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 incorporate the city of Chicago,” approved March the 4th, 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a municipal court in the said city of Chicago, and all matters connected therewith, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.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in the circuit court of the county of Cook, in the same manner as they would be if the said suits or matters had been originally made returnable, or had in the circuit court of the said county of Cook; and all records, dockets, and papers belonging to, arising from, or connected with, the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

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have been taken advantage of in said municipal court:2 Provided, further, That it shall be no ground of error in or to any judgment heretofore rendered in the said municipal court, that it does not appear by the record or proceedings that the defendant resided in the said county of Cook.3

Sec. 3. It is hereby made the duty of the high constable elected under the provisions of the said act, entitled “An act to incorporate the city of Chicago,” hereby in part repealed, to make returns of all process of summons, executions, or of whatever nature, to the said circuit court of the county of Cook; which said circuit court is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 transcript 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 collecting his fees in the manner now provided 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.

Sec. 6. That the sheriff of Cook county is hereby authorized to give deeds of conveyance for any real estate which may have been sold by the high constable of the city of Chicago, as fully and effectually as he might or could do if the said real estate had been sold by the sheriff of said county.

Sec. 7. That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the high constable of said city of Chicago from proceeding to collect executions which have been levied.4

Approved,, February 15, 1839.