ing, under oath, thirty-five cents. For docketing each suit, twenty-five cents. For taking deposition, for each one hundred words, fifteen cents. For issuing dedimus to take depositions of witnesses, 50 cents. For entering verdict of jury, fifteen cents. For entering judgments, twenty-five cents. For issuing each execution, twenty-five cents. For entering continuance, or any other order in the case, fifteen cents. For entering each appeal, twenty-five cents. For entering satisfaction of judgment, ten cents. For entering the award of referees, fifty cents. For administering oaths and trial, making all entries in cases of estrays, and making and transmitting a certificate thereof to the county clerk, one dollar. For each marriage ceremony performed and certificate thereof, two dollars. For each mittimus, thirty-five cents. For giving each notice, twenty-five cents. For administering oaths, five cents, For each summons or warrant, twenty-five cents. For each subpoena, twenty-five cents. For each venire in all cases, twenty-five cents. For each scire facias, thirty-five cents. For issuing each attachment or writ of possession, fifty cents. For taking recognizances, and returning the same, fifty cents. For transcript in change of venue, fifty cents. For transcript of judgment and proceedings in cases of appeal, fifty cents. For transcript of judgment to obtain lien on real estate, one dollar. For the trial of all contested cases, in counties of the first, second and third class, a per diem of two dollars, except in cases of judgment by confession or default in all counties of the first, second and third class the fees of the justices of the peace, police magistrates, constables, jurors and witnesses in criminal cases, shall be the same as those allowed for similar services in civil cases, and in all criminal cases where the fees cannot be collected of the party convicted, or where the prosecutions [prosecution] fails, the county board may, in its discretion, direct that the cost of the prosecution, or so much thereof as shall seem just and equitable, shall be paid out of the county treasury: Provided, that the costs in criminal and quasi criminal prosecutions for the violation of an ordinance of an incorporated city or town, where the provisions of the charters of such towns or cities do not prohibit the payment of such costs, may be paid by such city or town, in the discretion of the city council or board of trustees of such incorporated cities or towns.

[ 2.] 402. REPEAL-All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

APPROVED May 24, 1907.

AN ACT to amend section 20 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 Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, said section 20 being amended by Act approved May 25, 1877, in force July 1, 1877.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 20 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 Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, said section 20 being amended by Act approved May 25, 1877, in force July 1, 1877, be amended so as to read as follows:

§ 20. For administering oaths and signing jurat, when not taking evidence or depositions, ten cents. For taking acknowledgment or proof of any deed, or written instrument, twenty-five cents. For taking depositions and certifying, for every one hundred words, fifteen cents. For taking and reporting testimony under order of court, the same fee as for taking depositions. For computing the amount due on which to render a decree, and making a report thereof to the court, where no oral evidence is taken, two dollars. For examining questions of law and fact in issue by the pleading, and reporting conclusions, whenever specially ordered by the court, a sum not exceeding ten dollars. For making sales and deeds thereon, the same fees and allowances as sheriffs; but in no suit or other proceedings, shall such fee and commission exceed two hundred dollars. For making a deed alone, on other cases, when required by order or decree of court, three dollars. For report of sale in every suit or proceeding when a sale is had, two dollars. For hearing and deciding application for writs of ne exeat or injunction, to be advanced by the complainant and taxed with costs, five dollars. For ordering, or refusing to order, a writ of habeas corpus or certiorari, one dollar. And no other fee or allowance whatever shall be made for services by masters in chancery.

In counties of the third class, masters in chancery may receive for examining questions in issue referred to them, and reporting conclusions thereon, and also in cases where the defendants are in default but under the order of reference the master is required to find and report conclusions, such compensation as the court may deem just; and for services not enumerated above in this section and which have been and may be imposed by statute or special order, they may receive such compensation as the court may allow. The court may also include as a part of such master's fees a reasonable allowance not to exceed fifteen

cents per hundred words for stenographer's services in cases where the master shall certify that a stenographer was necessarily employed, and shall attach to his report a certified copy of the testimony taken by such stenographer.

AN ACT to amend section 8 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, as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 8 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, as amended by an Act approved June 4, 1889, in force July 1, 1889; title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

§ 8. State's Attorneys shall also be entitled to the following fees: For each conviction in prosecutions under indictment for murder, manslaughter, rape, kidnapping, arson and forgery, $30.00;

All other cases punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, $30.00;

For each conviction in other cases in courts of record, including cases brought to such courts by appeal from justices of the peace and police magistrates, $15.00.

