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and the adjournment of a term in such courts shall have the like effect of an adjournment in the circuit courts,

251. Appeals from justices of the peace-certiorari. § 12. Appeals may be taken from the judgment of justices of the peace or police magistrates in such city to the city court, and writs of certiorari may issue to remove causes from before such officers to the city court, and there be heard and determined as in like cases in the circuit court.

252. Recognizances-city prison, etc. 13. All recognizances taken by any justice of the peace, police magistrate, or other officer in the city, in criminal cases, when the offense is committed in the city, except treason and murder, may be made returnable to the city court of such city; and in all such cases the defendant shall be temporarily detained in the city prison or bridewell, instead of the county jail.

253. Change of venue. 14. Change of venue from city courts, for the same causes and in the same manner, may be taken as from circuit courts, and the cases sent to the circuit court of the county, or to some other convenient court of record, where the cause complained of does not exist. [See Venue," ch. 146.

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254. Writs-orders-judgments, etc.-lien after transcript filed in circuit court. 15. The writs and process of city courts shall be issued and executed in the same manner, and shall have the same force and effect, except as limited by this act, as the writs and process of circuit courts. Orders, judgments and decrees of city courts shall have the same force, be of the same effect, and be exe

cuted and enforced in the same manner as the judgments, orders [* 347] and decrees of circuit courts; but such judgments and decrees shall be a lien upon real estate in such city, and the county wherein such city is situate, only after a certified transcript of the same shall have been filed in the office of the circuit clerk of the county; which transcript shall contain the names of the parties to the suit, the kind of action, the amount of the judgment, or the general nature and effect of the decree, as the case may be, and the term and time at which the suit was disposed of.

[People v. Barr, 22 Ill. 241.

255. Transcript book. 16. The clerk of the circuit court of the county shall provide and keep in his office, for each city court in his County, a well-bound book or books for entering therein an alphabetical docket of all judgments and decrees rendered in said city courts, as is now required by law for docketing judgments and decrees rendered in the circuit court; and shall forthwith, after the filing of any such certificate, enter the same therein, together with the hour, day, month and year of the filing of such certificate and the general number thereof.

256. Transcript fees. § 17. In addition to the fees now allowed by law, the clerk of the said city courts shall be allowed to charge and receive a fee of fifty cents for each certified transcript, as aforesaid, and the clerk of the circuit court shall be allowed to charge and receive a fee of fifty cents for filing and entering the same.

257. Appeals-error. § 18. Appeals may be taken and writs of error prosecuted from city courts to the supreme court, the same as in like cases from circuit courts.

258. Fees of jurors—how paid. § 19. The fees of the grand and petit jurors of such courts shall be paid out of the city treasury of the city in which such courts are respectively situated, upon the certificate of the clerk of the respective courts.

259. Courts continued. 20. The several courts of record now established in and for cities, are hereby continued, under the name and style of "The City Court of (name of city)," with all the powers and jurisdiction conferred by this act.

[Const., art. 6, § 29, and Schedule, § 5; People v. Common Council of Aurora, 84 Ill. 157: Frantz v. Fleitz, 85 111. 365.

260. Courts-how established. § 21. A city court, consisting of one or more judges, not exceeding five, and not exceeding one judge for every fifty thousand inhabitants, may be organized and established under this act in any city which contains at least three thousand inhabitants, whenever the common or city council shall adopt an ordinance or resolution, to submit the question whether such court shall be established, consisting of one or more judges, not exceeding five, as may be specified in such ordinance or resolution, to the qualified voters of such city, and two-thirds of the votes cast at the election shall be in favor of the establishment of such court. Where such court is established with more than one judge, each judge may hold a separate branch thereof at the same time, and when holding such separate branch, each judge may exercise all the powers vested in such courts. Such election shall be held and conducted, the returns thereof made and canvassed, and the result declared in the same manner as other city elections. To discontinue and disestablish any such court, precisely the same modes of procedure shall be requisite and necessary, and be resorted to, as for the organization of said court. In the event of the discontinuance and disestablishment of any such court, the clerk thereof shall transfer and deliver to the circuit court of the county in which such city court is situated, all records, judgments, and processes in possession of himself, or of any other officer of said city court, and the circuit court shall thereupon acquire, and be vested with jurisdiction in the cases to which said judgments or process relates.

[As amended by act approved May 31, 1879. In force July 1, 1879. L. 1879, p. 110; Frantz v. Fleitz, 85 Ill. 368

261. Election of judge and clerk. § 22. Whenever the establishment of a city court shall be authorized, as provided in the foregoing section, it shall be the duty of the corporate authorities to order an election for judge and clerk; and when the judge and clerk shall be duly elected, qualified and commissioned, such court shall be deemed organized and established according to law.

[Frantz v. Fleitz, 85 Ill. 365.

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168. Punishment.
168a. Punishment for misdemeanors—
labor in work-house, streets, etc.
168b. Punishment for petit larceny,
etc.-working out fine-credit
for day's work.

168c. Power of keeper of work-house,

etc.

168d. Repeal.

169. Second offense.

170. By bailee.

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Second conviction.

185. Prizes, etc., forfeited.

MALICIOUS MISCHIEF.

186. To railroads.

187. Combining to injure railroads. 188. Obstructing train laden with munitions of war, troops, etc.

189. Attempting injury to railroads. 190. Influencing others to injure railroads.

191.

Railroad engineers, etc.

192. To houses, etc.

193. Injuring or destroying baggage. 194. To papers, etc.

195. To jails, etc.

196. To public buildings, etc

197. To canals, etc.

198. To rafts, vessels, etc.

199. Obstruction of stream or [*350]

water course.

200. To monuments.

201. To shrubs, fences, etc.

202. To water, etc.

203. To domestic animals.

204. Taking horses, vehicles, boats, etc

205. To advertisements, etc.

MARKS AND BRANDS.

206. Altering or defacing.

МАУНЕМ.

207. Punishment.

MILK - ADULTERATIONS OF.
Swill milk."

207a.

207b. Keeping diseased cows.

207c. Cows, etc., to be marked.

207d. Skimmed milk.

207e. Punishment.

207f. Adulteration defined.

207g. Repeal.

MINORS.

207h. Sale of tobacco to minors.
2071. Penalty.

MISCONDUCT OF OFFICERS.
208. Omission and malfeasance.
208a. Changing specifications so as to
increase expense.
208b. Spending money without obtain-
ing title to land.

208c. Prosecution - complaint -affidavit.

171. Of beasts and birds fera natura. 208d. State's attorney to prosecute

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