An act to amend an act Entitled “an act to repeal part of an act to incorporate the city of Chicago.”
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Sec:[Section] 1. Be it Enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in [t]he General assembly, that the Judgments heretofore rendered in the Municipal Court of the City of Chicago, shall have the same lien, force[,] and effect, that they would have had, had they been rendered in the Circuit Court of Cook County, and they shall be enforced in the same manner, and all proceedings upon them shall be the same in every respect, as though they had been rendered in Said Circuit Court.
Sec: 2. All process heretofore issued in by the Clerk of said Circuit Court, upon the Judgments and orders of said Municipal Court are hereby declared as valid and of the same force and effect as the like process issued upon the Judgments and orders of said Circuit Court.
Sec: 3. The Judgments, Records, and proceedings of said Municipal Court shall be certified by the Judge and clerk of said Circuit Court, in the same manner and with the like force and Effect, that the judgments[,] Records[,] and proceedings of said Circuit Court may be.
Sec: 4. The Circuit Court of Cook County shall have and exercise the same power and authority to compel the return of process heretofore issued by said Municipal Court
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and to compel the payment of monies to the plaintiffs in any execution, that may have been collected by virtue of any process of said Municipal Court, that they have in like cases in the said Circuit Court.
Sec: 5. No proceeding of any officer in Enforcing the Execution of any final process which was issued from the office of the Clerk of said Municipal Court, previous to the passage of the act to which this is an amendment shall be held invalid, where the requirements of the law have in other respects been complied with, and no sale by the High Constable of said Cityity, or any Sheriff or Coroner upon final process which was ^issued^ from said Municipal Court, previus to the passage of said act, shall be set aside or deemed invalid in consequence of the passage of said act.
Sec: 6. It shall not be necessary to revive any judgment of said Municipal Court [by?] Scire facias in order to authorise the issueing of final process thereon, although a year and a day may have elapsed since the issueing of Execution thereon, or since the rendition of said Judgment, provided execution be issued within one year from the passage of this act.

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01/30/1840
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Jan 30th 1840
J Calhoun Clk[Clerk] H. R.
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A Bill for An act to amend an act Entitled “An act to repeal part of an act to incorporate the City of Chicago
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1Gholson Kercheval introduced HB 157 in the House of Representatives on January 20, 1840. The House passed the bill on January 30. The House informed the Senate of the bill’s passage, but the latter took no action.
Journal of the House of Representatives, of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 210, 228, 294; Journal of the Senate of the Eleventh General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at Their Called Session, Begun and Held at Springfield, December 9, 1839 (Springfield, IL: William Walters, 1839), 220.

Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 149, HB 157, GA Session 11-S, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,