business, shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts of this state in all suits or actions in assumpsit or debt, in suits or applications for the assignment of widows' dower in the lands of their deceased husbands, in suits of petition for partition of lands, and applications of guardians for the sale of lands of minors for the support and education of said minors.

§2. The process of said court shall be issued by the Process. clerk of said court, under the seal thereof, and directed to the sheriff of the proper county, and executed as now provided by law for the execution of process issued out of the circuit courts of this state. And the practice and proceed- Practice. ings in said county court shall be the same as in the circuit courts of this state in similar cases. And all orders, judg ments and decrees of said court shall be of the same force and have the same effect upon real and personal property which orders, judgments or decrees made or rendered by the circuit courts of this state now or may hereafter have by law.

and

3. Appeals and writs of error may be prosecuted from Appeals lla final orders, judgments and decrees of said court, to the writs of error. supreme court of this state, in the same manner that appeals

and writs of error are taken from the circuit courts of this

state.

§ 4. All appeals from the final decisions and judg- Appeals from ments made or rendered by the justices of the peace of said justices. county of Bond, in civil suits, may be taken to said county

court.

5. The clerk of said court, the sheriff and other Fees of officers. officers of said court, shall receive the several fees and compensations that now are or hereafter may be allowed by law for similar services in the circuit courts of this state; and each juror sworn in said court, on making affidavit of service, during the term, shall be entitled to fifty cents in each case, and mileage at the rate of five cents per mile, going and returning from his residence to the county seat, which shall be taxed and collected as other costs are taxed and collected.

6. Said county court shall have power to prescribe all Jurors. rules and regulations for the selection, summoning and empanelling jurors for the trial of all cases provided for in this act.

venue.

87. Any person or party to any suit or proceeding in said Changes of court may apply in said county court for a change of venue to the circuit court of said county of Bond, on filing in said county court a petition, under oath, setting forth that he, she or they verily believe that the county judge of said county of Bond is so prejudiced against him, her or them that he, she or they cannot have a fair and impartial trial in said county court, the said county judge shall thereupon grant a change of venue to the circuit court of said Bond

Docket fee.

Powers in vacation.

Certified copy.

county. And said cause shall thereupon be set down for trial in said circuit court the same as if originally instituted therein. And the clerk of said county court, within twenty days after the adjournment of any term of said county court, at which such change of venue shall be granted, shall make a perfect transcript of all the proceedings had in said case in said county court, wnich shall be certified as true and correct by the clerk of said county court, under the seal of said county court, which, together with all the papers appertaining to said suit, shall, within the said twenty days, be returned by said clerk of said county court to the circuit clerk's office of said county, and said suit shall be by said circuit clerk docketed as original suits are docketed in said circuit court, and shall be tried in said circuit court as suits instituted therein are tried.

§ 8. The clerk of said county court shall tax and collect a docket fee of one dollar and fifty cents in each suit or proceeding heard and determined in said court, under the authority as provided for by this act, which docket fee, when collected, shall be paid over to the county judge of said county, in addition to the compensation now allowed him by law. All of which costs and fees made or accruing in any proceeding or suit had in said court under or by virtue of this act may be collected of the party or parties making the said costs, by execution or fee bill issued by the clerk of said county court.

9. And be it further enacted, That the county judge of said county of Bond may hear and determine, in vacation, all applications for discharge from imprisonment for debt, as provided for by chapter LII of the Revised Laws of Illinois, and shall cause the proccedings therein to be recorded on the records of said court at the next ensuing term of said court held for probate business.

This act to take effect and be in force from and after the first day of March next, A. D. 1859.

§ 10. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of state transmit to the clerk of the county court of said county of Bond, immediately, a copy of this act, with a certificate from under his hand, with the seal of state attached. APPROVED February 19, 1859.

In force April AN ACT to fix the time of holding terms of the County Court of Boone County. 26, 1859.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the state of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the terms Terms of court. of said county court of Boone, for jurisdiction of common law and chancery cases, shall be held in the county of Boone

on the first Monday of June and on the first Monday of December, in each and every year, and at no other times.

justices.

§ 2. All appeals taken in said county from before jus- Appeals from tices of the peace shall be taken to the county court of said county, when a term thereof shall be held by law prior to the term of the circuit court of said county, and after the expiration of twenty days from the rendition of the judg ment before the said justice of the peace; and in case a term of the circuit court of said county shall be held after twenty days from the rendition of said judgment by such justice of the peace and prior to the term of the county court of said county, then such appeals shall be taken to said circuit

court.

3. Jurors for the terms of court above fixed shall be Jurors. selected and summoned as provided for by law as to circuit

court.

4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this law Acts repealed. are hereby repealed.

APPROVED February 18, 1859.

