And shall also execute a bond, to the People of the State of Illinois, with good and sufficient securities-that of the attorney general in the penal sum of $10,000, to be approved by the governor, and then filed in the office of the secretary of state; and that of each state's attorney in the penal sum of $5,000, to be approved by the county court of his respective county, which approval shall be indorsed upon said bond. And said bond, with the approval thereof indorsed, shall be entered of record in said county court, and then forwarded by the county clerk to the secretary of state, to be filed in his office. Each and every of said bonds shall be conditioned upon the faithful discharge of the duties of said office, and the paying over all moneys as provided by law, which bond shall run to and be for the benefit of the state, county, corporation or person injured by a breach of any of the conditions thereof.

2. Additional Bond. 2. Whenever the governor shall deem any bond filed by the attorney general, or the county court shall deem the bond filed by any state's attorney insufficient, the governor or county court, as the case may be, may require additional bond, in any penalty not exceeding that specified in section one of this act.

3. Failure to Give Bond or Take Oath. 2. If any person elected to the office of attorney general or state's attorney shall fail to give bond, or take the oath required of him, within twenty days after he is declared elected, the office shall be deemed vacant, and if, being required to give additional bond, as provided in section two hereof, he fails to do so within twenty days after notice of such requirement, his office may, in the discretion of the governor, be declared vacant and filled as provided by law.

4. Duties of Attorney General. 4. The duties of the attorney general shall be:

1. To appear for and represent the people of the state before the supreme court in each of the grand divisions, in all cases in which the state or the people of the state are interested.

2. To institute and prosecute all actions and proceedings in favor of or for the use of the state, which may be necessary in the execution of the duties of any state officer.

3. To defend all actions and proceedings against any state officer, in his official capacity, in any of the courts of this state or the United States.

4. To consult with and advise the several state's attorneys in matters relating to the duties of their office; and when, in his judgment, the interest of the people of the state requires

it, he shall attend the trial of any party accused of crime, and assist in the prosecution.

5. To consult with and advise the governor and other state officers, and give, when requested, written opinions upon all legal or constitutional questions relating to the duties of such officers respectively.

6. To prepare, when necessary, proper drafts for contracts and other writings relating to subjects in which the state is interested.

7. To give written opinions, when requested by either branch of the General Assembly, or any committee thereof, upon constitutional or legal questions.

8. To enforce the proper application of funds appropriated to the public institutions of the state, prosecute breaches of trust in the administrations of such funds, and, when necessary, prosecute corporations for failure or refusal to make the reports required by law.

9. To keep, in proper books, a register of all cases prosecuted or defended by him, in behalf of the state or its officers, and of all proceedings had in relation thereto, and to deliver the same to his successor in office.

10. To keep in his office a book in which he shall record all the official opinions given by him during his term of office, which book shall be by him delivered to his successor in office. 11. To pay into the state treasury all moneys received by him for the use of the state.

12. To attend to and perform any other duty which may, from time to time, be required of him by law.

5. Duties of State's Attorney. 5. The duties of each state's attorney shall be:

1. To commence and prosecute all actions, suits, indictments and prosecutions, civil and criminal, in any court of record in in his county, in which the people of the state or county may be concerned.

2. To prosecute all forfeited bonds and recognizances, and all actions and proceedings for the recovery of debts, revenues, moneys, fines, penalties and forfeitures accruing to the state or his county, or to any school district or road district in his county; also, to prosecute all suits in his county against. railroad or transportation companies, which may be prosecuted in the name of the People of the State of Illinois.

3. To commence and prosecute all actions and proceedings brought by any county officer in his official capacity.

4. To defend all actions and proceedings brought against

his county, or against any county or state officer, in his official capacity, within his county.

5. To attend the examination of all persons brought before any judge on habeas corpus, when the prosecution is in his county.

6. To attend before justices of the peace and prosecute charges of felony or misdemeanor, for which the offender is required to be recognized to appear before a court of record, when in his power so to do.

7. To give his opinion, without fee or reward, to any county officer and to justices of the peace, in his county, upon any question of law relating to any criminal or other matter, in which the people or the county may be concerned.

8. To assist the attorney general whenever it may be necessary, and in cases of appeal or writ of error from his county to the supreme court, to which it is the duty of the attorney general to attend, he shall, a reasonable time before the trial of such appeal or writ of error, furnish the attorney general with. a brief, showing the nature of the case and the questions involved.

