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For summoning each juror, twenty-five cents, and mileage, five cents per mile each way.

For levying an execution or serving writ of attachment, fifty cents, and five cents per mile each way.

For taking possession of or removing property levied on, the sheriff shall be allowed to tax the necessary actual costs of such possession or removal.

For serving and returning a scire facias to revive a judgment, foreclose a mortgage, or against bail, fifty cents.

For committing to or discharging each prisoner from jail, fifty cents.

For levying each writ of attachment, one dollar.

For serving each garnishee, fifty cents.

For serving each writ of replevin, fifty cents.

For taking all bonds on legal process, sixty-five cents.

For attending before a judge with a prisoner on writ of habeas corpus, two dollars per day, and mileage, five cents each way.

For serving writ of possession, one dollar, without aid, and when aid is necessary, two dollars, and mileage, five cents each way.

For executing writ of ad quod damnum, attending the inquest, and returning the writ with the verdict of the jury, two dollars.

For executing and acknowledging deed on sale of real estate, two dollars.
For making certificate of sale, and making and filing duplicate for record, fifty

cents.

For making certificate of redemption, seventy-five cents.

For executing each capias, one dollar, and when the offense charged is infamous, two dollars, and five cents per mile travel each way.

For service of each writ of ejectment and return, one dollar.

For executing requisitions from other states, three dollars, and mileage five cents each way.

For conveying each prisoner from his own county to the jail of a foreign county, per mile for going only, twenty-five cents.

For committing each prisoner to jail, under the laws of the United States, to be paid by the marshal or other person requiring his confinement, fifty cents. For dieting such prisoner per day, thirty-five cents, to be paid by the marshal or other person requiring his confinement.

For discharging such prisoner, fifty cents.

For conveying convicts to the penitentiary or the reform school, the following fees, payable out of the state treasury, viz: When but one convict is conveyed, twenty-five cents per mile, in going only, to the penitentiary or reform school from the place of conviction; when two convicts are conveyed at the same time, twentyfive cents per mile for the first, and fifteen cents per mile for the second convict; when more than two convicts are conveyed at the same time to the penitentiary or reform school as aforesaid, the sheriff shall be allowed twenty-five cents per mile for the first, fifteen cents per mile for the second, and ten cents per mile for each additional convict.

FEES OF RECORDER OF DEEDS.

54. § 2. For recording any deed or other instrument in writing, for every one hundred words, eight cents, and twenty-five cents for the certificate of the recorder of the time of filing the deed or instrument for record, and the book and page of the record.

For recording maps or plats of additions, sub-divisions or otherwise, for each tract, parcel or lot contained therein, eight cents, and twenty-five cents for the certificate of the time of filing the same for record, and the book and page of the record thereof.

For certified copies of records, the same fees as herein allowed for recording.

FEES OF CLERKS OF COUNTY COURTS IN PROBATE MATTERS.

55.] § 3. For taking proof of last will and testament, or codicil, when proved separately, and endorsing certificate of probate thereon, including all services relating thereto, thirty-five cents.

For entering order admitting to probate last will and testament, or codicil, twenty cents.

For recording last will and testament, or codicil, for every one hundred words, eight cents.

For taking bond of executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, administering oath and recording bond, fifty cents.

For issuing and sealing letters testamentary, letters of administration, appointment of guardian or conservator, and recording the same, seventy-five cents. For entering order for appointment of appraisers, twenty cents.

For issuing warrant to appraisers, fifty cents.

For taking and filing renunciation of widow or next of kin, five cents.

For entering each judgment, order or decree, or settlement of executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, for every one hundred words, eight cents. For filing and docketing claims against estates, ten cents.

For entering orders allowing claims against estates, counting the whole entry as one, twenty cents: Provided, no charge shall be made for allowing claims against estates, except for swearing to and filing affidavits, unless the claim is litigated as other suits.

For filing inventories, appraisement bills, sale bills, and all other exhibits and writings (except wills and codicils), five cents.

For entering order approving the same, twenty cents.

For recording inventories, appraisement bills, sale bills, and all other exhibits and writings (except wills and codicils), for every one hundred words, eight cents. For entering order approving widow's award, twenty cents.

For certified copies and exemplifications of records, papers and settlements, for every hundred words, eight cents.

