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The recorder of deeds of Cook county as the only compensation for services rendered in the capacity of recorder or in any other capacity the sum of nine thousand dollars per annum. The clerk of the superior court of Cook county, the clerk of the probate court of Cook county, and the county clerk, and the clerk of the county court, the clerk of the circuit court, the county treasurer, the sheriff, coroner and recorder of deeds of Cook county, shall, from the time when their salaries or salary begins, as herein provided, each of them in a book provided for the purpose, keep a full, true and minute account of all the fees and emoluments of his office, designating in corresponding columns the amount of all the fees and emolument [s] earned and payment received on account thereof and shall also keep an account of all expenditures made by him on account of clerk hire, stationery and other expenses; such accounts shall always be open to the inspection of the board of commissioners. Every such officer, respectively, shall, on the first day of June and the first day of December of each year, during the term of his office and while receiving a salary as herein provided, make to the chairman of the board of commissioners a report in writing under oath, of all the fees and emoluments of his office, of every name and description whatsoever, and of all necessary expenses for clerk hire, stationery and other expenses for the half year or fraction thereof, ending at the time of said report; such report shall state fully the manner in which such fees and emoluments accrued. It shall be the duty of said board of commissioners to audit such accounts as soon as may be, and correct and adjust the same in accordance with the facts. The balance found in the hands of any such officer (except the county treasurer) over and above the amount due such officer as compensation for services, stationery, clerk hire and other necessary expenses as hereinbefore set forth, shall be paid over by such officer to the county treasurer as soon as his account shall have been audited, as aforesaid; and in the case of the county treasurer, the balance found in his hands shall be accounted for and paid out upon the order of the county board. And if, in the county of Cook, upon auditing of such accounts, there shall be found any balance due to the county of Cook from the county treasurer, the county of Cook shall account for and pay over to the city of Chicago its just proportion of the same. Deputy and assistant clerks shall be employed under the direction of the board of commissioners for said county and shall be paid a salary, to be fixed by the board: Provided, that until the employment of such deputy or assistant clerk shall be authorized and his compensation fixed as aforesaid, a reasonable allowance shall be made for any clerk, deputy or assistant necessarily employed by such officer.

APPROVED May 11, 1907.

COOK COUNTY-SALARY OF STATE'S ATTORNEY.

§ 1. State's attorney of Cook county allowed salary of $10,000 per

annum.

(HOUSE BILL No. 232.

§ 2. How paid.

APPROVED MAY 17, 1907.)

§ 3. Repeal.

AN ACT providing for the payment by the county of Cook of further compensation to the State's attorney of said county.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the State's attorney of Cook county shall be paid by the said county, in addition to the salary which may be paid to him from the State treasury, such further compensation as will make his salary amount to the sum of ten thousand dollars per annum, which sum shall be in full payment for all services rendered by him.

§ 2. The said compensation shall be paid in equal quarterly installments; and it shall be the duty of the county comptroller of said county, at the end of each and every quarter of the year, to draw an order or warrant therefor in favor of the State's attorney on the county treasurer of said county, whose duty it shall be to pay the same on its presentation properly endorsed: Provided, that no warrant shall be drawn or money paid unless the State's attorney shall have, for the current quarter, made a report to the commissioners of said county and paid into the county treasury all fees collected by him as State's attorney for said quarter.

3. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

APPROVED May 17, 1907.

FEES OF CIRCUIT AND PROBATE CLERKS IN FIRST AND SECOND CLASS COUNTIES.

$ 1. Amends Act of 1895 by providing for per diem to clerks of branch circuit courts in counties of second class.

(HOUSE BILL NO. 1. FILED MAY 13, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to allow a per diem fee to clerks of the circuit and probate courts in counties of the first and second class," approved June 7, 1895, in force July 1, 1895, Approved May 10, 1901, in force July 1, 1901.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to allow a per diem fee to clerks of the circuit and probate courts in counties of the first and second class," be amended to read as follows:

The clerks of the circuit court in counties of the second class shall receive and be allowed as a per diem fee for attendance upon said courts the sum of six dollars per day, and the clerks of the probate court in counties of the second class, and clerks of the circuit court in counties of the first class shall be allowed the same per diem fee for attendance upon their respective courts as are now allowed to clerks of the county court and sheriffs in counties of the second class for such service.

Provided, however, that in counties of the second class, where regular and branch circuit courts are held, clerks of the circuit courts shall receive and be allowed the sum of six dollars per diem for attendance upon each of said courts.

FILED May 13, 1907.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this 13th day of May, A. D. 1907.

JAMES A. ROSE,
Secretary of State.

FEES OF CIRCUIT CLERKS IN COUNTIES OF FIRST AND SECOND CLASS

§ 1.

Amends section 14, Act of 1872.

8 14.

Fees enumerated-eliminates fee for appearance of defendant, etc.

(HOUSE BILL No. 581. APPROVED MAY 25, 1907.)