AN ACT extending the jurisdiction and regulating the practice in the County In force Febru Court of Lake County.

ary 19, 1859.

extended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the jurisdiction of the county court of Lake county is hereby so ex- Jurisdiction tended as that said court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit courts of this state of all matters and suits at common law and by statute, and shall have jurisdiction of all misdemeanors punishable by fine only, when the amount of penalty does not exceed one hundred dollars.

venue.

2. Whenever either party to a suit in said court shall Change file his petition, verified by affidavit, stating his belief that he cannot have a fair trial in said court, by reason of the prejudice of the judge of said court against the party filing said petition, or by reason of the prejudice of the people of said county against such petitioner, it shall be the duty of the judge of said court to change the venue of such suit to the circuit court of said county, if the cause alleged for said change of venue shall be prejudice of said judge against said party, and to the circuit court of the nearest county where such prejudice does not exist, if such petition for change of venue shall assign as cause therefor the prejudice of the people of said county; and in cases of petition for change of venue the court shall be governed by the rules of practice of the circuit courts in similar cases.

of

§ 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 19, 1859.

In force Febru- AN ACT to repeal certain acts extending the jurisdiction of the County Courts ary 19, 1859. of Carroll, Lee and Whiteside counties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That an act Acts repealed. to amend an act entitled an act to establish county courts, approved February 12, 1849, and extending the jurisdiction of the La Salle, Winnebago, Boone and McHenry county courts, approved February 27th, 1854, extending the jurisdiction of the Carroll county court, approved February 14th, 1857, be and the same is hereby repealed; but this section shall not be so construed as to affect the jurisdiction of any county court in this state, except the county court of Carroll county.

Venue changed.

Process.

Judgment liens.

§ 2. That the venue of all actions and suits, at common law or equity, now pending in said Carroll county court, be and the same is hereby changed to the circuit court of said county of Carroll; and the clerk of the county court of said Carroll county is hereby directed and required to transmit and deliver all the papers on file in his office pertaining to such actions and suits pending in said county court to the clerk of the circuit court of said county; and said clerk of the circuit court shall docket said suits on the circuit court docket, and may issue any additional process which may be necessary to the final disposition of such actions and suits, the same as if such actions and suits had been originally commenced in said circuit court. And the circuit court of said county shall proceed to the final disposition and adjudication of such actions and suits the same as if they had been originally commenced in said circuit court.

$ 3. And be it further enacted, That all processes, writs, &c., returnable to the March term, A. D. 1859, of said Carroll county court, be deemed and they are hereby made returnable to the March term, A. D. 1859, of the circuit court of said county; and all actions and suits continued to the March term, A. D. 1859, of said county court, shall be deemed and held continued to the March term, A. D. 1859, of the circuit court of said county.

§4. That in all cases where final judgment has been rendered in said county court in any action or suit therein, such judgment shall remain and continue a lien against the lands and tenements of the judgment debtor the same as if this act had not been enacted; and that the clerk of the

county court may continue to issue executions or alias exeentions and fee bills, for costs, upon all such judgments; and such executions and fee bills shall have the same force and effect as if this act had not been enacted.

cript.

§ 5. That with the papers in the 2d section of this act directed to be delivered by the county clerk of said county to the clerk of the circuit court thereof, such papers shall be accompanied with a certified transcript of all orders en- Certified transtered in each of such actions and suits, together with a bill of all costs that have accrued in the county court in such actions and suits; which costs, together with county clerk's fees, at the rate of ten cents for every one hundred words, for such certified transcript, and fifty cents for the certificate to such transcript; which cost and fees shall be taxed by the clerk of the circuit court against the party to such actions and suit, against whom judgment for costs shall be rendered by the circuit court.

§ 6. That cases formerly pending in said county court, which have been or may hereafter be taken to the supreme court of the state of Illinois, by writ of error or by appeal, the supreme court, if it shall remand such case or cases for trial de novo, said supreme court shall remand such case or cases to the circuit court of said county; and said circuit court shall proceed with such case or cases the same as if such case or cases were formerly pending in such circuit

court.

Cases to be recircuit court.

manded to

7. And be it further enacted, That an act entitled "An Acts repealed. act to amend an act establishing county courts, approved February 12, 1849, and extending the jurisdiction of the county courts of the counties of Lee and Whiteside," approved February 18th, 1857, be and the same is hereby repealed; and that all of the foregoing provisions of this act, providing for the disposition of the cases pending, books, files and records of the Carroll county court, be and the same are hereby held to apply to the cases, books, files aud records of the county court of Whiteside county.

§ 8. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 19, 1859.

AN ACT to provide for the compensation of the County Judge of Cook County. In force Febru

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of

Illinios, represented in the General Assembly, That the

ary 18, 1859.

board of supervisors of Cook county shall, in addition to Additional salthe compensation otherwise provided by law, allow and pay ary. to the county judge of said county, such reasonable salary