Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That it shall be the duty of the judge or justice of the peace who shall commit any offender to jail, either because such offender is unable to procure bail for his appearance at court, or because the offence is not by law bailable, to write on the warrant of commitment the names and residences of the principal

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witnesses by whom the crime was proved before said judge or justice.

Sec. 2. Whenever any prisoner in the custody of the sheriff or jailor of any county, on any warrant of commitment as aforesaid shall demand of said sheriff or jailor, a copy of said warrant of commitment, said sheriff or jailor shall endorse on the said copy the names of the witnesses written thereon as aforesaid, and any justice or judge who shall neglect to write the name or names of the witnesses aforesaid, on the warrant of commitment, or any sheriff or jailor shall neglect to endorse the name of said witness or witnesses on any copy of said commitment, each justice, judge, sheriff or jailor offending in the premises shall be fined in the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, in the name of, and for the use, of any person who shall sue for the same in any court of record.

Sec. 3. Whenever a habeas corpus shall be issued to bring the body of any prisoner committed as aforesaid, unless the court or judge issuing the same, shall deem it wholly unnecessary and useless, the said court or judge shall issue a subpoena to the sheriff of the county where said person shall be confined, commanding him to summon the witness or witnesses therein named, to appear before such judge or court, at the time and place when and where such habeas corpus shall be returnable, it shall be the duty of such sheriff to serve said subpoena if it be possible, in time to enable such witness or witnesses to attend. It shall be the duty of the witness or witnesses thus served with said subpoena to attend and give evidence before the judge or court issuing the same on pain of being guilty of a contempt, and shall be proceeded against accordingly by said judge or court.

Sec. 4. On the hearing of any habeas corpus issued as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the judge or court who shall hear the same, to examine the witness or witnesses aforesaid, and such other witnesses as the prisoner may request, touching any offence mentioned in the warrant of commitment as aforesaid, whether said offence be technically set out in said commitment or not, and upon which hearing, said judge or court may either re-commit, bail or discharge the prisoner according to the facts of the case.

This act to take effect from and after the first day of June next.2

Approved 11th February, 1837.