AN ACT to amend section fourteen of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 20, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by Act approved April 8, 1875, in force July 1, 1875, as amended by Act approved May 11, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, as amended by Act approved June 23, 1883, in force July 1, 1883, as amended June 26, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as amended by Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, as amended by Act approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as amended by Act approved May 16, 1905, in force July 1, 1905.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section fourteen of an Act entitled "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State with reference thereto," approved March 20, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended by Act approved April 8, 1875, in force July 1, 1875, as amended by Act approved May II, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, as amended by Act approved June 23, 1883, in force July 1, 1883, as amended by Act approved June 26, 1885, in force July 1, 1885, as amended by Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889, as amended by Act approved May 11, 1901, in force July 1, 1901, as amended by Act approved May 14, 1903, in force July 1, 1903, as amended by Act approved May 16 1905, in force July 1, 1905, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 14. The fees of the clerk of the circuit court in counties of the first and second class shall be as follows:

First-For all cases of narr and cognovit, for judgments to be entered in vacation, or in term time, in counties of the first class, $4.50.

Second-In counties of the second class, $4.00.

Third-In transcripts from a justice of the peace, or courts of record, or in cases of change of venue, in cases of appeal in [to] said courts in both first and second class counties, $4.00.

Fourth-In transcripts of judgment from justices of the peace, or courts of record, for the purpose of creating a lien, in counties of the first and second class, including one execution, $3.00.

Fifth-In cases of proceedings for the exercise of eminent domain, the petitioner or petitioners shall pay the said clerk the sum of, in counties of the first class, $20.00.

Sixth-In counties of the second class, $16.00.

Seventh-In all other cases in common law, in counties of the first class, $6.00.

Eighth-In counties of the second class, $5.00.

Ninth-In actions of chancery, in all divorce cases, in counties of the first class, $6.00.

Tenth-In counties of the second class, $5.00.

Eleventh-In partition cases, in counties of the first class, $15.00. Twelfth-In counties of the second class, $12.00.

Thirteenth-In cases to foreclose mortgages, in counties of the first class, $10.00.

Fourteenth-In counties of the second class, $9.00.

Fifteenth-In all other chancery cases, in counties of the first class,

$9.00.

Sixteenth-In countics of the second class, $8.00.

Seventeenth-In all criminal cases, in counties of the first class,

$6.00.

Eighteenth-In counties of the second class, $5.00.

Nineteenth-For all executions, issued either as alias or plurius. $1.00. For issuing each writ of habeas corpus, certiorari, or procedendo, in counties of the first class, forty cents: in counties of the second class, twenty-five cents.

Twentieth-For making up a complete record of proceedings and judgments, or transcript for change of venue when directed by the court, for every one hundred words, in counties of the first class, 15 cents. In counties of the second class, 10 cents.

In all cases except in criminal cases, wherein the same are dismissed or settled without trial at the term to which process is made returnable, one-half the fees provided in the foregoing shall be allowed.

For taking depositions when requested and certifying to and sealing the same, for every one hundred words, in counties of the first class, 15 cents; in counties of the second class, 12 cents.

For swearing persons to declaration of intention to become a citizen, and filing the same, in counties of the first and second class, 25 cents. For copy of the same with certificate and seal, in all counties of the first and second class, 25 cents.

For making entry of record of naturalization and for a copy thereof, or either, in all counties of the first and second class, 50 cents.

For taking acknowledgement of deed or other instrument of writing with seal, in counties of first and second class, 25 cents.

For recording any deed or other instrument in writing, for every one hundred words, in counties of first class, 10 cents; in counties of second class, 8 cents, and a certificate to be made by the recorder of the recording of a deed or other writing and the date of recording the same, signed by the clerk, shall be deemed sufficient evidence of the recording thereof, and for which, including indexing said instrument, there shall be charged a fee of twenty-five cents, in all counties of the first and second class.

For copies of records, the same fees as for recording.

For entering each tract in entry book of conveyance, in counties of first class, 10 cents; in counties of second class, 5 cents.

For recording every city, town, or assessor's plat, each lot or tract of land included in said plat, in counties of first class, 10 cents; in counties of second class, 8 cents, when the number of lots does not exceed twenty, and for each additional lot, 5 cents.

For entering each tract of land or town lot, named in any one deed, above five, in the entry book, 5 cents in counties of the first and second class.

For attestation on margin of record, of releases and assignments of all instruments and indexing the same as regular releases are now indexed in the book kept for that purpose, 25 cents.

Provided, that any poor person shall be allowed to commence suit without the payment of costs, by filing an affidavit that he is a poor person and unable to pay costs.

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AN ACT to amend section 40 of an Act entitled, "An Act concerning fees and salaries, and to classify the several counties of this State, with reference thereto," approved March 29, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, title as amended by an Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 40 shall be amended to read as follows:

$ 40. For taking and certifying acknowledgement of a deed, mortgage, power of attorney or other writing, twenty-five cents. For acknowledgment of chattel mortgage, thirty-five cents, and fifteen cents for each folio over one hundred words for docketing the same. For administering oath to affidavit, when drawn by justice, thirty-five

For administering oath to affidavit, when not drawn by justice, ten cents. For taking each bond, thirty-five cents. For taking bail, fifty cents For each certificate required to be made, when not part of any other act, thirty-five cents. For taking each complaint in writ

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