COUNTY COURTS-VERMILION COUNTY.

§ 1. Amends section 99, Act of 1874.

§ 2. Emergency.

(SENATE BILL No. 63. APPROVED MAY 6, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section 99 of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time for holding the same, etc.," approved March 26th, 1874, in force July 1st, 1874.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 99 of an Act entitled, "An Act to extend the jurisdiction of county courts and to provide for the practice thereof, to fix the time of holding the same, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1st, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

[$ 99]. Vermilion, on the first Mondays of February, April, June and November.

82. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore, this Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 6, 1911.

COURTS OF CHANCERY-BILLS.

§ 1. Amends section 50, Act of 1872.

§ 50.

Bills to construe wills, appoint trustees, confirm titles, etc.

(HOUSE BILL No. 184. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.)

AN ACT to amend section 50 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the practice in courts of chancery," approved March 15, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 50 of an Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the practice in courts of chancery," approved March 15, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, be and the same are [is] hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 50. The court may hear and determine bills to construe wills, notwithstanding no trust or questions of trust or other questions are involved therein; and hear and determine bills to appoint trustees, and authorize trustees to lease, mortgage and sell, improve, exchange and invest any portion or all of any trust estate, or to do any other act or thing, or exercise any power and discretion which is necessary for the conservation, preservation, protection or betterment of said estate during any period of contingency pending a contingent remainder or executory devise or otherwise; and may also hear and determine bills to quiet title, and to remove clouds from the title to real estate, and bills to establish and confirm titles to real estate or incumbrance thereon, whether the lands in controversy are improved or occupied, or unimproved or unoccupied; and the taking possession of such lands, after the com

mencement of suit by the party claiming the title or the adverse title, or any one under or through such person or persons shall not in anywise affect the complainant's right to a final decree upon his bill. APPROVED June 5, 1911.

COURTS OF RECORD-UNCLAIMED MONEY.

§ 1. Disposition of unclaimed money. § 2. Repeal-proviso.

(SENATE BILL NO. 36. APPROVED JUNE 5, 1911.)

AN ACT to provide for the disposition of money in the control of courts of record which is unclaimed or where there is no person to whom the same can be paid.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: When any money remains in the hands of any officer of any court of record which has been judicially determined to be payable to any specified person, or to any unknown heir, devisee, legatee or owner, or the person to whom the same is adjudged to be paid is non-resident or cannot be found or refuses to receive said money, or is an infant or insane or under any other disability and has no guardian or conservator to whom the same may lawfully be paid, or for any other reason payment cannot be made to the person adjudged entitled thereto, the court having jurisdiction of such money may direct such officer to pay the same to the county treasurer of the county in which such court is held, and to deliver to such county treasurer a certified copy of such order; and it shall be the official duty of such county treasurer to receive such money, and the official duty of such county treasurer and his successor in office to hold said money in trust for the person entitled thereto, and subject to the further order of said court. The person entitled to the money, or his legal representative, may thereafter obtain an order from said court in said cause for the payment of said money, without interest, by the county treasurer to such person, upon satisfactory proof to the court that he is the person lawfully entitled thereto. It shall be the official duty of the county treasurer to obey such order, when presented with a certified copy thereof.

§ 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed: Provided, however, that such repeal shall not invalidate the deposit of any money made by order of any court before the time when this Act takes effect.

APPROVED June 5, 1911.

AN ACT to amend sections 8, 15 and 17 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to a municipal court in the city of Chicago," approved May 18, 1905, in force July 1, 1905; submitted to the voters of the city of Chicago at the election held November 7, 1905, and adopted, and as amended by Act approved June 3, 1907, in force July 1, 1907; adopted at election held September 17, 1907, and to further amend said Act, as amended, by adding thereto two additional sections to be known respectively as sections 14a and 14b.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections 8, 15 and 17 of an Act entitled, "An Act in relation to a municipal court in the city of Chicago," approved May 18, 1905, in force July 1, 1905; submitted to the voters of the city of Chicago at the election held November 7, 1905, and adopted as amended by Act approved June 3, 1907, in force July 1, 1907; adopted at election held September 17, 1907, be amended and that said Act as amended, be further amended by adding thereto two additional sections to be known respectively as sections 14a and 14b, which said sections as hereby amended and said additional sections shall read as follows:

8. That said municipal court shall consist of twenty-eight (28) judges, one of whom shall be chief justice and the remaining twentyseven (27) of whom shall be associate judges. Each branch court shall be presided over by a single judge of the municipal court. The chief justice, in addition to the exercise of all the other powers of a judge of said court, shall have the general superintendence of the business of said court; he shall preside at all meetings of the judges, and shall assign the associate judges to duty in the branch courts, from time to time, as he may deem necessary for the prompt disposition of the business thereof, and it shall be the duty of each associate judge to attend and serve at any branch court to which he may be so assigned, but the chief justice shall only assign such number of judges to the trial and disposition of cases of the first class and cases of the second class

mentioned in section two (2) of this Act, from time to time, as may not be needed for the prompt disposition of the other business of the court. The chief justice shall also superintend the preparation of the calendars of cases for trial in said court and shall make such classification and distribution of the same upon different calendars as he shall deem proper and expedient. Each associate judge shall, at the commencement of each month, make to the chief justice, under his official oath, a report in writing of the duties performed by him during the preceding month, which report shall specify the number of days' attendance in court of such judge during such month, and the branch courts upon which he has attended, for which the chief justice shall cause suitable blanks to be prepared and furnished to the associate judges. Each judge shall be entitled to vacations, which shall not exceed forty-six days in all in one year, and which shall be taken at such time as may be determined by the chief justice. The chief justice must give his attention faithfully to the discharge of the duties especially pertaining to his office and to the performance of such additional judicial work as he may be able to perform. Each associate judge must perform his share of the labors and duties appertaining to the office. At least one associate judge must be in attendance in one branch court in each district three hours of each day, except Sunday, a public holiday, or a day upon which the inhabitants of the city of Chicago generally refrain from business, and each associate judge, while in the court room or in chambers, and not actually engaged in the performance of other official duties, must act upon any application for his official action properly made to him, and at least one judge must be in attendance at some convenient branch court in the first district from half-past seven o'clock p. m. to twelve o'clock midnight, on each day of the week, except Sunday, for the hearing and disposition of such criminal and quasi criminal business as may be brought before him. The chief justice shall appoint in accordance with the city civil service Act such number of assistants, not exceeding four, as he may deem necessary, whose salaries shall be fixed by the majority of the judges: Provided, that the salaries of two of said assistants shall not exceed four thousand dollars ($4,000) each per annum, and that the salaries of the remaining two of said assistants shall not exceed eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800) each per annum. Said assistants shall have power to administer oaths and shall perform such duties as may be required of them by the chief justice, but shall not exercise any judicial powers. It shall be the duty of the chief justice and the associate judges to meet together at least once in each month, excepting the month of August, in each year, at such hour and place as may be designated by the chief justice, and at such other times as may be required by the chief justice, for the consideration of such matters pertaining to the administration of justice in said court as may be brought before them. At such meetings they shall receive and investigate, or cause to be investigated, all complaints, presented to them pertaining to the said court, and to the officers thereof,

and shall take such steps as they may deem necessary or proper with respect thereto, and they shall have the power and it shall be their duty to adopt or cause to be adopted all such rules and regulations for the proper administration of justice in said court as to them may seem expedient.

The salary of the chief justice shall be ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per annum, and the salary of the associate judges shall be nine thousand [dollars] ($9,000) per annum: Provided, that the salary of no judge shall be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall be elected. Such salaries shall be payable in monthly installments out of the city treasury.

§ 14a. That all offices and places of employment, except the offices which are filled by election, in the municipal court of the city of Chicago, shall be deemed to be offices and places of employment in such city within the meaning of section 3 of the Act entitled, "An Act to regulate the civil service of cities," approved and in force March 20, 1895, and Acts amendatory thereto, hereinafter called the city civil service Act, and subject to the provisions of such city civil service Act, so far as the same can be made applicable and to all future amendments thereof, and for the purpose of applying said city civil service Act to the service of the municipal court hereby intended to be covered, its provisions, whenever not literally applicable to such service, shall be applied to such service by analogy according to the spirit and purpose thereof, subject to the provisions hereinafter contained.

§ 14b. That within ninety days after the adoption of this Act in the manner hereinafter provided, the civil service commissioners of the city of Chicago shall classify all the offices and places of employment in the service of the municipal court, other than the offices which are filled by election, and all persons who on the date when this Act shall have been adopted shall hold office or employment in the service so directed to be classified, shall be deemed to be members of the classified service as though they had been appointed in accordance with the provisions of said city civil service Act and after examination. The chief justice, the clerk and the bailiff of the municipal court shall be deemed to be heads of departments within the meaning of said city civil service Act.

15. That said clerk shall appoint in accordance with the city civil service Act, such number of deputies as may be determined, from time to time, by a majority of the judges of the municipal court by orders signed by them and spread upon the records of said court. The salaries of deputy clerks shall be fixed from time to time by orders signed by a majority of the judges of the municipal court and spread upon the records of the court, and shall be payable out of the city treasury in monthly installments: Provided, however, that the salary of the chief deputy clerk shall be four thousand dollars ($4,000) per annum, and that the salary of not more than four additional deputy clerks, other than those who may be employed as shorthand reporters, shall not ex