For certified copies, with seal of court, of letters of administration or testamentary, or guardianship or conservatorship, fifty cents.

For petition, order, and issuing citation, forty-five cents.

For entering order approving account of executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, twenty cents.

For recording such accounts, for every one hundred words, eight cents.

For entering order approving reports of executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, twenty cents.

For entering order discharging executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, twenty cents.

For keeping a regular account current with executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, to be kept in a well bound book, and preserved, on each settlement, fifty cents.

For filing petition, and issuing summons in application to sell real estate, twenty-five cents.

For entering order for same, twenty-five cents.

For entering order appointing guardian ad litem, twenty cents.

For dedimus to prove will, or otherwise, fifty cents.

FEES OF COUNTY CLERKS.

56. § 4. For each license and taking bond for ferry, toll bridge, turnpike road, tavern, saloon, grocery or peddler, one dollar.

For issuing each marriage license, sealing, filing and recording the same, and the certificate thereto (one charge), one dollar and fifty cents.

For each copy of rates for ferry, toll bridge, or turnpike road, twenty-five cents. For taking and certifying the acknowledgments of a deed, power of attorney, or other writing, and sealing the same, twenty-five cents.

For filing certificate in case of estrays, entering the same, and furnishing notices for publication thereon (one charge), seventy-five cents.

For recording all papers and documents required by law to be recorded in the

office of the county clerk, for every one hundred words, eight cents.

For swearing any person to an affidavit, not to be used in a case in the court of which he is a clerk, with certificate and seal, twenty-five cents.

For certificate and seal, not in a case in a court whereof he is clerk, twentyfive cents.

For making and certifying a copy of any paper or record in his office, for every one hundred words, eight cents.

For filing papers in his office, for each paper filed, five cents.

For extending other than state and county taxes, one cent for each tract or lot, and each person's personal tax, to be paid by the authority for whose benefit the same is extended; and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to certify to the county collector the amount due from each authority, and the collector, in his settlement with such authority, shall reserve such amount from the amount due and payable by him to such authority. The following fees shall be allowed for services in matters of taxes and assessments, and shall be charged as costs against the delinquent property, and be collected with the taxes thereon:

For making lists of delinquent lands and lots for judgment, for each tract or lot, three cents.

For entering judgment, for each tract or lot, one cent.

For making lists of delinquent lands and lots on precept and sale, for each tract or lot, two cents.

For services in attending the tax sales, and issuing certificates of sales, and sealing the same, for each tract or lot sold, fifteen cents.

For cancelling certificates of sale, for each tract or lot, fifteen cents.

For each certificate of redemption, twenty-five cents.

57. SHERIFF AND RECORDER, PAYMENT IN ADVANCE.] § 5. The sheriff and recorder of deeds shall, in all cases, be entitled to demand the payment of all fees for services in advance, so far as the same can be ascertained.

58. REPEAL.] § 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed.

59. EMERGENCY.] § 7. Whereas, there is no adequate provision of law for charging and collecting fees in some of the offices in counties of the third class, whereby an emergency exists, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

SALARIES OF JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT.

AN ACT to provide for and fix the salary of the judges of the supreme court. [Approved March 17, 1871. In force July 1, 1871. L. 1871-2, p. 454.]

60. SALARIES OF JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That there shall be allowed and paid to each of the judges of the supreme court, in lieu of any and all other fees, salary and compensation whatsoever, an annual salary of $5,000, payable in quarter-yearly installments, out of the state treasury, on the warrant of the auditor of public accounts, from and out of any money not otherwise appropriated.

[§ 2 repeals conflicting laws, and is omitted.]

JUDGES AND STATE'S ATTORNEY IN COOK COUNTY.

AN ACT providing for the payment, by the county of Cook, of further compensation to the judges of the circuit and superior courts, and the state's attorney of said county, respectively. [Approved April 13, 1871. In force July 1, 1871. L. 1871-2, p. 454.]

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61. ADDITIONAL SALARY TO JUDGES OF SUPERIOR AND CIRCUIT COURTS, AND STATE'S ATTORNEY IN COOK COUNTY.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the judges of the circuit and superior courts, and the state's attorney of Cook county, shall each be paid by the said county, in addition to the salaries which may be paid to them from the state treasury, such further compensation as will make their respective salaries amount to the sum of $7,000.

