amount claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars.

Eighth-In actions arising under the law in relation to dram-shops, where the damage claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars.

Ninth-In all actions for the recovery of statutory fines or penalties in which the amount claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars.

Tenth-In all actions by and against towns, cities, villages, or other municipal corporations, which, if brought by an individual, might be brought before a justice of the peace.

Eleventh-To assess damages for sheep killed by dogs.

Twelfth-In proceedings against vagrants or vagabonds.

Thirteenth-În actions arising under the laws for the preservation

of fish and game.

Fourteenth-In actions of forcible entry and detainer.

Fifteenth-In all criminal actions in which the punishment is by fine only, and does not exceed three hundred dollars; and such other jurisdiction as has been, or shall be, conferred by law.

Sixteenth-In garnishment by attachment or summons the amount of the claim of garnishor, and not the amount of the answer of the garnishee, shall determine the jurisdiction.

APPROVED June 25, 1917.

LIBRARIES.

IN PUBLIC PARKS-ERECTION OF LIBRARY BUILDING.

§ 1. Amends Act of 1903, by adding sec

tion 3a.

§ 3a. Corporate authorities in control of park district may permit erection of library building -use of building for public purposes-referendum

(SENATE BILL No. 3. APPROVED MAY 18, 1917.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act concerning free public libraries in public parks," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section three-s (3a).

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 free public libraries in public parks," approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, be amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section three-a (3a), which said added section shall read as follows:

§ 3a. The corporate authorities of any park district whose limits are co-extensive with the limits of any city, village, or incorporated town lying wholly within any congressional township, in which there is or shall be established and maintained, a free public library under the terms and provisions of an Act entitled, "An Act to authorize cities, incorporated towns and townships to establish and maintain free public libraries and reading rooms," approved and in force March 7, 1872, and all Acts amendatory thereof, the corporate authorities of any such city, village, or incorporated town having the control or supervision of any public park or parks, are hereby authorized to permit the board of library directors having control of such library, to erect and maintain in any public park of such park district, city, village, or incorporated town, a library building which shall be under the exclusive control and supervision of said board of library directors, so long as such building shall be used as a free public library; and to contract with such board of library directors relative to the erection and maintenance and administration thereof: Provided, that any portion of such building less than the whole which shall not from time to time be needed for library purposes, may be rented for public purposes only by said board of library directors to or with the consent of, such park district, city, village, or incorporated town.

Provided, however, that before this Act shall become effective as to any such park district, city, village, incorporated town or township, it must first be submitted to a vote of the people thereof at a regular elec tion of officers thereof, or at a special election called for such purpose by the corporate authorities of such park district, city, village, incorporated town or township, as the case may be. In case of such special election, at least twenty days' notice of the purpose thereof and of the time and place of holding the same shall be given by publication at least once in a newspaper of general circulation published in such park district, city, village, incorporated town or township; or, if none there is published,