Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That so much of an act entitled “an act” to I^n^corporate the city of Chicago, approved March the 4^th, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, as establishes a Municipal Court in the said city of Chicago and ^all^ matters connected therewith, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Sec 2 That all suits or matters both at law and in equity now pending and undetermined in the said Municipal ^Court^, shall be heard, tried and prosecuted to final Judgment and execution in the Circuit Court of the county of Cook, in the same manner as they would be if the said suits or matters had been originally made returnable or had in theCircuit court for the said county of Cook, and all records, dockets, and papers, belonging to, arising from or connected with the said Municipal Court, shall by the clerk of the said Municipal Court be transferred and delivered over to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the said county of Cook: Provided, That this section shall not be construed as a release of errors that might have been taken advantage of, in said Municipal Court; or as compromising the Jurisdiction of the said Court in any case, unless the said Court would have had Jurisdiction if this act had not been passed.

Sec 3 It is hereby made the duty of the high Constable elected under the provisions of the said

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act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Chicago, hereby in part repealed, to make returns of all process of summons, executions or of whatever nature, to the saidCircuit Court of the county of Cook , which saidCircuit Court is hereby invested with the same powers to enforce a compliance with the law in this behalf, that it would have had if the process had been originally issued from the said Circuit Court, and all executions hereafter to be issued upon ^any^ Judgment rendered in the said Municipal Court, shall be directed to the sheriff of Cook county.

Sec 4 That the transcr^i^pt of any record of the said municipal Court of any judgment rendered therein, may and shall be furnished by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the said county of Cook, and any such transcript, shall have the same force and effect to all intents and purposes, that the same would have had if the suit, process, or proceeding whether in law or equity, had been originally commenced or instituted in the said Circuit Court.

Sec 5 That the Clerk of the said Municipal Court shall deliver over the records, dockets and papers as provided in the second section of this act, within six weeks after the passage hereof: Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent the Clerk of the said municipal Court from

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collecting his fees in the manner now provided for by law; and the ^Clerk of the^ said Municipal Court shall for that purpose have free access to the said records, dockets and papers, and copies thereof, without costs or charge.