9. To pay all moneys received by him in trust, without delay, to the officer who by law, is entitled to the custody thereof. 10. To perform such other and further duties as may, from time to time, be enjoined on him by law.

11. To appear in all proceedings by collectors of taxes against delinquent tax payers for judgments to sell real estate, and see that all the necessary preliminary steps have been legally taken to make the judgment legal and binding.

25. Election of State's Attorneys. 24. A state's attorney shall be elected in each county on Tuesday, next after the first Monday of November, 1884, and every four years thereafter, and shall enter upon his office on the first Monday in December after his election. As amended by act approved May 10, 1881.]

Practice of Law-License.

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 attorneys and counsellors," approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as subsequently amended, be and is hereby amended by amending section 1 thereof to read as follows:

§ 1. No person shall be permitted to practice as an attorney or counsellor at law, or to commence, conduct or defend any

action, suit or plaint, in which he is not a party concerned, in any County or Probate Court, or in any court of record, within this State, either by using or subscribing his own name or the name of any other person without having previously obtained a license for that purpose from some two of the justices of the Supreme Court.

And no person shall receive any pay or compensation for any legal service, for making statements, annual or final, filing petitions or other documents, in any estate, other than a regularly licensed attorney; and no Probate Court shall allow or permit any pay or fee for any such services to any person to be taxed in any estate, other than to a regularly licensed attorney, either directly or indirectly, for any purpose; nor shall any administrator, or executor or guardian employ, for the performance of legal work for any estate, or pay any person for performing legal work, other than a regularly licensed attorney.

A license, as provided for herein, shall constitute the person receiving the same, an attorney and counsellor at law, and shall authorize him to appear in all of the courts within this State and there to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law, according to the laws and customs thereof, for and during his good behavior in said practice and to demand and receive fees for any services which he may render as an attorney and counsellor at law in this State. No person shall be refused a license under this Act on account of sex.

Any person whomsoever, practicing, charging or receiving fees for legal services in the County, Probate or other Court of Record in this State, without being licensed to practice as herein required, except as provided herein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon a conviction, shall be punished by a fine. of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprison

ment.

Approved June 11, 1917.

Corporation Not to Practice Law.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: It shall be unlawful for a corporation to practice law or appear as an attorney at law for any reason in any court in this State or before any judicial body, or to make it a business to practice as an attorney at law for any person in any of said courts or to hold itself out to the public as being entitled to practice law or to render

or furnish legal services or advice or to furnish attorneys or counsel or to render legal services of any kind in actions or proceedings of any nature or in any other way or manner to assume to be entitled to practice law, or to assume, use and advertise the title of lawyers or attorney, attorney at law, or equivalent terms in any language in such manner as to convey the impression that it is entitled to practice law, or to furnish legal advice, furnish attorneys or counsel, or to advertise that either alone or together with, or by or through, any person, whether a duly and regularly admitted attorney at law or not, it has, owns, conducts or maintains a law office or an office for the practice of law or for furnishing legal advice, services or counsel.

§ 2. It shall be unlawful for any corporation to solicit by itself or by or through its officer, agent or employee, any claim or demand for the purpose of bringing an action at law thereon, or for furnishing legal advice, services or counsel, to a person sued or about to be sued in any action or proceeding, or against whom an action or proceeding has been or is about to be brought or who may be affected by any action or proceeding which has been or may be instituted in any court or before any judicial body or for the purpose of so representing any person as attorney or counsel in securing or attempting to secure any civil remedy.

§3. Any corporation violating the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), any [and] every officer, trustee, director, agent or employee of such corporation who directly or indirectly engages in any of the acts herein prohibited or assists such corporation. to do any such prohibited act or acts is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall pay a fine of not less than two hundred dollars ($200) or more than five hundred dollars ($500).

§ 4. The fact that any such officer, trustee, agent or employee shall be a duly and regularly admitted attorney at law shall not be held to permit or allow any such corporation to do the acts prohibited herein, nor shall such fact constitute a defense upon the trial of any of the persons mentioned herein for a violation of the provisions of this Act.

§ 5. Nothing contained in this Act shall prohibit a corporation from employing an attorney or attorneys in and about its own immediate affairs or in any litigation to which it is or may be a party, or in any litigation in which any corporation may be interested by reason of the issuance of any policy or undertaking of insurance, guarantee or indemnity, nor shall it