62. HOW PAID.] § 2. The said compensation shall be paid in equal quarterly installments; and it shall the duty of the county clerk of said county, at

the end of each and every quarter of the year, to draw an order or warrant therefor in favor of each of said judges and state's attorney, respectively, on the county treasurer of said county, whose duty it shall be to pay the same on presentation properly indorsed.

PAY OF MEMBERS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

AN ACT to fix the pay of members of the general assembly, after its first session under the present constitution. [Approved March 29, 1872. In force July 1, 1872. L. 1871–2, p. 468.]

63. PER DIEM, MILEAGE AND STATIONERY.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That, until otherwise provided by law, members of the general assembly shall receive for their services the sum of $5 per day during each session; and for each session ten cents for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government, to be computed by the auditor of public accounts; and also the sum of $50 per session to each member, which shall be in full for postage, stationery, newspapers, and all other incidental expenses and perquisites, and no more. [See Const., art. 4, § 21.

64. PAY AND MILEAGE CERTIFIED.] § 2. The pay and mileage allowed to each member of the general assembly shall be certified by the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, and entered on the journals and published at the close of each session.

OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

AN ACT to fix the compensation of the members, officers and employees of the general assembly. [Approved and in force June 14, 1871. L. 1871-2, p. 125.]

§ 1, omitted; see § 63.

65. PAY OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.] § 2. Until otherwise provided by law, the compensation of the several officers and employees of the general assembly shall be the same sum per pay for each day's actual service as was paid at the first session of the twenty-seventh general assembly, to be certified by the speakers of the two houses. [See L. 1871-2, p. 124.

66. AUDITOR TO DRAW WARRANTS.] § 3. The auditor of public accounts shall draw his warrants upon the treasurer in favor of the several members, officers and employees of the general assembly, upon properly certified pay-rolls, as the same shall from time to time become due.

67. EMERGENCY.] 4. As there is no existing provision for the payment of the members, officers and employees of the twenty-seventh general assembly, at their special session, an emergency is hereby declared to have arisen requiring that this act shall go into effect immediately; therefore this act shall take effect from and after its passage.

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AN ACT to revise the law in relation to fences. [Approved March 21, 1874. In force July 1, 1874.] 1. FENCE VIEWERS.] § 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That in counties under township organization the town assessor and commissioners of highways shall be ex officio feuce viewers in their respective towns. In counties not under township organization the county board, at their annual meeting in December, shall appoint three fence viewers in each precinct, who shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors are appointed. [L. 1861, p. 221, § 4; L. 1857, p. 160, § 14.

2. WHAT LAWFUL FENCE.] § 2. Fences four and one-half feet high, and in good repair, consisting of rails, timber, boards, stone, hedges, or whatever the fence viewers of the town or precinct where the same shall lie shall consider equivalent thereto, shall be deemed legal and sufficient fences: Provided, that in counties under township organization the electors at any annual town meeting may determine what shall constitute a legal fence in the town, and in counties not under township organization the power to regulate the hight of fences shall be vested in the county board. [R. S. 1845, p. 280, § 14.

3. DIVISION FENCE.] § 3. Where two or more persons shall have lands adjoining, each of them shall make and maintain a just proportion of the division. fence between them, except the owner of either of the adjoining lands shall choose to let such land lie open: Provided, that where owners of adjoining lands, by mutual agreement, have heretofore built, or may hereafter build their respective portions of a partition fence, it shall not be lawful for either to remove his part of said fence, so long as he may crop or use such land for farm purposes, or without giving the other party one year's notice, in writing, of his intentions to move his portion of the fence. [L. 1857, p. 159, § 1.

4. WHEN LANDS INCLOSED-CONTRIBUTION.] § 4. When any person shall have chosen to let his land lie open, if he shall afterward inclose the same, or if any owner of land adjoining upon the inclosure of another shall inclose the same upon the inclosure of another, he shall refund to the owner of the adjoining lands a just proportion of the value at that time of any division fence that shall have been made by such adjoining owner, if the same shall be a ditch or hedge, and if the same be not a ditch or hedge, he shall immediately build his proportion of such division fence, or refund to said adjoining owner a just proportion of the value at that time of such fence. [L. 1857, p. 159, § 2.

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