A Bill for An act Regulating the Terms of Holding the Supreme and Circuit courts, and fixing the salary of the circuit Judges.

Section 1. Be it Enacted by the People of th the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the terms of the supreme court shall commence on the second Mondays in December and first ^third^ Mondays in June annually, and the court shall continue in Session at each term until the business before it shall be disposed of

Section 2. The salary1 of the circuit Judges in this state shall be Eight Hundred dollars per annum payable Quarterly.

Section 3. The circuit Judges may interchange and hold each others circuit courts as often as they may agree to do the same; and may award Writs of Ne Exeat, Habeas corpus, certiorari

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and injunction, and may grant orders to stay proceedings, which said Writs and orders shall run, and have force in each others circuits, and such acts Writs and orders, shall have the same effect, and be obeyed in the same manner as if the said acts orders and Writs were done, granted and issued by the proper Judge of the circuit.

Section 4. should either of the circuit Judges fail to attend in any county in their respective circuits, on the day appointed for commencing the term of the circuit courts therein as required by law; the court shall stand adjourned until the next day, and should the Judge not attend by four o clock of the afternoon of the second day of the term the court shall stand adjourned until the next succeeding term of the court ^[Strike?] out 4^th section^

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and all suits, motions, writs, process Indictments and recognizances and other proceedings, shall stand continued over until the next term of the court, as effectually as if the same had been continued by order of the court.

Section 5. The circuit Judges in their respective circuits may at any regular term of the court in any county [make?] an order appointing a time for Holding a special term of the court for hearing and deciding Chancery causes, and shall have power at such special terms to hear and decide all causes matters and things depending in Chancery in such courts, and all proceedings had, and all orders decrees, and Judgments made at such special terms, shall have the

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the same validity as if had or made at a regular term appointed by Law. The said Judges shall also have power at any regular term of a circuit court in any county, to make an order appointing a time for Holding a special term of such court, for the trial of civil and criminal causes, and suits may be instituted, and process made returnable to such special term in the same manner and with the like effect as at a regular term of such court, and the county commissioners of such county, shall select and cause to be summoned a grand and petit Jury to attend the special term appointed for the trial of civil and criminal cases, and the court shall have power at such special term to try all civil and criminal causes, and all orders, [...?] Judgments and proceedings made

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and had at such special term, shall be as valid and effectual as if made or had at a regular term of the court,

Section 6. The county commissioners courts of the several counties in which the circuit courts are allowed to sit two weeks, and authorized to select forty Eight qualified Jurymen, to serve as petit Jurors during the term of the circuit court, twenty four of whom shall be selected to serve during the first week of the court, and summoned to attend on the first day of the term, and twenty four shall be selected to serve during the second week of the term, and summoned to attend on the second Monday of the term.

Section 7. All process, suits and recognizances which have been or may be issued or

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or entered into, and made returnable to the courts as at present arranged shall be taken and considered to be returnable to the terms fixed by this act and shall be as valid as if made returnable to the terms fixed by this act,—and all process issued and tested in the names of either of the Justices of the supreme court by the clerk of any circuit court, shall be valid, to all intents and purposes; and shall be obliged; as though, the same had been tested, in the names of the circuit Judge of such court,

Section 8. The terms of Holding the circuit

In the county of McDonough on the first mondays in May and October,

In the county of Warren on the second mondays in May and October

In the county of Knox on the third mondays in May and October,

In the county of Fulton on the fourth mondays in May and October,

In the county of Schuyler on the first mondays in June and November,

In the county of Jo Daviess on the first mondays in April, and second mondays in August,

In the county of Rock Island on the third mondays in April, and fourth mondays in August,

In the County of Peoria on the fourth mondays in April and first mondays in September,

In the county of Putnam on the first mondays in May and Second mondays in September

In the County of Lasalle on the second mondays in May and third mondays in September

In the county of Iroquois on the third mondays in May and fourth mondays in September,

In the county of Cook on the fourth mondays in May and first mondays in October.

In the counties of Mercer and Henry at such times as shall be appointed by the Judge presiding in the sixth circuit after said counties shall be organized.

Section 9. There shall be three terms of the circuit court held annually in the counties of Sangamon and Morgan, at the times herein directed,