Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly That the condition of appeal bonds taken upon appeals from judgments of Justices of the peace to the circuit court shall be that the party appealing shall [?] whatever judgment may be rendered against the party appealing by the circuit court upon the trial of the appeal.

Sec. 2. No appeal shall be dismissed nor any judgment of a Justice of the peace reversed by the circuit court because of any error in the form of the summons or in the form of action, if it shall appear to the court from the testimony or otherwise that the Justice [would?] have jurisdiction of the case in any other [forum?] of action, but the court shall decide the matters in controversy according to the rights of the parties, and cause the judgment to be so recorded as to conclude the parties from furth[er] litigation in relation to the same [matters?]

Sec 3. Justices of the pea[ce] shall have [juris]diction in cases arising under the act entitled “An act to prevent trespassing by cutting timber” approved 27^th February 1819 when the plaintiffs claim shall not exceed One hundred dollars and the proceeding before the Justices of the peace shall conform to the provisions of said act in all respects whatever.2

This act shall be in force on the first day of May next.