For each conviction in cases before police magistrates and justices of the peace, for offenses which it is made by law the duty of State's Attorneys to prosecute before such officers, and for each conviction before justices of the peace and police magistrates on any charge made criminal by the laws of this State, prosecuted by them, $5.00;

For preliminary examination for each defendant held to bail or recognized, $5.00;

For each examination of a party bound over to keep the peace, $5.00;

For each defendant held by a justice of the peace or police magistrate to answer in a county court on the charge of bastardy, $5.00; For each trial in a court of record on the charge of bastardy, $15.00;

For each case of appeal or writ of error taken from his county or from the county to which a change of venue is taken from his county, to the Supreme or Appellate Court when prosecuted or defended by him, $50.00;

For each day actually employed in a trial of cases in court of record, $10.00; the judge before whom the case is tried shall make an order specifying the number of days for which per diem shall be allowed;

For each day actually employed in the trial of cases of felony arising in their respective counties and taken by change of venue to another county, $10.00; and the judge before whom the case is tried shall make an order specifying the number of days for which said per diem shall be allowed. And it is hereby made the duty of each State's Attorney to prepare and try each case of felony arising when so taken by change of venue;

For assisting in a trial of each case on an indictment for felony brought by change of venue to their respective counties, the same fees they would be entitled to if such indictment had been found for an offense committed in his county, and it shall be the duty of the State's Attorney of the county to which such cause is taken by change of venue to assist in the trial thereof;

For each case of forfeited recognizance where the forfeiture is set aside at the instance of the defense, in addition to the ordinary costs, $10.00 for each defendant;

For each proceeding in a court of record to inquire into the alleged insanity or distraction of any person alleged to be insane or distracted. $5.00 for each defendant;

For each proceeding in a court of record to inquire into the alleged dependency or delinquency of any child, $10.00;

For each day actually employed in the hearing of a case of habeas corpus in which the people are interested, $20.00.

All the foregoing fees shall be taxed as costs to be collected from the defendant, if possible, upon conviction. But in cases of inquiry into the sanity or insanity of any person alleged to be insane, in cases on a charge of bastardy and in case of appeal or writ of error in the Supreme or Appellate Court, where judgment is in favor of the accused, the fees allowed the State's Attorney therein shall be retained out of the fines and forfeitures collected by them in other cases.

Ten per cent of all monies, except revenue, collected by them and paid over to the authorities entitled thereto, which per cent, together with the fees provided for herein that are not collected from the parties tried or examined, shall be paid out of any fines and forfeited recognizances collected by them.

State's Attorneys shall have a lien for their fees on monies except revenue received by them until such fees and earnings are fully paid. No fees shall be charged on more than ten counts in any one indictment or information on trial and conviction; nor on more than ten counts against any one defendant on pleas of guilty at the same term of

court.

APPROVED June 4, 1907.

SALARIES OF JUDGES OF CIRCUIT AND SUPERIOR COURTS.
§ 3. Annual salary of $5,000.
APPROVED MARCH 20, 1907.)*

1. Amends section 3, Act of 1872.

(HOUSE BILL No. 56.

AN ACT to amend section 3 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 3 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, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

§3. That each judge of the circuit courts of this State and each judge of the superior court of Cook county, who shall be elected on or after the first Monday of June, A. D. 1909, shall receive and be paid out of the State treasury of this State, an annual salary of five thousand dollars ($5,000), in lieu of all other compensation, perquisite or benefit in any form whatever: Provided, that such provision shall not apply to any judge elected or appointed to serve an unexpired portion of a term which began prior to said first Monday of June, 1909: And provided, further, that the provisions of this Act shall not prevent the payment of such additional compensation to the judges of the circuit and superior courts of Cook county out of the treasury of said county as is or may be provided by law.

APPROVED March 20, 1907.

SALARIES OF STATE OFFICERS.

§ 1. Amends section 1, Act 1872.

§ 1. Increases salaries of State officers.

(SENATE BILL No. 105. APPROVED JUNE 4. 1905.)

AN ACT to amend section 1 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, the title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874.

SECTION I. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 1 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, the title as amended by Act approved March 28, 1874. be amended so as to read as follows:

§ I. That there shall be allowed and paid an annual salary, in lieu of all other salaries, fees, perquisites, benefit of compensation in any form whatsoever, to each of the officers herein named, the following sums respectively: