more than twenty-five thousand (25,000) inhabitants, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), to be paid out of the city treasury: Provided, that whenever an additional judge is elected in any city where a city court has been established under this or any prior Act, said additional judge shall be allowed and receive as an annual salary, the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), to be paid out of the city treasury. APPROVED May 8, 1907. AN ACT to amend section nine 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, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, and in force July 1, 1874, and as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1879, and in force July 1, 1879. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section nine (9) 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, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, and as amended by an Act approved May 13, 1879, in force July 1, 1879, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows, to-wit: 89. Adams first Monday in January, May and August. § 2. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. $ 3. WHEREAS, An emergency exists, therefore it is enacted that this Act be in force and effect from and after its passage. AN ACT to amend section 86 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, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by an Act approved April 13, 1875, in force July 1, 1875. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 86 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, and to repeal an Act therein named," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, and as amended by an Act approved April 13, 1875, in force July 1, 1875, be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: § 86. Putnam, on the third Monday of January and July. § 2. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. APPROVED May 17, 1907. MUNICIPAL COURT OF CHICAGO. $ 1. Amends certain sections and adds | $24. Cases transferred from other courts-duty of State's attorney in criminal cases-practice. Criminal cases-how prosecuted by informationcomplaint-continuance. Cases of first class-how commenced and prosecuted-exceptions. Cases of fourth classhow brought and prosecuted. Cases tried without jury. Trial by Jury-challenge of jurors-examination of jurors. Charges to jury may be Bill of exceptions-failure in Change of venue in certain cases regulated. Practice regulated in certain cases præcipe and bill of particulars. Summons to defendantform, etc. § 42. Summons-how served. de $ 46. Amendments. Postponements. $ 48. Practice in attachment, etc. exceptions. 48a. Practice in trial of right of property. (SENATE BILL NO. 321. APPROVED JUNE 3, 1907.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, 'An Act in relation to a municipal court in the city of Chicago," approved May 18, 1905. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That sections one (1), two (2), four (4), eight (8), nine (9), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23), twenty-four (24), twenty-seven (27), twenty-eight (28), twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), thirty-one (31), thirty-five (35), thirty-seven (37), thirty-eight (38), thirty-nine (39), forty (40), forty-one (41), forty-two (42), forty-three (43), forty-four (44), forty-five (45), forty-six (46), forty-seven (47), fortyeight (48), forty-nine (49), fifty (50), fifty-one (51), fifty-two (52), fifty-four (54), fifty-six (56), fifty-seven (57), fifty-eight (58), fiftynine (59), sixty (60), sixty-one (61), sixty-three (63), and sixty-four (64) of the Act entitled, "An Act in relation to a municipal court in the city of Chicago," approved May 18, 1905, be and the same are hereby amended, and that said Act be and it is hereby further amended by adding thereto five additional sections to be known as sections forty-eight A (48A), fifty A (50A), fifty B (50B), fifty C (50C), and fifty D (50D), which said sections as amended and said additional sections shall read as follows: That there shall be established in and for the city of Chicago a municipal court which shall be a court of record and shall be styled "The Municipal Court of Chicago," hereinafter designated and referred to as the municipal court, and the jurisdiction of which shall be exercised in the manner hereinafter prescribed by branch courts, each of which shall exercise all the powers in this Act declared to be vested in the municipal court. § 2. That said municipal court shall have jurisdiction in the following cases: First. Cases to be designated and hereinafter referred to as cases of the first class, which shall include (a) all actions on contracts, express or implied, when the amount claimed by the plaintiff, exclusive of costs, exceeds one thousand dollars ($1,000); (b) all actions for the recovery of personal property when the value of the property sought to be recovered as claimed by the plaintiff exceeds one thousand dollars ($1,000); and (c) all actions for the recovery of damages for the conversion of personal property, and actions for the recovery of damages for injuries to personal property, when the amount of damages sought to be recovered, as claimed by the plaintiff, exclusive of costs, exceeds one thousand dollars ($1,000). Second. Cases to be designated and hereinafter referred to as cases of the second class, which shall include all suits of every kind and nature, whether civil or criminal, or whether at law or in equity, which may be transferred to it, by a change