An Act to amend An Act entitled “An Act regulating the times of holding the Supreme, ^Courts^ and Circuit Courts, and fixing the salary2 of the Circuit Judges,” In force Feby 13^th 1835.

Section 1^st Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That a term of the Supreme Court shall be held annually, at Vandalia the seat of Government on the commencing on the second Monday of December for the second Judicial Circuit of this State as now prescribed by law.

Sec[Section] 2. That a term of the Supreme Court, shall be annually held, in each of the other Judicial Circuits of this State as follows, (Viz) at the Court House of the County of on the first Monday of May within and for the third Judicial Circuit of this State: at the Court House of the county of on the third Monday of May within and for the fourth Judicial Circuit3 of this State; at the Court House of the County of on the first Monday of June within and for the seventh Judicial Circuit of this State: at the Court House of the County of on the third Monday of June within and for the sixth Judicial Circuit of this State: at the Court House of the County of Pike, on the first Monday of July within and for the fifth Judicial Circuit of this State, at the Court House of the County of within and for the first Judicial Circuit of this State, on the third Monday of July.4

Sec 3^rd That the times mentioned and prescribed in the Section last aforesaid, [it?] shall be ^the^ times of the commencement of the terms aforesaid; and the said terms shall continue untill the evening of the second Thursday of such terms, when such term of the Court shall end, and the Court be adjourned till Court in course. Provided that whenever the said Supreme Court shall have tried all the causes defending before it, and dispatched all it’s business it may sooner adjourn: and all causes pending before such Court which shall not have been tried during a term of said Court shall stand adjourned till Court in course, on the next Term thereof.

Sec 4^th That the Clerk of said Court shall be required to attend the several terms of said Court, and perform all the duties now required of such Clerk in person, as he may appoint a Deputy Clerk in each of the Circuits aforesaid, who shall perform the same duties and be entitled to the same ^fees^ and emoluments as such Clerk is now entitled to by law. And it shall be ^the the^ duty of the several Sheriffs or Coroners in the several Counties where the terms of the said ^Court^ are prescribed to be holden, to give their attendance upon such Court, to perform all such duties as may be required of them by law, and in addition to the fees now allowed, they shall be entitled to the same compensation per diem, as such Officers are now allowed for attending the several Circuit Courts of this State.

Section 5. That all Appeals taken, and all Writs of Error issued; and all other writs in process sued out shall be made returnable to the several places designated by this Act, in each of the Circuits aforesaid,

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for holding the terms of said Supreme Court, and all Appeals and writs of Error and all other business defending, shall be proceeded on and tried in the same ^manner^ as now prescribed by law, at the places designated in the several Circuits aforesaid.

Section 6. That it shall be the duty of the Judges of said Supreme Court, to appoint under their hands and Seals, some competent Member of the Bar, to report annually for publication, the Decisions of said Court, whose duty it shall ^be^ to prepare all such Decisions, and superintend the printing thereof by the State Printer and the said Judges shall certify to the Auditor of Public Accounts what sum in their opinion, such Reporter ought to be entitled to for his services, and the said Auditor shall ^draw^ his Warrant on the Treasurer of this State for the payment thereof. And it shall be the duty of said Reporter to deposit such Reports when printed, with the Secretary of State, whose duty it shall be to transmit one copy of said Reports to each every person, now entitled to a copy of the Statutes, as now prescribed by Law.

Sec 7^th That all causes now pending in said Supreme Court, shall be proceeded on, and tried in the same manner as if no change had taken place; and nothing whatever in this Act shall be construed, as having any application to the present Term of the Supreme Court

Sec 8 That in consideration of the increased duties and services of the Judges of said Supreme Court, imposed on them by this Act, the salaries of each of them shall be increased, to the amount of two hundred Dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly at the Treasury of this State.5

Sec 9 ^Sec 8^ That all laws or parts of laws6 contrary to this Act or in any manner varying it’s provisions, be and the same are hereby repealed.