Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the general assembly
That each and every juror who may be required by a venire to give his attendance upon any circuit court, in this state to serve upon the regular pannel of the petit jury, and any talesman who may be summoned from the bystanders to serve upon any petit jury, and shall actually serve as such, and all Grand jurors empannelled, sworn, and actually serving as such shall be entitled to receive for each days attendance as such Grand ^13^or petit juror the sum of seventy five ^14^cents to be paid out of the County treasury.1
Provided that the said sum so to be paid out of the county treasury shall be of the funds paid into the treasury arising from the law creating a tax on writs, appeal bonds, and dockett fees which said fund is hereby declared to be appropriated, and shall be set apart by the treasurer of the County for the specific purpose of the payment of Grand and petit jurors: and provided further that if said fund in any county shall not be sufficient to pay all the jurors the sum of seventy five cents it shall be the further duty of the treasurer to pay said jurors equally in proportion to the amount paid into the treasury for the purpose aforesaid.

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Sec 2. The clerk of the circuit court shall furnish to each of the jurors aforesaid whenever he shall be discharged from further service by the court at any term thereof a certificate of the number of days he may have served at such term as a grand or petit juror, and upon the presentment thereof to the county treasurer he shall pay to such person, the sum above provided for his services.
Sec 3. The twelfth section of the act entitled “an act prescribing the mode of summoning grand and petit jurors and defining their qualifications and duties” approved February 7th 1827, be and the same is hereby repealed.
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02/12/1834
David Prickett
Passed H. R. Feb 12th [1835?]
D. Prickett Clk[Clerk] H. [R.]

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A bill entitled “An Act providing Compensation for ^Grand &^ Petit ^& Grand^ jurors”
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Re-engrossed
1Since 1827, Illinois jurors had made 25 cents per day.
“An Act prescribing the mode of summoning Grand and Petit Jurors, and defining their qualifications and duties,” 1 June 1827, The Public and General Statute Laws of the State of Illinois (1827), 398.

Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 12, HB 16, GA Session: 9-1, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,