of venue, or otherwise, by the circuit court of Cook county, the superior court of Cook county, or the criminal court of Cook county, for trial and disposition. Third. Cases to be designated and hereinafter referred to as cases of the third class, which shall include all criminal cases in which the punishment is by fine or imprisonment otherwise than in the penitentiary, and all other criminal cases which the laws in force from time to time may permit to be prosecuted otherwise than on indictment by a grand jury. Fourth. Cases to be designated and hereinafter referred to as cases of the fourth class, which shall include (a) all civil actions, quasi criminal actions excepted, for the recovery of money only when the amount claimed by the plaintiff, exclusive of costs, does not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000), the amount in any action on a bond to be determined by the amount actually sought to be recovered and not by the penalty of the bond; (b) all actions for the recovery of personal property when the value of the property sought to be recovered does. not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000); (c) all actions of forcible detainer, (d) all proceedings for the trial of the right of property, and (e) all actions and proceedings of which justices of the peace are now given jurisdiction by law and which are not otherwise provided for in this Act in which class of actions and proceedings the municipal court shall have jurisdiction where the amount sought to be recovered does not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000). In any action of the fourth class for the recovery of money only judgment may be rendered for over one thousand dollars ($1,000), where the excess over one thousand dollars ($1,000) shall consist of interest or damages or costs accrued after the commencement of such action. Fifth. Cases to be designated and hereinafter referred to as cases of the fifth class, which shall include all quasi criminal actions, excepting bastardy cases. Sixth. Cases to be designated and hereinafter referred to as cases of the sixth class, which shall include (a) all proceedings for the prevention of the commission of crimes; (b) all proceedings for the arrest, examination, commitment and bail of persons charged with criminal offenses; (c) all proceedings pertaining to searches and seizures of personal property by means of search warrants, and (d) all bastardy cases. § 4. That for the purposes of said municipal court the city of Chicago shall be divided into districts, which, until otherwise provided, shall be five in number and their territorial limits shall be as follows: Of the First district the territorial limits shall be the territory bounded on the east by Lake Michigan, on the north by the city limits, on the west by the center line of Western avenue from the city limits on the north to the center line of Fifty-fifth street, thence on the south by the center line of Fifty-fifth street to the center line of State street, thence on the west by the center line of State street to the center line of Sixty-third street, thence on the south by the center line of Sixtythird street to the center line of Cottage Grove avenue, thence on the west by the center line of Cottage Grove avenue to the center line of Seventy-first street, and thence on the south by the center line of Seventy-first street to Lake Michigan, and such territory shall be known as the First district. Of the Second district the territorial limits shall be the territory bounded on the south by the city limits, on the east by the city limits and Lake Michigan, on the north by the center line of Seventy-first street, and on the west by the center line of Cottage Grove avenue, and such territory shall be known as the Second district. Of the Third district the territorial limits shall be the territory bounded on the west and south by the city limits, on the east by the center line of Cottage Grove avenue from the city limits on the south to the center line of Sixty-third street, thence on the north by the center line of Sixty-third street to the center line of State street, thence on the east by the center line of State street to the center line of Fifty-fifth street, thence on the north by the center line of Fifty-fifth street to the city limits on the west, and such territory shall be known as the Third district. Of the Fourth district the territorial limits shall be the territory bounded on the south by the center line of Fifty-fifth street, on the east by the center line of Western avenue, on the north by the center line of Lake street, and on the west by the city limits, and such territory shall be known as the Fourth district. Of the Fifth district the territorial limits shall be the territory bounded on the south by the center line of Lake street, on the east by the center line of Western avenue, on the north and west by the city limits, and such territory shall be known as the Fifth district. The number and boundaries of the districts may be changed, from time to time, by orders signed by a majority of the judges of the municipal court, and spread upon the records thereof, which orders shall be published for three successive weeks, once in each week, in some newspaper of general circulation in the city of Chicago, and which shall take effect respectively within thirty days after the last publication thereof: Provided, however, no such change in the number or boundaries of districts shall become effective unless the order therefor shall have been |